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Father in heaven, we thank you for this Tuesday

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evening. Lord, we thank you for the warmth of

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fellowship. We ask you to be with those who are

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still on their way here. Lord, we ask you to

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take over this time. We're going to do something

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a little different, a little exciting, a little

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fun. Somebody might think it's not their preference

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of how it's done. But Lord, we just ask you to

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watch over us and guide us and show us the way.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, so I passed out a

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paper. You have a paper like this. It says, 570

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on one side and 565 on the other side. We are

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on the 565 side. It's the narrow side. Looks

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like this. So flip it over. It has that, okay?

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Because that's the way I did it. Why are you

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worried about it? He thinks thou dost protest

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too much. It's Shakespeare for you. Okay, so

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y 'all are going to read the... Ooh, it's kind

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of hard to tell the difference. You guys are

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going to read the dark part, okay? The bold.

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When I say bold. So it starts with in. If you

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look at it, you see the bold starts with in.

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And then it starts again with I am the way. Everyone's

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listening? Not talking right now, Caleb? Thank

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you. And then you start again with even the spirit.

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And then that's it. Got it? So I have the first

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line. It looks a little dark. I apologize for

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that. And then you start with in my Father's

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house, and then you stop and you go again with

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I am the way, and you start again at even the

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spirit of truth. Got it? All together. It's worship.

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The idea is all together. By the way, then after

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this we're going to have a whacked out simple

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stuff. Okay? All right. So here we go. Let not

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your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe

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also in me. My Father's house are many mansions.

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If it were not so, I would have sold you. I go

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to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare

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a place for you, I will come again and receive

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you unto myself, that where I am, there you may

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be also. And whither I go, you know, and the

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way you know. I am the way, the truth, and the

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life. No man comes unto the Father but by me.

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And I will pray the Father. And he shall give

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you another comforter, that he may abide with

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you forever. Even the Spirit of truth, whom the

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world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,

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neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he

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dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Peace

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I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not

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as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not

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your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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Whacked out simple stuff. In the early, early,

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early days of the church. Not the earliest days,

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but in the early days of the church. The church

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would get together and they would do essentially

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what we just read. They would read a little scripture

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and then somebody else would read a little scripture.

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Or they would ask a question and then somebody

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would read a little scripture to answer it. And

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then somebody else would ask a question and they

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would read a little scripture to answer it. They're

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back and forth. Now, there was a persecution

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that broke out, and the Roman government and

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governors ordered that they go and observe the

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Christian church and determine whether or not

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all of the Christians should be put to death.

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When the report came back to the governor, they

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said, this is what the Christians do. They get

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together. They chant back and forth, some asking

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questions, some answering. And they read out

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of their holy scriptures what they call worshiping

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their God. Now we know that the church has developed

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a little more structure over the years. And so

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our worship a lot of times has songs, instruments.

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We have a set prayer time, like we'll pray at

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a certain time before we transition from offering

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into something else. We pray when we first open

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the service, right? Or we pray at the end. But

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they didn't do that. And there's nothing that

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requires us to do that in a certain order or

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in a certain way. We can take that bulletin.

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I don't have one. Yes, I do. We can take this

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bulletin that's right here on Sunday morning,

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and we prayerfully consider the order of our

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worship for Sunday morning. But we can start

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here, and it says, when we all get to heaven,

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and it says, welcome and opening prayer. And

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then we go on to the next song. It says, you

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lift me up. And we can be just about to do you

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lift me up. And the Lord can speak to my heart

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or to the heart of the worship leaders up here.

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And God might say, do you lift me up again? Do

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it twice. Or do the chorus three times instead

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of once. Or you can say, go on and do the Revelation

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song. And then we're supposed to do spiritual

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discipline focus next. And the Lord could say.

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I want you to do this spiritual discipline focus

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right then. So the people that are serving the

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congregation to lead as worship leaders or to

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lead as the pastor are trying to be obedient

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to the Lord, and if God changes the order, we

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change the order. But here's what we're not going

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to do. We're never going to cut out worship.

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We're never going to cut out service. We're never

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going to cut out prayer. We're never going to

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cut out the ministry of the Word. Why is that?

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Why is it that those things always have to remain?

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Regardless of what they look like, why do they

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always have to be there? Go ahead. Because it's

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what God wants. You can actually see throughout

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the New Testament, in fact, in Colossians, it

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gives a very specific list of things that are

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supposed to be part of what we do when we come

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together. And so those things will always be

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there. But you could come to church on a Sunday,

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and if the Lord so led, we did this a long time,

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it's been a long time ago now. But you can come

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in here and the chairs can be laid out in a completely

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different way. And you might go, oh my gosh,

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my chair that I normally sit in isn't even there.

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Or it's facing a completely different way. Or

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all the chairs are facing the back of the room

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instead of the front. Whatever are we going to

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do? We can't have church like this. And is that

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true? It's not true. You can come in and there

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could be no chairs. There could be pillows on

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the floor. Or no pillows. You've just got to

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stand around. But you know that until Constantinople

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was built, which was the second, what happened

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was they moved the capital of Rome to Constantinople.

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The Roman emperor became a Christian. And he

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declared that the entirety of the empire of Rome

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would follow God through Christ. Emperor Constantine.

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First his grandmother and then him. And he won

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being the emperor. By praying to God. So he believed

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in God. And then he supposedly, I mean, he had

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a weird kind of version of Christianity, but

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he was supposedly following God. And so he declared

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that the whole empire would be Christian. And

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to do that, they built a new city, Constantinople.

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And in Constantinople, they built church buildings.

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It was like the first time church buildings existed.

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They built them there so Christians could come

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there and have a place to worship. And in the

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church buildings, there were no chairs. There

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were no pews, there were no pulpits, there were

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no instruments, and there were no choirs. They

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were just big rooms for people to come together

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and worship God and listen to the Word. That's

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all they really needed, right? That's all they

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had ever had. But guess what else they built

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in Constantinople? Temples. To false gods. Why

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would they do that, do you think? Because there

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were people who worshipped false gods. And who

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do you want to win to Christ? People who worship

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false gods, right? So you know people in your

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school, on your job, or whatever, that don't

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follow God, they follow something else or someone

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else, right? It could be a demon. If it's a false

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god, it's probably a demon. That kind of thing.

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And so they follow something else. And you want

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to win those people to Jesus. And those people

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would not move into Constantinople because there

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were no temples. So they built temples. And then

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when they built the temples, guess what happened

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in the temples? They put in chairs or pews. So

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now, people who don't know God, they're going

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to decide to go to worship here where there are

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chairs or here where there are not. Oh, I guess

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we'll go where there are chairs so we can sit

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down while we're worshiping. That's more comfortable,

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right? Okay, well, you know what? The temples

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had choirs that had music. And you go down Temple

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Row, temples are on the right -hand side, church

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buildings are on the left -hand side, and out

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of the Temple Row buildings come beautiful singing

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and voices, four -part harmony. Some instruments,

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right? And you're going to hear that. Over here,

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you just hear people chanting back and forth.

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So we're going to go with just chanting back

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and forth, or we're going to go with this beautiful

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music. So they started going to the temples with

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beautiful music. The people at church said, well,

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they've got chairs. Is there any reason why we

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can't have chairs? So then they put in chairs.

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There's no reason they couldn't have chairs.

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God doesn't say you can't have chairs. You can

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have chairs. They said, well, couldn't we have

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a choir? Well, yeah, you can have a choir. They

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had a choir in the Old Testament. Of course we

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can have a choir. Could we leave worship with

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music? Well, sure we could. So here's the thing.

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The most important part of the chairs, the most

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important part of the choir, the most important

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part of the music is that it's focused on God.

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And as long as it's that, then we can have it

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all. But whenever it's not that, whenever the

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chairs become a problem, like you're too busy

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talking to your buddy, Liam. Too busy talking

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to your buddy because you're sitting in a chair

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next to you? You could be standing up. Then you

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could be focusing on God. Right? Where you see

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the little kids get down and they play with their

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cars on the chair instead of paying attention?

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That happens sometimes, right, Tyson? The chairs

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could be gone. If it's keeping us from following

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the Lord, it should be gone. But at the same

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time, realize if they're lost people and they

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come in here, y 'all are standing around with

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no chairs to sit down in, they're probably not

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going to come back. especially if they're not

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healthy or whatever, right? And they can't stand

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up the whole time. So we have chairs. It's fine.

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We can have chairs. But all of those things have

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to be about God. And this reading that we just

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did was all God's word. All you did was read

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verses from the Bible. And if you look down at

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the bottom, you can see the references from John

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14, 1 to 6, 1 to 4, 6, 16 to 17, and 27. And

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that's what they did. And then they added music

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and a lot of other ways to honor God. And in

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the Old Testament, they did music. David did.

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In fact, the Bible commands us to sing praises

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to the Lord. And the New Testament tells us as

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a church we should have music. So, I just wanted

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to share that with you. That's our whacked out

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simple stuff about the order of worship and the

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way it is and the why it is. But it does not

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have to be what it is. Do not let yourself get

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stuck in the mud. Because if you ever come in

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here on Sundays and something doesn't fit the

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way you think it should be, Don't be surprised

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because we're going to follow God, not the way

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you think it should be. Does that make sense?

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All right. Another brief prayer. Josh has a song

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that we're going to sing to worship the Lord,

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and then we'll release the children. Father in

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heaven, we do praise you. We do want to praise

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you. We do seek to praise you. We work to praise

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you. We would pay to praise you. We would bleed

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to praise you. And that's hard for someone to

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say. We would go out of our way to praise you.

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If our choice was between breathing and praising

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you, we would praise you. If it was between eating

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and praising you, we would praise you. Because

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everything that's ever been, that's ever been

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good, every good gift comes from you. Ask you,

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Lord, to help us praise you this song. Help us

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sing in a way that honors you. In Jesus' name,

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amen. If you can't sit together, then sit apart.

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All right, let's go ahead and stand for this

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one. Stand it up. Let's go. Stand up when asked,

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please. All right. You ready? I'm so glad you're

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in my life. I'm so glad you came to save us.

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You came from heaven to earth to show the way

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from the earth to the cross. My debt is paid

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from the cross to the grave, from the grave to

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the sky. Lord, I lift your name on high. Lord,

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I lift your name on high. Lord, I love to sing

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your praises. I'm so glad you're in my life.

