56 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,400 We pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. 57 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,400 All right. We're going to stand up and do some motions. 58 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,400 Ms. Caitlin is going to lead you today. 59 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,400 I'm only 90 percent confident in my motions. 60 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,400 You're really good at motions. 61 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,400 Now we're up. 62 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:33,400 I think I'm making you, you make me Lord Jesus, every breath I take I breathe in you. 63 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:43,400 Every step I take I take in you, you are my way, Jesus, every breath I take I breathe in you. 64 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:58,400 It's a mercy, it's a grace, everywhere I look I see your face, your love has captured me, 65 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:13,400 oh my God, you've done a great thing. 66 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:54,400 You are my hiding place, you always fill my heart with songs, 67 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:14,400 of deliverance, with love around I am all free, I will trust in you, I will trust in you. 68 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord. 69 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:44,400 You are my hiding place, you always fill my heart with songs, 70 00:08:44,400 --> 00:09:04,400 of deliverance, whenever I am afraid I will trust in you, I will trust in you. 71 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:22,400 Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord, I will trust in you. 72 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:46,400 So you're used to it. 73 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,400 Well what startles you? 74 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,400 I submit to you that God should startle you. 75 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,400 If you are comfortable with God, you have a problem. 76 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,400 If you are comfortable with Bible study, comfortable with worship, you have a problem. 77 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:04,400 In fact, your problem may be greater than those who are uncomfortable coming to church. 78 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,400 If you're comfortable coming, you could have a bigger problem than those who are not comfortable. 79 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,400 So we're going to read from Numbers chapter 1. 80 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,400 We're going to look at camping near the tabernacle. 81 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,400 I left my paper Bible, so no one will be able to guess me. 82 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,400 I'm going to use an electronic Bible because I left my paper Bible in the office. 83 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:30,400 If anybody gets there before me, you can read it. 84 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,400 Numbers chapter 1 beginning in 49 through 2.2 is what we need. 85 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,400 Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, or shall you take their census among the sons of Israel. 86 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:47,400 But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furnishings, 87 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,400 and over all that belongs to it, they shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings, 88 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:57,400 and they shall take care of it, they shall also camp around the tabernacle. 89 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:02,400 Okay. And so the Levites... 90 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,400 Did you have to... 91 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,400 Okay, go ahead. Sorry. 92 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:14,400 So when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites shall take it down, and the tabernacle who camps the Levites shall set it up. 93 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,400 But the laymen who comes near shall be put to death. 94 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:25,400 The sons of Israel shall camp each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies. 95 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:34,400 But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. 96 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,400 So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. 97 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:44,400 Thus the sons of Israel did, according to all which the Lord had made Moses, so they did. 98 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 99 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:54,400 The sons of Israel shall camp each by their own standard, which the banners of their fathers' household, 100 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,400 they shall camp around the tent and meet in kind of distance. 101 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:02,400 Okay. So we've got the tribes, and I'm going to get into a huge history lesson here, because that's not what we're focused on. 102 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,400 We've got the tribes, and they're going to camp around the big tent, right? 103 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,400 The tent is where God meets with Moses, where God meets with his people, the holy of holies. 104 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:17,400 They're going to camp. And what we just read is, the Levites are going to camp on the inside near the tent. 105 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:22,400 Jason, did you catch why the Levites are going to be the ones who camp on the inside near the tent? 106 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,400 Arden, did you get it? 107 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Okay. So it said, the Levites are going to camp on the inside near the tent, 108 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,400 in order to keep God's wrath from pouring over against the rest of the people. 109 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:41,400 Okay. So the Levites are essentially a protector, if you will, of all the other tribes. 110 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,400 They would break down the tabernacle. They would set up the tabernacle, right? 111 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:51,400 And with the help of the Chorites, if I said that correctly, they would transport the tabernacle. 112 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,400 Okay. And so they would camp around the tabernacle to protect the rest of the tribes. 113 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,400 If you'll notice in 2.17, those of you who are following along in your Bible, it says, 114 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Then the tent of the meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. 115 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:11,400 Just as they camp, so shall they set out, every man in his place by their standards. 116 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:18,400 So, based on what we just said, when they're marching, where do the Levites march? 117 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,400 Did you get that? Are you with me? 118 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,400 With the tabernacle, right? Right around the tabernacle. 