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Series B – Second Sunday after Pentecost – Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:28	the holy gospel according to saint mark
0:30	the third chapter
0:31	[Music]
0:39	then Jesus went home and the crowd
0:40	gathered again so that he could not even
0:43	eat and when his family heard of it they
0:45	went out to seize him for they were
0:46	saying he’s out of his mind
0:48	and the scribes who came down from
0:50	jerusalem were saying he’s possessed by
0:52	beausable and by the prince of the
0:53	demons he casts out demons
0:55	and he called men to him and said to
0:58	them in parables
0:59	how can satan cast out satan if a
1:01	kingdom is divided against itself that
1:03	kingdom cannot stand
1:05	and if a house is divided against itself
1:07	the house that house will not be able to
1:09	stand
1:09	and if satan has risen up against
1:11	himself and is divided he cannot stand
1:13	but is coming to an end but no one can
1:16	enter a strong man’s house and plunder
1:17	his goods unless he first
1:19	binds the strong man then indeed he may
1:21	plunder his house
1:23	truly i say to you all sins will be
1:25	forgiven the children of man
1:26	and whatever blasphemies they utter but
1:28	whoever blasphemes against the holy
1:30	spirit never has forgiveness but is
1:32	guilty of an eternal sin
1:33	for they had said he has an unclean
1:35	spirit and his mother and his brothers
1:37	came and standing outside they sent to
1:39	him and called him
1:40	and a crowd was sitting around him and
1:42	they said to him your mother and your
1:44	brothers are outside seeking you
1:46	and he answered them who are my mother
1:48	and my brothers and looking about
1:50	at those who sat around him he said here
1:52	are my mother and my brothers whoever
1:54	does the will of god he is my brother
1:56	and sister and mother this is the gospel
1:59	of the lord
2:00	in the name of Jesus all right so we all
2:04	know that something’s wrong with the
2:05	world have you ever noticed that
2:07	and no one has ever been able to solve
2:09	the problem in fact
2:10	the people have tried valiantly to solve
2:13	the problem that exists in our world
2:16	they’ve all failed miserably let me give
2:18	you an example of like one of the most
2:19	spectacular failures
2:21	in all of human history as it comes to
2:23	solving the world’s problem
2:25	photographers tried this all right
2:27	there’s a book a photo book years and
2:29	years ago when i worked in the corporate
2:30	world i managed
2:31	salespeople and one of my salespeople
2:34	her name was adriana and she
2:36	was a spectacular professional
2:38	saleswoman
2:39	and well with that kind of skill we knew
2:42	she was going to eventually get picked
2:44	off and she was some headhunter founder
2:46	and she took a job working for somebody
2:48	else’s corporate team bummer for us
2:50	and so she gave her notice and we were
2:53	having a going away party and i was her
2:55	manager
2:55	and she at her going away party gave me
2:58	a gift
3:00	because she knew i like to tinker with
3:01	photography and she gave me a gift and
3:03	the gift is called
3:05	the family of man it’s a photo book put
3:08	out years and years ago which actually
3:10	began as a as a photography art exhibit
3:14	and then you could see it in different
3:16	places around the world
3:17	and it had such notable names as edward
3:20	steichen and andre
3:21	cartier brasson who provided photography
3:24	for the photography is great
3:25	photography is spectacular but the
3:27	premise behind the book
3:29	and behind the art exhibit is something
3:30	to this effect the world has
3:33	wars and people treat each other
3:34	unkindly and there’s all this violence
3:36	in the world
3:37	if we could just all appreciate the fact
3:40	that we’re all the same you know we all
3:43	get
3:44	married we fall in love we have children
3:47	those children grow
3:48	up they fall in love they get old and
3:51	they die
3:52	and so these are wonderful photographs
3:54	taken of people around the world in that
3:56	kind of setting
3:57	and the basic idea is if we just all
