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She was very excited about the snow this morning.

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She walks outside and every little pile of snow she finds with snow.

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I think Kyla's pushing in.

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Ty, Kyla and I are here again.

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I'm a child of grace, but I'm a man of grace

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I'm a man of spirit, but I see that there's fear

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I'm staring inside of me

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I'm a man of grace, but I'm a man of grace

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I'm a man of grace, but I see that there's fear

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I'm a man of grace, but I see that there's fear

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I'm staring inside of me

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Be乱 this heart, be mysterious with everything What you're feeling

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Spread your thoughts what you're feeling

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饰 of the

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I'm a man of grace, but I see my voice

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We're another Christ's kingdom.

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We're a spirit, we're a spirit.

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Spirit is living inside of me.

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God who brings all of us to see.

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Spirit is living inside of me.

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Good morning, good morning, good morning.

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It's Sunday morning and we're in the house of the Lord seeking to reach new heights in Jesus as he did.

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We've got some folks who are still on their way.

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We're afraid that they may get sick. We have some folks who are out of town, far, far out of town.

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And then we have Ricky, who is not so far out of town, but he's still far out of town.

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He's in the Lambertville right now on call for work.

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Hopefully he'll get that there, taking care of the people he can be able to get here before we're through.

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That was the plan.

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He doesn't always have to be on call, but we're going to call this week and that's where it's going to be.

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It's a cold weekend, so he's got a bunch of folks that he had to help.

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And Brady's got a kind of a cool job, because we're concerned if you're going to help people in their little difficult spot.

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I would hope so.

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But we'll pray for him and I pray for him to be in town.

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He's in Mississippi and others who are not feeling well.

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And we pray that God would have his way in his place. And then to remind you, we are not far out Saturday morning.

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Saturday morning.

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We have the parade for Christmas parade.

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And so the kids can all come and ride on the float.

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And the adults and healthy teenagers will walk.

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And we'll grow candy and we'll hand out flyers and talk to people about Jesus the best we can to represent God.

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And here's some getting ready to be done in the next six days.

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And so if you would like to help us get ready for that, see Alicia.

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She will actually review for that purpose.

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There's also a couple of other interesting things on the schedule.

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Youth Bible study, Friday.

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And then youth choir practice Tuesday after service during the fellowship time.

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Okay. So these kind of interesting things and then listen for a lot of Christmas and stuff coming up.

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Also, we were supposed to give up copies of that bucket today.

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Next week.

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So next week, you'll get a copy of the 2025 budget.

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So then you'll have one week to look it over and that kind of thing.

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And then the following week will have the team will have a membership meeting, which will primarily be for that.

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But it'll also be our own and members of the meeting for November and December.

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Combine the two.

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So we know that November, December always be the time lock going on.

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And so we will have one membership meeting beyond the 15th.

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Everybody will be here.

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I know it.

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Claiming it anyway.

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And we'll vote on that their budget and be ready for January 1st with that budget.

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Okay.

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Let's pray together.

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We do need candy donations for the parade. We're going to purchase some of the sweet, but if you can bring it back to you on Tuesday or just bring one with you on Saturday.

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No more can't.

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That's the word.

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If you know anybody who likes to donate to that, thank you for that.

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You're right.

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Thank you.

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Father heaven.

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We praise you. Thank you.

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This Sunday is a day.

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It's today.

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We're going to make sure that at this point, four hours period, we're alive. You're at work reminded of the sermon recently where we talked about how you care about us and you care about our right now.

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You know that you see the future.

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We know that, you know, where this shit is going.

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And you know how how it all ends.

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And yet you care about what we're going through right now.

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Well, we pray for healing.

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We're healing for those who are sick. We pray for healing for Larry's shoulder.

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That's very injury.

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This last week.

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We pray for quick and ample turnaround.

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We do all the things that we think you're supposed to do.

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We pray for written as working on that furnace in my work, though, that they'll be able to get that done and get out of there and get here to join us and hopefully doesn't have another call at the time that one's done.

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They'll be heading back today from Mississippi and you'll have them travel safely and you'll be with them all the way and maybe they can listen to the message and to leave it later.

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We pray for those all over the world who will tune into our podcast this coming week in 20 plus countries as small as we are in numbers and so on.

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I think that that makes us feel that it's not true.

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You are in it and you are doing amazing things and you are winning the world to yourself.

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It is about winning the world to us or to this building or to our idea of what Christianity is about winning the world.

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We pray that you will work and every person who hears the word preach every person who hears the music some and that we will be able to pray to you and we will be worried.

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We pray all these things that you will think.

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Alright would you stand with us for these next couple?

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I'm gonna think of shouting my name.

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I'm not a liar but it makes my life more to sing.

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I will live with my mind in the darkness night for I know that same young lady

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and I will walk with you knowing you'll see me through and we can start singing again.

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How can I keep you singing your name?

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How can I help you say it now?

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How can I make you sing and never run?

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How can I keep you shouting your name?

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I'm not a liar but it makes my heart want to sing.

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How can I keep you singing and never run?

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How can I keep you singing when I lose myself and go down again?

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How can I sing until then?

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How can I sing until then?

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How can I sing until then?

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How can I keep you singing your name?

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How can I keep you shouting your name?

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How can I make you sing and never run?

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How can I keep you shouting your name?

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How can I keep you singing until then?

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I hear the birds are ringing like a kid

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You can't help but love this time of year

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It's Christmas time or something in the air

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There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

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Somehow there's a little more of love

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Maybe there's a little less of love

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Maybe when you're suddenly aware

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There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

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It's the smile of everyone who has finally found hope

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It's the tears of a mother who shone at her home

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It's the joy that we feel and all of that we share

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It's the little bit of heaven everywhere

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It's funny how it takes somehow a day

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To show us how the world could truly change

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If we all took the time to really care

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There'd be a little more of heaven everywhere

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It's the grace that we show to the world that needs hope

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It's giving us hope knowing that out of hope

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It's the joy that we feel and all of that we share

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There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

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It's the little bit of heaven everywhere

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Angels we have heard of mine

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Sweetly singing all our prayers

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In the mountains they reply

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Echoing their joyous sound

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Hallelujah

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Hallelujah

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It's the joy that we feel and all of that we share

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There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

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There's a little bit of heaven everywhere

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It's the little bit of heaven everywhere

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Angels we have heard of mine

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Sweetly singing it through the night

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Alright, so before we get started with anything you may have come prepared to talk about

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I wanted to bring to your attention that we are switching spiritual discipline epistheses

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So actually as of November 22nd, it's just been very busy to 10 days

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But as of November 22nd it was time that we make our 6 month transition into a new spiritual discipline

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So the spiritual discipline that we will now be focusing on for the next 5 and a half months

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Until May 22nd, which is the anniversary of our church, our church, our Constitution anyway

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Will be Bible intake

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So Bible intake can compose a lot of things

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It can be, it's just about putting more Bible in you

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So first of all, if you need anything else, somebody tell me one way that you take in the Bible

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And you read it, go

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You share the God's love with everyone else

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Okay, so you're talking about talking to other people about what you know

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And then you hear your own voice talking about God's things, about Bible things

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Okay, that's good, I like that, what else do we have?

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Simply think something, how do you take more Bible in you?

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Just read, read, okay?

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So you get the Bible out and read

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And so maybe you just randomly pick

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Where should I read today?

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You know, you might take a verse that says something like, let's see how it goes right there

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The Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith

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Paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrinal schemants

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By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own conscience

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As with a brand-mining iron man who forbid marriage and advocates of staining conclusive

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Which God has created and been gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth

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Where everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected

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If it is deceitful gratitude, we're disenchanted by means of the Word of God and prayer

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Okay, so then you might take those verses that you just input

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And you might meditate on them, you might do some study, you might write some things down

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But the point is, you took them in, you read them

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Okay, with another example, we just did it by the way, everyone in the room just did it

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That's another example, listening, right, listening while somebody else reads

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Okay, so if somebody else reads, I just read it, alright, so who's got a Bible in here though?

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Alright, alright, get it open, find us a verse

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Whoever gets there first

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Alright, so I think it's 16, alright, let's hear it

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This Spirit Himself testifies with our Spirit that we are God's children

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Okay, very good, I heard that, okay, did somebody else say something?

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Down one five

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The light shines in the darkness, so the darkness has not always come in

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Oh, I heard that, go ahead

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Keepers three seconds, therefore as the Holy Spirit says, today if you hear His voice, do not harden your heart's edge of the rebellion

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Or if they are testing the wilderness, where an ancestor says, you need to try and be insomniated

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Yes, very good, I heard that, you got one? You got one?

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I doubt it, go ahead

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So 24 or 24 more, all of these will be filled with blood and will be well in the Bible

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Well, that's a good first, very good, okay, so you all heard it, right?

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So we all took in some Bible today, now, give me another example, how might you take in the Bible?

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Alicia

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Music

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Okay, can you elaborate a little bit?

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Yes, so there's a lot of songs that we sing that I hear, and when I hear them, it reminds me of a verse in the Bible

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So I have a list in my phone that when I hear a song, I can go into the Bible and try to find those words in a Bible verse and compare them

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Are they really the same words or just the same words?