119 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:32,400 So now we've got the whole of Israel, 12 tribes, hundreds of thousands or millions of people, 120 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,400 whatever the actual number is at this time, and as they're marching, right, 121 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:43,400 the Levites, great big tribes that they are, march around the tabernacle and everybody else is outside that. 122 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:50,400 Understand? Where they camp, the Levites, with some help from some of the workers, set it up. 123 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:56,400 And when they set it up, they camp right around it. 124 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:02,400 Why? Why the Levites specifically? That's our question. 125 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:07,400 So look at Leviticus 10, if you're following along in your Bibles. 126 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,400 I'll read it for the interest of time. 127 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:16,400 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, Aaron was basically the high priest at the time, okay. 128 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:21,400 They took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, they placed incense on it 129 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:26,400 and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. 130 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:32,400 And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. 131 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,400 Then Moses said to Aaron, it is what the Lord spoke, saying, 132 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:42,400 By those who come near me, I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored. 133 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,400 So Aaron therefore kept silent. 134 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:52,400 So in other words, Aaron's sons, who also were priests, they did it wrong. 135 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:59,400 They came before the Lord with fire in their hands, but it was not authorized by God. 136 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,400 They were not called by God to do so. 137 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,400 And God poured out fire on them and they were killed. 138 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:11,400 Now if you follow this story a little bit longer, Aaron is not even allowed to have a funeral for them. 139 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,400 Or mourn them. 140 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,400 Because they dishonored God. They were not holy toward God. 141 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:25,400 If you go into the book of Acts, there's some people there called Ananias and Sapphira. 142 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Okay, and so if you're following along, you've got blanks there. 143 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:35,400 Ananias is spelled A-N-N-A-N-I-A-S. So it's Anna, Nias, but it's all one word. 144 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,400 A-N-N-A-N-I-A-S. Ananias. 145 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,400 And then Sapphira was his wife. 146 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,400 S-A-P-H-I-R-A. Sapphira. 147 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,400 And they are killed. 148 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,400 Killed. Two L's. 149 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,400 For lying about their giving. 150 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,400 So the story goes like this. 151 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,400 I'm not going to go to the reader right this second, some of us know it, some of us don't. 152 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,400 There was a period of time when the church was in need. 153 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,400 They were suffering and the people that were attached to the church were suffering. 154 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,400 And people began to take care of that need. 155 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:11,400 They started to sell their property, sell their personal belongings, and donate the money to the church. 156 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,400 In particular, there was a man named Bartavus. 157 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,400 He sold a piece of property that he owned and he donated 100% of the money, 158 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,400 everything that he got out of selling that property to the church. 159 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,400 Because of people doing that, the church was totally taken care of. 160 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,400 There were no needs. Everybody was taken care of. 161 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,400 But people had to keep doing that to make sure there were no needs, right? 162 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,400 Or otherwise God had to miraculously provide it in some way. 163 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,400 So Ananias and Sapphira saw what Bartavus did. 164 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,400 They went and sold a piece of property that they owned. 165 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,400 And then they came and they gave some of the money. 166 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,400 But they lied and said it was all of the money. 167 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,400 But it wasn't all of the money. 168 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:54,400 So they let them believe, let everybody believe that they were giving all the money as Bartavus had done. 169 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,400 But it wasn't all of the money. So they had lied about it. 170 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:07,400 Because they lied about it, God killed first him, then her, if I got the order right, on the spot. 171 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:12,400 They died. Dead. And the men carried them out dead. Right? 172 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,400 And it was because they lied about their giving. 173 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:24,400 The ramifications of God's holy nature, there are a lot of factors in why it's important that God is like this. 174 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,400 And if you take this out, if you look at God, you say God's not like that. 175 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:37,400 God's nice. God's cushy. God's got a giant 80 foot teddy bear that I can sit on his lap and eat cookies and feel good about myself. 176 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:43,400 If that's who you make God out to be, then there's a real problem with that imagery. 177 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,400 Because of what happened to Ananias and Sapphira. What happened to Aaron's sons. 178 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:54,400 The Levites needing to camp around the tavern and protect everybody else. Right? 179 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,400 So some of the factors are God's power. You realize God has literally unlimited power. 180 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,400 He's omnipotent. That means he can literally do anything. 181 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,400 As somebody who said, is God so powerful that he can make a rock that he can't lift? 182 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,400 And the answer is, yes, he could make a rock that he can't lift, but then he could lift it. 183 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,400 And then he could make another rock that he can't lift, but then he could lift it. 184 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,400 God's power is omnipotent. There is no limit. Right? 