3. The Truth Shall Make You Free! Pt. 1 - Eric Wilson - Mystery Revealed

[Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening it's good to see everyone here again and i welcome all of those that are viewing on youtube or satellite thank you for coming to open god's word with us in our previous message we talked about a situation that had happened in israel the situation was that god's ark his throne had been taken by the enemy and because of that his temple was left desolate when that happened the word was cried out ichabod the glory of god has departed today we are living in that same time we are living in a time when the christian church has lost her former glory so tonight we're going to take a look at how god has promised to restore that glory to israel and to put his presence back within each of us our message title is light shining in darkness the truth shall make you free first samuel chapter 4 verse 12-22 that was when eli's step-daughter cried out ichabod the glory has departed for from israel for the ark of god has been taken that ark of the covenant was a symbol of the throne of god and within that ark of the covenant was the most important thing that israel had it was the ten commandments it was god's covenant what most people don't realize is that for god a covenant is not a contract a covenant is an oath and a promise it assures us of that in the gospel of luke chapter 1 verse 67 through 74. it tells us there that god made an oath to us and that oath he cannot break so those ten commandments that were inside that ark they were the seat of god's government not just simply a set of rules but a promise of what god was going to do within each of us now we're going to read a statement here from signs of the times december 12 1895. the servant of the lord says through sin the temple of god which he had builded for his own indwelling and glory was reduced to ruin it was fallen and in decay last night in our message we looked at a quote from desire of ages page 161 where the lord revealed to us that it was his purpose from the very beginning of the world that every created being should be a temple for him to dwell in darkened and defiled by evil because of sin the heart of man no longer revealed the glory of the divine one for out of the heart are the issues and the springs of our life and as a man thinketh in his heart so is he when god's law is taken out of his heart and god's presence is off that throne a life is lost all that you have is a form without any real vitality but then the lord assures us of this by the incarnation of the son of god the purpose of heaven is filled full and of his fullness have we all received god now dwells in humanity and through saving grace the heart of every man that is willing becomes again his temple we look at what happened with adam and eve they were they were clothed with glory because god was dwelling inside of their hearts and we see that same thing with stephen you know when he was about to be stoned his face shone like an angel's we see that with the the life of moses when he came down off of mount sinai after spending all that time with the lord his face was glowing so bright that the people had to beg him to put a veil over his face that veil put over moses's face that veil put over moses's face was symbolic of the veil that separates us from god later on in this series we're going to talk about something it's funny because god used that term avail we know that on the most holy side of the veil was christ jesus the presence of god the spirit of god and we know on the other side of that veil it was called the tabernacle of the congregation the people are always represented as being the bride of christ but a husband and a wife cannot become one as long as the veil is still on the bride's face the lord was showing us something and he talks about this in second corinthians chapter three that when we turn to christ the veil shall be removed moses saw what the people were doing they had told the lord you know everything that god has said we will do and it wasn't you know 40 days later and they'd broken the commandments they had made a golden image a golden calf they were committing fornication and intemperance and gluttony and moses was so heartbroken he told the people when he got done you know reprimanding them and admonishing them he said seek the lord with all of your heart i'm going back up the mountain to see if i can make an atonement for you with our god we read here in numbers chapter 14 moses cried unto the lord and said pardon i beseech thee the iniquity and the perversity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy and the lord jehovah jehovah yahweh however you want to pronounce it he said i have pardoned according to thy word but as truly as i live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the lord god said listen i'm going to forgive but i don't want to just forgive i want to make you clean again. he said i'm pardoning that's what the entire old testament was a symbol of the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sins what the blood of bulls and goats did those sacrifices that the ancient israelites offered it covered a sin it was almost like if if my daughter or my son came to me and said dad i've got a good job but i need to buy a house or i need to buy a car would you be willing to co-sign that loan for me and i look at them and i know my children both of them are very responsible financially and i knew they would pay the debt but because the bank has to have a guarantee i would sign my name on that contract and when i sign my name on there as the cosigner it does not mean that the car is paid in full the debt is still owed i'm just signing my name as a guarantee that should they not be able to pay the debt i