(3/8/23) The Happy State Of The One Who Can Find The Grave! - I Will Give You Rest

The speaker discusses the importance of going beyond just being forgiven and accepting God's forgiveness. They talk about the need to enter into a crucified life with Christ, where all shackles of sin are broken. The speaker emphasizes the importance of baptism and going into death with Jesus to be free from bondage. They also mention the need for honesty with God about ongoing sin struggles and the desire for freedom. The speaker encourages listeners to fully commit to Christ and live a crucified life. They highlight the bondage that comes from being overcome by sin and stress God's desire for believers to be free. The speaker concludes by reading verses that emphasize God's good will towards His people and the power of resting in Christ. We're going to talk about rest a little bit. This was tough. Wow, this was tough. Talking about Simon and the people of Samaria, man, I could just about feel a cold breathe in the spirit. I tell you, it's tough. It's tough. We don't like talking about this stuff that we try to keep hidden and buried, you know, this saved but powerless, and if that doesn't really make any sense, and we kind of know that, but it seems to be the reality of our lives because people tell us we're saved, and I don't know what that means, if it means that we can't do anything about sin and selfishness and all this stuff. But we found an example that demonstrated the fact that we can be kind of in between gears spiritually, right? There's first and second and third if you're running through a transmission like that, and we can kind of get stuck in between. It's up to us to cooperate with God. He has done everything. He says, judge between me and my vineyard, what did I not do that I could have done for my vineyard? Why? Why is there wild grapes? Why are there stinking grapes when there should be good grapes? I have done everything, and Christ has done everything. Everything is nailed out and provided to you in what Christ has done, and yet you and I can get stuck where we sort of believe that, well, I mean, we've believed the Word that was preached to us, at least some of it, and we've accepted His forgiveness, maybe we've applied the blood so wonderfully like we should, but then we're not entering into His death, and then things get awkward because the bondage in our life isn't really broken, and there's just problems. Something that may help you understand why these things are so important to me is there are people near and dear to me, have been near and dear to me throughout life, people that I love dearly poured my life into in some cases. There was a young man who my family is acquainted well with, and he came to Christ marvelously. I remember hugging him moments after he'd come, confessing his sins and repenting, and seeing God beautifully, beautifully. You can't script it any better, but not 24 hours later, he'd wound a web of lies so deep he'd never repented from it. You think, why? How did that happen? Well, see, it's not just about forgiveness, brothers and sisters. These things are dear to me because that soul right now is still in the grip of sin, and it didn't have to go that way. But it did go that way because the bondage, the lies and the corruption and everything was all there, and then got the forgiveness, but didn't go into death with Jesus to be free. And so these things, I'm not trying to split hairs, I just want you to have everything that God has for you, and don't settle short of everything that the Lord wants. You can be in shackles. We didn't talk a lot about that, but I think I'm released from that. Plain old shackles. You can believe, be baptized, and still be shackled to sin. Those shackles, the covenant with sin and death is only broken when we die. That covenant is broken when we die with Jesus. So it's so important that we're crucified with Christ and buried with him by baptism into his death. And to be clear here, water baptism is not actually the baptism that I just spoke of. It's what that means. To be clear, the scripture says we are to be baptized into his death, actually dipped into his death. By faith we go down into death with Jesus. When we go down into death with Jesus, that's why we do it in the water, to show the world what this means. I am crucified with Christ, it's no longer I that lives, and check this out, I'm buried with him. And so we do it in water to demonstrate what we're doing by faith. That's what that means. What else? Anything else? Do we have any questions? I didn't really open it up last time for questions. So if there's something that you wrote down that we need to address before we get to talk about the good news. Matt, Job, excuse me, John chapter 8 says, Whosoever committeth sin is a servant of sin. This is what Jesus says. There's a lot of people out there telling you that once you get saved, whatever that means, I believe in getting saved, but I'm not sure always what they mean when they say it. And they say, well once you get saved, God knows you're going to sin, and somehow those sins don't matter as much because you're