What is up everybody, welcome back to the series. This is part two, this is Custom Audiences. If you didn't catch yesterday's video, you better go back and watch it, man. I'll put the link in the description. Yesterday's video was simply setting up, step by step, a custom conversion. And I don't wanna go into too much detail of that. That was all in part one. So make sure you watch that because if you're any type of business where you're looking to capture elite, right? Name, email, and go to list of interested buyers or interested customers, clients, whatever. If you're looking to capture leads, that's number one. If you're looking to make a sell, you have a Shopify store, you have some type of online e-commerce store, and you're looking to drive sales. Or number three, you're looking to get people to schedule appointments. If you're running Facebook ads, if you're running Instagram ads, and you're one of those three types of businesses. Conversions, when you come in here and click the green button, conversions is going to be the objective you run, okay? But what I did in yesterday's video is I walked you through step by step how to set up a custom conversion. So make sure you watch that. In this video, I'm gonna set up custom audiences. And we're gonna just simply pick up where we left off. And a custom audience, you guys, is key. Like everything in Facebook advertising evolves around custom audiences and retargeting those custom audiences, okay?  As I'm in the newsfeed and I just scroll through, scroll through, seeing what everyone's posting, seeing what my friends are up to, and I come across a sponsored ad, okay? Whether it's an image or a video. Let's say this was a video. In fact, let me give you, let's really see if we can find a video because I'm gonna give you both examples. That's not an ad. Let's see if we can find a, that's an image. And if I can't find a video, I'll just, it's the same thing. Okay, perfect, perfect example. Here's one type of custom audience. One type of custom audience is where I come across a sponsored ad. It's a video, this is a two minute video, and now I'm watching 10 seconds, 11 seconds, 12 seconds, 13 seconds. What this guy, Ted, is doing is he's creating custom audiences of those who are watching his videos. Not necessarily watching the full two minutes, but watching a certain percentage. For those who watch 30 seconds of his video, he's able to take that audience, put it into a custom audience, and retarget that audience in the future. That's powerful, because when you can really break it down a two minute video, for me to sit here and watch 40 seconds of his two minute video, that's a long time. For me to sit here and watch 50 seconds of his two minute video, that's a long time. So if anyone is watching that many seconds or that many minutes of a video ad, there was some type of interest there. For me to wanna watch more than 15 seconds of something, my interest is there, right?  Like, I'm most likely not gonna do that, neither are you. If you're nowhere interested in this at all, you would have kept going. You would have kept going after three seconds, right? So for someone to really capture an audience of people who are watching, let's just say more than 15 seconds of a video, that's a powerful audience. You wanna be able to retarget those and show them your next ad. Show them your next ad, show them your next ad. People who are watching your videos keep showing them your next ad. That's on video views. Now what happens when I click and go over to his landing page, that's another type of audience, okay? Those who land here but do not opt in is a certain type of visitor, okay? Now I saw the ad, I clicked on the call to action button, I came to the landing page but for whatever reason I didn't opt in. And it could be many reasons, right?  Maybe I'm at home and my wife is yelling at me to tell me to go flip the burgers because they're burning. Many things happen, man. So if I'm seeing an ad and people are coming here and they're just not opting in, they got this far and they got this far for a reason. Create a custom audience. Look, what he has up here, look. He has his Facebook pixel tracking everyone who lands here. And again, the power of this is he's now gonna be able to take those who don't opt in. He's gonna be able to take those who don't opt in, create an audience and continue to show them future ads. That's powerful. Now here's the next type of audience. Let's say I come here and I actually opt in. I then go to the thank you page. This thank you page, this is another custom audience. These are people who are leads, right? I went to the landing page, I opted in, I then came here, okay? That's a lead, that's a custom audience. Why is that so important? Why is it so important to create a custom audience around those who land on the thank you page, around those who opted in? Because as I continue to run future ads on the same offer, right? I now wanna be able to exclude this audience from ever seeing my next ads. They already opted in, they're already a lead. Why do they need to keep seeing future ads? They don't, right? So you create custom audiences. You create custom audiences to either number one, include them in future targeting or exclude them from future targeting. That's super important when it comes to your Facebook conversion. That's super important when it comes to your Facebook budget. Like you wanna be able to segment these audiences and it goes way deeper than just these two pages. But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create custom audiences around three different pages here in this account that I'm currently working on. And again, if you didn't catch yesterday's video, click on the link in the description. That's for part one, you'll see it right below. Okay, so let's get on with it. Let's get out of Ted's page. Let's go back to the three pages. Here's page number one. So again, yesterday's video, I added the pixel. So now we got the pixel on the landing page when they opt in and they download the book. We got the pixel on the thank you page. And then when they go and schedule an appointment, right? They go and schedule an appointment. We got the pixel on the thank you for scheduling page. We also set up a custom conversion around these pages. Around the thank you for scheduling page and around the thank you, your ebook is on the way page, your thank you page. Those are the two custom conversions, okay? But now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create custom audiences. So number one, we're either gonna create custom or not either, it's not either, it's actually both. We're gonna create custom audiences around people who are watching our videos, but we don't have a video right now and that's fine. So right now in this example with this video, I'm gonna show you how we create custom audiences around the pages, okay? So here's what we're gonna do.   Make sure you're in the right ads account. You click on these dots up here in the top left and now we're gonna go to audiences, okay? We're gonna create three simple audiences around these pages. Website visitors, people who only land here and don't opt in, people who opt in and come to the thank you page and then people who schedule an appointment and come to this thank you confirm, your appointments confirm page, okay? Those are our three custom audiences. So I'm gonna click the three dots, I'm gonna click on audiences. I'm gonna come right over here and I'm gonna click on create a custom audience. And again, over here, I can create many different custom audiences. I can create the video one like I mentioned. I can create an audience around an email list. So if I have an email list of a bunch of people who already opted in, I can export that email list out of my CRM, upload it to Facebook and create a custom audience. If I have an email list of all my customers, I can export that lead list, upload it to Facebook and create a custom audience around my list, right? So in this case, and I can do Instagram account, my Facebook page, anybody who engages in my Facebook page, put them in a custom audience so I can retarget them in the future or exclude them from seeing ads in the future, right? So in this case, I'm gonna go website and we're gonna simply add our links right over here. So what we're looking for is this drop down all website visitors. We're gonna go very specific, okay? People who visit a specific page and I'm gonna take it to the max of 180 days. So anyone who reaches this page, who lands on this page within 180 day period, they'll be in this audience, okay? So I'm gonna come over here, I'm gonna take the link. I only need the URL, I don't need the HTTPS, I don't need the WWW, I just need this part right here. I'm gonna copy that, I'm gonna bring it over here, I'm gonna paste it in and here's what I'm also going to do. Okay, this is next level stuff. You gotta be thinking like a ninja, okay? This is very precise targeting. There's really two types of people who I can call a landing page visitor. There's two types of people, okay? Person number one is a person who comes to the page and then leaves. They don't opt in, right? They don't download now, right? That's person number one. Person number two also came to the page but they actually downloaded now, right? They actually opted in. They both fit the criteria, they both fit the title of landing page visitor, right? One opted in, one didn't. So in this case, I wanna be very specific. I want to create an audience around those who didn't. Those who did not opt in, I need to be specific about it, okay? So ebook, landing page visitors only, okay? And here's how I do it. So there's the URL for the page. What I'm going to do is I'm going to exclude anyone who landed on the thank you page. So if you landed on the thank you page, you're not in this audience, okay? If you landed on the thank you page, you were not in this audience, okay? This is only people who did not land on the thank you page in the last 180 days. And they're also people who didn't schedule a call, okay? So I'm very specific. Again, you guys, this is, again, this is ninja stuff, you guys. So I'm excluding anyone who landed on those two pages. They only landed on the landing page, okay? Very specific. There goes custom audience number one, okay? The next custom audience that I'm going to create is only the thank you page. So these are people, oops, let's go back. Actually, that's not, let's go back. