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Jordan Easley - God Defined It: Christianity

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All In with Jordan Easley | Jordan Easley - God Defined It: Christianity | April 13, 2025

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Welcome to "all in with pastor jordan eastley."
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Today's message is about to begin and we invite you to
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Prepare your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
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God's word.
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We hope and pray for god to speak to you today as you seek
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To live your life all in for jesus christ.
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And now from first baptist church in cleveland, tennessee,
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Here's pastor jordan easley.
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Pastor jordan easley: if you have your bible, i'm gonna
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Invite you to join me in colossians chapter 3.
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We're gonna be in colossians 3 today
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As we continue our study that we're calling, "god defined it."
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We're looking at certain things that culture tries to define
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That god said, "no, no, no, i defined it first."
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And so, we're looking today at an important topic that i just
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Believe all of us need to hear, all right?
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And so, hey, i wanna thank you for being here today.
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One of the most misunderstood words in the entire english
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Language i believe is the word christian.
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I think this is one of the most misunderstood words in our
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Entire language, especially in the south.
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We live in a culture right now where the majority of the people
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In our community claim to be a christian.
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If you ask people where you live or where you work or
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Where you go to school, "are you a christian?"
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99% percent of them will raise their hand and say, "yes."
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We live in a community where people are raised in christian
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Homes and come from christian families.
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We have christian businesses and attend christian schools.
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A bunch of us eat christian chicken.
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Can i get an amen from somebody?
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Not on sundays though, but we live in what seems to be a
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Christian world.
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But the question i want us to address today is this, what
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Exactly is a christian?
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I'm asking that question because i believe when you start to peel
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Back the layers of this onion and ask the question clearly,
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You're gonna quickly discover that there's a big difference
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Between biblical christianity and cultural christianity.
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See, culture will tell you that being a christian means you
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Walked an aisle, or you prayed with a preacher, or you were
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Dunked in a pool of water.
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To live as a christian in the south to some people means that
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You open doors for ladies and you say, "yes ma'am," and
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"no ma'am."
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I've actually heard people say this.
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They say, "hey, to be a christian means you read your
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Bible monday through friday, you avoid getting drunk on saturday,
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And you show up for church on sunday."
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And i'm all for those things.
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But let me just ask you a question, do you really believe
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That's what christianity is all about?
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There's a few things about christianity i think all of us
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Should know.
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I believe all of us should know what it is and also what
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It's not.
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Today, if you're taking notes, and i hope you are, i'm gonna
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Start by giving you a what it's not, you're ready?
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Christianity is not a birthright.
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It's not a birthright.
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Today in egypt, every single person is considered either a
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Muslim or a christian.
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In fact, when a baby is born, a birth certificate is presented,
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And on that birth certificate there are two choices, two
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Boxes, muslim or christian.
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So, you're either born a muslim or a christian, meaning when you
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Hear that 10% of egypt is christian today, that does not
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Mean that 10% of their population loves jesus, follows
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Jesus, has surrendered their life to jesus.
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What that means is 10% of the population identifies as
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Being non-muslim.
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In the same way that term christian is thrown around a lot
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In america today.
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That term means different things to different people.
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Some people believe that they're a christian simply because they
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Were born into a christian home or they grew up in a
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Christian church.
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Others think that they're a christian because they were
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Raised by great, godly christian parents.
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In fact, some have even claimed that they've been a christian
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Their entire life.
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Well, let me just make something abundantly clear today.
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There's never been a person on the face of the earth that's
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Been a christian their entire life.
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I once heard an old preacher put it this way, he said, "being
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Born in a christian home doesn't make you a christian any more
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Than being born in a mcdonald's makes you a happy meal."
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Can i get an amen?
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Right, but the truth is, many people in our community are
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Banking on this idea that they are saved today.
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And they are banking on this idea that they're on their way
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To heaven today, why?
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Because their definition of christianity was determined by
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Culture and not by christ.
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Hey, we need to remember that this term christian was not a
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Term created by the church.
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It was a term given to the church.
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It wasn't created by the church, it was a term given to
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The church.
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In fact, all the way back in acts 11, we see this word
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Christian for the very first time.