already saved or something like that. All kinds of things. No. No. God wants you to be free. It was for freedom that Jesus set you free. And if you're still sinning after you have repented, don't despair. He wants you to be free. But you're going to have to be honest with him, and you're going to have to say, Lord, I'm still doing this thing, and I'm trying to stop, but I don't know what the deal is. I just keep doing this thing. Could you get this shackle off? Is there something we can do about this? And that's what we're talking about. We're going into death with Jesus because that's where all the shackles are broken. Praise the Lord. Sometimes one at a time because sometimes we carry our bondage down into death with Jesus one parcel at a time. It would be good if it was all just one lap wholesale, but God doesn't really seem to accomplish it that way. It could be better. Like if our faith was preached a little clearer, the gospel was presented a little clearer, then people would come to baptism with faith that I'm putting my pride, I'm putting my competition, I'm putting my ego, I'm putting everything down with Jesus, and I don't want it anymore, and I deny you. I betray you, old Joshua. I'm not going to listen to you anymore. You don't matter anymore. Jesus lives in me. And if you came in faith like that, we would see more deliverance from sin. And we will see it again. I know we will. But then that births a life that's called a crucified life. And then when the neighbor does something, when somebody says something about you that's not true, when your husband is not treating you like he should or something, you can then be crucified with Christ in that moment, too, because you go back to that same place of faith, and you put it into death with Jesus. It really should be, in the life of a believer, a big wholesale commitment to Christ like it was for Jesus. Why was Jesus baptized? Because Jesus had sin to be washed away? No. He was promising to go all the way to the cross. It's not about me. He was promising his life away to the will of his Father. That's what you and I should do. Follow him in that. But there won't be so big of a deliverance that God will give you that you will not have to continue to live a crucified life. So it's both. I will give you rest, and Peter, on the note of bondage, of for whom a man is overcome. Second Peter says, he's describing wicked men. There are young men. Actually, I know one young man. I know some other men. But you can see it. I can't tell if it's in the flesh or in the spirit. I don't know. But who I would say, if you ask me about that person, I would say that young man has eyes full of adultery, and he's a professing Christian. You can see it. I don't know how. I am aware of another godly man who said that about a man who was a preacher. And people didn't receive it. He said, that man has eyes full of adultery. And people said, oh, how dare you? How could you say that? Well, we all later discovered that that man, what he was saying was exactly true. The man was messing around. But nobody knew it. Except in the spirit, he thought. Peter says, having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin. He's talking about people who are in the church and professing to be. And somehow Peter is declaring something that they would have all went, well, I don't know. That's so and so. He sure is in our church. He's wonderful. So he says this, that cannot cease from sin. You think, well, what a strange thing to say. And then he goes on to say, for of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. If you are losing to sin and to Satan, you are being brought into bondage in those things. And Jesus wants you to be free. That is the conclusion of this sad old man that by birth has a natural problem, by covenant has a legal problem. And by territory has an authority problem. He's just got problems. He's lonely and he's powerless. And there's nothing in the world that he can do about it except to be crucified with Christ. You're going to have to ditch him and let the new man live through you. And then, praise the Lord. Let's read some verses. I'm going to read Exodus 5. Somebody read Exodus 33, 14. I want you to see God's good will towards you. That's it. If I can get you to see one thing tonight, I want you to see God's good will towards you. This is about Exodus 33, 14. Thank you, Elijah. And then I need Deuteronomy chapter 12, verse 10. Simeon, can you get that for me? Deuteronomy chapter 12, verse 10. And read that nice and clear when we're ready. And 1 Kings 4, verse 25. 