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so Jesus proclaimed Victory on Saturday
based on his death on Friday so that he
could be your ongoing deliverer based on
Sunday so that he can reverse the curse
change the situation and I know there’s
somebody here who can testify I had wed
from God and I needed him to rescue me
out of this problem and he jumped into
my problem and he turned that thing
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around well on behalf of of
myself and all of the urban alternative
family we want to wish you a very happy
and blessed Resurrection Sunday you know
Easter is a time to celebrate the
greatest event in human history Jesus
Christ rising from the dead did you know
he is risen and that’s what we’re going
to be talking about the resurrection of
Christ we want to experience how the
Risen Christ and why his resurrection
matters to us God bless you as you
celebrate Jesus who is
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alive when it comes to this weekend A
lot of people don’t get the
point they recognize it they give homage
to
it but they missed the
point and so I want to take our moments
here
today to review the
point and I want to talk to to you about
being twice
saved now the word saved in the
Bible as in our
normal human discussion means to be
delivered or rescued from something or
somebody you say somebody saved me they
delivered you they rescued you from a
difficult dangerous or disastrous
situation for which you have been
extricated so you have been
saved in the Bible the word saved is
used of three realities now we typically
use it about one reality but it is
Thrice used in the Bible applied to
three different realities and you don’t
know which reality it’s being applied
to until you see the context in which
the word was
used and sometimes because we’re so used
to using the word in one way we only use
it in reference to that one thing when
it is used in the Bible about three
things the first way that the word saved
is used is relative to our Eternal
Destiny where you will spend
eternity the third way in which the word
saved is used it is talking about the
glorification
that a Believer receives in
heaven the second way in between the two
justification and
glorification is historical
transformation so it’s used in three
ways when you use the first one you get
the third
one but when you use the first one you
may or may not get the second
one
everybody who gets Justified the first
one gets
glorified but everybody who gets
Justified who gets glorified does not
equally become
Sanctified the first and third refer to
heaven the second refers to history the
first and third refer to Eternity the
second one refers to
time
since the first equals the
third because the third is guaranteed by
the
first if you understand the
first we don’t have to spend a lot of
time on the third because the third
comes out of the first but we need to
clarify the
second
so I want to know how many times have
you been
saved now to understand in more detail
what I am
referring to when I say twice
saved in the Book of Romans chapter
5 the Apostle Paul talks
about the first and second salvation now
he talks about all three in the book but
in this
passage I want to make sure you are
saved once and saved
twice verse 6 says
for while we were still
helpless at the right time Christ died
for the
ungodly for one would hardly die for a
righteous man though perhaps for the
good man some would dare even to
die but God demonstrated his own love
toward us in that while we were yet
sinners Christ died for
us
if you went to the doctor and he said
you have
cancer and then
said take two aspirin and get some
rest I’m sure you would agree he’s not
taking your situation
seriously if some burglars were breaking
into your
home and you called the police and their
response was boys will be
boys
I’m sure you would concur that they’re
not taking your situation
seriously it is unfortunate
today that people do not take
seriously the offense of sin to a holy
God and they will throw out statements
God understands he knows I’m
human but Paul says that our condition
apart from God is
helpless he says while we were still
helpless that while we were yet
sinners you see what you have to
understand about God is that he cannot
compromise his Perfection with
imperfection if a human doctor has to
get rid of all
bacteria in order to save the life of a
parent what
makes it unclear that a perfect God has
to get rid of
imperfection in order to heal sinful
mankind God cannot dumb down his
standards just because he loves
us let me say that again God can’t
change his
protocol just because he loves us verse
eight says but God demonstrated his love
toward us in that while we were yet
sinners Christ died for us here’s how
you know whether somebody loves
you the price they’re willing to pay for
you God loved sinful mankind so much
that he was willing to pick up the full
tab
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now God only
has three options given his
Perfection the first option is to
condemn us the scripture is clear all
have sinned and fallen short of the
glory of God Romans
6:23 that there is none righteous known
not
one so God cannot dumb down his standard
to rescue us us to save us the other
option is to compromise his
righteousness to say let’s skip
it but the problem with that is if he
compromises his just reaction to
unrighteousness then he is compromising
his character and if he compromises his
character he is no longer
God so he would be living in a
self-contradictory
environment which means there would be
an explosion of the universe because he
