77 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:06,060 Sometimes I think when we're thinking of moments of inspiration 78 00:05:06,060 --> 00:05:09,060 That we're looking for some big grand thing 79 00:05:09,060 --> 00:05:13,060 Like we're waiting for God to speak from a cloud loudly 80 00:05:13,060 --> 00:05:15,060 Or for the ground to shake and rumble 81 00:05:15,060 --> 00:05:17,060 And for the rock to fall off the cliff 82 00:05:17,060 --> 00:05:18,060 There's been hurt there for a hundred years 83 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:20,060 And all of a sudden it's going to fall 84 00:05:20,060 --> 00:05:22,060 And then we hear something from God 85 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:25,060 I want you to understand that we're talking about inspirational moments 86 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:27,060 That's not necessarily what we're talking about 87 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:31,060 If something like that happens in your life and God says 88 00:05:31,060 --> 00:05:34,060 Charlie, go tell everybody this 89 00:05:34,060 --> 00:05:36,060 We can hear on Sunday morning 90 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:38,060 Before announcements, before the first song 91 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:41,060 I want you to say that's God said this to me 92 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:43,060 You come in here and say this I need to say 93 00:05:43,060 --> 00:05:44,060 If that happens to you 94 00:05:44,060 --> 00:05:48,060 Then you come and say God told me to tell everybody this 95 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:50,060 Don't wait for the inspirational moment time 96 00:05:50,060 --> 00:05:54,060 The inspirational moment time we're talking about during this time 97 00:05:54,060 --> 00:05:58,060 Like all the time little things that you pick up here and there 98 00:05:58,060 --> 00:06:00,060 You should be listening all the time 99 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:01,060 I'll give you an example 100 00:06:01,060 --> 00:06:04,060 This morning Arianna and I had kind of a funny thing going on at the house 101 00:06:04,060 --> 00:06:07,060 I was making a batch of cornbread 102 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:09,060 And some of the cornbread as will happen 103 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:13,060 When you put it in cupcakes fell off the side above the cupcake wrapper 104 00:06:13,060 --> 00:06:14,060 And sat on the pan 105 00:06:14,060 --> 00:06:15,060 So then when it went through the oven 106 00:06:15,060 --> 00:06:16,060 It came out of the oven 107 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:20,060 The bit that was on the pan had turned brown 108 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:22,060 And Arianna was like, oh my gosh 109 00:06:22,060 --> 00:06:26,060 It turned brown and Arianna looked at me and she said 110 00:06:26,060 --> 00:06:29,060 What those chocolate bits there 111 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:31,060 She didn't know there was chocolate in cornbread 112 00:06:31,060 --> 00:06:33,060 I said, oh there's no chocolate there 113 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:34,060 That's the cornbread 114 00:06:34,060 --> 00:06:36,060 It just fell off the side when I put it in the cups 115 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:37,060 And it cooked and looked like that 116 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:41,060 And she said, I bet it wouldn't taste like chocolate 117 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:42,060 And I said, you're right 118 00:06:42,060 --> 00:06:44,060 It would taste like chocolate 119 00:06:44,060 --> 00:06:45,060 I said, if there is an inspirational moment 120 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:48,060 It was actually the second moment that we had this morning 121 00:06:48,060 --> 00:06:50,060 Because sometimes you will look at something 122 00:06:50,060 --> 00:06:52,060 And it can go through a certain process 123 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:54,060 And it can start to look good to you 124 00:06:54,060 --> 00:06:57,060 It can look like fun or it can look like it tastes good 125 00:06:57,060 --> 00:06:59,060 It can even look like something else 126 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:02,060 If you've ever accidentally bitten into a wax fruit 127 00:07:02,060 --> 00:07:05,060 Which I imagine nobody here has ever made that mistake 128 00:07:05,060 --> 00:07:07,060 But if you've ever actually bitten 129 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:10,060 Or you put it in your mouth and just started getting ready to taste it 130 00:07:10,060 --> 00:07:11,060 You realize it can look really good 131 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:14,060 It can be some of the best looking fruit that you can find 132 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:16,060 And yet it does not taste good 133 00:07:16,060 --> 00:07:17,060 And it cannot nourish you 134 00:07:17,060 --> 00:07:21,060 And those little bits that fell off the cornbread were not chocolate 135 00:07:21,060 --> 00:07:23,060 And they really don't taste good 136 00:07:23,060 --> 00:07:26,060 You really would have to like burnt cornbread mix 137 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:29,060 In order for you to taste that gold 138 00:07:29,060 --> 00:07:30,060 Yeah, that's yummy, right? 139 00:07:30,060 --> 00:07:33,060 So somebody might, a rare one in a hundred or something 140 00:07:33,060 --> 00:07:34,060 Might think, yeah, that really tastes good 141 00:07:34,060 --> 00:07:36,060 It tastes really better than the cornbread 142 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:39,060 But real chocolate does taste real good 143 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:41,060 And it does produce real endorphins in your body 144 00:07:41,060 --> 00:07:43,060 It makes you feel good 145 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:44,060 Too much of it isn't good for you 146 00:07:44,060 --> 00:07:45,060 But a little bit here and there 147 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:47,060 Yeah, that's good stuff 148 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:52,060 See how the enemy takes good things that God has made for us 149 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:57,060 And we use those very good things to lure us away from what's really good 150 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:00,060 By making you think, oh, that looks like chocolate 151 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:03,060 When in reality it is not 152 00:08:03,060 --> 00:08:05,060 Relationships can be like that 153 00:08:05,060 --> 00:08:08,060 You go after somebody, a boy, a girl, a friend 154 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:13,060 Could be even a parent or a cousin or family member, whatever 155 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:15,060 And you pursue that relationship 156 00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:17,060 You try to have a good relationship with that person 157 00:08:17,060 --> 00:08:20,060 And then that person starts leading you in a direction that you're not supposed to go 158 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:23,060 But you don't want to give up that relationship 159 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:25,060 That person won't listen to you about God or doesn't believe the same thing 160 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:27,060 But you don't want to give up that relationship 161 00:08:27,060 --> 00:08:29,060 You keep pouring into that relationship 162 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:33,060 Because, well, we're supposed to be relational, right? 163 00:08:33,060 --> 00:08:35,060 Bible says love your neighbor, right? 164 00:08:35,060 --> 00:08:36,060 Love others 165 00:08:36,060 --> 00:08:38,060 We're supposed to do all of that 166 00:08:38,060 --> 00:08:40,060 And the enemy will keep you carrying there 167 00:08:40,060 --> 00:08:42,060 Keep you working there in that relationship 168 00:08:42,060 --> 00:08:44,060 Which is not a healthy relationship 169 00:08:44,060 --> 00:08:48,060 By misusing those words of God, right? 170 00:08:48,060 --> 00:08:53,060 God, we were created for a relationship with one being primarily 171 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:56,060 And that is God through His son Jesus Christ 172 00:08:56,060 --> 00:08:59,060 God's the one we really were created with relationships with 173 00:08:59,060 --> 00:09:01,060 And so you can have all kinds of human relationships 174 00:09:01,060 --> 00:09:05,060 And the truth is, and somebody will maybe disagree with me on this 175 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:08,060 The truth is that every human relationship you have 176 00:09:08,060 --> 00:09:10,060 Every person, your dad 177 00:09:10,060 --> 00:09:12,060 Your son or daughter 178 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:14,060 Your mom, your sister 179 00:09:14,060 --> 00:09:15,060 All of them will be flawed 180 00:09:15,060 --> 00:09:17,060 All of them, your pastor 181 00:09:17,060 --> 00:09:18,060 Your relationship with me is flawed 182 00:09:18,060 --> 00:09:20,060 Your relationship with your team there is flawed 183 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:22,060 Because we're all flawed human beings 184 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:24,060 Even being recreated into the image of Jesus 185 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:26,060 We still have issues, right? 186 00:09:26,060 --> 00:09:28,060 And so your issues are always going to come up 187 00:09:28,060 --> 00:09:30,060 And they're going to rub wrong on each other 188 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:32,060 Because those relationships are always going to be flawed 189 00:09:32,060 --> 00:09:34,060 But your relationship with God doesn't have to be like that 190 00:09:34,060 --> 00:09:37,060 He is the sovereign authority, creator of all 191 00:09:37,060 --> 00:09:38,060 And you can submit to Him 192 00:09:38,060 --> 00:09:41,060 And the two of you together can have an amazing relationship 193 00:09:41,060 --> 00:09:42,060 That is not flawed in any way 194 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:44,060 And the flaws are taken care of by Jesus 195 00:09:44,060 --> 00:09:46,060 Okay, wait a minute 196 00:09:46,060 --> 00:09:48,060 The flaws are taken care of by Jesus 197 00:09:48,060 --> 00:09:51,060 He covers over those flaws to make that relationship good 198 00:09:51,060 --> 00:09:54,060 And Jesus can do the same thing between two Christians 199 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:56,060 So if you have a godly person and a godly person 200 00:09:56,060 --> 00:09:58,060 Even though both might make mistakes 201 00:09:58,060 --> 00:10:00,060 The relationship will be flawed 202 00:10:00,060 --> 00:10:02,060 But Jesus can cover over the mistakes 203 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:04,060 And bring those to people in the proper community 204 00:10:04,060 --> 00:10:06,060 And that's what the church is all about 205 00:10:06,060 --> 00:10:08,060 Okay, so that was an example 206 00:10:08,060 --> 00:10:11,060 Now that didn't look like chocolate moment 207 00:10:11,060 --> 00:10:13,060 Could have just went right on by 208 00:10:13,060 --> 00:10:15,060 But then we got to talking about it 209 00:10:15,060 --> 00:10:17,060 And she and I together saw something 210 00:10:17,060 --> 00:10:19,060 And she said, I'm going to inspire you a lot this morning 211 00:10:19,060 --> 00:10:21,060 But really not Ariana really 212 00:10:21,060 --> 00:10:23,060 But a god, right? Through Ariana 213 00:10:23,060 --> 00:10:26,060 So I encourage you to look for those little 214 00:10:26,060 --> 00:10:28,060 They're called inspirational moments 215 00:10:28,060 --> 00:10:31,060 Right? This is not the inspirational moment 216 00:10:31,060 --> 00:10:34,060 People are saying, well this is an inspirational moment 217 00:10:34,060 --> 00:10:36,060 We're going to have an inspirational moment 218 00:10:36,060 --> 00:10:39,060 This is us talking about the inspirational moment 219 00:10:39,060 --> 00:10:41,060 That we've had all week long 220 00:10:41,060 --> 00:10:43,060 Now the easiest way to be inspired by God 221 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:45,060 Is to go to God's inspired Word 222 00:10:45,060 --> 00:10:47,060 Which he filled with the Spirit 223 00:10:47,060 --> 00:10:49,060 And he can teach you something you've never seen before 224 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:51,060 Even if you've read that passage a hundred times before 225 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:52,060 I'll give you a second, Rachel 226 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:54,060 Even if you've read that passage a hundred times before 227 00:10:54,060 --> 00:10:56,060 You can get something new out of it 228 00:10:56,060 --> 00:10:58,060 That happens to you all the time 229 00:10:58,060 --> 00:11:01,060 I've had multiple little inspirational moments 230 00:11:01,060 --> 00:11:05,060 That I've seen, and in general terms 231 00:11:05,060 --> 00:11:07,060 It's the strength and power of God 232 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:09,060 What moves you up 233 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:13,060 The amount of work and the amount of motivation 234 00:11:13,060 --> 00:11:15,060 That we don't have 235 00:11:15,060 --> 00:11:17,060 That God can then give us to push through 236 00:11:17,060 --> 00:11:21,060 And just coming together here and at the light station 237 00:11:21,060 --> 00:11:25,060 Even with my family, the amount of work and witness 238 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:28,060 Together that we can have through the pain 239 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:30,060 Through the strife, through the sickness 240 00:11:30,060 --> 00:11:34,060 And still get a massive amount of work and witnessing 241 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:37,060 And work done to other people 242 00:11:37,060 --> 00:11:39,060 And then people saying, how do you do it? 243 00:11:39,060 --> 00:11:41,060 Well, I don't, God does 244 00:11:41,060 --> 00:11:43,060 And he used me to do it 245 00:11:43,060 --> 00:11:45,060 And just a little bit like that 246 00:11:45,060 --> 00:11:47,060 Like we talked about the past couple weeks 247 00:11:47,060 --> 00:11:49,060 The words that we can use 248 00:11:49,060 --> 00:11:50,060 People say, how do you do it? 249 00:11:50,060 --> 00:11:52,060 One day at a time with God on my side 250 00:11:52,060 --> 00:11:54,060 That's how I do it 251 00:11:54,060 --> 00:11:56,060 Good word, good word 252 00:11:56,060 --> 00:11:58,060 Alright, anyone else? 253 00:11:58,060 --> 00:12:02,060 So, who knows what this is? 254 00:12:02,060 --> 00:12:04,060 It's a circle 255 00:12:04,060 --> 00:12:06,060 It's a ring 256 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:08,060 Why do people want it? 257 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:12,060 So, this is my wedding band 258 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:15,060 And I very rarely take it off my finger 259 00:12:15,060 --> 00:12:18,060 Because I'm terrified that the one time I take it off 260 00:12:18,060 --> 00:12:19,060 I'm going to lose it 261 00:12:19,060 --> 00:12:22,060 Well, I've worn this thing every single day 262 00:12:22,060 --> 00:12:25,060 Consistently, day in, day out 263 00:12:25,060 --> 00:12:28,060 And even at work, everybody's like 264 00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:30,060 Well, why are you wearing it at work? 265 00:12:30,060 --> 00:12:32,060 You can clearly tell if you look at it closely 266 00:12:32,060 --> 00:12:35,060 It's got scratches and things 267 00:12:35,060 --> 00:12:37,060 Even where I almost wadded it to a car 268 00:12:37,060 --> 00:12:39,060 On accident 269 00:12:39,060 --> 00:12:42,060 It's got a little nub right here now 270 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:44,060 You get a free mechanic with your car 271 00:12:44,060 --> 00:12:50,060 But when I got asked at work why I never take it off 272 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:53,060 And I gave them that agrees 273 00:12:53,060 --> 00:12:56,060 And I was like, well, I'm afraid that I'll lose it 274 00:12:56,060 --> 00:12:59,060 It took me forever to get mine off too 275 00:12:59,060 --> 00:13:01,060 I'm trying to see 276 00:13:01,060 --> 00:13:03,060 I don't mind not a ring anymore 277 00:13:03,060 --> 00:13:05,060 It took me forever to get mine off 278 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:08,060 But one of the guys asked me 279 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:10,060 