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This song goes by forever!

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And oh, happy day, happy day, wash my tears away

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Oh, happy day, happy day, I'll never be the same

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Oh, for I am changed

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When friends suddenly pass through me, you face your friends like your disturbing background

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I'll never be the same

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Forever I am the same

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Oh, what a glorious day

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What a glorious day

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That you have saved me and I

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What a glorious day

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What a glorious day

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And oh, happy day, happy day

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Watch my sin away

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Oh, happy day, happy day

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I'll never be the same

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Oh, happy day, happy day

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Watch my sin away

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Oh, happy day, happy day

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I'll never be the same

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Alright, good morning, good morning, good morning

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You have your announcements in your bulletin

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I'm happy to say that our faith

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Spiritual Gifts Fellowship did go well on Thursday

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We made an attempt to make a recording

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We'll try to podcast that a little bit later

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But it went well

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I encourage you, if you do not know your spiritual gifts

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Figure out what they are and visit one of those

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Because that was really helpful to me

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To think about the difference between faith, belief, trust, whatever I'm calling it

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And a spiritual gift for the faith

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And so I felt very empowered by that

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So I encourage you to do that

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Also coming up, we're getting ready to start our candy drive for the Fall Fest

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Individually wrapped candy, if you're going to participate in that

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And then also you can get ahead

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It's only September, I know, but you can get ahead and think about games for the Fall Fest and that kind of thing

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And then we are actively in visitation and inviting

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Visitation and game promotes, so

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The folks can come

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And then if you are somebody who had an invitation

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And then if they said they would come and they didn't, feel free to follow back up with them

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We say hey, I miss you, love to see you

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Let's work together and let's learn and grow

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On my heart this morning, Reaching New Heights

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Is about everybody together, working together to take the next step

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So obviously we're not all taking the next step

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It would be nice if we could all form a line, link arms and take the next step together

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Because you don't have the same next step that somebody else has

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But we can nonetheless work together

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And that's what that's all about

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We're all on a journey, all in different places

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We'll all take them to the next step

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So let's work together

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Focus your eyes on the Lord

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And let Him lead us forward

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And that being said, let's pray together

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Tommy, I know I caught you off guard, did you pray for us?

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Good praise report

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I just want to thank God

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Always is always there for praise, always our power

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He hears us

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But it wasn't the same praying for me last Sunday

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It was God's intervention for sure

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My body felt better, stronger

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Which I'm doing a lot of stuff, I'll tell you later

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I unfortunately just messed up myself

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I could not get back on first shift

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There was somebody that needed to switch on shifts

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I just want to say there is power in that prayer

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I don't deserve that chance

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So I just want to say thank you guys

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I just thank God for prayer

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He had known that it really would help me get back on first shift

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He said, can you go around?

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He said, God is the one who does that

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I'll be right there

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Dear God, we thank you for the time and place

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That we have to worship you

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We came for the rain today

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And we grow the plants

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We pray for everyone here

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That we be able to pray for the sermon

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And we pray for the blessing

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And we pray for the grace

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Loving kindness, loving kindness, better life

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The grace of God's sufficient

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It's an auspicious grace

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Your power and your glory are forever on display

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And your loving kindness, loving kindness, better life

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Oh, it's better, oh, better than life

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Oh, so much better, Jesus

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Oh, loving kindness, better life

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There is nothing about me

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Nothing about you, I pray

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And nothing in this world could ever

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You have loving kindness, loving kindness, better life

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All your ways are just so

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You'll just be by your way

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To grab you and pray

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For your loving kindness, loving kindness, better life

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Oh, it's better, oh, better than life

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Oh, so much better, Jesus

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Oh, loving kindness, loving kindness, better life

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Jesus, your loving kindness

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Jesus, your loving kindness

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Oh, it's better, oh, better than life

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Oh, so much better, Jesus

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Oh, better than life

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All righty, if I could have you on your feet this morning

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You could give yourself some room if I could have some young persons towards the front

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We're gonna get moving this morning

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Get up here, come on, you can do it

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But I don't get your name all night

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But I don't want to see your faces

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I'm so glad you're in my life

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I'm so glad you came to save us

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Jesus, you came from heaven to earth

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You will show the way from the earth to the stars

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By the death of faith from the cross to the grave

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I'm so glad you're in my life

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I'm so glad you came to save us

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Jesus, you came from heaven to earth

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You will show the way from the earth to the cross

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By the death of faith from the cross to the grave

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You came from heaven to earth

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You will show the way from the earth to the cross

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By the death of faith from the cross to the grave

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Okay, so we've come to that inspirational moment

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time that we had earlier this week

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and today we're going to do something a little bit different

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with more light on my heart

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So I'm going to ask you to focus

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the way your distractions, whatever's distracting you right now

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the side you think, that person's on your mind, that's okay

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All right, so pay attention

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Zadah, pay attention

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Thank you

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All right, what we're going to do is we're going to pray together

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I don't want you to do it in your head

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or out loud while you're sitting and praying with me

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We're going to ask God to remind us

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what He's been showing us for the last seven days

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to remind us what we've read in His Word

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and to tell us if He chooses to, tell us something new right now

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and then that's what we're going to talk about

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whenever He brought back the mind, okay?

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So join me in prayer, here we go

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God in heaven, you are an awesome God

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We love your people

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We realize your Word says that you have been working

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every moment of every day, even up until now

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We realize that you have been showing us things, that you speak to your people

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and that sometimes we are dense to hear or recognize what you're doing

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You do so through your miraculously protected, powerfully inspired by you, Word of God

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or a verse that leads us to a chain of thought where you really speak to us

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or we also know that sometimes you just say, hey stop right there

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that's wrong, you're crossing the line

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because it is what's right

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we're asking you right now in this moment

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point out to us what it was that you've been saying

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what it was that we saw that we need to pay attention to

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what it was that you were, how you were working on us

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Father, I know that even as we sit here now praying

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there are people who have thoughts in their head

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that are evil spirits, distractions, or thinking about something else

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because the world has many voices

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and our many evil spirits, they outnumber us

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but they don't outnumber your angels, and they don't outnumber you

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and they do not have strength that you do not have

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and the greater is he that is in us and the greater is he that is in the world

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to review voices that have nothing to do with you

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Lord pass them all out and help us today

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listen to what you are saying

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show us what you've been saying

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and if necessary show us something new right now

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that we may speak up and show others

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what it is that you're saying in our hearts

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and what you're saying in Jesus' name

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What do you got?

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What came to mind?

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Go ahead, I got one

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he doesn't like David, he's looking for him to get rid of him

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David's already been anointed by Samuel

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and here he was to do the next cave

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he's on the run, Saul's trying to kill him

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so he's hiding up with his men in a cave

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I'll get a little ahead of myself because I was reminded of when

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here being critical of Jesus about his disciples

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meaning the leaf of the field of the Sabbath

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they gave David a holy bread

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that it was not the grace of God that used David's bed

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was the priest had asked if his men had

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men of the lives of men who made themselves ceremonial

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on cleaning at the end of the day

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and he said no, that when these men are on the job

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they're not going to be able to do that

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so David's already feeling a value

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as to that about serving God

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and being in a proper mindset

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and now we're in the cave and Saul finally is in that area

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and goes in the cave to take care of some business

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and didn't know David was there and David snuck up a cup

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he's a robot, this man told him

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you know what, this is a good opportunity for you to get rid of him

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so this is the key point, he could have went in and killed him

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and then take us from

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but he knew that it would be wrong to raise a hand on that scouts and goyans

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which he totally was

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so he cut a piece of the robot

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and instead when he left the cave he showed up and said hey I could have taken you out

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when sucker tips come to life

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you think you're getting directed

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in a certain direction, you think you should do something

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just based on circumstance, take time to think about

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what does the Bible say about it

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what does God teach us or something

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that I think seems to be the right way to go

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but after all we're relying on the scripture

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and rethink what you're doing because if David would have killed Saul

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then once he teaches those men

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and what Bob did, maybe when he's king

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and some of them don't like to be killed

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they'll come after him and start to value it

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also if he would have killed King Saul

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then he probably would have killed his entire family

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and anyone else, Saul's side

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and the whole country would have been in trouble

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so take your time and think about doing things right

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sometimes there's a way that seems quite, you know, it could quite push you away

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Robert says there's a way

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that looks right at a man but it leads to death

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and I guarantee you

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if he'd gone against Saul in that cave

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that was not a way that he wanted to go

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that was a way that he was taken into a place where God would not want him to be

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Good work, very good. Ok, who else?

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Ok, I'll tell you mine real quick

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So it's interesting how mine relates to yours

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because it's Bob Rowe

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We were talking about the woman who had the 12 year issue

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she had an issue of blood for 12 years

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and this came out of the spiritual gift fellowship

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we talked about faith as a personal gift on Thursday night

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and we talked about the woman who had faith that she could be healed by Jesus

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She was looking at Jesus

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and she was thinking, I've had this issue for 12 years

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and I've literally tried everything else

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I've tried every doctor, every medicine, she basically ran herself broke

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tried everything she could

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and she thought about Jesus and she thought

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she didn't think, man I need to go beg him for healing

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or I need to go see him

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she didn't even feel worthy to go to his presence and ask him to heal her

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but she thought if I could just sneak up and touch his robe

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if I could just sneak up and touch his robe

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then I would be healed

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I've had people who believe

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they have a conscious knowledge

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that there is a God

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but not only do they not come to God through Christ

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which is the only way somebody can come to God

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but they don't feel worthy to do so

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I remember when I was a young person before I got saved I was 25

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but between the time I was about 11 and 25

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I believed there was a God

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and I had some incredible

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what I almost call holy thoughts about God

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I told a story about

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my organizational system in my bedroom

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some of you young people might relate to this

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I had a horizontal organization system

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everything I owned was spread out on the floor

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there was very little room

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you had to nudge something to sit

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I had to build the shelves

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and then I went back to organizing everything horizontally on the floor

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I did not have piles, that's different

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I didn't make piles of things

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I wanted everything out flat so I could see it

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I was leaving with my parents

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I was crossing the room and there was a Bible in the middle of the floor

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I went to put my foot down and if my foot had come down

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it would have stepped on the Bible

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it was already a little beat up

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it was just a book to me, but it was God's book

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I believed in God, but I didn't trust God

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I didn't know about Jesus at all

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I went to put my foot down and my foot would have landed on that Bible

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I said I can't put my foot there

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I swung my foot out to try to put it somewhere else

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I put it down on a toy and it hurt

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I went up collapsing down into my pile of horizontal organization

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I got all scraped up and bruised and everything

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all because I didn't want to step on that Bible

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I wasn't saved, I didn't know God

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but I had a sense of His holiness

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and I submit to you that in the world right now

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amongst lost people there are a lot of people who have been called

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to God who kind of get an understanding of that holiness

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but they feel unworthy to come to God

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or they feel like they can't or they feel like they don't know how

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and that's what the Great Commission is all about

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that's what Christians are all about, that's what the Church is all about

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telling people everywhere, so we should be living for God in a way

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that they'll look at us and know that person is something a little bit different

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and that has to be perfect, but there's something a little bit odd about them

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and then you get in a conversation and tell them

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and one of the first things I encourage you to tell them is

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it was never the road

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or whatever it was, but it's not about coming into close proximity with Jesus

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it's not about touching Jesus or touching something that was touched by Jesus

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or even coming to church or singing worship songs

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or acting like the Church, it's not about anything like that

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it's about coming into a right relationship with God

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through Jesus' Son

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you can try to sneak up on Jesus and be healed

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try to sneak up on Jesus and have the plan of your life unfold in a positive way

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but it doesn't actually work

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the only way to do it is to truly come to Him humbly

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let's say confessing our sin, admitting that we have sin, admitting that we're not saved

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believing in Jesus Christ as Lord

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believing in Him as Savior, that means He paid the price for your sins

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knowing that God raised Him from the dead

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and receiving salvation, and that's it

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and then after that there's no work other than those three things

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that can essentially be done and belief is not really a work that we can do

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but I submit to you that there are a lot of people in the world that are like that

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and our job is to find them and show them what they're already looking for

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and I'll end on this illustration

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I went to Tony Pacos with a youth pastor and two teenagers

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who were looking about bringing the mission team up

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there was a young lady there and I got to witnessing with her

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and I offered to pray for her and she said okay

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and then she came back later and I asked her if she'd stop back at the table

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she had a little bit of time, she was working the bar, she came over

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she crossed the table and I asked her about her faith

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she told me she'd been in a car accident, almost died

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died actually right after the accident for like 13 seconds or something

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and then almost died after that and wasn't able to walk

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and all these things and she had to remake her life

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and she said she felt like God was bringing her through that for a purpose

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but she didn't know God or who God was

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she's openly saying this, I don't know who God was, I don't know how to know God

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I don't know anything about God but I felt like God was doing that

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and I said well this is what the Bible says and I explained it to her

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I did this in the middle of Tony Pacos

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and these guys were looking at me like you're a little bit

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weird for doing this, especially when we're trying to have a meeting

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and then she wound up standing there, tears streaming down her face

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and praying to accept she's Christ the Lord and Savior

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but the point is she already knew

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that God was real and was working in her life

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Acts 17 says that God

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oriented all of the parameters and boundaries of our lives

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so that we might grope around for Him and by some chance find Him

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and then realize He was never very far away in the first place

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this is the problem, those people that are out there in the world are acting

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like fools, they're acting like lost people

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this is what they're doing, they're acting like lost people

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and they're lost because they have not come into a relationship with God

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and I'm going to be a little bit raw about this for a second

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sometimes that's because we in the church have not gone as far

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and shown them how to do that

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sometimes it's because they're too fond of their sin

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or sometimes because they're caught up in addiction

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or they've got real problems, whatever it might be, there are lots of reasons

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and some of them, then there are people that even think that they're saved

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and I may be critical when I say this but I think people who think that they're saved in art

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are usually worse people, worse, have more sin

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more wicked, more problems to their nature and like that

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there are people who are not saved

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so I say not saved people, they might have a little fear about God and wonder

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they might fall down rather than stepping on the Bible

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but the people who think they're saved in art, they think they're ok

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let's step on that Bible in a minute, I'm not going to hurt myself

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and keep from disrespecting God because God loves me

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He sent His sons to darkness, so whatever, I can do whatever I want

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and they become pretty darn wicked, you know

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and then there are people that say, well I know who God is

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and I know that's pretty bad too, but I'm not trying to judge people

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I'm just saying, that rub was never the issue

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and it was when she came and said Jesus and your faith has healed you

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and then He basically declared her as saved

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and sent her away

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don't sneak up on Jesus, come right out of the open

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right out of the open and say, look I've got my issues

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the Lord Jesus, I'll submit myself to you

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alright, 28 and Arjun

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real quick, your name just popped in my head, but I was just thinking

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it was a book about Jonah, everybody loves Jonah

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trying to flee because if you're supposed to come to Nineveh

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you can have a whale and spit back out so you can go to Nineveh

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but at first you just thought you could flee from God because you never could

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and the book just shows him fleeing from God, and he's on a boat

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and in the boat, he's in the bottom of the deck

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and there's a hole, a little hole where the light can shine in

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and it's really funny, so he went to them

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across the other side of the earth, literally as far away from Israel as you could

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as far away from him as you could

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and he's hiding under this boat

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and he's like, God can't see him, and there's a light

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where the window is peering right through

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and it's just missing Jonah, if you would just step up

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the light would shine on him, and he's just right here

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so it's just like, it's not like anything

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but the picture is Jonah thinks he's completely

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did it, I got away from God, I got away from my mission

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and the light is really shining through this door

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like a little doggy door on a boat

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and Jonah's this close literally to letting the light shine on him

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so God is not, even if you go to the farthest

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ends of the earth, no matter where you go, even if you go to the bottom

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you're there with me, and I fly in the highest eagle

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in the heavens, you're there as well, but God is always there

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so just something to think about, no matter what, you can't escape God

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and God's not trying to get you to escape, he loves us

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he's holy, he's right, he's true, and he's just waiting

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for you to just look up and see the light shine

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what's interesting about that is he couldn't get up

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without getting touched by the light

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okay, perfect, got a video blocking the light?