3:59	recognize
4:00	how much we are all like you know the
4:02	family of man
4:04	then maybe just maybe wars and stuff
4:06	would end and of course
4:08	um i’m always into bad marketing ideas
4:11	and it’s the final photograph which is
4:13	just black
4:14	on this one because here’s the thing
4:16	i’ll show it to you there’s a photograph
4:18	here
4:18	of these two children they’re in the
4:21	shadows and they’re walking into the
4:22	light as if somehow
4:24	now that we know that we’re all the
4:25	family of man we can walk out of the
4:27	darkness of violence
4:28	into the light of love and the world
4:31	will be a happy place and we can all
4:33	sing
4:33	it’s a small world after
4:37	anyway the photography is great though
4:41	but here’s the thing the photographers
4:44	have
4:44	failed us they have not solved the
4:47	world’s problems so
4:49	don’t look to photographers but have you
4:50	also noticed that our pop music stars
4:54	and our movie stars they’ve failed us
4:56	too
4:57	most spectacular failure of all time is
4:59	who john lennon
5:01	imagine right i can’t even sing that
5:03	song it drives me
5:04	nuts right and of course the beatles
5:06	anthem
5:07	all you need is love no no no no
5:11	right well if love is all we need why is
5:14	it that we can’t seem to solve our
5:16	problem
5:16	right and then have you noticed that the
5:19	politicians have also failed us too
5:21	you know on a scale of like one to ten
5:25	one being absolute abject miserable
5:28	incompetence ten being the most
5:30	spectacular thing ever
5:32	how would you grade our politicians and
5:34	how they handled the covid pandemic
5:37	a one okay two all right do i do i hear
5:40	three is there a three out there
5:41	four no no fours negative two
5:45	okay you get the idea so so our
5:48	photographers are incompetent
5:50	musicians and movie stars incompetent
5:53	and our politicians are incompetent at
5:55	solving the world’s problem
5:58	oh boy we’re in trouble right and that’s
6:01	kind of the issue
6:03	and so as we consider our old testament
6:05	text today
6:07	and and its implications and kind of
6:09	flesh out the theme a little bit
6:11	we are again confronted with
6:14	the problem that we all have and that is
6:18	is that
6:19	well we have fallen truly fallen
6:22	into sin and as a result of it
6:25	as god said that the day that adam and
6:28	eve ate the fruit of that tree the tree
6:30	of the knowledge and good of evil they
6:31	died
6:32	spiritually and have you noticed that
6:35	good and evil seems to be the thing that
6:37	are mixed together in this life
6:40	don’t get used to it when you have
6:41	something good happen because the next
6:43	day
6:44	something bad will follow it it just
6:45	seems that the two come together
6:47	in well weird quantities but you’ll note
6:50	that these
6:51	terrible words they adam and eve heard
6:54	the sound of the lord god walking in the
6:55	garden in the cool of the day and this
6:57	is after they had eaten of the tree they
6:59	were
6:59	told by god not to eat of and they
7:01	didn’t listen to god’s voice
7:02	they listened to the voice of the
7:03	serpent into their own hearts
7:05	and the man and his wife they hid
7:07	themselves in the presence of the lord
7:08	god among the trees of the garden
7:10	and lord god called to the man and said
7:12	to him where are you and he said i heard
7:14	the sound of you in the garden
7:16	and i was afraid because i was naked and
7:18	i hid myself
7:20	and he said who told you that you were
7:21	naked have you eaten of the tree of
7:23	which i commanded you
7:25	not to eat and we know the answer to
7:28	that question
7:30	but consider if you would the absolute
7:33	tragedy
7:33	that we see here and that is is that
7:36	adam and eve in their fall into sin
7:38	their immediate response to when the
7:40	presence of god shows up
7:41	is that they have to run and hide they
7:44	are naked and now
7:45	terribly afraid but just before
7:48	we read this in genesis chapter 3
7:51	in genesis chapter 2 we get again this
7:53	wonderful beautiful picture
7:55	of just how loving kind caring and
