The Anointing of His Word | 1 Peter 2:1-10 (Part 1)

let's stand and open our Bibles this morning Church if you would to first Peter are you listening first Peter chapter 2 it's taken us 14 weeks to get to chapter 2 but we've made it and at this pace we'll be done sometime halfway through the millennium but first Peter chapter 2 and as you're preparing there by turning we're going to be looking at a message entitled today the anointing of his word the anointing of his word and I don't know what comes to your mind when you hear the word anointing but the word anointing is a special and an often understood word to mean divine touch and that's a good thing a divine touch or a divine covering we're going to be learning about that today as believers in the next few weeks as well regarding the anointing of His Word starting in 1st Peter chapter 2 verses 1 to 10 I will read the odd-numbered verses if you will read the even-numbered verses first Peter chapter 2 verse 1 I began therefore laying aside all malice all deceit hypocrisy envy and all evil speaking coming to him for indeed excuse me verse three if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ verse 7 therefore to you who believe he is precious but to those who are disobedient the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief Cornerstone but you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation his own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light Wow father we ask you this morning just the reading of that word is enough Lord how can we expand on this truth Lord there's enough here for us to marinate our souls in to soak in it so father I pray today with all my brothers and sisters this morning Lord that you would ignore the fact that we happen to be in a building and it's called a church because of the structure we get that but Lord we pray this morning that you would not be distracted nor us by any of the things around us nor the cares of life father you know my heart more than any other time perhaps I'd rather have us just get together sitting in a field as it were with Bibles open and maybe a coffee or water in hand to talk about the depth of what this fisherman this theologian now this expositor Peter is sharing with us we can I get a better word than from a man who so mimics our life and lived to tell about it a man who saw you a man who listened to you a man who responded to you a man who loved you a man who was passionate about you a man who denied you a man who wept bitterly and repentance a man who ran to your tomb a man who was filled with your Holy Spirit a man who preached the gospel and a man who died for his faith in you Lord we would be privileged this morning who named the name of Jesus if we would live such a life so father bless your going forth of your word to us now we ask in Jesus name and all God's people said amen you can be seated well you look at the theology of Peter in this it's not that he's just older he's definitely up in years you met him last in the Gospels we know from Bible history from church history that Matthew mark the Gospel of Mark is actually known as Peters Gospel mark was not mature or old in those days he was very young and it is understood that Peter told mark the account and so in Mark's Gospel you're actually hearing Peter talking and that's an awesome and beautiful thing to think about because the Peter had grown up into the relationship with Jesus Christ it wasn't that he had just been associated with Jesus Peter probably could have said that early on yeah I just met Jesus a few days ago it's amazing and what's going on the things that he's saying and and there are those that are deciding to be disciples with him I was just minding my own business getting ready for for my night shift on the Sea of Galilee to go and make a living and he walked by he said come and follow me and there was this undeniable power and anointing about his life that when I heard him say it I got up and I left the net and everything and I followed after him and my life's been different ever since but that wasn't enough as I heard him speaking I tell you what Calvary Chapel here in Chino Hills Peter would say my life began to be just focused I began to hang on every word that came out of his mouth there is some sort of an anointing about that we had heard others say the same verses we heard our rabbis teaching but not like him there was something about how he said what he said from the ancient truths of God's Word that just caused it to come alive we began following him and we encountered demonic activity we saw Jesus raised the dead we saw him feed thousands of people at one time we saw him do remark remarkable things and one night when we were scared to death of dying on the see ourselves Jesus came walking on the water and all the guys that had been all night screaming and yelling in the boat for fear of perishing lives in in jeopardy and he said when I saw Jesus wasn't exactly sure but I said Lord if that's you bid me to come to you which is an awesome thought Peter had and Jesus said in it's me and the Bible says Peter stepped out of the boat walked on water to Jesus that is an Austen moment and I don't know if it was just the attraction of Jesus I believe it was if I was writing a book on it I would say Jesus Jesus was that attractive that Peter had to get out of the boat and get near to him III bet all the guys crying and screaming in the boat for fear of death kind of helped Peter get out of the boat - I'd rather be walking on the sea of trouble than in a boat that's lost faith and that's a telling thing in the Christian life Peters now the expositor in our study today you are going to see remarkable listen remarkable theological knowledge given by this fisherman of course he's possessed by the Holy Spirit but he's giving deep truths to the point where many biblical skeptics and liberal scholars take first Peter chapter 2 and they say he couldn't have written this it's