Made Holy [Part 2]

Allen Wright, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless. This is called a visitor that calls us to lose an awareness that we still are prone to stumble in our sin. Instead it causes us to see ourselves as some completely different and we belong to God, and it changes everything. Allen right into another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new life, by being excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series belonging to God as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now.

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You know what I'm talking about, and something you might be very much amateur is that this may give you the sub point is all about timing. It's all about timing. You don't want to go to early because if you go to early to the good seed that people are still cruising and because people he got the really good seats.

You know they can just come on and whenever I want and so you go down to early I mean like a beer. The basketball game and you think that just because it's four minutes into the game you moved out a good see you better be ready to get moved out at sea, but you don't want to go to late because then the people who are doing the same thing you don't already go get the good seats so you have to be skilled at this and but I just can't tell you that it's it takes, it takes a whole lot in your conscience be in seared there in the game in order for you to feel really comfortable in that seat once you've taken it move down to some excellent seats before snuck past ushers and everything to get down to them, but you're kind of sitting there the whole game.

Looking over your shoulder like is when some I don't come in here even in the second half. They might come in and say excuse me doing MRC and I got I'm so sorry I didn't realize this was realizes this one must see that from the upper deck. I don't know how the UK game because it's not your you don't have a legal right to it in the real owner of the sea could come at any time. The ultimate for me in getting a good seat was and I was a kid my best buddy David. I will say last time to get him in trouble now all these years, David. He was a ballboy at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Berenice term. I mean NAC to turn it back in the day. It was everything you had to win the thing you didn't go on, back early on and that was on the border something the Coliseum and his dad was sorta mischievous and that they solicit announcers, we got as close a white pants and a navy shirt you look like everybody else in the ballboy just come on out walk in the back door to the Coliseum with his right. Okay. You sure know there and up through the ball out of field for the few Mormon and everything else and first I just who appear is looking down here saying down there just waiting on the security guard accompanying me out. But over time in the game as I get more Molière going after mopping up a sweat trying to waive the camera and everything going you don't deserve to be here. You're not really a ballboy. God wants you to know Christians you belong to him. You belong in the presence of God. You are the recipient of the covenantal blessings that were bought for you in Jesus Christ.

And the reason that you can minister the things of God and drawing near to God and experience the glories of God and hear the voice of God and be used by God for a mining destiny is you and Christ have been made holy. In the old covenant. It might've been a prophet that was holy. It might've been a king that was holy. It might've been a priest that was holy but in the new covenant. He has poured out his Spirit upon all flesh been made holy and it changes everything changes everything for you.

Changes how you live. It changes how you think. If you do not see yourself as holy, then what recourse do you have when God comes near, except want to get away from is a very fascinating story in Luke chapter 5 where Peter and the guys are fishing and Jesus comes and gets into Peter's boat and teaches from the boat for the goods good sound that can travel over the water and people that hear him well and after he finished speaking, Emily chapter 5 he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch and Simon answered master.

We told online to nothing but your word. I will let down the nets and when they done this. They enclosed a large number of fish in the nets were breaking and they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them and they came and filled both the boats so they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down and Jesus is knees, saying, depart from me from a simple man, oh Lord, what you're saying is that were out in the deep water and I can't depart from you last.

I drown but I can't be in your presence so you need to get away from me, the worst predicament you could have as a Christian, would be to have any part of you even 1% of your soul that would be saying to God depart for me because I'm seven full you want to be in a position where you rip howling and making your prayer request, God of grace and mercy and power in healing and provision in a life and strength would be away from you. You want to be close to you can never be close if you're constantly conscious of the nagging suspicion that you don't belong in that seat, you gotta come to the place where you realize you have been in Christ seated with Christ in the heavenly's you have been made holy changes everything about how you live, then this is what the writer of Hebrews says the sacrifices verse one could never make perfect. Verse two if they had to cease being offered, but there still being offered so that they must not have made us complete mess and not have been sufficient for our holiness their just reminders verse three he says of the sin that we have, by the very fact that they kept offering the sacrifices.

