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Thanks for choosing this podcast by New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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In this episode, we'll look at how a person both gets a good repute or good reputation

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in the Kingdom of God, where God will say, you have served Jesus Christ well, and also,

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and maybe more importantly, how a person can be healthy and well-nourished spiritually

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in the church.

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Just becoming a Christian, known and nourished.

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Here we go.

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music kaleidoscope

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I'm going to see you when you are by my feet

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When you are by my street

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When you are on the tip of a woman's ring

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When everything you say and do

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Be founded by the faith in you

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A vision fully empty

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Like the flowers in a dream

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Oh, God, I can't see what I can't see

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Oh, God, I can't feel what I can't feel my dreams

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Oh, God, I can't do what I can't do about everything

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Oh, God, I can't do what I can't do about anything

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I'm going to see you when you are by my feet

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When you are by my street

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When you are on the tip of a woman's ring

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When everything you say and do

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Be founded by the faith in you

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A vision fully empty

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Like the flowers in a dream

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Like the flowers in a dream

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Like the flowers in a dream

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Like the flowers in a dream

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Like the flowers in a dream

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I hope you have been spending time with the Lord already today and throughout the week.

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I know that some of you and myself as well have faced some trials and some difficulties this week.

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We've had folks who visited the hospital. We've had folks who went through court proceedings.

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Folks have dealt with lawyers. Folks have dealt with health concerns, trying to get appointments to deal with health concerns.

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Folks that have health concerns that there really isn't anything else they can do about them.

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Folks that are in pain every day. We've got quite the variety when it comes to difficulty.

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And so we want to lift each other up. And we also, more importantly, want to lift God up.

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Because He really is on the top of the heap. He's on the throne in heaven. He is in charge of it all.

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And so we can reach the heights of Jesus today because He allows it.

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And I'm grateful, I don't know about you, but I'm grateful that He allows it.

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I do want to remind you, it seems like it's not just around the corner, but it will be here before you know it.

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The crosswalk is coming. That's the day before Easter.

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And of course, I think maybe the most important thing is Resurrection Sunday.

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The day we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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We can't do that every Sunday and we can't do that every day.

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But we annualize it or set it on a day which is called by the world, if you will, Easter.

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Okay? And so that's coming. It's late a little bit this year. It's mid-April.

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You see the date up there on the screen.

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There is some special activities surrounding the crosswalk.

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Here's what I want you to be thinking about and doing as we approach.

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Number one, we're going to be doing some promotion for that.

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We want our promotion to be geared toward getting folks to come and walk with us.

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We're not trying to get them to join the church, but a kingdom of God walks.

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If you know somebody who professes to be a Christian, even if they're in another church, that's great.

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They can stay in their church. They're not trying to win them out of their church or anything like that.

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Who would be willing to come and walk with us.

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If you're not physically capable of making that walk, we usually have a little caravan of cars behind.

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If you know somebody who's willing to do that, reach out to them and say,

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Hey, would you like to come and do that with us?

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If their church doesn't already do something like that, it is a great opportunity to honor the Lord.

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Okay? And then with that, we will have an open house.

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We will have some food type stuff.

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What all we said? Food? Lunch? Okay?

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So we'll be serving lunch.

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And then after the crosswalk, kind of like after lunch, after everything,

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we'll have the pantry open in the afternoon for folks that are normally in need of food.

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Okay? So they can take groceries home with them if they're in need of food.

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So it's a day of service. It's a day of recognizing who and what,

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who the Lord is and what He has done for us through the crucifixion.

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Jesus came that sins might be done away with.

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And then He took those sins, really became those sins upon the cross

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so that we might have and become really the righteousness of God through Him.

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It's a great blessing to not just us, right?

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I think most of you get it. I hope you get it.

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But maybe you don't. If you don't, you can listen closely.

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This is huge. This is how we got saved.

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This is how sins were paid for. How sins were taken out of the way.

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How sins were dealt with.

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And then we know He rose again on the third day.

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And we'll come together on Sunday and celebrate the heck out of it.

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And I'll be blasting my voice as loud as I possibly can.

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And I hope you will too. And we'll praise Him for what He's done.

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Okay? So that's coming up. It's not that far away.

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In the meantime, you're talking about, you're praying about,

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you're thinking about, you're encouraging folks to come and participate in that.

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I hope you will.

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Also, after service today, there was a Fatherhood Washington meeting,

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which is basically Brother Tony Tate is our team leader for that.

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And they're going to meet in the cafeteria.

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They're going to be discussing his strategy

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and how God has laid on his heart to go forward with that ministry

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so we can encourage one another.

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It is largely to encourage men.

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So if you're a man who's willing to encourage men,

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or you're a woman who's willing to encourage men,

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it's a great place for you to plug in.

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But it's for anybody who needs encouragement.

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So he's certainly not stopping there.

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And so that's going to go on this afternoon after service.

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I encourage you, if you want to be involved in that, to come and do that.

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And if nothing else, it would be a great opportunity to find out what his plans are,

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what God's leading him to do, and leading us to do through that team,

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and pray about it. Pray for each other. Support each other.

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Okay? Alright? So that's that.

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And then next week is the team leader meeting.

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I'm normally supposed to put that agenda out a week in advance,

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and I have struggled to do that for years, so I'm not doing that now.

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But I do want to remind you we have some key issues that need to be resolved.

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So if you are a team leader who is also a key holder,

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I'm asking you to bring your keys to that meeting.

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Okay? So if you are a team leader, so don't come in and go,

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oh, I forgot my keys. I'm reminding you right now.

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Normally you should have your keys with you anyway in case you need them.

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Alright? So that's where we're at.

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So if you do that, and then Brother Mike and I are going to work through the key things,

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and then we're going to work through the key thing after that,

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and get it sorted so we make sure we know where people are at,

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who has what key, and so on. Okay?

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That's all I got in the announcements. There could be others.

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Don't forget to honor the Lord in all ways today.

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Let us pray together, and then we'll jump into worship.

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And worship is maybe like the chief example, right?

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It's the best way to honor God maybe, but service,

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and all the other spiritual distance, all the things we do with the Lord day in, day out,

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follow that model. Okay? So let's declare his work this morning.

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Yeah, just as I say, the Father Watcher meeting is going to be after all the kids get the course,

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so you guys got a little bit of time.

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It'll be a short break while the kids get home.

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And then if you have pizzas, whoever comes in with a bunch of pizzas.

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Okay. Alright. So let's pray. Okay.

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I'm going to put a prayer first. My uncle Art is in the hospital.

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He's got severe pneumonia.

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And he is not currently living in his own home.

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Timmy may have missed something there because he's back in the house.

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I don't know that when you were with Art, he was doing better.

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I heard he was in a recovery center for a while.

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But when he had the stroke, when he was in a coma,

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they think it did bring damage because he wasn't all there.

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And also they found a tumor in my Aunt Fetty's head.

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Okay. That seems to be going around.

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Alright. So continue prayer for Uncle Art.

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And apparently he was out of the hospital,

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but then had some complications the way he went through.

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Alright. Let's pray together.

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Father God, we see just, I think, just an inkling

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of all the awesome things you're doing.

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We get just, I don't want to call it hints,

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because I think you're bold and straightforward and outspoken.

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I think you send gifts of love and mercy and grace.

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Lord, but we only sort of take a sample.

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We don't really open ourselves up to experiencing you fully

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on a daily basis maybe, or we get distracted away from

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reaching the heights in Jesus every day

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and every moment that we're awake,

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to compartmentalizing and only do certain areas.

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Lord, I for one ask you for forgiveness and for strength

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and to do the right thing so I can do the right thing.

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Lord, I think there are others here who would echo that prayer.

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I ask you Father that as we praise you this morning,

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we can truly be grateful for the things that we've seen,

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for the things that we haven't seen,

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because you've definitely been at work.

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You've definitely done amazing things that we don't know anything about,

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and then many things that we do.

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So we ask you Lord to govern us. Absolutely.

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That's all day every day.

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And accept from us today this praise,

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sung to your holy name.

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For the one who's in the room who maybe doesn't normally sing,

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I pray Lord that you will prompt them in their heart today

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that they will realize that the word says over and over and over again

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that singing with joy, singing praises to our God,

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is one of the things we're told to do.

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So free us Lord.

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Free us from our foolish notions that we're not able, not good enough,

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can't keep up.

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Free us Lord from our distractions and our temptations

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thinking about other things,

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things that were going on before we came in here,

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things that we want to make sure and say to somebody before we leave,

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or things we want to get taken care of today.

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Lord, free us to truly worship the God of heaven.

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We pray this prayer,

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for the one who can make it so, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Amen.

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Here comes the King.

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All around town,

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he's a new born man.

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He is the King.

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All around town,

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all around town.

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He's a new born man.

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He's a new born man.

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Jesus is alive, he's a-coding again.

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Shout from the sky, he's a-coding again.

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Take him around.

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Here comes the King.

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All around town,

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he's a new born man.

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He's a new born man.

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He's a new born man.

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All around town,

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all around town.

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You are the King.

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You are the King.

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Here comes the King.

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All around town,

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he's a new born man.

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He is the new born man.

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Good that your voice says,

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don't you dare,

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keep on looking.

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All around town,

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all around town.

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And here comes the King.

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All around town,

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How can you hear your standing pain?

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Oh, my dear, for months so long

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And even things for you

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For me, my heart is sad and crying

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Within your presence

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I see you leave the shadow of your wings

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There is one day in your heart

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There is one day in your heart

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There is one day in your heart

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There is one day in your heart

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I'm not afraid of you

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I'm singing I ask that that's what I sing

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I sing I will sing

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I will sing the praise of the Reign of

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Oh dear my heart is sad and wide

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Within your presence I see you need me

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The shadow of your face

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better in the one day in your house

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Better in the one day in your court

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And that's not fair

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better in the one day in your house

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Better in the one day in your court

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And that's not fair

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Why I am much higher

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For you living I

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For you is what I'm full of

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Oh dear my heart is sad and wide

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Within your presence I see you need me

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better in the one day in your house

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Better in the one day in your house

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Why I am much higher

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For you is what I'm full of

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Oh dear my heart is sad and wide

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Within your presence I see you need me

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The shadow of your face

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better in the one day in your house

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Better in the one day in your court

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Better than what they in your heart

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Better than what they in your heart

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Alright, we come to that moment in time where we ask ourselves how has the Lord been speaking?

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We are deep into our six months emphasis on study

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and so if you have not made some kind of plan

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if you have not disciplined yourself in some way

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remember it is a spiritual discipline

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meaning you've made some kind of plan

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or some kind of structure for yourself or whatever

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and you study when you spend time with your Bible

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write something down, make some notes, underline, circle, whatever that is

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underlining or circling something is like the minimum

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otherwise it is meditation

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if you are just thinking about it a lot asking yourself questions about it

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or you can pray through it

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there is nothing wrong with praying through scripture

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but it is study when you are reading something, thinking about it, digesting it

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and writing something down

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that is when it becomes study

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so we are talking about that

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and I am going to read, give myself about a minute here

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to read a little excerpt from this essay that we have been reading from

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give the credit to Mr. Harry Hahn

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who is a professor at the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary

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I think that is how you say it

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but anyway, he wrote this essay about study

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and this is one passage here

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this is an attitude about study or that you come to your Bible with

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and this is what it says

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We should not read the Bible merely to gain information

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the ultimate goal of Bible study should be that our lives would be changed

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it is the doer of the word who is blessed, not the mere hearer

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the tone of Psalm 119 reflects an eagerness to learn God's will

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so that he may be obeyed in everything

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teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes and I shall observe it to the end

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In John 7, 17, Jesus said a remarkable thing to the Jews who were skeptically mocking his claims

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If anyone is willing to do his will, he will know of the teaching

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whether it is of God or whether I speak from myself

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Jesus said that many of those who rejected Jesus' claims to be the Messiah did so

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because they were unwilling to obey God

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A person who puts restrictions on what he considers acceptable for God to demand of him

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runs the risk of being deceived about God's message

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he may not see the meaning of the Biblical passage

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because accepting the message would demand that he change his life

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When you read the Bible you should come with an open and teachable heart

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that is willing to do whatever God may ask of you

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to fit what you consider acceptable

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Many non-Christians reject the Gospel and various Biblical teachings

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not because they don't find them intellectually compelling

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but because they don't want to change their lives to meet the demands of Christ on their lives

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Similar, many skeptics know a lot about the Bible

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but they are not open to being changed in their thinking and actions

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They have become prideful in their knowledge, like the Pharisees of Jesus' day

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Their unwillingness to accept the truth of Scripture and to obey it

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makes them mere hearers who delude themselves

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In extreme cases, they may even try to reinterpret the message of the Bible

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to fit their preconceived ideas about what is acceptable

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When you read the Bible, give your heart to God with a willingness to follow his will wherever that may lead

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So that is willingness to obey as an attitude in Bible study

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I hope you've been studying your Bible

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If you haven't, I should say, you can make yourself right now to do it this week

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so you can bring something to share with us out of your study next week, that would be great

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What have we got?

