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[2236.62 --> 2242.64] And it's rising to life, raising to new life in obedience and direction. |
[2242.82 --> 2246.16] And that's what sanctification is in the here and now. |
[2246.26 --> 2249.66] It's the mortification of the old self and it's the vivification of the new self. |
[2249.66 --> 2258.98] All the while pointing to the full realities of glorification, right? |
[2259.06 --> 2265.76] That will be realized in the eschatological culmination of Christ's redemption and his return. |
[2266.52 --> 2267.70] Point there. |
[2268.76 --> 2279.22] Life lived now as Christians is sharing in the sufferings of Christ as we wait for the fulfillment of the resurrection. |
[2279.66 --> 2285.06] And so, there's a lot more mortification happening now than vivification. |
[2285.64 --> 2290.62] There's a lot more sharing in the sufferings than in the sharing in the resurrection. |
[2291.16 --> 2295.22] And that's the point, I think, of this frame and understanding, right? |
[2295.24 --> 2302.68] Is that it ought to be the reasonable expectations of Christians that this life will have suffering |
[2302.68 --> 2311.36] because we are choosing to see as better Jesus and God's way of living in the world in pursuit of holiness. |
[2311.36 --> 2319.92] And so, that will, out of necessity, require us to cut things out, to crucify them, to mortify them, right? |
[2320.02 --> 2326.02] To wrestle them into submission in our lives of sin and fleshliness. |
[2326.34 --> 2327.50] And if it kills you, so be it. |
[2327.50 --> 2330.50] And if it kills you, exactly, because that's what makes you stronger. |
[2330.60 --> 2333.08] In your weakness, we see God's strength. |
[2334.28 --> 2343.16] And so, I think there's just this beautiful reframing of life that comes, as Kevin has been saying in this sermon, right? |
[2343.20 --> 2345.96] By seeing that you are not alone and that God is with us. |
[2345.96 --> 2357.20] And then to this next point that you've introduced here, that life of mortification and vivification is done in community. |
[2357.76 --> 2357.80] Yeah. |
[2357.90 --> 2358.04] Right? |
[2358.06 --> 2361.86] This is what it means to be the body of Christ, who is our head, right? |
[2361.96 --> 2365.52] We share in his sufferings as he suffered together. |
[2365.98 --> 2367.96] So that we may share in the life that he... |
[2368.68 --> 2369.48] In the life to come. |
[2369.60 --> 2369.82] Yeah. |
[2369.82 --> 2370.20] Right? |
[2370.32 --> 2385.68] And what that means is, I think, and this is, I believe, where Kevin took us rightly, is that rightly understood, rightly manifested, rightly practiced, rightly directed, rightly weighted. |
[2385.68 --> 2401.68] It's in the church, it's in the body, that the presence of God is most powerfully, compellingly, and completely revealed to us through the application of the word in that body. |
[2402.10 --> 2402.36] Yeah. |
[2402.36 --> 2417.58] Now, all of that as the foundation, there is the reality, right, that we miss the mark. |
[2418.04 --> 2418.32] Mm-hmm. |
[2419.18 --> 2419.48] Right? |
[2419.54 --> 2424.86] And I think Kevin did a good job of landing, of pointing this out, right? |
[2424.86 --> 2429.46] Like, the reality is, in some ways, similarly to the previous point, right? |
[2429.46 --> 2434.74] If we tie God's presence to prosperity, we're gonna miss God who is our prosperity. |
[2435.24 --> 2443.64] Likewise, if we tie God's presence through his church in its fullest form as... |
