A Whole New You | From His Heart Ministries // Pastor Jeff Schreve

0:01 [Music] welcome to from his heart with pastor Jeff Schreve who’s in his practical 0:08 series called it’s not easy being me if you’re tired of trying to be the good person you want to be but are ready to 0:14 let God have control in your life listen today to discover how to be a whole new you 0:21 [Music] 0:29 [Music] 0:46 [Music] how many in this room are familiar with 0:53 a television show called fixer-upper anybody ever seen the show fixer-upper 0:59 fixer-upper is a show that has a couple Joanne and chip Gaines they have a 1:07 company called Magnolia homes and they specialize in taking old dilapidated 1:13 homes and turning them into showplace homes well we had a couple in our church 1:21 Noah and Jessica Dansby Jessica worked at our church she met Noah at our church 1:28 they got married and they moved away and they live in the Waco area and not too 1:34 long ago they were on the show fixer-upper here’s a picture of them with chip and Joanne well they were 1:42 looking for a house that they had a certain budget their budget was two 1:48 hundred and seventy five thousand dollars so they’re gonna buy a relatively inexpensive house obviously a 1:55 fixer-upper and they’re going to get chip and Joanne to work their magic on it and this is the house that they ended 2:02 up buying it’s 350 300 noce 3 500 square 2:07 feet and it was built in 1920 it was listed for a hundred and forty thousand 2:14 Noah got it for $50,000 this thing was a 2:20 dive with a capital D I mean edges this was a dump but after chip and Joanne got 2:27 through with it this is what the outside looked like this is what it looked like 2:33 on the inside that was the kitchen here’s their new kitchen this is their 2:42 den the old Danny the new den here was 2:49 their master bedroom here it is today 2:56 chip and Joanne can work magic on a home 3:01 now they don’t work their magic for free it was $225,000 for them to do that but 3:08 Jessica and Noah ended up with this house built with the character that is 3:14 only found in an older home and they have a beautiful new home now we look at 3:22 that and and we like shows like that because we like to see things that were old and broken-down and dilapidated and 3:29 all of a sudden they’re brand-new chip and Joanne specialize in doing that to 3:35 homes Almighty God specializes in doing that in lives to transform a life to 3:43 take a person who is old and broken-down and covered up with sin and degradation 3:49 and to pull him out of the muck and the mire and the slime of the sewer and said 3:54 his feet on a rock as the scripture says and totally change him from the inside 3:59 out a song that I like says hallelujah what 4:07 a savior who can take a poor lost sinner lift him from the miry clay and set him 4:12 free I will ever tell the story shouting glory glory glory hallelujah Jesus 4:18 ransomed me the Lord is in the renovation restoration total 4:26 transformation business and no matter where you are today no matter what’s 4:32 going on today no matter how broken down you might feel Jesus Christ can change 4:37 you and make you a whole new you now 4:42 we’ve been in a series we’re finishing up today but our series has been entitled it’s not easy being me and 4:47 we’ve talked about some of the struggles and some of the difficulties that we all have individually with ourselves God 4:55 makes us and we have strengths in our personality and in our temperament and we also have weaknesses and we have 5:02 things that as the scripture says in Hebrews chapter 12 sins 5:07 so easily untangled us and many of us get entangled in sin and we fall down and and that’s how we we get broken down 5:15 the Lord says I want to make a whole new you hey it might not easy be easy being 5:20 you but let’s have a new you because a whole new you is where there is joy and 5:26 peace and love and power the scripture says therefore if anyone is in Christ is a new creation the old 5:34 has passed away behold the new has come and the Lord changes us from glory to 5:41 glory so here’s our question do you want to experience a whole new you let me 5:51 share with you three discoveries from Colossians chapter 3 about a whole new 5:56 you discovery number one a whole new you begins at salvation it begins at 6:05 salvation Paul says this in the new American Standard if then you’ve been 6:11 raised up with Christ keep seeking the things above where Christ is seated at 6:16 the right hand of God set your mind on the things above not on the things that are on earth for you have died and your 6:24 life is hidden with Christ in God when Christ who is our life is revealed then 6:29 you will also be revealed with him in glory how do you get a whole new you 6:36 well it begins at Salvation now what happens at salvation at salvation you 6:45 die and you are raised back up again see 6:51 every Christian has died with Christ and been raised up with Christ that’s