0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 The nature of the New Covenant is to our small minds 1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000 it sounds like it’s Part A and Part B. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 From God’s Perspective it’s all one. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 The forgiveness of sins, 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 the gift of a forgiven past and a new beginning 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,500 is part A of a day when we’re regenerated 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:21,500 when we’ve been translated from the kingdom of darkness 7 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:24,000 to the Kingdom of the Beloved Son. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Part A is our past is forgiven. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 It doesn’t matter how stupid, how evil, 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,000 how dark, how weird, 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 how weak, how foolish we were. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 God makes us Reborn, twice-born 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,500 and we’ve not only been born a second time 14 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:40,000 so we get to be a baby twice - 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,500 that doesn’t necessarily sound so inviting :) 16 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:46,000 but the thing is we become a different species 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 at that point of Rebirth. 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,500 And by definition Jesus Himself comes to live inside of us. 19 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:54,000 A person who has truly believed, 20 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 who has truly fallen backwards in the chair and let go, 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 they have the Spirit of Christ come to live within them. 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Romans 8, Galatians 3, Ephesians 1 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 So what we did after he came up out of the water… 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,500 You remember with Jesus the dove descended 25 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:13,000 as He came up out of the water 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,000 The scriptural terminology you see scattered 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 throughout the book of Acts and so on is 28 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,500 Jesus, in the gospel, blew on them 29 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:24,000 and they received His Spirit. 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 You receive the gift of the Spirit 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 by the laying on of hands. 32 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 We just participated in the dove descending 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 and the Spirit of God coming to fill him. 34 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:40,000 But the point that I was making is that 35 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 by the oath and the covenant of God Himself 36 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,000 he just received the gift of the Spirit 37 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 which we could liken to the gift 38 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 of a brand new Ferrari. :) 39 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 He’s got 500 horse power available to him. 40 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Most people live and die, 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,500 even if they have had their sins forgiven, 42 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:01,000 having left the Ferrari in the garage 43 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 and never taken the cover off 44 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:07,000 because they’re fearful, they live in selfishness and pride, 45 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 they grieve the Spirit, they quench the Spirit’s fire. 46 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 They were given that same Ferrari at Rebirth, 47 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,500 because by definition when one is translated 48 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:18,000 from the kingdom of darkness 49 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,500 to the kingdom of the Beloved Son, 50 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:23,000 the Creator of the Galaxies has just made His home in them. 51 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 So as we prayed, we asked that God 52 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 would fill him with His spirit. 53 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 The gift of the Ferrari is an absolute. 54 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 It’s a certainty. 55 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 The same God that created the universe 56 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 now has made His home in him. 57 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Now what I said was our continued prayer 58 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 for you, Ian, is that you would now learn how 59 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,500 to drive the Ferrari and squeal the tires. :) 60 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:48,000 Not leave it in the garage. Amen.