7:58	providing
7:59	god is it is absolutely appropriate that
8:02	we would refer to god as god
8:04	our father because that is what we see
8:07	going on in this text have you ever been
8:10	to a wedding and
8:12	well everybody goes to weddings at one
8:14	time or another and
8:15	there you see the bride decked out just
8:19	looking spectacular and always and again
8:21	when everybody stands up when the bride
8:23	comes in
8:24	my heart just kind of catches right here
8:27	and i can’t help but have a little bit
8:28	of a tear in my eye
8:30	especially if it’s like one of my
8:31	daughters but that’s a whole different
8:32	story right
8:33	but the point is this is that that’s a
8:36	moment that we’ve
8:37	all that we’ve all kind of witnessed but
8:40	have you ever witnessed
8:42	when the groom sees the bride
8:45	for the first time in her wedding dress
8:48	have you ever everyone’s looking at the
8:50	bride next time you’re at a wedding
8:52	turn around quick take a look at the
8:55	take a look at the groom
8:57	okay i’ve seen guys almost buckle
9:00	okay when they see their bride for the
9:03	first time like this
9:04	and in this context consider then just
9:07	the absolute
9:08	wonderfulness of god there’s god he’s
9:11	created the heavens and the earth all
9:13	the animals
9:14	and well it says in genesis 2 18 then
9:16	the lord god said it’s not good that man
9:18	should be alone and it’s not
9:20	we are not we cannot thrive alone it is
9:23	not good that he is alone i will make
9:25	a helper fit for him kind of his
9:28	physical
9:28	counterpart his physical opposite the
9:30	hebrew is a little hard to pull into the
9:31	english here
9:32	but you think of jigsaw puzzles now out
9:35	of the ground the lord god had formed
9:37	every beast of the field every bird of
9:38	the heavens and brought them to the man
9:40	to see what he would call them
9:42	whatever the man called every living
9:43	creature that was its
9:45	name and so you can see here adam names
9:48	all of the animals all the beasts of the
9:50	field every creature and critter
9:51	he gives them a name but it’s as if god
9:54	is like parading them all in front of
9:56	him
9:56	just to kind of build the anticipation
9:58	because the hope is there
10:00	that as he’s naming the animals he’ll
10:02	finally see his
10:05	counterpart because these animals whom
10:08	he’s naming
10:09	he’s seeing that they have already been
10:11	created male and female
10:13	and that they come in pairs and so well
10:16	he’s he hasn’t been paired up yet so
10:20	the man called every living creature and
10:22	whatever he called it that was its name
10:24	he gave names to all the livestock the
10:26	birds of the heaven to every beast of
10:27	the field but for adam
10:29	there was not found a helper fit for him
10:32	not one
10:33	and you can just kind of see the
10:36	hmm still haven’t found what i’m looking
10:39	for
10:40	so the lord god caused a deep sleep to
10:42	fall upon the man and while he slept he
10:44	took one of his ribs
10:45	and closed up its place with flesh now a
10:48	little bit of a note here we’re going to
10:49	hear this in our
10:51	in one of our cross references in the
10:52	sermon when you think of adam think of
10:55	Jesus
10:56	the scriptures explicitly say that adam
10:59	is a type and shadow of Christ
11:01	and that Christ is the fulfillment of
11:03	his type so
11:04	the lord god took one of his ribs closed
11:06	up its place with flesh
11:08	the rib that the lord god had taken from
11:09	the man he made into a woman
11:12	and he brought her to
11:15	the man think
11:18	marriage think this is the first time
11:22	that adam is laying eyes on his
11:25	wife and god is the one
11:29	who’s the matchmaker here he’s made the
11:32	perfect counterpart
11:34	for adam like a father he’s chosen a
11:37	wife
11:37	for his son because scripture says that
11:40	adam is the son of god
11:42	uh read read the gen the uh the
11:45	generations of
11:47	Jesus and you’ll see that adam is
11:48	referred to as the son of god
11:50	and so like a loving doting caring
11:54	kind father who wants his son’s needs to
11:57	be met
