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In the night of the world you step down into darkness

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Open my eyes, let me see

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You need that faith, this heart adores You

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Oh, what a life between you

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Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down

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Here I am to say that You're my God

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We're all together laughing, all together running

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All together wonderful to me

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King of all days, oh so highly exalted

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Glorious in glory, one of a kind

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Finally You came to the earth of creation, all for the sake of became one

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And here I am to worship, here I am to bow down

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Here I am to say that You're my God

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We're all together laughing, all together running

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It won't be too hard to follow and the verses will be on the screen up above me as we go, hopefully. That's kind of the plan.

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Okay? And I had forgotten to turn my microphone on, but it is on now. Alright.

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So the text for today is Psalm 78. If you'll look up on the screen, you see the beginning of it.

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Okay? So if it says, listen, oh my people, to my instruction, who do you think is speaking?

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Chris? If the Bible says, listen, oh my people, to my instruction, who do you think is talking?

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Sunday School answer. The Bible says, listen to my teaching, who do you think might be talking?

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It's God, that's correct. Okay? So a lot of times, the psalmist or the prophets will speak as if God is speaking.

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Okay? And we get that in some of our songs that we sing. So you hear songs that are written from God's perspective.

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Okay? And so this first part of this is written from God's perspective.

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So if you'll look under the word parables, you'll see it says 78, 1 to 8. I bet you know what goes in that blank already.

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Psalm is correct. Is it Psalm or Psalms? What do you think?

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Okay, yeah. So we don't usually put an S on the end of it. Even though the book is full of Psalms, and oftentimes we call it the book of Psalms,

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each one is a Psalm. And so when we talk about one, we say this is Psalm 78, 1 to 8.

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Just like you might say chapter 78, but it's not chapters in the book of Psalms, really. Okay?

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The book is Psalms, but each one is a Psalm. So you could put either way, but if you do, you better know what you mean.

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All right? And then the next part you could probably guess as well, right under that.

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Listen to God. Simple. All right? It said, listen, O my people, to my instruction, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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So God is entreating God's people to listen to him. And is that not something that we should do?

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Always. If God speaks, you listen. All right? And then you've got an arrow down and it goes through the megaphone.

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And now as we go through these next verses, we're going to begin to see what's God's purpose, right?

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But listen for why it's related to parables. So it says, listen, O my people, to my instruction, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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Now verse two, I will open my mouth in a parable. Okay? That's what we've been studying.

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Now, this is not the word parable, because it's in Hebrew. Okay? But it has basically identical meaning.

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I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old. And you remember we said parables includes dark sayings.

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And we studied that at length and concluded how we knew that includes the dark sayings. Okay?

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Right now we're in verse three. Okay. Yep. Good. Awesome. Verse three says, which we have heard and known.

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Notice that they could say that they have heard the stories, the parables and the dark sayings of old and that they knew them.

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Okay? Would you say that about you? Have you heard the teachings of the Bible? Do you know the teachings of the Bible?

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Okay. That's kind of the goal. Right? So you say this, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us.

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Verse four. So now we realize it's not God speaking anymore. Right? We switched over to the psalmist is speaking.

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Now in verse four, it says, we will not conceal them from our children. We will not conceal them from our children,

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but tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wondrous works. Okay?

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So if you'll look right there, I know where it says verse four, this was verse four.

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We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wondrous works.

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So what do you think those words are? P, S and W. Perfect. Well, wonders or works, either one.

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Praises, strength and wonders or works. I think it's works because it's wondrous works.

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But if you, what is a wondrous work? It's a wonder. So I think you'd be fine. Okay.

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Praises, strength, works. Okay. Then now we're down to verse five.

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For he established a testimony in Jacob. So you see the E.T. What does it mean to establish something?

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In your own words, what does it mean to establish something? Have you ever established anything?

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Yes, you have. So what does it mean to establish something?

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Okay, kind of say it again. Say again. Yeah, that's generically to create it or to begin.

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But there's something about it. Look at the middle of the word. S-T-A-B-L-E or S-T-A-B-L.

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Well, if something is stable. Yeah, well, yeah, create it with a firm foundation or to continue.

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Create it to continue. All right. So for example, if you just said hi, you don't really establish anything.

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Now, if you said hi to somebody five or six times, then now you've established a trend of saying hi to them, greeting them like that.

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If you say, hi, hey, I'm Dan. I just want to come over and meet you because I really appreciate what you did.

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Now, you've established a rapport. You've talked to the person. You've begun to build a relationship.

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Right. So there's a little bit more to it than just starting something out.

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It's starting it out in a way that it is firm. And what did God do? He established a testimony in Jacob.

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Jacob is called Israel, right, later in life. And so it's talking about in God's people.

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For he established a testimony in Jacob and then appointed a law in Israel.

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That's my quill pen there, my fancy old pen. Okay. And right next to you, you'll see where it starts with A.

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That's appointed. Appointed has two P's. A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-D. Appointed a law.

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So he established a testimony and appointed a law. Notice those adjectives are those, I guess those are verbs, right?

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Yeah, those verbs are specifically chosen. When you establish something, you start it out to make it solid, right?

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When you appoint something, you choose it. You point it out, make it clear that that's the thing.

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But why did, what about, did he establish the law? Did God establish the law?

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Not really. The law is what's right. God made it words. He showed us the difference.

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So he put it in words that people could understand. He clarified it, if you will.

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Or in this case, you could say he appointed it. He chose it from others.

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For example, in the ancient world, there were laws like Hammurabi's Code, which said an eye for an eye and so on.

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If you stole, then Hammurabi's Code said you'd get your hand cut off.

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If you took a candy bar to the grocery store, they'd take your hand off.

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Right? That was, it's very, very harsh code. But that's not the code that God chose.

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Okay? He appointed a law and laid it out for them.

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Okay, now you're following the arrow to the left, to the pillar there.

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Okay, and I'll go back up to the top of verse five.

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For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers.

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You can see that fits in there nicely. Which he commanded our fathers.

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That they should teach them to their children.

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And I wrote that part in there for you. Teach to the children.

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Then follow the long arrow around to the left. Okay?

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So the whole of verse five said, for he, that's God, established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel,

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which he commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their children.

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That the generation to come might know even the children yet to be born.

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Okay, so you've got F, G, K. What do you think Alex?

