1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,700 Kasra 2 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:31,700 Now is the time to give no more 3 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:36,700 No more, just as you are 4 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:40,700 No more, just as you are 5 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:47,700 No more, just as you are 6 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:54,700 No more, just as you are 7 00:00:54,700 --> 00:01:00,700 No more, just as you are 8 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:06,700 No more, just as you are 9 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,700 Good morning, good morning, good morning 10 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:13,700 So we are deep into the month of July 11 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:15,700 I think everybody is a little off their schedule 12 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:17,700 There are a lot going on 13 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:19,700 I'll remind you of just a couple of quick prayer requests 14 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:21,700 And then there is a team leader meeting today 15 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,700 We have some folks who are out deep in Tony's at work 16 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:29,700 Found out on Friday that he would be at work 17 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:32,700 And so possibly 10 or 11 o'clock tonight 18 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:34,700 And so he was not too happy about that 19 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:37,700 So pray for him, since he's out there drilling holes in the ground 20 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:39,700 And they go 200 feet deep sometimes 21 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:41,700 And it's a job 22 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:44,700 And so we lower the watch over him 23 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,700 And then we have others who have some illnesses going on 24 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:49,700 And we pray for him to be with them 25 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:51,700 What they're going through 26 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:56,700 And then if you can remember 27 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:00,700 Gina Hyre and her family were burnt out of their house 28 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:03,700 A few months back she was a client of the live station 29 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:05,700 And they are within two months 30 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:07,700 They're not being able to stay where they currently are 31 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:09,700 And be the place to live 32 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:11,700 And have a limited budget 33 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:13,700 And they also could go to live near her son, West Virginia 34 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:15,700 But they have a limited budget to get there 35 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:17,700 And get a place when they get there 36 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:18,700 And they don't have enough money to pay 37 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:20,700 That kind of affects them a lot in a hard place 38 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:24,700 So it's a reminder that sometimes we've got it really good 39 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:26,700 God is taking care of us 40 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:29,700 And remember that some folks are not as blessed as we are 41 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,700 In the crackings of life and that kind of thing 42 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:34,700 So if you remember Gina and her family 43 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,700 They're hurt, she's got two of those old children 44 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:39,700 And a 17 year old that are with her 45 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:41,700 And they're just kind of getting things up 46 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:44,700 She likes to come to New Heights 47 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:46,700 She's very concerned about what we do 48 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:48,700 And this is an interesting life kind of thing 49 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:50,700 But right now we're at work 50 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:53,700 And so we pray, possibly pray for them to not be great 51 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:57,700 That being said, we're just going to pray and let God be 52 00:02:57,700 --> 00:02:59,700 Okay? 53 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,700 Lord in heaven, thank you for this moment together 54 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,700 We realize that in the midst of summer 55 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,700 Especially in Northwest Ohio 56 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,700 We're kind of like, by the end of winter 57 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:13,700 We're a seasonal affective disorder 58 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:15,700 Sets in for a lot of folks in Northwest Ohio 59 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,700 And we feel like just blah, worn out 60 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:20,700 And summer comes and the sun shines 61 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:22,700 The day stays shining long 62 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:25,700 And we are timed or clocked 63 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:28,700 We're messed up and it's hard to figure out 64 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:30,700 What we're supposed to be doing when and so on 65 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:32,700 And then plus there's folks who suffer from allergies 66 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:34,700 And science infections, we've got food 67 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:37,700 We have science infections, bad 68 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,700 And we just pray Lord, that you come to them 69 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:42,700 And Miss Chris has been off and on 70 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:44,700 Losing her voice over the last few weeks 71 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,700 And Pete and Tony have stuck at work 72 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,700 And people like Gina, and we know that her story 73 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:53,700 Prepeats a hundred times, a thousand times 74 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:55,700 Across the history of lost or faith to live 75 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:58,700 Or struggling with such physical health concerns 76 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,700 And psychological health concerns that they can't even function 77 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,700 And so Lord, we just pray we're young 78 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:04,700 We pray we're strange 79 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:05,700 We pray that in this day 80 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:08,700 Those who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus 81 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:11,700 Would find you always ready 82 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:13,700 As we know you are always ready 83 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:14,700 To intervene in their situation 84 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:17,700 But lift them up to empower them to make them able 85 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:19,700 Cross over barriers and do the things that 86 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:20,700 Will need to be done 87 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:23,700 And we know that the things that will need to be done 88 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:25,700 Are to deny ourselves 89 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:27,700 Take up our thought, baby 90 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:28,700 And follow after you 91 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:32,700 And all the rest of it is just the stuff of life 92 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:34,700 Now we come together to worship 93 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:36,700 To remember that the stuff of life 94 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:38,700 Cannot interfere with what's really important 95 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:40,700 And that's our time with you 96 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:42,700 Time to let go of the group 97 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:43,700 Time serving 98 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:44,700 Time giving 99 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:46,700 Time learning to love 100 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:49,700 And we pray that you'll do that in us today 101 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:51,700 Foster some new strength, some new seed 102 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:53,700 Some new teaching, some new growth 103 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:55,700 Some new step forward 104 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:58,700 By the power of your Holy Spirit 105 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:01,700 By the presence of our God 106 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:04,700 Through our worship, through your ministry 107 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:06,700 In our worship, through your Word 108 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:08,700 We turn it all over to you 109 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:10,700 Whatever you want to do, whatever you want to use 110 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:12,700 For each one of us, and us and the classes 111 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:14,700 And even those who can't be with us 112 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:16,700 Who are watching online right now 113 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:18,700 Or who will watch later, who will listen to podcasts 114 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,700 We'll pray for all years to be open 115 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:24,700 To hear the channels through our hearts 116 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:26,700 That can be effective 117 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:28,700 We pray for these things in Jesus name 118 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:31,700 Amen 119 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:37,700 Alright, if you would stand and join us 120 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:40,700 There's some clapping that can be done in this song 121 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:42,700 And for dancing 122 00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:59,700 I got a clap or two on our Not Bunch of Beads 123 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:21,700 If you're alone my strength 124 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:31,700 If you're alone my hope 125 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:38,700 If you're alone my strength 126 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:53,260 Alright, so it's back in the rhythm of things a little bit. 127 00:07:53,260 --> 00:07:59,140 I know you may not necessarily be prepared, but I hope you are. 128 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:06,220 We had Vacation Bible School and at Vacation Bible School, the kids anyway, did study four 129 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:11,540 days in a row. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And I submit to you from what I saw, the leaders 130 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:16,660 teaching, I think they did study. They studied the material, they prepared, they did activities. 131 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:20,940 And I've said often that doing Bible study, you can tell you can Bible study when you're 132 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:25,820 writing things down, but I remind you sometimes it isn't about writing things down. It could 133 00:08:25,820 --> 00:08:32,900 be an activity that you do. For example, during memorization, one of the youth was talking 134 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:36,500 about, I can't memorize this verse, you can't memorize this verse. And I suggest you write 135 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:41,020 it down, each word on a piece of paper, and then mix them all up and rearrange them to 136 00:08:41,020 --> 00:08:45,860 do that verse over and over again and you'll get it. And they did. And I submit to you, 137 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:50,860 while that verse memorization, you can definitely see study in there. If you ever remember back 138 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:55,460 in high school learning or memorizing the periodic table, coming up with all kinds of 139 00:08:55,460 --> 00:09:00,780 different ways to memorize the periodic table, that's study. Okay? So you can do it a variety 140 00:09:00,780 --> 00:09:09,660 of different ways. You can record it and listen back. You can symbolize it by toys or by paintings 141 00:09:09,660 --> 00:09:14,460 or pictures that you've drawn. It was all kinds of things that you can do to be doing 142 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:18,980 study while you're looking at the word. Okay? So really, it's biblical study, even as something 143 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:24,020 with the Bible, otherwise it's just study. You might study a book that you read or study 144 00:09:24,020 --> 00:09:27,420 something through your science class or something like that. But it's biblical study, it's 145 00:09:27,420 --> 00:09:34,140 based on the Bible, and you do something other than just read it, memorize it, and meditate 146 00:09:34,140 --> 00:09:39,260 on it. Right? So not just intake or memorization or meditation, but something more that's 147 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:44,820 what has to study, something different. Okay? So maybe you've studied your Bible. I had 148 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:50,020 a peculiar instance over the last two weeks I'll share with you in studying my Bible. 149 00:09:50,020 --> 00:09:55,380 But maybe you've studied your Bible and you saw something. Did anyone see it? You'd like 150 00:09:55,380 --> 00:10:02,380 to share that point or something out of here. 151 00:10:02,380 --> 00:10:11,380 I think that's an application of the weather. And it's saying that a lot of people in Canada 152 00:10:11,380 --> 00:10:18,380 are having to evacuate from their homes and move away because of all the fires. It is 153 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:24,500 spreading faster than the firefighters can even live. And there has been, and it's getting 154 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:31,500 closer to the oil. Everybody is evacuating and it's fast to cause because of the fires 155 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:33,500 and hits the oil. 156 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:37,500 Okay, so why don't you tell us what you think John would say about that? 157 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:44,500 I would say that what God would say is for all the Christian athletes, they would be praying. 