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Number one don't forget

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We're going to have our spiritual gift fellowship and the spiritual gift that we're focusing on is faith the spiritual gift of faith not

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Saving faith, but if you think you have to speak to faith or you want to know what that is

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Yes, then you come Thursday and we'll eat together and we'll also talk about what that gift is

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How it's depicted in the Bible song and then also how we have seen it at work in the body and in the world

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Okay, so we spend that hour together talking about the spiritual gift of faith. I'm praying God for it

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My understanding is this evening fancy Paulie. They're drafting in the cafeteria playing games and so on

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My guess is it's gonna be a peaceable representation

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you can walk up going down and play games and write that and that would be fun and then

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Today after service is the membership meeting won't be a lengthy meeting because

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Things of things that pertain to the members and I don't know is there anything on you new business as of right now

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Yeah, no motions on you that there's some stuff in membership

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And then so if you have a motion you need to get that to the line before the meeting begins

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She's the moderator and we'll get that taken care of that's how some of the church that's how some of the design the church

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That's how someone would make a motion like to take the church and have a certain event

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You do certain things for money and you make the motion before the meeting begins. So goes to my that's how that's up

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I should pray for Monica Smith this morning

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She woke up this morning really in the middle of the night the bad stomach ache

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Probably viral and those are going around, you know what? That's like these days

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And so pray for her and believe Royce these help with kids like that

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And then we have others who have about some who are just out where they are

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So pray for them pray that God will bless them where they are and bring them back into here next week

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And then we're working together what a great start

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1130 saying that song we're already worshiping God with your heart is in the right place today

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God is in the definitely in the right place today. He's on the throne

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Alright, so we're gonna pray together and then a few songs will be an inspirational moment

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Maybe you'll share with us at that time how the Lord's been blessing you or what you see what God maybe has said

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Thank you for the word something like that. So be prepared for that coming up just a few songs from now. Let's pray together

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Father in heaven we thank you so much for this day in which we live

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Even though we see board and there are a lot of things going on people losing their lives

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to foolish behavior gun violence

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Car accidents and even disease. It's all over the place. Obviously we've lost a lot of folks in the last few years. So

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That that puts me in mind that we are supposed to be focused on you

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We were supposed to be about the King of Ants and we are supposed to be the church as you've made us

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And so we're grateful for all that you've done enough. He protected us not had one member died

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I had one member be sick enough to be put in a hospital because of COVID or anything else in a long time

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So we're grateful for that word

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Because you certainly have done an amazing thing there and we ask you to keep protecting us and we need it

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At the same time when we realize that we may have miss spent we may have made errors

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We may have made choices that did not honor you let things do a lot of control are off track

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And so father we ask your forgiveness and we're grateful that it's available through Jesus

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He doesn't pay for it all you know that he's right there right now. It's your right hand make the intercession for us

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He is our eternal King and our eternal mediator. He is

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God in the flesh and now God in heaven exercise. So we praise you Lord for all that he has done

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We praise you for this time together

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We ask you to watch over us as you watch over those names already been called and folks that are on our hearts today

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We're suffering. We ask you to

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The bless those families who are mourning the loss of loved ones for some for some of us

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August is an anniversary month for someone who's gone ahead of us to be with you and we miss him dearly and for others

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Lord that we know they don't know you they mourn in deep sorrow and struggles

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Lord, we know we don't mourn like that. We're looking forward to that day

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We can be in your presence and spend eternity with you and we're grateful to know some who've gone on ahead

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So we ask the Lord to bless us give us reason to worship you your powerful presence today

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You can't you love us because you care for us and we've guided us into this moment in time put it in this place

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Father we ask you to bless those who couldn't be here right now

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Even though maybe they should have or maybe things got in the way and they were trying to overcome and they just couldn't

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So we ask the Lord keep caravan bring them back to their midst and let us honor you now for these praises

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Maybe someone who's never sung before seen today. Maybe our hearts have reason today to truly rejoice

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I believe it so I'm pray all this in Jesus precious name. Amen

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All right, I know most of you set up on the first song would you stand and join us for these two and children

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This is your one song warning. You're coming up soon

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If I could have some young people that would like to participate come towards the front take an aisle give yourself some room

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This is a motion song. Oh, that was me. Come on

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Come on, come on. I'm emotionalized. I'm not emotionalized. No now follow my style is fun

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We will rejoice we will rejoice every time

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So if you are from here over you're gonna follow Malia and from here over you're gonna follow me

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You guys are gonna start the words are color-coded. So you guys are red and we are purple

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All right, we come to that place where we ask ourselves everyone's coming

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How have you been looking into the word lately? What have you seen what happened in your life?

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What's an event that god said? Hey pay attention to that something like that

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I will remind you that as we do that our focus uh right now our six months focus on spiritual discipline

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For this my daughter is getting us to do what she kind of draw closer to him and so on is on prayer

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And so I hope that you'd be praying I spent some time in prayer for everybody in this room. I'm sorry

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I didn't do this. Why didn't they do it?

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So I missed you this morning. I prayed in general for a person it might be so I got almost everybody

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That's here and some folks that aren't and then I even while I was praying I asked some requests that I got

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Text to me at that time and I prayed for them and I was grateful to be able to do that

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I think that's a great gift from god and there are many ways that you can pray many methods that you can use

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A lot of them are shown in the word will hit some more of those later

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But I'm just reminding you that is our emphasis right now next we're practicing the spiritual discipline of prayer

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That will be our emphasis through november 22nd is the date and then after that we'll have another

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So how has the lord spoken to you this week? What have you seen his work? What happened that made you say hey take

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Attention that I have one and it was strongly convicting to me and maybe to some others, but I'll let you all go first

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I have videos to share

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You know already, but I use music a lot when i'm stressed out when i'm

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Feeling upset listening to music certain music

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Can calm me down

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Or at least keep my mouth shut

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I'm listening to music and singing maybe I won't say the things that I want to say that I shouldn't say

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Came on my youtube music is very random because I listen to a lot of different types of music

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um, and it came on in the middle of

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What I would consider a storm. I was feeling very stressed very overwhelmed on the break tears

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And having trouble pushing forward without wanting to just give up

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Um, and this song came in and so the words are up there

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I'm gonna listen to it and I hope it helps you to know

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Your love surrounds me

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When my balls and dreams are far from me and I'm running out of fame

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I see the future

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I find my peace in jesus name

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And I just don't know how i'm gonna make it it's me

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Me I did my best now i'm scared to death that we might lose everything

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And when a sickness takes my child away that there's nothing I can do

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My only hope is to trust you

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To you I trust you

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You caught my soul You're alone on the angel

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The sails are torn Your love surrounds me

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In the highest storm You remain in control

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In the middle of the war You got my soul

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You got my soul

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I have a song that I'm just really into.

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I've been listening to it a lot. I'm sitting here with my heart in my throat.

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Music day. I love it.

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Fight! Fight!

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I've been listening to unfamiliar feelings and unknown sounds.

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Unknown sounds, unknown sounds Slipping through my fingertips

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Lingering Shooter woulda, gooda woulda, put the plan down

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Make a list of all my further attempts Running out of space again

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I let all the things I wish I never said stop

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If handling makes you stronger I'm the weakest

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That would mean that I would have to separate from my beliefs

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I'm a puzzle, got a lot of missing pieces underneath

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A strong persona I put on to keep it screaming

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All these parties so deceiving They look different though

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That's how they seem to me

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Cause we just drifting, drifting, drifting

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Till we see something that we define as peaceful

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Grab the needle, shoot reminders in my veins

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And people leave you while I'm drifting

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Watching the world go round, world go, yeah, world go round

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Listening to unfamiliar feelings and unknown sounds

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Unknown sounds, unknown sounds

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Satsuga surviving watching you

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While you're talking to yourself is rude Drifting, I'm in the same boat as you

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Sinking, dreaming, screaming for some truth in my mind

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Escalators, look, I'll take the stairs I guess Climbing till I'm out of breath

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Watching you by every step, oh my

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Training artists, meeting me to different tracks

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Positive that where I'm at is now where I should stay and ask why

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Don't you look into the mirror and say I love you

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Convince yourself they know and they know we're whatever we're to

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Passing by the people that are in it and support you from the get

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No disrespect for what you get so I get stressful when I'm drifting

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I see you in the distance asking me why I'm so distant

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I'm convicted, I'm committed, I predicted all my wishes

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All my wishes won't be hurt cause I'm committed to the light

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If feeling safe is unrealistic when I'm drifting

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Watching the world go round, world go, yeah, world go round

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I love it

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Is this the last chorus, the last one?

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It's supposed to have to be the last chorus, it's pretty good

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Alright, we'll wait for that, we'll just stop it

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I have a thing like, oh okay

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So can you go back to like a minute and 40 seconds or so

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Just to get the weird stuff on the screen

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Maybe it doesn't go on my screen

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Just put it on the screen

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Yes, that's fine

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So this song sort of came to me recently

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I was in a place where I found a lot of value in myself

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Sort of trying to figure out what I'm going to do with my life

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Don't really have a solid plan as to what my career is going to be, things like that

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And it sort of just, it reminded me that God gave us a purpose

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And He gave us a directive and it's when we're not following God's plan that He laid out for us

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And not following His commands that He gave us that we find ourselves drifting

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We'll find ourselves just watching as the world goes on around us

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And we're talking about here how we really, we can fight a long battle

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And not get anywhere fighting against God's plans

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And it's important to remember that

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And that really touched me this morning

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Good work, thanks

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Alright, and Caleb

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There's a show I've been watching on Netflix called Junior Baking Show

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And there's these kids that are trying their best to make desserts

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They've been cooking for a really long time

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And someone like Brenda, the person was trying to get the log

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But she said that she won't give up on cooking

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She will try her hardest

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And everybody was just happy and they've been trying their hardest

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And when they get to home it's just everybody keeps saying it's hard

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The judge is eating, oh, I'm disappointed that someone has to go

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So there are people who leave, don't give up, and they bake for the family every day

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So I was really inspired

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Just because if something gets hard doesn't mean you can't

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It doesn't mean you give up, try again, keep trying, you do your best

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Good work, stay firm

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Good stuff, alright, anybody else?

