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God Placed Us in Christ (Tamil)
Zac Poonen
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Zac Poonen

God Placed Us in Christ (Tamil)

Zac Poonen · 1:03:30

The sermon emphasizes the importance of knowing the truth and living a life of repentance and purity, which is the purpose of the Holy Spirit.
This sermon emphasizes the importance of understanding the truth that sets us free from sin, focusing on the significance of being saved from sin rather than just being forgiven. It highlights the need to know the truth that leads to freedom from sin, the distinction between being in Christ and Christ in us, and the transformation that occurs when we realize our identity in Christ.

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I don't understand the reason why God sent the Holy Spirit to this earth. We'll never live the Christian life the way God wants us to. There is a very important word that Jesus said in John 8.32. You must never forget it.

Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Free from what? That you can see in the next verse. Verse 34, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Verse 36, but if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. So, what freedom is he talking about in verse 32? When you know the truth, you will be free from sin. Not free from the Roman Catholic Church or the CSI church or some other church.

Or free from some other religion. No, he's talking about being free from sin. You can leave one religion and go to another religion and still be a slave of sin.

There are so many believers who left one church and gone to another church, but they are still slaves of sin. What difference does it make? It's like shifting from one house to another house. But still there is sin.

So, that proves that you don't know the truth. How do you know when you have known the truth? You will become free from sin. Not forgiven.

More than forgiveness. To be free, to be saved from sin, to be free from sin is more than being forgiven of sin. To be free, to be saved from sin is more than being forgiven of sin.

Suppose you have committed a crime against someone. As a result, you are put into jail. You write to that person and say, I am sorry for what I did.

I am sorry for what I did. When you are in jail, the answer is, I have forgiven you. I have forgiven you fully.

Are you forgiven? But are you free? No, you are still in jail. Many Christians are like that. They say, Lord, please forgive me.

God has forgiven them. But they are still in jail. How do you know? They are still committing sin.

When you know the truth, the truth will open the prison doors and make you free. I showed you the meaning of the name Jesus in Matthew 1.21. Every time you use the name Jesus, remember that. When you pray in the name of Jesus, when you cast out a demon in the name of Jesus, it is the name of one who came to save us from our sins.

That is why when you lead a person to Jesus, you must tell him, I am leading you to someone who wants to save you from your sins. Suppose I am witnessing to a non-Christian. And I am giving him the gospel.

And I tell him, don't you know you are a sinner? And he says, yes, I am a sinner. Do you know that Jesus died for your sins? No, he says, explain that to me. Can you tell him how Jesus came to earth, was born of a virgin, and died on the cross for your sin and my sin, and rose up from the dead? He is living today, you can pray to him.

And he says, yes, I will believe that. I am ready to pray. But he says, before I pray, I want to ask you a question.

I always fight with my wife. Will this Jesus of yours deliver me from fighting with my wife? And he says, I have another problem. I have a lot of dirty thoughts in my mind.

Will your Jesus deliver me from these dirty thoughts? What do you say? No, Jesus can't deliver you from dirty thoughts. That you will keep on having. He won't save you from fighting with your wife.

You will keep on fighting with your wife. He says, can this Jesus save me from lusting with my eyes? He says, no, no, no. Jesus can't save you from all that.

But he will forgive you from seven sins. He will say, I don't want this Jesus. I want somebody who will save me from all these sins.

And if you say, yes, Jesus can save you, then he will ask you, tell me, has he saved you first of all? This is a non-Christian to whom you are giving the gospel. You say, yes, Jesus can save you. Then he says, before you tell me he can save me, tell me, has he saved you? Has he saved you from the dirty thoughts? Has he saved you from lusting with your eyes? Has he saved you from fighting with your husband or wife? If he has not done that, you please keep this Jesus to yourself and don't tell me about him.

I don't want this type of Jesus. And he will be absolutely right. Because that's not the Jesus in the Bible.

The Jesus in the Bible, his name is, he came to save his people from all their sins. The Jesus in the Bible, he is the one who saves people from all their sins. Have you seen how we preach about 1% of the gospel? That is cheating.