158 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:48,500 God would say, don't worry, I'll watch over you. It would be okay. 159 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:55,500 We can play a quarter on that if that was true. 160 00:10:55,500 --> 00:11:07,500 I just before I just watched some of the Bible movies and I was in the second coffee 161 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:19,500 with me. It struck me that neither is about, if you guys have seen the Constitution, if 162 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:29,500 not then just go over it. But as the wrong man put law that may not have a bashful, he 163 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:37,500 figures out what he has to do and he doesn't and he saves life. And what struck me about 164 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:49,500 that is even in the biggest moments when we have something going on, like tomato, it was 165 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:57,500 the bomb. We still can figure out what we have to do before that big thing happens to 166 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:05,500 us. And he figures out what he has to do before the bomb and so on. 167 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:10,500 He could have just let the bomb blow up because everybody in the before was on an 168 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:16,500 immediate road trip. But he moved on along because he found out who was behind all the 169 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:22,500 stuff and he knew what he had to do and that just shows John that God took you to 170 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:27,500 every moment even when it's something that could bring you life. 171 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:32,500 Which of course generally is back to the Canadian course part. So this is the experience that 172 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:38,500 I had this week, really in the last 10 days, studying my Bible. For last Sunday's sermon, 173 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:44,500 I was writing the sermon and I got it mostly done and I felt the Lord lead me on a different 174 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:50,500 direction for this Sunday. And I thought, man, I got to study that. So I went and I 175 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:56,500 got to study and by the time I came in here last Sunday, my sermon for today was half 176 00:12:56,500 --> 00:13:02,500 written, 50% done. I know when it's half written because that means I've got the text. I 177 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:06,500 basically understand what the text is about and I'm forming the points and then I went 178 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:10,500 to the points and I have some more work to do after that kind of prospect everything, 179 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:14,500 make sure it's all God's and I can say, I can make it to God and so on. So I was about 180 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:19,500 halfway done and while I was in here during worship last Sunday, one of the songs that 181 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:24,500 God spoke to me about what I was studying. And I've been thinking a lot ever since we 182 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:29,500 started this of how every spiritual discipline relates together. We're making a mistake 183 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:34,500 by emphasizing one discipline or another. Is there anybody in here that would not resonate 184 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:37,500 with the fact that we need to pray for people who are being put out of their homes by 185 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:42,500 force fires? We can all do that, right? We all agree we need to pray for those people. 186 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:46,500 God wants those people to be safe. He wants those people to be in a right relationship 187 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:51,500 with Him. God's will to force fires to burn them out of their homes. It's happening, 188 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:58,500 but God puts up a little lot of stuff that happens until Jesus comes again, right? 189 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:02,500 And so we can all resonate with, well we ought to pray, but here's what happens. We say that 190 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:07,500 and then we go out about our day and we kind of never quite get back to praying for those people. 191 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:12,500 And we don't really know them by name, so we pray, Lord you will be done and that's good enough, right? 192 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:17,500 Or we pray right before we eat. Now Father, we love you please bless those who need you. 193 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:21,500 And that's good enough, right? Bless those who are sick and hurting right now. That's good enough, right? 194 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:28,500 But it's a pretty shallow discipline of prayer. So once in a while barely getting done, 195 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:34,500 sort of covering the bases, oh I forgot to pray for the person I promised. Prayer. That's what it is. 196 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:40,500 But if you add in study of the word into that and you think about it, so you get distance 197 00:14:40,500 --> 00:14:45,500 and you're like, I'm studying my Bible and I crack open my Bible and then you can do this, 198 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:49,500 but I generally do it every morning. I crack open my Bible to wherever I feel like the Lord is leading. 199 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:55,500 Not randomly, it's not there, right? But wherever I feel like the Lord is leading, 200 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:59,500 I'll be cooking through and I'll see the names of the books and I'll say, you know what? 201 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:03,500 I feel like the Lord says, go right there right now and I just felt like the Lord says stop right here right now. 202 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:08,500 So Psalm 18, right? Psalm 18 to the end. I love the, oh Lord, my strength. 203 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:14,500 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. You couldn't make that up, right? 204 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:20,500 So now I think about out of that, so what does it mean to love God? 205 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:24,500 What would God be doing if he was in command? If he said, how can you say you love me? 206 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:28,500 Don't follow my commands, right? So you can follow God's commands. 207 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:32,500 So then I'm going to think about what are the commands of God that I would use. 208 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:38,500 Yeah, I said I would pray. God wants you to pray. I said I would pray. Who did I say I would pray for? 209 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:42,500 And it all ties back in. You do that with every spiritual discipline. 210 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:47,500 So by meditating about, I love the, oh Lord, my strength. 211 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,500 Meditate about that phrase and think about what that means, break it down into pieces, 212 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:55,500 ask myself questions. You can just do, who, what, why, when, where, who does what in that passage? 213 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:59,500 I do. What do I do? I love the Lord. 214 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:05,500 Who do I love? I love God. What do I mean when I say I love the Lord? 215 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:12,500 Okay, so why, why do I love the Lord? Let me count the reasons why I love God. 216 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:16,500 I love him of course because he first loved me. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to love anyone. 217 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:21,500 I know that because I remember what it was like to be a non-Christian. I didn't know how to love anyone. 218 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:26,500 And so that's meditating. And now the meditating, I'm writing something down. That's the same thing. 219 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:30,500 So if you say, you're going to pray, so if we say we're going to pray for the people in the forest fires, 220 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:38,500 shouldn't we ought to pray at a time? Or somehow? By the way, does anybody use reminders on your phone? 221 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:42,500 Okay, people have reminders on your phone. You got an event tomorrow at 11 o'clock. 222 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:47,500 Let's see, you got an event next Thursday at 11 o'clock. So it's a, it's a Canes, Slovenia. 223 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:51,500 Next Thursday at 11 o'clock. What time does the reminder start? 4. 224 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:57,500 It's 11 o'clock next Thursday, right? Earlier. How much earlier? Probably about 18. 225 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,500 Okay, so a day would be good, but then whatever goes off the one thing at night, 226 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:04,500 and then Thursday morning you forget. Two day and two hours. 227 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:10,500 All right, so mine's at the day and two hours. So I always set a reminder for plenty of time to get there early 228 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:17,500 and the day before. Why am I doing it? And how does study do that grow up? 229 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:21,500 I'm studying that passage of Scripture and I got halfway through it by last Sunday 230 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:26,500 and then I'm studying it through this weekend. Monday I studied it, and Tuesday I studied it, 231 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:31,500 and Wednesday I studied it, and by Wednesday, guess how far along I was on my swimming proof today? 232 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:35,500 50% zero progress. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday zero progress. 233 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,500 I had studied a lot more, but I hadn't made any progress toward completion. 234 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:42,500 And I thought, that's weird. That's why I'm praying to God. And I said, God, 235 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:47,500 is this passage of Scripture for the church? Am I supposed to preach this first Sunday? 236 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:55,500 And God said, no, I never said that. I led you to it, but I never told you to preach it. 237 00:17:55,500 --> 00:18:00,500 And so then I said it aside and said, okay, lead me to the passage of Scripture for Sunday. 238 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:05,500 And I wound that back in Deuteronomy and God's continuing today in the passage of Scripture from Deuteronomy, 239 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:09,500 which is where I was going to be. So then I said to God, so what about that passage I studied 240 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:15,500 for 15 hours or something? I thought, well, you can have it. And He said, well, that was for you. 241 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:21,500 And now I know. So I went back and looked at the things that I had studied, and I found some things. 242 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:26,500 A couple of things which you tie into the sermon today. The text is not in there, 243 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,500 and the points are not in there, but it does tie in. It helps me to understand something. 244 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:38,500 And then Friday I had a rough day, a very rough day. Things were out of control. 245 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:43,500 I worked until 10 o'clock at night, away from home, couldn't go with my family to the T-Ball games, 246 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:46,500 and I was going to look at it and see if it was a rough day. 247 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:50,500 As I'm going through that and getting lost in the Scripture work, we're about to lose it. 248 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:56,500 I'm angry, I'm upset, I'm frankly caught up in something that a brother of mine 249 00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:03,500 who had faced a lie to my face was doing. I felt betrayed, and I was ready to go after him about it 250 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:10,500 and do something that I was going to regret. And instead, I thought about that passage in Scripture, 251 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:19,500 but I hate to study. And God reminded me what it means to be free when circumstances in your life 252 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:24,500 would lead you to act another way. So I was angry, I was betrayed, I was hurt, 253 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:27,500 and I was going to go after him to say something and whatever. 254 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:33,500 Yet God reminded me, because the passage in Scripture is in John chapter 8 where he says, 255 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:37,500 come, you're going to be free. Come follow me, you're going to be free. 256 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:42,500 And I realized that I was free to go either way. I could go either way. 257 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:46,500 But I also realized that one way would be much more beneficial than the other. 258 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,500 And so I went the way, the more beneficial way. 259 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:52,500 So I encourage you to study your Bibles. 260 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:57,500 We're working through the book of Deuteronomy, we're in chapter 24, we've got eight. 261 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:04,500 Well, today we're reaching the 25. So we've got eight chapters left, 25 through 32, inclusive. 262 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:08,500 I would encourage you to come in here on Sunday, even if we are went up on a different path, 263 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:13,500 to have studied that passage, not just read it out loud yourself, 264 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,500 but to study what is likely to be next. 265 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,500 Because even if I don't pre-set passage on Sunday morning, you'll get something out of it. 266 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:26,500 A God's word is living, being essentially, and it will speak to you in so many ways. 267 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,500 All right, we're going to pray at this time. 268 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:30,500 We're having an offering called a song, going to the Word. 269 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:31,500 I'm excited about this. 270 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:34,500 You just heard the Deuteronomy and I am positive. 271 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:39,500 Absolutely one percent positive in the points, and in the text, and in the sight of the book. 272 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:44,500 Jason will turn the press off. I'm going to put it in my own seat. 273 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:47,500 I'm going to turn it out. 274 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,500 My brother Tim, if you pray and read it, we'll pray with you. 275 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:58,500 Thank you for all the help for us. 276 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:02,500 Thank you for taking us to the Newcastle. 