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Yeah, you will be surprised, actually, if you take the time to dwell on that a little bit, that almost all of the songs that we sing are based on a Bible verse

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If you can remember music, better than you can remember the written words of the Bible, that's an easy way

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If you will guess those songs, I had a dear friend of mine who used to preach in Dan Adams, and he moved down to Biceson Anyway

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I haven't heard much on him since, but most of his sermons were using an old hymn for illustration, and he would go right to the verse

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And then he would explain what it means, and it's pretty cool, you can do that, but yeah, they're all based on that

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Even if it's not words for words, it's a tactic, like, think about God's love, it might be off of the whole Corinthians chapter 13, not just one verse

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I'll get you in a second, I'll go over here

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I like it where you can read the Bible, sometimes I can't comprehend, then it's got a verse under me, and it helps me look at it

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I want to read this, or that's that, then I go to another one, it's got something underneath, it goes to this one, and it's giving me a rhyme in the Bible now

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Good, what you're describing is called cross-referencing, and that's another way you can see Bible in the Bible

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And so, what you're doing in my Bible, right here, so all down, every verse, there's little tiny numbers, okay, and then in the middle of the page are what those little tiny numbers represent

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And so if I read a verse and I look at the little number that's next to the verse, then I can go read that verse, and then I can find the little number next to that one, and I can go read that one

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And you could spend, like, a puzzle, or like a maze, you could spend hours in taking Bible by going cross-reference to cross-reference to cross-reference, okay

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And you will retain more

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I've even played the game without even using cross-reference, but catacross references, where I've gone to the Bible and picked a verse in chapter

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So like I might say chapter 1 verse 7, and then just go to every book in the Bible and read chapter 1 verse 7

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And they don't necessarily connect, but I can arresting enough to find that sometimes they do connect very much, and I'm like, wow, that's crazy, because that's right there, right?

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For example, do you know what 1 John 3 16 says, and also John 3 16? We know what John 3 16 says, most people memorize that, but do you know what 1 John 3 16 says?

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Very interesting to look at that, wouldn't it be? I don't have it memorized, but I know it has a very simple method, so we'll look at it real quick

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I can't remember the exact number, but I probably did have it memorized at 1.8

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It says, we know love by this, that you lay down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren

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We know the conflict between the gods that love the world, right?

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Well, 1 John 3 16 says, we know love by this, so that's just the fun thing you do too

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It's not a cross-reference, per se, because it's not really talking about the exact same thing, so you can find a little number there that points to the goal over there, but because they're all John 3 16s, that's fun too, right?

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Give me something that we haven't talked about yet, or maybe a Bible in fact, go ahead

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How do you take Bible in?

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Romans 12, do you think Romans 12 21, do you not think over time that people for over time use a Bible in the Church?

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Very good, okay, and so what you did there was you quoted a verse from memory, okay?

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And if you take a lot of Bible in, or you take the same Bible words in over and over and over, then you will eventually memorize it

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Now memorizing is not the same thing as putting it in your heart, you know, kind of wish it was, but it's not, right?

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You have to embrace it, you have to accept it for what it says and let it kind of begin to affect you if you want it to be in your heart

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So putting it in your mind makes it a lot easier, and then for example, he would be able to quote that from memory, and then we all heard it, right?

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So I think you're able to quote it from memory, or as you said, share the truth of the word that you know, and then people can hear it, right?

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So Bible intake is our discipline, we're going to talk about that, and we'll have examples of that, probably there are a bunch more

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Ariana has it, for example, where she has the Bible on CD, and actually now it's on MP3, right?

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By the way, we have license too, so if somebody wants access to that, we can make you a copy, and she looks at that every night when she lays down a bit of that

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So when she's laying the Acolyte guard lotion, and maybe read a little bit, whatever, then she lays there going to sleep listening to the button

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That's eight million of button, you get it on the radio, you get kind of it on right how many, right?

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There's a ton of book studies, and when they do the book study, they will literally go, okay, the next reverse is said a lot, and then they'll talk about it

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And then they'll go to the next reverse that says this, and then they'll talk about it, or if I do longer than three verses, and so you're taking me in the Bible, right?

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Kids shows are some of the best places to take me in the Bible, because every episode basically has a biblical, magic revival work, and then you show it many tales,

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put some verse off at the beginning of the end kind of thing, and you take me in more Bible, and it's fun, and you might laugh, right?

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Or if you watch a toddler show, and you get a lot out of it, you might think, I feel kind of silly, but you're still taking me in the Bible, and that's what you need, right?

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So this is our discipline for the next six months, so what I'd like you to do, this is your activity, what I'd like you to do is other things that we just talked about,

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I know, hopefully, hopefully, you're all reading your Bible or listening to something Bible throughout the week, whether it be songs, music that has name, thinking about how that relates to Bible, whatever,

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but I would like you to take one of the ways that we just talked about Bible intake and do it more the next seven days.

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So for example, if you know you're not actually reading your Bible, then I'd like you to just plan to read your Bible a little bit every day,

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or as much as possible for the next seven days, or you can set it for yourself, right?

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You can set it every other day, and I think you should do it every day.

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However you set it for yourself, do that over the next seven days.

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Take in more Bible, okay, and then when we come next week, we're going to talk briefly about what our experience is for you,

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and we decided to take in more Bible, what it used to be that we had for what happened, right?

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And I'll close on this slide.

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Years and years ago, the first Christian radio station came to Toledo,

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and they used to have a thing where they would say, take the Christian radio station, and they would say,

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take the SFM paper, take 30 days and listen only to the SFM, only to God's Word song,

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God's Word on the radio, that kind of thing, and stop listening to the sector of the radio and watch what happens in your life.

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And make a living in 30,000.

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Exactly.

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And so we want God's Word to make that sober.

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And notice in the verses that I read, in the first set, it said that all things are sanctified in part by the Word of God.

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Billy Graham said this, he said, I was struggling in my faith.

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And who Billy Graham was?

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One of the greatest evangelists to ever live in our, you know, in our millenium, right?

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Because obviously there have been people waiting for that that were pretty awesome,

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or he traveled all around the world preaching the gospel,

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he was a humble man generally speaking, has a temper of Bible,

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and he didn't plan that, that we kind of got crushed into it, and that it took off,

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and he was all over the state, a big part of revival all over the state.

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And if he didn't do it, God did it by this afternoon.

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And after, while he was in the middle of that, he said, I'm struggling with my faith.

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And I'm really struggling to God, give me more faith, God give me more faith, I need more faith.

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Billy Graham, he's paying tens of thousands of people to say it weekly, or by the profession anyway.

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And he said, God, I need more faith, I'm struggling with my faith.

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And God decided to have faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the word of God.

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Which of course is what was meant.

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Faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the word of God.

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And Billy Graham said, wait, so you're saying all I need to do is intake more Bible,

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and I'll have more faith?

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And so he began to intake more Bible.

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You want to believe, you want to trust in God, you want to have more faith?

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He'd get more Bible.

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Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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Okay?

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And so for the next six months, that's us.

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We're going to grow in our faith because we're going to focus on the spiritual discipline of Bible intake through the next five months.

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Okay?

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All right, now that being said, have you come prepared to share something with us today?

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If the Lord made it late on your heart.

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Tell me take first.

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So with my intake, I'd like to say the word of God is some of it's a kind of merciful,

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awesome, patient, or providential.

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If you ever want to talk about it, we'll talk about it.

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It's the map of life.

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But I find sometimes like, and don't think there's anything wrong with plans or scripts.

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We have movies or plays or video games or nothing.

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Some things are wrote down.

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Some things are not.

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You know, I just want to say that everything I do is not manipulative.

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I'm not doing anything to make you do this, do that.

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You know, I just want to share the inspiration, but I was reaching out to a brother.

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And sometimes it just happens where the word of God, we're in John 16.

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And I was very blessed by reading it.

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And he was blessed.

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And we went back.

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I've read it many times, but because I was reading with him, I just kind of went back and realized how great our savior is.

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So it came back to which I share this every time in Christmas, Romans 8 16, which I just shared.

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The spirit itself testifies by spirit that we are God's children.

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When I read that verse, I always have to tell myself, you know, is that a one time thing is an all time thing.

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But it's a spirit himself testifies with our spirit, which is little s big s for God's spirit that we are God's children.

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He testifies of himself.

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And we already know one thing.

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God doesn't stay silent.

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God's always good and merciful.

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So God's always testifying to us.

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We are God's children.

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Something I like to say.

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Yeah, I don't know why this.

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I told you it was all the time.

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Is this idea of the Christmas spirit, which is cool because it is God's gracious goodness and mercy.

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But I've always said it's God's spirit reminding us that it's Christmas.

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He's reminding us that the birth of the Savior, he's always reminding us as Christmas.

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He's always going to remind us that Jesus is the Messiah is always going to remind us and he testifies himself.

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It's not just like what people always say, my guardian angel is that there is an insane.

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But I'm saying no man, the angels are saying whatever it's God himself always testifying that we are children of God.

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So this is so awesome.

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Every day he's reminding us himself.

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He's doing himself that we are God's children.

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And where I like when Jesus said, if I testify of myself, doesn't matter all the much, but my father testifies of me.

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God has not done yet. His witness is strong. Good work.

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So last week I did a little snippet with the ending of the song.

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And there's one part that really sticks out.

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And it's been in my head ever since I heard it.

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And the thing I shared last week is says, you don't come to God with a contract saying these are my speculations for following you.

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You come to God with a bunch of paper saying this is for you to fill out.

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So we as as we go to God and we cry out to God, we need to understand that we are letting him take everything from us.

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We have to give up our own needs. We have to give up our own wants. We have to give up our own selfish desires.

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We have to give up all of that to follow God.

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We can't go to God saying I'll follow you, but I still want to do this. I still want to do this.

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Yeah, we can't do that.