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What have you seen this week?

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What have you heard this week?

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What caught your attention? God said, hey, pay attention to that

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Don't take it

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So, just kind of going off what you were sharing

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First I wanted to say is that I used to have a very strong commitment for the Lord

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and I had to say that the Lord strongly committed to me first

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not because of my commitment

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I always like to stay transparent

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but because we were supposed to do spiritual discipline studying

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that's what I started to do

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and I kind of got off the horse but I could get back on

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but because of that

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God's been really trying to help me with some things

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and you get back in the study

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God's also been speaking other ways pretty much to get me back on the study

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and that's what it is

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It's not to keep on doing it but there was a few things that I came across the other day

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One was a...

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and I hope it's today

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I hope there's some video games out there showing me

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I'd love to see an old video game that I played years ago

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I just felt like God said, you know, no God can say watch the whole thing

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but I was supposed to get something out of this game

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and this game, like, this guy's all messed up

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his reality's messed up

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but throughout the whole plot of the story is that he continues on

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no matter what

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he doesn't stop no matter how bad it is

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how bad it goes

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how he thinks

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he just can't grasp reality because

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he's been messed up mentally, like, chemically and balanced

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but at the end of the game

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he beats it and then he comes to reality

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and he starts to see what's really going on

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so what I was just sharing is that

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the only way that we can continue this race is just to continue

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there is no other way

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we have to continue on

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and our reality will come clear

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our conscience will become clear

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but it can get shaky sometimes

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so being transparent

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that's just what I've been dealing with

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you know, I've had a hard time studying

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and getting stuff

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but it's like, all I do is get back on

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and we're to tell my readers, the doers of the word

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and I was saying the same thing

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I just shared this with my daughter

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and it was really cool

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I just always say that when I'm speaking to my daughter

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I feel like God's speaking to her

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I feel like God's speaking to me

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like, I'm the father

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you know, to her

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not that I'm the true father

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God's speaking to me through her

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and I said

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let's say you're on a tightrope

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like 20 feet up in the air, alright

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and there's a net

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and I said even if you pursue the whole thing

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with the net, tightrope

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if you read all this stuff

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and you learned it all

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I said it doesn't do anything

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if you don't actually walk the tightrope

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so knowledge is powerful

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without trust in doing it

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then we're never going to be able to

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actually do it

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and the reason I'm saying this

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when Peter was walking on water

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you know, people thought that Jesus calmed the storm

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no, that was at war time

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the storm was brewing, the waves were rocking

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it wasn't like that

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Peter was walking on crazy water

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he wasn't just walking on crazy waves

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rocking the water

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he took his focus off God

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and looked at the waves

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but the idea is that God never calmed the storm that time

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God calmed Peter

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to walk in water

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and so what I'm sharing with you

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sharing with me is that when we do what we're supposed to do

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when we do what's right

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God will calm our hearts

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God will give us the peace to do those things

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and you know, when we take our focus off

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you know, get back in the boat

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we try again

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but really the only thing you can do is persevere and continue

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so what really kind of encouraged me today

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is it's just

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always the same thing

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continue, don't quit

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do what God says

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and persevere

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and someday you'll see the final story

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you know, when we see God again

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we see Jesus again

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we'll see the true reality of all that we've missed

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and we'll be home with Him

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Amen, Max, good work

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I want you to think for just one second

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think for a second about what is the measure

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what measure will God use

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for a Christian to determine

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whether or not they have been a Christian

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remained a Christian, whatever, throughout their life

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there's a single word that occurs in Scripture

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and it happens over and over again

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it's one measure

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and it literally is just faith

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that's it

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so in other words, it's not what you went through

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not even necessarily a decision you made

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or how you adjusted when things happened

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or did you adjust to the new normal

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or you struggled with it for a year or so before you gave in

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and said, okay, this is what God's doing

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it's faithfulness

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will you walk out your walk with Jesus Christ

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He wants to stay with you

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there's that old poem, remember the poem

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Footprints in the Sand

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and He says, Lord, I look back at the worst times in my life

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and He said, in those times

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I see only one set of footprints

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You left me at the worst times of my life

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and Jesus says, no, you don't understand

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those are the times when I carried you

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the Lord wants to walk with you

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the question is, do you also want to walk with the Lord

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and that's going to be the measure

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that's what we'll be called for and to

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and when we get there

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at the end, He's going to say, were you faithful

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and you do what you said you would do

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what did you say you would do?

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you say you would have in this Lord, means He tells you what to do

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and you do it, you would have in this Savior

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means you let Him be the only payment for your sin

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so if you're busy trying to pay for your sins

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you're wasting your time, you have one Savior

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if you're busy trying to figure out what to do

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go straight to Jesus, the easiest way to do that

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is to spend time in the Word, because this is God's Holy Word

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Holy Spirit inspired

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and by the way, this Bible

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all 66 books

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totally about Jesus

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if you don't know what to do when studying

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read something in the Bible that you don't know

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at least it's a little obscure

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and ask yourself, how is this about Jesus

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and every time you'll learn something

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about Jesus, because it's all about Jesus

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even the stuff in the Old Testament

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stories of kings that were slain

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and the guy got his hair caught in a tree

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got hung up, got honey out of the

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carcass of a lion

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all those stories are all about Jesus

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you just got to look and you can see Jesus there

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okay, argue

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I was thinking about this yesterday

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actually last night, because I

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got woke up and I couldn't fall back to sleep

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but, what is one of the most

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powerful things that happen in nature

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that you can't see?

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I can't see anything

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I can't see at all?

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00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,200
yeah

512
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,200
see anything?

513
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,200
yeah, wind

514
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,200
so, last night we had a storm come through

515
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,200
and it got really really windy

516
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,200
yeah

517
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,200
for like a half a second I thought my

518
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,200
ceiling fan was going to fall off because it was shaking so bad

519
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,200
it was really windy

520
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,200
but, I got thinking about it

521
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,200
as I was laying there awake

522
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,200
and I'm like, you know

523
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,200
if something so powerful

524
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,200
can happen

525
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,200
but we can't see it, then imagine what God

526
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,200
needs to do

527
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,200
God, we can't see God

528
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,200
we can't see him face to face, at least not

529
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,200
in heaven

530
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,200
but, God has

531
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,200
that kind of power

532
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,200
to where he can just

533
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,200
make things go away, or make things

534
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,200
appear, I mean

535
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,200
with wind, if you think of it this way, with wind

536
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,200
if you have a tornado

537
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,200
or a hurricane for example, it causes

538
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,200
major destruction

539
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,200
and

540
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,200
you can't see the one

541
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,200
you can't see it coming, all you can see is the effects

542
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,200
it has

543
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,200
and as a Christian, that's how we have to be

544
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,200
we have to be able to

545
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,200
go through our day

546
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,200
and our life

547
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,200
letting people see the effects God has on us

548
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,200
because

549
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,200
we can't see God, we can't

550
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,200
be in his presence

551
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,200
and if anything, I

552
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,200
don't really know if I want to be

553
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,200
because if you look back in the Old Testament, people who did that

554
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,200
died

555
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,200
so, I don't

556
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,200
like, I was like I said, I was

557
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,200
laying there thinking about it, I'm like, you know, that's how

558
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,200
we should be as a Christian, we need to be

559
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,200
I guess, the wind

560
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,200
of the world

561
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,200
to show people

562
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,200
God, because we can't

563
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,200
physically see him, but we can see

564
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,200
the effects that he has

565
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,200
that's a good word, very poetic

566
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,200
we could make a book out of that

567
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,200
alright, anybody else?

568
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,200
Jason

569
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,200
this morning, I need

570
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,200
this picture of the car

571
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,200
God spoke a message to me

572
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,200
when I wrote this picture

573
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,200
ok

574
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,200
he cannot do

575
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,200
he is always there with you

576
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,200
in the name of God

577
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,200
the word of God

578
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,200
ok, so we're going to pray

579
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,200
at this time, and we'll

580
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,200
just have a little more worship

581
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,200
and we have tithes and offerings coming up here in a second

582
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,200
so

583
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,200
make sure that's turned down our offers

584
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,200
ok, so we have tithes and offerings coming up here in a second

585
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,200
and then

586
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,200
a little more worship, kids go to lessons

587
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,200
and we go to the word, I'm excited about today's message

588
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,200
it really spoke to my heart, so I hope you all get some

589
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,200
out of it too, so

590
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,200
we're going to pray at this time, with no warning whatsoever

591
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,200
I'm going to ask Brother Perry Graves, would you pray for us as we transition?

592
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,200
remember the tithes and offerings, you do that?

593
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,200
alright guys, it's coming right now

594
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,200
you know the issues of this church

595
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,200
everyone in, Jason

596
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,200
all the crazy people

597
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,200
you all need to be people, and there you go

598
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,200
teach us to walk by faith

599
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,200
not by our flesh

600
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,200
walk around

601
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,200
and try to get our appetites

602
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,200
and ready to be distracted by the

603
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,200
little lures

604
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,200
that's pretty

605
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,200
a lot of water coming out of your body in Christ

606
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,200
straight into one another

607
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,200
sharp in one another

608
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,200
it will come in your personal face

609
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,200
every one of these days

610
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,200
you must tie this in all things

611
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,200
and

612
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,200
somebody to be appreciative of everything

613
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,200
you do in my life

614
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,200
I love you all, this congregation

615
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,200
you're conscious at all times

616
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,200
just how powerful you are

617
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,200
you have no limits

618
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,200
done

619
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,200
and you know what's going on in the world

620
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,200
I pray that you address those issues

621
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,200
or do the best you can

622
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,200
you're in charge, but it doesn't matter

623
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,200
I just want to say

624
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,200
I love you a lot

625
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,200
I'm going to keep my prayer here

626
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:22,200
thank you very much

627
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:36,200
Even though I walk through the belly of the shadow of death

628
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:44,200
Girl perfect love is passing out freely

629
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:50,200
Even when I'm lost in the middle of the storms of this life

630
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:56,200
I won't turn back, I know you are near

631
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:08,200
And I will fear no evil for our God is with me

632
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:14,200
And if our God is with me

633
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,200
No man shall I fear

634
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,200
No man shall I fear

635
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,200
Oh no, never let go

636
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,200
Through the storms and through the storm

637
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,200
Oh no, never let go

638
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,200
In every high and every low

639
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,200
Oh no, never let go

640
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:46,200
Oh Lord, never let go of me

641
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:52,200
I'm going to be alive next to me for all that goes on

642
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:58,200
I'm going to slice beyond all compare

643
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:02,200
And though we can get into trouble

644
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,200
But until that day comes

645
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:10,200
I'm still dancing for you here on the earth

646
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:22,200
And I will fear no evil for our God is with me

647
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:28,200
And if our God is with me

648
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,200
No man shall I fear

649
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,200
No man shall I fear

650
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,200
Oh no, never let go

651
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,200
Through the storms and through the storm

652
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,200
Oh no, never let go

653
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,200
In every high and every low

654
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,200
Oh no, never let go

655
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:59,200
Oh Lord, never let go of me

656
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,200
And if our God is with me

657
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,200
No man shall I fear

658
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,200
No man shall I fear

659
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,200
Oh Lord, never let go

660
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,200
Until I will fear you

661
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:21,200
Until I will fear you

662
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,200
Oh Lord, never let go

663
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,200
Through the storms and through the storm

664
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,200
I'm going to be alive next to me for all that goes on

665
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,200
But until that day comes

666
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:47,200
I'm still dancing for you here on the earth

667
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,200
Oh no, never let go

668
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,200
Through the storms and through the storm

669
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,200
Oh no, never let go

670
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,200
In every high and every low

671
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,200
Oh no, never let go

672
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,200
Oh Lord, never let go

673
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,200
Oh no, never let go

674
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,200
Through the storms and through the storm

675
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,200
Oh no, never let go

676
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,200
In every high and every low

677
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,200
Oh no, never let go

678
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,200
Oh Lord, never let go

679
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:01,200
The Ten of Touch is the very great, good God's huge universe

680
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,200
We are nothing without him

681
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,200
He has no need for us

682
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,200
He is the good God that we're here or not

683
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,200
whether we love him or not

684
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,200
If he would go to such lengths to reach to us

685
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,200
I'm on the other side of the hill

686
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,200
We can't ignore my name

687
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:53,200
We can't feel my hurt

688
00:39:54,200 --> 00:40:00,200
Oh my, let the brightest morning star

689
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,200
But show to light the way

690
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:09,200
For my ever-wondering heart

691
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,200
Not because of who I am

692
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,200
But because of what you've done

693
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,200
Not because of what I've done

694
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:27,200
But because of who you are

695
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:32,200
I am a flower, three trees fading

696
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:37,200
With a garden, a house, a farm

697
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,200
A wave, talks in the ocean

698
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,200
A paper, you know it

699
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:49,200
Tell you I'll catch you when I'm falling

700
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,200
But you catch me when I'm falling

701
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:58,200
And you talk to know I am

702
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:07,200
I am you

703
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,200
Who am I?

