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["Let It Be Your Name"]

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Everybody's here, all right up

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So I can't you pray

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When the darkness comes and they're gone

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Still I will stay

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Let it be the name of the Lord

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Let it be your name

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Let it be the name of the Lord

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Let it be your glorious name

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You can take away

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You can take away

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The heart will just decide

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What God shall be your name

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And bring blessings around, time after grace

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When the darkness comes and they're gone

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Still I will stay

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Let it be the name of the Lord

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Let it be your name

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All right, if you'd like to give yourself some space this morning,

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if I have any young people that would like to join me at the front.

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I will give you all my worship

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I will give you all my praise

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You alone are long to worship

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You alone are worthy of my praise

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Thank you.

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All righty.

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Obviously we were encouraging ourselves to memorize the scripture this week,

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but out of that scripture or any other scripture that you looked at this week,

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how has the Lord been speaking to you?

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Okay.

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Going once, going twice.

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All right, let's do it together.

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I'm going to flip my Bible.

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Actually, let's do this.

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Who has Galatians 6 and 9 memorized?

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Right now I can say it for a minute.

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Is it any?

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Galatians 6 and 9.

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Let us not lose heart.

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Or, okay.

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I'll open it in this translation here.

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Let us not lose heart in...

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What's the next word, Zorah?

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Okay, very good.

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Let us not lose heart in doing good.

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Anybody?

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For in due time,

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we shall reap if we do not grow weary.

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Okay.

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So, let's talk about what the verse means.

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Sometimes, like I heard a couple of young people say they have a little trouble memorizing the verse.

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Sometimes if you understand a little bit better, it's a little easier to remember, right?

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What does it mean to not lose heart?

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Don't give up, don't get discouraged, right?

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Don't get beaten down, don't run out of energy.

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You ever, like those of you who work a full-time job, you ever get near to the fifth day of the week

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and you've already put in 45, 50 hours and you're like, oh man, do I have to work today?

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You feel like you don't want to, right?

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You're like, oh, I already did a lot this week.

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It's already been a full work week and more.

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Has that ever happened to anybody?

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That happened to you, Charlie?

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Yeah.

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What about the fifth day of school?

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Preschool.

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Preschool, you ever get tired going to school?

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You going to preschool?

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Yeah, you say you get tired.

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Yeah, you say you get tired.

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Okay, that's fine.

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All right, so that's what it means to lose heart, right?

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To run on steam, to just feel like you've already done it, you've already been there.

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Okay?

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And the reason we don't want to do that is because we will reap.

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What does it mean to reap?

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What does it mean to reap?

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Whatever you put into it, you're going to get out of it.

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It comes out of that.

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Yeah, it kind of comes from farming, right?

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You sow the seed in the ground, later you reap the harvest.

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So you get back.

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Any time you will reap, you don't grow weary.

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We don't get tired.

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So let's say a farmer goes out and puts a seed in the ground, and it rains, and the crop comes up.

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But by the time the fall comes, he's going to go out and harvest the crop.

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He's beaten.

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Maybe he's got the flu or got a disease or his family went through some terrible times, whatever.

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And that crop is ready to be harvested.

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But he can't go out because he's really in a bad spot for whatever reason.

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If somebody doesn't cut that harvest down and bring it in, there will be no harvest.

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It will just go to seed.

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It will go to waste.

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It will go all the way around when the winter storms come.

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But we will reap if we don't grow weary.

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So let us not lose heart because we will reap if we don't grow weary.

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Now if you memorize Galatians 6-9, then you got candy this morning.

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Not little Hershey's Kisses, but giant candy bars.

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Before service, Ariana said the verse, ready?

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It could get ugly.

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Pretty good, pretty good.

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Almost a basketball catch.

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So you got to say the verse, and you will reap.

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It was built right in there.

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Galatians 6-9, right?

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What's 6-10?

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Say it.

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Okay?

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This translation says, so?

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So then, because that's true, what we just talked about.

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So then, because that's true.

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So then, while we have opportunity, what does opportunity mean?

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Options.

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It's a chance.

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We can make the choice to do it right now.

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By the way, for those of you who do get tired, about 7, 38 o'clock on Friday morning when work starts,

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if you're not there, you miss the opportunity to be there.

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You show up about noon, your boss is not going to be too happy with you.

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Kids show up at school at noon too many times, and the government starts to send the warrant office

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and work around, the currency officer around, that kind of thing.

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You start getting in trouble with kids showing up late too much, that kind of thing.

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Ty, when your classes come up, if you don't get on the computer, you miss your opportunity, right?

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That's it.

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So we don't want to miss our opportunity.

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Right now, while we have, so then, while we have an opportunity, what are we going to do?

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Already talked about it in verse 9.

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Do good.

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When we have an opportunity, do good.

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To who?

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Who are we going to do good to?

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Me!

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According to verse 10.

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Me!

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Yeah, Charlie wants us to do good to him.

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All right?

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Who are we going to do good to, for those of you who memorized verse 10?

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For tribe.

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Everyone.

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Everyone.

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Right?

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Everyone.

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That's what you're going to say?

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Everyone.

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To all people.

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Especially.

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People who are in the household of faith.

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People who are in the household of faith.

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Right?

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People who have become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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We have a responsibility.

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You become an heir and a joint heir with Jesus.

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You have a responsibility to the other heirs.

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Right?

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The people who say that they don't need to be in the church, don't need to be part of

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the church.

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That doesn't really work because you've got to be part of the church if nothing else to

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hold up your responsibility to take care of other people.

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You have to do good, especially to those who are in the household of faith.

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I'm not making that up.

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That's what the verse says.

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And you can live your life.

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If you only live your life by these verses, you'd be missing Jesus.

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Because Jesus isn't really mentioned in there.

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He's not mentioned in the Bible.

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He's not mentioned in the Bible.

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He's not mentioned in the Bible.

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Right?

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But assuming you've met Jesus, you could then live your life by these verses and there would

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be nothing wrong with it.

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You'd never fail.

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You'd be loving people and doing good to people all the time.

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That's basically what Jesus was doing.

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Right?

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And you say, well, what about those people he cast out of the temple?

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He didn't do good.

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He made a whip of a cord and chased them out of the temple.

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Oh, yes, he did do good to them, actually.

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Those very same people, he threw over their tables and chased them out of the temple.

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He was actually doing good to them because what they were doing was an insult to God.

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He was stopping them from insulting God.

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And you know what God does to people who insult Him.

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They needed Jesus.

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They needed to hear from Jesus.

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And some days we need to hear from Jesus like that, too.

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So, parents, you always want to be nice to your kids, right?

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But sometimes nice isn't the right thing to do.

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Sometimes there's discipline or there's correction or there's direction and that's what we have

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to do.

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And that, too, is good.

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Right?

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Police officers don't ever want to hit anybody with their night state, ever.

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The reason they're a good police officer.

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Right?

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But sometimes they have to.

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They don't want to fire their taser at another human being because they've got, during

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academy, they went through it themselves.

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They experienced it.

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They know it hurts.

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They don't want to do that.

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But sometimes they have to.

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And they don't want to draw on fire their firearm, but sometimes they have to.

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So, sometimes life is about choosing what the greater good is.

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But here's what you don't want to do.

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You don't want to do this.

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You don't want to lose heart in doing good.

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Right?

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Because in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

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So, then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people and especially the household

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of things.

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It's really not, I guess maybe we're having trouble understanding the concept.

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So, let me encourage you to do this.

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Next time you're having trouble memorizing a Bible verse, instead of just beating it

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up and trying to repeat it over and over and over again or whatever, or failing to get

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excited about it, dig into it and figure out what it actually says and what it means and

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then what you can do about it.

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By the time you're done, you almost don't have to memorize it at all because you kind

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of know.

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You kind of know this is what it says.

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Right?

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And then you just need to get it in the right words.

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And then come early and then repeat the verses to one of the leaders or somebody that's here

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and get that candy or whatever we're giving out that day, which so far has been chocolate.

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Today was candy bars, a variety of different candy bars.

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And also get a ticket to get into drawing.

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All right?

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And you say, well, I don't care about a ticket.

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I don't care about candy.

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Well, you cannot care about the ticket.

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You cannot care about the candy.

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But you cannot not care about memorizing God's word because it is literally a command.

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It is our job to do that.

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If you don't want to be in the contest and you don't want to then by all rights, you

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better memorize a word perfect.

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And then you can say it and say, but I don't need a ticket.

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And then you will have done something.

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All right?

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So that's my encouragement to you.

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If you don't want to memorize the verse, we're memorizing.

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It's still a spiritual discipline.

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Memorize something else for crying out loud.

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And then come in here and say, well, God said this to me.

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You all were going to be Galatians 6, 9, and 10.

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But I was in Genesis or I was in whatever.

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And this is what God said.

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That would be cool.

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Right?

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All right.

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We're going to pray together at this time and move on.

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We'll be tithes and offerings and a little more worship.

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We're focused on God this morning.

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Caitlin, would you pray for us?

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Sure.

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We'll pray with her.

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Let's join her.

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Heavenly Father, I pray that you just really get this message across to everybody here

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today in the sermon and that we can learn your word together at the church and spread

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it together at the church.

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Lord, I pray that you bless each and every person in here and that you're with everybody

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who could not be with us today.

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Lord, I pray that you're watching over everybody on that prayer list, whether it's for good

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health or for personal issues or work.

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can be there with them and with us today.

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Lord, I pray that you will bless over tithes and offerings that we've had this morning

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and that they can be used for how you see fit and how you would want us to use that.

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Lord, I pray this all in your son's name.

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When I was about 16 and a half, 17 years old, well, I take it back 17 and a half years old

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because I just remembered another event that happened about the same time.

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We were living here in the Tlilio area, right in the house that I live in right now.

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My brother moved to Florida and he was living down on the edge of Fort Lauderdale.

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And if you know this about Fort Lauderdale or not, but when the hurricanes come in,

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good portions of that area flood.

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I mean, it's all across the middle section of Florida really,

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and it gets even worse as you get down toward the tip of Florida.

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and he moved elsewhere and he now lives in Columbus.

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But we hadn't been to Florida in our travels except the northern portion of Florida when I was younger.

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And so my parents decided they would take a trip down.

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We would take two weeks off work, and I did.

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It was really fancy.

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It was the fanciest car I had ever been in.