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I'm so glad you came to save us, Jesus. You came

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from heaven to earth to show the way. From the

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earth to the cross, my debt is paid. From the

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cross to the... to the sky. Lord, I lift your

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name on high. Alrighty. At this time, we will

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release the children and their leaders to the

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classroom. Behave, have fun, learn something.

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Okay, so we have some readings that we're going

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to do. The first one, Jason has. Then we're going

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to do... 570, the big one on the back of your

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page. And then after that is Tommy, and then

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after that's RJ. Okay? So 570, I have the bold

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print, you have the light print. 570. Am I on

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still? Nope, I turned it off. I never can remember

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whether I pushed a button or not, but I did now.

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Okay? God is light, and in him, no darkness at

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all. If we say that we have fellowship with him

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and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

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Your turn. But if we walk in the light as he

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is in the light, we have fellowship one with

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the another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his

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son, cleanses us from all sins. If we say that

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we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the

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truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he

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is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and

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to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we

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say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar

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and his word is not in us. If any man sin, we

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have an advocate, the Father, Jesus Christ, the

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righteous. And he is the propitiation for our

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sins and not for ours only, but also for the

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sins of the whole world. Jason. One ship drives

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east, another west, with the selfsame winds that

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blow. Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,

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which decide the way to go. Like the winds of

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the sea are the waves of fate, as the voyage

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along thou through life, tis the will of the

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soul, that decides its goal, and not the calm

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or the strife. Kingdom. The kingdom of God is

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a society of the best men, working for the best

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ends, according to the best methods. Its law

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is one word, loyalty. Its gospel, one message,

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love. If you know anything better, live for it.

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If not, in the name of God and of humanity, carry

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out Christ's plan. After a party, after... A

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party of engineers became lost in a forest in

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Africa. Their supply of food was exhausted. They

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found some berries, which seemed to perfectly

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satisfy the appetite. They ate them for several

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days, but became weaker and weaker, and one after

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another died until help came. There was only

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one left to tell the sad story. They still had

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some of the berries. When they were analyzed,

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they were found to be absolutely worthless as

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food. While their appetites were satisfied, they

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were actually starving to death. Many people

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are like that, perfectly satisfied to starve

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their nature on food and which is no value while

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they might feast on the true bread from heaven.

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Thank you very much. We have really more. Okay.

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All right. For the moment, continuing our series

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on commands and promises. All right. So we have

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two today. The first one is short, and the second

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one is a little longer. They both come from the

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book of Matthew. That first one on top up there,

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it is Matthew. So that's a sink. You see the

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sink under the line there? That's a sink. So

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what chapter do you think it is? Any puzzle makers

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in the house? Sync -O. What chapter is that?

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5. That's correct. It's 5. Synco. Goodbye. Get

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with the program. I'm just kidding. Yes, Matthew

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5. And the chapter is 44. I gave you 2 squared

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times 11. Yeah, it's a little hard to see. It's

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2 squared times 11. So 44, Matthew 5, 44. I don't

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know how to say 44. So if this is a command,

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here you go, test your knowledge. If this is

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a command from Matthew chapter 5, then it is

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toward the beginning of Matthew's record of what

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great speech? Beatitudes are in Matthew chapter

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5, but what is the great speech of Jesus that

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Matthew begins talking about in chapter 5? Sermon

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on the Mount. That's right. So the Beatitudes

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also are toward the beginning of the Sermon on

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the Mount. In fact, they are before. They're

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the first thing. So some people might even call

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the Sermon on the Mount the Beatitudes, but they

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would kind of be cutting a little short because

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it goes on all the way through chapter 9, and

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he covers a lot. But the Beatitudes are the first

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thing in chapter 5, and we're a little later

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in chapter 5. So it's 544. Okay, so I'm going

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to read the verse. And then we'll see how you

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can do on filling in the blanks. It says, but

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I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those

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who persecute you. So that's the command, pretty

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much, right? Someone is pounding on the door.

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Then it says, so that you may be children of

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your Father in heaven, for he causes his Son

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to rise in the evil and the good and sends a

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rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Does

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anyone have a King James Bible? You need to check

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something. There's one. Let's check this real

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quick. Yeah, I got King James here. Because it

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feels to me like there's something missing from

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when I read it before. Yeah, it does. Okay, so

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this is, now you'll love this. This is King James

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5, 44. It says, but I say unto you, love your

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enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to

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them that hate you, pray for them which despisefully

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use you and persecute you. That's 44. Then in

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44. Yeah, that's a good question. And I left

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my phone in the car. So I can't really answer

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that question for you right this second. Yeah,

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the New American Standard does not have it either.

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Would be one of those knights. I will come back

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to you with the answer to that question, okay?

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But I don't have it right now. Okay, so we're

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going to work off the King James Version. Because

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that's the one that I wrote the lesson off of.

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So, what do you got for L -Y -E? It's pretty

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easy. Love your enemies. One of probably the

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most challenging commands in the Bible. Love

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your enemies. But he goes on. He doesn't stop

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there. He says what? Bless them or those that

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curse you. Perfect. Good job. And then this is

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where it starts to get into the... More controversial

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text, apparently. Did you catch it when I read

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it out of there? Yep. Do good to them that hate

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you. A lot of blanks there. So we've got love

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your enemies, bless those that curse you, do

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good to them that hate you. Say it again. Correct.

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Pray for them or those that despitefully use

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you and persecute you is the whole verse. Okay.

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Now we will look at 45 because it's kind of like

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the continuation of the thought, but not yet.

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Okay. So we're right next to the scroll. Go to

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your right. Go over to the right. Over to the

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right. Love. So based on this verse, give me

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a simple definition of what it means to love

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based on this verse. When it says love your enemies,

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what is Jesus telling them to do? I have no idea

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what that was. Something fall over? Yep, I see

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it. We'll just leave it. Okay. Okay. Kind of.

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Yeah, that's an example. Could be help them.

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So there are three Greek words for love. Okay.

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And one of them is the Christian word, if you

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will, is our Christian word for love. And it

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is agapao. And what does it mean? We've talked

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about this before at least once. Agapao. What

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does that kind of love mean? Say it again. Yeah,

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you're really nailing it pretty much. You say

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unconditional. So what it means is you choose

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to love them regardless. And that is the word

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that's here. So he is telling them to choose

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to be for them regardless of the fact that they

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are enemies. That's problematic, isn't it? We

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think like in terms of football, you got the

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guys on the one team and the guys on the other

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team and they're going to drive it down over

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top of them, right? Or you got war. Guys on that

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side fight the guys on this side, and they're

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going to kill each other to take the land, to

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win the oil rights, to prove their country is

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better, whatever. So that's what we think of

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when we think of enemies. That is not the idea

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of what God has when he thinks of enemies. Another

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idea might be the Duke boys. Remember the Duke

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boys? I picked them on purpose because they were

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not Christians. That show is nothing about Christianity.

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Almost didn't really exist in the show. So the

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Duke boys were enemies sometimes, weren't they?

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Duke getting out, throwing each other through

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the wall, punching each other in the face, trying

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to run each other over the car. Sometimes they

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were enemies, right? But really they were brothers.

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And when old Jesse got involved, what happened?

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Shut it all down. And that's the idea that God

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has between us and our human enemies. These are

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human enemies that we're talking about. We're

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not talking about loving demons or loving Satan.

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That's nothing like that. Or even loving the

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world system. Those are different kinds of enemies.

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This word enemies means people that are against

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you. And so what we're being commanded to do

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is to choose to be for them. Choose to be, if

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you will, on their side. So if you have an enemy,

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let's say they're punching you in the face. You

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have an enemy, hates you, punching you in the

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face. Maybe punching you in the face specifically

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because you're a Christian. What is the best

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thing for them? Say it again. To come to know

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Christ. To come to know Christ. To get saved.

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That is the best thing for them. So if you kill

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them while they're punching you in the face,

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will they come to know Christ? Not in the biblical,

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not in the way they want to. They'll meet him

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face to face for a second. or for however long

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it takes, but they will not know him. They will

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not be saved, right? And so that goes back to

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Nate Saint. I don't know if you know this story

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or not, but the Ecuadorian missionaries down

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in Central America, they carried rifles in their

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plane, and they found one day they were dropping

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gifts to the natives that don't speak English,

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and they were able to land their plane on a dry

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stretch of, like a gulch right next to the river.

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It normally would have water in it. And they

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were able to land their plane there. And they

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were giving away gifts and preaching about Jesus

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to the natives, even though they couldn't speak

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their language. And the natives murdered them.

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And everybody was like, they had repeating rifles.

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How did the natives with spears? The tree line

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was over 50 yards away. So there's no way they

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threw spears at them from a distance. They charged

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up and murdered them. And not one native was

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shot or killed or hurt, as far as anybody knew.

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So how could that possibly be? Well, the week

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before, Nate Saint, and that's the only reason

00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:42.619
he's the most famous, right? He wasn't even the

00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:45.259
more missionary -minded necessarily, or he didn't

00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:46.720
lead the mission or anything like that. But a

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week before he was interviewed and he was asked,

00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:52.180
he said, you carry rifles? Then they said, yes,

00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:54.900
we carry rifles. And they said, well, what would

00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:56.420
you do with the rifles if the natives attacked

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you? And he said, nothing. He said, if the natives

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attacked us and they killed us. we would die

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and go straight to heaven. If we killed them,

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they would die and go straight to hell. And I

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could never send a man to hell. And then a week

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later, they were attacked by the natives and

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the rifles were never fired. Now, whether they

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were never fired because they were ambushed or

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surprised, we don't know. But the point is, God

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sees your enemy as somebody who could be saved

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and go to heaven. And he is commanding us to

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choose to be for them, even in that state where

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they would be coming against us. Yes, sir. And

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.180
you can defend yourself, you can disarm opponents,

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you can even wound if necessary to protect yourself,

00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:03.079
right? but you'd never want to escalate beyond

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what's necessary. Because if you kill them while

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:07.839
they're punching you in the face, they go straight

00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.579
to hell. But if you punch them, for example,

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or you restrain them, or you take their weapon

00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:15.319
away, things like that, that's all acceptable.