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It says, "the disciples were first called christians
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At antioch."
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So, when you read that, the question is, who are these
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People who called the disciples christians for the very
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First time?
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Do you know the answer?
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It was just normal townspeople in this tiny town
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Called antioch.
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That term christian wasn't created by jesus.
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In fact, that word christian never came out of the mouth of
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Christ one single time.
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He never called his followers christians.
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In the bible you'll see him refer to his followers
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As disciples.
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Other times you'll see him refer to them as brothers, but
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Not christians.
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It wasn't until in the book of acts the people of antioch were
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Watching the disciples of jesus.
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They were listening to the disciples teach.
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And after observing these guys for a while, they coined this
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Term christian to describe them.
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And that word sort of stuck in those days, and it's carried on
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Even to today.
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The word christian actually comes from two different words.
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Christianos is the greek word, but it's a combination of
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Two words.
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The first word is christ, or it means the anointed one, and then
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You see the suffix, ianos, which refers to a follower of a
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Certain person, a follower of a certain leader.
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And so, all of that to say, when you look at the literal
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Translation of the word christian, it literally means
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Follower of christ.
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It could also mean belonging to christ.
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Some theologians even say that the word christian means
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Little christs.
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It was a term that was created because the world in the first
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Century recognized that the followers of jesus were
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Different than everybody else.
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It was a term that was created by unbelievers to describe
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True believers.
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And honestly, i don't think this was a term of endearment.
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When they came up with this term, i believe it was intended
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To be a sarcastic term.
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I believe it was intended to be a derogatory term.
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It was a term created by lost people to make fun of these
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Saved people, these little christs.
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Now i don't know that to be true.
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The bible doesn't say that abundantly clear.
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But in my study of acts chapter 11, that's what i read.
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Here's something i do know to be true.
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These unbelievers noticed the difference that jesus made in
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The lives of his disciples.
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They notice these people live differently.
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Man, they worship differently, they give differently.
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They walk and they talk and they conduct business in a way
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Where other people in this community don't.
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So, what are we gonna call these people?
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Let's call them christians.
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They're little christ, they belong to jesus, they
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Follow jesus.
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And they're different because of jesus.
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Today from god's word, i want us to share together seven marks of
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A real christian.
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Seven marks that we're gonna see in scripture today that identify
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A real christian.
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Right here, paul's gonna draw a clear line.
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And he would say, "let me show you the difference between
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Someone who just claims to be a christian in a
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Cultural christianity"
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And someone who is really all in with jesus, someone who's a
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Follower of christ, a disciple of jesus.
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Let me show you the difference between the two."
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In fact, in the very first verse we're gonna read, he's gonna
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Tell us, "if you're a real christian," check this out, "you
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Have been raised with christ."
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Verse 1, "so if you have been raised with christ, seek the
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Things above, where christ is, seated at the right hand of god.
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Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."
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If you're taking notes, i want you to jot this down.
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Real christianity sees life from a different perspective.
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Well, when paul says, "we've been raised with christ," he's
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Talking about us seeing things completely different.
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He talked about setting our minds on more important things.
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And notice, this says that when christ saves us, he positions us
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At a higher place.
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And even today, i believe that god wants us to imagine our
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Rightful position as being seated next to christ.
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That's where god wants us to see ourselves.
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I believe he's saying, "we ought to live as if we're
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Already there."
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Thinking and living with an elevated perspective.
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You know why i believe so many christians are unhappy today?
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I believe many christians are unhappy today because all
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They're doing is minding their own business.
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I'm talking about people who claim to love the lord, people
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Who follow the lord, but they're unhappy, they're miserable.
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You're like, "why are they so miserable?"
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It's because they're just minding their own business.
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The priority of their life, the primary focus of their world,
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It's all about them.
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It's all about their family and their job and their hobbies
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And their things and what they can accomplish and what they
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Can accumulate.
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It's all about them, they're minding their own business.
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You know why i believe that they're so miserable most of
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The time?
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It's because god never told us as christians to mind our
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Own business.
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He told us as christians our job is to be about his
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Business, right?
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That's the reason that we're here, it's the reason
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We're alive.
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This is not about us, this is all about him.
