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What exactly is the gospel? Is it something we achieve through good works, religious effort, or moral improvement? Or is it something entirely centered on Jesus Christ and what He has already accomplished?

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This episode centers on the identity of Christ as God in the flesh, and  makes clear that the gospel is not only about what Jesus did, but about who He is. 

The episode moves into one of the most important questions of all: How is a person actually saved?

This is a grace-centered, Christ-exalting, Scripture-rich conversation that is NOT about becoming religious, It’s about meeting Jesus, trusting Him, and receiving the life He freely gives.

This episode isn’t about religion, performance, or moral reform — it’s about Jesus Christ, His finished work, and the life that flows from knowing Him.

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A powerful, gospel-centered conversation about identity, grace, inheritance, and the finished work of Christ.

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A perfect introduction for anyone ready to move beyond religious routine into a life grounded in Christ’s finished work.

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As we grasp this profound truth, we begin to probe the idea of “living by the Spirit” and transforming our lives. 

Join us in this episode as we unravel the profound wisdom of finding the “How” in living according to His will and divine guidance

We discuss the grace and righteousness offered through the cross, and how the Holy Spirit's revelation enables believers to understand and appropriate the blessings freely given to them.

Ultimately, we encourage listeners to focus on the cross of Christ and receive the power of God for salvation.

We reject guilt-driven approaches and emphasize resting in forgiveness and righteousness by faith. Believers are no longer under the law but under grace.

We also discuss the need for gospel-centered understanding that brings freedom, joy, and transformation, rather than legalistic systems.

Is it possible we have misunderstood, or been taught incorrectly, why we, as humanity were created?

We explore the purpose for our creation by looking at scripture and what it has to teach us.

Go figure, it ended up right back at the Gospe!  Join us for, what I personally think was a great conversation!

The guys discuss The Purpose and Will of God for Us.  More simply. why, and for what purpose, were we created?  Even simpler, Why are we here?

We continue the discussion on the ultimate purpose of God for us — to be sons and daughters of God and to be the bride of Christ through union with Jesus. God wants a close relationship with us— it’s not about doing but about family, we are the household of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The guys discuss The Purpose and Will of God for Us.  More simply. why, and for what purpose, were we created?  Even simpler, Why are we here?

This isnt so much a philisophical debate/discussion as it is a look through scripture to find the word that tell us, stright from the word of God!

This episode we discuss -

   - The sheild of Faith
   - The Helmet of Salvation
   - The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:16-18

¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

In this episode we discuss

• The Belt of Truth
• The Breastplate of Righteousness
• The Sandals of Peace

When Ajai is away, Mark and Tim will play! 

A shorter episode that focuses on the actual meaning and use of the word Repentance. 

Marks statement that "We are not called to repent of sin for forgiveness, we are called to repent for forgveness of sin." is about as good a summary of this episode there is!

A discussion about the Old Covenant Law and the teachings of Christ and the role they play in the Gospel for both believers and unbelievers.

We talk about "gently restoring" one another, doing good, and getting out and staying out of from under works of the flesh and/or the law.'

Let me leave you with the last verse of Galatians 6; 

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

Pauls tells us that it is "For freedom that Christ set us free".  We discuss what this used to mean to us and how Grace revealed this passages true meaning.

We then talk through the idea that if we decide we have to follow any of the law, we must follow the whole law.  We also discuss "The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love."

GALATIANS 5:1-10

¹ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

² Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. ³ Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. ⁴ You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

⁷ You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? ⁸ That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. ⁹ “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” ¹⁰ I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.

Here, Paul uses an allegory to explain the difference between living under the law and living under grace.

Paul is teaching that we are not saved by our works or by following the law, but by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Galatians 4:21-31

²¹ Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. ²³ His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.

²⁴ These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. ²⁵ Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. ²⁷ For it is written:

²⁸ Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. ³⁰ But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”^f]">[f] 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Paul opens this section of his letter to the Galatians with an example to show that  they have been redeemed and adopted as children of God through faith in Jesus. He then goes on to urge the Galatians to embrace their new identity as children of God and not return to their former ways of living under the law. Finally, Paul urges the Galatians to return to the spirit of love and faithfulness.

Today we discuss Galatians 3:15-29 

This passage is a rich and complex passage that touches on many important theological themes, including the relationship between law and grace, the nature of the Abrahamic covenant, the role of faith in salvation, and the unity of believers in Christ.