He's like, well, why don't you take it off when you're working or anything 280 00:13:10,060 --> 00:13:12,060 And I told him because I'm afraid to lose it 281 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:14,060 And then not long after that 282 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:16,060 I heard a guy tell me 283 00:13:16,060 --> 00:13:20,060 The reason you don't take it off is because you know who the other end of that ring belongs to 284 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:23,060 So we don't 285 00:13:23,060 --> 00:13:28,060 The ring represents the unity between you and your wife 286 00:13:28,060 --> 00:13:31,060 And now if I take it off 287 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:33,060 If I take it off just for a couple minutes 288 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:35,060 I feel really awkward 289 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:38,060 And when I took it off at work 290 00:13:38,060 --> 00:13:41,060 So I can clean my hands better 291 00:13:41,060 --> 00:13:44,060 That's when I heard God say, no, you wear that ring 292 00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:47,060 Because it represents your life as well 293 00:13:47,060 --> 00:13:50,060 And I think you could go 294 00:13:50,060 --> 00:13:52,060 This is why you don't take the Bible off 295 00:13:52,060 --> 00:13:54,060 As you know it's not that long 296 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:56,060 This is why you don't take the word out of your life 297 00:13:56,060 --> 00:13:58,060 Because you know it's not that long 298 00:13:58,060 --> 00:14:00,060 This is why you don't take the cross off 299 00:14:00,060 --> 00:14:02,060 We don't have to wear a cross or have a tattoo of a cross 300 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:04,060 But we carry our cross daily 301 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:06,060 Why? Because he carried his cross for us 302 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:08,060 That's all connected 303 00:14:08,060 --> 00:14:10,060 This, to follow your illustration 304 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:12,060 This is my wedding ring 305 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:15,060 You'll notice that it is no longer around 306 00:14:15,060 --> 00:14:19,060 So, I'll start the wax prop and the light is line dry 307 00:14:19,060 --> 00:14:23,060 Probably it's partly switched to the line dryer 308 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:27,060 So I almost can't take it off 309 00:14:27,060 --> 00:14:30,060 Except for in the middle of the way when my fingers went down 310 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:34,060 So, but I'm very blessed to be married 311 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:38,060 It's not about marriage, but we're very blessed to be married to God 312 00:14:38,060 --> 00:14:42,060 But don't take off the things that God has marked you with 313 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:44,060 As his own word 314 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:46,060 Anybody else? 315 00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:49,060 So, those of you that don't know 316 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:51,060 I'm in college 317 00:14:51,060 --> 00:14:53,060 I'm currently in a chemistry lab 318 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:55,060 And in this chemistry lab 319 00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:57,060 Last week 320 00:14:57,060 --> 00:14:59,060 Last week we 321 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:03,060 We did a lab 322 00:15:03,060 --> 00:15:05,060 About separating mixtures 323 00:15:05,060 --> 00:15:08,060 Through different physical and chemical processes 324 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:11,060 And so she gave us a mixture 325 00:15:11,060 --> 00:15:16,060 Like a couple grams of a mixture of sand, salt, and 326 00:15:16,060 --> 00:15:21,060 Sodium carbonate 327 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:24,060 It's what seashells are made out of 328 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:28,060 And we went to the lab 329 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:31,060 And we put the mixture in water 330 00:15:31,060 --> 00:15:34,060 And that dissolved off the salt 331 00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:36,060 And then we put it in a funnel 332 00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:39,060 And ran acid through it 333 00:15:39,060 --> 00:15:42,060 To get the carbonate out 334 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:47,060 And then we were left with the sand 335 00:15:47,060 --> 00:15:49,060 And then we dried and waited 336 00:15:49,060 --> 00:15:54,060 And it's sort of the analog to the 337 00:15:54,060 --> 00:16:00,060 We didn't ask the mixture what parts to take out 338 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:05,060 And God's not asking us what parts of our life we have to get rid of 339 00:16:05,060 --> 00:16:09,060 And some of them are going to go out like water and salt 340 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:13,060 And some of them are going to feel like hydrochloric acid 341 00:16:13,060 --> 00:16:17,060 Pulling the castor carbonate out of them 342 00:16:17,060 --> 00:16:21,060 It's not always going to be easy 343 00:16:21,060 --> 00:16:23,060 And whether we like it or not 344 00:16:23,060 --> 00:16:25,060 It's going to happen 345 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:27,060 It might just be better to ask 346 00:16:27,060 --> 00:16:29,060 To get a little help with it 347 00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:32,060 Alright, so we're going to pray together at this time 348 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:35,060 I had an offering, a little more worship, a couple songs 349 00:16:35,060 --> 00:16:36,060 So it won't be released 350 00:16:36,060 --> 00:16:38,060 I'm going to ask Brother Ron now 351 00:16:38,060 --> 00:16:41,060 We'll pray along with Brother Ron 352 00:16:41,060 --> 00:16:43,060 Here we go 353 00:16:43,060 --> 00:16:47,060 Lord Father in Heaven, we are so blessed to be here today 354 00:16:47,060 --> 00:16:51,060 Lord, your ways are so far above our ways 355 00:16:51,060 --> 00:16:54,060 We're so grateful that we have you 356 00:16:54,060 --> 00:16:57,060 Our Savior, our Creator 357 00:16:57,060 --> 00:17:01,060 To watch over us, to help us walk 358 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:04,060 To show us your way 359 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:08,060 When you're here physically with us 360 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:13,060 Jesus, we can't thank you enough for what you've done for us 361 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:17,060 And what you continue to do for us in the Spirit 362 00:17:17,060 --> 00:17:21,060 I ask that you bless these tithes and offerings 363 00:17:21,060 --> 00:17:25,060 One of the many, many, many things that you've done for us 364 00:17:25,060 --> 00:17:29,060 Which is provide income and blessings 365 00:17:29,060 --> 00:17:32,060 And Lord, we give that back to you in the form of pious 366 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:35,060 Which are commanded 367 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:37,060 And we give it back to you in offerings 368 00:17:37,060 --> 00:17:39,060 Which are above our pious 369 00:17:39,060 --> 00:17:42,060 Thank you 370 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:44,060 Father, I pray that you'll bless them 371 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:47,060 Help us use them to see over what we've done 372 00:17:47,060 --> 00:17:49,060 Bless this body as we gather 373 00:17:49,060 --> 00:17:51,060 Continue to help us worship you 374 00:17:51,060 --> 00:17:56,060 I pray it'll be beautiful to your ears 375 00:17:56,060 --> 00:17:58,060 Thank you, bless this day in Jesus' name 376 00:17:58,060 --> 00:18:00,060 Amen 377 00:18:28,060 --> 00:18:30,060 Get it. 378 00:18:59,060 --> 00:19:06,060 The splinter of the king 379 00:19:06,060 --> 00:19:11,060 Gloved in majesty 380 00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:14,060 That all the earth rejoices 381 00:19:14,060 --> 00:19:18,060 All the earth rejoices 382 00:19:18,060 --> 00:19:25,060 Here at sin's help in the light 383 00:19:25,060 --> 00:19:30,060 The darkness tries to arrive 384 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:33,060 And trumpets at his voice 385 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:37,060 Trumpets at his voice 386 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:43,060 How great is our God 387 00:19:43,060 --> 00:19:50,060 Sing to me how great is our God 388 00:19:50,060 --> 00:20:01,060 I will see how great, how great is our God 389 00:20:01,060 --> 00:20:24,060 Let's sing to him how great is our God 390 00:20:24,060 --> 00:20:36,060 Let's sing to him how great is our God 391 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:39,060 How great is our God 392 00:20:39,060 --> 00:20:51,060 Sing to me how great is our God 393 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:56,060 How great is our God 394 00:20:56,060 --> 00:21:11,060 I will see how great, how great is our God 395 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:22,060 How great is our God 396 00:21:22,060 --> 00:21:36,060 I will see how great is our God 397 00:21:36,060 --> 00:21:42,060 How great is our God 398 00:21:42,060 --> 00:21:48,060 Sing to me how great is our God 399 00:21:48,060 --> 00:21:52,060 I will see how great is our God 400 00:21:52,060 --> 00:22:02,060 How great is our God 401 00:22:02,060 --> 00:22:07,060 How great is our God 402 00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:14,060 Sing to me how great is our God 403 00:22:14,060 --> 00:22:32,060 I will see how great, how great is our God 404 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:55,060 There's no place where mercy reigns 405 00:22:55,060 --> 00:23:02,060 And heaven will arise 406 00:23:02,060 --> 00:23:08,060 There's a place with streams of grace 407 00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:15,060 Where we be back alive 408 00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:22,060 With all the love and heaven we found 409 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:32,060 It's like a flood, it's flowing down 410 00:23:32,060 --> 00:23:39,060 At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life 411 00:23:39,060 --> 00:23:45,060 I did love you, I did love you 412 00:23:45,060 --> 00:23:52,060 May the love we have reigned in my sin wash white 413 00:23:52,060 --> 00:24:05,060 I owe all to you, I owe all to you Jesus 414 00:24:05,060 --> 00:24:14,060 There's a place where sin and chains are promised 415 00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:24,060 At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life 416 00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:31,060 I will see how great is our God 417 00:24:31,060 --> 00:24:37,060 There's a place with streams of grace 418 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:44,060 Where we be back alive 419 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:51,060 With all the love and heaven we found 420 00:24:51,060 --> 00:24:57,060 It's like a flood, it's flowing down 421 00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:04,060 At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life 422 00:25:04,060 --> 00:25:11,060 I owe all to you, I owe all to you 423 00:25:11,060 --> 00:25:15,060 Here I am, on the earth I stand 424 00:25:15,060 --> 00:25:18,060 Here I am, on the holy ground 425 00:25:18,060 --> 00:25:25,060 Here I am, here I am 426 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:28,060 Here I am, my life is free 427 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:35,060 Here I am, my life is free 428 00:25:35,060 --> 00:25:42,060 Here I am, my life is free 429 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:53,060 Here I am, my life is free 430 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:59,060 At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life 431 00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:06,060 I owe all to you, I owe all to you 432 00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:13,060 At the cross, at the cross, I surrender my life 433 00:26:13,060 --> 00:26:20,060 I did love you, I did love you 434 00:26:20,060 --> 00:26:26,060 I said it was fair, I owe all to you 435 00:26:26,060 --> 00:26:33,060 I owe all to you, I owe all to you 436 00:26:33,060 --> 00:26:50,060 I owe all to you, to you, to you, to you 437 00:26:50,060 --> 00:27:04,060 In Christ alone will I be 438 00:27:04,060 --> 00:27:10,060 Though I have to pride myself in that I was wise 439 00:27:10,060 --> 00:27:14,060 For I've been blessed beyond measure 440 00:27:14,060 --> 00:27:21,060 And by His strength alone I overcome 441 00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:26,060 Oh, I could stop an count of cremators 442 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:29,060 Like diamonds in my hand 443 00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:33,060 But those trophies could not equal 444 00:27:33,060 --> 00:27:39,060 To the grace my wish I'd send 445 00:27:39,060 --> 00:27:46,060 In Christ alone I'll face my chore 446 00:27:46,060 --> 00:27:53,060 And find my glory in the will of the crew 447 00:27:53,060 --> 00:28:01,060 In every victory let it be said of me 448 00:28:01,060 --> 00:28:18,060 My soul must have strength, my soul must have power in Christ alone 449 00:28:18,060 --> 00:28:23,060 In Christ alone will I be 450 00:28:23,060 --> 00:28:28,060 For He holds me by all His grace and grace 451 00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:32,060 And only His hand of mercy 452 00:28:32,060 --> 00:28:39,060 Could reach beyond my weakness to my knees 453 00:28:39,060 --> 00:28:45,060 Now I could seek no greater honor 454 00:28:45,060 --> 00:28:48,060 Than just to love you more 455 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:51,060 As the count of the games were lasting 456 00:28:51,060 --> 00:28:58,060 To the glory of God 457 00:28:58,060 --> 00:29:05,060 In Christ alone I'll face my chore 458 00:29:05,060 --> 00:29:12,060 And find my glory in the will of the crew 459 00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:20,060 In every victory let it be said of me 460 00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:30,060 My soul must have strength, my soul must have power in Christ alone 461 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:34,060 I'll face my chore 462 00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:41,060 And find my glory in the will of the crew 463 00:29:41,060 --> 00:29:49,060 In every victory let it be said of me 464 00:29:49,060 --> 00:30:02,060 My soul must have strength, my soul must have power in Christ alone 465 00:30:02,060 --> 00:30:19,060 My soul must have strength, my soul must have power in Christ alone 466 00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:55,060 As I was sitting there I thought well I'm going to open my Bible to the reference before I get up there in the pulpit 467 00:30:55,060 --> 00:31:00,060 And I was thinking to myself Deuteronomy 19, I thought oh yeah I think it's a lot further than that 468 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:03,060 I thought Deuteronomy 19, it seemed like we were getting close to the end of the book 469 00:31:03,060 --> 00:31:07,060 And then I remembered it's Deuteronomy 29 and I was like oh yeah we are getting close to the end of the book 470 00:31:07,060 --> 00:31:11,060 We are literally nearing the end of the book of Deuteronomy 471 00:31:11,060 --> 00:31:15,060 Which is quite an impressive feat to work our way through the entire book 472 00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:19,060 There are only 33 chapters of the book of Deuteronomy 473 00:31:19,060 --> 00:31:23,060 We've been over a year with it but it's a big book 474 00:31:23,060 --> 00:31:27,060 It is one of the larger books in the Bible and we've made a lot of progress 475 00:31:27,060 --> 00:31:30,060 And I personally I don't know if anybody else has gotten a lot out of it or not 476 00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:33,060 But I've seen a lot of things come out of this that have really affected my life 477 00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:40,060 And I'm grateful to be allowed to do it and I thank you that you allow me to do it 478 00:31:40,060 --> 00:31:47,060 Imagine for a moment that you were growing up a hundred years ago or more 479 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:54,060 In the United States of America where for most of the middle of America 480 