why he 6:56 says if then you’ve been raised up with Christ keep seeking the things above where Christ is before you have died and 7:03 your life is hidden with Christ in God every Christian has died to his or her old way of life and has a brand new life 7:10 in Jesus Christ in the early part January of 1980 that’s the day that I 7:18 died I died to my way of life I saw that I was a sinner 7:23 and I was lost and I cried out for Jesus to come and save me and that day that 7:28 Monday night in my bedroom all by myself that’s when I died and I was buried and 7:34 I got a brand new life in the Lord Jesus Christ the old Jeff died and boom Jesus by his Spirit came 7:42 to live inside of me and I was made alive in Christ now I didn’t see any of 7:47 that take place the Lord comes into your life invisibly you don’t see that take place and say if you’re waiting for a 7:55 feeling you know sometimes there’s a feeling sometimes there’s not a feeling you don’t trust in feelings you trust in 8:01 the Word of God but that happened to me and I died – my old layaway of life and 8:07 I received a brand new life in Jesus now we watch baptism today well what is the 8:13 importance of baptism baptism is the wedding ring of the Christian life baptism shows to the world it’s the 8:22 outward expression of an inward reality it shows that hey you died to your old 8:27 way of life and you’re raised to walk in newness of life that’s why we always use a tank full of water because in the 8:34 Bible baptism was always done in a tank full of water it was some kind of pool of water you you a spoonful of water 8:42 can’t picture death burial and resurrection so in Baptism we show that the person is 8:48 buried in the waters of Baptism their they’ve died with Christ and they’re raised up with Christ we don’t leave 8:54 them down there you’re not dead and buried and then we’ll come get you next week will you come right back up why 9:01 because you’ve got a brand new life in Jesus so that’s true for every Christian you have died with Christ you’ve been 9:08 raised up with Christ and every Christian has an intimate or an innate 9:14 desire for Christ every single Christian has died with Christ been raised with 9:20 Christ and has a desire for the Lord Jesus Christ verse 4 says when Christ 9:28 who is our life is revealed then you also will be revealed with him in glory when Christ who is 9:35 our life I have no other life apart from Christ cuz I died in January of 1980 the 9:43 only life I have is in Jesus when Christ who is our life what is the Christian life it is Christ as Adrian Rogers used 9:50 to say Christianity is not a Creed it’s not a code it’s not a cause it’s not a church it’s Jesus Christ it’s a personal 9:58 relationship with Jesus Christ do you have that lets people have churchianity 10:05 churchianity and worth half a hallelujah christianity is a relationship with the 10:11 Lord Jesus Christ when Christ who is our life one commentator I read said this 10:18 you know life is what you come alive to 10:23 when Christ who is our life do you come alive to the things of the Lord Jesus Christ you look at people sometimes and 10:32 you see how they come alive to sports they come alive to business they come 10:37 alive to movies I mean you’re talking about things all of a sudden somebody mentions a movie or somebody sudden this 10:44 person just perks up why because that’s where he finds life you’re talking about this and that and the other and all of a 10:50 sudden you know the subject of football comes up and when they perk up why 10:55 because there’s life there for them now when the subject comes up of the Lord 11:00 Jesus Christ what does that do to you is that like no no gosh we’re talking about that again why do we have to talk about 11:07 that well that’s a great indicator if you have that kind of an attitude when 11:13 the person of Christ the subject of Christ and saying things of the Lord Jesus Christ come up and you’re just 11:18 kind of blah blah and dull about that you don’t find life there when I first 11:24 got saved I had a long way to go I was far from the Lord when I got saved and 11:29 then I get saved and the Lord comes in and how do I know that he’s there because there is a desire for the things 11:38 of the Lord there was a desire to go to church and to be with the people of God 11:43 and to sing the praises and to hear the sermon there’s a desire for that the scripture says in 2nd Peter 11:50 chapter first Peter chapter 2 and verse 2 like newborn babes long for the pure milk of the word the by it you may grow 11:57 with respect to salvation now we all know those of us who have had kids 12:02 especially know this that when your baby comes into this world you don’t have to 12:07 teach that baby at how to have a desire to eat they want to eat they come into 12:14 this world with an appetite because that’s part of being alive everyone alive has an appetite and so they come 12:23 into this world and it’s lost like boy