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I had ridden in a limo before.

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This was even more fancy than that.

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I think it was actually a Rolls Royce midsize car.

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It wasn't the big blocky thing of the olden days, but it was kind of fancy.

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Plus it had seat warmer and seat vibration, and it had a digital dash, and it had sound.

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I mean, this was probably $20,000, $30,000 worth of extras in this car.

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And my parents let me drive going down to Florida.

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my mom and my dad were both asleep in the car, and I'm driving.

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And I drove for like six hours straight in this beautiful, I mean, like,

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had to been, I don't know what the purchase price was, $60,000, $80,000 car.

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We got down to Florida and visited with my brother,

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and we stayed with him in their extra room.

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And my parents slept for the first time ever in their life,

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and this was in their 50s, and they slept for the first time ever in their life on a waterbed.

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And my mom couldn't get out of bed in the morning, so that was the big joke.

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And it was a fun trip.

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But something happened while we were there that speaks to the text today,

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and the Lord brought it back vibrantly into my mind as I was thinking about it.

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And what it was was we played Monopoly.

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Now, you know what Monopoly is, right?

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It's a board game.

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You move your little figures, the dog or the horse or the iron or the car,

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or you move it around the board, and you purchase the properties.

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And if somebody lands, they think I pay you a lot of money, paper, fake money.

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And the idea of Monopoly is that if you get enough of the board, you can wipe everybody else out.

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Well, in Monopoly, in the actual written rules of the game,

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there is a rule that says that you cannot purchase properties on your first trip around the board.

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You have to get your first payday first.

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You have to go past Go one time before you can start buying properties.

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But there is an optional rule that says you can start buying properties on the first time around.

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So we're playing Monopoly, laying on the floor of my brother's house in Florida.

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It's 95 degrees outside and sunny, and the beach is 50 yards out the front door.

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I don't know why we're laying on the floor.

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We were at the beach a good part of the day, but we're laying on the floor playing Monopoly,

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and we've had dinner, and my belly's full, and I'm happy, and whatever.

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We play Monopoly.

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On the first time around the board, my brother landed on Boardwalk.

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Now, Boardwalk is one of the most coveted properties in Monopoly.

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It's that together with its partner, Park Place, when you put hotels on there,

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you get thousands of dollars every time somebody lands on you.

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It is the most coveted, and it's just two properties that you've got to have,

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even though they're kind of expensive, and they're right before Go, if I'm not mistaken.

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I've seen the board kind of in my head, but anyway, the point is he landed on Boardwalk

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on his first time around before he had passed Go,

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and he promptly started getting his money out to buy Boardwalk.

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Now, when we were growing up, part of the time, we played a lot of Monopoly growing up.

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This was before cell phones, and back we had about three TV channels.

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There was no streaming. There was no Roku.

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In fact, there was no Internet. Woo-hoo! Right?

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There was no Internet then, and we sometimes played by the optional rule

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you could buy on your first time around, and we sometimes didn't,

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but when we sat down in Florida that day, we didn't decide whether we were going to play

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by the optional rule that you could buy the first time around or not.

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We hadn't said, but as soon as my brother landed on Boardwalk, he was like,

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I'm buying that, baby. I'm halfway there, and if I get Park Place 2,

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then I'll have everything I need, and even if you don't,

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you could trade Boardwalk to somebody else later for a lot of money or a lot of property, right?

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Because it's a coveted property in the game.

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Right away, he's going to buy the property. I said, now wait a minute, wait a minute.

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We didn't agree that we were going to purchase properties on the first time around.

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We never said that before the game, and the rules of the game say,

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and he said, no, no, that's just an optional rule that you can say

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that you can't purchase properties on the first time around.

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The actual rule is you can purchase properties on the first time around.

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And so then we argued for about 10 minutes about it.

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My dad's there going, like, it doesn't really matter. It's just one property.

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Don't worry about it. We're on vacation. We're supposed to be having fun.

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He's trying to calm everything down. My brother and I are arguing back and forth.

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So we get out the rule book, and we check it, and in my remembrance,

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and I don't have a set of copy of the rules of Monopoly here to verify for sure today,

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but in my remembrance, we determined that it was an optional rule

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that you could buy properties on the first time around if you wanted the game to go faster,

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and it was an actual rule that you could not buy properties on the first time around.

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So I was right, at which point we argued some more,

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and ultimately we agreed that he could buy the property after about a half an hour of arguing.

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At that point in time, I didn't really want to play Monopoly anymore.

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We did play to the end, and my dad trounced us both

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so that people who were really doing the arguing didn't really even matter,

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because he won the game. But the point, and that happens a lot, by the way,

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when you argue about games, usually it's the people that are not arguing that wind up winning

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if it's a multiplayer game.

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The reason that speaks to this text today is because of what actually happened there.

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There was an authority that we could have appealed to.

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We could have just gone to the rule book and saw what the actual rule was.

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We also could have talked about it before we began to play and decide what the rule was going to be,

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because we knew when we had played it a lot when we were kids

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that either you could or could not, based on what you decided before you played the game,

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we just didn't know which was the optional rule, which was the actual rule, you see?

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So we could have talked about it before we started and agreed on the set of rules,

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or we could have checked the rule book, and while we were arguing about it,

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instead of arguing about it for 50 minutes, we could have checked the rule book,

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and then after we checked the rule book, we could have just went by what it said,

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but we still argue about it for some more.

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And so you see where this is going already, don't you?

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Grab your Bibles with me, if you will, and we are working our way through the book of Deuteronomy,

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and we are continuing today in chapter 19, verse 14 of the book of Deuteronomy.

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Amen.

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Thank you so much, this is God's Word.

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From here on out, the words that we read from this book will speak to our souls,

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they'll nourish us, they will correct us, I think you will find yourself,

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I found myself thinking, man, I better pay attention to this,

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I better really kind of watch out for what I'm doing with this, okay?

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So it's just eight verses, but then I will reference some others in kind of in support,

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and some of which we'll read and some of which we won't, alright?

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So Deuteronomy 19, beginning in verse 14.

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On the first you read this verse, it's like, oh, that's no big deal,

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but it gets to be a really big deal really fast.

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It says, you shall not move your neighbor's boundary mark,

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which the ancestors have set in your inheritance,

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which you shall inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.

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Okay? So what they did was they put down stone boundary markers.

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Now, I didn't know this, but most of the properties that are, at least in Wood County,

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and I think in Lucas County too, have these boundary markers in some way, shape, or form.

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Like when we were doing lawns back in the day, most of the time it follows where the telephone pole is or like that,

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but a lot of times under the grass, under years of dirt that you don't even know about,

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there is an actual boundary marker stone for a lot of properties, any bigger properties.

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And when my property has one and I didn't even know it, the guy brought the property next to me,

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and he says, well, do you know where your property stops exactly,

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because I don't want to mow your property or whatever?

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And I said, well, not exactly, but I kind of do, and it kind of goes like this.

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And he said, well, actually it goes like this.

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And he took, we went out in the field and he actually got down on his knee and he had a little spade.

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He pulled it out of his pocket and he dug down about six inches and showed me where the actual stone is

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in the ground that marks the corner of my property that I didn't even know existed.

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Bottom line is they would use stones to mark where the edge of their property was,

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and this verse is saying that they were not allowed to move those stones.

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Let's say you own 50 acres and there's a corner and there's a stone on the corner set in the ground,

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or maybe it's a boulder, it could be a big thing, whatever.

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You're not allowed to go out there and take that stone and move it back 20 yards

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and add part of the other person's property to your property.

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You're not allowed to do that. That's what this verse says.

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Where the marks are, that's where the marks are.

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I submit to you that those stones are representative of a previous authority led by God, Joshua, the Israelites,

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and they came into land. They set where those properties would be.

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They set where those stones would be marking the edge of the property.

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To go there and to move the stone is to show disrespect for the people that went before you,

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that set where the stones were.

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And, let's be realistic, it's to show disrespect for God.

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Because we say, well, God didn't know, God didn't lead them, God didn't make it happen, God didn't mark out the boundaries.

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And of course, we jump ahead a little bit at Acts 17, it says God marks out the boundaries.

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And so God does do that. And so they would be disrespectful to move that stone.

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And you think, well, this doesn't really apply to us.

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It doesn't really apply to us because I'm not really trying to move somebody's property line

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or steal their property next door to me or whatever, plus it's all marked out in the county auditor's office

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and they figure it out eventually and blah, blah, blah.

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It's not really that big of a deal, so this doesn't really apply to me.

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Except when you get into talking about how they're moving that stone would be offensive to the people that lived before,

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you realize that there is figurative language that makes this apply to us very well.

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I'll give you an example of what's happening in present day.

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There are people who are redefining the boundaries of what a lot of things mean.

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In fact, we're not living in a day where people want to redefine what the truth is.

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So they say, well, your truth is what you think it is and my truth is what I think it is, and that's the boundary.

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So as long as our two truths don't conflict, you can believe whatever you want and I'll believe whatever I want.

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But then what they say is, but once our two truths do conflict, I'm right and you're wrong.

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So what they're saying is I get to set the boundary.

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I get to decide because my truth is more important than your truth.

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So if you think you're right and I think I'm right, well, I'm right.

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And that's what's in the world today. That's the state of mind of the world today.

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We've redefined or tried to anyway, you really can't, but try to redefine the definition of marriage.

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I'm not trying to be political. I'm just giving an example of what's happening.

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We've redefined the definition of what is proper sexuality.

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We've redefined the definition of parenting.

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Now, I haven't and I hope you haven't and God certainly hasn't redefined it.

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But what's happening is in the world, people are attempting to move the boundary stones to say,

480
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000
well, now if you come over into my territory, you've got no reason. You have no right.

481
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,000
There's no justice. There's no standard that by which you can apply to me and say, I'm wrong.

482
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Right. That's what people are trying to do in the world today.

483
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Now, notice what that does is it disrespects the ancestors because there are people that came before us for a long time that said this is the way things work.

484
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000
They work this way and as long as they keep working this way, they work.

485
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,000
But if we change the way they work, certain things, we change the way they work, then it's not going to work.

486
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000
It's going to fall apart. Right.

487
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Moreover, it's also disrespecting God because if you go back far enough, where did they get the standard in the first place?

488
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
They got it from God.