1 Kings 4, verse 25. We'll do those ones for now. Okay. Exodus 5, 5. That one. I just wanted to read that. This is so encouraging to me. It's an odd thing to find encouragement from. So, Exodus 5. Moses and Aaron go in and they say to Pharaoh, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And Pharaoh says, Who is the Lord that I shall obey his voice? And they say, The God of the Hebrews has met with us and you need to let us go lest he fall upon us. And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works get you unto their burdens, get you unto your burdens? And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many and you're making them rest from their burdens. The devil is never more intimidated than when you as the people of God actually come into rest. I wonder if you know all that is attached to resting in Christ. You wistfully wishing that you could serve God in power and in strength. Why, he's not a fan of that, but that doesn't frighten him. You thinking about your goodly heritage and the fact that you were born in a Christian home, bless God if you were, and that you've had so many good people in your family. He's not a fan of that either, but that doesn't scare him as long as you don't rest from your burdens. And this evening if somebody comes to rest in Christ or at least sees for the first time what God is willing to give you, demonstrated to us in the life of Christ and fulfilled in us by the life in the Holy Spirit, if this life, if you can just see it even a far off tonight and think, God do it in me, I want to have that. I want to have, if you can just see the rest that God wants to give you, oh, that'll frighten Satan more than any other decision you've ever made in your life. Because you are not useful in the kingdom of God until you're resting in Christ. And all fruitfulness is born out of rest. And we're going to talk about that. So Pharaoh says, you're making them rest from your burdens and I would be flattered to think that tonight the Holy Spirit and Satan would be in a controversy. You're making them rest from their burdens. Yes, I am. And yes, we will in the name of Jesus. Yes. Yes, we will rest. We will rest. Yes, we will. We will see what God has for us in the good will of our Heavenly Father. Shown to us in Christ and ministered to us. We will rest. Yes, we will. Hallelujah. Okay, Exodus 33, 14. Okay. I'll be starting in 12 here. Yes. Go ahead. And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, bring up this people, that you yourself have not let me know whom you will send with me. Moreover, you have said, I have known you by name and you have also found favor in my sight. Now, therefore, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, let me know your ways that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight. And minister to that this nation is your people. And he said, my presence shall go with you and I will give you rest. If the gospel could be narrowed to one word, if you forced me to say Joshua, what was that game we were playing, taboo? If you got one word to describe life in the Spirit, if you give me one word, that has to be rest. Yes. I will give you rest. The presence of God, the very presence of God ministered to you and I as believers. That presence is the security of rest. And rest is the measurement of whether or not you and I are participating in the kingdom of God. I will give you rest. Let's discover all these places, but they're not all of them by any means. Touch on these things where God speaks to these. You had Deuteronomy 12.10 for us. But when you go over to Jordan and live in the land so that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around so that you live in safety. Amen. I just want you to get the flavor. We're going to stretch this out. We're going to push it all. I just want you to get the flavor of your heavenly Father. He wants to give you rest. God was tickled to think that I'm going to bring them into a place. There's going to be fighting, and there's going to be conquering, and there's going to be conquest and victory, but I'm going to bring them into a place of rest. That's what I'm going to do. I want you to see that God, your heavenly Father, is so excited to bring you into a place of rest from your enemies that I didn't say that there's no more war. I didn't say there's no more overcoming. I didn't say there's more victory, but bring you into a place where you, and we're going to discover what this might mean here to us, but you are not operating in fear anymore. Your foot is on their neck, and their foot is not on yours. 1 Kings 4 verse 25 And Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his bond and under his victory all the days of Solomon. Yes. Yes. Yes. Safety. And then the picture for this, and this is so good. The reason I noted this is because the prophet prophet let's see here Micah did somebody find Micah 4.4? Dad, did you find Micah 4.4? This is a prophecy. So you just read this description. Every man under his own bond and under his victory. Yes. Do you know this is God's heart for you? To come into a place where you're sitting spiritually sitting by faith, sitting You might be sitting in jail. That's why I read these stories here. See, he was being burned at the stake, but he was sitting under his bond and his victory. His grace. Yes. He just reached up and he just took it. Here. Would you like some? He just lives in the inheritance of the children of God. He's working and striving. Not working long hours for someone to give him a fig or grapes. No. He sits in the kingdom of God under his own vine, his own figure. I'm not preaching prosperity gospel like this that everything's going to go well. All hell