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Even if what you want to do is not saying, but you can't go to God saying I'll follow you, but this is still what I want to do.

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You have to go to God saying I'll follow you and if this is what you want me to do, then that's what I'll do.

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Now, this is what I want to do in order to follow you.

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We have to go to him knowing very well that we are going to have to make sacrifices and some of those sacrifices might be giving up things we enjoy doing.

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And then what's cool though is when we do that, when we give up those, when we're willing to give up what we enjoy to follow God,

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he is going to give us things that we never thought we would enjoy.

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Like, I never thought I would enjoy working with a bunch of teenagers because half the time I don't want to be around anybody,

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but there has happened one time where I went to youth group and felt like I really don't want to be here.

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I'll feel like that all the way up until I get there.

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And then when I get there and we start getting in the violin, we start doing our study and we'll play games.

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And like, there is nowhere I'd rather be.

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And it's crazy how God does it.

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It's amazing how you can see God work when you're willing to give up what you want to do in order to do what he wants you to do.

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So, I guess the biggest thing is as we go into the new year and the holiday and everything,

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remember what we are here for, remember why we are doing this.

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We are doing this to watch God's kingdom grow.

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And Christmas is about Jesus' birth.

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It's not about the gifts. It's not about even spending time with family.

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It's about celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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And the sacrifice that he made so we can follow it, so we can know God.

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Yeah, I was just thinking as you were talking about right at the end there, how we always measure,

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we always think about, I was witnessing this week and I was talking about how Jesus suffered like we'll never know suffering.

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We talk about the crucifixion.

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We talk about the crucifixion.

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It's terrible. The pain of crucifixion is so bad they had to invent a word for it.

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The word excruciating.

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When we stomp our toe and we think, oh, that's excruciating.

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No, it isn't.

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If you throw it yourself, you literally crippled yourself.

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And so all that pain is excruciating.

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It actually isn't because excruciating literally means pain of the cross.

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That's a word that they made it to not describe how bad it was.

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But at the same time, I submit to you that a greater suffering would be to know the presence of the Father in heaven,

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to be in heaven, and then come to the earth as a baby.

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And by the way, I don't recall being born, but I know that the description is that your bones essentially liplify and these are exited and come out into the world.

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And you're ripped from the womb where you've been warned, you've been taken care of, you've been fed, you're going to have to process all of that.

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That's why babies cry, right?

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Because it's terrible.

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It's terrible.

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And so he left heaven for us.

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That's a product which we can't know.

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We don't know if we think how good, awesome heaven might be, but we can't really know how awesome it is.

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And so we really cannot know how terrible the sacrifice will be heaven and come in the exist for 30 fun years on the earth.

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And then did he crucify?

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He never had a good life.

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And then he did that.

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What a great sacrifice.

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Okay, quick.

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Okay, so you know what?

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What?

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What I like about this song we believe is that it says,

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we believe in God the Father, so that means we will keep believing even in the hard times with God the Father and we'll take on the crucifixion.

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He'll give us new life.

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And I just say, he will do anything for us if we'll just follow him.

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So, anybody that's in Israel without following God,

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I just hope they can walk the path of Jesus and do anything that will get them back on track.

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Brother Tim, would you get us in his prayer? Come on, come on.

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You got this. I trust you.

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We're with you.

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I trust you.

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I trust you.

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I trust you.

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446
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:57,760
Okay.

447
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:07,760
Okay.

448
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:17,760
Okay.

449
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:25,760
Okay.

450
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:35,760
Okay.

451
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:45,760
Okay.

452
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:53,760
Okay.

453
00:46:53,760 --> 00:47:03,760
Okay.

454
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:13,760
Okay.

455
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:21,760
Okay.

456
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:31,760
Okay.

457
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:41,760
Okay.

458
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:49,760
Okay.

459
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:59,760
Okay.

460
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:09,760
Okay.

461
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:17,760
Okay.

462
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:27,760
Okay.

463
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:37,760
Okay.

464
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:45,760
Okay.

465
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:55,760
Okay.

466
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:05,760
Okay.

467
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:33,760
Okay.

468
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:43,760
Okay.

469
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:53,760
Okay.

470
00:49:53,760 --> 00:50:01,760
Okay.

471
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:11,760
Okay.

472
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:21,760
Okay.

473
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:29,760
Okay.

474
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:39,760
Okay.

475
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:49,760
Okay.

476
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:57,760
Okay.

477
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:07,760
Okay.

478
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:13,760
Okay.

479
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:17,760
Okay.

480
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,760
Okay.

481
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,760
Okay.

482
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:41,760
Okay.

483
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,760
Okay.

484
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,760
Okay.

485
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,760
Okay.

486
00:51:53,760 --> 00:52:00,960
in our thought processes or in even witnessing I have made the mistake of thinking that the promise was actually made to Eve.

487
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,200
And it sounds like a great promise when you put it that way.

488
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,800
Like, oh, there's gonna be trouble between your offspring and the servant's offspring,

489
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,440
but your offspring's gonna crush his head. And it sounds kind of good like he was telling Eve a good thing,

490
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,160
but it is an even too Eve. Okay?

491
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,480
So grab your Bibles and go with me if you would.

492
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:21,680
We're gonna look at that this classic story in a new light today and just a couple of verses.

493
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,640
And I'll read kind of leading up into it so we can see what happened.

494
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,720
But it's Genesis chapter 3.

495
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,560
Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay?

496
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,920
So as you're getting there, in the interest of Bible intake,

497
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,360
we will begin reading Genesis chapter 3 verse 1.

498
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,440
Okay? And then I want you to really get your thinking caps on when we hit verse 14.

499
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:43,360
All right?

500
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:44,560
Says this,

501
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:49,520
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

502
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,840
And he said to the woman, indeed, has God said,

503
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,480
You shall not eat from any tree of the garden.

504
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,000
And the woman said to the serpent,

505
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,040
From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat.

506
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,520
But from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden,

507
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:05,920
God has said, You shall not eat from it or touch it lest you die.

508
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,120
Notice there that he is questioning her about God's command and she is restating God's command,

509
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:12,640
and she did get it incorrect.

510
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,240
Remember that the man and the woman were given the command to take care of all of the trees

511
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:20,560
in the garden of Eden including those two trees at the middle.

512
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,080
And she just said that God said that she was not allowed to touch them and that's not true.

513
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:26,880
Verse 4,

514
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,640
And the serpent said to the woman,

515
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,160
You surely shall not die,

516
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:36,000
For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God

517
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,120
knowing good and evil.

518
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:38,400
Okay?

519
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,560
So let me take the second part of that first.

520
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,040
If they eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

521
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,480
their eyes will be open and they will be like God knowing good and evil.

522
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:49,280
Is that a lie?

523
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,120
Well, you should take a note, I see several people check.

524
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:53,920
It's not a lie.

525
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:55,040
Right?

526
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:59,280
Is that not exactly what happens when they eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

527
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,040
Their eyes are open and they perceive for the first time ever that they are naked

528
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,840
and they have shame and they realize that they have sinned against God.

529
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:06,400
Okay?

530
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:11,200
However, the first part where it says for God knows that in the day you eat from it,

531
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,040
your eyes will be open and you will be like God.

532
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:15,520
Okay?

533
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,400
So they will be like God in knowing good or evil,

534
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:20,080
except what?

535
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:21,840
What's the limitation?

536
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:24,800
How is it different?

537
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,720
How is their knowing of good and evil different from God's knowing of good and evil?

538
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:32,480
It's limited.

539
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:32,720
Right?

540
00:54:32,720 --> 00:54:34,400
So they have limited knowledge.

541
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,800
They have their own perception, their own understanding.

542
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,360
They cannot know that God has a plan.

543
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:41,920
Exactly.

544
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,280
God has no limitations.

545
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,880
So their eyes are open and they know the good and evil,

546
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,240
but in a sense they know their own good and evil and they know what they've experienced

547
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:52,480
in the good and evil of each other and that kind of thing.

548
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,640
They might even have figured out that the servant had committed an evil against them

549
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:01,040
by enticing them to eat, but the point is their knowledge of good and evil is limited,

550
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:07,680
even though their eyes are open and they immediately realize that they have done evil themselves.

551
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:09,920
All right.

552
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:10,640
Verse 6.

553
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,120
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food,

554
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,480
all of them were, by the way, all of the fruit-bearing trees were good for food,

555
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,160
that it was a delight to the eyes.

556
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,800
All of them were, by the way, a delight to the eyes.

557
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:24,320
And the tree was desirable to make one wise.

558
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,800
That's the debatable statement, but it does open their eyes to their own sin and shame.

559
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:33,520
She took from its fruit an eight and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate.

560
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:37,120
Notice that he was with her the whole time and does not entered in the conversation.

561
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:43,040
It's not a good idea for a man to stand around while evil tempts his wife and to do nothing.

562
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,040
And that's exactly what Adam did.

563
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:46,080
Verse 7.

564
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,760
Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked,

565
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,280
and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

566
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,520
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden the cool of the day,

567
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,440
and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord

568
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:04,720
among the trees of the garden.

569
00:56:04,720 --> 00:56:07,280
From the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

570
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,840
Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him,

571
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:10,560
where are you?

572
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,640
And I assume, we can assume rightly, I think that God knew where he was.

573
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,120
But he calls to him to give him to come out, basically.

574
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:17,600
Verse 10.

575
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,920
And he said, I heard the sound of thee in the garden.

576
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,480
I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.

577
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:23,600
That's Adam's response.

578
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,760
And he said, who told you that you were naked?