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Alright, Deacon Tony, would you pray for us then as we're getting ready to transition

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So we'll have tithes and offerings coming up in a moment

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And then we'll have a little bit more worship

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And the kids will be going to their lessons

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And this is the Lord's house, the Lord's day

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And we are grateful to be able to do this, alright

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So praise God, Deacon Tony, for your work

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I'd like to thank you for what you do today

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This place is a big must for you

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You are the giver of tickets

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You give us music that cuts through the hearts

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Music that lifts us up, music that makes us think

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And you show us throughout our day and our daily lives

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This minute we just focus on just trusting you

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When we get too much on our mind

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We just trust in you and go forward

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You'll see us through

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So we thank you for what we've done so far

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This is actually the best surprise and opportunity

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We take them up and give them

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And ask the Lord to use them

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We give you the labor to give

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The Lord gives you every week you've got

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We really give you every week you've got food

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We ask you to watch over the souls, the passage, the breathing, the blessing, the children, the blessing

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Whatever we ask of the Lord, we ask of the Spirit

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We do so in your favor

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Amen

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You know me well

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You know me well

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More power

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More love, more power

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More you in my life

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More love, more power

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More you in my life

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More love, more power

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More you in my life

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More you in my life

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More faith, more passion

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More you in my life

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And I will worship you with all my heart

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And I will worship you with all my might

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And I will worship you with all my strength

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For you are my Lord

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Before the day, before the light

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Before the world revolved around your side

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God on high, sent down into time

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Wrote the story of his love forevermore

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He has filled our hearts with wonder

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So that we'll always remember

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You and I will wait to worship

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You and I will fall in love

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You and I will be more than our dreams

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You and I are blessed to render

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You and I should sleep with you

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I will sing a river of exulting praise

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And all we have, all we have

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Is all again from God that we receive

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And when we come to life, we open up our eyes

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And sing the majesty and glory of the King

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He has filled our hearts with wonder

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So that we'll always remember

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You and I will wait to worship

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You and I will fall in love

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You and I are blessed to render

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You and I are blessed to render

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You and I just know

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You and I will sing a river of exulting praise

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And the earth's light up

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And the dream and the vision

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And the sound of his loving hand

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Let him come to us, let him be found now

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He is worthy of all our praise

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You and I will wait to worship

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You and I are fall in love

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You and I will forgive and free

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You and I will wait to render

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You and I just know

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You and I will sing a river of exulting praise

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And the earth's light up

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And the dream and the vision

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And the earth's light up

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And the dream and the vision

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And the sound of his loving hand

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Let him come to us, let him be found now

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He is worthy of all our praise

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You and I just know

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You and I will wait to worship

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Now he will be a battle to our feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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Now he will be a battle to our feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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And when I feel afraid

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I think of my way

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Soon you are there, right beside me

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Now think where I'm dear

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As far as you are near

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Please be near me unto heaven

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Now he will be a battle to our feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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Now he will be a battle to our feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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Now I forget your love for me

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And yet my heart's whole air is mine

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Please be my guide

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And hold me to your spell

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Please I will now go unto the end

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And I will wait for my feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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And I will wait for my feet

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And a ride unto our heaven

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And a ride unto our heaven

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As we have been working through the book of Deuteronomy this week, I discovered a change in my attitude.

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I think I've seen a similar change in some other folks, but I won't own it for you, but I'll own it for me.

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And that is, as we've been working through the book of Deuteronomy and seeing that God is truly God the Father, God the Lord, He is in charge of all things,

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and how He had chosen for Himself a peculiar people and put them in a powerful and peculiar position,

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He was nonetheless describing to them how there were some very dangerous ramifications for certain choices that they might make.

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You'll notice that the sermon title is quite long today. I'll read it to you.

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It says, what can be done about side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes, and serious ramifications, and I'll stop there for a second.

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In other words, God was saying, there are, in living in the promised land, living what you're going to go through, there are serious side effects.

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As you encounter something, there are ripple down effects.

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And even the laws of God would have ripple down effects, and some of them not so positive.

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Even though it was meant to be an all positive thing, the heart of man twists and turns things, and it isn't always good.

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As we saw, for example, with Jesus in the New Testament correcting them then and saying, you know the law says this, but now I tell you this,

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and making it a tighter knit set of commands from the Lord.

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There are side effects. There are seemingly lasting outcomes.

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Remember that when people went into war in the promised land, there were those who died on the side of the Israelites.

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Every Israelite soldier, statistically, was worth 20 to 30 enemy soldiers, which is an amazing ratio.

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But there were more than 20 to 30 enemy soldiers, which means there were people on the Israelite side that died.

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And that is not only a serious side effect, but it is a seemingly lasting outcome.

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Death is always a seemingly lasting outcome.

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I submit to you that for some folks who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, it will indeed be a lasting outcome.

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That moment, that painful moment of death, whatever that's like for them, and we've heard, I've seen lost people who passed away, were crying out in agony.

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They were spitting venom, hating the people in their life, or hating God for what they were going through and so on.

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And then I've seen saved people who peacefully transitioned from this world.

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And so whatever they're going through in that moment, if they do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior,

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will then be amplified and stretched on for eternity as they spend time separated from God.

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So for some, it is a lasting outcome.

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But for anyone else, those who are the chosen people of God, those who are saved, it is not a lasting outcome.

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It is only a seemingly lasting outcome.

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And then there are serious ramifications.

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God said basically in His Word, if you'll follow these commands, then I will bless you and I'll do these various things.

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We're going to see a little bit more of that today as we go to the Word.

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But He also said, if you will not follow My Word, then you will see these outcomes and it will not be pleasant.

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In fact, He even owned the fact that eventually there would come a generation that would not follow God the way they were supposed to,

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and they were carried off into captivity.

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Those are serious ramifications.

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The people who were living in the promised land were faced with side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes and serious ramifications,

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even though they did not know God.

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For over 400 years ago, they were descended from a people.

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Everybody is descended from the people who came out of the ark.

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Everybody is descended from Noah and his family.

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So they were descended from a people who were holy.

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Many of them are descendants of Esau, literally born to the same family as the child of promise, Jacob,

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and lost birthright, yes, and blessing, yes.

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But the bottom line is they were descended from the same people.

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And yet now God is saying, no more.

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This is it. You're done.

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Because of your molech worship and your false god worship and your idol worship,

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and all the times I have appealed to you to do it right, I am done with you.

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I have had enough.

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And God sends His own people come out of Egypt, not the greatest people,

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not in number capable of doing what God was sending them to do.

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But He sends them to wipe out the people or chase out in some cases the people of the promised land.

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What can be done about these side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes,

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and serious ramifications for those who are in the world?

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I submit to you, nothing.

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They're real.

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They're not seeming in the world.

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They are everything that people hate.

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When things don't work, things don't go right, they don't do what's right,

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and they pay a dear price for it, it's a terrible, terrible thing that they face in life.

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But then there is a people, a primary people, a God that has chosen for Himself,

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a people of purposeful provision that God has said, I am going to do this for you.

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That's who they were coming into the promised land.

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God has said, I am going to put you there.

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I'm going to give you cities that you didn't build.

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I'm going to give you crops that you didn't seed, all that.

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There is a people of purposeful provision, purposely placed,

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that is to say, God put them exactly where they would be, in a powerful position.

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What can be done about those side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes,

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and serious ramifications for that people, that primary people of God,

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that God purposefully has provided for and purposefully placed in a powerful position?

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Well, that's what we're going to find out today in Deuteronomy chapter 8.

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So grab your Bibles if you would, maybe give me an amen or hoot or holler,

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and go with me to Deuteronomy chapter 8.

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What? This is God's Word.

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If you don't get excited about God changing your life,

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you may have a little bit of a heart condition, you might want to scrape that off and put it away,

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because God is going to work here today.

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He's already worked on me, He's changed my life in the last seven days,

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just since I stood before you last.

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And I know for a fact that what's in here will accost you, if you allow it.

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Alright, here we go.

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Deuteronomy chapter 8, I will read the entire chapter,

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I will break it down a little bit as we go,

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and then I'll come back and kind of boil it down into a few points for you, okay?

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So, all, big all, all the commandments that I am commanding you today,

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you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in

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and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers.

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And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these four years,

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that He might humble you, testing you, to know what is in your heart,

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whether you would keep His commandments or not.

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I'm going to stop there for a second.

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You see a sort of a mathematical equation involved in here, basically says,

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God's going to bring you in, that's settled now, God's going to bring you in.

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Now, follow the commandments, do the things that God has told you to do,

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and it ought to be kind of easy for you to do that, or at least easier than some other people,

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because look at what God has done.

