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A few things real quick while we work this one out and we head up.

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So the first thing is we're going to look at a tough passage of scripture.

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It's going to go by kind of quick. It's not like a really long, drawn out thing like the Kingdom of God thing's work,

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but it's a tough passage of scripture to digest.

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And so I'm going to try to break it down as we go.

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If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask.

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Okay, so it's not complicated what he's saying. It's not complicated.

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But in light of we now know Jesus lived, died, was buried, and rose again,

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it changes the story a little bit.

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So we're looking at the story. It's from a prophet that a long time before Jesus lived.

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And so it's a little different than what we might expect.

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The second thing is if you've not done so already,

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I need you to count the number of worksheets and make sure I'm getting that information for the number of worksheets.

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I know who, because I know I already owe Josh Mitchell dinner,

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and I want to make sure there are others who are on that side and in that category.

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So at some point, don't I do it right this second,

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but at some point you can count your worksheets and text me or just tell me that number so I can start tracking.

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Because if we have a few people, we can all eat dinner together at the same time.

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That would be more convenient for me because I have a limited schedule.

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I don't have seven days.

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It would be the same for me.

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I don't have seven days each week.

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So here, some people have it for a long time before that.

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So, all right, so you're hitting the eighth one.

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So my first one is eight.

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All right, so you hit the eighth one.

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That's the first one.

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And then it goes eight, 13, 26.

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I think 26 would be definitely, you saved it for a long time.

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That's the highest number you have.

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It's like 3.5 and a third.

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All right, so here we go.

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Grab your Bible.

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If you're going to follow along with it and your worksheet,

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and we're going to look at Ezekiel 33.

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All right.

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So Ezekiel was a prophet.

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By the way, you're really going to celebrate this.

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We don't need to dig deep into his history or anything like that.

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We will say that in Ezekiel's day, people did a lot of bad things.

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Even though they were God's people.

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They're taking that for him.

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So that's pretty good.

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Okay.

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And so the reference to the upper right-hand corner of your page,

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starting in the upper right, is Ezekiel 33, 1-6.

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Okay.

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So we're going to look at the first six verses first of Ezekiel.

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And Ezekiel has no A's in it.

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And if you want to spell it with an I-A-L at the end, it is I-E-L.

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So it looks like S-X-I-L.

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So it looks like E-Z-E-K-I-E-L.

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33, 1-6.

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Now, first I'm going to have is like a little bit of a game.

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As I read this scripture, okay, I've given you some pictures here.

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Ezekiel 33, 1-6.

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Okay.

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So these pictures here all represent something.

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I'll tell you what they are first.

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They're my drawings and they're my directorial.

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So that first thing I know, we have left in there is a trumpet.

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It's an old-style trumpet.

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People were bowled over and bedded.

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And that's kind of, they probably had it.

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All right.

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And then that's a sword.

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That's a castle.

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That's a town or a city.

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And that's an army.

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I think I actually did pretty good on the army considering.

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I'll pay credit for myself.

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That's blood.

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It's that blood.

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And then there's a pillow.

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That's a pillow with Z's by it.

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And then the word analogy and the word argument.

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Okay.

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Now, as I read these six verses, I want you to put a dot next to circle, check mark, mark, however you want.

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The things that you think he's talking about in these verses.

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So if you think it's an analogy, then you can mark the analogy.

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If you think it's an argument, you can mark the argument.

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If you think he's talking about a city, you can mark the city.

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If he's talking about a sword, you can mark the sword and so on.

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So that's all I'm going to do.

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I'm going to read the verses.

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I'm going to go super fast.

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Today, I'm trying to emphasize the words a little bit.

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And you're just going to mark what things you think you hear something about in there.

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Ezekiel 33.

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And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

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Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them,

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if I bring a sword upon a land and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

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and he sees the sword coming upon the land,

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blows on the trumpet and warns the people,

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then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning and a sword comes and takes him away,

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his blood will be on his own head.

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He heard the sound of the trumpet that did not take warning.

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His blood will be on himself.

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But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

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But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned,

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and a sword comes and takes a person from them,

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he is taken away in his iniquity.

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Iniquity means sin.

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But his blood I will require from the watchman's hand.

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So he tells Ezekiel to tell the people this from verse 2 on down to verse 6.

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And basically this is the map of it.

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I'm just going to paraphrase it in a second.

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I'm going to say the map.

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The people take a watchman.

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The watchman blows the horn and somebody doesn't listen and they die because of it.

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It's their own fault.

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The blood is on them.

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But if the watchman fails to blow the horn and then somebody dies when the sword comes on them,

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then they died in their sin, but also the blood is on the watchman because he didn't do the job.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So if you're looking at marking trumpet, sword, army, castle, city, blood, analogy or argument,

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one of those or all of those and pillows over here, pillows down there, it's kind of small and a lot of them.

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All right.

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So who wants to go first?

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Let's see.

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Did anybody mark the city or the town?

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Pick one around.

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You did?

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Tell me how you think it's talking about the city or the town.

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You did not.

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Did anyone mark it?

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It was marked on my paper.

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I'm the only one that marked it.

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I'll tell you how I think so.

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You did too?

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So because the whole thing, you did too?

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The whole thing is about the city or the people.

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Right?

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So if you were talking about the land or the city or the people, I used the town there to represent the city.

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How about this?

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Did anybody mark the castle?

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Nobody?

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You did?

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Tell us how you think.

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Okay.

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So you're using that to represent the watchman.

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So you can do that.

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I wouldn't call that a wrong answer.

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I did that myself, but I wouldn't call it a wrong answer.

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Sure.

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I can practically be true.

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How about the sword?

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This is easy enough.

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Did we all mark the sword, I told you?

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Yeah.

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Everybody marked the sword.

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But we didn't mark it now.

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Right?

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Because it says sword in there twice, at least.

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All right.

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How about the trumpet?

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Yeah.

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We marked the trumpet, right?

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Because it says if you blew the trumpet, if you blew the trumpet, you didn't blow the trumpet.

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Right?

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So that's in there.

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How about the army?

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Did anybody mark army?

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Say again.

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So you marked it.

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But it still says one person.

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No, it says, okay, let's read it.

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Here's what it actually says.

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If I, who's the I, if I bring a sword upon the land of the people of the land, take one man from among them and make him their watchman, he sees the sword coming upon the land and he blows on the trumpet and warns the people.