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Future generations.

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Yes, you're not Alex, but okay. Future generations.

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What's the K now?

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Nope, not kids.

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No. Right, it's know and tell or teach. Either one. Right?

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Future generations know and teach. They were supposed to deliver this down.

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But remember, not the present generation. That's not the target or the goal.

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Our parents were teaching us, if they were, and our spiritual parents, the people who teach us now,

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like me, as I'm sharing with you today, right, are showing that so that the future generations can get it.

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This Bible, hopefully will survive. It's pretty solid.

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It's got a nice leather cover starting to come apart on the cover here.

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My original preaching Bible that I used back in the early days is gray.

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I still have it. You look in it and the words are pretty faded.

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I wrote in it in a lot and pen and underlined a lot of stuff.

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It wouldn't be super convenient to read it because it's got a lot of stuff in it.

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Some Post-it notes in there and stuff like that. But it's still there.

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But in three or four generations, these are not going to be great.

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They're going to be yellowed or whatever. But the Word of God never dulls.

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So God doesn't store the Word of God in books.

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I know we think that in America, we've been trained that if you want to know about God,

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you go to your Bible and read, right? That's what we've been trained.

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But God is not contained in this book. And everything that is to be known about God is not contained in this book.

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Now, that's almost heresy in certain circles.

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I have a friend of mine who believes you can't know or hear anything about God unless you get it from the Word of God.

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Is the Word of God complete? Yes. Does it point to and help?

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And you're going to see this before we're done very clearly. So don't label me a heretic yet.

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But does the Word of God point to everything that we need to know about God?

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Yes. So it points to it, but it's not going to give you everything.

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If it were true that the Word of God is giving you everything,

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then why would we need to listen to God or to God's instruction?

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You could argue and say, well, because He's what's going to explain the written Word of God to us.

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But then that ties God to the written Word of God. And even though He inspired this, this is not Him.

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He is a being, a person with far more depth and reality than can be contained in written Word.

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So future generations are to know and teach it. And then the reason why is given.

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So we're as far as verse 6, that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,

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that they may arise and tell them to their children.

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So it's generation after generation after generation. Parents are key to making sure their kids.

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So now we've got this massive thing that's going on all over the world now,

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where parents aren't teaching their kids anything spiritual.

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They say, well, I'm going to let my kids make up their own mind.

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And they either teach them a lot of different things and let them choose,

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or they teach them nothing and let them encounter, both of which are wrong.

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Parents are supposed to teach their children what's right.

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And then those children are supposed to absorb it.

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And as children, and I think we struggle with this a lot as teenagers,

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because we think we start to know, right?

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But as teenagers, you have a responsibility to digest even more of what your parents are handing down to you.

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Now, if your parents are wrong, then you have to get it from God.

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But you can't get it from the world, and the world is very ready to give it to you.

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So it says that the generation to come might know even the children yet to be born,

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that they may arise and tell them to their children.

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Then verse 7, that they should put their confidence in God.

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Okay, so that, and the C is confidence and not forget.

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Close.

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I mean, you could put that there, but that's not exactly what the text says.

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So we'll follow the text.

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Okay, the works of God. That's right.

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So they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God.

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It's also why earlier when we said wondrous works, works, works better,

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because what he's really talking about is the works.

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Now, I ask you, are all of the works of God contained in this book?

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No, they're not.

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God does, now, there may be a narrative summary.

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For example, Psalm 139.

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Does anybody know what Psalm 139 says about people?

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Without looking it up.

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From memory, Psalm 139.

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It's a great work of God.

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It says that you were woven together in your mother's womb.

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It does not say RJ, or Chris, but it does say that God did that work.

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So there is a work summary, right?

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So it says that God, it's a summary.

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God wove everybody together in the womb of their mother.

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Everybody, he did that for everybody.

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He selected it.

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In Acts 17, it says that God set all the boundaries of our habitation.

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In other words, he created the place that you live, the way things work,

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how far you'll go.

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When you take a vacation, God determines where you're going to take that vacation

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and what you're going to learn while you're there, right?

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God has that all in plan to make you into the person he's trying to make you into.

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That's Acts 17.

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But does it say anything about Caleb went to Michigan or Natalie went to Indiana?

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No, it doesn't say that.

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So not all the works of God are contained in the book.

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So then what do we really not want them to forget?

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The works of God, right?

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Not just what's contained in the book, although there's a lot here.

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And you could spend a whole lifetime learning what's here.

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And having learned some of it, you'll be a lot better off, right?

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And applying all of it, you'd be, the more you apply, the better off you'll be.

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But it really is, you have confidence and not forget the works of God,

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which are considerably more than what's written here.

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So people go like, oh man, I wish I could study my Bible.

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You're coming super far short of the target.

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If you're not even studying the Bible, you're missing the whole boatload.

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It's like grabbing a burger from McDonald's when God's offering you a lifetime of steaks.

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And you're going, I can't even bring myself to read the Bible.

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I'm not memorizing it, knowing the stories or whatever.

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I keep forgetting things.

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And God's going, I've got something bigger for you.

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You're the repository of my works.

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So that future generations will receive it.

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Okay?

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Now if you'll see, next to the chest, there's a little two.

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And so you're going to squirt all the way over to the page on the left,

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where there's another little two.

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So you're going from two over to two.

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So after works of God, there's a little two.

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And over on the left, before the butt, there's a two.

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Excuse me. Yes, sir?

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Is that knowing His command?

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It's close. It is His commands.

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It is keeping, yes. So between you and your dad, you got it.

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All right? And so it says in verse 7,

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that they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God,

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but keep His commands.

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Now when you keep something, follow me.

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Think about it for a second.

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When you keep something, that's more than just honoring it or obeying it or following it.

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You understand? We always say, keep God's commands.

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He keeps the commands of my Father in heaven.

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And we take that to mean just, we do what we're told.

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Did you do in keeping with what your parents told you to do?

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But it means more than that.

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It means that you received and it's still there.

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You still have it.

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So dad says, I want you to go do this, and you go and do it.

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I'll give you a perfect example.

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Let's say you're going to do the grocery shopping for your family for the week.

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Mom and dad give you $150.

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And they give you a grocery list just for one week.

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It's not a lot of money, but it's enough.

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And they give you a grocery list.