It just made them more aware of how sinful they were. Come on JAlan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series knocking for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you my letter.

Forsake when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundreds day that same person. Sad sugar get enough for me to measure on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison. The other 99% which is 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up. When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church a pass. Apollo is outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wright's 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with share grace. It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God. When you make your get to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages in an attractive CDR pump with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership, six 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out and got work. Today's teaching now continues here once again is not a Christian. They live their life like I need to do some to make it up to God. Every time you try to make a sacrifice forgot all you're doing is bringing a reminder that your sinful and you don't belong in the presence of God. Something much better has come in Jesus Christ. Verse eight was that you neither desired or taken pleasure sacrifice offer for offering these offer equipment wall. He saying that God has come in Jesus did all right a new covenant, which is far better than the old covenant. It's not that the old covenant and the law was not a good gift.

It was it's not that he's come so much a repeal. It is easy to fulfill it and give you something that is so much better.

What God has done for us and some is that he came in the person of Jesus Christ and Jesus in the temple.

The meeting place of God and man because he is the God man he himself figuratively went into the holy of holies offered his own blood once and for all, so that anybody anybody. If you've never said yes to the saving work of Jesus. You could do it right now. You could do so today. Say yes to the saving of Jesus Christ sacrifice that once you accept that sacrifice is full and complete. Why because he was sinless he was perfect he was God's sacrifice was perfect so therefore whoever receives and is regarded by God as having been perfected from said to me that we don't still send it just means that to God. We are reckoned as if we have not sin we are reckoned by God as if we live the righteous life of Jesus and this is it calls us to boast visitors and cause us to lose an awareness that we still are prone to stumble in our sin. Instead it causes us to see ourselves as something completely different.

We belong to God, and it changes everything that the most important piece of this letter, I want to get through to you and you really get this it is. It's hard to believe you're holding to get this we have been made holy means something God has done.

If the declaration of something God is done.

I don't like a lot of things but I do collect logo golf balls gently my criteria is that when I collect one. It's at some special golf course and really I should have played that golf course. Now there are a few times where flight I just collected one like I went Pebble Beach one time and cost $600 to play so I just bought the golf ball but most of the time have played the golf course and so I got I got it on.

I got the numbers of probably the most special of the summary really needs me.

Is it seven years here. We had a wonderful sabbatical trip was it was it was probably the brother highlight family time of our whole whole lives all out close out Weston and Ben and I went played Torrey Pines was a couple years after Tiger Woods had famously won the U.S. Open and playoff against Rocco mediate and we later found out Tiger was winning it on a broken leg.

Unbelievable golf course and we went plated played 36 holes there and La Jolla, California, and it was just a beautiful day it is a beautiful day and at least Bennett played good you no one but never, never, never, never forget you know that that day and we became even more special because he ended up marrying a girl from San Diego right near La Jolla.

She could've been out on the beach that day while we were up on the bluffs plan so that Torrey Pines golf ball right I don't I don't go out and play golf with you at them slack to hundred miles an hour well swing speed talk like that but you don't think they want to cancel shank and into the two words, one hit in the water because it's is not Torrey Pines golf ball. Is it a different golf ball than other golf balls. No, it is of the same materials, but because this is Torrey Pines on it.

It shares its identity with the famous golf course and it is therefore sealed and set apart. That's what it means to be holy. You share Christ's identity you share Christ's identity. Your made of no different materials, and other people. But when you accepted Jesus, you became identified with Jesus.

Brian Chappell has written a wonderful book holiness by grace and he writes this because of definitive sanctification. We have been my holy because of that is as I get credit for what I did not do not and cannot earn this blessing comes through my union with the life of the one who fulfilled all God's righteous standards in my behalf. Even now he allows me to share his identity and compares this to swiping the credit card at the gas pump and said the wonderful thing about the under swipe your credit card or the gas pump is not just that you don't have to go marching into the gas station office and pay you all in just a convenient it's about having a little teenage son is he is writing a set I can send my teenage son and go Philip tanker gas is that my son doesn't have enough money to Philip – thank you for but I can send my credit card with him and authorize him take my credit card swipe at Pompton Philip the gas tank and he said it's it's like I was there.

