1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,500 We started a series last Sunday called the threefold cord of God. 2 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:06,500 Amen. 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:11,100 And I'm going to invite you now to join me in Ecclesiastes chapter 4 and verse 12. 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:16,100 This is one of our foundation verses for this series. 5 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:19,060 Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verse 12. 6 00:00:19,060 --> 00:00:26,260 It says, though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him and a threefold 7 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:31,520 cord is not quickly broken. 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:38,860 Our second foundational verse for this series is found in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 9 00:00:38,860 --> 00:00:40,520 5. 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:48,120 And it simply says, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. 11 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,120 Amen. 12 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:54,440 We're going to, I'm going to read it one more time, but this time I'm going to ask everyone 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,360 to join me in this verse. 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,100 Let's say it together. 15 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:04,820 One Lord, one baptism. 16 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:08,300 Last week we looked at the first cord of one Lord. 17 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:11,460 Today we're going to look at the second cord of one faith. 18 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:16,200 Father, I thank you for your presence that is in this place today, for speaking to your 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,660 church, for moving so powerfully, so beautifully in our midst today, Lord. 20 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:24,580 And as we enter in your word, I pray for understanding. 21 00:01:24,580 --> 00:01:26,660 I pray for an anointing God. 22 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:28,660 I pray for clarity. 23 00:01:28,660 --> 00:01:34,780 Lord, speak into the hearts of all that are here today, God, even those that are watching, 24 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:38,260 Lord, that this word would fall on good ground. 25 00:01:38,260 --> 00:01:43,180 Anoint our hearing, God, that as I teach and as I share these precepts, Lord, it would 26 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:44,180 be received. 27 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:47,660 It would be understood and applied. 28 00:01:47,660 --> 00:01:52,780 Rub my lips of clay and let your name be glorified in Jesus name. 29 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:54,540 Everyone say amen. 30 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:58,900 You may be seated in the presence of God. 31 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:06,220 I invite you, as I mentioned last week, to tune into this this series. 32 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:12,180 I think it's more of a teaching series more than anything, but we always give room for 33 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:13,500 the Holy Ghost to move. 34 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:21,180 And so we might do some preaching as well, but perhaps you have heard of the phrase all 35 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:24,940 roads lead to Rome. 36 00:02:24,940 --> 00:02:30,360 In ancient times, it wasn't just a saying, but a reality. 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:37,140 This expression originates from the Roman Empire, where an intricate network of highways 38 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:47,500 was designed to meet in Rome, the heart of the Roman Empire, the capital of the Empire. 39 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:54,380 And all these roads spanning thousands of miles throughout the Empire, it symbolizes 40 00:02:54,380 --> 00:03:02,180 Rome's power, their significance, their world dominance at the time. 41 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:10,940 And it also underscored a simple yet profound idea that no matter where you started, the 42 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:16,620 road would eventually lead you to the capital city. 43 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:28,700 Now, if you fast forward to today, this phrase has evolved into a a saying or a metaphor 44 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:39,740 for the idea that different spiritual paths or faiths can lead to the same destination 45 00:03:39,740 --> 00:03:41,620 or the same God. 46 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:45,100 And you may have heard this repeated. 47 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:51,760 Doesn't matter what you believe, you know, all roads lead to God. 48 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,860 And there have been some notable figures in history, one in particular, whom a lot of 49 00:03:56,860 --> 00:04:00,660 people look up to and quote. 50 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:07,540 And I'm only quoting it just because it seems to be in the consciousness of a lot of people. 51 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:17,180 Gandhi once said that the essence of all religions is one, only their approaches are different. 52 00:04:17,180 --> 00:04:29,620 And that sums up the all roads belief system that many people buy into that that all the 53 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:33,900 approaches are different, but it all arrives at the same place. 