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what about that?

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so I've actually seen this guy's

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talk to me this morning, and it's really, really amazing

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but the message in this song is so incredible

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because all of us

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all of us have problems, and the problem is

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we hold on to those problems inside, we don't like to

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express them, we don't like to show them, we don't like to share them

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but we all have them, and

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it gets to the point to where it's so much that

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holding onto you that you can't let go of anymore

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you're afraid that people will find out the real you

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and they might not like the real you

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and you have to understand that

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you might think that, well God knows who you are

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God knows the real you

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He knows who you are supposed to be, He knows who you

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He wants you to be

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so don't hold everything in

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and always remember that God knows your pain

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your suffering, but there's also His love

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which is like no love you'll ever find anywhere else

515
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
no husband, no wife, no boyfriend

516
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000
no girlfriend, no child, can show you the same love

517
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000
that God can show you, it is not physically possible

518
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000
for a human being to share the kind of love that God has for us

519
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000
and that in itself

520
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
is an amazing thing because

521
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000
we don't deserve that kind of love

522
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000
because of the stuff that we do, the evil things that we've done

523
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000
or have done or will do in the future

524
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000
we don't deserve that kind of love

525
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
and yet God gives it to us freely and gives it to us daily

526
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000
so when you ever feel like you're down

527
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000
and out, just remember that

528
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000
God knows that, He knows that pain, He knows that hurt

529
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000
but He also has that

530
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
unattainable love that you can get

531
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,000
through His Son, Jesus Christ

532
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000
the worst thing about the fact that we

533
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
that a lot of kids know that we early on memorized

534
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
the poor God so loved the world that He saved

535
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000
or the copy that's on the God's side through several parishes

536
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
John 3.16 verse is the fact that we skim right over the force

537
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
of God's soul love of the world, that soul is huge

538
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,000
that soul means

539
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000
in a way that we can't understand it

540
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
so much more, so much more intricate

541
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000
so much more intense, so much more complete

542
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
so much more whole, it is a love that

543
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
that betters what it loves

544
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000
and then of course in the Gospel Road, He is love

545
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
He is that love

546
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
I just wanted to talk about God's love

547
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
God's also put love in us, it may not be ultimate love

548
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
but it's like when you read out to that woman that she knew

549
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
it looked like they both strayed away in that video

550
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000
but they were actually coming to find her, the other two weren't looking for her

551
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
but when they found her they consoled her

552
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000
and so even though we are going through our roughest time

553
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
there are people just going through stuff just as worse

554
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
and if we are just caught up in our mess and deal with our own selves

555
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
we couldn't be a blessing to others as well

556
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000
so we are not the only ones that are suffering

557
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:39,280
Sometimes we have to reach out, you know, even while we're suffering to help those and the same token

558
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,120
That woman that saw she was on her own

559
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,420
Her best friend found her because it looked like you know that she was struggling that no she found her

560
00:32:47,420 --> 00:32:50,500
So I would say because God still loves his work

561
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:55,600
He's put loving people and we do need to sometimes be sincere to others to reach out

562
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,800
So that people can reach out to you. It's hard because we can't always love

563
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:05,000
You can't always be there, but there's still love inside of humanity

564
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,960
It's not to put your trust back in humanity

565
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:12,400
It's but it's to put your love and trust back in the God that he's given us humanity

566
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,400
Anybody else?

567
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,400
Just sort of stuck on the video and it reminded me of a theory and I'm listening to remember the names of it

568
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:27,800
But basically this theory that came into my head that I must have read about somewhere when I was watching that

569
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,640
Basically is about the versions of self

570
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,300
self image that should be said but basically the idea is that there are three

571
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,600
You's as you could say you that only you know

572
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:45,440
You that only your close friends and family, you know, your circle of people knows who there's a you that the world sees

573
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:52,440
And it just kind of got me thinking in that video. There's a whole nother you there's a you that God only knows and

574
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,760
You don't know that you

575
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,760
At least not all of it

576
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,200
There are pieces of yourself that are that are that you don't

577
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,200
You don't even see on your own

578
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,200
It's like you don't know the problem

579
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,200
Amen, that is hard

580
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,200
Especially considering how much we lose focus

581
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,200
When we start to go out of problems

582
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Well, I'm the only person that has this problem with my situation or whatever

583
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,200
And you're just seeing how I'm the you that God only knows

584
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,200
That's all good stuff

585
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,960
Okay, we're gonna pray together. We'll be tied off a little more worship and then go to the word

586
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:55,960
Jason, would you pray for us as and remember the tithes and offerings and then as we go forward is do

587
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,960
Much

588
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,960
Oh

589
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,960
Oh

590
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,960
Oh

591
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Oh

592
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,960
Oh

593
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,960
Oh

594
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,960
Oh

595
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,960
Oh

596
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,960
Oh

597
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,960
Oh

598
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,960
Oh

599
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,960
Oh

600
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,960
Oh

601
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,960
Oh

602
00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:01,960
Oh

603
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:23,960
Oh

604
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,960
Oh

605
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:49,960
Oh

606
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,960
Oh

607
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:15,960
Oh

608
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,960
Oh

609
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:59,960
Oh

610
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,960
Oh

611
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,960
Oh

612
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,960
Oh

613
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:59,960
Oh

614
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,960
Oh

615
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:31,960
Oh

616
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,960
Oh

617
00:45:47,960 --> 00:46:03,960
Oh

618
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,960
Is

619
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,960
Oh

620
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,960
As I was sitting there we were singing those last two songs I

621
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:15,960
Became even a little bit more intimidated by this word that the Lord has been sharing with me this last week

622
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,960
That's unusual actually because usually by the time I get up here. I have dealt with it

623
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:26,960
I have repented and committed myself to the Lord in the way that I'm best understanding it and now I stand before you

624
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,960
Even further convicted of what we've been studying what I've been God and I have been doing

625
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,960
I guess you could say this last seven days and so here we go

626
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,960
First of all, you see the act. There's a couple of four matters. We got to deal with before you see the title

627
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:42,960
It is a slow-acting poison and its antidote

628
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,960
We've been talking about and Moses has been preparing the Israelites to go into the promised land

629
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,960
We've been talking about what he was giving them like teachings that he was giving them to help them to understand

630
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,960
What they would face while they're in there and how they would eventually stray from God

631
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,960
That's what we've largely been talking about and he's been giving them some proactive

632
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,960
Suggestions and either there, you know, that's not really a strong enough word

633
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:10,960
But commands almost about how to be prepared and how to handle what would happen to them and through them and in them

634
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,960
And what God was going to be doing and what the enemy was going to be doing

635
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,960
Once they got into the promised land because he's not going with them as you may recall

636
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,960
So now in this in chapter 9

637
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,960
Moses talks to them about a slow-acting poison now

638
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:32,960
We've already talked about idolatry and we've talked about the being tempted or being distracted aside by the wealth that they would receive

639
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:39,960
Those were two things that he radically warned them about and we talked about those in the last two or three weeks

640
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:49,960
But now we see in this passage scripture that there is a slow-acting poison that is built into being God's people

641
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:55,960
That will eventually kill your forward progress if not your soul in the kingdom of God

642
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,960
And it so it's a pretty big deal

643
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:01,960
All right, so two more things so first second thing is

644
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,960
You may have heard and it's been it's been kind of tossed around and comments that people have made

645
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,960
About how sometime and it happened I can almost tell you what decade it happened in it happened around 2000 between

646
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:21,960
1995 to 2005 where there became this impetus to give everybody who participates in

647
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,960
Kids sports youth sports, whatever a medal

648
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,960
Okay, and so no longer was it you know

649
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,960
Most valuable player and so they just give everybody a medal everybody gets a medal

650
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:38,960
even the guy who only showed up to one or two practices and maybe only you know sat the bench and just played like a minute

651
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,960
Each game because he really wasn't practiced really wasn't there but they had to play him so they did so everybody gets the same medal

652
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:51,960
And then there's a lot of like backlash against that amongst and I'm going to be honest with you amongst people like me

653
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:58,960
Who feel like excellence deserves its own reward. That's justice, right? If someone does well, they should be rewarded

654
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:04,960
So if they are the they perform well are the most valuable player they should get it and if they only you know show up to

655
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,960
A few practices here or there and don't do what they are supposed to do

656
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:14,960
Then they shouldn't get the same medal as somebody else who shows up and performs and so that that fits with my sense of justice

657
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,960
But I'm going to show you today

658
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,960
the problem with the metal system and

659
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,960
even though the world got there to the place of

660
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,960
sharing the

661
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:32,960
Giving the medal to everyone the wrong way they got there the wrong way not in a biblical way not in a godly way

662
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:34,960
I'm going to show you how

663
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,960
Everyone getting a medal does have some merit and we should be a little careful

664
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:46,960
To to blow off that system. Okay. All right, then there's a third thing. I want to talk to you briefly about the underdog

665
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,960
Okay, so I wrote this there is an underdog

666
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:55,960
He fights for what he believes in he has continued to stand up against the system. He sees as unfair

667
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,960
He will never change

668
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,960
Resisting to the very end against what he sees as an oppressive overlord

669
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,960
Even until he is finally caught and will spend the remainder of his life in torment

670
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:10,960
But will never yield before then despite the obvious fact that he cannot win

671
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:12,960
a

672
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,960
Little paragraph about the underdog

673
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,960
Sounds good, right?

674
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,960
Almost kind of seems like how we sort of picture Christians a little bit

675
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:26,960
It sounds like the kind of tenacity that humans value the one who doesn't quit because they know they what they think they know

676
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,960
What the right is and the justice is and they just won't quit

677
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:35,960
In fact in some lesser way many would choose to emulate that person that's described there wouldn't they?

678
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,960
They might be inspired to rebel against perceived injustice

679
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:45,960
They might be inspired to stand for their beliefs and to do so against all odds based on this count this account alone

680
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,960
Is he not courageous?

681
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,960
according to this account

682
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,960
I'll read it again briefly. It says there is an underdog

683
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:58,960
He fights for what he believes in he has continued to stand up against a system. He sees as unfair

684
00:51:58,960 --> 00:51:59,960
He will never change

685
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:03,960
Resisting to the very end against what he sees as an oppressive overlord

686
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,960
Even until he is finally caught and will spend the remainder of his life in torment

687
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,960
But will never yield before then despite the obvious fact that he cannot win

688
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,960
Almost sounds good

689
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:16,960
Is he not courageous according to this account?

690
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:21,960
Now what if I told you that that paragraph is about the devil and I said it this way the devil is an underdog

691
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:28,960
He fights for what he believes in which is his right to kill steal and destroy his rights to rule and the tainted

692
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,960
Wicked worship of the human race toward the false gods that he ordains

693
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,960
He has continued to stand up against the system

694
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:41,960
He sees as unfair human beings being allowed access to God and the good things of life a system

695
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,960
That places him below God's human creation man

696
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:47,960
He will never change

697
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,960
He will be evil always and the father of lies

698
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,960
He will be resisting to the very end against what he sees as an oppressive overlord

699
00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:00,960
God who is love even until Satan is finally once and for all put down

700
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,960
And will spend the remainder of his life in torment

701
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:08,960
But will never yield before then devouring as many as he can luring humans into his traps

702
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,960
And all this despite the obvious fact that he cannot win

703
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:15,960
I am an underdog

704
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,960
Amongst the human race and faced with opposition like demons in the world systems

705
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:28,960
I stand up for my belief and I stand up against the system warped by Satan's hatred of God and people's confused emulation of him

706
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,960
I will never change

707
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,960
I have been regenerated by the God of heaven and his Holy Spirit and if I change it all it will be to be more like Jesus

708
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,960
I will resist even unto my death the tactics of Satan and my true enemies

709
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:46,960
This I will do knowing that if Jesus does not come again before my time I will die for my Lord

710
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,960
But I will not spend eternity in torment rather I will spend it with God in the place that he is preparing for me

711
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:56,960
This I will do knowing despite any losses I may take I cannot lose

712
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:02,960
I submit to you that the rebels of the world emulate Satan because they do not have Christians to emulate

713
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:07,960
They emulate Satan because the people who are in the Kingdom of God who are receiving the promised Kingdom of God

714
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,960
Who are receiving the destination the eternal destination that lasts forever and bliss

715
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,960
Those people are not standing up as examples as rebels against the world system

716
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:21,960
So that people who are in the world who feel inside themselves and need to rebel

717
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,960
Rather than rebelling against Satan and the world system which is what they should be doing

718
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,960
They rebel against God following the only example that they are given on a daily basis

719
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:38,960
Which is the devil and the evil system that he has so aptly put in place

720
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,960
Oh yes I know all creation glorifies God I get that

721
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:48,960
But a simple message of how good God is and that we should go to him

722
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:54,960
Compared to that every moment every day of their family friends TV social media everywhere that they go

723
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:59,960
Being pushed on them that God is not good that he is an oppressive overlord

724
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:03,960
And they should stand against him and their need to rebel which is created in them