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Took you through the wilderness, took you out of, brought your people out of Egypt, all of that.

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All of that it says so that He might humble you.

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Listen, when I got saved, when I gave my life over to the Lord,

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I really felt like I had two choices.

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I could continue to be me the way I was being me.

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I could continue to live my life the way I was living my life,

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and I could see that I was ruining my marriage, ruining my then child, only child, Alicia.

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I was ruining my life, ruining my job, ruining my relationships.

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I had only superficial, thin relationships with people.

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I didn't have any deep, meaningful relationships, not even with my family.

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And I realized I could go on like that without God, which I became a believer

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that that would send me to a place where I would not be with God.

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I don't know that I understood the concept of hell, but I knew that I would end that road

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where that road was going, which was a distant place from God.

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Or, alternatively, I could respond to the appeal of God to come and be His child,

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be His born-again Son of God.

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Not like Jesus, I understand, but a child of God.

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And then I felt like that would literally change everything.

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And so I was looking at my life, looking at my wife, looking at my home,

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looking at my loans, looking at my situation on my job, looking at my relationships.

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I thought, you know, is there really much there that I wouldn't want to see changed?

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And so, for me, it made logical sense.

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And yet, there was a part of it that I just couldn't do it.

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I could not pull out of that darkness. I could not break free.

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And so that led me to, as it says, humble myself and say, Lord, I need You to do this.

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Well, that's what He's done with the Israelites.

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At this moment in time, they are much like us.

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They are a people purposefully provisioned, purposefully placed,

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and purposefully in a powerful position like Christians are, like the church of our day is.

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They have that same thing going on.

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And just as God brought me out of my darkness when I could not do it,

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just as God brought me to Himself when I could not come of my own volition,

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which felt a lot like teleportation, I've got to tell you,

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like disappearing one place and appearing another.

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The moment I consented, I was there.

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Okay?

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Just like God did that for me, He had essentially promised to do it for them.

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He had tested me to see whether there was any good thing in me,

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and I'm going to be frank, there was not.

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There was not any good thing in me.

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00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:32,720
Even the things that the world would call good or I thought was good about myself,

476
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:36,720
I now realize looking back and having been taught by the Word that they were as filthy rags.

477
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:38,720
They were useless to me.

478
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:40,720
He tested me to see if there was any good thing in there.

479
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,720
He humbled me for me to be able to repent and turn to Him and say,

480
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:46,720
okay, God, you're going to have to do this.

481
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:49,720
And it says, testing you to know what was in your heart.

482
00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:52,720
He looked at what was in my heart, whether you would keep my commandments or not.

483
00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:57,720
I submit to you that if I was truly saved the day that I gave my life over to the Lord Jesus,

484
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:03,720
I would have been inherited and even it was born in me, knew a desire to follow the Lord in faith.

485
00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:06,720
To follow Him and do what it is that He would have me to do.

486
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:08,720
And I have felt that over and over and over again,

487
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:10,720
especially at times when I've screwed up, wandered off,

488
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:13,720
and I feel that conviction of drawing me back to what I'm supposed to do.

489
00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:16,720
And it says in verse 3, it says, and He humbled you.

490
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,720
He helped you to realize that you really do need, listen, they could not walk.

491
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:21,720
I'm going to get ahead of myself. Let's just read the verse.

492
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,720
And He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you with manna.

493
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:28,720
They could not sustain themselves in the desert, which you did not know.

494
00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:33,720
They didn't know how to make manna come down or even what to do with it until they found it and figured it out.

495
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:37,720
You know what the word manna means? It's a Hebrew word. What is it?

496
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:41,720
You know it? Anybody? What is it?

497
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:45,720
What is it? What is that? Right? It means what is it?

498
00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:47,720
Well, that's what it means now.

499
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:52,720
But the Hebrew word manna literally means, what is it? That's what it means.

500
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,720
They went out and they found it and they said, what is this?

501
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,720
And that's what they named it. Manna.

502
00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:01,720
They knew they could not feed themselves. They could not have made that manna fall from heaven.

503
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:04,720
They couldn't even have begged God to do it or gave sacrifices or nothing.

504
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:08,720
They said, this doesn't make any sense. They could have named it, this doesn't make any sense.

505
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,720
But they didn't. God humbled them to realize that He was the one who was doing it from there.

506
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:18,720
But it's not just there. Nor did your fathers know that He might make you understand.

507
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:20,720
He did all of that. He kept them in the dark, if you will.

508
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:23,720
He kept them from fully understanding His power, His might and all that.

509
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:27,720
They were struggling so they would be humbled in His presence.

510
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:31,720
That He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone,

511
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:34,720
but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

512
00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:36,720
Now who does that sound a little bit like?

513
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:40,720
That's one of the verses that Jesus quotes at the temptation. Right?

514
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:43,720
When He says, turn these stones into bread and eat so that you'll be okay.

515
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:46,720
And Jesus says, and He doesn't say this, but He said, well I could do that.

516
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:48,720
But He doesn't say that part. But then He says, no.

517
00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:52,720
But man does not live by bread alone, but every word comes from the mouth of the Lord.

518
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,720
Listen to me. You're going to think some point in time in your life, saved or unsaved,

519
00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,720
and if you're unsaved, surely, but saved you probably will still think at times,

520
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:04,720
that your bills are paid by the work that you did and the wages that you got and it just isn't so.

521
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:10,720
We are all still alive today by the grace of God alone, lost and saved.

522
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:14,720
The world continues to this point, consisting completely in Jesus Christ.

523
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:18,720
If it were not for the sacrifice of Jesus and the potential that people would get saved,

524
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:23,720
the world would be gone. God would flick His fingers or drop a bomb on the world

525
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:27,720
and all of that fire and judgment pours out, everything is gone,

526
00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:30,720
then the new heaven and earth comes and those who are invited in will come into it.

527
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:35,720
Probably the martyrs first if you believe it that way, but the bottom line is you'll come in

528
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:39,720
and eternity in the new heaven and earth. Right?

529
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:43,720
But because of Jesus, because of the sacrifice, because of the potential yet to come,

530
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:48,720
we all get to say, you will work another day, you will get another paycheck, eat another meal,

531
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:53,720
only because God wills it. And if you cannot humble yourself to accept that fact,

532
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:58,720
then the probability is that you are not saved because salvation requires and includes it.

533
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:04,720
In fact, it is an arrogance to think that you can do anything in yourself outside Christ.

534
00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:08,720
Jesus said clearly, you can do nothing except that which you do through Me.

535
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:12,720
In fact, at the beginning of time when God the Father created all,

536
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:17,720
or you could say the Trinity created all, nothing was created except that which was created through Him, Jesus.

537
00:52:17,720 --> 00:52:20,720
Jesus would be Lord of all creation.

538
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:25,720
You continue in Christ today because God puts you through what He puts you through to see,

539
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:28,720
and you humbled yourself and you came to Him and you said,

540
00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:32,720
okay Lord, I'm for you all that I am and you were born again and made new,

541
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:38,720
and you ought to understand that you now live by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord

542
00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:40,720
and by that means alone.

543
00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:43,720
4 says, your clothing did not wear out on you.

544
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:48,720
What a great testimony that is. They walked in the desert for 40 years and never could they have, by the way,

545
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,720
because you can't make manna into clothing. That doesn't actually work.

546
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,720
Or quail. They got quail once. You can't make quail into clothing.

547
00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:56,720
It's not big enough. It would be really a pain in the butt.

548
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,720
You could make almost anything into clothing today with certain adhesives and stuff,

549
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:03,720
but back then they just couldn't do it. There's no way to take what is it and make it into clothing.

550
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:06,720
You can make it into bread. You can make it into soup.

551
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:09,720
It's not very good soup, but you can make it into soup.

552
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:14,720
You can make it into clothing, but he made it so that their clothing did not wear out.

553
00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:18,720
Nor did your foot swell these 40 years.

554
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,720
They walked in the desert for 40 years and yet their feet didn't swell up.

555
00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:24,720
Now, if you're over about 35 years old or if you have health conditions,

556
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:27,720
you totally get what that's about, what that statement is right there, right?

557
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:30,720
Because you've had your feet swell at some point in time and you're like, oh man,

558
00:53:30,720 --> 00:53:33,720
and you took something for it or you've had pain or whatever.

559
00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:36,720
You've probably experienced it. They never had that happen to them.

560
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:40,720
So he was taking them through this process to humble them and show them who he was

561
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:44,720
and that they needed to follow him. And in that process he was providing for them all along.

562
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:48,720
That's that purposeful provision. Verse 5.

563
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:53,720
Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you

564
00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:56,720
just as a man disciplines his son.

565
00:53:56,720 --> 00:54:03,720
Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God to walk in his way and to fear him.

566
00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:07,720
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land.

567
00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:12,720
He is, present tense, bringing you, he's doing the work, into a good land.

568
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:17,720
A land of brooks, of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills.

569
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:21,720
A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates.

570
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:26,720
A land of olive oil and honey. A land where you shall eat food without scarcity,

571
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:28,720
in which you shall not lack anything.

572
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:33,720
A land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

573
00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:35,720
We'll stop there for one second.

574
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:39,720
Realize that as good as that sounds to them, they're coming out of the desert after 40 years, right?

575
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:45,720
As good as that sounds to them, if you go to Revelation and read the picture of heaven, still better.