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And on the list, it's enough.

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It's going to cost you about $140.

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Now if you go to the store and you spend under the $150 and get everything that's on the list,

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did you shop in keeping with the direction of your parents?

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Yes, you did, right? That was right.

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You did what they asked you to do.

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You bought the stuff they asked you to do.

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You got everything that was on the list.

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Man, that's a win, right?

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Now, if you take the grocery list and you throw it away,

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and then the next week comes and your dad says to you,

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hey, here's $150, go do the grocery shopping for the week.

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And you're like, well, what do I get?

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And he says, well, I already gave you a list.

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And you're like, oh, I threw that list away.

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That was last week's list.

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And well, that last week's list is the same as this week's list.

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You need that list.

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I don't have another copy of that list.

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I gave you my copy of that list.

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So you're telling me you want me to go back and make another copy of the list and give it to you.

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So now, did you do in keeping with what your dad asked you to do in the first place?

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No.

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Now, let's say you can remember 60% of what was on the list.

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You sit down with a piece of paper and go, I'm sorry, dad, I didn't mean to throw that away.

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You start writing it down and you get 60% of it.

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Six out of 10 items you get on the list, about $100 worth.

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And you don't know what to do with the rest of it.

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And you go back to your dad and you say, dad, I don't know the rest.

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It's all, there's this, this, and this.

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Now you're at 90% of the list.

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If you go to the store and you spend $125, not the $150, $145, whatever, the week before,

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about $125, and you buy everything that's on the new list,

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it's only now 90% of the total length, did you do in keeping with what your dad asked you to do?

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Well, not completely, right?

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Not totally because you lost the original list, you don't remember the original list,

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you're not shopping according to the original list, and that's what he wanted you to do.

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So that's where we are with God.

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God wants you to keep His commandments.

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So when God says, thou shalt not commit adultery,

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and then Jesus helps us realize later that lusting after another person is the same as committing adultery,

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you're supposed to remember that.

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And then as you go about throughout your life and opportunities arise to commit adultery,

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you're not supposed to do it because God told you that.

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That's what it means in James when it says that he who hears the words but doesn't do them

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is like a man who looks in the mirror and then forgets what he looks like.

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Because you now have the direction that you've been given by God,

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you're not only supposed to follow it but you're supposed to retain it.

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In fact, based on what we're seeing here, which part is more important,

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the following it or the retaining it, based on what we're reading today, which is more important,

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keeping His commands in the fact that you keep them inside you or keeping His commands,

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in fact, you do what you're told?

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Which one's more important? Say again?

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One is definitely based on these verses more important, which one is it?

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How many lives will you live?

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One.

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How many lives will your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, your great-great-grandchildren

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and your great-great-great-grandchildren live?

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Dozens at least. One each, right?

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So how many lives are on the line in you retaining the Word of God

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and delivering it to the next generation?

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All of those.

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He's saying we are a repository for His Word and we must deliver it.

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Now, your kids will have a harder time following it if you just retain it and teach it to them,

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but you're a hypocrite about it and you don't do it yourself.

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That will be worse and that's how generational sin is created.

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Generational sin, people always call that like it's an evil spirit, like a demon fostering generational sin.

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But the truth is generational sin is when one generation forgets some portion of God's Word,

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they either don't follow it or they don't teach it or both,

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and then the next generation, in ignorance many times, does what they saw their parents do

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or their grandparents or they don't have an example in a certain area

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because their parents didn't encounter it and didn't teach it,

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so then they do whatever they think they should do, right?

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And then it happens again in the next generation until somebody goes back to the author of the Word,

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looks at the actual works of God and says, okay, I'm going to retain the Word of God.

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I'm going to receive it from God and in my church, in my teaching and preaching and studies and prayer,

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I'm going to get it and then I'm going to keep it, not just I'm going to say it to my kids,

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but I'm going to live it myself and then I'm going to retain it in me.

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Because remember the grocery list?

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If your dad really wants you to shop the same the next week when you go back to him and say,

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I threw the list away, if it's your human dad, he says, no problem, here's another copy, right?

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Because he wants you to shop the list, he's going to give you the list and then you can shop it.

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But if you do that to your kids and you say, I want you to don't commit adultery

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and then like five years later, they're living their lives and getting close to committing adultery

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or maybe they are committing adultery and you don't say anything about it,

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you don't go back to the Word of God, you don't go back to what God taught you,

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you just sweep it under the rug and ignore it, whatever, your grandkids are not going to get it.

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Maybe they'll get it from you and your kids won't, but your great grandkids probably won't get it from you

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because you'll either be too old or dead and gone with God, right?

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So you've got to pass it on to the next generation. That's what your purpose is.

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We follow, we keep his commands, not just in following them, but also in absorbing them

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and then re-delivering them in teaching, okay?

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Alright, so we're going straight down from there and you see the big bag and it says, don't be, alright?

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So now this is the why all of this has to happen in the text, that's what it's talking about.

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So verse 6 said that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,

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that they may arise and tell them to their children.

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Verse 7 says that they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God,

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but keep his commandments and we talked about the two, the broad reaching definition of keep in that case.

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Verse 8, and not be like their fathers.

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So you went over to the right, you'll see like their, so it's between the bag and the chest, like their fathers, right?

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A stubborn and rebellious generation.

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The S is stubborn, the R is rebellious.

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As I said, we're getting through the worksheet pretty quick, so we've got an activity we're going to do that's going to take a minute.

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Okay?

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And then it says, a generation that did not, and I've written this out for you, but you have to fill in the blanks,

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a generation that did not prepare its heart.

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A generation that did not prepare its heart.

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There's no apostrophe in its.

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If you put an apostrophe in its, that's it is.

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It's not it is heart, it's its heart.

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So that it does not have an apostrophe.

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I thought it was just like they are and they are there.

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Nope.

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A generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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Okay?

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That's our verses for the day.

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Now let me ask you this question.

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What is it that we're supposed to remember?

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What is it that is being put in us so that we can deliver it to the next generation and the next generation and so on so it can be passed down generation to generation?

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What is it based on the first eight verses of Psalm 78?

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What is it that we're supposed to be able to pass on?

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Anybody got an answer for that?

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Okay, you could do the stories.

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What are the stories?

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What do they tell us?

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What do they teach us?

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Here's an example.