725
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,960
So that they will rebel against the world system and turn to God

726
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:14,960
Their need to rebel is then harnessed to be that underdog more like the first chapter the one that they think is awesome

727
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,960
But they're rebelling for the wrong reason

728
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:25,960
Grab your Bibles if you would and turn with me then maybe a hoot a holler amen as we go to Deuteronomy chapter 9

729
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:32,960
This is God's word it is an effective word you can know that for sure whether we are affected by it or not

730
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,960
Will really be up to us in our willingness

731
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,960
I'm going to read the chapter here we go it's chapter 9

732
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:45,960
Here oh Israel you are crossing over the Jordan today to go into dispossessed nations greater and mightier than you

733
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:51,960
Great cities fortified to heaven a people great and tall the sons of Anakim

734
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:57,960
Whom you know and of whom you have heard it said who can stand before the sons of Anak

735
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,960
Okay so through this point he's basically telling them what's about to happen

736
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:07,960
I want you to notice a couple things first of all see the word today now it wasn't literally today right

737
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:14,960
In fact they would not go in that day it means in this era at this time it means this is what's happening

738
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:20,960
This is the era in which you live it has always been given to God's people to know the era in which they live

739
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:25,960
You should be realistic about the era in which you live and I think we could say certain things

740
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,960
It is the era in which many things buy for our attention

741
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:34,960
There era as in which we from childhood on are taught to not focus on one thing

742
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:43,960
But rather to live a balanced rhythmic existence absorbing and appreciating many things and that that by that means you will be blessed

743
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:49,960
And all of that is wrong by the way there is one place that our focus belongs and I think you know what it is

744
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:51,960
At least you should

745
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:57,960
Second thing in there it says a people great and tall the sons of Anakim this is a great enemy

746
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,960
And when faced with a great enemy and considering yourself an underdog

747
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:08,960
When you've heard the things like who can stand before the sons of Anak when you realize that the opposition that is before you

748
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:16,960
I'll just be plain with you in my flesh as a normal human being if Satan came in this room and said hey shut up I would be scared

749
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:22,960
He's an eternal being with power granted him by God I know he's only been granted that power only so much power

750
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:30,960
And he can't just kill me unless God says it's okay he can't actually make me shut up unless God says that he is allowed to and so on

751
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:38,960
But he's an eternal being and he might come as whatever he might look like whatever or whoever and I can admit I think I would be scared

752
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:47,960
At the same time I understand courage is when something inside you powerful motivating pushes you past your fear

753
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:56,960
And I hope I would know that he was in me is greater than he is in the world but our enemies are large or obtrusive

754
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,960
They stick out they make a big impact

755
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:07,960
Verse 3 says this know therefore today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire

756
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:15,960
I preached a sermon about a month ago now which was from Deuteronomy earlier on about how God is a consuming fire

757
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,960
And the phrase is in there God is a consuming fire and of course then it's been re-quoted in the New Testament

758
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:23,960
But the fact is that God has a trait that he is a consuming fire

759
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:29,960
And when I preached that sermon I took some heat and it was basically no pun intended there although that is kind of funny

760
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:39,960
But I took some heat because people were telling me that I was preaching a message that that nobody wants to hear

761
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,960
That nobody wants to hear that God is a consuming fire

762
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:46,960
Well if that's true that God is a consuming fire that I submit to you that if no one wants to hear it

763
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:51,960
It's because they think they're about to be burned up right they're about to be affected by that

764
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:56,960
But God is whether you like to hear it or not I'm here to say if you're one of those people in this room I apologize

765
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:02,960
For stepping on your toes but the bottom line is that God is a consuming fire and here it says that he would go before him

766
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,960
I want to use an illustration at this point kind of a little puzzle riddle that goes back a ways

767
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:16,960
And that illustration is if you were on an abandoned island there's no one else on the island right

768
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:25,960
And there's grass it's about waist high on the island if you were on that island and a fire broke out on one end of the island

769
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:31,960
It broke out on the west end of the island and the wind is blowing from the west to the east pretty quickly

770
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:37,960
And it's pushing the fire along so that where you're standing on the island will eventually be consumed in fire

771
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:42,960
Everything on the island has these weeds and you can cut down some and make a hole for yourself

772
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:47,960
But the bottom line is there will be fire all around you and even unless you got it all the way down to the dirt

773
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:53,960
You don't have a shovel whatever so the riddle goes like this what do you do?

774
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:59,960
How do you survive in that circumstance where you can't leave the island let's say the water is

775
00:59:59,960 --> 01:00:05,960
Sharconfested or it's a deep cliff or whatever you can't leave the island but how do you survive when that fire is being pushed along the island

776
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:11,960
At you know seven mile per hour or whatever because whatever the wind pushes it that's pretty much how fast a fire goes generally speaking

777
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:16,960
It's running along the island you're going to be burned alive how do you survive it and some of us know the answer what's the answer?

778
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:23,960
Nope I mean you could pray for a miracle, somebody else got it? Say it again?

779
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:29,960
Nope because it's the whole I mean you could try that but the fire is covering the whole island

780
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:34,960
You wouldn't be able there's nowhere you could run that wouldn't be on fire

781
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,960
Say it again?

782
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:42,960
No predetermined can't go in the water whether sharks or cliffs you take your pick

783
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:49,960
Okay maybe we haven't heard this one before good that's fine you'll like it okay so what you do is you set what's called a backfire

784
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:58,960
You take some of the fire where it's burning you take it over to the other side of the island the last like third or whatever and you set it on fire

785
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:09,960
As that happens the fire that's pushing this way will burn up the middle space the fire that's there will be pushed that way will burn everything down that's in that remaining space

786
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:16,960
Then when the fire comes to you you walk into the space that's now been burned down to nothing and the fire comes to you and you're not burned

787
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,960
Because you're in the space that's already been burned down to nothing it's on the backfire okay

788
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:30,960
So God is a consuming fire is a very scary message I totally get that okay and as I said I took some heat from some people because that's a message nobody wants to hear

789
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:36,960
But I submit to you the very same messages that we sometimes don't want to hear are the very same messages that we desperately need to hear

790
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:45,960
And more than that employ them in our lives because here we see the consuming fire of God going before them into the land of Israel

791
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:50,960
I get it sometimes you're under wrath because you sinned against God in fact the truth is we probably all have sins all the time

792
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:56,960
And just God could just send us all to hell and be completely justified but because of grace he has saved us okay

793
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:02,960
So then you do things that you should do and God resists your course because it's not good for you and you feel the consuming fire of God

794
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:07,960
And you're like oh man I don't want to hear about that anymore because I keep screwing up and I keep feeling the wrath of God

795
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:13,960
And I get that it's an unpleasant message but here's the reality when you are doing what it is that you are supposed to be doing

796
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:19,960
Or at least advancing along the course that God has for you it is that very same consuming fire that is going before you to clear the path

797
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,960
Notice here in Deuteronomy what he says is

798
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:32,960
It is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire when God destroys the people in the promised land

799
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:38,960
It was God as a consuming fire that caused that to happen it says he will destroy them and he will subdue them before you

800
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:42,960
So that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly just as the Lord has spoken to you

801
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:49,960
We know in chapter 8 it said not too quickly so we don't want the wild animals of the land to become overpowering

802
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,960
But he said quickly he will destroy them just as the Lord has spoken to you

803
01:02:53,960 --> 01:03:02,960
Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before you because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land

804
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:09,960
But it is because of the wickedness of those nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you

805
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:18,960
In other words God was not going in as a consuming fire because Israel was awesome

806
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:20,960
Or because they had matching uniforms or whatever right

807
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:25,960
He was going in as a consuming fire because the people that he was consuming the people was wiping out to make room for his nation

808
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,960
Deserved what they were about to get they deserved it

809
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,960
He held Egypt he held Israel in Egypt for over 400 years possibly 430 years

810
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:39,960
Waiting for these people to come to full measure in their sin now they have and God is going to send his people in

811
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:45,960
Notice the phrase also dispossessing you remember even though we always get kind of cracked on in the apologetic circle

812
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:52,960
Because God ordained the wiping out of everybody that lived in the promised land to make room for his people actually people were allowed to flee

813
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:57,960
They could run away if they wanted but there was the people that stayed and fought that died right

814
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:02,960
God wiped out everybody that stayed and fought including the man woman and child anybody that stayed and fought because basically they were hopeless

815
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:08,960
Because they didn't realize that God was doing what God was doing there's no stopping that so if they stayed then they were destroyed

816
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:14,960
But if they ran they were allowed to run the Lord is dispossessing them before you

817
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:19,960
I submit to you that all of your dreams will be built out of the shatters and the tatters of someone else's dreams

818
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:24,960
This is not a new earth it may be a new earth overall compared to what people think is an older

819
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:31,960
But the bottom line is your money if you pull out the paper money that's in your pocket it was not printed today

820
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:36,960
When you get new money from the bank and it looks like it was just printed it wasn't printed today

821
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,960
It was printed a long time ago may have been in storage for a while

822
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:44,960
But the bottom line is multiple people have had it since before you had it is not just money either your car

823
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:49,960
Right was in the hands of someone else unless you bought it like mint stock new from the factory

824
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:55,960
It was in the hands of multiple people before it ever got to you in fact people more people profited by it

825
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:59,960
In the process of getting it from where it was created to you, then you'll ever know

826
01:04:59,960 --> 01:05:06,960
Untold people the bottom line is we're building all that we are building out of the tatters of all that went before us

827
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:13,960
And the creation is working against some people but the bottom but really God is dispossessing those who went before us

828
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,960
To give us something awesome if you have something awesome that God gave you

829
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:22,960
He gave it to you over top of the ruined hopes and dreams of others that went before you

830
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:31,960
Verse five says it is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land

831
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:38,960
But it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you in order to confirm the oath

832
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:42,960
Which the Lord spoke to your fathers to Abraham Isaac and Jacob

833
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:49,960
So we've got really essentially two factors it's the not righteousness of the people in the land and the righteousness of God

834
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:55,960
And notice how when the righteousness of God meets the not righteous in the people of the land what happens

835
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:02,960
The not righteous get eliminated or dispossessed right but God's righteousness remains always that way

836
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:08,960
God's righteousness always remains and so if you run up against God's righteousness well what's going to happen to you the same thing

837
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:14,960
God is a consuming fire but if you will ride the wave of God's righteousness essentially then God will go before you

838
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:20,960
And do what it is that God wants to do and he will make for you incredible things rewarding you even in this lifetime

839
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:27,960
And I'm not I'm not preaching a health and wealth gospel with the bottom line is Jesus said they will whoever gives whoever leaves behind

840
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:33,960
Wife and home and blah blah blah for me will have that much more and more in this lifetime and he added the phrase in this lifetime

841
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:39,960
And so the bottom line is as you walk the path of holiness toward heaven God will pave the way before you

842
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:44,960
But what happens you start to get some good stuff this is a couple chapters back and you start thinking well now I've got some good stuff

843
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:48,960
And I got to protect it and you stop along the way in a rest area and start protecting your stuff

844
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:54,960
And you're not walking the path a consuming fire goes on before you and pretty soon it circles back and it destroys you too

845
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,960
Because you're more about the stuff that God gave you than the path that God had you on or you get into idolatry

846
01:06:59,960 --> 01:07:04,960
You go a little ways along and things are going pretty well and over here is people want you to do this and you can just have sex

847
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:10,960
A few more times a week if you do it with these temple prostitutes and so on or you can feel that serotonin in that

848
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:16,960
Endorphins in your brain if you watch some more sports or if you if you go to more concerts or if you eat better food

849
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:22,960
Or go out and let people serve you and pay 50 bucks a meal to let people serve you and you'll feel better than if you made it yourself

850
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:29,960
And you believe all this idolatry essentially and then you're off the course again and the consuming fire will circle back and it'll deal with you

851
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:31,960
But that's the reality of what we're facing here

852
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:38,960
But if we continue on the road of holiness that God has put us on that consuming fire goes before the believers

853
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:44,960
And it does not go before the believers because of the righteousness of the believers but rather because of the righteousness of God

854
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,960
Second factor then is the oath that the Lord made God will always keep his promises

855
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:54,960
Jesus said if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and I will take you there to be with me period end of story

856
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:59,960
That's a promise you could take it to the eternal bank. That's what's going to happen

857
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:03,960
He's actively preparing a place for you believer right now in heaven. He's taking you there

858
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:08,960
If he's taking you there, why are you so concerned about what's going on here?

859
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:14,960
Unless you're trying to make it about God and take everything that's under your control in the direction of the kingdom of God

860
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:16,960
Then why are you so concerned and that is exactly what?

861
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:22,960
Moses is calling us to to make everything that we have control over about the kingdom of God verse 6

862
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:28,960
No, then it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess

863
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:35,960
For you are a stubborn people a stubborn people

864
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:42,960
Remember do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness

865
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,960
From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place

866
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,960
They were always doing it you have been rebellious against the Lord even at Horeb

867
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:55,960
You provoked the Lord to wrath and the Lord was so angry with you that he would have destroyed you

868
01:08:55,960 --> 01:09:00,960
When I went up to the mountain received the tablets of stone the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you

869
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:06,960
Then I remained on the mountain for 40 days and nights and either ate bread or drank water

870
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:11,960
That's a long time to not eat or drink 40 days and nights verse 10

871
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:15,960
And the Lord gave me the two tablets of the stone written by the finger of God

872
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:21,960
And on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly

873
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:26,960
So he put all that stuff on there God did God put it on there and gave it over to Moses

874
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:31,960
And verse 11 says and it came about at the end of 40 days and nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone

875
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:40,960
The tablets of the covenant then the Lord said to me arise go down from here quickly for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly

876
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:46,960
They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them they have made a molten image for themselves

877
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:51,960
The Lord spoke further to me saying I have seen this people and indeed it is a stubborn people

878
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:58,960
Let me alone God said let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven

879
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:05,960
And I will make of you he said to Moses I'll make of you a nation mightier and greater than they

880
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:10,960
15 says so I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire

881
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:17,960
And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands and I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God

882
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:24,960
You had made for yourselves a molten calf you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you

883
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:33,960
And I told and I'm sorry and I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes

884
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:41,960
I fell down before the Lord as at the first 40 days and nights I neither ate bread nor drank water

885
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:46,960
Because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger

886
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:51,960
I think it's interesting that's 40 days plus 40 days and even if you got a little break in the middle

887
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:57,960
He had 40 days plus 40 days that's that's something else and you could make a lot of theology out of that

888
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,960
And say well it was 40 days learning the will the Lord then the will the Lord was broken

889
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,960
And then it was another 40 days repenting of the fact that he that the will the Lord had been broken

890
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:13,960
That follow for I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you

891
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:21,960
But the Lord listened to me that time also and the Lord was angry also enough with Aaron to destroy him

892
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:26,960
So I also prayed for Aaron at the same time and I took your sinful thing the calf which you had made

893
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:33,960
And burned it with fire and crushed it grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust

894
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:40,960
And I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain verse 22 again at Taberah and at Massa

895
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:45,960
And at Kibroth-Hatava you provoked the Lord to wrath

896
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,960
Now I submit to you if we stop there for a second and we try to list our own list

897
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:53,960
My list of when I have provoked the Lord to wrath would probably be pretty long it's more than I know

898
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,960
And it would probably take me to a pretty dark place if I thought about it long enough

899
01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:03,960
Verse 23 and when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea saying that's where they stopped before they were going to go into the promised land

900
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:08,960
He said go up and possess the land which I have given you then you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God

901
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,960
You neither believed him nor listened to his voice

902
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,960
You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you

903
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:22,960
I'm going to ask you have you been rebellious against the Lord from the day God invited you into the kingdom?