704
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,200
Let the eyes that see me pretend

705
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,200
To love my meaning in love

706
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:31,200
And watch me rise again

707
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,200
Who am I?

708
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,200
Let the voice that calls the sea

709
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,200
Call out through the rain

710
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:48,200
Call the storm in me

711
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,200
Not because of who I am

712
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,200
But because of what you've done

713
00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,200
Not because of what I've done

714
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:05,200
But because of who you are

715
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:10,200
I am a flower, three trees fading

716
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,200
With a garden, a house, a farm

717
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,200
A wave, talks in the ocean

718
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,200
A paper, you know it

719
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:26,200
Tell you I'll catch you when I'm falling

720
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,200
But you catch me when I'm falling

721
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:36,200
And you talk to know I am

722
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:45,200
I am you

723
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:50,200
I am a flower, three trees fading

724
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,200
With a garden, a house, a farm

725
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,200
A wave, talks in the ocean

726
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,200
A paper, you know it

727
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:06,200
Tell you I'll catch you when I'm falling

728
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:10,200
But you catch me when I'm falling

729
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:15,200
And you talk to know I am

730
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:33,200
I am you

731
00:43:45,200 --> 00:44:02,200
Amazing Grace

732
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,200
How sweet the sound

733
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:13,200
That saved a wretch like me

734
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,200
I once was lost

735
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,200
But now I'm found

736
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:28,200
Once loved, but now I see

737
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:35,200
Just grace that taught my heart to fear

738
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:43,200
Embrace my fears to release

739
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:50,200
The precious thing that graced the year

740
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:57,200
The hour I first believed

741
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:05,200
My chains were gone, everything set free

742
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:12,200
My God, my Savior, the rest of me

743
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:20,200
And I am gone, in the blue sea waves

744
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:39,200
My dancing girl, Amazing Grace

745
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:46,200
The Lord has promised sure to me

746
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:53,200
In His word my heart's secure

747
00:45:53,200 --> 00:46:01,200
He will my shield and watch on me

748
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:07,200
And as long as time can go

749
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:14,200
My chains are gone, I've been set free

750
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:22,200
My God, my Savior, the rest of me

751
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:30,200
And I am gone, in the blue sea waves

752
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:37,200
My dancing girl, Amazing Grace

753
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:45,200
My chains are gone, I've been set free

754
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:52,200
My God, my Savior, the rest of me

755
00:46:52,200 --> 00:47:00,200
And I am gone, in the blue sea waves

756
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:12,200
My dancing girl, Amazing Grace

757
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:20,200
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow

758
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:27,200
The sun for better to shine

759
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:34,200
The God who caught me here below

760
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:41,200
Will be forever mine

761
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:49,200
Will be forever mine

762
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:57,200
You are forever mine

763
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:37,200
Alright, alright, alright.

764
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:44,200
I really loved that song, Amazing Grace.

765
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:49,200
When I first heard that remake, and I'm not good at singing songs the first time I hear them

766
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,200
I listen to it like five, six times in a row

767
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,200
Trying to be able to sing along with those little patches in the middle, you know what I'm saying?

768
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,200
That is awesome, and he did such a good job of sort of remaking

769
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:05,200
What is a classic of our faith and really brought it home to me.

770
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:10,200
Anyway, I hope you're blessed by it too. I can't find the book in my Bible.

771
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:18,200
Alright, so a number of times I have been touched by a truth that we are dealing with

772
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:24,200
And you may not like it, I don't like it, but we deal with it all the time in this world

773
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:32,200
And that is that as people are walking around, and you know, it's a shameful thing that we didn't talk more about this like during COVID and so on

774
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:44,200
Not that that's not still going on, but people are walking around suffering for a lack of what are called micronutrients or water literally all the time

775
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,200
Here's a statistic, a few statistics for you

776
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:56,200
First of all, water, which is the obvious one, 75% of people are dehydrated every day

777
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,200
Now there's a statistic that says that you should drink eight cups of water every day

778
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,200
And a lot of people actually do that, they drink eight cups of water every day, it's really not that hard

779
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:12,200
But the reality is whenever you drink a caffeine beverage, you actually go behind on your hydration

780
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,200
Because it takes more of your hydration to digest a caffeinated beverage than it does the water content that you get out of it

781
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,200
So let's say you drink eight ounces of coffee or eight ounces of cola

782
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:26,200
You need like 10 ounces of water in your system to digest the eight ounces of coffee or cola

783
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,200
Because it's caffeinated or carbonated beverages are the same way

784
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:35,200
And then, so then when you're done, you get less than eight ounces of water out of the coffee

785
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,200
Because it's eight ounces including the water and caffeine and everything that's in it

786
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,200
So you get less than eight ounces out, plus you spent 10 ounces to digest it

787
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,200
So you're actually down four ounces or something like that

788
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,200
So you drink eight ounces of coffee, you're down four ounces

789
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,200
Plus everything caffeinated is what's called a diuretic, which means it takes water out of your system

790
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:58,200
So if you're a coffee drinker, you're supposed to drink eight ounces of water a day plus one for every cup of coffee you drink

791
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,200
Which really drives the number up

792
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,200
So does the same way, monster drinks all the same way, right?

793
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,200
Anything that's really heavy on sugar, that's just dehydration

794
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:13,200
The ones that will kind of make it really tough, do you know that it's believed that between 98 and 100 percent

795
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,200
That means all of us, everybody in this room, 98 and 100 percent of the people in the United States of America

796
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:23,200
And this statistic actually holds true worldwide, are actually low on potassium

797
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,200
They do not get enough potassium in their diet

798
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:31,200
So last year, the FDA increased the number

799
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,200
Previously it was like 800 milligrams of potassium you're supposed to get in a day

800
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:40,200
Last year they increased it to 32 to 3500 milligrams of potassium you're supposed to get in a day

801
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:46,200
So to give you an example, you can get from a banana, if you eat a whole medium sized banana

802
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,200
You can get like three to four hundred milligrams of potassium

803
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:55,200
So we're talking about, they're saying you're supposed to eat eight, the equivalent of eight bananas a day to make that number

804
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,200
That's a lot, right?

805
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,200
Most people get most of their potassium from potatoes

806
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:04,200
Potatoes are a huge source, if you eat potatoes, if you can, then you eat potatoes

807
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,200
And by the way, french fries are barely potatoes anymore, so don't really count that

808
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:12,200
But because most of the potassium in good things, in french fries, get fried out and deep fried in the oil

809
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:20,200
But if you eat potatoes, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, raw potatoes, I don't know who would do that

810
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,200
But if you eat potatoes, you get a lot of potassium out of them, and that's where most people get it from, right?

811
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,200
So you need it

812
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:29,200
Also pork, which of course a lot of people don't eat pork, but pork, or can't because of their health

813
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,200
But pork is a great source of potassium

814
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,200
Comes with a lot of fruits and vegetables, give a little bit of potassium and so on

815
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,200
There are others, I'm not going to read them all, but I just want to give you an example

816
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,200
So 98 to 100 percent of people are behind in their potassium

817
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,200
And it's to the point that everyone will eventually suffer health effects from it

818
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:50,200
You may have health effects that are from not having enough potassium

819
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:57,200
Magnesium is like that as well, magnesium over 50 percent of all Americans, 52.2 percent of all Americans

820
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,200
Are too low on their magnesium

821
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,200
The problem is with magnesium, there's no telling who's too low and who's not

822
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:08,200
The first you'll know that you're too low on magnesium is heart problems

823
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:13,200
Your body actually digests your food and produces magnesium out of it

824
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:17,200
When they test your blood, it will always read that your magnesium is okay

825
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:23,200
Because your body will actually suck out of itself, out of your bones, out of your heart muscle, out of wherever it can get it

826
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,200
The magnesium, to keep the level in your blood where it needs to be

827
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:31,200
Eventually you'll get to the point where you've drained so much of that mineral out of your body

828
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,200
Your body will begin to die in various ways

829
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,200
And people are like, oh, I have this condition

830
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:43,200
So they go get a medication for the condition, but the condition is really caused by the fact that they don't have enough magnesium

831
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,200
So these are real things, right? Choline is another one

832
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,200
That way you can imagine you hear the coal at the beginning

833
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:53,200
It has to do a lot with digestion, it also has to do with your heart muscle, it has to do with a lot of things in your body

834
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:59,200
And 91.7 percent of Americans lack the choline they need to function every day

835
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,200
Is that not crazy?

836
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:07,200
The reason this is true is because in modern day society we're eating foods that are higher in caloric intake

837
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,200
They have more energy in them, but less nutrients

838
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:19,200
We're talking just 50 to 60 years ago, Americans were consuming in their diet 10,000 milligrams of potassium a day

839
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:20,200
10,000

840
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:25,200
And two years ago, the recommended daily allowance of potassium per day was like 800

841
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,200
And they just raised it to 32 to 3500

842
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:32,200
You can't even go by the recommended daily allowances of what the Food and Drug Administration is saying you need

843
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:37,200
Because even those numbers, actually what those recommend, those are like minimums

844
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:42,200
They're saying the minimum amount that you need to function in this area is this number

845
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,200
Now 32 to 3500 milligrams of potassium in a day

846
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:53,200
But actually 50, 60 years ago we were eating 10,000 milligrams a day

847
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,200
And people didn't have some of the health concerns they have now

848
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,200
They did have some, don't get me wrong, they still had health concerns, but some did not exist

849
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:06,200
Once you develop those health concerns because you've lived for 20 to 30 years without that product in your system sufficiently

850
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:07,200
You can't get rid of them

851
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,200
You can't just start taking magnesium one day and heal your heart problems

852
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:16,200
But what you can do is you can get the sufficient amount of magnesium to stop further development

853
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,200
New things and problems that are going wrong

854
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,200
So I would encourage you, this is outside the faith, this is not the sermon, I'm not preaching this at you

855
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,200
But I would encourage you to take a look at your diet and so on

856
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,200
And think about are you getting enough of the various things that you need to survive

857
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,200
Water being a huge one, water and potassium

858
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,200
So water governs every fluid system in your body

859
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,200
It affects your blood pressure, affects your muscles, regenerating after you're working out, everything

860
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:45,200
And potassium governs every water system in your body

861
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:52,200
Which includes then blood pressure, clearing your lactose, lactic acid in your muscles after work and things like that

862
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,200
So you need water and you need potassium, at least look at those things

863
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,200
Now back on preaching for a second

864
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:06,200
Because of this illustration we know that it is entirely possible for people to live their lives lacking proper nourishment

865
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:12,200
Understand? We can live our whole lives, we'll be shorter probably because people develop health concerns

866
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,200
Or maybe with medicine they'll still have the same length as somebody else

867
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:18,200
But they'll be on 30 medicines for the last 30 years of their life, right?

868
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:22,200
Point is we're covering it up, we can live without nourishment

869
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:27,200
However, that is not the design for Christians in the Kingdom of God

870
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:32,200
Not only should you have proper diet and water and so on

871
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:37,200
But on top of that there is a spiritual diet that is told of in the Bible that you should have

872
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,200
And if you have it you will be properly nourished

873
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:45,200
In fact, anybody here ever hope that at the end of their days that they would stand before God and God would say

874
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,200
Well done good and faithful servant?

875
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:54,200
I'm going to give you the recipe for that statement today in the scripture

876
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,200
And I'll support it biblically

877
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:00,200
This scripture is called known and nourished

878
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:06,200
And Paul is writing to Timothy and he is explaining to Timothy how to be known and nourished

879
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,200
Now when I say known, I mean known in the right way, right?

880
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:13,200
Because God also knows people who are in wickedness and he's chastising them or whatever

881
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:18,200
Not like that, known in the right way and nourished throughout your Christian journey

882
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:22,200
So this is not a self-help sermon, it's a God-help sermon

883
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:23,200
Here we go

884
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:28,200
So grab your Bibles if you would, maybe hoot, holler, at least the young people, come on, Kishon, you with me, right brother?