576
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:47,720
As good as that sounds like heaven to them.

577
00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:50,720
You know that when people settled the United States of America before it was the United States,

578
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:55,720
when people settled North America, there were people in religious circles,

579
00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:58,720
I'm going to submit to you probably that didn't know Christ or they were led into heresy or whatever,

580
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:04,720
that believed that North America in all of its plenty was prophesied by these same prophecies

581
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:08,720
and that they were literally coming into essentially heaven in North America.

582
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:17,720
Unprospected, unlumbered, cut down, that hadn't happened yet, built a tall skyscraper, not polluted, right?

583
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:22,720
And basically unpopulated comparatively.

584
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:24,720
It's not going to be.

585
00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:29,720
The best that you will ever see on this earth will never compare with the worst that you would ever see in heaven.

586
00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:40,720
As a people given a powerful position, we got to know something better is coming.

587
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:46,720
And that's what he was showing them all the while, something, even though this is so good, it's so good what he's giving you.

588
00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:53,720
Verse 10 says, When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which he has given.

589
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:56,720
I submit to you, when I get to heaven, I'll be blessing God.

590
00:55:56,720 --> 00:56:01,720
Now, I submit to you that in our powerful position that we are currently in today, we should be blessing him too.

591
00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:03,720
We're already in a way better place.

592
00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:07,720
You know that you're so much better off with the Holy Spirit and you know that you're so much better off if you're saved.

593
00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:12,720
If you're not saved and you don't understand what I'm talking about, then start searching your soul right now and listen to the Lord

594
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:14,720
because he can save you and he can make it like that.

595
00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:16,720
He can make it like that here on this earth.

596
00:56:16,720 --> 00:56:20,720
But it's purposeful. You're going to a better place.

597
00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:27,720
Now, verse 11 says, Beware, lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes,

598
00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:30,720
which I am commanding you today.

599
00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:34,720
Lest when you have eaten and are satisfied and have built good houses and lived in them,

600
00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:41,720
and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and gold multiply and all that you have multiplies,

601
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:49,720
then your heart becomes proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

602
00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:53,720
Again, like we talked about this week, this is a warning about prosperity.

603
00:56:53,720 --> 00:57:00,720
When things start to go well, how dangerous and how easy is it for us to start thinking we're something that we're not or something better than we are.

604
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:06,720
A man who thinks he's better than he is, is in about the worst place a man could ever be.

605
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:10,720
Verse 15, He led you through the great and terrible wilderness.

606
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:14,720
God did that with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water.

607
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,720
He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.

608
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,720
In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know.

609
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:25,720
And He might humble you, that He might test you and do good for you in the land.

610
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,720
So he's kind of like almost repeating himself, right?

611
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:33,720
Otherwise, you may say in your heart, My power and the strength of My hand made me this wealth.

612
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:39,720
But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth,

613
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:45,720
that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers as it is this day and it shall come about.

614
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,720
If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,

615
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:56,720
I testify against you today that you shall surely perish like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you.

616
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,720
You shall perish because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

617
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,720
You hear that? That's the mathematical equation.

618
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:07,720
You've heard all the side effects. You've heard all the seemingly lasting outcomes and serious ramifications

619
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,720
for a primary people of purpose, provision, purposely placed in a powerful position.

620
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:15,720
Now go back to chapter 7. Flip your page back to the left.

621
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:20,720
When the Lord your God shall bring you into the land where you are entering to possess it

622
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:25,720
and shall clear away many nations before you, and there they are, verse 2,

623
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:30,720
and when the Lord your God shall deliver them before you and shall defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them.

624
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:34,720
You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

625
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,720
Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them.

626
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:42,720
You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters to your sons.

627
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,720
I said that backwards. You have daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters to your sons.

628
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,720
There we go. For they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods.

629
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:54,720
Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will quickly destroy you.

630
00:58:54,720 --> 00:59:00,720
But thus you shall do to them. You shall tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars,

631
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:04,720
and hew down their ashrim and burn their graven images with fire.

632
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,720
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God.

633
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:12,720
The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

634
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:17,720
The Lord did not set his love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the people.

635
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:23,720
For you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which he swore to your forefathers,

636
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:28,720
the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery,

637
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:30,720
from the hand of the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

638
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:35,720
Know therefore the Lord your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps his covenant and his loving kindness

639
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,720
to a thousand generations with those who love him and keeps his commandments.

640
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,720
But repay those who hate him to their faces to destroy them.

641
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,720
Boy, those two phrases right there really cut me to the quick.

642
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,720
Those who hate God, he repays them to their faces to destroy them.

643
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:57,720
He will not delay with him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

644
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:02,720
Therefore you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you to this day.

645
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:07,720
Then it shall come about. And he goes on with blessings.

646
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:09,720
And verse 13 says, and he will love.

647
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:11,720
And verse 14 says, you shall be blessed.

648
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,720
And verse 15 says, and the Lord will remove from you all sickness.

649
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:19,720
And verse 16 says, and you shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you.

650
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,720
Verse 17 says, if you should say in your heart these nations are greater than I,

651
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:29,720
know that how can I dispose them?

652
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:34,720
You shall not be afraid of them. You shall well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt,

653
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,720
the great trials which your eyes saw and signs and wonders.

654
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,720
Verse 20, moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet against them.

655
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,720
Verse 21, you shall not dread them.

656
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:48,720
Verse 22, and the Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little.

657
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:54,720
And you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

658
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,720
Notice that the reason they didn't wipe out all those people all at one shot,

659
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:01,720
because that will leave a lot of carcasses laying.

660
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,720
And the next thing you know, all the wild beasts of the land are prospering.

661
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,720
And the land starts to get out of control.

662
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,720
That was what it says right there, why he didn't do it, boom, just like that.

663
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:18,720
Verse 23, but the Lord your God shall deliver them before you and will throw them into a great confusion.

664
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,720
And 24, and he will deliver their kings into your hand.

665
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:27,720
And verse 25, the graven images of their God you are to burn with fire and shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them.

666
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:35,720
Verse 26, and you shall not bring an abomination into your house and like it come under the ban.

667
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:41,720
You shall utterly detest it and shall utterly abhor it for it is something banned.

668
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:46,720
In other words, the stuff that they had on them, the silver and gold and whatever that the pagan religions,

669
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:51,720
the false worshipers of false gods had on them, they weren't supposed to take that stuff.

670
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,720
Because it was under the ban. It belonged to a false religion.

671
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:57,720
They were supposed to get rid of it.

672
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:04,720
Alright, so I submit to you that chapter 8 is outlined in chapter 7 and I'm going to show you what I mean.

673
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:09,720
The first thing I want you to see is that there is a posture predicted.

674
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,720
There is a posture in these verses that is the solution.

675
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:19,720
What is the answer? What can be done about side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes, and serious ramifications for a primary people,

676
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,720
a purposeful provision, purposely placed in a powerful position?

677
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,720
Number one, a purposeful posture. A posture.

678
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,720
What does God say? You must intend. Why did he test them in the desert?

679
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:34,720
Because he wanted to see whether their heart was going to be to follow God.

680
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,720
Once he did for them what he wants, will your heart then be to follow God?

681
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,720
A purposeful posture.

682
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:47,720
I've heard it said that those who take their eyes off Jesus, when the sheep take their eyes off Jesus, they often have them on the other sheep.

683
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,720
Our eyes are supposed to be on Jesus.

684
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:57,720
As we consider him and essentially use Jesus as a mirror, what you will find is that Jesus is so much better than you,

685
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:04,720
and you humbly come to God, that Jesus might become your model, your example, that you might become a little bit more like him.

686
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:10,720
That's what the New Testament says. We become a little more like him each day, transformed a little bit more each day like Jesus.

687
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,720
Yes, you're not Jesus. Yes, you'll never be like Jesus.

688
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:17,720
Not in this lifetime. But you're going to be a little bit more, a little bit more.

689
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:25,720
At camp there was a speaker who said, Christians are not sinless, but as they grow, they mature and sin less.

690
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:30,720
And that's exactly what he's saying. It's a posture. It's a posture.

691
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:38,720
Now, if it's a posture, then when your seat is not matching your posture, you know enough to get up.

692
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:44,720
I went over to Cleveland area with Arianna and Arden was there, and I took a little video I was going to show it to you,

693
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,720
but I didn't, but it's out there on Facebook. I put it on there. It's a little reel. It's like eight seconds long.

694
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:54,720
And I sat in this chair. It's a really cool chair. It looked kind of like, I was shaped like an hourglass.

695
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:58,720
It was wide on the bottom. Wide where you sit. You sit in it like a funnel on top. You sit in it.

696
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:04,720
When you sit in the chair with very little movement either way, you spin around in a circle.

697
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:09,720
You wouldn't fall over. It's heavy on the bottom. The weevil wobbles. Wobble, but they don't fall down. Remember that?

698
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,720
Well, you sit in it and you would spin around in a circle. So I took a picture of myself spinning around in a circle.

699
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,720
Now, I tell you what, I love that chair. It's a really neat chair. Right?

700
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:22,720
I could sit in there and I could spin. In just a few seconds I would get a picture of the whole ball around me.

701
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,720
It's in the middle of the ball. The whole ball around me. I could see it. And I'm like, oh, it's really cool.

702
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:30,720
And it supported my lower back. So my back wasn't sore. So it seemed like my posture was pretty good.