00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:58,060 You were dealing with a lot of small towns and some of the towns that developed to be kind of large 481 00:31:58,060 --> 00:32:01,060 But there was a lot of small towns and some of those small towns faded away 482 00:32:01,060 --> 00:32:03,060 Faded into bigger towns and things like that 483 00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:07,060 But if you were a young person and you guys who are in the room like Jason 484 00:32:07,060 --> 00:32:11,060 You just went into sixth grade, seventh grade thank you sir 485 00:32:11,060 --> 00:32:15,060 So you just went into seventh grade and if you were in seventh grade 486 00:32:15,060 --> 00:32:20,060 You would have kindergarteners in your class with you in school 487 00:32:20,060 --> 00:32:24,060 In fact the small town schoolhouses almost all of them had kindergarten 488 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:26,060 And really they didn't have kindergarten 489 00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:30,060 They had that age at which they were ready which is kindergarten first grade 490 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:32,060 Kindergarten is kind of a little bit later development 491 00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:35,060 First grade through senior in high school 492 00:32:35,060 --> 00:32:38,060 So you'd have been going to the same small building 493 00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:44,060 And you'd be there for six or seven hours with kids and teenagers of all ages 494 00:32:44,060 --> 00:32:48,060 And the only textbook that you had generally speaking to read from 495 00:32:48,060 --> 00:32:52,060 Unless your teacher would bring in additional works or things like that was the Bible 496 00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:58,060 So you would be learning as a first grader in the same room with somebody who was in 11th or 12th grade 497 00:32:58,060 --> 00:33:03,060 So when they're talking about algebra you're mostly just waiting patiently 498 00:33:03,060 --> 00:33:08,060 And when the first graders are talking about what's the difference between an M and an N in the alphabet 499 00:33:08,060 --> 00:33:12,060 The tenth graders were working on their algebra work or whatever 500 00:33:12,060 --> 00:33:18,060 So in the same room was all this vast range of people 501 00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:23,060 And so there were farmers and then there was the general store owner's son and the smith's son 502 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:26,060 They come from different walks of life and like that 503 00:33:26,060 --> 00:33:31,060 But they would all come to this schoolhouse because they knew there was knowledge there to be received 504 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:34,060 And while someone else was receiving the knowledge that they were getting 505 00:33:34,060 --> 00:33:37,060 They might get some little piece of it or pick up some part of it 506 00:33:37,060 --> 00:33:40,060 But if somebody was much older than them they probably couldn't understand it 507 00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:44,060 Like they might be reading poetry for example or reading proverbs out of the Bible 508 00:33:44,060 --> 00:33:49,060 And the first and second graders would just get just an inkling of what they were talking about 509 00:33:49,060 --> 00:33:51,060 Not understanding really at all what they were talking about 510 00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:55,060 And then when they were reading, when they were learning colors and stuff like that 511 00:33:55,060 --> 00:34:00,060 The older kids were just basically ignoring what was being said 512 00:34:00,060 --> 00:34:06,060 Small town schoolhouses between the ages of first grade and senior high school 513 00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:12,060 Are very similar to the incident that we're going to read about in the text today 514 00:34:12,060 --> 00:34:13,060 That's why I make that illustration 515 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:17,060 So grab your Bible if you would and turn with me to Deuteronomy chapter 29 516 00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:18,060 Amen 517 00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,060 Thank you so much 518 00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:20,060 This is God's word 519 00:34:20,060 --> 00:34:24,060 We stopped last week in verse 8 520 00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:27,060 We ended with verse 8 and we will begin today with verse 9 521 00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:31,060 So 29, 9 says 522 00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:38,060 So keep the words of this covenant to do them that you may prosper in all that you do 523 00:34:38,060 --> 00:34:41,060 You stand today all of you before the Lord your God 524 00:34:41,060 --> 00:34:45,060 Your chiefs, your tribes, your elders, your officers, even all the men of Israel 525 00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:49,060 Your little ones, your wives, the alien who is within your camps 526 00:34:49,060 --> 00:34:52,060 From the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water 527 00:34:52,060 --> 00:34:58,060 So before we go any further there I want you to see that he's making a point that everybody's there 528 00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:01,060 And notice he doesn't have to do that 529 00:35:01,060 --> 00:35:03,060 He doesn't have to say men and women 530 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:05,060 In other texts we don't even get that 531 00:35:05,060 --> 00:35:09,060 See all of you men are here and women are not even acknowledged but they were there 532 00:35:09,060 --> 00:35:13,060 Or all the families are here and that would take care of all the men, women, and children 533 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:15,060 But he's breaking them down to make a point 534 00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,060 He's saying all these kind of different categories 535 00:35:18,060 --> 00:35:21,060 And he doesn't list all of the categories that were there 536 00:35:21,060 --> 00:35:26,060 So there's something that we can learn from the list that he chooses 537 00:35:26,060 --> 00:35:29,060 Because he doesn't list everybody that was there 538 00:35:29,060 --> 00:35:32,060 But his point is everyone is here 539 00:35:32,060 --> 00:35:35,060 But notice how different some of you are from the others 540 00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:40,060 Chiefs from the men who chop the wood for example is a radical difference 541 00:35:40,060 --> 00:35:45,060 As leaders of families who had 10 sons and their sons had sons 542 00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:47,060 And they had soldiers that had been trained up 543 00:35:47,060 --> 00:35:52,060 And they were all working together as a kind of like an organized family, an organized military unit 544 00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:56,060 That's way different from the guy who just goes out and draws the water 545 00:35:56,060 --> 00:35:59,060 Or maybe the woman who went out and draws the water 546 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:04,060 So basically he's saying we're all here and I see that you're all different 547 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:07,060 That was his point 548 00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:11,060 We're going to go on, verse 12 549 00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:14,060 Everyone's here, all the different walks of life 550 00:36:14,060 --> 00:36:18,060 That you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God and into his oath 551 00:36:18,060 --> 00:36:21,060 Which the Lord your God is making with you today 552 00:36:21,060 --> 00:36:24,060 In order that he may establish you today as his people 553 00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:27,060 And that he may be your God just as he spoke to you 554 00:36:27,060 --> 00:36:32,060 And as he swore to your fathers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 555 00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:34,060 So he harkens back to the promises again 556 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:37,060 Remember this is the promised land that they're talking about 557 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:43,060 This covenant that they were making with God was based on the promise 558 00:36:43,060 --> 00:36:45,060 Based on the grace, based on the holiness 559 00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:48,060 We talked about all of that over the last month or so 560 00:36:48,060 --> 00:36:51,060 But the bottom line is he was saying you're all here 561 00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:54,060 And you all come from all these different parts of our society 562 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:57,060 Everybody is different in their own way 563 00:36:57,060 --> 00:37:01,060 And that is so that you may make this covenant 564 00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:05,060 See the connection? He says so that you may make this covenant 565 00:37:05,060 --> 00:37:08,060 That's why everyone's there, that's why everyone's diverse 566 00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:11,060 So that they may make the covenant 567 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:12,060 Verse 14 568 00:37:12,060 --> 00:37:16,060 Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath 569 00:37:16,060 --> 00:37:19,060 So now wait a minute, not just everybody that's there 570 00:37:19,060 --> 00:37:22,060 But he says now there's someone more 571 00:37:22,060 --> 00:37:25,060 More than you, you all are here and you all are different 572 00:37:25,060 --> 00:37:28,060 But there's someone more that's making this covenant today as well 573 00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:31,060 And verse 15 he says, and he gives us the answers to who that is 574 00:37:31,060 --> 00:37:34,060 But both with those who stand here with us today 575 00:37:34,060 --> 00:37:36,060 In the presence of the Lord our God 576 00:37:36,060 --> 00:37:39,060 And with those who are not with us here today 577 00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:41,060 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt 578 00:37:41,060 --> 00:37:44,060 And how we came through the midst of the nations from which you passed 579 00:37:44,060 --> 00:37:47,060 So we're down to 17 and basically what he's saying is 580 00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:51,060 All of you are here today, all of you come from different ways of thinking 581 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:55,060 Different ways of living, different job backgrounds, different social economic status 582 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:58,060 Whatever, we're diverse but we're all here represented 583 00:37:58,060 --> 00:38:01,060 But this covenant that we're making is not even just with you as a people 584 00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:04,060 And notice that when he said those who chop wood 585 00:38:04,060 --> 00:38:07,060 There's a very good likelihood he was talking about people that they had taken in battle 586 00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:10,060 So not even Israelites 587 00:38:10,060 --> 00:38:14,060 Not blood Israelites, not people could trace their tribe back 588 00:38:14,060 --> 00:38:19,060 So the proselytes are amongst them, people who have come over to be Israelites are there 589 00:38:19,060 --> 00:38:21,060 So all these people from all these diverse backgrounds 590 00:38:21,060 --> 00:38:26,060 He says, but not only am I not only making this covenant with one part of Israel 591 00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:30,060 But all of Israel, but on top of that I'm not only making it with Israel 592 00:38:30,060 --> 00:38:35,060 I'm making it with all those people who will come to be part of it in the future 593 00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:39,060 And he says, you know how we went through all the midst of those nations 594 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:41,060 We saw so much difference 595 00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:45,060 So many people from so many different walks of life, the way they live, the way they think, all of that 596 00:38:45,060 --> 00:38:51,060 And he's saying, basically he was saying this covenant will in theory be open to everybody 597 00:38:51,060 --> 00:38:54,060 God can use it to bring anybody into relationship with him 598 00:38:54,060 --> 00:38:56,060 Then 17 599 00:38:56,060 --> 00:38:59,060 Moreover, you have seen their abomination 600 00:38:59,060 --> 00:39:03,060 So amongst those people they went through, you saw how the evil things that they did 601 00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:07,060 And their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold 602 00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:09,060 Which they had with them 603 00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:13,060 So they had statues that they worshipped at or statues that they sacrificed their children at 604 00:39:13,060 --> 00:39:15,060 And things like that 605 00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:18,060 And saw how bad it is out there amongst other people 606 00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:20,060 We don't have that here now amongst us 607 00:39:20,060 --> 00:39:22,060 But it's very bad out there 608 00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:26,060 And this covenant will be open to that people is what he was saying 609 00:39:26,060 --> 00:39:27,060 18 610 00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:32,060 Lest there shall be among you a man or a woman or a family or a tribe 611 00:39:32,060 --> 00:39:36,060 Whose heart turns away today from the Lord your God 612 00:39:36,060 --> 00:39:39,060 To go and serve the gods of these nations 613 00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:45,060 Lest there shall be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood 614 00:39:45,060 --> 00:39:47,060 And I'll break these things down in the points 615 00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:49,060 So that's why I'm not breaking them down right this second 616 00:39:49,060 --> 00:39:50,060 19 617 00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:53,060 And it shall be when he hears the words of this curse 618 00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:55,060 That he will boast saying 619 00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:58,060 I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart 620 00:39:58,060 --> 00:40:01,060 In order to destroy the watered land with the dry 621 00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:03,060 In other words, he's saying there's somebody amongst you 622 00:40:03,060 --> 00:40:05,060 There could be somebody amongst you 623 00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:07,060 That would be like that 624 00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:09,060 They will boast saying I have peace 625 00:40:09,060 --> 00:40:11,060 Even though he doesn't have peace 626 00:40:11,060 --> 00:40:13,060 Even though he is subject to the curse 627 00:40:13,060 --> 00:40:14,060 He's not honoring God 628 00:40:14,060 --> 00:40:16,060 He could say I have peace 629 00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:17,060 Verse 20 630 00:40:17,060 --> 00:40:20,060 The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him 631 00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:26,060 But rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will burn against that man 632 00:40:26,060 --> 00:40:31,060 And every curse which is written in this book will rest on him 633 00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:36,060 And the Lord will blot his name from under heaven 634 00:40:36,060 --> 00:40:42,060 Then the Lord will single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel 635 00:40:42,060 --> 00:40:47,060 According to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law 636 00:40:47,060 --> 00:40:49,060 That's the text for the day 637 00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:51,060 May God add blessings to the reading of his word 638 00:40:51,060 --> 00:40:53,060 There are three things I want you to see in here 639 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:57,060 The first two might just jump right out at you 640 00:40:57,060 --> 00:41:01,060 The third one is a combination of those two and might also just jump right out 641 00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:05,060 You might have done this by yourself in your own study I think 642 00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:07,060 But the Lord really laid it on my heart 643 00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:11,060 The first thing is I want you to see that the people that were there was everyone 644 00:41:11,060 --> 00:41:13,060 All walks of life 645 00:41:13,060 --> 00:41:16,060 Woodcutters and water bearers 646 00:41:16,060 --> 00:41:19,060 Those who owned a hundred oxen or whatever 647 00:41:19,060 --> 00:41:22,060 Those who owned fifteen flocks of sheep 648 00:41:22,060 --> 00:41:24,060 Had twenty shepherds working for them 649 00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:25,060 All walks of life 650 00:41:25,060 --> 00:41:27,060 The single, the married 651 00:41:27,060 --> 00:41:31,060 Those who had betrayed God at some point in time and then restored to the community 652 00:41:31,060 --> 00:41:33,060 And those by sacrifice or by whatever it means 653 00:41:33,060 --> 00:41:36,060 Those who had never betrayed God that anyone ever knew about 654 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:37,060 They were all there 655 00:41:37,060 --> 00:41:39,060 All people, all walks of life 656 00:41:39,060 --> 00:41:41,060 All types of education 657 00:41:41,060 --> 00:41:49,060 Smarter people who know how to construct things from 658 00:41:49,060 --> 00:41:52,060 Take plants and stones and bring them together 659 00:41:52,060 --> 00:41:55,060 Boil this and boil that and distill this and distill that and put it all together 660 00:41:55,060 --> 00:41:57,060 And get a medicine 661 00:41:57,060 --> 00:41:59,060 And people who are like 662 00:41:59,060 --> 00:42:03,060 You know I walk behind a plow and I know you've got to keep the rows straight because 663 00:42:03,060 --> 00:42:07,060 I want to get the maximum yield from the crops 664 00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:08,060 Right? 