885
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,200
You got something in there today?

886
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,200
What do you got?

887
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:36,200
Alright, here we go, it's 1 Timothy chapter 3

888
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:39,200
Thank you, praise God, it is his word

889
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:43,200
My goal would be that we would do that to the point that we would peek the microphone

890
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,200
Because it is God's word, this marks the moment

891
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:51,200
Now the truth is we could read this word and God would speak to your heart

892
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:55,200
But I've done some work and some praying over it and some digesting of certain words

893
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,200
I'm going to make it a little easier, that's my job, just to make it a little easier

894
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,200
And I hope you will get out of it whatever God wants you to get out of it

895
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,200
I've got some things I think God wants you to get out of it

896
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,200
But I could be completely wrong, I'm just a guy, okay?

897
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:12,200
I'm going to ask today that you put your thinking caps on and go with me into this awesome text of God

898
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,200
Here we go, verse 16, alright?

899
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:19,200
So 1 Timothy chapter 3 beginning in verse, I'm sorry, verse 14

900
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,200
We'll start in verse 14 so we get the whole thought

901
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:26,200
I am writing these things to you hoping to come to you before long

902
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:30,200
But in case I am delayed I write so that you may know

903
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:35,200
How one ought to conduct himself in the household of God

904
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:39,200
Which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth

905
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,200
That's verses 14 and 15 in one complete sentence

906
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,200
So what he's saying is I want to come, I'm going to come teach you

907
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,200
I'm going to come encourage you, maybe do some laying on our hands

908
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,200
You know, witness some baptisms, whatever, I want to come and do that

909
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:55,200
But in case I don't do that, now what I'm writing to you is going to show you how you should behave

910
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,200
What your conduct should be like in the household of God

911
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,200
So in the church, what Christians should be like

912
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:06,200
And don't miss there that phrase, he says that the church of the living God, it is God's church

913
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:11,200
The church of the living God is the pillar and support of the truth

914
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,200
This is the mission, this is the vision of God for the church

915
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,200
That we would be the pillar and support of the truth

916
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:22,200
Don't just stand by silently while someone teaches a lie

917
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,200
You are the pillar and support of the truth

918
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:30,200
And now he's going to tell us in these teachings how we should conduct ourselves in the church

919
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:35,200
Which God has given the vision and mission of being the pillar and support of the truth

920
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:42,200
Verse 16, he says, and by common confession, great is the mystery of godliness

921
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,200
And you can stop right there, you could put a period, right

922
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,200
We could all agree, great is the mystery of godliness

923
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:53,200
Man, there is work to be done, there is learning, there is studying, there is praying

924
00:59:53,200 --> 01:00:00,200
There is walking it out, there is service, there is a lot in becoming godly

925
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:05,200
As God is growing us, there is a lot in that mystery

926
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:12,200
However, I want to say to you that in our day, the largest part of the mystery of godliness has been revealed

927
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,200
Which is why it doesn't end with a period

928
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:20,200
We accept as a whole, as a body, I hope, if not, I'm asking you to get on board with me

929
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:26,200
That we can accept that the learning of the mystery of godliness is a life long journey

930
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,200
It's progressive, we take step after step, we grow from place to place

931
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:35,200
Sometimes we have setbacks, sometimes we wander and we're redirected and corrected and chastised by God

932
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:42,200
Back onto learning the full impact and capabilities of the mystery of godliness

933
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:50,200
That being said, the majority, the vast majority, 95% of the mystery of godliness has been revealed

934
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:54,200
So when you sit back and you go, I just don't know God, I just don't know

935
01:00:54,200 --> 01:01:03,200
What you're saying is one of two things, either one, you have not partaken and received the mystery of godliness that has been revealed

936
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:08,200
You're saying, I don't want it, I can't get it, God, it's just too much for me, it's too hard

937
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:13,200
You're asking me to perceive and understand something that my mind just, I'm having a hard time

938
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:18,200
Either that is true or you're actually talking about, when you say I just don't know

939
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,200
You're talking about the 5% that God has not revealed

940
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:25,200
And that is where we spend the majority of our lives living and growing, in the 5%, I get that

941
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,200
But all the while, if you're saying, I just don't know

942
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,200
For example, if you would say, I don't know what I'm supposed to do in the kingdom of God

943
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,200
I don't know what I'm supposed to do as a church

944
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:35,200
If right now you say, I don't know what I'm supposed to do

945
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:41,200
Then I submit to you that you have not absorbed the 95% of the mystery of godliness that God has revealed

946
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,200
Which, here's the beauty of it

947
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,200
He then gives it, it's not a period, it's a colon

948
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,200
He's going to give us the list

949
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,200
I submit to you that my Bible puts it literally as a list

950
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:54,200
It goes boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, down the list, right?

951
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:55,200
And then chapter 4 starts

952
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,200
Now if you've been sitting under my teaching for any length of time, you understand

953
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,200
I understand that the chapter divisions are not inspired of God

954
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,200
They did not exist in the original text

955
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,200
There are no chapters in the Greek

956
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,200
There's no punctuation in the Greek

957
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,200
Not like we have

958
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,200
So that wasn't there

959
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:14,200
So I know that the thought continues right on in chapter 4

960
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:18,200
And if you didn't get that, notice that the first word in chapter 4 is but

961
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,200
And if I say something and then I say but

962
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,200
For example, if I say to my wife, I know I screwed up, I'm really sorry

963
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:26,200
But it either disallows everything that came before it

964
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,200
Or it qualifies everything that came before it

965
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,200
And in this case, it qualifies everything that came before it

966
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,200
So it continues into chapter 4 for a little bit, the list does

967
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,200
Even though the rest of it's not in list form

968
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:36,200
So here we go

969
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,200
We're going to break it down as we go

970
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:42,200
And then in the conclusion we'll come back and we'll see what we're supposed to do with it

971
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,200
So first of all it says

972
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:48,200
Great is the mystery of godliness

973
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:49,200
Here it is

974
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,200
He who was revealed in the flesh

975
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:58,200
So John was careful to say that if a spirit does not acknowledge that Jesus was revealed in the flesh

976
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,200
Then it is not the spirit of God

977
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,200
That's one of the first testing methods

978
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:06,200
Jesus was revealed in the flesh

979
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:07,200
Notice the word revealed

980
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:12,200
You do know that Jesus was alive in heaven and literally wherever he wanted to be

981
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:14,200
Before he was born as a baby, right?

982
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,200
He was revealed

983
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,200
John explains in chapter 1 that he was present in creation

984
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:24,200
And literally nothing was created except that which was created through him

985
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:30,200
And then later he says that the word of God, the power of God, the spoken word to create of God became flesh

986
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:33,200
Jesus Christ came and was revealed

987
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,200
He was alive in heaven before he came on earth

988
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:39,200
He was revealed in the flesh

989
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,200
Next he says he was vindicated in the spirit

990
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:46,200
Now while Jesus was alive, Jesus was challenged by a lot of folks

991
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:49,200
There were folks that asked him, argued him aside, the one that we've been waiting for

992
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,200
There were the folks that challenged him and said that he wasn't

993
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:55,200
There were those who said that the works that he did, he did by Beelzebub

994
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,200
Which is just another name for Satan

995
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,200
So there were those who challenged him

996
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:05,200
Jesus one day said this, he said, I testify of myself

997
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:09,200
But if I alone testify of myself, I understand my testimony is not valid

998
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,200
See they had a ruling in court, you had to have at least two people in a degree

999
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,200
And the details had to be exact or otherwise the testimony was not valid

1000
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,200
I testify of myself, but I get that you're not going to accept me testifying of myself

1001
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:21,200
I'm a Jewish born man, I know that takes two people

1002
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:26,200
He said, but there is someone else who also testifies of me

1003
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:30,200
And when he testifies of me, I know that his testimony of me is true

1004
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,200
And you know who he was talking about, right?

1005
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:33,200
He's talking about the Holy Spirit

1006
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,200
And here it says that Jesus was vindicated in the spirit

1007
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,200
He was justified, shown to be true and real

1008
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:44,200
He was the one, and that was shown by the Spirit of God

1009
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,200
Next it says he was beheld by angels

1010
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:50,200
You know that on the day of Jesus' birth, the shepherds were out in the field

1011
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,200
You've heard this story, right? Out in the field

1012
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,200
Suddenly there was an angel in the sky, a bright clad individual

1013
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,200
Testifying about the birth of Jesus

1014
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:03,200
But as soon as he got their attention, then there was the heavenly host that appeared in the sky

1015
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:08,200
And they began, as we like to think of it, to sing a great song of the birth of Jesus Christ

1016
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,200
Who would be the Messiah, the Savior of all mankind

1017
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:15,200
The angels testified of him at his birth, but as his death, right?

1018
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:20,200
When they came looking for Jesus, and there was a white clad individual sitting there

1019
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:25,200
And they said, do you know where my master's body went? Someone must have stolen it

1020
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,200
And he says, the one you look for, he's not here

1021
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:34,200
And that angel testifying of Jesus, possibly or probably

1022
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:40,200
Then at the ascension of Jesus, when he went up into the sky, they watched him raise up into the sky

1023
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,200
It says a cloud eventually hid him from their sight

1024
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:47,200
And then there were two, it says dazzling clad men

1025
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,200
Dazzling, dressed men, dazzling, it means hard to look at

1026
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,200
We talked about that a little bit last week when the light is hard to look at

1027
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:57,200
They were there, and they said, why are you looking up into the sky?

1028
01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:01,200
He will come again just as he is gone

1029
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:08,200
The angels beheld him, but also understand that there is this truth about Jesus

1030
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:14,200
It is the mystery of godliness that angels longed to look into

1031
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:19,200
Peter says it this way, they longed to look into this for all time and all eternity

1032
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:24,200
Until Jesus came and was revealed, and now he has been beheld by angels

1033
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:29,200
Angels now understand how it is that God is going to forgive people

1034
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:35,200
And let them go to heaven one day despite the fact that they have essentially murdered one another

1035
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:39,200
In their minds, if not actually

1036
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,200
So we are so bad to one another as people

1037
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:49,200
How can God be just and allow someone to go to heaven?

1038
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,200
That was the question of the angels for all that time

1039
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:56,200
Until Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected and went back and showed it so clearly

1040
01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:00,200
And I submit to you maybe explained it very clearly

1041
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,200
He was beheld by angels

1042
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:07,200
He was proclaimed among the nations

1043
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:11,200
Paul says it this way, he says that in the day of Jesus' coming

1044
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:15,200
When great joy is visited upon mankind and also great judgment

1045
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:20,200
There will be those who believed our testimony

1046
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,200
He has been proclaimed among the nations

1047
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:26,200
That's what we are doing here today to a degree

1048
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:29,200
And that's what we need to be doing every day, seven days a week

1049
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,200
Proclaiming the truth about Jesus among the nations

1050
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,200
He was believed on in the world

1051
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,200
You believed and you received, you are here today and you are a Christian

1052
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,200
It's because you believed on Jesus

1053
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,200
You accepted the truth about who Jesus was

1054
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:45,200
That he lived a sinless life

1055
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:47,200
Born of a virgin, lived a sinless life

1056
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:52,200
Died a sinner's death to pay for sin, to become sin for us

1057
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:56,200
Then rose again on the third day just as the scriptures had predicted

1058
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:00,200
Not one scripture mind you predicted the truth about Jesus

1059
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:04,200
But hundreds, it's said that if just 40 of the scriptures

1060
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,200
That could possibly be fulfilled in one man

1061
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:13,200
That the odds are 1 in 10 to the 23rd power

1062
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,200
Whatever that number is

1063
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,200
It's the same odds as if you flew a plane over the desert

1064
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:23,200
Dropped a needle or a long grain piece of rice into the desert

1065
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,200
Flew home, got a good sleep in your own bed

1066
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,200
The next day, flew that plane back to the desert

1067
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,200
And found that long grain piece of rice in the desert

1068
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,200
It's the same odds, it's impossible

1069
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:35,200
No person could fulfill the prophecies about Jesus

1070
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,200
There are reasons to believe that Jesus is who he says he was

1071
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:43,200
And there are reasons to believe and receive and act according to the truth about Jesus

1072
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,200
And some have done so

1073
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:47,200
I submit to you that I have done so

1074
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,200
There have been days when I failed to do so

1075
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:51,200
It's true even after I did so

1076
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,200
But I have believed on Jesus

1077
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,200
And I would ask you to do that today if you have not already

1078
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,200
And if you have, understand that you're not the only one

1079
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:00,200
He was believed on in the world

1080
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:03,200
And then finally it says he was taken up in glory

1081
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,200
They saw him leave

1082
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:09,200
There were witnesses that saw him go up into heaven once forever

1083
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:13,200
And we now know as the Bible teaches that he stands at the right hand of the Father

1084
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:16,200
Where he took his seat in success, if you will

1085
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:19,200
In his proper position, back where he belongs

1086
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,200
Now making intercession between us and God

1087
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:25,200
Where that right hand of the cup of wrath is there for us to be poured out for us

1088
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:27,200
He is there to make intercession

1089
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,200
He was taken up in glory

1090
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,200
Then now we're in chapter 4

1091
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:33,200
Most people would stop there

1092
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:36,200
But chapter 4 actually kind of lumps it together in a beautiful way

1093
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:40,200
It says, but the Spirit, that's the Holy Spirit of God

1094
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,200
Explicitly, you know what explicitly means?