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Does anybody know the story of Nicodemus?

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John chapter 3.

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Jesus comes in the middle of the night to talk to Nicodemus.

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Know this story?

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It's one of my favorite chapters of the Bible.

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I'll start the first verse and somebody finish the first verse.

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Ready?

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Now there was a man of the Pharisees named...

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Keep going.

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Why doesn't anybody know it?

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Say it again.

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You got part of it.

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It reads, now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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That's the first verse.

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Why doesn't anybody know the first verse word for word?

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Does anybody know who Nicodemus was?

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He was a ruler of the Jews.

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Right?

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So now you know it's in the first verse.

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So you're going to do it now, probably in the future.

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You probably never forget that again.

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But the point is you have to be able to tell the story of Nicodemus.

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Understand?

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You have to be able to tell the story.

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What happened?

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What did Jesus do?

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What did God do?

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What was the work of God that Jesus was talking about?

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A work of God that must happen in order for you to be saved.

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By the way, what was the work of God that Jesus said must happen in order for you to be saved or see the Kingdom of God?

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It is to be born again.

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If you are not born again, you don't get to go to heaven.

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You don't get to see the Kingdom of God on earth.

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You don't get to be a Christian.

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You're not invited into the family of God where you're invited.

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But you're not accepting the invitation.

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Right?

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So you must be born again.

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Nicodemus was a very holy guy.

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And he thought he had it all together because he fasted two days a week.

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He memorized whole books of the Bible.

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And he was a renowned preacher, summoned all over the place for preaching.

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Jesus said unless you're born again, you will not see the Kingdom of God.

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So that's a work of God.

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And we have to know that story so that when we're talking to somebody, we can explain to them they need that work of God.

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Now there might be other places in the Bible that you could do that.

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Alright?

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So I'm going to...I've listed some examples here.

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And if the Lord so leads, I might name another one.

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I'm going to need you to be a little bit outspoken so we can get there.

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And I have candy.

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And we can do that.

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But I need you to do it.

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So somebody tell me.

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This is in your own words.

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Don't look it up right now.

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Somebody tell me the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho.

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Classic.

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One of the most classic Bible stories there is.

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Lots of people know it.

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Go ahead, RJ.

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That's the one we were trying to get to the promise line, right?

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Yep.

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They had to get in the promised land.

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And then they were told not to invade the city until they marched around it for so many days.

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Yep.

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And then on the last day they weren't supposed to make a noise while they marched around.

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And then they went out loud crying.

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The walls fell.

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Okay, good.

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Alright, so now tell me.

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Here's where it gets tough.

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Tell me what are the works of God in that story?

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Give me one.

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The fact that the walls fell.

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Okay, so God tore down the walls of Jericho.

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That's super important because the walls of Jericho were huge.

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Jericho was the biggest city in the region.

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Basically, you couldn't conquer the region unless you conquered Jericho.

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And nobody could conquer Jericho because the walls were so big and so large that wagons could drive and pass opposite each other on the top of the wall.

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You couldn't knock it down with a siege engine.

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You couldn't take it down with a trebuchet, which they didn't have, or a catapult, which they could have had, or a screw, which is like a big carved wooden thing that you ram into the wall.

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You couldn't take it down with that.

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You couldn't burrow under it and cause them to fall down.

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You couldn't burn them.

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There's no way to take those walls down.

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That city doesn't get captured.

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No way.

442
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Even though they outnumbered them by a huge amount, possibly, they still couldn't capture it.

443
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,720
And so God took the walls down.

444
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:21,720
The work is to God.

445
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,720
So what does that tell you about God?

446
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,720
He can do some pretty cool things.

447
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,720
Okay, say it again, Josh.

448
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,720
God can remove barriers.

449
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:35,720
The thing that you think you cannot overcome, God can overcome.

450
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:36,720
God can take you through.

451
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,720
Right?

452
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:38,720
You remember Sunday's sermon.

453
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,720
We start thinking to ourselves, I can't live without this.

454
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:42,720
I have to have this.

455
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:43,720
Right?

456
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,720
But God, when you go, I can't live without this, God can take you through that moment in time at which you can't live without that.

457
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,720
And you will live on the other side of it.

458
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,720
Yes, sir?

459
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:53,720
I have a question.

460
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,720
Yes?

461
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,720
At the top of the paper, is that?

462
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,720
That's the very last thing that we'll do by the time we're done.

463
00:29:58,720 --> 00:29:59,720
So we haven't done it yet.

464
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,720
Okay?

465
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,720
All right.

466
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,720
So Walls of Jericho.

467
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,720
All right.

468
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,720
Somebody give me Samson and Delilah.

469
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,720
Can somebody tell the story briefly?

470
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:13,720
Not the whole story of Samson, although that is good too, but Samson and Delilah.

471
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,720
Yes, ma'am?

472
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:21,720
Samson was told while growing up to never cut his hair that it would cause him to lose his strength.

473
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,720
He told Delilah and trusted her with that story.

474
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,720
She betrayed him and cut his hair.

475
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:32,720
Yep.

476
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,720
And then he wound up captured and they put his eyes out.

477
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,720
Pretty terrible.

478
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,720
Yeah, they put his eyes out.

479
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,720
That's pretty terrible.

480
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,720
He does eventually his hair starts to grow back and then he gets his power back.

481
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,720
But the interesting thing about that story is that it's not the hair, is it?

482
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,720
People don't get super strength because they have long hair.

483
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,720
Because they work out.

484
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,720
People do not get that kind of strength because they work out.

485
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,720
Not even on growth hormone, right?

486
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,720
There's no way to get that kind of strength without a miracle basically.

487
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,720
But he was inhumanly strong.

488
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,720
Yes, he was inhumanly strong.

489
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,720
He killed, what was that, a thousand in one day himself?

490
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:07,720
He took out a building.

491
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:14,720
And then ultimately he pushes the pillars of that down and destroys all the lords and ladies of that evil society.

492
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,720
So anyway, she told the story.

493
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,720
The work of God in that story initially is what?

494
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,720
What did God do for Samson?

495
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,720
He made him strong.

496
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:30,720
And then Samson betrayed God by giving away the quote unquote secret.

497
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,720
And then what did God do?

498
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,720
Tipped away the strength.

499
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:35,720
Tipped away the strength.