489
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000
The realistic standard of what a marriage is, now again, not trying to get into the political agenda, okay,

490
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000
but the realistic standard of what a marriage is comes from God.

491
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,000
It doesn't come from men. Men adopted it because it's what God gave them.

492
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Okay. And then we say, well, I don't believe in your God, so I'm going to adopt a new standard.

493
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Right. In that area or any other area, I'm going to adopt the new standard.

494
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:15,000
I'm going to set the boundaries of this new standard, disrespecting all the people that came before me and disrespecting God.

495
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000
So this is going on in the world today.

496
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,000
While it first sounds like it's just talking about land, realize something quite a bit more is happening there.

497
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
I'll come back in the points with some examples.

498
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Fifteen, a single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or sin which he has committed.

499
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Okay. So in other words, if somebody has done something wrong, one person doesn't get to rise up against them.

500
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,000
In our society today, that is exactly how our court system is set up.

501
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000
You need one plaintiff, one person to complain, one person to file a brief with the court, and now you have a lawsuit.

502
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
Just one. They don't have to have any witnesses.

503
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000
They just say, well, this happened. I say it happened. I put the paperwork in.

504
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000
I got a lawyer. We're filing. We're coming after you.

505
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
And then you wind up in court.

506
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000
The reason one person was not allowed to come up against you is because it's too easy to drag somebody into court then.

507
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,000
All you got to do is a one person, and you can win somebody over to say whatever you want them to say.

508
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:17,000
So if you've got a $50 bill in your pocket, you could have so-and-so, some guy in Fledo, the mayor, whatever.

509
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:23,000
You could have somebody in court in a few weeks just by going to pay somebody $50 to levy charges against them.

510
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Right now, the court might throw it out.

511
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:35,000
But the bottom line is this was saying one person was not allowed to be a witness against somebody else because of their iniquity or sin.

512
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:41,000
It says instead, continuing, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, a matter shall be confirmed.

513
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000
So in other words, you've got to have at least two people willing to speak up about an atrocity in order for it to be confirmed.

514
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
So that's part 16.

515
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:59,000
If malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing, malicious means hateful or vindictive or trying to cause that person a problem specifically.

516
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000
And again, if it's two or three, it's a confirmed matter.

517
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:11,000
So this is talking about if one person rises up to complain against somebody else to accuse that person of wrongdoing, 17 says, then both men who have the dispute.

518
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,000
There's the one who had the wrongdoing supposedly alleged against him and the one who's doing the allegations.

519
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,000
Both of those men shall stand before the Lord before the priest, the judges who will be in office in those days.

520
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
So ultimately, who's going to make that decision?

521
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
This guy says, no, I didn't do it.

522
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000
This guy says, yeah, he did it.

523
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000
But there's only one guy, which he's not even supposed to be there.

524
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
But he is there.

525
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000
And so he's got to stand up in front of the priest and then somebody else got to stand up.

526
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:44,000
The person that he's accusing stands up from the priest and they're going to determine hopefully under God's authority, says, though the priests who will be in office in those days.

527
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000
And it says, and the judges shall investigate thoroughly.

528
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,000
So they're going to get down.

529
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Basically, what they're going to do is look for if there are more witnesses.

530
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000
Is there more evidence?

531
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Is there a reason to believe this one person who won't back down, even though the word says they're not allowed to be here accusing, they won't back down.

532
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000
So they must be serious.

533
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
We're going to look and see if there is any other evidence.

534
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:14,000
It says, and the judges shall investigate thoroughly. And if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him just as he intended to do to his brother.

535
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
OK, so let's say you accuse a man.

536
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
He broke he broke my wagon.

537
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000
He's got to pay me 50 coin or he killed my ox.

538
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
He's got to provide me a new ox or he killed my servant.

539
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
So he should die.

540
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Or he put my eye out.

541
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
So his eyes should be put out.

542
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,000
So whatever the punishment would be for the crime, when the witness is determined to be false is what it's saying.

543
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Then whatever he wanted to have happen to that person should happen to him instead.

544
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
You follow?

545
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:49,000
So in other words, if a man says, hey, this person murdered my brother and they go to the law and they say, I want you to convict him.

546
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
I press charge.

547
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000
He murdered my brother and he's going to be killed because he's in Ohio.

548
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000
For example, and it's a capital punishment at that time or he's going to be in jail for life.

549
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,000
And then he's found innocent.

550
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000
The person who's the plaintiff, the complainer, the person who filed the brief.

551
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000
What do they do?

552
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
They throw that person in jail for life or they kill that person.

553
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Right.

554
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,000
So you've got to take very seriously malicious allegations.

555
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:23,000
So when you say against somebody and you're looking to cause some problem for them, realize that according to God's word, what they were told was that the problem should be applied to those who are making the allegations.

556
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Rather than the innocent man who the allegations were against.

557
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Thus, you shall purge the evil from among you.

558
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:38,000
We've seen that theme a few times in the last couple of chapters of Deuteronomy because our job is to live wholly before God.

559
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:52,000
People are going to be a lot less likely to make fake allegations if when you make a fake allegation and it's turned out to be a fake allegation, whatever punishment you were trying to visit upon that person that you made the fake allegation against is now visited upon you instead.

560
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,000
You're going to make no fake allegations and try to get somebody's eye put out.

561
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
If it doesn't work, your eye is going to get put out.

562
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Or you're going to try to get somebody killed for a crime that they didn't commit if when it turns out they didn't commit the crime, you yourself are going to be put to death.

563
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000
It's very serious.

564
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
By that means they would purge the evil from among them.

565
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Verse 22, two verses left.

566
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
And the rest will hear.

567
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000
That's the rest of the people.

568
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Everyone will hear and be afraid.

569
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000
And will never again do such an evil thing among you.

570
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,000
So in other words, after you put the eye out of the guy who made the false allegation, others are going to hear about that.

571
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
He's not going to do it anymore for sure.

572
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000
And then others are going to hear about it.

573
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,000
And they're not going to do it either.

574
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Verse 21, thus you shall not show pity life for life.

575
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000
I for I tooth for tooth hand for foot.

576
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000
I'm sorry.

577
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Hand for hand foot for foot.

578
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
OK.

579
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Notice that in Exodus it does say if a man puts another man's eye out, he should have his eye put out.

580
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000
The punishments are like that.

581
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
He kills a man, he's put to death.

582
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
That's a different thing altogether.

583
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
But this is that same verse restated.

584
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
How is it being applied here?

585
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:09,000
It's being applied that if you're trying to put somebody's eye out by your false allegations, then you should have your eye put out once those allegations are told to be false.

586
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000
And there's no pity.

587
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000
OK.

588
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Now, you can imagine figuratively and spiritually we don't put people's eye out.

589
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000
We don't kill people for the crimes they commit.

590
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Christians don't do that.

591
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000
All right.

592
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Now, we have we have a government and basing capital punishment based on Exodus, for example, is completely legitimate.

593
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:37,000
It is a biblical principle that if a man is a mass murderer or a murderer that he should be put to death for his crimes.

594
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
That's fine.

595
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,000
However, understand that we also are now under grace, not under law.

596
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000
So you can line that up with law.

597
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
And I'm not trying to talk about capital punish.

598
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
But I know this is the elephant in the room.

599
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,000
I just want to say this real quick.

600
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000
OK.

601
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:56,000
So even though you can say in Exodus that it's legitimate to put somebody to death for murdering somebody else, we also have to understand that we live under grace.

602
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
We live under forgiveness and mercy.

603
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:04,000
So the truth is, if you're going to put that man to death for killing somebody else, then you better be careful because you too have sin.

604
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
And the wages of that sin is death.

605
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000
While you've never murdered anybody, the wages of that sin is death.

606
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:16,000
And you could well be put to death, as James 2 says, if you have sinned against God in one point, you have offended in all.

607
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Right.

608
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
So, you know, you've never murdered anybody.

609
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Your lies and your slander are fit for capital punishment based on that verse.

610
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Right.

611
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
But that's really talking about spiritual death.

612
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
And we get out of that because Jesus then died for us.

613
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
So we are worthy of capital punishment.

614
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
We deserve it outside Christ.

615
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
But then Christ died substitutionary.

616
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,000
He died for us so that we don't have to die.

617
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,000
So does that apply to the man who committed murder?

618
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,000
It does.

619
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000
If he becomes a Christian.

620
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000
What if he's already a Christian?

621
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
You say, well, that could never happen.

622
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:59,000
You realize that if a man, a Christian man, if his daughter were raped and murdered by a criminal, he could very easily fall into temptation of evil spirits and go murder the man who raped and murdered his daughter.

623
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000
I'm here to tell you right now that I could very easily fall into that temptation.

624
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
That's a capital crime.

625
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,000
And he could go to jail for murder because that's revenge.

626
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000
He could go to jail for that and then be put to death for that.

627
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Even though he's a Christian.

628
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Now if that happens, he'll go immediately to heaven.

629
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
So then we live under grace, not under law.

630
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Are we proponents of capital punishment?

631
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,000
If there's no capital punishment, there's no deterrent to mass murder.

632
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
So you decide where you stand on it.

633
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000
You listen to the Lord, but I'm telling you that it does line up with Exodus.

634
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000
However, it does not line up very well with grace.

635
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,000
All right.

636
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
So that's capital punishment in a nutshell.

637
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:48,000
However, we're talking about this today as moving the standards, changing the standards.

638
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000
If you are not supposed to come out as one witness, and yet you do.

639
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:59,000
And then you come out as one witness and maliciously you malign the other person, say they committed a crime, looking to see them get hurt.

640
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Right.

641
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000
You're supposed to come out as one witness, but you did.

642
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Now you did.

643
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000
And it turns out that your allegations are false.

644
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Even if you know in your heart they're true, but there's no evidence.

645
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000
You can't prove it.

646
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000
And it's determined you're false.

647
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Now you get the punishment that that person.

648
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Why?

649
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Why such a stern punishment to eliminate the evil from the midst of the people?

650
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000
OK.

651
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
So you will not do that.

652
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
And so that others will not do that.

653
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Moving the boundary stone means cheating the neighbor.

654
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
We get that.

655
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Coming out to make an allegation that's false against somebody in a way is cheating the neighbor.

656
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
We get that.

657
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
But also it's rewriting the rules.

658
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000
All of this is about rewriting the rules and recasting authority.

659
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Do you not understand?