185 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,400 Could God erase all of creation, all of the stars, all the moon, everything, just wipe it away from existence, including every person. 186 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:30,400 And then in a split second, create another? Yes. Absolutely. He's omnipotent. He has no limit to his power. 187 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,400 But what he did to Son of Aurelius was the most. Amen. He can do that like that? 188 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,400 He can do literally nothing. Exactly. And he can do it again. 189 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:44,400 God's sovereignty. God is in charge. Okay? So power is one thing. A car has power. 190 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:49,400 But when a car sits there, it may have, I don't know, 300 horsepower, 400 horsepower, whatever. 191 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,400 What does it do? Just sit there. Just sits there. That's it. 192 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,400 Put a key in, start it up, put in gear, give it some gas. 193 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:02,400 Now stand in front of it, rooted, put your feet rooted in cement, stand there while that car rides over you. 194 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,400 It will snap your calves in two. At whatever point you bend, you're going to be broken. 195 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,400 And then you're going to be scraped off. You're going to die. Right? Because you cannot hold back that power. 196 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,400 But something has control of the power. And in case of God, God's control is his sovereignty. 197 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:24,400 He knows exactly what's right. He knows how to do it. And he can do it. He is able to rule everything. 198 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,400 Also God's love. It's not right that people disperse God. 199 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:34,400 I heard somebody say just recently, for example, they said, how does it seem right Adam and Eve, man? 200 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:40,400 They got cursed for kicked out of the garden and everything and had to work and pain of pregnancy. 201 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,400 And they fought with each other about who would be in control. 202 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,400 And then all the wars and everything that's developed, all the sinful nature of humankind. 203 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:54,400 How is that curse right for that one little thing that Adam did, which was to sin against God, right? 204 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,400 To take up a tree of the knowledge of evil when he wasn't supposed to. 205 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,400 And they said, well, that seems like a big deal. No, you don't understand. This is God. 206 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,400 He's all-powerful and in control of everything. 207 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:09,400 And if you would walk up to somebody who's all-powerful and in control of everything and sin right in their face, right? 208 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:14,400 Just take a really big, really mean dude and spit in his face and see what happens. 209 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,400 Right? That's just not the way it works. 210 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,400 So God's not mean, but he is all-powerful and he's all-sovereign. 211 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,400 And his love demands that people receive for what they have done. 212 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,400 Also his mercy. 213 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:32,400 God, if God is not going to punish somebody who does wrong, then there's no room for God's mercy. 214 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:37,400 Mercy just ceases to exist. If there's no punishment for wrongdoing, then there's no need for mercy, right? 215 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,400 And then grace. 216 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:45,400 Because God not only doesn't punish people sometimes, that's mercy, but on top of that, he gives us the blessing. 217 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:51,400 His Holy Spirit in our lives, salvation, heaven when we die, lordship, like he tells us what to do when we do it. 218 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,400 All of those are great blessings. 219 00:20:53,400 --> 00:21:00,400 And so if he doesn't punish, if there is no punishment, then there is no grace either. 220 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,400 Right? God's justice. He must deal out justice for when things are done wrong. 221 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,400 God's bigness. He's everywhere, all the time, all-powerful, all-capable, knows everything, etc. 222 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,400 God's bigness. 223 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,400 God's involvement with man. 224 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,400 He can just ignore what you're doing and that is no problem, right? 225 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,400 He could have ignored what Aaron Suns did bringing on Holy Fire. 226 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,400 But then what? Pretty soon everybody's bringing on Holy Fire. 227 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,400 Pretty soon people are killing people, people are raping people, people's incest, or whatever. 228 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,400 The world back then could have gotten to be more like the world is sometimes now. 229 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,400 Because God is involved, he doesn't want to overlook it. 230 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,400 And more, we can go on. God fully understands what's at stake. 231 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,400 Not your life here on earth. That's not what's at stake. 232 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:51,400 What's at stake is eternal life. Right? It's eternity. Grace given eternity. 233 00:21:51,400 --> 00:22:00,400 So God's righteous anger, God's wrath, which is his violent opposition to what's wrong, means he opposes what's wrong. 234 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:06,400 God's separation, people being separated from God, God pulls back from people who are in sin. 235 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,400 People withdraw from God when they're in sin. I'll give you 10 seconds. 236 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:17,400 And the Bible says the wages of sin is death. That means there is a distance between a person and God when they sin. 237 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:22,400 And all of that is wrapped up in whether or not God is holy like the Bible says he is. 238 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,400 Okay, question. 239 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:31,400 How many human also know about what's going on in Ukraine and Russia? Ukraine and Russia? Yep. 240 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:37,400 A lot of people would probably, a lot of Christians would probably think, well that's God's wrath, so they're going to do something wrong. 241 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:45,400 What I think is it's God calling the people to come back home. 242 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:51,400 Well, war is a none too subtle reminder that this is not our home. 243 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,400 All wars are reminders of that. That's a good word. 244 00:22:54,400 --> 00:23:01,400 Okay, so only God's, there's blanks, chosen chosen. That's a phrase I want you to remember. 