500
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,720
And then fallen into the hands of his enemies.

501
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,720
Now, the part of the story that's not Samson and Delilah specifically, but a little bit later as it gets close to him,

502
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,720
he says, God give me my strength.

503
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,720
He repents and he says he's sorry to God.

504
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,720
He says, God give me my strength one more time.

505
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,720
And his hair starts to grow back.

506
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,720
And God does give him his strength one more time.

507
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,720
So then Samson repented.

508
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,720
And then what did God do?

509
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,720
He gave him his strength back.

510
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,720
Which produced a great victory for God.

511
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:05,720
Right?

512
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:13,720
So does anybody know in Judges chapter 16, the first verse or the last verse?

513
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,720
Can you quote any verse in there at all?

514
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,720
Judges chapter 16.

515
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,720
Any verse in the story of Samson and Delilah at all from memory?

516
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,720
But now, if you didn't know it before, now you know the story.

517
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,720
Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't memorize scripture.

518
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,720
That is a discipline that we should do.

519
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,720
We should commit God's word to our heart.

520
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,720
And that makes us strong to follow his path.

521
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,720
So we should do that.

522
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,720
But that being said, you have to be able to tell the stories.

523
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,720
You have to be able to tell the parables.

524
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,720
You have to be...what was the purpose of a parable?

525
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,720
What do people do when they hear a parable?

526
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:47,720
There's two things.

527
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,720
Both start with ours.

528
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,720
Nope, that actually isn't one of them, although that could be the end result.

529
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,720
Respond is one and request more information is the other.

530
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,720
So people respond and they request.

531
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,720
And ultimately then, when they get the information they're looking for,

532
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,720
they can, as you said, repent and turn to God.

533
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,720
Now, if they're smart, because they're God's parables, they'll turn to God.

534
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,720
When I was not saved, I had not heard the story of Jericho.

535
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,720
But I think about my life back then and how I ran into barriers and barriers and barriers.

536
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,720
And boy, I sure would have liked to have heard that story.

537
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,720
And it might have led me to God a lot sooner.

538
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:26,720
So that story is a parable not in the sense that it's symbolic or an analogy or anything like that,

539
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,720
but it is the kind of thing that then invokes people's curiosity,

540
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,720
gets them thinking about their circumstances and so on.

541
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:39,720
If you can't do that, you're going to have a hard time leading anybody to Christ or whatever.

542
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,720
Now, if they say to you, well, what does Acts 6-4 say?

543
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,720
Then you get your Bible out, you look up the reference and you read Acts 6-4,

544
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,720
unless you happen to have it memorized.

545
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,720
But if they say to you, I've got something going on in my life, you should have a story to tell.

546
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,720
How about the story of Jonah? Give us a shot.

547
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:01,720
Jonah was supposed to be delivering a message to Nineveh.

548
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,720
And he tested the tape under his chin.

549
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,720
And a bat swam high up into the air.

550
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:13,720
And Jonah swam in the thermal reward and then a big fish came

551
00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:15,720
and swallowed Jonah up.

552
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:22,720
Then Jonah repented once and then went and sent the message.

553
00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:25,720
Yes. And ultimately, did God destroy Nineveh?

554
00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:26,720
No. Why not?

555
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:28,720
Because they all repented.

556
00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:32,720
Okay. So that's a very good telling of the four chapters.

557
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:34,720
That's four chapters of the Bible they just told.

558
00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:38,720
Now, is there a lot of little details in there that you could add and you could polish it up a little bit?

559
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,720
Sure. You could go read it again and go, oh, I forgot about that.

560
00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:45,720
Because Jonah repents while he's inside the fish.

561
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:50,720
In fact, I think it's the whole second chapter is about him saying that even though I'm in this fish

562
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:55,720
and he basically says, and I'm all sticky yucky and being digested, even though that's true,

563
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:59,720
I realize that everybody who doesn't know the Lord is worse off than me.

564
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,720
That's pretty significant prayer. And I paraphrased, obviously.

565
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:07,720
And then he doesn't want to go to Nineveh and tell the story, tell them that they're going to be destroyed

566
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,720
because he's afraid that they'll repent and he wants them to be destroyed.

567
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,720
So what are the works of God in that story? We're going to go a little faster here.

568
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,720
Obviously, God gave Nineveh an opportunity to repent.

569
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:20,720
God dispatched Jonah, gave him something to do.

570
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,720
God does that for people today. He tells people what they should do and they should go and do it.

571
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:29,720
When Jonah ran from God and didn't do what he was supposed to do, God punished him.

572
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:34,720
But he didn't destroy him. He got him to repent and sent him back to do what he was supposed to do.

573
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:39,720
So if you're not doing what God wants you to do, repent now because there's still a chance

574
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:44,720
that maybe God will turn you and put you back where you're supposed to be and get you to do what you're supposed to do.

575
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,720
The ultimate outcome of Nineveh, does anybody know what happened to Nineveh ultimately?

576
00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:53,720
It was destroyed. A little over 150, 153 years later, they had drifted back into their evil again

577
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,720
and the entire city was destroyed. That society does not exist and history is almost blanked it from the record books,

578
00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:02,720
which is what God said that he pretty much would do.

579
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:06,720
So you can't go visit Nineveh or the ruins of Nineveh now, even though it was a huge city,

580
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:12,720
three days walk across to walk across it or around it.

581
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:16,720
Across it, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, you can read it in the book and you'll know exactly.

582
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:21,720
But the point is, it was a huge city and then we know now some of the works of God that are in there.

583
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,720
How about the birth of Samuel? This is a toughie.

584
00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:30,720
Not Samuel hearing God's voice or Samuel anointing David. All of those are really important things.

585
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:35,720
But the birth of Samuel. All right, Caleb, give it a try. I'll be surprised if you get this.

586
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,720
I'll be amazed, in fact. I'll give you a bag of cotton candy if you get this.

587
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,720
Is it the one where he gets thrown down the river?

588
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:46,720
No, that's nowhere. Moses. I did it. Moses. That's Moses.

589
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,720
I'm wondering if my mother's name is like...

590
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:50,720
It's okay. So he had a mother.

591
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,720
His mother was barren, I think.

592
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:53,720
Okay.

593
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:55,720
I'm wondering if she's barren.