277 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:05,500 Thank you for all the support. 278 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:08,500 Thank you for your grace, for us to read. 279 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,500 We are going to start with the prayer of the Spirit. 280 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:21,500 The leading time of this prayer is to recognize you, the Spirit, when you are in the Spirit. 281 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:23,500 We are going to pray for you. 282 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,500 We are going to see you. 283 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,500 We are going to pray with you. 284 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,500 The Holy Spirit is coming today. 285 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:42,500 I'm going to read it. 286 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:47,500 I'm going to read it. 287 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:57,500 Yes. 288 00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:07,500 Yes. 289 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:17,500 Yes. 290 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:27,500 Yes. 291 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:37,500 Yes. 292 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:46,500 Yes. 293 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:56,500 Yes. 294 00:22:56,500 --> 00:23:06,500 Yes. 295 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:15,500 Yes. 296 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:25,500 Yes. 297 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:35,500 Yes. 298 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:44,500 Yes. 299 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:54,500 Yes. 300 00:23:54,500 --> 00:24:04,500 Yes. 301 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:13,500 Yes. 302 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:23,500 Yes. 303 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:33,500 Yes. 304 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:42,500 Yes. 305 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:52,500 Yes. 306 00:24:52,500 --> 00:25:02,500 Yes. 307 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:12,500 Yes. 308 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:22,500 Yes. 309 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:31,500 Yes. 310 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:41,500 Yes. 311 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:51,500 Yes. 312 00:25:51,500 --> 00:26:00,500 Yes. 313 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:10,500 Yes. 314 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:20,500 Yes. 315 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:29,500 Yes. 316 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:39,500 Yes. 317 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:49,500 Yes. 318 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:58,500 Yes. 319 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:08,500 Yes. 320 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:18,500 Yes. 321 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:27,500 Yes. 322 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:37,500 Yes. 323 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:47,500 Yes. 324 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:56,500 Yes. 325 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:06,500 Yes. 326 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:16,500 Yes. 327 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:25,500 Yes. 328 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:35,500 Yes. 329 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:45,500 Yes. 330 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:54,500 Yes. 331 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:59,500 Yes. 332 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:21,500 Yes. 333 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:26,500 Yes. 334 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,500 Yes. 335 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:36,500 Yes. 336 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:41,500 Yes. 337 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:46,500 Yes. 338 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,500 Yes. 339 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:55,500 Yes. 340 00:29:55,500 --> 00:30:00,500 Yes. 341 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:05,500 Yes. 342 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:10,500 Yes. 343 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:15,500 Yes. 344 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:19,500 Yes. 345 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:24,500 Yes. 346 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:28,500 Yes. 347 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:34,500 Yes. 348 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:39,500 Yes. 349 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:44,500 Yes. 350 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:48,500 Yes. 351 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:53,500 Yes. 352 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,500 Yes. 353 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,500 Yes. 354 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,500 Yes. 355 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,500 Yes. 356 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:11,500 Yes. 357 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:15,500 Yes. 358 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:22,500 Yes. 359 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,500 Yes. 360 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:27,500 Yes. 361 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:34,500 Yes. 362 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,500 Yes. 363 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:42,500 Yes. 364 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:49,500 Yes. 365 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:53,500 Yes. 366 00:31:53,500 --> 00:32:01,500 Yes. 367 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:07,500 Yes. 368 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,500 Yes. 369 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:14,500 Yes. 370 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:17,500 Yes. 371 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:22,500 Yes. 372 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:27,500 Yes. 373 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:30,500 Yes. 374 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:34,500 Yes. 375 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:39,500 Yes. 376 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:43,500 Yes. 377 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,500 Yes. 378 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,500 Okay. 379 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:53,500 Okay. 380 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:57,500 Yes. 381 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:00,500 Yes. 382 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:08,500 single one of us now in outside the Lord in the kingdom of Satan that plays itself out in kind all kinds of bad behavior 383 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:15,220 Okay, we do all kinds of things that our father Satan wants us to do when we're outside the kingdom of God 384 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:21,820 But still fairly unique to us 385 00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:25,540 We do them by our own thought process and arrive 386 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:30,500 It's okay for me to take this thing that doesn't belong to me because and we have our few reasons and 387 00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:38,420 If you went and the same exact scenario with another person same in same prompting by Satan same prompting by 388 00:33:38,940 --> 00:33:44,700 Evil spirits or the flesh and was and you looked at their reasons for doing it. They would not be the same as yours 389 00:33:46,660 --> 00:33:53,500 Created unique in God we are then affected uniquely by an enemy which is I understand is more than one 390 00:33:53,500 --> 00:34:00,180 It's Satan evil spirits the world and our fleshly desires and that last one really still stays pretty unique in a sense 391 00:34:00,340 --> 00:34:02,520 Because your lust of the flesh is different than mine 392 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:06,540 Your lust of the eyes is different than mine your pride of life is different than mine 393 00:34:06,740 --> 00:34:12,180 All right, so we're still tempted to judge a certain way or to think somebody else is going to respond the way we are 394 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:14,220 I'll use this last illustration. We're going to into the text 395 00:34:15,460 --> 00:34:17,980 When I was at Pizza Hut, I took a class 396 00:34:17,980 --> 00:34:22,900 as a manager as becoming a store manager as a training and 397 00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:30,900 They said when you're hiring somebody have to be work be careful of the two most common mistakes that people make when they're hiring somebody 398 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,180 And the first one is to try to hire somebody that is in some way like them 399 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:39,380 So in other words if you're talking to a person and you're an early riser and 400 00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:45,420 You talk to a candidate for the job and they say they're an early riser whether they are not doesn't matter, but they say they are 401 00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:50,260 And you talk to another candidate the job that says they they tend to sleep late on weekends 402 00:34:50,260 --> 00:34:55,300 And they don't really like mornings blah blah blah and you see an early riser in you 403 00:34:55,500 --> 00:35:02,340 Then you're gonna sometimes be more likely to hire the person says they're an early riser because you you have a good self-esteem of yourself 404 00:35:02,340 --> 00:35:06,380 You're doing the job you're working the job you want somebody's like you like that so you're gonna hire somebody like you 405 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,660 Or you may rebel from that say I don't want to hire somebody just like me because I want to round out my team 406 00:35:11,660 --> 00:35:16,180 I want to do a good job of having a diverse team. It can do the things that I can't do and so on 407 00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:19,740 So you go no, I'm not gonna hire the early riser because they're like me 408 00:35:19,740 --> 00:35:26,140 I'm gonna hire the the late sleeper who's different than me both of those are huge mistakes in hiring 409 00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:31,260 Even if you take your best trait and you say I am super organized. I take notes on everything 410 00:35:31,260 --> 00:35:36,060 I've got my email box well sorted and you ask them and you say do you do this do you do this and they say no 411 00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:40,900 I don't take notes on stuff. No, I'm not organized. No, I don't have my email box well sorted 412 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:47,460 I'm not hiring them because of those because I'm not having those good traits could still be a mistake 413 00:35:47,460 --> 00:35:52,740 Those are not reasons to hire or not hire somebody the real reason to hire or not to hire somebody is that whether they can do the job 414 00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:55,540 And do it well and move forward the business 415 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:59,060 Okay, that was the class as I was trained 416 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:05,340 I've since learned that there's a lot more to it than that and I understand what I'm getting at as you're walking around looking 417 00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:11,820 Ron, I'll give you an example of this. Have you ever been at Myers and you walk around Myers and you walk past a couple of guys 418 00:36:11,820 --> 00:36:15,700 Who are talking and the way they're talking the way they're acting you're pretty sure they're gamers 419 00:36:16,460 --> 00:36:20,100 That ever happened to you that's happened to me a dozen times right now 420 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,340 I have no clue whether unless they were talking about games 421 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:26,220 I have no clue whether or not they're gamers or not but the way they're acting the way they're talking 422 00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:33,260 I think they probably are and I could broach the topic with them and find out whether they are and then use that to bridge into talking about Jesus 423 00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:37,260 I have not in except for in one case. I think I did but most times I have not 424 00:36:37,740 --> 00:36:41,100 But if I would start talking about them, I might find out. No, they're not 425 00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:46,020 We were in the airport on the way to I was in the airport on the way back from New Orleans 426 00:36:46,020 --> 00:36:51,060 And I and there was a couple there and they had a young daughter who was out of control 427 00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:56,780 She was they had to monitor every single second because she was obviously said some discipline issues 428 00:36:56,780 --> 00:36:59,820 there might maybe had never been disciplined or whatever she was all over and 429 00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:01,820 and I 430 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:08,820 Had a feeling to talk to them and I started talking to the one lady and then she broke off the conversation with me 431 00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:12,260 I started talking to a 13 year old boy was sitting next to her because on her phone 432 00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:16,620 She was playing Pokemon go and he or I don't know she was actually playing it 433 00:37:16,620 --> 00:37:23,700 But she was managing it or whatever and the boy was doing the same thing and they want to talk about Pokemon go for the remaining 434 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:25,700 Hour that we sat in the airport 435 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:29,860 You can look at somebody and go I don't have anything in common with them 436 00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:33,460 But I'm this is what I'm saying to you when you make that judgment you are wrong 437 00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:36,460 You can look at them and say they are just like me 438 00:37:37,660 --> 00:37:39,660 But you're wrong I 439 00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:44,140 Want you to bear that in mind then and see how God in this text 440 00:37:44,740 --> 00:37:50,060 Sets up society and we don't get everything but some some serious pieces of how he sets up society to 441 00:37:51,380 --> 00:37:52,900 preserve 442 00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:58,340 Personhood okay, so grab your Bibles if you would we're gonna read from Deuteronomy chapter 24 443 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:02,900 Let me give me an amen. Thank you brother Ron a couple others. Thank you so much. This is God's word 444 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:09,340 It's a lengthy passage of scripture, but the points are quick. I am not gonna break down everything good 445 00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:11,340 I don't think we have to it's pretty straightforward 446 00:38:11,340 --> 00:38:16,220 So I think everybody in this room will get it mostly anybody's got a question or I didn't explain something enough for you 447 00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:18,220 Just feel free to raise your hand. It's okay 448 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:22,700 All right, and if you're on the internet and struggling email me and I'll give you the answer 449 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:23,980 Okay 450 00:38:23,980 --> 00:38:28,980 Deuteronomy 24 6 no one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge 451 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:35,860 For he would be taking a life in pledge the handmill is for grinding grain or whatever into flour 452 00:38:36,020 --> 00:38:38,860 right and an upper millstone is a 453 00:38:39,180 --> 00:38:43,740 Bigger stone that runs on a lower stone and it does the same thing it grinds it into flour 454 00:38:43,740 --> 00:38:49,980 And because that's how they would make their food. In fact the houses in that day were described as all having one 455 00:38:49,980 --> 00:38:58,060 Like they all had one because they could get grain they could make bread right and so if you take their handmill or their upper millstone 456 00:38:58,820 --> 00:39:00,820 You're taking their life 457 00:39:00,820 --> 00:39:02,420 Because how are they gonna make bread? 