That is cheating. Supposing you are a postman and you are taking a money order from the post office to give to somebody. The money order is for 1000 rupees.

1000 rupees. You go to that man's house. You change that 1000 rupees in the money order to 10 rupees.

And you give him, here is your money order, 10 rupees, give me your signature. What are you? You are a thief. I am sure you won't do that.

Because the post office will catch you and put you in jail. But when you give the gospel like that, you are supposed to give that person 1000 rupees, you give him 10 rupees. You are supposed to give that person the full gospel when you witness to him and you give him only 10%, or 1%, Jesus will forgive your sins.

And that non-Christian says, Jesus. Oh, it says here that he will save you from your sins. He said, will you save me? He said, no, he can't save you.

See, we are cheating people. Most Christians when they witness, they are like that cheating mailman giving 1% and telling him, here is your money. Many Christians when they tell about Jesus, do you know how they are? Like that postman, instead of 1000 rupees, they are like giving 10 rupees.

I also did that in my early days because I was stupid and foolish like other Christians. But when God showed me the truth, when I became free, then I could tell people the full gospel. And many people think full gospel is that you speak in tongues.

I speak in tongues, I thank God for that. I say like Paul, I speak in tongues more than all of you. But, the Holy Spirit also controls my mother tongue.

If the Holy Spirit cannot control your mother tongue, you must have got some other spirit. If the Holy Spirit doesn't control your mother tongue, then you are giving birth to another spirit. Any spirit can give you other tongues.

But only the Holy Spirit can control your mother tongue. Jesus came to save his people from their sins. Why did the Holy Spirit come for? Let's see Luke chapter 4. Jesus is the second person of the Trinity and the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity.

Jesus said in Luke 4.18, Why did the Spirit of God come upon Jesus? He came upon me and anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. What is this gospel Jesus preached? He proclaimed release to the captives to set free the captives to open the prison doors for those who are bound to give the sight to the blind to open our eyes and say see this is what God has provided for you, heavenly riches. You are blind till now looking at the earthly things.

Now you got sight you can see the heavenly things and to set free those who are downtrodden and to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. That means to say God is looking upon you with favor now not like the old days. He is looking upon you with favor and therefore you can live a heavenly life.

That is the gospel. That it says here is why the Holy Spirit anoints anybody. I know when the Holy Spirit anointed me He anointed me to tell people that you don't have to be in the prison anymore.

To break the bonds of people who are captive. The devil has made people captive everywhere. We are called to set them free if they want to be free.

Even Jesus could not free everybody because many people didn't want to be free. Even Jesus cannot free people who don't want to be free. But anybody who wants to be free Jesus has come to set them free.

We can tell that good news boldly to everybody. That's what John the Baptist was preaching. Turn around from this preoccupation with the things of earth.

Start looking at the things of heaven. Many Christians have never repented like that. There are many people who have come to our church in Bangalore who said they were born again.

I was born again in that church many years ago. I was baptized also there many years ago. I said sure come be a part of our church if you want to be.

After sitting in our church for 2-3 years and they hear the strong word of God like you are hearing it now. They come to me and say you know brother Zach I now realize I was not really born again that time. Because nobody told me there about repentance.

And even when they told about repentance they didn't tell me what to repent from. They told us to turn around but turn around from what? I thought it was only the gambling and smoking and drinking. So I gave up those things.

Now I realize that repentance is a much bigger thing than that. I now realize that you can't be really born again till you have repented. I was in that church I thought I received the Holy Spirit.

I made some noises with my mouth imitating the pastor. Now I realize I didn't receive the Holy Spirit. I just made some noises.

Now I come here now I realize I can really be filled with the Holy Spirit. See this is common sense. Supposing you are filled with an evil spirit.

What do you become? Evil. You are filled with an unclean spirit. You will be unclean.

So if you are filled with the Holy Spirit what should you be? You should be holy but Christians say no you just speak in tongues. This is one of the greatest deceptions going on in Christendom. Use your common sense.