594
00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:59,720
Not barren of land, but unable to have children.

595
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:03,720
She prayed to the temple and asked God if she had a kid.

596
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,720
She said she had a kid for God.

597
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:07,720
Then she had a kid.

598
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:12,720
He anointed all the kings.

599
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,720
So that is a summary of that story.

600
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,720
One kind of key point that I would add in there, I think you want to add in there,

601
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,720
if you're telling that story, especially to an unbeliever,

602
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:23,720
is that there was a high priest in the temple who saw her praying.

603
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:26,720
And what did he think of her? Does anyone remember that part of it?

604
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:30,720
He thought she was drunk. She was praying brokenhearted because she couldn't have children.

605
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:36,720
She was being treated really well. In fact, her husband gave her twice the portion he gave his other wife who had had children.

606
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,720
So she was being treated really well. But she was brokenhearted that she couldn't bear a child.

607
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:44,720
And she was praying, kind of slobbering probably. You know how you get when things are really going bad.

608
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,720
And the priest came and thought she was drunk.

609
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:49,720
And she said, oh no, I'm not drunk.

610
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:54,720
And then she explained it. And he said, okay, well, it's going to be as you've asked God. God's going to do it. You watch.

611
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:59,720
And then he did. And then Samuel has a long and incredible story.

612
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:06,720
There might be value in that piece where he thinks she's drunk because sometimes the Christians,

613
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:11,720
I'm making air quotes if you're not looking, the Christians will look at you trying to do,

614
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:14,720
trying to petition God or do what God wants you to do.

615
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:22,720
And they'll say, oh, well, you don't look right or you're not trying hard or you're trying too hard, right, or whatever.

616
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,720
And they'll misjudge you. And they don't mean anything by it.

617
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:32,720
They're just expecting you to look like what the rest of the world looks like when actually you're pursuing Jesus or pursuing God the way you're supposed to.

618
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:36,720
All right. So I'm going to get now we're going to reverse it and we're almost done.

619
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:40,720
OK, so I've got three examples here and I want you to tell me a story.

620
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:46,720
You don't have to tell me the whole story. You can tell me just tell me a brief summary, like a half a sentence or a sentence of the story.

621
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:51,720
And you can tell me a little bit more if you want to tell me how or why it makes sense that you would use.

622
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:55,720
When you're talking with somebody who has one of these problems.

623
00:38:55,720 --> 00:39:00,720
So the first one that I've listed is somebody who says that they do not have enough to give.

624
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:04,720
So think of a story in the Bible. Can I get you a second, Caleb? Somebody else got it?

625
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:06,720
Caleb and RJ, anybody else want to give it a shot?

626
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,720
There's a person who thinks they do not have enough to give. There could be several.

627
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:15,720
Think of a story in the Bible, somebody that would refute that or that would help them in that circumstance.

628
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:19,720
All right. Let's see if you guys have the same two stories. Go ahead, Caleb.

629
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:29,720
There's this one girl and she gave. There's some people who were giving like a lot of money. She gave all she had to the temple.

630
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,720
How much was that? Is this the same story, RJ?

631
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:34,720
Two pennies.

632
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:38,720
Yes, what we'd call two pennies. Two mites actually is what it was.

633
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:42,720
They didn't have pennies because that's a British coin originally. It was a lot of pence actually.

634
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:48,720
But yeah, so she gave two tiny coins and they gave a ton of money. And what did Jesus say about what she gave?

635
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:53,720
This is the important part. If you really want to help this person, it feels like they don't have enough to give, right?

636
00:39:53,720 --> 00:40:03,720
He said that she gave more than all the rest of them combined because she gave out of her necessity.

637
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:07,720
Or she gave out of, she gave everything she had, which you did say that, that she gave everything she had.

638
00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:13,720
All right. So now if somebody says, well, I, you know, I got a quarter. What's a quarter going to do?

639
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,720
Or I got a few minutes. What's a few minutes going to do?

640
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:23,720
Well, never forget the woman who gave two mites. Jesus saw they were all given chests of stuff, rattling the trumpets, dumping in the coins.

641
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:28,720
And Jesus said that she gave just the two mites out of faith, out of sacrifice. It was all that she had.

642
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:34,720
And she gave more than all of them together. That's awesome. Okay, RJ, how about you? You got one?

643
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:44,720
One where the lady, they were in the crowd, Jesus was talking and I think it was a lady that came up and said, if I could only get to his cloak.

644
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:50,720
Okay. Yeah. So if I could just touch his robe, I know I could be healed. And she did. And she was healed.

645
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:57,720
And he realized it. He turned on her, started talking to her. Okay. So how does that affect somebody who says they don't have enough to give?

646
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:58,720
There's always something.

647
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,720
Okay. Something you can do. There's always something.

648
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:07,720
Okay, good. And I would say it's really enough when Jesus is the center of it.

649
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:12,720
Because all she did was touch his robe and she was healed. She didn't kneel before him.

650
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:21,720
She didn't beg him. She didn't pay him. She didn't explain her problems to him in an essay form.

651
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:26,720
She just said, if I could just touch his robe, I know I'll be healed. So you can always just touch his robe.

652
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:34,720
So you just show up in church, learn what you can, pray, seek God in some small way, whatever the smallest way is that you can do.

653
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,720
And you can probably do a lot more than that. That's good. That's a good job.

654
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:44,720
All right. How about a simple story to tell people that God can provide?

655
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:49,720
Okay. Anybody else want to try it? Come on. You need to be able to do these things.

656
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,720
Shawn, give me a simple story in the Bible that shows that God can provide.

657
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:56,720
Can you do it? I know you know a lot of Bible stories. You're just quiet.

658
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:58,720
Can you think of one?

659
00:41:58,720 --> 00:41:59,720
Fruits.

660
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:00,720
Say it again.

661
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:01,720
Fruits.

662
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:06,720
Fruits? Okay. What fruits? Help me out.

663
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,720
He's trying to get his polling the audience here.

664
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:09,720
He's trying to think.

665
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,720
All right. Alex, can you do it?

666
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:17,720
Haley, can you give me a story in the Bible that would help people to know that God can provide? I bet you can.

667
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,720
Okay. How so? Tell me how that helps.

668
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:26,720
Okay. Good. So not only did he tell them to build the ark and know it was obedient,

669
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:31,720
but then why did the animals come to know it would be in the ark? Because God sent them all. Right? Good.