1095
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,200
It means very clearly

1096
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,200
So I'm going to say to you

1097
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:51,200
It is time to listen to God now

1098
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,200
God, Father in heaven, His Holy Spirit

1099
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,200
Wants to speak to your heart

1100
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,200
He wants to change you and transform you

1101
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,200
And if I explain every one of those words to you

1102
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:02,200
And I say it very boldly and clearly

1103
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,200
I will have said it explicitly

1104
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,200
The Spirit explicitly says

1105
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:11,200
And by the way, that means if you're listening to God you can't possibly miss it

1106
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,200
The Spirit explicitly says

1107
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:18,200
That in later times some will fall away from the faith

1108
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,200
Uh oh, that's the other shoe just dropped

1109
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,200
All that awesome stuff we just talked about, Jesus

1110
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:26,200
There will be those who fall away from the faith

1111
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,200
Those who claim the name of Jesus

1112
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,200
But aren't truly for Jesus

1113
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,200
They will fall away from the faith

1114
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:39,200
It says they will do so paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1115
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:42,200
Boy, that phrase there, doctrines of demons, hits me like a sledgehammer in my chest

1116
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,200
Do you not understand that there is a deep teaching

1117
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,200
That is embraced by the enemies of God

1118
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:52,200
And they intend to win us over to it

1119
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:53,200
Let me say that again

1120
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:58,200
They intend to win us over to the doctrine of demons

1121
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,200
And there will be those who fall away

1122
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:01,200
Those who profess the name of Christ

1123
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:04,200
And they will listen, pay attention to deceitful spirits

1124
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:07,200
Spirits that trick

1125
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,200
A spirit that says to you, well somebody really needed

1126
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:13,200
John really needed to hear that sermon today

1127
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:14,200
Are you listening dear?

1128
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,200
Are you listening?

1129
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,200
Will you change according to what God's word says or will you not?

1130
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:22,200
All the while thinking that other person

1131
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:28,200
Deceitful spirits, they trick and they connive and they're simple

1132
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:30,200
Deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1133
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:33,200
And all they did was pay attention

1134
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:38,200
They just paid attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1135
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:42,200
The spirit says that there will be those at later times

1136
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Who will fall away from the faith

1137
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,200
Paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1138
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:51,200
By means of hypocrisy

1139
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:54,200
Hypocrisy of liars

1140
01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,200
Liars that are seared in their own conscience

1141
01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:00,200
As with a branding iron

1142
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:05,200
So your conscience is that part of you that sort of tells you what's good to do and what's not

1143
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:06,200
That's true even when you're not saved

1144
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,200
It's true when you're saved, it doesn't matter

1145
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:11,200
It's that part of you that says what you should do and what you shouldn't

1146
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:14,200
It's that part of you that says right now you should be focused on what God is saying

1147
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:16,200
It's my conscience, I think this is right

1148
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:19,200
I think I should be doing what God wants me to do

1149
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,200
I should be listening to Pastor Dan right now

1150
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:24,200
But more importantly listening to God through the word right now

1151
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:26,200
That's your conscience

1152
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:30,200
The spirit also may say that when your conscience and the spirit come together and agree

1153
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:31,200
It's strong, it's powerful, right?

1154
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:37,200
But here are men who by paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1155
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,200
They did so by means of hypocrisy of liars

1156
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:45,200
They've seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron

1157
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:50,200
So if you have, if you take a branding iron and you hold it in your hands

1158
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:51,200
What does it do?

1159
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:52,200
Well it burns your hands

1160
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,200
If it's hot, right, it'll burn your hand

1161
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:59,200
After you do that, the next time you touch something hot, what does it feel like?

1162
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:04,200
Well if you burn real bad, you may not have much feeling left in your hands anymore

1163
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,200
You can lose, you can be desensitized, right?

1164
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:10,200
But if you just kind of burn, actually the next time you touch something hot it might feel hotter

1165
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:15,200
Because your skin is already, the nerve endings are already raw, right?

1166
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:19,200
You touch a searing hot branding iron about 5-10 times, after that you won't feel a thing

1167
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:23,200
My wife can take a hot pan, not literally like cooking hot

1168
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:29,200
But a hot pan off the stove and set it over to the side without burning herself

1169
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,200
You're like, nah, that doesn't make any sense

1170
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:32,200
You know why she can do that?

1171
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,200
Because she was a kitchen manager and then a general manager at TGI Fridays

1172
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:41,200
And she burnt her hands mildly every day for years

1173
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:46,200
When your conscience is so seared, you no longer really know what's right from wrong

1174
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:47,200
How does it happen?

1175
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:49,200
Well it happens through this equation of hypocrisy

1176
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:52,200
You say, I'm living for the Lord, I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing

1177
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:57,200
But right there at the same time you're not noticing the things that you're doing that you're not supposed to be doing

1178
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,200
You're intentionally not noticing them

1179
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:03,200
Pretty soon you get so good at not noticing them because your conscience is seared

1180
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:07,200
You've lost your right and wrong, your compass is gone

1181
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:13,200
That hypocrisy of, I'm living for the Lord, but here I'm just kind of paying attention or listening to these other things

1182
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:14,200
I've got these other notions

1183
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:18,200
I know the Bible doesn't say that, but I still think it's true

1184
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:21,200
If you ever have to say the Bible doesn't say that, but I still think it's true

1185
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:29,200
You need to be aware that you could be, it's possible, check yourself, paying attention to a deceitful spirit

1186
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:33,200
I think it's right, the Bible doesn't say it's right, but I think it's right

1187
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,200
I've judged to be right

1188
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,200
You could be paying attention to a deceitful spirit

1189
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:42,200
Because the deceitful spirit wants in all ways to make you think things are right that are not clearly taught in Scripture

1190
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:46,200
So that later on down the road that will be part of the searing of your conscience

1191
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:49,200
Be very careful under those circumstances

1192
01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:51,200
We've got some factors here

1193
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:57,200
We've got you'll fall away by paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons

1194
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,200
By means of hypocrisy, this is how they pay attention

1195
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:05,200
By means of hypocrisy, liars seared in their own conscience as with the branding, we're almost done with the text

1196
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,200
There's a comma there actually, it says

1197
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:12,200
These are men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods

1198
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:16,200
So they were setting up rules or laws that were not in God's Word

1199
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:21,200
Which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth

1200
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:25,200
So basically they were telling us you can't partake in certain things

1201
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:28,200
The Bible doesn't say you can't, I'm saying you can't

1202
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,200
This is not what God would want you to do

1203
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:33,200
You can't partake in certain things that the Bible doesn't say you can't partake in

1204
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:37,200
And actually you can, in fact it goes on to say

1205
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:42,200
Everything created by God is good

1206
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:45,200
And nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude

1207
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:54,200
For it is sanctified or made holy by means of the Word of God and prayer

1208
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:58,200
So if you are walking in the Word doing the things that God wants you to do

1209
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,200
You're studying the Word, you're praying to the Lord

1210
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:04,200
It's kind of like a 2 Thessalonians 5, 17 prayer, right?

1211
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,200
Where you're praying all the time, praying without ceasing, talking to God all the time

1212
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,200
I've heard some people say I'm talking to God all the time

1213
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,200
But even some of those people say I'm talking to God all the time

1214
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,200
If you really dig in, you see the hypocrisy

1215
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:15,200
They're talking to God all the time

1216
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,200
But while they're talking to God, they're doing things they shouldn't be doing

1217
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,200
Hypocrisy, because their conscience has been seared

1218
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:24,200
And the danger is that they may fall away from God

1219
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,200
Falling into that category

1220
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:32,200
They may forbid certain things and say you can't do that, right?

1221
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:36,200
I've had over the years a number of people try to convince me, for example

1222
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:41,200
To preach that smoking cigarettes is a sin

1223
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,200
I've had a number of people try to convince me to preach that smoking cigarettes is a sin

1224
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:49,200
And they said that it would provide strength for those Christians who want to quit smoking

1225
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:53,200
Because they'll think of it as a sin, so they'll be strong and they'll be able to do it

1226
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,200
Does the Bible say smoking cigarettes is a sin?

1227
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:59,200
So you'll never hear me preaching smoking cigarettes is a sin

1228
01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:03,200
Now, can it be? Absolutely, it can be

1229
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:06,200
At the moment at which God says you have to stop doing something

1230
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:10,200
Or at the moment at which something you're doing interferes with your ability to do what God has called you to do

1231
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:14,200
Either way, when it comes to a stumble, a hurdle, a block, then it becomes sin

1232
01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:17,200
And you have to cut it out

1233
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,200
It's a problem because it's addictive

1234
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,200
Physically, psychologically, and emotionally

1235
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,200
And we shouldn't have other masters in our life

1236
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:29,200
But you have to decide in Christ whether that thing has become a master or not

1237
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:32,200
So don't implore me to preach that smoking is a sin

1238
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:35,200
I've had people implore me to preach that drinking is a sin

1239
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,200
I'm going to probably step on somebody's toes and hear them go like, I hate drinking

1240
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,200
I don't drink

1241
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:44,200
As an early Christian, as I felt called to serve the Lord, I said, I won't do it

1242
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,200
In fact, Sherry and I went on a wedding anniversary trip

1243
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,200
We stayed in bed and breakfast while we were there

1244
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,200
We both sat in the bathtub, don't picture that in your minds

1245
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:53,200
But we're sitting in the bathtub and we're having champagne

1246
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:57,200
And I said to Sherry, I was convicted of my spirit by the Lord

1247
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,200
And I said to her, this is the last champagne I'll drink

1248
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:01,200
And she said, why?

1249
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:05,200
And I said, I think as a man of God, this has no place in my life

1250
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,200
So it's not that it's a sin, it's not

1251
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:11,200
Not that the Bible says you can't do it, it doesn't say that

1252
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,200
I'll never preach that and I've stayed true to that

1253
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:17,200
However, I also have never drunk

1254
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:19,200
And I think you'd be better off if you didn't

1255
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:23,200
But also, there might be a time in your life when you're better off if you did

1256
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:28,200
Grandpa Stewart, Sherry's great grandfather, when he had high blood pressure, high hypertension for a really long time

1257
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:31,200
His doctor prescribed, he said, you can do this

1258
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:33,200
You can take two pills a day, one morning, one at night

1259
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:35,200
You can drink one beer every night before you go to bed, which one do you want to do?

1260
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,200
He chuckled and said, I'll take the beer

1261
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,200
And he did, for 20 years

1262
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:43,200
And never went on high blood pressure medicine

1263
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,200
Now I'm not suggesting you use that, by the way, you need a doctor to prescribe that to you

1264
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:48,200
If you're going to do that

1265
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,200
But what I'm saying is, I will never preach that that's a sin

1266
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,200
This is what these folks will do

1267
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,200
You know why? Because they're looking for a false righteousness

1268
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:58,200
They want to appear good, so they want to say, well I do it this way

1269
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:02,200
Or I'll never do it that way because they want to appear better than somebody else

1270
01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:05,200
And then they want to make that thing out to be a command of God and it's sin

1271
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,200
So I'm better than you because you're in sin and I'm not

1272
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:12,200
Because of a false righteousness

1273
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,200
And the demons love it

1274
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,200
It's included in the doctrine of demons

1275
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:18,200
False righteousness

1276
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:23,200
Satan did not rebel against God because he thought he was evil

1277
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,200
And wicked and nasty and all that

1278
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,200
He rebelled against God because he thought God was wrong

1279
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:33,200
And how can you be God of everything and all creation and be wrong at the same time?

1280
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:34,200
That's why he rebelled against God

1281
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,200
Now Satan was wrong, right?