579
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,400
Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?

580
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:33,600
And the man said, the woman whom thou gave us to be with me,

581
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,600
she gave me from the tree, and I ate.

582
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,520
So he throws his wife under the bus.

583
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:38,400
Verse 13.

584
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,960
Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done?

585
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:45,040
And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

586
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:46,640
And it kind of is so.

587
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,040
I kind of think maybe she deceived herself more than he did,

588
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:50,560
because he didn't say anything about wisdom.

589
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,760
He said that they would be like God knowing good and evil.

590
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:59,280
And she translates that to be that the tree is worth use for wisdom.

591
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,480
So she kind of deceived herself, but she was led to do so by the serpent.

592
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,200
She says, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

593
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:05,920
Verse 14.

594
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:07,120
Now here we go.

595
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:07,520
You ready?

596
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:13,440
And the Lord God said to the serpent, not to Adam or Eve, but to the serpent,

597
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:19,200
because you have done this, cursed are you more than all the cattle.

598
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:19,440
Okay.

599
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,320
So before we go any further, let's start looking at the ramifications.

600
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,800
He says to the serpent, because you have done this,

601
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,120
cursed are you more than all the cattle.

602
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,360
So that word cattle is pretty specific there.

603
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,360
It generally means four-legged beast that can be consumed by people.

604
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:34,240
Okay.

605
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,000
That can be eaten that are.

606
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,520
So we're talking about cows and bulls, maybe even pigs,

607
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,560
although that's kind of a stretch, sheep, goats, right?

608
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:47,600
So animals that are out there roaming around or sometimes are kept to be eaten by people.

609
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:52,400
And now the serpent who was previously said to be the craftiest of all of the animals,

610
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:58,240
the smartest, the wisest, the elevated, if you will, will be lower than all of them.

611
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:03,280
Now you'll probably say, well, I always thought this serpent was Satan in disguise.

612
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,840
The Bible doesn't say that here.

613
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,280
Later, a couple of places, including the book of revelations,

614
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,200
we're not going to get heavily into this today,

615
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,360
but later it says who was that serpent of old about Satan.

616
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,440
It calls Satan the serpent of old.

617
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:17,920
All right.

618
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,680
And so we put it all together and people generally think that this was either

619
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:28,640
Satan himself transformed into a serpent or a serpent that wasn't possessed by Satan

620
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,520
or a certain serpent that was won over to Satan's evil ways.

621
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:34,800
Okay.

622
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:40,800
So either way, what we know from here is that Satan, who is definitely involved,

623
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:46,720
whether he was a shape-shifted, possessed or influenced, he gets the same curse.

624
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:53,040
Now that's something because elsewhere you can read that Satan was probably the chief of God's

625
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:53,760
angels.

626
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:55,040
He was beautiful.

627
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,720
He was a choir leader, a worship leader to God.

628
00:58:59,200 --> 00:58:59,520
Right.

629
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,320
He was able to walk in the throne room of God.

630
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,720
And so now he would be cursed more than all the cows,

631
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:16,080
bulls, goats, as beautiful as he was, all the influence that he had over God and over God's kingdom.

632
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,480
Now he's cursed more than all those.

633
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,400
This is really humiliation.

634
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,840
There is no other word for it.

635
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,560
Humiliation, terrible, terrible humiliation.

636
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,840
It says, and more than every beast of the field.

637
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:33,760
So now we're lumping in every other kind of animal that's out there winding around that a person probably wouldn't keep his cattle.

638
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,800
So now he's worse than a muskrat.

639
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,160
He's worse than a skunk.

640
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:40,720
He's worse than a platypus.

641
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:41,840
Right.

642
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,480
He's worse than every other animal of the field.

643
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:50,640
It says, on your belly shall you go and dust you shall eat.

644
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:57,120
Now, obviously this fits poetically with being a serpent rank because snakes actually slither around on the ground or that kind of thing.

645
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:03,200
But notice that being on your belly is also a metaphor for humiliation.

646
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:05,440
It's being brought low.

647
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:13,200
So as prideful and arrogant as he was, either the serpent himself, who was craftiest of all the beasts,

648
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:19,280
or Satan, who influenced, possessed, or was actually the serpent, any of those, as prideful and arrogant as they were,

649
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:24,560
now they're going to travel on their belly all the time, never be able to raise up again.

650
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,160
And dust shall you eat.

651
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,280
So it's interesting.

652
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:33,520
They sought to gain control, the serpent and possibly Satan, through him, however, sought to gain control of the man.

653
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,200
What is the man made of?

654
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,080
Dust of the earth and breath of God.

655
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:40,880
Right.

656
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:48,480
And so now the serpent who sought to gain control of the man who's made of dust of the earth and breath of God will slither around on his belly.

657
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,760
Satan will always be bowed low in humiliation.

658
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,120
And dust shall he eat every day.

659
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,200
In other words, he'll never rise up.

660
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:58,320
He'll never rain.

661
01:00:58,320 --> 01:00:59,680
He'll never have any authority.

662
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:01,680
He'll never have anything to be proud of.

663
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:06,720
Again, he'll always be subject to eating the leftover waste of men.

664
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,680
It's a terrible humiliation.

665
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:16,640
Verse 15, then he says, and here it is, the prophecy about Jesus, and I will put my enmity.

666
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,320
I will put enmity.

667
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,320
Enmity is hostility, hatred.

668
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:29,760
So there's going to be a constant break, a friction always between those he's about to talk about.

669
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,520
He says, and I will put enmity between you and the woman.

670
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:41,600
The you is the serpent, and the curse rolls over to either Satan in disguise, Satan possessing the serpent, or Satan deceiving the serpent.

671
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:49,440
Any of those three, the curse rolls over to him because of his involvement, and he says, I will put hostility between you and the woman.

672
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,280
So now she's up against it.

673
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:57,440
We always make it out to be that like his first commission, Satan's first commission is to bring man down.

674
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:04,720
And men do have a role, and to have their role usurped, to have their role broken down so they can't live like they're supposed to, is a horrible thing.

675
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,240
And we're going to talk about that in one second.

676
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:13,360
But his first commission is to enmity or hostility between him and the woman.

677
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:14,240
Okay.

678
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:21,040
So if you're a woman in the room, know that his first commission was hostility toward you.

679
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:21,680
Right.

680
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:26,080
Because you are the solution in this curse that God has given.

681
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,920
It says between you and the woman.

682
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,280
And it says, and between your seed and her seed.

683
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:40,880
So all of his offspring are all of those who would follow his ideology, all those who would come after him, because that seed does not necessarily only mean like the seed of birth.

684
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:41,440
Right.

685
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:47,200
But that seed there, because there's a particular word that it's sperm of that's used for that's where we get the word sperm from.

686
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:47,680
Right.

687
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,120
It's not that kind of seed.

688
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:49,840
Right.

689
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:54,480
This is another kind of seed that talks about like descendants, that which arises out of you.

690
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,880
And so it can include ideology or thoughts.

691
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:02,800
So when we share somebody Jesus and they accept Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, they become the seed of the kingdom of God.

692
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,160
They now can then go.

693
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:05,120
Right.

694
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:06,880
And do the things that God has asked us to do.

695
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,000
We're almost done with the text.

696
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:16,720
And it says, and he would put it enmity or hostility between your seed, seed of the serpent, seed of Satan and her seed, seed of Eve.

697
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:22,160
And so he shall bruise you on the head.

698
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,800
He shall bruise you on the head.

699
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,040
And you shall bruise him on the heel.

700
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:34,480
And so this idea that the serpent, remember the serpent or Satan both, right, he'll never be able to rise up and actually strike somebody.

701
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:35,760
Always slow.

702
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,880
And when he comes after somebody, he's going to bite, be biting at their heels.

703
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:40,880
And you understand the concept of what says biting at somebody's heels.

704
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,520
It means they're moving forward and you're barely stopping them.

705
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,040
You're barely slowing them down.

706
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:46,480
There's not much of a hindrance.

707
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:46,960
Right.

708
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:51,120
As, as a dog bites at your heels, you're like knock it off dog, knock it off.

709
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:51,360
Right.

710
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:52,480
It's just biting at your heels.

711
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,880
Now the dog bites you in the groin, it's a whole other thing.

712
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,800
If a dog bites you on your butt, that hurts.

713
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:57,200
Right.

714
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,400
But if he's down there, he just kick him in the face and he's gone.

715
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,160
Just like that.

716
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:02,800
Right.

717
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:08,240
And this is the idea that he can only touch that way, the offspring of the woman.

718
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,200
He can only bite at their heels.

719
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,200
But the offspring of the woman will crush his head.

720
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:17,040
Okay.

721
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:21,280
And that prophecy then we understand is about Jesus.

722
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,640
It is one of the first, it may be the first, but I'm going to show you before we're done

723
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:25,920
how it's kind of not the first.

724
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:26,720
Okay.

725
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,440
It's the first very overt one, very obvious one.

726
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,920
So the first thing I want you to see in this text as we're in the points already

727
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:39,360
is that the effect here was not an anatomical effect, but it was humiliation.

728
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:41,760
Anatomical means it didn't have to do with your body.

729
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,080
He didn't make the serpent didn't used to fly.

730
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:45,840
He didn't fly into the garden of ego.

731
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:47,040
Oh, hey Eve.

732
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,400
The God really say, the serpent didn't use to fly and now he crawls.

733
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:50,960
Right.

734
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:52,320
It's not like that.

735
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:53,760
The serpent didn't have legs.