If your looking for great and deep philisophical discussion this probably isnt that.  Our identity is found in Christ and we are sons and daughters of God.  Check it out!

Luke 15:11-32

We read through and discuss Galatians.

This episode covers Galatians 3:1-14

Galatians 3:10-11

¹⁰ For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”^e]">[e] 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith

We read through and discuss Galatians.

This episode covers Galatians 1 and 2:1 - 10.

Paul responds to one of the first chuch divisions over the mixed Gospel being introduced in the churches he helped start in Galatia. This section also covers that justification and sanctification are by Grace alone, and that nobody can be saved by the law.

We believe in the deity of Jesus and review many proof texts and dicussion points to back it up!

Thanks to everyone who has been, or is just now, listening to us. It is our deepest desire to introduce The One True Gospel to anyone who will listen.

In this episode we read and discuss the Biblical account of Jesus birth.

Luke 2:1-20
Matthew 2:1-14

John 15:5

“I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser… I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing”

John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 11:25 (NIV) - 25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Discussion of I am the good shepherd in John 10:11-14

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. ¹³ The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. ¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me

Ajai and Tim discus Jesus saying "I am the door"

John 10:7 (NKLV)

⁷ Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came ^a]">[a]before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

In the book of John, Jesus defined himself in 7 different ways by using statements in which He would declare "I am..."

In this episode, which will be the first in this series, Jesus declared in John 6:35 (NIV) "Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

Mark and Tim were interviewed on the Faith and Family Fellowship podcast. Ajai had commitments and could not be in attendance, so Mark and Tim did thier best to represent the Unveilimg Podcast.  This is a good opportunity to learn a little more aboiut Tim and Mark and the podcast.

Find the Faith and Fellowship podcast at: https://www.facebook.com/faith.family.fellowship.podcast/

We are casting their podcast for this episode, with permission, this week.

Anything that comes in the way of seeing the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ is a veil. This ministry is bringing down these veils that have been put up so that you can see, and joyfully receive, the finished work of Jesus.

In Jesus moral teachings such as the Sermon on the Mount, He took our beliefs about the meanings of the law and reinforced them and actually made them harder to keep.  Why would He do that?

Ajai, Mark and Tim discuss this in light of the Grace of God.

1) Jesus nailed the law to the cross

2) We died with Jesus on the cross

3) Jesus Nailed death to the cross

Jesus as our High Priest and the perfect sacrifice.

Hebrew as a foreshadowing of Grace.

1) Indwelling of the Holy Spirit

2) Sonship

3) Fruit of the Spirit

The first in what will be a multi-part series.

Today we discuss:

   Forgiveness

and

   Righteousness

The Cross

Ramifications and effects of the cross

 1 Corinthians 2 - NIV

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

1. The Holy Spirit Glorifies Jesus

2. Walking in the Spirit

1. Discloses the Parent/child relationship we have with God/Jesus

2. The Holy Spirit as our Intercessor

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Tim    00:00:07    Hello, and welcome to the unveiling with your hosts, IJ, Mark, and Tim three guys discussing the one true gospel. We hope you enjoy today's discussion. Let's dive right in. Hello and welcome. Or welcome back to the unveiling with your hosts. Hij Mark and Tim three guys just discussing the one true gospel. Well, we are still in the middle of our holy spirit series. This will be the fourth episode in this series, and we've got a couple new topics to bring up tonight. And I think I'm gonna go ahead and Mark, I think I'm gonna let you start off tonight with the holy spirit introduces us to, or teaches us about the parent child relationship that we have once we're saved with our heavenly father. 

Mark    00:00:55    Yeah, I think that's, uh, thanks, Tim and AJAI Uh, I think that's such an important role of his and our life this year. I've had a theme in my life. Some of you probably know that just from listening to the podcast, those who have, and just how important the gift that God gave us of reasoning of being able to think I've mentioned it many times. And as you're reading scripture, if you just watch, watch how many words that the apostles use, uh, that are words for thinking reasoning, pondering, reflecting on meditating, uh, contemplating as we use that gift, it brings us understanding. And through that understanding is where our transformation comes. It's where joy comes from and our deep knowledge of the father, our son, and holy spirit. Um, it's where love comes from. It's just, it's just such a revolutionary thing to understand. In fact, God's given us his spirit for that reason. 