660
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000
I hope you do.

661
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,000
The person who's in charge, top.

662
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Top dog.

663
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
In the entire universe.

664
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Above me, above you, above governments, above kings.

665
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Above rules, powers, and authorities.

666
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Above demons, above Satan.

667
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,000
The person that's in charge in the entire universe is God.

668
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000
And when you come out against God's wishes and become one person who alleges against somebody else.

669
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Even though you're just one person.

670
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Right?

671
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,000
And you come out and do that.

672
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
You're breaking the rules that God set.

673
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,000
And you're saying, well these rules, they don't apply to me because the situation is extreme.

674
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Or because this is just who I am.

675
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Or this is what the circumstances demand.

676
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Or because what God says is not reasonable.

677
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Okay?

678
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000
So we're rewriting the rules and recasting authority.

679
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,000
And to some extent we're recasting authority into our own image.

680
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000
The best I can figure, I've researched this for years.

681
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,000
I've thought about this.

682
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,000
I've read up on it.

683
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000
I've studied.

684
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000
I've read in the Bible.

685
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000
I've prayed.

686
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
I've thought all about this.

687
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,000
And I've come to this conclusion.

688
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,000
And the conclusion is contrary to what God says, then the conclusion is wrong.

689
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,000
You cannot rewrite the rules or recast authority.

690
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Not to cheat your neighbor.

691
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Not to get ahead.

692
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000
You can't.

693
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Worse than the fact that it's rewriting the rules and recasting authority.

694
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Is that it's actually applying the authority in question.

695
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
The authority of the ancients and God.

696
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
To the current situation.

697
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:10,000
You get this?

698
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,000
This is where the concept of stone swords come in.

699
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:18,000
God's authority is unchanging.

700
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
God himself is unchanging.

701
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000
Yes, he's a merciful and kind God.

702
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000
But he also has wrath.

703
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,000
Law.

704
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,000
And justice.

705
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
And all of that is our God.

706
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,000
And you can go, you can now say, well God is a gracious God.

707
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,000
And that's a different God.

708
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000
And so we've got to act differently.

709
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000
And he's got different rules now.

710
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,000
And everything like that.

711
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,000
You can do that if you want.

712
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
So you can become an open and affirming church.

713
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000
And that allows people to do whatever they want.

714
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,000
I went to a conference in our association some years ago.

715
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,000
About five, seven years ago.

716
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000
And there was a pastor who came in there.

717
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000
And he was talking about how their church grew.

718
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
And he said, our church was really struggling.

719
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,000
We only had 15, 20 people.

720
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,000
And we've been there.

721
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:57,000
And then he said, we did one thing.

722
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,000
We made one rule.

723
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,000
And I would encourage you to make that rule in your church.

724
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,000
If you'll make that rule in your church, I will guarantee you will grow.

725
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,000
And he said, and then he went on to argue that it was because of the grace of Jesus Christ.

726
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Because Jesus is Lord.

727
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,000
And because Jesus' salvation is paid for.

728
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,000
And everybody's saved now.

729
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000
And blah, blah, blah.

730
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Kind of almost into universal theology, basically.

731
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000
That everyone is saved even if they haven't believed in Jesus.

732
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,000
And that's not true.

733
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,000
The Bible says you must believe and receive.

734
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,000
But anyway, you got to.

735
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,000
And then at the end, this is what he said.

736
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,000
This is the rule.

737
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,000
I'm going to give it to you now.

738
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,000
He talked for 40 minutes.

739
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,000
He said, OK, here it goes.

740
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,000
I'm going to give it to you now.

741
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
Just make this one rule in your church and everything will be fine.

742
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:37,000
The rule is, nobody is allowed to disagree.

743
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,000
That was the rule.

744
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,000
You can't disagree.

745
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,000
If two people meet in the hallway, one person believes one thing out of the Bible, another

746
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,000
person believes another thing out of the Bible, they are not allowed to have that discussion.

747
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,000
You cannot be in the church and disagree.

748
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,000
The church is unified, all moving in one direction.

749
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,000
And this is the direction.

750
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,000
We do not disagree.

751
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,000
That's the rule they made.

752
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000
And the church went from 15, 20 people to 200 people over a period of time.

753
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Now, he said, now recently, I will tell you that what we've had to do is we've had to

754
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:10,000
employ security, not security to protect us from the world or criminal behavior.

755
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000
But what we have is we have hall monitors.

756
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,000
We have people who walk around the church, and they have about 12 of them.

757
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000
And they walk around the church, and what they do is they make sure, wait for it, you

758
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000
know what I'm going to say, don't you?

759
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000
They make sure that no one is disagreeing.

760
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Of the 220 people they have coming on Sunday, they walk around in their suits like ushers

761
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000
and their ties, and a badge that says, I imagine it probably says, I'm the disagreement police

762
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,000
or something on it.

763
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,000
And they walk around.

764
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,000
And if anybody is disagreeing, say, ah, we don't do that here.

765
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,000
Either stop disagreeing now or leave.

766
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,000
You're not allowed here.

767
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:48,000
Because there is no standard to which they can appeal.

768
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000
They've made their own set of rules.

769
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,000
And the rule is this.

770
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Only God can make the rules.

771
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Therefore, we're going to have no rules, no structure, no discipline, nothing out of the

772
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,000
law or order that we can try to hash it out and figure it out.

773
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,000
You've already figured out this is not our church, right, that we're talking about.

774
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,000
We do disagree.

775
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
And I submit to you, we should disagree.

776
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:11,000
In fact, if you look in the book of Acts, while they were unified and had all things

777
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,000
in common, they were busy doing just one thing, pretty much, if you boil it down to one thing,

778
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,000
you know what it was?

779
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,000
Disputing.

780
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000
Do you know what disputing is?

781
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,000
You know the actual definite doesn't mean disagreement.

782
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,000
People think it does, but it doesn't.

783
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,000
It's misused.

784
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000
For the same reason what we're talking about today.

785
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000
Disputing means answering.

786
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,000
Go ahead.

787
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Kind of.

788
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000
You're getting started.

789
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Okay.

790
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000
What it really means is asking and answering questions.

791
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,000
So, if we had half the room over here who thinks that Jesus Christ, you know, something

792
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:49,000
about Jesus, maybe he was 100% man, 100% God, while it's called the hypostatic union.

793
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,000
And the other half of the room thinks that, well, he was 100% man, but he wasn't 100%

794
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,000
God because God can't be flesh and can't need to eat and can't do that, right?

795
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,000
And so we're disputing.

796
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,000
So these guys over here ask these guys over here questions about their idea.

797
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,000
And these guys over here ask these guys over here questions about their idea.

798
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,000
And we go back and forth and back and forth until what?

799
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Until we reach unity and figure out the answer to the question.

800
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,000
What if that takes years?

801
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,000
Yes.

802
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,000
You just figured out what the church is.

803
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:20,000
We are growing forward, reaching new heights in Christ, as we disagree and help the other person.

804
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,000
And the fact is, I'm going to tell you, the truth is 80% of your theology right now as

805
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,000
you're sitting in your chair, 80% of it is probably slightly off.

806
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:32,000
100% of my theology could be slightly off.

807
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:36,000
That's why we preach out of the word and we don't make stuff up as we go.

808
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000
Because I can tell you a lot of things I want you to hear.

809
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,000
I can coerce you into doing a lot of things I want you to do or try.

810
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Most of you are like, oh, of course, I'm leaving, right?

811
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000
And when you say it, what did you just do?

812
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,000
You just coerced me to not try to get you to do what it is that I want you to do.

813
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,000
Because we're all human beings and we're all created in the image of God.

814
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000
And we both create and destroy.

815
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000
But our creating and our destroying, our living, our choices, etc.

816
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,000
are supposed to be governed by a set of standards that you can actually look at,

817
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,000
that you can actually appeal to, that you can actually decide on.

818
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,000
And that is the Word of God.

819
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,000
That is what God has told us.

820
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:19,000
So moving the boundaries and saying, well, I know we said we were always going to be honest.

821
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,000
And we're honest and truthful people.

822
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,000
And that's part of our core values, right?

823
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Honesty and truthfulness is one of the core values of our church.

824
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,000
So we're always going to be honest.

825
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000
But now, you know, I'm tired today.

826
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,000
I'm not feeling very good.

827
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,000
You said this.

828
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000
Honestly, I don't agree with you.

829
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,000
I think we should try to figure this out because I think you're wrong.

830
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,000
But you know what?

831
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,000
I'm tired today.

832
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000
It's fine.

833
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000
I'm just going to let it slide today.

834
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,000
No.

835
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,000
I'm sorry.

836
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,000
Sometimes it's tiring to be a follower of Jesus.

837
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Sometimes it hurts.

838
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000
People have been martyred for this.

839
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,000
Nailed to crosses.

840
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,000
Sometimes upside down.

841
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Whipped within an inch of their life and burned alive.

842
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,000
And you're tired?

843
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000
I'm sorry.

844
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,000
I got nothing for you.

845
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Jesus will carry your burden when you realize that your burden is to measure your life and make your choices by the standards of God.

846
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Not by my standards.

847
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,000
I'm going to bring it to you the best I know how.

848
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000
But don't use my standards because I guarantee you they're flawed.

849
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,000
The only standard that's not is the standard of the Word of God and God's Word.

850
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000
And you cannot move the boundaries.

851
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,000
You cannot change it.

852
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Not just because it defrauds your neighbor.

853
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000
That's what happens when you play at being a Christian.

854
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000
You pretend to be Christian, but you're not really loving the people that are around you.

855
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000
You're not living for Jesus.

856
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,000
Not self-sacrificing, taking up your cross daily, denying yourself and following after Him.

857
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,000
That's what happens.

858
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000
You're defrauding the people around you by moving the barriers.

859
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,000
Yes, I love Jesus.

860
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,000
I love Jesus so much.

861
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000
I get out of bed every day loving Jesus.

862
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,000
And you say things like, I'll pray for you.

863
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,000
But you never do.

864
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,000
You say, I'll be there for you.

865
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,000
I'll be there whatever you need.

866
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,000
Do you need anything?

867
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Just tell me.

868
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,000
And they say, no, I don't need anything.

869
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Tell me again.

870
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:50,000
I don't need anything.

871
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,000
And then you're not there.

872
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,000
And you're like, I have my excuse.