will cover the debt for them every sacrifice in the old testament pointed forward to the one sacrifice that christ would make upon calvary and on calvary he cried out and said it is finished in the greek that literally means paid in full our sins were not just covered until someday in the future at calvary god laid on him the iniquities of us all and christ jesus paid the debt in full john chapter 1 verse 14. this is a beautiful promise it says the word the promise of god was made flesh and dwelt among us do you know what jesus's name means if you look it up in greek in the hebrew his name is yahushua or yahshua in the greek and in the hebrew whichever you know you prefer using the meaning is the same jehovah saves yahweh is salvation jesus's very name is a promise that god will save us the only thing that prevents us from receiving that promise is unbelief and the word the promise of god was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father adam and eve were filled with glory before they fell in sin and then after sin god's presence had to leave them because of the sin not that god hated them but because god our god is a consuming fire he knew that if he stayed within adam and eve because of sin he would devour them so he had to step out of them to keep from destroying them when jesus came we saw the last adam the second adam we saw a man the man christ jesus filled with the glory of god there are references in the scripture that there was certain times in christ's ministry where divinity literally flashed through humanity that means this flesh that he was in it could not contain the glory of god that was within him john 1 1 or john 1 11 tells us jesus came unto his own but his own received him not one has come from the heavenly courts to represent god in human form his name was emmanuel god with us the son of god was made man and dwelt among us for in him was life and the life was the light of men when you look that phrase up the life was the light of men it means the life which was god in christ was the light it was the manifestation the glory of men by becoming one with christ as his bride we actually become partakers of his divine nature the bible tells us through the apostle paul that we are joint heirs with christ you're an heir by birth that's why jesus told nicodemus you have to be born again when you are born again by faith everything that is christ now becomes yours just like a husband and a wife when they take those vows and they become one whatever the husband has now belongs to the wife and whatever the wife has is now freely also her husband's the son of god was made man and dwelt among us the light shineth in darkness but the darkness comprehended it not jesus was walking the streets of galilee and throughout israel and they didn't comprehend they did not comprehend what had taken place in what was happening in john chapter 8 verse 29 through 32 jesus said something that really it caused a problem with those that believed in him as well as those that did not then said jesus if ye continue in my word that means if you abide if you abide in my word then are ye my disciples indeed for ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free right now there's so many people in the world that are desperate they're living in darkness and struggling in doubt and sin and fear and shame and guilt even within the christian churches of all denominations there are men and women and little girls and little boys that are struggling and they read the bible and they see what it says but they don't see that in their own lives and often not even in the lives of those they go to church with this is the answer jesus says you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free free from the bondage that all of us are born into as slaves but the jews answered him the jewish leaders the scribes and the pharisees we be abraham's seed and we were never in bondage to any man how sayest thou then we shall be made free sometimes i wonder about that i mean like they had forgotten about babylon they had forgotten about being being in captivity to the medes and the persians they had forgotten about being in captivity to the philistines and being in captivity to egypt every time that god's people go into captivity to the lord's enemies it's because the law of god has not been in their heart they have forsaken god they have let go of him and started following another jesus then answered them and said verily verily i say unto you whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin the word committeth there means continue in sin this is almost the same thing that john tells us in first john chapter 3 if we continue to sin after we've been made free you know what's wrong with us if christ has healed us of lung cancer why would we turn back to the thing that caused the lung cancer then jesus goes on and says as the servant abideth not in the house forever but the son the children begotten abideth always he does not want us to be servants or slaves his greatest desire for us is that we will accept who we are in christ jesus as sons and daughters of the living god jesus continued in in john chapter 8 verse 36 through 46. he said if the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed but now you seek to kill me a man that told you the truth which i have heard of god and you look at that you think what was it that he said that made them so angry jesus tells us you seek to kill me a man that has told you the truth which i heard from god and i was like lord what was it that jesus heard that he was proclaiming that made these people so angry do you remember at jesus's baptism when he came up out of the water when he came up out of the water the heavens opened and there was a voice like thunder the voice of almighty