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Somebody say amen to that today, right?
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It's all about him.
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Read what we just saw in verse 2, what does it say?
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"set your minds on," what?
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"on things above."
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He said, "that's what you should be focused on."
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And then he said, "not on earthly things."
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He said, "don't focus on this stuff."
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I love the new living translation of that verse.
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It said this, "let heaven fill your thoughts.
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Don't spend your time worrying about things down here."
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Listen, when god defines a christian in the bible, he
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Describes a person who has had both a change of heart and a
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Change of perspective.
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Which leads me to ask the question, number one, has god
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Truly changed my heart?
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And if he has changed my heart, then can i honestly say that
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He's changed my perspective?
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Maybe you internalize these questions today and just ask the
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Question, "has god truly changed me?
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Has he changed the way that i make decisions?
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Has he changed how i set goals and how i establish priorities
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In my life or in my family?
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Has he changed how i steward my time?
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How i steward my resources, the things that god's blessed
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Me with?
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Has it changed how i see my money and steward those things
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For his glory?
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Has it changed what the--what i worry about as a person?
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Jesus said in matthew 6, "don't worry, saying, 'what will
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We eat?' or 'what will we drink?' or 'what will we wear?'"
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In other words, jesus tells us as his followers, "hey, don't
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Worry about things that won't ultimately matter.
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He was saying, "your perspective has been elevated, it's been
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Raised with christ and now you should think and you should live
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From an eternal position, not a temporal position.
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When he says don't worry about things like what you eat or
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What you drink or what you wear, i don't want you to hear
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That those things are bad things, they're not.
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Those are not bad things.
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They're just temporary things.
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These are things that our old perspective would have deemed
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Very important.
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But the bible says, "if you've been saved, if you're now a
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Christian who is following jesus, then you have been raised
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With christ.
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Your perspective has been elevated."
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And it goes on in verse 33 to say, "now you ought to seek
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First the kingdom of god and his righteousness."
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He's talking to us as believers.
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If you're a christian, you've been raised with christ.
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Secondly, if you're a christian, your life has been hidden
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With christ.
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That's what we read in verse 3, he says, "for you died, and your
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Life is hidden with christ in god."
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We're told in these verses that we as christians have died.
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But we just read in verse 1 that we as christians have
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Been raised.
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So, what does that mean?
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Well, it means when christ died, i died, the old me died.
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See, when someone becomes a christian, christ changes
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Their being.
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The old is gone, the new self is raised in christ, and now we
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Live with a new perspective and a new peace.
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The bible says jesus changes our being.
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We can't change those things but jesus can.
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He's the one that takes us from being a sinner to being saved.
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He's the one who changes our perspective from being temporal
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To being eternal.
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He's the one who changes our wardrobe, he replaces the
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Natural things in our life to the supernatural things in
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Our life.
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That's jesus changing our being.
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But get this today, when jesus changes our being, he also
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Changes our doing.
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When he changes who we are, he changes what we do.
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Which leads me to say, if your doing has never changed since
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You became a christian, then there's a good chance your being
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Was never truly changed in the first place.
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You remember what the lord said in ezekiel chapter 36?
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He said it very clearly.
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He said, "i will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
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Within you; i will remove the heart of stone and give you a
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Heart of flesh."
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That says when jesus saves your soul, he changes your life.
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When he changes your being, he changes your doing, and how does
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He do that?
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Through the word of god.
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Read verse 16, "let the word of christ dwell richly among you."
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Don't miss this today.
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The second i was saved, my identity changed.
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You could say the same thing.
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The second i was saved, my identity changed.
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In that moment, the bible says, "i had a new life, i had a
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New forgiveness.
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I had a brand new hope."
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When i said, "yes," to jesus and i said, "no," to the world, the
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Bible says jesus stepped out of heaven, and he stepped into
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My heart, and in that moment i became a child of the king.
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In that moment, my being was forever and eternally changed.
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But you know what?
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That moment in my life was almost four decades ago.
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In that moment, my identity was changed in a second, but you
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Know what's interesting?
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Every single day and even to this day, god continues to work
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On my doing.
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My being was changed in a second, but my doing is on a
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Path of becoming more like christ.
