I am going to introduce you to the Gospel right now.
You are a rebel.
Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, I'll tell you: Straight up!
You are rebel against the Living God. This is your natural disposition. Why?
Because you are born in sin.
We are in a prison cell and it takes the awakening and the grace of God.
You caught the prevenient grace of God to awaken us to the fact that we are lost
and we can't get out. We're headed towards destruction fast.
The enemy, because of our rebellion against God, has legal rights to harm and harass our lives.
There you are behind the prison cell. "Help I need out!" You can't get out!
Those prison bars are stronger than any adamant, there is no way you can cut them
because they're stronger than diamond. It is impenetrable, you cannot escape.
You're doomed !
because when the enemy comes in, in the very end, he's gonna finish you off.
Because he has a legal right to do it. He's gonna relish every minute of it.
In strolls your intercessor, you're mighty God and he stands between you and that accuser.
And he takes the hit that was rightfully yours, he takes the blow that was intended for you.
That is an extraordinary reality, that he was turned to a pulp
and he actually died. God died for you!
Over your prison cell, it is always signed: Condemned!
Separated eternally from God, guilty!
And then suddenly it switches when you realize what Jesus Christ has done.
It says: Justified! It says: Forgiven! Redeemed!
Here's the problem, most of us have stopped with the good news right there.
The blood of Jesus Christ has been shed and he was killed.
I want you to know that is unbelievable news. But we are still in a prison cell.
And so we're praising God within a prison cell, going: Thank you for forgiving me.
Thank you for changing the sign on the outside of the prison.
And God's Word says: Could you check the door to the prison cell?
Because my blood was shed for more than just forgiveness.
Forgiveness was the Avenue through which he could make the escape for us.
He isn't just interested in dealing with the consequences of the penalty of sin,
he's also dealt with the problem of sin. Test the door! It's unlocked!
The door of the prison cell is unlocked! Walk out!
Smell the open air of freedom and the liberty in the light of the Jesus Christ.
When you get outside the prison cell there's like this chariots that are waiting
with the emissaries from a king.
And they say: The King is beckons you to his presence.
How bazaar this is when you realize that you were a rebel,
that you are undeserving completely.
The living God has literally given up his life for you,
now He has set you free and now the very King is beckoning you into his presence.
And you like: Sure you have the right guy here? I'm a rebel. I stood against my God
and I spat him in his face. How could he want me?
King beckons you, get in his chariot.
And as you're pulling into the kingdom you're looking for where they might drop you off,
you're looking for that poor district. Where are you taking me?
Into very near presence of the King. He wants you to live right where he lives
Not just the penalty, not just the problem, but an invitation into his very near presence.
But as you're coming in, the emissary's say: He wants to adopt you as his child.
Hey!? As his child?
We are brought in and invited near to share his heart.
You come into his presence totally broken before the reality of what he has done for you.
I don't deserve this. Why have you done this for me?
I love you. I have a commission for you.
For me? You want me to work for You?
I want you to work for me. I want you to represent me.
Absolutely, anything I can do for You, just tell me.
I need you to go back to that prison cell that I took you out of
because there's a whole bunch more that need to know about me
and my love, my truth. Will you go for me?
In a heartbeat, I would, I would gladly serve you. Any way you want, any way you asked.
I need to forewarn you. I'm gonna send you out
and you'll be as sheep among wolves. They'll kill you. They'll destroy you,
they'll hate you, they'll persecute you, they will do whatever they can to harm you.
I'm in. I'll do it, God. I don't care, you shed your blood for me, I would gladly shed my
blood for you. Take my body, take my blood, spend it any way you want.
I belong to you and in covenant take me on. Jesus, send me!
The Commission: not just the penalty,
not just the problem, not just the invitation to his very near presence,
not just the adoption as a son and a daughter of the King of Kings,
but we are commissioned to represent him.
And I want you to realize that it's a privilege
beyond all other privileges to bear the very name,
the very image, the very reputation of God Almighty.
And he says: I ask you to go.
Go and make disciples of all men. Go and be unashamed to my gospel and preach it.
Go rescue the lost and empower my name for there is not the lamb that is slain worthy
to receive the reward of his suffering. - I'll go!
And as you're beginning to head out with his blessing, he says:
Hold it, wait, there's one more thing. Not just the penalty, not just the problem,
not just the invitation to his very near presence, not just the adoption as a son and a daughter
of the King, not just a commission. This is the capstone!
If you think that is all good you could wrap that all up into one ball
and it still falls short of the final one. Because this final one is so condescending
on the part of our King, it is so bewildering, it is so extraordinary, so amazing
and this is the truth that turns the world upside down.
Before you go, what I'm sending you out to do is impossible.
- I know. And if you do it in your own strength you'll fail.
- I don't care, I'm willing to do whatever you ask of me.
If you want me to go in there and just die, I'm willing.
I'm sending you out to be a victory. My children will not lose.
Would you give me your body and I will come in and make my home
and I will take those hands of yours and make them my hands.
I will take those feet of yours and make them my feet.
I will take that mouth of yours and it will speak my words.
I will take those eyes of yours
and they can now see what I need you to see in this world
and I will take your heart of stone and make it a heart of flesh
so they will leave with my burdens
and you will care for the very things and I care about
and your prayers to become my prayers. And your life, your attitude,
your behaviour every minute of every day will be the very behaviour of God.
Will you allow me to overtake your life?
Because then we go into this world as little lambs with the faces of lions.
Because the Living God Almighty, the consuming almighty sovereign God,
dwells within his children and as we stand and wolf packs surround us,
we stand in the authority in the name of Jesus and we will not back down.
Because we do not head off to war to lose, we head off to war to win.
Our God makes all the powers from earth to hell to fight to these little lambs.
Because his lambs beat the wolf packs. That's the Gospel.
The Gospel triumphs over all powers of earth and hell and demonstrate to the universe
the men upon the wisdom of the God. That He is in control
and even do we look weak, even do we are phisicaly and naturally,
we are weak, we are spiritually greater as he is in us than we are in this world.
That is good news. And it's a lot better than we drop down
that day in the church. We need to rise up, proclaim the Gospel saying
I'm not a shame of it. Dear Lord Jesus, take what is rightfully yours.
Don't just sent us, sent us with yourself. Fully claim it within our souls.
We cannot do you work, we cannot bring you glory.
Even if we are willing to do without you,
please if you wont to come with us. Why would we ever try on our on?
You don't have to go on your own.
You don't have to pull off the impossible on your own.
You don't have to fail any longer. Your God is ready to do it and then through you.
You can't do it.
You can't muster up the discipline, you can't muster up the intellect.
You can't muster up the strength,
you can't muster up the perseverance in the fortitude. -- He can.
You can't love the loss, you can't love those That spit upon your face.
He can.
Don't pray that God would teach you how to love like he loves.
Pray that he would fill you with himself and he would love it in through you.
Don't pray that he would teach you to have joy.
Pray that the Living God full of joy would enter into you.
Don't pray that he would teach you how to be peaceful.
Ask for the God of peace, the Prince of Peace, to be fulfilled you.
Because if you try and imitate in your own strength you will be a miserable replica.
But if you allow the impartation of Jesus Christ to overtake you,
suddenly it all works.
Because it's him imitating himself and he's very good at being God.
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