If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation. Satan is trying to steal your identity in Christ. Read and apply the Word. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We often give sin a fake ID, saying “they are a good person with a challenge.” God’s Word calls sin a death sentence.
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this morning as we discuss Dead Men
Walking I want to give you a picture of
how my life started in the hope that
it’ll help you understand the
resurrection power of Christ that lives
in those who are
redeemed it was a Saturday morning at
8:02 a.m. in the Santa Rosa Hospital
downtown San Antonio July the 22nd
1978 that I took my very first breath I
had heard that barbac COA was served on
Saturdays so I wanted to get here before
breakfast early that morning my parents
were having a very heated and intense
discussion they didn’t ever
argue
but that discussion was whether or not
mom was in
labor dad said she was she said she
wasn’t dad said we’re going to the
hospital she said we’re not dad picked
her up put her in the car and started
driving dad
won just a few moments later about 7:15
when they rolled into the parking lot at
Santa Rosa mom suddenly came into
agreement with Dad that she was indeed
in
labor before they could get the doctor
into the delivery room it was Dad and
the nurse here I was 8:02
a.m. Matthew haggy was
born
physically
Flawless and what I mean is 10 fingers
10 toes two eyes two ears one nose one
mouth a head full of dark beautiful
[Applause]
hair but while everything seemed to be
perfectly fine on the outside there was
something significantly wrong on the
inside not in my physical being but in
my spirit My Flesh was alive on July 2 2
1978 but my spirit was
dead my soul was still
born I had the potential but I wasn’t
alive
spiritually all of the right ingredients
were there except there was no sign of
Life there was no glimmer of hope there
was no glimpse of existence because I
was as the Bible said without hope
without God outside of the
covenants I was born under a curse and
that curse is called sin I was born in
the image of a fallen man and that man
is called Adam it’s what the Bible calls
the first man and doctrinally we call it
the ademic
race you and I were both born in the
same race the ademic race which is
cursed of God because sin that Adam had
committed in the Genesis of time the
problem is is that when we look at other
human beings we want to qualify them as
innocent and they’re not heaven
qualifies them as
guilty how did I learn to sin it came to
me how
naturally Matthew did you eat that
cookie crumbs falling out of my
mouth Matthew did you break this I was
the master of disaster I could take an
anvil and tear it to
pieces and with all of the pieces and
parts standing around me I I I I I don’t
know I I don’t know how that
happened my sinful nature was present
early on less than 8 PBS just a little
bit over seven here I am in the house
not caring about anybody else’s needs I
don’t care if you’re asleep at 2:00 in
the morning feed
me didn’t live for nobody but me
because I had a nature that was born in
a corrupt fashion under the curse of sin
because of
Adam this is why the Bible says so
emphatically all have
sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God everything looked fine on the
outside but in the courts of Heaven I
was carrying the same burden that every
human being carries and it’s important
that you understand it because if if you
don’t understand it you will not fully
appreciate nor recognize what Christ did
on our
behalf one of the problems that we have
in the world that we live in is we don’t
want to recognize the weight and the
power of sin and the consequences that
come with it the Bible says this about
Sinners the wages of sin is
death and then it says all have
sinned you see we may not look at the
liar and say well I’m like them or the
fornicator or the thief but the Bible
doesn’t say hey here’s the group of
Sinners that are in trouble and here’s
the group of Sinners that are not the
Bible says
all have
sinned that’s why I can tell you that on
July 22nd 1978 even though I hadn’t had
much time I was a
sinner and I was a sinner in need of a
savior dead in my sin
Romans 5:12 by one man sin entered the
world and death through
sin thus sin spread to how many all men
because all
Sinn you don’t get to qualify yourself
we all had the same harsh reality
without Christ we
are dead
dead not in need of
improvement God didn’t send his son just
to dust us
off God sent his son because without his
son we are
dead if you don’t get this you miss the