458 00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:10,340 Okay, so he says don't do that if a man has caught kidnapping any of his countrymen and that word could be just stealing stealing his countrymen of 459 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:15,700 The sons of Israel and he deals with him violently or sells him then that thief shall die 460 00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:22,660 So you shall purge the evil from among you we already talked quite a bit about wiping out evil from among us as people of grace 461 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:29,660 And it says if that person takes captive or steals another member of the country another member of the grace family 462 00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:33,460 Then they deserve death for us. That would be like casting them out right? 463 00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:36,500 We would now they can't be part of our church if they're kidnappers. We just don't do that 464 00:39:36,780 --> 00:39:44,420 Okay, verse 8 be careful against an infection of leprosy that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests shall teach you 465 00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:49,820 As I have commanded them so you shall be careful to do so they're gonna do everything they're told about 466 00:39:50,780 --> 00:39:56,780 Leprosy 9 says remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as he came out of Egypt 467 00:39:56,860 --> 00:40:01,840 So this is a particular story. We're not gonna go there and read it Miriam. Who was Miriam? Does anybody know this? 468 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,100 She's somebody famous the sister 469 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:08,300 Going once 470 00:40:08,380 --> 00:40:10,180 Miriam is 471 00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:16,020 Moses's sister, okay, and they come out of Egypt. They're traveling together and there's a 472 00:40:17,740 --> 00:40:23,300 But that would have worked too I suppose we don't technically know could have been yeah, okay, but anyway, yeah, probably true 473 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:30,240 At least she would have been Aaron's at least half sister if not full sister then okay because Aaron was Moses's brother and 474 00:40:31,660 --> 00:40:33,660 Miriam starts talking bad about Moses 475 00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:39,240 God settles over Miriam's tent when she comes out. She's leprous all over 476 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:45,400 Moses begs God and says forgive her and God says listen if her father just spat in her face 477 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,800 disgusted with her as a child wouldn't she be punished for at least a week and 478 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,560 Moses has say well, yeah, she would have and so then they for a week 479 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,440 She's leprous because she talked bad about Moses at the end of the week 480 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:03,400 She's healed their fine. They move on the whole camp stays there and does not move the whole time. She's leprous 481 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:09,640 Okay, so that's a story that they're reminded in dealing with leprosy anybody can get it 482 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,360 So don't go oh well, that's a poor man's disease 483 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,400 back in the day years ago we had a go-round with lice and 484 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,920 There's a big stigma with lice in 485 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,500 inner-city Toledo that says that the poor unbathed 486 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,280 Undisciplined people get lice. That's just not true 487 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:35,160 So anybody can get lice right anybody in fact the cleaner your scalp the more likely you are to get it 488 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:41,840 Not the other way around right dirty scalps. They can't get to the core. So they can't they don't take root, right? 489 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,560 They don't eat so the point is she was saying anybody can suffer 490 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:49,240 remember the suffering 491 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,120 That's what he was saying about Miriam also by the way 492 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:58,040 Moses never Moses who was the leader of them coming out of Egypt never saw the promised land because he offended God 493 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,120 God's discipline and punishment and judgment can be brought down on anybody. So before you go all well, they deserve it 494 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,680 They're getting what they deserve remember you deserve it, too 495 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,520 Okay, that's what he's saying ten when you make your neighbor a loan of any sort 496 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,520 You shall not enter his house to take his pledge 497 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:19,440 You shall remain outside and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you show the man some dignity 498 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,680 For crying out loud that he would bring out the pledge if he is a poor man 499 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,800 You shall not sleep with his pledge when the sun goes down 500 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:31,520 You shall surely return the pledge to him so you could take something in pledge from a poor man, but he gets it back at night 501 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:38,200 That he may sleep in his cloak and bless you and usually it would be his cloak that was taken as a pledge because he's poor 502 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,400 He doesn't have much and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God 503 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,760 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy 504 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:51,200 Whether he is on one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns 505 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:56,780 So don't oppress the poor and needy you shall give him his wages on his day 506 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:03,360 Before the sun sets for his poor and sets his heart on it so that he may not cry against you to the Lord 507 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,920 And it becomes sin in you so pay him the day that he works because he's he may not have any money 508 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:14,200 You may not be able to eat. He's his heart is set on that money pay him the day that he works. That's interesting, isn't it? 509 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,200 16 510 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,820 Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers 511 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,240 Everyone shall be put to death for his own sin 512 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,080 Today we always want to punish the parents for the sins of their children 513 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,280 But once children are old enough to know they're old enough to know 514 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:37,120 17 you shall not pervert the justice do an alien or an orphaned nor take a widow's garment in pledge 515 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:43,760 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there 516 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,120 Therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. So God was saying be respectful and don't 517 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,960 abuse if you will 518 00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:54,720 Taking a widow's garment in pledge or 519 00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:01,960 Fail to give justice to an alien who might not have legal standing or to an orphan who doesn't have parents to defend him right? 520 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,880 19 when you reap your harvest in your field and they've forgotten a sheaf that's when they bundle up the 521 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,040 The grain and it stands upright usually 522 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,600 Or they lay it in a pile on the ground that they're going to carry out. So you forgot one 523 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,560 You shall not go back to get it 524 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:26,040 It shall be for the alien for the orphan and for the widow in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands 525 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:31,120 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again 526 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:34,360 It shall be for the alien for the orphan and for the widow. So 527 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:41,680 Before the right the olives are really ripe you beat the tree to get the olives to fall off and the olive oil that comes out of it 528 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,480 Is really sweet and you can wait until the olives are really ripe and take them off 529 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,760 You can pick them by hand or whatever or shake and a lot more will fall off 530 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:55,440 But then they're less sweet so you beat the tree while the olives are not really really ripe yet 531 00:44:55,720 --> 00:45:00,920 Less will fall off. He's saying if you beat the tree while the olives are not really ripe yet 532 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,360 Or not all of them the ones that don't fall off. Those aren't yours 533 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,680 Those are for the orphan or for the widow 534 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:13,600 Even though that's their land their trees that God gave them right and he said no you don't you don't get that now 535 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,740 All the rest of that as they ripen up the orphans and the widows can pick that that'll be theirs 536 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,880 22 you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt 537 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,400 Therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. See they had nothing 538 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,320 God gave them the tree. God gave them the land. They had nothing now. They have everything 539 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:36,920 The poor still have nothing and they must remember the poor if the orphan the alien the widow 25 little further 540 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:44,880 If there is a dispute between men and they go to court and the judges decide their case and they justify the righteous and condemn 541 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:51,440 The wicked so the judge just picked the good guy. He's fine. He didn't do it. The other guy said you did it 542 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,360 Then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten 543 00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:00,480 The judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes 544 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:02,760 According to his guilt 545 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,200 He may beat him 40 times, but no more 546 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:12,240 Lest he beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother be degraded in your eyes 547 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,360 Here's the thing about justice. I actually learned this from magic the gathering 548 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,800 This thing called power creep 549 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,000 Right, so what happens is this somebody does something wrong. They get a punishment 550 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,240 Then they do it wrong again. So what happens now? 551 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,480 They have to get a more severe punishment 552 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,520 Then they do it wrong again or their brother does it or a family member does it or a friend does it doesn't matter 553 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,280 It's still happening in our society and we're trying to abolish this crime, right? 