we’re trying and trying and the baby just a baby hates milk baby hates food 12:29 baby doesn’t want anything this wants to watch TV you know that the babies not like that and the baby will let you know 12:36 2:30 in the morning wow what are they what does that do but 12:41 where is I’m either upset about my diaper or I’m hungry 12:47 pretty much they just have a couple of things in there you know well maybe it’s both but but they’re hungry and they 12:54 want to eat as newborn babes long for the pure milk of the word that by it you may grow with respect to salvation every 13:00 Christian is given by God this new birth desire this innate desire as a believer 13:07 for the things of God it doesn’t mean it’s a voracious appetite you have to develop your appetite to get a voracious 13:15 appetite for the things of God but listen if there is no appetite for the things of God just like with physical 13:22 food if there is no appetite for physical food two things one of two things is true number one you’re sick 13:30 sick people don’t want to eat if you’ve ever had stomach flu or something like 13:36 that somebody says oh I man I’m sorry you’re sick you want to go to steak and stomp and get all-you-can-eat pancakes 13:42 no no thanks I’d rather not ah they got with Larry’s pizzas good let’s go there they don’t want to go there why cuz 13:49 they’re sick they don’t want to eat so maybe one of the reasons you don’t have 13:54 a desire for the things of the Lord Jesus Christ is cuz you’re sick spiritually sick 14:00 or maybe it’s because you’re dead if you’re spiritually dead you don’t have 14:05 the desire for the things of God you know Christ isn’t your life so you don’t have a desire for life for Jesus because 14:15 there you don’t have life there question to ask yourself have you been raised up 14:23 with Christ have you really died with him have you been given life with him a 14:29 whole new you begins at salvation and churchianity never saved anybody and 14:36 Jesus will save anyone who comes to him in repentance and faith so that’s the first discovery that how do I get 14:43 started on this whole new Jeff starts the salvation it starts the moment I 14:48 repent and believe second discovery a whole new you continues as you grow now 14:55 in Christianity there is this thing we call salvation but salvation has three 15:04 parts you know when we talk about salvation we talk about well when were you saved and we talked about being say 15:09 being say be it safe some people don’t use that term it’s a good term the Bible talks about that term Bible talks about 15:14 being saved but salvation has three parts it has the justification part that 15:21 happens the moment I repent and believe justification is a big theological word 15:26 all it means is it’s just as if you’ve never sinned the Lord justifies you in 15:32 his sight and I am made right with God that happened for me for all eternity 15:39 January of 1980 when I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ I was justified 15:44 before God and I’ll never lose my justification but the second word that 15:50 comes into play is the word sanctification sanctification doesn’t happen boom like that sanctification is 15:56 a process sanctification is Christian growth sanctification is the the the 16:03 means by which the Lord works on me and chisels me and chips away those parts of 16:09 me that aren’t like himself and that takes time that’s a that’s a process scripture says 16:16 in 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1 perfecting holiness in the fear of God 16:21 and we’re in this process every Christians in this process of sanctification and and sanctification 16:28 doesn’t end you know you never hit it a point where it’s like I am done being sanctified I’m 75 years old and at 75 16:34 you don’t have to be sanctified anymore no it happens all the way until you die or until the Lord comes back and when 16:41 the Lord comes back or when you die as a believer then you are taken to be with 16:47 the Lord and he separates from you that part of you that flesh part of you that 16:52 still wants to do evil and that’s gone forever and you are glorified and you’re made like the Lord Jesus Christ and he 16:58 gives you a brand new body and your body is like Jesus well we’re not at the glorification stage every Christian has 17:05 experienced justification but now we’re in this process called sanctification and that’s the process of growth that’s 17:12 the process of the Lord working in you from glory to glory making you a whole 17:19 new you and that’s a continual process so how exactly does that work first of 17:26 all you must be intentional how’s that going to happen for you to really become 17:32 the person God wants you to be you have to be intentional verse 1 if then you 17:39 have been raised up with Christ keep seeking the things above where Christ is 17:44 seated at the right hand of God set your mind on the things above not on the 17:49 things