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is the one I hear, okay? These are going to be people who landed on the thank you page. The thank you for downloading my book, okay? That's this link right here. So they hit the landing page. They opt in, they go to the thank you page. It's this link right here. This is my custom audience, okay? So I'm going to hit the, I'm going to hit the blue one again, I'm going to hit the blue link again, the blue button, I'm going to custom audience. And this one right here, I'm going to go specific. I'm going to go 180 and I'm going to hit that link, bam. And this right here is ebook leads, bottom line, ebook leads, that's that, that's that. I don't need to exclude anyone, bam, right there, okay? Now the next audience that I'm going to create is going to be those who scheduled an appointment, okay? So we'll go to the thank you for scheduling. We'll grab this URL, we'll change this dropdown to specific. We'll go 180 and we'll paste in that link. And this right here is ebook. All right, no, I'm going to just go straight appointments. So, so scheduled appointments, bam, scheduled appointments, okay, create audience. And there it is there you guys, hit done. And now Facebook will start to populate these audiences and they'll be ready. So as I start to run ads, okay, as I start to run ads and this pixel starts to gather data, the pixel starts to gather data, that's when these audiences will start to grow, okay? And that's when I'll be able to use these audiences or not use these audience, right? Exclude them in future ads. But one thing I want you to keep in mind is what you'll always include in every ad, from let's just call it ad number three and on, ad number three and on, ad number two and on, what you'll always include in your retargeting are the visitors. Always retarget your webpage visitors for sure. These are people who have not opted in. So I don't care if you're nine ads down the line, always retarget this audience because that audience is going to, every ad you run, every day that these ads are running, people are landing on that page and not opting in. So you're able to capture that data and retarget, retarget, retarget, right? And here's what I'm going to do also. Let's create one other one of the video because I know there's one video on the page. So let's go and find that video. I'm going to go with anyone, I'm going to go 25%, okay? I'm going to retarget people who watched 25% of, let's go with where's that video, it's actually on this page. This one right, it's actually this one right here. Now it's not a big one at all, but as we continue to run it, which this is the one we're running an ad on, want to know the secret of creating? Yeah, click learn more to, yeah, perfect. So this is the video, okay. So the video was uploaded to the business page. I'm about to run an ad on it. And in the meantime, I'm going to create a custom audience at the same time, okay? So anyone who watches this video for at least 25%, okay? 25% watched 25% of first video. Okay, watch 25% of first video, ebook. Okay, that right there you guys create audience. That's how you create a custom audience around people who are watching your videos, okay? Now you don't want any random video, like so if you have like 13 views on the damn video, don't create a custom audience around that, especially if it's going to stay at 13 views because you're never going to run an ad on it. You're really only creating custom audiences around videos that you're running ads on, because those are videos that are going to get thousands of views if you're running ads the right way. So that right there is going to be the first video that we run an ad on. And I just set up a custom audience before I even run the ad, which I'm about to run the ad in the next video. So you'll see the next video actually part three is going to be creating multiple ad sets, okay? So it'll be a four-part series. It'll be a four-part series, this video. So you're catching part two right now. If you didn't watch part one, watch part one, that link is in the description, but make sure you check tomorrow, okay? Tomorrow's going to be part three. And that's where I'm going to take all this and create multiple ad sets. We're going to go through the ad setup, but what I'm really going to focus on is multiple ad sets. How do we create multiple ads, multiple targeting within one ad, okay? That's what we're going to do next. So that's going to be part three. Don't miss that video. This right here is Facebook custom audiences. Step up your game, you guys. You got to be able to segment these audiences so your ad budget isn't through the roof and you're capturing more leads than you can possibly handle. All right, guys, so I'll see you on the next video. That will be next part three over now.


One bedroom apartment in Hollywood, California, who I am is my family and so I have my gorgeous niece and nephew here. Another great element of our hallway is of course the coveted full length body mirror. I got this on Craigslist. I'm no stranger to the silver spray can, so this was originally cherry wood. We decided to spray it silver and we fight over this constantly when we're trying to like figure out our outfits so this gets a lot, a lot of use. This is the living room. I knew when I moved in here because of the stunning view, there's not a lot you have to do. You know you already have the most gorgeous backdrop, amazing light so it's about minimalism, showing your personality and of course keeping it frugal honey because we don't have money to blow like that. The biggest decor element of my apartment is definitely my plants, my children. I have over maybe 30, maybe close to 40 different plants all over the apartment because I think they're a really great statement piece. They add color, they make your space more livable and healthier. My furniture is a great steel so I got it from this place. I kid you not. It's called Steel a Sofa and I spent like under $1,000 for this entire initial decor. The coffee tables like I mentioned, they came not together but they're definitely like cousins and siblings. They have this swivel thing which is really bad for your shins but really great for a cool decor item. This is like my photography helm, you guys probably know this, like I used to be a photographer and so I have all my old cameras and cool equipment here whenever like maintenance people come into the apartment they're always like oh are you a photographer and I'm like yeah cause that's easier than saying I talk about sex for a living in a shorter conversation. This statement rug guys, this right here I had to search for to get the white and gray, the wolf look. I was on Craigslist for weeks and when I finally found it, it was a crazy good steel. I'm also very proud of Jared for this area right here. This is the newest addition to the apartment. I couldn't finish this tour video until this was up. Jared had the idea of adding shelves. It's another really good and expensive way of adding design because if you bought a big art piece to fill here probably cost you a couple stacks or a couple hundreds. I went to Goodwill and bought these like really hella cheap starter kit art student canvases that were like $10 each and just threw them back there. I think it gives the apartment a really cool chic like art deco lofty feel. If you want to get the spotlight look but don't have the spotlight bank, you can get any general flood light and then get a very cheap light stand for photography. My other apartment, if you guys remember my old home tour had a really gorgeous accent red brick wall. So I googled it and Target has all these really great textured wallpapers and so they gave us the option of doing this fake white brick wall which I like to think in my heart people believe is real. Maybe, maybe they do, maybe they don't. It doesn't matter. I believe that. Another apartment, I used to have a really cool shelving system and this one didn't have that. This apartment really came with no personality and so I added my very own shelving unit just to showcase my personality. So it's got my sex books in there and it also has the money altar which always raises eyebrows when people come and the money altar is essentially just a mindset where you give to money and the money will give back to you. Speaking of interesting pieces I enjoy a lot, these are my sisters. I had a vision for this place and I definitely wanted some type of tribute to the female form and an artist that I knew, Ray Patrick and I chose these pieces. They're women who are standing in power positions and they're slightly facing each other like in solidarity. This is the kitchen. This is where all the magic happens. I'm just joking. It's not my favorite room in the house but it's functional. I like that it's white so it doesn't get too dark in here. I wish that it was more modern but hey, we can't get everything that we want when we work and with a budget. My favorite part of the kitchen by far is the little tea area. I'm a big tea connoisseur and this is like the cutest system I got from this coffee shop in Silver Lake. So every YouTuber has this in their home. Some people have entire rooms dedicated towards it.   If you are a good guest and you take your shoes off when you come in and you are polite and maybe you even give some money to the money altar, you may score yourself one of my vibrating necklaces because I have these for special guests only. Which is you guys today.  My favorite part about this is the accent wall here. This was a creative concept that I got just from looking at different Pinterest stuff and best of all, all you have to do is go to Goodwill and buy frames and just piece it together like a big quilt. Originally, I was trying to figure out how to do a cool dry eraser wall just to write down ideas and it costs a lot of money to get a custom one for your wall number one and so I kept researching and found out Rustoleum does one that's supposed to be for kids. So I found this on Craigslist again and it just magically happened to fit so perfect with the room. This cost me 40 bucks and so if you go on your local Craigslist or Kijiji, whatever you use and type in steamers, just keep looking until you find the right one. These were a mistake. We wanted to use these. If you look at the other room where the art is, we have these accent lamps on top and I ordered these ones but they came with the wrong size bulb and I decided to throw them in here instead and make this an accent wall as well. So ended up being a good mistake. We can eat the baggage in the room. What I got to prove if you single tool what you got to lose.