54 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:43,060 But what about within Christianity, within the various creeds and traditions and movements 55 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:47,580 within all of Christianity? 56 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:59,740 With the term Christian being used so loosely nowadays, how can any one church think about 57 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:00,740 this? 58 00:05:00,740 --> 00:05:14,580 How can any one church claim that their faith is the correct faith and that another is false? 59 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:18,300 How can any one body of people, any one movement claim that? 60 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:29,020 Is it possible that all roads of faith are equally created, are created equal and arrive 61 00:05:29,020 --> 00:05:30,980 at the same destination? 62 00:05:30,980 --> 00:05:35,220 Is that a possibility? 63 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:43,340 That somehow, someway, whatever it is you choose to believe, whatever path of faith, 64 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:50,900 whatever spiritual path you choose, whatever belief systems you apply to your life, that 65 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:55,540 it's all going to kind of work itself out in the end. 66 00:05:55,540 --> 00:06:05,500 That God is just going to universally accept these different faiths and it's just going 67 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:07,620 to work out. 68 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:11,820 There are a lot of people today who believe that. 69 00:06:11,820 --> 00:06:22,380 But I want to tell you that one of the greatest lies ever told was that all roads lead to 70 00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:25,700 heaven. 71 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:29,980 One of the greatest lies ever told. 72 00:06:29,980 --> 00:06:34,020 And I think it was born in hell. 73 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:36,580 Is that okay? 74 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:40,460 Can I say that? 75 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:45,940 One of the greatest falsehoods ever spread was that there are many faiths which lead 76 00:06:45,940 --> 00:06:49,300 to God. 77 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:55,940 According to Ephesians 4 and verse 5, which we are deriving this series from, and today's 78 00:06:55,940 --> 00:07:00,540 message in particular, there is only one faith. 79 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:04,060 Someone say one faith. 80 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:15,940 So, if the Apostle Paul was being generous or being accommodating to a variety of faiths, 81 00:07:15,940 --> 00:07:21,540 I think this would have been the time for him to establish that there are many roads. 82 00:07:21,540 --> 00:07:27,180 But he says there is only one faith. 83 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:34,580 Faith is perhaps the most general word in the Bible because it's a word that gets thrown 84 00:07:34,580 --> 00:07:38,900 around and it can mean different things at different times. 85 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:47,500 Interestingly, the word faith only appears twice in all the Old Testament. 86 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:48,500 Think about that. 87 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:53,420 How many of you thought before I said that the word faith might have been there at least 88 00:07:53,420 --> 00:07:57,380 more than twice in all the Old Testament? 89 00:07:57,380 --> 00:07:59,220 Do a word search. 90 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:01,980 Only two times. 91 00:08:01,980 --> 00:08:04,100 Only two times you're going to see the word faith. 92 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:12,780 Even though it only occurs twice, the concept, however, of a singular chosen path of faith 93 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:15,620 is interwoven throughout the ancient time. 94 00:08:15,620 --> 00:08:21,700 So just because the word itself isn't there, the concept is there. 95 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:31,540 Hebrews 11 tells us that the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Joseph, Noah, all these 96 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:42,900 men of faith and women lived in faith, he tells us, as strangers and pilgrims in search 97 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:44,900 of a heavenly country. 98 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,420 So we know that faith existed. 99 00:08:47,420 --> 00:08:55,740 There was a singular road that God had laid out for his people. 100 00:08:55,740 --> 00:09:04,340 And in Ephesians four, Paul, in talking about one faith is not referring to an act of faith 101 00:09:04,340 --> 00:09:12,940 through which a person is saved or the kind of faith that you have in order to receive 102 00:09:12,940 --> 00:09:18,300 the blessings of God, healings or miracles. 103 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:26,780 But rather the kind of faith that Paul is talking about here is a body of doctrine, 104 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:39,260 a body of beliefs revealed in the New Testament, such as a oneness view of God, baptism in 105 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:48,420 the name of Jesus, speaking in tongues as the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost and 106 00:09:48,420 --> 00:09:53,420 living a holy and separate life. 107 00:09:53,420 --> 00:10:01,540 In true Christianity, there is only one faith. 