665 00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:14,060 And people who don't know any of that and all they know is you get up in the morning to go get the water because it's hot in the middle of the day 666 00:42:14,060 --> 00:42:17,060 Every walk of life and every education 667 00:42:17,060 --> 00:42:21,060 Those who could read and those who could not 668 00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:24,060 Reading was not taken for granted at all in that day 669 00:42:24,060 --> 00:42:26,060 Some could and some couldn't 670 00:42:26,060 --> 00:42:31,060 In fact whether or not you could read was not an indicator of whether you were educated or not 671 00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:35,060 Today we want to say that if somebody can't read it's because they're not educated 672 00:42:35,060 --> 00:42:37,060 That's not even true 673 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:43,060 There are people who do not read well who are way smarter than people who do read well 674 00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:48,060 I know a man who went and got his master's degree and he has a reading level like fifth grade 675 00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:49,060 That's all he can read 676 00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:51,060 And he made it through six years of college 677 00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:52,060 Right? 678 00:42:52,060 --> 00:42:58,060 Now he had to work harder than the other guy and in my opinion I think he's smarter than a lot of those guys that went through and could read really well 679 00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:03,060 Even though he because he had to work harder even though they made it through and got the same degree he did maybe got better grades 680 00:43:03,060 --> 00:43:07,060 He worked harder and learned more in that six years than they did 681 00:43:07,060 --> 00:43:10,060 But he has a fifth grade reading level 682 00:43:10,060 --> 00:43:12,060 Bottom line is this 683 00:43:12,060 --> 00:43:14,060 All walks of life 684 00:43:14,060 --> 00:43:16,060 All education levels 685 00:43:16,060 --> 00:43:18,060 All work types 686 00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:20,060 Wait for it 687 00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:22,060 All backstories 688 00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:24,060 People who came from all different places 689 00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:26,060 They might be successful businessmen now 690 00:43:26,060 --> 00:43:29,060 And a lot of times we look at people right where they are right now and we think that's how they've been their whole life 691 00:43:29,060 --> 00:43:30,060 But that isn't so 692 00:43:30,060 --> 00:43:32,060 People come from all different backgrounds 693 00:43:32,060 --> 00:43:38,060 There are people who were in one career and switched to a completely different career 694 00:43:38,060 --> 00:43:40,060 Right? 695 00:43:40,060 --> 00:43:45,060 Completely different major in school whatever all different backstories 696 00:43:45,060 --> 00:43:48,060 Notice there were people there who were witnesses 697 00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:54,060 They were alive to see what God did to the Egyptians some of them 698 00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:57,060 But there were people there who were converts 699 00:43:57,060 --> 00:43:58,060 They didn't see any of it 700 00:43:58,060 --> 00:44:00,060 They didn't see what God did the Egyptians 701 00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:03,060 They didn't see God part the Red Sea 702 00:44:03,060 --> 00:44:04,060 They didn't see any of it 703 00:44:04,060 --> 00:44:08,060 But they understood that it had happened or believed that it had happened 704 00:44:08,060 --> 00:44:09,060 But they hadn't seen it 705 00:44:09,060 --> 00:44:11,060 Some of them weren't even Israelite blood 706 00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:14,060 They believed that it had happened that God had converted them 707 00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:20,060 They've been taken in battle and now they've become Israelites or Jews if you will as converts 708 00:44:20,060 --> 00:44:24,060 What they were witnessing to was what God was doing today 709 00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:26,060 What God had done in their lives 710 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:28,060 That's a lot like we are 711 00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:33,060 So all walks of life, all education, all work types, all backstories, witnesses and converts 712 00:44:33,060 --> 00:44:36,060 Who was gathered there? Everyone! 713 00:44:36,060 --> 00:44:42,060 But it goes further than that because in verse 15 who was lumped in? 714 00:44:42,060 --> 00:44:44,060 Everyone who was yet to come 715 00:44:44,060 --> 00:44:47,060 Look at 15 again real quick 716 00:44:47,060 --> 00:44:53,060 He says, but both, these are those who, he says, not just making the covenant and this oath with you 717 00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:58,060 But both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God 718 00:44:58,060 --> 00:45:02,060 And with those who are not with us here today 719 00:45:02,060 --> 00:45:06,060 Every convert, every person who would come to be a believer 720 00:45:06,060 --> 00:45:08,060 This covenant was for everybody 721 00:45:08,060 --> 00:45:11,060 Everyone was lumped in 722 00:45:11,060 --> 00:45:14,060 I submit to you this is a problem for me 723 00:45:14,060 --> 00:45:17,060 Because there are people who just don't know 724 00:45:17,060 --> 00:45:21,060 There are people that maybe will have a hard time ever knowing 725 00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:22,060 They're ignorant 726 00:45:22,060 --> 00:45:26,060 They don't have access to the gospel, they don't have a Bible, they don't have somebody to teach them 727 00:45:26,060 --> 00:45:32,060 They don't know and the possibility of their knowing seems minimal 728 00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:35,060 And then there are people that, you know, I'm just keeping my head down 729 00:45:35,060 --> 00:45:37,060 I'm just keeping my nose to the grindstone 730 00:45:37,060 --> 00:45:39,060 I'm just doing what I gotta do, right? 731 00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:42,060 I'm being me, doing what I gotta do, day to day, in and out 732 00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:47,060 And it seems like they have less chance because they're keeping their head down 733 00:45:47,060 --> 00:45:51,060 Because they're not focused on these other things 734 00:45:51,060 --> 00:45:57,060 And it seems to me that Psalm 131 supports, at least initially, that lifestyle 735 00:45:57,060 --> 00:45:59,060 It says, and I'll read it to you real quick 736 00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:03,060 Oh Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty 737 00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:08,060 Nor do I involve myself in great matters or in things too difficult for me 738 00:46:08,060 --> 00:46:14,060 So I have great sympathy for the one who says, I don't really have to worry about that covenant 739 00:46:14,060 --> 00:46:19,060 I really don't have to worry about the extensions of the law, the choices that I have to make 740 00:46:19,060 --> 00:46:21,060 Because that's a little beyond me, right? 741 00:46:21,060 --> 00:46:24,060 Or those who look at the pashel and say, well, he knows more of the Word than I do 742 00:46:24,060 --> 00:46:26,060 So that's why he's kind of goofy like that 743 00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:28,060 I don't have to be kind of goofy like that 744 00:46:28,060 --> 00:46:32,060 Or they look at Deacon Tony and say, well, he'll grin and bear it, he'll get it done 745 00:46:32,060 --> 00:46:36,060 He was able to just set everything aside and make it happen or whatever 746 00:46:36,060 --> 00:46:38,060 And he can do that because he's ordained as a deacon 747 00:46:38,060 --> 00:46:40,060 He's somehow special or whatever 748 00:46:40,060 --> 00:46:42,060 That's just not the case 749 00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:44,060 That's just not the way it works 750 00:46:44,060 --> 00:46:47,060 Everyone was subject to the same standards 751 00:46:47,060 --> 00:46:50,060 And then if you go a little further in Psalm 131 752 00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:55,060 He says in verse 2, surely I have composed and quieted my soul 753 00:46:55,060 --> 00:46:58,060 Like a weaned child rests against his mother 754 00:46:58,060 --> 00:47:00,060 My soul is like a weaned child within me 755 00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:05,060 A weaned child is a child that still yearns for the breast but is now off the breast, right? 756 00:47:05,060 --> 00:47:13,060 And so he wants, he needs, everything is not taken care of for him 757 00:47:13,060 --> 00:47:19,060 And then in verse 3 he says, oh Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore 758 00:47:19,060 --> 00:47:23,060 So the psalmist understood that no matter what walk of life you come from 759 00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:27,060 No matter how educated you think you are or think you aren't 760 00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:32,060 How capable to take on a task you think you are or how incapable you think you are 761 00:47:32,060 --> 00:47:33,060 It doesn't matter 762 00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:36,060 You're subject to the same standards 763 00:47:36,060 --> 00:47:38,060 You're subject to the same covenant 764 00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:40,060 The same call of God 765 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:45,060 The same bizarre faith that makes lost people look at us and go, that person is just weird 766 00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:47,060 I don't know why they're so unfaithful to the Lord 767 00:47:47,060 --> 00:47:48,060 Why does he always say he's blessed? 768 00:47:48,060 --> 00:47:49,060 Why is he always praying for me? 769 00:47:49,060 --> 00:47:51,060 Why does he stop and pray for me in the middle of his busy day? 770 00:47:51,060 --> 00:47:52,060 Why does he witness? 771 00:47:52,060 --> 00:47:53,060 Why does he talk to me about Jesus? 772 00:47:53,060 --> 00:47:56,060 Why is he wearing that Jesus shirt? 773 00:47:56,060 --> 00:47:59,060 Or why does he serve without any recompense? 774 00:47:59,060 --> 00:48:01,060 Doesn't get paid? 775 00:48:01,060 --> 00:48:04,060 And people look at people and think, that's strange 776 00:48:04,060 --> 00:48:09,060 And that's the kind of people we're supposed to be because we are dependent upon God 777 00:48:09,060 --> 00:48:12,060 No matter what walk of life we came from to understand 778 00:48:12,060 --> 00:48:15,060 Now when I graduated high school, I'll go back 779 00:48:15,060 --> 00:48:20,060 When I was in sixth grade, they took those standardized testings, right? 780 00:48:20,060 --> 00:48:24,060 And my reading level was a 12th grade reading level in sixth grade 781 00:48:24,060 --> 00:48:26,060 Now my boys did better than that 782 00:48:26,060 --> 00:48:29,060 And that's not always the way it is, right? 783 00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:35,060 So when I was 25 years old, and I found out that my name Daniel came from the book of Daniel in the Bible 784 00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:37,060 The hero of the faith, if you will 785 00:48:37,060 --> 00:48:40,060 I asked my dad, and he said, yeah, we named you after Daniel in the Bible 786 00:48:40,060 --> 00:48:42,060 I said, well, I want to read the book of Daniel 787 00:48:42,060 --> 00:48:44,060 And I want to understand what it says 788 00:48:44,060 --> 00:48:46,060 Because I think that some of this church stuff makes sense to me 789 00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:48,060 I wasn't saved at the time, but it was making sense 790 00:48:48,060 --> 00:48:50,060 I said, I want to read it and understand it, and I can do that 791 00:48:50,060 --> 00:48:53,060 Because I can read and understand the craziest of things 792 00:48:53,060 --> 00:48:55,060 I can read and understand college textbooks 793 00:48:55,060 --> 00:48:58,060 I can read and understand the dictionary 794 00:48:58,060 --> 00:49:00,060 I could have probably learned another language 795 00:49:00,060 --> 00:49:02,060 I didn't, but I probably could have 796 00:49:02,060 --> 00:49:04,060 So I thought I'd read it 797 00:49:04,060 --> 00:49:06,060 So I read the first chapters, the first seven chapters 798 00:49:06,060 --> 00:49:08,060 And guess how much of it I understood 799 00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:10,060 Next to none of it 800 00:49:10,060 --> 00:49:11,060 I'm going, I don't understand this 801 00:49:11,060 --> 00:49:13,060 I'm reading, it's prose, it's paragraph after paragraph 802 00:49:13,060 --> 00:49:15,060 It's just word after word like any other book 803 00:49:15,060 --> 00:49:19,060 But I don't understand what it is that God is trying to say through this 804 00:49:19,060 --> 00:49:21,060 I couldn't understand it 805 00:49:21,060 --> 00:49:23,060 It doesn't matter how educated you are 806 00:49:23,060 --> 00:49:25,060 Or what your reading level is 807 00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:27,060 You're subject to the same problems 808 00:49:27,060 --> 00:49:29,060 And also the same blessings as anyone else 809 00:49:29,060 --> 00:49:31,060 Everyone was there 810 00:49:31,060 --> 00:49:33,060 And everyone was lumped in 811 00:49:33,060 --> 00:49:37,060 And to say, that's above my pay grade 812 00:49:37,060 --> 00:49:39,060 Or that's outside my reach 813 00:49:39,060 --> 00:49:41,060 Or I don't quite understand it 814 00:49:41,060 --> 00:49:43,060 And think that that's an excuse 815 00:49:43,060 --> 00:49:45,060 That's just not true 816 00:49:45,060 --> 00:49:47,060 In Colossians chapter 1 817 00:49:47,060 --> 00:49:51,060 Paul is writing to the church at Colossi 818 00:49:51,060 --> 00:49:53,060 That's why it's called Colossians 819 00:49:53,060 --> 00:49:57,060 And verses 19 through 23 820 00:49:57,060 --> 00:49:59,060 It says as follows 821 00:49:59,060 --> 00:50:01,060 Colossians chapter 1 verses 19 through 23 822 00:50:01,060 --> 00:50:03,060 For it was the Father's good pleasure 823 00:50:03,060 --> 00:50:05,060 For all the fullness to dwell in Him 824 00:50:05,060 --> 00:50:07,060 That's talking about Jesus 825 00:50:07,060 --> 00:50:09,060 So it was God the Father's good pleasure 826 00:50:09,060 --> 00:50:11,060 For all the fullness 827 00:50:11,060 --> 00:50:13,060 Of everything 828 00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:15,060 To dwell in Jesus 829 00:50:15,060 --> 00:50:17,060 And through Him, that's Jesus 830 00:50:17,060 --> 00:50:19,060 To reconcile all things to Himself 831 00:50:19,060 --> 00:50:22,060 Having made peace through the blood of His cross 832 00:50:22,060 --> 00:50:24,060 Through Him 833 00:50:24,060 --> 00:50:26,060 I say, whether things on earth 834 00:50:26,060 --> 00:50:28,060 Or things in heaven 835 00:50:28,060 --> 00:50:30,060 And although you were formerly alienated 836 00:50:30,060 --> 00:50:32,060 That means you were apart from God 837 00:50:32,060 --> 00:50:34,060 You didn't have a good relationship with God 838 00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:36,060 You were formerly alienated 839 00:50:36,060 --> 00:50:38,060 And hostile in mind 840 00:50:38,060 --> 00:50:40,060 Engaged in evil deeds 841 00:50:40,060 --> 00:50:42,060 That's who we were 842 00:50:42,060 --> 00:50:44,060 If you're not saved, that's who you are 843 00:50:44,060 --> 00:50:46,060 22, yet He has now reconciled you 844 00:50:46,060 --> 00:50:48,060 In His fleshly body 845 00:50:48,060 --> 00:50:50,060 Through death 846 00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:52,060 So He died to bring 847 00:50:52,060 --> 00:50:54,060 Peace between you and God 848 00:50:54,060 --> 00:50:56,060 In order to present you before Him 849 00:50:56,060 --> 00:50:58,060 Holy and blameless and beyond reproach 850 00:50:58,060 --> 00:51:02,060 If indeed you continue in the faith 851 00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:04,060 Firmly established and steadfast 852 00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:06,060 And not moved away from the hope of the gospel 853 00:51:06,060 --> 00:51:08,060 That you have heard 854 00:51:08,060 --> 00:51:10,060 Which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven 855 00:51:10,060 --> 00:51:12,060 And of which I, Paul, was made a minister 856 00:51:12,060 --> 00:51:14,060 So basically, if you become a Christian 857 00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:16,060 That is to say, a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ 858 00:51:16,060 --> 00:51:18,060 A child of God through Jesus 859 00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:20,060 And stay the course as a Christian 860 00:51:20,060 --> 00:51:22,060 By the way, if you don't stay the course 861 00:51:22,060 --> 00:51:24,060 You know what that's called, right? 