245 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:08,400 There is this chosen, who, by the way, who is chosen by God to be saved? Don't over think it. 246 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 Everyone. Everyone, right? 247 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:16,400 Generically speaking, everyone is chosen. But when is a person really chosen by God to be saved? 248 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,400 When would you call them chosen? Beautiful. 249 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,400 Beautiful. When they, right, when they repent and turn their life over to God. It's well said. It's very well said. 250 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:32,400 So at that point they become chosen. But of the chosen, there's a chosen chosen. 251 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,400 Right? So the people, the Israelites coming out of Egypt, they were all chosen. 252 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,400 God said, out of Egypt I call my son. All twelve tribes were chosen. 253 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,400 But only the Levites were the chosen chosen. Okay? 254 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,400 Which is why they walked around the Taranackos, why they protected the rest of the people from the wrath of God. 255 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:58,400 So it's the chosen chosen. And only the chosen chosen may encamp, which means to make your dwelling near to God. 256 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:04,400 And in so doing, we protect the rest. I say we, I hope I'm in the chosen chosen, right? 257 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:09,400 But the chosen chosen protect the rest of people. Saved or unsaved, it doesn't matter. 258 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:16,400 Because the church is still here, that is to say the church, as Kishan and so perfectly put it, repented and turned their life over to God. 259 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:23,400 Because the church is still here, the world is protected from the final wrath, so separation from God. 260 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:31,400 God is going to blow it up. God is going to roll up the heavens. God is going to destroy and regenerate the earth. 261 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:38,400 And because the church is still here, that time is withheld. 1 Peter 3.18 says that God is patient with us. 262 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:46,400 It doesn't say patient with lost people, patient with unsaved people. It says God is patient with us that we might be saved. 263 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:53,400 So those blanks there were because the church is still here. Because the church is still here. 264 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,400 So real quick, I'm going to give you a history lesson that's going to go by fast. If you don't remember it all, it's okay. 265 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:03,400 But I want you to kind of see how this unfolds. We're talking about how did they get this status? 266 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:08,400 How did the Levites become the chosen chosen? Now that blank there is for you to write any words in there. 267 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:14,400 You can write little sentences if you're kind of a compulsive note taker and you want to write it all out as much as you can. 268 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Or you want to go like ABC or draw a diagram or whatever you want to do to try to remember the gist of what I'm about to explain. 269 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:29,400 So Levi, who was what's called the progenitor, he was the first of the Levites. He was Levi. 270 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:38,400 He was a brother who avenged his sister Dinah by killing all the males of an entire city after they agreed to be circumcised, 271 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:46,400 after some of them had taken her and raped her. So some men from the city raped Dinah. 272 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:52,400 And Levi and his brother were mad about it. And they said, that's not right. We're going to do something about it. 273 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:58,400 They went to the city and the man who raped her wanted to marry her. And that was a custom in their day. 274 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,400 If you find a woman in the field and you rape her and you marry her, it's not wrong. That was a custom. 275 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,400 I don't agree with it. That is certainly not right today. It's not what God would ever want. 276 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,400 It's not the way God would ever want it, he said. But that was the way it was. 277 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,400 So they said, well, we want to marry her. He said, well, you can't marry her because you're not Israelite. 278 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,400 She said, geez, we married outside our kind. We don't do that. And they said, well, we're willing to become your kind. 279 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,400 What do we got to do? And they said, what would you got to do? You got to all be circumcised. 280 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:27,400 And to be circumcised is to sniff the foreskin of the beans. And it is crippling. 281 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:34,400 So when they do that, men are in such grove men when they do it, they're in such pain that they're basically non-functional for three days. 282 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:40,400 During that three days, he and his brother went, they all did it at the same time, so the city was crippled. 283 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:46,400 And they went and killed every man in the city. Now before you say that's horrible, it is horrible, by the way. 284 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:52,400 And they were punished for misusing God's teaching to punish these people. 285 00:26:52,400 --> 00:27:00,400 At the same time, they raped, some of them raped their sister. And so he was wrathful. He was angry. 286 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:07,400 He used God's tradition to destroy an entire city. Now that's their namesake. That's the namesake of the Levites. 287 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:14,400 But God did not give them this most honored position for that. They were not the chosen chosen because of what Levi did then. 288 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,400 In fact, he was punished for it. Now when Aaron made the golden calf, 289 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:24,400 Moses gave an invitation to anyone who would come and stand by God. 290 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:30,400 So he made the golden calf, and there were some events that followed after that, and there was a lot of debauchery. 291 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:38,400 That means sinful, nasty behavior going on. Right? And Moses says, God said to Moses, say, who will come and stand with me? 292 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:44,400 And he said, who will come and stand with me? And the Levites did. 293 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:51,400 The Levites did, and they were used to kill 3,000 men, family, and friends as punishment for the evil 294 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,400 that had been done in worshiping that calf and the other things surrounding it. 295 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:02,400 But they did not earn their status because they responded to the invitation because they served God then. 296 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:09,400 They were chosen by God from God's already chosen people. You can read about this in Numbers 3, 11, 16. 