670
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,720
Now the wheels are turning. See what I'm doing here?

671
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,720
You've got to think. Are there maybe about 50?

672
00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,720
Why do we struggle to come up with two?

673
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:42,720
Just one where you come up with several problems for everyone.

674
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,720
Everyone where God provides.

675
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:46,720
Yeah. And you might have to do that with somebody.

676
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:52,720
Years ago I was standing on the front porch with a guy and trying to lead him to Christ and the street light went out.

677
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:54,720
And this is before backlit cell phones.

678
00:42:54,720 --> 00:43:00,720
And so I was trying to share the Bible with him and all of a sudden I kind of couldn't do it because I didn't have the verses to read.

679
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:05,720
So I just had to use the Iwana verses that I had memorized and I quoted the verse and we talked about what it meant, whatever.

680
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:11,720
And then he still wasn't quite ready and I started talking about things we know that God has done and like that.

681
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:15,720
And I think I used maybe seven or ten examples. Right? Yes sir.

682
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:18,720
Okay. Let's hear it.

683
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:27,720
Perfect. Perfect. And that's the one I had on my paper. That's very good.

684
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:32,720
Yep. And all they did was bring that little bit to him and he multiplied it over and over.

685
00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:38,720
And if you know the story and drill down on the story a little bit, how did he multiply the fish?

686
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,720
Did he put it in a grinder? What did he do to it?

687
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:43,720
He broke it. Yeah. He broke it and...

688
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:47,720
The basket just never ended. Yep. That's true. It just never ran out.

689
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,720
He broke it and blessed it. He submitted it to God.

690
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:56,720
So if you submit your little to God, then God can turn your little into enough. Right?

691
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,720
And as Alicia pointed out, the baskets weren't at the end.

692
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:04,720
By the way, there are two feedings. One's 5,000 people, one's 4,000 people.

693
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:06,720
And they are two different feedings. Right?

694
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:11,720
That he did this twice. And when he fed 4,000, there were seven baskets left over at the end.

695
00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:13,720
Which means they ate leftover bread for days.

696
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:17,720
And when he fed 5,000 people, there were 12 baskets left over at the end.

697
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:21,720
Now think about what that might mean. What does that mean?

698
00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:24,720
It's not God can't just provide. What?

699
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:27,720
Yeah. He keeps it going. It doesn't stop there. He provides what you need.

700
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:31,720
And then there's more. And think about...

701
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:34,720
We just studied one passage of Scripture just recently.

702
00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:38,720
Where it was when David took Bathsheba.

703
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,720
And what did God say to David? Through Nathan.

704
00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:45,720
He said, if you needed something more, did I not make you a king, give you all these victories,

705
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:47,720
protect you throughout the times of Saul?

706
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,720
And if you needed something more, I would have given you that too.

707
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:53,720
I would have given you everything. And you went and took this woman.

708
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:55,720
And murdered this man.

709
00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:58,720
Alright? And so God can provide.

710
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:00,720
Last one we'll do today.

711
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:04,720
And then we'll just kind of like have...let you all make one up and then we'll be done.

712
00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:07,720
Okay? A non-Christian believes he is holy.

713
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,720
Now this one should be...at least one example of this should be pretty easy.

714
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:12,720
Because we talked about it already today.

715
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:14,720
Non-Christian believes he is holy.

716
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:25,720
Okay. Are you referring to Zacchaeus?

717
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:28,720
That was his...

718
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:31,720
Okay. You're mixing Nicodemus and Zacchaeus.

719
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,720
But yeah. So...and then Jesus does.

720
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,720
He says, come down, I'm going to go to your house today.

721
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:40,720
And then he goes and explains the kingdom of God to Zacchaeus and all the people gathering at his house.

722
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:47,720
And all Zacchaeus had was a desire to know what Jesus would tell him.

723
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,720
Nicodemus, John chapter 3, is the one I was talking about.

724
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,720
He said, you must be born again.

725
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,720
You don't have to be holy to be saved.

726
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,720
You get born again, then you get holy.

727
00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,720
Is there any other one you can think of a non-Christian believes he is holy?

728
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:02,720
A couple have popped to mind right now.

729
00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:04,720
Who built the temple?

730
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,720
In the Old Testament, who built the temple?

731
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,720
Solomon. Why Solomon?

732
00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:10,720
David's the one who did all the work.

733
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,720
David even got all his stuff together, right?

734
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:14,720
Why didn't he do it?

735
00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:18,720
Yeah. His hands were covered in blood because he was a man of war.

736
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,720
So we do what we do.

737
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:22,720
And then, was he a man after God's own heart?

738
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:24,720
He was. Did he repent? He did.

739
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,720
Was God for him? Was he the king?

740
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:30,720
And God even said to him, you'll have a king on the throne for eternity.

741
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,720
Because he was talking about Jesus in the line of David, right?

742
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:37,720
So you'll have a king on the throne for eternity, but you'll not build my temple.

743
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:39,720
Because you're not holy.

744
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,720
So you can ask that person and say, okay, have you ever done anything wrong?

745
00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,720
And if they say no, they've never done anything wrong, they probably don't understand.

746
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:48,720
Then you show them Romans 3.23, where it says,

747
00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:51,720
for all that sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

748
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:53,720
And then they say, okay, now have you ever done anything wrong?

749
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,720
Or you go through the Ten Commandments.

750
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:57,720
Did you ever lie? Did you ever steal?

751
00:46:57,720 --> 00:46:59,720
Did you ever do any of that?

752
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:01,720
Did Jesus do any of the interactions with the Pharisees?

753
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:03,720
Yes. Who all thought they were holy.

754
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,720
Pharisees and Sadducees.

755
00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:09,720
And said, woe unto you hypocrites.

756
00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:13,720
Be careful. How holy are you really compared to God?

757
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,720
And then you can look at any of the texts where it says, holy, holy, holy is our God.

758
00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:20,720
Read that little bit in Revelation.

759
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:23,720
Where the angels have to cover their feet while they're in front of God.

760
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:28,720
Because the angels have to cover their feet because God is so holy.

761
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,720
Yes. That's awesome.

762
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:35,720
So now you've got, if you can begin to do this.