862 00:51:24,060 --> 00:51:26,060 That's called a liar 863 00:51:26,060 --> 00:51:28,060 You said you were a Christian following the Lord 864 00:51:28,060 --> 00:51:30,060 Doing what it was that God wanted you to do 865 00:51:30,060 --> 00:51:32,060 But things got ahold of you 866 00:51:32,060 --> 00:51:34,060 Things got you distracted 867 00:51:34,060 --> 00:51:36,060 Things got you challenged, whatever 868 00:51:36,060 --> 00:51:38,060 You went after the cares and riches of this world 869 00:51:38,060 --> 00:51:40,060 And you thought, well, I want more social media 870 00:51:40,060 --> 00:51:42,060 I want more phone games 871 00:51:42,060 --> 00:51:44,060 Or I want more sports 872 00:51:44,060 --> 00:51:46,060 Or I want more hobbies 873 00:51:46,060 --> 00:51:48,060 Or I want more sex 874 00:51:48,060 --> 00:51:50,060 Or I want more pleasure 875 00:51:50,060 --> 00:51:52,060 Or whatever, as you pursue after those things 876 00:51:52,060 --> 00:51:54,060 And eventually you get wrapped up in that 877 00:51:54,060 --> 00:51:56,060 So you're not producing any fruit 878 00:51:56,060 --> 00:51:58,060 And if you are a Christian 879 00:51:58,060 --> 00:52:00,060 You are a liar because you said 880 00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:02,060 He was Lord and you're not living for Him as Lord 881 00:52:02,060 --> 00:52:04,060 But the truth is, you're probably not 882 00:52:04,060 --> 00:52:06,060 A Christian, you were just lying 883 00:52:06,060 --> 00:52:08,060 When you said you were 884 00:52:08,060 --> 00:52:10,060 Let's be factual, shall you? Everyone was there 885 00:52:10,060 --> 00:52:12,060 Everyone from every walk of life 886 00:52:12,060 --> 00:52:14,060 Everyone from every education level 887 00:52:14,060 --> 00:52:16,060 No one was able to say that's above my pay grade 888 00:52:16,060 --> 00:52:18,060 When the pastor preaches it or the word says it 889 00:52:18,060 --> 00:52:20,060 If the pastor preaches it and it lines up with the word 890 00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:22,060 Or the word says it in your own 891 00:52:22,060 --> 00:52:24,060 Private reading time, you have a responsibility 892 00:52:24,060 --> 00:52:26,060 To respond to what it is 893 00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:28,060 That God says 894 00:52:28,060 --> 00:52:30,060 There is no teaching of Christianity 895 00:52:30,060 --> 00:52:32,060 That is above your pay grade 896 00:52:32,060 --> 00:52:34,060 It is for everyone 897 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:36,060 All of it 898 00:52:36,060 --> 00:52:38,060 Second thing to be seen in here 899 00:52:38,060 --> 00:52:40,060 Is that God is calling 900 00:52:40,060 --> 00:52:42,060 For faithfulness 901 00:52:42,060 --> 00:52:44,060 Ruling out the adultery 902 00:52:44,060 --> 00:52:46,060 With idols that they had seen 903 00:52:46,060 --> 00:52:48,060 Amongst so many other people 904 00:52:48,060 --> 00:52:50,060 The fact is 905 00:52:50,060 --> 00:52:52,060 Systems, all systems everywhere 906 00:52:52,060 --> 00:52:54,060 Must learn to excrete 907 00:52:54,060 --> 00:52:56,060 You know what I mean by that, right? 908 00:52:56,060 --> 00:52:58,060 Your body's got to poop 909 00:52:58,060 --> 00:53:00,060 Right? I was watching 910 00:53:00,060 --> 00:53:02,060 A cute movie last night with Sherry 911 00:53:02,060 --> 00:53:04,060 On what was left of date night 912 00:53:04,060 --> 00:53:06,060 And they were talking about their favorite animals 913 00:53:06,060 --> 00:53:08,060 And she said, what's your favorite animal? 914 00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:10,060 And he said, birds 915 00:53:10,060 --> 00:53:12,060 And she said, birds? 916 00:53:12,060 --> 00:53:14,060 And he said, why, what's yours? 917 00:53:14,060 --> 00:53:16,060 She said, birds are nasty 918 00:53:16,060 --> 00:53:18,060 And he said, why, what's yours? 919 00:53:18,060 --> 00:53:20,060 And she said, dogs 920 00:53:20,060 --> 00:53:22,060 And he said, why are birds nasty? 921 00:53:22,060 --> 00:53:24,060 And she said, birds are pooping all the time 922 00:53:24,060 --> 00:53:26,060 Everywhere, they poop all the time everywhere 923 00:53:26,060 --> 00:53:28,060 And he said, yeah 924 00:53:28,060 --> 00:53:30,060 So are dogs 925 00:53:30,060 --> 00:53:32,060 And the point is 926 00:53:32,060 --> 00:53:34,060 People excrete, systems excrete 927 00:53:34,060 --> 00:53:36,060 You've got to learn to put out that 928 00:53:36,060 --> 00:53:38,060 Which cannot be beneficial 929 00:53:38,060 --> 00:53:40,060 You've got to learn to proficiently 930 00:53:40,060 --> 00:53:42,060 That is to say, sort out what's good for you 931 00:53:42,060 --> 00:53:44,060 Or good for the system 932 00:53:44,060 --> 00:53:46,060 And whatever is not good for you or good for the system 933 00:53:46,060 --> 00:53:48,060 Has to efficiently, indefinitely 934 00:53:48,060 --> 00:53:50,060 And regularly be put out of the system 935 00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,060 Here's how the system 936 00:53:52,060 --> 00:53:54,060 Actually works in your body 937 00:53:54,060 --> 00:53:56,060 You eat food, right? 938 00:53:56,060 --> 00:53:58,060 When you eat food, and because of the day that we live in 939 00:53:58,060 --> 00:54:00,060 Pretty much all food that you eat 940 00:54:00,060 --> 00:54:02,060 You can almost get there with organic food 941 00:54:02,060 --> 00:54:04,060 But even, and only certain organic foods 942 00:54:04,060 --> 00:54:06,060 Like fruits and vegetables 943 00:54:06,060 --> 00:54:08,060 All food has stuff in it 944 00:54:08,060 --> 00:54:10,060 That's not good for you 945 00:54:10,060 --> 00:54:12,060 Even if it's stuff that normally might be good for you 946 00:54:12,060 --> 00:54:14,060 Or might be good for somebody else 947 00:54:14,060 --> 00:54:16,060 It could not be good for you today 948 00:54:16,060 --> 00:54:18,060 Right? Water soluble vitamins 949 00:54:18,060 --> 00:54:20,060 For example, once you get enough of them 950 00:54:20,060 --> 00:54:22,060 You excrete them 951 00:54:22,060 --> 00:54:24,060 So your body measures, oh I need more vitamin C 952 00:54:24,060 --> 00:54:26,060 Oh I don't need more vitamin C 953 00:54:26,060 --> 00:54:28,060 When you cap and get too much 954 00:54:28,060 --> 00:54:30,060 And don't need it, you excrete that 955 00:54:30,060 --> 00:54:32,060 So that would be good for somebody else 956 00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:34,060 Which means, as disgusting as this sounds 957 00:54:34,060 --> 00:54:36,060 If somebody else ate your poop 958 00:54:36,060 --> 00:54:38,060 That had the vitamin C in it, they could be healthier 959 00:54:38,060 --> 00:54:40,060 What? 960 00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:42,060 All systems have to 961 00:54:42,060 --> 00:54:44,060 Learn to excrete 962 00:54:44,060 --> 00:54:46,060 And they excrete what they don't need 963 00:54:46,060 --> 00:54:48,060 They excrete what's not good for them 964 00:54:48,060 --> 00:54:50,060 If you drink alcohol, your body has to process that alcohol 965 00:54:50,060 --> 00:54:52,060 Takes the energy out of it, and then you have to 966 00:54:52,060 --> 00:54:54,060 Urinate it all out 967 00:54:54,060 --> 00:54:56,060 Which is why you wind up with liver poisoning 968 00:54:56,060 --> 00:54:58,060 It's why you wind up with kidney failure 969 00:54:58,060 --> 00:55:00,060 Because your body has to process that 970 00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:02,060 And it's not good for you 971 00:55:02,060 --> 00:55:04,060 By and large, however 972 00:55:04,060 --> 00:55:06,060 If you have a problem where you have high blood pressure 973 00:55:06,060 --> 00:55:08,060 And your blood is thick, a little bit of alcohol 974 00:55:08,060 --> 00:55:10,060 Will thin your blood and keep you from having a heart attack 975 00:55:10,060 --> 00:55:12,060 Wait a minute 976 00:55:12,060 --> 00:55:14,060 Is it bad for you or isn't it? 977 00:55:14,060 --> 00:55:16,060 The truth is, everything that's in the world 978 00:55:16,060 --> 00:55:18,060 Is good 979 00:55:18,060 --> 00:55:20,060 And you're gonna take it in, people are gonna say things 980 00:55:20,060 --> 00:55:22,060 To you, do things to you, give things to you 981 00:55:22,060 --> 00:55:24,060 Call you to things 982 00:55:24,060 --> 00:55:26,060 Try to teach you to promise things, promise you things 983 00:55:26,060 --> 00:55:28,060 And you have to be willing 984 00:55:28,060 --> 00:55:30,060 And able to absorb 985 00:55:30,060 --> 00:55:32,060 What comes at you 986 00:55:32,060 --> 00:55:34,060 And excrete what isn't good for you 987 00:55:34,060 --> 00:55:36,060 So when you eat that food, and it's got some bad stuff in it 988 00:55:36,060 --> 00:55:38,060 You gotta excrete it 989 00:55:38,060 --> 00:55:40,060 You gotta get rid of it 990 00:55:40,060 --> 00:55:42,060 Get rid of the bad stuff, and the good stuff stays and builds your body 991 00:55:42,060 --> 00:55:44,060 That's how it works 992 00:55:44,060 --> 00:55:46,060 So if you eat 5,000 calories tomorrow 993 00:55:46,060 --> 00:55:48,060 Burn 2,000 calories tomorrow 994 00:55:48,060 --> 00:55:50,060 And excrete 1,000 calories tomorrow 995 00:55:50,060 --> 00:55:52,060 You took in 2,000 calories too much 996 00:55:52,060 --> 00:55:54,060 And you will weigh 2 thirds of a pound more the next day 997 00:55:54,060 --> 00:55:56,060 That's exactly how it works 998 00:55:56,060 --> 00:55:58,060 It's just that simple 999 00:55:58,060 --> 00:56:00,060 All this, you need a fad diet 1000 00:56:00,060 --> 00:56:02,060 You need a bunch of exercise 1001 00:56:02,060 --> 00:56:04,060 It's just this simple 1002 00:56:04,060 --> 00:56:06,060 You take in the calories, you burn the calories 1003 00:56:06,060 --> 00:56:08,060 If you don't burn it, you store it 1004 00:56:08,060 --> 00:56:10,060 Or you excrete it 1005 00:56:10,060 --> 00:56:12,060 Right? 1006 00:56:12,060 --> 00:56:14,060 That's it 1007 00:56:14,060 --> 00:56:16,060 The building is the same way 1008 00:56:16,060 --> 00:56:18,060 We bring stuff in 1009 00:56:18,060 --> 00:56:20,060 If we keep bringing stuff in 1010 00:56:20,060 --> 00:56:22,060 And don't get rid of some stuff that we don't need 1011 00:56:22,060 --> 00:56:24,060 If we fill up, there will be no room for people 1012 00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:26,060 Sylvia Cynthia Stout 1013 00:56:26,060 --> 00:56:28,060 Who would not take the garbage out 1014 00:56:28,060 --> 00:56:30,060 The poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends 1015 00:56:30,060 --> 00:56:32,060 About a girl who wouldn't take the garbage out 1016 00:56:32,060 --> 00:56:34,060 Eventually, the garbage blew up out of her whole house 1017 00:56:34,060 --> 00:56:36,060 And out of her whole state 1018 00:56:36,060 --> 00:56:38,060 We laugh about that 1019 00:56:38,060 --> 00:56:40,060 Said, no, that could never happen 1020 00:56:40,060 --> 00:56:42,060 But the truth is, if our state, the state of Ohio 1021 00:56:42,060 --> 00:56:44,060 Doesn't figure out how to deal with the garbage that people are producing 1022 00:56:44,060 --> 00:56:46,060 Yeah, it will be thousands of years 1023 00:56:46,060 --> 00:56:48,060 But eventually, there won't be anywhere for people to be 1024 00:56:48,060 --> 00:56:50,060 That's just the reality 1025 00:56:50,060 --> 00:56:52,060 And that's telling us for faithfulness 1026 00:56:52,060 --> 00:56:54,060 In ruling out or excreting 1027 00:56:54,060 --> 00:56:56,060 Getting rid of the adulterous behavior 1028 00:56:56,060 --> 00:56:58,060 That is attached to idols 1029 00:57:00,060 --> 00:57:02,060 The bottom line is 1030 00:57:02,060 --> 00:57:04,060 We have to learn to proficiently 1031 00:57:04,060 --> 00:57:06,060 Efficiently 1032 00:57:06,060 --> 00:57:08,060 Indefinite 1033 00:57:08,060 --> 00:57:10,060 That means as long as you're going to live and continue to walk in the faith 1034 00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:12,060 And regularly deal with the stuff 1035 00:57:12,060 --> 00:57:14,060 That's coming at us 1036 00:57:14,060 --> 00:57:16,060 And decide what's good and what goes 1037 00:57:16,060 --> 00:57:18,060 And God would say your worship 1038 00:57:18,060 --> 00:57:20,060 Goes in one place and one place alone 1039 00:57:20,060 --> 00:57:22,060 And that is to Him 1040 00:57:22,060 --> 00:57:24,060 But let's be realistic 1041 00:57:24,060 --> 00:57:26,060 Can somebody own a small action figure 1042 00:57:26,060 --> 00:57:28,060 Idol, doll, made of gold 1043 00:57:28,060 --> 00:57:30,060 Silver, wood, plastic 1044 00:57:30,060 --> 00:57:32,060 Doesn't matter, and not worship it 1045 00:57:32,060 --> 00:57:34,060 Absolutely 1046 00:57:34,060 --> 00:57:36,060 Can someone be involved with 1047 00:57:36,060 --> 00:57:38,060 Sports and not worship sports stars 1048 00:57:38,060 --> 00:57:40,060 Absolutely 1049 00:57:40,060 --> 00:57:42,060 Can someone be involved with music 1050 00:57:42,060 --> 00:57:44,060 And not worship music idols 1051 00:57:44,060 --> 00:57:46,060 Absolutely 1052 00:57:46,060 --> 00:57:48,060 That's possible 1053 00:57:48,060 --> 00:57:50,060 So these are all things that are in the world 1054 00:57:50,060 --> 00:57:52,060 That God has made it possible 1055 00:57:52,060 --> 00:57:54,060 To partake of and even to use for His glory 1056 00:57:54,060 --> 00:57:56,060 But you're going to learn 1057 00:57:56,060 --> 00:57:58,060 You have to learn to process them 1058 00:57:58,060 --> 00:58:00,060 And God says you cannot process them 1059 00:58:00,060 --> 00:58:02,060 This way 1060 00:58:02,060 --> 00:58:04,060 You cannot let them become idols of worship 1061 00:58:06,060 --> 00:58:08,060 This processing that has to be done 1062 00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:10,060 Is done to maintain 1063 00:58:10,060 --> 00:58:12,060 But more to benefit 1064 00:58:12,060 --> 00:58:14,060 The purposes of the system 1065 00:58:14,060 --> 00:58:16,060 So the believer 1066 00:58:16,060 --> 00:58:18,060 Needs to process everything 1067 00:58:18,060 --> 00:58:20,060 That happens to them in a way 1068 00:58:20,060 --> 00:58:22,060 That it makes them more able to follow God 1069 00:58:22,060 --> 00:58:24,060 Not less able to follow God 1070 00:58:26,060 --> 00:58:28,060 And God was calling them 1071 00:58:28,060 --> 00:58:30,060 To do that 1072 00:58:30,060 --> 00:58:32,060 Also making them aware 1073 00:58:32,060 --> 00:58:34,060 Of the fact that those other people 1074 00:58:34,060 --> 00:58:36,060 Those other nations who were already into idol worshiping 1075 00:58:36,060 --> 00:58:38,060 Could potentially 1076 00:58:38,060 --> 00:58:40,060 Turn from idol worshiping, put God first 1077 00:58:40,060 --> 00:58:42,060 And be lumped into the covenant 1078 00:58:42,060 --> 00:58:44,060 That is what you and I have done 1079 