703
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,720
But then it occurred to me, like, you know, when do I normally sit in a chair? Well, I sit in a chair when I read a book.

704
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,720
That's hard for you to read a book while I'm spinning in a circle. I sit in a chair when I want to watch TV.

705
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:43,720
It's hard for me to watch TV because at 280 degrees of that I'm not even going to be able to see the TV.

706
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:46,720
I'm going to be looking at the world. What if I want to sit in a chair and look out a window?

707
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,720
If I sit in a chair and look out a window, as soon as the chair spins, right?

708
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:53,720
And it was easy enough for me to sit in a chair. My back wasn't hurting.

709
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:58,720
My back wasn't easy. What's for me to not spin any little movement right or left?

710
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:03,720
I would start to spin. Now, if I wanted to not spin, I basically had two choices.

711
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:10,720
I could bail out, fall out of the chair, or I could strain really hard to go back against the chair.

712
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:15,720
I throw my weight, my core. And I don't have much of a core. I kind of like a bulging one pack.

713
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:20,720
But anyway, I spit it back as hard as I could to try to stay. And then guess what happened?

714
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:25,720
At best, it would go the other way. But most of the time, it just didn't stop.

715
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:29,720
And I would go like halfway around. And then guess what? Now I'm halfway around.

716
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,720
I can't see anything that I'm looking at. I'm completely facing the other way.

717
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:40,720
I submit to you that for some reason, in our day, people who say they claim the name of the Lord Jesus as Lord are living this way.

718
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:45,720
They are sitting where sitting is not comfortable. They are sitting where sitting leads to drifting.

719
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:48,720
Leads to looking away from what you're supposed to be looking at.

720
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:53,720
They are putting themselves in positions, maybe it's because they have jobs, or they're home in a certain condition,

721
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,720
or they manage their finances a certain way, or whatever.

722
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:01,720
They're putting themselves in a position as if they have dismissed the posture that God has called them to,

723
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,720
which is a posture of focus on Jesus Christ.

724
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:09,720
You're reading books. The greatest book of all time is the Bible, Genesis through Revelation.

725
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:14,720
Read that one. You're watching TV. Get on Right Now Media and watch Bible studies, etc.

726
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:20,720
I like movies. I like popular fiction. I like a variety of things. But this is what has convicted me.

727
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:25,720
Those things do not inherently put you in the posture to follow God.

728
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:30,720
Now if you're already in a posture to follow God and you watch a movie, then in the movie you're going to be thinking of that movie.

729
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:35,720
Listen, here's the truth. If you can watch a two hour movie and not think about God during that two hour movie,

730
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:40,720
then you shouldn't have watched it. That's the reality. Because that thing is a spinny chair.

731
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:44,720
It's making you think about money. It's thinking about fighting. It's thinking about fun. It's thinking about humor.

732
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:48,720
It's funny. It lifts me up. I'm laughing. Whatever. All these things.

733
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,720
But what am I not doing? I'm not doing the single thing that I am called to do.

734
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:59,720
The single thing that is the answer to side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes, and serious ramifications.

735
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:08,720
I am not doing the one thing that I must do, which is maintain a posture of faithfulness, of following, of knowing the Lord.

736
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:13,720
As we talked about last week, of studying His Word, intaking it, and putting it back out again.

737
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:19,720
How are you going to do that when you indulge yourself in a multi-hour pastime that has nothing to do with God?

738
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:25,720
On the other hand, if you are in a posture, then every pastime you come to, if you're focused on Jesus,

739
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:30,720
then every pastime you come to should be able to be made about God.

740
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:35,720
I said Mitch, you probably can't make rated R movies about God. You probably can't do it.

741
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:42,720
Because there is gruesome violence, there is horrifying summoning of evil spirits, there is sex and nudity,

742
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,720
seeing people that are not your spouse, etc. You probably can't do it.

743
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,720
But if you can somehow manage to do that, more power to you.

744
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:53,720
But I submit to you, it's a nudge to spin the chair. That's what it is. At best, it's a nudge to spin the chair.

745
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:56,720
So what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to be legalistic?

746
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:00,720
Am I supposed to make all these rules about how do I maintain the posture?

747
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,720
I submit to you that if you have to make rules to maintain the posture,

748
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:10,720
if you have to see the Bible as rules to help you maintain the posture, then you already do not have the posture.

749
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:14,720
Do you love God or not?

750
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:19,720
The posture is the solution for side effects. What were they told to do?

751
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:23,720
They were told that the worship of the idols, they couldn't have anything to do with that.

752
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:29,720
They were told that they couldn't give their children into the hands of idol worshipers

753
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,720
and marry them off to people who don't follow God, don't have that same position.

754
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:39,720
They were told that they were to be focused on the Lord and to remember that all good things that they received,

755
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:44,720
every paycheck, and they didn't have paychecks, but every lamb that was born, every grape that came off the vine,

756
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:50,720
all of it came from the Lord. Humbly accept that all that you have and all that you are, that's the posture.

757
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:59,720
It's the posture of a people, a primary people, a purposeful provision, purposely placed in a powerful position.

758
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:03,720
But here's what actually happens. What actually happens is God has brought me through to this point,

759
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,720
but now, like a deist, I start thinking, well, now I'm kind of on my own.

760
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:12,720
Now I've got to make the right decisions. I've got to choose not to lie, or I've got to choose it.

761
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:16,720
And that's why none of that really matters. We are now not under the law, but under grace.

762
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:21,720
If you get the right posture and you're focused on God, you will find yourself, without even noticing,

763
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:26,720
without even realizing, without even steering yourself, listen, you will find yourself every time you take a step

764
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:31,720
and you will be dancing in the direction of Jesus. But if your posture is not that,

765
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:37,720
then every time you take a step, you will automatically be moving the wrong way.

766
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:42,720
Now, if Jesus is this way and I move this way, have I moved closer to Jesus? Yes, but fractionally.

767
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:46,720
Way less than if Jesus is this way and I'm stepping this way.

768
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:52,720
But ultimately, if Jesus is this way and I'm facing this way, after enough steps, what will begin to happen?

769
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:58,720
I will be moving away from Jesus. I will be on a course that takes me away from Him rather than toward Him.

770
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:03,720
Set your posture. Another word that I could have used here, but I like the posture word because of the P.

771
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:10,720
Another word that I could have used here is velocity. You know what velocity is? It's speed, right?

772
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:15,720
What? And direction. Velocity is speed and direction.

773
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:21,720
There are a lot of Christians in the world that are moving very rapidly, but their direction is not set by their posture.

774
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:24,720
It's not set by facing Jesus. You're moving.

775
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:31,720
All you do if you move very rapidly without making Jesus the center of your life is to get to the point at which you will move away from Him that much quicker.

776
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:35,720
That's all you do. You see these young Christians come on board, they're all fired up about Jesus,

777
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:40,720
and now they go out and they start preaching to their friends that they have to stop lying and stop stealing, preaching the Word to their friends,

778
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,720
and thinking they're doing a good thing. We study the Word, we take the Word, we put it out again.

779
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:47,720
First, you've got to learn that all of that was about being drawn to Jesus.

780
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:55,720
And if you come to Jesus, then don't go preach the Ten Commandments to your friends, but go ask them to come to Jesus.

781
01:10:55,720 --> 01:11:00,720
And when they say to you, well, why would you? Why would anybody ever come to Jesus? Why do I need that?

782
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:05,720
I get a paycheck, I have a house, yes, I have a mortgage, yes, I have some struggles, but everybody has struggles, right?

783
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:12,720
Everybody has suffering, right? And you can explain to them that the path through this life literally is Jesus.

784
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:15,720
I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

785
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:21,720
The path through this life is being focused on Jesus, and you will arrive at the throne of judgment,

786
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:30,720
prejudged as innocent if he is your way, and prejudged as guilty if he is not.

787
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:34,720
That's what we need to be explaining to people who don't know Jesus.

788
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:40,720
Yes, abortion is wrong, but is that our message? No.

789
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:47,720
Yes, murder is wrong, lying is wrong, stealing is wrong, it's all wrong, but is that our message? No.

790
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:53,720
If you ask a lost person to stop doing what's wrong, at best they're going to switch to another sin.

791
01:11:53,720 --> 01:12:00,720
But ask them to come to Jesus, and let him work in their heart, let him be the judge.

792
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:05,720
You say, but I can't even talk to them because they're so spiteful, so hateful, or mean.

793
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:08,720
Great commission doesn't allow that statement.

794
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:12,720
It says you go and talk to them, and then if they get mad at me, then you'll be persecuted,

795
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,720
and in persecution you'll be rewarded.

796
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:22,720
Posture. Posture is the primary solution to dealing with these side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes,

797
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:26,720
and serious ramifications, and then it comes down to faithfulness.

798
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:28,720
It comes down to faithfulness. Will you continue?

799
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,720
I submit to you that there is one, and we read it last week when we read from Revelation 21,

800
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:40,720
there is exactly one, one, one criteria by which people will be judged on the judgment day.

801
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,720
It is faithfulness.

802
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,720
Now you might translate faithfulness as steadfast love.

803
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:48,720
Scripture does that a little bit.

804
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,720
In other words, will you do what you're supposed to do?

805
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:52,720
Will you be who God made you to be now that you've been saved?

806
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,720
Will you remain faithful?

807
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:58,720
Jesus said, but will the Son of Man find faithfulness on the earth when he comes again?

808
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:00,720
Be found faithful.

