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Simple stuff. I want to talk to you about freestag.

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Are you ready? We were just playing. We were

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just playing freestag. I felt a little bit hated.

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There's a lot of kids, and I was chasing them

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all over the place. But I want to tell you something

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about freestag. There's an interesting thing

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about freestag. In order for those who are not

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the person who's it to win the game, there is

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something that has to happen. What is it? That's

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right. You've got to unfreeze the frozen people.

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Otherwise, the person who's doing the tagging

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will eventually win. So if the team that's trying

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not to get tagged doesn't do the tagging, the

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untagging, or the unfreezing, eventually the

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person who's doing the tagging wins. Now, how

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does that translate into spiritual enlightenment?

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We don't tell people that. Out of what? Out of

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ice. Yeah. Spiritual ice. Right? Yeah. I already

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said, if you don't tell people who are lost,

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right? So people who don't know Jesus are trapped.

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They may not think they're trapped. They're frozen.

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They may not think they're frozen. Right? The

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Bible says we were dead in our trespasses and

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sins. So there's dead people who are walking

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around thinking they're lost. And they need somebody

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to come and tell them that they're frozen. Somebody

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to come and tell them that they're trapped and

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that they can be free. So evangelism applies.

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But what I told you, it also applies inside the

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church, between believers. See, out there in

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the world, you can't really count on somebody

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who doesn't know Jesus to care about the problems

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of anybody else who doesn't know Jesus. They're

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worried about their own problems. People are

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making sure they have enough to eat. Making sure

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their bills are paid. Making sure they get to

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work on time, or at least they don't get fired

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for getting to work late. Right? Maybe they're

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deciding what they're going to do on Friday night

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partying. That kind of thing. They're working

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about all those kinds of things. And they don't

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really care that much about what other people

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are up to. But inside the church, Kyle, do you

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need to come sit up here? Okay? Inside the church,

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we should care. It says to be concerned about

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your own problems, but also to be concerned about

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the things of others. Right? So that plays itself

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out in two ways. If somebody's hurting, we're

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all hurting. If somebody's hungry in the church,

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everybody should make sure they get fed. If somebody's

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sick, we should all be praying for them and support

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them in whatever ways we can. You can't just

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go around ignoring when people inside the church

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are hurting. The church has a responsibility

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to make sure because you know what happens? People

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get stuck. Have you ever had something bad happen

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to you and you wondered how God could let that

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happen? I have, multiple times. Right? Has that

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ever happened to you? Holly? Has that ever happened

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to you? Yeah? Sure. Sometimes it happens. And

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sometimes that person who's wondering how God

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could let that happen to them, he needs another

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believer to come alongside and love them. Because

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we are the body of Christ and God wants to love

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us. He needs somebody to come alongside you and

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say, hey, And it doesn't make any sense right

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now, but somehow or other, God's going to turn

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this out for your good. And that's what Romans

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8 says. You love him, don't you? You're called

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according to his purpose, don't you? Somebody

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come alongside and say, God can turn this out

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for your good. But also, it plays itself out

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in accountability. When someone is doing something

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wrong, and someone else becomes aware of it,

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if you let that person go on doing something

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wrong, And you don't say anything, now you should

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say something in a lovely way. Don't go and shake

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your finger out. You're a bad boy. You're a bad

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boy. Don't go smacking your head. Liam, knock

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it off, man. He's all mad at you because now

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his head hurts. It's not like that. Go up to

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them, listen. All right, now you're being funny,

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but I'm talking. All right, so we go up to them

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and we say, look, this is the time to be listening.

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This is the time to be worshiping. This is not

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the time to be lying. This is not the time to

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be drunken. This is not the time to be mad at

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somebody. This is the time to give God his proper

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place. We encourage them to do the right thing.

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Right? And you know what the Bible says happens

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to people who are in sin? He didn't save people.

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You know what it says happens? If you sin, what

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happens? He who sins is slave to sin. That's

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what Jesus said. He who sins is slave to sin.

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But sometimes they do it just because they don't

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know. And they just need somebody to come and

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explain to them. Say, hey, you could do better.

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You could do this instead. Try this on for a

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size. Every time I do what you're doing, it doesn't

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work out good for me. When I do what God wants

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me to do, it works out great. Or differently,

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anyway. Better. And so, you can encourage them

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to do a different thing. But if you leave them

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thinking that what they're doing is okay and

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they're ignorant, they're just going to keep

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on doing it. Because they don't know. They're

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not going to suddenly know. Unless somehow they

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learn. But also, sometimes people do it because

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they're hurting. They're angry. They're upset.

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They're depressed. They're worried. And so they

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do something to try to make themselves feel better.

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And for a short period of time, they do feel

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better. But then they wind up with worse hurt.

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Because afterwards they look back and they say,

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oh, I hurt somebody. I shouldn't have done it.

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I'm a Christian. Why did I do that? Right? And

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they wind up hurting themselves in the process.

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So they need somebody to come along to them and

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say, here is a course of action. You're hurting.

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I can see you're hurting. Here's something you

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can do. Here's something we can do together.

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And give them a good option. Sometimes we do

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it because they're in there. Sometimes we do

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it because they're hurting. Right? Sometimes

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we do it because they were caught off guard.

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They just made a mistake. Right? Somebody walked

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up to hit me. And before he hit me, I decked

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him in the face. He didn't hit me. But down he

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went. Does that sound right? Is that the right

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course of action? No, it's not really the right

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thing. Better would be to defend yourself and

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convince that person that they're making a bad

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decision and then forgive them. You're going

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to cause them harm if you don't have to. If you

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have to, you have to. But you always avoid it

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if you don't do it, if you don't have to. Right?

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And so it's just because sometimes people are

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caught off guard. Like we're all supposed to

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be listening right now, right? But if your buddy's

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sitting next to you and he's poking at you or

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playing with you, Or if somebody around you is

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laughing or dancing or goofing off, it's hard

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for you to do the right thing. You're like, oh,

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I want to get wrapped up in doing what they're

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doing. And we start doing it without really even

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thinking about it. It's not because we're bad

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people. It's because that's the way things work.

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Somebody walks behind you and goes, hey! Right?

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You wish you had a little less caffeine. Because

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you're real jumpy. You know? That's the way it

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is sometimes. Sometimes we just do it. So then

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we need somebody to come alongside us and show

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us what's better. What would be the better response?

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What would be the better choice? It's like a

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priest hat. For lost people, we bring the gospel.

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That's really all you can do. If you go up to

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a lost person and tell them to stop lying, you're

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really just chaining them up more. That's all

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you're really doing. Because they know they're

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lying. They already know that. And they already

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know in their heart of hearts they shouldn't

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do it. You tell them to stop stealing, you're

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really just putting another bar in their cage.

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Because they already know they shouldn't do that.

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In their heart, they know. Men know. We know

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what we should and what we shouldn't do. We have

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conscience. They think all conscience. If a person

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doesn't have a conscience, they're a sociopath

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and you should help him. Call the police. Right?

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Because they're going to hurt somebody because

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they have no conscience. But everybody has a

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conscience. It varies with person to person.

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It varies. But everybody has a conscience and

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knows some things that they're doing wrong. You

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just won't tell them what they're doing wrong?

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That's not going to do it. So if you tell them

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what they can do right, they might be set free.

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And if they're set free, they can stop doing

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what's wrong. Jesus says, come. Follow me. You'll

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know the truth. And the truth will set you free.

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Now that we know the truth, we say the same thing

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to others. Come, follow Jesus, and you'll know

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the truth, and the truth will set you free. But

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some people do it, they're just reacting, that's

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all they're doing. And you might find other reasons,

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but here's a fact, it doesn't matter why somebody

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got tagged, if you don't unfreeze them, your

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team is going to lose eventually. People have

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got to be unfrozen. So we share the gospel, we

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act in accountability, we encourage other believers,

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we stop them when they're hurting, that way we

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don't leave them frozen. Let's pray together.

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Father in heaven, we do thank you that there

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are people in this world yet today, in 2025,

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that care about us. That we are not lone rangers

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or mavericks or that one wild beast that you

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see trying to fly south for the winter all by

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himself. We live as part of community. And in

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the church, for those of us who have accepted

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Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and realize

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that you called us to be in the New Heights Fellowship

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Baptist Church, we have a responsibility to one

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another, to care about one another, to hold one

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another accountable, to correct one another.

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It's not just we correct the children. Lord,

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I've been corrected a number of times in my life

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by children. And I'm okay with them, as long

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as they're right. In fact, I desperately need

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it when I'm wrong and they're right. I'm so grateful

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that we have people of a variety of ages, backgrounds,

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cultures, capabilities, talents, spiritual giftings,

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all kinds of different inside our church. And

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I thank you, Lord, that if I would be frozen,

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I can count on somebody to come and I'm free.

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And I hope I'll always be found dependable to

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step up for somebody else. And I am reminded

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now most of all, Lord, that we have a responsibility

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to one another to love one another. And as Jesus

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loved us, and as Jesus got up from washing the

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disciples' feet for the last supper, the last

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meal he would ever take with them, and he got

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down on his knees and he washed their feet, their

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dirty, nasty feet, and he wiped their feet on

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the very clothes that he was wearing, on the

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towel that he was wearing. When he got up and

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he said, Oh, if only you'd known what I did to

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you today. For if I washed your feet, how much

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more should you wash each other's feet? Lord,

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help us to remember that somebody might be frozen

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and that we have a responsibility to ungraze

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them. Watch over us during our time of worship

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and as we look at the command that came with

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the promise today to the adults and as the children

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look into the Bible and learn... their leaders

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to the classroom. Brother Josh Mitchell and Tony

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Tate, as they both have bad sinus colds as we

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speak. So both of them missed the associational

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prayer and fellowship time last night, which

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was sad because it was pretty stinking cool.

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How did we get to eat a good meal? But we prayed

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together and did a little worship, and it went

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a little longer than expected, but it was a blessing.

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But they both missed it, and they're missing

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it here tonight too. Before we get into this,

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two things. So one, this worksheet is going to

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go by fast. It is not one of the more intense

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or difficult worksheets that I have made. It's

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kind of middle of the road. It does not have,

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as you can see, once you see it, a ton of blanks

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or confusing things on it. So we'll get through

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it pretty quickly. But before we do that, I want

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to talk briefly about praise and worship. It's

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very briefly. And so you may have noticed that

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some people. Raise a hand during worship. They'll

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raise a hand like this. Raise a hand like this.

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They'll raise a hand like this. Some people raise

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a hand like this. Some people raise a hand like

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this. Some people raise a hand like this. There's

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all this hand raising going on. You might ask

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yourself, you know, what is all that? What's

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all that hand raising thing that people do? So

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in the book of Psalms, which is not the only

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place by any means, but there is a ton of times

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in the book of Psalms where we are told to praise

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God. And that song we just sang right there where

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it says we sing Alleluia. That's the word. word

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hallelujah, actually, it can be with or without

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the H, so alleluia or hallelujah is the same

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word, and it means praise the Lord. And that

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is one of seven words, actually, and I don't

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have them all memorized, but it's one of seven

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words that are used when talking about praising

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the Lord. And one of those words that is used

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talking about praising the Lord, you know, One

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of those words means to raise your hand in praise.