904
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:31,960
Verse 25 so I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights which I did because the Lord had said he would destroy you

905
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:36,960
And I prayed to the Lord and said oh Lord God do not destroy thy people even thine inheritance

906
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:42,960
Whom thou hast redeemed through thy greatness Whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand

907
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:46,960
Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

908
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:51,960
Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin

909
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:57,960
And so there's a whole sermon in there that we would beg God not to look at our stubbornness or our wickedness or our sin

910
01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:59,960
And the difference between the three

911
01:12:59,960 --> 01:13:02,960
Stubbornness is when you keep not doing what you're supposed to do

912
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,960
Wickedness is when you keep intentionally doing what you're not supposed to do

913
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:09,960
And sin is when you either don't do what you're supposed to do or do what you're not supposed to do

914
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:11,960
Generically speaking

915
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:13,960
And you could have a whole sermon right there

916
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,960
Verse 28 otherwise the land from which thou didst bring us may say

917
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:19,960
So now you're talking about Egypt right

918
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:23,960
Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he had promised them

919
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:28,960
And because he hated them he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness

920
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:30,960
So Moses made this argument to God

921
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:37,960
If you destroy them now then people are going to think about you that you were not able to do what you said you were going to do

922
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,960
And so you brought them out here and destroyed them rather than doing what you said you were going to do

923
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:45,960
It's an argument from God's righteousness an argument from God's power

924
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:47,960
Verse 29 we're almost done

925
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:52,960
Yet they are thy people even thine inheritance

926
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:58,960
Whom thou hast brought out by thy great power and thine outstretched arm

927
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:03,960
Alright so in this section of scripture we see several things

928
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:09,960
The first thing is the poison the slow acting poison that I warned you about

929
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:11,960
Has anybody figured out what it is?

930
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:13,960
The slow acting poison

931
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:21,960
The slow acting poison what he's warning us about what he's warning the Israelites about what I'm now here I think to warn us about

932
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,960
Is comparing oneself to others

933
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,960
See they were thinking that they took the promised land

934
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:29,960
That they were taking the promised land

935
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:31,960
That they were being led into the promised land

936
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,960
Because they were better than the people who lived in the promised land

937
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:40,960
They could say well we never sacrificed our children in the fire to the false god Molech

938
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:44,960
However while Moses was up on the mountain and the fire was still there receiving the command of God

939
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:50,960
They did take the gold and silver jewelry and make it into a calf sat down to eat and got up to play

940
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:52,960
Which means have an orgy basically

941
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:57,960
Have sex all over the place in honor of the false god that they have created for themselves

942
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,960
So are they really better?

943
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:04,960
But that's not really the point is it?

944
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:08,960
The point is that there is a disease that human beings have

945
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,960
Not on the list of diseases

946
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:14,960
There is a psychological problem that human beings have

947
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:16,960
It's the natural outflow of the selfish nature

948
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,960
It's not on the list of insanities

949
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:24,960
Although it's getting close when you think about this what they call social media

950
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,960
Dysphoria basically you watch social media and you think that's real life

951
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:30,960
And you start feeling all depressed inside yourself

952
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:33,960
And you think that might actually be an insanity that people are creating

953
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,960
That's new relatively new

954
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:43,960
In our selfish nature we have a tendency to exercise our senses and perceive

955
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,960
When we see the image of God walking around in flesh

956
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,960
And we look at that other person and just as we are warned not to covet

957
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:52,960
Or to love our neighbor as ourselves

958
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:56,960
Just as we were warned in the Ten Commandments on how to relate to one another

959
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:58,960
At the same time we look at them and we think

960
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:03,960
Just as God was so gracious to us to share in the inspirational moment when we prayed and asked him to do so

961
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:07,960
We think oh man they've got it all together

962
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:09,960
They've got what they need

963
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:13,960
How often I have heard someone say to me and I'm not chastising anybody

964
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:19,960
I'm hurting or I'm going I'm in a dark place or I'm sad today or I'm depressed or I'm broken

965
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:23,960
Or I'm really struggling or this has been really hard or I'm mourning the loss of my loved one

966
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:29,960
And they are literally being crushed under the weight of a burden of internal stress

967
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:33,960
And their core is about to crumble

968
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,960
And they've become aware of it in their present circumstances

969
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:40,960
That my core is about to crumble

970
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:46,960
Alright here is the reality of life, are you ready? I'm going to tell you the reality of life right now

971
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:50,960
Everyone's core is about to crumble

972
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:51,960
That's it

973
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:58,960
Under death the wages of sin is death means that you will be crushed away from having a proper relationship with God

974
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,960
And the wages of sin is death doesn't end when somebody gets saved

975
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:08,960
It literally says the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life, bless you

976
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,960
So it doesn't end, so you are in sin, you sin against God

977
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:18,960
And the wages of that sin is a separation between you and the person you were created to have a relationship with

978
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:23,960
And the power source, I read an article, don't know if it's true or not, I'm not trying to preach the news

979
01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:29,960
But an article said that California was telling people who own electric cars not to charge their electric cars

980
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:35,960
Which is super ironic because they were the first state to pass laws saying that eventually everyone has to have electric cars

981
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:39,960
So it was kind of ironic but I didn't read the article so I don't know the truth of it so don't hold me on that

982
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:42,960
But when I thought about that I thought this is what we do

983
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:46,960
We go to the ends of the earth to try to make somebody better, teach, preach, tell them what they need to do

984
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,960
While all the while we ourselves are just about to crumble

985
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:56,960
And what we do is then make that person, if they should even put in a serious effort, twice as much a son of hell as we are

986
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:01,960
There is only one way to be saved and that is to come into a proper relationship with God through Jesus Christ

987
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:05,960
And that's what it means when Jesus said you can do nothing except that which you go through me

988
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:11,960
Unless you completely depend on Jesus, again today you are on the verge of crumbling

989
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:15,960
You say no, no that's not true, I feel okay, I'm good

990
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:20,960
What if later today somebody that you love or yourself or whatever suffers a terrible tragedy

991
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:25,960
What if our church, God forbid, loses somebody integral to who we are today

992
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:30,960
Anybody that's in this room, anybody in this room, I'm being transparent right now

993
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:37,960
If somebody before me, and probably most people that are joining us online right now, dies today, I'm going to be hit

994
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:45,960
It's going to hurt me, it's going to strike through to my heart in a way that I cannot describe to you

995
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:51,960
And you've probably been there, because you've been hit at some point in time and felt like oh I can't take this

996
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:55,960
And I'm submitting that probably if you're here today and hearing this gospel we preach

997
01:18:55,960 --> 01:19:03,960
Then you now realize that it was God who shored up your infrastructure, who gave you the strength and the power to continue under the worst of things

998
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:08,960
So many times in my life I've faced what I would never want to face and then God from the inside

999
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:11,960
It wasn't like somebody called me on the phone and said hey you're going to be okay

1000
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:15,960
Because frankly I wouldn't have believed him, somebody calls me and says I'm going to be okay when I'm really hurting

1001
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:22,960
I don't believe them, do you? Really? Who would it be? Would it be me?

1002
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:27,960
Would you believe me if I called you when you were in the worst moment of your life and said hey you're going to be okay?

1003
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:33,960
Now it takes something more than that, doesn't it? It takes a spiritual, emotional lifting up

1004
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:39,960
Now sometimes God uses somebody to do that, don't get me wrong, there is a spiritual gift of encouragement

1005
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:45,960
But even the spiritual gift of encouragement taps into the strength that is God, otherwise it's nothing

1006
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,960
You get a phone call from somebody you haven't heard from in 10 years and says hey you're going to be okay

1007
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:53,960
And you're like yeah I know you, I trust you, I'm going to believe what you say

1008
01:19:53,960 --> 01:20:00,960
If you do that, it is sorcery at best and idolatry probably, it's nothing to do with God

1009
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,960
The bottom line is we are all at all times on the verge of collapsing down

1010
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:09,960
We may get to heaven and find out that when you look into outer space and see those black holes

1011
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:13,960
Where there are no stars and no light and you know the gravity there must be huge

1012
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:19,960
And they occasionally see like a star or a planet or something that might be consumed, sucked in and just gone

1013
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:22,960
Whether it goes to another galaxy or whatever, whatever you believe is true

1014
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:28,960
Bottom line is that that black hole is probably the purest representation of the human soul in all creation

1015
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:34,960
We are vacuous and when the Bible says the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residence in us

1016
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:41,960
He is the only one who can fill that space and shore up its walls and make it solid and to last

1017
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:47,960
And so when we look at others, we go oh they got a new car, they got new shoes, they got new pants, they got a new storyline

1018
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,960
There's something cool going on, oh look how cute she is doing the fancy dance

1019
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:55,960
Right, well watch that 17 times and we're watching this crap or we're watching TV right

1020
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,960
That's my favorite actor, every movie he's ever been in, I've always loved every movie he's ever been in

1021
01:20:59,960 --> 01:21:03,960
Oh this one's not that great, but I love him and so I must love this movie

1022
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:08,960
Or look at my new car that I've got, now I'm going to be okay and I'm not going to have to worry about my transportation

1023
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:13,960
While all of that is going on, it's not affecting your soul in any positive way

1024
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:19,960
We're all on the verge of crash, there was a girl that was at Pizza Hut that I was witnessing too

1025
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:24,960
I say a girl, but she was like in her mid-20s and she was the Pizza Hut store manager, just got promoted

1026
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:29,960
And I had witnessed her at a management meeting about like a month before the incident I'm about to describe

1027
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,960
I told her about Jesus, I told her about God and I asked her to be saved and she had declined

1028
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,960
And I was terrified the whole time, I was terrified the whole time I was talking to her

1029
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,960
And she's like, no, I'll think about it, I'll pray about it, whatever, and she let it go

1030
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:46,960
And about a month later, her promotion came through officially, she got her salary increased and everything

1031
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,960
And the day she got her salary increased, she went out and bought a motorcycle

1032
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:53,960
And I heard she bought a motorcycle on the phone, she said she bought a nice new motorcycle

1033
01:21:53,960 --> 01:22:01,960
This is like 2000 or something, it's about like a 2000 or a 1999 motorcycle, like 8 grand, whatever she financed it

1034
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:07,960
And I heard about it like almost immediately, because you know, I'm a motorcycle driver, in my core I enjoy driving motorcycles

1035
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:14,960
But I don't worship motorcycles or idolize them, but God makes me like think and I'm not tempted to get on my phone

1036
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:19,960
I have, I will admit, read the Ten Commandments while driving my motorcycle, I put them on the inside of my windshield

1037
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:24,960
And read them over and over as I was driving down the road, and the books of the Bible, memorizing the books of the Bible

1038
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,960
Put that on the inside of my windshield whenever I was, nothing going on, I was doing

1039
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:32,960
So I have read while I was driving my motorcycle and while I'm driving my car, but the bottom line is, while I'm on my motorcycle

1040
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:37,960
I feel like I can focus, I can think about God, I don't have a motorcycle currently because motorcycles are expensive

1041
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:42,960
And I didn't, at that time, I did have a motorcycle, but it was broke down, it was like a 1200 dollar repair

1042
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:48,960
And I didn't have the money to replace it, so when I heard that she bought a motorcycle, I'm like, holy crud, she has the life I want

1043
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:52,960
I'm a follower of Jesus trying to tell her to get saved, and she, and that's what I thought as a young Christian, I thought

1044
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:56,960
Oh man, she has the life I want, she just got a new motorcycle

1045
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:02,960
Two hours later, I got the phone call that she drove the motorcycle off the lot on her test permit

1046
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:10,960
Never having driven a motorcycle before, lost control of it, two blocks away from the lot, hit the curb, flipped the bike, totaled the bike, 8 grand bike

1047
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:12,960
And was in the hospital

1048
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:19,960
Took her three months to learn to walk again, she lost her job at Pizza Hut because she didn't tell them anything of what was going on

1049
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,960
Or she didn't keep them in the loop after that, so she was no longer store manager, no longer had a motorcycle

1050
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:30,960
And went through terrible agony and pain, and when I heard that she had, it didn't even strike me that I had said she has the life that I want

1051
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:32,960
Didn't even strike me that I had done that

1052
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:37,960
I just immediately went to prayer for her, prayed that God would miraculously heal her

1053
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:43,960
And then later it came back to me and I was shamed by the fact that that initial report that she had the motorcycle that I wished I had

1054
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,960
Had somehow affected me, listen to me, your soul is going to remain your soul

1055
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,960
And there's only one person that can deal with your soul and your heart and regenerate it

1056
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:54,960
And that is God the Father through his son Jesus Christ

1057
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:57,960
Comparing yourself to others in whatever condition

1058
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:04,960
They're cuter than me, they're fatter than me, they're thinner than me, they're smarter than me, they're faster than me, they're stronger than me, they're weaker than me

1059
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,960
Listen, most people are physically stronger than I am

1060
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:13,960
It's a fact, yet I do more physical labor than 80% of the people I know

1061
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:21,960
I literally moved last year, wait for it, 100,000 pounds of groceries, myself

1062
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,960
And Jamie moved almost that much

1063
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:27,960
And by the time Tommy's done this year he will have moved that much

1064
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:29,960
Now Tommy's pretty strong so he's not the best illustration

1065
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:33,960
But Jamie and I are physically weaker than most people we know

1066
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,960
And yet we move tens of thousands of pounds of groceries every year

1067
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:42,960
While most people clickety clackety the keyboard or talk on the phone or drive their car for a living or whatever

1068
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:47,960
Your physical strength is literally irrelevant

1069
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:49,960
What you look like is irrelevant

1070
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:51,960
You will die, go to heaven

1071
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:53,960
The bottom line is we're all suffering under the effects of creation

1072
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:55,960
Our bodies are all messed up

1073
01:24:55,960 --> 01:25:00,960
Now if you are willingly not taking care of your body and taking it to a place that it should not go

1074
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:02,960
Then you have missed that command where the Lord says

1075
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,960
This is a physical temple in which the Holy Spirit and your spirit dwell

1076
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:08,960
And you have a responsibility to take care of it

1077
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,960
I am not weaker than most people for lack of trying

1078
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:16,960
I have literally done curls with weights to the tune of like 50,000 curls

1079
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,960
Now I can show you my bicep and it looks pretty good

1080
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:21,960
But compared to Michael's it's nothing

1081
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:23,960
It's literally like a twig

1082
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:25,960
Or to Tony or Ron

1083
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,960
We got a couch out of a truck last night out of a van last night

1084
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:32,960
I could barely lift it like an inch and Arjun just grabbed the end and hauled it out

1085
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:34,960
Because he's twice as strong as I am I get that

1086
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:36,960
Am I yearning for his strength?