108 00:10:01,540 --> 00:10:05,140 There is only one way to God. 109 00:10:05,140 --> 00:10:08,820 And his name is Jesus. 110 00:10:08,820 --> 00:10:18,460 He said, I am the way, the truth and the life. 111 00:10:18,460 --> 00:10:19,460 Let's put our hands together. 112 00:10:19,460 --> 00:10:21,980 Let's just thank God for that. 113 00:10:21,980 --> 00:10:22,980 Hallelujah. 114 00:10:22,980 --> 00:10:26,140 Thank you, God. 115 00:10:26,140 --> 00:10:36,620 And the one way was taught and practiced by the original apostles that Jesus appointed 116 00:10:36,620 --> 00:10:40,300 to carry on his work. 117 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:49,180 Their teachings and practices comprise what we know today as apostolic. 118 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:53,380 Everyone say apostolic. 119 00:10:53,380 --> 00:10:56,060 That's an important word. 120 00:10:56,060 --> 00:11:09,420 The term apostolic means relating to the apostles or following the beliefs or the teachings 121 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:12,820 of the apostles. 122 00:11:12,820 --> 00:11:17,980 This pattern is important for us today as New Testament believers. 123 00:11:17,980 --> 00:11:18,980 Why? 124 00:11:18,980 --> 00:11:28,780 Because Jesus gave the apostles the privilege and the authority to teach and to lead the 125 00:11:28,780 --> 00:11:29,780 church. 126 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:32,940 He didn't give it to anybody else. 127 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:36,500 He gave it to his apostles. 128 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:46,860 Apostolic authority so that what they taught was endorsed and approved by God to be the 129 00:11:46,860 --> 00:11:49,180 doctrines of the church. 130 00:11:49,180 --> 00:11:57,180 We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. 131 00:11:57,180 --> 00:11:58,180 Amen. 132 00:11:58,180 --> 00:12:01,840 With Jesus as the chief cornerstone, Paul taught. 133 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:10,940 So what the apostles taught is essential for us to understand what is that singular path 134 00:12:10,940 --> 00:12:14,460 that God has called his church to follow. 135 00:12:14,460 --> 00:12:21,900 And I want to for a few moments today take a brief look at the history of apostolic authority 136 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:29,180 and how it is that we, City Light Church, which is an apostolic church, can claim without 137 00:12:29,180 --> 00:12:39,660 arrogance, without human pride, but confidently claim that what we have is the truth. 138 00:12:39,660 --> 00:12:41,500 Amen. 139 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:45,500 But this is not some modern invention. 140 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:54,460 But this goes all the way back to the teachings of the apostles and how we got here in modern 141 00:12:54,460 --> 00:12:57,220 oneness Pentecostalism. 142 00:12:57,220 --> 00:13:00,980 So a brief history of the apostolic faith. 143 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:08,020 We're going to look at some key time periods, century key figures and facts. 144 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:13,020 And so, like I mentioned last Sunday, this may be a lot to capture in one slide, but 145 00:13:13,020 --> 00:13:16,660 feel free to take out your phones, take a picture of this, or if you've got fast thumbs, 146 00:13:16,660 --> 00:13:20,580 you could type it out if you like to or a pin. 147 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:27,580 But I'll walk you through this oneness Pentecostalism or also known as the apostolic faith traces 148 00:13:27,580 --> 00:13:34,060 its roots back to the early church of the first century. 149 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:47,260 Where practices such as baptism in Jesus name were common, were typical as seen in the Acts 150 00:13:47,260 --> 00:13:48,260 of the Apostles. 151 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:54,540 So the Acts of the Apostles and their teaching provide the blueprint. 152 00:13:54,540 --> 00:13:56,740 That's the starting point. 153 00:13:56,740 --> 00:14:04,900 That's where we begin this process, this timeline of apostolic faith. 154 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,580 But as time goes on, that's the first century. 155 00:14:08,580 --> 00:14:14,500 Second and third centuries, there were early proponents such as Ignatius. 156 00:14:14,500 --> 00:14:22,420 These are early Christian writers, Polycarp, Notus and Sabellus, just to name a few. 157 00:14:22,420 --> 00:14:29,420 There's others that aligned themselves with oneness theology and taught that God manifests 158 00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:36,780 in three aspects or in three modes rather than three distinct persons. 159 00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:42,020 So in the second and third century, there was a continuation of the doctrine taught 160 00:14:42,020 --> 00:14:50,700 by the Apostles who had apostolic authority by the Christian church that remained after 161 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:56,780 the Apostle John had died somewhere around 40 or 50 AD. 162 00:14:56,780 --> 00:14:59,740 The doctrine continued. 163 00:14:59,740 --> 00:15:04,220 Oneness theology continued. 164 00:15:04,220 --> 00:15:09,500 Although Trinitarian doctrine became a dominant theological view after the fourth century 165 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:16,180 councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, which I taught about last Sunday, traces of oneness 166 00:15:16,180 --> 00:15:21,580 theology remained present throughout the church history. 