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In fact, there are two of them. I don't know

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if there's any Hebrew word for it off the top

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of my head, but I guess it was a press that we

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could talk about this for a minute. So one of

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those Hebrew words means praise the Lord like

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this. Remember, hallowed be thy name. Right?

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Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Hitler was fleeing.

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Right? That's what they were doing. They were

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praising them as gods, essentially. But anyway,

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so it means praise the Lord like this. Raise

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your hands and praise. Salute. So surrender.

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It's a total recognition of God's glory to raise

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your hand. So if you never have raised your hands

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in worship, I want to be clear about something.

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If you have never raised your hands in worship

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like this, then you have never honored that command,

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which is repeated dozens of times. So just be

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aware of that. You think, well, I don't do that.

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I'm too mild. We have a couple in our church.

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Like, I don't sing. Well, there's very clear

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commands. Maybe you don't sing when the body

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is gathered. You better sing praise to God sometime

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because it's commanded to do that. In fact, the

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New Testament commands the church to be that.

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One of the things we're supposed to be is singing

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praise to our Lord. Anyway, so this is one type

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of praise of the seven. Raise your hands like

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that. Then there's another type of praise. Raise

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your hands like this. So if you just raise one

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hand like that, that's still honoring that first

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type. If you raise a hand like this, you can

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see the difference already, right? There's this.

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This was what again? Honoring or a salute or

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recognition of God's glory, right? So what do

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you think this is? No, it's not really surrendering.

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This is more surrendering. They're both praising

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God. What am I, if I'm going, help me, Alex,

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come on. You're feeling an urge, aren't you,

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right now? You're like, what does he mean? He's

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talking to me? Yeah, so you're receiving, you're

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asking God to send. So if you're in church on

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a Sunday or a Tuesday night and somebody said

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something to hurt you and your heart is hurting

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or you broke up with your girlfriend or your

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boyfriend or your wife is talking about divorce

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or you lost your job, whatever like that, you

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come in here and you do this, you're saying,

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God, I is God over my circumstances. I recognize

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him. I honor him. He is in charge, right? Like

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the key verse that we had from, oh, no, Ariana

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had a devotional. And I did devotional this morning.

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You can check in my devotional. You didn't saw

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it. But anyway, you're saying, though I fear,

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I trust you. I know you've got this. I'm honoring

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you despite my circumstance, right? But if you

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do this, you're saying, Lord, I need your help.

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I'm praising you because you are the one who

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helps. You're the one who can help, right? The

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silver statues, the gold, the bronze, the wood,

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they do nothing. No deal. Amen will help. No

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job will help. No money will help. Nothing really

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helps. It's all like self -medicating, right?

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But God, I need your help. That's this phrase.

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And then there's one more that I want to mention

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to you. And it is actually the one that starts

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hallelujah. It's halal. That one I know from

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because it's the one I kind of like it because

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it makes me laugh a little bit. A halal is a

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hooter, a holler. It's to just yell out. It's

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an ecstatic, maybe one or two or three syllables,

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right? Like you could just yell hallelujah. Some

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people do that. I have a trouble with that because

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it's such a long thing to yell. When Amalia was

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a cheerleader all the way up through high school,

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they told her that after the team scored and

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returned to the team, they were not allowed to

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go, woo -hoo. They were never. It was against

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the rules. You could never go, woo -hoo, or woo.

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They were never allowed to do that. They always

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had to yell something like, go Rangers, or good

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job. They had to say some actual words. They

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were not allowed to yell, woo -hoo. And you know

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what the funny thing about that is? That's a

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holler. That's a hooter, a holler. excitement

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for what just happened. And so when God praises,

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or we're praising God, and God is doing something

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and you know it, it's perfectly fine to go, yeah!

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Woo! I'm excited! You know, hallelujah! Although,

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again, now it's kind of long for me, so I don't

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need to do that. But if you'll hear me in the

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front row, and I do, and so what I'm saying to

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you, and I want to be really super clear, these

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are commands of Scripture before you die. odds

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are you're going to need to do it. Because, right,

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he who loves me follows my commands. That's what

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Jesus said. See, these are the commands of Scripture.

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So sometime before you go to meet Jesus, you're

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going to want to say, I halal. I hooted and hollered

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for Jesus. I raised my hands in praise. I raised

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my hands in petition. And if you just dismiss

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those things, then you could get there facing

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Jesus and be like, hey, there was no halal. What

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happened with that? Why was there no halal? Because

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he said do it. So you might just ask and say,

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what happened? But if you're in worship on a

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Tuesday night or Sunday night, or a Sunday night,

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and you feel like there's an urging in you, and

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you don't know what it is, it could be to worship

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in one of those other ways. And I'd give you

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three of them. I don't know all seven of them

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off the top of my head. But it could be that

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God's urging you to raise your hands, or to raise

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your hands. or to give a little hooter holler

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and just say, man, I feel when I do it, usually

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I feel like overjoyed, like my heart is going

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to burst from how grateful I'm feeling toward

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the Lord. And that's usually when I do a hooter

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holler. That's to explain my emotion. But you

00:26:32.789 --> 00:26:34.670
might be somewhere else. And so I'm just saying,

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you could be misinterpreting a signal of the

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Holy Spirit if you're in worship and he's urging

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you to worship in that way and you don't do it.

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Then you could be like, the Bible says, don't

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quell the Spirit. So don't think people are weird

00:26:45.730 --> 00:26:46.630
when they raise their hands. There's nothing

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weird about that at all. It's actually biblically

00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:51.019
commanded to do that. Not that you have to do

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it. There is an appropriate time and a not appropriate

00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:55.579
time, right, to do it. And you figure out what

00:26:55.579 --> 00:26:57.779
that is for you. Okay. All right. Now we're on

00:26:57.779 --> 00:26:59.400
to the worksheet, as I said. Not a super long

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worksheet today. Did anybody get this before

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they walked in the room? I did not give you the

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reference. Did anybody know? In the New Testament,

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I told you there's a New Testament verse that

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says, it quotes a command that says it is the

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first command that comes with a promise. Did

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anybody find it? Yes, sir. Did anybody find it?

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Ready? No. That is the correct command. Did you

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find the reference? Okay. It's Ephesians 6, 1

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and 2. So I'm going to flip in my Bible there.

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Again, there's not a ton of Bible in what we're

00:27:36.109 --> 00:27:38.910
studying today. It's not super hard to comprehend.

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It's Ephesians 6, 1 to 2. Probably you could

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memorize this. In fact, we could have made that

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part of the lesson today. It says in Ephesians

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6, 1, Children, obey your parents in the Lord,

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for this is right. Honor your father and mother,

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which is the first commandment with a promise.

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Okay, so that's Ephesians 6, 1 and 2. So first

00:28:02.410 --> 00:28:04.430
of all, we're in that upper left -hand box, and

00:28:04.430 --> 00:28:06.910
there's a word right under Ephesians there, if

00:28:06.910 --> 00:28:08.490
you wrote it in. Did you write in Ephesians?

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Okay, good. I see a lot of nodding. Ephesians

00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:13.569
6, 1 to 2 is the top there. And then there's

00:28:13.569 --> 00:28:14.789
a word right under there that starts with a C,

00:28:14.789 --> 00:28:17.210
and it is? Children, right? We're going to come

00:28:17.210 --> 00:28:18.809
back and talk about that before we're through.

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And then down the right -hand side there, it

00:28:21.450 --> 00:28:25.329
says O -Y -P. Obey your parents. Boy, that was

00:28:25.329 --> 00:28:28.509
easy, wasn't it? Okay, nice and simple. And then

00:28:28.509 --> 00:28:30.890
in the bottom half of that box, broken off by

00:28:30.890 --> 00:28:32.950
a line separately because it's a separate verse,

00:28:33.069 --> 00:28:36.450
it says, honor they father and mother. So I want

00:28:36.450 --> 00:28:38.609
to say to you that if you were raised in a Christian

00:28:38.609 --> 00:28:41.490
home, you probably have heard these verses. In

00:28:41.490 --> 00:28:44.049
fact, I would submit to you that many Christian

00:28:44.049 --> 00:28:46.730
parents have quoted these verses to their children.

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And in doing so, to try to get their children

00:28:49.589 --> 00:28:51.670
to behave or follow rules, whatever, they would

00:28:51.670 --> 00:28:54.970
be incorrect. Got it? If a parent teaches these

00:28:54.970 --> 00:28:58.849
verses to their children in order to try to get

00:28:58.849 --> 00:29:02.410
their children to obey them, that would be incorrect.

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Before we're done, I'm going to explain to you

00:29:04.750 --> 00:29:07.210
why that is true. Now, it is not incorrect to

00:29:07.210 --> 00:29:09.069
teach them to your children. You should definitely

00:29:09.069 --> 00:29:11.190
teach them to your children. You definitely should

00:29:11.190 --> 00:29:13.410
do that. And there is a result that you're looking

00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:16.130
for. It is just they're not there for you to

00:29:16.130 --> 00:29:17.690
teach your children to try to get them to behave.

00:29:18.029 --> 00:29:21.099
So go over to the right box now. We're still

00:29:21.099 --> 00:29:24.619
really in verse 2, but there is some confusion

00:29:24.619 --> 00:29:29.339
here. It says, which is the first command with

00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:31.720
a promise. So fill in that box, which is the

00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:35.500
first command with a promise. So Ephesians 6,

00:29:35.619 --> 00:29:37.440
1 and 2 said, children, obey your parents and

00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:38.920
the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:40.740
and mother, which is the first command with a

00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:42.980
promise. And then it goes on in verse 3, it says,

00:29:43.059 --> 00:29:45.599
so that it may turn out well for you and that

00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:49.289
you may live long on the earth. But verse 3,

00:29:49.470 --> 00:29:51.970
where most people take that as if it's quoting

00:29:51.970 --> 00:29:53.910
the Old Testament, in fact, in the New American

00:29:53.910 --> 00:29:57.150
Standard, it's all in caps as if it were a direct

00:29:57.150 --> 00:29:59.509
quotation of the Old Testament. But as you can

00:29:59.509 --> 00:30:00.990
probably all imagine, because I'm saying this,

00:30:01.089 --> 00:30:03.930
it's not exactly a direct quoting of the Old

00:30:03.930 --> 00:30:05.710
Testament. So even though Paul is definitely

00:30:05.710 --> 00:30:09.309
referencing the fact that the verses in Exodus

00:30:09.309 --> 00:30:13.569
do have a promise to them, he does not directly

00:30:13.569 --> 00:30:17.269
quote the promise. In fact, he says, so that...