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Right?

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So I will tell you that a lot of times in scripture, a sword can represent an army.

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Or a warrior-like people.

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Right?

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And John says, right, is that not who has the sword is the army.

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Right?

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A lot of times it does.

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But you're right to kind of snag on it a little bit because, right, because God says I bring the sword.

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Right?

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So in other words, it doesn't have to be an army that God brings.

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It could be something else.

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Can anyone think of an example of a judgment or of a something dangerous that God would bring on a nation that is not destruction but certainly could turn into that?

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Say again.

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Plague of Egypt.

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So the plague of Egypt or plague could be a good example of this, right?

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Because the warning could be this.

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If we don't turn from all wicked ways, God's going to bring this plague down on us like he did before and destroy all his people.

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That could be the warning.

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And then he says, okay, I see that the threat of the plague is there.

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I'm the watchman.

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I must give the alert.

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So that could be an example.

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Any others?

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The tower of Babel changed all the languages which the Bible and the Bible didn't teach.

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Although there was no warning.

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Right?

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He just, God said, these people need to be broke up and go through the period of post-mortem.

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That's what he was doing in the first place.

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Right?

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But you're right.

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That's another example of the story of God's doctrine.

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But unfortunately there was no warning in that case.

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If they were told what to do, they didn't do it.

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They were punished.

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Jonah.

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Jonah's a good example.

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Right?

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He was supposed to go through the city and tell them, it's going to be destroyed.

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By the way, never miss this in the story of Jonah.

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Is Jonah's message, repent or be destroyed?

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No.

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No.

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Jonah's message simply put, God is going to destroy you.

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Right?

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That was his message.

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God is going to destroy you for your wickedness and bubblegum.

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They repented hoping that just maybe by some chance there was some escape.

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That was insane because that's their natural response.

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That's what I don't want to look at at the minute.

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But that was their natural response was to repent.

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And it wasn't just one of them or some of them or the intelligent ones or the dumb ones.

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Right?

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Or the ones who got faked and the ones who didn't.

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It was everyone, including the animals.

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It was sackcloth, sackcloth on the cows.

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Literally everybody repented.

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Nobody ate.

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Everybody weeped.

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And God's miracle for 160 years.

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I like that.

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He's very kind of, because of that.

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All right.

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Anything else?

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So I'll submit to you there are other examples that we can come up with.

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It could be anything that God is going to bring on the land that they would not want.

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Okay.

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Feminine is good.

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Locusts.

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Grout.

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Slavery.

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But Joseph became the watchman in that case.

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This is the one who went to Pharaoh and said, this is what your green beans, seven years peace,

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followed by seven years of famine, fix it for us.

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And he said, well, you become my chief man and you fix it.

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And he did.

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And they sort it all out for seven years and then they were ready.

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Okay.

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So you get the gist of it.

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So army, yes, maybe, but not certainly not only.

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And it doesn't say army.

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Right?

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So either way would be fine.

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Blood, definitely.

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What does blood symbolize in this story?

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As a man who is the watchman does not blow the trumpet and then someone is taken.

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He is taken in his own iniquity, but his blood will be on your head.

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In the shoes that show they see the dirt on the ground.

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You can get very word right there.

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Yes.

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Right?

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What culpability is where the harmony is.

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You can be your, you're right for God to punish.

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You're right for God to judge, right for God to send to hell.

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Whatever you are responsible.

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Okay.

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You say something.

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All right.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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So how about the pillow?

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Anybody mark the pillow?

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Tommy did.

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Sleeping on the job.

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Sleeping on the job.

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That's what I did to you.

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Yeah.

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Sleep.

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I got the symbol.

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Not not literally right there, but but the symbol.

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So now here's an interesting thing.

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Because we just talked about all of these things being symbols.

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What do you think about the word analogy?

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Could this everything you just read be an analogy?

305
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It certainly is an analogy.

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How about the argument?

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Do you hear an argument?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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How do you hear the argument?

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It's kind of like arguing back and forth.

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Like if you do something then this is an argument.

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This could also be an argument.

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Because it says in the beginning of the books that if I was to be the sword in story of the

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inner I would get cut and then the argument would be well what if this happened?

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Like would everything else have happened in the book?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So I kind of get what the original was.

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Yeah.

321
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I kind of get what you're going at.

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Like if you do this, you'll be fine.

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If you don't, you won't.

324
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Therefore you should do this.

325
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Right?

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If this is the way you want it, if you don't do what you're supposed to do then you get

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this instead.

328
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So that makes an argument.

329
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Yeah.

330
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Okay.

331
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All right.

332
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So we're going down to the left follow the big fat row and you're crossing under that

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slide there and we're looking now at verses 7 and 10.

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So the reference is Ezekiel 33, 7, 10.

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Right over there kind of down under the gate above the man above the copraic above the

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guy lived went to the left Ezekiel 37, 7, 10.

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And it says now as for you son of man and that's the case where he uses the phrase son

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of man and refer to Ezekiel.

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So he's talking to Ezekiel and says as for you son of man, I have appointed you a watchman

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for the house of Israel.

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He says you're going to be the one.

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I go on the walk.

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I made you the watchman.

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People didn't elect you.

345
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I made you the watchman.

346
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So you hear a message from my mouth and give them warning from me.

347
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So you know what he's saying?

348
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You be responsible.

349
00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:03,600
So Jason was saying we got me an argument from this text.

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Let's start with your the you're the you better do what's right or otherwise the blood on

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you.

352
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Right.

353
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So he's saying so you give them a warning for me.

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First day when I say the wicked a wicked man, you surely shall die or you shall surely die

355
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and you do not speak to warn the wicked man from his way that wicked man shall die in

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his iniquity.

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So we've got a sinner.

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Bad to say something but bad and Ezekiel's case.

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He was supposed to warn the sinner that he's in trouble and this road that he's on will

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take him to this far and if Ezekiel does not warn him then like we read in the first six

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verses he would be that person who's supposed to be warning but why not doing his job?

362
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He'd be asleep on the dock.

363
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All right.

364
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So let's go back to oh wicked man.

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You shall surely die.

366
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So God says when I say oh wicked man, you should surely die and you do not speak to

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warn the wicked man from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity.

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But his blood I will require from your hand.

369
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But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn

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from his way, he will die in his iniquity that you have delivered your life.