Mark    00:01:54    He tells us, uh, so that we would freely understand everything he's given us. And one of the things he wants us to and are all the things Christ has done for us on the cross. It's a lack of knowledge of these that I think really differentiates believers. It's why the people that are still trying to live under the law are afraid to trust in the grace and love of God alone and rely on Christ completely it's cuz they don't understand as AJ's put it. Everything that happens to us at the moment of our salvation. It's not that we're saved to neutral and God just took our sins away. It's he's made us new creations. Christ himself has come to inhabit. He's made us the righteousness of God. He's taken us out from under that old system of doing it ourselves of trying harder and just putting our focus on Christ, contemplating him and being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory as our understanding of who he is and who we are a good pastor, a friend of mine once said this. 

Mark    00:03:08    He said it's of utmost important that every believer understands their identity in Christ, but he said, it's just as equally important. They understand who Christ is in them. And, and so we're gonna start the discussion now on just the holy Spirit's role of teaching us, you know, and you I'm gonna start with who we were before we come, came to Christ and then just show the high state to which Christ is he's purchased for us. And he's called us too. And he calls us now, this is what God calls us. And we need to choose to believe who God thinks we are not who we think we are, who our broken past, tell us we are who other, maybe well-meaning Christians tell us we are, but what does God say about us and is spirits the wanna reveals that? And one, one of the key things, well, I'll just say before we came to Christ, we were slaves. 

Mark    00:04:08    Scripture tells us over and over again that we are slaves. We are held under the law and we are slaves to sin as well. Because when you are under law slave, you are under the dominion of sin. Uh, sin makes you a slave and uh, once you come to Christ, you are no longer a slave. I wanna give you a couple scriptures here and guys, please feel free to chime in with any questions here. As I go along. He, uh, depost Paul tells us in Galatians three, that before we came to faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So right there we're locked up. We were in captivity. We were prisoners, uh, to the law and we were slaves to it. The relations force says when the set that time had fully come, God sent his son born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those under the law that we might receive adoption to sonship because you are his sons. 

Mark    00:05:16    God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who calls out ABA father. So you are no longer a slave, but God's child. And since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. This is like my key verse here that I love because it mentions our progression that we've come from being a slave. Now we're no longer a slave, but we're God's child, sons and daughters. And more than sons and daughters, we are sons and daughters who inherit. We are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. And what, what a, uh, what a journey that is from becoming a slave to becoming an heir of God. And, and that's in, he's telling us here that it's the spirit that cries out in his daddy, father. ABA means daddy, we don't just have a relationship as a child or, you know, as an adopted son, he's our daddy. We hear his beloved children and his heirs and all that he has is ours. And what, what a wonderful thing. Hey, 

Tim    00:06:26    I just wanted to mention here part that I find fascinating is he's very clear about defining. We are heirs, but not just heirs, but co-heirs with Christ. And now that may not seem important to some people, but in, uh, Jewish law, it is the eldest son who gets the largest inheritance normally. But we are COER with Christ. No one gets the largest part of the inheritance anymore. We are all sharing the one inheritance at the same level that Jesus himself is. And that is, yeah, I'm not a second class. You know, Christian after Jesus, I'm, I'm right up there with him. And that's, if you just contemplate on that for a while, it'll blow your mind. 

Mark    00:07:07    Oh yeah, that's awesome, Tim. And it begs the question that if we are co-heirs with Christ, what did Christ inherit that we've become co-heirs? Well, first of all, he was resurrected resurrection power and eternal life as ours. Now he is the righteousness of God. He perfectly fulfilled the law on our behalf, which means all the blessings of the old covenant law that are listed in the old Testament are now ours. A with all the blessings of the new covenant and, and what I love, one of my favorite scriptures is no matter how many promises God has made, they are all yes in Christ. So we inherited through Christ in Christ, every promise God has ever made in S so find one it's yours in Christ. 

Ajai    00:08:04    Yeah. Tim and I, while you're saying that in, I just reminded of the scripture in John, it says as he is, so are we even in this world? So as Christ is, so are we, so whatever he is, we are, and whatever he has is ours. so it's amazing. 

Tim    00:08:22    Hey man. Amen. 