554 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:46,040 So now you have to go more so now we're not beating them 40 times or we're beating them 60 because they 60 times people to get the point 555 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,280 But it's not the same person 556 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:49,600 even 557 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:56,840 Right and by the way 40 is a god number. It means all the corners of the earth and all the sides of the earth 558 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:00,200 That's why it rained for 40 days 40 is enough 559 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,080 Right, it was enough 560 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:06,380 Nobody wants to be whipped 40 times if a man would commit a crime and then be whipped 40 times for it 561 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,040 He commits it again. He's either insane or he's got a good reason 562 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,620 Right and so they were saying 563 00:47:13,620 --> 00:47:19,100 Don't let that power creep don't let that punishment creep up to be like the other nations 564 00:47:19,740 --> 00:47:25,260 That's also why dads would be punished for the crimes of their children or children will be punished for the crimes 565 00:47:25,260 --> 00:47:29,960 Their dad because I see you don't care if you get punished. We'll see how you like it when I punish your kid or 566 00:47:32,260 --> 00:47:37,020 Kid does something wrong. It's okay. You know, you're just a kid. We're gonna let you off. We're gonna punish your dad 567 00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:44,980 Or it's a grown man 30 year old punishes father because that grown man 30 year old doesn't want to see his 60 year old dad get whipped 568 00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:51,300 So he's gonna straighten up and not do it again. So his dad won't get whipped that kind of thing. It's all power creep 569 00:47:52,900 --> 00:47:55,020 So that's the end of the text for today 570 00:47:56,900 --> 00:48:03,660 That last one remember was about that brother being degraded in their eyes if that he was whipped more than the 40 times 571 00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:09,380 All right, so the first thing in here. Let me talk to on the title first. It says it's just society 572 00:48:09,860 --> 00:48:12,620 That doesn't mean it's it's just society 573 00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:15,180 It means it's just 574 00:48:15,420 --> 00:48:22,540 Society as in a society that has justice in it and God is telling us how to run a society that has justice in it 575 00:48:22,540 --> 00:48:27,500 So in the kingdom of God, it should be like this because the kingdom of God is a just society 576 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:28,620 It means in the church 577 00:48:28,620 --> 00:48:34,380 It should be like this because the church is the kingdom of God and therefore a just society 578 00:48:34,860 --> 00:48:39,700 All right, so the first thing and maybe this like if this was all you get this is key 579 00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:42,380 All right, and that is this to God 580 00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:45,380 personhood is precious 581 00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:52,540 What do I mean by that? Well your personhood is you it's your identity. It's the way you make decisions 582 00:48:52,540 --> 00:48:59,160 It's the way you were programmed by the world and rebel sometimes programmed by the world and don't rebel sometimes 583 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:05,260 It's your processing your heart. You could say it's your soul. It's your personhood. It's who you are 584 00:49:05,740 --> 00:49:11,260 That is precious. God does not want you to stop being who you are 585 00:49:12,860 --> 00:49:16,380 He just wants to cut out the old dead man that's sinful 586 00:49:16,380 --> 00:49:25,980 He wants to kick when you die the new you the resurrected you it's either a all new things or be all old things made new 587 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:33,340 Right the Bible does not say that when you get saved everything that you were stops. That's a mistake 588 00:49:33,420 --> 00:49:40,340 That's a misinterpretation of second Corinthians 5. What it says that is that all old things pass away 589 00:49:40,860 --> 00:49:42,860 all things become new 590 00:49:42,860 --> 00:49:49,940 Anything that cannot serve you anything that cannot serve God and serve other people in the kingdom of God is meant to pass away 591 00:49:50,420 --> 00:49:54,860 But anything that can serve you serve God and serve the kingdom of God will be made new 592 00:49:55,340 --> 00:49:58,980 Right and so your personhood is not wiped out 593 00:50:00,860 --> 00:50:07,220 But also I think we can realize as precious as it is to God it is not something for us to treasure 594 00:50:07,220 --> 00:50:11,940 Your uniqueness is not meant to hold you back from following God 595 00:50:12,140 --> 00:50:16,500 Your uniqueness is meant to show you that you can have a unique one-on-one 596 00:50:17,020 --> 00:50:21,260 personal relationship with the with the God of the universe do his son Jesus Christ 597 00:50:21,980 --> 00:50:27,460 People are going to do it ways that don't make any sense to you. This has happened to me a 598 00:50:28,380 --> 00:50:30,620 Great deal and I'll be honest with you 599 00:50:30,620 --> 00:50:36,220 I think God says this do this this way and then I think I look at you and you're doing it a different way 600 00:50:36,220 --> 00:50:38,220 And I think 601 00:50:39,180 --> 00:50:41,180 But God says do it this way 602 00:50:41,180 --> 00:50:43,180 Now what's being done may not be a sin 603 00:50:44,220 --> 00:50:49,620 Right, but to me God says do it this way. So I'm thinking it's not right 604 00:50:50,660 --> 00:50:55,900 Right that person's personhood is messed up. It's flawed. It has an error in it 605 00:50:55,900 --> 00:51:01,780 And I wish we could fix it. How are we gonna fix it? Well, they really need to repent and turn to Jesus. But wait a minute 606 00:51:01,780 --> 00:51:10,020 What do we repent from in turn to Jesus? We repent from our old self and sin in turn you can't rep rep repent from your personhood 607 00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:18,180 To God your personhood is precious. So that whole idea of like I'm a late riser or I'm an early riser now 608 00:51:18,940 --> 00:51:23,660 Caution needs to be exercised because if you're a late riser when you should be an early riser 609 00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:25,620 That is sin 610 00:51:25,620 --> 00:51:29,980 If God would ordain that you get up early get in the words spend some time with him and then go to work 611 00:51:29,980 --> 00:51:32,100 And you don't do that that sin 612 00:51:32,940 --> 00:51:34,340 right 613 00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:40,020 If you make a commitment to do something in the morning at 9 and you're not an early riser and you wake up 614 00:51:40,020 --> 00:51:43,860 And it's 10 you just sin because you made a commitment to do something and you didn't do it 615 00:51:44,260 --> 00:51:47,540 So there are issues that arise out of one type or another 616 00:51:47,740 --> 00:51:55,620 But either way whatever you are that's your current personhood and God is not trying to abolish that indeed God is trying to set it free 617 00:51:56,020 --> 00:51:58,340 Mind you in Christ, but set it free 618 00:51:58,340 --> 00:52:02,700 When I was growing up my dad used to say poor people have poor ways 619 00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:09,060 We'd be driving down the road and we'd see a car where the bumper was damaged and it was duct tape back on 620 00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:15,580 Right by 30 rows of duct tape pulling the bumper on the road this was active that and he my dad had say 621 00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:20,580 I'd say that's kind of weird dad. Why did they just get it fixed? He said well poor people have poor ways 622 00:52:20,580 --> 00:52:28,900 Well my dad was off work from Dana because they had a very long strike and 623 00:52:30,460 --> 00:52:35,060 The strike pay had run out and so they were not making any money whatsoever 624 00:52:36,460 --> 00:52:39,020 And we began to eat very slim pickens 625 00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:43,260 Certain foods that were cheap 626 00:52:43,260 --> 00:52:49,580 Prepared and my mom began to save leftovers for the first time in the decade that I'd been alive and 627 00:52:50,980 --> 00:52:54,260 I noticed the difference and I commented on it to my dad and my dad said well son 628 00:52:54,620 --> 00:52:58,580 We're not getting paid money because I'm off work. We're past the strike pay 629 00:52:58,820 --> 00:53:03,260 So there's no money coming in whatsoever and they're trying to raise some money to help people 630 00:53:03,380 --> 00:53:09,020 But the bottom line is when our savings are gone. We're out of money and he said poor people have poor ways 631 00:53:09,020 --> 00:53:12,660 But be careful and don't judge yourself as a poor person 632 00:53:13,460 --> 00:53:16,100 But also don't judge a poor person for being poor 633 00:53:17,740 --> 00:53:22,220 Senator from Ohio State Senate and I don't have her permission to use this illustration 634 00:53:22,220 --> 00:53:27,980 So I'm not going to name her said to me the problem is that the people in the in the government have 635 00:53:27,980 --> 00:53:33,700 Determined that this is a great land of opportunity and anybody who's poor is poor 636 00:53:34,380 --> 00:53:36,380 For some reason that's their own fault 637 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:40,660 And so if they don't have enough money, they don't have enough resource that can't find enough food. They're poor 638 00:53:41,860 --> 00:53:46,740 Because essentially they choose to be poor and so the government doesn't have to help them get un-poor 639 00:53:47,780 --> 00:53:50,900 Now whether or not that's true. I think it's kind of a skeptical point of view 640 00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:57,220 But the bottom line is the poor are not poor because they're poor the Bible says there will all the poor you will always have with you 641 00:53:57,220 --> 00:53:59,220 Jesus's words 642 00:53:59,780 --> 00:54:03,900 And so we'll always be able to find somebody who's poor. It's not going to happen now 643 00:54:03,900 --> 00:54:08,420 Sometimes you're going to be poor and sometimes you're not going to be poor speaking financially 644 00:54:08,780 --> 00:54:14,180 But in Christ you can always be wealthy if your personhood is found in Christ 645 00:54:15,020 --> 00:54:18,020 Is liberated set free and protected in Christ? 646 00:54:19,820 --> 00:54:25,820 We all understand that times of war require drastic measures during World War two a 647 00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:29,260 And I would did not know this firsthand. So don't think I'm that old right? 648 00:54:29,260 --> 00:54:34,140 There was a rationing system set up in the US you had stamps 649 00:54:34,580 --> 00:54:37,100 So you're allowed to get X bread X 650 00:54:37,820 --> 00:54:43,500 Milk right and you had to go and turn in your stamp to be allowed to buy with your own money 651 00:54:44,380 --> 00:54:46,380 gas 652 00:54:46,420 --> 00:54:53,580 Lean the list goes on and on bricks bricks became so expensive and so uncommon and rations 653 00:54:53,580 --> 00:54:58,740 Ration bricks you don't eat bricks. You don't drive bricks. You don't sit on bricks bricks 654 00:54:59,220 --> 00:55:03,580 My parents house was built it during World War two. It wasn't built on a foundation 655 00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:06,860 Because the owner couldn't get the bricks 656 00:55:07,500 --> 00:55:12,340 This is why the floors in their house go like this to this day and then they later had a foundation built under it and they were told 657 00:55:12,340 --> 00:55:15,340 That they could jack it up and reset it but it didn't reset 658 00:55:15,340 --> 00:55:19,500 So now it's stable and solid with a foundation but the floors are still 659 00:55:19,500 --> 00:55:24,020 Like this right because bricks were rationed in times of war 660 00:55:25,020 --> 00:55:27,260 Extreme actions may be taken 661 00:55:28,260 --> 00:55:30,260 Are you taking extreme actions? 662 00:55:30,780 --> 00:55:36,220 I submit to you that as Christians we have forgotten that we are living in a time of war 663 00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:41,900 It's your personhood geared for a time of war or a time of recreation 664 00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:45,660 Are you entertaining yourself comforting yourself? 665 00:55:45,660 --> 00:55:52,660 and finding the parts of yourself that need a little stroking and given it a little stroke or are you remembering that at any given moment 666 00:55:52,660 --> 00:55:54,180 Satan could come against you now 667 00:55:54,180 --> 00:55:56,540 It's unlikely that any of us will ever meet him in our lifetime 668 00:55:56,540 --> 00:56:02,820 But you realize that the devil himself could if he ever chose to come against you personally he could step in the room 669 00:56:03,340 --> 00:56:07,300 I assume he could dress nicely and you probably wouldn't realize it was him 670 00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:10,500 I 671 00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:12,500 I 672 00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:22,260 Probably wouldn't realize it was him and he could tempt you to revoke your decision to follow the Jesus Christ and would you be prepared? 673 00:56:23,340 --> 00:56:28,020 Would you be afraid because you don't need to be afraid because he was in you as greater than he is in the world 674 00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:31,900 But if you're busy stroking the parts of your personhood 675 00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:38,740 That don't build up the parts of your personhood that can fight against the devil if he should ever choose you to show up against 676 00:56:38,740 --> 00:56:42,620 Then when that time comes your personhood will retreat and what's left? 677 00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:46,500 What's left? 678 00:56:46,500 --> 00:56:48,500 We are living in a time of war 679 00:56:49,180 --> 00:56:55,940 We must take care of one another and even protect each other's personhood as God sees it as precious 680 00:56:56,100 --> 00:57:01,220 So must we be ready to make the necessary drastic measures that means you may have to be 681 00:57:01,820 --> 00:57:06,460 Inconvenienced you may have to go out of your way and serve somebody and do something for them 682 00:57:06,460 --> 00:57:12,900 Because they in their personhood made a decision that is not expressly sin and it affects you 683 00:57:13,620 --> 00:57:20,380 And now you've got to carry the load or the burden so that other person can just be who they are in Christ and that's it 684 00:57:21,220 --> 00:57:26,100 God sees personhood as precious and in a society run by God 685 00:57:29,180 --> 00:57:33,300 God will not set it up so that you cannot be who you are 686 00:57:33,300 --> 00:57:38,780 If someone refused to let you be who you are now who you are is sin and repent of that and turn back to God 687 00:57:38,780 --> 00:57:44,780 But otherwise if someone refused to let you be who you are then they are not respecting your personhood as God does one final example 688 00:57:44,940 --> 00:57:47,460 Have you seen the movie hunger games recently? 689 00:57:47,460 --> 00:57:53,660 Ariana expressed a desire to see that movie and so we began watching it so we could help her decipher it because it is 690 00:57:53,660 --> 00:57:58,980 Rated PG-13 she is nine and there are things in it that she cannot see so we fast forwarded through one scene so far 691 00:57:58,980 --> 00:58:02,260 We missed fast forwarding through one other scene that we should have fast forwarded through 692 00:58:02,260 --> 00:58:04,260 But we're doing okay 693 00:58:04,660 --> 00:58:11,240 Very little foul language in it in that movie. There is a scene where president snow meets with I think his name is 694 00:58:11,620 --> 00:58:16,500 Sluhtark, but anyway, it's the first designer of the first hunger game the 74th hunger games, right? 695 00:58:16,580 --> 00:58:20,380 He meets with him and he says to me says have you ever been out there? 696 00:58:21,020 --> 00:58:23,020 the district like 11 and 12 697 00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:25,300 He said have you ever been out there? 