00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:20.059
Honor your father and mother, which is the first

00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:21.220
commandment with a promise. And then he says,

00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:24.819
so that it may turn out. So which is the first

00:30:24.819 --> 00:30:26.299
commandment with a promise is in parentheses.

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So you can take that out. The sentence reads

00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:30.099
like this. Children, obey your parents and the

00:30:30.099 --> 00:30:32.190
Lord, for this is right. honor your father and

00:30:32.190 --> 00:30:35.190
mother so that it may turn out well for you that

00:30:35.190 --> 00:30:37.369
you may live long on the earth. So in other words,

00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:40.990
he's saying, follow that command, do follow it

00:30:40.990 --> 00:30:44.329
because this will be the results. He's not saying

00:30:44.329 --> 00:30:46.349
follow that command, which is the first of the

00:30:46.349 --> 00:30:48.589
commandment or first with a promise. And here

00:30:48.589 --> 00:30:50.990
is the promise of that command. It means two

00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:52.950
different things, right? So for example, if I

00:30:52.950 --> 00:30:55.849
say, if you go downtown and you cross the street,

00:30:55.910 --> 00:30:58.490
not in the crosswalk, you might get a ticket.

00:30:58.569 --> 00:31:00.450
The law says you could get a ticket for jail.

00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.440
walking if you cross somewhere other than in

00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:06.039
a crosswalk. So if I say to you, cross in the

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.970
crosswalk. Because there is a law that says you

00:31:08.970 --> 00:31:11.329
can get a ticket if you don't. That is different

00:31:11.329 --> 00:31:13.910
than if I say to you cross in the crosswalk and

00:31:13.910 --> 00:31:15.869
you will not get a ticket for jaywalking. See

00:31:15.869 --> 00:31:18.069
the difference? There's two differences. Both

00:31:18.069 --> 00:31:20.730
are true. Neither is a lie by any means. In fact,

00:31:20.750 --> 00:31:23.210
they're both completely true. But it's not saying

00:31:23.210 --> 00:31:25.869
the exact same thing. He's not saying follow

00:31:25.869 --> 00:31:28.470
that command because you will specifically get

00:31:28.470 --> 00:31:30.650
the promise that is associated with that command.

00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:32.650
And here it is. That's not what he's saying.

00:31:32.789 --> 00:31:34.630
He's saying follow that command because it is

00:31:34.630 --> 00:31:36.789
a command that has a promise associated. associated

00:31:36.789 --> 00:31:39.710
to it. And in following that command, you will

00:31:39.710 --> 00:31:42.210
actually get this. Am I making sense? Help me

00:31:42.210 --> 00:31:43.970
if you're confused. Somebody say, explain it

00:31:43.970 --> 00:31:46.750
again a different way. Anybody? Okay. So what

00:31:46.750 --> 00:31:49.990
the goal here is what's in verse three. Paul

00:31:49.990 --> 00:31:51.829
is saying that's the results that you're looking

00:31:51.829 --> 00:31:54.650
for so that it may turn out well. for you, and

00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:56.670
that you may live long on the earth. That's the

00:31:56.670 --> 00:31:59.430
results you're looking for. And he says, honor

00:31:59.430 --> 00:32:01.750
that command, which happens to be the first command

00:32:01.750 --> 00:32:04.109
with a promise. So under where you wrote that,

00:32:04.190 --> 00:32:06.190
which is the first command with a promise, you'll

00:32:06.190 --> 00:32:08.009
see a big fat arrow that points to the right,

00:32:08.089 --> 00:32:10.650
and we're going to have the reference for the

00:32:10.650 --> 00:32:13.230
command. So does anybody know what book, there

00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:14.529
are actually two of them, but we're looking for

00:32:14.529 --> 00:32:16.509
one in particular, where you can find the Ten

00:32:16.509 --> 00:32:19.470
Commandments, Exodus. You can also find them

00:32:19.470 --> 00:32:21.829
in Deuteronomy, because Deuteronomy is a retelling.

00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.160
the original writing, so Exodus, and what's the

00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.859
chapter? 20. Does anybody know the verse? It's

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:29.700
12. Did I put it on there? I did put it on there.

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.420
Okay, yes. So yeah, there you go. All right,

00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.799
so Exodus 20, verse 12. Okay, so I'm going to

00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.220
flip there and read it. Now, this is more for

00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:40.500
us to make sure we understand, because in some

00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:43.180
sense, if this promise that we're about to read

00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:46.319
differs, from the one that he just told us, the

00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:48.099
result that he just told us we could receive

00:32:48.099 --> 00:32:51.019
if we do it, then we get both, right? So if the

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:53.059
command comes with a promise, you follow the

00:32:53.059 --> 00:32:54.400
command, you're going to get the promise, right?

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:57.619
And if the command is there and somewhere else

00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:59.680
somebody says, follow the command and you will

00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.519
get this, if both are true and they're not the

00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:04.500
same thing, then you're going to get both. Right?

00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:06.700
That's good. That would be what we want. So now

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:09.460
we want to know what does the original command

00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:11.660
say for the promise? Because he didn't tell us

00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:13.480
what that was. He told us what the result will

00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:15.259
be if we follow the command, but he did not tell

00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:17.019
us what the command was, even though most people

00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:18.960
take it that that's what he said. Verse 12 says

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.900
this. Honor your father and your mother. Notice

00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:23.880
what's missing. What's missing? Okay, children

00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.779
is missing. What else? In the command itself.

00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:29.099
Say it again, obey. So children is missing and

00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:30.900
obey is missing. So it's different. There is

00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:33.400
a difference, okay? That being said, honor your

00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:36.259
father and your mother so that your days may

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:40.119
be prolonged on the land which the Lord God gives

00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.670
you. What's missing from the first one? Okay,

00:33:42.710 --> 00:33:44.309
we'll figure it out because we're going to write.

00:33:44.349 --> 00:33:46.049
If you'll go to the bottom under where it says

00:33:46.049 --> 00:33:48.230
commands and promises, they're on the book. If

00:33:48.230 --> 00:33:49.849
you go to the bottom, you got a big long stretch

00:33:49.849 --> 00:33:52.109
of blanks that goes across left to right. And

00:33:52.109 --> 00:33:55.950
that is essentially Ephesians 6 .3 is what goes

00:33:55.950 --> 00:34:00.529
there. And it says, are you ready? So that it

00:34:00.529 --> 00:34:04.529
may be well with you and that you may live long

00:34:04.529 --> 00:34:08.130
on the earth. Okay, so now I'm going to go back

00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:11.829
to Exodus 12 and read the promise portion of

00:34:11.829 --> 00:34:13.690
the commandment that comes with a promise, as

00:34:13.690 --> 00:34:16.369
Paul would call it. And it is this. So that your

00:34:16.369 --> 00:34:19.650
days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord

00:34:19.650 --> 00:34:22.289
your God gives you. So now what is missing between

00:34:22.289 --> 00:34:25.230
so that your days may be prolonged on the land

00:34:25.230 --> 00:34:27.750
which the Lord your God gives you and so that

00:34:27.750 --> 00:34:29.630
it may be well with you and that you may live

00:34:29.630 --> 00:34:32.670
long on the earth. Yeah, so the whole being well

00:34:32.670 --> 00:34:35.139
thing. You catch that? It's completely missing

00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:37.820
from the original promise, which is another way

00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:39.760
that we know that he's not just re -quoting the

00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.960
promise. So it's different, isn't it? Who wrote

00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.000
the book of Exodus as far as we know? We know

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.320
God inspired it, but who wrote it? Moses. Who

00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.099
wrote the book of Ephesians? Paul. Who was Moses?

00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:57.130
What's his big claim to fame? Yes, that's it.

00:34:57.230 --> 00:34:59.449
He was the leader of God's people out of Egypt,

00:34:59.510 --> 00:35:01.889
received the Ten Commandments. I mean, he never

00:35:01.889 --> 00:35:03.409
got to see the Promised Land while he was alive.

00:35:03.510 --> 00:35:05.630
That was kind of a bummer, right? He sinned against

00:35:05.630 --> 00:35:08.309
God in the wilderness, and he also was like God

00:35:08.309 --> 00:35:09.869
took his life. You can read about that. We'll

00:35:09.869 --> 00:35:12.550
study it at some point. So, yeah, that kind of

00:35:12.550 --> 00:35:14.809
sucked. But his claim to fame is he led God's

00:35:14.809 --> 00:35:16.610
people. He told God's people what it would be

00:35:16.610 --> 00:35:19.090
like to follow God in the Promised Land. That's

00:35:19.090 --> 00:35:20.809
what it was really all about. And then he led

00:35:20.809 --> 00:35:22.530
them, taught them how to be followers of God

00:35:22.530 --> 00:35:25.869
and so on, right? Okay, so who was Paul? Yep,

00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:28.929
he was an apostle. What's an apostle? Yeah, not

00:35:28.929 --> 00:35:31.849
just a follower. Yep, had to have encountered

00:35:31.849 --> 00:35:33.289
him personally. That was one of the requirements,

00:35:33.570 --> 00:35:35.610
so they could personally testify to his ministry.

00:35:35.769 --> 00:35:37.409
Even though Paul did not encounter him while

00:35:37.409 --> 00:35:38.929
he was alive, he did encounter him on the road

00:35:38.929 --> 00:35:40.889
to Damascus, which qualified him, right? So that's

00:35:40.889 --> 00:35:42.590
good that you know that. It's pretty impressive.

00:35:42.829 --> 00:35:45.590
So an apostle is a sent one. An apostle means

00:35:45.590 --> 00:35:47.690
sent, which is really funny because there is

00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:49.210
a certain verse in the Bible where it says that

00:35:49.210 --> 00:35:51.309
everybody went except the apostles. Everybody

00:35:51.309 --> 00:35:53.510
was sent out except the apostles when the persecution

00:35:53.510 --> 00:35:55.610
struck Jerusalem. So that's pretty much the funniest

00:35:55.610 --> 00:35:57.210
verse in the New Testament in my mind because

00:35:57.210 --> 00:35:59.070
they were sent and they didn't go, but everybody

00:35:59.070 --> 00:36:00.880
else was sent. did go, which is kind of funny

00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.340
because they're the sent ones. Anyway, that's

00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:04.719
my humor. But anyway, so the point is, he was

00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.739
an apostle, so he was sent by God. And what is

00:36:07.739 --> 00:36:09.739
his claim to fame? What did he do? What was the

00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:11.559
big thing to do? Not wrote two -thirds of the

00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.559
New Testament. He did do that. But what did he

00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.800
do that was his big claim to fame? Paul. Yeah,

00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:18.940
yeah. Break that down a little bit. He did more

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:21.940
than just lead the church. Say it again. He established,

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:24.800
he started it, right? He first persecuted, then

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:27.420
turned around completely and led and established

00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:29.659
the church. So he traveled around planting churches

00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:32.059
everywhere, local churches everywhere. And then

00:36:32.059 --> 00:36:34.739
he would go back and teach them and he wrote

00:36:34.739 --> 00:36:36.440
them letters and stuff so that they could follow

00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:38.500
God like they were supposed to. So notice that

00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:42.010
both are leaders of God's people. But for Moses,

00:36:42.190 --> 00:36:44.710
he was a leader bringing the people out of slavery

00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:48.130
into the promised land. Now, we speak in metaphor,

00:36:48.489 --> 00:36:51.469
right? So we're not literal. Paul was a leader

00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:53.929
of God's people bringing God's people out of

00:36:53.929 --> 00:36:57.130
slavery into the promised kingdom of God, such

00:36:57.130 --> 00:36:59.489
as it is on earth, and ultimately into heaven.