371
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Get it?

372
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Pretty tough stuff, isn't it?

373
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Okay.

374
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So what we've got there is some imagery to kind of represent this.

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We've got the dying on the right hand side.

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I submit to you that the message that the watchman which is Ezekiel in this case or I

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think it's talking to us actually right is saying we have to tell people they're making

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a choice between life and death.

379
00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:56,900
Okay, that's why that guy live is there also over on the left.

380
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You'll notice that's a that's my picture of Ezekiel.

381
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I have no idea what Ezekiel look like.

382
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I don't think anybody does but there's a hairy man with a big long beard and he's quite

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loud of talking right?

384
00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,500
Okay, and he's on both sides of that coat.

385
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He's on one side of coat rack and the message is on the other side of coat rack.

386
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Okay.

387
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Now we're going to follow the split arrow down.

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We're going to take the left fork.

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What do you see?

390
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What is that?

391
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The pillow.

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So if he falls asleep at the wheel falls asleep and does not do what a watchman is supposed to do.

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Blood.

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Fat.

395
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Right.

396
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So in other words if you are a watchman and you have the message of the Lord and you don't

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give it and that person dies and they will right?

398
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It's professor they will die in their iniquity then now the blood is on the watchman's hands.

399
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Catch it?

400
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Okay.

401
00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,100
Now we'll follow the other side for a moment.

402
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Let's say you warned him.

403
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If you warned him then he's going to have to make a choice.

404
00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,900
Right?

405
00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:12,800
So he comes to the place where it says stand here.

406
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He's going to choose which coat rack basically the coat rack is going to choose.

407
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You got the left coat rack which is bad and you'll notice down below it right in front of the coat rack.

408
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You go grab the coat right in front of it.

409
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There's a clip that leads down into hell.

410
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Mike not an expert depication.

411
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You're not really supposed to have a notification of hell.

412
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Right?

413
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Or he chooses the right coat rack as a coat hanging there.

414
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Right?

415
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And he chooses that there's a slide and the slide goes all the way up around the top has to keep off all the way up to the burly gates.

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So he has to make a choice.

417
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So if he's warned he has to make a choice.

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So let's follow if he makes the bad choice for a moment.

419
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Right?

420
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Now what happened to us first of all if we were the watchman and we warned him where are we?

421
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Our lives are spared.

422
00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:06,100
We're saved.

423
00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:06,600
Right?

424
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We're doing what we're supposed to do.

425
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:08,200
We did it.

426
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:08,300
We did it.

427
00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:08,700
We did it.

428
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We did it.

429
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We did it.

430
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We did it.

431
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So if he chooses now to sin, if he chooses now to ignore God, he chooses now not to be right then that's on him because we did our part.

432
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We sounded the trumpet.

433
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Right?

434
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Watch out!

435
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Sin will bring death.

436
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Death will send you into hell for eternity.

437
00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:27,500
Right?

438
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We sounded the trumpet.

439
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Now he chooses bad.

440
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It's not on us but let's look at it for a second.

441
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Okay?

442
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So let's say he chooses bad.

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He goes to the left into the pit of fire.

444
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Notice if he goes sliding down the slide into the pit of fire there's a secret door.

445
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Everybody see it?

446
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See the secret door behind the planes?

447
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A little tunnel that goes to the right.

448
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See it?

449
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,000
And then there's a ladder and it goes back up to the shooting spot.

450
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See that?

451
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:56,800
Okay.

452
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Follow along with me.

453
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We were in 10.

454
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Now as for you son of man, say to the house of Israel, thus you have spoken saying,

455
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surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us and we are rotting away in them.

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How then can we survive?

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Say to them, as I live declares the Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked,

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but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.

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Turn back.

460
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Turn back from your evil ways.

461
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Why then will you die, oh house of Israel?

462
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So there they are.

463
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So they went over.

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They chose the bad way.

465
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They went down to the pit.

466
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They found the secret door.

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God said, come on.

468
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Come on.

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Come back.

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Choose.

471
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You don't have to die.

472
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You don't have to stay in there.

473
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You made your way out.

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You don't have to stay down there.

475
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Okay?

476
00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:59,100
And if you'll notice right under the choosing place right there, it says Ezekiel 33 11.

477
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I'm going to read 33 11 again and then we're going to see if we can guess the blanks.

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I'll help a little.

479
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All right.

480
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So Ezekiel 33 11 says, say to them, as I live declares the Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked,

481
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but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.

482
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Turn back.

483
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Turn back from your evil ways.

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First word is I.

485
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The whole thing all one shot like a massive swift stroke on the real portion.

486
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The guy.

487
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I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

488
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Here's the thing.

489
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People always accuse God of being bad.

490
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Don't they?

491
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People say, well, I can't follow a guy who I can't follow a guy who killed all those Palestinian people back in the day.

492
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Right?

493
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I can't follow a guy like God.

494
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,400
Right?

495
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:08,200
That's just bad.

496
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,400
God would commit genocide.

497
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,300
That's just bad.

498
00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:10,800
I can't.

499
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:11,400
I can't follow.

500
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,800
He's bad.

501
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,600
Right?

502
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,400
But God says, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

503
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,100
In fact, he says, I sent people to war.

504
00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:21,600
They went into wickedness.

505
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:27,400
I even made a way out after they went into wickedness to try to bring them back to the choosing place.

506
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,700
God says, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

507
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:36,000
As you follow that arrow down to the left, it says turn.

508
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,900
That is God's response.

509
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:42,500
If you go to God and say, I'm in wickedness, I'm doing what I'm not supposed to be doing.

510
00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:44,900
And God says, stop.

511
00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,200
And you say, I don't want to stop.

512
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,200
And you run away from God.

513
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So God says, come back here.

514
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Come back here.

515
00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:51,300
Turn.

516
00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:51,700
Right?

517
00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:53,400
Do what's right.

518
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,300
And he's going to continue to plead with you to do what's right.

519
00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,800
The secret door isn't available.

520
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,200
But if you don't take it, that's on you.

521
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,200
OK?

522
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,900
Ezekiel 33, 12 is there as well.

523
00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:07,100
All right.

524
00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:08,300
I'll read 33, 12.

525
00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:14,700
It says, and you saw a man say to your fellow citizens, the righteousness of a righteous man

526
00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:19,500
will not deliver him in the day of his transgression.