So our text this morning is 2 Corinthians chapter 5 versus 20 and 21. The title of our sermon, So Great a Salvation. So Great a Salvation. We're in part two looking at this brief text, but what a glorious text of Scripture. So Great a Salvation. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 versus 20 and 21. We have been, as we've talked about last Lord's Day, we've been placed in a glorious and astonishing and unimaginable position of grace, chosen before the foundation of the world, undeserving sinners saved by the grace of God through faith in Christ have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God has secured that salvation, has secured those blessings for us, for his people in the most glorious, the most astonishing and the most unimaginable of ways. He has made himself of no reputation. He took the form of a slave, God the Son came in the likeness of men being found in appearance as a man. He became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. So Great a Salvation. And then Paul, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, has led us to consider this Great Salvation in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 20 and 21. And he leads us there to consider this Great Salvation in terms of point one on your notes, our Great Commission in verse 20, and secondly, in terms of the Great Exchange in verse 21. So in verse 20, last Lord's Day, we considered point one our Great Commission where Paul says in verse 20, now then, now then, having been reconciled by God, having been reconciled to himself, we are ambassadors for Christ, Paul says, as though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. We are then ambassadors for Christ, the gospel of the blessed God committed to our trust, a matchless and incalculable treasure deposited in earthen vessels.  You've been saved, you've been reconciled to the ministry of reconciliation.  You have a responsibility before God with the gospel. Paul says in Romans 1, that I've been made a debtor. I'm a debtor to both Jews and Greeks with the gospel. Considering our Great Commission as ambassadors for Christ, we look last week through verse 20 at the reason for our commission, our role in that commission, and our responsibility to it. One, the reason that we are ambassadors comes from verses 18 and 19. God has reconciled us to himself, and God in reconciling us to himself is committed to us the word of reconciliation. Secondly, our role as ambassadors involves us speaking His words. We don't get to invent the message. We don't get to corrupt the message, pervert the message, change the message. We don't get to alter the message. Our role as His ambassadors involves us speaking His words, proclaiming His gospel, bringing Him in what is here a foreign land, the kingdom of darkness, and our responsibility to Him, our Lord and Savior. Thirdly, we are ambassadors for Christ. We implore people on His behalf. Our responsibility is to Him. Now as His ambassadors, to remind us from verse 20, we have to be faithful to concern ourselves with His words, the content of His message, and we have to concern ourselves to be faithful with how that message is to be proclaimed. And so then, considered from verse 20, we looked at both the manner of an ambassador and the message of an ambassador. For the sake of Christ, as though God were pleading, urging, earnestly striving through us, we implore, we beg sinners to turn in repentance and faith and be reconciled to God. God has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry, the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. That is a great commission, a great commission. Next, being the recipients of such glorious grace themselves, and then blessed to such lofty heights as to be called an ambassador for Christ, you would expect God's people to have a glorious message proclaimed, right? As would be expected, they have a glorious message to preach. Secondly, the great exchange, the great exchange. This is the glorious means through which God reconciled us to Himself and then commits to us the ministry of reconciliation. We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. Verse 21, for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Verse 21, Paul explains what is the great exchange, a great exchange. In salvation, there is a gracious exchange, a merciful exchange that takes place between the sinless Son of God and sinful, wretched man through Adam's fall into sin, in the garden. Sin enter the world, Paul says, and death through sin. Paul says in Romans chapter 6 verse 12, that then death spreads to all men, because all men sin. Do you see that? David says, the wicked, and that includes everyone outside of Christ. If you have not turned from your sin to put faith and trust in Christ, the Bible calls you wicked. Outside of Christ, the wicked, the Bible says, are estranged from the womb. At your birth, you are estranged from God, tainted by original sin, sinful by nature in Adam. David says, the wicked are estranged from the womb.   Do we accept that diagnosis of our condition?  You don't understand your sin. The Bible says that we are wicked estranged from the womb. The thoughts and intents of bent hearts only evil continually apart from Christ. There's no one the Bible says who does not sin. We have all turned everyone to his own way. You and I, we together, have become unprofitable. That is the damning diagnosis of men apart from the salvation of God in Christ. The tragic and inevitable end of man is death. The tragic, inevitable, inexorable destiny of man is hell, torment, forever apart from Christ, apart from God. The Bible says cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. In other words, when you break God's law, to break one point in God's law is to break it all. It's to be a law breaker.  We as sinners, by nature, children of wrath, we face the effects of the curse in this life which then ends in death.  It is the perfect justice that the holy law of God demands for those who sin against our holy God. It's the question of the ages, right? What must sinful man do to be right with a holy God? How can we who have sinned and rebelled against him be made right with him? How can we go to heaven when we die? How can we be there with him when we're sinful? The law says that the one who does not abide by all things written in it to do it will die. The soul that sinned, it will surely die. Yet there are those today that think it's just somehow going to work out okay in the end. Right? At some point I'm just going to ask God for forgiveness. God forgives us what God does. God loves. That's what God does. God is love. The Bible says yes. But the God is also just and God is holy. God has made one provision for sin and sweeping your sin under the rug is not it. God has made one provision for sin. Turning a blind eye to it is not it. If you imagine it somehow you'll stand before God one day and it's just going to all work out in the end. Is somehow your good works or going to outweigh your bad works? Listen, that's not how it works. God has made provision for sin and it's that one provision that he offers to you today in verse 21 through the preaching of the gospel. But God, Paul says, who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses he made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and he has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus not apart from Christ Jesus in no way no form no fashion in no means whatsoever by your works not by works of righteousness which you have done but in Christ Jesus though we are sinners deserving of death and when you think to pray acknowledge before God that that's the case Lord because of my sin I know I deserve to die but praise be to God that because of your grace because of your mercy because of the great love with which you showed us in Christ we can be reconciled to you to fight our sin and our sin can be placed upon him that he will bear it in our place and if we turn from our sin and entrust ourselves to him we can be saved though we are sinners deserving of death this is the grace and mercy shown to sinners in the gospel let the wicked forsake his way let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts let him turn to the Lord but the Lord will have mercy on him but in turn to our God for him abundantly pardon second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 in an amazing economy of words describes how God accomplishes this great salvation and this is critical to understand it is critical to know how does God remain himself just and yet justify the wicked many believe that when they stand before God in judgment that he will simply forgive them all their sin on the basis of his love they don't think they don't remember that God is holy and that God is just and that according to his inviolable word he will he must punish all sin in the cause of his perfect justice God's wrath is a function of his holiness because he is holy he hates sin and will pour out wrath upon the sinner they don't think that God is holy and just they don't think that God's perfect wrath and anger against all sin is the function of that holiness and that wrath God's wrath God's perfect wrath is an appropriate response to offenses against his holiness the soul that sins it shall surely die mercy the mercy of God will not be given at the expense of God's judgment at the expense of God's justice grace will not be given at the expense of God's holiness God's righteousness love is not shown or given or demonstrated to the expense of his righteousness so how is it then that God can be both just and the justifier of wicked hell-deserving sinners how is it that his righteous demand for justice is fulfilled for those he those he saves how is it that he forgives sin without sweeping it under the rug without turning a blind eye to it and violating his own law how can a sinful man be right with a holy God verse 21 answers those questions for us right in the gracious and merciful provision the loving provision that God has made for our sin and that provision comes only through the person and work of his only begotten son the Lord Jesus Christ there is only this one provision the Lord Jesus Christ is your only hope apart from Christ it will not work in the end apart from Christ you will not be saved apart from Christ you will not escape the wrath of God apart from this one provision you can have no hope nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved our text verse 21 explains this one way of salvation in terms of the great exchange the great exchange first in our text it explains what God made him for us what God made him for us to it explains what God made us in him you see the exchange