Mark    00:08:24    And I wanted to touch on that. We are, so we know we're no longer slaves now because of Christ. Uh, we are heirs with him, uh, but we're also no longer servants. Servant is a word that's used a lot in scripture. And I wanted to read a couple versus here. And, uh, one first one is Jesus himself. Soon before he went to the cross, he turned his, his disciples and said, I no longer call you servants because the servant does not know his master's business before Christ came. I believe the Jewish people would've said they were servants of God, everything they were doing. They're trying to do for God as though they were serving their master. In fact, his own disciples called Jesus master. And he's saying to them, I no long longer call you servants. And then I also wanna read here what the apostle Paul said in act 17. 

Mark    00:09:20    He said, the God who made the world in everything in it, in it is the Lord of heaven and earth, and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, right. He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. And what a great point that is, how can we serve God? What does he need that you have? You know, does he need your money? Does he need you to read the Bible more? Does he need you to whatever, fill in the blank. He doesn't eat any of that. But one of the things I love that God said is even though he doesn't need something, uh, first of all, make the point that if we serve God and a lot of wellbeing, people in churches say, Hey, you know, come and serve God. 

Mark    00:10:10    You know, we're serving God, that's just a term. But, uh, just to realize that we serve not as a servant, but as a child serves as parents, when your son five year old son helps you by cleaning up the family room, he's serving as a child, a beloved child. He's not servant serving as your servant. And you're over him with a, with ARA, you better clean that up better. You know? So that's one point I wanna make it. Secondly, God says to us that whatever you've done for the least of these you've done for us, because of his great love for human beings, the only way we can serve God is by serving each other by loving those. And I gotta tell you as a father and my life. So, and I, I was thinking about this day, nothing blesses my heart more than the way my daughter and son love each other. And when they were little kids and I saw them sharing with each other and helping each other and company each other, when they cried, there's nothing that blesses my heart more than that. And I gotta believe it's the same thing for God when he sees us loving each other and sharing with each other. And that's the only way we can serve him is because of his great love for us. 

Ajai    00:11:25    Yeah. In fact, Mark, I was also going to say, say the same thing right now. The only way we can serve God is by serving others because Jesus is not physically here in the bodily form, right? It's not that, you know, we are going and serving him directly. Neither. We are going and offering sacrifices, animal sacrifices that we are directly to God and not to humans. So in the present world and in the present state, the only way we can serve God is by serving others. And again, like you mentioned, the relationship is not a master servant relationship. It's not that, you know, when we are serving others, they are our slave masters or they are our, uh, employer. And we are serving them for money. It's not that we are not serving for wages. The way we are serving is as a brothers or eh, another brother, right. 

Ajai    00:12:12    Of Christ. And for, uh, those who are not born again yet, or not believers yet, right. We still serve them as if God is serving them right. To basically not bring them to the Lord. Jesus Christ. So again, this whole idea of serving it, not a serving as a, as a slave or services master for wages. So in fact, you know, if you go back to the law, people bring the same mindset, right? Under the law that serves you do something and you get paid for that. So that is a mentality. They take, I do something for God and then he is going to intern, bless me. So that is a kind of servant mindset under the law, but under grace even. And if we call ourselves servants, you know, the mindset or the act that we are doing is not a act of a servant where we are serving for, uh, wages. We are serving out of love for the benefit of the people that we are serving, not for our own benefit. 

Mark    00:13:10    And, uh, just to finish up this thought on us not being serving anymore. Most of us know the story of the prodigal son, but basically a son asks his father for his inheritance. He takes it and he goes out and, and while living squanders, it all starts to starve. And he decides that he's gonna go back to his father, but that he's no longer worthy to be his, his father's son. And he is gonna go back and offer himself as a servant. And he says, so here's what he says. When he comes to his dad, he says, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. He says, I have sinned against heaven. And against you make me like one of your hired servants. So he got up and went to his father. So this is a sin problem here. He said, he's acknowledging, I'm a sinner. 