297 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:15,400 God ransomed them. He bought them, essentially, by what happens in Numbers 3, 11, 16. 298 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:20,400 Patrick, you will go there and read it real quick, just so we understand what it is. 299 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:29,400 Anybody already there that's thinking ahead? Numbers 3, 11. Not bad for an electronic Bible. There it is. 300 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:35,400 Okay. It says, Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Now behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel, 301 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:43,400 instead of every firstborn, the first issue of the womb among the sons of Israel, so the Levites shall be mine. 302 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,400 For all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, 303 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:56,400 I sanctified to myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be mine. I am the Lord. 304 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:02,400 So when God destroyed all the firstborn in Israel, He had a right at that time, I'm sorry, in Egypt, 305 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,400 a right at that time to destroy all the firstborn in Israel, but He did not. 306 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:12,400 Therefore, by His extension, He said, They belong to me, all the firstborn in Israel. 307 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,400 But instead of taking all the firstborn in Israel, God took the Levites. 308 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:26,400 They are the chosen chosen. He traded them for the firstborn of Israel, all the tribes, for the Levites. 309 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:36,400 God ransomed them. He didn't ransom them any more than He ransomed you or me, but that's what made them able to encamp near God. 310 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,400 Which means, if you're ransomed by God, you could camp near God. 311 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,400 But if you're not ransomed by God, you're playing at this, or if you've forgotten about how holy God is, 312 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,400 you don't really care, then I would not recommend it. 313 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:57,400 An illustration from paintball. I went out to play paintball, and there was a young man there, probably like 21 years old, 314 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,400 and I played quite a bit of paintball back in the day. I haven't played in a long time now. 315 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:10,400 And there was a guy there, and he was scoffing, laughing, about the policy of the paintball field that you're supposed to wear a mask. 316 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,400 So you have big masks that cover your whole face, and they're a little inconvenient. 317 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,400 They give you that great peripheral vision. They make you sweat in your face, that kind of thing. 318 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,400 You fog up, it's kind of humid out. And he was laughing about that requirement. 319 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,400 And so he had some little goggles like this that he was going to wear, and this is what I wore too, 320 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,400 and I got hurt doing it as well at a different time. 321 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:34,400 And so he went out on the field, and the very next game that he played was out on the field, 322 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:40,400 he got shot in the face right here, right below the goggles. No mask. 323 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:47,400 So then his face swelled up really bad. So he went into the place where he read the mask from, cost like five bucks for the day. 324 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,400 And he went in there and he said, well, I should have done it. I shouldn't have been laughing about it. 325 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:58,400 Now I got hit in the face, my face is all swollen, so I'm going to have to wear a mask, or I'm not going to be able to play anymore. 326 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:03,400 So then he paid the five bucks, they handed him a mask, he tried to put it on. Guess what? 327 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:12,400 He couldn't do it. He couldn't put it on. He put it on his face, and it hurt so bad, like shooting pains in his head because his face was swelled up. 328 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:20,400 So here's the bottom line. You're not able, I'm not able to encamp near God. That ransom has to be paid. 329 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:28,400 We can think it's kind of funny. We can laugh about it and go halfway in for God. We can get comfortable near God. 330 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:33,400 We can think, well, you know, God, Jesus died across my sense, so now whatever I do is fine. 331 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,400 Or I'm mostly going to do what's right, but when it gets right down to it and I really want to do something that I shouldn't, 332 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:43,400 or I really don't want to do something that I should do, I'm going to do what I want to do rather than doing what I know God wants me to do. 333 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:54,400 If that's the way you see God's holiness, then understand by the time you go to put on the mask, by the time you go to totally trust in the ransom, it's too late. 334 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,400 You won't be able to put on the mask. You'll be in too much pain, you'll be too far away, whatever, from that. 335 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:06,400 So just the same as he laughed about it and then couldn't do it, we can do the same thing. Don't do that. Let's take God very seriously. 336 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:17,400 First Corinthians 3 verses 15 to 20. This is that passage of scripture where Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he's saying, 337 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:27,400 whatever a man builds with after he is saved, after Jesus has started the foundation, that's, if it's burned up, he'll suffer loss. 338 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:36,400 This is verse 15. If any man's work is burned up, he'll suffer loss. But he himself be saved, yet so as through fire. What are we talking about? 339 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:47,400 We're talking about the chosen who will be saved, yet as through fire, because the stuff that he built with after he got saved was not God's stuff. 340 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,400 We're talking about the difference between the chosen and the chosen chosen. That's what we're talking about. 341 00:32:52,400 --> 00:33:04,400 The chosen will face a certain amount of burning off as we get saved. That's what he said. If any man's work is burned up, he'll suffer loss. 342 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:11,400 But he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Then he goes right on to talking about the solution to this problem. 343 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,400 He says, do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 344 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:22,400 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. 