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And that's the way that he designed it to work.
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How does that happen?
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What does he say?
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"in wisdom and teaching and admonishing one another through
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Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs."
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It's through the word of god.
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And the bible gives us that list to show us that the word of god
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Is given through these things.
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These things are like gifts given to us from god and they're
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Designed to grow us and to develop us.
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And this says, "when we consume the word of god in a being
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That's been changed by god, that the word of god will slowly
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Change our heart and allow our doing to reflect his life rather
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Than reflecting our old life without christ."
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Maybe you're here today and you're still wondering, "man,
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What does that say about me and my faith?
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Maybe you're asking the question, "am i a
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True christian?
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Am i a biblical--a biblical christian and not just a
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Cultural christian?"
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Well, let me show you one more passage today out of matthew
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Chapter 7.
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If you're having that conversation in your heart and
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You're looking for clarity regarding the biggest decision
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Of your life, i want to point you to some words that jesus
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Said in verse 21.
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He said, "not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord,' will enter
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The kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my
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Father in heaven."
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He said, "there's a lot of people who are going to say
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I'm lord.
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And at the end of the day, i will look at them and say, 'i'm
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Sorry, but i never really knew you.'"
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You know, billy graham before he died once made a statement that
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He thought 70% to 80% of people like us that show up on
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Church--at church on sunday will one day step into eternity and
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Be separated from god and spend eternity in hell."
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He said 70% to 80% of us will one day miss out on heaven.
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And when you think about that statement, you're like, "man,
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That's a pretty bold thing to say."
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But the reason is because there have been so many of us that
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Have been convinced that christianity is something other
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Than what god says.
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And so, maybe if you're here today, you're saying, "man, am i
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Gonna be one of those people that say, 'lord, lord,' someday
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And and completely miss out on heaven?
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I don't wanna be that person.
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How can i identify if i'm the real deal or not?"
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You know, it's interesting, right in that verse right before
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Jesus said these words, he told us how we can identify someone
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As the real deal or not, how we can see if they're a true
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Believer or just a cultural christian.
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And this is what he said, verse 16.
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He said, "you'll know because you'll recognize them."
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And how will you recognize them?
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"by their fruit."
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Listen, if you claim to be an apple but you look like an
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Orange, smell like an orange, taste like an orange, you can
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Claim to be an apple all day long, but it doesn't change the
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Fact that you're an orange.
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On the flip side of that, if you say i'm an apple, but you look
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Like an apple and smell like an apple and taste like an apple,
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You resemble an apple in all forms of the word apple,
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Guess what?
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There's a really good chance you're an apple.
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If someone were to hear you say today, "i'm a christian,"
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Let me ask you a question.
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Would there be enough evidence in your life today to convict
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You as a christian in the court of law?
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I mean, if someone were to simply follow you for a week and
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Just evaluate everything you do, everything you say, the life
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That you live, would there be enough evidence in your life
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Today to convict you as being a christian?
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In the town called antioch, the townspeople watched the
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Disciples of jesus.
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And the bible says they recognized something about them.
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They were little christs.
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They looked different than everybody else in town.
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You know why they looked different, by the way?
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Because jesus had changed their being.
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And when jesus changed their being, and as he poured the word
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Of god into their life, their doing started to reflect christ.
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The people of antioch called these people christians because
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The fruit of their life had been changed by christ.
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You know how that happened?
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I think galatians 2:20 says it best.
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Galatians 2:20 says, "i have been crucified with christ, and
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I no longer live, but christ lives in me.
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The life i now live in the body, i live by faith in the son of
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God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
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Hey, listen, can you say that today?
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Are you able to walk through this verse and say, "this is my
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Testimony today, that i have been crucified with christ and i
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No longer live"?
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Can you say, "there was a point in my life where i put off my
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Old self and the old me, the sinner me, the separated from
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God me is dead"?
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Can you remember the moment you killed the old man?
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He said, "i've been crucified with christ, and i no longer
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Live, but christ lives in me.
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It's a brand new life.
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It says, "the life that i now live in this body, i live by
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Faith in the son of god, who loved me and gave himself
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For me."
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It's a testimony that says, "the old me is dead, the new me is
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Here, and this life is all about christ."
