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[1417.36 --> 1418.00] going to skip over it.
[1418.00 --> 1420.44] I'm tempted to skip over it, but we're not going to do that.
[1420.52 --> 1424.70] Tim Keller, before I read it, Tim Keller has famously said, the gospel is often bad news
[1424.70 --> 1426.10] before it's good news.
[1426.62 --> 1427.48] Now I'll read the passage.
[1429.82 --> 1432.36] All of us lived among them at one time.
[1432.36 --> 1433.82] That's Jews and Gentiles alike.
[1433.90 --> 1436.16] Even the Jews who thought they were okay are not okay.
[1437.16 --> 1444.14] Gratifying the cravings of our flesh, following its desires and thoughts, like the rest, we
[1444.14 --> 1446.80] were by nature deserving of wrath.
[1449.98 --> 1450.64] Told you.
[1451.50 --> 1452.44] It's a heavy passage.
[1453.52 --> 1458.76] And what Paul is saying, it's not just that you are attacked by an outside force, although
[1458.76 --> 1459.18] that's true.
[1459.22 --> 1462.26] It's not just that there's a culture that's pulling you a certain direction, that you are
[1462.26 --> 1467.22] complicit in the pull, that you are choosing the way of disobedience.
[1467.30 --> 1468.44] You're choosing this destruction.
[1468.78 --> 1470.44] You're willfully inviting it into your life.
[1470.52 --> 1475.82] And as a result, unworthy of grace and deserving of judgment.
[1478.04 --> 1479.72] And this is not just Dave's thoughts.
[1479.86 --> 1480.76] This is the scriptures.
[1481.78 --> 1484.92] Like I said, the gospel is often bad news before it's good news.
[1485.08 --> 1486.84] But can I preach some good news now, church?
[1487.76 --> 1488.62] You're ready for it.
[1488.66 --> 1489.28] Yeah, me too.
[1489.98 --> 1493.14] What's hard is I'm not going to preach on the second half of Ephesians until Easter,
[1493.24 --> 1494.80] but I can't wait to preach on Easter.
[1494.94 --> 1495.58] Okay, that's coming.
[1495.74 --> 1496.84] So bear with me on that.
[1497.44 --> 1498.40] But here's the good news.
[1498.68 --> 1504.46] It's because we are weak and vulnerable and susceptible to temptation that Jesus comes.
[1505.34 --> 1508.00] And Jesus did not come just to educate us, although he does.
[1508.16 --> 1509.54] He came to save us.
[1509.54 --> 1516.32] He came to rescue us from ourselves and all the powers that enslave us and destroy our lives and relationships.
[1516.70 --> 1517.56] Praise the Lord.
[1518.80 --> 1519.98] And Jesus, think about this.
[1520.22 --> 1523.76] He was born to battle for us.
[1525.22 --> 1526.28] And let this sink in.
[1526.64 --> 1528.88] He volunteered for the task.
[1529.76 --> 1530.74] Before he was sent.
[1530.80 --> 1532.52] Remember, Jesus existed before his birth.
[1532.62 --> 1533.82] Sometimes we don't realize this.
[1533.82 --> 1538.94] In perfect unity with the Father and the Spirit, Jesus says, this is how it's going to be.
[1539.66 --> 1544.78] The Father, Son, and Spirit in perfect unity and concert said, Jesus will be the one who takes on flesh.
[1545.16 --> 1546.58] Jesus is the one who's going to battle.
[1546.72 --> 1548.34] And he will defeat the power of Satan.
[1548.64 --> 1550.92] He will defeat the power of evil in the world.
[1551.04 --> 1554.80] And he will defeat the power of sin for us.
[1555.56 --> 1556.36] Praise the Lord.
[1556.36 --> 1560.18] I'm going to read one of my absolute favorite quotes.
[1560.78 --> 1564.60] It comes from a fellow named Abraham Kuyper, a Dutch guy.