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Because that's actually also what's best for

00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:20.339
them, because they're going to get judged for

00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:22.779
the sin of persecuting you, so it would be good

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:25.220
if you stopped them from doing that. So they're

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:27.559
going to pay for that. So it would be good if

00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:29.700
you can stop them from hurting you, but at the

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:31.339
same time you're stopping them, you want to show

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love, which means you don't go beyond that. I

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always teach my kids growing up, I taught them

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all, I said, if you've got to fight, fight. And

00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:39.660
the rules are, if they're trying to hurt you,

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:42.680
you stop them from hurting you, but it is not

00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:46.160
whatever it takes. Now let's say it comes to

00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:48.299
a point where they're going to hurt you so badly

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:50.319
that you might be paralyzed for life, or they

00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:52.740
might put your eye out, or they might kill you.

00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.420
At that point in time, it's no holds barred.

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If it's kill or be killed, then you do what you

00:31:59.769 --> 00:32:02.029
have to do. But it shouldn't be. When you're

00:32:02.029 --> 00:32:03.789
dealing with kids, it should never be like that.

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And that's how I always taught them growing up,

00:32:07.009 --> 00:32:09.490
and it worked for them, and I wish I had known

00:32:09.490 --> 00:32:11.769
that when I was a kid. I hurt some people pretty

00:32:11.769 --> 00:32:14.109
bad when I was a kid, when I was a kid and a

00:32:14.109 --> 00:32:18.150
teenager. I got just about as bad as I gave,

00:32:18.230 --> 00:32:20.109
but there were a few cases where I hurt people

00:32:20.109 --> 00:32:22.410
pretty bad. I wasn't saved, and I didn't have

00:32:22.410 --> 00:32:26.109
the restraint that I should have had. All right,

00:32:26.130 --> 00:32:29.309
I digress. So love in this context means to choose

00:32:29.309 --> 00:32:32.750
to be for them even while they are your enemy.

00:32:33.609 --> 00:32:37.529
Okay? Then bless. What does it mean when it says

00:32:37.529 --> 00:32:41.349
bless them? And you've got letters if you want

00:32:41.349 --> 00:32:46.150
to work with the letters. S -W. You have an F,

00:32:46.190 --> 00:32:48.269
but it's the last letter in the word. No, you

00:32:48.269 --> 00:32:50.509
have an O. I'm sorry. I gave it to you. Of. So

00:32:50.509 --> 00:32:58.980
you have S -W of them. So what is it? To bless

00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:06.319
someone is to... Nope. Although it will succeed

00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.420
in doing that, I think, but that's not the target.

00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:12.839
Say it again? Yes. Literally, every time you

00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.160
see the word blessed in the New Testament, it

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.099
means to speak well of someone. And it's based

00:33:19.099 --> 00:33:21.079
on the idea that when God speaks well of us,

00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:23.740
we do well. God brought all creation into being.

00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:26.140
All creation is a blessing, right? That kind

00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:28.279
of thing. So it means to speak well of them.

00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.440
So in other words, you want to, even though you

00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.319
see them doing something conniving or whatever,

00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:36.140
you want to try not to judge in your head and

00:33:36.140 --> 00:33:38.720
say, I'm either not going to make a decision

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.259
or I'm going to pronounce something good about

00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:45.200
that person. And you can't lie. So you can't

00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.500
say, for example, they did it out of a good motive

00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:49.039
and not knowing whether it's true or things like

00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.420
that. But you can say, here's a person who's

00:33:51.420 --> 00:33:54.059
creative when they're actually being crafty and

00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:56.440
trying to trick you. Or here's a person who's

00:33:56.440 --> 00:34:00.500
determined. You can speak good things about them,

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.819
and then you can pronounce blessings for them

00:34:02.819 --> 00:34:06.119
even when they don't deserve them. Like Jesus

00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:08.659
said, forgive them for they know not what they

00:34:08.659 --> 00:34:10.780
do. Did they really not know what they were doing?

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:15.019
Maybe, maybe not. But yeah, kind of they didn't

00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:19.519
know. Should God forgive them for killing him?

00:34:20.969 --> 00:34:22.690
He's not going to unless they're willing to be

00:34:22.690 --> 00:34:25.070
forgiven, but Jesus still pronounced them forgiven

00:34:25.070 --> 00:34:27.969
or tried to. So we want to follow that model.

00:34:28.269 --> 00:34:39.030
And then also under blessing is to what? Because

00:34:39.030 --> 00:34:42.570
Sean started off with this idea, I think. Pray

00:34:42.570 --> 00:34:47.929
God's goodwill. That's right. You want to pray

00:34:47.929 --> 00:34:50.929
God's goodwill for them. So the greatest will

00:34:50.929 --> 00:34:52.809
of them, as Josh already told us, would be that

00:34:52.809 --> 00:34:54.429
they would get saved. We pray that they would

00:34:54.429 --> 00:35:00.829
get saved. Or whatever. Whatever they need. Maybe

00:35:00.829 --> 00:35:03.349
they need clarity of mind. Maybe they need freed

00:35:03.349 --> 00:35:09.329
from a demon. Whatever. You pray health, sustenance.

00:35:09.989 --> 00:35:14.690
Pray God's good will for them. And then the next

00:35:14.690 --> 00:35:22.519
one is DG. It's also in the verse. Do good. And

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.500
I gave you a list. I'll just rattle them off

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:28.039
in the interest of time. So you might help. You

00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:34.820
might serve. Care. See how this is kind of contrary

00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:37.059
to the way the world normally thinks about enemies?

00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:43.619
Jesus is pushing the envelope here. And the overall

00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:46.639
goal when you're trying to do good to someone

00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:53.099
or for someone is to what? M -T -L -B. Make their

00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:59.219
lives better. Now, we know that Scripture says

00:35:59.219 --> 00:36:00.960
that if you're good to someone, if you show love

00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:03.360
to them when they're persecuting you, then it'll

00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.679
be like you heap coals on their head. But that's

00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.940
their problem. It's not your problem. Your job

00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:12.079
is to do good for them as commanded by Jesus.

00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:13.820
Therefore, make their lives better if you can.

00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:19.679
Okay, so note. Goodness. Somebody finish it.

00:36:19.739 --> 00:36:28.840
Goodness is a... What? F? Fruit of the Spirit.

00:36:29.380 --> 00:36:35.760
Goodness is a fruit of the Spirit. So where will

00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:40.780
the goodness come from that you're going to need

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:43.480
to practice to these people? Because it's not

00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.179
going to come from your human nature. You're

00:36:45.179 --> 00:36:48.110
going to feel vengeful, angry, hurt. You might

00:36:48.110 --> 00:36:51.489
have psychological stuff that goes on like somebody

00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:54.449
hurt you in that way before and now your mind

00:36:54.449 --> 00:36:56.690
is freezing up and unable to act in a positive

00:36:56.690 --> 00:37:06.969
way. Not that. Okay. And so the outcome, the

00:37:06.969 --> 00:37:12.269
goal, which now we're verging into verse 45.

00:37:14.099 --> 00:37:16.840
says that you may be children of your Father

00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:22.619
which is in heaven. And so there it is. Be the

00:37:22.619 --> 00:37:26.780
children of the Father. But we've got to ask

00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:29.900
ourselves a couple quick questions. So what is

00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:33.559
the promise? If we will follow the command, love

00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:35.800
your enemies and bless those that curse you,

00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.360
do good to them that hate you, pray for them

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:40.659
that despitefully use you and persecute you,

00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:44.579
if we follow that command, What do we get? What

00:37:44.579 --> 00:37:48.880
is the promise that he is saying we get? That's

00:37:48.880 --> 00:38:02.500
V -L -H. Simple. Right? So right under where

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:05.960
it says, does it mean you would be disowned or

00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:08.820
not saved? You know, the answer to that is no.

00:38:09.389 --> 00:38:11.730
So if you choose not to love your enemies, do

00:38:11.730 --> 00:38:13.670
good to those that hate you, pray for those that

00:38:13.670 --> 00:38:16.070
spitefully please you, what will you get? Say

00:38:16.070 --> 00:38:20.369
it again. I didn't hear what he said. I didn't

00:38:20.369 --> 00:38:22.250
hear what he said anyway. Was it something funny?

00:38:23.469 --> 00:38:26.389
Must have been. Okay. We're going to be like

00:38:26.389 --> 00:38:29.989
him. That's our goal, isn't it? To be like him.

00:38:30.329 --> 00:38:32.289
And that's what it says. You will be a child

00:38:32.289 --> 00:38:35.210
as a child of the father. You'll be like him.

00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:42.059
How so or why do we know if we would do this

00:38:42.059 --> 00:38:44.119
that we would be like him? So if you do goodness

00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.340
to people who are your enemies, how do you know

00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:49.300
that that would be like the way God is? Well,

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.639
he gives us his example. And in the verses, it

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:54.820
talks about the rain and the sun, which I'll

00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:56.639
read to you now. It says that you may be the

00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:58.639
children of your father, which is in heaven,

00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:01.900
where he make his son to rise on the evil and

00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:04.900
on the good and sendeth rain on the just and

00:39:04.900 --> 00:39:11.889
on the unjust. All right? So we want to be like

00:39:11.889 --> 00:39:14.449
him, and we have his example of the rain and

00:39:14.449 --> 00:39:19.110
the sun. So we're staying on the left for a minute

00:39:19.110 --> 00:39:23.889
there. Stay with me on the left. And it says,

00:39:24.170 --> 00:39:33.269
R -A -R -E, we becoming a, what do you think?

00:39:34.989 --> 00:39:41.400
R -O, capital G, G. See a capital G in the middle

00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:45.119
of the sentence, it's almost always God. Or in

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:48.880
this case, it's, yes, revealer of God's grace.

00:39:50.260 --> 00:39:52.599
Okay, so the question is, are you becoming a

00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:55.980
revealer of God's grace? Remember the mission

00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:57.920
of God, what is the mission of God? What does

00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.960
God desire to do more than anything else? Bring

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.219
people into relationship with him. So if you

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:06.420
are in a situation where someone's hurting you,

00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:08.820
what does God desire to do more than anything

00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:13.019
else? Oh, it just changed. Just changed. God

00:40:13.019 --> 00:40:14.440
doesn't want to bring people into relationship

00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:17.019
with anymore, right? No, it didn't change. He

00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:19.340
still wants to bring people into relationship

00:40:19.340 --> 00:40:21.639
with him. So if you're in a situation where God's

00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:24.760
hurting you, his grand purpose, your purpose

00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:28.380
for still being here on the earth, right, is

00:40:28.380 --> 00:40:32.780
to reveal God's grace, to let people know that

00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:34.920
God wants to come into relationship with them.