00:58:44,060 --> 00:58:46,060 For the believers in the room 1080 00:58:46,060 --> 00:58:48,060 We have said there are these things in my life 1081 00:58:48,060 --> 00:58:50,060 They're good things but they're not as good as God 1082 00:58:50,060 --> 00:58:52,060 So God will be first 1083 00:58:52,060 --> 00:58:54,060 Through Jesus His son and everything else 1084 00:58:54,060 --> 00:58:56,060 Will be processed according to that one 1085 00:58:56,060 --> 00:58:58,060 Standard 1086 00:58:58,060 --> 00:59:00,060 That's what it means to be a Christian 1087 00:59:00,060 --> 00:59:02,060 That's why you said that you would be His God 1088 00:59:02,060 --> 00:59:04,060 That you would be His people and that He would be 1089 00:59:04,060 --> 00:59:06,060 Your God, right? That's what that means 1090 00:59:08,060 --> 00:59:10,060 A couple of quick illustrations 1091 00:59:10,060 --> 00:59:12,060 From the New Testament before we go on to the third point 1092 00:59:12,060 --> 00:59:14,060 You've heard maybe the parable of the four soils 1093 00:59:14,060 --> 00:59:16,060 Basically guys going out to 1094 00:59:16,060 --> 00:59:18,060 Lay seed and some goes on the road 1095 00:59:18,060 --> 00:59:20,060 Some goes on the thorns, some goes on the field 1096 00:59:20,060 --> 00:59:22,060 Or some goes on the thin soil 1097 00:59:22,060 --> 00:59:24,060 Some goes on the thorns, some goes on the field 1098 00:59:24,060 --> 00:59:26,060 And what goes on the field produces a lot 1099 00:59:26,060 --> 00:59:28,060 Of fruit and it's good 1100 00:59:28,060 --> 00:59:30,060 What goes in the thorns gets choked out 1101 00:59:30,060 --> 00:59:32,060 By the thorns which is the cares and 1102 00:59:32,060 --> 00:59:34,060 The riches of this world 1103 00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:36,060 And so what we say is we never want our growth 1104 00:59:36,060 --> 00:59:38,060 As a Christian to be choked out by the cares and the riches of this world 1105 00:59:38,060 --> 00:59:42,060 Because we have to learn to process the things that are happening 1106 00:59:42,060 --> 00:59:44,060 So we have to go, okay, look, I like food 1107 00:59:44,060 --> 00:59:46,060 I do, but if I eat too much food 1108 00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:48,060 In about five to ten years 1109 00:59:48,060 --> 00:59:50,060 I'm not going to be able to be functional 1110 00:59:50,060 --> 00:59:52,060 Doing what it is I want to do for the Lord 1111 00:59:52,060 --> 00:59:54,060 And therefore I can't do that anymore 1112 00:59:54,060 --> 00:59:58,060 I don't like push-ups, sit-ups, crab walking, lifting weights 1113 00:59:58,060 --> 01:00:00,060 I don't like doing that 1114 01:00:00,060 --> 01:00:02,060 But if I don't do that on a semi-regular basis 1115 01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:04,060 Then by the time I'm 55 1116 01:00:04,060 --> 01:00:06,060 Or 65 or 75 1117 01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:08,060 I may not be functional to do some of the things 1118 01:00:08,060 --> 01:00:10,060 That I want to do for the Lord 1119 01:00:10,060 --> 01:00:12,060 I don't like blocking time out of my day 1120 01:00:12,060 --> 01:00:14,060 To study my Bible, just plain study it 1121 01:00:14,060 --> 01:00:16,060 And write things down like the pastor is always trying to get me to do 1122 01:00:16,060 --> 01:00:18,060 That's hard work 1123 01:00:18,060 --> 01:00:20,060 Academically, physically, it's time-challenging, etc. 1124 01:00:20,060 --> 01:00:22,060 I don't want to do that hard work 1125 01:00:22,060 --> 01:00:24,060 But if I don't do it 1126 01:00:24,060 --> 01:00:26,060 Then in a few years 1127 01:00:26,060 --> 01:00:28,060 I will be missing some key piece of my faith 1128 01:00:28,060 --> 01:00:30,060 That God is calling me to 1129 01:00:30,060 --> 01:00:32,060 And whatever you are replacing that time with 1130 01:00:32,060 --> 01:00:34,060 That you're not spending alone with the Lord 1131 01:00:34,060 --> 01:00:36,060 That's your idol 1132 01:00:36,060 --> 01:00:38,060 Whatever you're replacing 1133 01:00:38,060 --> 01:00:40,060 The time you're meant to be worshipping God 1134 01:00:40,060 --> 01:00:42,060 Or loving others with 1135 01:00:42,060 --> 01:00:44,060 That's your idol 1136 01:00:44,060 --> 01:00:46,060 Check it out, figure out what it is 1137 01:00:46,060 --> 01:00:48,060 And realize that 1138 01:00:48,060 --> 01:00:50,060 The cares and the riches of this world 1139 01:00:50,060 --> 01:00:52,060 Are what's choking out your growth 1140 01:00:52,060 --> 01:00:54,060 But let's be really simple about this 1141 01:00:54,060 --> 01:00:56,060 There's another parable called the wheat and the tares 1142 01:00:56,060 --> 01:00:58,060 That Jesus tells 1143 01:00:58,060 --> 01:01:00,060 Another farming parable 1144 01:01:00,060 --> 01:01:02,060 The farmer goes out to sow, his servants actually sow 1145 01:01:02,060 --> 01:01:04,060 And then when the crop comes up 1146 01:01:04,060 --> 01:01:06,060 They see wheat and tares 1147 01:01:06,060 --> 01:01:08,060 The funny thing about wheat and tares 1148 01:01:08,060 --> 01:01:10,060 Is they look very similar 1149 01:01:10,060 --> 01:01:12,060 But one produces fruit and one does not 1150 01:01:12,060 --> 01:01:14,060 Then they say, well, should we tear out the tares? 1151 01:01:14,060 --> 01:01:16,060 And he says, don't do that 1152 01:01:16,060 --> 01:01:18,060 Because if you do that, the roots of the tares 1153 01:01:18,060 --> 01:01:20,060 Will tear out the roots of the wheat 1154 01:01:20,060 --> 01:01:22,060 So leave them there, and then I will come and harvest 1155 01:01:22,060 --> 01:01:24,060 And everybody's like, well that means 1156 01:01:24,060 --> 01:01:26,060 And it does, that when Jesus comes 1157 01:01:26,060 --> 01:01:28,060 He's going to harvest it 1158 01:01:28,060 --> 01:01:30,060 There will be people who said they loved the Lord 1159 01:01:30,060 --> 01:01:32,060 They loved the fathers, they were lying, they weren't really following Jesus 1160 01:01:32,060 --> 01:01:34,060 And those people will be 1161 01:01:34,060 --> 01:01:36,060 Harvested and thrown into hell for eternity 1162 01:01:36,060 --> 01:01:38,060 People like to use it that way, and I'm not 1163 01:01:38,060 --> 01:01:40,060 Disagreeing with that use of that 1164 01:01:40,060 --> 01:01:42,060 Parable, right? 1165 01:01:42,060 --> 01:01:44,060 But I submit to you that the soil 1166 01:01:44,060 --> 01:01:46,060 In the parable of wheat and tares 1167 01:01:46,060 --> 01:01:48,060 Is good soil 1168 01:01:48,060 --> 01:01:50,060 Right? 1169 01:01:50,060 --> 01:01:52,060 They went out to farm and all the seed made it 1170 01:01:52,060 --> 01:01:54,060 To the field, but then the weeds came up 1171 01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:56,060 And they asked, how's that, how'd that happen? 1172 01:01:56,060 --> 01:01:58,060 How'd you get tares in there? And he said because 1173 01:01:58,060 --> 01:02:00,060 The enemy has sown in bad seed 1174 01:02:00,060 --> 01:02:02,060 In with the good seed 1175 01:02:02,060 --> 01:02:04,060 Right? 1176 01:02:04,060 --> 01:02:06,060 So this is the issue 1177 01:02:06,060 --> 01:02:08,060 You've got to be able to process 1178 01:02:08,060 --> 01:02:10,060 What the enemy does 1179 01:02:10,060 --> 01:02:12,060 In you 1180 01:02:12,060 --> 01:02:14,060 The things the world does, the things your family does 1181 01:02:14,060 --> 01:02:16,060 Listen, you may have a great 1182 01:02:16,060 --> 01:02:18,060 Christian family 1183 01:02:18,060 --> 01:02:20,060 They may love the Lord, they may be trying to serve the Lord 1184 01:02:20,060 --> 01:02:22,060 But the reality is they're all human 1185 01:02:22,060 --> 01:02:24,060 And they will make mistakes 1186 01:02:24,060 --> 01:02:26,060 And when they do, they may bring something to you 1187 01:02:26,060 --> 01:02:28,060 That if you absorb it 1188 01:02:28,060 --> 01:02:30,060 You're in a good field 1189 01:02:30,060 --> 01:02:32,060 Supposed to be producing fruit and now all of a sudden you have a 1190 01:02:32,060 --> 01:02:34,060 Tare right next to you sucking the 1191 01:02:34,060 --> 01:02:36,060 Juice out of the soil so you can't grow big 1192 01:02:36,060 --> 01:02:38,060 And produce fruit, right? 1193 01:02:38,060 --> 01:02:40,060 You still have to be wheat 1194 01:02:40,060 --> 01:02:42,060 You still have to be wheat when the harvest comes 1195 01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:44,060 And I submit to you 1196 01:02:44,060 --> 01:02:46,060 That the harvest comes according to the text that we just read 1197 01:02:46,060 --> 01:02:48,060 More frequently 1198 01:02:48,060 --> 01:02:50,060 Than only at the end of the world 1199 01:02:50,060 --> 01:02:52,060 Now I'm not trying to blaspheme against 1200 01:02:52,060 --> 01:02:54,060 The holy scripture, clearly Jesus was using 1201 01:02:54,060 --> 01:02:56,060 That parable to teach about 1202 01:02:56,060 --> 01:02:58,060 His second coming, right? 1203 01:02:58,060 --> 01:03:00,060 I'm not saying he wasn't doing that 1204 01:03:00,060 --> 01:03:02,060 But I submit to you based on the text that we read today 1205 01:03:02,060 --> 01:03:04,060 Deuteronomy 29, the harvest 1206 01:03:04,060 --> 01:03:06,060 Comes more often than 1207 01:03:06,060 --> 01:03:08,060 Only at the end when Jesus comes again 1208 01:03:08,060 --> 01:03:10,060 Everybody's thinking, I'm safe 1209 01:03:10,060 --> 01:03:12,060 And then that brings us into our third point 1210 01:03:12,060 --> 01:03:14,060 When, here's the 1211 01:03:14,060 --> 01:03:16,060 Question, when is a person 1212 01:03:16,060 --> 01:03:18,060 Singled out by God for punishment? 1213 01:03:18,060 --> 01:03:20,060 When I was in sixth grade 1214 01:03:20,060 --> 01:03:22,060 I had a teacher, he was my social studies teacher 1215 01:03:22,060 --> 01:03:24,060 And there were about 25 boys 1216 01:03:24,060 --> 01:03:26,060 No girls in my social studies class 1217 01:03:26,060 --> 01:03:28,060 Now I don't know if they did that on purpose 1218 01:03:28,060 --> 01:03:30,060 Or what not, but we were 1219 01:03:30,060 --> 01:03:32,060 Going through a rotation and it turned out 1220 01:03:32,060 --> 01:03:34,060 That we had 25 boys, no girls 1221 01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:36,060 In the class 1222 01:03:36,060 --> 01:03:38,060 And there was a young man who'd been 1223 01:03:38,060 --> 01:03:40,060 Pretty much a trouble maker, the whole time I'd known him in school 1224 01:03:40,060 --> 01:03:42,060 He would do things to get other kids to laugh 1225 01:03:42,060 --> 01:03:44,060 You know what that's like, right? 1226 01:03:44,060 --> 01:03:46,060 Is the kid that does something to try to get everybody laughing 1227 01:03:46,060 --> 01:03:48,060 And everybody starts laughing and they don't realize 1228 01:03:48,060 --> 01:03:50,060 That they're actually leading the kid to continue to do bad stuff 1229 01:03:50,060 --> 01:03:52,060 Well he was that kid 1230 01:03:52,060 --> 01:03:54,060 So this teacher 1231 01:03:54,060 --> 01:03:56,060 Of the second week of class 1232 01:03:56,060 --> 01:03:58,060 I think it was maybe third week, but it was in the very beginning 1233 01:03:58,060 --> 01:04:00,060 Of the second or third week of class 1234 01:04:00,060 --> 01:04:02,060 Came around and we were all sitting in our 1235 01:04:02,060 --> 01:04:04,060 Seats working on paper and he walked up 1236 01:04:04,060 --> 01:04:06,060 Behind that student 1237 01:04:06,060 --> 01:04:08,060 And took two of his fingers and put it in this hole 1238 01:04:08,060 --> 01:04:10,060 Right here, between your shoulder 1239 01:04:10,060 --> 01:04:12,060 And your neck, and he pushed down 1240 01:04:12,060 --> 01:04:14,060 Real hard until the student 1241 01:04:14,060 --> 01:04:16,060 Was slipping down in his seat 1242 01:04:16,060 --> 01:04:18,060 But then, because he had a big hand 1243 01:04:18,060 --> 01:04:20,060 And we were still pretty small at that time 1244 01:04:20,060 --> 01:04:22,060 He had his thumb under his shoulder blade 1245 01:04:22,060 --> 01:04:24,060 Or something on his back, or maybe it was his shirt 1246 01:04:24,060 --> 01:04:26,060 And he was holding him so he couldn't shrink completely 1247 01:04:26,060 --> 01:04:28,060 With it, and they called it the claw 1248 01:04:28,060 --> 01:04:30,060 Right? 1249 01:04:30,060 --> 01:04:32,060 And so then whenever 1250 01:04:32,060 --> 01:04:34,060 This kid would be acting up, he'd say, I just want you to know 1251 01:04:34,060 --> 01:04:36,060 I've heard stories about who you are 1252 01:04:36,060 --> 01:04:38,060 And anytime we have trouble 1253 01:04:38,060 --> 01:04:40,060 You're gonna get the claw 1254 01:04:40,060 --> 01:04:42,060 Now he pretty well behaved 1255 01:04:42,060 --> 01:04:44,060 Most of the semester 1256 01:04:44,060 --> 01:04:46,060 But three, four times, he'd come 1257 01:04:46,060 --> 01:04:48,060 And got the claw, because he'd be goofing off 1258 01:04:48,060 --> 01:04:50,060 He'd throw something, the teacher would know it was him 1259 01:04:50,060 --> 01:04:52,060 And he'd go and he'd give him the claw 1260 01:04:52,060 --> 01:04:54,060 And there was a few other boys that got the claw 1261 01:04:54,060 --> 01:04:56,060 There was a few boys that got the claw 1262 01:04:56,060 --> 01:04:58,060 Just because they wanted to know what the claw was like 1263 01:04:58,060 --> 01:05:00,060 They did something wrong, just like they never did it again 1264 01:05:00,060 --> 01:05:02,060 But the first time they said, I'm gonna do this 1265 01:05:02,060 --> 01:05:04,060 Just to see what that's like, and they got the claw 1266 01:05:04,060 --> 01:05:06,060 So what I'm asking you is, when is a 1267 01:05:06,060 --> 01:05:08,060 Person singled out by God 1268 01:05:08,060 --> 01:05:10,060 For the claw, because it sounds wrong 1269 01:05:10,060 --> 01:05:12,060 He hadn't actually done anything wrong 1270 01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:14,060 When the fingers went down in his shoulder the first time 1271 01:05:14,060 --> 01:05:16,060 That was just to show him what was gonna happen 1272 01:05:16,060 --> 01:05:18,060 When he did do something wrong 1273 01:05:18,060 --> 01:05:20,060 Right? 1274 01:05:20,060 --> 01:05:22,060 Then he did do something wrong and he got it 1275 01:05:22,060 --> 01:05:24,060 And then a couple weeks later he did it again and he got it 1276 01:05:24,060 --> 01:05:26,060 When does God 1277 01:05:26,060 --> 01:05:28,060 Bring the claw 1278 01:05:28,060 --> 01:05:30,060 On somebody who is amongst his people 1279 01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:32,060 On somebody who claims to be 1280 01:05:32,060 --> 01:05:34,060 His followers 1281 01:05:34,060 --> 01:05:36,060 So in this text, and what we just read 1282 01:05:36,060 --> 01:05:38,060 There are three notable 1283 01:05:38,060 --> 01:05:40,060 Failings 1284 01:05:40,060 --> 01:05:42,060 That bring a person to the point 1285 01:05:42,060 --> 01:05:44,060 Of God's claw 1286 01:05:44,060 --> 01:05:46,060 The first one is false teaching 1287 01:05:46,060 --> 01:05:48,060 If you'll look 1288 01:05:48,060 --> 01:05:50,060 And it says 1289 01:05:50,060 --> 01:05:52,060 At the end of 1290 01:05:52,060 --> 01:05:54,060 Verse 18, so we'll read 18 1291 01:05:54,060 --> 01:05:56,060 Lest there shall be among you a man or a woman 1292 01:05:56,060 --> 01:05:58,060 A family or a tribe, whose heart 1293 01:05:58,060 --> 01:06:00,060 Turns away today from the Lord our God 1294 01:06:00,060 --> 01:06:02,060 To go and serve the gods of those nations 1295 01:06:02,060 --> 01:06:04,060 Lest there shall be among you a 1296 01:06:04,060 --> 01:06:06,060 Root bearing poisonous fruit 1297 01:06:06,060 --> 01:06:08,060 And wormwood 1298 01:06:08,060 --> 01:06:10,060 So the first thing here is poisonous fruit 1299 01:06:10,060 --> 01:06:12,060 Right? Now he's not just talking about 1300 01:06:12,060 --> 01:06:14,060 A tribe here, because in the very next thing 1301 01:06:14,060 --> 01:06:16,060 It'll say, and it shall be when he hears the words 1302 01:06:16,060 --> 01:06:18,060 He hears the words of this curse 1303 01:06:18,060 --> 01:06:20,060 Right? Talking about an individual 1304 01:06:20,060 --> 01:06:22,060 An individual who brings 1305 01:06:22,060 --> 01:06:24,060 Poisonous fruit 1306 01:06:24,060 --> 01:06:26,060 Poisonous fruit is when you produce something 1307 01:06:26,060 --> 01:06:28,060 That sends somebody else 1308 01:06:28,060 --> 01:06:30,060 In a bad way 1309 01:06:30,060 --> 01:06:32,060 Right? So you're producing fruit 1310 01:06:32,060 --> 01:06:34,060 Maybe instead of love, joy, peace, patience 1311 01:06:34,060 --> 01:06:36,060 And so on 1312 01:06:36,060 --> 01:06:38,060 You're producing 1313 01:06:38,060 --> 01:06:40,060 Anger, wrath, malice 1314 01:06:40,060 --> 01:06:42,060 Disappointment 1315 01:06:42,060 --> 01:06:44,060 Frustration, whatever 1316 01:06:44,060 --> 01:06:46,060 You produce this fruit that becomes 1317 01:06:46,060 --> 01:06:48,060 A stumbling block for somebody else 1318 01:06:48,060 --> 01:06:50,060 And then they do it too 1319 01:06:50,060 --> 01:06:52,060 And