00:36:59.630 --> 00:37:02.199
Does that make sense? So they are... two men

00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:05.199
in almost the same role, and they give almost

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.179
the same promise, but those key things that we

00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:11.380
just noticed show a difference. And they were,

00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.929
again, The word children was missing. Obey is

00:37:14.929 --> 00:37:17.949
missing. And being well is missing. And then

00:37:17.949 --> 00:37:20.070
there's one thing that Paul kind of adds in or

00:37:20.070 --> 00:37:23.929
expands, right? The end of his promise. So Moses

00:37:23.929 --> 00:37:25.670
told them that they would do well, their days

00:37:25.670 --> 00:37:27.710
would be prolonged, or not do well, but their

00:37:27.710 --> 00:37:29.590
days would be prolonged in the land that God

00:37:29.590 --> 00:37:31.489
would give them. Talk about the promised land.

00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:33.670
Where did Paul say they would do long and have

00:37:33.670 --> 00:37:36.820
their time prolonged? On the whole earth. So

00:37:36.820 --> 00:37:39.300
where Moses was giving them the promised land

00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:41.559
that God had promised, Paul is giving Christians

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.760
the whole earth. See that difference? Pretty

00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.280
significant. Okay. In the big boxes in the middle,

00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:48.360
the big boxes in the middle, we're going to have

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.880
the reference again for the command because that's

00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.079
what we're studying today. So the book was? Nope.

00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:55.659
Exodus, right? The command itself was in Exodus.

00:37:55.820 --> 00:37:58.019
The quoting of the command is in Ephesians. Exodus.

00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:01.840
And it's 20, 12. So the other two boxes are 20

00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:03.800
and 12. All right. So we're going to talk briefly

00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:06.519
about why. the differences and I think then we're

00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.639
gonna it'll all come together for you I think

00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:11.559
okay so going down the left hand side we're talking

00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:14.400
about the command in Exodus first okay and it

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.139
says WTA it's why the word children is missing

00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:21.320
written to you could put all yeah but really

00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.079
it was written to adults right but it was for

00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.789
everybody not just the adults, so that's true,

00:38:26.889 --> 00:38:28.570
but the adults would have certainly received

00:38:28.570 --> 00:38:30.789
it. So it was written to adults. Now, what about

00:38:30.789 --> 00:38:34.130
the New Testament command? Before we go on, yeah,

00:38:34.230 --> 00:38:35.590
you're right. The next thing is comes with a

00:38:35.590 --> 00:38:36.710
promise. So if anybody wants to fill that out

00:38:36.710 --> 00:38:38.530
now, they can. It comes with a promise. And the

00:38:38.530 --> 00:38:41.289
Exodus command comes with a promise. That's correct.

00:38:41.510 --> 00:38:44.590
But was the New Testament command written to

00:38:44.590 --> 00:38:47.150
adults or was it written to children? Be careful.

00:38:47.269 --> 00:38:49.789
It's written to adults. So why does it say children?

00:38:50.110 --> 00:38:53.099
Because it's children of God. So actually the

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:56.300
children command, children goes a little deeper

00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:58.599
than that. A child is someone, and I don't want

00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.940
to get ahead of myself because I'm going to give

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:02.420
you this in a minute, but a child is someone

00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:05.019
who has a specific relationship with God and

00:39:05.019 --> 00:39:07.000
God's people. So we'll come back to that in a

00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.360
second. So the next one was comes with a promise.

00:39:09.539 --> 00:39:12.440
So the command in Exodus was written to adults,

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:16.139
comes with a promise. Then it says Paul urges

00:39:16.139 --> 00:39:20.099
people to what? KTC. Tim, do you need a paper?

00:39:22.219 --> 00:39:24.739
Keep the command. And we've talked about this

00:39:24.739 --> 00:39:28.940
recently. So does keeping the command mean doing

00:39:28.940 --> 00:39:31.199
what you're told? If the command says do something?

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:39.519
Okay. Expand on that. Okay. So more than just

00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:41.800
what you're told. Right. So the job of keeping

00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:44.539
the command means we do follow orders, but it

00:39:44.539 --> 00:39:46.679
isn't about the orders. It's about what God is

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:48.980
saying. Then as keepers of the command, what

00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:52.260
do we do with them? Remember Proverbs 1 from

00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:55.679
two weeks ago on Sunday mornings, sinners entice

00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:57.820
thou not. I think it is in the King James, right?

00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.420
So you can't be enticed. It's not that you just

00:40:00.420 --> 00:40:02.179
have the command. So if somebody is gossiping,

00:40:02.179 --> 00:40:03.599
you don't just say, well, I'm not going to gossip.

00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:06.579
You also have to say the command of God is not

00:40:06.579 --> 00:40:08.300
to gossip. If somebody is going to steal. You

00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:10.579
don't just go, they told me they were going to

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:11.860
steal, but I didn't have nothing to do with it,

00:40:11.940 --> 00:40:14.539
right? You say, no, stealing is wrong. So keeping

00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:16.639
the command means you have possession of it.

00:40:16.699 --> 00:40:19.059
And you're, yes, living by it, but so much more.

00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:21.280
As RJ said, you're able to relate it, to understand

00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.960
it, to deliver it. It's so much more than just

00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:26.980
being able to read it and follow it, okay? So

00:40:26.980 --> 00:40:29.780
Paul's urging people to keep the command that

00:40:29.780 --> 00:40:33.639
Moses wrote in Exodus 20, verse 12, for a reason.

00:40:33.739 --> 00:40:36.340
He says, for a reason, so that, okay? The next

00:40:36.340 --> 00:40:39.210
verse says, That C is children. So now we talk

00:40:39.210 --> 00:40:42.550
about this for a second. Children are those being,

00:40:42.650 --> 00:40:44.829
what do you think? Starts with a T and an L.

00:40:44.949 --> 00:40:47.610
Anybody who understands foster children, adopted

00:40:47.610 --> 00:40:49.949
children, understands this truth. Children are

00:40:49.949 --> 00:40:53.789
those who are being what? Nope, not taken. Taught

00:40:53.789 --> 00:40:58.179
and loved. That's it. A child becomes your child

00:40:58.179 --> 00:41:00.460
when you teach them and love them, which is one

00:41:00.460 --> 00:41:02.599
of the reasons why it's so bad when parents don't

00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:04.099
do that with their children. There are parents

00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:05.739
who say they love their children, but they don't

00:41:05.739 --> 00:41:07.500
teach their children. They don't practice discipline.

00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:09.360
They don't take the steps that are necessary

00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:12.280
to teach right living. They don't bring Christian

00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:13.639
teaching into it. They don't bring God's word

00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.219
into it. They don't keep the commands of the

00:41:15.219 --> 00:41:17.940
Lord. They don't teach them how to worship. They

00:41:17.940 --> 00:41:20.800
are missing the boat, right? And so they say,

00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:23.739
I love, I love, I love, I love. Bless you. But

00:41:23.739 --> 00:41:26.909
they don't teach. They'll teach you basically

00:41:26.909 --> 00:41:29.289
how to survive like that, but it's not a loving

00:41:29.289 --> 00:41:32.250
teaching. It's a more expedient teaching, like

00:41:32.250 --> 00:41:34.869
here's how to lie and steal and whatever. It's

00:41:34.869 --> 00:41:37.230
not, yeah, just don't get caught. That's not

00:41:37.230 --> 00:41:39.610
loving at all, or it's unseemly. So they say

00:41:39.610 --> 00:41:42.889
they love them, but to teach them, they burn

00:41:42.889 --> 00:41:45.070
them with a cigarette when they act up or put

00:41:45.070 --> 00:41:47.510
them in the dryer. That's not loving. It doesn't

00:41:47.510 --> 00:41:48.969
matter if it teaches or not. It's teaching them

00:41:48.969 --> 00:41:50.570
something, but what they teach them is not good.

00:41:51.250 --> 00:41:54.269
And so children are those being taught or loved.

00:41:54.369 --> 00:41:56.929
That's what the word children means there in

00:41:56.929 --> 00:42:00.190
that verse. And so Paul was writing to the church,

00:42:00.349 --> 00:42:02.329
one of the churches that he helped to found.

00:42:02.650 --> 00:42:04.769
And so everybody that was in that church, even

00:42:04.769 --> 00:42:06.429
though he didn't necessarily baptize them, everybody

00:42:06.429 --> 00:42:08.190
was in that church, he saw them as children.

00:42:08.329 --> 00:42:11.150
Not children like immature or anything like that,

00:42:11.210 --> 00:42:13.789
but children as in he wanted to teach them and

00:42:13.789 --> 00:42:16.070
he wanted to love them. So now if we bring that

00:42:16.070 --> 00:42:18.789
into present day context, if you love somebody,

00:42:18.929 --> 00:42:21.449
even if they're your age, or they're older than

00:42:21.449 --> 00:42:23.489
your age, right? You could be an eight -year

00:42:23.489 --> 00:42:25.449
-old, right? So I've had a number of conversations

00:42:25.449 --> 00:42:29.329
with Phyllis, Sherry's grandma, and she'll ask

00:42:29.329 --> 00:42:31.230
me questions about the Bible, ask me about spiritual

00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:33.289
things, stuff like that, and I find myself teaching.

00:42:33.429 --> 00:42:36.389
Now, she's, in a lot of ways, way wiser than

00:42:36.389 --> 00:42:38.070
I am, but then when it comes to certain things,

00:42:38.110 --> 00:42:40.849
she wants to know, and I teach her. I love her.

00:42:41.070 --> 00:42:43.469
So in that sense, she is my child, even though

00:42:43.469 --> 00:42:46.389
she could be my great -grandma. She's old enough,

00:42:46.550 --> 00:42:50.289
right? And so my point is, It's not about age,

00:42:50.550 --> 00:42:52.789
culture, social background, or whatever. So what

00:42:52.789 --> 00:42:54.369
are we talking about? We're talking about members

00:42:54.369 --> 00:42:57.010
of the kingdom of God who are willing to know,

00:42:57.110 --> 00:42:58.710
they're willing to be taught, they're willing

00:42:58.710 --> 00:43:01.869
to be loved. And Paul says, I want to help you.