11:58	he makes this woman and adam
12:02	this at last you hear it
12:05	this at last this is it i’ve been
12:07	looking for you
12:09	this at last is bone of my bones flesh
12:11	of my flesh
12:12	she shall be called isha for she was
12:16	taken from each
12:20	beautiful picture beautiful picture
12:23	consider again the loving kindness
12:26	of god therefore
12:29	a man shall leave his father and his
12:31	mother and hold fast to his wife
12:33	and they shall become one flesh the man
12:36	and his wife were both naked and they
12:37	were not
12:38	ashamed the church fathers when you read
12:41	them on this particular passage
12:43	they they like to point out the fact
12:44	that the reason why adam and eve
12:46	were not afraid or ashamed when they
12:49	were naked
12:50	is because they were created in the very
12:52	image of god
12:53	being made in the image of god there’s
12:56	nothing to be
12:57	ashamed of even if you’re not wearing
12:59	any clothes
13:00	but you’ll note that since the fall the
13:03	first thing that adam and eve realized
13:05	after they bit into that forbidden fruit
13:07	they realized that they were naked
13:10	and you’ll note that you know being
13:12	naked is one of those things that’s
13:13	really awkward
13:14	even for all of us descendants of adam
13:16	and eve if you don’t believe me
13:18	just remember the last time somebody
13:20	walked in on you while you were in the
13:21	bathroom and you didn’t have all your
13:23	clothes on and tell me how that
13:24	experience went
13:26	okay it’s very very uncomfortable and
13:29	sadly
13:30	memorable it’s like it’s hard to burn
13:32	these things out of your
13:34	head but you get the idea then but
13:36	here’s the thing so
13:37	what has befallen us
13:41	is that we have now fallen into sin
13:44	and well what’s broken in us can’t be
13:47	repaired
13:49	not by art not by politics not
13:53	by music not by well-meaning people
13:56	there’s only
13:57	one solution and the solution requires
14:00	us to look
14:01	to Christ and i found it fascinating as
14:04	i was preparing
14:05	this sermon that as i was looking for
14:07	the cross references and putting the
14:09	story together and the themes
14:11	of this text together that in the new
14:14	testament
14:16	the new testament never mentions adam
14:18	without quickly
14:20	pointing to Christ it’s it’s as if
14:23	the new testament says don’t think of
14:25	adam without thinking about Jesus don’t
14:27	think of adam about think without
14:28	thinking about Jesus because
14:30	when you can see how Jesus fulfills the
14:32	type and shadow of adam
14:33	you can see that there’s something good
14:36	that is for us because
14:37	if you think about it what is the
14:39	implications of what our
14:41	first parents have done they lived in a
14:44	perfect world
14:45	without sin without toil
14:48	without death without pain
14:52	it was paradise that’s how eden is
14:55	described
14:56	and they squandered all of that
15:00	to take a bite of a piece of fruit
15:03	that has then plunged us into all the
15:05	misery that we experience
15:06	now and is it not true that we all in
15:10	some sense yearn for that paradise
15:15	isn’t that the impetus the thought and
15:17	the thinking behind we’ve got to solve
15:20	the world’s problems we have to solve
15:22	the problem of poverty of suffering and
15:24	all this other kind of stuff but the
15:26	reality is this beyond us to fix
15:30	so romans 5 says this therefore just a
15:32	sin came into the world through
15:34	one man and that’s the problem sin
15:37	and through that one man death through
15:39	sin and so death is now spread to all
15:42	men because all
15:43	have sinned you me everybody
15:46	sin indeed was in the world before the
15:48	law was given but sin is not counted
15:50	where there is no law
15:51	yet death reigned death itself reigned
15:54	from adam to moses even over those whose
15:57	sinning
15:57	was not like the transgression of adam
16:00	and he was the type of the one who was
16:02	to come
16:03	what is it that reigns in this world
16:05	according to this text
16:07	death and it comes for us all