00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.260
And you see that throughout history, throughout

00:40:37.260 --> 00:40:39.980
scripture, everywhere. When they do that, that's

00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:42.679
what Stephen did as he was being stoned. That's

00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.340
what Paul did every time he was being stoned,

00:40:45.340 --> 00:40:51.019
whipped. It goes on and on and on. There are

00:40:51.019 --> 00:40:53.320
lots of examples. All the disciples except for

00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:57.239
one died martyr's death as a revealer of God's

00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:02.219
grace. And what is the supreme act by which God

00:41:02.219 --> 00:41:07.010
revealed his grace to mankind? It was the supreme

00:41:07.010 --> 00:41:13.329
act. The one thing that he did. S .S. What if

00:41:13.329 --> 00:41:18.329
I make it a capital S? Okay. The Savior was sent.

00:41:18.489 --> 00:41:23.929
He sent a Savior. A Savior sent. Okay. And Jesus

00:41:23.929 --> 00:41:31.130
was the Savior of the world. He's not. I don't

00:41:31.130 --> 00:41:33.949
mean to burst your bubble. Jesus is not the Savior

00:41:33.949 --> 00:41:39.690
of the church. Jesus is not the savior of Christians.

00:41:40.530 --> 00:41:44.469
We do not own him. He is the savior of the world.

00:41:45.050 --> 00:41:47.409
God sent his son to be the savior of the world.

00:41:47.590 --> 00:41:50.250
And so the lost folks who do not know Jesus,

00:41:50.329 --> 00:41:53.070
and that's why Jesus could say to some that the

00:41:53.070 --> 00:41:55.389
tax collectors and whoremongers would come and

00:41:55.389 --> 00:41:57.010
sit down in the kingdom of God before they would,

00:41:57.070 --> 00:41:59.269
even though they were pretty holy men, because

00:41:59.269 --> 00:42:01.090
they weren't believing in Jesus the way they

00:42:01.090 --> 00:42:03.349
were supposed to. He could say that tax collectors

00:42:03.349 --> 00:42:06.010
who were hated and whoremongers who were especially

00:42:06.010 --> 00:42:07.769
hated, would come and sit down in the kingdom

00:42:07.769 --> 00:42:11.369
of God before them because he is the savior of

00:42:11.369 --> 00:42:15.050
the world. Which means in pertaining to the enemy,

00:42:15.210 --> 00:42:20.090
is he the savior of your enemy? If anyone is,

00:42:20.250 --> 00:42:23.469
he's the savior of your enemy. Otherwise, your

00:42:23.469 --> 00:42:27.010
enemy has no savior. Does that make sense? It's

00:42:27.010 --> 00:42:29.610
Jesus or nobody. There is no other name given

00:42:29.610 --> 00:42:32.090
among men under heaven by which we must be saved.

00:42:32.210 --> 00:42:35.019
Okay. So now flip over to the right side before

00:42:35.019 --> 00:42:37.780
we go any lower. And by the way, there are a

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:39.960
couple of verses there in support Romans 5 .8.

00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:42.300
While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,

00:42:42.340 --> 00:42:47.260
right? Okay, over to the right side, you'll see

00:42:47.260 --> 00:42:51.199
a P and a G. I'm going to introduce you to a

00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.349
deep doctrine of the faith. If you remember these

00:42:54.349 --> 00:42:56.389
words, the next time you're in a good, and you

00:42:56.389 --> 00:42:57.889
can understand what they mean, then the next

00:42:57.889 --> 00:43:00.130
time you're in a doctrinal discussion with somebody,

00:43:00.210 --> 00:43:02.190
you can whip these bad boys out, and it'll make

00:43:02.190 --> 00:43:05.730
you sound really intelligent. I wouldn't suggest

00:43:05.730 --> 00:43:08.030
you be really intelligent rather than just sounding

00:43:08.030 --> 00:43:10.269
really intelligent, but here we go. So it's a

00:43:10.269 --> 00:43:11.989
P and a G. Does anybody know what this doctrine

00:43:11.989 --> 00:43:16.369
is just off the top of your head? Nope. Prayer

00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:18.369
is a spiritual discipline, and there is a doctrine

00:43:18.369 --> 00:43:21.010
of prayer. This is a doctrine of, it's called

00:43:21.010 --> 00:43:28.489
prevenient. Prevenient grace. It's the doctrine

00:43:28.489 --> 00:43:33.269
of prevenient grace. It's P -R -E -V -E -N -I

00:43:33.269 --> 00:43:39.070
-E -N -T. Prevenient. Pre -V -N -I -E -N -T.

00:43:40.269 --> 00:43:45.210
Prevenient grace. Does anybody know, without

00:43:45.210 --> 00:43:47.210
looking it up, what the definition of the word

00:43:47.210 --> 00:43:52.039
prevenient means? Josh is close. He's got his

00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.139
wheels are spinning. Okay. So, say it again.

00:43:57.460 --> 00:44:00.400
Comes before. Yeah, specifically before what?

00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:07.500
Say again. Yeah, before the need. Before the

00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:09.800
need or the request. So, prevenient means it's

00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:11.659
something that comes before it's needed or requested.

00:44:11.940 --> 00:44:16.199
Okay. And prevenient grace, then, is the doctrine

00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:21.019
of everything that came before you, wanted it,

00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:24.119
needed it, requested it, deserved it, whatever.

00:44:24.780 --> 00:44:29.500
So there's some lines here. I gave you blank

00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:32.719
lines, two, four, six, eight of them. And I'd

00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:35.360
like you to write a few things on those lines

00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:39.360
that God gave you before you ever knew you needed

00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:44.440
to be saved. Okay, so like one could be breath,

00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:48.440
right? Whatever. So sun, if you like the sun,

00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:51.139
if you enjoy sunshine. Or shade if you don't

00:44:51.139 --> 00:44:54.579
like the sun. But those are things that are prevenient

00:44:54.579 --> 00:44:59.920
grace. So write a list of things that God gave

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:03.059
you before you ever knew you needed to be saved,

00:45:03.099 --> 00:45:07.059
got saved, before you met Jesus. And it would

00:45:07.059 --> 00:45:13.980
be personal just for you. And while you're doing

00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:15.539
that, I'll just talk about it just to make sure

00:45:15.539 --> 00:45:18.510
we understand clearly. And that is that... Provenient

00:45:18.510 --> 00:45:21.409
grace is the doctrine that there are things that

00:45:21.409 --> 00:45:25.869
God gives to everybody before they are saved.

00:45:25.969 --> 00:45:28.429
In fact, they would have them even if they are

00:45:28.429 --> 00:45:34.449
never saved. Example, rain and sun in the verses

00:45:34.449 --> 00:45:37.550
that we read. God makes the rain to fall on the

00:45:37.550 --> 00:45:40.610
good man and the evil. He makes the sun to shine

00:45:40.610 --> 00:45:43.889
on the evil man or unjust man and the just alike.

00:45:44.269 --> 00:45:47.300
We all get that. Which means there are farmers

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:49.980
who know the Lord, they get rain. There are farmers

00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:53.300
who don't know the Lord, they get rain too. Now

00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:56.760
God can take away rain. God can control the weather.

00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:58.380
He can do that if he wants to. It has caused

00:45:58.380 --> 00:46:03.300
many droughts in his day. Or he can take away

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:07.429
your food supply, cause a famine. So there are

00:46:07.429 --> 00:46:09.670
lots of things like that. But all of it was given

00:46:09.670 --> 00:46:11.909
by God in the first place. So it was all given

00:46:11.909 --> 00:46:13.690
by God in the first place. And the nature of

00:46:13.690 --> 00:46:16.809
grace is that it is undeserved. So then you cannot

00:46:16.809 --> 00:46:20.309
argue that when God takes it away, he has stolen

00:46:20.309 --> 00:46:22.510
something from you because he gave it to you

00:46:22.510 --> 00:46:24.150
in the first place. I understand for being at

00:46:24.150 --> 00:46:27.230
grace now. So if God gave me everything I have,

00:46:27.469 --> 00:46:30.030
even if I didn't get saved, if he gave it to

00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:33.110
me and I didn't deserve it, then do I have the

00:46:33.110 --> 00:46:36.170
right to have it taken away? Yes, he could take

00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:37.889
it away from me, and he would not be stealing

00:46:37.889 --> 00:46:41.070
anything from me because I don't own it. He still

00:46:41.070 --> 00:46:43.590
continued to own it. He only lets us use it,

00:46:43.650 --> 00:46:46.309
if you will, for a time. So the doctrine of prevenient

00:46:46.309 --> 00:46:50.590
grace is everybody gets the same stuff. Everybody

00:46:50.590 --> 00:46:53.489
should have the same. There are these certain

00:46:53.489 --> 00:46:57.150
inalienable rights given by God to all men from

00:46:57.150 --> 00:46:59.550
the Declaration of Independence. That is not

00:46:59.550 --> 00:47:03.019
a Christian doctrine. per se, it's the doctrine

00:47:03.019 --> 00:47:06.360
of provenient grace, that everybody should have

00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:09.820
those rights. It's a Judeo -Christian doctrine,

00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:14.059
right, in that God gives everybody those rights,

00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:19.940
not in particular Christians. Okay, now we're

00:47:19.940 --> 00:47:23.780
going to move on to the second command. Okay,

00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:36.849
and it comes out of Matthew. Yep, it is 7. Yeah,

00:47:38.130 --> 00:47:42.909
it's actually 15. It goes 15 through 20. Yeah,

00:47:42.969 --> 00:47:46.969
that's where we'll get 20. Okay, so go right

00:47:46.969 --> 00:47:49.010
in the middle, though, in the scroll in the middle.