527
00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,300
OK?

528
00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,600
So something will.

529
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:28,600
And the next word starts with an N. So how about righteousness for the first word?

530
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,400
Righteousness.

531
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,400
A good word for you.

532
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,800
So I-D-H-E-G-O-U-S-N-E-S-S, righteousness.

533
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,900
Will not.

534
00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:41,300
Hang on.

535
00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:42,900
This is getting scary.

536
00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:53,300
Save in the day he commits sin.

537
00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,300
That's a paraphrase, not a literal verse.

538
00:23:55,300 --> 00:24:02,500
The actual verse says, the righteousness of a man, of a righteous man, will not deliver him in the day of his transgression.

539
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:11,700
In other words, if you're the best person on earth, in the day that you're sinned, your best person-ness will not help you at all.

540
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:15,400
You'll still be in a center.

541
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:21,100
I did just want to add something to your math too, because I want to know that you can be the perfect that doesn't indicate that you have sin.

542
00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:21,500
Exactly.

543
00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:23,100
Well, not get the verse.

544
00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:23,800
Right?

545
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,900
Not get the verse.

546
00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:25,600
OK.

547
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,000
And so 33, 12 was, the righteous will not save.

548
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:36,200
Righteousness will not save in the day he continues to sin, or mis-sin, or mis-transgressions, whatever you want to put there.

549
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,900
Third arrow to the right.

550
00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:38,900
The wicked.

551
00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:43,300
So what do you think this is going to say about the wicked?

552
00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:44,100
Right?

553
00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:48,000
So the righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression.

554
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,800
And as for the wickedness of the wicked-

555
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,200
OK, this is interesting-

556
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:58,500
He will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness.

557
00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:06,400
Whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.

558
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,900
So the wicked may turn and follow-

559
00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:13,100
Go ahead.

560
00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:18,000
What's on the page on the easy good that we have?

561
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:26,100
Righteousness will not save in the day he commits sin.

562
00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:27,700
Now we go up to the right.

563
00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:35,300
The wicked may turn and follow God's statutes.

564
00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:39,900
OK.

565
00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:44,900
Let's go a little further and you'll see how this breaks down.

566
00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:51,700
When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity,

567
00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:54,900
none of his righteousness will be remembered.

568
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:59,500
But in that same iniquity of his which he has committed, he will die.

569
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:07,500
But when I say to the wicked he will surely die, and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

570
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:12,700
if a wicked man rescores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery,

571
00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:17,600
walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity,

572
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,400
he will surely live.

573
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,900
He shall not die.

574
00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:22,700
Attention.

575
00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:26,300
So the wicked may turn and follow God's statutes.

576
00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:29,600
That's what goes into the blank. The wicked may turn and follow God's statutes.

577
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,900
And then it goes which ensure life.

578
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:35,800
Now let's stop here for one second.

579
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,700
Because remember the whole born again saying,

580
00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:42,000
was Nicodemus a righteous man?

581
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,200
Based on what we talked about at Wacom SimpleSelf.

582
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,400
Well, yeah.

583
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,400
Not righteous for salvation, but compared to humans in general.

584
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,500
Was he righteous? Yes.

585
00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,300
He was righteous. He mastered two days a week. He studied the Bible.

586
00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:58,000
He memorized the entire book of Genesis.

587
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,700
He preached and taught that people should be Jewish and follow the one true God.

588
00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:06,100
Which is to ensure life.

589
00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,000
Ensure life.

590
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,100
Right?

591
00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:11,000
Oh, yeah.

592
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:11,200
All right.

593
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,600
Well, anyway, so.

594
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,200
So the point is he was a pretty righteous man.

595
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,500
But was he righteous unto salvation?

596
00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:22,700
Did he have no sin?

597
00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:24,800
Was he not wicked?

598
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,300
No, he wasn't. He was a wicked man.

599
00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:30,100
He and who's not?

600
00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:30,800
Right?

601
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,000
The Bible says, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

602
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,400
We don't get out of the pit.

603
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,300
And stay out of the pit because we were righteous.

604
00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:43,800
We get in the pit because we were not righteous.

605
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,600
And then we take the secret door and we go back to the place of choosing.

606
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,800
And that's what salvation provides.

607
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,500
It brings you back to a place of choosing. Is that a question?

608
00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:54,900
You're okay? You need to shut it up.

609
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:55,700
Okay.

610
00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:57,400
But I need you to preach this someday.

611
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,200
Not to consume it someday.

612
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,900
The wicked may turn and follow God's statutes which ensure life.

613
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:04,600
Okay?

614
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,700
And that takes us really down through 15.

615
00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:10,600
And if you'll flip it a little bit to the right, you'll see Ezekiel 33, 15.

616
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,300
It got cut off a little bit by the photocopy there.

617
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:14,100
You can finish it.

618
00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:17,700
So it's easy. 33, 15.

619
00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:27,100
And this is a reminder that statutes, God's statutes, ensure life.

620
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,100
Now let me ask you this question.

621
00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,500
Christian in the room, help me here because this is super important.

622
00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:32,800
Okay?

623
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,800
I know most of you are all here proclaiming you're Christian.

624
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:42,000
If we don't get to heaven by following the rules of the Bible,

625
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:48,700
then how do the rules of the Bible ensure life?

626
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:57,100
Because this has to ensure that we are going to heaven.

627
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:57,400
Alright.

628
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,600
You have to unpack that for me.

629
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:00,100
Right?

630
00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,400
Because if, let's say, let me give you a hypothetical.

631
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,200
So let's say somebody comes to church, heard about Jesus,

632
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,500
and they say, well, I want to go to heaven someday because we're by Jesus.

633
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:08,500
And heaven all sounds good.

634
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:10,000
It sounds better than here, right?

635
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,700
And they left there and said, I'm going to do the right thing from now on.

636
00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:14,800
They paid back their debt.

637
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,000
They started doing everything as right as they knew how.

638
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,500
Now, if you examine their life, you find that they're sinning every single day.

639
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:23,900
Right?

640
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,100
But they think they're doing a really good job.

641
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:28,700
Following all the rules, all the whole test of the commands.

642
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,600
They're not breaking the commandments anymore.

643
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Right?

644
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,000
But they have sin in their life pretty much every day.

645
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,600
So where do they line up?