1087
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:37,960
No

1088
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,960
Here's what I know

1089
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,960
Physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually

1090
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:46,960
There is absolutely no better person to be in the place that you are in

1091
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:49,960
To have a relationship with God the Father

1092
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:52,960
He has orchestrated your life and the boundaries of your life

1093
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,960
Stop pitting yourself over your condition or your health concerns

1094
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:57,960
Or say well somebody else is God

1095
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,960
And just do what it is that God would have you to do

1096
01:25:59,960 --> 01:26:03,960
I run on ahead of myself but the bottom line is

1097
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:07,960
Comparing yourself to others is going to lead you to either

1098
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:10,960
A lack of repentance

1099
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,960
Because you say I'm already better, I'm already doing a good job

1100
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:15,960
What is this little problem that I have? It's okay, I'm doing that

1101
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:17,960
At least I'm not doing that anymore, whatever

1102
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:20,960
Comparing yourself to others, right?

1103
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:24,960
Or maybe you say priestly I'm angry because I'm doing the best I can

1104
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:25,960
And yeah they may be doing better than me

1105
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,960
But why is God giving them so much more stuff than he's giving me?

1106
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:29,960
Or so much more emotional?

1107
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:31,960
Or he can preach like I wish I could preach

1108
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:33,960
Or he can talk like I wish I could talk

1109
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:35,960
Or he's bold like I wish I would be bold

1110
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:36,960
Or whatever

1111
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:38,960
Or it leads you to a lack of trusting God

1112
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:42,960
The truth is that we are clay in the hands of the potter

1113
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:44,960
If you would just be faithful and follow God

1114
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,960
Then you are a clay in the hands of the potter

1115
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,960
And if you're messed up, God will fix you

1116
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:54,960
He'll take you back, start you over, and recreate you

1117
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,960
Stop with the excuses and say I can't do what somebody else does

1118
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:01,960
You can literally do anything that God sets before you to do

1119
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:03,960
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

1120
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:05,960
And yes I understand that's in a certain context

1121
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:09,960
But the bottom line is if God sets it before you and empowers you to do it

1122
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:11,960
You can do it

1123
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:15,960
The trouble is that as clay in the hands of the potter

1124
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,960
We look at the pots already made and say I'll never be that good of a pot

1125
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,960
Or maybe God's making us out to be like a bedpan pot

1126
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:24,960
And somebody else is a beautiful whole flowers pot

1127
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:28,960
And we're like well the beautiful whole flowers pot is so awesome

1128
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:30,960
I'll never be able to be like that pot

1129
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:33,960
I'm really angry that I'm a whole poop pot

1130
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:35,960
Right? I don't want to be a whole poop pot

1131
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,960
I want to be a whole flowers pot

1132
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:40,960
Who are you to tell the potter how he should make the clay?

1133
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:44,960
Who are you to tell what God wants to do through you?

1134
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:46,960
He literally cannot, wait for it

1135
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:51,960
What God wants to do through you he cannot do through anyone else

1136
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,960
Everyone is unique, a unique creation with unique gifts

1137
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:56,960
Stop trying to follow somebody else's path

1138
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:59,960
All our paths converge together in honoring God

1139
01:27:59,960 --> 01:28:01,960
And walking the kingdom of God and following his commands

1140
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:05,960
I get that, but the bottom line is you have to get real with yourself

1141
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:10,960
And say am I willing to be the clay so the potter can make me into whatever he wants me to be

1142
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:12,960
What if he makes me into a bedpan?

1143
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:14,960
What if he makes me into a door stop?

1144
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:15,960
Am I cool with that?

1145
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:19,960
Well better is one day in his courts than a thousands elsewhere

1146
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:26,960
And we can and will be walking the way of holiness

1147
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,960
Living our lives for God

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01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:31,960
We'll be thinking about his word

1149
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:33,960
We'll be meditating on his word

1150
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:35,960
And along will come someone else

1151
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,960
And they will say something or do something that will get your attention

1152
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:40,960
And while you're supposed to think about it in a godly way

1153
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,960
You're supposed to ask God what do I think of that

1154
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:47,960
You're supposed to let what you experience, everything in your five senses experience

1155
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:51,960
Affect you internally only in that it is filtered through your God filter

1156
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:53,960
That's how it's supposed to be done

1157
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:58,960
Instead you will think about yourself compared to someone else

1158
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,960
2 Corinthians chapter 10

1159
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:04,960
If you want to flip there in your Bibles you're welcome to do so

1160
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,960
I'm going kind of fast because I still have two points even though they're shorter

1161
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,960
2 Corinthians chapter 10

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01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:16,960
2 Corinthians chapter 10 I'm going to read verses 2, 7, 12 and 18

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And by that you will get the gist of the entire chapter almost

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01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:22,960
Chapter 10 verse 2, 2 Corinthians says

1165
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,960
I ask that when I am present I may be bold with the confidence

1166
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:29,960
With which I propose to be courageous against some

1167
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:33,960
Some that is who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh

1168
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,960
There were people that looked at Paul and his companions

1169
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,960
And said they're not walking after Jesus they're walking according to the flesh

1170
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,960
There were people that were comparing themselves saying

1171
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,960
Well we're followers of Jesus but that Paul over there

1172
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,960
He's not quite doing the right things

1173
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:48,960
Down to verse 7

1174
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:50,960
If you are looking at things as they, I'm sorry

1175
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:54,960
You are looking at things as they are outwardly

1176
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,960
If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's

1177
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,960
Let him consider this again within himself

1178
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,960
That just as he is Christ's so also are we

1179
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:07,960
Be careful when you look at others and judge their actions

1180
01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:11,960
Or judge them or think well they've got it all together or they're falling apart

1181
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:13,960
Either one because it's not your place to do that

1182
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:15,960
It's your place to be working between you and God

1183
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:19,960
To be fixing you and letting God do the work in you that he wants to do

1184
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:21,960
Verse 12 then says

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01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:25,960
For we are not bold

1186
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:30,960
To class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves

1187
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,960
But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves

1188
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:36,960
They are without understanding

1189
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,960
What you're essentially doing is when you look at somebody else

1190
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,960
And compare yourself to them you're measuring yourself

1191
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,960
Just the same as you're measuring yourself in comparison to them

1192
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,960
You're measuring them in comparison to you and sometimes you'll say they're better in that thing

1193
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:50,960
And sometimes you'll say you're better in that thing

1194
01:30:50,960 --> 01:30:52,960
You really need to not be doing that at all

1195
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:57,960
Paul who preached the gospel was the first one to even go to Corinth with the gospel of Jesus Christ

1196
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:00,960
Would not even dare to compare himself though

1197
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:03,960
At one point in time somebody might be miraculously healed

1198
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:05,960
He brought a guy back to life who fell asleep while he was preaching

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01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:07,960
All these crazy things that Paul did

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01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:11,960
And he would not compare himself with the young Christians in Corinth

1201
01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:14,960
I'm not comparing myself with you

1202
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:19,960
I yearn that you would strive forward and try to be what God would want you to be

1203
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,960
But I'm not comparing myself with you at any point in time

1204
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:25,960
If I see something in you that I don't think is godly

1205
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:27,960
I hope I'll have the courage to bring it to you

1206
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:29,960
But when I think about having the courage to bring it to you

1207
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:32,960
I understand it's my own weakness that would keep me from doing so

1208
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:35,960
Not you, not yours, nothing about you

1209
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:39,960
Paul said I don't even compare myself with those who commend themselves

1210
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,960
But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves

1211
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:44,960
They are without understanding

1212
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:46,960
Stop it!

1213
01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:51,960
God loves you and is trying to make you into something awesome that will glorify him

1214
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,960
And if you're busy looking at what others are and what others are doing

1215
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:56,960
You're just messing all that up

1216
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:58,960
Verse 18, last one in the chapter

1217
01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:04,960
He says this, because not he who commends himself is approved

1218
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:06,960
But whom the Lord commends

1219
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,960
It doesn't matter, go ahead, put it on Facebook that you're proud of yourself

1220
01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:12,960
Or proud of your kid or proud of your school or proud of whatever

1221
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,960
Go ahead, tell everybody about what's going on in your life

1222
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,960
You can do all that, but make sure that you do more telling everybody about

1223
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:21,960
Who's the source of all your contentment?

1224
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:22,960
Who's the source of all your power?

1225
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:24,960
Who's the source of all your holiness?

1226
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:25,960
Who's the source of all your righteousness?

1227
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:27,960
Who it is that will take you through to eternity?

1228
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:29,960
Who it is that is preparing a place for you?

1229
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:32,960
Maybe if you get around to talking about God the way you're supposed to

1230
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:36,960
You won't have quite as much time to talk about everything else

1231
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,960
For it's not he who commends himself who is approved

1232
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:47,960
But whom the Lord commends

1233
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:51,960
The second thing I want you to see in this passage of Scripture then

1234
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:57,960
That it is not because of our righteousness that we are being given the promised destination

1235
01:32:57,960 --> 01:32:59,960
Indeed it is because of his righteousness

1236
01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:02,960
Now it's interesting because the Israelites were being given a picture

1237
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:05,960
Of what it's like for us knowing Jesus first hand

1238
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:07,960
You know that it is not your righteousness, right?

1239
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:08,960
I mean you should

1240
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:10,960
You're not going to go to heaven because of your righteousness

1241
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:14,960
Jesus does not make you righteous when you get saved

1242
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:15,960
That's not how it works

1243
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:16,960
If you think that's how it works you're confused

1244
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:18,960
That's a process of sanctification

1245
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:20,960
It happens long term over your whole life

1246
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:24,960
What he actually does is he imposes his righteousness on you

1247
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,960
So now when God looks at you he sees Jesus' righteousness

1248
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:29,960
That is if you're saved

1249
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,960
So if you've trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior

1250
01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:33,960
And believe that God raised him from the dead

1251
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:34,960
Called out to him to save you

1252
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:39,960
Then God at that moment in time allowed Jesus to superimpose his righteousness upon you

1253
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:42,960
And continues to this day every time you mar it, mess it up

1254
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:44,960
Go somewhere you shouldn't go

1255
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:45,960
Do something you shouldn't do

1256
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:48,960
He continues to stand at the right hand of the Father

1257
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:51,960
And to impress God with his own righteousness

1258
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:52,960
The righteousness of Jesus

1259
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:54,960
Not your righteousness but the righteousness of Jesus

1260
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:57,960
And say God please forgive him, overlook it

1261
01:33:57,960 --> 01:33:59,960
We can just hear the words of Moses

1262
01:33:59,960 --> 01:34:01,960
As Moses is pleading with God not to destroy them

1263
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,960
Jesus is doing the same thing for you and for me

1264
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:05,960
That is if you're saved

1265
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:07,960
He's doing the same thing for you and for me every day

1266
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:08,960
So the next time you sin

1267
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:11,960
Understand that immediately Jesus has to turn to God

1268
01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:13,960
Or God to Jesus and look at each other

1269
01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:15,960
Or they just talk without looking at each other

1270
01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:17,960
Whatever and Jesus says it's okay God

1271
01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:19,960
It's covered by the blood I shed on the cross

1272
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:21,960
By the crushing sacrifice that was made

1273
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:22,960
It's covered

1274
01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:23,960
So we've still got him

1275
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:25,960
We've still got him

1276
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:26,960
If ever they had you

1277
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:30,960
They'll still have you because Jesus will eternally be standing there

1278
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:33,960
Imposing his righteousness over top of yours

1279
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:36,960
Now it is ultimately the goal that your righteousness will become

1280
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:39,960
A little bit more like Jesus' righteousness all the time

1281
01:34:39,960 --> 01:34:41,960
Never fully arriving until that moment

1282
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:42,960
Which come into God's presence

1283
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:43,960
But always getting a little bit more

1284
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:47,960
We're not sinless but as we grow we sin a little less

1285
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:51,960
And that's it

1286
01:34:51,960 --> 01:34:53,960
It is not because of our righteousness

1287
01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:56,960
That we are being given the promised destination

1288
01:34:56,960 --> 01:34:58,960
We receive because of his righteousness

1289
01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:01,960
Because he is keeping his promise

1290
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:03,960
But then you want to go on to say don't you

1291
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:06,960
And because of his consuming fire toward others

1292
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:07,960
That's what we want to say

1293
01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:10,960
But that has nothing to do with salvation

1294
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:12,960
That has nothing to do with why we'll get to heaven

1295
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:17,960
What happens to other people literally has nothing to do with when we get to heaven

1296
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:19,960
Where did God's consuming fire play out?

1297
01:35:19,960 --> 01:35:21,960
Where did that happen at?

1298
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:24,960
Where did God's consuming fire destroy or crush someone

1299
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:28,960
So that we could have the course that we have into eternity?