00:47:49.829 --> 00:47:58.650
And this is what Matthew 7 .15 says. Beware of

00:47:58.650 --> 00:48:03.090
false prophets. which come to you in sheep's

00:48:03.090 --> 00:48:07.769
clothings, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

00:48:08.489 --> 00:48:12.130
Okay, so that's the command. Beware of false

00:48:12.130 --> 00:48:15.429
prophets. That's the top of the scroll right

00:48:15.429 --> 00:48:19.010
there. Beware of false prophets. And then the

00:48:19.010 --> 00:48:23.650
next line says, sheep's clothing. And then there's

00:48:23.650 --> 00:48:29.280
the reference, Matthew 7, 15. And then the next

00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.780
line tells us about the false prophets, and it

00:48:31.780 --> 00:48:40.820
says that they are IRV. Got it? The verse said,

00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:47.340
beware of false prophets. Yep, inwardly ravenous

00:48:47.340 --> 00:48:55.070
or ravening wolves. Technically, it should be

00:48:55.070 --> 00:48:58.130
ravenous if you're naming their state, but ravening

00:48:58.130 --> 00:49:02.210
is the verb form or ongoing verb form of that.

00:49:03.190 --> 00:49:06.610
And ravenous means two words that start with

00:49:06.610 --> 00:49:12.389
an H. It means H and H. Hungry. Yep, hungry.

00:49:13.309 --> 00:49:18.309
That's how we usually use it now. And... Nope.

00:49:20.070 --> 00:49:28.400
Say it again. No, not violence. Hunting. Their

00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.960
state is that they are hungry and hunting. And

00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.820
the command is that we, or statement is that

00:49:35.820 --> 00:49:39.400
we will, let me read a little more, beware of

00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:41.019
false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing,

00:49:41.119 --> 00:49:43.840
but in reality they are ravenous, or ravening

00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:47.099
wolves. And verse 16 says, ye shall know them

00:49:47.099 --> 00:49:51.079
by their fruits. And so the next two words are,

00:49:52.130 --> 00:49:55.650
Know them. Okay, I'll go a little further. It

00:49:55.650 --> 00:49:58.989
says, do men gather grapes of thorns or figs

00:49:58.989 --> 00:50:04.210
of thistles? Do you see it? Grapes of thorns,

00:50:04.210 --> 00:50:09.570
figs of thistles. The answer to that question

00:50:09.570 --> 00:50:12.849
is what, by the way? If we ask the question,

00:50:12.929 --> 00:50:15.530
do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles,

00:50:15.550 --> 00:50:20.139
the answer is no. You do not do that. That's

00:50:20.139 --> 00:50:22.019
not where they come from. Grapes don't come from

00:50:22.019 --> 00:50:23.780
thorn plants and figs don't come from thistle

00:50:23.780 --> 00:50:28.360
plants. Okay, then 17 says, even so every good

00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:31.019
tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt

00:50:31.019 --> 00:50:34.199
tree bringeth forth evil fruit. So the next line,

00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:48.099
every good tree, good fruit. Corrupt tree. Evil

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:55.440
fruit. Do you notice the kind of poetic justice

00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:58.420
of the change there? So we have every good tree

00:50:58.420 --> 00:51:01.519
makes good fruit and every evil tree makes evil

00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:05.099
fruit, right? No, that's not what it says. It

00:51:05.099 --> 00:51:06.960
says corrupt tree. What's the difference between

00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:12.699
an evil tree and a corrupt tree? Surely true.

00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:16.780
In fact, I submit to you, you can be good. and

00:51:16.780 --> 00:51:22.860
be corrupted, right? So when God looked at Adam

00:51:22.860 --> 00:51:25.699
and Eve when he created them, were they bad?

00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:28.420
Why did they eat of the tree of the knowledge

00:51:28.420 --> 00:51:29.739
of good and evil? Wasn't that a horrible thing

00:51:29.739 --> 00:51:32.000
to do? They sinned against God? Why did they

00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:37.179
do that? Because they were corrupted, right?

00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:39.719
They bought into the lie, they looked in, they

00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.679
lusted, etc. So I think what he's implying there,

00:51:44.429 --> 00:51:46.489
and it's not much of a stretch, is to say that

00:51:46.489 --> 00:51:49.610
in some sense, every tree is a good tree, but

00:51:49.610 --> 00:51:52.630
it's corrupted, so now it produces evil fruit.

00:51:52.809 --> 00:51:56.030
But boy, if we could save it, if we could make

00:51:56.030 --> 00:51:59.969
it clean, if we could make it good, then it would

00:51:59.969 --> 00:52:04.190
be different. So it's like you can hear the heart

00:52:04.190 --> 00:52:06.349
of God. This is Jesus speaking, by the way, so

00:52:06.349 --> 00:52:08.190
you can hear the heart of God wanting to save

00:52:08.190 --> 00:52:14.320
those trees. Corrupt tree, evil fruit. And so

00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:19.360
you cannot, the corrupt tree cannot produce good

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:24.039
fruit. It's not possible. And you cannot not,

00:52:24.179 --> 00:52:28.079
which is to say that the corrupt tree cannot

00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:33.059
not produce evil fruit. That's what they do.

00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:36.300
So the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. It cannot

00:52:36.300 --> 00:52:39.219
produce good fruit, and it cannot not produce

00:52:39.219 --> 00:52:43.420
evil fruit. How about the good tree? Can somebody

00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:46.480
do that same sentence for the good tree? Describe,

00:52:46.659 --> 00:52:53.059
how about the good tree cannot? Cannot what?

00:52:55.099 --> 00:53:06.260
Produce what? Yeah. Right. Right, so the cannot

00:53:06.260 --> 00:53:08.920
for the good tree is the good tree cannot produce

00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:13.900
evil fruit. And also, the good tree cannot not

00:53:13.900 --> 00:53:18.159
produce good fruit. That's part of its nature.

00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.539
Right? So the nature of the trees are that they

00:53:22.539 --> 00:53:26.539
will produce the fruit that they produce. Okay?

00:53:26.579 --> 00:53:30.559
Then it says, the fate of the not good tree,

00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:33.960
if you will. And this is what it says. I lost

00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:37.659
my spot. Every good tree bringeth forth good

00:53:37.659 --> 00:53:41.119
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil

00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:44.300
fruit. 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil

00:53:44.300 --> 00:53:47.139
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth

00:53:47.139 --> 00:53:50.780
good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth

00:53:50.780 --> 00:53:56.360
good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.

00:53:57.179 --> 00:54:00.159
Again, we've only got one verse left. So here's

00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.980
what we've got. After the cannot and the cannot

00:54:02.980 --> 00:54:10.590
not, we've got... The not good equals what? Hewn

00:54:10.590 --> 00:54:15.150
down. Perfect. So if the tree does not produce

00:54:15.150 --> 00:54:18.030
good fruit, it will produce evil fruit because

00:54:18.030 --> 00:54:22.789
it is a corrupt tree. And it will then be hewn

00:54:22.789 --> 00:54:26.449
down and cast into the fire. And then verse 20

00:54:26.449 --> 00:54:31.269
says, Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know

00:54:31.269 --> 00:54:35.690
them. And so then our scroll ends with so you

00:54:35.690 --> 00:54:40.849
will know them. Now we've got to break it down

00:54:40.849 --> 00:54:43.110
and make sure we understand. That first word,

00:54:43.190 --> 00:54:45.369
so if you look up under the castle wall on the

00:54:45.369 --> 00:54:47.690
left, you'll see a little castle wall, kind of

00:54:47.690 --> 00:54:54.010
like cannot. The first line is cannot, and then

00:54:54.010 --> 00:54:58.530
it says and cannot not. So the good tree cannot

00:54:58.530 --> 00:55:03.119
produce evil fruit, and it cannot not. produce

00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:07.260
good fruit. So let's take that to the extreme.

00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:08.519
Let's say you have a Christian, they're in the

00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:10.900
church, they're serving God, supposedly, right?

00:55:11.059 --> 00:55:13.639
And then something happens and they become disgruntled

00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:16.079
or whatever and they stop serving God. Or somebody

00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:17.800
stops paying their tithe because they don't like

00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:21.099
the way the pastor preaches. Or somebody said

00:55:21.099 --> 00:55:22.360
something that hurt their feelings and so from

00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:24.019
now on they're just going to clam up. They're

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:25.539
still going to come because this is their church,

00:55:25.579 --> 00:55:26.579
this is where they belong, but they're not going

00:55:26.579 --> 00:55:29.039
to help anybody. They're not going to sing praises.

00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:30.920
They're not going to serve. They're not going

00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:32.920
to get money. They're not going to do any work.

00:55:33.139 --> 00:55:34.400
They're not going to show up to their ministry

00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.420
meetings. They're just going to be there. Is

00:55:37.420 --> 00:55:40.300
that possible? Based on what we just read, is

00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:42.760
it possible? Are they a good tree that's now

00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.519
not producing good fruit? That's not possible,

00:55:46.659 --> 00:55:50.440
right? So that is an untenuous situation. It

00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:53.719
cannot last. They will either begin to produce

00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:55.940
good fruit, like they'll go, you know what, whatever.

00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:58.179
They hurt my feelings, but I'm over it. I'm just

00:55:58.179 --> 00:55:59.880
going to start doing stuff. I can't sit back.

00:55:59.900 --> 00:56:01.860
I want to praise God. I want to serve. I want

00:56:01.860 --> 00:56:04.619
to give. But I can't stop. I can't stop. I can't.

00:56:04.940 --> 00:56:06.400
Or they'll say, well, I'm going to go over here

00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:08.679
to this other church. Right? And they're going

00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:10.360
to abandon the church that God called them to,

00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:12.780
go over here to this other church, and then they're

00:56:12.780 --> 00:56:13.860
going to get there, and they're going to start

00:56:13.860 --> 00:56:16.079
trying to produce good fruit in that other church.

00:56:16.340 --> 00:56:19.519
And if they can produce good fruit in that other

00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:22.980
church, then it may be a good tree. It's possible.

00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:24.940
If they produce good fruit, that sounds likely.

00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.150
Okay? But probably, remember, they were in a

00:56:29.150 --> 00:56:32.769
situation, somebody hurt them, and they're pretty

00:56:32.769 --> 00:56:36.630
venomous, they're pretty upset. So they're feeling

00:56:36.630 --> 00:56:39.610
vengeful, they're feeling disgruntled, they're

00:56:39.610 --> 00:56:43.349
unforgiving. Well, what are those things? Those

00:56:43.349 --> 00:56:46.110
are bad fruits, right? Those are fruits you shouldn't

00:56:46.110 --> 00:56:48.730
be producing if you're a good tree. And what

00:56:48.730 --> 00:56:50.989
do we say about good trees producing bad fruits?