might break loose. Hallelujah. You're going to sit in victory in rest underneath your vine, your fig tree in Christ Jesus. This is the inheritance. This is God's goodwill to you. Go ahead. They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make him afraid. Nobody for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. And if you read that passage, it's a prediction of the kingdom that was to come. God's looking into the future. He sees what that kingdom that Christ is coming to set up that will fill the whole earth. And he says, I can see him. I can see him sitting under their vines and under their fig trees. Did you know this is God's idea for you? Yeah. Under their vine and under their fig tree, God wants you. And then what is that? What am I to say? Nobody's going to make him afraid. Oh, so there's the prosperity gospel. That means everything's going to be fine. No, that's not what it says. Nobody's going to make him afraid. You say, but I'll kill you. You say, but I'll still have Christ. But I'll take away your things. But I'll still have Christ. I'll still be sitting under my vine. If I'm locked in solitary confinement, I'll still sit under my vine and under my fig tree. And if everything is taken away, I'll still have what you can't take away from me. When Jesus is instructing Martha that she shouldn't be worrying about this and that, is it because Jesus doesn't want anybody ever making sandwiches? Is it because he doesn't want you going to work to provide for your family? That's not it. But he says labor for the meat that doesn't perish in another place. And then he talks of Mary specifically and says she has chosen the good thing. And how do we know it's a good thing? It cannot be taken away from her. God wants to give you rest that cannot be taken away. And it isn't rest like the world gives rest. It isn't peace like the world gives peace. It's rest that cannot be taken away. You can take away your wife. You can take away your children. You can take your substance. You can take everything away. But you cannot take away rest when God has given you rest. That's enough. Nobody's going to make you afraid, it says. Nobody makes afraid. And I hope I'm not jumping ahead here, but I can't help but bring up these verses in Hebrews. Hebrews 4 verse 8 and 9 and 10. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people in God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his own. The law of keeping the Sabbath was just an example, was just a picture of what the rest in Christ is. God ceased from his work on the seventh day as an example, as a picture, as a prototype, if you will, of what his perfect plan is for us to have that rest seven days and twenty grounds a day. Amen. Amen. You just read a condition to this rest. I want to tell you about the rest. And then the conditions to it almost seem they're a small price to pay. Oh, it's the smallest thing in the world to let the old man go if this is the glory that is waiting for you. That power and faith that I read to you. And this book is full of those stories. Look at all these people, and these are just the ones that are written. Those short little stories, just one after another after another. Of men and women that God was faithful to be good on his word, to give them rest, even in the middle of absolute chaos in their life. We have a great cloud of witnesses that have gone out on their head and said, he's faithful. Go ahead. Trust him. He's faithful. I threw everything, I threw my whole life out on him, and he was faithful. I went to the stake, and he was faithful. One of the martyrs put his finger the night before he was to be burned at the stake, and he had a little candle that they gave him, and he stuck his finger in the flame and jerked it back out. He said, God, I can't take it. And God told him, you don't have grace for that right now, you'll have grace in the morning. And that man stood valiantly, while not a little flame, a giant flame engulfed him because he bears that in his own body. Jesus has took that pain in his own body. And by faith, we focusing on him, can stand victorious. This is extreme faith. I just want you to see that I am not speaking to you about to blab it and grab it, name it and claim it. You're going to be a gazillionaire, and you're going to have a Rolls Royce. I'm not talking about that. But then sometimes, us fundamentalists, I don't know what I am, but I'm not a prosperity gospel person. I don't know what I am, but I don't believe in that, and I don't believe in that. Well, then we just don't believe a bunch of things, and we forget to believe what God has given to us. And this is what he has promised to us. This is the good will of your Father to you. How about a few more? Isaiah 28 verse 11 through 12. Thank you, Tyler. And then Isaiah 30 verse 15. Another passage. Ben, would you mind getting that? And let's see if we got a couple more. Just a flavor. This is not by any means a full description, but this is a flavor before we go straight to the passages that speak very clearly. Now go ahead and read that one, Isaiah 28. 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