too perfect it's too the syntax the sentence structure the word usage Peters grip of the Old Testament it's too perfect and had to be written by somebody else well I take an affront to that I'm offended by that because I don't know how you were before you met Jesus I'm gonna be really honest with you I may be ugly but I'm not stupid I got through school just getting through school because I knew that's all I had to do is just get through school are you with me I didn't study one minute long than I needed to on top of the dangerous fact I had a photographic memory so I would take a picture of what was needed for the exam and I would goof off for a month and then I would just regurgitate it onto the page never learning the thing but getting the answers right you can be a theologian and miss heaven altogether because you don't have it in your heart you don't have it in your life and Peter went through a lifetime of trials which took the truth of God and knocked it down into his heart and that's being a believer that's being a true follower of Christ and I've got to figure something out I'm dead serious I honestly came here today wondering how we should do today as a church because shouldn't I pause and it and they exhort many of you today if not all of us who are believers hang on don't give up on the scale that I've never seen before in approaching 30 years of ministry people's lives are under attack on a scale and on a breath that I've never seen before including my own including yours thoughts issues finances relationships employment things health challenges in the body of Christ epic moments for us Church God has not abandoned us God has not packed up and left the house God's silence is not some sort of rejection God's silence right now is that you and I and by the way he'll take us only as far as we need to go and then he'll throw in the life raft you'll he'll shout from heaven but right now that silence is deafening and God is communicating to all of us this morning I'm with you I'm just bringing you through a trial right now you hang on God is perfecting and getting us ready for heaven Church look around the world heaven is near it's an amazing time and Peter had a high view of God's Word and so should we in fact the Bible says in Psalm 130 verse 2 for you have magnified your word above your name God says God says my word is higher than my name let's remember that it's the name of Jesus that every knee will bow right Church God says I exalt my word above my own name in 1st Peter chapter 1 last week verse 25 we heard Peter and were building off of that by the way in chapter 2 he said last week that the word of the Lord endures forever the high view of Scripture it's not here to entertain us it's here to equip us we're not here to have fun we are here to learn we're here to worship we're here to be transformed and God is all about that the Christian I want to encourage you as Peter begins to unlock these deep truths to us today you can be rest assured my friend you will never go astray if you take the Word of God literally and I have a reason for saying this take it literally and when it is poetic it's going to tell you when it's poetic listen there's a lot of craziness and I hope you've not heard of this but there's a massive growing craziness in this so-called Church in America today about Genesis of being poetic that it never happened and theologians are teaching this and now it script into pulpits watch out hey if you're listening right now and you're in a church like that just get up right now where you're at and leave or don't go back if you're hearing this later get out of there when God's Word is poetic it says so when God's Word is allegorical it says so the Bible says that a dragon rose up out of the sea or it says that the devil being described as the devil it says that the devil rose up out of the sea like a great red dragon that means the devil is not a great red dragon he acts like how we would communicate with a red dragon the Bible says the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus at his baptism like a dove a dove did not land on Jesus's shoulders this we know for sure because the Bible says the Spirit came upon him like a dove lands on some and shoulder but when the Bible says for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son know this God gave His only glorified never to be repeated one and only son and we don't need another Jesus is enough that's what the Lord has done for us his word is to be highly esteemed in Psalm 19 verse 7 this is all introduction sorry the chapter to install 19 verse 7 the Bible says the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure God loves his Bible we should love it as well 2nd Timothy 3:16 says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and once again sadly today there are many liberal theologians and believers that in my opinion are escorting themselves right straight towards destruction as they seek to compromise by trying to get the Bible to agree with their life choosing our lifestyles they try to convince themselves that God's Word doesn't address their life choices because Jesus didn't say this or that a lot of them call themselves red-letter believers they only read the red letters of Jesus thinking that he has somehow speaking or looking disparagingly on the rest of the Bible or denying what the Apostle Paul said listen to what Jesus said about the Word of God Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 says do not think that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets the law or the prophets ladies and gentlemen that's Genesis all the way to Malachi I did not come to destroy but to what fulfill for assuredly I say to you till heaven and earth pass away one jot or one tittle that is one - or one come of the Hebrew language or Greek scriptures will by no means pass from the law till most is fulfilled all is fulfilled so church in our study of now first Peter chapter 2 