763
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,720
All right, Alan and I were talking about this earlier today.

764
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:39,720
Not in this context, but in another context.

765
00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:41,720
We've got things out of order.

766
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:45,720
The Word is supposed to be in us.

767
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:47,720
And we're supposed to be delivering it.

768
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:49,720
The works of God.

769
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:51,720
And so yes, we want to memorize Scripture.

770
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:53,720
Yes, we want to meditate on it. Yes, study it.

771
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:56,720
But the real goal of all of that is to put it in here.

772
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:59,720
So that when you meet somebody who needs it, you have something to,

773
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:02,720
you bring something out of your storehouse.

774
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,720
You bring something that is treasures. Right?

775
00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:07,720
Okay. All right, last one.

776
00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:11,720
Now you give me a case, or give me a story that you know from the Bible.

777
00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:13,720
And then tell me something that you could teach from.

778
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:15,720
Something that hasn't given me one yet.

779
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,720
You have to know one, everybody's got to know one story at least.

780
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,720
Natalie, give me one story.

781
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,720
Any story from the Bible that you know.

782
00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:23,720
Doesn't have to be a parable.

783
00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:26,720
Don't help her. Let her pick one of her own.

784
00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:29,720
Any one you can think of. Any story that you want.

785
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:30,720
What's your favorite one?

786
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:34,720
A different Tuesday, a different Sunday.

787
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,720
I love this.

788
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,720
That's Natalie.

789
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,720
Come on, Natalie.

790
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:46,720
What do you got? Any story from the Bible?

791
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,720
I'll help you do the other part. Just give me any story that you're familiar with.

792
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:54,720
It's fine.

793
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:56,720
Don't give her your story because she may not know it well.

794
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:59,720
Let her pick her own story.

795
00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:07,720
What's the first story in the Bible?

796
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:10,720
What's the most important story in the New Testament?

797
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:18,720
Will you stop talking to her please so she can think? Thank you.

798
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:21,720
Got it.

799
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:23,720
You're okay.

800
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:26,720
Say it again.

801
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:29,720
You're not okay. I put you on the spot and you're not okay.

802
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:33,720
Okay. So tell me about three crosses.

803
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:38,720
What do you know about three crosses from the New Testament?

804
00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:40,720
Are they in here?

805
00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:44,720
There's three crosses up there.

806
00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:46,720
There's one up there.

807
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:47,720
They're in there.

808
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,720
Yeah.

809
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:55,720
What happened on the three crosses?

810
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,720
Don't let them distract you. You can do this.

811
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:01,720
What happened on three crosses?

812
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:03,720
Okay. Who was in the middle?

813
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,720
Yep. Do you know who the two people were on the outside?

814
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:09,720
Not really. They're bad guys, right?

815
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:12,720
Why was it important that Jesus was crucified?

816
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:16,720
What happened that day? Why did God do that?

817
00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:18,720
For us, for our sins. Exactly.

818
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:21,720
We know that we're supposed to share the gospel.

819
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,720
You run into somebody that's not saved.

820
00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:28,720
Being able to tell them the story of the death, burial, resurrection, crucifixion, that's 1 Corinthians 15.

821
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:32,720
You're supposed to be able to do that. You're supposed to be able to tell that story.

822
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:35,720
Then you've got the Romans Road and everybody's starting to memorize the Romans Road.

823
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:38,720
We've got to do it this way. We've got to share these exact verses.

824
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:43,720
I'm going to tell you right now, of all the people that have led to Christ out there in the world at restaurants or whatever,

825
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:47,720
which is not a huge number, probably like, in all the time I've been a Christian, it might be 15 or 20.

826
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:51,720
Every single one of them was basically ready.

827
00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:55,720
The only reason we're not leading them to Christ is because nobody's talking to them about Jesus.

828
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:58,720
Nobody's telling them the stories in the Bible.

829
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:05,720
Most of the time, they're coming back to the table as quick as they can so they can hear a little bit more about what I'm talking about.

830
00:51:05,720 --> 00:51:09,720
The one lady I said, is it okay if we pray with you? I know you've got other tables.

831
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:12,720
She says, I don't care. They can wait.

832
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:15,720
She wanted to tell us a story of how she was in a car accident and stuff,

833
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:17,720
and how she felt like God brought her out of that.

834
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:20,720
But ever since then, she's been wondering, what does God want to do with her life?

835
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:23,720
What is the point? Why is she still alive?

836
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:26,720
And I'm proposing the answer, telling stories from the Bible.

837
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,720
So if you just start telling the stories, and then people will...

838
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:35,720
Each one of those stories might have 15 lessons.

839
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:40,720
So start building up your repertoire of stories that you can tell and you're ready to witness.

840
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:44,720
You don't have to know the exact words or what's in each verse.

841
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,720
Alright, we're going to close in prayer. Thank you very much.

842
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:50,720
So I brought mini ice cream.

843
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:54,720
RJ and me and all the kids are talking and not paying attention to anything either.

844
00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:58,720
How do you think you feel? You think so?

845
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:02,720
Okay, so when the grace ends up here singing, how do you think they feel?

846
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:05,720
Because they can see you.

847
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:09,720
You guys listening too. It's not just for them.

848
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:16,720
Also, who here has made a profession of faith and then baptized a fellow of yours?

849
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:19,720
Me.

850
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:24,720
Okay, so what do you think Jesus would want you to do when his people are gathered together and worshiped?

851
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:27,720
Worship.

852
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:32,720
And if you don't want to sing, which you guys probably do, but some of you may not want to sing, right?

853
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:36,720
It's okay. Everybody worships different, which can't be...

854
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:39,720
I was very tired when...

855
00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:41,720
Miss Zoe, shh.

856
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:46,720
Stooping off and talking like that and laughing because that's distracting the people that are trying to worship.

857
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:50,720
I know you guys are teenagers and when you get together you don't see each other all the time and you have a fight.

858
00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,720
I taught you for a long time. Here's what I can tell you.

859
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:57,720
If you really, really, really have something you need to say, you carry a notebook and write it down.

860
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:03,720
If you hand a note to each other or show each other a notebook, I don't care as long as you're not distracting people about it.

861
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:08,720
I'm asking you that because I love you, I want you to be kind, I want you to worship, I really do.

862
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:37,720
But if you don't, I'll love you even if you don't.