god and he said thou art my beloved son in you i am well pleased do you know that jesus had to hold on to that word from god for his entire ministry there were times when people would speak doubt to him and the devil would cause him to doubt like he did in the wilderness of temptation if thou be the son of god prove it turn these stones into bread jesus had to walk by faith he had to say i know what god has said to me god told me plainly i am a son of god so i cannot listen to the doubts and the insinuations of the devil then jesus asked them a question which of you convinceth me of sin which of you convict me of sin and if i say and speak the truth then why do you not believe me when i read this there was something that really caught my attention do you know that in the jewish economy back in jesus's day in the land of israel everybody anytime you committed a sin if you over ate if you lost your temper and yelled at somebody if you stole something if you looked at something whatever you did you had to go to the temple or to the synagogue and offer a sacrifice for that sin think about how many times you've had to go to the lord on your knees and i for the same exact sin where we're trying and we slip and fall or maybe we don't slip and fall maybe the temptation is just so overwhelming we jump in but think about how many times it happens with the same exact sin in the land of israel the priests that were in the temple they knew every single person that came to that temple they saw them on a weekly or a monthly basis every time they sinned they never one time saw christ come and offer a sacrifice for sin not once jesus never one time offered a sacrifice because he never yielded to the lies of satan he believed what god had said to him in his word now i want you to pay attention to this this is very important this is a quote from desire of ages page 112-113 remember what the lord said to jesus when he came up out of the water thou art my beloved son in whom i am well pleased and that word that was spoken to jesus at the jordan this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased embraces all of humanity god spoke to jesus as our representative our substitute and our surety that means our guarantee with all our sins and weaknesses we are not cast aside as worthless for he hath made us accepted in the beloved the light which fell from the open portals upon the head of our savior will fall upon us as we pray for help to resist temptation and that voice which spoke to jesus says to every believing soul this is my beloved child in whom i am well pleased when i first read that that brought tears to my eyes that shook me to my very core that's not my words that's the words of the servant of the lord she said that when christ was baptized we were in him being baptized when he went into the wilderness of temptation we were still in him being tempted and christ overcame that's why he's asking us today to accept his victory as ours by faith and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us that word of god that promise of our salvation was made flesh so that we could see what it looks like to be the son of god or the daughter of god the word was made flesh and dwelt among us but the word of the lord was unto them a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense isaiah chapter 28 verse 13 talks about this and says the word of god was to them merely precept upon precept line upon line yea line upon line that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken they read this but they did not read it as promises it was merely lying upon line rule after rule after rule that's all it was to them they did not see the power in the word of god romans chapter 9 verse 33 tells us as it is written behold i lay in zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense and whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame that is a promise god cannot lie do you know how many times in the bible it tells us that it's impossible for him to lie if god if if god was here if jesus was here in the room with us and he looked up and said what a beautiful blue sky the moment he spoke the words this would be blue sky if he looked at me and said eric you are a great looking black man i would become a black man the moment he spoke it or if he said eric you know you're a great asian i would be asian the moment he spoke it he said let there be light and there was the moment the word left his mouth that's the same word that speaks righteousness to you and i and victory and forgiveness and pardon then the jews took up stones again to stone jesus and jesus answered them saying many good works have i showed you from my father for which of these good works do you stone me now listen to what they say then answered the jews saying for a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy because thou being a man maketh thyself god in the greek that word god has got one meaning theos it means deity supreme deity or divinity they told jesus you're blaspheming because you claim to be god divine and you're only a man this is something i think all of us need to dig into deeper i have really been searching this and i want to share with you something that i've found you search your bible and ask the lord to help us to see more clearly what this means jesus answered them this is jesus talking is it not written in your law that i said ye are gods and the scripture cannot be broken that really threw me for a loop i thought how in the world do we interpret that and then something else hit me in the new age as well as in eastern mysticism and the martial arts and yoga they tell you that you're already god but you have to learn that you have to tap into that through meditation and eastern practices and i thought the devil