736
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,080
He's walking around like a lizard and God says, it's that.

737
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:57,520
God, God, God, you got no legs.

738
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:58,720
Now you're going to crawl along the ground.

739
01:04:58,720 --> 01:04:59,760
Now they have a serpent.

740
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:00,240
Right.

741
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,880
Every animal that exists always existed.

742
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:03,760
God made them all.

743
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:08,240
God let Adam name them all prior to the coming of Eve when he was searching for a helpmate

744
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:09,840
for Eve.

745
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,480
And God let Adam name them all.

746
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:17,040
So it was not an anatomical change, but it was humiliation.

747
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:23,360
God put the serpent and Satan who influenced him or possibly possessed him or possibly was him.

748
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:29,040
He put them permanently in a position of humiliation.

749
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,120
Think about the pain of that.

750
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:38,480
Somebody really idolizes you, loves you, thinks, man, you're awesome.

751
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:44,160
And then you do something that really hurts them and they never see you the same way ever again.

752
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:45,440
Now it's not because they're holding your grugs.

753
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:46,080
They're not mad at you.

754
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:47,120
They're not mad at you.

755
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:54,880
They're not angry at you or whatever, but they know better than to trust you with the big things of life because now you have humiliated yourself.

756
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:00,720
You have shown that you are not the person of character that you thought you were.

757
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,280
It can be like that.

758
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:05,280
And that's what it is for Satan.

759
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:12,480
Access to the throne room of God, leader of the choir, all the angels look to him for what to sing next and whether or not they've hit the right note.

760
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:14,720
No one is more beautiful.

761
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:23,440
And now he'll eat the dust of men forever and at best be able to strike at the heel of the offspring of the woman.

762
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,040
And there will always be hostility.

763
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,040
How dare you be hostile to me?

764
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:28,400
I'm a servant of God.

765
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:30,800
I lead God's choir.

766
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,640
I am the most beautiful of all the angels.

767
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:34,560
How dare you be hostile toward me?

768
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:36,160
Who is this man?

769
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:38,400
I can shape shift.

770
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,600
I can be anywhere I want.

771
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,840
I know all of God's word like nothing.

772
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,160
Like no limitations whatsoever.

773
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:51,760
And now you're telling me I'll crawl in the dust and only be able to strike at the heel of her offspring as we are enmity forever.

774
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,840
His arrogance and now he's as low as he can go.

775
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,840
He thinks he had a grand position and he thinks he lost it all.

776
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:02,320
And God is telling him the results.

777
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:06,160
Now he can't rightly blame Eve.

778
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,360
Did she do anything of her own volition?

779
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,360
Who started the conversation?

780
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:12,160
He did.

781
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:13,360
Who betrayed God?

782
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:14,000
He did.

783
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,440
He can't rightly blame her.

784
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:17,440
He doesn't hate her because she ate.

785
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:19,440
In fact, he probably was like, huh, cool.

786
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:21,440
She did what I wanted her to do.

787
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,440
Little pat on the back, right?

788
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:33,440
The enmity, the violence, the hostility is between the serpent and Satan and Eve because God said so.

789
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:38,240
Satan doesn't hate you because he's inherently evil.

790
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:42,240
He is inherently evil and the father of lies and a murderer from all time.

791
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,240
We know that, but that's not why he hates men.

792
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,240
He hates men because God said so.

793
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,240
Because God ordained them to reign over everything.

794
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:58,240
And by the way, when God ordained them to reign over everything, he said, you reign over everything living on the earth.

795
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:06,240
And then even later, when God is talking to Adam, he says that all the days of your life,

796
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:10,240
you'll reign over everything on the earth, all the animals.

797
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,240
And now Satan is on the earth.

798
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:20,240
And so God still gives him reign over this individual who thought he was all that.

799
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:22,240
He can't rightly blame the man.

800
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,240
He can blame God.

801
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:30,240
He's not striking at man because man did something so terrible.

802
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:34,240
In fact, I would submit to you that he probably would think man was not really even worth his effort.

803
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,240
This was not an attack on Adam and Eve.

804
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,240
This was an attack on God.

805
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:44,240
He can't rightly blame God, really, but he does.

806
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,240
And God placed hostility between him and the woman.

807
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,240
I think that's very interesting.

808
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:56,240
He is not concerned about right and frankly now has purpose to forever resist the seed of Eve.

809
01:08:56,240 --> 01:09:00,240
The effect was not anatomical, but it was humiliation.

810
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:04,240
He was lowered from his previous position and instead becomes the adversary.

811
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:12,240
The accuser who accused God before men, Revelation says that he stood in heaven accusing God before men and accusing men before God.

812
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:16,240
Now has been cast down and become less than all the cast.

813
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:26,240
That is an incredible curse.

814
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:30,240
The second thing to see in here is that the promise was to the serpent, not the woman.

815
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,240
We started out by talking about that.

816
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:36,240
It is very dangerous to assume somebody else's promise.

817
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:40,240
It is very dangerous to assume somebody else's promise.

818
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:44,240
If you're a man, you're not going to be able to do that.

819
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,240
You're going to be able to do that.

820
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:48,240
There is no one else's promise.

821
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:52,240
If you think I sort of believe in God and I'm sort of following God and you're trying to claim the promises of a Christian, you might want to rethink.

822
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:56,240
In Matthew 28, it says,

823
01:09:56,240 --> 01:10:00,240
I know a lot of people who claim to be Christians who say,

824
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:04,240
Well, God is with us. God will be with me. God will be with me all the time.

825
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:08,240
I even know people who are not Christians that don't even profess the name of Christ and say,

826
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:12,240
but God said he'll be with us until the end of time.

827
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:16,240
Those promises are part of the Great Commission.

828
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:18,240
It says, go ye therefore.

829
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:22,240
You're supposed to be sharing the gospel and you're baptizing people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

830
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:28,240
And then he says, as you do that, then lo, I will be with you even to the end of the age.

831
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:32,240
For those who are not following God to claim that God will be with them even to the end of the age,

832
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:36,240
that is assuming somebody else's promise and they are just flat out wrong.

833
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:38,240
People call themselves children of God.

834
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:43,240
Well, God made Adam and Eve and he made everybody and so we're all children of God.

835
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:48,240
No, the New Testament says that when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior began to follow Jesus,

836
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,240
you were given the right to be called the child of God.

837
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:54,240
No one else has been given the right to be called the child of God.

838
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,240
To assume somebody else's promise is very dangerous.

839
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,240
His hostility toward her seed,

840
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:07,240
but then ultimately the outcome of his head crushed was predetermined and accomplished in Christ.

841
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:10,240
And so basically saying there's going to be a problem here.

842
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:11,240
You're always going to be butting heads.

843
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:15,240
The serpent's always going to be chasing the seed of the woman around and trying to bite its heel.

844
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,240
And that's exactly how Satan is to us.

845
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:19,240
That's exactly what's happening.

846
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:23,240
Sin and temptation are always trying to get their way a little bit, the little bit that they can.

847
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:28,240
But the truth is the crushing of the head of the serpent is predetermined and accomplished.

848
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:32,240
Even everything that's going to go on in Revelation as he rises up and he wins countries

849
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:35,240
and he gets all these people following and worshiping.

850
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,240
And it comes to the point where almost everybody on the earth will take the mark of the beast

851
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:43,240
and follow the evil leader of the world.

852
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:49,240
Even in that moment, it will still be predetermined that ultimately he will be crushed.

853
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:50,240
He will have nothing.

854
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:55,240
He will spend eternity in a burning pit of fire where he cannot die,

855
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,240
nor can he breathe, eat, sleep, have anything but pain.

856
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:02,240
His outcome is predetermined.

857
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:07,240
His hostility toward her seed is set here, but ultimately the outcome of his head crushed

858
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,240
was determined and accomplished.

859
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,240
And then we see that coming out in Christ.

860
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:14,240
Adam and Eve's curses were for us.

861
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:16,240
And we struggle thusly to this day.

862
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:21,240
We always struggle with how to make ends meet, how to overcome suffering, disease.

863
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:25,240
The world is full of tornadoes and earthquakes and floods,

864
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:29,240
all of which are birth pains, groaning for that final day of redemption.

865
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:35,240
When he'll be crushed and God will make everything new.

866
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:38,240
But we always ultimately win.

867
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,240
Those who are following the Lord Jesus Christ, those who are God's people,

868
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:43,240
ultimately will win.

869
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:49,240
In the New Testament, we read in the book of John, beginning in chapter 8,

870
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:51,240
I'm going to read beginning in verse 30.

871
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,240
We're almost to the conclusion already.

872
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,240
We're going along real nicely.

873
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:59,240
In John chapter 8, beginning in verse 30, it says,

874
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,240
As he spoke, that's Jesus.

875
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:03,240
These things many came to believe in him.

876
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,240
So they made the decision that, yes, he's real.

877
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,240
What he's saying is true.

878
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:12,240
Then in verse 31, this is John 8.31, Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews

879
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,240
who had believed in him.

880
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:17,240
So let me put this in the context of the Genesis 3 passage.

881
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,240
These are the seed of the woman.

882
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,240
And the Son of Man has now come on the earth.

883
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:26,240
And the Son of Man is walking amongst them.

884
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:32,240
And he's about to bring about the ultimate crushing of the head of the serpent.

885
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:35,240
Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed in him,

886
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,240
If you abide, that means if you remain and live in my word,

887
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,240
then you are truly disciples of mine.

888
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,240
And you shall know the truth.

889
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,240
And the truth shall make you free.