point one what God made him for us point to what God made us in him let's consider that first point in verse 21 what God made him for us here Paul says verse 21 for he God made him Christ who knew no sin to be sin for us all believers God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so initially verse 21 I want you to see that God is the one who initiates or decrees this plan of salvation God is the one who decrees it he is the one who sends Christ into the world he is the one who secures salvation for his people through the sacrifice of his own son in other words it's all of grace it's all of grace it's not initiated by you it's not initiated by your work it's not initiated by you seeking after God this was initiated by God when does the Bible say that that took place before the foundation of the world from eternity past in other words all of grace it is impossible for sinners to reconcile themselves to God by their own effort it is impossible if you think that somehow I'm gonna go to church I'm gonna clean my life up I'm gonna go to church so that God will see me in a positive light outside of Christ there is no hope of God seeing you in a positive light you are filthy the Bible says your righteousness is are as filthy rags if your so-called good works are as filthy rags then what does that mean that your sin is to God apart from his one provision you cannot cleanse yourself you cannot clean up your acts God has to do it for you the only solvent that will cleanse your sin is the blood of Christ sinners cannot reconcile themselves to God by their own effort the Catholic is never reconciled to God through the sacraments if someone can be reconciled to God through sacraments then why do Christ die the Muslim is never reconciled to God through the pillars of Islam the Jew is never reconciled to God through the law Paul says they stumbled at the rock of offense they stumbled at the stumbling stone believing that they could attain a righteousness which is from the law they are blinded those in the Church of Christ are not reconciled to God through their baptism it's not by works of righteousness which we have done Mormons are not reconciled to God through their works men are not reconciled to God through a decision of their will the one who is living an unrepentant sin will not be reconciled in spite of it salvation is not of him who will salvation is not of him who runs but of God who shows mercy and we are justified by God freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus but God does this because of love because of love God who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us sent his son he sent his son into the world God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us working as Christ does that voluntarily right he lays down his life for his sheep in verse 21 Paul defines this loving saving redeeming reconciling work of God in Christ in terms of two terms that I want you to understand this morning substitution and imputation substitution and imputation imagine if you will with me a divine ledger in the courtroom of heaven you seen the ledger before right debts and assets maybe you're familiar with that imagine a divine ledger in the courtroom of heaven on one side of the ledger is all your sin right your name written to the top and a list of all your sin a list of all your debts do your sin that list is vast if you think about it from the time of your birth every sinful thought every sinful word every blasphemous word every blasphemous thought every sinful action every argument with your wife every bit of anger toward your husband every disobedience young man young woman young girl young boy vast innumerable stretching into the heavens a stench in God's nostrils this almost says unpayable because the debt is so vast it is unpayable you're standing before the judgment bar of God's justice and you're there to settle accounts with him and you have that ledger to contend with you can't pay you have no means for which to pay you are a sinner you have unimaginable debt a vast innumerable debt but then you look at the ledger the divine ledger in the courtroom of heaven and on the other side of the ledger on the other side of the ledger you see all the righteousness of Christ all the merits of Christ his perfect sinless obedience his infinite merit his perfect life his obedience to the point of death even the death of the cross and his ledger is infinitely greater than yours far above yours stretching into the heavens into the very throne room of God through imputation through imputation he who knew no sin takes responsibility for the debt that is yours for the debt that is on your side of the ledger he's made accountable for your sin your sin is credited to him your side of the ledger is given to him he takes responsibility for it through imputation he then credits to your account your side of the ledger what is rightfully and only his his merit his righteousness his perfect obedience it's as if at the top of that ledger your name on the one column is erased and his is written there it's as if on the other side of the column your name is written there through substitution Lord Jesus Christ then stands in our place with our ledger as guilty Lord Jesus Christ condemned to die cursed our verdict is rendered against him he is sentenced in our place and he bears the punishment do our sin in order to save us God does to him what God must do to deal effectively and fully and finally with sin verse 21 for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us this is where mercy and justice meet do you see mercy and justice in this great exchange so we consider what God made him for us note first with me the person in substitution the person in substitution verse 21 for he made him Lord Jesus Christ him who knew no sin he made him to be sin for us so God knowing us to be hopelessly lost by reason of our sin he has taken our sin and he laid upon it laid it upon his only begotten son making him who knew no sin to be sin for us but the only way that this would be possible is if the one in substitution doesn't have his own debt to pay right if the one standing in your place the one taking responsibility for your ledger doesn't have his own sinful ledger to contend with right the only way that this would be possible is if the one in substitution was himself sinless what could any sinner do except bear the wrath of his own sin if that were the case suffer the penalty do his own transgression of God's law christ perfectly fulfill the law of God in every way and he could stand as the substitute for his people because he had no sin of his own you imagine christ right from a child growing up no sinful thought no sinful word no sinful deed no sinful actions but not only were there no sins of commission there were no sins of omission when the bible commands us to love the lord our god with all our heart all our soul all our mind all our strength we continuously fail to obey that command the greatest of commandments and we're commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves we continuously fail to obey that command not the lord jesus christ in every way imaginable loved the lord his god with all his heart soul mind and strength and his neighbor as himself no sin christ is described here in verse 21 is literally the one not knowing sin having no acquaintance at all with it not even a shadow not a hit or a trace of sin this virgin said this of us if we do what is right in itself still we usually mar our work upon the wheel either in the motive or in the manner of doing it or by the self-satisfaction with which we view it when it's done we come short of the glory of god in some respect or other we forget to do what we ought to do or doing it we are guilty of luke warmness guilty of self-reliance unbelief or some other grievous error it was not so with our divine redeemer you cannot say there was any feature deficient in his perfect beauty lord jesus christ perfect the sacrificial lamb of god without spot or bluntness who takes away the sin of the world he was the only one who could the only one who could additionally now the only way that this substitution would be possible is if the one in substitution was himself flesh and blood like you and i call said in glacial shepherd 4 verse 4 when the fullness of the time had come god sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law for what purpose to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons kibri shepherd 2 verse 14 in as much then as the children have for taking a flesh and blood he himself likewise shared in the same so that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage again in verse 17 he says in all things jesus christ had to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to god in order to make propitiation for the sins of his people tempted in all ways as we are and yet without sin so by incarnation then by the taking on a flesh god himself would be manifested the eternal word as john says became flesh and tabernacled among us he became a partaker of our humanity fully god fully man bone of our bone flesh of our flesh however born of a virgin without the stain of original sin for many who challenge the virgin birth apart from the virgin birth birth there isn't a sinless savior born of a virgin without the stain of original sin and living an entirely sinless life lord jesus christ sent into the world to save sinners he had to be born into the law in order to fulfill the law in my place in your place if you're in christ from cradle to cross not one stumble into sin not one violation of god's holy law he secured the very righteousness that you and i must have to be right reconciled to god and no other righteousness will do he alone could ask of the Pharisees which of you convicts me of sin they were watching him right meticulously watching him which of you convicts me of sin they lined up false witnesses at his trial bribed him and could not establish a viable charge against him pilot grappled at his trial a kangaroo court and he said i find no fault in the man the centurion at his crucifixion surely this man was innocent and went by the grace of god that you and i come to our senses in the far country when we become sickened with where we are when we become disgusted with a pig's slop of this wicked world that we're eating and sucking down when you become sickened with your own rebellion you consider the blessings at home with the father and you turn to him it will be the white robe of christ's own righteousness woven thread upon thread with his perfect obedience that the lord will drape around your shoulders when you come all praise honoring lory to the person in substitution amen the