1282
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:38,200
So he wants to lead you to be wrong too

1283
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:40,200
He wants to lead me to be wrong too

1284
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:44,200
It's the doctrine of demons to start to make our own rules

1285
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:49,200
Or to forgive ourselves or to behave hypocritically toward

1286
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,200
Let's say it this way

1287
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:52,200
In hypocrisy toward the commands of God

1288
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,200
God says do this, I know God says do this and I'm not quitting

1289
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:58,200
But over here I think I'm all that and a big Christian guy too

1290
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:02,200
But I'm not doing what God tells me to do

1291
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:06,200
Here he says everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected

1292
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:08,200
If it is received with gratitude

1293
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,200
By the way, no one who's doing that first part will do that

1294
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:11,200
You won't receive it with gratitude

1295
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:13,200
You may pretend to be grateful but you're not really grateful

1296
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:16,200
Otherwise you'd be doing what God called you to do

1297
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:20,200
For it is sanctified, made holy by the means of the word of God and prayer

1298
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:25,200
And our last verse says this

1299
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:29,200
In pointing out these things to the brethren

1300
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:31,200
In other words, this is what we're doing

1301
01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:32,200
We're pointing out these things to the brethren

1302
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:39,200
And in doing that you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus

1303
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:41,200
Now that's written in the word of God

1304
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:45,200
Inspired by the Holy Spirit by the Apostle Paul

1305
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:48,200
To the young Christian leader Timothy

1306
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:52,200
If you will share these things with other believers

1307
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,200
All that we've been talking about and I'll recap it for you eventually

1308
01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,200
We're getting there

1309
01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:01,200
You will be a good servant of Christ Jesus

1310
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,200
Remember I told you before we're through

1311
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,200
We'll find out how to get to heaven and hear well done good and faithful servant

1312
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:08,200
There it is

1313
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:13,200
And you will be constantly nourished on the words of faith

1314
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:17,200
And of the sound doctrine which you have been following

1315
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:19,200
Nourished

1316
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:23,200
We were meant to diet on this

1317
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:25,200
Alright, you've heard the text

1318
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:29,200
I've got three kind of key things that I felt like the Lord really wanted me to bring home

1319
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,200
And you could probably, you might even do it better

1320
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:34,200
I don't know but these are the things that the Spirit laid heavily on my heart to share

1321
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:38,200
First one is conduct becoming a child of God

1322
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:42,200
The reality is our conduct has been bad

1323
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,200
Before we got saved for sure

1324
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:49,200
Even after, our conduct has been bad

1325
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:55,200
Conduct becoming a child of God in the household of God, His church

1326
01:21:55,200 --> 01:22:00,200
The church is supposed to be a pillar and a support of the truth in the community

1327
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:05,200
Huh, anybody notice what's happening with the truth in our world right now?

1328
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:11,200
How it's being redefined or faded out or moved to the shadows?

1329
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:16,200
I hear you, I know righteousness, I know honor, I know honesty, all that

1330
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:19,200
But that's all old school man

1331
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,200
I'm going to do what I want to do

1332
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:25,200
I'm going to do what I've got to do to survive

1333
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:29,200
Yes, I'm victimizing other people but that's just their truth

1334
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,200
They just think it's wrong that I'm doing what I'm doing

1335
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,200
It's happening in the world today

1336
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:38,200
Truth is being cannibalized

1337
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:43,200
It's being devoured by falsehood

1338
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:50,200
The deceitful evil spirits have gotten the ear of so many Christians

1339
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:54,200
You thought I was going to say non-Christians

1340
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,200
Didn't you?

1341
01:22:56,200 --> 01:23:02,200
The deceitful evil spirits have gotten the ear of so many Christians

1342
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:04,200
And they're still following the Lord

1343
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:07,200
I'm a follower of Jesus, I'm going to heaven when I die

1344
01:23:07,200 --> 01:23:11,200
Jesus paid for all my sins, this one too

1345
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,200
Right?

1346
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,200
But they're paying attention

1347
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,200
They're just listening

1348
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,200
It's just slipping in

1349
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:24,200
With their TV, with their entertainment of all kinds

1350
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:26,200
It's just slipping in

1351
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:31,200
I was talking to my boys yesterday about a podcast

1352
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:35,200
And not a confidential conversation or anything but it was in my living room

1353
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,200
So I'm just going to share what we said

1354
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,200
We were talking about that and I said, what about this podcast?

1355
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:40,200
I said, is it full of wickedness?

1356
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:41,200
It's got bad stuff in it?

1357
01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:42,200
And they said, no

1358
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,200
If it had that in it, we wouldn't be listening

1359
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:45,200
And Aaron said to me

1360
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,200
I'm going to quote you son, if I get it wrong, correct me, it's okay

1361
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:53,200
He said to me, well, they might cuss one or two times per episode

1362
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:56,200
And I said, well that's not bad

1363
01:23:56,200 --> 01:24:00,200
I think that's tolerable, I think you can deal with that

1364
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:03,200
See what happened there?

1365
01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:07,200
I have a very high standard

1366
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:14,200
So if I say one to two cuss words might be tolerable in a four hour long or three hour or two hour or whatever long podcast

1367
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:20,200
Then what do you think most Christians' standards are?

1368
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:21,200
What are you watching?

1369
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,200
What are you listening to?

1370
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:25,200
Do you pay attention?

1371
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:30,200
In our household we watch movies that are rated PG-13 and below

1372
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:35,200
I watched a movie that was rated PG from 1988 and it literally had full frontal nudity in it

1373
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:38,200
So ratings aren't everything that they're cracked up to be

1374
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:43,200
And I had to not watch

1375
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:47,200
But we only watch movies that are PG-13 and below, that's it

1376
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:50,200
Because we don't want to have to deal with it

1377
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:53,200
You shouldn't be paying attention to those things

1378
01:24:53,200 --> 01:25:00,200
So now in PG-13 movies or below you know that regularly sex scenes occur

1379
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,200
That show nudity, that would be rated R if they did

1380
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,200
But they'll be under the covers together

1381
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,200
We don't watch those scenes

1382
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:11,200
In fact, when a scene is developing and it looks like they're headed toward the bedroom

1383
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,200
We're groping for the remote, where's that remote?

1384
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:17,200
And we're past it and don't watch it

1385
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:19,200
Why do you watch it?

1386
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:20,200
Do you watch it?

1387
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:21,200
Why do you watch it?

1388
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:27,200
I'll tell you why, because the ministry of deceitful evil spirits is very attractive

1389
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,200
It will make you feel like you're okay

1390
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:35,200
It is like sugar or high caloric intake on our physical side

1391
01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:40,200
It's good, it's energizing, it makes us feel okay

1392
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:45,200
The next time you're hungry and reach for a ho-ho

1393
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,200
You're going to know exactly what I'm talking about

1394
01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:49,200
You're going to be like, I'm hungry, I need a snack

1395
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:53,200
Ho-ho, you literally ate nothing of any value for yourself whatsoever

1396
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:56,200
Nothing of any value, but now you're not hungry

1397
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,200
It's exactly what's happening

1398
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:02,200
And people, Christians all across the world have begun to say

1399
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:05,200
I don't agree, but it's okay

1400
01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,200
It's just the way the world is

1401
01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:08,200
I'm accepting it

1402
01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:11,200
No, we are a pillar of truth

1403
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:14,200
We are the fortitude of the message of God

1404
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:19,200
We are supposed to be delivering it into every context and every situation

1405
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,200
Remember the Old Testament?

1406
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:29,200
The tabernacle, huge tent, worship of God, sacrifice in there

1407
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,200
The bowl, the bowl, that kind of stuff

1408
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:33,200
I hope you remember a little bit about that

1409
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:37,200
They broke it down to travel as they were wandering in the wilderness

1410
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:40,200
They had it with them, they had God's presence

1411
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:44,200
As they failed to do what they were supposed to do, wandering in the wilderness for 40 years

1412
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,200
Boy, we could learn from that

1413
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,200
And we don't want that

1414
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:54,200
You know that when the tabernacle moved, there was a marching pattern around the tabernacle

1415
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:57,200
Alright, biblical scholars

1416
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:02,200
Who marched next to the tabernacle as it moved?

1417
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:05,200
Anybody?

1418
01:27:06,200 --> 01:27:07,200
Does anybody know?

1419
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,200
Okay, challenge you to read it later, but I'll tell you for now

1420
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,200
Okay, the Levites

1421
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,200
Which side did the Levites march on?

1422
01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:18,200
All sides

1423
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:23,200
The Levites marched all around the tabernacle

1424
01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:26,200
Between the tabernacle and all the rest of the tribes

1425
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:33,200
Because if they didn't, there was a very real danger that the wrath of God would pour out from the tabernacle

1426
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:37,200
And destroy Israel for their insolence

1427
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:41,200
But God had claimed the Levites as his own, that this is my people

1428
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:43,200
Can I use this language?

1429
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:47,200
These will be my pillar of truth

1430
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:52,200
These will be the people that will stand up between my wrath and the world

1431
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:55,200
That's the church! This is what we're supposed to be doing!

1432
01:27:55,200 --> 01:28:04,200
Conduct becoming a child of God and the household of God is standing up as a pillar in support of the truth everywhere we are

1433
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:11,200
Listen, if you don't want to have to talk about Jesus and the truth of God at work, don't go to work

1434
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:14,200
I gotta go to work, I gotta pay my bills

1435
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:17,200
Okay, you gotta go to work and pay your bills, I'm with you, go to work and pay your bills

1436
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:19,200
Now, talk about Jesus while you're there

1437
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:21,200
But I don't feel comfortable doing that

1438
01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:24,200
Why? Because you've been listening to deceitful spirits

1439
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:31,200
That are talking to you about how the grace of God will cover the fact that you don't care about the message of God

1440
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:35,200
That's a lie!

1441
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:40,200
The grace of God will not cover the fact that you don't care about the message of God

1442
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:45,200
Because if you don't care about the message of God, you never received the message of God

1443
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:55,200
Conduct of a Christian in the church is taking the gospel to the world

1444
01:28:55,200 --> 01:29:01,200
The people that are in your life that you have not talked to about Jesus are going to hell because they don't know Jesus

1445
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,200
And you are doing nothing about it

1446
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:13,200
Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father weeping as we watch the story of the church fading away from the world

1447
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:18,200
While the world changes truth

1448
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:25,200
I might lose my job, I might be threatened or persecuted, somebody might get mad at me, they might say something nasty to me

1449
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:31,200
Perhaps it's time we read the story of the crucifixion again

1450
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:37,200
Maybe we need to look again at the verses where it says, when they hate you, don't be surprised, they hated me first

1451
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:41,200
Oh no, but that's our excuse, that's our reason, we don't want them to hate us

1452
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:45,200
Well the servant is not greater than the master

1453
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:50,200
If you cannot deliver the message of Jesus Christ, argue his servant

1454
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:54,200
This is the conduct becoming a child of God in the household of God

1455
01:29:54,200 --> 01:30:00,200
That we would stand up for the truth that we would become a barrier between the world and the wrath of God

1456
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:04,200
As long as the church is here and we'll talk about Jesus and we'll deliver the gospel

1457
01:30:04,200 --> 01:30:09,200
I was talking to Ariana the other day, she was home from school the one day

1458
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:14,200
She was congested overnight and didn't sleep well

1459
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:18,200
And she says to me, daddy, I want Jesus to come again

1460
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:25,200
I'm tired, I'm ready, when's he coming?

1461
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:33,200
I said well honey, I said, the Bible says he's not slow as some men count slowness

1462
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:40,200
But he is patient with us that all men might come to repentance

1463
01:30:40,200 --> 01:30:42,200
People are still getting saved

1464
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:47,200
So probably as long as people are still believing and receiving Christ and getting saved and they're going to go to heaven for eternity

1465
01:30:47,200 --> 01:30:52,200
Probably as long as that's true, he's probably not going to come

1466
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:57,200
I don't know that for a fact I can't predict when he's going to come and no one can predict when the last person might hear

1467
01:30:57,200 --> 01:31:02,200
But I guarantee you that when the church is gone, if the church is ever gone, when the church is gone

1468
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:07,200
There won't be anybody preaching the gospel, no reason not to start the rest of the process

1469
01:31:07,200 --> 01:31:13,200
Now the word says that God will claim for himself a witness after the rapture if you've got the order of events that way

1470
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:18,200
There will be witnesses that come out of the Jewish nation and they will be winning people to Christ

1471
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:21,200
So it's not going to be over even at that point if you believe in the order of events that way

1472
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:29,200
But the bottom line is the church has a job to do today and as long as God is being patient, he is being patient not with lost people

1473
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:33,200
God's not really patient with lost people, I mean he knows the outcome, right?