890
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:47,240
They answered him, we are Abraham's offspring.

891
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:51,240
In other words, they're saying, we are the seed of Abraham.

892
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,240
And have never yet been enslaved to anyone.

893
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,240
How is it that you say, you shall become free?

894
01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,240
Jesus answered them truly, truly.

895
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,240
I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

896
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:05,240
And the slave does not remain in the house forever.

897
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,240
The Son does remain forever.

898
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:11,240
If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

899
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,240
I know that you are Abraham's offspring.

900
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:14,240
There it is again.

901
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,240
He says, yeah, you're his literal seed.

902
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,240
You're his physical descendants.

903
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:22,240
You're the children, great, grandchildren, great great great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren.

904
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:27,240
I understand that you are the great, great, great, grandchildren of the offspring of Abraham.

905
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:32,240
Yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

906
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:35,240
I speak the things which I have seen my father.

907
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,240
Therefore, you also do the things which you have heard from your father.

908
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:40,240
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.

909
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:45,240
Jesus said to them, If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

910
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:50,960
But as it is you are seeking to kill me a man has who has told you the truth which I heard from God

911
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,240
This Abraham did not do

912
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:58,480
You are doing the deeds of your father. So he's saying they have another father not

913
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:05,280
Abraham who would it would be Eve's descendant and had God as father rather there's he's saying they have another father

914
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:09,040
Which is Satan they said to him we were not born of fortification

915
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:16,640
We have one father even God Jesus said to them if God were your father you would love me for I proceeded forth and have

916
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,920
Come from God for I have not even come on my own initiative, but he sent me

917
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:26,000
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear my word

918
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:30,840
You are of your father the devil and you want to do the desires of your father

919
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:38,080
He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him whenever he speaks a

920
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:39,520
lie

921
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:44,600
He speaks from his own nature for he is a liar and the father of lies

922
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:50,360
But because I speak the truth you do not believe me which one of you convicts me of sin if I speak the truth

923
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:52,800
Why do you not believe me he who is of God?

924
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:57,360
Here is the words of God for this reason you do not hear them because you are not of God

925
01:15:57,480 --> 01:16:03,240
The Jews answered and said to him do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan and have a demon

926
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,360
So he's saying in other words. Are you not are you of illegitimate seed?

927
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,360
You're the descendant

928
01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:12,320
Right of illegitimate seed and you have a demon Jesus answered

929
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:18,040
I do not have a demon, but I honor my father and you dishonor me, but I do not seek my glory

930
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:20,800
There is one who seeks and judges truly truly

931
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:24,160
I say to you if anyone keeps my word he shall never see death

932
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,560
The Jews said to him now we know that you have a demon

933
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:33,600
Abraham died and the prophets also and you say if anyone keeps my word he shall never taste of death

934
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:40,040
Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham who died the prophets died too whom do you make yourself out to be?

935
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,280
Jesus answered here it is

936
01:16:42,440 --> 01:16:44,440
If I glory myself

937
01:16:44,440 --> 01:16:49,400
My glory is nothing is my father who glorifies me of whom you say he is our God

938
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:53,600
And you have not come to know him, but I know him and if I say that I do not know him

939
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:58,560
I shall be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word your father Abraham

940
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:03,880
Rejoice to see my day and he saw it and was glad that Jews therefore said to him

941
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,680
You are not yet 50 years old and have you seen Abraham?

942
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:12,080
Jesus said to them truly truly I say to you before Abraham was born

943
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:13,720
I am

944
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:19,080
Therefore they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple

945
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:24,960
There was hostility between Jesus and these men because these men were of Satan

946
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:30,840
They were the offspring's you got to decide which seed are you of you began as the seed of Eve?

947
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:36,680
Physically, but which seed are you up? Do you work for God or do you work for Satan?

948
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,920
There is no middle ground if you live in the middle ground you work for Satan

949
01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:44,120
He has to be put in his place

950
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,360
Jesus came as predicted

951
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:54,200
Satan struck him as predicted he crushed Satan as predicted and now the final crushing is still in process

952
01:17:54,200 --> 01:18:02,120
As we the body of Christ do the work of putting the betrayer under our heel and crushed for an eternity

953
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:09,720
We are still in the process of informing the whole world of Jesus's victory over death and the availability of resurrection power to elevate men

954
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,680
And women boys and girls to the position of untouchable

955
01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:21,220
Eternally victorious beings that brings us to our conclusion the serpent was told that the seed of the woman would crush his head

956
01:18:21,220 --> 01:18:24,740
Hostility and humiliation. That's the curse

957
01:18:25,580 --> 01:18:28,580
She'll crush your head her seed will crush your head

958
01:18:28,700 --> 01:18:31,460
There will be hostility and you will suffer humiliation

959
01:18:31,820 --> 01:18:37,460
You will eat the dust the remnants of a dead man of a dead body that used to carry a man

960
01:18:37,580 --> 01:18:42,700
You will eat the dust the remnants of a dead body that used to carry a man for the rest of your life

961
01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:45,420
You will be humiliated like that. I

962
01:18:46,420 --> 01:18:48,420
mentioned to you before we

963
01:18:48,420 --> 01:18:51,020
Really got into reading the text that there might be other possible

964
01:18:51,740 --> 01:18:57,780
Prophecies as anybody remember without going there and looking in Genesis 1 28 when God is making me said let us make man

965
01:18:58,580 --> 01:19:00,140
What?

966
01:19:00,140 --> 01:19:04,380
In our own image. That's what it says. Let us make man in our own image

967
01:19:04,380 --> 01:19:09,980
Does anybody remember in Colossians 1 15 what it says about Jesus that he was

968
01:19:11,980 --> 01:19:13,980
Anybody know

969
01:19:13,980 --> 01:19:18,740
He was in the image of the invisible God not made

970
01:19:19,300 --> 01:19:24,380
But he came in the image of the invisible God and so we are

971
01:19:25,300 --> 01:19:27,300
Humans are a prophecy

972
01:19:28,100 --> 01:19:30,100
God made humans

973
01:19:30,620 --> 01:19:37,460
prophetically to look like him in spirit mind and soul and to have relationship with him

974
01:19:38,220 --> 01:19:42,020
Humans are a prophecy. They were meant to be a representative of God

975
01:19:42,020 --> 01:19:47,900
Humans were supposed to represent God on all the earth and now in Christ. That is what we must do

976
01:19:47,900 --> 01:19:55,180
We must represent we must be the body of Christ and be who God made us to be a prophecy if you will an example

977
01:19:55,180 --> 01:20:01,460
If you will a light if you will so that people can understand and realize that God is real

978
01:20:01,460 --> 01:20:08,380
But he sent his son Jesus Christ to once and for all crush the head of Satan and it has been done and yet Satan

979
01:20:08,380 --> 01:20:12,460
Satan is still there nipping at the heels for some reason

980
01:20:13,380 --> 01:20:15,380
anybody here afraid of dogs like

981
01:20:16,140 --> 01:20:18,420
Kind of supernaturally afraid like a phobia

982
01:20:18,820 --> 01:20:25,180
Some people have that some people are just afraid of dogs and a little dog comes out barking and they'll go wherever that dog steers

983
01:20:27,180 --> 01:20:32,500
And that is what the world is doing say there's nothing but that he's a slithering

984
01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:41,020
Beast now in the dirt coming up on people's heels and people are listening to the serpent people are listening to his barker

985
01:20:41,020 --> 01:20:45,940
They're listening to him. He sits outside the door barking and you're like, I got to deal with this dog

986
01:20:45,940 --> 01:20:50,020
I'm terrified of this. I got to deal you open the door and you let him in and he comes in and he bites you

987
01:20:50,020 --> 01:20:54,100
And then he says haha, I bit you you let me bite you and that's it

988
01:20:54,300 --> 01:21:00,140
That's the world that we're living in people are allowing this guy who has nothing has lost everything

989
01:21:00,140 --> 01:21:07,260
He's been humiliated from his high station down to nothing and we're allowing the nothing and we say well he tempted me

990
01:21:08,340 --> 01:21:10,700
No temptation doesn't come when Satan tempts you

991
01:21:11,660 --> 01:21:17,300
Temptation comes when your flesh wants something and you think well, maybe I should listen to my flesh and

992
01:21:17,860 --> 01:21:22,860
Then you go after what your flesh wants and and then temptation becomes sin and sin becomes death

993
01:21:23,380 --> 01:21:25,700
And every human being does it now

994
01:21:25,700 --> 01:21:32,980
Because he's always there. He's there nipping at your heels before you understand the very thing that we're talking about today

995
01:21:32,980 --> 01:21:38,420
Which is that he can't make you do anything people say the devil made me do it the devil never made anyone do anything

996
01:21:39,420 --> 01:21:45,700
Including possession you say well the devil possessed somebody and then that person killed somebody you can see that in the seven funds

997
01:21:45,700 --> 01:21:52,020
He they're passing out people and and that passing out demons using the name of Jesus and Paul and finally demon says hey

998
01:21:52,460 --> 01:21:54,460
Jesus I know Paul I know

999
01:21:54,460 --> 01:22:00,340
But who are you and then he beats them all up and they got all bloody and cast out of the room in their underwear after they

1000
01:22:00,340 --> 01:22:02,340
after he beats them all up and like that

1001
01:22:02,860 --> 01:22:09,220
That guy could say that demon made him do it, but a person doesn't get possessed without an invitation

1002
01:22:09,220 --> 01:22:12,220
Are you open to Satan leading you to do things?