Mark    00:14:03    I'm not worthy to be a son or a child. And I think many Christians have some of those feelings about the things they've done in their past, you know? And so anyway, he sets off to go to see his dad and ad saw him coming from far away. And it said he was filled with compassion for him. He ran to him, threw his arms around him and kissed him. And he starts to give his little deal. Her father I've sinned against heaven and against you, I'm no longer worthy to be call to be called your son. The father will have none of it. He says quick, bring the Rob and put it on him, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, bring the fat and cap and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate for this son of mine was dead and is alive. Again. He was lost and is found. So just the key point here is God's not looking for servants. The things you've done in your past do not qualify, disqualify you from becoming his son or daughter and his, he, we are no longer servants. We are no longer slaves. 

Ajai    00:15:07    Yeah. If I can just, um, read one scripture, Mark, you already kind of, uh, quoted the scripture, but I just wanted to read this, you know, maybe to tie everything together that we spoke is in Romans chapter eight and from verse 14, for as many as are led by the spirit of God. These are the sons of God for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry Abba father. So like you mentioned, right. You know, going from slaves and servants to not only just being free men, but actually the free children of God. Now we've become the sons, a and daughters of God. And we cry up of father. 

Tim    00:15:54    How wonderful is it that, that the Bible has stories and, and, uh, pictures throughout it, of the parent-child relationship? I honestly believe it is the closest thing we can come to on earth in our physical bodies to understanding the relationship that God has with us. Cuz I don't know, you know, I love my wife and I love my kids, you know? And he uses the, the bride and groom, uh, analogy as well as the parent child. Those are the closest relationships we have and yet they pale in comparison. God says, Hey, if you being good, parents can, you know, being earthly. Parents can give guys gifts. How much more can the heavenly father. So that should just help set up. You think, you know what it is, but there's more, 

Mark    00:16:41    That's good. I love John. Uh, first John one three says, see what great love the father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are. I love how he throws that last one in there just to be very clear and uh, also wanted to read, okay, in John one 11, it says he came to that, which was his own meaning Israel, but his own did not receive him yet to all who did receive him to those who believed in his name. He gave the right to become children of God. I love the way he puts it there. If you've believed in Christ and received him, he's given you the right to become a child of God. Nobody can take that away from you cuz he's the only one that can give it to you. One of the, of things I love that AJAIhas said in the past is that under the law, we're never gonna be any more at best. 

Mark    00:17:43    We're gonna be a servant or a slave, but under grace and in Christ, the least we're ever gonna be is a child in an heir of God. That's such a great way of putting it. So then there's a key here. I think that we're learning and that is to correctly dividing the word of truth, knowing old covenant new covenant. Because when we put ourselves back under the law, we're putting ourselves back into slavery and servanthood. When we remain, uh, under grace through our faith, in what Christ did on the cross, on the cross, we are children of God, sons and daughters, heirs of God. And co-heirs with Christ. And man, that is such a difference in that outlook of your life. Yeah. When you walk around as a slave and a servant, that's gonna affect the way you feel about everybody else, everything you do about yourself. When you walk around as a child of God, and that reminds me of something, you said AJ, about why it's so important to know our identity, especially to know that we are the righteousness of God. 

Ajai    00:18:53    Mark can, if I can quickly pitch in, uh, when you said, you know, when we go back under the law, you know, we again become servants. The analogy that came to my mind is, you know, imagine our children, you know, one find day they come to us and say, you know, daddy, I don't want to be a son anymore, but you know, I want to work for you. Just forget about the father, child relationship from now on I'll work for you and you pay me money. That's all is our relationship. Imagine how it'll be. You know, that's how it is going back. Another law after being saved and becoming the children of God. 

Tim    00:19:30    Good point. Good point Mark. Excellent one. And I don't mean to, I'm not gonna challenge how great your point was there, but I'm gonna move us along to the next one. And I want to talk about the holy spirit being our intercessor, uh, intercessor is, uh, one of those Christian words, more or less, I'm going quickly define it. And intercessor is basically somebody who prays for somebody else or some other situations, you know, that doesn't affect them. So they're praying for a need or a person or something like that. But in Romans 8 26 and 27, it says, likewise, the spirit who also helps in our weakness for, we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit makes intercession for us with groanings, which cannot be uttered. Now he who searches the heart knows what the mind of the spirit is because he makes intercession for saints according to the will of God. 