16:10	but then in contradistinction to this it
16:12	goes on to say this but the free gift
16:15	the free gift of god oh isn’t that like
16:17	god
16:18	the same god who gifted adam with such a
16:22	beautiful gift as his wife
16:23	eve the same god now gifts us
16:27	gifts us with forgiveness of our sins
16:29	you see the free gift is not like the
16:30	trespass
16:31	for if the many died through ones a
16:33	man’s trespass how much more
16:35	have the grace of god and the free gift
16:38	by the grace of that one man Jesus
16:40	Christ abounded
16:41	for many you see the free gift it’s not
16:43	the result
16:44	of the free gift is not like the result
16:46	of the one man’s sin
16:47	for the judgment following one trespass
16:49	brought condemnation
16:51	but the free gift following many
16:53	trespasses has brought justification
16:55	forth because of the one man’s trespass
16:58	death reigned through that one man how
16:59	much more will those who receive the
17:01	abundance of grace
17:03	and the free gift of righteousness reign
17:06	in life through the one man Jesus Christ
17:10	and so you’ll note that here in contra
17:12	distinction to death
17:13	reigning over all humanity we who have
17:16	been
17:17	forgiven united with Christ in his death
17:20	and resurrection
17:21	there’s a new reality for us one that
17:24	hints
17:25	at and gives us hope hope of a different
17:27	outcome than
17:28	the death that this life promises us
17:31	death reigns presently
17:32	but now for us Christians grace and
17:35	mercy
17:36	reign because of Christ therefore as one
17:40	trespass led
17:41	to condemnation for all men and that
17:43	that’s true for all of us
17:45	so one act of righteousness now leads to
17:47	justification in life for all men
17:49	for as by the one man’s disobedience the
17:51	many were made sinners
17:53	so by the one man’s obedience the many
17:55	will be made righteous
17:57	so the law then came to increase
17:59	trespass but where
18:00	sin increased grace abounded all the
18:02	more so that as sin reigned in death
18:04	grace
18:05	also might reign through righteousness
18:07	leading to eternal life through Jesus
18:09	Christ our lord
18:10	and so you’ll note then that adam and
18:13	eve having been
18:14	plunged into sin and plunging us into
18:17	sin
18:17	in the process that at the tail end
18:20	there of genesis chapter 3 we read these
18:23	words in verse 21
18:24	and the lord god made for adam and his
18:27	wife garments of skins
18:29	and he clothed them and you just have to
18:32	ask the question
18:33	did god literally kill some
18:37	beasts to clothe adam and eve
18:41	and the answer is really yeah
18:44	something had to die in their place so
18:47	that they can live
18:49	and that something that died yeah well
18:51	that
18:52	its skin then was given to them to cover
18:55	their nakedness and their shame and
18:58	their guilt
19:00	but you see that’s a hint at what Christ
19:02	does
19:03	for us although it is true we tru we too
19:06	are naked just like adam and eve and
19:09	we’re naked in our sin and experience
19:11	that same shame
19:13	we know that Christ is the one who has
19:16	died
19:16	for us and scripture describes us as
19:19	being clothed in garments of
19:21	righteousness isaiah describes it this
19:23	way
19:23	in chapter 61 he says i will greatly
19:25	rejoice in yahweh
19:27	my soul shall exalt in my god for he has
19:30	clothed me with garments of salvation
19:33	he has covered me with the robe of
19:35	righteousness
19:37	as a bridegroom decks himself like a
19:39	priest with a beautiful headdress
19:41	and as a bride adorns herself with
19:43	jewels
19:44	and here if you start to connect some of
19:47	the themes of scripture remember
19:49	adam is a type of the one to come and
19:51	that’s Christ
19:52	Jesus is the second adam he is the first
19:56	to rise first born of the new creation
19:59	and who is Christ’s bride
20:04	we are we are
20:08	and so you can see here despite our
20:10	nakedness our shame
20:12	covered in dirt that scripture describes
20:15	Christ’s love for his bride of having