let's look at verses 1 2 3 together and we're looking at the anointing of God's Word and we realize this that introduces us that the anointing of His Word is a declaration of war can you write that down as a believer I'm involved in a declaration of war and how so we might ask that question the Bible says in verse 1 therefore in laying aside all malice all deceit hypocrisy envy and evil speaking will stop right there the first thing that we see is that you and I by the anointing of God's Word in our lives we have as believers now joined up or into a great war you are involved in a spiritual war this is epic it's remarkable to think that you and I know well that in this world of material existence there are Wars you know I don't remember I'll come close but if you go to the CIA website and you read around there somewhere there's good they're gonna tell you that at any given period of time globally there are tribal wars now you may not read about them but there are tribal wars maybe in some parts of Africa or some parts of the world where tribes are warring against each other and killing one another some of them expand into more sizable civil wars we hear a lot about that in the Sudan for example you remember way back with and I'm going to mess this up but you remember in Rwanda there was the Houthis and the whatever's the other group killing each other all around the world there's the the Shia and the Sunni Muslims are killing each other and the CIA says there's somewhere between 126 and 130 wars a day in the world not to mention national wars we all know that but the Bible speaks about a war scenario that many who name the name of Christ are completely not in tune with and that is you and I are in a great spiritual battle for our souls number one if you're not Christian today listen up I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you some of the secret Intel of the enemy if you're not a Christian today the spiritual warfare that is being launched against you is to keep you an unbelief or to get you all excited about religion anything everything to get your eyes off the target that is Jesus the true Jesus of the Bible and so the spiritual warfare that you are you and I are involved in on the one extreme would say or get you to think or believe that there is no God and the enemy would have go to great lengths to try to keep you in that bondage God doesn't exist you don't have any explanation for the the woes of the world you just conveniently say that God does not exist and mostly it's self-serving I don't want God to exist because I want to keep living the way that I'm living I don't want God to exist because if he does exist then I gotta go to work to figure out more stuff about him and then I gotta deal with my life and I don't want that it's just not attractive to you to think about God but one of the crowning efforts of the enemy is to get you non-believer to think that there is no spiritual world and the greatest thing for him to do is to get you to believe that there is no devil that's his goal listen it's God's goal to get you to believe in his son it's Satan's goal to get you to not believe in who Satan is if there's no devil then you don't need any Savior if there's no hell you need no heaven by the way yesterday was a crazy day I don't know about your house your community but it was like it was cold day in our community yesterday did you know that I live in Chino Hills just off of Payton drive and the Jehovah Witnesses and the very sweet nice Mormon people they're all out together peddling a totally different Jesus and it's funny because they at one point in our neighborhood they were going one door behind the other literally and if I wasn't busy preparing this message I wanted to run out there which has been my practice before and I wait till they go to a door and then when they leave I go to that person's door and say hey thus no word those people just want them saying because this group mentions a Jesus that is described by this and he ain't no Jesus of the Bible I tell you that and then another group says oh no no we wanted to introduce you to a Jesus and oh by the way you can become a Jesus just like the Jesus I'm telling you about listen below the Jesus is walking around they all can't be right there's only one that's right and the Bible says in the last days there'll be those peddling a different Jesus and a different gospel why we're involved in a spiritual battle Church and it's real and the Bible makes it clear that God's word comes think of it into this world and there's a declaration of war and in verse 1 we see that we're at war with an old world you and I as believers and the truth of God is at war with an old world and here's the tough part Church that old world still resides in in us so we don't like to admit that but it's theologically true you see wood aren't I a new creation in Christ of course you are but did anybody tell you that that new creation in Christ is engaged in a spiritual battle and it is blood and guts friend it is brutal there's fur flying and fangs being shown and why well he says right there therefore by the way therefore is you can just Circle that word and say the therefore here means chapter one knows I'm dead serious that's what it means he's saying in light of chapter one and all the arguments I want to say something here lay aside all malice all deceit hypocrisy envy evil speaking why we're at war now mark this it may be boring to you but I hope not I want you to be taking this data as though you're putting on a helmet and you'll get your gear suited up just think about that David's going to be heading down to Camp Pendleton and he's going to get suited up and it's no joke and at some point in time they're gonna take him out to the California desert and they're gonna have live ammo live round fire so what is that that means they're gonna shoot back at you with real bullets why because in war there's real bullets in church we got