that are on earth you have to be intentional nobody ever grows in the Christian life by just you know it just 17:57 happens well I don’t know I just kind of just going through life and I was all of 18:02 a sudden became the Apostle Paul doesn’t happen like that you have to be intentional I have to seek the Lord you 18:10 know that Jesus talked about three words ask seek and knock and those words are 18:15 continual action in the Greek Acts ask and keep asking seek and keep seeking knock and seek keep knocking because the 18:22 one who asks and who keeps asking the one who seeks and who keeps seeking the one who knocks and keeps knocking that’s the 18:29 one who sees God do great and mighty things in his life in her life so you have to be intentional if you want to 18:38 learn scripture and the scripture in this passage talks about that verse 16 let the word of Christ richly dwell 18:44 within you how does the word of Christ richly dwell within me within you within 18:50 any of us by spending time in the Word of God I remember when I was a young 18:56 Christian in college I went out witnessing with a friend of mine and he was taking me to show me how to do this 19:03 and we were on the campus to the University of Texas and we were down Guadalupe the drag and he was witnessing 19:09 to this person witnessing to that person and he was quoting scripture and he would say you know the Bible says in 19:16 John chapter 3 and then he quote you must be born again and I thought that was the coolest thing I was just like 19:21 wow how do you do that he’s like do what I said how do you quote that it’s like 19:29 well it’s not hard I opened up to John three and memorize verse three hey you 19:34 know how do you learn anything how do you in school learn any any kind of 19:40 memorize any kind of part from Shakespeare or something like that any play where you learn you look you just 19:45 slug it out and you’re memorizing and you write it down and you go over it and over it and over it and you get it down 19:52 in your heart there are no shortcuts you have to be intentional listen some of 19:58 you really want God to do great makeover work to change you from the inside out 20:04 and that would take place in your life in your relationships and and there would be peace and joy and all those 20:10 good things that the Lord gives but you’re not being very intentional you ain’t even joined the church yet 20:17 some people that did they just visit for years it’s like hey plug in and get 20:23 going and start serving and God will do great things for those who seek him with 20:28 all their hearts you must be intentional secondly you must appropriate the truth 20:35 look at verse five therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead 20:41 – immorality interesting word therefore immorality it’s the Greek word porneia 20:47 from which we got our English word pornography consider your earthly member 20:53 your earthly body as dead to immorality impurity passion evil desire and greed 20:59 which amounts to idolatry for it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come and in them you also 21:06 once walked when you were living in them we need to appropriate the truth now the 21:13 Bible says in verse 3 that we have died and our life is hidden with Christ and God Jeff didn’t you say that you died 21:19 and in January of 1980 and you got a brand-new life so you’re dead but then it says in verse 5 therefore considered 21:27 the members of your earthly body as dead I mean why does this say we are dead and then we have to consider ourselves dead 21:32 well the truth of the matter is every Christian is dead to sin but every 21:38 Christian doesn’t feel dead to sin we all know that we don’t feel dead descend 21:45 the truth on paper you’re dead to sin you’re alive to God but the experience 21:52 for many of us is we feel alive to sin and sometimes dead toward God but that’s 21:59 not the way it is for Christian you’re dead to sin you’re alive to God and so 22:04 you have to reckon yourself dead to sin you have to consider yourself dead to sin you have to let sin know the sin in 22:12 your members the sin in your flesh that wants to do evil say hey here’s the deal I’m under new management here I don’t 22:18 have to listen to you flesh I don’t have to obey the lusts of the flesh that is 22:24 dead that doesn’t have any more power over me and so I consider it I reckon it 22:29 I render it and say this is dead in my life – The Grocer sins of the flesh 22:34 which he talks about in verse 5 immorality impurity passion those sexual 22:39 sins evil desire and greed which amounts to idolatry God hates those things it’s on account 22:46 of those things the scripture says that the wrath of God will come he said all right I feel such a pull to those things 22:53 well that’s the testimony of almost all of us we feel a pull to those things but we have to stop 22:59 and say but the truth is undead to those things I’m dead truth is not what