1003
01:22:12,220 --> 01:22:17,700
Are you open to evil spirits of demons leading you to do things or have you said I am a follower the Lord Jesus Christ?

1004
01:22:17,700 --> 01:22:21,580
And I will crush him at every turn I will crush him and I will crush him again

1005
01:22:21,580 --> 01:22:28,780
And I will crush him again, and I'm running over top of the defensive line of Satan because God said from the very beginning

1006
01:22:28,900 --> 01:22:30,380
That this will be the battle

1007
01:22:30,380 --> 01:22:35,940
It's gonna be me as a seed in an offspring of Eve versus him and I will win

1008
01:22:36,980 --> 01:22:42,180
And you're struck him because you're stricken because you you despair because you're sad because you're fearful because you're angry

1009
01:22:42,900 --> 01:22:44,900
Get controlling yourself man

1010
01:22:44,900 --> 01:22:52,420
You're a child of God and now you submit yourself to God and God alone when he comes barging when he comes fighting when he comes slithering

1011
01:22:53,260 --> 01:22:57,820
You stuck on him because he has little more than that a bump in the road

1012
01:23:00,900 --> 01:23:05,860
Just as if you were a war horse and he was coming up to mess with you

1013
01:23:07,660 --> 01:23:11,700
Horses freak out a little bit about serpents because they get bitten a leg is poisonous and they could die

1014
01:23:11,700 --> 01:23:15,860
So they rear up and stop them. That's what they do

1015
01:23:17,340 --> 01:23:19,340
The beauty of it is

1016
01:23:19,700 --> 01:23:25,780
You don't have to worry about the first part because you can stop him without any chance that he's gonna end you

1017
01:23:26,860 --> 01:23:32,420
Because all of his strength and all of his power has been submitted to the curse of God that was given to him when he tempted Eve

1018
01:23:33,420 --> 01:23:37,100
Yes, there will be hostility, but all he can do is bite at your heels

1019
01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:39,920
The question is why are you not stopping him?

1020
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:43,960
Why don't we take the gospel into the world and tell people that they can be free?

1021
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:50,440
Why don't we tell everybody that Jesus Christ out on the cross and if you'll believe and trust and follow him that you can be free?

1022
01:23:50,440 --> 01:23:53,440
And this is the kind of power that you can wield in

1023
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,120
This sense humans are a living prophecy

1024
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:05,720
We were to point to the one who would come who would truly be the second Adam and and win the day permanently and

1025
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:11,440
People believed in the way that God would make how do you think Abraham got saved?

1026
01:24:11,440 --> 01:24:12,840
How do you think Noah got saved?

1027
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,840
How do you think Moses got saved they all got saved believing in the way that God

1028
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:22,420
Would make because around they could see all the testimony of the action of what God was engaged in that ultimately

1029
01:24:22,420 --> 01:24:26,880
He was gonna crush the head of the circuit once and for all and the stories were passed out to them

1030
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:32,120
It's very story that we're reading and then eventually in Moses day or sometime after it was written down word for word

1031
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:36,880
So you and I can read today and understand it's done Jesus already came

1032
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:41,040
and acts chapter 17 and

1033
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:49,040
Then we're through and acts chapter 17 Paul is preaching to some guys who just were really interested in a lot of things

1034
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,480
And they allowed him to talk about

1035
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:55,880
The Christian faith in front of a huge crowd of people and so he took that opportunity

1036
01:24:55,880 --> 01:25:02,440
And he says this this these two verses as part of what he's saying on Mars Hill he says

1037
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:07,600
Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance that means the times when people didn't know

1038
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:13,480
God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent means that we should all turn to God

1039
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:16,840
That's our message all men and women

1040
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:22,760
Everywhere should repent and turn to God turn away from your sin and turn to God only first 31

1041
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:30,080
Because he that's God has fixed the day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom he has appointed

1042
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:37,240
Having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead. It's done. Yes. He's still nipping. Yes

1043
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:41,720
He's still chasing but he'll only chase those who run away

1044
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,160
You ever stop a small child from playing tag

1045
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:50,320
And you can get the one in the back because he's the slower one or he's the one that

1046
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:52,320
You nap him up and you like hey

1047
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,560
Cut it out. He's like well, he's running away from me

1048
01:25:57,400 --> 01:26:02,880
Yeah, I just want to wait for you because you're chasing him or maybe you get the front guy and the chaser comes run up tags him

1049
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:07,080
So hey, we're not playing tag and the front guy says well. He was chasing me

1050
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:10,840
You see we're chasing the lost

1051
01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:15,160
We're after the lost and they're running from Satan's

1052
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:18,280
Just tell him about Jesus

1053
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:21,720
and let Satan have his day and what is his day?

1054
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,720
It's a day of humiliation

1055
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:26,960
It's a day of hostility

1056
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:28,960
That's a day of being crushed

1057
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:31,560
You could say under Jesus's feet if you don't want to own it

1058
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:35,560
But the truth is if you are the offspring of Eve that is to say if you believe in Jesus Christ

1059
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:40,360
If you are the offspring of God if you are a child of God and a member of the kingdom of God

1060
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:44,520
Then you too are to be crushing the head of Satan

1061
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:48,800
I always look at Eve and we say well if I was there I would never have done that

1062
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:53,520
You know there was a comedian who said he told a long series of jokes

1063
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:57,520
And he talked about Eve being in heaven and there was a line there and all these people were walking all the women

1064
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:02,120
Because of the pain and childbirth that she got all the women were walking up and smacking Eve and say what were you thinking?

1065
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:06,520
What were you thinking? We went through all that pain because you were thinking they're smacking her. It's a joke

1066
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,040
But it's not really a joke not a very good joke at all

1067
01:27:09,040 --> 01:27:19,040
If we were there we would have done the same thing in our innocence and God knows that and so all those people that are out there who have committed sins and ignorance and innocence they didn't know

1068
01:27:19,040 --> 01:27:21,040
God is ready to forgive

1069
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:24,040
But he's asking them to turn now if you have turned

1070
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:29,040
Let's quit playing around and get busy doing the things that God would have us to do

1071
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,040
And crushing the head of the enemy

1072
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:38,040
You are made for this purpose to walk with the Lord and crush the head of the enemy

1073
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:42,040
If he comes a nipping all you got to do is one step and crush him

1074
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,040
Just say I'm done

1075
01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:48,040
Says if you draw close to God he'll draw close to you if you rebuke the enemy he'll flee

1076
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:50,040
You have that kind of power

1077
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:53,040
If you hear the king here are the keys to the kingdom

1078
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,040
Whatever you bind on earth shall have already been bound in heaven

1079
01:27:56,040 --> 01:28:02,040
Whatever you loose on earth shall have already been loosed in heaven. That's the kind of power you have in these things in overcoming temptation

1080
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:05,040
We are more than conquerors. That's the kind of power we have

1081
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:15,040
Stop playing like your temptation is harder than somebody else's or your evil spirits are more active than somebody else's or your devil is gotten under your skin

1082
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:18,040
All you have to do is crush him

1083
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:21,040
And move forward and do what it is that God would have done

1084
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:26,040
That's what the word says. Are we going to keep playing games like Satan's some big bad scary dude?

1085
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:28,040
Because he isn't. He's been humiliated

1086
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:31,040
If he ever comes to you he'll be crawling

1087
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:33,040
If he ever comes to you he'll be nipping

1088
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:36,040
And if you're stricken to your core by him

1089
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:40,040
It'll be because you open your heart and let it be so

1090
01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,040
Instead crush him

1091
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,040
That's what we were given

1092
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:46,040
One little bit of power

1093
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:55,040
Instead crush him. That's what we were given. One little illustration and then we'll have that equation will be true

1094
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:58,040
Playing football in the side yard

1095
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:01,040
I was a young kid. I was probably like 10

1096
01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:04,040
And I was the second youngest person who was going to play

1097
01:29:04,040 --> 01:29:10,040
In the side yard where right now we're kind of building our addition where the side yard is not really going to be there anymore

1098
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:16,040
And a few weeks before we had begged to be allowed to play me and one of the younger kids in the neighborhood

1099
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:19,040
We had begged and begged to be allowed to play because the older kids would play. They played tackle football

1100
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,040
And they thought we were too young and they wouldn't let us play this

1101
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:28,040
And want to deal with our cuteness, our drama, whatever that happens a lot when older kids want to get away from the younger kids

1102
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:30,040
It's not really good but it did happen

1103
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:32,040
So we had begged and begged and then they just had to play

1104
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:36,040
So then they put both of us young guys on the same team

1105
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:39,040
So it's four on four or something like that inside the yard

1106
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:45,040
And my team weighed about 300 pounds total

1107
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:49,040
And the other team weighed about 700 pounds total

1108
01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:53,040
Over twice as much. One big guy playing with over 300 pounds was a sophomore in high school at that time

1109
01:29:53,040 --> 01:29:58,040
And I was like, I don't have to play that game. I'm thinking to myself

1110
01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:01,040
I think we're pretty much in trouble here. We're going to get annihilated

1111
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:06,040
And the big guy was on the other team and he said, I don't think like that. I don't think like that

1112
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:11,040
And I said, here's the thing. You're quick on your feet, you're fast, and it's going to be hard to get a hold of you, whatever

1113
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:15,040
And we're not going to crush you. We're like, like, happily. I'm not going to pound you into the earth, like that

1114
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:18,040
It's just a friendly game, that kind of thing

1115
01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:25,040
So just be smart. Be smart, be mobile, be quick that you can, you'll be quicker than us