00:56:51.090 --> 00:56:54.719
That's not possible. Right? So actually they've

00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:56.320
become, I'm not saying they've lost their salvation,

00:56:56.539 --> 00:56:59.860
but they've become a corrupted tree which can

00:56:59.860 --> 00:57:06.340
now only produce bad fruit. See? And has to produce

00:57:06.340 --> 00:57:10.000
bad fruit. And there's only one way to get back

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.579
to being a good tree, and that's to repent and

00:57:12.579 --> 00:57:15.019
turn back to the Lord. If someone has hurt you,

00:57:15.099 --> 00:57:17.320
repent and turn back to the Lord. You say, well,

00:57:17.380 --> 00:57:18.960
you also have to forgive them. Yes, that's part

00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:20.760
of it. You have to forgive them for what they've

00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:22.559
done. You might have to forgive them 15 times.

00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:25.320
But in the meantime, you've got to turn back

00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:27.159
to the Lord. Otherwise, you're a corrupted tree

00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:28.559
and you will not be able to produce good fruit.

00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:35.219
Okay. Now we're over under the castle wall. So

00:57:35.219 --> 00:57:38.679
we read the verses. The word says, beware. That

00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:42.420
was the very first one. Beware. Verse 15, the

00:57:42.420 --> 00:57:45.579
first word of... Verse 15, beware. And here's

00:57:45.579 --> 00:57:48.579
what to beware means. It means to pay attention.

00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:57.780
To apply oneself. It means there's a job you

00:57:57.780 --> 00:57:59.739
have to do. You have to do that. You have to

00:57:59.739 --> 00:58:02.519
beware, pay attention. You have to do it. It's

00:58:02.519 --> 00:58:06.280
not somebody else does it, you do it. Give heed.

00:58:08.980 --> 00:58:17.679
It means you have to... Act accordingly to the

00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:20.820
stimulus, whatever it is. For example, if someone

00:58:20.820 --> 00:58:23.659
hurts you, you forgive them. Not you mouth off

00:58:23.659 --> 00:58:25.980
to them or snap at them or punch them in the

00:58:25.980 --> 00:58:28.380
face, but you forgive them. Give heed. Pay attention.

00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:31.219
Take care. Apply yourself. And then the last

00:58:31.219 --> 00:58:38.300
one is to have regard. The easiest way to explain

00:58:38.300 --> 00:58:40.059
to have regard would be you don't turn your back.

00:58:41.360 --> 00:58:45.579
You don't close your eyes. Right? And that's

00:58:45.579 --> 00:58:46.840
what people think. They're really disciplined

00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:48.960
because they know that somebody's a butthead

00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:50.460
and they're going to turn their back on them,

00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.079
close their eyes, and I'm going to walk away

00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:53.539
from them. I'm not going to have anything to

00:58:53.539 --> 00:58:56.519
do with them anymore. That is not what Scripture

00:58:56.519 --> 00:58:59.079
commands us to. Okay, there was the phrase in

00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:01.579
there, sheep's clothes. The next line is sheep's

00:59:01.579 --> 00:59:08.579
clothes. And sheep's clothes. The sheep's clothes

00:59:08.579 --> 00:59:15.590
is defined as what? LG. What do you think? If

00:59:15.590 --> 00:59:17.449
someone's in sheep's clothes, what about them?

00:59:20.750 --> 00:59:22.769
So what are we supposed to be, wolves or sheep?

00:59:24.570 --> 00:59:26.670
I know it sounds terrible to say it that way,

00:59:26.690 --> 00:59:27.929
but what are we supposed to be, wolves or sheep?

00:59:28.889 --> 00:59:31.630
Sheep. Right. So if they're in sheep's clothes,

00:59:31.989 --> 00:59:36.670
they look good, right? They look like us. They

00:59:36.670 --> 00:59:39.619
look like they belong. At least on the surface,

00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:46.460
anyway. Only on the surface, really. Okay? So

00:59:46.460 --> 00:59:50.840
then, to know them, this is that next line, to

00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:56.800
know them is to contrast appearances to fruit.

00:59:58.099 --> 01:00:01.380
Not appearances to actuality. It's not our job

01:00:01.380 --> 01:00:05.599
to sort out that they're lost or saved. Right?

01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:08.179
That's not what we're trying to do. But to contrast

01:00:08.179 --> 01:00:12.039
the appearances, they look good, to the fruit,

01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:19.599
what they're producing. It's to know them is

01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:26.599
to contrast appearances to fruit. So, an example.

01:00:27.460 --> 01:00:30.139
Caleb brings a friend to church who talks a lot

01:00:30.139 --> 01:00:33.639
about God. Caleb went, finally, I got something

01:00:33.639 --> 01:00:36.230
I can hang out with. I don't have to hang out

01:00:36.230 --> 01:00:38.469
with my brother all the time. This guy, Bob,

01:00:38.690 --> 01:00:40.110
he talks a lot about God. I'm bringing him to

01:00:40.110 --> 01:00:42.670
church. He starts coming to church. He dresses

01:00:42.670 --> 01:00:45.570
like we dress. He talks the part. He's got the

01:00:45.570 --> 01:00:49.070
language. Everything is good. But then Bob starts

01:00:49.070 --> 01:00:50.809
talking to Caleb when nobody else is around,

01:00:51.070 --> 01:00:53.510
suggesting maybe they can smoke pot out behind

01:00:53.510 --> 01:01:01.010
the trailer or something, right? Can Bob be a

01:01:01.010 --> 01:01:05.440
good tree under those circumstances? If he is

01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:10.440
a good tree, can he produce evil fruit? No. He

01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:12.639
can't produce evil fruit and be a good tree.

01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:17.320
Can he be a Christian? Yes. But if he is a Christian,

01:01:17.480 --> 01:01:22.780
then what is our problem? Yeah. So he's corrupted.

01:01:23.300 --> 01:01:26.219
So he could be a Christian, but he's corrupted

01:01:26.219 --> 01:01:29.920
by evil desires, temptation, or as RJ said, sin.

01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:33.159
Right? So he wouldn't be doing that if he wasn't

01:01:33.159 --> 01:01:36.929
corrupted. And your fruit, the person's fruit

01:01:36.929 --> 01:01:40.630
then, we detect the corruption. We're not detecting

01:01:40.630 --> 01:01:42.730
whether they're saved or not. That's not our

01:01:42.730 --> 01:01:46.269
job. We look at the appearance. They look like

01:01:46.269 --> 01:01:49.630
they're saved. They say they're saved, but the

01:01:49.630 --> 01:01:52.849
fruit says they're corrupted. Not that they're

01:01:52.849 --> 01:01:55.550
unsaved. Be careful. You have to draw a line

01:01:55.550 --> 01:01:59.750
there. Why? Because Matthew 7, 1 says, judge

01:01:59.750 --> 01:02:01.150
not lest you be judged. We talked about that

01:02:01.150 --> 01:02:03.619
last week. Right? So you have to draw a line.

01:02:03.659 --> 01:02:05.659
You can't judge them as unsaved, but you can

01:02:05.659 --> 01:02:10.559
judge their fruit as evil, which means they are

01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:15.900
corrupt. Okay? Get it? Okay. I think we got it.

01:02:16.139 --> 01:02:19.480
All right. So then we can trust that, capital

01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:25.440
G -W -S, God will, we don't know for sure that

01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:29.280
he'll save. They may elect not to be saved. He

01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:33.559
will sort them. And that's what it said. It said

01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:37.579
those trees that do not produce good fruit, they

01:02:37.579 --> 01:02:40.960
do not bring forth good fruit, will be hewn down

01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:45.420
and cast into the fire. So now we've got some

01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:48.940
yes or no questions. I'll ask the question and

01:02:48.940 --> 01:02:52.800
the whole team will answer. Should we burn them?

01:02:53.179 --> 01:02:57.900
No. And that can be both literal and metaphorical.

01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:00.059
You shouldn't burn them. And also, you shouldn't

01:03:00.059 --> 01:03:03.420
burn them. Right? So, in other words, don't hurt

01:03:03.420 --> 01:03:06.000
their emotions, don't attack them psychologically

01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.039
or whatever just because you know they're corrupt.

01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:15.219
Should we punch them? No, we should definitely

01:03:15.219 --> 01:03:17.019
not punch them. So the first one was, should

01:03:17.019 --> 01:03:19.820
we burn them? The answer is no. Should we punch

01:03:19.820 --> 01:03:24.420
them? The answer is no. The next one's all blanks.

01:03:24.420 --> 01:03:26.179
Are you keeping up okay? It's a lot of writing.

01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:31.219
We're almost done. This one's a little trickier.

01:03:31.760 --> 01:03:34.099
And actually, I think a lot of people do this.

01:03:34.340 --> 01:03:39.920
Should we ignore them? Correct. Kishan had nailed

01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:42.559
it. We should not ignore them. So when a false

01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:46.480
prophet comes into your life, you don't want

01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.239
to get wrapped up in their teachings, right?

01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:50.780
You don't want to produce the kind of fruit that

01:03:50.780 --> 01:03:52.539
they produce. In fact, you should not be able

01:03:52.539 --> 01:03:57.519
to unless you are corrupted, right? But you also

01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:02.699
are told not to ignore them. Ignoring them would

01:04:02.699 --> 01:04:04.760
be the opposite of everything that we were just

01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:07.420
told. Beware, pay attention, apply oneself, give

01:04:07.420 --> 01:04:10.719
heed, have regard. There's no ignoring them in

01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:16.659
there. Okay? Should we ignore them? No. Are they

01:04:16.659 --> 01:04:22.900
lost without hope? No, they are not lost without

01:04:22.900 --> 01:04:25.860
hope. No one is lost without hope until one of

01:04:25.860 --> 01:04:29.199
two things is true. And one is that they die

01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:32.420
and go to hell. That's the most clear one. And

01:04:32.420 --> 01:04:35.300
the other is that they are adamant in themselves

01:04:35.300 --> 01:04:39.119
and purposefully so that they cannot be saved.