to get it going Church we're living in the 21st century the church is not nearing its retirement we're approaching the finish line it's not time to get ready to give up it's time to fight harder to the end and to know that there's a world out there that is against your marriage so suit up the armor of God there's a world out there ready to devour your kids I'm exercising great self-control right now because I've been studying about what's coming against your children and you will not be able to convince me that it's not spiritually driven the the power players of this world or be they don't realize it but but they're being manipulated by spiritual powers to control the thinking of your children I had a meeting with a senator this week who turned he's been studying Ronald Reagan's history for his life just about and he wound up telling me a great quote that I'd never heard before by Ronald Reagan and Ronald Reagan said regarding communism he said it's the most effective lie since the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve were told that they could become God too and you think about that statement by Ronald Reagan did not Satan tell Adam and Eve you can become like a God and Reagan said communism is the second worst lie that was are ever perpetrated against man that there is no God Satan know something about that he knows that if you can think that there is no God then by default the human nature will assume the place though we would never say so that were the god of what we do watch out Christian put on your gear you'll never be deceived as long as you're immersed in the Word of God and Peter is saying this profoundly lay aside the word is powerful put it off put what off but the things that we're gonna look at in a moment off from you tear it off listen the word means lay get aside take off the clothes one of the translations of the early Puritans said strip off your clothing of the past I like that strip off your clothing think about working in the yard or maybe you're working under the car or you come home from the construction site or you just for that matter you just flat-out stink from your day and you come home and your wife or your husband says listen you need to get in the tub you need to get washed you need to get taken care of you can't come into the house smelling like this you understand what I'm saying so the enemy wants you to get your eyes off the truth of God's Word and to get you on something else and so Peter is saying Christian to survive the days of these last days you've got to strip off certain things and let's look at our Bibles to what those things are all malice the word malice means general this is funny general like there's a general common evil but it means all that is evil all that is under the umbrella of evil now watch this is convicting I mean that be for you but it's terribly convicting for me because I can waste my time watching TV on the I am literally addicted to documentaries you see I go to watch sports I could care less that's not my thing you know what tempts me it's not the Angels that's not the Dodgers it's not what tempts me is on Thursday night Smithsonian will debut a thing on George Washington and I'm like this set my timer and all that's fine I guess unless the world has drawn my attention to itself and busyness even the church business rather than being with God so it doesn't have to be some blight and evil it means this remove from you church things that trouble you between you and God what is that oh my goodness could we not spend the rest of the day right here what are those things that trouble you between you and God the word means wicked wickedness listen to this the word means innuendo we ever heard that word before dirty jokes suggestive talk the word means crude suggestive actions or words the Bible says throw it off Christian stop flirting God speaks to us and says that's not right that's not good Wow we need to meditate in that Peter Sam listen we're in a warfare and the enemy is very very subtle and he's very very wicked and one of the things that he's gonna do is gonna try to get you to go back and lean on the things of the past and it's gonna be all of the innuendo you're gonna have a tendency listen Church don't worry I'm not gonna call upon you because I already know that this describes you and me there is a bizarre tendency in our fallen nature that we are Christians today that there's an illumined - innuendo there is something that is interesting to us we have to fight that Christians we need to fight the next word is deceived he says we need to throw off cast away strip off deceit the word means to listen to this to bait or to craft or to by stealth go about to deceive someone we've got to watch out just because somebody says they are a Christian listen could mean there are real Christian but they might have a motive it's amazing world you and I live in do listen do you know your hearts I don't exactly Jeremiah says I can't know it so when somebody comes along and says hey Jack I'm gonna tell you something the Lord told me to tell you how do you know that I'm gonna tell them right up front you need to give me whoops you need to give me Bible verse you need to give me Bible verse in chapter and it's got to be in context well had a dream last night the Lord told me to tell you if God wants me to have that he'll give me the dream till I'm dead say I'm not being road God bless your Christian friends but just because our Christian friends tell us stuff doesn't mean God's the ones saying it watch out that's on the benign innocent side what about the blatantly deceptive sight and then the word is hypocrisy he says peel off though this is amazing because the Bible is implying that you and I are Christians and we need to daily think about it peel off hypocrisy now who's gonna admit to that today who is going to admit to that to today that I on the hypocrite but the Bible says we are we have to fight it every day