873
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,000
They said they didn't need anything.

874
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Have you ever known anybody that didn't need anything?

875
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Really?

876
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,000
You're not showing up because you don't want to show up.

877
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Not because they don't need anything.

878
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,000
And if that's where you're at, if that's who you are, not showing up, then you've moved the boundary marker.

879
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:13,000
You think you can love Jesus and live for Jesus and follow Jesus without showing up,

880
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:18,000
without potentially being martyred, without carrying the cross, without denying yourself.

881
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,000
Let me put it this plainly, if I can, in my flesh for just one second.

882
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,000
That's a load of crap.

883
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,000
That is not what Jesus set up as the church.

884
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,000
The boundaries are set.

885
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,000
There is work set aside for us to do.

886
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:41,000
And yes, we will reap if we do not grow weary.

887
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,000
The reason it's such a problem is that when you're doing that,

888
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:52,000
you actually use the authority of the ancients and God Himself to further your current scam.

889
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,000
So you look at the Bible and you say, for example, I'm under grace now,

890
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,000
so I hear you that I'm supposed to do whatever, but I don't want to.

891
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,000
And I'm saved.

892
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,000
So I'll be forgiven.

893
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:10,000
I sat down with a woman who had betrayed our family in one of the most horrible ways possible, short of murder.

894
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,000
And I said to her, God would not like this.

895
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:17,000
And she said, I was going to do what I have to do to get what I want.

896
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,000
And God's going to forgive me anyway.

897
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:20,000
I know I'm saved.

898
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
And I pray every night, God's going to forgive me anyway.

899
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000
And so I did it.

900
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,000
And my heart was just ready to burst in my chest because this was a woman I loved.

901
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,000
And she had betrayed me and my wife in such a terrible way.

902
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,000
And I was like, Lord, give me the words.

903
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,000
And I said, well, I'll tell you what's going to happen.

904
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,000
In two months, I totally disagree with what you just said.

905
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,000
Not that God's not going to forgive you.

906
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,000
I believe he is.

907
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,000
But just because he's going to forgive you does not make it OK for you to do what you've done.

908
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000
And in two months, we'll know between you or I which one of us is right.

909
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:58,000
I submit to you that you will experience the wrath of God for what you have done to us within two months.

910
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
And if I am wrong, then I will experience wrath of God.

911
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:05,000
If I'm holding you accountable in a wrong way or if I'm doing this in a way, I will experience it.

912
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Within two months, she was diagnosed with cancer that would have killed her.

913
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:15,000
Except that my wife intervened and spent resources and time and blood and sweat and tears to take care of her.

914
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,000
And she survived.

915
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:26,000
And then she became a follower of the Lord and she lived for the Lord, volunteering at the life station even when she was practically on her deathbed.

916
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,000
What I'm getting at is you can say it's OK.

917
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,000
I'm forgiven.

918
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000
And therefore, I'll do what I feel like I want to do.

919
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:38,000
You can move that boundary marker and even apply the authority of God to authorize you doing what you want to do.

920
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:46,000
But you better realize God says no moving the boundaries and God has the power to enforce it.

921
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,000
He does not support your current scam.

922
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:58,000
He's not going to stand up for you in the face of your enemies while you will not stand up for him in your life.

923
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,000
He'll let you.

924
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,000
What do you think he did to the Israelites over and over and over again?

925
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:09,000
He used foreign powers and allowed them to come in to take them over and then they would repent and turn back to God and it would get good for a while.

926
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
The judge would rise up and they beat off the enemies and they were fine.

927
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,000
And then they would start to drift into sin again, moving the boundary markers of sin, even applying the same.

928
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,000
God allows this whatever and it would start to get worse and worse.

929
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,000
And then God would allow foreign powers to come in and take them over again.

930
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
And then the next time they would get it worse and worse.

931
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,000
But you know what?

932
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:36,000
Each time they fell into sin, they fell deeper and further into sin, even though God had corrected them, they fell deeper and further into sin until finally they were in such bondage.

933
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:45,000
And they needed a power and an authority to stop the cycle that they called the king for themselves like the other nations, which God knew would happen.

934
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:54,000
They kept applying God's rules in their favor, drifting into sin, and God kept chastising them and allowing them to face wrath.

935
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:10,000
And I submit to you, that is the way it will go. If you move the boundary markers, if you cheat your neighbor, if you apply the authority of the ancients and the authority of God to your current scam, you will pay.

936
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,000
The second thing in this text was all about testifying and false testimony.

937
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:18,000
The dangers of false testimony are very real.

938
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Wickedness tends to spread.

939
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:28,000
I remember being in my late 20s and being threatened to be sued for something that I really didn't do anything wrong.

940
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:37,000
And I actually feared that they would sue me, that I would wind up in court and I didn't know how to get a lawyer and I didn't know how to handle all the process and everything.

941
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:46,000
And the reason I felt that way was because somebody had told me that basically all you got to do is get a lawyer and you can sue anybody for anything and then haul them into court and it'll take time and money and whatever.

942
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:51,000
And it's not entirely untrue, but a lot of times the court will throw certain things out before it ever gets that far.

943
00:54:51,000 --> 00:55:03,000
But the bottom line is, if somebody goes to the court tomorrow with a lawyer and sues you that you don't even know and they say you did something, you could wind up in court next week or next month when the court date is scheduled.

944
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:09,000
And you didn't do anything. And that's the world that we live in because justice has been perverted and the boundary stones have been moved.

945
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:14,000
Wickedness tends to spread. And so then I was thinking, well, how do I get out of this situation? What do I have to do?

946
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:21,000
And I'm trying to manipulate the situation, even trying to move the boundary stones so that I can make my situation better to not wind up in court.

947
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:27,000
When I was at Pizza Hut years ago, there was somebody called me on the phone. It was a lawyer.

948
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
And they said, well, I just want you to know you're going to be getting a letter in the mail. We filed a lawsuit against one of your drivers.

949
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:37,000
And so the driver, what allegedly had happened, he'd been driving and he had a car accident and he'd fled the scene.

950
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:44,000
And the man who was in the other car had been damaged, especially in his privates, and he could no longer properly have intimacy.

951
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:50,000
And so they were suing Pizza Hut and named this specific driver for 12 million dollars.

952
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,000
And I said, well, first of all, none of my drivers ever report anything like that to me.

953
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,000
I don't think it happened. And plus it looks a little scurrilous, right?

954
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:03,000
You got to have an accident and the whole lawsuit is about him not being able to have intimacy, which is like the big that's the big ace in court.

955
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:09,000
You can get a lot of money if you can't do that short of dying. Right. And I said, so I don't believe it.

956
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:14,000
The letter came. It looked very official released from an attorney. It was very official and everything like that.

957
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:20,000
I still didn't believe it. And I didn't do anything about it except I called my area manager and I said, we got this letter.

958
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:29,000
I said, I'm not going to do anything about it. And in fact, I looked on the date in question and the driver that they say, which was the driver that worked for me, was not working that day.

959
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:34,000
And so as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to do anything about it. It goes to court. I'm not going to do anything.

960
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,000
And he said, yep, that's right. And he said, I'll tell you what else has happened.

961
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:48,000
Eighteen Pizza Hut's all across Toledo received the same letter from the same attorney from the same guy who was hit allegedly in their delivery area by one of their drivers name.

962
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:52,000
Basically, all they did was they went through the phone book or went through pizza registries or however they figured it out.

963
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:57,000
And they got a name of the driver that worked at every one of those pizza and they sued a driver and sent a letter.

964
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,000
And basically what they were trying to do is get somebody to make a mistake.

965
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,000
Ultimately, it all got thrown out and nothing happened.

966
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:20,000
But my boss told me that a number like seven managers had actually entered into negotiations on their own on their own authority with that lawyer promising a variety of things to get it to not go to court because they were afraid.

967
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,000
Now, what they should have done was gone to their boss and talk to their boss like I did.

968
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:28,000
But what they decided to do was take matters in their own hands and manipulate situation and try to solve it.

969
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:34,000
Wickedness spreads when your neighbor moves the boundary stone and you go out there and you go, look, I think the boundary stone used to be over there.

970
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,000
Twenty yards now it's over here.

971
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:41,000
I mean, this looks solid. It doesn't look like there was a stone here, but I'm pretty sure this is not where it was at.

972
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Just like the rules of the Monopoly games.

973
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000
I think it was an optional rule to play it that way, but I'm pretty sure I'm not sure.

974
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Instead of checking the book, we're going to argue about it for a while or you might just go take the stone and move it back to where you think it was at.

975
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,000
But I submit to you, what is the likelihood if you move it back to where you think it was at?

976
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,000
What is the likelihood that you will get it in the exact right place?

977
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:05,000
If there's not a mark or something there to put it, how would you get it back to right where it belongs?

978
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,000
And that's the problem.

979
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:15,000
This game, this testifying false testimony, teaching about the Bible, don't you understand that we have done it when I was at East Lido back in the day in the youth group.

980
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000
I taught a lesson out of a material that was provided by the church. I taught the lesson.

981
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:27,000
And it taught, that lesson taught that you had to be baptized to be saved in the lesson, that you had to be baptized to be saved.

982
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:35,000
And then over the week I got to thinking about it and I did some research and I talked to my pastor and I got out the Baptist Faith and Message little passage about that.

983
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,000
And I realized you don't have to be baptized to be saved.

984
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,000
Now if you're saved, you should be baptized, but you don't have to be baptized to be saved.

985
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:47,000
And I realized I was wrong. And so I went back and I don't know if Michael might even remember this because he was back there back that time.

986
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:53,000
I don't know if he was in there at that time or not, but I had to say, look, I taught this last week and it's not true.

987
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Can you mess it up? Can you put the boundary stones where they don't belong?

988
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:02,000
You sure can, which is why you need to go back to the word and teach it the way it's written.

989
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,000
And let me tell you what it says, not what I think about what it says, but what it says.

990
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,000
And you spend the time and break it down.

991
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:17,000
I shared this with my son Arden is going through an ethics class and they were talking about the Old Testament scriptures where it says you can't have two types of cloth in the same garment.

992
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:23,000
You can't have tattoos. You can't wear jewelry. Right. All these different things that they have these rules.

993
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:28,000
And he's like, well, hot. And since those things don't apply now. Right.

994
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,000
Which they kind of don't apply now. Then what about these other rules?