1300
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:30,960
On the cross

1301
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:33,960
God's consuming fire crushed Jesus on the cross

1302
01:35:33,960 --> 01:35:35,960
So that we could have this course into eternity

1303
01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:36,960
That we could go to heaven

1304
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:37,960
That's the math of it

1305
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:39,960
He doesn't have to crush your neighbor to do that anymore

1306
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:41,960
He doesn't have to crush the mayor

1307
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,960
The crooked politicians or the child molesters

1308
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:45,960
He doesn't have to crush any of them

1309
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:47,960
For you to be able to have the eternal path

1310
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:49,960
Between where you currently are and heaven

1311
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:50,960
He doesn't have to do that

1312
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:52,960
Because he crushed Jesus to pay the price for my sin

1313
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:54,960
To pay the price for your sin

1314
01:35:54,960 --> 01:36:00,960
His consuming fire consumed his son

1315
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:04,960
So it's not based on our righteousness that we're entering in

1316
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,960
But based on his righteousness opposed upon us

1317
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:08,960
And wait for it

1318
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:11,960
His love for other people

1319
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:13,960
You're like, well how do we see that in Deuteronomy 9?

1320
01:36:13,960 --> 01:36:15,960
Well we may see it elsewhere in Scripture

1321
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:16,960
How do we see it in Deuteronomy 9?

1322
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:18,960
Why?

1323
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:20,960
What standard did Moses use?

1324
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:22,960
Or what argument did he make with God

1325
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:25,960
That God would not wipe out the Israelites?

1326
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:28,960
Because if the Israelites don't arrive in the promised land

1327
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,960
That God is taking them to

1328
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:32,960
Who does that reflect upon?

1329
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:34,960
Who was not able by an outside standard

1330
01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:36,960
To do what they said they were going to do?

1331
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:37,960
Well it's not people

1332
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:40,960
Because people are always under one circumstance or another

1333
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:42,960
Not able to do what they said they would do

1334
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:43,960
They make a plan

1335
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:44,960
They commit themselves

1336
01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:45,960
They try really hard maybe even

1337
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:46,960
They go out of the way

1338
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:47,960
Block out the time

1339
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:48,960
Everything like that

1340
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:50,960
But still fail because it was outside their control

1341
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:52,960
So it wasn't going to be the Israelites

1342
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:54,960
That they were all going to be laughing at and mocking

1343
01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:55,960
It was going to be God

1344
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:59,960
You see the Israelites were God's plan to bring every man in the world to heaven

1345
01:36:59,960 --> 01:37:00,960
And wait for it

1346
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:04,960
You are God's now plan to bring every man in the world to heaven

1347
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:07,960
Every man and woman in the world can go to heaven

1348
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:10,960
Through the church of Jesus Christ that lives in our day

1349
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:12,960
If they would accept Christ

1350
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:14,960
If they would believe in him as Lord and Savior

1351
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:17,960
And that God raised him from the dead and call out to be saved

1352
01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:18,960
They would receive salvation

1353
01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:21,960
And I submit to you many of them are looking for it

1354
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:25,960
And not finding it because they are wrapped up in this

1355
01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:29,960
Long lasting poison of comparing to others

1356
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:30,960
They look at the church and say

1357
01:37:30,960 --> 01:37:32,960
Well I'm more honest than that church is anyway

1358
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:34,960
They are just a bunch of hypocrites

1359
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:35,960
That's the poison

1360
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:37,960
And it's killing them

1361
01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:41,960
It's a particular brand of sin that persists

1362
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:46,960
But God is guaranteeing our walk on the highway of holiness

1363
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:47,960
Even when we sin against him

1364
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:51,960
Because of his righteousness imposed upon us through his son Jesus Christ

1365
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,960
And because of his love for other people

1366
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:57,960
And because of his love for other people

1367
01:37:57,960 --> 01:38:00,960
That we might take Jesus' righteousness into the world

1368
01:38:00,960 --> 01:38:03,960
And that people might be saved

1369
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:05,960
And then the third thing to see in the text

1370
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:08,960
Which is blaringly obvious but I think just sometimes needs to be said

1371
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:11,960
And that is he is able

1372
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,960
Remember that from the moment they left Egypt

1373
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:18,960
God could have snapped his God fingers

1374
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:20,960
And they could have been in the promised land

1375
01:38:20,960 --> 01:38:23,960
Remember that from the moment they left Egypt

1376
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:24,960
He could have snapped his fingers

1377
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:26,960
And all the people that lived in the promised land

1378
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:28,960
Could have been wiped out

1379
01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:31,960
And the animals not gotten out of control by eating them

1380
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:33,960
Because he could have made them gone

1381
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:37,960
God has the power because God created everything

1382
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:40,960
So if God had the power to teleport them out of Egypt

1383
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:41,960
Into the promised land

1384
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,960
And wipe everybody out that was in their way instantaneously

1385
01:38:44,960 --> 01:38:48,960
What was the journey all about?

1386
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,960
It was all about the fact that

1387
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:53,960
It's not about us

1388
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:55,960
And they needed to learn that

1389
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:57,960
And we actually read that in chapter 8 of last week

1390
01:38:57,960 --> 01:38:59,960
He said I brought you through all of that

1391
01:38:59,960 --> 01:39:01,960
And all that stubbornness and all that foolishness

1392
01:39:01,960 --> 01:39:06,960
To test your heart and see if you were willing and able

1393
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:09,960
And up on Mount Horeb or the base of Mount Horeb

1394
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:12,960
He said again that they were not willing and able

1395
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:15,960
And yet Moses said but please don't destroy them

1396
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:17,960
Because the people will say

1397
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:20,960
You are not willing and able

1398
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:22,960
And this is the reality

1399
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:26,960
We are living in a day where if we as a church do not step up

1400
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:28,960
If we as a church do not shine

1401
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:30,960
If we don't give more than we've ever given

1402
01:39:30,960 --> 01:39:32,960
If we don't serve more than we've ever served

1403
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:35,960
If we don't be outspoken more than we've ever been outspoken

1404
01:39:35,960 --> 01:39:37,960
The church will be dying

1405
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:39,960
And they're saying it's already happening

1406
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:41,960
It's happening in parts of the world

1407
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:43,960
In some parts of the world the church is growing like crazy

1408
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:45,960
But by and large the church will be dying

1409
01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:48,960
And it won't be the church that people will be mocking

1410
01:39:48,960 --> 01:39:50,960
It'll be God

1411
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:52,960
He'll say yes, see they claim in the name of Jesus

1412
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:56,960
But God wasn't able to do what it was

1413
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:58,960
When churches doors close

1414
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:01,960
It is not because God is weak or not able

1415
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:04,960
When buildings stop being meeting places for churches

1416
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:06,960
Pastors stop preaching the word

1417
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:10,960
Or church staff or deacons get into an affair with the church secretary

1418
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:12,960
Or children's teacher

1419
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:14,960
When all of that evil happens

1420
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:17,960
Or a pastor who preached the truth of God stands up after 10 years

1421
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:19,960
And declares himself to be a practicing homosexual

1422
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:21,960
When all of that stuff happens

1423
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:23,960
It is not because God is not able

1424
01:40:23,960 --> 01:40:26,960
God is able

1425
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:32,960
But along the journey of people discovering just exactly how able God is

1426
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:39,960
They encountered his wrath by perhaps consuming this long lasting poison

1427
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:42,960
That pastor who stood up for 10 years and preached the gospel

1428
01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:44,960
And said I'm a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ

1429
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:45,960
And you need to be too

1430
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:46,960
And his church was growing

1431
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:48,960
People were getting saved

1432
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:50,960
People were like man our pastor is all that

1433
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:52,960
Our pastor is so awesome

1434
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:53,960
We love our pastor

1435
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:57,960
Look how he grew our church from 100 people to 3000 people or whatever

1436
01:40:57,960 --> 01:41:00,960
And then one day he gets up and all that while he's saying

1437
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:02,960
I'm better than all these 3000 people

1438
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:03,960
I'm preaching the word

1439
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:05,960
All these 3000 people are looking to me

1440
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:06,960
And then he gets up and he said

1441
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:09,960
And I'm practicing homosexual and I am not going to repent

1442
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:11,960
And I'm going to keep coming up here every Sunday

1443
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:12,960
And I'm going to keep preaching and teaching

1444
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:14,960
Because this is the way I think it is

1445
01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:16,960
Even though for 10 years he taught what the word said

1446
01:41:16,960 --> 01:41:17,960
That day he said

1447
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:18,960
And you know what happened

1448
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:20,960
The next week guess how many people come to church

1449
01:41:20,960 --> 01:41:21,960
1300 not 3000

1450
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:22,960
The next week 300

1451
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:24,960
The next week 150

1452
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,960
Because they knew that they had bought into something that was a lie

1453
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:29,960
I am no better than anybody

1454
01:41:29,960 --> 01:41:31,960
Josh you are no better than anybody

1455
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:33,960
Tony you are no better than anybody

1456
01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:35,960
Lynn no better than anybody

1457
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:36,960
Right

1458
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:37,960
We are not

1459
01:41:37,960 --> 01:41:40,960
Saved or not it doesn't matter

1460
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:44,960
At best we become a servant of the servant king

1461
01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:46,960
Delivering the truth

1462
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:49,960
And when we do that he is able

1463
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:51,960
And when we don't do that watch out

1464
01:41:51,960 --> 01:41:53,960
Because he is able

1465
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:56,960
And somebody else later on down the road will come

1466
01:41:56,960 --> 01:42:00,960
And they will build their life out of the remnants of your crushed dreams

1467
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:04,960
Because you didn't do what it was that God called you to

1468
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:06,960
He is able

1469
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:08,960
Trust him

1470
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:12,960
Stop thinking it's going to take this or that or whatever

1471
01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:16,960
And commend your whole life and all your variables into his hands

1472
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:18,960
He is able

1473
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:20,960
If a bullet should enter your brain and you should die

1474
01:42:20,960 --> 01:42:22,960
He is able to take you to heaven

1475
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:25,960
And in that moment you will sure be hoping that's so won't you

1476
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:29,960
But right now you are like I am not worried about that because there is no bullet

1477
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:30,960
He is able

1478
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:33,960
Get out of bed in the morning and remind yourself that he is able

1479
01:42:33,960 --> 01:42:35,960
And stop comparing yourself to others

1480
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:39,960
And if you look at yourself in light of Jesus

1481
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:41,960
That's what 1 Corinthians 3 18 says

1482
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:44,960
That we are focused on the image of God in him

1483
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:47,960
And by focusing on the image of God in him being transformed daily

1484
01:42:47,960 --> 01:42:50,960
A little bit into the image of God that we see in him

1485
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:52,960
So focus on Jesus

1486
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:55,960
And if you are not satisfied with who you are compared to Jesus

1487
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:57,960
Repent and turn to the Lord

1488
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:01,960
And by the way you should not be satisfied with who you are compared to Jesus

1489
01:43:01,960 --> 01:43:06,960
Because compared to Jesus you are just a piece of dirt

1490
01:43:06,960 --> 01:43:09,960
With a little bit of inspiration

1491
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:15,960
And then when you are saved it's his righteousness written on that tablet of God's creation

1492
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:18,960
Not your righteousness

1493
01:43:18,960 --> 01:43:25,960
The gospel is the unveiling of the meeting point of God's power and his righteousness and his love

1494
01:43:25,960 --> 01:43:27,960
I want you to think about 3 lines

1495
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:30,960
Very bold bright glowing lines in the sky

1496
01:43:30,960 --> 01:43:32,960
And they are running all over the place

1497
01:43:32,960 --> 01:43:38,960
And finally they all meet the power of God

1498
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,960
The power of God the love of God

1499
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:43,960
And the righteousness of God

1500
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:45,960
And they all meet in one place

1501
01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:47,960
And now you tell me what you see there

1502
01:43:47,960 --> 01:43:52,960
When the power of God and the righteousness of God and the love of God all meet in one place

1503
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:54,960
What do you see there?

1504
01:43:54,960 --> 01:43:58,960
Do you see Jesus on the cross?

1505
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:04,960
Because when those 3 lines met that was the only way

1506
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:07,960
To satisfy the power and the righteousness and the love of God

1507
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,960
That was the only way

1508
01:44:10,960 --> 01:44:12,960
Or if you are saved

1509
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:14,960
Do you see the empty tomb?

1510
01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:17,960
Jesus risen

1511
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:21,960
Or do you see the gates of heaven?

1512
01:44:21,960 --> 01:44:27,960
And that sick man Lazarus for his whole life sat at the gates begging

1513
01:44:27,960 --> 01:44:31,960
Sickly usually not having enough to eat

1514
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:34,960
But there in eternity forever comforted

1515
01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:36,960
Never yearning for anything ever again

1516
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:40,960
Do you see that?

1517
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,960
His power his righteousness and his love

1518
01:44:43,960 --> 01:44:47,960
The gospel is the unveiling of the meeting point of all of those things

1519
01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:51,960
And that brings us to our conclusion because there is an antidote

1520
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:54,960
The antidote for this sickly poison

1521
01:44:54,960 --> 01:44:58,960
Slow acting gouge

1522
01:44:58,960 --> 01:45:06,960
God's greatness out of your life over the longest possible period of time

1523
01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:09,960
Is the kingdom of God at work in you

1524
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:17,960
The kingdom of God on earth is that place at which God's motivations and his power connect

1525
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:19,960
Do you love God?

1526
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:21,960
Do you believe in God?

1527
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:25,960
Have you met God through his son Jesus Christ?