lord jesus christ our perfect substitute note next with me then verse 21 the plan of substitution the plan of substitution for he made him christ the person in substitution he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us the plan the decree from eternity past would be that jesus christ god the son would be made sin for us that statement doesn't mean that christ was made a sinner christ didn't become a sinner his sinlessness is well established unquestionably established in the bible so what does it mean then that god the father in order to save a people to himself would make him sin for us what it means is that for all those who would believe in him he was made as if he had committed that sin the sins of god's people were imputed there's that word again right credited to him and he was legally declared to be guilty in our place not only declared to be guilty he was then treated as guilty so identified with our sin the words literally convey that he was made sin for us paracious bonar said as if no words could fully express the closeness of his connection with our transgressions you can sense the reality of this identification this plan of substitution from isaia 53 turn to isaia 53 with me isaia 53 he became identified with our sin our sins imputed to him he was legally forensically declared to be guilty on our behalf that's for those that put their faith and trust in the lord jesus christ in turn from their sin isaia chapter 53 look beginning at verse four verse four surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by god and afflicted he was wounded for our transgressions you hear the language of substitution don't you he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all his imputation the lord credits our transgression to him we talked about that last week is that the the imputation of everyone's sin to christ no if everyone's iniquity was not credited to them if everyone's iniquity was imputed to christ then there would be no one who goes to hell that's not what the bible teaches right it's the iniquity the sin of his people the sin of those that would put their faith and trust in jesus christ alone it's their sin imputed to credited to laid upon him verse seven he was oppressed he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he was led as a lamb to the slaughter to sacrificial lamb as the priest in the temple would take his hand and set his hand upon the head of the lamb and then slit the lamb's throat spilling his blood the lord jesus christ being led as a lamb to the sacrificial slaughter as a sheep before it shears his silence so he opened not his mouth verse eight he was taken from prison and from judgment who will declare his generation for he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgressions of my people god says he was stricken for the transgressions of the world no for the transgressions of my people they made his grave with the wicked verse nine but with the rich at his death because he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the lord to bruise him he the lord has put him to grief when you make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his see he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the lord shall prosper in his hand he shall see the labor of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge my righteous servant shall justify many for he shall bear their iniquities it's a language of invitation a language of substitution therefore verse 12 i will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he poured out his soul unto death he was numbered with the transgressors and he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors transgressors he was made noah's drunkenness he was made moses's murder he was made rahab's harlotry he was made david's adultery he was made peters denial he was made paul's persecution he was made your denial he was made your neglect he was made all your sinful words all your sinful thoughts he was made all your sinful actions he was made your polluted emotions he was made your spoiled corrupt affections he was made your wicked desires your fallen feelings he was made your corrupt will he was made your defiled conscience he was made your defiled depraved intellect he was made your selfish dreams he was made your corrupted worldview the sinful energy that you consume on your own lust he was made your wasted time he was made your prideful ambition your worldly goals your neglect of him the sins of your tongue the sins of your mind the sins of your members all this he bears upon himself surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows wounded for our transgressions bruised for our iniquity he takes it upon himself such that david would praise god in Psalm 32 saying blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven you see your sin my sin is not swept under the rug behold the one in substitution behold him who stood in the place of sinners if you claim the name of christ then behold him who stood in your place to bear your sin blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered blessed is the man to whom the lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit isa would worship god saying you have cast all my sins behind your back the prophet mica would say who is the god like you who is the god like you pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage you cast all our sins into the depths of the sea the bible says that our sins are as if hidden behind a thick cloud that god remembers them no more well how is it that god says he doesn't remember them how is it that they're cast into the sea how is it that our sins are cast behind god's back they're cast behind god's back because they were first cast upon his son and his son in your place his son in my place our sins cast upon him apart from this plan of substitution god would be found to be unjust to simply forget our sin would violate his holy character violate his holy law it's the same thing as the unjust judge that we all know and understand by the unjust judge that like the criminal go free proverbs chapter 17 verse 15 he who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the just both of them alike are an abomination to the lord listen to that again he who justifies the wicked he who condemns the just in other words an unjust judge he who justifies the wicked he who condemns the just both of them alike are an abomination to the lord how is it that god upholds his justice how is it that god upholds his righteousness in justifying wicked sinners like you and me how is it he does it through representation the lord jesus christ my substitute the lord jesus christ my righteousness he does it through imputation he does it through a deliverance a salvation that comes from outside of myself christ my substitute christ my righteousness the benefits and blessings of his work apply to me through faith his work applied to those who savingly believe consider that with me for a moment right applied through faith applied to those who savingly believe is that merely intellectual scent you know i believe in jesus christ so therefore i claim for myself forgiveness of sins the lord's righteousness imputed to me now i'm right in god's sight i've been reconciled to him forever and ever amen i can go out live however i want to live no if you simply intellectually is sent to the fact about jesus i believe in jesus what makes your faith any different than that of demons even the demons believe and tremble james says what makes your faith your believe your ascent so to speak what makes it any different than that of the demons they believe they know god's word better than you do they've seen him they observed his miracles they heard him preach saving faith is an entrustment of all that you are to all that he is saving faith is a repentant faith a turning from sin saving faith is a gift of god and it bears the fruit of the spirit of god saving faith is life transformation saving faith eventuates produces obedient from the life of the christian it produces fruit and you can be certain that without fruit your faith james also says is dead your faith is dead no better than that so-called faith of a demon now god proves all of this he proves that the lord's sacrifice the lord's suffering his substitution are on our behalf and it was all effective he proved this by raising him from the dead raising him from the dead there is no hope there is no salvation there is no future there is no refuge there is no escape there is no comfort there is no acquittal in any but in this truth alone that god made his sinless son to be sin for us that he bore our sin into the tempest of the judgment of almighty god where upon him sin was fully and finally dealt with so that his own could be delivered we look at the person in substitution who is the plan of substitution know with me next the place of substitution place of substitution having become sin for us the lord jesus christ bears our sin on the cross peter says in first peter chapter 2 verse 24 he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed his humiliation began at the incarnation one said he was treated as a center from his cradle to his cross a vicarious life and a vicarious death a man of sorrows acquainted with grief being led all his life as a lamb to the slaughter however that humiliation that began at the incarnation ends at the place where he atones for sin through his own death the place where he bears the wrath of god it was reserved for us and makes propitiation satisfies the wrath of god for his own people all that takes place at calvary it's the place where god spared not his only begotten son but delivered him up for us all on calvary christ died the death that sinners deserve to die by the hand of the father if you want to know how god views sin look at what god the father did to his own son on the cross look at what it took to secure our redemption and you'll not think lightly of sin you'll not think lightly of your sin you'll not think lightly of any sin act chapter 4 verse 21 or 27 says that harrid conscious pilot those wicked men with the gentiles and the people of israel were all gathered together to do whatever god's hand and and whatever god's purpose determined before to be done the place of substitution is where christ as hebrew 2 puts it for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of god might taste death for everyone you want to meditate on just how badly we need second corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 meditate on the cross of christ but we need this the cross displays an awful wonder god's hatred for sin and the cross displays an awesome wonder god's mercy on sinners a cup of wrath reserved