If you are filled with an evil spirit you become evil. If you are filled with an unclean spirit you become unclean. So if you are filled with the Holy Spirit what should you be? You didn't become holy? What spirit did you get? My dear brothers and sisters I am not saying you become holy in one day but every year you should be going to a higher class like in school.

If you are still living in the same defeated level you were 10 years ago then I can tell you you are definitely not filled with the Holy Spirit. You got some spirit I don't know which one. So much of deception.

What did we read here? The Spirit of God came to set people free. I remember when I was a young Christian and I saw all these different churches and I read different books and they were all saying this is the truth, this is the truth and everybody said we have got the truth. You go to any church today they will say we have got the truth.

One thousand churches will all hold the same Bible and say we have got the truth. And you come to CFC we hold the same Bible and say we have got the truth. How to know which of these thousand churches has really got the truth? One simple test you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

In which church do you become free from sin? That church has got the truth. So I won't say I have got the truth. I tell people find a church where you will be set free from sin.

Don't go and sit in a church where you are sitting inside the prison and saying you are free. With the chains on your hands. You know it is very easy to find out whether we are slaves or free.

Romans 6 is a wonderful chapter. See one of the first marks of the heavenly life I told you Jesus said some of you standing here will not die till you see the kingdom of God come. It will come with power.

That power came with the Holy Spirit. Some of them standing there got that power. Some of them were in that 120 waiting on the day of Pentecost.

The Holy Spirit never came into anybody's heart from the time of Adam. He came near people and helped them from the outside. He came and helped Gideon to fight against the Midianites.

He came outside Samson and gave him muscles and power to kill lions. But he could not come inside Samson to fight against Delilah. Samson could kill a lion but a woman killed him.

So who is stronger lion or a woman? You read in Samson's life you will know the answer. That's why you have to be careful. There was another lion inside Samson's heart.

It's the same lion in your heart. It's called the lion of lust. That tore Samson to pieces.

He could tear these external lions to pieces. But the internal lion tore Samson to pieces. See what a judgment God gave him.

You will lust with your eyes after Delilah? Ok, the Philistines will come and blind your eyes. You will never lust again. He never lusted with his eyes after that.

But he could not have the inner change. Even when his eyes were blinded, the lust was still in his heart. You think blind people don't lust in their heart? No, they lust in their heart.

It's only when the Holy Spirit comes inside that he sets us free from it. See the Holy Spirit came upon David to kill Goliath. But there was something stronger.

There was another giant inside David's heart called lust. And when he saw Bathsheba, this giant with one stone, he killed David. See how the inner giant is always much stronger.

You can be a great preacher and bless thousands of people. But this inner giant will kill you with one stone. All that changed on the day of Pentecost.

See Samson and David did not have the Holy Spirit inside. Jesus was the first person who walked on this earth with the Holy Spirit inside. That's why he could be the first person with the life of heaven on this earth.

He didn't kill external lions like Samson. He did not become rich like Solomon. He didn't kill Goliaths like David.

He didn't split Red Seas like Moses. He did not pull down walls like Joshua. But inside, every giant was killed.

No sin could rule in Jesus. Every giant that came, was killed. And now he says to us, I'm going to give you the same power.

The power of the kingdom of heaven. What power is that? In heaven, nobody speaks in tongues. Do you know that? It's another power.

Another type of power. In heaven, there are no lions to be killed. There are no Goliaths.

There are no Red Seas there to be parted. There are no Jericho's walls to be pulled down. What is the power of heaven? Power of heaven is the power of purity.

Such purity that the angels cover their faces because they can't look at the purity of God. You can read that in Isaiah 6. Such love that heaven is flooded with love. Everywhere you see in heaven, you know it's like when the floods covered the earth in Noah's time.

You couldn't even see the mountains. All water, water, water everywhere. No mountain, no tree, nothing.

Heaven is like that, flooded with love. Everywhere you look, it's love. That is heaven.

And when the Holy Spirit comes into our heart, every part of the heart is flooded with the love of God. And it's flooded with humility. You know in heaven everybody is a servant.