you feel truth is what God says suppose you 23:08 had a very wealthy benefactor he calls you up on the phone he says hey I want 23:15 to do something for you I want to put a million dollars in your bank account 23:21 that’d be ok he’d say yeah yeah that’d be ok but you 23:27 think it’s a hoax you think there’s no way who is this is Ross Perot who’s calling me he’s one to put a million dollar let’s 23:33 not Ross Perot it’s somebody impersonating Ross Perot he says he’s gonna give you a million dollars can you 23:40 get off the phone you say whoa somebody’s pranking me and then you get a call from the bank the bank says hey 23:47 we got a call somebody put a million dollars in your account so I don’t 23:53 believe that I don’t feel like there’s a million dollars in my account well listen when the bank tells you there’s a 23:59 million dollars in your account I don’t care if you feel it or not you need to start writing checks before they before 24:06 they change their mind I mean whatever the bank says that’s that’s what it is right and so when the Lord says this is 24:14 the way it is you and I need to start writing checks on that on the promises 24:20 that he has made on the truth of the word of God Jesus said you know the truth and the truth shall make you free 24:26 you’re dead to sin you’re alive to God you must appropriate the truth Augustine 24:31 of Hippo the great theologian who lived in the 300s and 400s he had a testimony of a 24:39 life of sin before he came to the Lord I think he was 31 when he came to know 24:44 Christ but up until then he had lived a very sinful life very sexually immoral 24:52 well when he came to know the Lord he understood many things about the 24:58 Christian life story is told of Augustine he’s walking down the street one day and this woman who has very 25:06 loose been a woman of the streets that he had been with she called out to 25:11 him and she said Augustin he didn’t say anything and she yelled at him again 25:18 Augustin Augustin he didn’t say anything and she got right up where he was and 25:23 she said Augustin it is I he said I know it’s you but it’s 25:32 no longer me Augustin had died and he 25:37 had a brand new life and he was dead too those things of the flesh you must appropriate the truth and you must put 25:45 off thirdly the old and put on the new 25:50 he says in verse eight but now you also put them all aside anger wrath malice 25:58 slander and abusive speech from your mouth do not lie to one another since 26:04 you laid aside the old self with its evil practices and put on the new self whose being renewed to a true knowledge 26:11 according to the image of the one who created him a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jews 26:17 circumcised and uncircumcised barbarian Scythian slave and free man but Christ 26:22 is all and in all and so as those who have been chosen of God holy and beloved put on a heart of compassion kindness 26:29 humility gentleness and patience he talks about listen as a believer now 26:36 things have changed you died your old way of life you have a brand new life in Jesus Christ you you reckon yourself 26:42 consider yourself dead unto sin alive to God and don’t put on the old clothes of 26:51 your old life you put on the new clothes of the new life when Jesus rose from the 26:59 dead he laid aside his grave clothes he didn’t rise from the dead and walked 27:05 around in grave clothes he laid those aside when Lazarus was raised from the 27:11 dead by the Lord Jesus Christ he told the people when he came out of the tomb unbind him 27:17 let him go he was all bound up like a mummy like how they would would wrap you up back in that day get the grave 27:23 clothes off of him you know some of us we’ve been raised up with Christ we died 27:31 with Christ we raised with Christ and you know what we do we put on the old clothes of the old life to go out in the 27:38 world and the Lord says don’t do that why would you wear stinking grave 27:43 clothes that’s not what I put in your closet these are the clothes a heart of 27:49 compassion kindness humility gentleness patience put on those clothes don’t put 27:55 on the clothes of anger and wrath and malice and slander and abusive speech 28:02 don’t lie to one another as he says you know those things in verse 5 the 28:11 immorality impurity passion evil desire and greed which amounts to idolatry those are kind of like the big headline 28:16 sense those are the ones everybody knows who that’s bad you’re supposed to do that but how about these other ones one 28:23 theologian called them then the difference between gross sexual sins and acceptable sense and when we look at 28:29 anger was oh well you know that’s not that big a deal Rolla wrath that’s not 28:35 that bad malice slander abusive speech from your mouth had a friend of mine that that used to Christian guy he used 28:44 to let cuss words fly out and when he did he’d always tell me this was like 28:49 excuse my french excuse