free gift of Salvation and you have no
compelling reason to share your faith
with those who don’t know
Christ if you see Sinners as people who
just need a little Improvement then you
don’t have any compelling reason to go
tell them without Christ you’re dead you
have to understand this in order to
appreciate what it says in Ephesians 2
and 1 and you he made
alive who were dead in your trespasses
and in your
sin and you he made
alive who were dead if all you needed
was Improvement then he could have just
helped you but dead people don’t need
help dead people need to be
buried you see this cross in the middle
of my Tombstone
here
1978 Matthew heggy is born physically
alive but spiritually
dead if I was going to write a date here
it would say
84
why I was only
six and the list wasn’t long but it was
strong I was a
sinner and in
1984 over off of Luke 410 in the A-frame
building where the kids used to have
Sunday
school brother Joe K who was my Sunday
school teacher he had the junior boys
back then we didn’t have enough kids to
make first grade second grade third
grade fourth grade we just had junior
boys and senior boys and I was in the
junior boys
class there in the junior boys Sunday
school class brother Joe asked does
anybody want to receive
Jesus and I don’t know why but right
then and there I said I
do and he said come with me and we
walked out the door and down the hall
and we went to this corner of the
building where there’s a old water
fountain it’s a nasty water
fountain but I didn’t
care that sweet and precious man of God
knelt down and he prayed a prayer with
me and I’m not going to tell you that
the heavens opened up and the glory and
God shown but I can tell you I
distinctly remember that something right
in here suddenly
changed and this child who was born dead
just 6 years earlier came to life in
Jesus Christ in
1984 and has been walking with the Lord
ever since not perfect but
walking John 3:16 God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believes in Him should have
everlasting life Ephesians 2 and8 It Is
by grace that you have been saved how
through faith not of what
yourselves it is the gift
of
God pretending like you did something
somewhere along the way to make God want
to save you to make God want to love you
to make God want to forgive you is
absolutely wrong you did
nothing God did it
all God did it all with his son Jesus
God did it all in his great love God did
it all through the power of His holy
spirit God loves us why because first
John chap 4 4 says God is love Romans 5
and8 God demonstrates his love toward us
that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for
us 1 Corinthians 15:
45-49 goes to describe our first nature
and our second
nature In this passage of scripture Paul
is talking about the first Adam who was
the first of a race and the second Adam
who is Jesus Christ who is the first of
another
race the first Adam in verse 47 he says
was made of the dust and the second
Adam was the Lord From
Heaven you need to know that your
natural body is nothing more than a dirt
suit somebody calls you a dirt bag they
might be mean but they’re not
wrong as the the world around us seems
to take a very dark turn you might ask
yourself is it possible to prosper in
every area of life even in such perilous
times the answer is yes are you trusting
him to lead the way and show you what
steps to take next in him you have the
ability to prosper to help you grow in
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your spiritual
body is not corruptible like the dirt
suit Adam gave you your spiritual body
is Incorruptible because it comes from
the Lord Jesus
Christ your spiritual body you’re not
going to get to put on until you see
Jesus face to
face verse 48 and 49 in 1 Corinthians 15
your natural body is made up in the
image of Adam your heavenly body is made
up in the image of
Christ and then in verses 50-58 Paul
goes on to describe that Flesh and Blood
your natural corrupt body cannot inherit
the Kingdom of
Heaven he says because corruption cannot
inherit
incorruption and then in verse 53 he
starts to say things that we’ll get to
in just a moment but it talks about how
the corruptible must put on The
Incorruptible and the Mortal must put on
immortality what you need to see is the
the difference between the life that you
were born with in your flesh which is
corruptible and the life that you were
born with in Jesus Christ which is
Incorruptible
why because The Incorruptible identity
that you have in Christ is the one that
the enemy wants to
steal he’s got your
flesh he got that back in
Genesis when Adam