01:04:39.300 --> 01:04:40.980
They will not be saved. They'll have nothing

01:04:40.980 --> 01:04:44.099
to do with God. They know that God exists, usually,

01:04:44.179 --> 01:04:48.099
and they just refuse to accept him. That person

01:04:48.099 --> 01:04:51.519
cannot be saved. Now, if something would happen

01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:53.599
that would change their heart, change their mind,

01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:56.000
then they could still be saved. Right? So lost

01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.380
without hope is when there's no chance of a person

01:04:58.380 --> 01:05:02.119
being saved through Jesus Christ. So, this is

01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:04.480
the last line on that bottom there. So, what

01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:08.039
must we do? And then we're going to answer it

01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:14.780
with a B -A -B -L -T. What must we do? Bacon,

01:05:14.780 --> 01:05:22.949
lettuce, tomato. No. Even though it fits. No.

01:05:25.389 --> 01:05:37.929
B -A. B -A looks a lot like... So it's B -E,

01:05:38.130 --> 01:05:43.530
be aware. Be aware, which looks a lot like beware.

01:05:44.469 --> 01:05:46.650
In fact, in the Greek you would use the same

01:05:46.650 --> 01:05:50.099
word to say it. So be aware. But now we're being

01:05:50.099 --> 01:05:54.420
aware of more than just them. We're being aware

01:05:54.420 --> 01:05:57.659
of what we do about them, what our response needs

01:05:57.659 --> 01:05:59.739
to be, what God has commanded us, and what the

01:05:59.739 --> 01:06:06.340
outcome is, right? So be aware, but love them,

01:06:06.460 --> 01:06:10.659
right? And that's how these two verses, these

01:06:10.659 --> 01:06:14.260
two commands tie together, right? So be aware,

01:06:14.500 --> 01:06:17.380
but love them. So are false prophets your enemy?

01:06:20.469 --> 01:06:24.269
And they would teach you bad things are false

01:06:24.269 --> 01:06:28.670
prophets, your enemy. Yeah, they are. They would

01:06:28.670 --> 01:06:31.030
take you where you don't want to go. They'll

01:06:31.030 --> 01:06:32.670
bring you down from where you do want to go.

01:06:34.809 --> 01:06:41.630
Okay? Then inside that little box to the right,

01:06:41.670 --> 01:06:43.369
and then we're finishing through to the end,

01:06:43.429 --> 01:06:48.070
the first word is assumptions. I gave you that.

01:06:49.130 --> 01:06:52.010
The second word is are, and the last word starts

01:06:52.010 --> 01:06:59.530
with a D. What do you think? Assumptions are...

01:06:59.530 --> 01:07:07.929
No. Assumptions are... I can think of two words

01:07:07.929 --> 01:07:14.730
you could actually put there. The one I put was

01:07:14.730 --> 01:07:17.489
deadly. Assumptions are deadly. Remember, we're

01:07:17.489 --> 01:07:20.420
talking about... Wolves in sheep's clothing.

01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:26.099
They're ravenous wolves. They're hungry and hunting.

01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:29.639
That's how the Bible describes them. To assume

01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:35.079
that they're a sheep and safe means you're in

01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:38.159
trouble before you know it. Right? You could

01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:43.260
be deadly. Or you could just put dangerous. Because

01:07:43.260 --> 01:07:45.199
you won't necessarily lose your salvation. You'll

01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:51.150
just become a corrupted tree like them. And then

01:07:51.150 --> 01:08:03.949
we have H -I -A -E. So this has all been about

01:08:03.949 --> 01:08:07.230
being aware of false prophets and loving them.

01:08:07.570 --> 01:08:12.670
And so I'm going to just say, is an enemy. So

01:08:12.670 --> 01:08:16.189
what do you think that H is? There we go. That

01:08:16.189 --> 01:08:20.739
H. Say it again. Nope. Well, that could be true

01:08:20.739 --> 01:08:25.220
if you talk about the right he, but... Hatred.

01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:31.600
Hatred is an enemy. And not a fruit that we produce.

01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:36.619
That's why when you have your young teens or

01:08:36.619 --> 01:08:38.600
young preteens and they say, I hate this, I hate

01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.180
that, you really should just say, you don't want

01:08:41.180 --> 01:08:43.279
to hate. You don't want to feel that strongly

01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:48.890
about that. There is a thing to hate. Sin. That's

01:08:48.890 --> 01:08:51.829
it. That's basically the only thing that hate

01:08:51.829 --> 01:08:57.489
is for. Okay. Then the false prophets are coming

01:08:57.489 --> 01:08:59.869
and they're teaching us, and I'm going to kind

01:08:59.869 --> 01:09:01.529
of whisk through this in the interest of time

01:09:01.529 --> 01:09:02.710
because we still have questions and we're done.

01:09:03.010 --> 01:09:08.130
The doctrine of demons is what goes next. We

01:09:08.130 --> 01:09:11.130
have a reference there. It's 1 Timothy. The chapter

01:09:11.130 --> 01:09:16.829
is two times two. And the verse is only one.

01:09:17.550 --> 01:09:20.329
Correct. So it's 1 Timothy 4 .1. It talks about

01:09:20.329 --> 01:09:22.010
the doctrine of demons. And it basically says,

01:09:22.029 --> 01:09:23.369
without going there and reading the exact verse,

01:09:23.470 --> 01:09:25.609
it says that in the latter days, some will fall

01:09:25.609 --> 01:09:29.409
away from following God because they will buy

01:09:29.409 --> 01:09:33.770
into or believe the doctrine of demons. And so

01:09:33.770 --> 01:09:42.810
the next line says, some will fall away. And

01:09:42.810 --> 01:09:50.280
then if you're falling away, you're giving. Faithfulness.

01:09:50.280 --> 01:09:54.239
You're losing or giving up faithfulness. Probably

01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:55.600
should have been two blanks there, I apologize.

01:09:55.979 --> 01:10:03.140
Give up faithfulness. And by the way, just as

01:10:03.140 --> 01:10:09.140
an interesting correlation, faithfulness is also,

01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:14.600
if goodness is a fruit of the Spirit, faithfulness

01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.319
is also a fruit of the Spirit. And it is a good

01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:22.359
fruit. All right? So instead of that, instead

01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:24.640
of buying into the doctrine of demons, falling

01:10:24.640 --> 01:10:28.060
away like they do, instead, there's that B again,

01:10:28.260 --> 01:10:35.560
beware. Here's your plan. Beware. Produce good

01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:43.560
fruit. And in particular, love and faithfulness.

01:10:47.020 --> 01:10:49.779
I submit to you that every martyr that ever won

01:10:49.779 --> 01:10:54.439
an entire society by dying used the good fruits

01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:56.960
of love and faithfulness to do it. They said,

01:10:57.020 --> 01:11:00.319
wow, he stayed true even while they were burning

01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:03.920
him alive? He cried out for their forgiveness

01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:09.119
even while he was crucified? He never recanted

01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:11.239
being a follower of Christ even though they draw

01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:16.289
and quarter him? So love and faithfulness. And

01:11:16.289 --> 01:11:20.850
then it's not always mentioned, but at crucifixions,

01:11:20.850 --> 01:11:22.609
people would come out, the whole town would come

01:11:22.609 --> 01:11:24.350
out, and they would come out because while people

01:11:24.350 --> 01:11:26.729
were being crucified, they would cuss and scream

01:11:26.729 --> 01:11:30.029
like a sailor or worse, and they would tell everyone's

01:11:30.029 --> 01:11:32.229
secrets. So they would look down into the crowd

01:11:32.229 --> 01:11:34.369
and see somebody in the crowd, and they would

01:11:34.369 --> 01:11:36.270
tell that person's deepest, darkest secret, whatever

01:11:36.270 --> 01:11:37.489
they knew about them, and they would make up

01:11:37.489 --> 01:11:40.170
stories, and they would try to cause all the

01:11:40.170 --> 01:11:41.789
trouble that they could for everyone that was

01:11:41.789 --> 01:11:43.789
in the crowd and everyone that they knew while

01:11:43.789 --> 01:11:45.979
they were being crucified. So it was like watching

01:11:45.979 --> 01:11:49.399
the Jerry Springer show. And so everyone would

01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:50.920
come out to see crucifixions, not because they

01:11:50.920 --> 01:11:53.060
wanted to see a thief die on the cross, but because

01:11:53.060 --> 01:11:57.920
they wanted to see the show. Exactly. And when

01:11:57.920 --> 01:12:01.199
Jesus didn't do that, the Roman soldier looked

01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:03.300
at him and said, this man surely was a son of

01:12:03.300 --> 01:12:06.140
God. Because he didn't die the way everybody

01:12:06.140 --> 01:12:09.560
else died. And he had love and he had faithfulness.

01:12:09.779 --> 01:12:13.279
Okay, I'm going to ask a few questions. Are we

01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:33.159
through? All right. Okay, I'm not giving away

01:12:33.159 --> 01:12:38.279
Tide Pods. Nope, sure not doing it. Okay. A couple

01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:44.939
of hard questions here. Let's see. All right.

01:12:48.720 --> 01:13:00.340
Okay. We are commanded. Are we ready? We are

01:13:00.340 --> 01:13:04.500
commanded to love, bless, and do good. Because

01:13:04.500 --> 01:13:13.149
in this way, we will be what? Haley. Nope. Although,

01:13:13.250 --> 01:13:15.869
those things are good. Fruit of the Spirit. Kashan.

01:13:16.949 --> 01:13:18.649
Yes, be children of the Father. Do you like meat?

01:13:21.229 --> 01:13:31.390
Here you go. Here's dessert to go with the meat.

01:13:35.310 --> 01:13:41.500
Alright. Here we go. Come on. Okay. I defined

01:13:41.500 --> 01:13:46.560
the word ravenous as these two words. Jason.

01:13:47.619 --> 01:13:58.180
Okay, do you like meat? Coming at you. Okay.

01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:08.479
I said that this one action set the example for

01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:16.390
us. It was the most extreme example of God being

01:14:16.390 --> 01:14:26.529
like this. What was it? Haley? Say it again?