345 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:30,400 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, that he may become wise. 346 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,400 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God, for it is written, he is the one who captures the wise and the craftiness. 347 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,400 And again, the Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless. 348 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:50,400 In other words, you've got to put the recognition of God's holiness up above whatever you think about what you should do. 349 00:33:50,400 --> 00:34:00,400 God is holy, and you can be among the chosen chosen if you recognize his holiness and live affordingly. 350 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:07,400 The truth is, some people think that they can encamp near the tabernacle. Watch your blanks there. 351 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:16,400 Some people think they can encamp near the tabernacle. That's your blanks. And get away with it. 352 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,400 They think they can be less than holy and be okay. 353 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:27,400 Now they've got their reasons, their excuses, they're wise in the ways of the world, so they're getting by for right now. 354 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:36,400 So I know why I do what I do. For example, I know I only lie in the least, only little times. 355 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:42,400 Never when it's important, never when it really matters. I only do that because I was hurt as a child when I grew up, 356 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:47,400 or I was betrayed by this person, or I have psychological issues, or I have anxiety, or I have stress. 357 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:54,400 And that's the only reason I do these things I shouldn't do, and I only do them by accident or whatever. 358 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,400 But they know they do them, and they're not taking any steps to stop it. 359 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:05,400 Some think they can camp near the tabernacle and get away with something. They think they can be less than holy and be okay. 360 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:14,400 Our holiness, our right to a camp near God, we get it when we are saved, ransom, like the Levites were. 361 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,400 We cannot get unsaved. We're not talking about that. We're not talking about losing salvation. 362 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,400 What we are talking about is we can lose our holiness, which is our usefulness to God. 363 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,400 The whole book of Leviticus, practically, talks about cleanliness and uncleanness. 364 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,400 And when you see cleanliness, cleanliness, you can use. Think like a bowl. 365 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,400 You wouldn't make soup for yourself in a bowl that was all nasty and full of yesterday's junk. 366 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,400 You'd clean that out first. Well, that's what it's like for God. 367 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,400 Uncleanness or unholiness is when the bowl is unclean. 368 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,400 And we don't want to be unclean. We want to be clean. 369 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:53,400 We want to do everything we can to seek after holiness. 370 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:59,400 And if we don't, if we're not fit, the ramifications are his holiness. 371 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,400 We'll act out. The Romans 11, 16, and 23, which we won't go there and read it right this second. 372 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,400 You can read it later if you want. 373 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,400 The Bible talks about how we get our holiness from God through Jesus. 374 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,400 That's how we get it. We get it when we are saved. 375 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,400 We can lose it. We can lose our holiness. 376 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,400 Indeed, we could give it back. God gives it to you, and you could give it back. 377 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,400 And it's not talking about not being saved anymore. 378 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,400 But God bestows on you a holiness when you get saved. 379 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,400 It really comes from Jesus' righteousness. 380 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,400 And you can waste it. You can lose it. You can give it back. 381 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,400 Fear, then, is our protection from losing it. 382 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,400 Another paintball story way back in the day. 383 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,400 I don't know if I can date myself over here. 384 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,400 Almost 30 years ago now, I went out paintballing with some friends of mine. 385 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,400 And then one of our friends got it going at their work. 386 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,400 And all the people who came to his work were there. 387 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,400 And one of the guys that came up before us, he got there about half an hour before, 388 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,400 they had already played one game. 389 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:09,400 And as we were coming in, he was leaving the paintball field. 390 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,400 And we were like, where are you going? We just got here. We haven't even started yet. 391 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,400 He's like, yeah, we played one game. I've got to go to my car. 392 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,400 And we're like, when are you going to go to the car for? 393 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,400 He said, I've got to get a pair of socks. 394 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,400 And I'm thinking, you're not wearing socks. 395 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,400 Your feet's going to get chafed. That's a problem. Whatever. 396 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,400 But that's not why he wanted the socks. 397 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,400 He went to the car and he got his socks and he came back. 398 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,400 And I didn't think anything of it. 399 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,400 And then a little bit later, we were standing around during the break talking about it. 400 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:38,400 And somebody mentioned, you know, what happened? 401 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,400 Why did you need socks? Did your feet get wet? Whatever. 402 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,400 He said, oh no. He said, I got my socks right here. 403 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,400 And he pulled up the crotch of his pants. 404 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,400 And he's like, and we're all like, what are you talking about? Right? 405 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400 Why did you get socks stuffed on your pants? 406 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:56,400 In that first game, he had been shot in the privates by a paintball. 407 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,400 And he realized that the thing to do then was to put socks down his pants. 408 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,400 So if he got shot in the privates again, the socks would stop his testicles from being injured. 