for sinners poured out on christ our substitute at the place of substitution at the cross psalm 75 verse 7 the psalmist says this god is the judge he puts down one and he exalts another for in the hand of the lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is fully mixed and he pours it out surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth drain and drink down this is the same cup that the lord agonizes over in the garden of gestemini before his crucifixion mark chapter 14 verse 36 the lord cries out abba father all things are possible for you take this cup away from me nevertheless not what i will but what you will think about the suffering of lord jesus christ in his agony in the garden there have been many martyrs in history who have gone to the stake rejoicing that they would die be counted worthy to die for the cause of christ singing hymns courageous and here the son in the garden agonizing prior to his crucifixion his suffering was not due to the rejection of his own people his suffering wasn't an anguish over the betrayal of judas his suffering or his agony wasn't concerned foremost with the physical pain that he was about to endure he had foreknowledge of all of these things and faced it as others have faced it many of the martyrs faced this kind of death lord jesus christ in the garden of gestemini agonizes over the cup over the cup of god's wrath poured out upon him in the place of substitution it was the cup for wicked sinners that he would drink to the dregs that which christ agonized over our sin your sin my sin god's wrath poured out upon him for it lastly consider with me the purpose then consider the person in substitution the plan of substitution the place of substitution lastly consider the purpose of substitution verse 21 again 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of god in him that we might become the righteousness of god in him in point one this morning we consider the first half of the great exchange what god made him for us he made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us point two on your notes let's consider together what god made us in him the greek word or so that there in the very middle of verse 21 communicates a purpose or he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of god in him the purpose of god imputing or crediting the sins of his people to christ is so that they become righteous in him with the very righteousness of god as paul says in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9 they are found in him not having their own righteousness which is from the law but that righteousness which is credited to them through faith in christ the righteousness which is from god by faith consider first with me the righteousness of substitution from verse 21 the righteousness of substitution it is the righteousness of god there in verse 21 we are unrighteous that fact clearly established throughout scripture and throughout your own experience my own experience right we are unrighteous however in christ we don't merely become righteous we become the righteousness of god in him it's again it goes back to that great exchange on the divine ledger in the heavens it's not simply that our sin is wiped away simply cast behind his back and into the sea it's that all that is on his side of the ledger is then given credited imputed to us everything on his side of the ledger is moved to our side of the ledger such that when a sinner turns from their sin and entrust themselves to christ the righteous one christ the righteous when they do that in faith they become the righteousness of god in him we are found in him as paul said recognized as one with him in righteousness in the sight of god co-heirs now with christ as he is john says so are we in this world this standing right that astonishing position is one for us through his substitution through his perfect life through his atoning death when we place our faith in christ we are legally declared to be right with god and he treated us as right with him even when we sin declared to be right with god it's not if you sin but when you sin right when you sin you have an advocate with the father jesus christ the righteous and if you confess your sins he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sin and to cleanse you from your iniquity even when we sin in christ we are justified before god we are seen in the robes of christ's righteousness treated as right because god has declared that it is so in him and it is god's own righteousness his own righteousness his own perfect righteousness you can see god's commitment to his own righteousness right when you see the death of his son on the cross when you look at the cross you can see god's commitment to his own righteousness his own holiness and it's that holiness that righteousness that is credited to his people in christ when god is holy but wrath and mercy meet in christ our righteousness because of substitution because of imputation we are treated as seen as righteous in a forensic sense in a legal sense as if we had lived the perfect life that christ lived we are complete in him accepted in the beloved and all that is possible because he took our sin upon himself as if he had lived our sin as if he had committed our life of sin and in him we are justified as they are 61 10 i will greatly rejoice in the lord my soul shall be joyful in my god for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation he has covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bride groom decks himself with ornaments as a bride adorns herself with her jewels you can see can't you how God's righteousness the righteousness that is one for his people in christ condemns repudiates rebukes reproves every attempt to be justified by our works if you think to yourself right i'm going to do this thing over here and i'm going to earn favor with god that is an abomination in the sight of god it's something you would do we're earned favor with god when the blood of his own sin when the blood of his own son is what purchased the righteousness that we needed it condemns every attempt to be justified by works we cannot be justified by our works Ezekiel in Ezekiel 16 compares the helpless sinner to an abandoned newborn baby in a field on the ground kicking writhing about in his blood naked crying starving unwashed the umbilical cord not even cut the sinner outside of christ is described that way doesn't john say you think you're rich you think you have need of nothing but you don't know that you are poor miserable blind and naked that helplessness right the baby in a field kicking about in his blood naked pictures the state that we are in outside of christ apart from christ our righteousness we have nothing everything in his life is fleeting it's going away it's going away apart from christ we have nothing unable to do anything in our helplessness that baby unable to do anything for himself and then the lord comes right in the Ezekiel 16 the lord comes and i passed by and i said to you in your blood i said to you live live i spread the corner of my garment over you covered your nakedness i entered into a covenant with you you became mine the lord says i bathed you with water i dressed you in fine linen covered you with costly garments i adorned you with jewelry put a beautiful crown on your head you were adorned with gold and silver your clothes were a fine linen costly fabric and embroidered cloth you became very beautiful your fame spread abroad among the nations on account of your beauty because of the splendor that i have given you to make your beauty perfect that's an illustration a picture of what the lord god does in christ to save his own he clothes us in righteousness he adorns us in christ the righteousness of substitution lastly the refuge of substitution our refuge verse 21 none of this happens apart from christ he made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us so that we might become the righteousness of god in him in him all right there is no refuge there is no escape there is no salvation apart from him how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation there's no grace in health no refuge no goodness no compassion no common grace at all there's nothing in hell that restrains sin sinners are utterly given over to the ravages of sin until they themselves become like the demons nothing hinders nothing restrains continual sin the blast furnace of god's wrath is continuously poured out upon them apart from christ we have nothing there is nothing except a fearful expectation of judgment now our god is a consuming fire you might think to yourself right um well i believe in christ i love the word jesus christ maybe you're here today and you're visiting with us this is something that you haven't heard maybe in the churches that you've gone to before maybe you've never heard don't deceive yourself jesus tells nicodemus unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of god you may say you love christ what is the fruit of that profession some people say i love christ i love his word they never read his word one old preacher said you could write the word damnation in the dust of their bible you say you love christ you have faith in christ but you bear no fruit you don't obey him you don't live as an ambassador of christ you don't preach the gospel you don't obey his commandments you lie you cheat you steal you commit adultery lord says to look at someone with lust in your heart is committed adultery with him in your heart to be angry about a just cause is murder the seed of murder in the heart you've broken god's laws and you continue to break what god's laws and the fact that considering today what the lord jesus christ has done you can break those laws with impunity without burying your head in your hands and weeping over the offense that that is to god bears testimony of the depravity of your own heart there is no refuge apart from him apart from christ all we do is neglect and reject and rebel against the salvation that he's provided in christ but god stands imploring you i implore you on his behalf be reconciled to god why will you live this vain life of futility and then die and perish eternally in hell turn to christ and live turn from your sin put your faith and trust in him follow him as lord submit to him as the lord the lord jesus christ says the one who loves me that's the one who keeps my commandments why do you call me lord and don't do the things that i say the one who says i know him but does not keep his commandments bible says is a liar the truth is not in him but we have glorious refuge in christ flee to him flee the wrath to come what a treasure right what a treasure for he made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us so that we sinners might become the righteousness of god in him paul says back in second printings chapter five that the fear of god compels him we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ therefore knowing the terror of the lord we persuade them paul says that it's christ's love for him displayed in this substitution that compels him and now then we are ambassadors because of these things the response of the christian is to say i no longer live for myself but for him who died for me and rose again the one who died in my place i'll praise honor and glory to the one who stands in the place of sinners amen i'll praise honor and glory to the one who stands as our righteousness