chose to disobey God God’s word and sin
entered the
world understand this definition of sin
in the Bible and it’ll help you clean up
some of your
behavior James 4:1 17 it says to him who
knows to do right and does it not to him
it is
sin Adam knew better he just didn’t
choose
better when he ate the fruit he knew
good and well God told him not
to so before you start convicting Adam
of his crimes recognize that every time
you know better but you don’t choose
better you’re sinning just like Adam
did the devil’s not after your flesh
he’s got
that the World the Flesh and the devil
it’s a trinity that works together to
keep you Bound in
Chains but when you come alive in Christ
when you’ve been made free because whom
the sun sets free is free indeed when
this great mercy and love and grace of
God comes in and gives you this new life
that’s the one that the devil wants to
keep you from
enjoying because the devil can’t keep
you out of Heaven that new life in
Christ is Incorruptible on the day that
I received Christ in 1984 it was Sign
Sealed and Delivered I’m on my way to
heaven but do you know what the devil’s
been been trying to do every day since I
got on the list in the Lamb’s Book of
Life he can’t keep me out of heaven but
he wants to give me hell on
Earth oh Jesus said you’re going to live
with joy let me make sure it’s sorrow
Jesus said you’re going to have peace
let me make sure it’s torment and how
does he do
it by trying to convince me that what
Jesus did was not
enough that what I’ve received in this
gift of Salvation there’s something else
that has to be done
he wants to keep me Bound in the flesh
he wants to keep you bound and burdened
instead of free he wants to keep you
confused in the culture and the chaos of
this world so that the more confused and
the more he can keep you in chaos the
more you’ll begin to doubt the word of
God he wants to keep you away from this
book as much as possible because the
second you open this book and you start
to obey it and you start to believe it
then he becomes a defeated Foe and you
become a Victor and more than a
conqueror through
Christ go read what the Bible says in
Galatians about the lusts of the
Flesh and yes it starts with fornicators
and adulterers and we say oh that’s not
me but then it gets down into
bitterness and it gets into
contention and it says that one of the
lusts of the Flesh and one of the chains
that the enemy will use to bind you is
fits of
Wrath the more you begin to understand
about your flesh the more you realize
how easy it is for the enemy to get you
away from the word and get you bound up
in these chains and in these shackles
that Jesus has already died to set you
free
from you don’t have to wear these chains
you don’t have to wear these shackles
but if you listen more to the world and
to the devil and the prince of the power
of the air you’re going to spend more
time bound up than you are freed up and
this is how you can be saved and walking
in Christ and still have hell on
Earth only time you hear the word of God
is on
Sunday it’s why you come back to
church it’s why you talk about how
you’re hoping that Monday is a good day
every day is a good day when you were
dead and you’ve now been made alive in
Christ
the more you walk around carrying these
chains of bondage that Christ has come
to set you free from the more you
qualify to put on again the Yoke of
bondage that Paul spoke
of he said do not put on that yoke of
bondage whom the sun sets free is free
indeed but the more you walk around in
these chains the more you walk back in
to that old existence and although
you’ve been made alive with Christ now
you’re so bound up in your bitterness
and your anger and your rejection and in
your wrath you’re wondering did I ever
really get saved did Jesus ever really
do it is all of this true or is this
just something that the preacher’s
trying to sell
me I tried Jesus and Jesus didn’t
work oh no he worked just
fine you tried him but you didn’t trust
him you heard him but you didn’t obey
him you
listened but you didn’t
learn if Jesus Christ sets you free from
those chains don’t blame him when you
pick them up and start walking in them
again because whom the sun sets free is
free indeed every shackle has been
broken Every Chain has been shattered he
has made a way where there seems to be
no
way Galatians chapter 4 says in the
fullness of time God sent forth his only
begotten born of a woman under the law
to redeem those who were under a law
that you might receive adoption as
Sons verse 7 since you are no longer a
slave but you are a son if you are a son
then you are an heir and a joint Heir