698 00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:30,420 He said there are a lot of underdogs out there a lot of people just trying to get by her up 699 00:58:30,420 --> 00:58:36,300 Rides up from their circumstances a lot of underdogs. He said because he said you like an underdog and see everybody likes an underdog 700 00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:41,260 So have you ever been out there? There's a lot of underdogs out there. This is also a lot of grain coal 701 00:58:41,940 --> 00:58:48,060 Feed crops row crops of all kinds of things all kind of things that we need factories those things that we need and a lot of underdogs 702 00:58:48,140 --> 00:58:52,820 He said if you had been out there and you had met them you wouldn't like them either 703 00:58:53,780 --> 00:58:55,380 You know why? 704 00:58:55,380 --> 00:59:02,700 Because the underdog personhood the one that is unleashed in God the one that is doing what it is that God wants them to do 705 00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:07,740 In their way the way that God made them the way that God programmed them 706 00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:13,300 But under God's auspices with God's power in it with God's Holy Spirit back in it with God's 707 00:59:13,980 --> 00:59:20,940 Presence pushing it right if I go forward and I witness to somebody the way I would witness to somebody my personhood 708 00:59:20,940 --> 00:59:24,540 Nothing can stop that 709 00:59:25,420 --> 00:59:29,660 Which is why society is constantly trying to get people to conform 710 00:59:30,780 --> 00:59:32,780 Be different come be like us 711 00:59:33,540 --> 00:59:37,660 Right abandon the parts of your personhood that are unique and different 712 00:59:38,460 --> 00:59:46,060 Come be like us listen to what we have to say right God creates a society that is the exact opposite of that 713 00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:52,460 He said everybody in this society will be covered under grace they get to go into the promised land not because they're good 714 00:59:52,460 --> 00:59:56,740 But because I said so and they are willing to receive it from me and follow me 715 00:59:56,740 --> 01:00:04,020 And then we will go forward and we will use that unique you in a unique way to uniquely affect a unique society 716 01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:06,500 set inside a unique world 717 01:00:07,980 --> 01:00:09,980 That is lost and dying and going to hell 718 01:00:11,020 --> 01:00:12,300 and 719 01:00:12,300 --> 01:00:14,300 Satan doesn't like an underdog 720 01:00:14,300 --> 01:00:17,180 personhood that's unleashed in Christ and 721 01:00:18,620 --> 01:00:24,140 The fact is that members of the church and Christians all over the world. We're listening to him 722 01:00:26,340 --> 01:00:29,620 We're listening to those evil spirits it says when you're a little weird 723 01:00:30,580 --> 01:00:32,580 Don't be weird like that 724 01:00:32,740 --> 01:00:35,940 Don't dress that way don't behave that way don't act that way don't talk that way 725 01:00:35,940 --> 01:00:39,660 Don't be who you are no one can know who you are keep your mask on 726 01:00:39,660 --> 01:00:44,820 Listen when you came to Jesus Christ your mask went in the fires of hell 727 01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:48,420 Now be who you are in Christ 728 01:00:48,580 --> 01:00:52,620 Let the things that are not supposed to be you the old things the simple things die away 729 01:00:52,900 --> 01:00:56,220 Let your new personhood resurrected born again in Christ live 730 01:00:56,340 --> 01:01:00,420 Yes, he'll if you get rid of your ability to walk the old way 731 01:01:00,420 --> 01:01:04,180 You're gonna have to learn an ability to walk the new way you have to learn to walk again 732 01:01:04,180 --> 01:01:05,300 That's what's called being born again 733 01:01:05,300 --> 01:01:11,380 You have to learn to walk again if the old way of giving giving because it'll make you feel good make somebody else feel good because they 734 01:01:11,380 --> 01:01:16,020 May give back because you have excess you don't want to feel guilty about your excess all that the old way of giving 735 01:01:16,020 --> 01:01:19,500 That's got to go that died when you died in Christ 736 01:01:21,060 --> 01:01:27,300 Where he died for us so all died so that died when you died in Christ the new way of giving giving without expecting anything back 737 01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:32,060 Given because you recognize the need given because it will honor glorify God giving because 738 01:01:32,060 --> 01:01:37,980 Giving is a thing we do and it's part of who we are giving for that reason 739 01:01:38,820 --> 01:01:40,820 That'll be with you forever 740 01:01:43,460 --> 01:01:45,460 But the enemy does not like 741 01:01:46,580 --> 01:01:48,180 An underdog 742 01:01:48,180 --> 01:01:56,820 Unleashed somebody who will live who they are different for Christ is the most dangerous thing and God recognizes that and he says so be that 743 01:01:58,140 --> 01:01:59,700 Be who you are 744 01:01:59,700 --> 01:02:03,060 Just be it in Christ and when you see sin cut it out 745 01:02:04,660 --> 01:02:06,660 When you make mistakes 746 01:02:06,780 --> 01:02:09,140 Get on with life people make mistakes 747 01:02:10,300 --> 01:02:12,300 Confess them and move on 748 01:02:12,380 --> 01:02:19,540 God's precious personhood must be allowed to exist within the kingdom of God and God's kingdom is everywhere that Christians are 749 01:02:22,180 --> 01:02:26,780 Let us see precious personhood in everybody else we meet the next thing 750 01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:32,340 Protections for the poor this text is largely about the poor being protected anybody as I said might be poor 751 01:02:32,860 --> 01:02:35,140 It was there and there and there and there 752 01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:44,020 Here's what happens the wealthy and the great those who get in top those are doing well 753 01:02:44,820 --> 01:02:46,580 They become 754 01:02:46,580 --> 01:02:48,580 devious 755 01:02:48,580 --> 01:02:53,340 They emphasize the parts of their personality of their personhood that do not honor God 756 01:02:53,340 --> 01:02:55,820 recently a popular 757 01:02:57,020 --> 01:02:58,940 Star I'm gonna you know 758 01:02:58,940 --> 01:03:04,580 I'm not even talk bad about her but she sings and she's well liked and especially amongst teenage girls and 20 somethings and 759 01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:11,420 I read a post by a Southern Baptist pastor online and and somebody asked the question why do so many young people? 760 01:03:11,420 --> 01:03:16,460 What do they see in this person and another pastor post well, I'll tell you what happened with my daughter 761 01:03:16,980 --> 01:03:20,580 She had a stuffed animal and it was named after this pop star and 762 01:03:20,580 --> 01:03:26,220 And just recently she changed his name and so I asked her I said why did she change his name and she said well 763 01:03:26,740 --> 01:03:31,540 This pop star in her most recent music video for her most recent release song 764 01:03:32,100 --> 01:03:36,340 She's dressed up as the devil and the song is singing about how you don't need to forgive 765 01:03:36,340 --> 01:03:38,660 You don't need to be a person of forgiveness. You don't need to forgive anybody 766 01:03:38,660 --> 01:03:41,780 That's a trick of society. They're trying to force you to come forgive and you don't have to do that 767 01:03:41,780 --> 01:03:47,220 You can hold a grudge and it's okay, and she said and I know that's not what God says so now I'm done with her a 768 01:03:47,220 --> 01:03:52,500 Child she said now I'm done with her and Jesus said unless you come like a little child in the kingdom of God 769 01:03:52,500 --> 01:03:54,260 You have no part with me 770 01:03:54,260 --> 01:03:57,940 Are you willing to go here is somebody who's pushing on my person? 771 01:03:57,940 --> 01:04:01,640 It's something that is disrespectful something that is ungodly and I'm not having to do with it 772 01:04:01,740 --> 01:04:08,180 There's all over Facebook the the anniversary parade in Brazil where they had a guy dressed up as the devil 773 01:04:08,540 --> 01:04:13,140 Beating all the way down the street with blood and scars and whips and everything else 774 01:04:13,140 --> 01:04:20,900 And he and his little evil spirits around beating Jesus all the way down the street and everywhere they passed they applauded 775 01:04:24,420 --> 01:04:29,540 See God sees your personhood as precious, but in the kingdom of God unleashed for him 776 01:04:30,140 --> 01:04:34,660 But there are people who just don't know they're in a tough spot. They're they're wrong 777 01:04:35,500 --> 01:04:38,700 It would be so easy for us as wealthy kingdom members 778 01:04:38,700 --> 01:04:45,180 And it is already so easy for people who are wealthy in some way in the world to dismiss or dispose of 779 01:04:45,420 --> 01:04:51,300 Anybody that's poor and go they've got a problem. I don't got to do nothing about it. When's the last time you paid somebody else's rent 780 01:04:51,980 --> 01:04:55,300 When's the last time you willingly loan money to somebody who had a need? 781 01:04:56,540 --> 01:04:58,260 right 782 01:04:58,260 --> 01:05:00,260 Bible says that's the kind of people we are 783 01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:06,100 I'm I struggle with this myself because I 784 01:05:06,100 --> 01:05:09,620 Need a break so I'm thinking vacation 785 01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:15,140 But I also see people who are in need so as Christians we have to decide and 786 01:05:16,260 --> 01:05:20,140 Here is where the line is drawn the poor is protected 787 01:05:21,500 --> 01:05:27,340 Loans are ordered don't go and take their pledge out of their house. Let them bring it out to protect their dignity, right? 788 01:05:27,940 --> 01:05:29,940 But do loan to them 789 01:05:30,100 --> 01:05:31,660 for a cloak 790 01:05:31,660 --> 01:05:36,180 Loan 100 gold if necessary that cloaks probably worth five gold loan whatever you need to 791 01:05:36,700 --> 01:05:41,220 Take the pledge but give it back at night so we can sleep in it. See they're protected 792 01:05:41,380 --> 01:05:45,060 You can't go into society thinking I'm gonna win people to Jesus 793 01:05:46,460 --> 01:05:51,660 You can't do that the Bible says Jesus speaking which will read it in the conclusion. We're almost there already 794 01:05:52,620 --> 01:05:54,260 Jesus said 795 01:05:54,260 --> 01:05:56,540 No man come with unto the father except to be called 796 01:05:56,540 --> 01:06:00,580 Do you understand that you do not have the ability to win people to Jesus? 797 01:06:02,020 --> 01:06:03,740 You just don't it's not in you 798 01:06:03,740 --> 01:06:08,260 It's not some kind of spiritual gift like the evangelist is a gift to the church and he can do it 799 01:06:08,260 --> 01:06:11,980 And he's better at winning people to Jesus than anybody else. That's true 800 01:06:12,500 --> 01:06:18,380 But we don't have this gift in us that we can win people to Jesus the gift that wins people to Jesus is Jesus 801 01:06:18,380 --> 01:06:25,820 So you go out in society you look at somebody go that person doesn't want to hear about Jesus 802 01:06:27,340 --> 01:06:29,340 But you tell them anyway 803 01:06:30,620 --> 01:06:33,580 There will be dozens of people in heaven 804 01:06:34,500 --> 01:06:39,020 From my life and from your life and whatever that we said they don't want to hear about Jesus anyway 805 01:06:40,020 --> 01:06:43,100 Looking at them. They don't want to hear about the way they're acting. They don't want to hear about it. I 806 01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:48,380 Shouldn't bring it into this conversation because we're talking about something has nothing to do that 807 01:06:48,380 --> 01:06:53,060 And I'll look like a Bible thumper or I'll I'll be hurting their feelings with her. Yes 808 01:06:54,940 --> 01:07:00,940 Precious personhood respect them offer to talk about it with them if they decline. It's fine 809 01:07:01,340 --> 01:07:06,340 You could share the entire gospel. They say they don't want to be saved. It's fine. That's their choice 810 01:07:06,460 --> 01:07:11,380 It doesn't make any sense, but there are people who don't have and don't want to have 811 01:07:11,380 --> 01:07:18,980 There is a whole subculture in the United States of America of people that go from pantry to pantry or community meal to community meal 812 01:07:18,980 --> 01:07:21,740 They live on the street or they live poor. They search couch to couch 813 01:07:22,140 --> 01:07:28,300 Whatever and they don't want to have a job and they don't want to have a permanent property or a permanent roof and that's fine 814 01:07:28,300 --> 01:07:31,180 There's nothing that says they can't be saved or go to heaven when they die 815 01:07:32,420 --> 01:07:38,180 But they don't want a job that they have to report for work and if they don't what's it to you? You got a problem with that? 816 01:07:38,180 --> 01:07:43,460 That's their personhood. That's what they've chosen. So you're not going to share Jesus with them or 817 01:07:44,060 --> 01:07:47,140 You're not going to give to them. You're not going to take care of them 818 01:07:47,420 --> 01:07:51,540 God sees personhood as precious and he puts in place protections for the poor 819 01:07:51,940 --> 01:07:54,820 We have to recognize that the poor have personhood 820 01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:58,420 They are created in the image of the God of the universe 821 01:07:59,300 --> 01:08:03,100 Yes, they are now if they don't know Christ they're exhibiting a fallen image 822 01:08:03,100 --> 01:08:10,380 I have more often talked to people who profess to know Jesus and can quote scripture and talk about what they meditated on 823 01:08:10,460 --> 01:08:16,980 Meditated on yesterday talk about what they read in their Bibles yesterday talk about what they studied this week talk about what I talked about 824 01:08:16,980 --> 01:08:18,980 In my sermon last Sunday 825 01:08:19,580 --> 01:08:25,020 From out there amongst the poor who have almost nothing that I had from inside our own church 826 01:08:26,260 --> 01:08:31,700 My own family I'll preach the sermon and then talk about something I talked about in the sermon and I get blank gazes 827 01:08:31,700 --> 01:08:38,900 And I'm not trying to judge or be accusatory what I'm saying is there is a greater need for it and they're pursuing it 828 01:08:39,180 --> 01:08:44,940 They know what they need and they're pursuing it and what that is is faith. They're they're going I need to go to heaven when I die 829 01:08:45,140 --> 01:08:47,660 Do I need a job? Yeah, kind of 830 01:08:48,980 --> 01:08:56,900 Do I need a place to live? Yeah, kind of do I need food to eat? Yeah, kind of but what I really need is to go to heaven 831 01:08:56,900 --> 01:09:02,300 When I die what I really need is to be prepared that when evil spirits come against me while I'm in my struggles 832 01:09:02,300 --> 01:09:04,300 I have some defense 833 01:09:04,980 --> 01:09:09,900 And our families and everybody that I see we're all pretty taken care of by God and 834 01:09:10,380 --> 01:09:14,860 If we're pretty taken care of by God then we understand that God has protections for the poor 835 01:09:16,340 --> 01:09:20,140 There will be in the United States of America today a 836 01:09:21,620 --> 01:09:23,260 thousand children 837 01:09:23,260 --> 01:09:31,220 That die of starvation or malnutrition it shouldn't be we live in a first world country. It's available food's available a 838 01:09:32,740 --> 01:09:37,060 Thousand children in America today will die and I'm not prophesying that I just believe it's true of 839 01:09:39,260 --> 01:09:47,340 Malnutrition or starvation today and there's no one in this room that does not have access to something to eat 840 01:09:47,340 --> 01:09:55,660 God has protections for the poor if they die today a thousand children die of starvation day if they're before the age of 841 01:09:55,660 --> 01:10:01,940 Innocence they'll go straight to heaven and if they're after and they accept Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior they will go straight to heaven 842 01:10:05,460 --> 01:10:07,460 Also watching Hunger Games 843 01:10:07,940 --> 01:10:09,020 Capital 844 01:10:09,020 --> 01:10:14,540 Division one is the capital and in there which is looking at the wealthy and this is what the wealthy do they have unnecessary 845 01:10:14,540 --> 01:10:17,040 Surgery's 846 01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:21,940 They color their skin they color their hair right in the United States of America 847 01:10:23,580 --> 01:10:25,580 They change their gender 848 01:10:26,900 --> 01:10:28,900 They change their name 849 01:10:29,180 --> 01:10:34,580 They die their hair paint their nails and it just goes on and on they do everything 850 01:10:34,580 --> 01:10:39,540 They want to themselves because they have access to money and time listen. I'm taking right now 851 01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:47,340 In the poorest parts of the United States of America where people are literally struggling to put food on their table or in the world 852 01:10:47,580 --> 01:10:51,340 Where there are they don't have anything to eat. I don't know where they're gonna eat 853 01:10:51,660 --> 01:10:57,420 They're not worried about whether they're a boy or a girl. They're worried about what are they gonna eat? 854 01:10:58,340 --> 01:11:03,660 in those countries where poverty and hunger is the greatest need 855 01:11:04,540 --> 01:11:06,820 There's no transgenders none 856 01:11:06,820 --> 01:11:08,820 Check your statistics 857 01:11:09,460 --> 01:11:10,740 There's nobody going gosh 858 01:11:10,740 --> 01:11:15,860 I think God meant for the reason I can't find any food to eat is because God meant for me to be a boy instead of a girl 859 01:11:15,860 --> 01:11:17,860 It's not happening 860 01:11:18,500 --> 01:11:21,420 In times of war get drastic 861 01:11:24,620 --> 01:11:28,460 There will be those who they're not in times it's alright everything is good 862 01:11:28,460 --> 01:11:33,940 I'm okay, and so now I'm gonna look at what am I gonna fix about myself? What am I gonna do? 863 01:11:33,940 --> 01:11:38,860 What am I gonna buy right most expensive cars are bought for the way they look and how they drive 864 01:11:40,860 --> 01:11:45,220 Why else you buy a car you don't buy an expensive car to get from point A to point B 865 01:11:45,740 --> 01:11:47,740 You buy it for how it looks and how it drives 866 01:11:48,860 --> 01:11:49,940 right 867 01:11:49,940 --> 01:11:55,020 For $15,000 you buy a car that for