now we have 1320 01:06:52,060 --> 01:06:54,060 A notable failing 1321 01:06:54,060 --> 01:06:56,060 On the road to becoming somebody 1322 01:06:56,060 --> 01:06:58,060 Who gets God's claw, according to what it says 1323 01:06:58,060 --> 01:07:00,060 The first one is poisonous fruit 1324 01:07:00,060 --> 01:07:02,060 The second one is wormwood 1325 01:07:02,060 --> 01:07:04,060 Now every single time you find wormwood in the bible 1326 01:07:04,060 --> 01:07:06,060 It always means bitterness 1327 01:07:06,060 --> 01:07:08,060 It's gall, it's that 1328 01:07:08,060 --> 01:07:10,060 That people get, bitterness 1329 01:07:10,060 --> 01:07:12,060 Alright? And so 1330 01:07:12,060 --> 01:07:14,060 If the individual becomes 1331 01:07:14,060 --> 01:07:16,060 Bitter 1332 01:07:16,060 --> 01:07:18,060 So we've got one possibility, false teaching 1333 01:07:18,060 --> 01:07:20,060 Another possibility is bitterness 1334 01:07:20,060 --> 01:07:22,060 And then the next one starts in 19, it shall be when he hears 1335 01:07:22,060 --> 01:07:24,060 The words of this curse, that he will boast 1336 01:07:24,060 --> 01:07:26,060 Saying, I have peace, though I walk 1337 01:07:26,060 --> 01:07:28,060 In the stubbornness of my heart 1338 01:07:28,060 --> 01:07:30,060 And so it's false peace 1339 01:07:30,060 --> 01:07:32,060 So the three things 1340 01:07:32,060 --> 01:07:34,060 That put somebody in line for the claw 1341 01:07:34,060 --> 01:07:36,060 Of God are 1342 01:07:36,060 --> 01:07:38,060 False teaching 1343 01:07:38,060 --> 01:07:40,060 Bitterness, false peace 1344 01:07:40,060 --> 01:07:42,060 So I'm going to give you 1345 01:07:42,060 --> 01:07:44,060 Everything you need to know right now 1346 01:07:44,060 --> 01:07:46,060 To have those things and avoid 1347 01:07:46,060 --> 01:07:48,060 The trouble, except there's 1348 01:07:48,060 --> 01:07:50,060 A problem with each one and we'll do it 1349 01:07:50,060 --> 01:07:52,060 Together, alright? So first of all 1350 01:07:52,060 --> 01:07:54,060 If you don't want to be a person 1351 01:07:54,060 --> 01:07:56,060 That bears false teachings, but also you're 1352 01:07:56,060 --> 01:07:58,060 Not truly following the Lord, what do you do? 1353 01:07:58,060 --> 01:08:00,060 If you don't want to be a person 1354 01:08:00,060 --> 01:08:02,060 That's bringing false teachings and therefore 1355 01:08:02,060 --> 01:08:04,060 In line for the claw, so if you went in his class 1356 01:08:04,060 --> 01:08:06,060 And you know he's going to get a claw 1357 01:08:06,060 --> 01:08:08,060 Whenever you act up, and if you bring a 1358 01:08:08,060 --> 01:08:10,060 False teaching, you're going to get the claw 1359 01:08:10,060 --> 01:08:12,060 What do you do? 1360 01:08:12,060 --> 01:08:14,060 And you believe the false teachings 1361 01:08:14,060 --> 01:08:16,060 So what do you do? 1362 01:08:16,060 --> 01:08:18,060 Anybody want to take a stab at it? 1363 01:08:18,060 --> 01:08:20,060 If I believe the false teachings 1364 01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:22,060 But I know if I teach the false teachings 1365 01:08:22,060 --> 01:08:24,060 And give the poisonous fruit 1366 01:08:24,060 --> 01:08:26,060 I'm going to get the claw, what do I do? 1367 01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:28,060 Don't do it 1368 01:08:28,060 --> 01:08:30,060 Keep your mouth shut 1369 01:08:30,060 --> 01:08:32,060 Alright, shut up 1370 01:08:32,060 --> 01:08:34,060 So if you have a false teaching 1371 01:08:34,060 --> 01:08:36,060 Brewing in you, or a thing 1372 01:08:36,060 --> 01:08:38,060 About you that could easily become 1373 01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:40,060 A stumbling block for others 1374 01:08:40,060 --> 01:08:42,060 Then you could prevent the claw from 1375 01:08:42,060 --> 01:08:44,060 God by bearing no fruit 1376 01:08:44,060 --> 01:08:46,060 Whatsoever, except 1377 01:08:46,060 --> 01:08:48,060 What's the problem with that? 1378 01:08:48,060 --> 01:08:52,060 John 15 1379 01:08:52,060 --> 01:08:54,060 1 and 2 makes it very clear 1380 01:08:54,060 --> 01:08:56,060 He says, I am the true vine and my father 1381 01:08:56,060 --> 01:08:58,060 Is the vine dresser, every branch in me 1382 01:08:58,060 --> 01:09:00,060 That does not bear fruit, he takes away 1383 01:09:00,060 --> 01:09:02,060 And every branch that bears fruit 1384 01:09:02,060 --> 01:09:04,060 He prunes it, that it may bear 1385 01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:06,060 More fruit 1386 01:09:06,060 --> 01:09:08,060 So if you say, I'm not 1387 01:09:08,060 --> 01:09:10,060 Going to bear fruit 1388 01:09:10,060 --> 01:09:12,060 God says, that branch 1389 01:09:12,060 --> 01:09:14,060 If that person legitimately is 1390 01:09:14,060 --> 01:09:16,060 Even saved, they're going to be taken 1391 01:09:16,060 --> 01:09:18,060 Away, and if they're not 1392 01:09:18,060 --> 01:09:20,060 They're headed for hell and it's going to be bad 1393 01:09:20,060 --> 01:09:22,060 Right? 1394 01:09:22,060 --> 01:09:24,060 So there is, what I'm saying to you is 1395 01:09:24,060 --> 01:09:26,060 There is no escape 1396 01:09:26,060 --> 01:09:28,060 If you are a person who is bringing 1397 01:09:28,060 --> 01:09:30,060 False teaching, poison fruit 1398 01:09:30,060 --> 01:09:32,060 If you will, then 1399 01:09:32,060 --> 01:09:34,060 There is no escaping the claw 1400 01:09:34,060 --> 01:09:36,060 Of God, according to this text and what the Bible 1401 01:09:36,060 --> 01:09:38,060 Teaches. Next is bitterness 1402 01:09:38,060 --> 01:09:40,060 So what do I do if I have 1403 01:09:40,060 --> 01:09:42,060 Bitterness or gall within me? 1404 01:09:42,060 --> 01:09:44,060 In other words, I feel 1405 01:09:44,060 --> 01:09:46,060 Yucky about other people 1406 01:09:46,060 --> 01:09:48,060 And what they do are about situations 1407 01:09:48,060 --> 01:09:50,060 What do I do? 1408 01:09:50,060 --> 01:09:52,060 When 1409 01:09:52,060 --> 01:09:54,060 Whatever is going on in the world makes me 1410 01:09:54,060 --> 01:09:56,060 Want to gag 1411 01:09:58,060 --> 01:10:00,060 But if I act out 1412 01:10:00,060 --> 01:10:02,060 In that 1413 01:10:02,060 --> 01:10:04,060 Then I will pay the price 1414 01:10:04,060 --> 01:10:06,060 Of the claw 1415 01:10:06,060 --> 01:10:08,060 So what do I do? 1416 01:10:08,060 --> 01:10:10,060 Don't do it 1417 01:10:10,060 --> 01:10:12,060 Larry's got the 1418 01:10:12,060 --> 01:10:14,060 Cheat sheet today apparently, alright? 1419 01:10:14,060 --> 01:10:16,060 So I don't act out of my bitterness 1420 01:10:16,060 --> 01:10:18,060 I don't let anyone know that I'm bitter 1421 01:10:18,060 --> 01:10:20,060 That's not like a good plan 1422 01:10:20,060 --> 01:10:22,060 It's the best chance you got of avoiding the claw 1423 01:10:22,060 --> 01:10:24,060 Based on what we're reading 1424 01:10:24,060 --> 01:10:26,060 Except 1425 01:10:26,060 --> 01:10:28,060 John 13, 34 1426 01:10:28,060 --> 01:10:30,060 A new commandment I give to you 1427 01:10:30,060 --> 01:10:32,060 That you love one another, even as I have loved you 1428 01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:34,060 And that you also love one another 1429 01:10:34,060 --> 01:10:36,060 By this all men will know that you are my disciples 1430 01:10:36,060 --> 01:10:38,060 If you have love for one another 1431 01:10:38,060 --> 01:10:40,060 Guess what I'm saying 1432 01:10:40,060 --> 01:10:42,060 It ain't gonna work 1433 01:10:42,060 --> 01:10:44,060 If you have bitterness in you 1434 01:10:44,060 --> 01:10:46,060 And therefore you just clam up 1435 01:10:46,060 --> 01:10:48,060 And don't let that bitterness out 1436 01:10:48,060 --> 01:10:50,060 Because you don't want anyone to think bitterness 1437 01:10:50,060 --> 01:10:52,060 Is gonna come down on you 1438 01:10:52,060 --> 01:10:54,060 Guess what's gonna happen 1439 01:10:54,060 --> 01:10:56,060 You're gonna fail in the commands of God 1440 01:10:56,060 --> 01:10:58,060 And therefore pay the price 1441 01:10:58,060 --> 01:11:00,060 Last one is false peace 1442 01:11:00,060 --> 01:11:02,060 So 1443 01:11:02,060 --> 01:11:04,060 I wanna be okay 1444 01:11:04,060 --> 01:11:06,060 Right? 1445 01:11:06,060 --> 01:11:08,060 I wanna be 1446 01:11:08,060 --> 01:11:12,060 Even though I know I'm doing wrong things 1447 01:11:12,060 --> 01:11:14,060 I wanna say 1448 01:11:14,060 --> 01:11:16,060 God will take care of it 1449 01:11:16,060 --> 01:11:18,060 I've sat in the living room with a number of people 1450 01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:20,060 At different times that made that very argument to me 1451 01:11:20,060 --> 01:11:24,060 They say, well, I believed in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior 1452 01:11:24,060 --> 01:11:26,060 So now, whatever I do, God is going to take care of it 1453 01:11:30,060 --> 01:11:32,060 So what you do 1454 01:11:32,060 --> 01:11:34,060 In order to feel that way 1455 01:11:34,060 --> 01:11:36,060 And not have to claw 1456 01:11:36,060 --> 01:11:38,060 Is you have to have a healthy fear 1457 01:11:38,060 --> 01:11:40,060 You have to recognize that God is who God is 1458 01:11:40,060 --> 01:11:42,060 And He can crush you completely like a bug 1459 01:11:42,060 --> 01:11:44,060 Right? 1460 01:11:44,060 --> 01:11:46,060 So I've pieced God's grace is covering it 1461 01:11:46,060 --> 01:11:48,060 I'm still gonna do it 1462 01:11:48,060 --> 01:11:50,060 But I know God might crush me 1463 01:11:50,060 --> 01:11:52,060 Right? And humility, like, oh, I'm worthless 1464 01:11:52,060 --> 01:11:54,060 I'm no good 1465 01:11:54,060 --> 01:11:56,060 Right? 1466 01:11:56,060 --> 01:11:58,060 I'm not a good Christian, I'm not good at being a Christian 1467 01:11:58,060 --> 01:12:00,060 I don't ask anybody to follow me 1468 01:12:00,060 --> 01:12:02,060 I don't ask anybody to listen to my teachings 1469 01:12:02,060 --> 01:12:04,060 Because I know I'm no good as a Christian 1470 01:12:04,060 --> 01:12:06,060 Fear and humility 1471 01:12:06,060 --> 01:12:08,060 And 1472 01:12:08,060 --> 01:12:10,060 If God wants to punish me for what I'm doing 1473 01:12:10,060 --> 01:12:12,060 That would be perfect justice and I'm okay with that 1474 01:12:12,060 --> 01:12:14,060 I don't think He's going to because of grace of Jesus 1475 01:12:14,060 --> 01:12:16,060 But if He wants to punish me, I'm okay with it 1476 01:12:16,060 --> 01:12:18,060 I'm prepared to take my licks 1477 01:12:18,060 --> 01:12:20,060 That's what you gotta do 1478 01:12:20,060 --> 01:12:22,060 To avoid the claw of God, except what? 1479 01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:24,060 Why doesn't that work? 1480 01:12:24,060 --> 01:12:26,060 Because 1481 01:12:26,060 --> 01:12:28,060 According to the Bible 1482 01:12:28,060 --> 01:12:30,060 Luke 13, 34 1483 01:12:30,060 --> 01:12:32,060 Says this 1484 01:12:32,060 --> 01:12:34,060 Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that 1485 01:12:34,060 --> 01:12:36,060 Kills the prophets and stones those who send her 1486 01:12:36,060 --> 01:12:38,060 How often I have 1487 01:12:38,060 --> 01:12:40,060 Longed to gather 1488 01:12:40,060 --> 01:12:42,060 Your children together just as a hen 1489 01:12:42,060 --> 01:12:44,060 Gathers her brood under her wings 1490 01:12:44,060 --> 01:12:46,060 And you would not have it 1491 01:12:46,060 --> 01:12:48,060 Behold your house has left you desolate 1492 01:12:48,060 --> 01:12:50,060 And I say to you, you shall see me 1493 01:12:50,060 --> 01:12:52,060 Until the time, you shall not see me 1494 01:12:52,060 --> 01:12:54,060 Until the time comes when you say 1495 01:12:54,060 --> 01:12:56,060 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord 1496 01:12:56,060 --> 01:12:58,060 You will not have God 1497 01:12:58,060 --> 01:13:00,060 You will not have 1498 01:13:00,060 --> 01:13:02,060 Faith 1499 01:13:02,060 --> 01:13:04,060 You will not escape by saying 1500 01:13:04,060 --> 01:13:06,060 Yes, I'm willing to take my punishment 1501 01:13:06,060 --> 01:13:08,060 Oh I fear God 1502 01:13:08,060 --> 01:13:10,060 By having a false humility 1503 01:13:10,060 --> 01:13:12,060 You will not have 1504 01:13:12,060 --> 01:13:14,060 God in your life 1505 01:13:14,060 --> 01:13:16,060 And therefore 1506 01:13:16,060 --> 01:13:18,060 When the time comes 1507 01:13:18,060 --> 01:13:20,060 You will spend eternity away from him 1508 01:13:20,060 --> 01:13:22,060 False peace does not work 1509 01:13:22,060 --> 01:13:24,060 And there's no way to avoid the claw 1510 01:13:24,060 --> 01:13:26,060 That brings us then 1511 01:13:26,060 --> 01:13:28,060 To our conclusion 1512 01:13:28,060 --> 01:13:30,060 Real quick 1513 01:13:30,060 --> 01:13:32,060 Recapping what we've talked about 1514 01:13:32,060 --> 01:13:34,060 Number one, everyone was there 1515 01:13:34,060 --> 01:13:36,060 Every Israelite and lumped in by 1516 01:13:36,060 --> 01:13:38,060 Moses was everybody who would keep coming 1517 01:13:38,060 --> 01:13:40,060 Everybody who would ever hear the gospel 1518 01:13:40,060 --> 01:13:42,060 Everybody who would ever hear the word 1519 01:13:42,060 --> 01:13:44,060 Everybody who could become a convert 1520 01:13:44,060 --> 01:13:46,060 Those who would be taken as slaves 1521 01:13:46,060 --> 01:13:48,060 Against their will 1522 01:13:48,060 --> 01:13:50,060 Everybody 1523 01:13:50,060 --> 01:13:52,060 Everybody in every season of life 1524 01:13:52,060 --> 01:13:54,060 From every walk of life 1525 01:13:54,060 --> 01:13:56,060 In all education, all work types 1526 01:13:56,060 --> 01:13:58,060 All backstories, all witnesses 1527 01:13:58,060 --> 01:14:00,060 And all converts, everybody 1528 01:14:00,060 --> 01:14:02,060 Was lumped in 1529 01:14:02,060 --> 01:14:04,060 And from that group, God was calling 1530 01:14:04,060 --> 01:14:06,060 For faithfulness, ruling out 1531 01:14:06,060 --> 01:14:08,060 Any kind of adultery with idols 1532 01:14:08,060 --> 01:14:10,060 Nothing else 1533 01:14:10,060 --> 01:14:12,060 Could be worshipped except God 1534 01:14:12,060 --> 01:14:14,060 God claimed them as his people alone 1535 01:14:14,060 --> 01:14:16,060 Those who were there 1536 01:14:16,060 --> 01:14:18,060 And those who would become converts 1537 01:14:18,060 --> 01:14:20,060 He claimed them as his people alone 1538 01:14:20,060 --> 01:14:22,060 And they were to claim him alone as their God 1539 01:14:22,060 --> 01:14:24,060 And a person would be 1540 01:14:24,060 --> 01:14:26,060 Singled out for punishment and wrath 1541 01:14:26,060 --> 01:14:28,060 Notably for three primary reasons 1542 01:14:28,060 --> 01:14:30,060 Number one 1543 01:14:30,060 --> 01:14:32,060 False teaching 1544 01:14:32,060 --> 01:14:34,060 Number two, bitterness of soul 1545 01:14:34,060 --> 01:14:36,060 Number three, a false peace thinking they were going to be okay 1546 01:14:38,060 --> 01:14:40,060 And that brings us to our conclusion 1547 01:14:40,060 --> 01:14:42,060 You are safe 1548 01:14:42,060 --> 01:14:44,060 Amongst the called 1549 01:14:44,060 --> 01:14:46,060 If you trust God 1550 01:14:46,060 --> 01:14:48,060 In Christ and remain faithful 1551 01:14:48,060 --> 01:14:50,060 But you could be singled out 1552 01:14:50,060 --> 01:14:52,060 For destruction 1553 01:14:52,060 --> 01:14:54,060 If you adopt false teachings 1554 01:14:54,060 --> 01:14:56,060 Become bitter 1555 01:14:56,060 --> 01:14:58,060 Or conceive false peace 1556 01:14:58,060 --> 01:15:00,060 The truth is, if you are 1557 01:15:00,060 --> 01:15:02,060 A person who is 1558 01:15:02,060 --> 01:15:04,060 A person who is 1559 01:15:04,060 --> 01:15:06,060 A person who is 1560 01:15:06,060 --> 01:15:08,060 A person who is 1561 01:15:08,060 --> 01:15:10,060 For the sake of Jesus 1562 01:15:10,060 --> 01:15:12,060 Then you are going to hell 1563 01:15:12,060 --> 01:15:14,060 You are going to hell 1564 01:15:14,060 --> 01:15:16,060 For an eternity 1565 01:15:16,060 --> 01:15:18,060 And worse maybe than that 1566 01:15:18,060 --> 01:15:20,060 Right now in this moment while something could potentially 1567 01:15:20,060 --> 01:15:22,060 Be done about it 1568 01:15:22,060 --> 01:15:24,060 They are suffering bitter 1569 01:15:24,060 --> 01:15:26,060 Endless 1570 01:15:26,060 --> 01:15:28,060 Loneliness 1571 01:15:28,060 --> 01:15:30,060 Subjecting their worship, which could be of the highest 1572 01:15:30,060 --> 01:15:38,300 subjecting their worship to things of this earth because they cannot find God. 1573 01:15:38,300 --> 01:15:40,940 And all their life has been orchestrated. 1574 01:15:40,940 --> 01:15:44,820 All the places in which they live and will ever go has been set up. 1575 01:15:44,820 --> 01:15:51,180 All the difficulty that they have ever faced, all the education that they have ever or never received, 1576 01:15:51,180 --> 01:16:00,220 all the troubles and all the successes were orchestrated so that that person, the person in question, 1577 01:16:00,220 --> 01:16:06,220 instead of adopting false teachings or having a bitterness amongst them or having a false peace, 1578 01:16:06,220 --> 01:16:16,140 might believe in the one whom God has sent, his son Jesus Christ, and be saved. 