never comes up with something new he always counterfeits the truth let's go forward i went back and i looked that verse up because jesus says is it not written in your law that i already said you're god's and i was like okay it's got to be in the old testament where does it say it i found it in isaiah i mean in psalm 82 verse 1 through 6 listen to what the lord said to them way back there he said they know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness yea all the foundations of the earth waver and slip and shake and are out of course but i have said ye are gods and all of you are the children of the most high he said that all the way back in psalms it doesn't mean that god was saying that man was like him but as much like him as we could be in being his children partakers of divine nature then jesus said say ye of him whom the father has sanctified made holy the father made him holy and i thought about that i was like well of course jesus was holy in heaven well when he came down here ellen white says as well as the bible he did not take unfallen human flesh he took the seed of abraham he took fallen flesh even though he himself never fell and that really caused a struggle and i started trying to search that out and i started looking through the writings of our sister ellen white and i found a truth there that was so precious she said we can never make christ all together as one of ourselves because this is an impossibility she said we are born with one nature under adam fallen christ was not born with one nature alone he was born here on the earth with two natures simultaneously fallen nature that he inherited from adam and divine nature that he was given from his father he had both natures and through the divine nature his father's presence inside of him he conquered all the sin of the fallen nature and that's what he wants to give to you and i he wants to make us partakers of the divine nature through faith in him jesus said say he of him whom the father has sanctified god how did you sanctify your son when he was here do you know what tells us in leviticus all through leviticus the lord tells the children of israel be ye holy for i am holy more than five times in leviticus it says be ye holy for i am holy those promises were written to abraham and his seed and it says not seeds as of many galatians 3 16 tells us but seed as of one thy seed which is christ that means all these promises were written to jesus for when he came here in human flesh and christ believed his father's promise his father said you're my son i want you to be holy because i am holy you can't pluck an apple off of an orange tree you can't pluck unrighteousness off of a righteous tree christ said i abide in my father and my father abides in me and he tells us in john chapter 15 abide in me and if my words abide in you you shall ask what you will and it will be done for you he wants us to be joined to him so that whatever is his becomes ours it flows through him to us just like it flew from his father into his son and from his son into us christ is the mediator not just someone standing before a broken law pleading our lives but mediating his grace to us his power and his influence then jesus said thou sayest that i blasphemus because i said i am the son of god and then listen to what his next words are if i do not the works of my father then believe me not but if i do though you believe not me then believe the very works so that ye may know and believe that the father is in me and i in him the apostle paul tells us that god was in christ jesus reconciling the world unto himself and i found a statement from ellen white and she said that when christ was speaking to the leper to the harlot to you know sick people or people that were possessed it was actually his father that was speaking through christ to them that made god the father so much closer than i ever thought possible it wasn't like he stayed up there in heaven and and down here is jesus and the two of them are god was actually speaking through his son to us because jesus is the word of almighty god and then jesus goes on and says for i and my father are one the references there are john chapter 10 verse 30-38 and john chapter 14 verse 6 through 12. in john 14 verse 10 and 11 jesus says the words that i speak unto you i speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works he said the words i'm talking to you guys it's not even me talking it's my father that's in me for ye are the temple of the living god as god has said i will dwell in them and i will walk in them and i will be their god and they shall be my people that's second corinthians 6 14-16 from the very foundation of the world it was god's desire and his purpose to live inside of us king solomon talked about that when he was building the temple the greatest most magnificent structure the world has ever seen and he got finished and he was looking at everything and they had offered thousands of lambs for sacrifices and the glory of god had come down in fire and flame and glory and solomon raised his hands and he said what is this house that i've built that my hands have built will you verily dwell on earth with men and god could not wait to show what we have seen through the life of jesus christ yes god dwells with men through his son john chapter 17 verse 1 through 21 i'm just going to highlight a few of these verses this was in jesus's last prayer right before calvary listen to what he prayed these words spake jesus and lifted up his eyes unto heaven and said father for their sakes i sanctify myself so that they also might be sanctified through thy truth jesus said i'm making myself holy by faith alone so that they also can be holy and when i saw that i was like lord how does that work jesus says i'm making