00:43:01.909 --> 00:43:04.070
Let me help you, okay? So then when we go into

00:43:04.070 --> 00:43:05.769
that New Testament verse, you see that word children.

00:43:05.989 --> 00:43:08.769
Now, if you teach that verse to your children

00:43:08.769 --> 00:43:10.789
as if you are teaching it to them because they

00:43:10.789 --> 00:43:13.369
are children, right? So if I teach Kyler and

00:43:13.369 --> 00:43:15.570
I say, Kyler, you got to obey me. The Bible says

00:43:15.570 --> 00:43:17.730
you got to obey me. That's wrong. right? It's

00:43:17.730 --> 00:43:19.690
not wrong that he obey me. It's right that he

00:43:19.690 --> 00:43:21.510
obey me, but it's wrong to teach that because

00:43:21.510 --> 00:43:23.550
that verse is not written to him because he's

00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:26.230
a child. Because what if tomorrow at four o 'clock,

00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:28.510
Kyle and I are having a conversation and he teaches

00:43:28.510 --> 00:43:30.730
me something out of love. Then in that conversation,

00:43:30.889 --> 00:43:33.389
who is the child? Me. It doesn't matter. I'm...

00:43:33.670 --> 00:43:36.030
nine times his age or seven times his age or

00:43:36.030 --> 00:43:37.829
whatever I am. It doesn't matter anymore. One

00:43:37.829 --> 00:43:40.690
time back early on, we were trying to do our

00:43:40.690 --> 00:43:44.369
list of core values for New Heights, and Arden

00:43:44.369 --> 00:43:45.829
was in the room, and Arden was just less than

00:43:45.829 --> 00:43:47.869
five years old. And the kids did everything with

00:43:47.869 --> 00:43:49.449
us back then as we were trying to figure out

00:43:49.449 --> 00:43:51.210
difficult concepts and everything, and he sat

00:43:51.210 --> 00:43:53.469
in there, and we were parsing the words and trying

00:43:53.469 --> 00:43:55.269
to figure out what we got down to. We had two

00:43:55.269 --> 00:43:57.469
words that we couldn't decide which one, but

00:43:57.469 --> 00:43:58.949
they were very similar. And he said, well, you

00:43:58.949 --> 00:44:01.269
know, to me, as an artist, I feel like God is

00:44:01.269 --> 00:44:02.929
saying, these two words could just go together.

00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.119
They could basically be the same thing. And then

00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.280
you have to keep them both because they do have

00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:08.780
a little bit of difference to them, but basically

00:44:08.780 --> 00:44:10.579
you just put them on the same line. He's just

00:44:10.579 --> 00:44:12.480
less than five years old. And everybody in the

00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:14.760
room went, that was God. God just said that.

00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:16.699
We all knew it immediately. I didn't say it being

00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:19.800
the pastor, right? And so he was just less than

00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.300
five years old and he said it. And so what I'm

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:23.980
saying is humble yourself, adults, and realize,

00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:26.500
yes, we must teach the children that they should

00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:29.059
honor and obey their parents. But the reason

00:44:29.059 --> 00:44:31.000
that they do that is not because we want them

00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.179
to or because this command was written to them.

00:44:33.179 --> 00:44:35.139
It is because then they will get the benefit

00:44:35.139 --> 00:44:36.780
from it. They will get the blessing. Does that

00:44:36.780 --> 00:44:39.639
make sense? Okay. It's a little long for me to

00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:41.280
get the point across. But basically, you're looking

00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:43.940
for that relationship of teaching and love. And

00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:47.199
if it exists, then whoever's being taught and

00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.420
receiving the love in the relationship is the

00:44:49.420 --> 00:44:52.039
child that Paul's talking about. Okay. Then there

00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:53.420
are two words in here we're going to break down.

00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:56.360
The first one I've given you is obey. Simply

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.139
tell me what it means to obey. Simply put. Do

00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:01.840
as you're told. Follow instructions. Good. Okay.

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:04.820
So he said, Paul said, honor and obey your parents.

00:45:04.980 --> 00:45:06.739
So when your parents tell you what to do, you

00:45:06.739 --> 00:45:08.940
do it. Now there's some problems with that. What

00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:11.039
if your parents tell you to sin? You don't do

00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:13.940
it. Why? Okay. You're saying that would dishonor

00:45:13.940 --> 00:45:21.179
them. Maybe. It's kind of a gray area. Yeah,

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:25.469
I'll give you that. Yeah, it would be dishonoring

00:45:25.469 --> 00:45:27.250
to God. You could actually hurt them. If they

00:45:27.250 --> 00:45:29.630
give you a command that's a sin and you do what

00:45:29.630 --> 00:45:32.269
they tell you to do, you could bring about punishment

00:45:32.269 --> 00:45:36.559
of them and you need to be aware of that. Be

00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:38.539
careful that you don't use that as an excuse

00:45:38.539 --> 00:45:40.539
because you do have to honor and obey your parents.

00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:42.679
So if your parents are wrong and tell you something

00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.440
that's against what you think you should do,

00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:48.239
but it's not scripturally a sin, then you still

00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:50.559
have to do what you're told. You have to be able

00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.119
to find a verse. Like mom or dad tell you to

00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.920
lie, steal, murder, hold anger in your heart

00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.260
towards somebody, things like that. Then that

00:45:57.260 --> 00:45:59.460
would all be sin and you can say no. But if they

00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:02.460
say, you know, you can't have dinner. You have

00:46:02.460 --> 00:46:04.719
to go clean your room because I said so. And

00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:06.360
you're like, well, that's not fair. A parent

00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.820
can't deny their child dinner. That's a sin to

00:46:08.820 --> 00:46:10.820
deny your child dinner. And so then you throw

00:46:10.820 --> 00:46:12.679
a fit and do all these other things or whatever,

00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.400
try to get your way or sneak your dinner or whatever

00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:17.070
like that. That doesn't work because it isn't

00:46:17.070 --> 00:46:18.969
a sin for a parent to deny their child their

00:46:18.969 --> 00:46:21.130
dinner at a certain time. It would be a sin for

00:46:21.130 --> 00:46:23.110
them to never let them eat, but not to say you

00:46:23.110 --> 00:46:24.889
can't have dinner right now. So you've got to

00:46:24.889 --> 00:46:27.809
be careful not to try to use that as an escape.

00:46:28.010 --> 00:46:30.869
And that means ultimately you err on the side

00:46:30.869 --> 00:46:34.050
of caution and obey everything you are told unless

00:46:34.050 --> 00:46:36.849
you know it's a sin. Then we come to the other

00:46:36.849 --> 00:46:39.889
word, and the other word was honor. So the word

00:46:39.889 --> 00:46:43.369
honor. Anybody want to take a stab at the biblical

00:46:43.369 --> 00:46:45.440
concept of honor? honoring someone or something

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:48.159
to do the right thing okay so that is one definition

00:46:48.159 --> 00:46:50.159
of the word to honor somebody because you would

00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.260
do what they would want you to do even though

00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:54.579
they're not there to tell you to do it okay that

00:46:54.579 --> 00:46:56.119
would be a very good way of honoring something

00:46:56.119 --> 00:46:58.480
you're representing that so if dad's not around

00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.809
mom's home dad's not around mom needs help We

00:47:01.809 --> 00:47:03.670
all know that dad is the number one help for

00:47:03.670 --> 00:47:05.809
mom, right? So dad's not there. So if I'm going

00:47:05.809 --> 00:47:07.969
to honor dad, I got to step in. It's the only

00:47:07.969 --> 00:47:09.710
way because I'm supposed to be his representative.

00:47:09.989 --> 00:47:12.750
I got his DNA. He fed me all my meals to this

00:47:12.750 --> 00:47:14.809
point. He kept the roof over my head, you know,

00:47:14.829 --> 00:47:17.289
all those kinds of things. So that's pretty accurate

00:47:17.289 --> 00:47:19.989
representing. And that's also a good idea of

00:47:19.989 --> 00:47:22.389
how we would honor God. Okay. Can you come up

00:47:22.389 --> 00:47:26.599
with another one? Okay. The three that jumped

00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:28.139
out at me when I initially looked at this, the

00:47:28.139 --> 00:47:30.579
first one is to regard or treat somebody with

00:47:30.579 --> 00:47:32.960
admiration or respect. If you're going to honor

00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:35.659
somebody, so you give them a medal, they're honored.

00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.659
You give them a salute, they're honored. They

00:47:37.659 --> 00:47:41.159
earned their station, didn't they? A man looks

00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:43.800
a man in the eye, that's honoring. When you shake

00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:45.500
somebody's hand like this, the reason it's a

00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:47.300
problem is not because you're dishonoring yourself,

00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:49.280
although that's also true. You're showing that

00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:50.559
you have poor self -esteem, but it's because

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:51.980
you're dishonoring the person that you're shaking

00:47:51.980 --> 00:47:53.460
their hand. You won't even look them in the eye,

00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:55.739
right? So to honor somebody is to give them their

00:47:55.739 --> 00:47:58.340
station, and that's a big part of what this is

00:47:58.340 --> 00:48:00.079
about. We have to recognize our parents are our

00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.519
parents. You could go, my parents are terrible.

00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:05.119
They did not do for me. They left me when I was

00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:07.980
young. I haven't seen my mom since she was three.

00:48:08.429 --> 00:48:10.030
Or since I was three. Couldn't be the other way.

00:48:10.210 --> 00:48:12.070
Since I was three, I haven't seen my mom since

00:48:12.070 --> 00:48:14.090
I was three. She didn't put her over. My grandparents

00:48:14.090 --> 00:48:16.230
put her. My grandparents are the one I have to

00:48:16.230 --> 00:48:18.150
honor. I can't honor my mom. She's been gone

00:48:18.150 --> 00:48:20.590
since I was three years old. That's not how that

00:48:20.590 --> 00:48:23.050
works. Your mom gave you birth. She gave you

00:48:23.050 --> 00:48:25.969
breath. She gave you your bones. She gave you

00:48:25.969 --> 00:48:28.969
DNA. Right. She did not abort you. So there she

00:48:28.969 --> 00:48:30.730
gave you life. I mean, nobody should ever abort.

00:48:30.809 --> 00:48:33.969
But but she didn't. Right. So you owe everything

00:48:33.969 --> 00:48:36.710
to her right now. You don't have to follow her

00:48:36.710 --> 00:48:39.230
example. You don't have to, you know, do bad

00:48:39.230 --> 00:48:41.670
things because of your hurt, because your mom

00:48:41.670 --> 00:48:43.989
wasn't around. I mean, you have to follow God's

00:48:43.989 --> 00:48:46.929
model. But the point is, you have to honor her,

00:48:47.070 --> 00:48:49.530
even though her only contribution was if she

00:48:49.530 --> 00:48:51.610
was literally gone from the day. If your mom

00:48:51.610 --> 00:48:54.210
died in childbirth for you, would you not honor

00:48:54.210 --> 00:48:56.530
her? Of course you would. All the more, right?