646
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,400
Do they go to heaven or not?

647
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,100
Not.

648
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,100
Because you have to be born again to go to heaven.

649
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:44,500
Right?

650
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:45,400
That's how you go to heaven.

651
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,200
You're born again through Jesus Christ.

652
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,000
So deciding to do everything right, that is not going to get it.

653
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,800
So, but that's just what it said.

654
00:29:53,800 --> 00:30:00,800
So how does living out those statutes actually ensure what?

655
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,000
I know the answer.

656
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:02,800
Give me a second.

657
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,700
You're grasped.

658
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:08,200
Do you know the answer?

659
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,000
Did Jesus come to abolish the law?

660
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:12,600
No.

661
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,900
What did he come to do?

662
00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:16,800
How many said it, right?

663
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,100
Fulfill the law.

664
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:18,600
Right?

665
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:24,900
So Jesus is the fulfillment of the statutes.

666
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:25,600
Okay?

667
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,600
The statutes ensure life.

668
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:33,500
In fact, you could flip around the other way and say that the statutes were given to point to Jesus.

669
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:37,400
The whole thing, all the Old Testament points to Jesus' sacrifice.

670
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:45,100
So if you come in and you get born again, you begin to follow Jesus, and you then follow the statutes,

671
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:47,800
that's a lot like following Jesus.

672
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,800
Get it right all the time?

673
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:49,600
No.

674
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,500
Because it was quite a bit, almost done when we get there, there's ignorance and so on.

675
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:55,200
So we'll get it right all the time.

676
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:55,400
Right?

677
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,400
You'll make mistakes.

678
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,500
But every time you make mistakes, you already know what the secret door is.

679
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:06,900
Every time you go to the wrong coat rack, choose the wrong way, follow the pit, start to get a little bit of judgment or whatever on you,

680
00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:09,800
you run to the secret door back up to the place of choosing.

681
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,300
No, I chose Jesus.

682
00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:12,800
That's what 1 John is all about.

683
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,000
What are those two things?

684
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,800
The ones on the right are statutes ensure life.

685
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:20,900
Good.

686
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,400
Ezekiel 3.15, you haven't heard about it yet.

687
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,200
Okay?

688
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,900
So then, he goes a little bit further, almost done.

689
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:30,800
Hang with me.

690
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Let me recap just a little bit.

691
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,600
When I say to the righteous, he will surely live and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity,

692
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,300
none of his righteousness will be remembered.

693
00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:42,800
Okay?

694
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,900
So you'll notice there's the slide right here at the right coat rack, you put on the right coat and you're on the slide,

695
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:50,800
you go all the way up and you're headed for the front of the gates.

696
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,700
There it is, head for the front of the gates and then you pass the keep off sign.

697
00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:56,800
See it?

698
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:57,800
Right in the middle of the page.

699
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,100
Between the coat racks and above the ladder.

700
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,800
It says keep out.

701
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,200
That's the one that happened.

702
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,000
33.15.

703
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:07,500
Okay?

704
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:11,800
And then at that, just look at the slide for a minute, follow the slide all the way up around,

705
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,900
you should be up in between the coat rack, there's a sign that says keep out.

706
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:16,100
See it?

707
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:17,600
Notice the ladder?

708
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,800
The ladder goes down, where does it go?

709
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,100
It goes right down to the stand here spot, to the choice spot.

710
00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:25,800
Okay?

711
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:33,600
Or you can follow the sign and keep off the ladder and it goes straight to the pearly gates.

712
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,000
See it?

713
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,100
Follow the pattern, there's the slide, all the way up around,

714
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:43,200
pass the keep out sign, up to the pearly gates.

715
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,700
But if you go to the choice spot, what's back on the table?

716
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,300
If you take the ladder down, follow the slide up to the keep out sign,

717
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:56,100
and you take the ladder back down to the choice spot, now what's back on the table?

718
00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:56,800
Bad.

719
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:57,900
Bad is back on the table.

720
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:02,000
You could choose to go to the left and go down to the pits.

721
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
But, oh good news, secret door, take the secret door back to the choose spot.

722
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,100
I submit to you that some people are living their life this way.

723
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,900
They're living at the choice spot all the time, then they get bored again,

724
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:22,200
they start to go and they arrogantly think I'm righteous now because I received righteousness from Jesus,

725
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,500
so they go back to the choosing spot, they choose to sin, go to hell, go through the secret door,

726
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,000
not literal hell, right?

727
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,400
Go to the badness, go through the secret door, back to the choosing spot,

728
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:37,600
go to the badness, go back to the keep, and they spend their whole life there,

729
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,300
going back and forth between doing what's wrong and what's right.

730
00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:42,700
And sometimes they'll go, you know, I really feel convicted,

731
00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,400
they repent, they turn back to Jesus and he'll take the slide,

732
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,000
and they go all the way up here, and they could just,

733
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,600
their path is set before them, but instead of taking the path,

734
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,300
they get back on the ladder, they climb back down to the choosing spot, right?

735
00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,300
This is that person that keeps the sin in their life,

736
00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:02,400
and they say, well, I'm not going to do it, but they keep access to it, in case I want to do it.

737
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,100
And then somewhere, they have a bad day or whatever, and they do those things again,

738
00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:10,500
which puts them back to the choose, back to the choosing spot to those things again,

739
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:12,700
takes them toward a bad place.

740
00:34:12,700 --> 00:34:15,000
But the bad place has been already taken care of,

741
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,300
because they go to the secret door, they repent, and turn back, they go back to the choosing spot,

742
00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:22,700
and so you can see it in your mind, it's a figure eight.

743
00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:25,600
You follow the slide, you keep off, you keep the ladder back down to the choose spot,

744
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,300
you go into the flames, you come back up to the choosing spot, whatever.

745
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,200
It's like a figure eight, you can do that.

746
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,900
And what does your life feel like sometimes?

747
00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:39,600
Yeah, this is so awesome, this is great, I'm loving God, I got the worship thing going on today.

748
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,400
God is speaking to me, I pray and I hear, and it's been great.

749
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,500
I submit to you, that's when you're on the right-hand side of all the slides,

750
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,500
and you're not on to keep off, keep off.

751
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:54,300
The ladder, you didn't go that way, you stayed on the slide, you're on the road.

752
00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:58,500
And Isaiah says that that's the highway of holiness.