myself holy so they can be holy and in yesterday's message we talked about that that woman that is is nine months pregnant with a baby and and she's smoking a cigarette the baby is smoking the cigarette if she you know if she falls slips and falls and dies the baby within her dies unless somebody gets there immediately if we are in christ then everything that is his is ours simply by faith lord your death is my death the apostle paul says your resurrection is my resurrection galatians chapter 2 verse 20 in romans 6 1-6 your ascension and glorification is my ascension and glorification romans chapter 8 says we have got to appropriate the life of christ as our own so jesus said father for their sakes i sanctify myself so that they also might be sanctified through thy truth that they all might be one most christians when you ask them about that you say what does that mean they say well it means we're all going to have the same beliefs the same doctrines we're going to see things exactly the same that's not what it means and i can tell i can prove it to you from scripture day of pentecost holy spirit fell like we have never seen before up till that time do you know the disciples still didn't see eye to eye on everything peter and paul had a little bit of a a dis or misunderstanding um paul and some of the other people paul and mark or or luke there was there were differences in the way that they saw some things in scripture even peter said some of the things that the apostle paul wrote are hard to understand when christ said father i pray that they all might be one he gave us the clue to what that means as thou father art in me and i in thee that they also may be one in us it means joined in union with us so that the world may believe that thou has sent me and there's a point there we're going to come back to but that's important in one of our future messages it says it's important that we are one with christ so that the world will believe that god has sent christ and they'll know that god is also with us ministry of healing page 180 to 181 the savior took upon himself the weaknesses and infirmities of humanity and he lived a sinless life so that men might have no fear that because of the weakness of human nature they could not overcome christ came get this this is most important christ came to make us partakers of the divine nature that's what sister white tells us that's what the bible tells us he came for one reason to make us what we were like before adam fell ellen white made a statement that i'll never forget she said all that was lost in adam the cross of christ fully restores to every believing soul and you know what a lot of christians say well that's when we get to heaven that's not what i read in the book of acts they cast out devils they healed the sick they raised the dead they cleansed the lepers i mean whatever was wrong i mean if you had people in church and somebody was sick the lord would send somebody there that had the gift of healing through his spirit and they weren't sick anymore that's what god wants for us today no matter what church and what denomination you're in that's god's will today the devil has lied to us and said that's you know pie in the sky when you get to heaven then right now you just got to suffer i can't find that in god's word i can't find that in god's word god said we are more than conquerors through him that loves us god said greater is he that is in you and i than he that is in this world and you know a lot of times we say it's christ in me the hope of glory but we do not realize it goes even farther than that read john chapter 14 18-24 he says i and my father will come and dwell in you if god be for us who can be against us christ came to make us partakers of the divine nature and listen to the next quote and his life declares that humanity combined with divinity does not continue in sin that's everything we should be teaching this in our crater roll classes i think i wish i'd known this when i was five years old and eight years old and 12 years old and i'm 50 now and i'm just now starting to grasp bits and pieces of it so we live in bondage to sin thinking that at some last moment right when christ appears in the sky he's going to change us he wants to change us now today is the day of our salvation if we will only hear his voice now we see what happened the jews were so angry with jesus not all of them but most of the leaders not all of the leaders we know there were some men in the sanhedrin that believed in jesus they were just afraid to voice it but the majority of the leadership of the jewish church wanted jesus dead you know why because he did away with legalism when i say legalism i don't mean obedience he did away with legalism they brought mary magdalene and she they caught her in the act okay i don't have to describe that and they threw her on the ground in front of jesus and you know she probably was not well covered if they caught her in the act they throw her on the ground in the dirt in front of jesus and they say moses said she's got to be stoned what do you say jesus was the one that told moses she's got to be stoned that's what the law says but do you know what the bible tells us i think it's in the book of james mercy rejoices against judgment sister white says that every person that jesus healed every demon that he cast out every person that he forgave unforgivable sins he took their sins upon himself at that moment and imparted his life of no sin to them jesus was like you're guilty i didn't come here to condemn you doesn't mean that i want to let you keep living in sin because then you'll die i don't want you to die so i'll take your sin from you and you'll see me on the cross carrying it but i'll take your sin from you so that god can be just and