00:48:56.690 --> 00:48:58.730
So then if she bailed on you at three because

00:48:58.730 --> 00:49:00.849
she sinned against you that one terrible time,

00:49:01.010 --> 00:49:02.070
you're just going to say, well, I'm not going

00:49:02.070 --> 00:49:04.960
to honor her? You don't know. None of us know

00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:06.960
the difficulty that people go through. Don't

00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.860
look at an addict or a broken person or a person

00:49:09.860 --> 00:49:13.000
that's not providing and go, they're a dirtbag.

00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:14.559
I don't have to give them any respect. Don't

00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:16.420
ever do that because you don't know what's in

00:49:16.420 --> 00:49:17.840
their heart. You don't know what they've been

00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:19.260
through. There are people in this room right

00:49:19.260 --> 00:49:21.119
now that are taking the time to be here to learn

00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:23.099
God's word that have been through things that

00:49:23.099 --> 00:49:25.139
we don't care, me included, that we don't care

00:49:25.139 --> 00:49:27.000
to ever talk about, that we don't ever want to

00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:29.139
relate. It's terrible. And yet we're here and

00:49:29.139 --> 00:49:30.800
that's awesome, but that doesn't make us better

00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:32.340
than somebody else. That makes God better. than

00:49:32.340 --> 00:49:34.559
all of us, right? So don't disrespect people

00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:36.579
and think I don't have to honor them because

00:49:36.579 --> 00:49:38.219
they're wrong. So that means if you have a non

00:49:38.219 --> 00:49:39.500
-Christian parent, again, I don't want to get

00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:41.059
ahead of myself, but if you have a non -Christian

00:49:41.059 --> 00:49:43.000
parent and they're treating you with disrespect

00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.440
or they're bad or they don't honor God, they

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.719
don't have nothing to do with the Bible, you

00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:49.199
still get to dishonor them or even disobey them

00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.489
unless, of course, that would be sin. And the

00:49:52.489 --> 00:49:55.789
last one that I came up with was to perform what's

00:49:55.789 --> 00:49:57.789
due. And I think that Jesus makes that really

00:49:57.789 --> 00:49:59.670
clear when he says, he who loves me follows my

00:49:59.670 --> 00:50:01.889
commands. So that was getting at what RJ was

00:50:01.889 --> 00:50:03.690
talking about. When they're not there, you still

00:50:03.690 --> 00:50:06.190
do what's right. Because guess what? Most of

00:50:06.190 --> 00:50:08.889
us are going to outlive our parents. Some of

00:50:08.889 --> 00:50:10.690
us already have. Quite a few of us already have.

00:50:10.829 --> 00:50:12.570
And so they're going to be gone. And just because

00:50:12.570 --> 00:50:15.670
they died at 75, 80 years old or whatever, and

00:50:15.670 --> 00:50:17.730
you're still kicking, so that doesn't mean you

00:50:17.730 --> 00:50:29.300
can just dismiss them. That's right. Because

00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:31.679
we're humans and we screw up. So don't honor

00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.250
them by... following their mistakes, that's not

00:50:34.250 --> 00:50:35.650
honoring at all. They wouldn't even want that

00:50:35.650 --> 00:50:37.369
for you if they were in their right mind. Sometimes

00:50:37.369 --> 00:50:40.369
they do. Thieves raise thieves, for example,

00:50:40.369 --> 00:50:42.110
because they think, oh, it's cool, they're following

00:50:42.110 --> 00:50:44.590
in my footsteps. Or vulgar people raise five

00:50:44.590 --> 00:50:46.429
-year -olds that cuss up a storm because they

00:50:46.429 --> 00:50:48.329
think it's funny. But then when you get older,

00:50:48.429 --> 00:50:50.210
you realize, hey, that's not really honoring

00:50:50.210 --> 00:50:51.849
my parents. Even though that's the way my parents

00:50:51.849 --> 00:50:54.070
raised me, in this case, I should put that away.

00:50:54.429 --> 00:50:56.670
Good word. Thank you, RJ. Okay, so we're going

00:50:56.670 --> 00:50:58.210
over the right -hand side. If you didn't get

00:50:58.210 --> 00:50:59.769
that, the whole point was you're supposed to

00:50:59.769 --> 00:51:01.630
write some thoughts for yourself in there about

00:51:01.630 --> 00:51:03.059
what it means. means to honor. I hope you got

00:51:03.059 --> 00:51:05.599
something in the blanks. To give you just a kind

00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.000
of a quick, in case you didn't write anything

00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.400
down because you were busy listening, to treat

00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:12.900
someone with admiration or respect is one. To

00:51:12.900 --> 00:51:14.980
give them their due. And we had somebody say

00:51:14.980 --> 00:51:18.079
to represent them well. Okay, so you can put

00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:19.739
anything down there that you think, but it's

00:51:19.739 --> 00:51:21.179
to honor. If you want to look up, there's probably

00:51:21.179 --> 00:51:23.039
like 13 definitions in the dictionary. Okay,

00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.280
we're going over to the right. Under the 2012,

00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:27.760
there's a top blank. It says promise I wrote

00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.019
in for you. Okay, and this is the first part

00:51:30.019 --> 00:51:32.860
of the Ephesians 6 promise, the part that was

00:51:32.860 --> 00:51:35.880
missing, if you will, in Exodus. And it's Y -W

00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:38.860
-B -W. Anybody got it? You will be well. And

00:51:38.860 --> 00:51:42.000
then the reference again, Ephesians 6. Okay,

00:51:42.099 --> 00:51:44.599
so that is in Ephesians 6. It is not in Exodus

00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:47.909
20. Now, there are a lot of other places in Exodus

00:51:47.909 --> 00:51:49.670
where God says, if you do what you're told, you'll

00:51:49.670 --> 00:51:52.789
do great, right? But not there. It does say,

00:51:52.789 --> 00:51:54.550
I'll prolong your days, which is better than

00:51:54.550 --> 00:51:59.130
having short days. Pardon me. You will be well,

00:51:59.170 --> 00:52:01.769
Ephesians 6, all right? The next part then, this

00:52:01.769 --> 00:52:05.510
one is the part of the promise from Exodus 20,

00:52:05.750 --> 00:52:11.070
verse 12, and it is Y -D -W -B -P. Yep. So somebody

00:52:11.070 --> 00:52:14.289
explain to me, with the nation of Israel in the

00:52:14.289 --> 00:52:17.780
promised land, Why is it significant that their

00:52:17.780 --> 00:52:20.239
days in the promised land would be prolonged?

00:52:20.579 --> 00:52:22.059
What does that mean? It doesn't mean there's

00:52:22.059 --> 00:52:23.719
going to be more than 24 hours in a day or that

00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.079
the sun's going to stay up a little longer so

00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:26.599
they can work longer. You're talking about days

00:52:26.599 --> 00:52:29.460
like as in ages or decades or generations. Why

00:52:29.460 --> 00:52:31.500
is it significant that the people of Israel would

00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:33.760
have their time in the promised land prolonged?

00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:35.780
Why is that significant? Okay, so you can understand

00:52:35.780 --> 00:52:37.739
what God has given them. True. What eventually

00:52:37.739 --> 00:52:40.119
happens to the Israelites in the promised land?

00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:41.519
They get in the promised land, right? They do

00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:43.400
make it in. Not the generation that got the Ten

00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:45.000
Commandments. They don't make it in. But the

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.630
next generation makes it in. Say again? Yeah,

00:52:47.750 --> 00:52:50.489
so they split first, and then the northern kingdom

00:52:50.489 --> 00:52:52.130
was taken over, and a ton of people from the

00:52:52.130 --> 00:52:53.690
northern kingdom get what? When they get taken

00:52:53.690 --> 00:52:55.289
over, what do they do to all the people? Many,

00:52:55.429 --> 00:52:57.510
but not all, not even most. Most of them got

00:52:57.510 --> 00:52:59.949
carried off to other lands, taken out of the

00:52:59.949 --> 00:53:02.050
promised land to all these other nations. They

00:53:02.050 --> 00:53:04.909
did that because if you take the 30 ,000 healthiest

00:53:04.909 --> 00:53:07.269
men out of a country, for example, then now the

00:53:07.269 --> 00:53:09.210
country's struggling to survive for generations

00:53:09.210 --> 00:53:11.170
before they could ever think about raising an

00:53:11.170 --> 00:53:12.869
army and potentially rebelling again, right?

00:53:12.949 --> 00:53:14.289
So that's why they did it. It's called exile.

00:53:14.469 --> 00:53:17.059
So the people of God from Assyria were... first

00:53:17.059 --> 00:53:19.980
were taken into exile. Then later, Judah and

00:53:19.980 --> 00:53:22.059
Benjamin, which was left, they were captured

00:53:22.059 --> 00:53:24.920
and they were taken into exile. So if there's

00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:26.380
a time in the future which you're going to be

00:53:26.380 --> 00:53:29.380
taken into exile, and let's say sometime down

00:53:29.380 --> 00:53:31.360
the road, maybe you don't know exactly when it's

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:33.019
going to be, what's the only thing you're going

00:53:33.019 --> 00:53:34.579
to do? If you know it's going to happen, what's

00:53:34.579 --> 00:53:37.340
the only thing you can do? I'll give you an example.

00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:41.360
Sherry, over three years ago, the doctor told

00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:42.639
her that eventually she was going to have to

00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.289
have surgery on her back. She was in pain. She

00:53:45.289 --> 00:53:47.190
gets shots for the pain. And we thought, well,

00:53:47.369 --> 00:53:50.090
the doctor said it's a pretty extreme surgery,

00:53:50.190 --> 00:53:52.710
so you're going to have to have it someday. But

00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:55.030
my suggestion to you is you do all of these things

00:53:55.030 --> 00:53:58.079
in order to prevent it. Not prevent, because

00:53:58.079 --> 00:53:59.860
it's going to happen for sure. But you're right,

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:01.760
delay. That's what you're thinking. Delay it,

00:54:01.820 --> 00:54:04.199
right? So to prolong the days in between, which

00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:06.780
is what they were... So if they would have honored

00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:09.639
and obeyed their parents, the length of time

00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:11.159
between when they went into the Promised Land

00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:12.800
and the time they were exiled would have been

00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:15.239
stretched out more and more and more. But boy,

00:54:15.300 --> 00:54:17.619
you see them not doing that. They do not do that.

00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:19.719
They do not honor or obey their parents. They

00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:22.119
do not treat God with respect. They do not represent

00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:24.880
God well. And it gets worse and worse. It spirals

00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:27.619
out of control until... If it was my kids, I'd

00:54:27.619 --> 00:54:29.460
have been resisting the temptation to just choke

00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:31.760
them out so bad. And God doesn't choke them out.

00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:34.360
He does kill the nation, essentially. Then he

00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:37.079
takes them into exile. I mean, it got so bad

00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:39.320
that under the reign of Manasseh, he and his

00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:42.239
wife were having a festival the one night. Manasseh?