409 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,400 So he went to go get socks. 410 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:12,400 So after the break, three or four guys went to go get whatever they had in their car and stuffed it down their pants. 411 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,400 So if you don't want to get shot in the privates, sometime while you're playing paintball, 412 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,400 by the way, I have been shot in the privates two times while playing paintball. 413 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,400 One of them was the first time that ever happened to me, which was way before that. 414 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,400 Took me out of playing for about a month. 415 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,400 Because I had pain in my privates. 416 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:34,400 So if you don't want to get shot in the privates and it hurt while you're playing paintball, you put something in there. 417 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,400 Most professional players wear a cup. 418 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,400 Just like a sports star does or whatever. 419 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:45,400 So his fear was drummed up because he got shot. 420 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:51,400 By the time you get shot in the privates by God because you have not respected God's holiness, it's too late. 421 00:38:51,400 --> 00:39:00,400 So what I'm asking you to do and what the Bible is asking us to do is to fear wasting or reckless attention to God's holiness. 422 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,400 We should pay attention. 423 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,400 God is holy. 424 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,400 Some folks are camping near the Tabernacle without the necessary quality. 425 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,400 They don't have holiness. 426 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,400 They gave that up. 427 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,400 So what do you do if that's you? 428 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,400 We have two choices. 429 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,400 You can repent. 430 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:15,400 That means turn back to God. 431 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,400 That's where we started at, as Kishan so wisely explained to us. 432 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,400 We became the chosen when we repented and turned our lives over to God. 433 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,400 And you now realize you no longer have God's holiness that he gave you at that time. 434 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:31,400 All you have to do is, in earnest, actually mean it, repent and turn back to God. 435 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,400 Okay, God, I repent. 436 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,400 I turn back to you. 437 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,400 You can use that word or don't. 438 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:44,400 And then beg God to graft you into his holiness, either for the first time, if you're getting saved for the first time, or again. 439 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,400 Then you accept the free gift. 440 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,400 You become the church, which is the chosen of the chosen. 441 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:56,400 I believe that a lot of people out there who are telling me they're saved, many of them probably are. 442 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,400 I don't judge who's saved and who's not. 443 00:39:58,400 --> 00:39:59,400 That's not my job. 444 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:05,400 But what I can tell you for sure is if they're not worshiping God, if they're not studying his word, if they're not sitting, if they're not giving, 445 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,400 I would say tithing, even, if they're not doing the things of God that God has called us to do and they have no respect for that, 446 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:11,400 then this is what I know. 447 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,400 They're not the chosen of the chosen. 448 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,400 They may be the chosen, which means they'll go to heaven when they die. 449 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,400 And God will even abide with them to some extent all the way through. 450 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,400 But they will also be under his wrath. 451 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:30,400 And at some point, time may pour out on them and they may be destroyed out of this light, as we talked about on Sunday. 452 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:36,400 So what you do then, alternative to repent if you're not going to, is run. 453 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,400 Run away. 454 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,400 That's all you can do. 455 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,400 Get away from the tabernacle. 456 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,400 Get away from God as far as you can, as fast as you can. 457 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,400 Do your best to stay out of his presence and avoid the coming wrath. 458 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:54,400 But know this, as David wrote in the book of Psalms in Psalm 139, wherever you flee, he is there. 459 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,400 If you are saved, he has called you to holiness. 460 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:04,400 And you can hide in your closet and do what God says you should not do. 461 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,400 And the price is the same as if you did it in the middle of the marketplace. 462 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,400 Right? 463 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:16,400 So you can run, as David said, where can I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your spirit? 464 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,400 To the bottom of the sea? 465 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,400 To the tops of the mountains? 466 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,400 There is nowhere. 467 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:26,400 If you are the chosen, your only real choice is to become the chosen chosen. 468 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:31,400 Live as holy as you possibly can and avoid the pouring over the wrath. 469 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:37,400 And know this is the beautiful thing, it's kind of funny because this is something that came up in the game that I ran on Sunday. 470 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:45,400 Know that as somebody who is the chosen chosen, you are protecting those who are outside. 471 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,400 As long as we are still here, and then one day Jesus is going to come again and say, 472 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:56,400 Come on chosen chosen, we are out of here. And the moment we are gone, the world is in trouble. 473 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,400 Because the wrath of God will pour out in a mighty way. 474 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,400 And that is a thing you don't want to see. 475 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:07,400 To the holy, it is great comfort to know that God is everywhere. 