my French I took French in school 28:54 that wasn’t French hey George that’s not French you know what you’re doing get 29:01 that out of your mouth why would you want to talk like that how does that glorify Christ those are the old clothes 29:08 from the old life don’t put that on that stuff is rotten to God quit lying to one 29:15 another you know there are some people they just they just lie all the time they’re lying about this and lying about 29:22 that and lying about the other listen you cannot have a relationship with somebody if you’re a liar you can’t have 29:30 a marriage if it’s bill on your lies you gotta tell the truth the Lord desires truth in the innermost 29:36 being you wonder what God thinks about lying proverbs chapter 6 says there are 29:42 six things which the Lord hates yes seven which are an abomination to him and he lists off seven things and two of 29:48 the seven are lying he repeats himself what does the Lord hates a hardy eye is 29:55 a lying tongue and a false witness who utters lies he he mentions lying twice 30:01 that’s how much God hates lying listen I think that lying is something different 30:09 than other sins in that you know you’re struggling with immorality you’re struggling with impurity you’re 30:15 struggling with passion those are things inside your kind of wired hard wired for sex but sex has to 30:23 be under the kind the confines of one man one woman for life and then the Lord 30:28 says that’s how you that expression works and you can enjoy your spouse that 30:34 way lying is not something where it’s just like you know it’s just not at me I 30:39 hadn’t wide all day I don’t know what I’m gonna do call the operator and just 30:45 lie there’s the Larry Sims and just hang up on her alright lying’s not like that 30:52 right there’s nothing in you that makes you god hates lying you know why because 30:58 the devil is a liar and the father of lies and when you lie you like the devil 31:05 and God didn’t want you to be like that hey don’t wear the old clothes the grave 31:11 clothes put on the grace clothes when I was in college my think was my sophomore 31:19 year junior year something like that I lived about a mile and a half for a mile 31:25 or so from campus and I was walking to campus one morning and it just started to rain it started pouring down rain and 31:32 I was equipped I left my umbrella at home and so I was just I just got soaked 31:37 I was just soaking wet and so I got to the dhobi cafeteria where I had my meal plan and Adobe dormitory was 31:45 there and the guy that took the tickets for the meal plan was my friend his name 31:50 was Jamar he was from Spain he had the coolest name I learned it I had to memorize this his 31:58 name was this he had lots of names Jamar Colin Barcella turquoise knob liga de 32:03 les qu’il a co I mean it’s really tough on his licence but anyway he had this 32:08 long long name I was just called him Jamar and Jamar was so nice he said Jeff you’re just soaking wet why don’t you go 32:15 upstairs to my room and get a shirt so you can have a dry shirt to wear you 32:21 know when you go to class I said man that’d be great Jamar cuz I got you know I’m a mile from my house so this would 32:27 be great so I go up to his room he gives me the key up go up to his room and I open up his drawer and I’m gonna get a 32:32 t-shirt and I pull it out and then I kind of let’s this would be good man hmm wow that’s a bad one and that’s like 32:40 Jamar must Summit’s I don’t know why I put that one back and then I pick up another one in whoo and I put that one 32:47 back and pick up a third one every one of Jamar shirts stunk 32:52 I just determined Jamar says tinker you know I mean I was like I’d rather be 32:58 wet than distinct and I didn’t put on any of his shirts there’s like Jamar you keep it and here’s a quarter for some so 33:04 I you know has one of those kind of but I wasn’t gonna put on the stinky clothes 33:10 many of us in the Christian life and we putting on stinky clothes putting on the 33:16 grave clothes that stink lay those aside put on the grace clothes because that is 33:23 what the Lord wants you to wear a whole new you it begins at Salvation it 33:29 continues as you grow and a whole new you is what God wants for you look at 33:35 verse 12 again and so as those who have been chosen of God holy and beloved put on a heart of compassion kindness 33:41 humility gentleness and patience bearing with one another and forgiving each other whoever has a complaint against 33:47 anyone just as the Lord forgave you so also should you and beyond all these things put on love which is the perfect 33:54 bond of unity and let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one 33:59 be thankful and let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another 34:05 with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God and whatever you do in 34:12 word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks through him to 34:17 