[1565.82 --> 1567.46] And this is the English translation.
[1567.62 --> 1568.38] It's originally in Dutch.
[1568.56 --> 1570.02] And this is how it translates to English.
[1571.48 --> 1584.00] There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry, mine.
[1585.28 --> 1586.32] Do you hear what he's saying?
[1586.36 --> 1596.62] He's saying, Christ, who is Lord of all, has been sent into the world to the cross to defeat all the powers that seek to take what is good from Jesus.
[1597.36 --> 1605.52] And so Christ, when he comes to defeat the cross, he will not let Satan have one inch of his good creation, one inch of his world.
[1605.58 --> 1608.96] He will not let the flesh take us away from the goodness that is in him.
[1608.96 --> 1615.28] And he will not let the world corrupt the beautiful world and the beautiful image bearers he has created.
[1615.28 --> 1623.34] And through the cross, Jesus, on behalf of the triune Father, Son, and Spirit, says, this world is ours.
[1623.98 --> 1627.60] And we are reclaiming it by the cross.
[1627.60 --> 1636.24] And what that means for us, as we go into these next few weeks over Lent, because we're going to talk about battling still.
[1636.78 --> 1639.08] The work of Jesus is finished.
[1639.76 --> 1643.14] But you know, as well as I do, that the sinful temptations are real.
[1643.68 --> 1645.62] You know that the work of Satan is still real.
[1645.68 --> 1647.26] And the power of our culture is still real.
[1647.44 --> 1648.48] But here's the good news.
[1648.48 --> 1651.96] The enemies that we face are defeated enemies.
[1653.46 --> 1654.18] Do you believe that?
[1655.20 --> 1658.40] That the work of Jesus is finished.
[1659.72 --> 1665.44] And there will come a day when Jesus returns in glory and power, and there will be none of this and only this.
[1665.86 --> 1673.92] The world will be made right again, and you will savor and taste and enjoy all of its privileges and all the beauty forever in a resurrected body.
[1674.00 --> 1674.64] That's our hope.
[1674.64 --> 1683.88] But secondly, in the interim, while you and I battle against temptation, we battle against the ways of this world, we do so in the very strength of Jesus.
[1684.94 --> 1686.56] We don't do it in our own strength.
[1686.68 --> 1687.34] Thank the Lord.
[1687.54 --> 1689.00] We are weak, susceptible.
[1689.42 --> 1690.46] But what do we have?
[1691.60 --> 1694.70] The power of Jesus by His Spirit.
[1695.68 --> 1698.16] And that means we can resist temptation.
[1699.30 --> 1702.74] That means we can say no to the ways of this world.
[1702.74 --> 1707.18] And that means that as Satan tempts us, we have the power to resist.
[1708.26 --> 1709.74] Praise the Lord, church.
[1710.66 --> 1712.22] And I finish where we began.
[1712.78 --> 1720.86] With the words of Paul in 1 Timothy 6, church of Jesus Christ, fight the good fight of faith.
[1721.50 --> 1724.44] The enemies we battle are defeated enemies.
[1725.54 --> 1726.66] Let me lead us in prayer.
[1726.66 --> 1726.72] Amen.
[1726.72 --> 1726.76] Amen.
[1732.74 --> 1736.94] Father, would you give us the ears to hear this passage?
[1738.22 --> 1740.04] The humility to listen.
[1741.68 --> 1747.06] Forgive us for being so ignorant of the realities we face.
[1748.64 --> 1750.24] Willful in our disobedience.
[1751.26 --> 1753.92] Forgive us for going along with the way of this world.
[1754.48 --> 1756.50] For denying that Satan has power.
[1756.50 --> 1761.50] Give us ears to hear these hard words from Ephesians 2.
[1762.48 --> 1764.06] We thank you that we have a Savior.
[1764.78 --> 1766.38] We thank you that the work is finished.
[1766.48 --> 1770.32] And we thank you that the advocate, your Spirit, dwells among us.