the next ten years will pretty much not fail you and get you from point A to point B 868 01:11:55,020 --> 01:12:01,340 $15,000 if you spent $100,000 on that same thing you'd be wasting $85,000 869 01:12:01,340 --> 01:12:03,500 That's a fact 870 01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:09,260 But when you have $100,000 or credit or enough to bake the payments you can spend $100,000 on a car and 871 01:12:10,500 --> 01:12:12,500 Just drive it to nowhere 872 01:12:13,340 --> 01:12:16,940 Not from point A to B, but just for fun just cuz 873 01:12:17,380 --> 01:12:23,260 Meanwhile a thousand children die of starvation and a man can't get alone to get back on his feet 874 01:12:23,900 --> 01:12:28,060 People can't get their rent paid or their utilities paid or their house burned down and they lost everything 875 01:12:28,060 --> 01:12:29,300 But now they got nowhere to live 876 01:12:29,300 --> 01:12:31,300 No, it's living on somebody's couch 877 01:12:32,900 --> 01:12:37,420 God has protections for the poor and of all those protections 878 01:12:37,940 --> 01:12:39,940 We are one 879 01:12:40,500 --> 01:12:42,500 Because we are supposed to be sharing the gospel 880 01:12:43,260 --> 01:12:45,860 So if I had a lady call me to the life-station she said I got nothing 881 01:12:45,860 --> 01:12:48,660 I don't know what to do. I'm ready to just kill myself 882 01:12:48,660 --> 01:12:53,140 I was sitting in my office upstairs back on this back in the day when my office is on the top end of the building 883 01:12:53,620 --> 01:12:55,980 I said tell me what's going on. She said I'm living a hotel 884 01:12:55,980 --> 01:13:02,460 Three days over doing our rent. We got no money. We got no food. My kids are crying all the time 885 01:13:03,420 --> 01:13:07,380 So I put all my stuff in a storage unit and then it all it all got lost 886 01:13:08,700 --> 01:13:11,100 Because we couldn't pay for the storage unit. So they sold it all off 887 01:13:11,620 --> 01:13:16,500 Sold $5,000 of stuff to pay my $60 bill that I couldn't pay or $100 bill that I couldn't pay whatever it was 888 01:13:17,380 --> 01:13:19,900 It's got nothing. I don't know what to do 889 01:13:19,900 --> 01:13:26,620 So talk to her about we could get her food talk to her about what help we get off or where she could look for other help 890 01:13:26,620 --> 01:13:29,300 And then I talked to her about Jesus 891 01:13:30,660 --> 01:13:32,380 I shared the gospel 892 01:13:32,380 --> 01:13:37,540 I told her the basic facts of what it takes to be saved and over the phone. She prayed except Christ. She tears 893 01:13:39,100 --> 01:13:42,940 Had to been streaming down her face or she's balling like a baby as she's accepting Jesus 894 01:13:42,940 --> 01:13:45,780 You're like listen if what you're worried about is putting food on the table 895 01:13:45,780 --> 01:13:47,700 If you're about to kill yourself because you got no food 896 01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:52,040 You got no place to live and everything and it's falling apart. You don't want to hear about Jesus then right? 897 01:13:52,300 --> 01:13:54,300 Because what is Jesus even going to do about that? 898 01:13:55,900 --> 01:13:59,860 It's exactly when you need to hear about Jesus or when you're going through anything else at all 899 01:13:59,860 --> 01:14:03,620 So I shared Jesus Christ with her simple. I didn't know what to do God prompted me. I just did it 900 01:14:03,780 --> 01:14:08,220 We prayed over the phone. She accepted Jesus Christ as we got off the phone. She was praising God 901 01:14:08,380 --> 01:14:10,020 She said God is going to take care of me 902 01:14:10,020 --> 01:14:13,540 I just absolutely know it if so grateful for the help that you're offering and the leads he gave me on other 903 01:14:13,540 --> 01:14:15,660 Help because I know God's gonna be with us that's gonna be fine 904 01:14:15,660 --> 01:14:21,060 And even if it doesn't work out. We're going to heaven. We don't tell my kids and try to win them to Jesus right now. I 905 01:14:22,060 --> 01:14:24,820 Got off the phone the woman who was sitting in the room 906 01:14:24,820 --> 01:14:28,220 I don't have her permission to share her name looked at me and she said I've never seen that before 907 01:14:28,460 --> 01:14:33,740 I said, what do you mean? She said well the previous director that worked here you get calls like that all the time and 908 01:14:34,220 --> 01:14:38,740 The and the gospel was never shared it was always about how we can help you and so on so on like that 909 01:14:38,740 --> 01:14:44,860 She said why did you tell her about Jesus? That's not what she really needed and you could have heard a pin drop in the room. I 910 01:14:46,220 --> 01:14:48,220 Said I'm sorry 911 01:14:49,020 --> 01:14:52,100 But that's just not true and it never will be 912 01:14:54,100 --> 01:14:56,100 Because what Jesus 913 01:14:56,140 --> 01:14:59,500 Will Jesus always be what they really need yes 914 01:15:00,620 --> 01:15:07,760 Someday if they survive hunger, they'll die and go to heaven or hell based on what they did with Jesus 915 01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:13,060 Stop thinking that they can't accept Jesus and realize you need to talk to everyone who will listen 916 01:15:13,060 --> 01:15:17,760 And the truth is she said I come to preach the gospel to poor because the poor just might be more ready to listen 917 01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:21,680 Lastly it's property provided 918 01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:27,640 All through the text you can see this is how you handle the property right alone it don't do this 919 01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:32,720 Don't do that is how they handle the vineyard is how you handle the grain you wrap it up yourself 920 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,440 And then you forget it feel like oh, I forgot one you don't go back for it that goes to the poor 921 01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:39,200 You beat the tree to take off the sweet olives 922 01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:42,360 Collect them all up take them to market to sell a few weeks later 923 01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:45,320 There's a lot of sweet olives there, but you don't touch them because that's for the poor 924 01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:50,760 For the alien for the widow for the orphan so there's all things about here and how to handle property 925 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:56,240 But the key point is this all that they had they were given by grace 926 01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:03,000 You don't deserve your house you don't deserve your relationships 927 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:08,520 You don't deserve your money you didn't get it because you're a good person who talks nice to people and they gave it to you 928 01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:13,320 You don't get you didn't get it because you worked hard and earned it none of that is true 929 01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:20,360 How do I know because there's a lot of people who worked hard and earned it and died before they got it? 930 01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:22,960 car accidents hard attacks 931 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:29,360 The list just goes on and on COVID right there's a lot of people who if anybody deserved it 932 01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:34,920 They deserved it and they died save the million dollars for retirement and died before they retired 933 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,320 You don't get it because you deserved it now 934 01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:43,520 Is there a correlation between work and the resource that God puts in your hands so that you can manage them? 935 01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:50,200 Yes, there is a correlation between that in fact God expects you to work and says if you don't work you shouldn't eat 936 01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,040 That's not me. That's Bible 937 01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:55,400 So there is a correlation between working and eating there is 938 01:16:55,400 --> 01:17:00,040 a correlation between work and the resource that God puts in your hands so that you can manage it 939 01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:03,840 But you don't get to eat because you work 940 01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:08,360 Right you get to eat because of the grace of God 941 01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:13,840 It is the grace of God that maintains the world to this point. He is not slow 942 01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:17,560 In keeping his promises as some men count slowness 943 01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:24,640 But rather he is patient that all men might come to repentance the lost person in your life is the reason 944 01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:25,960 Not me 945 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,800 Not the pope or some guy who says he knows Jesus 946 01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:35,040 That's not why we're still here because if it was for people who know Jesus we'd go straight to heaven because gonna all be better than 947 01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:38,360 Jesus would come again. We're still here for the lost people 948 01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:44,120 The property that we have the blessings that we have the wealth that we have all of these things 949 01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:48,920 We are to administer as weapons and tools of God's grace 950 01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:53,800 The poor are poor for reasons of God's knowing 951 01:17:54,480 --> 01:17:56,480 Don't get into that which is above your station 952 01:17:56,920 --> 01:18:03,840 The wealthy are wealthy for reasons that God explains you're given your wealth so that you can do good with it 953 01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:12,800 This property that was given them they came out of Egypt and what did they have the clothes on their backs 954 01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:17,640 Whatever they could drag through that hundreds of miles hike across the Red Sea 955 01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:22,040 Few animals very little just they mostly probably ate them along the way 956 01:18:22,480 --> 01:18:28,120 Until they got into the desert and got the manna they didn't have they needed to eat right so whatever food they had whatever 957 01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:34,360 scarce provisions and the gold and the silver which there was nobody to buy anything from but the gold and the silver 958 01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:40,400 That they brought out of Egypt with them which they eventually turned into a calf that they worshiped right that was a mess 959 01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,200 What was the wealth for 960 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:50,000 The poor are poor for God's reasons he decides 961 01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:57,360 The wealthy are wealthy for reasons that he tells us if you are what if you don't think you're wealthy then I suggest you check yourself 962 01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,360 Because at the very least you're getting a wealth of teaching the very least 963 01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:10,760 And it is to share with others if you have Jesus Christ you don't get to look at somebody and say I don't think they want to hear 964 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,760 That is a sin against God 965 01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:22,200 Do you know if they want to hear you do not do you know if they need to hear you do 966 01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:31,000 We have the wealth at least of the gospel given to us by grace and we are to share it with every person so that their 967 01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:36,960 Personhood which we ought to respect at every step along the way can be set free for God and 968 01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:45,760 Realize that God will protect the poor God will decide who hears and who doesn't God will decide whose position he elevates and whom he 969 01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,800 declines that brings us to our conclusion I 970 01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:52,020 Told you I have judged wrongly I 971 01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,040 submit to you 972 01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:58,920 You might be surprised if you would just say 973 01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:01,800 from now on 974 01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:03,680 every person 975 01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:05,360 everywhere 976 01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:12,880 That I can get into any kind of conversation with talking about sports talking about clothing talking about weather whatever 977 01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:19,120 I'm going to try to say something about spiritual beliefs and see where it goes and 978 01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,360 You will be surprised at how many people 979 01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:26,240 drug addicts give their life to Christ 980 01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:33,080 Liars and thieves poor people bikers 981 01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:41,120 At one point time in northern Ohio between Cleveland and Toledo we had seven 982 01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:46,600 Count them seven previous drug dealers who had given themselves to Christ 983 01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,880 preaching the gospel planting churches seven 984 01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:56,920 And two guys come through the life station both of which were former drug dealers 985 01:20:56,920 --> 01:21:02,360 One of it should already given his life to Christ and one of which gave his life to Christ through the ministry of the life station 986 01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:08,560 He's like I can't share the gospel with a drug dealer if you don't how will they ever stop dealing drugs? 987 01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:13,720 I can't share the gospel with the drug addict if you don't how will they ever stop doing drugs? 988 01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:19,080 I can't share the gospel with a poor man who has who needs so much that I can't possibly help him 989 01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,080 if you don't and 990 01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:24,360 Everybody makes the same decision 991 01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:28,640 They will not accept Jesus Christ's Lord and Savior Paul wrote in Romans 992 01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:36,160 How will they believe if they don't hear and how will they hear if someone doesn't go you might be surprised? 993 01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,400 You might be the next 994 01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:44,560 Billy Graham in your lifetime not preaching in huge tent revivals, but winning people to Christ wherever you go 995 01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:47,920 Arayana is nine in 996 01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:55,840 School in third grade she became known as the one who will tell a Bible story and so they will come up to her and they say 997 01:21:56,280 --> 01:22:01,040 What's doing Arayana? I'm doing this right now. Okay. Will you tell me a story from the Bible? 998 01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:09,040 Kids that don't know Jesus don't know the Bible and don't know God or that do go to church, but they're not getting enough there 999 01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,640 They would come to her and say will you tell me a story from the Bible? 