753
00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:02,700
And while you're on the highway of holiness, guess what's not on the highway of holiness?

754
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,300
Demons and evil spirits.

755
00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,300
Because demons and evil spirits cannot come on the highway of holiness.

756
00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,300
Because that road goes straight from wherever you are into heaven,

757
00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:12,400
and it's exactly the size of the gate.

758
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,600
There's only one way in, you follow the road into heaven,

759
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,900
but if you get on the edge and start getting distracted, oh, that's a pretty demon,

760
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:23,200
I like that, or that's a tasteful evil spirit, I want the taste of that.

761
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,400
Right? So you go back to the place of choosing again, you follow the ladder down,

762
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,100
back to the place of choosing, and then you wind up choosing the bad,

763
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,400
because it did look really good, and then you go, oh, that wasn't good at all.

764
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,700
And then you take the secret door, you go back to the place of choosing,

765
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:38,400
and then hopefully you choose the right road, and you go up and around.

766
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,100
You follow my logic?

767
00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:41,100
Okay.

768
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:44,300
So we're all out, we're going back to the right-hand side of the page.

769
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,300
We finish where it says statutes ensure life,

770
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:51,100
it's Tizito 3315, now follow the arrow to the right, and up.

771
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:52,100
Okay?

772
00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:57,600
Our text goes just a little further.

773
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,900
15 was, if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery,

774
00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,800
walks by the statutes to his insured life, without committing iniquity,

775
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,500
unless he doesn't want to sin again, he will surely live, he shall not die.

776
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:16,000
None of these sins that he has committed will be remembered against him.

777
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,300
He has practiced justice and righteousness.

778
00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,300
He will surely live.

779
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:27,300
Yet your fellow citizens say, the way of the Lord is not right,

780
00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:30,900
when it is their own way that is not right.

781
00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:33,600
So they say, what God says we have to do, that's not right.

782
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,800
What we want to do, what we think is right, that's what's right,

783
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,900
not what God says is right, that's like America, right?

784
00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:42,500
A lot of times. And verse 18 says,

785
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:46,300
when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,

786
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:48,900
then he shall die in it.

787
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:53,100
But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness,

788
00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:54,700
he will live by them.

789
00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:58,600
Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not right.

790
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:06,100
O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.

791
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:10,300
Okay, so there it is written for you, the way of the Lord is not right.

792
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:13,600
And then it starts down on this, with I will,

793
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,400
the judge goes up on an angle, I will judge each,

794
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,700
anybody want to finish it?

795
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:28,100
of you according to your ways.

796
00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:33,100
Period.

797
00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:38,100
Now you'll notice there's one kind of key element left on this page that we're going to talk about.

798
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,100
It is right there at that period.

799
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,500
There's a set of arrows that go down towards the middle of the page.

800
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,100
You see them?

801
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,200
There's a period after the word ways, dot, square,

802
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,000
arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, go under the slide,

803
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,300
arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, and there's another period.

804
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:59,500
And you see right in the middle next to the ladder.

805
00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:01,500
Okay?

806
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:06,300
In the choosing place, there are two things based on everything that we read,

807
00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:08,500
that people need to be super careful of.

808
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:13,400
We need to be terribly, terribly aware of how bad these things are.

809
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:18,900
And they are the arrogance of the righteous, that's the first thing.

810
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:21,500
Because what was the problem?

811
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:27,900
The problem is the righteous, he says, because of my righteousness, I'll be fine.

812
00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:31,900
And he slips into transgressions.

813
00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:34,500
So he's arrogant.

814
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:36,200
He says, I'm good.

815
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,100
I'm a good man.

816
00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,400
I'm better than others.

817
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,700
I do a better job.

818
00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:42,200
I work harder.

819
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,300
I work harder for my money.

820
00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,200
I take care of my money.

821
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,400
I take care of my kids.

822
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,500
I take care of my house.

823
00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:48,700
I always tell the truth.

824
00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:50,900
I mean, add on, add on the list.

825
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:56,700
So that arrogant, righteous man says, I'm going to be fine.

826
00:38:56,700 --> 00:39:01,200
And then does something that he or she is not supposed to do.

827
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,900
Because they think they're going to be fine, because the righteousness that they see in

828
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:07,800
themselves, which really is a gift from God, right?

829
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,000
They think that's going to take care of them.

830
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,000
And I've sat when I can't tell you the number of Christians who say, it's OK.

831
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,300
God's going to forgive me.

832
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:22,500
I can do whatever I want to do now, because God's going to forgive me.

833
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,100
And all things are permissible.

834
00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:26,800
I understand that, but not all things are profitable.

835
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,900
And Paul also goes on to say, I will be mastered by none.

836
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:37,300
So when you do things, and you willfully do something that's sinful, it's sticky.

837
00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:38,800
It ties you up.

838
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,100
It takes you where you don't want to go.

839
00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:44,500
And it at least puts you back at the choosing place.

840
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:47,100
And then from there, you're back in place.

841
00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,900
And then you take the secret door again, you're smart, you repent, and you're back.

842
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:53,400
But guess what actually happens?

843
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,600
People go to the choosing place.

844
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,000
They suddenly choose Jesus.

845
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,100
But then they get distracted by lustful temptation, whatever, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh,

846
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:06,300
pride of life, so that they slip into sin.

847
00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:08,000
They go down here.

848
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,500
And because they're tired of going back to righteousness, and trying to live for the Lord,

849
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:18,300
and failing, and whatever, and they think they're, they say, oh, I was righteous.

850
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,100
I did claim the name of Jesus.

851
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:21,100
I am a Christian.

852
00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:22,500
I'm going to be fine.

853
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:26,000
And they don't take the secret door.

854
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,900
And if they don't take the secret door, they were never actually saved in the first place.

855
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:32,900
They were just playing a game.

856
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,900
They were never born again.

857
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:38,600
A born again believer doesn't continue to take the choice of sin.

858
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,900
John says that a Christian will not continue to sin.

859
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:43,100
We're not going to continue in sin.

860
00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:44,500
We don't practice sin.

861
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:46,400
We don't keep doing those things.

862
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,900
Because if you keep going down there, eventually you're going to not come out of it.

863
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:53,400
You're going to go to a dark place, and you're going to stay there.

864
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,000
Because in some sense, you want to be there.

865
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,200
Or you wouldn't keep going there.