809
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,720
So it's posture and then faithfulness to your posture.

810
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:05,720
When I was in third grade, my teacher told me, she said,

811
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:09,720
you know, if you don't sit up, if you don't sit up, you slouch your whole life,

812
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,720
then when you get older, you're going to have a hard time sitting up.

813
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,720
And I didn't listen to her, and I continued to slouch,

814
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:18,720
and to this day, I have a hard time sitting up.

815
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:24,720
Not being able to sit up, but remaining sitting up for hours at a time is not really in my skill set.

816
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:29,720
If you watch me, if I'm not actively involved in something that's going on, I'll be slouching,

817
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:35,720
because I didn't listen to her, I didn't take a good posture then, and now I'm not really able.

818
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:37,720
Faithfulness works like that.

819
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,720
Right now, you're in the church, in the church building.

820
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,720
Right now, you're in the church with a gathered people of believers.

821
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:45,720
Right now, you're strong.

822
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,720
Right now, you're getting it from the Word.

823
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:52,720
If right now, you cannot focus on Jesus, if right now, you cannot make this moment about Jesus

824
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,720
and learning and growing and changing who you are, accepting your heart be changed by the Lord,

825
01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:01,720
not by me, not even by this Word, but by Jesus himself, if right now, you can't do it,

826
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:04,720
I submit to you that you're not going to do it out there either.

827
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,720
You're not going to do it on a day that's hard to get up, or a day that's falling short on money,

828
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:09,720
or a day that's relation difficult.

829
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:14,720
If you cannot make your focus about God and completely about God and put out everything else,

830
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:20,720
every other thought, every other question, every other distraction, during these times,

831
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:23,720
later, you will not have the strength to do it.

832
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,720
Because you'll go, well, I've got to do something about this right now.

833
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:28,720
And then you'll do it.

834
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:32,720
Stepping off the highway of holiness, stepping off the path that literally is Jesus,

835
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:36,720
stepping off the posture that you were given at the moment you were reborn.

836
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:37,720
Faithfulness.

837
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:45,720
If they would not be found faithful, they would be subject to the punishments of the Lord.

838
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,720
And I submit to you that there are Christians all over the world today,

839
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,720
some of us probably in this room, who have been subject to the punishments of the Lord

840
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,720
because we would not be found faithful after discovering that we were a primary people

841
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:00,720
of purposeful provision, purposely placed in a powerful position,

842
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:05,720
we nonetheless could not be found faithful.

843
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:07,720
Ouch.

844
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,720
That hurts.

845
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:20,720
Words more true have never been spoken about the church in our day.

846
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:24,720
It is time now that we repent and turn to the Lord

847
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:28,720
and be found walking in the faithfulness that he provides.

848
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,720
Steadfast love.

849
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:33,720
Remember last week the marriage between us and God,

850
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:38,720
and even as it talked about the covenant between them and God in chapter 8 that I read to you,

851
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,720
he says, at the end of chapter 8, he said,

852
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,720
And it shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God,

853
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,720
and go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them.

854
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:51,720
I testify against you today that you shall surely perish,

855
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:55,720
like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you,

856
01:15:55,720 --> 01:16:00,720
so shall you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

857
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,720
God called you out of the darkness when you couldn't see.

858
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,720
Now you can see you're going to walk away from the light.

859
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:11,720
God called you out of pain and suffering when you couldn't identify as something worthwhile,

860
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,720
and now you're going to walk away from that?

861
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:18,720
Repent and turn to God. Put your focus where it belongs.

862
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,720
Set your posture correctly.

863
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:23,720
And practice a steadfast love.

864
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:30,720
That's the solution for the side effects, the seemingly lasting outcomes, and serious ramifications.

865
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:37,720
It is a posture focused on, in our case, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

866
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:45,720
And that posture must continue in a steadfast love or faithfulness, and it must not die or wane.

867
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,720
There will come a moment in time in your life, even if it's your death,

868
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:56,720
there will come a moment in time in your life where you're going to have to choose that posture over everything else.

869
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,720
At the beginning when you became saved, and if you've never done it, then you've never been saved.

870
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:04,720
At the beginning when you became saved, you had to say, Jesus over everything else.

871
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:06,720
That's what it means to get saved.

872
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:10,720
I accept that he is Lord and Savior, and that God raised him from the dead.

873
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:17,720
I humbly come before the God of heaven to say, okay, Lord, I see I have sin, I see that sin would distance me from you forever,

874
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:22,720
and I accept Jesus as Lord. That means he tells me what to do, and Savior, that means he paid the price for my sins,

875
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:26,720
and I will now be born again. All old things pass away, everything become new.

876
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,720
What does it mean when everything become new?

877
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:33,720
It means that everything you now see, you see in the posture of focusing on Jesus.

878
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:36,720
Steadfast love, that you pledge nothing less.

879
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,720
And there will yet come a time in your life where you have to choose.

880
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:46,720
It might happen daily, where you choose over what you're watching, listening to, who you're spending time with, etc.

881
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:51,720
And you may have to choose Jesus over everything that the world holds dear.

882
01:17:51,720 --> 01:18:02,720
If Jesus comes again, before we die, that moment, you'll have to give up seeing younger members of your family

883
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:09,720
graduate from high school, you'll have to give up holding grandchildren, or nieces and nephews,

884
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:16,720
you'll have to give up what might be the best game you'll ever play, or drink you'll ever have, or food you'll ever eat,

885
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:19,720
you'll be giving all of that up.

886
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:24,720
You say, well, I know I'll do it, because it'll mean going to heaven, where it'll all be better.

887
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:30,720
I submit to you, if in the moment Jesus calls you to come, you come, because it'll be better in heaven, you won't go.

888
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:38,720
I submit to you that if you come, if in the moment Jesus calls you, you come, because it hadn't been that great here on earth, you won't go.

889
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:49,720
You have to go in that moment out of a steadfast love for Jesus Christ, which means Jesus may come in a duck suit,

890
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:57,720
He may come at the same time as a thunder strike, He may come at the same time as your favorite football game,

891
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:03,720
He may come when your grandson, your child, your friend, or whatever, is literally making the run of their life,

892
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:12,720
and you're the one manning the camcorder, He may come at the moment at which you've just won a free car,

893
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:17,720
$50,000 free car, $100,000 free car, and all you have to do is go there and claim it.

894
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:23,720
I know for a fact, this is true, I'm winning this car, $100,000, and I'm on the way to claim it, and Jesus comes again,

895
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:28,720
and you're going to have to say, but my free car, and the moment you say, but my free car, the moment you say, but my memory,

896
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:34,720
the moment you say, but my cash, the moment you say, but my friends, the moment you say, but my experiences, whatever it is,

897
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:41,720
if you in that moment and say, okay Jesus, I'll come, I'll do it, reluctantly, I'll turn my back on all of this, you won't go.

898
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:49,720
You have to learn to live a life of steadfast love, facing Jesus and Jesus alone, even so much so,

899
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:56,720
that it's Jesus over your wife, or Jesus over your husband, or Jesus over your parents, or Jesus over your children,

900
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:02,720
or Jesus over your finances, and until that posture is set, there's a substantial possibility at any given moment,

901
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,720
if He came, that you would make the wrong choice, and if there is a substantial possibility that any moment you came,

902
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:11,720
I submit to you, He tested you, He humbled you to know whether in that moment you would make the right choice,

903
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:17,720
and if there is a substantial possibility remaining that you will make the right choice, then I submit to you.

904
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:31,720
You may not be saved, and 99.9% saved would still be 100% lost, but there is clearly a third thing here in the text that we read.

905
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:38,720
There's clearly a third thing that they must do, because they're not only responsible for their posture,

906
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:43,720
and their steadfast love and faithfulness, but see to it in these verses that they are responsible,

907
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:50,720
it's mostly in 7, that they are responsible for the steadfast love and faithfulness of the next generation.

908
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:52,720
They're like, oh, whoa, what?

909
01:20:52,720 --> 01:21:00,720
Now you can't marry your children to the idol-worshipping women or men.

910
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:04,720
You can't allow the idol-worshippers to continue in your midst.

911
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:09,720
You have to rear up, you have to become a pillar of truth, or in their case, they had to burn them down.

912
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,720
They had to break them down. They had to kill them off.

913
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,720
Now, we are not a people who kills human beings for differences in beliefs.

914
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:19,720
We are not a people that goes down to Perrysburg and tears down the mosque, right?

915
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:21,720
It's nothing like that anymore.

916
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:28,720
But understand that the same conflict, the same struggle remains, and so we must not relinquish our children.

917
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:29,720
We must not.

918
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:38,720
You should not submit your child into the care of a football coach who will make them a star, but isn't a follower of the Lord.

919
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:43,720
Because if they become a professional football player and go to hell, that's on you.

920
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:52,720
In fact, it's on you so much that God Himself says, you will not have remained steadfast and faithful if you do so.

921
01:21:52,720 --> 01:22:02,720
You cannot turn your child over into the care of the public school system and allow them to be required to behave a certain way that is ungodly.

922
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,720
You must stand up for what is right.

923
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:11,720
You must pull your child back, put your child in Sunday school, have your child serve in the church, have your child.

924
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:19,720
So I have now had Alicia, Amalia, and Aaron, and Arden is a senior now, and they're all going to graduate from high school.

925
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:23,720
Arden's already got all of his credits. He's guaranteed to graduate, guaranteed.