1000 01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:15,760 Why isn't that every one of us? Do your co-workers know that you're a Christian? 1001 01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:22,000 You can protect their personhood. You could say just in case I just want to put this out there. I am a Bible believing 1002 01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:28,360 Follower of the Lord Jesus Christ member of the kingdom of God if at any point time anybody wants to talk about God 1003 01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:32,880 I'm willing. I'm not gonna push it on you. I'm not gonna bring it up a bunch of times 1004 01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:37,800 I'm not gonna push you past what you're comfortable with. I respect your personhood. You say I'm an atheist 1005 01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:43,040 I don't believe in God. That's fine. But when you want to talk about atheism and how untenable that position is 1006 01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:46,960 I'll be willing to talk about that whatever, but if you believe it, and you think it's firm and you're solid 1007 01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:49,800 It's fine. I'm not gonna break you down. I'm not gonna beat you up 1008 01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:54,840 But I am here and willing to talk about Jesus and periodically make a simple statement 1009 01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:59,960 Remember I am always willing to talk about Jesus somebody says I'm really struggling going through depression 1010 01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:01,960 I have trouble with this employee. I'm in trouble with this 1011 01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:07,880 Uh situation of my household. Whatever you say remember I'm always here to talk about Jesus if you want to talk about Jesus 1012 01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:12,720 I'm always willing. I'm not gonna push it on you, but I'm always willing and somebody is gonna say hey 1013 01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:16,000 I remember you said what would God say about this? 1014 01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:22,680 And then as long as you've been praying studying meditating and doing the things you're supposed to do you're gonna have an answer 1015 01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:24,680 I had no problem 1016 01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:30,200 Asking Caleb what would God say about the forest fires? I felt completely confident 1017 01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:34,240 He was gonna come up with this answer was his answer perfect was it doctrine was it theology? 1018 01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:38,360 Was it something a professor from a college might say no, but did he have an answer? 1019 01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:40,880 Yes, because he professed the name of Jesus Christ and 1020 01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:44,720 Christians have answers 1021 01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,840 So I submit to you yes think of their personhood as precious 1022 01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:55,880 Let God protect the poor you don't have to do that and use all that God has blessed you with to bring it 1023 01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:59,760 I'm gonna this is my conclusion. I'm gonna read these verses. I'm 1024 01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:04,960 Reading from John chapter 6 it is a relatively well-known passage 1025 01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:11,520 But there is some subtle nuance there that you need to hear from John chapter 6 beginning in verse 44. It says this 1026 01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:20,960 I'll read verse 43 because I don't want to miss Jesus answered and said to them do not grumble amongst yourselves 1027 01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:29,160 No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him and I will raise him up on the last day 1028 01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:33,800 It is written in the prophets and they shall all be taught of God 1029 01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:39,520 Everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me. That's Jesus ain't comes to me 1030 01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:43,720 Not that any man has seen the father except the one who is from God 1031 01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:49,720 He has seen the father truly truly. I say to you he who believes has eternal life. I 1032 01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:55,280 Am the bread of life your father's ate the manna in the wilderness and they died 1033 01:24:55,720 --> 01:25:00,440 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven so that one may eat of it and not die 1034 01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:05,320 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven if anyone eats of this bread 1035 01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:11,720 He shall live forever and the bread also which I shall give for the life of the world is my 1036 01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:17,720 Flesh now watch what happens. Jesus said the the bread that I will give that is the life of the world is my flesh 1037 01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:23,840 52 the Jews therefore began to argue with one another saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat? 1038 01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:26,960 Jesus therefore said to them truly truly 1039 01:25:26,960 --> 01:25:33,400 I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood and have no life in your you have no life in 1040 01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:39,600 Yourselves he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day 1041 01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:43,640 For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink 1042 01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:51,680 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I and him as the living father sent me and I live because of the father 1043 01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:59,240 So he eats me he also I'm sorry he who eats me he also shall live because of me 1044 01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:04,160 This is the bread which came down down out of heaven not as the father's ate and died 1045 01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,480 He who eats this bread shall live forever 1046 01:26:06,480 --> 01:26:09,400 And from that moment on 1047 01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,120 Many of them left him 1048 01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,040 Some of them wouldn't hear it 1049 01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:18,320 some of them 1050 01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,200 Walked away because it was it was just too much 1051 01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:29,640 In verse 63 he says it is the spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I have spoken to you our spirit and life 1052 01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:32,160 But there are some of you who do not believe 1053 01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:39,800 Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe and who it was that would betray him and 1054 01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:43,880 In 65 he says 1055 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:50,840 For this reason I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted him from the father 1056 01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:57,080 As a result of this many of his disciples withdrew and were not walking with him anymore 1057 01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,560 Jesus said therefore to the 12. Do you want to go away? 1058 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,680 also 1059 01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:04,280 Do you 1060 01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:08,840 Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go you have words of eternal life? 1061 01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:12,560 We have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God 1062 01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:18,280 Jesus answered them that I myself not choose you the 12 and yet one of you is a devil 1063 01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:23,360 You understand as he's preaching all of this talking about all of this one of them right there in their midst was Judas 1064 01:27:24,400 --> 01:27:26,400 Who would betray Jesus? 1065 01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:32,520 And he meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot or he one of the 12 was going to betray him 1066 01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:36,320 Listen to me. God sees personhood as precious 1067 01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:40,840 Doesn't matter how messed up or goofy a person looks they need Jesus 1068 01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:45,040 So their personhood can be unleashed a person says can I be a Christian and have tattoos? 1069 01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:52,400 Well, I sure you can if God needs you to have tattoos have to tattoos whatever the question is not do you have tattoos? 1070 01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:58,320 The question is will you be led by Jesus saw video online where a transgender man said well 1071 01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,840 I go to hell because I'm transgender and the speaker said no 1072 01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:04,880 And he said he went what? 1073 01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:07,840 He said no you won't go to hell because you're transgender 1074 01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:13,320 You wouldn't go to hell because you're a homosexual you wouldn't go to hell because you're a thief you wouldn't go to hell because you're a 1075 01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:18,360 Murderer if you go to hell it'll be because of what you've done with Jesus Christ the son of God 1076 01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:24,160 What have you done with Jesus Christ the son of God? Well, I don't believe okay for that you would go to hell 1077 01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:33,320 Stop thinking a transgender won't hear it stop thinking almost sexual won't hear stop thinking a poor man won't hear stop thinking a wealthy man 1078 01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:40,120 Won't hear it stop thinking a biker won't hear it or a gang member or a guy spewing cuss words in the middle of somebody says cuss words and 1079 01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:44,000 Uses the f-word seven times. That's where you say just real quick 1080 01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,480 I just want to throw in a comment here if I may I can see you're very upset 1081 01:28:47,480 --> 01:28:51,280 I'm gonna try to help you, but I want to throw in a comment. I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ a 1082 01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,160 Studier of his word and I live the best I possibly can 1083 01:28:55,720 --> 01:29:01,740 By the way Jesus leads me and I'm offering if ever you should need it if ever you should want it to talk about Jesus 1084 01:29:01,740 --> 01:29:03,740 And then wait and see what happens 1085 01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,760 And that man who just used the f-word seven times 1086 01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:11,560 He's gonna lose his evil spirit because you use the name of Jesus and we lose his evil spirit 1087 01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:14,520 He may still be just as angry and keep doing the same things he was doing or 1088 01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:18,560 He may wonder what happened and asked to be saved 1089 01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:27,440 The precious person hood the protections for the poor and the property given by God 1090 01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:32,120 They are the mandates of a just society 1091 01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:37,360 The kind of society I want to be a part of 1092 01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,680 How about you 1093 01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:47,040 Or maybe we've forgotten that we are living in a time of war and 1094 01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:50,400 Drastic steps must be taken 1095 01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:53,760 If we are to be considered faithful 1096 01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:59,480 followers of our God who makes war daily on our enemy 1097 01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:02,960 Then we should live like it's a time of war 1098 01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:10,320 And bring to application the weapons that he has given us. I'm asking you to do that 1099 01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:14,080 I'm asking you to stop judging and thinking certain people won't believe 1100 01:30:15,440 --> 01:30:19,000 I'm asking you to stop judging and saying well in my personhood 1101 01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:21,880 I'm just not the person to bring up Jesus in a conversation 1102 01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:27,240 If you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ you are and yeah, they may walk away from you 1103 01:30:27,240 --> 01:30:33,200 But it is ours to witness and ours to make disciples 1104 01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:36,200 We must share the gospel 1105 01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:40,800 Maybe somebody's here today and they have said, you know, I thought I would have to stop being who I am to be a follower 1106 01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:42,960 Lord Jesus and you need Jesus 1107 01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:48,200 You know, I'm sorry being who you are the old stuff's gonna die off. It's bad. It's nasty stuff 1108 01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:55,880 The new stuff that Jesus brings will be awesome. But really what he wants to do is unleash your personhood the unique you on 1109 01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:59,200 the world 1110 01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:02,560 Maybe you're here today and you'd say I have done this I have judged 1111 01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:06,360 That there are people who don't need to hear 1112 01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:13,080 And I am willing to stop doing that put myself out there and at least offer and say 1113 01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:18,840 I'm here if you're interested. Will you do that? 1114 01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:25,280 We got a close with a hem of invitation opportunity to make a decision today whether you're joining us online 1115 01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:31,240 Listen to this in the podcast and ask yourself and you practice God's 1116 01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:36,360 Precious personhood 1117 01:31:36,440 --> 01:31:38,440 You'll be alive God to protect the board 1118 01:31:38,440 --> 01:31:43,760 And realize that the property that you have all came provided by God 1119 01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:47,240 And ask you to do so going forward 1120 01:31:48,440 --> 01:31:50,440 Make yourself today 1121 01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:52,560 Got a question 1122 01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:55,560 And 1123 01:31:55,560 --> 01:32:09,080 That's praise team come forward as we sing this song anyone will make any decision if the Lord is laid on their heart wherever they might be here