would no longer be him to compromise his
standard so he could condemn
us he could
compromise
or he can make us
righteous what God did on the cross on
Good
Friday was come up with a plan
whereby that
God could show his love without
compromising his character in order to
here is the technical word impute
righteousness to sinful
men on Good
Friday imputation took place now let me
change it and say it another way
God changed your credit
score in order to rescue us from Eternal
judgment he needed for everybody to have
a perfect credit
score the problem is we’re imperfect
people so our credit score is not
sufficient to
Warrant Heaven so he got to change our
score
but he can’t make up a number he just
can’t say you have a perfect credit
score it has to be a perfect credit
score enter his process of
Salvation the first
salvation to change your score through
imputation how did he do
that 2 Corinthians 5:21 puts it this way
he who knew no sin became name sin for
us that we might become the
righteousness of God in
him for 33 years Jesus Christ lived a
perfect life on
Earth he had a perfect credit
score he never sinned in thought in word
or in deed or as he said I’ve come to
fulfill all righteousness he is the
sinless Son of God he who knew no sin
perfect
score on the cross on Good
Friday Jesus Christ took the sins of the
whole
world and took it upon himself and God
judged him as though you were on the
cross he was what we call in theology
our
substitute he took our
place on the the cross Jesus Christ paid
for the sins of the whole world so God
says
this anybody who comes to
Christ God will take the credit score of
Jesus and place it on their
account I stand before you with a
perfect credit score yes sir yes
sir not because I’m a perfect person but
because I have a perfect credit
God has credited the Perfection of Jesus
Christ to my
account so that when God looks at my
righteousness account he sees the score
of Jesus that’s been credited to my
account because I’ve placed not faith in
me I’ve placed faith in him and because
God has transfer the credit from him to
me I stand before God as though I were
him
it is the transfer of
credit here is where a lot of people are
confused they’re trying to build their
own credit
score the passage says why we were
helpless in other words we could not
improve our own
score not with a holy God now you can
improve it with your neighbor you can
improve it with the folk you work with
but not to a holy God who demands
Perfection he must have a perfect credit
score so if you’re trying to make Heaven
your
home you’re in for a big disappointment
because no matter how much better you
are this year than you were last year
unless you are
perfect you do not
qualify before a perfect
God so to participate in the first
salvation
which guarantees your heavenly
glorification means that you have to
come to Jesus Christ apart from
Works apart from trying to earn it apart
from trying to deserve
it unless you can be
perfect you do not qualify for the
demands of a holy
God and a lot of people are confused
because they think they can earn ET
Eternal salvation it cannot be earned by
grace are you saved through faith not
according to works so that no one will
boast Ephesians 28:9 says he said in
order to give you Eternal salvation I
have to pick up the
tab so if you come to
Christ and accept his death as your
personal substitute
he will forgive all of your sins and he
will grant you eternal
life so the first thing you need to
do is to come to Jesus Christ
acknowledging that you are a sinner that
you need a savior and that Jesus Christ
is that Savior and I accept him and him
alone as my
rescuer because to be saved is to be
rescued from Eternal judgment what about
if you’re already on your way to heaven
what about if you’re
already
saved in the traditional use of the
word notice something that’s often
missed missed uh read over
bypassed because he
says in verse
9 much
more let me hear you say much more much
more
much more means on top of all
that now he already said in verse 8 God
demonstrated his love toward us and that
while we were sinners Christ died for us
he deals with the death of Christ in
verses 6 through
8 but now in verse n he says much more
having now been justified by his blood
oh wait a
minute having been Justified saved in
number
one having become a Christian having
accepted Christ you’re now on your way
to heaven the word Justified means to be
acquitted it’s When God says not
guilty it’s When God says you’ve been
pardoned you’ve been
imputed on top of
that in addition to
that I want to save you
again twice
saved you know I’m talking about twice
saved because he says we shall be saved
from the wrath of God through him watch
this verse 10 for if while we were
enemies before we became Christians we
were reconciled to God through the death
of his
son much more there’s our two words
again having been reconciled we shall be
saved by his life
life that’s the
resurrection he says you’re justified by
his death but you’re saved by his
life we just went from Friday to
Sunday because we are justified by his
death but he says we’re saved the word
saved to people who are already
justified by his resurrected
life this is the second salvation
this is the Salvation that he offers to
Believers the first one he offers to
Sinners so that they become Believers
the second one he offers to Believers
related to their life in history your
day-today life while you are on your way
to Glory remember to be saved means to
be
delivered to be
rescued what does he save Believers from
once they become Christians
he says I save you from his