1528
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:28,960
And believe he is able

1529
01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:31,960
And do what he would have you to do

1530
01:45:31,960 --> 01:45:36,960
And thereby be in the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God has its own antibodies

1531
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:39,960
Because I can't know whether you're saved and you can't know whether I'm saved

1532
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:45,960
So I can't look at Tommy even though realistically I might say that Tommy is more handsome than I am

1533
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:48,960
He's stronger than I am, he's surely faster than I am

1534
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,960
He's more intelligent in certain things like electronics

1535
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:54,960
He can solder circuit boards which I can't do

1536
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:56,960
He's great with little children

1537
01:45:56,960 --> 01:46:00,960
I might look at all of those things and I might say that he is better than me all of a sudden

1538
01:46:00,960 --> 01:46:02,960
But here's what I can't do

1539
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:05,960
I can't look at Tommy and say for sure he's going to heaven

1540
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:09,960
Nor can I look at anyone else in this room, doesn't matter what you've told me

1541
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:12,960
I cannot look at you and say for sure I know that you're going to heaven

1542
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:14,960
I cannot judge your salvation

1543
01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:19,960
And because of that it rules out my appreciating anything that you have

1544
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:21,960
Or coveting anything that you have that makes you better than me

1545
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:25,960
And I could go around the room and say this makes you better than me, this makes you better than me, this makes you better than me

1546
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:28,960
This makes you worse than me, this makes you worse than me, this makes you worse than me

1547
01:46:28,960 --> 01:46:33,960
And I could balance it out and ultimately say well I think Ron is better off than Dan is

1548
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:35,960
RJ is worse off than Dan is

1549
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:37,960
Sierra is better off than Dan is

1550
01:46:37,960 --> 01:46:39,960
I could go around the room and I could do that

1551
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:41,960
But because I can't know whether you're saved or not

1552
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:44,960
The kingdom of God at work in me

1553
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:47,960
The Holy Spirit of God testifying with my spirit

1554
01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:49,960
That I know where I'm going when I die

1555
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:55,960
That I'm living as best I can on the road of holiness for as long as I can while I live here on this earth

1556
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:59,960
I'm walking that path because I know that that's what I'm trying to do

1557
01:46:59,960 --> 01:47:03,960
There is no comparing me with anybody else

1558
01:47:03,960 --> 01:47:05,960
Because for all I know

1559
01:47:05,960 --> 01:47:07,960
Very realistically speaking for all I know

1560
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:11,960
I might be the only person in this room that's actually saved

1561
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:16,960
And for all you know you might be the only person in this room that's actually saved

1562
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:18,960
You say no I'm sure Pastor Dan's saved

1563
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:23,960
I submit to you that you need to repent and turn to God because the Bible says judge not lest ye be judged

1564
01:47:23,960 --> 01:47:26,960
And that means whether you judge me well or judge me poorly

1565
01:47:26,960 --> 01:47:31,960
Either way you're doing what God says you must not do

1566
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:36,960
And it will not be he who cries out Lord Lord necessarily

1567
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,960
Who will enter into the kingdom of heaven when the time comes

1568
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:42,960
But he who follows God

1569
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:46,960
He who is saved through Jesus Christ God's own son

1570
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:50,960
And receives a righteousness that is not his own

1571
01:47:50,960 --> 01:47:56,960
Be careful that you don't automatically set up something that will cause others to compare themselves to you

1572
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:58,960
When you say sometime for example

1573
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:00,960
And I'm not saying you can't talk talk and say what God wants you to say

1574
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:02,960
When you say sometime that I am so well off

1575
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:07,960
You know that there are going to be others who are going to go well yeah I'm not that well off

1576
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:11,960
You say to others I am so poorly off things are so bad

1577
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:14,960
There are going to be others when you say that that are going to say

1578
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:18,960
Well I must be doing much better

1579
01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:22,960
And if they lost and think that if they're lost and think they're doing much better

1580
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:25,960
They're not because they're going to hell

1581
01:48:25,960 --> 01:48:29,960
And if they're saved and think they're doing much worse

1582
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:35,960
Then that leads to a lack of trust in God they need to repent

1583
01:48:35,960 --> 01:48:41,960
The kingdom of God has a built-in inoculation against comparing ourselves with others

1584
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:48,960
And that we can truly only know if the Holy Spirit is in us testifying that we're saved

1585
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:53,960
And as soon as you go well I'm pretty sure he's saved and look at how awesome he is

1586
01:48:53,960 --> 01:48:56,960
Or look at how pretty she is

1587
01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:05,960
As soon as you do that you're crossing into that zone of consuming little bits of that poison on a daily basis

1588
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:09,960
There is a practice in fact one of my favorite lines of all time from a movie

1589
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:13,960
And I'm closing here in a second is from Princess Bride

1590
01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:15,960
Some of you will go I know that movie

1591
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:17,960
There are lots of good lines for that movie

1592
01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:24,960
And there's a movie where he's in an intelligence battle with a duel essentially with Vincini

1593
01:49:24,960 --> 01:49:29,960
The Dread Pirate Robert says and they're supposed to guess whether the poison is in which cup

1594
01:49:29,960 --> 01:49:34,960
And he does this thing and he sets it down and he goes hahaha very funny

1595
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:38,960
Ultimately he says he wins and then Vincini drank from his cup and he dies

1596
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:45,960
And the Dread Pirate Robert says well I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to Iocaine powder

1597
01:49:45,960 --> 01:49:48,960
And so the poison was in both cups

1598
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:51,960
And not that Vincini couldn't have essentially figured that out and refused to drink

1599
01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:57,960
But the bottom line is that's a fictitious thing

1600
01:49:57,960 --> 01:50:04,960
Building up immunity, poison to immunity, immunity to poisons in your body is almost impossible

1601
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:08,960
There are lots of different kinds of poisons, all the metal based poisons

1602
01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,960
They actually build up a little bit, a little bit right

1603
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:14,960
And so if you would consume the tiniest microgram of that poison today

1604
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:18,960
And then again in a month and again in a month hoping to eventually build up immunity

1605
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:21,960
What will actually happen is once you build up enough of it you'll die

1606
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:23,960
Your body starts to shut down

1607
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:25,960
So when you get to a thousand grains for example

1608
01:50:25,960 --> 01:50:30,960
Your liver croaks out and you start having organ failure and you die

1609
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:32,960
So you can't do it on those kinds of poisons

1610
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:34,960
You know about snake poison right

1611
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,960
And so there have been a lot of people that over the years believe that you could actually

1612
01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:44,960
Get immunity to certain snake poisons by taking a little bit, little bit over a long period of time

1613
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:48,960
And they figured out how it works, the liver produces this chemical that allows you to metabolize the poison

1614
01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:51,960
And you don't die from it if you only have it in very small doses

1615
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:55,960
And these are animals that have natural immunities and they could replicate it

1616
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:58,960
And there's this guy who goes and gets his blood drawn in Greenland every year

1617
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:02,960
Because he's done this for like 30 years, injected himself with little bits of snake poison

1618
01:51:02,960 --> 01:51:06,960
And so far what they've determined is that he's not immune to snake poison at all

1619
01:51:06,960 --> 01:51:08,960
So you really can't do that either

1620
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:12,960
Plant based poisons pretty much produce a certain chemical in your liver

1621
01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:16,960
And over a period of time if you produce too much of the cow

1622
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:18,960
If you need to produce too much of the chemical, you don't have it

1623
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:21,960
Then your body metabolizes the poisons into your fat cells or stores

1624
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:23,960
And wherever it possibly can to try to keep you alive

1625
01:51:23,960 --> 01:51:26,960
But when there's too much of it or one day you're walking down the street

1626
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:28,960
And you worked out a little bit and your body starts to burn off some of the fat

1627
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:31,960
It goes to your liver, your liver's not prepared, you croak

1628
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:34,960
There's really no becoming immune to poisons

1629
01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:37,960
There's some very limited success that people have had

1630
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:39,960
But you can't take a little bit, little bit, little bit of a poison

1631
01:51:39,960 --> 01:51:41,960
And I submit to you, why am I talking about this?

1632
01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:44,960
Because that's exactly what people are doing today

1633
01:51:44,960 --> 01:51:46,960
They're taking a little bit of comparing themselves

1634
01:51:46,960 --> 01:51:48,960
A little bit here, a little bit there

1635
01:51:48,960 --> 01:51:50,960
They're like, well, no big deal, you know

1636
01:51:50,960 --> 01:51:53,960
I compare myself to that person but I'm not really letting it affect me and so on

1637
01:51:53,960 --> 01:51:56,960
I've got a little bit of comparing myself, a little bit more, a little bit more

1638
01:51:56,960 --> 01:52:00,960
And in doing all that, they think that they're building up an immunity

1639
01:52:00,960 --> 01:52:03,960
Because they're realizing that that person's trying to make them feel small

1640
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:05,960
But they're not going to let that happen

1641
01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:07,960
They're realizing that that person's trying to make them big

1642
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:09,960
But they're not going to let that happen

1643
01:52:09,960 --> 01:52:10,960
They're going to give glory to God

1644
01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:13,960
I submit to you that giving glory to God might be a good way to go

1645
01:52:13,960 --> 01:52:15,960
But here's what's not a good way to go

1646
01:52:15,960 --> 01:52:18,960
Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever

1647
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:20,960
Let's go on until God, until Jesus comes again

1648
01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:23,960
Compare yourself with someone else

1649
01:52:25,960 --> 01:52:27,960
It's a poison

1650
01:52:27,960 --> 01:52:30,960
You'll never become immune to it

1651
01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:33,960
You will eventually destroy your walk with God

1652
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:36,960
Maybe yourself

1653
01:52:36,960 --> 01:52:40,960
And if that is so, and I believe it is

1654
01:52:40,960 --> 01:52:43,960
Then it's a sin against God

1655
01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:46,960
Which means it will also destroy your relationship with God

1656
01:52:46,960 --> 01:52:49,960
Because the wages of sin is death

1657
01:52:49,960 --> 01:52:54,960
I mentioned to you at the beginning three things

1658
01:52:54,960 --> 01:52:56,960
And I've covered one of them

1659
01:52:56,960 --> 01:52:58,960
The next one was the medals that are given to children

1660
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:00,960
So here's the thing

1661
01:53:00,960 --> 01:53:03,960
I learned a long time ago when I was a kid

1662
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:07,960
We used to get desserts for if we did well in school

1663
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:08,960
My mom would give us desserts

1664
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:10,960
She'd take us out for ice cream and things like that

1665
01:53:10,960 --> 01:53:11,960
That ever happen to you?

1666
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:14,960
And I learned from my psychology classes and so on

1667
01:53:14,960 --> 01:53:17,960
That that is the way to make your children have difficulty

1668
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:21,960
Dealing with, when they grow up, eating habits

1669
01:53:21,960 --> 01:53:23,960
Because you say to your child, also by the way

1670
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:25,960
Forcing your child to eat everything on their plate

1671
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:27,960
Also screw up their eating habits

1672
01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:30,960
Forcing or allowing your child not to try new foods that they don't like

1673
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:31,960
Also screw up their eating habits

1674
01:53:31,960 --> 01:53:33,960
Lots of ways you can screw up your child's eating habits

1675
01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:39,960
So now you think every time I'm down, I'm hurting, I'm sad

1676
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:44,960
I'm going to go get some ice cream because I'll feel better

1677
01:53:44,960 --> 01:53:48,960
So you screwed up your psychology that way

1678
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:51,960
Now, obviously it's all in the hands of the Lord

1679
01:53:51,960 --> 01:53:52,960
And you can say, well I'm not going to worry about that

1680
01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:54,960
God's going to take care of it

1681
01:53:54,960 --> 01:53:59,960
Rewarding children for their good behavior is dangerous in a sense that

1682
01:53:59,960 --> 01:54:04,960
They will think later if they do good behavior, they deserve a reward

1683
01:54:04,960 --> 01:54:07,960
And if they don't get a reward, then they'll be irritated about the reward

1684
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:09,960
They didn't get a reward, right?

1685
01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:15,960
So if you try really hard on your sports team, really really hard on your sports team

1686
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:17,960
And you do really really well

1687
01:54:17,960 --> 01:54:22,960
And at the end of the year you don't get a medal for MVP or Most Improved or anything like that

1688
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:26,960
You get upset

1689
01:54:26,960 --> 01:54:29,960
If you get the same medal that everybody else got

1690
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:33,960
That's no better because everybody got a medal, right?

1691
01:54:33,960 --> 01:54:37,960
The bottom line is, should we give medals to sports teams?

1692
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:40,960
Probably because we should encourage good behavior

1693
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:43,960
But we as parents have a responsibility to teach our children

1694
01:54:43,960 --> 01:54:48,960
It's not relative to what others did

1695
01:54:48,960 --> 01:54:51,960
When we say most valuable player, for example

1696
01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:56,960
We're saying you were the most valuable player over top of the other nine kids on the team

1697
01:54:56,960 --> 01:55:01,960
We're teaching them to value themselves

1698
01:55:01,960 --> 01:55:03,960
Responding to what they see in others

1699
01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:07,960
We're literally teaching them to compare themselves to others

1700
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:11,960
Sporting events

1701
01:55:11,960 --> 01:55:15,960
My baseball team goes out, plays against another baseball team that my kids are on

1702
01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:19,960
At the end, the score tells which team was better

1703
01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:22,960
Team sporting events are awesome

1704
01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:24,960
They teach teamwork, they're actually perfect for this

1705
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:32,960
Because does the 11-10 score at the end of a baseball game say that one pitcher was better than the other?

1706
01:55:32,960 --> 01:55:34,960
It does not

1707
01:55:34,960 --> 01:55:37,960
Does it say that one right fielder was better than the other team's right fielder?

1708
01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:39,960
It does not

1709
01:55:39,960 --> 01:55:46,960
However, if every member of that team gives their extreme best effort and does what they're supposed to do

1710
01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:51,960
Yet they lose to this other team who did the same thing

1711
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:55,960
Then you can reasonably say that the team that won is better than the team that didn't

1712
01:55:55,960 --> 01:56:00,960
But maybe it was simply in their teamwork or in their coaching or in their planning or in their playbook

1713
01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:03,960
Or pure luck

1714
01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:06,960
Time and chance happens to all men

1715
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:10,960
It is the responsibility of every person to be the best that they possibly can be

1716
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:14,960
And we are being crushed under that burden if we're trying to do it outside Jesus Christ

1717
01:56:14,960 --> 01:56:18,960
So sporting events are a great place to help people remember

1718
01:56:18,960 --> 01:56:22,960
It is not about how well you did it in response to how well somebody else did it

1719
01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:25,960
It's about who you're becoming

1720
01:56:25,960 --> 01:56:27,960
What are you doing?

1721
01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:32,960
Are you following, in our case, are you following Jesus and becoming the person that God would have you to be?

1722
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:33,960
Or not?

1723
01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:37,960
If you're playing sports or if you're playing games or if you're watching TV

1724
01:56:37,960 --> 01:56:41,960
And it is not about you following the highway of holiness or going to heaven when you die

1725
01:56:41,960 --> 01:56:44,960
You following Jesus and letting His righteousness be imputed to you and so on

1726
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:48,960
If it's not about that, then you shouldn't be doing it

1727
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:52,960
So if you have a kid who's playing sports or you have a kid who's watching or playing video games

1728
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:55,960
Or you have a kid who's watching something on their phone

1729
01:56:55,960 --> 01:57:00,960
And you realize that it is causing them to compare themselves to somebody else

1730
01:57:00,960 --> 01:57:06,960
It's time to step up mom or dad or aunt or uncle or friend or brother or sister in Christ

1731
01:57:06,960 --> 01:57:10,960
And say, look, this is not so that you compare yourself to somebody else

1732
01:57:10,960 --> 01:57:14,960
Because it's really about who are you in Christ?