995
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:41,000
And his ethics professor was saying that all the rules of the Old Testament were now defunct because there were rules that didn't apply now like they did then.

996
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
And if some of them don't apply, then all of them don't apply. Arden says, what's my return argument?

997
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:54,000
How do I say, well, yeah, we can have two types of cloth in the same garment now and people can have tattoos and people can wear jewelry.

998
00:59:54,000 --> 01:00:01,000
But they still shouldn't lie, murder, steal. Ten Commandments still apply and a variety of other commandments like not moving the boundary marker, for example.

999
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:07,000
These things still apply. How do I argue that? I feel like I'm in a difficult position. And so we talked it out.

1000
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:13,000
What I explained to him was when you go to the New Testament, the Old Testament to look at scripture, you have to come with a lot with a God filter.

1001
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,000
We now know about Jesus, his death, burial and resurrection. Right. We now know.

1002
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,000
And God expects us to come to him in person, have a relationship with him. Follow.

1003
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:28,000
And so when you look at that scripture, what does it mean that they couldn't wear two types of cloth in the same garment, have tattoos or have jewelry?

1004
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:37,000
It means they needed to be different from the people around them because all of those things that were being done by the people around them were part of false worship.

1005
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:43,000
They're part of being involved with demons and like that. But nowadays it's not like that. There are Christians who have tattoos.

1006
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:51,000
By the way, the born again thing rules it out. What if you have tattoos and they get born? You can't get born again if you have tattoos or you have to have them all removed.

1007
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
That's ludicrous. So it doesn't matter anymore, does it?

1008
01:00:54,000 --> 01:01:00,000
The reason it doesn't matter is because people are born again who have tattoos and then they still have tattoos after they're born again.

1009
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:05,000
So you can't look different from the world saying I'm never going to have a tattoo. You can't do that. Right.

1010
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:11,000
So that law doesn't apply to us the same way. But what does still apply to us is that we have to stand out and be different.

1011
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:17,000
And you can know how to stand out. You should be doing good. You should be testifying about Jesus. You should be living his word.

1012
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,000
That's what makes us different. You see.

1013
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:27,000
The dangers of false testimony is wickedness spreads, bringing the authority of God to bear.

1014
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:33,000
Once revealed, the false witness was supposed to get the punishment expected for the accused. Do you hear this?

1015
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:39,000
If you take God's word and you twist it and use it for your own purposes, what is the result?

1016
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:48,000
You get the punishment that would have applied to the person that you're now not able to win to Jesus because you're bringing a false teaching out of the word.

1017
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:52,000
You're following? Hell.

1018
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
You're talking about hell.

1019
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,000
Talking about separation from God.

1020
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:03,000
You cannot willingly misapply the word of God, move the boundary stone, false testify about the word.

1021
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:09,000
You cannot willingly misapply the word of God and go to heaven.

1022
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Like whoa. So you're saying that's an unforgivable sin.

1023
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:22,000
I'm saying if you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and have a personal relationship with him and you misquote scripture and it doesn't bother you, that's a contradiction.

1024
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,000
It should bother you.

1025
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:36,000
And if you did it a year ago and you're over it now, then I would assume in the middle somewhere there you repented and you changed and you got back to what was right.

1026
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:42,000
And if it doesn't bother you that you did it, I'm still bothered by the fact that I taught baptism 30 years ago.

1027
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:45,000
That I taught baptism was required for salvation.

1028
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:55,000
It still bothers me that I would allow that to happen, that I was a Bible study teacher and as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and walking with him as much as I knew how every day, that I would teach that, that still bothers me.

1029
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,000
Now I'm not guilty. I don't feel guilty about it.

1030
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,000
But it's registered as something I need to be aware of.

1031
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,000
I do not stand before you and teach the word of God lightly.

1032
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,000
I understand I can and will make mistakes.

1033
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:09,000
I submit to you. I want to get it right.

1034
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:19,000
Which is why I call on you that if I get it wrong, that you will help me get it right.

1035
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:24,000
Once revealed, the false witness receives the punishment expected for the accursed.

1036
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:31,000
So you go and say to somebody, well you, you Christian, you can't have tattoos. You're a Christian. You can't smoke cigarettes. You're a Christian. You can't be overweight.

1037
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:36,000
You're a Christian. You told a lie. You can't possibly be a Christian if you told a lie.

1038
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:42,000
Right? If you start doing that kind of stuff and misusing the word of God, those are all misuses of the word of God.

1039
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:48,000
And I can give you some more, but we don't really need to get into it because I think you understand.

1040
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,000
If you do that, you are guilty.

1041
01:03:52,000 --> 01:04:04,000
You're guilty of trying to bring God's power to bear by your authority, your way, what you reason and think is correct rather than his.

1042
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:08,000
And that brings us to our conclusion, which will take a minute.

1043
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Can you imagine someone trying to use God or God's rules to get ahead?

1044
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,000
Has that ever been done?

1045
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:24,000
Wouldn't you fear God and go, oh my goodness? Well, yes, it has been done all over the world.

1046
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Do you understand that the teachings of the Koran, I don't know what percentage of it is, but I guarantee it's more than 25 percent come from the Bible.

1047
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Yeah. And they've twisted it and they've got it all wrong.

1048
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:44,000
And Jesus is just another teacher like Mohammed, Yeshua, one of the greatest ever.

1049
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:49,000
They've got it all wrong. They don't understand that he was God in the flesh and died on the cross for our sins because they've twisted it.

1050
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:55,000
Would someone twist God's teaching to their own benefit? Yep, absolutely. It does happen.

1051
01:04:55,000 --> 01:05:01,000
In fact, the word says it will happen all the more. Paul wrote in Second Timothy to Timothy that the time is coming.

1052
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:13,000
World would be quite common. Romans 16, beginning of verse 17, people use God's word to create obstacles contrary to the doctrine.

1053
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Second Peter 3 16. This one we'll go and look at.

1054
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:24,000
If you're following along in your Bible, we're going to do some flipping, going to get quick. Good practice.

1055
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:34,000
Second Peter 3 16 says, I'll go back to 14. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace.

1056
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:43,000
Apostles and blameless and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you.

1057
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:51,000
As also in all his letters, speaking of them, speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to understand.

1058
01:05:51,000 --> 01:06:00,000
So in the word, some things are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort as they do also the rest of scriptures.

1059
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:09,000
And boy, if it stopped right there, it sounds really bad. You see what they do? The unstable, the untaught, they distort Paul's teachings and the rest of the scriptures.

1060
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:15,000
But it doesn't stop there. It actually ends with to their own destruction.

1061
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:27,000
The mathematical equation is this. If you misuse God's word and God's authority and what we understand it to be going all the way back to the beginning, you will pay.

1062
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:36,000
First Timothy four, which I quoted a little bit of a moment ago.

1063
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:48,000
First Timothy, Chapter four, beginning in verse one, says this, But the spirit express explicitly says that in later times, some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits.

1064
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:55,000
And that's bad enough. And doctrines of demons, doctrines of demons, not clearly not what God says, but doctrines of demons.

1065
01:06:55,000 --> 01:07:10,000
Verse two says, By means of the hypocrisy of liars, seared in their own conscience, as with with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

1066
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:19,000
For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

1067
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:28,000
Basically already so early in the life of the church, there were people were teaching you can do this, you can't do that. You can do this this way. You've got to do this this way.

1068
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:37,000
And it wasn't based on what God said. It was already happening then. And it's it's only grown since now you realize that is the direction right of our society.

1069
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:43,000
Our society is literally teaching that don't bother to get married thing right now.

1070
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:50,000
My wife and I just had this conversation very early on before I really got to anything depth deep in this scripture.

1071
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,000
And we're talking about how it used to be in the 80s, 90s and read it right up around 2000.

1072
01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:00,000
There were lots of shows where there was this tension between the male star and the female star.

1073
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:06,000
And you could just tell they were kind of in love, but they were putting off their feelings for each other for whatever reason.

1074
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:16,000
It was like that for decades. Right. It was really great fiction. You could they would always find a reason not to become romantically involved, even though they clearly had deep feelings for each other.

1075
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:22,000
But now watch what you see now. Everything that's on TV in the last 20 years is there.

1076
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,000
They're in it, man. They're at it. They're under the sheets behind closed doors.

1077
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:32,000
They're doing whatever they want to do, but they're on the job covering it up, pretending they don't have a relationship or it eventually comes out and they have to make agreements.

1078
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:36,000
They have to do things because they have a relationship and then there's the tension. So now they're in a shootout.

1079
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:42,000
He's like, oh, whoa, is my sexual partner just been shot? Oh, horrid. Right. That's what we've got on TV now.

1080
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:49,000
But 30 years ago it was was that person that I madly in love with and would like to marry and spend the rest of my life with.

1081
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:54,000
Have they been shot? Oh, no, that ruins my dream of eventually being with them. It's a totally different thing.

1082
01:08:54,000 --> 01:09:00,000
The world is teaching now that you frankly don't need to get married. You don't need to be dedicated to one person. You don't need to have a oneness.

1083
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:05,000
Why? Because marriage was given to represent the relationship between Christ and his church.

1084
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:12,000
And if you take out the relationship between Christ and his church, you will have moved the boundary marker so far back there won't be anybody getting saved and becoming the church.

1085
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:17,000
Because we don't understand anymore that Jesus literally died for his bride.

1086
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:23,000
It's also why men have such a hard time being husbands and why women have such a hard time being wives.

1087
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:32,000
Because the rules and the standards that God set have been warped to our thinking, to our reasoning, to our logic, to our comfort.

1088
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:37,000
It's hard to be a husband. It's hard to be a father. It's hard to be a mother.

1089
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:44,000
And if it ain't hard for you, if you're doing it, it isn't hard for you. You ain't doing it right.

1090
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:52,000
And that's what God says. In fact, Jesus was talking about marriage, explaining it to the disciples and the disciples said, well, if this is the way it is, then no one should ever get married. Right.

1091
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,000
And Jesus says, I understand that, that it sounds hard.

1092
01:09:55,000 --> 01:10:04,000
I'm paraphrasing. I understand it sounds hard, but you need to understand that this marriage is given as an image of what God is doing between his Savior and his church.

1093
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:12,000
Galatians 1, 6 to 9 says that there would be those who would come and want to distort the gospel.