01:14:31.609 --> 01:14:34.590
No, those are two examples, but this one's more

01:14:34.590 --> 01:14:37.649
extreme than that. May I also take a stab at

01:14:37.649 --> 01:14:46.989
it? Jason? Nope. Good try. Anybody? Hannah, what

01:14:46.989 --> 01:14:51.770
is the most extreme example of God's grace? You

01:14:51.770 --> 01:14:58.270
don't even need the paper. Go ahead. Yep, that's

01:14:58.270 --> 01:15:11.920
right. Do you like me? Okay, coming at you. Okay.

01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:28.439
All right. Listen, listen. False prophets are

01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:33.340
probably most dangerous because they don these.

01:15:34.020 --> 01:15:39.359
Caleb. Say it again. Evil fruit? Nope. They produce

01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:42.699
evil fruit. That's true. Haley, can you do it?

01:15:42.739 --> 01:15:47.140
I'll give you three seconds. Don these. Two,

01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:51.779
one, and Josh. Sheep's clothing. Do you like

01:15:51.779 --> 01:16:03.140
meat? You can't have chocolate. Oops, sorry.

01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:14.819
A little high. Okay. Alright. Give me the first

01:16:14.819 --> 01:16:18.039
and third definitions that I gave you of the

01:16:18.039 --> 01:16:27.399
word beware. Caleb. Do you know how to pronounce

01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:29.479
that word? Is that what you said? No, it's pay

01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:34.239
attention and give. Heed. Okay. You didn't give

01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:37.060
me yet, right? I didn't give you meat yet, did

01:16:37.060 --> 01:16:40.340
I? No. Do you like meat? Yes. Okay. I guess everybody

01:16:40.340 --> 01:16:52.760
likes meat, huh? Yay! Okay. All right. Complete

01:16:52.760 --> 01:17:02.810
this sentence. A good tree cannot not. Complete

01:17:02.810 --> 01:17:04.489
this sentence. It's kind of a weird sentence,

01:17:04.569 --> 01:17:11.569
but a good tree cannot not, Haley. Correct. That

01:17:11.569 --> 01:17:14.149
is correct. Okay. Do you like meat? Okay. She's

01:17:14.149 --> 01:17:16.109
like, I'm waiting for meat. I have a whole other

01:17:16.109 --> 01:17:35.180
bag, so I'm not out. Okay. That was loud, sorry.

01:17:35.859 --> 01:17:43.439
Okay. All right. Natalie, are you ready? Okay.

01:17:43.819 --> 01:17:47.859
According to this lesson, assumptions are what?

01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:57.539
Yep. Do you like meat? Okay. Just let her have

01:17:57.539 --> 01:18:14.340
the meat. Jeez, guys. All right open to anybody

01:18:14.340 --> 01:18:30.989
According to this lesson When dealing with a

01:18:30.989 --> 01:18:38.829
false prophet, we must beware and... Hannah?

01:18:41.689 --> 01:18:49.890
No, that's part of beware. Josh? Okay, treat

01:18:49.890 --> 01:18:51.449
them like an enemy, i .e. love them. I'll give

01:18:51.449 --> 01:18:55.220
it to you. Okay, pick someone... Not yourself

01:18:55.220 --> 01:18:57.260
because you already got a prize. It's an adult

01:18:57.260 --> 01:18:59.119
that's in the room because no other adults got

01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:07.020
prizes. Tim Hundley, would you like meat or chocolate?

01:19:10.359 --> 01:19:18.300
Say again? Okay, coming at you. Oh, Chris, that

01:19:18.300 --> 01:19:21.359
was a lousy throw. Okay, we're almost done. Here

01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:31.859
we go. List three things that you personally

01:19:31.859 --> 01:19:39.479
received as prevenient grace. Tommy. I put good

01:19:39.479 --> 01:19:44.579
slash lucky help, church family creation. Okay.

01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:51.119
Do you like me? Who doesn't like me? There you

01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:59.430
go. According to this lesson. Finishing up. According

01:19:59.430 --> 01:20:03.189
to this lesson. Tell me where you will not find

01:20:03.189 --> 01:20:07.329
grapes and where you will not find figs. Jason.

01:20:07.770 --> 01:20:14.590
Thorns and what? Thistles. Okay, thistles. All

01:20:14.590 --> 01:20:17.590
right. And for the bonus question, which character

01:20:17.590 --> 01:20:24.229
from Winnie the Pooh likes to eat thistles? Nope.

01:20:33.050 --> 01:20:34.829
Nope. I'm going to make you guys go look it up.

01:20:34.949 --> 01:20:37.069
I think the only adult that didn't give me that

01:20:37.069 --> 01:20:40.250
one. I'm going to say I won. I'll take it for

01:20:40.250 --> 01:20:47.890
him. You sure? Or do you want this? I'll take

01:20:47.890 --> 01:20:57.510
that. That was the non -meat prize. Your only

01:20:57.510 --> 01:21:07.470
eats thistles. Maybe. But guess who, not yet,

01:21:07.609 --> 01:21:14.029
maybe another time. What character tried to eat

01:21:14.029 --> 01:21:22.949
thistles but decided they were too hot? Higger.

01:21:24.409 --> 01:21:26.890
Everybody else had a favorite food, and he tried

01:21:26.890 --> 01:21:33.470
everybody else's favorite food. Don't have a

01:21:33.470 --> 01:21:37.489
beard? I have no idea. That's a good question.

01:21:37.550 --> 01:21:42.250
Drumpy? Dopey? Because he's the youngest looking

01:21:42.250 --> 01:21:44.789
one. All right. We're going to pray and be done.

01:21:44.890 --> 01:21:48.649
Thank you. Have fun. Stay tuned. There may be

01:21:48.649 --> 01:21:52.069
some interesting things, changes, exciting stuff

01:21:52.069 --> 01:21:55.689
going on Tuesday night. Not sure what that'll

01:21:55.689 --> 01:21:57.069
look like in the next couple weeks. We'll see.

01:21:57.210 --> 01:21:59.989
It might happen before you know it. Pretty interesting

01:21:59.989 --> 01:22:04.329
stuff. There is a softball practice going to

01:22:04.329 --> 01:22:06.109
be on Saturday. For sure, I don't know that we'll

01:22:06.109 --> 01:22:08.270
get one sooner. If there is somebody that wants

01:22:08.270 --> 01:22:12.810
to, listen up. If you want to practice softball

01:22:12.810 --> 01:22:15.250
sooner and just kind of put the word out and

01:22:15.250 --> 01:22:17.510
tell people, I just don't, I mean, we have adult

01:22:17.510 --> 01:22:19.930
Bible study Thursday. I just don't really have

01:22:19.930 --> 01:22:22.029
time to do it before then. But if somebody else

01:22:22.029 --> 01:22:24.369
wants to just kind of get out. Do stuff you can.

01:22:25.869 --> 01:22:28.989
The 17th, it is happening, no doubt about it.

01:22:30.350 --> 01:22:34.149
I know, it was last night. The tentative schedule

01:22:34.149 --> 01:22:36.550
is written. We just got to proof it and make

01:22:36.550 --> 01:22:38.949
sure. And we'll have doubleheaders and we won't

01:22:38.949 --> 01:22:41.149
have any games during BDS week, so that's really

01:22:41.149 --> 01:22:45.810
cool. We're going to have three nights where

01:22:45.810 --> 01:22:47.550
we'll have two softball games. And there will

01:22:47.550 --> 01:22:50.189
be some games on Wednesdays and Thursdays, not

01:22:50.189 --> 01:22:54.010
only Mondays, but there's too many games. Not

01:22:54.010 --> 01:22:56.649
a lot. Okay? So let's pray together, and then

01:22:56.649 --> 01:22:58.210
we'll hit the roadies. Do you know how many games

01:22:58.210 --> 01:23:00.430
we had last year when we took a bike in the front?

01:23:01.350 --> 01:23:04.369
We have one, for sure. As of right now, but it's

01:23:04.369 --> 01:23:07.250
only an attendant schedule, so. Father in heaven,

01:23:07.310 --> 01:23:10.729
we praise you and thank you for setting a standard

01:23:10.729 --> 01:23:13.989
for us that is somewhat higher than what it means

01:23:13.989 --> 01:23:17.729
to be a normal human. That we are to achieve

01:23:17.729 --> 01:23:23.409
love and stay there. A love that lasts. A love

01:23:23.409 --> 01:23:26.710
that changes the world. A love that makes all

01:23:26.710 --> 01:23:30.390
the difference in decision making. A love that

01:23:30.390 --> 01:23:34.130
might even win an enemy to you. I don't know

01:23:34.130 --> 01:23:38.229
why it works that way, except that they have

01:23:38.229 --> 01:23:40.569
to be in such darkness and looking for a light

01:23:40.569 --> 01:23:43.210
of any kind. And then when we show up as a light,

01:23:43.289 --> 01:23:45.170
even in the middle of being persecuted or whatever,

01:23:45.550 --> 01:23:51.800
if they latch on, they just might find you. Lord,

01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:53.659
I don't want to be persecuted, but I also know

01:23:53.659 --> 01:23:55.659
that your word says that we kind of should want

01:23:55.659 --> 01:23:59.579
to be persecuted. And that's just, that's hard.

01:24:00.619 --> 01:24:03.960
But at the same time, Lord, I want to be faithful

01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:05.960
to the bitter end, however long that is. And

01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:07.319
if Jesus comes again before I die, I want to

01:24:07.319 --> 01:24:08.739
come straight to be with you. I definitely don't

01:24:08.739 --> 01:24:10.640
want anything other than that. And so I want

01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:12.420
to be found faithful. Because I want to chase

01:24:12.420 --> 01:24:18.079
away the doctrine of demons and just be found

01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:21.460
faithful. And that means loving others. Stay

01:24:21.460 --> 01:24:23.560
in the course. I pray that every person in this

01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:25.760
room will do that. And we have a lot of fun here,

01:24:25.899 --> 01:24:28.300
but the reality is, Lord, you're what's most

01:24:28.300 --> 01:24:30.819
important. Not the way we do it or when we do

01:24:30.819 --> 01:24:36.020
it, but who gives us the ability for being at

01:24:36.020 --> 01:24:38.500
grace. And then through grace, for sure, once

01:24:38.500 --> 01:24:41.199
we're saved, thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name,

01:24:41.319 --> 01:24:41.619
amen.