He said he didn't have the money in his own bank account.

But when I give them my credit card I give him all my good credit and all the money that I have that backs it up so that he legitimately can swipe the card and fill up the gas tank as if it were his own resources he said in the moment that he is doing that. You see he is sharing my identity. This is what it means to be imputed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. This is what it means to share an identity with Jesus Christ. It means that the resources of God that should have been reserved for Christ alone are instead shared with you, Jesus, his own brothers and sisters and co-heirs with him means that because you've been made holy Christian you can minister the things of God, because you've been made holy. You can receive the sacrament without the slightest fear that means because you've been made holy. But you can pray in the name of Jesus with confidence that he hears it means to say you have been made holy. But you can rest at night and peace that there is no nagging consciousness of a of an unclean conscience that's keeping you away wondering if there's something out. You need to do to make yourself right with God. It means, therefore, that you can have unfettered joy. How could there be joy if we were always a little bit afraid of disappointing displeasing God and being rejected by him, but instead you have been made holy. Hallelujah.

You can have joy you can have joy you can have unfettered peace and joy, peace, not as the world gives you can have this to be made holy means that you can hear from God. It means that you can speak prophetically encouragement to others, it means that God's power is available in the end, through use. It means that you can have the eyes of your heart in a light and so that you can see the hope of your calling the glorious inheritance that is yours and the saints, and the incomparably great power that is at work in you and through you right now to be made holy means that you are not of the ordinary. It means that you been set apart for the extraordinary means that you have been consecrated means that your different means that your God means nothing could ever pluck you from his hand and means that mighty power that raised Jesus from the dead, is it works for you, then means that you can do the things that Jesus did in the Bible said, and even greater things that you will only made all rights and privileges of God to come into his presence baldly in your time of need and if I won't hit my Torrey Pines golf ball for fear shank and it how much more secure. Can you be in the watchful care of God on your line.

Oh holy ones of God and that the gospel in today's teaching we have been made holy. It's in our series belonging to God, and we do more with Alan here in the studio to dive deeper additional insight on this for your life in our final word today announcing for 99 days in a row. Someone tells you, I love you my letter for site when you feel cherished. The what would happen if I'm hundreds day that same person. Sad that sugar cut enough for me to measure on the Colletti anymore. When that one day contaminate the meaning of the other 99 days when 1% of conditional love poison.

The other 99% will just 1% of lies enough to spoil grace instead of locking introducing unlimited capacity for fear if I don't measure up.

When my having rejected when the Judaizers infiltrated the Galatian church a possible policy outraged and read a letter that describes the essence of the gospel of grace and why it must not be mixed with any form of Alan Wrights 12 message idea series trumpets the power of the gospel in order to set you free empower you with pure grace.

It's called Galatians and asked the gospel discover the purity and power the grace of God.

When you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages in an attractive CD album with your digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and got a whack at the conclusion of this teaching, but as we continue in the series.

What is your take away today. We've been made holy. I think that a Christian can become more comfortable saying I encourage every listener. Just say you may want say it out loud. I have been made holy I am holy to God.

I am set apart to got not bragging when you say that you're not saying that I have read some level of moral perfection right what you're saying is that I'm acknowledging that this is my new identity. I belong to God, the whole life belongs to him. I am therefore privileged to be able to come in the presence of God in the way that the quote holy priests of old, now in Christ. I am that holy person really think that dang of the more that we can believe that the more we can see it, we can hold onto it more. We can say it the more we're going to become increasingly comfortable with. This is who I am and it will change your prayer life and will change and change your confidence in victory over sin and will change the way that you are holding on all the promises of God. We have been made. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan White ministries