1474
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:41,200
He's not being patient with lost people, he's being patient with us because we are the pillar of truth in society

1475
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:48,200
Secondly, it says that paying attention to the wrong side will burn your conscience

1476
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:52,200
It's pretty clear about how that happens, we just pay attention

1477
01:31:52,200 --> 01:32:00,200
We just pay attention to the deceitful spirits and the doctrine of demons, paying attention

1478
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:06,200
We're going to read one text to make this very clear to us and it is the last text that we will read today

1479
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:11,200
So that does not mean you can put your Bible away because God might lead you to something else

1480
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:17,200
So it's in the book of James and it's in chapter 3, so if you are a follow alonger, and I hope you are

1481
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:23,200
Or a note taker, write that down, James chapter 3, 13 to 18, and this is what it says

1482
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:26,200
It says, Who among you is wise and understanding?

1483
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:31,200
Let him show by his good behavior his deeds and the gentleness of wisdom

1484
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:38,200
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth

1485
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:46,200
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above but is earthly, natural, wait for it, demonic

1486
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:54,200
This wisdom is not what comes down from above but is earthly, natural, demonic

1487
01:32:54,200 --> 01:33:02,200
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing

1488
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:08,200
That's why you need to announce the humility, that's why you need to recognize that God is all that and you frankly are not

1489
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:17,200
Because if you have jealous feelings, you don't like the way somebody else has something, I don't have it

1490
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:20,200
I don't like what they said, it makes me feel a certain way

1491
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:27,200
If selfish ambition, I want to get ahead, I want to be successful, I want to be recognized or I want to be praised

1492
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:32,200
Or any kind of, I want to benefit me at any time whatsoever, that's selfish ambition

1493
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:37,200
If you want to benefit the kingdom of God, you want to benefit Jesus, you want to benefit other people, that's one thing

1494
01:33:37,200 --> 01:33:42,200
But when it's about you and getting ahead for you in any way, shape or form, that's selfish ambition

1495
01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:49,200
And according to what he wrote there, James, the brother of Jesus wrote there, that's the doctrine of demons

1496
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:55,200
It's deceitful spirits, has anyone ever said to you, you deserve to be happy?

1497
01:33:55,200 --> 01:34:00,200
And when they did, did you pay attention?

1498
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:07,200
If you did, that was a deceitful evil spirit

1499
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:13,200
If you deserve anything good in this life at all, it is by the grace of God delivered unto you that you deserve it

1500
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:17,200
You were a sinner going to hell, that's who you were

1501
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:21,200
You deserved an eternity separated from God, that's what you deserved

1502
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:28,200
That's what every lost person deserves because they are a sinner who will in eternity be separated from God

1503
01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:32,200
I'm not going out telling people they're going to hell, that's not my job

1504
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:35,200
That was not on the list, right?

1505
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:39,200
There is a message that we are supposed to be delivering, we already covered it, we'll recap it briefly

1506
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:42,200
But we already covered it, that's not on the list

1507
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,200
So we don't go out and tell them, you deserve hell

1508
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:52,200
In fact, if your gospel presentation says that you're a sinner and you deserve hell, your gospel presentation is flawed

1509
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:59,200
You're just trying to scare them into making an emotional decision to escape what is true

1510
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:06,200
Paying attention to the wrong side will burn your conscience

1511
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:10,200
Next to my house I have garbage cans and recycling bins

1512
01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:14,200
Even though they don't curbside recycling anymore, but we have a company that's supposed to do it

1513
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:17,200
And they have us put it in blue bags and then they've missed the last couple of weeks

1514
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:20,200
And we still put it in the recycling bins while it's on the side of the house, blah blah blah

1515
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:25,200
Anyway, on the ground from where my recycling bins and garbage cans are

1516
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:32,200
All the way back to the creek is a trail worn in the dirt and in the grass

1517
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:39,200
You can literally see where something small, probably four legged, has been walking for decades

1518
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:42,200
It walks basically the same path that people that mow my lawn, they know it's there

1519
01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:45,200
People come to my house, you see it, you're going to see it right now, if you want to go see it

1520
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:48,200
Go after church, don't miss this

1521
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:53,200
The rodent that comes to my garbage has worn a trail

1522
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:58,200
So much so that the trail is still there in the spring after it snows

1523
01:35:58,200 --> 01:36:01,200
That's what deceitful evil spirits do

1524
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:08,200
They wear a trail into you

1525
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:12,200
You give a foothold and they just keep coming back again and again

1526
01:36:12,200 --> 01:36:15,200
And then you accepted it, you paid attention to it, and so they do it again

1527
01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:17,200
And you accepted it, you paid attention to it, you do it again

1528
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:20,200
I'll never do what they tell me to do, I'm not listening, I don't agree

1529
01:36:20,200 --> 01:36:23,200
I sit and rail against them in my living room

1530
01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:28,200
In fact, I will talk about how cuss words in movies is a sin

1531
01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:31,200
In my living room, I'm like, that's sinful

1532
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:35,200
Wait a minute, back up a second

1533
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:39,200
Check yourself, are cuss words in movies a sin?

1534
01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:42,200
Show it to me in the Bible

1535
01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:46,200
The closest you'll get is that we should focus on the pure, right?

1536
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:51,200
James talks about foul language, foul language is that which offends the listener

1537
01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:55,200
Cuss words are not in the Bible, now taking the Lord's name in vain, that's a sin

1538
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:59,200
So if they use that, then you shouldn't be listening, right?

1539
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:04,200
But those cuss words, when you start railing, you're railing against them because they're a sin

1540
01:37:04,200 --> 01:37:06,200
Except they're not a sin, what are you doing?

1541
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:11,200
You've bought into the doctrine of demons, right?

1542
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:17,200
What I'm saying to you is, paying attention to the other side opens a pathway into you

1543
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,200
and will burn your conscience

1544
01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:23,200
There are just two strategies and they're very simple

1545
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:25,200
Number one, you can go to war

1546
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:28,200
I went to a men's conference when I was a young Christian up in Michigan

1547
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:30,200
We had just found our church there, we hadn't joined yet

1548
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:34,200
And they called me up on a Friday and they said, hey, any chance you'd want to go to a conference over

1549
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:37,200
I'm sorry, it was Thursday, tomorrow and Saturday

1550
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:43,200
Sure, I guess, we've got an extra ticket, you can go for free, food's free, transportation's free

1551
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:44,200
You can just ride with us, whatever

1552
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:48,200
And I said, well, I'll call my wife and we worked it out and sure enough I went

1553
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:51,200
And on the way to the conference, my brother Terry Hill was his name, he was in my life group

1554
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,200
He was the apprentice shepherd of my life group

1555
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:59,200
He said, you know, I got rid of all my rated-R movies because I don't think that's focusing on the pure

1556
01:37:59,200 --> 01:38:03,200
And I don't think it's what God would really want me to do, I'm trying to grow in the Lord

1557
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:07,200
And I was thinking about how I had like 23 rated-R movies in my living room

1558
01:38:07,200 --> 01:38:12,200
And the Spirit convicted me and said, you know, if you want to be focusing on the pure, you need to do the same thing

1559
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:16,200
So once he did that, now if I had kept them and continued to watch, that would have been a sin, right?

1560
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:20,200
It wasn't previously, but it would have been, it would have become that because the Spirit convicted me

1561
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:23,200
So I went home and I said to my wife, I said, dear, I know it's going to be hard

1562
01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:25,200
But I think we need to get rid of all our rated-R movies

1563
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:28,200
And she went to legalism, she's like, now that sounds like legalism to me

1564
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:30,200
It sounds like you're making rules out of something

1565
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:34,200
I'm not saying it's a sin, I'm just telling you that I was convicted of my spirit that I think we need to do this

1566
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:37,200
And I'm asking you, are you willing?

1567
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:41,200
I said, if not, if you disagree with me, then we'll continue to talk about it, hash it out, we'll figure out

1568
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:43,200
She said, no, what do I care?

1569
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:48,200
But then when we went to go throw away the rated-R movies, like her third favorite and fourth favorite movie of all time

1570
01:38:48,200 --> 01:38:51,200
Were in there and there was a little bit more hesitation, but we did

1571
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:56,200
And then in the end we did keep one movie which has a great biblical message to it, which is The Patriot

1572
01:38:56,200 --> 01:38:58,200
Which is rated-R, it's a war movie

1573
01:38:58,200 --> 01:39:00,200
And, it's a good movie, yep

1574
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:03,200
And so the point is, you can go to war

1575
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:09,200
Go in your house when you're done with church today, walk in there and find everything, root it out, search for it

1576
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:14,200
Find everything that speaks these deceitful, evil spirit messages

1577
01:39:14,200 --> 01:39:19,200
Find everything that's demon doctrine and get rid of it all, root it out, get rid of it

1578
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:21,200
You can do that, that is one strategy

1579
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:26,200
The other strategy is to dismiss it out of hand in favor of the truth

1580
01:39:26,200 --> 01:39:32,200
And say, yep, it's pretty much always going to be realized that to really get rid of it, you'd have to get rid of commercials

1581
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:35,200
And if you watch streaming now, some streaming has commercials

1582
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:40,200
You'd probably have to get rid of most movies because it's in there, it's all in there

1583
01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:45,200
And so you can, every time you detect it, you can dismiss it out of hand in favor of the truth

1584
01:39:45,200 --> 01:39:52,200
And say, we're watching a movie and we see something and I'll say, that's not the truth

1585
01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:58,200
Ariana likes the new Disney movie Encanto a lot and it's a good movie, it is

1586
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:06,200
It's got a great message to it, not expressly a biblical message but a very good message about how everybody is valuable

1587
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:13,200
And definitely not a Christian message but nothing that's expressly anti-Christian

1588
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:18,200
And so I'm watching it and there was something where they said something and I said, that's not the truth

1589
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:23,200
And she goes, oh, I know it's not the truth, I just ignore that part

1590
01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:25,200
That's a strategy you can use

1591
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:31,200
Now, if someone else is watching it with somebody else and it pops up and you just ignore it

1592
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:37,200
And they absorb it, you are not behaving as a pillar of truth, right?

1593
01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:43,200
So now be careful about dismissing the untruths or dismissing the deceitful evil spirits

1594
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:48,200
So that you don't get so used to it that you forget to stand up when you're supposed to

1595
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:50,200
But either one of those tactics work

1596
01:40:50,200 --> 01:40:53,200
Paying attention to the wrong side will burn your conscience

1597
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:56,200
And then there's the third thing

1598
01:40:56,200 --> 01:41:05,200
There's a good verdict and nourishment in pointing out these things

1599
01:41:05,200 --> 01:41:08,200
It does not say in believing these things

1600
01:41:08,200 --> 01:41:11,200
It does not say living these things

1601
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:17,200
It does not say accepting them as true and allowing them to affect your other thought processes

1602
01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:22,200
It doesn't say accepting them as true and praying the sinner's prayer

1603
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:25,200
It says there is a good verdict

1604
01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:29,200
You will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, that's a good verdict

1605
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:31,200
And it says there will be nourishment

1606
01:41:31,200 --> 01:41:37,200
You will be nourished by the words of the faith and the sound doctrine which you have been following

1607
01:41:37,200 --> 01:41:41,200
You will be nourished, that means built up from the inside, you will have what you need

1608
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:49,200
By pointing out these things to the brethren

1609
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:55,200
First of all, this verse says if you're a Christian and you don't have a church

1610
01:41:55,200 --> 01:41:59,200
You will never be properly nourished

1611
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:06,200
Because you have to be pointing out these things to the brethren in order to be nourished by the words of faith

1612
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,200
That's what it says

1613
01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:15,200
Secondly, it says every time you point it out to somebody else

1614
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:17,200
You're going to get a meal out of it

1615
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:20,200
It's going to be a blessing to you, it's going to heal you

1616
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:24,200
It's going to provide the nourishment that you need to grow as a Christian and so on

1617
01:42:24,200 --> 01:42:31,200
Malnourishment is not really hunger, but it's the lack of the right thing

1618
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:40,200
So could it be that the church is spiritually malnourished because instead of feeding on

1619
01:42:40,200 --> 01:42:44,200
Telling these things, proclaiming these things to the brethren

1620
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:50,200
We're feeding on enjoying the encouragement, the positive feeling we get out of worship

1621
01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:54,200
The fact that we have brothers and sisters of fellowship because we want others to encourage us

1622
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:58,200
Because we gave and we know we did the right thing, because we served and we know we did the right things

1623
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:03,200
We exercise our Holy Spirit, gift, whatever that might be, and God gives us that little pat on the back

1624
01:43:03,200 --> 01:43:09,200
So we're living all of those things, but we're malnourished

1625
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:11,200
They're good things

1626
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:19,200
If for the next month all you eat is apples, you'll probably be in the hospital in less than 30 days

1627
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:23,200
Because while an apple is a wonderful thing and they say it keeps the doctor away

1628
01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:27,200
It does not have everything in it that you need to survive on

1629
01:43:27,200 --> 01:43:31,200
If all you do is eat vitamins and water

1630
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:36,200
You could get enough vitamins to cover all of those deficiencies that I listed

1631
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:40,200
And enough water to cover your water intake and you still will not be healthy

1632
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:48,200
Because you need protein to build muscle, and that's not a vitamin

1633
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:56,200
The point is, there is a good verdict and nourishment in the pointing out of these things

1634
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:58,200
The verdict would be enough

1635
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:03,200
We all want to stand before Jesus and receive that well done, good, and faithful servant

1636
01:44:03,200 --> 01:44:05,200
That's what I want

1637
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:07,200
That would be enough for me

1638
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:13,200
I would live my life malnourished in order to arrive in front of Jesus and have Him hug on me and say you did a good job

1639
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:15,200
Heck yeah!