God the Father that’s the kind of person God wants you to be God wants me to be those are the things he wants to do in 34:23 our lives as we go through this process of sanctification to be a whole new you 34:30 a person who looks the same on the outside but on the inside man there’s 34:35 there’s been a change there’s peace there’s love there’s compassion there’s forgiveness ability to forgive even big 34:41 things to forgive other people now how will that happen for you first of all 34:48 you need to believe the truth I love verse 12 I love what it says and 34:55 so as those who have been chosen of God holy and beloved you need to believe 35:03 what the Lord says about you he chose you if you belong to Jesus Christ he 35:09 chose you jesus said you didn’t choose me I chose you I mean some of us have had the experience as a kid playing ball 35:17 and they line everybody up and they’re gonna pick who’s gonna play I’ve had that experience I was a gonna be a 35:23 freshman in high school at Seifer high school and going to the gym and there the older kids were playing and I was 35:30 trying to get on a team and I didn’t get picked you know once they pick up the side and 35:35 the fifth guy is picked or the tenth guy is picked and they got their team and 35:41 you you go you go over to the side goal with all the other losers and you just go crud I didn’t get picked no I didn’t 35:48 like that not getting picked hey you know who picked me the god of the universe picked me 35:57 he’s that I chose you I want you to be on my team you’re holy which means 36:02 you’re set apart for God and he loves you and even when you do some terrible 36:09 horrible things even when you some times put on the grave clothes and participate 36:16 in some horrible things that doesn’t mean that you’re horrible 36:22 you’re still chosen you’re still beloved you’re still holy you need to quit 36:30 participating in those things that are so contrary to who you really are so I 36:37 believe the truth even in the midst when I fall and fail and the devil says you’re a loser 36:42 stay down God doesn’t love you anymore God can’t use you anymore you remember I’m chosen of God I am holy and I’m 36:50 loved and I’m gonna get up and walk with Him and then you live your life in the 36:55 power of the Spirit that’s what all that stuff when he talks about those clothes 37:00 put on the clothes the grace clothes those things the the heart of compassion and kindness and humility and gentleness 37:07 and patience and forgiveness and peace and in love and thankfulness all that 37:12 comes from the Holy Spirit I can’t generate that I can’t manufacture that and neither can you 37:17 it all comes from the Holy Spirit what is the Christian life in a nutshell it is Christ in you the hope of glory it is 37:24 yielding yourself to let the Lord who lives you in you live through you and empower you let me close with this story 37:32 years ago I did a magic trick up on the stage some of you may remember I have a 37:40 magic coat I’m wearing it today my magic coat my magic toque can do all kinds of 37:46 cool things I want to show you because this is really really awesome now I’m 37:51 gonna put my magic coat on display here all right magic coat stand up straight 38:03 did it in practice magic coat wave your arms magic coat pick up my Bible and 38:14 hold it up high come on magic oh I 38:21 forgot this is watch this is how this works magic coat stand up straight told 38:38 you magic coat move your arms around 38:43 that’s pretty cool magic coat lifts up my Bible hold it up high look at the 38:51 magic coat you say that’s not the coat 38:56 man you guys are easy now that that’s not the coat that’s you 39:07 in the coat that’s right that’s right and the one who lives in me is the Lord 39:16 Jesus Christ by his spirit and he says if you will just yield yourself to me I will live through you and I will change 39:23 your life and I’ll put upon you love and joy and peace and power I’ll enable you 39:30 to overcome I’ll do great and mighty things in you and through you I will 39:35 make you a brand new you if you’ll just 39:42 my friend life is hard and you have trouble and I have trouble living it the 39:48 Lord wants to help us he wants to live it through us listen if you don’t have a 39:53 personal relationship with Jesus today is the day to nail that down just pray 39:59 this simple prayer Lord Jesus I need you I know that I’m a sinner and I’m lost 40:05 and I can’t save myself but I believe you died on the cross for my sins that 40:10 you rose again from the dead that you are God in the flesh and right now Jesus 40:15 I ask you to come into my life forgive me of all my sins be my Lord and Savior 40:21 I surrender my all to you my friend if you’ll pray that kind of prayer and mean 40:27 it the Lord will come in and your life will never be the same I would love to 40:32 hear from you to know that you’re watching to know 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