[2443.64 --> 2444.14] Mm-hmm. |
[2444.14 --> 2450.04] And then the church fails, we make that meaning God fails, or God, right, has failed in that. |
[2450.04 --> 2450.54] Mm-hmm. |
[2450.54 --> 2460.60] Or when we experience, when we confuse accountability for judgment... |
[2460.60 --> 2460.98] Mm-hmm. |
[2462.14 --> 2465.70] ...and we think, oh, this sucks. |
[2466.10 --> 2466.28] Yeah. |
[2466.28 --> 2467.02] These people don't. |
[2467.98 --> 2471.16] And, but that's the putting to death just from the outside. |
[2471.34 --> 2471.50] Mm-hmm. |
[2472.28 --> 2474.18] Well, and that goes both ways, right? |
[2474.28 --> 2474.52] Yeah. |
[2474.52 --> 2480.94] The people we have asked to keep us accountable also confuse accountability for judgment. |
[2481.16 --> 2481.20] Mm-hmm. |
[2481.20 --> 2483.52] And we assume that if we, you know, are... |
[2483.52 --> 2485.32] Just tell somebody they're messing up that it's good. |
[2485.34 --> 2486.30] ...vindictive about it. |
[2486.38 --> 2486.60] Yeah. |
[2487.36 --> 2493.42] That's, but I think we have to call them with a better picture, right? |
[2493.46 --> 2493.48] Mm-hmm. |
[2493.48 --> 2493.58] Yeah. |
[2493.58 --> 2502.06] That the vivification, the rising to new life is ought to be what compels us in that, right? |
[2502.12 --> 2502.34] Mm-hmm. |
[2502.34 --> 2502.56] Not guilt. |
[2503.14 --> 2503.32] Yeah. |
[2503.32 --> 2503.64] Right? |
[2503.70 --> 2505.94] The pursuit of holiness isn't motivated by guilt. |
[2506.46 --> 2510.24] It's motivated by a desire to experience the nearness of God. |
[2510.46 --> 2510.76] Yeah. |
[2511.32 --> 2512.32] It's... |
[2513.04 --> 2518.22] The hope with accountability is that the person that's not in the sin has a better view than |
[2518.22 --> 2518.60] you do. |
[2519.34 --> 2519.62] Mm-hmm. |
[2520.00 --> 2520.44] The hope. |
[2520.64 --> 2520.84] Yeah. |
[2521.10 --> 2521.50] Yeah. |
[2521.80 --> 2529.16] And then the reality is, right, like tempered, we're all failing forward, Lord willing. |
[2529.44 --> 2529.68] Yeah. |
[2530.00 --> 2530.24] Right? |
[2530.36 --> 2532.48] And we want to be failing forward, not failing backward. |
[2532.48 --> 2533.40] Or falling uphill. |
[2533.86 --> 2534.48] Falling uphill. |
[2534.60 --> 2534.72] Yeah. |
[2534.72 --> 2535.90] There's another way to put it, right? |
[2536.06 --> 2536.24] Yeah. |
[2536.88 --> 2543.82] Like we are pursuing lives of holiness because, again, we're choosing to see that as better. |
[2544.20 --> 2544.46] Yeah. |
[2544.46 --> 2552.68] And when we fail in that, I think there's also actually not a blame. |
[2553.80 --> 2554.02] Yeah. |
[2554.56 --> 2558.70] But we can choose to see a camaraderie. |
[2558.84 --> 2562.56] We can choose to see like a brotherhood, right? |
[2562.56 --> 2567.40] That is like likewise failing and striving. |
[2567.40 --> 2568.02] Yeah. |
[2568.38 --> 2577.36] Well, and it's the same with Joseph's family is, but in a more, in a better sense where |
[2577.36 --> 2581.12] the whole line of what you intended for evil, God intended for good. |
[2581.12 --> 2586.04] But now it's despite your failings, it's still working. |
[2586.76 --> 2586.92] Yeah. |
[2587.46 --> 2587.86] Yeah. |
[2588.88 --> 2589.68] And so, okay. |
[2589.86 --> 2590.08] Yeah. |
[2590.08 --> 2593.84] Let's start wrapping this up for a minute because I think this kind of brings us to the |
[2593.84 --> 2598.58] same place that Kevin brought us in those sort of couple conclusions near the end. |
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