00:54:42.260 --> 00:54:44.119
Ahab. I think it's Manasseh. It's either Manasseh

00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:46.179
or Ahab. And they wanted to light the city streets,

00:54:46.420 --> 00:54:48.659
so they put up poles all the way down the streets,

00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:51.079
and they put the high priests from the temple

00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:52.980
on the poles. They impaled them on the poles,

00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:54.739
soaked them in tar, and lit them to light the

00:54:54.739 --> 00:54:57.010
streets. The high priests. All the priests. And

00:54:57.010 --> 00:54:59.289
so the point is, that's how bad it got. It got

00:54:59.289 --> 00:55:01.750
terrible bad, right? And all the priests were

00:55:01.750 --> 00:55:04.710
in hiding from Jezebel the queen during Ahab's

00:55:04.710 --> 00:55:07.210
day. It was terrible. And so God had to bring

00:55:07.210 --> 00:55:09.489
that to a close. They began to burn their firstborn

00:55:09.489 --> 00:55:11.650
children in the fire like the worshippers of

00:55:11.650 --> 00:55:13.719
Molech were doing. that were in that land when

00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:15.920
God said their sin has to come to fullness and

00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:18.079
destroy them. And then God brought his, finally,

00:55:18.139 --> 00:55:20.139
435 years later, God brought his people out of

00:55:20.139 --> 00:55:21.800
Egypt because their sin had become fullness because

00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.159
they were burning their children in the fire.

00:55:23.340 --> 00:55:26.079
And by the time God wipes out Israel and puts

00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:28.519
them into exile, Israelites were burning their

00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:30.519
firstborn children in the fire to the false god,

00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:32.420
Molech. That's how bad it was. That's terrible.

00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:35.000
So the point is, they should have honored God

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.480
and prolonged the days before the exile. And,

00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:39.519
you know, some did probably and some didn't.

00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:42.550
Okay, Paul. Paul reads the promise, this is the

00:55:42.550 --> 00:55:45.389
next set, Paul reads the promise as pertaining,

00:55:45.809 --> 00:55:48.289
can anybody finish it? The next word is always

00:55:48.289 --> 00:55:50.929
to, almost always to after pertaining, as pertaining

00:55:50.929 --> 00:55:53.750
to, I'm going to take a stab at it, all the earth.

00:55:53.909 --> 00:55:56.460
Say again. Yeah, it did pertain to the Israelites

00:55:56.460 --> 00:55:59.840
in Exodus. Now he's not talking about the promised

00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:02.420
land, Paul, he's talking about all the earth.

00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:05.579
So now he's reading that same promise as pertaining

00:56:05.579 --> 00:56:08.460
to all the earth. But he did add in, didn't he?

00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:11.440
He added in obedience. Before it was just honor

00:56:11.440 --> 00:56:14.440
in Exodus. Now he added in obedience and he said,

00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.119
in honoring, obeying, God will make it well with

00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.619
you and prolong your days in all the earth. All

00:56:19.619 --> 00:56:22.539
right. So it says Christians need Christian parents.

00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:25.480
Is there a teenager in the room that could give

00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:30.440
a little amen to that? My goodness. It's really

00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:32.039
hard to be a Christian teenager without Christian

00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:35.639
parents. Super hard. It's fluctuating. It goes

00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.000
up and down. Some days it's a lot easier. Some

00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:39.159
days it's a lot harder. But it's challenging

00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.000
because think about it. Let's say you had Muslim

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.340
parents. Anybody know anybody that has a Muslim

00:56:44.340 --> 00:56:46.199
family? How well would that go if the Muslim

00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.260
teenager turned to Christianity? Not well at

00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:50.380
all. They'd be like disowned, right? A friend

00:56:50.380 --> 00:56:54.059
of mine, Bergen Kaner, who was the youngest ever

00:56:54.059 --> 00:56:58.050
dean at Liberty and now teaches at a... college

00:56:58.050 --> 00:57:01.449
in Texas and taught at Camp UCAN until a few

00:57:01.449 --> 00:57:03.090
years ago. But he hasn't been able to travel

00:57:03.090 --> 00:57:04.590
because of his health, so he hasn't in the last

00:57:04.590 --> 00:57:07.769
few years. But anyway, he was Muslim, raised

00:57:07.769 --> 00:57:09.829
Muslim. And as a teenager, he went to a Christian

00:57:09.829 --> 00:57:12.670
church and got saved. And his family kicked him

00:57:12.670 --> 00:57:14.739
out. He became an orphan. They had nothing to

00:57:14.739 --> 00:57:16.860
do with him after that. And then not only that,

00:57:17.019 --> 00:57:19.519
but as he rose in the Christian world, he received

00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:22.440
around 10 death threats a month. Because as he

00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.340
became more prominent in teaching about Jesus

00:57:24.340 --> 00:57:26.360
and everything, the Muslim faith kept telling

00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:28.130
him, we're going to kill you. Shut up. going

00:57:28.130 --> 00:57:29.889
to kill you. Shut up. Stop talking about you

00:57:29.889 --> 00:57:31.449
used to be Muslim and now you're Christian. You're

00:57:31.449 --> 00:57:32.929
winning all these people to Jesus. And he wrote

00:57:32.929 --> 00:57:35.889
a book about how to win people from Islam to

00:57:35.889 --> 00:57:39.769
Christianity. And one night he was on his drive

00:57:39.769 --> 00:57:41.329
home from work and his wife called him and said,

00:57:41.369 --> 00:57:43.489
there's a car sitting outside. And he got off

00:57:43.489 --> 00:57:44.769
the phone with her and somebody called and said,

00:57:44.809 --> 00:57:45.929
we just had a death threat. They're going to

00:57:45.929 --> 00:57:47.739
blow up your house. And the police are going

00:57:47.739 --> 00:57:49.559
to pick up your wife and kid right now. I mean,

00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:53.119
that's it. So if you want to live for Jesus,

00:57:53.179 --> 00:57:55.300
you need people over top of you who are living

00:57:55.300 --> 00:57:57.820
for Jesus. And if you don't have that, it's hard.

00:57:58.059 --> 00:57:59.639
Because what do you do when they tell you to

00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:01.800
do something? And it's a sin. You can't obey.

00:58:02.019 --> 00:58:04.760
But now there's a huge rift between you and your

00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:06.900
parents. You could be seriously punished, right?

00:58:06.980 --> 00:58:10.360
Or whatever. Christians need Christian parents.

00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:15.019
But, right under that, but the command is written.

00:58:15.550 --> 00:58:17.989
to those who want to follow Christ and do well.

00:58:18.170 --> 00:58:20.269
So let's see. Is there anybody in this room who

00:58:20.269 --> 00:58:22.909
wants to follow Christ and do well? Yeah, that's

00:58:22.909 --> 00:58:24.889
all of us, right? I mean, that should be. I mean,

00:58:24.929 --> 00:58:26.150
I want to follow Jesus. If you're a Christian,

00:58:26.190 --> 00:58:27.949
you want to follow Jesus, and you want to do

00:58:27.949 --> 00:58:29.969
well, don't you? And we know that there's the

00:58:29.969 --> 00:58:32.210
possibility of persecution. There's the possibility

00:58:32.210 --> 00:58:34.230
of trials and tribulations. Jesus says, in this

00:58:34.230 --> 00:58:36.510
world you will have trouble, but fear not, for

00:58:36.510 --> 00:58:38.389
I have overcome the world. So things will get

00:58:38.389 --> 00:58:42.010
difficult. But if you want to follow Christ and

00:58:42.010 --> 00:58:44.510
do well, what do you do? Yes, sir. Okay, yeah,

00:58:44.550 --> 00:58:46.519
repent. and turn to God, and then as per this

00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:48.639
command, if you have repented and turned to God,

00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:50.920
how do you have to relate to your parents? Honor

00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.519
and obey, right? And if you honor and obey, you

00:58:53.519 --> 00:58:56.519
have a promise to do well, right? And to live

00:58:56.519 --> 00:58:59.219
long, essentially, and to have a place on the

00:58:59.219 --> 00:59:01.579
earth. But also notice that it's not only your

00:59:01.579 --> 00:59:04.900
biological parents, it's now also your Christian

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:06.840
parents in the sense that those who teach and

00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.420
love you. So now your youth leader, if you have

00:59:09.420 --> 00:59:12.219
a relationship, Haley, if you believe in your

00:59:12.219 --> 00:59:14.860
heart that RJ loves you as a sister in Christ,

00:59:14.980 --> 00:59:16.880
and he's trying to teach you, then you have a

00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:19.400
responsibility to... honor and obey him. Now,

00:59:19.420 --> 00:59:21.679
your first responsibility is to your actual parents,

00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:23.539
your mom and dad, right? So if you had a conflict

00:59:23.539 --> 00:59:25.780
between them and him, you would honor them. But

00:59:25.780 --> 00:59:29.340
if they tell you to sin, you would not. You're

00:59:29.340 --> 00:59:31.860
responsible for your choice, right? And with

00:59:31.860 --> 00:59:34.199
this kind of freedom, with this kind of authority

00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:36.739
to make the decision, then you now have to learn

00:59:36.739 --> 00:59:38.199
from the word. You have to listen to the Holy

00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:40.239
Spirit. You have to discern what's right and

00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:43.519
do what's right. And when all else fails, honor

00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.019
and obey. Your parents. Your Christian parents

00:59:47.019 --> 00:59:49.460
and your God -given parents. Okay? I'm going

00:59:49.460 --> 00:59:52.400
to finish this out. So, we said, the command

00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:54.559
is written to those who want to follow Christ

00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:58.199
and do well. Notice that God is giving us a place.

00:59:59.099 --> 01:00:02.349
God is giving us a place. We all know if you're

01:00:02.349 --> 01:00:04.030
saved, you're going to heaven. Jesus said, I

01:00:04.030 --> 01:00:06.170
go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to

01:00:06.170 --> 01:00:08.289
prepare a place for you, I will come again and

01:00:08.289 --> 01:00:10.309
I will take you to be there with me, right? That's

01:00:10.309 --> 01:00:12.170
John 14. We all know that Jesus is preparing

01:00:12.170 --> 01:00:14.329
a place there for us. This is not talking about

01:00:14.329 --> 01:00:16.929
there. This is talking about here. You have a

01:00:16.929 --> 01:00:19.570
place here. You have a place in the church, in

01:00:19.570 --> 01:00:21.630
community, in the kingdom of God, doing the things

01:00:21.630 --> 01:00:23.570
that God has called you to. And if you get in

01:00:23.570 --> 01:00:26.610
that place and honor and obey your parents, what

01:00:26.610 --> 01:00:29.360
will happen? You will do well. and your days

01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.179
will be prolonged. That's the math of it. That's

01:00:31.179 --> 01:00:33.320
how it works out. You have a place. There are

01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:35.119
people who run on ahead of God. I've done that

01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:36.679
a couple times in my life. It doesn't go real

01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:39.480
well. It didn't go well at all for me, unless

01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:40.960
you count the fact that I eventually learned

01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:42.659
what God was trying to tell me, which was good.