you look so cute and so sweet you a little hypocrite you you say Oh Jack you know I I see you up there but you see as a hypocrite so the Bible says it means listen in my life as in yours constantly bombarded with all these things that are coming against us and one of the things that comes against us is for me to play the hypocrite and Greek mythology in history there's Janice with a friend of mine pointed out today that's his wife's name but he said it spell different and he's correct that spell different thank God if your name's Janice it's okay but Janice with a you is an ancient God in fact you guys have the slight of that guy I didn't kind of prepare I kind of threw it at you guys if you have it there is if you go to the Vatican which I encourage all of you to go you'll see Janice this is not this is not a knockoff this is Janice you see a problem with that guy we say he's you're very good we say he's two-faced he's two-faced why you asked Janice for direction and you might get go west young man go west and then the other part of Janice says move out of California today what do you do you see no don't move out of California yet you can move out of California after you vote for governor then you could move out of California so wait till November and then move take me with you but let's vote first next picture if you guys have it oh you recognize that the Screen Actors Guild bunch of hypocrites ha ha ha but I felt good to say that but that's the logo that's their logo you would say oh they're their logo is Janice the ancient God no no listen the hypocrite is the person watch me watch me in fact I want to be careful make sure I get it right to wear the mask watch it means to put on a face for the moment you can be a hypocrite in church right now I'll praise the Lord and yet that's not how you live it means to hide behind the mask it means to wear a mask and listen what is implied is that the mask that you're wearing allows you to either act like someone that you are not or it allows us to act like a person that we want to be like so watch what if I'm wearing a ask of a person that I want to be what if I'm aware what if I'm wearing a mask that allows me to act or be like somebody that I really want to be like but the mask gives me the license to go do it guess what we have an we have another word or words for this we have the word Mardi Gras now Mardi Gras means what it means but what is the practice of Mardi Gras I don't encourage you do not open your phone now and go to images on Mardi Gras because it's pornographic and you think of that for a moment what's going on people are dressed up radically enjoying themselves doing lewd and immoral things that the mask that they're wearing allows them to do does this make sense to people you get that I'll make it more what's the word acceptable to us have you noticed that when you wear a suit gentleman you you act different when you wear a suit I don't like it because I'm playing the hypocrite no really I mean I got to go to events I was at a wonderful event by the way I'm grateful I loved it had enjoyed every moment of it but I just couldn't relax it wasn't because of my table that I was at or what I was doing there or who was in attendance but my goodness I had the joyous opportunity of sitting with Dennis Prager and others and it was a wonderful moment it was a great great time but I didn't like it for one reason I was wearing a suit and that's not me but I was plain as it were the hypocrite is it where I was wearing something else then that's it on the gentle side of things but there are people who live life the Bible warns us that as Christians we are tempted to put on a mask we listen we want you to think different of us what we don't want you to do is think about who we really are and that needs to be repented of it needs to be repented of in your relationships how many of you are dating somebody a couple of you some of you can't admit that because the person that you're with right now we have counseling for you after service when that person that you're dating says thus and so about themselves how do you know how do you know you don't know what's up especially for many of us who were abused or traumatized as young people we put up a mask we can put up a mask that we think is safe we got to hide behind this mask because God forbid I let somebody in who can really know who I am then they won't love me and God comes up to you and I'm looking around this room right now God comes up to us God comes up to us Tommy God comes up to us God comes up to us Mike God comes up to us Sharon God comes us comes up to us and have you noticed he's so lovingly and gentle begins to put the master down very he puts his hand at the top of the mask it just begins to push it down a lot of us guys who've had a bad life has had this thing about I'm not good nothing can bother me the truth is everything bothers you you're concerned about everything that's why the joy of the Lord is your strength it's not the opinion of people you can't experience the joy of the Lord being your strength until you allow Jesus Christ to walk up to you and put his hand at the top of the mask and he just slowly puts it down and he exposes just you and him together he exposes who you are and you're naked and open before the Lord and he says listen I got you he's not going to go up one side and down the other and point out all of your problems he says I died on the cross for all of those problems which are the issues of your life I got it from here jack I'll take it from here we either have our masks built up pretending to be somebody else or we're letting Jesus Heelys that's the life of the believer but the world is wearing a mask and I would I would say now the masks are starting to come off but the conduct is not being hidden did you know there's a rise in costume parties that are orgy costume parties people dress up with a mask and the whole evening ends and orgies did you know those