20:17	washed away her sins with the washing of
20:20	water and the word and here it describes
20:23	that what Christ does for us he takes
20:26	his
20:27	bride and he adorns her with jewels
20:30	with righteousness and garments of
20:32	salvation covering
20:34	our nakedness it’s a beautiful picture
20:37	when you consider it
20:38	and again what would we expect will we
20:41	expect
20:41	anything less than the god who is so
20:44	amazing the one that revealed in the
20:46	early chapters of genesis
20:48	the one who cared for adam so much that
20:50	he gave her such a great gift
20:52	and in the same way then god gifts his
20:55	son
20:56	with his bride by preparing her
21:00	and you’ll note that the bride of Christ
21:03	like adam was formed out of the side of
21:06	Christ
21:07	while Christ hung dead on the cross
21:10	roman sword
21:10	pierced aside and outflowed water
21:14	and blood and it is that water and blood
21:17	that
21:17	is used to create to wash and regenerate
21:23	us make us the bride of Christ
21:26	when you see the connection it’s
21:28	absolutely stunning and beautiful
21:31	so in this reality then we consider
21:34	the words of the apostle paul who
21:37	explains to us
21:39	that we now are to walk in newness of
21:42	life
21:43	according to the reality that we believe
21:46	by faith but is also
21:47	true ephesians 4 says i say this and i
21:50	testify in the lord
21:51	that you must no longer walk as the
21:53	gentiles do in the futility of their
21:55	minds
21:56	they’re darkened in their understanding
21:58	they’re alienated from the life of god
22:00	because of the ignorance that is in them
22:01	due to their hardness of heart
22:03	and that is the result of adam and eve’s
22:05	sin
22:06	that’s the impact it’s had on all of
22:08	their descendants
22:09	they’ve become callous they’ve given
22:11	themselves up to sensuality they’re
22:13	greedy to practice every kind of
22:14	impurity
22:15	but that’s not the way that you learn
22:17	Christ assuming that you have heard
22:18	about him
22:19	and you were taught in him as the truth
22:22	is in Jesus
22:23	so therefore listen to the words put off
22:25	your old self
22:27	your old self the one you inherited for
22:29	adam put it off
22:31	by the power of the holy spirit take off
22:33	your old self
22:35	which belongs to your former manner of
22:37	life and is corrupt through deceitful
22:39	desires
22:40	and be renewed in the spirit of your
22:42	minds
22:44	and put on the new self which is created
22:46	after the likeness of god in true
22:47	righteousness and holiness
22:50	and so it’s true we inherited a sinful
22:51	nature from adam and eve
22:53	but because we are in Christ and we have
22:56	been regenerated there is a new self
22:58	we’ve already got the bits the beginning
23:02	bits
23:02	of what we will be in the new creation
23:05	presently now
23:06	now it coexists in our bodies with a
23:09	sinful nature
23:10	but you can see the themes if you work
23:12	it out and so because of this then
23:15	we are to be of good cheer also
23:19	as we yearn for what
23:22	what we yearn for is to be no longer
23:24	naked but clothed
23:26	and look forward to receiving back from
23:29	Christ the paradise that we lost
23:32	because he is re-giving it to us second
23:34	corinthians chapter 5 verses 1 to 10
23:37	which is the epistle text for next week
23:38	puts it this way
23:40	we know that if the tenth that is our
23:41	earthly home is destroyed we have a
23:43	building from god a house that is not
23:44	made with hands
23:45	it’s eternal it’s in the heavens for in
23:48	this tent we
23:49	groan longing to put on our heavenly
23:52	dwelling
23:53	and is that not true of all of us you
23:55	know
23:56	i keep pointing it out and i will
23:58	continue to point it out i look worse
24:00	today than i did two weeks ago
24:02	a month ago a year ago and it’s not
24:04	getting any better barb and i now that
24:06	the warm weather has come back we
24:07	decided we’d go on walks in the evening
24:09	right and the first week was a little
24:11	bit sketchy you know we got about 55
24:13	minutes into the walk and barb’s all