1116
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:30,040
And we played about two hours. In the end we lost like one or two touchdowns

1117
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:36,040
And we lost the team that I was on. But it went high scoring. Like in two hours I think we lost 25 touchdowns

1118
01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:40,040
And we lost like two touchdowns. Back and forth. But we could, like the kids were ballers

1119
01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:45,040
And the guy, we were like, we literally all four of us were riding on him and trying to get him down and we couldn't get him down

1120
01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:50,040
And fortunately they said, if he can't, we can only run the ball once every four down

1121
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:54,040
So basically we went one down, two down, three down, four down, touchdown

1122
01:30:54,040 --> 01:30:57,040
One down, because we were running four down every time and we couldn't know what was stopping

1123
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:03,040
Once or twice we did stop him. But the point is, if you look at it and you think you can't win

1124
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:07,040
You look at it and you think you're up against something bigger than yourself

1125
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:12,040
If you look at it and you think you're not prepared, then maybe you are

1126
01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:17,040
And you'll quit before you ever try. And I think that's why people aren't talking to you about people

1127
01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:23,040
That's why people carry their phone around instead of a paper Bible because nobody gets to know that I have a Bible then

1128
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:29,040
It's not just because it's more accessible and searchable and all that, that's all good too, but when you walk into church carrying a Bible

1129
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:34,040
Everybody knows what you're there for. When you walk into church carrying a phone with you, you could just be stopping in

1130
01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:38,040
Just like a big fan, nobody really knows. Right?

1131
01:31:38,040 --> 01:31:43,040
And so what I'm saying to you is, if we start identifying as Christians, if we start going where Christians

1132
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:48,040
Maybe aren't really appreciated all that much. There's a bunch of guys taking it on to college campuses now, right?

1133
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:53,040
I've been in bars, I've been in dark neighborhoods, dark hours, right?

1134
01:31:53,040 --> 01:32:00,040
So start taking the gospel and then the light will shine and Jesus will get the glory and we'll be stepping on Satan's head

1135
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:06,040
Which is what we were made for. Or you can, before the game ever starts, you can say, oh, it's too hard

1136
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:12,040
I can't overcome my temptations. I can't beat down my flesh. I can't focus my mind. I can't read my Bible

1137
01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:18,040
You can't learn and grow in Christ. You can do that all right up front, in which case he's going to be on your heels the whole time

1138
01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:25,040
You'll never get rid of him. He'll be there biting into your heels the whole time. And it's going to hurt. Over and over and over again

1139
01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:32,040
Or just crush him. Just crush him and be done with it. The little dog that bites me, he gets smacked

1140
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:37,040
Or I put my hand in his mouth so far back, he can't close his mouth. Right?

1141
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:42,040
Or I grab him by the scratchers neck and paralyze him. Just let him keep biting and scratching him

1142
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:47,040
I'm not going to kill him unless he's a little dog. He's probably not that dangerous, right?

1143
01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:54,040
Satan needs to be stepped on. That's how it's done.

1144
01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:02,040
At this time I'll ask the praise team to come forward. We're going to have a final song. If you're here today and you realize and you need to respond to this word

1145
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:07,040
If you realize that God is calling you to save, if you realize that God is calling you to do something that you've not been doing

1146
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:10,040
You're going to put God first in some way that you've not been putting in first

1147
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:17,040
And as we sing the song, this is your opportunity to respond. You're going to say, public, I'm living for Jesus

1148
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:22,040
And by the way, you don't have to have somebody to say I'm living for Jesus. That's somebody stepping on his feet and head

1149
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:27,040
That's somebody crushing him. And that's what we're going to do. We're going to crush him. We're going to run over God

1150
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:32,040
We're like that 300-comp God that used to run over God to me. And that's what we're going to do.

1151
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:40,040
Not because we say so. Not because we want to. I personally, somebody wants to ask me, can we just love Satan?

1152
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:45,040
Not according to what God says. God says there's hostility between us and him forever.

1153
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:49,040
So that's what it's going to be. God says it's not up.

1154
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:53,040
Alright, then we can sing this song and we will be through.

1155
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:58,040
In case I forget after this song, there are a couple of things I'm not sure about.

1156
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:30,040
Come let's bring home to him

1157
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:36,040
Oh God, I come

1158
01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:41,040
I come

1159
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:46,040
To death I am

1160
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:50,040
And may we come

1161
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:54,040
To reign my son

1162
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:58,040
A wonderful

1163
01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:02,040
To be a

1164
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:05,040
Blackened

1165
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:09,040
And each night, oh, now

1166
01:35:09,040 --> 01:35:14,040
Oh God, I come

1167
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:18,040
I come

1168
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:23,040
To reign my son

1169
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:28,040
A wonderful

1170
01:35:28,040 --> 01:35:32,040
To be a

1171
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:36,040
Blackened

1172
01:35:36,040 --> 01:35:41,040
And each night, oh, now

1173
01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:46,040
Oh God, I come

1174
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:52,040
I believe, oh, now

1175
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:57,040
Oh God, I come

1176
01:35:57,040 --> 01:36:02,040
I come

1177
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:07,040
You're going to do relax, isn't you? Holy Spirit just put it into my head. So if you're not standing, I need you to stand.

1178
01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:10,040
That includes you Larry. I'm sorry, I know you're so worried about me. Stand with me.

1179
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:16,040
Stand up.

1180
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:23,040
I know we're sore, but okay. So I want you to imagine the mind's eye. You got it?

1181
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:29,040
He got it. All right. I want you to imagine in your mind's eye that Satan is at sea.

1182
01:36:29,040 --> 01:36:34,040
I've been taking you here today and he's right now biting at the heel of your strong foot.

1183
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:41,040
Whatever foot you choose to use and all together and what we're going to pick our foot up and we're going to step on it on that image.

1184
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:44,040
If you will, below us.

1185
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:47,040
Put your foot up. Put it down.

1186
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:54,040
You have to slam it down as hard as I did. That caused your pain. Don't do it. I know some people are so upset.

1187
01:36:54,040 --> 01:36:58,040
We're going to stop the head of Satan. Right here.

1188
01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:00,040
Put it down.

1189
01:37:00,040 --> 01:37:08,040
Okay. He's a liar and he'll keep lying. He's a murderer and you'll keep destroying people, destroying your character, destroying lives.

1190
01:37:08,040 --> 01:37:15,040
Just take note of it. The children of our nation now, who are taking unborn children in our nation and nations all over the world now.

1191
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:22,040
He's the killer of the seed of Eve's hidden hand and we must crush him as soon as we're ready to go.

1192
01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:28,040
Now, if by some chance you approach in an open field and you saw somebody who was being attacked by a snake,

1193
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:32,040
would you run out there and grab that snake with your hand and pitch it off into the woods?

1194
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:34,040
No, but it's not.

1195
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:36,040
No, but it's not.

1196
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:40,040
But what might be safer?

1197
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:42,040
That would be safer.

1198
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:44,040
People are to reach.

1199
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:48,040
I'm going to shovel.

1200
01:37:48,040 --> 01:37:50,040
Or bat.

1201
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:53,040
Or sword.

1202
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:58,040
Right. When you go to take out the snake that's after somebody else,

1203
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,040
be prepared to wield the sword that God had given you to wield.

1204
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:08,040
And even Jesus used the sword against Satan in his day.

1205
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:14,040
When he was tempted by Satan directly, he brought out the word of God at every instance and he slowly got back to him.

1206
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:17,040
And Satan misused the word of God in his presence and he'll do that to you.

1207
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:21,040
One of the reasons why Bible and Cate's Meditation Study are so important.

1208
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:26,040
You go after the snake that's after somebody else, go with a weapon.

1209
01:38:26,040 --> 01:38:29,040
Right. We're going to close in prayer at this time.

1210
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:33,040
And then there are cupcakes. I remember there are cupcakes in the cafeteria in honor of Tyson's birthday.

1211
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:39,040
If we get in there first, which is entirely possible, somebody make sure and get us grab Tyson's toys for cupcakes.

1212
01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:41,040
That would be a great idea.

1213
01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:43,040
Somebody probably knows what else toys we'd be.

1214
01:38:43,040 --> 01:38:47,040
Alright. Our day would be close in prayer and then we'll be free.

1215
01:38:47,040 --> 01:38:51,040
Dear Father, I want to thank you for today. Thank you for everything that you've done.

1216
01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:54,040
God, thank you for everything that you're going to do.

1217
01:38:54,040 --> 01:39:00,040
Lord, I want to thank you for the message. I'm afraid that we all learn a little more and we grow a little more every day.

1218
01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:10,040
And with the ever since Bible and Cate over the next six months, God, I'm afraid that we all just get in your word more and read and study and meditate if we have to.

1219
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:17,040
However we do with God, I just pray that we know your word better because your word is the weapon against the devil.

1220
01:39:17,040 --> 01:39:21,040
As Dan said, Jesus proved that to us when he was tempted.

1221
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:27,040
He brought back scripture every time that he was tempted to do something and God knows what we should be doing to.

1222
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:31,040
God, I pray that we all remain safe, keep us healthy.

1223
01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:33,040
Jesus' name, amen.

1224
01:39:33,040 --> 01:39:34,040
Thank you very much.

1225
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:40,040
God bless you. Don't forget Saturday the parade, Tuesday night Bible study.

1226
01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:43,040
Bring candy if you want to donate candy.

1227
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:46,040
If you sting a break here, I'm in the toe.

1228
01:39:46,040 --> 01:40:05,040
God bless y'all.