Tim    00:20:35    And what we should see at the beginning of that is that the text does not say that the spirit helps us pray, but rather that the spirit makes intercession for us. He prays next to us. It's, we're two separate entities and that's gonna be important because it, I think it'll help us understand what the spirit is doing and why. Uh, he prays so that when our prayers are deficient because of the struggles going through, uh, or the, the information that we don't have falls short of what it needs to be, he knows what we're praying for. And he knows how to fill that in. He talks to God directly and, and helps fill in our prayers if you would prefer to say it that way. So for here's an example, there's something quite inadequate about the intercession of others. For us, somebody will say, I'll pray for you. 

Tim    00:21:33    And we think, well, you can do that, but you really don't understand my need. There is a sense in which the fellow believer can never know what we experience and what we're going through. And in that situation, it is a great comfort for us to know that we have a heavenly intercessor, Jesus Christ, our savior, who knows all things, who he himself went through all of our pains and sufferings and he rules over all things for our good, beyond these verses in Romans eight, Paul goes on to talk about the intercession of Jesus. And now Romans 8 28 says we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, but that is the knowledge of faith, right? We believe it. We know it by faith, but we can't always see it. We do not see God's purposes. And so we do not always know what to pray. 

Tim    00:22:26    I can't tell always if you know what God wants out of a situation. So I will, I will end up praying in my, my own weakness, Lord, your will be done. But the spirit takes that and goes, okay, okay. He's saying, here's what, you know, here's what you wanna do here. It is, go do it. And you know, so what does exactly the spirit say to God to tell X says that he makes his intercessions with groanings and which cannot be uttered. Do you know what that means? It means that the spirits, prayer in our behalf are so deep and profound and comprehensive that they cannot be put into human world. And it's beyond the realm of our mental capacity to comprehend what the spirit praise for us. So when the spirit makes intercession for us, this is God commuting with God, you know, call it God talk, right? 

Tim    00:23:21    Yeah. I suppose it's something like parent talk, you know, and I had, I had four kids and there were sometimes a husband and wife who me and my wife will confer with one another about something in the life of our, our child. And we prefer that the child not hear it, or sometimes we do it in parent talk parent code so that they wouldn't understand it. It would make cuz it wouldn't make sense to them. We have their best interest at heart, but we sometimes have to confer and talk it through and figure it out. And it doesn't that burden doesn't need to be on the child where the parents we're gonna help the guide them through whatever it is. And uh, I think that's a, a really good example of, you know, how the spirit and the, and the father speak. 

Mark    00:24:11    I think that's a, an important point you pointed out there, Tim. And it's the fact that the one who's asking on your behalf is the one who's also going to act on your behalf because intercession is, is more than asking to intercede in something means you move into the middle of it. You know that that's, that's the definition of the word. And the very fact that the one is asking is the one who has the power to move in the middle of whatever your situation is and act even when you don't know what the right thing to do is man. Now that's one of those things that it really is good to be an he of Christ on isn't it? 

Ajai    00:24:53    Yeah. So Tim, like you said, it's such a comforting thing, right? So sometimes we don't even know what to pray. And sometimes we may feel like my, I don't even know if my prayers are working, but you know, it is like you pointed out not only the holy spirit is intering for us, but also Christ himself. He's intering for us at the right hand of God. So it's such a comforting thing, right? So our part is to just rushed in the fact that law is taking care of everything. He has our back twice, right? The holy spirit has our back and Christ has our back. So even if you're not able to pray, even if you feel like, uh, a mess, sometimes, you know, we get so stressed out. We don't know what to think. And our heart is sometimes full of sorrow. We don't know what to pray, but you know, we can still rush in the knowledge that the spirit of God is ING for us and the Christ and Christ himself he's ING for us, it's such a comforting thing. And like you said, he's, he knows what God's will is. And also he knows what we want, what we really need. So we can also rest in the fact that, you know, no matter what happens, God is doing the best for us. 

Tim    00:26:08    Yep. And just to back that up with the verse, Romans 8 34 says, so who is to condemn, uh, Christ. Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us constantly. 

Mark    00:26:25    This really plays into the fact that it's really important. We understand that child relationship cuz the servant and the slave, how confident are they that their master or their, their slave owner is going to have their best, uh, best needs in heart, you know, and, and, and gonna answer their prayer, but a child, you know, and Jesus taught on that all the time. If you are able to give good gifts to your children, how much more is your heavenly father? If you think you're a servant or a slave, you're not gonna trust the intercession be because you're gonna feel like it's a, a, a master praying for you instead of your, your father or a COER. 