24:16	how much longer are we going gonna go
24:17	yeah i’m thinking come on granny you can
24:19	make it you can make it
24:21	right she used to walk six seven miles a
24:24	day and
24:25	just like at a clip that nobody can keep
24:27	up with but not so anymore
24:28	yeah but why because well her earthly
24:31	tent like my earthly
24:32	tent is wearing out that’s like your
24:33	earthly tent is wearing out
24:36	and so you’ll note then that in these in
24:38	this concept and we are well we’re
24:40	longing for something different
24:42	cross reference this with romans 8 paul
24:45	says i consider that the sufferings of
24:47	this present time they’re not worth
24:48	comparing with the glory that’s going to
24:50	be revealed to us
24:52	for the creation now currently waits
24:54	with eager longing for the revealing of
24:56	the sons of god
24:57	and that revealing takes place on the
24:59	day of the resurrection
25:01	for the creation itself has been
25:03	subjected to futility not
25:05	willingly but because of him who
25:07	subjected it in hope
25:08	so that the creation itself will finally
25:10	be set free from its bondage to
25:12	corruption
25:13	and will obtain the freedom of the glory
25:16	of the children of god
25:17	we know that the whole creation has been
25:19	groaning together in pains of childbirth
25:22	until now
25:22	and not only the creation but we
25:24	ourselves we who have the first fruits
25:27	of the spirit we
25:28	also groan inwardly as we wait eagerly
25:30	for the adoption of sons and the
25:32	redemption of our bodies
25:34	for in this hope we are saved now hope
25:37	that is seen is not hope
25:39	who hopes for what he sees but if we
25:41	hope for what we do not see we wait for
25:43	it with
25:43	patience and so you can see then the
25:46	idea that
25:47	right now forgiven
25:52	sinners is what we are our sins have
25:55	been
25:56	taken care of by Christ who bore his our
25:58	sins in his body on the tree
26:00	he died and rose again and ascended into
26:02	heaven
26:03	and because of all of this we have hope
26:06	and the whisper that is among us is that
26:09	hope is
26:10	that we will finally
26:13	finally no longer be naked
26:17	paul coming back to second corinthians 5
26:19	says for
26:20	in this tent we groan longing to put on
26:22	our heavenly dwelling
26:24	if indeed by putting it on we may not be
26:26	found
26:27	naked for while we are still in this
26:29	tent we groan
26:30	being burdened not that we would be
26:32	unclothed but that we would finally be
26:34	further clothed
26:35	so that what is mortal may be swallowed
26:37	up by life
26:38	he who has prepared us for this very
26:40	thing is god
26:41	who has given us the holy spirit as a
26:44	guarantee
26:46	so then we are always of good courage we
26:48	know that while we are at home in the
26:49	body we are away from the lord
26:52	and we walk by faith and not by sight
26:54	yes we are of good courage
26:56	and we would rather be away from the
26:58	body and at home with the lord
26:59	so whether at home or away we make it
27:02	our aim to please Christ
27:04	and it’s true we will all must appear
27:06	before the judgment seat of Christ
27:08	and each one of us may receive what is
27:10	due for what he has done in the body
27:12	whether good or evil
27:13	so brothers and sisters it’s true we’ve
27:15	fallen into sin and we have been found
27:17	before god
27:18	naked and ashamed but Christ has come
27:21	and he has bled and died in our place
27:23	because of his great love for his bride
27:25	which is you
27:26	and he has now washed away our sin and
27:28	clothed us with his righteousness
27:30	and we presently await for the wedding
27:33	feast that day when
27:34	we will finally see him face to face
27:37	and be given a new world a new world
27:40	without end
27:41	a world without tears pain suffering
27:44	or any kind of evil he is that good
27:48	that he would give us again what we
27:50	squandered
27:51	even though we do not deserve it because
27:52	of his great mercy and love for us
27:55	in the name of Jesus amen

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