are rising in the young community today on a more benign sense as it were we see people dressed up in Halloween costumes at work is it an interesting that most people who dress up in their Halloween costumes at work is either some sort of terrorize murder are some sort of Playboy bunny or prostitute why do they dress like that oh it's just funny could it be something's on the inside of you that wants to come out I saw recently a poster for Gay Pride for Long Beach the big grape gay pride parade now I don't know what you think about that I let's it's a free country you could have a parade but when the police have told stand down you when you see all these pornographic acts being done on floats and down the street in Long Beach officers stand down don't get involved and it's online listen what's up we live in a culture where not only the mass the Christian wears a mask we need to get rid of the mask because Jesus knows who we are but the world is taken off its mask either God is taking down your mask to heal you or you're taken off your mask to actually bring yourself deeper into a state of condemnation let God take off your mask and Peter says get rid of it get off of it the Bible says in Proverbs 29 verse 18 when people do not accept divine guidance they run wild the next word is Envy Envy by the ways of the root to jealousy by the way Envy is believed to be the route to murder did you know that Envy the Bible says get off of it get away from it we have to I'm going through this quickly but man is serious stuff do you know that these are the things that keep you and I from getting deeper with Jesus do we need to go any further on this as a church I know we're here and some of you may be visiting and you know we got it it's a church you have to stick to the protocol I hate the protocol I don't know why we just can't have one big service all day long no I listen if God is speaking to our hearts about envy that is a deep deep seated thing you're not condemned Christian you're a Christian you're going to heaven the Lord is saying to you this morning I want to do more with you I want you to know more of me we got to get this junk out of the way so cast it off strip it off peel it off you ever been out in the Sun too much too much one day too much you go out in the Sun you haven't been on the Sun you go out in the Sun and you're just absolute hunky white and you go out into the Sun and you get burned and you know what the next three days after that you start to peel just peel it off envy deceit let it go peel it off then the word hang on you guys ready all right maybe you should just leave now before we get to the evil speaking part evil speaking the word kind of that the actual Greek words is kind of funny it's one word I can't even say it right I'll say it slowly it's cata la la kettle Allah it sounds wrong well aren't you just a kettle Ola boy look it over them just cattle Lalo's it up what does it mean it means to gossip with the intent to tear someone down it means to load your mouth and to turn around and say to someone else without that person I've been able to defend themselves which most often means they're not present and you say something like oh well you know you know who they really are done yeah well let me tell you a little bit about them some morsel for some reason the human heart even the Christian human heart is drawn to hey did you guys see what happened what what happened oh I need to know so I can pray about it you know how much sin goes on in a prayer meeting dear Lord you know we pray for our brother nobody knows in the whole room but Lord we pray for our brother and well the Lord you know that he your sinning in a prayer meaning to gossip with the intent to tear someone's character down to speak in a disparaging way of another we get the word slander from this to degrade someone it can also mean to be unwise in the use of information about someone when given the opportunity you can either say nothing or you can say something good or you can cattle Allah and you seized upon the moment to tear them down you listen Christian do you know anybody else raise your happiness trick question no do you know anyone if you know them do you know something distasteful about them wait let me back up how many of you're married raise your hands okay you know how you know things about your spouse the Bible says that your spouse is the other part of your flesh so if you if you turn to your coworker and say well my wife's a jerk did you know you just did you just as it were ripped part of your body off character-wise think about that for a moment oh man my husband and you have these little get-togethers let's let's rag on our wives or our husbands it's sin it's sin it's happening a lot today people are reading books about relationships about how they're supposed to be instead of going to the Bible and going to God we read I mean not you guys people in other churches you read books about how relationships are supposed to be and then you turn around and you look at your wife or your husband across the table and you think he or she's not like the person in the book that's sin that's something we have to peel off of our lives means to impugn someone's character Romans chapter 6 verse 11 says likewise you also reckon yourselves to be dead peel it off indeed to sin but alive to God this is a discipline that we have to do church are you with me you guys are real quiet you okay the Bible says likewise reckon yourselves to be dead notice this the Bible clearly is announcing you're not dead no class listen in Romans 6 what's not dead be specific come on what's not dead why does the Bible say you got to reckon yourself dead but alive to God say it out loud you know our flesh our old flesh nature we have to reckon that dead so what does that mean how does that work don't miss this when a temptation or a thought or sin is now in route in your life you stop wait a minute I've got a reckon myself dead the