01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:44.880
But you don't want to get outside your place,

01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:46.820
the place that God is preparing for you. God

01:00:46.820 --> 01:00:48.840
wants people to do well. Does anybody doubt that?

01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:50.280
That's the next part. Does anybody doubt that

01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:52.719
God wants you to do well? I think God loves us.

01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:54.360
If God loves us, he wants us to do well, right?

01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:55.920
Chris, do you want to see your daughters do well?

01:00:56.380 --> 01:00:59.269
Absolutely. Tim, you want to see Tyson do well?

01:00:59.510 --> 01:01:01.389
Tim's not even your son. You want to see him

01:01:01.389 --> 01:01:04.550
do well, don't you? Absolutely. So God wants

01:01:04.550 --> 01:01:08.409
us to do well. And that's why Paul says, children,

01:01:08.530 --> 01:01:11.489
please do this. Honor and obey your parents,

01:01:11.590 --> 01:01:14.110
which to honor your parents is also the first

01:01:14.110 --> 01:01:16.190
command that comes with a promise. But if you

01:01:16.190 --> 01:01:18.230
do so, honor and obey your parents, you will

01:01:18.230 --> 01:01:20.829
do well and be prolonged in the place that God

01:01:20.829 --> 01:01:22.150
has given you, which in our case is the whole

01:01:22.150 --> 01:01:24.710
earth. And then the last one, of course, is honor

01:01:24.710 --> 01:01:27.579
and obey your parents. If you will notice, over

01:01:27.579 --> 01:01:30.139
to the left -hand side, you'll see a little box

01:01:30.139 --> 01:01:32.059
cross thing. It's got a question mark in the

01:01:32.059 --> 01:01:33.500
bottom. And that's all we've got left to do.

01:01:33.619 --> 01:01:36.280
Did everybody got everything else? Bless you.

01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:40.539
Two lines of oath. So that's the definition of

01:01:40.539 --> 01:01:42.179
honor. And so you can write anything in there

01:01:42.179 --> 01:01:44.900
for your definition of honor. There's actually

01:01:44.900 --> 01:01:46.579
four lines there for the definition of honor.

01:01:46.739 --> 01:01:48.719
What are you assuming? On the right -hand side.

01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:51.360
Okay, so it goes, Christians need Christian parents,

01:01:51.460 --> 01:01:53.300
but the command is written to those who want

01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:55.599
to follow Christ and do well, and that God is

01:01:55.599 --> 01:01:58.039
giving us a place, and God wants people to do

01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.079
well, and then honor and obey your parents. Got

01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:04.039
it now? Oh, it was an A. Where you said God was

01:02:04.039 --> 01:02:06.840
giving us an A. That was an A. Oh, yeah, cut

01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:08.519
off because it wasn't going below the line, that's

01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:14.750
all. Mine says God is giving us a place. And

01:02:14.750 --> 01:02:19.489
then God wants people to do well. Okay, that's

01:02:19.489 --> 01:02:24.250
fine too. Mine has a P. This one has a B. This

01:02:24.250 --> 01:02:28.469
one has a P. So whatever. Okay, now we're looking

01:02:28.469 --> 01:02:30.170
at the empty cross over the left -hand side.

01:02:30.389 --> 01:02:33.389
So first look closely at the cross and see what

01:02:33.389 --> 01:02:36.030
you see inside it. What's inside it? What do

01:02:36.030 --> 01:02:39.650
you see? Above that. You see nothing? Look closer.

01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:46.099
Yep, honor thy father and thy mother. It is on

01:02:46.099 --> 01:02:49.940
purpose. You can fill it in. It's there. Yep.

01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.579
Uh -oh. Okay. And above that, you'll see a big

01:02:53.579 --> 01:02:56.880
fat V. I didn't see it. Yeah. And what's the

01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:58.579
big fat V? Does anybody know what the big fat

01:02:58.579 --> 01:03:02.179
V is? Why is there a big fat V there? Oh, I thought

01:03:02.179 --> 01:03:04.900
it was a heart. It's a V. Oh, that's a V. Yep.

01:03:05.139 --> 01:03:07.179
Why is it a V? That's a heart. No, it's a V.

01:03:07.300 --> 01:03:09.820
Okay, so why is there a V there? Natalie? Why

01:03:09.820 --> 01:03:12.059
is there a V there? No, it's not for victory.

01:03:12.619 --> 01:03:16.800
It's actually a number. It's a five because it's

01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:19.320
the fifth of the Ten Commandments. So what you'll

01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:23.260
see, actually, if you look at the paper on an

01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:25.340
overview, maybe hold up to the light, I don't

01:03:25.340 --> 01:03:26.739
know if that works very well or not, you can

01:03:26.739 --> 01:03:28.920
see that the Ten Commandments are on the page

01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:31.440
behind everything that we've been doing. And

01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:34.199
it so happens that the fifth commandment, capital

01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:38.219
V for five, honor thy father and mother. Okay,

01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:41.159
it's there. Thou shalt have no other gods before

01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:44.460
me is up just inside the brown box. Roman numeral

01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:47.820
three just above comes with a promise. Thou shalt

01:03:47.820 --> 01:03:50.340
not take the Lord's name in vain. They're all

01:03:50.340 --> 01:03:52.780
there. Anyway, let's focus in so we can be done.

01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:54.940
All right, so you got a Roman numeral five. Honor

01:03:54.940 --> 01:03:57.460
thy father and thy mother. And that's all it

01:03:57.460 --> 01:04:00.320
says. Honor thy father and thy mother. Now, does

01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.179
anybody have a problem with... The Ten Commandments

01:04:03.179 --> 01:04:06.559
being printed all over the world with honor thy

01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:08.719
father and mother and the Roman numeral five,

01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:10.119
and that's all that's there. Anybody got any

01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:15.539
problems with that? I do. That's very true. But

01:04:15.539 --> 01:04:18.579
isn't there something missing? Yeah, the promise

01:04:18.579 --> 01:04:21.699
is missing. The Ten Commandments, it does not

01:04:21.699 --> 01:04:25.659
say in verse 12. Honor thy father and thy mother.

01:04:25.780 --> 01:04:29.000
It says, Honor thy father and thy mother so that

01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.599
your days may be prolonged on the land which

01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:34.539
the Lord your God gives you. The reason is included.

01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:37.619
None of the other Ten Commandments have a reason

01:04:37.619 --> 01:04:40.940
included. But Moses saw fit to include a reason

01:04:40.940 --> 01:04:43.860
there. Wait, Moses did? Who gave the Ten Commandments?

01:04:44.059 --> 01:04:49.099
God did. God saw fit to say, Honor your father

01:04:49.099 --> 01:04:52.469
and mother. so that your days may be prolonged

01:04:52.469 --> 01:04:54.289
on the land which the Lord your God gave you.

01:04:54.309 --> 01:04:57.409
And I submit to you that people have been leaving

01:04:57.409 --> 01:04:59.429
it out, which is really a shame. You know why?

01:04:59.650 --> 01:05:02.150
Because everybody in the world likes transactional

01:05:02.150 --> 01:05:05.769
spirituality. That's what sorcery is. If I pray

01:05:05.769 --> 01:05:07.989
to God, he'll give me what I ask for. If I pray

01:05:07.989 --> 01:05:09.449
a little harder, he'll give me bigger stuff.

01:05:09.650 --> 01:05:12.130
If I fast for a while, I'll be more holy. If

01:05:12.130 --> 01:05:14.349
I study my Bible an extra hour every single day,

01:05:14.469 --> 01:05:16.829
by the end of the year, I'll be the best Christian.

01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:19.460
If I go to church every single Sunday, God will

01:05:19.460 --> 01:05:21.320
make sure I can always pay my bills. It's all

01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:23.219
transactional. And none of it's really true,

01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:25.480
at least not in the sense that we're saying that,

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right? But here is God saying, do this, get this.

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And so what do we do? We print the Ten Commandments

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a billion times and leave off the you'll get

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this. Even now they're arguing about whether

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the Ten Commandments can be shown, and it's less

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so now, it was a lot a couple years ago, in courthouses

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all over the world. But if you go look at most

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of the courthouses, they'll have a fanciful version

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of the Ten Commandments that leaves off the promise.

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Some of them, the ones that are true to history,

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sit down please, the ones that are true to history

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have the promise and it should because it's God's

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word and we don't cut stuff off of God's word.

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Right? Okay. That was a little bit of a personal

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knife right there. But now you know. You know

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how to have access to that promise from God and

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if God says you can do it transactionally, if

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you can just honor and obey your parents just

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so that you'll get stuff, you'll do well and

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have long days in all the earth, then he said

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it's okay to do it just for that reason. So do

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it for just that reason. That's okay. All right,

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here we go. It's going to go fast. The first

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command with a promise is found in what book

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of the Bible? Haley. That's correct. That was

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so awesome. I wish I had it on video. I mean,

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yeah, if you get a bruise from it, you should

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probably be allowed to keep it. Okay. Paul added,

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essentially, a result to if we keep the command,

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we will receive this promise. And it is WBW.

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What is it, Hannah? Will be well. Will be well.

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That's correct. Coming over. At this point now,

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they're just going to duck because the throws

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are accurate, so we're just going to duck. Okay.

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Okay, trick question. Pay attention. Which of

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the two, Exodus 20 or Ephesians 6, were written

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specifically to minor children? Jason? Neither.

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That is correct. The trick question has been

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answered correctly. These are accurate throws,

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man. I'm doing a good job up here. Okay. Through

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encouraging us to follow this command, God is

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seeking to give us this. What is it, Alex? A

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place, that's correct. These guys were hot today.

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It was a perfect throw until all the defense.

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One fell on the floor. Don't be snagging other

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people's candy. Okay. These two commands are

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often found actually in marriage vows. And now

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understanding what it means to be a child in

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this context, it makes a lot of sense. What are

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they? These two commands. Go ahead. Honor and

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obey is correct. Very good, sir. Now that makes

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a lot of sense, but it makes a lot of sense for

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a husband to honor and obey his wife just as

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much as it does for a wife to honor and obey

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her husband, right? Because they can both be

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children. In fact, I find myself, I think sometimes

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I'm better at being a child than my wife is.

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Sometimes I'm stuck in childhood. All right,

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here we go. These two qualifiers make a person

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a child per these verses. If they are what and

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what? I'm going to give it to Jason. All right,

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Alex, give me one. Yep, give me the other one,

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Jason. That's right. I'll let you split it since

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you guys are both ready. All right, here we go.

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Okay. Okay. Tell me the two men that wrote these

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two passages of Scripture. Caleb was the first

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hand I saw. Moses and Paul. Correct.