through Christ Jesus your inheritance is
is not the lie that the devil is selling
your inheritance is in God it’s through
Jesus it’s by his blood it’s Everlasting
it’s an inheritance of hope it’s an
inheritance of Peace it’s an inheritance
of power it’s an inheritance of Joy it’s
an inheritance of Victory it’s an
inheritance of provision do not let the
devil confuse you nor the world lie to
you they have been defeated they have
been conquered and whom the sun sets
free is free indeed Give the Lord a
shout of
Praise so how do we walk in this Freedom
you have to put on
Christ how did I get this coat on this
morning it’s
amazing I actually took it off the
hanger
and I put it
on oh it’s so confusing what do you mean
put on Christ it’s not
confusing John chapter 1 go read it in
the beginning was the word and the Word
was with God and the Word was God and
nothing was made that was made without
the word go check out verse 14 it says
something spectacular about the word it
says and the
word became
flesh and it
dwelt among
us if I’m going to put on Christ and
Christ is the word and the word is true
and the truth is what sets me free then
all I have to do is pick up the book and
read it and Obey it and everything that
I’m supposed to have in Christ is going
to come on me I don’t have to do what
the lust of the flesh says I don’t have
to live in that bondage of addiction I
don’t have to carry that burden of shame
I don’t have to walk in that bitterness
I don’t have to carry that anger I don’t
have to carry that hate because I have a
living word that’s inside of me that has
broken that shackle and has broken that
chain and because of what Christ did I
am free because whom the sun sets free
is free in indeed Give the Lord a shout
of Praise now how do you do
it it’s real
easy it’s kind of like putting on this
coat you pick it up you open it
up and you read
it I know your mind is
blown but how many of us are walking
around in
Chains saying oh God give me appetite
for your
word shame on
you faith without works is
dead this book isn’t going to float
across the
room land in your
lap mystically open up to the passage
that God wants you to
ingest and then in The Voice voice and
tone of James Earl Jones read to you the
word of
God that’s
nonsense but what makes
sense is since this
word came alive and dwelt among me and
he died my death so that I could live in
Christ and his resurrection has given me
victory over death Hell In The Grave why
why don’t I do the
work in faith of just saying every day
Lord Jesus I’m going to put you on I’m
going to read your word I’m going to
read your promises I’m going to walk in
your truth and when I put you on by
reading your word and when I put you on
with a Garment of Praise And when I put
you on in faith believing I once again
stand in the victory that you gave me
over the world over the flesh and over
the
devil this is why Paul said to
Timothy I
know in whom I have
believed and I believe that he is
able he’s able to do what to keep that
which I have committed to
him until that day read that last line
with me and keep what I have committed
to him until that
day that day speaks of an exact
moment that only God the father
knows but Paul wrote about it back in 1
Corinthians 15 I told you earlier we’d
come back to it go to verse 51 and Paul
says I want to reveal to you a mystery
about that day he says on that day we
will not all sleep in death but we will
all be changed in that day in the moment
in the twinkling of an eye at the last
Trumpet Of God the dead are going to be
raised and they’re going to put on in
corruption and we who are alive and
remain we shall be changed we’re going
to take the corrupt suit off and put the
incorrupt suit on the Mortal body is
going to be here but the immortal body
is going to take a Heavenly flight and
on that that day that’s when we’re going
to say oh death where is thy sting and
oh grave where is thy victory for the
sting of death and the sting of Hell
have been swallowed up in Victory but
thanks be to God thanks be to God thanks
be to God who gives us Victory through
Jesus Christ Our Savior Give the Lord a
shout of Praise give Jesus a hand hand
clap of Triumph Give the Lord a shout of
victory in this house today thanks be to
God who gives us Victory through Jesus
Christ Give the Lord Praise in this
house today what an exciting thing to
consider that we were dead in our sins
but now made alive in Christ people talk
about wanting to see the dead raised
back to life every time someone
professes Christ as Lord that’s exactly
exactly what happens join us live every
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