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Can we say that today?
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Can you say that this life is his, it's not mine.
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It's for him, it's not for me.
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This life is completely devoted to following jesus.
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Because that, according to your bible, is true christianity.
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Listen, i believe the greatest trick the devil has ever played
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On humanity is convincing people that are saved--or is
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Convincing people that they're saved when they're
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Actually lost.
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I'm gonna say that again, think about this, the greatest trick
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The devil's ever played on humanity is convincing people
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That they're saved when they're actually lost.
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We live in that world.
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We live in that world where everybody waves this banner
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Of christianity.
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We are christian people from christian homes, we go to
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Christian churches and have christian neighbors and go to
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Christian schools and eat christian chicken, but at the
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End of the day, are we followers of jesus?
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There might be someone in this place today that says, "you
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Know what?
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I'm a great cultural christian, but i've never stepped into that
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Kind of relationship and become a biblical christian."
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And if that's you, i just want you to consider at the end of
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This life, which will happen before you know it, it'll happen
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Before you think it'll be time,
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We're going to stand before almighty god and we're gonna
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Hear one of two things.
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"well done, my good and faithful servant," or "depart from me,
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For i never knew you."
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Hey, let me just say this, don't live your life as a cultural
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Christian just to die and spend eternity in hell.
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God's given you an opportunity today to step out of cultural
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Christianity and into a real saving relationship with
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Jesus christ.
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And i believe today the son of god can invade your life, change
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You from the inside out, and give you hope that only god can
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Give you.
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So, let me ask you one final question.
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Can you say that you have gone all in with jesus and
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Been saved?
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And if not, would you do that right now?
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I'm gonna ask you to bow your heads and close your eyes.
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I'm talking to somebody in this room who says "jordan, i'm tired
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Of playing church.
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I don't wanna be more religious.
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I'm not interested in just becoming a better version
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Of myself.
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I wanna be god's person.
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I wanna be saved.
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I wanna be a child of god."
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Hopefully what you've heard from me today is this, that good
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People don't go to heaven, saved people go to heaven.
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And in order to be saved, you have to get serious when it
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Comes to your relationship with jesus christ.
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And so, if that's you and i'm speaking to you and you're
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Saying today, "man, that's the decision on my heart, that's a
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Decision i wanna make and i'm unashamed to say that i'm ready
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To go all in with jesus christ."
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If that's you, may i just invite you to pray in this moment?
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And just say, "lord, i'm ready to be serious.
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And i'm asking you in this moment to save me, to change me,
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To make me brand new.
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Jesus, i believe you died on the cross and you rose again.
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I believe you're alive today.
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I believe you are fully god.
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And in this moment i'm asking you to save my soul.
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I turn away from my sins, i'm tired of chasing the things of
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This world.
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And today i'm saying i wanna turn to you as my lord and
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My savior.
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God, give me the courage to live for you.
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Give me the courage to follow you all the days of my life.
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And even when i think about being ashamed of this decision,
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God, i pray you would give me boldness and assurance, knowing
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That the life that you give is doubly protected in the hands of
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Christ and god the father.
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Thank you for loving me enough to chase me down to this moment.
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say yes
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To jesus.
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And for the rest of eternity, i pray that my life would make a
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Difference for your kingdom.
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It's in jesus's name i pray, amen."
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♪♪♪
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Pastor jordan: have you ever dreamed of exploring the great
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Pyramids of egypt and delving into one of the world's most
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Pastor jordan: hey, we never want to end our broadcast
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Without giving you the opportunity to know jesus as
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Your personal lord and savior.
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If you'd like to make the decision to trust jesus and
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Wanna know more about what it looks like to follow jesus, get
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In touch with me right now.
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Follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen so that we
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Can pray for you and also put information in your hands
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Right away.
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Today, we celebrate your decision and look forward to
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Being a part of your personal journey of going all in with
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Jesus christ.
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Announcer: this episode of "all in with pastor jordan
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Easley" has been made possible by the generous support of
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Viewers like you.
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We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
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Live your life fully committed to jesus christ.
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Jordan Easley - God Defined It: Christianity

April 13, 2025 | S

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