Jesus came to earth and he became a servant. Even though he was a king, he was a servant king. There's no king like that on the earth.

And when you become like Jesus, you'll be a king over sin. But you'll be a servant of other people. God is like that.

And you can have that only if the Spirit of Heaven comes and fills your life. That is what happens when the Holy Spirit comes and fills. He brings the Spirit of Heaven into our heart.

And he sets us free from all these earthly attitudes. So what do we need to do? We may have failed in our past life. Let me turn you to this verse in Acts chapter 17.

There's a wonderful verse here. Verse 30. It's a beautiful verse.

You know, in the past days, you were ignorant about this life of Heaven. You were ignorant that you could have a heavenly life in your home. You were ignorant that you could live a heavenly life in your church.

And so you lived just like the earthly people. What shall we do? We have wasted many years. What I want to say is don't waste any more years.

The times of ignorance God is overlooking, it says. That means, he says, okay, you did not know in the past. Let's forget it.

It's like a teacher saying, I know you got zero in every subject till now. But I won't put it in the record, I'll throw away that record. No, there is no record now that you got zero.

Let's start today. From now on, start getting 100% in every subject. And even if you don't get 100% the first time, you get 20, 30, 40, 50, work your way up to 100.

That's better than zero. The Bible says, we press on to perfection. So, now, the Lord is telling everybody that they should repent.

The Lord says, okay, your past life I forget. It's a beautiful verse. He says, he doesn't even look at it.

It's finished. Now, turn around. Now, turn around from this preoccupation with the things of earth.

You know, that is why Jesus sent the Holy Spirit. Many people have not understood the message in Ephesians. If you turn to Ephesians, many people read the Psalms more than they read Ephesians.

There are people who say, read a Psalm every day. To read a Psalm or a chapter in Proverbs every day is very good. Because Proverbs is like a new covenant book in the Old Testament.

But the man who wrote the book went to hell. That's a sad thing. Solomon.

You can preach about the new covenant and go to hell. We got to live the new covenant. Solomon did not live what he wrote in Proverbs.

God doesn't see what wonderful books you can write. What wonderful messages you can preach. God sees the type of life you live.

How you live at home. How you live in your office. That is what he sees.

It doesn't matter if you don't write a book and don't preach a sermon. The new covenant is all about life. So it's better to read Ephesians than to read Psalms.

I'll tell you why. If you read the Psalms, many of the Psalms are like this. Oh Lord, kill my enemies.

Don't spare one of them. Deliver me from all my enemies. And when you read that, what are you thinking about? You're thinking about your mother-in-law who's troubling you.

And you're thinking about your neighbor who's causing you trouble. Or your brother or brother-in-law who cheated you of the property. Or some court case that's going on.

Those are not your enemies. Your enemy is the devil. Your enemy is the lust in your flesh.

So when you read the Psalms, say, Lord, finish my enemies. Don't think of your mother-in-law. Think of your own lusts.

Think of the devil. And say, Lord, don't let the devil get into my life. Finish these lusts in my life.

I read the Psalms. And when I read the enemies, I don't think of earthly enemies. Why? Because I am not an Israelite.

I am a Christian. And Christians don't have earthly enemies. They've got spiritual enemies.

If you read the Psalms like that, it is very good. Particularly a Psalm like this, I'll read something to you. Have you read this Psalm? It says in Psalm 135, there's an expression here in the last verse.

I will clothe his enemies with shame. Psalm 132, verse 18. What are you thinking of? Some human enemy? My lust, God is going to clothe them with shame.

He's going to defeat me. What about the small, small sins in our life? Not big, big sins. Small, really, really little sins.

Sometimes you speak one rude word to your wife or to your brother. You don't get angry. You say one word to hurt the other person.

Just one word. Those are little sins. There's a word about them also.

Psalm 137, verse 9. How blessed will be the one who takes all your little ones and dashes them against the rock. Who are these little children? Are you thinking of some enemy's little children to die, get cancer or something like that? You know what these are? These are that one or two rude words sometimes you speak to somebody. Little ones, small, take it and hit its head against the rock.