wonderful word reckon is to do the math it's in that counting term wait a minute first Jesus died for me number two he died for my sins when he died for me number three he rose again from the dead so that's number four the Bible says I rose again from the dead with him so number five is I put my faith in him so number six is I trust him number seven I am NOT gonna obey me I'm gonna number eight obey Him and that is reckoning yourself to be dead you said how often do I do that thank you all day long this is the Christian life you may have brought somebody here today saying WOW pastor Jack don't say that because I want them to become a Christian it sounds tough it's really tough it's hard there's also a bizarre sweetness about it that I can't understand but I'm happy about it there's a reality in my life and in your life as a believer that you are constantly on guard and fighting this world and yet at the same time there's a profound push and draw as we talked about last week of the Holy Spirit pushing you onward ever closer to the kingdom of God and the coming of Christ and in route you have your Christian experience your life with God it's quite remarkable by the way I'm still in Romans chapter 6 look at verse 12 therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body Church listen do not let sin reign in your body that verse means we've got the power to put sin in its place well pastor does this mean I'll become sinless what do you think the answer to that is no never but following Christ you become sinning or you will send less but never become sinless and that sinning less is a sanctifying work of God where you're drawing closer becoming more like Christ it's one thing to lead somebody to Christ hallelujah it's one thing to have an evangelistic service amen I got saved in one of those services but where do we go from here where do we move on are we being challenged are we being prodded by the Holy Spirit that when he says to you Romans chapter 6 you need to do these things verse 13 go back to Romans 6 verse 13 says and do not present your members what a verse boy we need to give this to ourselves our kids everybody do not present our members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin your members are your private parts your hands eyes ears generally your body and it can be your mind domme present your members to ins to be instruments of righteousness and righteousness of sin but present yourself to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God you say God I'm presenting myself right now and boy I tell you that's a discipline it's not easy look at the second thing in verses 2 to 3 is that we're at war with a new objective we have a new objective ok so that's the that's the nasty stuff we fight with thank God or you take a deep breath everybody here comes the answer yes look at verse 2 praise the Lord as new born babies desire the pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby if or since indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious what's the answer to verse 1 the answers verse 2 as newborn babes this is great as newborn babes the word is signifying this it's very graphic by the way listen it is just describing a child sweet listen a newborn baby infant newborn child that begins to I don't know the terminology because I frankly don't have to care about that but it's it's what it's when a baby begins to nurse at the very first moment because and that's a big challenge uh and when a baby's born your kid that baby ain't going home with mom and baby ain't going home until baby does two things nurses and goes poop did you know that because that means everything's working the baby's ingesting and the baby's eliminating that means the baby is healthy baby go home the baby's got a nurse this word means that has newborn infants of God nursing from the Word of God notice that a baby a newborn baby they don't care about politics they don't care about the temperature they don't care about anything they don't even care about their clothes they don't care about even you mom sorry they don't even care about you mom not yet they just want to eat and they want to eat now and you're gonna know about it so with the whole house they are gonna cry scream and go bananas until they get nourishment and the Bible says is this not precious the Bible says that's how the believer is what do we do about all these things ah start nursing all that big list of ugliness ah start nursing on the Word of God it doesn't mean that they're babies this is not immature Christians oh it's no no this is good news from being born again to the day that you wake up in heaven you and I are to be nursing on the Word of God newborn babe infant it's not an insult to compliment by the way the Bible tells us that in this the whole birth process of being born again is implied James chapter 1 verse 18 says for of his own will he brought us forth mark those three words brought us forth how do you do that by the word of truth this is an amazing word James 1:18 could be put in the delivery room it's this it's by his will he brought you out of the womb as it were of the Holy Spirit in a sense the womb of the word and you've been born again how do you know how do you know you born-again super simple I don't know why there's this debate about am I born again or not am I saved or not it's so simple do you hunger for God's Word are you thirsty for the Bible can you go weeks and weeks without the Bible you were either a extremely malnourished as a baby Christian you're anemic or you're not a believer at all but for those of us who are a Christian the Holy Spirit is saying it's time to eat it's time to eat and you'll go to the word there's a drive the Bible says to desire the pure milk of the word remarkable the pure milk of the word of God the baby and a baby doesn't want Fritos the baby doesn't want Pepsi you can try you can try giving the baby a Pepsi don't do that but that's for grandparents