1640
01:44:15,200 --> 01:44:23,200
But it doesn't only promise the good verdict, it also promises the nourishment, the building up of our spirits

1641
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:31,200
The cleansing of our hearts, the strengthening of our faith, the growth of us as people as we are nourished by the words of faith

1642
01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:35,200
That brings us to the conclusion

1643
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:39,200
Great is the mystery of godliness

1644
01:44:39,200 --> 01:44:43,200
There is much to be learned

1645
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:48,200
But that statement is the start of a summary

1646
01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:50,200
And the points of the summary are this

1647
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,200
Jesus was revealed in the flesh

1648
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:58,200
When is the last time you told somebody that Jesus came in the flesh?

1649
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:01,200
They say, well all the people I hang out with, they already know that

1650
01:45:01,200 --> 01:45:04,200
It said tell it to the brethren, theoretically all the brethren know that

1651
01:45:04,200 --> 01:45:08,200
So you can tell it to the people who already know that and be nourished

1652
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:10,200
We should be saying that

1653
01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:13,200
Jesus was revealed in the flesh

1654
01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:17,200
Talk about His life, His death, His burial

1655
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:22,200
He was vindicated by the Holy Spirit, God's Holy Spirit testified about Him while He was alive

1656
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,200
He was seen by angels

1657
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:28,200
Every Christmas we do the story of the proclamation of His birth

1658
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:31,200
And every Easter we do the story of the proclamation of His resurrection

1659
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:35,200
But it's our job to be sharing that with each other all year round

1660
01:45:35,200 --> 01:45:38,200
Or otherwise we'll be malnourished

1661
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:42,200
He was proclaimed among the nations

1662
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:47,200
Many different people groups heard the story and on Pentecost many of them heard it in their own language

1663
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:49,200
Spoken from people who didn't speak their language

1664
01:45:49,200 --> 01:45:56,200
Clearly God's goal to proclaim the truth of Jesus to the nations

1665
01:45:56,200 --> 01:46:02,200
And while we should be proclaiming it, we should be reminding each other to proclaim it

1666
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:06,200
He was believed on in the world, we should be explaining to people that people have believed

1667
01:46:06,200 --> 01:46:09,200
There are people in our church that have believed

1668
01:46:09,200 --> 01:46:12,200
There are people outside of our church that have believed, there are people in other churches that have believed

1669
01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:15,200
That's a message that we deliver to one another

1670
01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:18,200
Taken up in glory, Jesus went to be in heaven

1671
01:46:18,200 --> 01:46:23,200
We know where He is now in some sort of physical way

1672
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:28,200
But He's also in our hearts in a very spiritual way

1673
01:46:28,200 --> 01:46:30,200
He was taken up in glory

1674
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:37,200
But it doesn't stop there, the Spirit says we should be proclaiming to the brethren that in later times some will fall away

1675
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:42,200
Seared in their consciences

1676
01:46:42,200 --> 01:46:45,200
Their hypocrisy made it possible

1677
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:55,200
They were just paying attention and listening to the deceitful evil spirits and the demonic doctrines

1678
01:46:55,200 --> 01:47:01,200
We should explain to the brethren that false righteousness is real

1679
01:47:01,200 --> 01:47:04,200
When someone comes to you and tries to say I know what's right

1680
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:08,200
And they can't support it by specific scripture that says the same thing they're saying

1681
01:47:08,200 --> 01:47:11,200
Then you should be saying, okay I get you, but we have to be careful

1682
01:47:11,200 --> 01:47:17,200
Because it's really easy to get into false righteousness where we say that we know that we're right

1683
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:21,200
The Holy Spirit told you you shouldn't drink, doesn't mean that you can tell everybody else they shouldn't drink

1684
01:47:21,200 --> 01:47:25,200
The Holy Spirit told you something's true, doesn't mean you can tell everybody else that it's true

1685
01:47:25,200 --> 01:47:30,200
Unless the Holy Spirit told you to go and tell everybody else it's true, in which case you have to do so

1686
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:35,200
But they still have to come to it themselves

1687
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:40,200
Two left, every food created by God is good if received with gratitude

1688
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:44,200
Things can be sanctified by means of the word and prayer

1689
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:47,200
If you're not sure, I had this happen Thursday morning

1690
01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:50,200
In fact it happened two weeks in a row, that's what made me pay attention to it

1691
01:47:50,200 --> 01:47:54,200
I finished my Bible study and I had some notifications on my phone

1692
01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:57,200
And one of the notifications was from email and I'm waiting for an email that's of a personal nature

1693
01:47:57,200 --> 01:48:00,200
And not of a business nature, and I'm not supposed to do business on Thursday

1694
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:02,200
Because that's my Sabbath so I wasn't going to do business

1695
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:05,200
So this is what I said, I went to open the email notification

1696
01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:09,200
And I said, Lord, guard my heart, protect me right now

1697
01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:14,200
Don't let me be tempted to get into anything that might be in my email that has to do with ministry

1698
01:48:14,200 --> 01:48:16,200
Or has to do with my job, or something like that

1699
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:18,200
Unless you really want me to pay attention to it because it's an ox in a ditch

1700
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:20,200
I'm not supposed to do that, so Lord, guard my heart

1701
01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:25,200
And I went in there and I saw something that was of work nature and I didn't open it

1702
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:29,200
Following Thursday the same thing happened and that's why I paid attention to it

1703
01:48:29,200 --> 01:48:33,200
And you can say to God, God, I need you to protect me in this situation

1704
01:48:33,200 --> 01:48:35,200
I need you to help me say the right thing

1705
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:39,200
I need you to help me be a clean servant here and now

1706
01:48:39,200 --> 01:48:41,200
I know I'm not worthy of it

1707
01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:44,200
If you think you've gotten to the point where you're worthy and you're always a clean servant of God

1708
01:48:44,200 --> 01:48:46,200
You've got a pride arrogance problem

1709
01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:50,200
So you say, now I'm not worthy of it Lord, but I'm asking you to right now work in me

1710
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:53,200
Help me say the right thing, help me only hear what I'm supposed to hear

1711
01:48:53,200 --> 01:48:55,200
Help me only be what I'm supposed to be

1712
01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:59,200
Things can be sanctified by means of the word and prayer

1713
01:48:59,200 --> 01:49:02,200
And we should be telling each other that and other Christians

1714
01:49:02,200 --> 01:49:04,200
That's the message, it's part of the message

1715
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:10,200
That when we proclaim it, we will be nourished and have a good report before God

1716
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:16,200
Last one, we can be justified and constantly nourished on the words of the faith

1717
01:49:16,200 --> 01:49:19,200
By pointing out these things to one another

1718
01:49:19,200 --> 01:49:21,200
You see, it's full circle

1719
01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:25,200
We should be telling each other that we can be justified before God

1720
01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:29,200
And constantly nourished by proclaiming these things

1721
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:36,200
Including that we can be justified before God and nourished by proclaiming these things

1722
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:39,200
This is the song that never ends

1723
01:49:39,200 --> 01:49:43,200
Somebody started singing it not knowing what it was

1724
01:49:43,200 --> 01:49:45,200
But this is the song that never ends

1725
01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:48,200
And somebody started singing it not knowing what it was

1726
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:54,200
If we would just proclaim these truths including the fact that we need to proclaim these truths to one another

1727
01:49:54,200 --> 01:49:57,200
In order to be nourished, in order to be justified before God

1728
01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,200
If we would proclaim the truth that we need to proclaim the truth

1729
01:50:00,200 --> 01:50:02,200
That we need to proclaim the truth

1730
01:50:02,200 --> 01:50:07,200
We probably wouldn't have time to be talking about all that much else, would we?

1731
01:50:07,200 --> 01:50:13,200
So if you've spent quite a bit of time lately talking about something else other than these things

1732
01:50:13,200 --> 01:50:21,200
Maybe you're dealing with hypocrisy or maybe you're dealing with deceitful evil spirits

1733
01:50:21,200 --> 01:50:26,200
And you're not following them but you're just paying attention or letting them be there

1734
01:50:26,200 --> 01:50:30,200
Or maybe you're dealing with the doctrine of demons

1735
01:50:30,200 --> 01:50:36,200
And it's time to say, I've got things I'm supposed to be saying

1736
01:50:36,200 --> 01:50:39,200
I've got a message I'm supposed to be delivering

1737
01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:43,200
And until I am delivering that message on a regular basis

1738
01:50:43,200 --> 01:50:45,200
I'm always going to be malnourished

1739
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,200
Even if you take the Word of God another way

1740
01:50:47,200 --> 01:50:51,200
You're always going to be malnourished because this is the way that we will be nourished

1741
01:50:51,200 --> 01:50:57,200
This is the way that we will have a good report before the Lord

1742
01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:00,200
Will you commit yourself?

1743
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:03,200
You have the reference now, if you need to memorize it, memorize it

1744
01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:06,200
What is the message? It's really not hard

1745
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:10,200
Great is the mystery of godliness, Jesus was revealed in the flesh, he was vindicated by the Spirit

1746
01:51:10,200 --> 01:51:15,200
He was seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the earth, taken up in glory

1747
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:21,200
But there will be those who fall away, especially through false righteousness

1748
01:51:21,200 --> 01:51:28,200
Everything created by God is good and things can be cleansed by Word and prayer

1749
01:51:28,200 --> 01:51:35,200
And we can be justified before God and constantly nourished by the words of faith if we will just proclaim these things

1750
01:51:35,200 --> 01:51:38,200
I didn't write it, but I'm calling us to believe it

1751
01:51:38,200 --> 01:51:41,200
I want to believe it

1752
01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:46,200
I would challenge you to make this commitment, and it's a biggie, it's really biggie

1753
01:51:46,200 --> 01:51:48,200
I would challenge you to make this commitment

1754
01:51:48,200 --> 01:51:52,200
That you will never have an at-length conversation with a Christian again

1755
01:51:52,200 --> 01:51:58,200
Without sharing a minimum of one of those points

1756
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:05,200
You wouldn't say I'm going to go a day without eating, unless you were fasting of course, right?

1757
01:52:05,200 --> 01:52:16,200
So why would you go a day malnourished in your spirit when you now know the recipe for nourishment?

1758
01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:21,200
I ask the praise team to come forward at this time, we're going to have a closing hymn

1759
01:52:21,200 --> 01:52:26,200
Song of invitation, I ask you to respond as the Lord might lead in your heart

1760
01:52:26,200 --> 01:52:29,200
If you're here today, you've not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior in earnest

1761
01:52:29,200 --> 01:52:34,200
You need to do that now and be saved

1762
01:52:34,200 --> 01:52:44,200
If you're here today and you have, if you realize you have literally been paying attention to evil spirits

1763
01:52:44,200 --> 01:52:48,200
Allowing that doctrine of demon where you think you make up things that are wrong

1764
01:52:48,200 --> 01:52:54,200
And that's what you say is sin, but there's other sins that you're allowing to like, that's hypocrisy

1765
01:52:54,200 --> 01:53:00,200
Repent, repent and turn to God and say this will be the message of the church, this will be the message of my life

1766
01:53:00,200 --> 01:53:04,200
This is what I will take with me everywhere I go

1767
01:53:04,200 --> 01:53:08,200
And I'm doing it, I'm the first person

1768
01:53:08,200 --> 01:53:15,200
I hope I will always have some aspect of what we just talked about in every conversation

1769
01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:31,200
Would you stand with me and sing this song as the Lord's writing something on your heart and you respond

1770
01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:45,200
Song of invitation, I ask you to respond as the Lord might lead in your heart

1771
01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:48,200
You've been listening to New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo

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And we hope that you're reaching New Heights in Jesus with us today