wrath oh wait a minute wait a minute
wait a minute I know it could be a
little confusing wait a minute I thought
I was saved from his wrath when I got
when I accepted Christ I’m going to
heaven oh yes yeah absolutely
right you are saved from Eternal
wrath he not talking about eternal
wrath he’s talking about historical
Wrath now time will not allow me to go
into the all the idiosyncrasies of this
when you have a chance read Romans
chapter
1 beginning with Verse
18 he says the wrath of God has been
revealed from Heaven against all
unrighteousness present
tense you now talking about
hell you’re not talking about gehenna
you’re not talking about the Lake of
Fire he says the wrath of God has been
revealed against all
unrighteousness so he in Romans 1 the
same book is talking about a present
wrath most of the time we think about
eternal wrath not present wrath so let
me explain present wrath so that you
know how he wants to save you a second
time present wrath is what we call the
passive wrath of
God the active wrath of God is like
Sodom and Gomorrah he came down from
heaven and he burned the cities up uh
that’s when he does it directly he
opened up the Earth cor and his family
were judged uh uh the flood when he when
he Let It Rain 40 days and 40 nights
that’s the active wrath of God he does
it himself he brings it boom the death
of Jesus Christ on the cross provided
salvation from Eternal wrath but the
passive wrath of God in history
still
operates in Romans 1 verse 2426 and 28
it says these words in all three of
those verses and God gave them over and
God gave them over and God gave them
over
okay this is called Divine
abandonment this is when God abandons us
to the consequences of our
sin
just cuz you saved don’t mean you don’t
have
consequences just cuz you saved and on
your way to heaven don’t mean you can’t
mess up your life on
Earth just because you’re on your way to
heaven does it mean that you cannot ruin
your historical
life the Bible is full of messed up
Christians people who are on their way
to heaven but who are not doing too good
in history
the wrath of God in Romans 1 is God’s
Wrath where he allows us to have the
consequences of our Rebellion he says
God gave them over he released them to
the consequences of their abandoning him
and he calls that his wrath the passive
wrath of God is his
builtin
abandonment not of his love relationship
but of his intimate Fellowship even with
his own
children but I have good news he still
wants to save
you uh much
more on top of
that I had a much more situation I was
eating at some restaurant and I
uh asked for the the check the
bill
the waiter came over to me and
said your meal has been paid for one of
the people here said they were a member
of your church and they paid for your
meal so whenever y’all see me in the
restaurant they they paid for your
meal so then I I said boy that’s that’s
nice I wish I knew who they were so I
could thank them and then then I said
well let me give you a tip he said no no
no much
more than paying for your meal they told
me not to let you give the tip and they
gave me a very generous
tip so I got my meal paid
for and my tip was
covered I then go out to get my
car and if the restaurant was one of
those uh places where you you you had uh
you had to
pay for the valet and so I went to pay
the
valet and the valet guy said your car
has already been
covered they paid the valet for the car
that’s called much much more they paid
for the car I went to give him a tip
they said no no they told me not let you
tip us and they gave me a j generous tip
on the cross Jesus paid for your
meal but he says twice much
more on top of your Eternal Destiny he’s
saying by his life his resurrected life
on Friday he
died on Sunday he
arose okay but you need to know about
Saturday he he didn’t skip
Saturday because the scripture tells us
that on Saturday he went to
hell and proclaimed
Victory okay on Saturday he went to hell
and told Satan you lose we win he
proclaimed defeat in Hell which is why
he could lead all the souls of saints to
Heaven at his resurrection which is why
the Bible says something many don’t know
when Jesus rose from the dead it says a
group rose with him and walked the Earth
with him to demonstrate the power of His
Resurrection on
Earth so Jesus proclaimed Victory on
Saturday based on his death on Friday so
that he could be your ongoing deliverer
based on Sunday so guess what that means
your addiction doesn’t have the last set
your Rebellion doesn’t have the last say
the consequences don’t have the last say
because he can deliver for believers
after you’ve been saved number one to
deliver you in Salvation number
two he can do that for you when you are
walking with him so you go to him for
forgiveness and then you walk with him
for deliverance so that he can reverse
the curse change the situation and I
know there’s somebody here who can
testify I had wondered from God and I
needed him to rescue me out of this
problem rescue me out of this difficulty
and he jumped into my pain jumped into
my problem jump into my Rebellion jump
into my circumstance and he turned that
thing around I’m here to tell you he not
only wants to save you for heaven he
wants to save you on the trip to heaven
and he can turn your midnight in the
dancing he can turn yesterday’s defeat
in the victory if you will decide to
walk with the Savior who saved you for
free because he wants to deliver you
much more so Heaven is one thing but
you’re not there yet he wants to walk
with you on Earth so you give him all
you’ve got because he’s earned the right
to be the
boss
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