476 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,400 But to those who receive the free gift of salvation or to those who accept it and refuse to be holy, 477 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,400 it should scare them. 478 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,400 It should scare you. What startles you? 479 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,400 It ought to be God because he is powerful. 480 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,400 And this ain't no joke. This ain't no game. 481 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,400 You may think Pastor Dan is kind of freaky, kind of weird, does silly stuff. 482 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,400 Half the time what I am doing is I do because I am afraid of God. 483 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,400 I am being honest with you. I am afraid. 484 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,400 I am afraid to not do what God wants me to do. 485 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,400 Not because God is going to destroy me, because he is not. 486 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,400 Because I am the chosen. I am saved. 487 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,400 I know where I am going when I die. 488 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,400 But I want to be holy the best I can. 489 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,400 And whether I screw it up, I repent and turn back to God. 490 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:57,400 Like the Bible says, what value is salt if it has lost its saltiness? 491 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,400 Can I get your saltiness back? 492 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,400 Repent and turn back to God. 493 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,400 You weren't salt to start with. He made you salt of the earth. 494 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,400 If you are saved. 495 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,400 And then you repent and turn back to God and He will make you salt again. 496 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:16,400 There is no way, no science in this world that can return saltiness to salt. 497 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,400 Or that could take dirt and make it salt. 498 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,400 They have not discovered any science yet that can do that. 499 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:30,400 But God, He takes dirt and makes a man. 500 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,400 He sacrifices his own son to that man. 501 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,400 That man recognizes it and becomes the chosen. 502 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,400 Then that man becomes the chosen chosen. 503 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,400 And the salt of the earth. 504 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,400 I am going to break it briefly and we are through with our lesson. 505 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:51,400 Ariana and I have made fresh, fresh a couple of hours ago, cookies and frosted them. 506 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,400 And they are in the cafeteria. 507 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,400 So we will go there and take a look at them. 508 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,400 And then we are going to, we have enough to include the children in that. 509 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,400 But we will get ours first to make sure. 510 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,400 Kind of smooth it over a little bit. 511 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,400 Alright, let's break. 512 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:12,400 So in heaven I am grateful that something stirs in me that I get a little afraid when I am going the wrong way. 513 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,400 Like I put my hand on a burning stove. 514 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,400 I am grateful that I don't have to get to the point where it feels hot and the wealth starts coming up. 515 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,400 Before I realize I am about to burn myself. 516 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:26,400 I recognize you God as supremely powerful, supremely knowledgeable, supremely capable. 517 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,400 And I want to be holy the best I can as you are holy. 518 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:36,400 I don't want to go outside of your will for my life anymore than I have to by my ignorance or by my weakness. 519 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,400 And so please Lord, please. 520 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,400 You do what it is that you want to do. 521 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:44,400 Use your people. 522 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,400 Use us as a shield for the rest of the world. 523 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,400 Use us as a shield to protect them. 524 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,400 To deliver the gospel so that people can become their chosen. 525 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,400 And then the chosen chosen. 526 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,400 If that's, if they are willing. 527 00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:00,400 And for us Lord, for anyone who is in this room and needs your repentance, I pray that you just bring them up right now. 528 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,400 Shake them a little bit. 529 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,400 And let them repent. 530 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,400 Let them turn to you again. 531 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:06,400 Say I want to be God. 532 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,400 Say everything that I do. 533 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,400 It's no joke. 534 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,400 God is holy. 535 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,400 If I offer a strange fire, if I can't be too close to the holy God, I may be destroyed. 536 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,400 I am certainly no protection for anybody else. 537 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,400 Lord let us be your chosen children. 538 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,400 We pray this in Jesus name. 539 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:23,400 Amen. 540 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,400 Thank you very much. 541 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,400 This concludes our research. 542 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,400 Did you see where the recording came from? 543 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,400 It was actually down there. 544 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,400 It was plugged in up there. 545 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:36,400 Oh. 546 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,400 Okay. 547 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,400 Is it recording still? 548 00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,400 I hope so. 549 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,400 Yep, sure is. 550 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,400 I didn't mean to burn it. 551 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,400 No, I turned it on. 552 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,400 Before I left. 553 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,400 So it looks like it's fine. 554 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,400 Yes, it was recording. 555 00:45:55,400 --> 00:46:23,400 So if you ever need to...