yet the justifier of all those that believe in me that's why they wanted him dead they liked the rules but they did not understand mercy they didn't understand if somebody steals something from you give it to them go to them and say if somebody broke into my house tonight and they uh you know they there's three guys and they're big guys much bigger than me and they break in and they're downstairs in the living room and they're grabbing the television and the dvd player and i come walking down there it's one or two a.m in the morning and i look at them i can say i'm calling the police that's my stuff well right there is selfishness it's not my stuff everything i have and own even my own breath belongs to god i look at those men and i say man men you know don't be afraid i'm not going to call the police listen are you all hungry let me fix you something to eat and by the way that's a good dvd player we just got it recently but if you're going to take the dvd player i've got a set of really good dvds that you i want to give to you as a gift to take with you and you know what those three men would leave there with all the stuff that doesn't even belong to me it belongs to god god will replace it i'm not worried about it but those three men would leave there with all of those things with a full stomach with good healthy food and even if one of them walked away angry and said that stupid man what's wrong with him you know one or two of them are going to be walking away going something is different about that how did that happen i want what he has do you understand that's what the world is waiting to see that's what being a christian is more than just being right it's doing what's right it's sacrificing self on behalf of every other person they took jesus they took him to the sanhedrin they had a a trial at night middle of the night they did that kind of like how congress does sometimes they'll do it while everybody's going home for christmas vacation so they can pass a bill when they know the men that would oppose it are not there they held this trial at night time because they didn't want nicodemus there they didn't want joseph of arimathea there they probably didn't want some of the other men there that believed and after they got finished with that trial they took him to pilate the roman governor and they brought him to pilate and just an opening they said we will not have this man reign over us he claims to be king of the jews we won't have this man reign over us that's in luke 19 verse 14. jesus said my kingdom is not of this world neither shall they say lo it is here or lo it is there for behold the kingdom of god is within you that's something that really it threw me off for a long time i was reading the gospels when i first came back to the lord when he i didn't come back to him he rescued me he came out and hunted for me and wouldn't let go of me and when i was reading the gospels i kept seeing john the baptist came and the first thing he said is repent for the kingdom of god is at hand and then i was like well the kingdom of god is not here yet i mean you know we're waiting on christ to return and then i went over another chapter or two and there's jesus he starts his ministry and he says repent the kingdom of heaven is at hand and i went through the bible and i started looking up those two phrases kingdom of god and kingdom of heaven it's all through the gospels and jesus said it's now so even if john made a mistake jesus didn't make a mistake and i was like lord there's got to be more to the kingdom than what i thought i thought the kingdom was you know thy kingdom come when jesus returns in the clouds in glory and i looked up the word kingdom in greek it means the reign the rule the dominion or the sovereign king do you remember what happened when jesus was born there was a star and the wise men saw the star and they followed that star till they got to israel and they went to king herod's palace because the the wise men even though they were not christian they were not jewish they knew and they believed this prophecy of this coming king and they went to the palace and they asked king herod where is he that is born king of the jews a lot of times we don't realize what that means it's not king of the jews in the original it's king of judah in genesis chapter 49 when abraham i'm sorry when jacob was blessing his sons he got to judah and he said out of thee shall he come a lawgiver shiloh and he will reign upon the throne these wise men knew that prophecy they knew the prophecy of numbers when balaam had prophesied they came to the king and said where is he that is born king of judah now here jesus is trying to help us to understand what that means the kingdom of god is within you do you remember where it says jesus is standing at the door knocking if we will only open the door of our hearts and let him in sister white says the throne of god is in the heart now a lot of times i've talked to people and they say no no no the mind is where christ dwells not here this is just an organ but that's not what the bible says you can have intellectual knowledge facts do you understand i can say i know what the mark of the beast is i know who rome is i know what this is it's just facts but unless that knowledge has gotten into my heart it's useless the heart is the seat or the throne of your affections i could go you know to my wife maybe maybe i hadn't met her yet and somebody introduces me to her and she's already got two children and they say eric we want you to marry this woman and i say yeah i really feel like the lord wants me to do this because you know she's she's alone she needs to i don't really find her attractive i don't really like her but she needs this the children need this so i'm gonna do it and somebody