due to our watch on go to dill to pago hi the 1997 show con film if you're seeing this on youtube You're seeing a very good version because of copyright reasons if you like to see a full and cut version They can have it a patreon. I'll be a little good. I'll be comfortable. Yeah Let's get back into this. Oh, babe. I met you in your dancing school last night. Remember? Oh, yes. I'm Rahul. I must have heard your name. Oh, dear. It's okay. Please take someone else. Hi, back of you, please. I don't know you. I'm a very stubborn and crazy person. I won't get up like this until you call me honey. Please, please. Please. Thank you very much. Ma'am. Are you sure? Yeah. Thank you. Hi, Rahul. I must have heard your name. I want to see Maya's love and her madness. I want to see what happens when Maya dances with her heart open. Okay. We'll try it once more. Got it. Got it. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Huh? Forget that someone is sitting here. Forget that music is playing here. Forget that this is a rehearsal. I don't know where your focus is. If you don't want to dance, then don't. But please, stop crying. It's okay. I'm used to shouting at such a rehearsal. I wasn't thinking about you. I was just trying to make you understand about Maya. That's all. Maya is a girl who is used to living in her dreams. She is sure that one day her dreams will come true. And she will fly away. And today, her dreams have come true. And she is dancing. She is in love with dancing. They say Rajkumar. It's what it sounded like over and over again. Dream man. Rajkumar. Thank you. Who's not a good director now? He's like, God damn, I did it. She's too good, Misha. She's brilliant, Misha.  She dances well. Is she a better dancer than me?   Right? Right. Madori gets it. There is not. Nipples. Here's. Not hers. A multi-challenged instrumental man. That's moving. Let's never have one less man in you. You're still in the hospital. It's been less than a week. Your cast is all muddy. Make two. Arms are spread wide. Something's happening in his heart.  You're getting married?  I believe that God has already united all the relationships in his heart. He has left us to meet. He has made all of us together. That means, you've got your life partner. Right? I've got it. I've got my life partner. Rahul is the same, right? Rahul? Rahul has left Pooja at home. He's here.  How would I know who has been made for me? You have so much faith in your story. So I'm sure you'll also know how that girl will meet me.  She'll tell you. She'll show you one sign. And you'll understand who that girl is. He says, good job. Make a fight. Dance battle. The best kind. I've told her clearly that she needs to sit at home and rest. She needs to rest. But look at her. She's packing her bag and preparing to go somewhere. Where are you going? I'm going to London. What's the matter? Mother-in-law keeps calling me. I've met her many times. So I'm going to meet her. Who do you want to run away from? From myself. What nonsense are you talking about? I'm scared of myself. And I want to go. So that I don't do other things like yesterday. Nisha, Nisha, you didn't do anything like that yesterday. You were just dancing. Look, even if I wanted to... Rahul. We should stop playing games with each other. He's always in Canada. The problem is Rahul, that I love you and you don't love me. I always used to tell Rahul that a dancer like me can't do anything. I won't be able to say it. And I'm sure that Maya's role can't do anything better than you. Neither can I. Wake up, drink all the Pepsi. What is it? Pooja. Pooja. Good, good, good. But... I feel that you... you're not dancing openly. I want to see how Maya dances when she's happy. Or she'll start looking at the light or the clouds. We'll sleep last night. Bye. Rahul, I'll tell you something. I won't be able to come to the rehearsal tomorrow. Why? I'm going to Khandala tomorrow. Why Khandala? My aunt lives there. Who's your aunt? My aunt is a dance teacher. She hasn't taught me all the dances I know. One of my friends is in Khandala. I've been calling her for a long time, but I never got a chance to go. Besides, if you're not here, I thought I wouldn't be able to do anything. So I'll meet her and give you a lift. Besides, there's no one with you. I thought it'd be a good company. Don't ever get hurt, uncle. Guys, guys, why are you scared? I like his name. I like his hat. It's a basket. Nice to meet you. You're cold. I'll give you something else. Save me from these dogs. That's how that works. They're all serious dogs. Your aunt is a dancer. I can see clearly in your eyes that you love this boy very much.  Got it? A dear friend. I'm seeing how you're running away from your dreams. You're not letting them be true. Don't do that, Pooja. There are very few people like that. The ones whose dreams become true. They'll help you. They'll help you. They'll show you the right path. They'll give you the strength to make your dreams come true. Besides, I'm very stingy in this matter. I don't give anyone my blessings so easily. But looking at you, I thought that maybe you need it. They'll tell you what you can't say. But I think that I've started to believe in love. That love that doesn't say anything to lips. I'll use somebody else's wedding to show you love. That love and I pray that we all recognize our own life partner. Now the car has spots. Wait, why is that the wedding car? Flowers! Whose car is that? Sellin' the weeds at this car.  Probably. All the girls wanted them to. It would be a good move, for sure. Arpas. Arpas. She gave in. How could you not? She did come. The problem is that we both love each other a lot. And we can't say this to each other. I love you a lot. And I know that you love me a lot too. Just say it once. Look into my eyes once. And say it for the last time that you don't love me. Very good, Parvati. Excellent. Excellent. I love you a lot. And I've always loved you. And today I found out that he doesn't love me. He loves somebody else. I don't like it. Ajay. Do you remember when I was a child? You used to joke about my dreams. I started believing that you were the one who was made for me. And then I met Rahul. I'm so happy. You're angry. I called you to tell you this. I'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow? What should I tell you about Rahul? In three days? No, no. I'm going to get married soon. Mom, I don't have time. The company is sending me to Japan for a year. I'll have to wait for eight to ten months. Think about it. No, no, dad. I'm so happy. You don't know. Girl, taste. I want to talk to you. It's been two days. I'll talk to you too. Shruti, sorry. You just take care of this. I'll see you later. Rahul, don't joke. Ajay, you? That's me. This is my name.  Hey! Have you changed your mind? You want to get married, right? Did you tell your friends? Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to apologize to you for calling me. You don't know me. Hello, people I don't know. My name is Ajay. Why is she just letting it happen? She literally has all the power to talk. Pooja, Pooja. Pooja, this is Rahul. The director of our show. Rahul, I like your name very much. I just like the name. I hope so, man. Congratulations. Thank you. You called it out in climax.


Hi everyone! I'm Lindsay. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. Last month I posted a video for Mother's Day and since I'm an equal opportunity vlogger, today's video goes out to all the dads out there or moms that will inevitably be creating gifts for the dads in their lives. Specifically, today's DIY is for the dads of furry four-legged children, aka dogs or cats. Using the Cricut Maker and their library of pre-installed simplicity patterns, I'm going to show you how to make an absolutely adorable dog or cat coat adorned with a graphic perfect for Father's Day. So let's get started. Your first step will be to head to Design Space and create a new project by either clicking here or up here. From there, you can select simplicity from the project dropdown menu. You can see that there are hundreds of simplicity patterns already loaded into Design Space. There are doll clothes. There is women's accessories. There are stuffed animals and so much more. Find the dog coat that you like best and click to open the project specifics. On this screen, you'll find specific information on the pattern like sizing, all the materials you'll need to complete the project, prep instructions, and cutting instructions. At the bottom of every simplicity pattern project screen, you'll find a link to a PDF for the assembly instructions. These open in a large screen with the same illustrations and step-by-step instructions we're also familiar with as garment sewists. Back on the project screen, you'll purchase your pattern and then click Make It. So when you go to make your pattern in the Design Space, you'll notice that just like our directions, it has the interfacing separated out, then it has the pink fabric separated out, and it has the blue fabric separated out. So like I said, I only need the body. So this interfacing fabric, I am going to just cut that out twice and not cut out these other two mats. So it's basically like starting a project, stopping it, and then restarting it again in order to get this mat cut out twice without these other mats. It's not as complicated as making it sound. So what I've also done is went ahead and prepped some mats. This is my iron-on vinyl that we'll get to later. This is my interfacing, and then this gingham is my fabric. These are cut out based on the dimensions that were in the instructions. So let's get to cutting. Okay, and because I am simplifying this pattern so much, I'm actually going to turn off the fabric pen. You see all these blue marks on here? Those would be marked automatically by the machine with a fabric pen unless I turn it off, which you can do right here. So once you turn that off, then you can see everything becomes very