1094
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Second Peter, chapter two will go to real quick as we're winding up. Second Peter, chapter two.

1095
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:34,000
False prophets in verse one fall, but false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce.

1096
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:42,000
I love this that you can secretly introduce a destructive heresy is amazing to me, but that's the nature of twisting God's word. That's the nature of moving the boundary marker.

1097
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:49,000
That's the nature of cheating your neighbor to your own benefit and using God's power and the power of the ancients to do what it is that you want to do.

1098
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:59,000
You can secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

1099
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:04,000
It says, and many will follow their sensuality. That means they'll go after what they want, what they feel like they want.

1100
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:13,000
And because of them, the way of the truth will be maligned. Talked about badly. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words.

1101
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:19,000
Their judgment from long ago is not idle and their destruction is not asleep. See, God has not taken this lightly.

1102
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:27,000
The standard of your life, my life, the activity of the church, the preaching, the teaching, the gospel delivery that you do must be God's word.

1103
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:39,000
And by no other means. In fact, if you'll look at Revelation 22 at the very end of the Bible, when you've got to get to that little closing passage, Revelation chapter 22.

1104
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:49,000
I'll get there in a second. I cut my thumb and it's making it hard for me to flip pages. Okay, that's funny.

1105
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:58,000
All right. Revelation 22, beginning 18, it says, I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book.

1106
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:02,000
If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

1107
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:12,000
In other words, if you alter the teachings of God's word, adding to them for your own benefit, moving the boundary marker, using God's authority, the authority of the ancients to affect what happens in your life today.

1108
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:21,000
If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, so you back down from it.

1109
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:26,000
You say, well, that doesn't really mean what it seems like it means. I don't really have to do that, even though it seems like it's a command.

1110
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:34,000
Like I don't have to sing and worship. I don't have to memorize scripture. I don't have to read my Bible all the time. I don't have to do take in the word of God, etc.

1111
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:45,000
It says that if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city which are written in this book.

1112
01:12:45,000 --> 01:13:00,000
God's standards are immutable. They do not change. Yet, God knows that people will do it.

1113
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:15,000
In Luke 17, Jesus is speaking and He says, there will be much stumbling. A lot of failure. A lot of mistakes. A lot of bad things will happen.

1114
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:27,000
Then He goes on to say, woe to the one who causes the stumbling. Woe to the one who causes the failing.

1115
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:39,000
Matthew 7 verses 12 to 23. I apologize. Matthew 7.

1116
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:45,000
We're flipping, going back to the very beginning of the New Testament. Matthew 7.

1117
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:50,000
Again, Jesus speaking and this is during the Sermon on the Mount. It's later in the text, but it's during the Sermon on the Mount.

1118
01:13:50,000 --> 01:14:00,000
He says, beginning in verse 12, a verse that you will find maybe a little bit familiar, therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat them.

1119
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:07,000
For this is the law and the prophets. Notice it isn't how they treat you, treat them, but how you would want them to treat you. That's how you treat them.

1120
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:16,000
That's the golden rule. So treat them for this is the law and the prophets. Enter by the narrow gate. In other words, let's narrow this down.

1121
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Let's get specific. For the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction.

1122
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:24,000
I submit to you that that gate is wide because people have moved the boundary stones.

1123
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:30,000
That road that leads to destruction is wide because people have moved the boundary stones. They have widened the road.

1124
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:35,000
And many are those who enter by it, the way that leads to destruction.

1125
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:41,000
For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life. And few are those who find it.

1126
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

1127
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:54,000
And I submit to you here, Jesus is saying they will tell you what you want to hear or they will tell you what they think you need to hear.

1128
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:59,000
But neither one of those things is what you actually need to hear. What you need to hear is the word of God.

1129
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:07,000
Verse 16 says, you will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

1130
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:15,000
Even so every good tree bears fruit but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

1131
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:22,000
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then you will know them by their fruits.

1132
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:28,000
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father who is in heaven.

1133
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:34,000
Now listen, it does not say, he who testifies about the will of my father who is in heaven.

1134
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:45,000
It does not say, he who almost does, or who does it part time sometimes, it says he who basically goes on doing the will of my father who is in heaven.

1135
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:52,000
And how will you know that? You will know the will of my father who is in heaven by his word.

1136
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:57,000
That's how you will know it. And if you alter it and add to it, you will pay the eternal price.

1137
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:01,000
And if you alter it and subtract from it, you will pay the eternal price.

1138
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:06,000
I guess we'd better all become scholars of this teaching that God has given us.

1139
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:12,000
Perhaps we should not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.

1140
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:19,000
I think a famous man once said that. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did not we prophecy in your name?

1141
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:27,000
That's a great gift. And in your name cast out demons? And in your name perform many miracles? All those are great gifts.

1142
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:36,000
Jesus says, and then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice, wait for it, lawlessness.

1143
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:46,000
Those of you who do not follow God's teaching. You must, must, must learn the ways of the Lord.

1144
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:54,000
You must follow, beginning with believing in Jesus, and then allow God to teach you.

1145
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:58,000
Allow God to raise you up and show you what it is that He would have you to do.

1146
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:03,000
And that what it is that He would have you to do will never be contrary to Scripture.

1147
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:11,000
It will never be on the edge so that if you just twist Scripture a little bit, it'll fit in.

1148
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:21,000
Your actions must not be governed by what I say or what anyone says, but by what the God of the universe says.

1149
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:31,000
Having been saved, we now can live as if we are saved.

1150
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:41,000
Second Peter chapter two, verses 20 and 21 says, and this is the very end of the verses for the day.

1151
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:47,000
But know this, first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation.

1152
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:57,000
In other words, it's not about what you think it says. It's not about the way you present it or the way you figure it out or you reason it out.

1153
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:01,000
No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation.

1154
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:11,000
For no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will. But men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

1155
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:19,000
God said, men recorded, moved by the Holy Spirit, the Word of God.

1156
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:27,000
This is our governance. This is our set of rules. And if you want to say so, the law. But it's so much more than that.

1157
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:31,000
It marks out the road and the way and the path and the gate.

1158
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:37,000
It clearly shows us that the way to heaven is through Jesus.

1159
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:41,000
God said there was a man and a woman.

1160
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:47,000
God placed them in a garden. It was a beautiful, beautiful place.

1161
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,000
It was everything that they could ever need. And they were tending it.

1162
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:55,000
And a wise and crafty animal, which God had also created, came and said to them,

1163
01:18:55,000 --> 01:19:00,000
Has God really said that you cannot eat of any of the trees in the garden?

1164
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:04,000
Oh man, how horrible that makes God out to be.

1165
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:08,800
And the woman defended God, the man said nothing, stood by said nothing.

1166
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:11,840
The woman defended God, she said, no, no, no.

1167
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:14,500
God lets us eat of any tree in the garden.

1168
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:19,840
But those two trees, listen real close here, those two trees at the center of the garden,

1169
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:24,680
God said those trees we can't even touch.

1170
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,780
See what she did there?

1171
01:19:26,780 --> 01:19:29,120
She moved the boundary.

1172
01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:31,640
Because God didn't say they couldn't touch them, in fact they were supposed to tend them

1173
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:32,640
like all the trees.

1174
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:36,480
They were supposed to tend to all the trees in the Garden of Eden.

1175
01:19:36,480 --> 01:19:40,520
Their names were Adam and Eve, and we were present in them.

1176
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:44,800
And so from them we have had a tendency to move the boundaries of Scripture to our own

1177
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:46,120
liking.

1178
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:49,960
Even you stand up and you'll say, God's a holy God and He's going to punish you because

1179
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,540
you hurt me.

1180
01:19:52,540 --> 01:19:56,400
Maybe even when you're wrong.

1181
01:19:56,400 --> 01:20:00,640
You may want to say about somebody who's living in sin that they're going to hell, but God

1182
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:04,000
may know differently.

1183
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,520
That's why it says judge not lest you be judged.

1184
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:08,280
She's talking about judging salvation.

1185
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:12,500
You may want to curse the name of somebody who's hurt you very severely, feeling like

1186
01:20:12,500 --> 01:20:18,360
you're just to do so because they've hurt you very severely.

1187
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:21,680
And then in ten years from now they may get saved and go to heaven and you may go there

1188
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:27,680
and have to stand next to them with your hardened heart and worship at the tree.

1189
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:34,360
I submit to you, if you use Scripture that way, you won't be there.

1190
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,200
The God of the universe has laid out a pattern.

1191
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,680
The God of the universe has marked out His territory.

1192
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,760
It is the human soul.

1193
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:47,360
We are to submit to Him in totality, understanding the best we can and living His word, knowing

1194
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:49,520
we will make mistakes.

1195
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:54,800
But oh, woe to Him through whom the mistakes come.

1196
01:20:54,800 --> 01:21:01,160
So you be careful and don't misapply the word of God and don't use the word of God and Jesus'

1197
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:08,720
sacrifice as an excuse for your bad behavior because in that way you probably will not

1198
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:13,760
arrive where you want to be.

1199
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:15,680
Don't move the boundary markers.

1200
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:17,880
Don't cheat your neighbor.

1201
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:22,520
Submit yourself to God through His son Jesus Christ and live accordingly for the rest of

1202
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:25,720
your life.

1203
01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:30,600
And what God has in store is simply amazing.

1204
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:38,800
When we try to misuse His authority, His authority simply will turn on us and destroy us.

1205
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,680
That's what His word says.

1206
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:47,000
But if instead you will wield the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, justly

1207
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:55,120
and graciously, you will find yourself able to stand in the day of evil.

1208
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:58,400
And when all is done, just stand.

1209
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:04,440
But if you will continue, as some of you may be doing, as I have done in the past, to dismiss

1210
01:22:04,440 --> 01:22:08,800
His word, do not think it's all that special, all that important.

1211
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:13,160
It's not necessary to memorize, study, read, intake, listen, whatever.

1212
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:18,040
If you would do that, you will surely make the mistake eventually of moving the boundary

1213
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:24,200
stone, a false testimony, and in so doing, pay the ultimate price.

1214
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:29,720
On the other hand, if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, God has given

1215
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:34,920
you His Holy Spirit and I know in you, you will find a passion to know His word and to

1216
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:35,920
live it out.

1217
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:42,200
I know this because from the moment the Holy Spirit entered into me, I have had that passion.