Now you know how to read the Psalms from today onwards. That is the way you must read it. Now, better than that is to read Ephesians.

Because this is the new covenant. That was old covenant. Everything is the word of God.

When Jesus came, he lifted us higher than Moses. See, what is written there is not wrong. That was right for those people.

It's like when you study in first standard, it's correct what you learn there. But when you go to tenth standard, you learn something different, more than what you learn in first standard. So, if old testament was like school, new testament is like college.

So, when you go to college, you don't say everything I learned in school was wrong. No, you say it was all right, but God has led me higher than that. That's how Ephesians is higher than Psalms.

In Ephesians, there is a little phrase, which many people don't know. You know, generally speaking among believers, we tell people, ask Jesus to come into your heart. So, the emphasis is Christ in you.

We sing a song also, you ask me how I know he lives, he lives within my heart. So, most Christians only think of Christ in me. That also they don't think about much.

That is the emphasis in Paul's letter to the Colossians. Christ in you, the hope of glory. That's Colossians 1. Christ in you is true.

In Ephesians, there is another truth. It's the other side of the same truth. Like the two sides of a coin.

What is the other side? You are in Christ. That is a very important truth. Because, before Christ came in you, you were in Christ.

When did Christ come in you? In my case, I say about 50 years ago. In your case, maybe last year, maybe 10 years ago. But when were we in Christ? You know when that was? Read here, in verse 4, chapter 1, verse 4. When did you come into Christ? He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.

That is before Genesis 1, verse 1. Genesis 1, verse 1 is the foundation of the world. If I were to ask you, is there any verse before Genesis 1, verse 1? What is the answer? Yes. Ephesians 1, verse 4. That is before Genesis 1, verse 1. So when did God know your name? Before Genesis 1, verse 1. To me, it's a wonderful truth.

That before Genesis 1, verse 1, God knew about Zachariah. You say, oh, you're a very proud man to think like that. No, no, no.

I'm not proud. I'm nobody. But I believe the Bible, that's all I'm saying.

My name was written in the book of life before the foundation of the world. You see, Revelation 13, verse 8. It says our names are written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb. Yeah, my name was written in the book of life before the foundation of the world.

There are two things that verse teaches us. That in God's mind, Jesus was also slain before the foundation of the world, in his mind. He actually died only 2,000 years ago.

But according to this verse, in God's mind, he was already slain before Genesis 1, verse 1. Because God, there is no past, present, future. We have that. We've got a past, we've got a present, we've got a future.

But do you remember when God, Moses asked God, God, what is your name? You know what God said in Exodus chapter 3? My name is I am that I am. Not I was, not I will be. No.

No past, no future. I am. I'm always the same.

No past and future for me. You know that's how God is? Something that's going to happen hundreds of years from now. God already knows it.

And something that happened thousands of years ago. God can see it right now. You think some sin you committed 50 years ago, God can't see it? He can see it right now.

You think some sin you committed last year, God can't see it? He can see it right now. Because just like there is no future with God, there is no past also. He is always in the present.

All the sins you committed 20 years ago, 5 years ago, last week, is all right now in presence of God. It's right now in front of God's eyes. Unless you have repented of it and asked Jesus to cleanse it away in His blood.

Then it is wiped out. Then it is not there. So my name was also in God's mind before the worlds were created.

So in Ephesians, it says that God put me in Christ. You need to understand this. Let me say it very slowly.

Some of you are very clever, you grasp it in one sentence. But I always say that a good teacher is the one who can teach the weak students. Clever students even a stupid teacher can teach.

A good teacher can teach the weak students. So don't get impatient when I repeat it three or four times. Some of you are clever, but you need to be humble.

Very difficult for clever people to be humble. So let me say for the benefit of those who find it little more difficult to understand. There are two things.

Christ in you and you in Christ. Christ came into you whenever you received him. As I said, in my case about fifty years ago, in your case you know when you received him.

Sometimes we don't know the date. It doesn't matter. But you know he has come into you.

That's wonderful. Then you have a hope of glory now. But you being in Christ, that is not now because Christ is eternal.