866
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,400
And so the arrogance of the righteous is the first one you have to be super cautious of.

867
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,500
So this is what I was saying to you.

868
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:10,400
If you're a follower of Jesus, never, ever, ever say, okay, I'm a follower of Jesus.

869
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,600
So I'm just going to sin now, and Jesus is going to forget it.

870
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,700
That is arrogance.

871
00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:18,200
It is supreme arrogance.

872
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,800
If you can say of Jesus, the one who spent his blood on the cross for you,

873
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:28,100
after he got whipped, after he barely carried the cross, hung up there suffocating,

874
00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:30,200
his back muscles were ground to open.

875
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,000
So every time he pushed him up so he could escape, take another breath,

876
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,800
the muscles and sinews in his back were ripping more every time he did that.

877
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,400
After what he went through, you could say, oh, he'll forgive it.

878
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,400
You have a problem.

879
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,600
You're arrogant.

880
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:45,700
Don't do that.

881
00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:49,600
So anytime you're at a moment and say, well, I can sin or I can not sin,

882
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,700
choose to not sin.

883
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,000
Right? Choose to not do it in a spiral.

884
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,800
Don't count on knowing the secret door and the way out again

885
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,800
because it's still messy in between there and there.

886
00:41:58,800 --> 00:41:59,800
It's still hot.

887
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,500
It still sucks.

888
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:02,700
Right?

889
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:07,200
The second one that you very warmed up in there is the ignorance of the wicked.

890
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:13,100
Why is the watchman culpable if he doesn't cry out?

891
00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:16,300
Because the wicked are ignorant sometimes.

892
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:19,600
They need to be told that the actions that they are engaging in

893
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,500
will take them to a place that they don't want to be.

894
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:23,800
Some of them are ignorant.

895
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,100
Now, if they're told and they're no longer ignorant

896
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:32,100
and they still choose to do what's wrong, then that's not on us.

897
00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:32,900
Right?

898
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:37,400
But if they're not told because Christians are plant-mouthed shut,

899
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,300
then we're culpable for their descent into dark places that eventually help.

900
00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:45,000
It says they will die in their iniquity.

901
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
It's still their fault that they die.

902
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:47,500
Right?

903
00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:52,000
But it's our fault that we didn't do what we could do to try to prevent it.

904
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,400
Even though you might not be able to prevent it.

905
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:55,100
Right?

906
00:42:55,100 --> 00:42:55,900
You might not be able to do it.

907
00:42:55,900 --> 00:42:56,800
So why am I going to touch it?

908
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,400
Because it's just going to get sloppy, messy.

909
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,500
It's going to be frustrating.

910
00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:00,800
It may not work.

911
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,600
But it also might.

912
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,800
I've had people that came at me who were so angry and yelling at me

913
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,100
and by the time we were done, they accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

914
00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:13,400
I've also had Christians who were claiming the name of Jesus come at me,

915
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,400
so angry at me, and by the time we were done, all they did was storm off and left.

916
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,700
And they didn't stop being angry.

917
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:20,200
Okay?

918
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:27,700
So the arrogance of the righteous and the ignorance of the wicked are something to be really, really careful of.

919
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,900
The arrogance and the wicked both have this,

920
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:37,400
that the person in question may refuse to do the right thing.

921
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,600
They may refuse to warn.

922
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:40,700
That would be sin.

923
00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:44,800
They may refuse to tell the truth.

924
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,300
They may refuse to worship when it's uncomfortable, or soar when it's uncomfortable,

925
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:53,600
or give more because it affects them somehow or whatever.

926
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:58,300
But also, in their arrogance or their ignorance,

927
00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:03,900
they both would be refusing, failing to warn those who might be saved.

928
00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:09,200
So God's full purpose for us is that we would find our way to the place of choosing,

929
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,500
because a lot of people are ignorant.

930
00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:12,400
They get there and are ignorant.

931
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,700
They just don't know that they have an option.

932
00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:18,900
Then we would take the option that takes us to a road of righteousness,

933
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:23,200
follow the slide, and stay off the ladder that you don't belong on.

934
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,600
Just do the best you know how to do every single day,

935
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:33,200
and that includes warning people that there is a very dangerous outcome on the other road.

936
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,500
I don't think you can tell people what hell is like.

937
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,200
You can't.

938
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,800
They may kind of use some metaphorical language or whatever,

939
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,500
but the bottom line is it's bad.

940
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,000
It's very, very bad.

941
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,100
It's not a place to enter, but whoever actually wanted to go, if they could visit it,

942
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:50,400
they would never, ever want to go there again.

943
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,500
But they can't.

944
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:54,700
They have to choose the right thing to use that brings God,

945
00:44:54,700 --> 00:45:00,400
because of who He is and because of what their relationship with Him is meant to be like.

946
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,000
Okay?

947
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,200
And then we follow.

948
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,900
How do we stay on that road once we get on there?

949
00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:10,400
Do your best to follow the statutes they insure life.

950
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,500
They're a painting or a picture of the Messiah who would come of who Jesus is.

951
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:16,200
Okay?

952
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,200
Any questions?

953
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,700
I have a couple questions and some candy.

954
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:24,500
Anybody else got questions?

955
00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:26,700
Yes, about what?

956
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:28,800
About the 13?

957
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,000
13, very good.

958
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,100
33, 15.

959
00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:31,900
Statutes.

960
00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:35,900
Statutes insure life.

961
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:37,200
I'm sorry, I was here.

962
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,900
Yeah.

963
00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:41,700
So if you're on the bottom, it says statutes which insure life,

964
00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:45,600
and then I go right up, turn up the right, it says statutes insure life.

965
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,100
Pretty good.

966
00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:49,400
Everybody else get everything?

967
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,300
You get it?

968
00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:51,000
Okay, here we go.

969
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,200
We're going to do a shot.

970
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,000
Very, very easy one to start with.

971
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,600
Raise your hand right now if you want the easy question of all.

972
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:00,200
That's all.

973
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:08,100
Okay, so Hailey, if I am the watchman, what am I supposed to do?

974
00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:09,500
What do I do?

975
00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:11,100
Sound the horn for me.

976
00:46:11,100 --> 00:46:15,100
I'll get some.

977
00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:17,100
She bailed out at the last second.

978
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:19,100
She's like, oh no, please hold them.

979
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:24,300
And she gets open.