1218
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:47,040
And at times, I have failed.

1219
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,720
And so I ask you today, have you failed?

1220
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,560
Have you stretched the boundary stone?

1221
01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:57,760
Have you given a false testimony about what God's word says?

1222
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:01,240
Maybe not even intentionally, but because you didn't know?

1223
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:04,120
It's your responsibility to know.

1224
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:05,120
You've been purchased for an eternity.

1225
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,440
If you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're now a mouthpiece for God

1226
01:23:08,440 --> 01:23:09,880
in whatever situation you happen to be in.

1227
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,180
It's your responsibility to know.

1228
01:23:12,180 --> 01:23:14,560
You take responsibility.

1229
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:21,520
We repent of your having misused God's word or of your lack of passion about God's word.

1230
01:23:21,520 --> 01:23:30,320
Turn to the Lord and say, Lord, fill me with your word again today and going forward.

1231
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:31,320
I will.

1232
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:32,320
Will you?

1233
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:37,640
I ask the praise team to come forward at this time and we'll sing our closing hymn.

1234
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,400
This is your opportunity to make whatever decision the Lord is laying on your heart

1235
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:41,400
today.

1236
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:46,200
He says, if you will deny me before men, I will deny you before my Father in heaven.

1237
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,080
It's clear in his word that we are not to deny him before men.

1238
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:50,080
So you speak up.

1239
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,680
If the Lord is working your heart today, you can walk forward and say, I've got a word

1240
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:53,680
to share.

1241
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,560
It might be about joining this church or finding a church home somewhere else.

1242
01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:57,560
It might be about getting baptized.

1243
01:23:57,560 --> 01:23:58,560
It might be about starting a ministry.

1244
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,280
It might be about repenting of a specific sin.

1245
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,120
You can come forward and say, I've been doing this and I need to stop today.

1246
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:06,160
I'm taking a stand today to stop.

1247
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:09,480
And I'm going to live instead this way for the Lord Jesus.

1248
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:12,960
It could be about whatever God's putting on your heart.

1249
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:16,040
Could be a topic of prayer you just need to pray about and want to make it public so we

1250
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,400
can all pray about it together today and going forward.

1251
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:19,400
Whatever it might be.

1252
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,400
But if God's moving you, don't you say no.

1253
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:23,800
You're on His side of the boundary marker.

1254
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:40,640
Just stand with me and sing this song and respond if God is leading you to do so.

1255
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:55,200
Jesus, I surrender all to Him I freely give.

1256
01:24:55,200 --> 01:25:06,360
I will ever love and trust Him in His presence daily live.

1257
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:21,920
I will ever love and trust Him in His presence daily live.

1258
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:43,680
Jesus, I surrender all to Jesus I surrender with me, Savior, holy Thine.

1259
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:56,640
Let me feel Thy Holy Spirit truly flow then thro'wards mine.

1260
01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:22,120
I surrender all I surrender all to Thee my Lord, Savior, I surrender all.

1261
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:39,600
I surrender all I surrender all to Thee my Lord, Savior, I surrender all I surrender

1262
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:58,440
all to Thee my Lord, Savior, I surrender all I surrender all I surrender all I surrender

1263
01:26:58,440 --> 01:27:00,400
for my rents paid, I'm going to grift, I'm going to do whatever.

1264
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:04,760
I basically had to walk around asking people for money for gas or whatever.

1265
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:08,440
He was asking whatever his excuse was at the moment, and people would give him 50 cents,

1266
01:27:08,440 --> 01:27:10,920
a dollar, a couple bucks, and he'd add that up, and that was his rent.

1267
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:11,720
He was like, I'm going to do it.

1268
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:15,480
And I said, my suggestion to you would be to get gainful employment.

1269
01:27:15,700 --> 01:27:19,800
You'll make a lot more money, or a lot less hassle, a lot less danger, and you'll honor God.

1270
01:27:21,020 --> 01:27:24,120
And he said, no, I'm going to do what I got to do to survive.

1271
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:25,120
You just don't understand.

1272
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:29,120
And I think a lot of times, it's not that people are trying to do what's bad.

1273
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,600
They just think they're doing what they got to do to understand.

1274
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:36,680
They got to survive, and they got close to the edge, and then what they got to do

1275
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:41,760
to survive becomes a little bit more, and they push that boundary marker back,

1276
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:44,280
and they say, that's okay, because this is what I got to do to survive.

1277
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,520
They push it back a little bit, and then they make back off of that,

1278
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:50,720
and live normally for a while again, and then they find themselves out next

1279
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:53,520
to that boundary marker, where they're completely in the other person's territory,

1280
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:56,200
completely on the other side, because they moved it back 10 feet last time,

1281
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,560
and now they're perfectly comfortable going up to the boundary marker,

1282
01:27:59,440 --> 01:28:01,120
because they moved it last time, and it settled in.

1283
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,480
But then they find they have to move it, and they say, well, I moved it before.

1284
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:05,400
I can move it again.

1285
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:08,520
So they move it 10 more feet, and then they're at the edge,

1286
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:10,500
and they're not crossing the line, because they moved the line.

1287
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,000
And then they go back, and they live their life normally for a while,

1288
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,440
and then later they come up to the edge again.

1289
01:28:14,440 --> 01:28:16,860
Now they're 20 feet outside what's acceptable.

1290
01:28:17,440 --> 01:28:21,520
It's further and further out, and that seems to be what's happening in the world.

1291
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:24,480
People are moving that boundary marker, the lines that God has laid out for us.

1292
01:28:24,480 --> 01:28:25,160
What's good for us?

1293
01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:26,360
Further and further back.

1294
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:33,360
And ultimately they retreat back from that line after they've moved it four or five times,

1295
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:34,560
and they come back, and they live normally.

1296
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:35,160
But guess what?

1297
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:38,460
They moved that line 40 feet out.

1298
01:28:38,460 --> 01:28:39,800
They retreated back 35 feet.

1299
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:40,460
They're living normally.

1300
01:28:40,460 --> 01:28:42,000
As far as they're concerned, they're thinking.

1301
01:28:42,220 --> 01:28:44,080
They're living inside the boundary marker.

1302
01:28:44,300 --> 01:28:49,260
Everything is fine, because they're so far from where the line is,

1303
01:28:49,260 --> 01:28:52,920
but they've moved the line so far back that they're literally outside

1304
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,440
where the original boundary marker was, and they just live.

1305
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,120
That's what the Bible calls wickedness.

1306
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:01,800
They're thinking it's okay every day to do whatever I think I need to do, whatever I want to do,

1307
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:04,780
whatever my reason tells me, whatever so-and-so thinks I should do.

1308
01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:06,900
God is the same.

1309
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:08,680
The boundary is real.

1310
01:29:09,140 --> 01:29:10,180
You move the marker all you want.

1311
01:29:10,180 --> 01:29:10,840
It's still there.

1312
01:29:11,780 --> 01:29:13,000
There are no painted lines.

1313
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:18,720
So if you move the stone and think the line is over here now, you didn't move the line.

1314
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:23,720
You just moved the stone, because God's the one who set the line.

1315
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:27,360
The ancients, the people that lived a long time before us, they're the ones who set the line.

1316
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:31,040
People who were inspired by God and wrote His word, the lines were set.

1317
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,040
You can't change them, and I can't change them.

1318
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:35,760
I don't want to change them, and if I ever do change them,

1319
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,760
I hope I figure it out right away and fix it.

1320
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:40,760
I would encourage you to do that.

1321
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:47,760
If we ever move the line and do what we shouldn't do, we'll realize it fast and get it back to where it belongs.

1322
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:51,760
Because once you've moved it, man, generations down the road, which is where we're living,

1323
01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:54,760
generations down the road, people are doing all kinds of things, you're looking at people going,

1324
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:55,760
how can they do that?

1325
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:57,760
That doesn't even make any sense.

1326
01:29:57,760 --> 01:29:58,760
Well, that's how.

1327
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:03,760
Because they're living in that part of the boundary line, that part of the territory where the boundary line has been moved back,

1328
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:06,760
and they live in a place where you can go, that's a step.

1329
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:10,760
That just doesn't make any sense.

1330
01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:13,760
They're hurting themselves, they're hurting their family, they're hurting others.

1331
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:15,760
It just doesn't make any sense.

1332
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:21,760
It's because they moved the boundary line back so much, and it makes perfect sense to them because they're inside what they perceive to be the boundary.

1333
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:26,760
And you still think the boundary is somewhere else, and you might both be wrong.

1334
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:28,760
But God's never wrong.

1335
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:32,760
I encourage you today, even though you're not making your decision publicly, to repent and say,

1336
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:38,760
No, Lord, I want to be with you. I want to walk with you daily.

1337
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:42,760
I want to live my life on the highway following us.

1338
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:44,760
That's Isaiah's words, not mine.

1339
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:50,760
On the road that Jesus marked out for us, on Jesus even, because He is the way.

1340
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:54,760
I want to go through the narrow gate, not be turned away.

1341
01:30:54,760 --> 01:31:00,760
Imagine you widen the road, travel it for 20 years, get there, and it faces a wall.

1342
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:05,760
You're like, but there should be a gate here. I can't get in.

1343
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:09,760
But it's because you moved the road off the gate.

1344
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:15,760
No. Let the road go to the gate. Let us be on the road. Let us look for a turn to be with God.

1345
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:17,760
We're going to close in prayer at this time.

1346
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:21,760
We are going to come back in this room in just a few moments for a brief meeting.

1347
01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:28,760
Still nothing on the agenda as far as I know, other than just a couple of snippets, announcements that you need, that kind of thing.

1348
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:37,760
And then there could be a membership motion that somebody has to make if there's somebody in the room that needs to do that.

1349
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:42,760
Molly, would you pray for us? And we'll close this out.

1350
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:49,760
Dear Lord, we thank you for this day, for this ability to come here and to seek your word and to learn and to grow.

1351
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:57,760
We ask that you watch over us as we go from here, guide us as we go about our daily lives, and that we would do that in the way that you would see fit.

1352
01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:08,760
I ask that you bless this time and these people, especially those that are hurting, that are on the prayer list, that have health concerns or job concerns or whatever that may be.

1353
01:32:08,760 --> 01:32:14,760
We ask that you heal us and guide us as we go from here. In Jesus' name, Amen.

1354
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:28,760
Thank you so much.