Ajai    00:27:12    If you look at the context, right. You know what happens as the spirit intersects for us? And what is our part in this whole thing, if right after the verse in Romans 27, where it talks about spirit interfering for us in Romans 28, it says the following verse. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and who are called account to his purpose. Again, it's talking about the people who are actually called by the gospel and justified. If you read the whole, uh, context, it's not talking about, if you allow God, all things will work for good for your good. Some people interpret like that, but here they're, the verse is simply pointing out that we are those who are, who love God. The justified are the ones that love God. So just a statement of fact that it is referring to the people who are justified by faith in Christ. 

Ajai    00:28:04    So in other, uh, the other way to say it is, you know, all things work together for good, who are called by the gospel and who believed on large Jesus Christ and who are justified and who are glorified. But the point I was trying to make is as the spirit inter sits for us, we can rest assure that all things will work together for our good. And again, if you look at verse 33 and 34, again, the context is what, who shall bring a charge against God elect. It is God who justifies, who is he, who condemns it is Christ to died. And furthermore is risen, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us again, here for us. We simply need to rush in the fact that if you look at verse 30 to, it says he who did not spare his son, but delivered him for us all, how shall he not with him? Also give us freely, give us all things. So our parties to simply understand that, you know, allowed me so much, he did not spare his son. How can he not give us freely all things? And then we need to rush to the fact that there is no charge against me because it's God who justifies, who can bring a charge against me. And it is Christ to died. Who can condemn me when we are rushing in this, right? Intercessions is going on on our behalf and all things will work together for our good, 

Tim    00:29:32    Excellent point. Excellent point. I wanna just hit one more verse. I got several and there's plenty out there, uh, to talk about the, the spirit interceding for us, but in Philippians one 19, Paul is writing, uh, for, I know that through your prayers and the help of the spirit of Jesus Christ, this will turn out for my deliverance. So he's, he's saying I, I y'all are praying for me, but also Jesus in the holy spirit are praying for me. So I know this will turn out well, you know, the outcome of those verses, you were just talking about AJAI 

Mark    00:30:08    And, and if I could comment on something AJAIjust said, and I've I've, this is one of my favorite truths. And it's that if God gave us his best Christ while we were at our worst dead and sin and transgression enemies of the cross without God, and without hope if he gave us his best, while we're at our worst, now that he's made us children in heirs, as Aja said, from that scripture, how will he not also along with Christ, give us all things. That's such an awesome truth. What kinda love is that? You know, just beyond beautiful. 

Tim    00:30:48    All right guys, I know we had, uh, great ideas of being able to move forward on other topics tonight, but you know, me clock guy. So I'm gonna say we can wrap up just a little bit early tonight, but I'd like to give each of you, uh, chance to talk about, uh, you know, give final comments on anything that we've talked about tonight. We'll go ahead and do that in reverse alphabetical order Mark. So that will put you first. 

Mark    00:31:15    Awesome. uh, yeah. I just wanna say, just for people to really think about and receive, understand, and receive who they are in Christ, who God has made you in Christ, that he took you from being a slave to the law and sin, to having a servant master mentality, to make you a son and a daughter of God, himself, children of God. And as John said, that is what we are. We've been given the right to be called children of God and more than children. The apostle Paul said, I'm just gonna finish up by reading the end of Galatians four here, cuz I think he just said it so perfectly. He said because you are his sons, God, the spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who calls out Abba father, sir, you are no longer a slave, but God's child. And since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. 

Tim    00:32:18    Thank you Mark. AJAI How about you? Any final thought? 

Ajai    00:32:22    I think a while back we said, you know, now that we are saved, how then shall we live? So the new covenant life primarily consists in this understanding and knowing, and seeing and acting like the children of God. That's our new identity. I am the child of the most high guard, right? The one who made heaven and earth. If God can make heaven and earth, if God can turn, um, you know, a two loafs of bread and into thousands and feet, thousands of people, you know, I am the child of the most high God. So we need to change our, uh, thinking and our perspective and how we see ourselves and not only how we see ourselves, but also how we see other believers. You are no less a child of God than me. So understanding that we are the children of God and seeing others also as the children of God is important in Romans in, in second Corin chapter five, Paul says, if any man being Christ, she's a new, new creation. And after saying that, he says, you know, from hence forth, we regard no man, according to the flesh. So we see each other in the spirit and seeing each other in the spirit also involves seeing each other as a children of God. So that is our, uh, primary mode of, um, operation in the new covenant, seeing ourselves as a children of God. 