to do no kid just joking babies have to have and want to have pure milk that pure the word is unadulterated milk which is the word but the Bible is telling us that there's an intense craving for the child of God why why the word let me be here this out don't don't take this the wrong way it's not so much the word it's not so much the word we don't understand that part yet it's not so much the word it's that the word is a vehicle the word is a medium the word is a course it is a it is a highway to who to the person of God you'll never never never know him without reading about him and you're craving him we're gonna end this in a moment listen can this describe you does this describe you psalm 42 verse 1 as the deer pants for the water Brooks so pants my soul for you O God my soul thirsts for God for the Living God when notice when he's thirsty he's parched when shall I come and appear before my God my tears have been my food day and night while they continually say to me where's your God the world is saying to you today where's your God you're gonna have an answer or you're not if you're in his word nursing upon his word drinking his word eating his word you're gonna have an answer but notice the believers heart pence for the truth of God truly I'm almost done I'm not kidding it says that you may grow thereby growth spiritual development Church listen if in this church you're growing praise the Lord if you're not growing in this church check your heart if we're not if we're not giving you the truth according to the Word of God you're not growing check your heart if you're not growing here get out go somewhere and grow but you got to grow and as a believer this is what you want to do when you go to a church you want to go to a church and you want to enter into that fellowship of believers maybe maybe your first day and think like this can I learn here am I being convicted or prodded or exhorted or instructed or admonished to push on third is there opportunity for me to serve others around me right fourthly will I have the opportunity or can I have the opportunity in this church to disciple another person in Christ you need to ask yourself that question if it's not happening in here you need to go is it look right here this first service look how many people here at for a service guess what Rosales is having for a service at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley they're packed out go over the hill right here what is it two miles Rory's preaching his heart out what about the church over the hill right here or the creek or whatever that river channel thing is what about think about Southern California right now thank god there's not enough churches to house all the people why is that how can all these places be filled up at the same time because the Word of God is being distributed to a flock and listen just like on a Friday night try to get into Colonel Sanders or try to get into habit or try to get into in and out or try to get into PF Changs it's packed you want to know why people are feeding people have different tastes but there's the same nourishment are you with me Christians cannot and will not stand for junk food thank God the National denominations in America are drying up and blowing away because they do a self inflicted wound on their their part they departed from the faithful doctrine of the Bible and people know the Word of God and they're hungry so they're getting up and they're looking for food God's truth is that food so personal development personal worship personal understanding is this grow is this happening does this describe your growth life personal prayer life personal giving of whatever God says to you about that and verse three ends here by saying or we stop here by saying if or since indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious the word tasted means heavy experience God's and I love that God's grace we're done God's grace says to you I want you to experience me yeah awesome so wow we have a lot of work to do this this week Lord I'm asking you to take this sermon today and stamp it into my heart because I got a lot of peeling off to do I need to exfoliate my soul and get some dead skin off me some malice has got to go you got to get all that slander that has a tendency to come up in my eye Lord I'm asking you to take all of this stuff out of me that's there listed and Lord thank you for reminding me right now that the fact of the matter is I have 100% confidence that that's going to happen because I long for your word father we thank you for this word and so lord as we go today from this place we pray Lord in Jesus name but the transformative Word of God the power of God's Word the reality of God's Worth will in fact conquer us that this very same Word of God which is a two-edged sword turns around and gives us the power and the strength to go forth in victory we pray father this morning that this activity that is called the believer in this day and age please father in my life start with me and Lord let it spread to the rest of us that we're here right now for a very specific purpose and maybe we get excited about that we're not just waiting for the end to come we're not just waiting for sunset today's the day to do the work of God and the night is soon coming when no man can work so may we be busy about our father's business and as a church Almighty God may we go and make a difference because you've made a difference in us and thank you that Christ died on that cross rose again from the dead that by faith in Him and him alone he transforms our life and the proof of that is our passion for your word in Jesus name we pray and all God's people said amen church let's stand and let's bless them with our word of praise and love and our song to him in Jesus name

Channel: Real Life with Jack Hibbs

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Length: 62min 3sec (3723 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 23 2018