926
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:27,720
So I have effectively graduated four children from high school.

927
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:36,720
And I have had dozens, probably close to a hundred conversations with coaches and teachers and parent sponsors and whatever,

928
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:42,720
about how my child, we do parent-teacher conferences every year, and I go to every parent-teacher conference if I possibly can.

929
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,720
And if I don't, I make sure my wife has an agenda of what to speak about.

930
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:54,720
And we have told every teacher that we are missionaries for the Lord Jesus, that we first and foremost serve God, that we first and foremost,

931
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:59,720
we will not, when Amalia was a cheerleader, they wanted her to come to practices every Tuesday night.

932
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:03,720
And we went to the coach and said, she can't do that. We have church every Tuesday night.

933
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:08,720
To the point that the last year she was a cheerleader, she had to take demerit after demerit from her coach, right?

934
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:12,720
Because she could only come to certain Tuesday night practices.

935
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:16,720
Very limited, just enough, just enough to be honoring her commitment to the squad.

936
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:20,720
But so many were missed because she had to honor her commitment to Jesus first.

937
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:25,720
Did you understand, Amalia, when we did that, that we were setting a posture about following God, that that's what that was about?

938
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:29,720
It was not about being a rebel. It was not about wanting to break the rules.

939
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:33,720
It was not about us wanting to be in control over our kids.

940
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:38,720
It was about us setting a posture for the next generation.

941
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:43,720
And as Amalia came up, she became a Tyler before she got to be 18.

942
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:48,720
When they got married, Ricky carried her into the trailer that they moved in together for the first time.

943
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:52,720
Did you carry her in, Ricky? You owe her one.

944
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:55,720
Did you have one over the way?

945
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:58,720
Yep, he owes you one. And he's been working out, so he's ready.

946
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:01,720
The point is this, okay?

947
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:04,720
Oh, it fell. There was nothing there.

948
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,720
You're the one that renovated the trailer. If there was no way to carry her in, that's still your fault.

949
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:10,720
Oh.

950
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,720
Anyway, the point is this, alright?

951
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:16,720
You set that standard for your children of what's godly.

952
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:21,720
When your child does something that's not godly, that is the first and foremost reason to discipline them.

953
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:23,720
Look at your house. What condition is it?

954
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:28,720
Is it in a condition where your child can grow up there in a godly way?

955
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:32,720
Be careful about submitting them to a coach or a mentor or someone else who will lead them.

956
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:37,720
Listen, there is a lot of self-help language in the world, and a lot of it helps self.

957
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:42,720
You hear me? There is a lot of self-help language in the world, and a lot of it helps self.

958
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:47,720
When we came up, they came up into junior high, and they all went into the gifted class.

959
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:49,720
Praise God. Not me, but praise God.

960
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:53,720
Okay? They went into the gifted class, and we met with the gifted teacher and said,

961
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:58,720
Yes, they're gifted, but more importantly, they're saved. They belong to Jesus.

962
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:01,720
So if you have a problem with that, or there's going to be a problem with the teaching in here,

963
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:05,720
you're going to teach them how to be good without Jesus, then it's done.

964
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:07,720
We're not going there. We'll teach them how to be gifted.

965
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:13,720
I met with the principal of the high school after a band concert in the area in front of the auditorium.

966
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:15,720
What do they call that? Like the lobby, I guess, out front, right?

967
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,720
And he said, You know, we're going through some changes in the school district, and blah, blah, blah.

968
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:22,720
And he said, I know this is going to really affect your kids.

969
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,720
And I was walking away. He said, I know this is really going to affect your kids.

970
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:27,720
And I turned right around, and I walked back up to him, and I said,

971
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:29,720
What do you mean it's really going to affect my kids?

972
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,720
He said, Well, you might feel like it's going to be harder for your kids to be educated,

973
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:35,720
or harder for your kids to succeed in school.

974
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,720
I said, I'm going to stop you right there.

975
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:45,720
Whatever school my kids go to, whatever teachers my kids have, this much I know, they will succeed.

976
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:49,720
You know how I know that? Because you don't own my kids, and the teachers don't own my kids,

977
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:52,720
and the school systems don't own my kids, and I don't even own my kids.

978
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:56,720
Jesus owns my kids. They're going to be fine.

979
01:25:56,720 --> 01:26:01,720
Now that being said, if I think that the direction that your school system is going is ungodly,

980
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:06,720
I will home school my kids, or I will charter school my kids, or I will take them out of the school system,

981
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:10,720
and I will make sure they are educated in a godly way, because that is my responsibility as a parent.

982
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:14,720
Now I didn't say it to him, like I just said it to you, but I said almost the exact same words.

983
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,720
I'm speaking louder because I don't have a microphone, and in that day I didn't need it,

984
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:20,720
because him and I were like three feet apart.

985
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,720
And he looked at me and he goes, You know what, and how are your kids doing in school?

986
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:26,720
Which I thought was hilarious, because it's the principal of three of my students.

987
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:27,720
And he goes, How are your kids doing in school?

988
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:30,720
And I thought that was kind of funny that he didn't know, right, how my kids were doing.

989
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:34,720
And I said, Oh, they're all getting straight A's and occasional B.

990
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:37,720
And he goes, Okay, they probably will be okay then.

991
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:43,720
To which I said, The grades don't mean they're going to be okay, it's to whom they belong.

992
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:49,720
These people were being told that the solution to side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes,

993
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:53,720
and serious ramifications for a primary people of purposeful provision,

994
01:26:53,720 --> 01:26:59,720
purposely placed in a powerful position, is to own the next generation and then to turn them over to God.

995
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,720
That's what's not been happening in our country.

996
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:07,720
We cancelled our subscription to a primary streaming service,

997
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:10,720
and we promised ourselves that we'll never go to their amusement parks again,

998
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:16,720
because their agenda is clearly LGBTQ positive anti-Christian.

999
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:21,720
And if you won't do that, if you won't own that, if you won't take those steps to cut out of your lives

1000
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,720
the things that are going to adversely affect the next generation,

1001
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:28,720
then how can you claim to have steadfast love for the one who claims your posture

1002
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:32,720
and will literally be a light unto your feet and a lamp, got it backwards,

1003
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:36,720
a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path from here into heaven?

1004
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:38,720
To whom do you belong?

1005
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:42,720
And therefore, if it's within your power, to whom must the next generation belong?

1006
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:47,720
And if you are not exercising the power that God has given you to guarantee that the next generation will belong,

1007
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:52,720
if you have relinquished the control of your children into the hands of somebody else,

1008
01:27:52,720 --> 01:28:02,720
without putting up a fight, then you have lost not only yourself, not only them, but yourself as well.

1009
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:07,720
Now what's interesting is this story, and I'm in my conclusion now, this story actually plays itself out,

1010
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:16,720
this exact story plays itself out, before Moses could talk, before he could walk,

1011
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:20,720
most likely before he could crawl.

1012
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:27,720
When Moses was born to an Israelite woman living in Egypt,

1013
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:34,720
they were living in a time when they were required to throw their male-born children into the Nile River.

1014
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:39,720
See, Pharaoh had looked at the Israelites who was living in his midst and he had said,

1015
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:46,720
well here's the problem, if these people are allowed to persist, soon there will be more Israelites

1016
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,720
and in, I will say, much better physical condition because they were doing physical labor all the time,

1017
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:54,720
there will be more Israelites than there will be Egyptians.

1018
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:59,720
And he got worried about that and he said, so what we're going to do is whenever a male child is born,

1019
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:01,720
they're going to be thrown into the Nile and destroyed.

1020
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:06,720
That will definitely stop because, you know, if they get to have a lot of women, that's just a lot more women, right?

1021
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:10,720
But if they get to have a lot of men, now those are warrior types, not that the women couldn't fight,

1022
01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,720
but that was the day they were living in.

1023
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:19,720
So Moses' mother was supposed to throw him into the Nile.

1024
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:23,720
And I submit to you, there were a lot of Israelite women that threw their babies into the Nile.

1025
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:26,720
And not only that, there were a couple of midwives that were defying Pharaoh.

1026
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:33,720
They would go and they would help the babies be born and if they were baby boys,

1027
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:39,720
if the woman wanted to, if they wanted to take the risk, they would help hide them.

1028
01:29:39,720 --> 01:29:42,720
And then Pharaoh said to the midwives, what the heck are you doing?

1029
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:45,720
How are they not having all their babies thrown into the Nile?

1030
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:50,720
Some of them are escaping or whatever, at least for a while until the guards found them, that kind of thing.

1031
01:29:50,720 --> 01:29:54,720
And the midwives said, well, you know, the Israelite women are very hardy and they have their babies before we get there.

1032
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:58,720
And that was a lie. They lied to Pharaoh because they were actually helping deliver the babies

1033
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,720
and then letting them survive at least briefly.

1034
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:05,720
But Moses' mother had a child and she looked at her child.

1035
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:08,720
She was a Levite, by the way. That means she could have been a priest of God

1036
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,720
or at least a descendant of a priest, because the priests were all male.

1037
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,720
But her husband also was a Levite and it says this, it says in Exodus chapter 2,

1038
01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:20,720
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi and the woman conceived and bore a son.

1039
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:25,720
And when she saw that he was beautiful, and I submit to you all babies are beautiful,

1040
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:28,720
but something more is implied there. She could see purpose in him.

1041
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:30,720
She could see something significant in him.