980
00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:26,100
You got to commit.

981
00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:28,100
Okay.

982
00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:30,900
I have one really cool silver chocolate left.

983
00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:31,900
I'll put that in this one.

984
00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:33,900
And one size.

985
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:36,900
We have four different kinds of candy, including two different kinds of chocolates.

986
00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:39,900
Who wants the hardest question of all?

987
00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:41,900
Hailey's waiting for that one too.

988
00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:42,900
Okay, Jason, I'm going to get with you.

989
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:43,900
All right, here we go.

990
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:44,900
All right.

991
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:47,900
So the question is, I don't know, this is the hardest one I'm going to ask.

992
00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:49,900
I don't know that it's that hard.

993
00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:52,900
Okay.

994
00:46:52,900 --> 00:47:05,900
We said that this story, the first part of the first six verses was an analogy, which

995
00:47:05,900 --> 00:47:07,900
means it's a story that teaches a lesson.

996
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:08,900
Okay.

997
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:11,900
What was the lesson that it was teaching us?

998
00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:14,900
What was the part?

999
00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:25,900
This is, like, if you do different things in your life, it'll have different consequences.

1000
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:27,900
Yeah, that's the start.

1001
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:33,900
Different people doing different things, each person's going to have their own consequences.

1002
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:35,900
That's how we end it.

1003
00:47:35,900 --> 00:47:37,900
That is the overall of the passage.

1004
00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:44,900
What does it say about a sword and a watchman in the verse that goes?

1005
00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:55,900
If the watchman sees the sword and pulls the trumpet and wants to say, then the blood

1006
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:01,900
of the man that is taken falls on the man with the sword.

1007
00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:02,900
Okay, drop off the sword.

1008
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:07,900
Drop off the sword falls on the man who did not and the sword pulls the trumpet.

1009
00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,900
The job is going to just snap it up.

1010
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:11,900
Okay, here we go.

1011
00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:12,900
One last one.

1012
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:14,900
I've got to buy some variety of candy for next time.

1013
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,900
I'm going to have a good variety of candy.

1014
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:19,900
What happened on the sword and the trumpet though?

1015
00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:21,900
And the next one is the front part, and the star verse.

1016
00:48:21,900 --> 00:48:22,900
Okay, good.

1017
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:26,900
All right.

1018
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:31,900
Okay, on this page, Natalie, are you ready?

1019
00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:32,900
Okay, all right.

1020
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:34,900
I'll give you my best shot.

1021
00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:40,900
On this page, what does the pillow represent?

1022
00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:42,900
What do you think?

1023
00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:43,900
Sit.

1024
00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:44,900
Phone a friend.

1025
00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:48,900
Put salt in the audience.

1026
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:50,900
Not feeling good.

1027
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:52,900
You need to get the wall.

1028
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:55,900
Okay, who's sleeping?

1029
00:48:55,900 --> 00:48:56,900
Yes.

1030
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:57,900
Great.

1031
00:48:57,900 --> 00:49:04,900
All right, so we're going to be done at this time.

1032
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:05,900
Thank you very much.

1033
00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:06,900
I hope you appreciate that.

1034
00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:07,900
You blessed my heart.

1035
00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:10,900
I almost became our son for Sunday, but I really blessed my heart.

1036
00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:15,900
And remember that ultimately, if you're truly born again, you're safe.

1037
00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:16,900
Right?

1038
00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:17,900
That's the key, be born again.

1039
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:21,900
But if you're truly born again and you don't want to keep making those bad decisions, you're

1040
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:25,900
trying to follow the highway fullness to one eternal station, right?

1041
00:49:25,900 --> 00:49:27,900
Which is prepared for you, Jesus Christ.

1042
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,900
And so follow the statutes of the Lord.

1043
00:49:30,900 --> 00:49:32,900
Don't break the law of God.

1044
00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:37,900
And also, I would say be a loyal watchman and alert watchman.

1045
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:41,900
And when I'm not saying walk on television what they're doing wrong, they don't even

1046
00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:42,900
need to know.

1047
00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:48,900
But you can tell people when people do something wrong, what the sad result of that is and

1048
00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:50,900
how to overcome that problem, which is Jesus Christ.

1049
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:51,900
Okay, you with me, guys?

1050
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:52,900
All right, perfect.

1051
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:55,900
Perfect, perfect, perfect.

1052
00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:57,900
We'll talk in the next period.

1053
00:49:57,900 --> 00:50:00,900
Father, thank you so much for this message from your prophet, Ezekiel.

1054
00:50:00,900 --> 00:50:06,900
It really is from you, because you told him what he had to do, what he had to say.

1055
00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:09,900
And I think that that means you'd better listen.

1056
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:12,900
Because when God says it, they support it.

1057
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:16,900
And you said, so we're listening, God, that we would be a watchman for our families, for

1058
00:50:16,900 --> 00:50:21,900
our friends, for people, and anybody who will listen, because you have to remember that

1059
00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:22,900
you're not elected by the people.

1060
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:26,900
So if you go to a perfect stranger and they're doing something stupid, doing something sinful,

1061
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:28,900
and they say, hey, you're a sin.

1062
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:33,900
And the road that that hit, sin, it takes you down, is a road to hell.

1063
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:35,900
You don't want to sin like that and go to hell.

1064
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:38,900
And some of them that doesn't know us, that would be foolish.

1065
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:43,900
But if these verses are about people who would listen to us, people who would look to us,

1066
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:48,900
and if there's anybody like that in our lives, then we have a responsibility to chime in,

1067
00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:53,900
a responsibility to stand up, a responsibility to vote for Trumpet, and say that there is

1068
00:50:53,900 --> 00:50:58,900
a life, lived in Jesus, that is in a place, that we want to be, and it's due all the way

1069
00:50:58,900 --> 00:50:59,900
there.

1070
00:50:59,900 --> 00:51:05,900
We can stay off the ladder and not take it back down to the human place.

1071
00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:11,900
We can stay completely out of the dark place, completely out of the fire, completely out

1072
00:51:11,900 --> 00:51:12,900
of the path.

1073
00:51:12,900 --> 00:51:15,900
Lord, help us stand up and keep that word off our hands.

1074
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:18,900
Amen.

1075
00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:19,900
Thank you very much.

1076
00:51:19,900 --> 00:51:46,900
Sweet's on the table.