1733
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:16,960
Let's not train our children

1734
01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:20,960
As I said, the world got there the complete wrong way by giving everybody a medal

1735
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:22,960
Saying nobody is better than anybody else

1736
01:57:22,960 --> 01:57:27,960
It's a complete wrong way, it's a PC maneuver, politically correct maneuver

1737
01:57:27,960 --> 01:57:34,960
But better that, then we go to one kid and say, well, you're better than this other kid

1738
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:39,960
And we go to this other kid over here and say, well, you're not as good as this kid, he did more for the team

1739
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:43,960
If there's no, did everybody do their best? Are you doing your best?

1740
01:57:43,960 --> 01:57:47,960
Try your hardest, do what you can, do what it is that you're supposed to do

1741
01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:50,960
And the last illustration was of the underdog

1742
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:53,960
And I wrote this at the end, I am an underdog

1743
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,960
Amongst the human race and faced with oppositions like demons in the world system

1744
01:57:56,960 --> 01:57:59,960
I stand up for my beliefs and I stand up against a system

1745
01:57:59,960 --> 01:58:03,960
Warped by Satan's hatred of God and people's confused emulation of him

1746
01:58:03,960 --> 01:58:05,960
I will never change

1747
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:08,960
I have been regenerated by the God of heaven and his Holy Spirit

1748
01:58:08,960 --> 01:58:11,960
And if I change at all, it will be to be more like Jesus

1749
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:15,960
I will resist even unto my death the tactics of Satan and my true enemies

1750
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:19,960
This I will do knowing that if Jesus does not come again before my time

1751
01:58:19,960 --> 01:58:23,960
I will die for my Lord, but I will not spend eternity in torment

1752
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:27,960
Rather I will spend it with God in the place that he is preparing for me

1753
01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:31,960
This I will do knowing despite any losses I may take

1754
01:58:31,960 --> 01:58:34,960
I cannot lose

1755
01:58:34,960 --> 01:58:37,960
I want you to say to yourself right now this moment, Christian

1756
01:58:37,960 --> 01:58:40,960
I cannot lose

1757
01:58:42,960 --> 01:58:46,960
We're going to have the praise team come forward and lead us in closing him at this point in time

1758
01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:49,960
And I'm asking you

1759
01:58:49,960 --> 01:58:53,960
To think about you and about your relationship with God

1760
01:58:53,960 --> 01:58:57,960
You say well God is holy, Jesus is just and loving and kind and I'm not like them

1761
01:58:57,960 --> 01:59:00,960
Yeah, kind of the point, we're not

1762
01:59:00,960 --> 01:59:03,960
We're trying to be, but we're not

1763
01:59:03,960 --> 01:59:06,960
But if you've been comparing yourself to other human beings, even other human beings

1764
01:59:06,960 --> 01:59:09,960
That profess to be saved or other human beings that preach the word

1765
01:59:09,960 --> 01:59:13,960
Or whatever, you've been comparing yourself to others, I would ask you to repent and turn to God

1766
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:16,960
And let God inform you about you because apparently you don't know you

1767
01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:19,960
There's a you that you don't know and only God knows

1768
01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,960
Let God inform you about you

1769
01:59:24,960 --> 01:59:27,960
I'm trying to tell God, God I'm not as strong, God I'm overweight

1770
01:59:27,960 --> 01:59:30,960
God I'm too young, I'm too old, I'm too poor, I'm too rich

1771
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:33,960
I'm too, my health concerns get in the way

1772
01:59:33,960 --> 01:59:36,960
Don't do that

1773
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:39,960
Just say to God, God here I am

1774
01:59:39,960 --> 01:59:42,960
Take this me and make of it

1775
01:59:42,960 --> 01:59:45,960
What it can be

1776
01:59:45,960 --> 01:59:48,960
God give you the medal

1777
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:51,960
For first place in your life

1778
01:59:51,960 --> 01:59:54,960
After Jesus

1779
01:59:54,960 --> 01:59:57,960
You stand with me and sing this song and if the Lord has spoken to your heart with you

1780
01:59:57,960 --> 02:00:00,960
Respond and just make whatever decision

1781
02:00:00,960 --> 02:00:03,960
That God's all in our new faith, just say okay God I get it

1782
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:06,960
I'm hearing you, I'm surrendering to you

1783
02:00:06,960 --> 02:00:12,960
I'm following you

1784
02:00:12,960 --> 02:00:15,960
And if anybody in this room needs me to say

1785
02:00:15,960 --> 02:00:18,960
If anybody in this room needs me to say something

1786
02:00:18,960 --> 02:00:21,960
Jesus, sit around with me

1787
02:00:21,960 --> 02:00:24,960
Have you decided?

1788
02:00:24,960 --> 02:00:27,960
Follow Jesus

1789
02:00:27,960 --> 02:00:30,960
Why would your eyes be open if you've decided to follow Jesus

1790
02:00:30,960 --> 02:00:33,960
I have decided

1791
02:00:33,960 --> 02:00:36,960
To follow Jesus

1792
02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:39,960
No turning back

1793
02:00:39,960 --> 02:00:42,960
No turning back

1794
02:00:42,960 --> 02:00:45,960
Don't go with me

1795
02:00:45,960 --> 02:00:48,960
I still will follow

1796
02:00:48,960 --> 02:00:51,960
What if they won't come because they're not following him?

1797
02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:54,960
Will you still follow?

1798
02:00:54,960 --> 02:00:57,960
I still will follow

1799
02:00:57,960 --> 02:01:00,960
What if their sufferings are weighing them down? Will you still follow?

1800
02:01:00,960 --> 02:01:03,960
Don't go with me

1801
02:01:03,960 --> 02:01:06,960
I still will follow

1802
02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:09,960
No turning back

1803
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,960
No turning back

1804
02:01:12,960 --> 02:01:15,960
My cross I'll carry

1805
02:01:15,960 --> 02:01:18,960
Till I see Jesus

1806
02:01:18,960 --> 02:01:21,960
My cross I'll carry

1807
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:24,960
Till I see Jesus

1808
02:01:24,960 --> 02:01:27,960
My cross I'll carry

1809
02:01:27,960 --> 02:01:30,960
Till I see Jesus

1810
02:01:30,960 --> 02:01:33,960
My cross I'll carry

1811
02:01:33,960 --> 02:01:36,960
Till I see Jesus

1812
02:01:36,960 --> 02:01:39,960
No turning back

1813
02:01:39,960 --> 02:01:42,960
No turning back

1814
02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:45,960
No world behind me

1815
02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:48,960
No cross before me

1816
02:01:48,960 --> 02:01:51,960
No world behind me

1817
02:01:51,960 --> 02:01:54,960
No cross before me

1818
02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:57,960
No world behind me

1819
02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:00,960
No world before me

1820
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:03,960
No world behind me

1821
02:02:03,960 --> 02:02:06,960
No world before me

1822
02:02:06,960 --> 02:02:09,960
No turning back

1823
02:02:09,960 --> 02:02:12,960
No turning back

1824
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:15,960
As I was just singing that last verse

1825
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:18,960
I felt like the Spirit impressed upon me this image

1826
02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:21,960
I want to share it with you, you can vet it in the scripture and all that

1827
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:24,960
This is what I was feeling like I was standing in a crowd

1828
02:02:24,960 --> 02:02:27,960
Of just an infinite number of people

1829
02:02:27,960 --> 02:02:30,960
And just outside the crowd on the other side was a line, right?

1830
02:02:30,960 --> 02:02:33,960
Like there was a barrier but there was no barrier, there was nobody

1831
02:02:33,960 --> 02:02:36,960
Everybody was just standing there all looking, they were all looking

1832
02:02:36,960 --> 02:02:39,960
And there's Jesus and he says, come

1833
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:42,960
And I'm standing in a crowd, maybe like the seventh rank or whatever, there's people in front of me

1834
02:02:42,960 --> 02:02:45,960
But I peek between heads and I see Jesus and he says come

1835
02:02:45,960 --> 02:02:48,960
And I edge forward to make sure, he's not saying to me come

1836
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:51,960
He's saying to everybody come, everybody come

1837
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:54,960
And nobody's coming, they're all standing there all thinking about it

1838
02:02:54,960 --> 02:02:57,960
They've got their issues, they're wondering, they've got questions, whatever

1839
02:02:57,960 --> 02:03:00,960
Some of them are looking at each other, lots of them are looking at each other

1840
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:03,960
Some are looking at aisles or things they think are important or whatever

1841
02:03:03,960 --> 02:03:06,960
They're looking everywhere else, Jesus just come

1842
02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:09,960
I'm looking at Jesus, he says come, and I edge forward, I'm like in the third row now

1843
02:03:09,960 --> 02:03:12,960
And he says come, and people are milling about in front of me

1844
02:03:12,960 --> 02:03:15,960
It looks like they're thinking about going but they're not coming

1845
02:03:15,960 --> 02:03:18,960
And he's going, he says come, let's go

1846
02:03:18,960 --> 02:03:21,960
And so I reach my hand between two people and I go like this like I'm swimming

1847
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:24,960
And I push the people away and then suddenly now I'm in the very front

1848
02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:27,960
And I don't see anybody, all those infinite number of people that were there

1849
02:03:27,960 --> 02:03:34,960
I don't see any of them, all I see is Jesus

1850
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:39,960
That's the Israelites coming out of Egypt

1851
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:44,960
It's Peter running to the cave, to the tomb

1852
02:03:44,960 --> 02:03:48,960
It's me when I was sitting in the queue week after week after week thinking, thinking, thinking

1853
02:03:48,960 --> 02:03:51,960
And they were like, Jesus is saying come

1854
02:03:51,960 --> 02:03:55,960
And then finally it was like I think he's saying come to me, you know

1855
02:03:55,960 --> 02:03:58,960
And I'm like, so I'm going to go, but nobody else is going

1856
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:00,960
Nobody else is walking forward, nobody else is making a decision

1857
02:04:00,960 --> 02:04:02,960
Nobody else is saying anything

1858
02:04:02,960 --> 02:04:06,960
I just go like this, and put everyone else

1859
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:09,960
I'm not saying forget everybody, I'm saying dismiss your family

1860
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,960
I mean if it takes you dismissing your family to get saved you better do it

1861
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:15,960
Because in eternity you're going to regret it, you don't

1862
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:18,960
Jesus doesn't want us to dismiss our families

1863
02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:22,960
We're called to be, and better called to be a dad

1864
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:27,960
Called to be a husband before anything else

1865
02:04:27,960 --> 02:04:30,960
But before we're called to be a dad and a husband, we're called to be saved

1866
02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:33,960
To have an eternity, to have a relationship with God

1867
02:04:33,960 --> 02:04:36,960
And then in that God calls us to be a dad and a husband

1868
02:04:36,960 --> 02:04:41,960
And women to be a wife and a mother when that's how he ordains it

1869
02:04:41,960 --> 02:04:45,960
But you've got to swim your way forward out of the crowd

1870
02:04:45,960 --> 02:04:50,960
And say me and Jesus

1871
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:54,960
And if your eyes are on Jesus

1872
02:04:54,960 --> 02:04:58,960
When Stephen was being stoned

1873
02:04:58,960 --> 02:05:01,960
You read the story for yourself

1874
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:05,960
But I believe he did not see his attackers

1875
02:05:05,960 --> 02:05:08,960
He did not see the stones

1876
02:05:08,960 --> 02:05:12,960
He did not know that he felt the pain leading up to his death

1877
02:05:12,960 --> 02:05:15,960
But he was looking at the throne of God and could see Jesus

1878
02:05:15,960 --> 02:05:19,960
The word says he was looking there and could see Jesus

1879
02:05:19,960 --> 02:05:23,960
And the glory of God showed on his face

1880
02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:31,960
As he was looking there and all the more they wanted to kill him

1881
02:05:31,960 --> 02:05:38,960
If you will put the world behind you and focus on Jesus

1882
02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:41,960
Yeah, it's going to cause some problems with some folks

1883
02:05:41,960 --> 02:05:45,960
Some people aren't going to like what you have to say or what you're doing

1884
02:05:45,960 --> 02:05:50,960
I commit this to you that here in this place amongst us

1885
02:05:50,960 --> 02:05:53,960
If we can figure out that that's what's going on

1886
02:05:53,960 --> 02:05:56,960
If we can figure out that we're doing what it is that God wants us to do

1887
02:05:56,960 --> 02:05:58,960
We'll never have a problem with it, will we?

1888
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:01,960
If we can have a problem with somebody in this room deciding to do what God wants to do

1889
02:06:01,960 --> 02:06:03,960
Even though you don't quite think it's the way it should be done

1890
02:06:03,960 --> 02:06:06,960
Assuming you know they're doing what God wants them to do

1891
02:06:06,960 --> 02:06:09,960
What problem would you possibly have?

1892
02:06:09,960 --> 02:06:11,960
And should you maybe even be noticing

1893
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:14,960
Considering your eyes are supposed to be on Jesus in the first place?

1894
02:06:14,960 --> 02:06:18,960
God help us

1895
02:06:18,960 --> 02:06:22,960
The world wants you to compare yourself to everyone else

1896
02:06:22,960 --> 02:06:27,960
And Jesus just wants you

1897
02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:29,960
I don't know if I was in the room with you

1898
02:06:29,960 --> 02:06:33,960
I may have shared this a little before

1899
02:06:33,960 --> 02:06:36,960
But when we were at Cayman

1900
02:06:36,960 --> 02:06:39,960
Jason came up to me and he was sat in the middle of the room

1901
02:06:39,960 --> 02:06:41,960
He wanted to go up in the front and he danced

1902
02:06:41,960 --> 02:06:43,960
The rest of the kids were up there dancing

1903
02:06:43,960 --> 02:06:45,960
But he was too afraid

1904
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:47,960
And I told him why are you afraid?

1905
02:06:47,960 --> 02:06:49,960
Because I'm afraid I'm going to punish him

1906
02:06:49,960 --> 02:06:51,960
Jason, it doesn't matter what people think about you

1907
02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:53,960
What matters is what you think

1908
02:06:53,960 --> 02:06:54,960
And what God thinks

1909
02:06:54,960 --> 02:06:56,960
I was like if you want to do it, just go ahead and do it

1910
02:06:56,960 --> 02:06:59,960
And I was like the problem is you're thinking about it too much

1911
02:06:59,960 --> 02:07:01,960
And I think that's what we get a lot

1912
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:03,960
We start thinking about it too much

1913
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:05,960
Instead of just jumping in and doing it

1914
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:07,960
We think about it, think about it some more

1915
02:07:07,960 --> 02:07:09,960
And it never actually happens

1916
02:07:09,960 --> 02:07:12,960
So if you're around the fence of like

1917
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:27,960
Okay, well is this really what God wants from me?