plain. I just don't need all those markings because I'm not adding the pocket. I'm not adding the leash thingamajig, and I can just basically eyeball where the velcro goes. So as of any project from this point on, it's all the same. You just want to select your device. Now it is connecting wirelessly to my machine, and then once it does that pretty quickly, you want to check off the fabric that you're using. You can browse more materials here. You can go to fabric and then it has a gajillion different fabrics for me to choose from. I did a test where I test cut 16 different fabrics in a recent video. So if you want to see that, I will have a link for it in the description box. But we are just going to do medium fabrics like cotton. Done. All right, now it tells me no tool required in Clamp A because I'm not using the marking pin. Make sure I have my rotary blade in Clamp B, which check. We have the rotary blade, and then it's telling me to load my mat and press the load unload button. So it's just as simple as that. I am going to take this lining off of the mat. I am going to load the mat into the machine, being mindful of the guides. And then once that happens, it tells me to go ahead and press go, the Cricut logo button, and it's off. So at this point, the rotary blade is cutting around those shapes that will make up the main body of the dog coat because the blade is a rotary. It's round. It's actually cutting through the fabric like a pizza cutter would rather than dragging through it like a knife would. So it's kind of like if you were going to cut bread, and you needed to cut an intricate circle shape, for example, how it would be very difficult to do that with a knife. But with a pizza cutter, it would be easier. That's kind of like the why do all my analogies always go back to food? I don't know, maybe that's something I should analyze. Anyway, so now we are cutting out the second of the outer shells of the dog coat. It really does go by quite quickly. Tells me that we're done. It unloads the mat, and I'll show you. Once we peel it all away, you magically have your two shells of the dog coat ready to go. Okay, so now if you were making the pattern exactly like it said to, then we would just load our next mat, push the load button, and push the Cricut logo button. But because we are skipping those other parts, we are going to cancel. Yes, cancel the cut. And then we are going to make it again. Again, we can turn off the fabric marker and click continue, connect the device again, set our material, and then load in our next mat. Okay, and there you have it. We have our gingham and our interfacing both cut out. Now, while we have everything all hooked up, we are going to cancel the rest of this cut, again, because we don't need the ruffle in the pocket and all that jazz, and we are going to skip over to the vinyl portion.  These are all I think designed for like little newborn onesies, but they also apply to dog clothes as well in my opinion. So I just dumped them all in here because it's super easy to just pick and choose what you want to make. Let's say I wanted to make handsome like daddy. You can just click this little eyeball here and take away all of the others until all that's left is handsome like daddy. And then you just click make it. So now it is sorted that one into its own mat. When you're doing iron on vinyl, you need to make sure you mirror the image and then continue. It's connecting to my machine. I'm going to go ahead and swap out my rotary blade for the fine tip blade. That's the blade you want to use when you are cutting vinyl. And it just pops right in very easily. And then I also want to select my material, which is iron on vinyl, and then make sure the vinyl is placed on the mat the correct way, which is the shiny side down. So you can see the little bit of the shiny side there.  Okay, we are all done with the vinyl and you can see it written on there. Now you need to get your waiting tool, which I keep in the little handy dandy catty that is included on the machine.  It's actually a very satisfying process and I quite enjoy it. But basically you're just peeling it off of this backing like so, like that.  Okay, voila, we have our handsome like daddy decal. Isn't that so cute? Okay, I have moved into my kitchen because it has a stone heat resistant top and it is the safest place to iron on our vinyl, which is going to be the next step. So this little handy dandy awesome life changing gadget is the cricket easy press.  And you can adjust the temperature and you can adjust the time. And it comes with this little handy dandy reference chart that I keep with the easy press just so I know what I'm dealing with every single time I go to press something. So I have it set for the light iron on and 100% cotton since we're using a shirting. But you can see it has all these different fabric types indicated here. And basically all you do is you set the temperature and you set the time to whatever the chart indicates. This is the easy press mat, which is what they recommend to use with the easy press just to make sure again you get even heat distribution. Basically the goal here is just to make sure that this vinyl decal gets on there and stays on there. I have tried this with a regular iron, which is possible. But as you know, your regular iron doesn't have even heat all along the plate. There are hot spots and cool spots. Also the plate of the iron is much smaller than this plate here. So it works, but this is certainly easier. It is faster and to me it just guarantees a better adhesion. So anyways, you pick up your easy press, you plop it right down, you press the logo, the timer starts to tick down. Okay, beeps when it's done, you remove it, you flip over your garment, and you do the same thing to the other side. But the other side, you only need to do like half the amount of time. So if you want it, let's do this right. Let's go timer and let's go down to 15 seconds, set the timer, plop it down, green button, beeps when we're done. And then you flip this over and you need to let it cool completely, which is why I like to put it on the cold stone. It usually doesn't take that long. Like it's already cool to the touch. Let's see if I can do it one-handed. Then you peel back the lining carefully. Probably one-handed is not recommended. Keep peeling. That just shows how good it's stuck on there if I can do it one-hand. And voila, we have our handsome like daddy decal ironed on. So cute, I am in love.  I took one of our main body pieces and adhered the interfacing on the EasyPress mat with the EasyPress machine. Not even kidding. This is very easy. I'll show you with this one. In case you're wondering, this base does come with the EasyPress. So you can always dock it into here and it protects, you know, obviously your surface. This does still get hot underneath though, which is why they recommend that you do it on a stone or heat-resistant surface. Concrete works really well outside if you don't have stone countertops. Okay, and we are all done. Just like usual, you want your interfacing to completely cool just like the vinyl decal. But you get a great seal.  And you can see it took all of one minute to interface this entire body here. Super, super exciting. Okay, here's the second little muslin that I made. I wanted to show you how I did the little extenders. So basically I just sewed or I just cut little square pieces that are the same width as the edge here. So you'll sew those right sides together on all four, one, two, three, four sides. And then for the neck, I didn't need to have Velcro here. I could just slip this over his head and then only Velcro around the body. To me, that was easier. And I couldn't think of any reason like safety wise why you would have to have Velcro there. I'm sure you guys will fill me in if there is one.  I cut four of them. There are two more somewhere. Anyways, right sides together. And then sewed around three sides, flipped it right side out and then attached those here. Okay, I just wanted to update you on where we are. So you can see that I have sewn those little extenders right sides together, pressed the seams open. I've also sewn the extenders over here along three sides, turned them right side out. And then I have pinned them just kind of haphazardly to the edge here. And now we are going to place this right sides together. And this part is really all just in the instructions. If you don't need the extenders, you would just follow the sewing instructions that came with your digital pattern. But you're going to sew along here, all along all these edges, all these curves. It's a lot of fun. And then stop leaving a gap of about three or four inches so that you can turn it right sides out. So we're going to sew it together. Clip all these curves so that it lays nice and flat whenever you're done. And then turn it right sides out. And I'll show you what we have when I'm done with that. Okay, I've got our all turned out. And you can see my little extenders are sewn in. And I've got this one over here. So now this just needs like a really, really good press using your iron with steam and a tailor's clapper if you have one. And you just want to try and get all these seams super, super, super flat. All right, getting closer now just the finishing details. So we need to close up our little hole that we used to turn. And then we need to close up this little collar. I just overlap the two and sew a gigantic rectangle and call it a day. Sunny doesn't care.  You know, I'm sure they're pretty easy to find even though I don't have the original packaging. And you just want to make sure that you get this, you know, fitted around your little pup and you put one sticky side here and one sticky side here and slap them together. So I'm going to finish this up and then chase Sunny around the camera and hopefully get some good footage of him wearing his brand new handsome like daddy shirt. Perfect for Father's Day. So handsome. Come on. Come here. Sunny. Sit. Good boy. Show everyone your new coat. Show everyone your new coat. So cute. So cute. I think he thinks I have treats. Yes. Sit. Oh, look how nice. Oh, a nice over the shoulder look too. You are a better model than I ever imagined. All right, you guys, there we go. Handsome like daddy. Say happy Father's Day to all the daddies. Happy Father's Day. I think he just wants the pets. Say happy Father's Day. All right, you guys, that's going to do it for us here. I really hope you like the tutorial and that you will go check out Cricut Maker and the simplicity patterns that they have to offer everyone. So from me and Sunny, we will see you next time. Bye.


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