1579 01:16:16,140 --> 01:16:23,260 And having been saved then, realize they are subject to all the teachings of the scripture, 1580 01:16:23,260 --> 01:16:28,940 all the covenant, old and new, all the callings on their life by God. 1581 01:16:28,940 --> 01:16:32,220 And there's no, that's too high for me to understand. 1582 01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:35,740 There's no, that's too low or menial for me to deal with. 1583 01:16:35,740 --> 01:16:38,900 There's no, that's too expensive, it will cost me too much. 1584 01:16:38,900 --> 01:16:42,060 There's no, well, I like this teaching over that teaching, 1585 01:16:42,060 --> 01:16:45,780 I'm going to go with this one because it doesn't make me feel uncomfortable. 1586 01:16:45,780 --> 01:16:47,260 None of that. 1587 01:16:47,260 --> 01:16:50,580 There's no, I go here because it's prettier. 1588 01:16:50,580 --> 01:16:54,060 I go here because it's louder or quieter. 1589 01:16:54,060 --> 01:16:58,260 I ran into a man this last week who has visited New Heights. 1590 01:16:58,260 --> 01:17:04,940 Now, ironically, he's visited in two separate seasons of our existence and he doesn't know it. 1591 01:17:04,940 --> 01:17:10,940 He visited us on Main Street in 2009 or something, 2008. 1592 01:17:10,940 --> 01:17:16,180 We were in the 613 building, the small building, and we were meeting in two services 1593 01:17:16,180 --> 01:17:19,500 and he visited one of our services. 1594 01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:25,420 And after that service, I visited him at his home and he told me that he would not be back 1595 01:17:25,420 --> 01:17:30,380 to New Heights and the reason is because it's too loud. 1596 01:17:30,380 --> 01:17:36,900 The music was too loud, the people were too loud, the kids were too loud, 1597 01:17:36,900 --> 01:17:41,580 everything was too loud and he's very deathly afraid that he will be deaf 1598 01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:43,380 when he gets older, that he will lose his hearing. 1599 01:17:43,380 --> 01:17:47,180 And the doctors have told him because of his time early on in his life, 1600 01:17:47,180 --> 01:17:50,060 whatever he was doing, demolitions, something, blowing something up, whatever, 1601 01:17:50,060 --> 01:17:53,860 and he would mess with his head, his ears, and he would lose his hearing as he got older 1602 01:17:53,860 --> 01:17:55,380 and he should be very protective of his hearing. 1603 01:17:55,380 --> 01:17:58,740 He said, I will never be back to New Heights because it's too loud. 1604 01:17:58,740 --> 01:17:59,980 That's what he told me. 1605 01:17:59,980 --> 01:18:08,020 Now fast forward about 12 years, maybe 13, 2020, 2021, something like that, 1606 01:18:08,020 --> 01:18:10,020 he visited New Heights here. 1607 01:18:10,020 --> 01:18:14,540 Now when he visited New Heights during the inspirational moment time, somebody, 1608 01:18:14,540 --> 01:18:18,540 one of the kids, I think it was Jason actually played a song on the back 1609 01:18:18,540 --> 01:18:20,860 and it was from a Disney movie. 1610 01:18:20,860 --> 01:18:27,340 It wasn't a particularly loud song or whatever like that, but he said, 1611 01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:31,580 he asked me when I saw him this week, he said, do you still allow young people 1612 01:18:31,580 --> 01:18:34,460 in your church to potentially choose a song to play? 1613 01:18:34,460 --> 01:18:38,820 Now we don't do that as much as we used to because we're going live right now 1614 01:18:38,820 --> 01:18:42,060 to Facebook and we don't necessarily have copyrights on all those things. 1615 01:18:42,060 --> 01:18:43,020 So it's tricky. 1616 01:18:43,020 --> 01:18:43,940 So we haven't been doing that as much. 1617 01:18:43,940 --> 01:18:46,900 We've been doing more reading the lyrics and talking about the songs. 1618 01:18:46,900 --> 01:18:50,300 But legally, we are within our rights to show a song and talk about efforts. 1619 01:18:50,300 --> 01:18:50,940 That's allowed. 1620 01:18:50,940 --> 01:18:55,020 You're allowed to do that legally because you're talking about the song. 1621 01:18:55,020 --> 01:18:57,500 But that being said, we do still do it. 1622 01:18:57,500 --> 01:19:01,460 And so once I figured out that's what he was talking about, I asked him, 1623 01:19:01,460 --> 01:19:03,980 we was talking about inspirational moment time, he said, no, no, I'm talking about. 1624 01:19:03,980 --> 01:19:05,380 And I said, you mean when? 1625 01:19:05,380 --> 01:19:06,460 He said, no, no, not then. 1626 01:19:06,460 --> 01:19:08,660 I'm talking about, he kept telling me I was wrong. 1627 01:19:08,660 --> 01:19:11,260 But ultimately we decided that's what he was talking about. 1628 01:19:11,260 --> 01:19:15,100 And he said, that's why I'll never be back to your church. 1629 01:19:15,100 --> 01:19:17,020 He said, I have to protect my hearing. 1630 01:19:17,020 --> 01:19:20,140 I have to know what's coming, what it's going to be like, blah, blah, blah. 1631 01:19:20,140 --> 01:19:23,540 And he said, so he'll, and I said, so what church are you going to? 1632 01:19:23,540 --> 01:19:26,260 And he said, well, I'm not going anywhere. 1633 01:19:26,260 --> 01:19:29,700 And I said, well, has God told you to go to church somewhere? 1634 01:19:29,700 --> 01:19:32,780 You know, I mean, you know, as a believer, you're professing Christ, right? 1635 01:19:32,780 --> 01:19:33,420 Yes, I am. 1636 01:19:33,420 --> 01:19:35,180 He said, then you really should be in church, right? 1637 01:19:35,180 --> 01:19:40,060 And he said, well, but everywhere I go, I run into a problem. 1638 01:19:40,060 --> 01:19:42,500 Now, as he said that, he was storming away from me. 1639 01:19:42,500 --> 01:19:45,180 I was standing in a Maccabah Conception Outreach Center, 1640 01:19:45,180 --> 01:19:47,180 and I was getting groceries from them that they had left over. 1641 01:19:47,180 --> 01:19:50,620 You know, I'm going to take them back this Wednesday, take them back to the life station. 1642 01:19:50,620 --> 01:19:54,020 And he stormed out past the old ladies, you know, and he said, well, 1643 01:19:54,020 --> 01:19:56,140 everywhere I go, I find a problem. 1644 01:19:56,140 --> 01:19:57,460 I said, I'm out of here. 1645 01:19:57,460 --> 01:19:58,060 He threw up his hand. 1646 01:19:58,060 --> 01:19:58,700 I'm out of here. 1647 01:19:58,700 --> 01:20:01,060 Yelling, mind you, with old ladies right in front of him. 1648 01:20:01,060 --> 01:20:03,020 So I'm sure that wasn't really protecting their hearing. 1649 01:20:03,020 --> 01:20:05,260 But anyway, he's, and I said, I'm out of here. 1650 01:20:05,260 --> 01:20:06,980 Everywhere I go, I find a problem. 1651 01:20:06,980 --> 01:20:11,140 And I did what I didn't get to say to him, but what the Lord said in my heart at that time, 1652 01:20:11,140 --> 01:20:16,020 and I almost followed him out, but it would have been hard, and I didn't, 1653 01:20:16,020 --> 01:20:19,260 was it's not about whether it's loud. 1654 01:20:19,260 --> 01:20:24,820 It's not about whether or not he finds some other problem or some other reason. 1655 01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:26,860 It's about his faithfulness. 1656 01:20:26,860 --> 01:20:28,900 Hear me now. 1657 01:20:28,900 --> 01:20:35,660 In the small schoolhouses of old, there were first graders and there were 12th graders. 1658 01:20:35,660 --> 01:20:38,380 And when it comes to what the Bible says, you may be in this room right now, 1659 01:20:38,380 --> 01:20:43,660 and you may be a third grader, but you're responsible for all of it. 1660 01:20:43,660 --> 01:20:46,620 You're answerable to God for everything that God says in His covenant, in His grace, 1661 01:20:46,620 --> 01:20:47,700 and everything that Jesus ever taught. 1662 01:20:47,700 --> 01:20:49,460 You're responsible for all of it. 1663 01:20:49,460 --> 01:20:52,180 So you need to make sure you get every bit of it that you possibly can. 1664 01:20:52,180 --> 01:20:53,420 And you'll get whatever. 1665 01:20:53,420 --> 01:20:56,340 So if it's something that's, you're just not dealing with it yet, you're not there, 1666 01:20:56,340 --> 01:20:59,140 and you don't understand it's even an issue, you may only get 40% of it. 1667 01:20:59,140 --> 01:21:01,900 And you're responsible to get that 40% of it. 1668 01:21:01,900 --> 01:21:04,820 Or if it's something that you've dealt with before and it's totally taken care of in your life, 1669 01:21:04,820 --> 01:21:08,260 and you've totally put it behind you, you may get 100% of that, 1670 01:21:08,260 --> 01:21:11,380 and you're responsible for 100% of that. 1671 01:21:11,380 --> 01:21:14,500 And before you say, why do I got to hear it again, something I already heard, 1672 01:21:14,500 --> 01:21:19,460 you got to understand that I have seen people who have heard something 20 times. 1673 01:21:19,460 --> 01:21:23,180 I have a person that I'm ministering to now that has bitterness of soul. 1674 01:21:23,180 --> 01:21:25,460 They have allowed themselves to become bitter. 1675 01:21:25,460 --> 01:21:29,700 And I am trying to work with them and help them, but I cannot bend over backwards, 1676 01:21:29,700 --> 01:21:32,740 and I cannot resolve that, only God can. 1677 01:21:32,740 --> 01:21:33,260 Okay? 1678 01:21:33,260 --> 01:21:36,780 So I'm hoping that we'll get there. 1679 01:21:36,780 --> 01:21:41,380 But the problems that person has had, that problem did not give them bitterness of soul. 1680 01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:45,180 They have a responsibility to excrete. 1681 01:21:45,180 --> 01:21:48,300 They have a responsibility to take in whatever the will throws at them, 1682 01:21:48,300 --> 01:21:50,860 and to go, this is not for me, I'm going to let it go. 1683 01:21:50,860 --> 01:21:54,660 This is for me, I'm going to take it in, I'm going to use it, I'm going to build myself. 1684 01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:58,580 This is for me, but it's a little bit too much, so I'm going to let it go over the top. 1685 01:21:58,580 --> 01:22:02,700 Whatever I can't handle, I'm going to let that go, and I'm going to take what I'm supposed to take in. 1686 01:22:02,700 --> 01:22:04,180 This is for me, and this is not. 1687 01:22:04,180 --> 01:22:07,180 I take some of this which is not, I decide not to take some of this which is. 1688 01:22:07,180 --> 01:22:09,180 You're responsible. 1689 01:22:09,180 --> 01:22:12,500 That's poison fruit, it's bitterness, it's false peace. 1690 01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:16,980 You're saying to God, God, I am your child, I will do whatever you tell me to do, 1691 01:22:16,980 --> 01:22:19,100 then He tells you what to do, and you don't do it. 1692 01:22:19,100 --> 01:22:22,460 Either you're a liar or He is. 1693 01:22:22,460 --> 01:22:24,900 That's the bottom line. 1694 01:22:24,900 --> 01:22:35,380 And if you have poison fruit, or bitterness, or false peace, you're in line for the claw. 1695 01:22:35,380 --> 01:22:44,860 Because the end of that text that we read says that God will single that person out for destruction. 1696 01:22:44,860 --> 01:22:53,460 It says that He will bring the curses of this book down on their life. 1697 01:22:53,460 --> 01:22:58,020 Not when they die and go to hell. 1698 01:22:58,020 --> 01:23:01,940 When He does, when He realizes they have false peace, when He realizes they have poison fruit, 1699 01:23:01,940 --> 01:23:04,620 when He realizes they have bitterness of soul. 1700 01:23:04,620 --> 01:23:07,180 That's when He'll bring it. 1701 01:23:07,180 --> 01:23:11,420 And He'll single me or single you out from our families. 1702 01:23:11,420 --> 01:23:16,460 You think God is not able to deliver a nuclear explosion and contain it to one body size? 1703 01:23:16,460 --> 01:23:18,620 He absolutely can. 1704 01:23:18,620 --> 01:23:20,860 With the cells in our own bodies, He can. 1705 01:23:20,860 --> 01:23:23,900 He doesn't need anything else. 1706 01:23:23,900 --> 01:23:26,020 He is able to do it. 1707 01:23:26,020 --> 01:23:29,140 And He can single us out. 1708 01:23:29,140 --> 01:23:30,580 So what do you do? 1709 01:23:30,580 --> 01:23:34,180 Well, if you're a producer of poison fruit, you need to repent. 1710 01:23:34,180 --> 01:23:35,860 You need to stop. 1711 01:23:35,860 --> 01:23:37,420 You need to say, I'm not going to do this anymore. 1712 01:23:37,420 --> 01:23:41,180 I will not teach something or I will not fail to teach that which is in God's Word. 1713 01:23:41,180 --> 01:23:47,180 I will not teach anything contrary to God's Word and I will not fail to teach what's in God's Word. 1714 01:23:47,180 --> 01:23:49,900 If you're a person filled with bitterness, you need to repent. 1715 01:23:49,900 --> 01:23:50,900 You need to repent. 1716 01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:52,660 It doesn't matter who did it to you. 1717 01:23:52,660 --> 01:23:55,820 You need to repent of your bitterness. 1718 01:23:55,820 --> 01:23:58,580 They are not at fault. 1719 01:23:58,580 --> 01:24:01,140 If you still have it, they are not at fault. 1720 01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:02,420 You are. 1721 01:24:02,420 --> 01:24:03,700 Repent. 1722 01:24:03,700 --> 01:24:09,740 And turn to God and say, I will not have bitterness of soul. 1723 01:24:09,740 --> 01:24:14,580 Not me, God's Word. 1724 01:24:14,580 --> 01:24:16,740 In false peace, you say, I'm OK. 1725 01:24:16,740 --> 01:24:17,420 Jesus died for me. 1726 01:24:17,420 --> 01:24:19,180 He covers all my sins, whatever I do. 1727 01:24:19,180 --> 01:24:21,980 And then you go and do something that you should not do and you know you should not do it. 1728 01:24:21,980 --> 01:24:23,260 You talk away you shouldn't. 1729 01:24:23,260 --> 01:24:24,940 You don't do what you should do. 1730 01:24:24,940 --> 01:24:25,980 That's false peace. 1731 01:24:25,980 --> 01:24:26,940 You have false peace. 1732 01:24:26,940 --> 01:24:31,700 You need to repent and turn to God and get real peace. 1733 01:24:31,700 --> 01:24:37,100 Real peace is when you say, I will not intentionally do anything that God doesn't want me to do. 1734 01:24:37,100 --> 01:24:40,540 I will not intentionally fail to do anything that God wants me to do. 1735 01:24:40,540 --> 01:24:43,140 Not for anything this world has to offer. 1736 01:24:43,140 --> 01:24:48,580 When the cares and the riches of this world come, they're going to come because the tares 1737 01:24:48,580 --> 01:24:50,180 are still growing in the good soil. 1738 01:24:50,180 --> 01:24:51,380 So they're going to come. 1739 01:24:51,380 --> 01:24:54,340 And when they come, I will be wheat. 1740 01:24:54,340 --> 01:24:56,900 I will be producing. 1741 01:24:56,900 --> 01:25:01,660 If they hate me, if they kill me, if they persecute me, if they chase me out, 1742 01:25:01,660 --> 01:25:05,900 if they take my money, my job, my home, my family, if they kill my wife and my kids, 1743 01:25:05,900 --> 01:25:14,460 I will be wheat because I know who God is. 1744 01:25:14,460 --> 01:25:19,140 Maybe you're just a convert, but I hope not. 1745 01:25:19,140 --> 01:25:22,580 I hope you've witnessed something amazing that God has done. 1746 01:25:22,580 --> 01:25:31,220 And if you have, then I hope you'll bring real teaching and real love and real peace 1747 01:25:31,220 --> 01:25:37,900 into your day and the problems that you face and the family that you're living in 1748 01:25:37,900 --> 01:25:41,380 to the strangers that you meet on the street. 1749 01:25:41,380 --> 01:25:48,300 And when we do that, not only will we not be in line for singling out for the claw, 1750 01:25:48,300 --> 01:25:52,540 but on top of that, we have the opportunity that the people that we see wrapped up in 1751 01:25:52,540 --> 01:25:56,500 idol worship and doing abominations in the world, will win. 1752 01:25:56,500 --> 01:25:59,340 Next time you run into somebody who's doing something really, really stupid, 1753 01:25:59,340 --> 01:26:04,380 I mean something that gets your goat, I cannot believe that they would do that, 1754 01:26:04,380 --> 01:26:08,500 you go up to them and say, can I talk to you about Jesus? 1755 01:26:08,500 --> 01:26:10,100 Let them say no. 1756 01:26:10,100 --> 01:26:12,660 What happens if they do? 1757 01:26:12,660 --> 01:26:14,860 What's it going to hurt? 1758 01:26:14,860 --> 01:26:18,100 You'll be found doing what it is that God called you to do. 1759 01:26:18,100 --> 01:26:21,540 Instead of going, ah, stupid, ah, I can't believe it. 1760 01:26:21,540 --> 01:26:25,340 Walk up to them and say, can I talk to you about Jesus? 1761 01:26:25,340 --> 01:26:30,180 Well, you might be persecuted. 1762 01:26:30,180 --> 01:26:34,020 If you're persecuted for the faith, God will reward you. 1763 01:26:34,020 --> 01:26:38,060 If you're unwilling to be persecuted for the faith, then you have a false peace. 1764 01:26:38,060 --> 01:26:44,860 And God will reward your false peace with the destruction that you are not interested in. 1765 01:26:44,860 --> 01:26:55,580 Let us repent and turn to the Lord God.