says you know well do you love her and i say yes i said those words up here but my heart there's nothing there for what kind of wife would want that kind of a husband what kind of husband would want that kind of wife jesus said they draw nigh unto me with their lips but their hearts are far from me he's asking us for the throne of our hearts and pilate entered into the judgment hall again and he called jesus and said unto him art thou the king of judah the king of the jews jesus answered what thou sayest that i am a king and for this end was i born for this purpose was i born and for this cause came i into the world so that i should bear witness to the truth do you remember what jesus said said earlier in john chapter 8 you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free jesus was here as a physical example of the truth he tells us in john chapter 17 thy word is truth jesus is the word of god the word was made flesh and dwelt among us in second corinthians chapter four there's a beautiful promise there if you can turn there with me second corinthians chapter 4 listen to what the apostle paul was inspired to tell us speaking of us he says always bearing about in our body the dying of the lord jesus so that the life also of jesus might be made manifest in our body and then he says i need to repeat it again in a little bit different phrase so that you can make sure you get this for we which live are always delivered unto death that means i die daily when eric wants to do something but god says that's not the best way to do it eric dies i reckon myself indeed to be dead indeed unto sin as the apostle paul tells us in romans 6 11 he says for we which live are always delivered unto death for jesus sake so that the life also of jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh hallelujah hallelujah the gospel is not simply a set of rules it's a life it's being a partaker of a life and that's what causes so many people to not live victorious lives because they're willing to follow certain rules as long as they don't cut too close to home but they're not willing to lay down their life completely so that christ can come in and dwell within them the moment that we do that a change will take place that nothing in this world can take away from you that's what god wants for us that the life of christ will be manifest in our mortal flesh jesus said i came to bear witness to the truth pilate's next words i will never forget pilate therefore saith unto him what is truth do you remember what had happened that day when jesus had been brought pilate was there and he was he was really troubled because he was not a stupid man he did not want to crucify christ but he also knew i've got caesar in rome that if i don't keep things in control here in judea caesar's going to remove me i could die and he knew that these pharisees and sadducees the sanhedrin he had to keep them happy because as long as they were happy they controlled all the uprisings so pilate was stuck between a rock and a hard place if i do the wrong thing and crucify this man i'm guilty but if i don't crucify him the jewish leaders are going to allow an uproar that i won't even know how to handle that they told him they said if you allow him to go free then you're not caesar's friend pilate trembled at that and he went back into his private apartment at some point in this interview and he actually was in there and you could tell he was probably wringing his hands and hit his head his hand on his forehead and his wife knew something was wrong and she came to him and she said pilate have nothing to do with this just man do you know what the word just means it means perfect innocent pure have nothing to do with this just man for i have suffered many things i've experienced many things in a dream this day because of him pilate was in a bad position he asked therefore saith he unto him what is truth each of us have got to ask ourselves this we know that god's word is truth but we've got to look and say what does that word mean is does truth just mean simply correct doctrine or is there something bigger there that we've not seen yet we have to ask ourselves am i allowing the truth of god to abide in me god's word says i'm just going to read this very quickly god's word says in first john chapter 3 don't forget this promise it says behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons and daughters of god the word there in the greek is sons but when you look it up it means children begotten so that includes male and female sons and daughters of god it says that we should be called that's not going to happen at the end that's god speaking to each of us today if i am a son of god and you are a son of god first john chapter 3 tells us verse 9 whosoever is begotten of god does not continue in sin for god's seed luke 8 11 says that's his word for god's word his seed remains in us and we cannot sin because we have been born of god his word is in us not written on pages but the word of god jesus christ is inside of me that's what god wants for each of us let's close with prayer father in heaven we thank you for your son the lord jesus christ and father that word lord means king of kings and lord of lords he reigns father we thank you for all that you in him and through him and with him have done for us father we ask for your blessing tonight upon each person here each individual each family represented here and all of those that are viewing father we look forward to that great day when the entire universe shall be one family again and father we are sons and daughters of god now because your word says so and you cannot lie but we long for that day when we can see you face to face in jesus name amen [Music] you

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