Mark    00:33:48    That's perfect. And just one final thought on that. We're never going to see ourselves as a child in he of God, as long as we keep putting ourself back under the law because is under the law, as AJAIsaid, the best will ever be is a slave and a servant. The least we are under faith in by grace in, in, through faith in Christ is a child. 

Tim    00:34:14    Amen. And amen guys, this has been our 25th episode. Now I wanna do one thing that I don't don't think. I don't remember that we've done up to this point. Some people would call this an alter call, but I don't think that term really applies completely. So what I'd really just like to say is I'd like to say to any of our listeners, we've talked an awful lot over the past 25 episodes of all the benefits of being out from under the laws and in death and into the new covenant of life. And we want you to be a part of that. Someone came to Jesus once and said, so master what must I do to be saved? And he said, simply this believe I'm the one who sent me no works, no magic prayer, no formula, no, you don't have to do anything. Have decide that you accept this and believe. And from that point forward, you're in God's hands. And if someone comes along and tells you, well, now you have to do this and this and this. They're trying to put you back. They're trying to put you into a works mentality and somewhat back under the law, which is not where you want to be. You want the freedom that talked about so much of being the son or daughter of God in a co-heir with Christ. Guys. You gonna add anything to that? 

Ajai    00:35:33    Yeah, that's uh, great, Tim. I really appreciate the fact that you give the mutation. So again, I just want to say that all it needs is, you know, believing that the Lord Jesus Christ came as a human baby and then he lived for 33 years and he went to the cross for all since and he died. And it was again on the third day to give us a gift of life and receiving that gift. That's all we need to do to be saved. Nothing more than that. And once we are saved, we become the children of God. As we are talking about, then we get to live the new identity without having to again, wonder about doing our working hard for God's blessings, but simply rushing the, for that we are the children of the most high God. 

Mark    00:36:20    Yeah. I, I appreciate you giving that invitation, Tim, but I also wanted to just also read Jesus' invitation cuz he's he's the one who said, come to me all ye who are wearing and I will give you rest for your souls. He calls you. He wants you to come in, be a child of God. 

Ajai    00:36:40    Amen. 

Tim    00:36:40    Amen. A good place to stop for today. Thank you so much, guys. It's been a good night for those listening. We'd love to hear from you. Contact us, email us comments in any of, in whatever system you're using to consume these podcasts. If you're enjoying it, we would appreciate a description, a like a star, whatever your system does to show your approval. And of course share us with your friends. That'll be a it for us today. We pray breath, blessings upon all of you. Who've been listening and we'll talk to you the next time We would like to thank you for listening to the unveiling. We hope you have enjoyed it enough to consider subscribing and sharing with others. We welcome your questions, comments, and feedback. You can reach us via email@theunveiledgospelatyahoo.com or find our Facebook page at the unveiling podcast for IJ, Mark and myself. God bless. And we will talk with you next time.

* Seal of ownership
* Glorifies Jesus
* Freedom

The Holy Spirit is the new covenent

The Spirit of Life

Discussion on the person of the Holy Spirit

   Revelation of the Spirit throughout the Bible

   Beginning discssion on the Name/functions of the Spirit

     1) what are some of the benefits of living out from under the law?

     2) How do we live when we are no longer under the law?

Tims Definition of law (Little 'l') ...a human or self imposed system of thinking and/or activity where, by commission or omission, we attempt to gain, or avoid, blessing(s) or punishment. (I'm no Webster!)

   Grace is a license to sin

1) Faith without works is Dead

   1) You have to give more to get more

   2) Patterns of sin are worse than random sins

   3) God gives us bad things to teach us

   Communion is a time for reflection on your sin

    Salvation comes by faith alone through Christ alone, but after that you must work to behave right

   Believers confession of sin

   Reaping what we sow
   God helps those who help themselves
   The God of the 2^nd chance

Freedom from the fear of losing our salvation.  Eternal security.

Freedom from guilt, condemnation and fear of punishment.

Freedom from the reward and punishment system.

Discussion of what Grace is, and why we need it.