He lived with the father from all eternity. And the father he looked into the future. He looked all the way through the time when Jesus died.

He saw that. When did he know that? Before Genesis 1 verse 1. And then he goes beyond that, looks into the future in the 20th century and 21st century and he looks at Tamil Nadu and Bangalore different places and he sees certain people opening their heart to Christ. So what does he do? He chooses them.

When does he choose them? Before Genesis 1 verse 1. How? Because he could look into the future. Why doesn't he choose everybody? Because when he looks into the future he sees some people don't want Christ. And he won't choose them.

So he elects us. But how does he elect us? Based on his knowledge of the future. Now these are not some clever things that I thought up in my mind.

I'll show you in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 1 or 1 and 2. Here it says all of you in these different places, you were chosen or elected according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. See that? How were you chosen? How did he elect you? According to his foreknowledge. He knew millions of years ago that here in Tamil Nadu in 2000 something you will accept him.

And he knew your name. He knew what name your parents would give you. He didn't tell your parents what name to give you.

But he knew what name your parents would give you. And he took your name because he knew that you would give your life to Christ and he put you in Christ. And wrote your name in the book of life.

When? Before Genesis 1 verse 1. Before he made the angels. I'm very thankful for that. It makes me a very happy man.

You ask me, when did God know about Zach Poonen? Before he made the angels. Way back before he made the devil. He knew me because I'm a very important person.

You are also an important person. He knew you. But you don't believe that because the devil never allowed you to know the truth.

And you don't know the truth and so you are so depressed and discouraged and defeated so many times. When you know the truth you will be free from all that discouragement. When you know the truth that you are an important person in God's eyes.

You may not be an important person in Tamil Nadu or in your village. You may not even be an important person in your family. Sometimes parents despise one child.

And I've seen that many times. Some child is not doing well in studies. Or some child is a little dark.

Or not so intelligent. Or very disobedient. And the parents despise that child.

There's a saying in English called the black sheep in the family. This is all white sheep. This is the black sheep.

I go to some homes and the mother will say, Brother Zach, please pray for this son of mine. He doesn't listen. He doesn't do well in his studies.

I say, I think he's going to be a child of God. Because God chooses sinners like this. And I say, Mother, I have to pray for you only, not for this child.

He'll be alright. Because you're speaking so much evil of this child. God chooses such people.

He came to choose sinners. What was the thief hanging on the cross? Was he a white sheep or a black sheep? What do you think? I think when he was a little boy, his mother would have said, This fellow is always stealing something. He's fighting with people.

I don't know what he will grow up to be. But he went to heaven. I don't know his mother went to heaven or not.

I have learned in my life never to despise anybody. I always like to encourage the black sheep in a family. Because I have seen in my life that God picks up such people.

God doesn't work like men. Some of you who think you are so good, God may not choose you. Somebody you look down upon, that may be the one whom God chose.

I have a younger brother. He has been an atheist for many years. He used to go to Sunday school with me.

But he became an atheist. And now he slowly started going to After seeing my life for 47 years, he sees there's something real. But I told him once, you are humanly speaking such a good person, that's why it's difficult for you to be saved.

I was a sinner. That's why Jesus saved me. You know, Jesus did not come to call holy people.

He came to save sinners. He came to save people who are in the gutter. He said, Lord, I am a wretched sinner.

You know what Paul said? I am the greatest sinner on the earth. What did God do with him? He made him the greatest apostle on the earth. So God is like that.

He looks into the future. And he picks up people. Not because they are good.

Not because they come to Jesus and say, I am a sinner. My mother thinks I am useless. My father thinks even more than that I am useless.

But Lord, you love me. Jesus died for me also useless people like me. I want you to save me.

God hears the cry of that useless person. His father and mother think he is useless. But God sees that man saying, I am useless but Lord, you love me.

And God takes his name and puts it in the book of life. And the father and mother who think they are so holy, their name are not in the book of life. Be careful about despising others.

Some of those people you despise, they will be in the kingdom of heaven far ahead of you. One of the things I have learned in my life is never to despise another believer. God, Jesus came for sinners.

