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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