1042
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,720
In any case, when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

1043
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:40,720
But when she could hide him no longer, okay, so here comes a moment in time at which this baby,

1044
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:43,720
he's three months old. Now it ought to be a lot older than that, I submit to you.

1045
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:45,720
It ought to be adulthood. It ought to be beyond adulthood.

1046
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:49,720
It probably ought to be after they have their own children or way down the road, right?

1047
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:52,720
But in his case, it was three months and his mother could protect him no more.

1048
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:56,720
She couldn't hide him from the wrath of Pharaoh, from the guards finding out that he was a boy,

1049
01:30:56,720 --> 01:31:00,720
that he had been born, that kind of thing, any longer.

1050
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,720
It says, and I'll go back to beginning of verse 3,

1051
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:06,720
But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a wicker basket

1052
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:08,720
and she covered it over with tar and pitch.

1053
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:14,720
And then she put the child into it and she set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

1054
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,720
And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

1055
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:21,720
Now probably, you know what the likely outcome is, right?

1056
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,720
Probably he gets eaten by a crocodile.

1057
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:28,720
Now that's not the kind of thing I want to see, but this is her little brother.

1058
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:31,720
She's broken probably over what's happening.

1059
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:33,720
She may have had tears in her face, whatever.

1060
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:38,720
She's lurking nearby hoping maybe for a better outcome.

1061
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:41,720
In some cases, there is no better outcome.

1062
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:48,720
But in this case, in this man's case, a man with a purposeful provision,

1063
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:53,720
a man purposely placed in a powerful position,

1064
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:59,720
there was an alternative to the side effects, an alternative to the seemingly lasting outcomes,

1065
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:02,720
an alternative to the serious ramifications.

1066
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:06,720
The alternative was his mother put him in a wicker basket

1067
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:11,720
and she coated it with tar and pitch so that it would float for quite a long time.

1068
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:14,720
Then she put the child in it and she set it out among the reeds.

1069
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:18,720
In other words, she trusted that child to God's care.

1070
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:20,720
She said, well, I could just throw it, just drown, right?

1071
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:23,720
And then at least when it's eaten by the crocodiles, it won't feel nothing.

1072
01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:27,720
Drowning is a horrible way to go, but it's not as bad as being bitten apart by a crocodile.

1073
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:29,720
She could have done that.

1074
01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:31,720
Instead, she built a basket.

1075
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:33,720
She covered it with pitch and tar.

1076
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:34,720
She set it afloat.

1077
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:40,720
And then did she send her daughter or did her daughter just go because her mother had taught her what to do?

1078
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:45,720
In any case, the daughter goes and she watches to see what will happen.

1079
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:54,720
And as she stood at a distance and watched, she saw Pharaoh's daughter come down to bathe at the Nile

1080
01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:56,720
with her maidens walking alongside the Nile.

1081
01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:58,720
And she saw the basket among the reeds.

1082
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:01,720
So Pharaoh's daughter saw the basket and sent her maid.

1083
01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:03,720
And she brought the basket to her.

1084
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:06,720
When she opened it, she saw the child and behold, the boy was crying.

1085
01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:10,720
And she had pity on him and said, this is one of the Hebrew's children.

1086
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:12,720
So she knew.

1087
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:20,720
And then it says, then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?

1088
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,720
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go ahead.

1089
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:26,720
So the girl went and called the child's mother.

1090
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:30,720
And so Moses was raised by Moses' mother.

1091
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:34,720
Moses sucked from the breast of Moses' mother.

1092
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:36,720
Here's one thing I'll tell you.

1093
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:39,720
You're supposed to own the next generation.

1094
01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:46,720
You're supposed to prepare them and don't submit them into the teachings of the world unless there's nothing left that you can do.

1095
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:51,720
And when the time comes that there's nothing left that you can do,

1096
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:56,720
then you seal them up the best you can.

1097
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:59,720
You set them free into God's loving care.

1098
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:02,720
And you say, Lord, I'm trusting you.

1099
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:06,720
And you do whatever you possibly can.

1100
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:17,720
And then the God of heaven, who is big enough to handle side effects, seemingly lasting outcomes and serious ramifications, will show up.

1101
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:28,720
And he'll make them a primary people, a purposeful provision, purposely placed in a powerful position just like you.

1102
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:36,720
But if you won't be steadfastly faithful, then don't expect the next generation to do it either.

1103
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:41,720
You will be relinquishing them into the hands of the enemy, nothing less.

1104
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:48,720
If you will not be steadfastly faithful to God, you are consigning the next generation to hell forever.

1105
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:51,720
Now, Jesus may take back your consignment.

1106
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:52,720
He may overcome it.

1107
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:57,720
He may say, no, here is someone that I think will come to me.

1108
01:34:57,720 --> 01:34:58,720
I call them to me.

1109
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:00,720
He will call them out of their humility.

1110
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:02,720
He will test them to see whether they will follow his commands.

1111
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:04,720
He will see who they are.

1112
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:05,720
And then he will make them born again.

1113
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:10,720
And only you will go to hell and they will go to heaven.

1114
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:24,720
There are three steps in these scriptures that are given to us to deal with the fact that there are side effects and seemingly lasting outcomes and serious ramifications for our people like us.

1115
01:35:24,720 --> 01:35:27,720
And they are this.

1116
01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:31,720
Posture yourself to follow Jesus and Jesus alone.

1117
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:36,720
Remain steadfastly faithful to the Lord no matter what happens.

1118
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:48,720
And then do everything in your power to ensure that the next generation is protected from drifting into the clutches of a very well prepared enemy.

1119
01:35:48,720 --> 01:35:50,720
Ultimately, you can't do it for them.

1120
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:53,720
And when that time comes, you're going to have to let them go.

1121
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:56,720
They're going to have to make their own choice.

1122
01:35:56,720 --> 01:36:00,720
There are no grandchildren of God, only children of God.

1123
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:05,720
But if you don't prepare them to make that choice, if you don't prepare them for God's provision, if you don't take the steps,

1124
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:11,720
then both they and you will be consigned to distance from God for an eternity.

1125
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:15,720
Because don't claim to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1126
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:19,720
And then say to your children, well, they can follow whoever they want.

1127
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,720
Now you can't brainwash them. Ultimately, you will have to turn them over to God.

1128
01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:31,720
But as for me and my house, if it's up to me anyway, we will follow the Lord.

1129
01:36:31,720 --> 01:36:33,720
And that's what we're called to.

1130
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:36,720
And that's how you'll deal with the side effects.

1131
01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:39,720
And that's how you'll deal with the seemingly lasting outcomes.

1132
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:42,720
And that's how you'll deal with the serious ramifications.

1133
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:46,720
At least if you know what's good for you.

1134
01:36:46,720 --> 01:36:50,720
We're going to have the praise team come forward at this time and lead us in a closing hymn.

1135
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:52,720
It's a hymn of decision.

1136
01:36:52,720 --> 01:36:58,720
And I would ask you today, if the Lord has convicted you, if you realize that you have not behaved and said that good thing before Him,

1137
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:07,720
if you have not set a posture, put your heart on Jesus, focus on Jesus, not following in Him alone.

1138
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:11,720
And then repent right now and say, okay, God, make me good, make me able.

1139
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:14,720
And say, well, I know I'm saved, but I've not been doing it anywhere.

1140
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:16,720
He's still able.

1141
01:37:16,720 --> 01:37:25,720
So if you're here today and you say, I know I have not done my part to guide the next generation of believers,

1142
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:31,720
the next generation of my household, the next generation of my family, your uncle or cousin or brother or sister,

1143
01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:37,720
if you have not done your part, you need to repent because you're responsible.

1144
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:39,720
And call on Him.

1145
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,720
And turn to the Lord.

1146
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:46,720
And He will forgive and set that path anew straight again.

1147
01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:51,720
If the Lord has convicted you of something else, maybe you have some sin, you know you've been delving into the real.

1148
01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:55,720
You've been set back way too long. Or maybe you've been called to do something.

1149
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:58,720
You know what it is you've been called to do, and you've not been doing it.

1150
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:01,720
Well, that's not set back way from the sit down period of time.

1151
01:38:01,720 --> 01:38:05,720
You repent today and say, okay, Lord, I'll do what is called to do.

1152
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:07,720
Maybe you need to do church home.

1153
01:38:07,720 --> 01:38:11,720
Maybe you need to do backpolls, because the Lord Jesus was commanded and demonstrated to us.

1154
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:15,720
Maybe there's something that I am not able to listen to, the Lord has given me the heart.

1155
01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:17,720
And as you sing this song, you respond.

1156
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:20,720
If you're online joining us today and you're responding, please play something in the comments.

1157
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:23,720
Or reach out to me, my number is on our website.

1158
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:28,720
If you're listening by podcast, a little later, sing that.

1159
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:33,720
Let your heart be addressed in this moment.

1160
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:38,720
You're the one who really can set your path for eternity.

1161
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:40,720
Would you stand with me then and sing this song?

1162
01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:42,720
We will praise Him nonetheless.

1163
01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:50,720
And the Lord has given me your time, however easy it may be.

1164
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:58,720
All to Jesus I surrender all.

1165
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:03,720
To Him I pray.

1166
01:39:03,720 --> 01:39:11,720
I will have the world and trust in Him.

1167
01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:16,720
His presence to me more.

1168
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:23,720
I surrender all.

1169
01:39:23,720 --> 01:39:42,720
I surrender all.