I am not saying we should live in our sin. Because Jesus hates our sin. But he came for sinners.

He came to save us from our sin. So God puts me in Christ. And what happens if God has put me into Christ millions of years ago? Now listen to this wonderful truth.

Where was I in Christ? When was I in Christ? Before Genesis 1 verse 1. So when Christ came to earth, and he hung on the cross, who was in him? Me. And you. When he died, who died? I died.

When he was buried, who was buried? I was buried. Why? Because I was in him. When he was raised up, who was raised up? I also.

And when he went up to heaven, who went up there? Me. Again, these are not my theories. It's all written in Ephesians.

Turn to Ephesians chapter 2, verse 5. When we were dead in our sins, he made us alive together with Christ. He raised us up with him, verse 6. And seated us with him in the heavenly places. He didn't say, one day after thousands of years he will make us sit there.

Now, already. Why? Because I am in Christ. See Romans 6. Verse 4. We are buried with him through baptism into death.

Like Christ was raised from the dead, we also might walk in units of life. Verse 6. Our old man was crucified with him. You know, this is the wonderful truth that the Bible says that in Christ we died, we were buried, we rose up.

That is why you get baptized. That is why baptism is a very important testimony. When somebody puts you into the water, I am saying, when Jesus was buried 2000 years ago, I was buried with him.

Like, I am brought up out of the water because when Jesus was raised up, I am also raised up. And he is not only raised up, lifted up to the heavens where Jesus is now. Romans 6. Verse 4. So that I might walk in units of life.

That means walk a new kind of life on this earth. That is to walk a heavenly life on this earth. That is God's will for everybody who was baptized.

Are you baptized? This is God's will for you. That you might walk in units of life. Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, these are such simple truths. The devil has hidden it from many people for many years. And I thank you, you are opening the eyes of even the simple children here today.

Truths that are hidden from the wise and the clever. Help us to live this heavenly life on earth. In Jesus' name.

Amen. ¶¶¶ ¶¶¶

Sermon Outline

  1. I. The Importance of Knowing the Truth
  2. A. Jesus said, 'You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.'
  3. B. The truth sets us free from sin, not from external things like churches or religions.
  4. II. The Difference Between Forgiveness and Freedom
  5. A. Forgiveness is not the same as freedom from sin.
  6. B. Jesus can forgive our sins, but we must be free from sin to be truly forgiven.
  7. III. The Purpose of the Holy Spirit
  8. A. The Holy Spirit came to set people free from sin.
  9. B. He anoints us to preach the gospel and break the bonds of captivity.
  10. IV. The Power of the Kingdom of Heaven
  11. A. The power of heaven is the power of purity and love.
  12. B. When the Holy Spirit comes into our heart, we are flooded with love and humility.
  13. V. Repentance and the New Covenant
  14. A. We must repent and turn away from our earthly preoccupations.
  15. B. The new covenant is about living a life of love and purity, not just preaching about it.

Key Quotes

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” — Zac Poonen
“The Holy Spirit came to set people free from sin.” — Zac Poonen
“The power of heaven is the power of purity and love.” — Zac Poonen

Application Points

  • We must repent and turn away from our earthly preoccupations to live a life of love and purity.
  • The Holy Spirit came to set people free from sin and to anoint us to preach the gospel.
  • We must read the Psalms correctly, thinking of our spiritual enemies, such as lust and the devil, not our earthly enemies.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does it mean to be free from sin?
To be free from sin means to be free from the power of sin in our lives, not just to be forgiven of our sins.
How do I know if I am truly born again?
You will know if you are truly born again by living a life of repentance and turning away from your earthly preoccupations.
What is the purpose of the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit came to set people free from sin and to anoint us to preach the gospel.
How do I read the Psalms correctly?
When reading the Psalms, think of your spiritual enemies, such as lust and the devil, not your earthly enemies.
What is the difference between forgiveness and freedom?
Forgiveness is not the same as freedom from sin; Jesus can forgive our sins, but we must be free from sin to be truly forgiven.

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