167 00:15:21,580 --> 00:15:31,140 So there are some that will attempt to say that what we believe today, the apostolic 168 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:37,780 or the oneness Pentecostal movement cannot trace itself because it's a modern thing and 169 00:15:37,780 --> 00:15:40,500 that it was eradicated. 170 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:44,180 No, it still existed. 171 00:15:44,180 --> 00:15:48,180 Between the fourth and the 16th century, there's a big gap right there. 172 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:54,340 But between that time, even as the doctrine of the Trinity was becoming prevalent and 173 00:15:54,340 --> 00:16:01,860 accepted by and large to the Roman Catholic Church and even through Protestantism, there 174 00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:09,120 were scattered groups that were individuals that were still holding true to the doctrine 175 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,460 and it was preserved. 176 00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:17,500 Now it wasn't the official doctrine that the Roman Catholic Church had established, but 177 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:20,840 there were groups that were preserving it. 178 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,260 There was a remnant that was still believing it. 179 00:16:25,260 --> 00:16:28,140 Amen. 180 00:16:28,140 --> 00:16:29,460 This is history. 181 00:16:29,460 --> 00:16:35,180 So despite the rise of Trinitarianism, these groups and individuals retain non-Trinitarian 182 00:16:35,180 --> 00:16:42,460 views keeping the essence of oneness beliefs alive between the 17th and 19th centuries. 183 00:16:42,460 --> 00:16:48,060 Moving down the timeline here, the seeds of Pentecostalism were nurtured by various religious 184 00:16:48,060 --> 00:16:58,140 movements including the Quakers, the Methodists, the Shakers, and the holiness movement, which 185 00:16:58,140 --> 00:17:04,420 emphasized personal sanctification and a return to the practices of the early church. 186 00:17:04,420 --> 00:17:12,100 So between the 17th and 19th century, there was this revitalization, this sort of revival 187 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:16,300 of let's get back to the Bible. 188 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:17,300 Let's get back. 189 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:24,900 Let's do away with man's conception or man's imposed theories on Scripture and let's get 190 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:29,020 back to the original text. 191 00:17:29,020 --> 00:17:31,940 And so there was this movement that started. 192 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:33,520 I really like the Shakers. 193 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:34,940 You should read about the Shakers. 194 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:42,220 And they got that name because they used to like to shake. 195 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:45,820 And then the revival meetings, they would literally shake us speaking tongues. 196 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:49,140 So they called them the Shakers. 197 00:17:49,140 --> 00:17:51,260 We need some apostolic shakers today. 198 00:17:51,260 --> 00:17:52,260 Amen. 199 00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:53,260 Hallelujah. 200 00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:58,820 At the turn of the 20th century, the modern Pentecostal movement revitalized these early 201 00:17:58,820 --> 00:18:08,420 beliefs from the outpouring from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Charles Parham's Bethel 202 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:16,820 Bible College in 1901 in Topeka, Kansas, to the Zuzia Street Revival, which I think many 203 00:18:16,820 --> 00:18:26,540 of us may have heard about in 1906, led by William J. Seymour in Los Angeles. 204 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:29,980 During this period, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and speaking in other tongues began 205 00:18:29,980 --> 00:18:32,100 to sweep across the nation. 206 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:39,220 So at the turn of the century, the 20th century, there was a revival of the Holy Ghost. 207 00:18:39,220 --> 00:18:43,500 God was beginning to pour out his spirit in greater measure. 208 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:44,500 Next slide. 209 00:18:44,500 --> 00:19:01,460 And by 1913, next slide, 1913, R.E. McAlister's teaching on the baptism in the name of Jesus 210 00:19:01,460 --> 00:19:10,700 at a camp meeting in Arroyo Seco, California, inspired many to adopt this practice, leading 211 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:18,020 to the formation of oneness Pentecostal groups in the years that followed. 212 00:19:18,020 --> 00:19:22,460 So there was a revival that took place in Arroyo Seco, California. 213 00:19:22,460 --> 00:19:27,580 This minister McAlister was teaching and he got up full of a room full of Trinitarians 214 00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:31,160 and he started preaching on baptism in the name of Jesus. 215 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,120 And there were even those that stood up in the crowd and challenged him. 216 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:39,220 But he kept preaching it and they started baptizing people there. 217 00:19:39,220 --> 00:19:44,060 And then the word of Jesus named baptism began to spread and began to spread. 218 00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:45,620 It caught on. 219 00:19:45,620 --> 00:19:48,780 People started accepting it and teaching it and practicing it. 220 00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:59,660 And out of there, such groups emerged as the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World in 1916. 221 00:19:59,660 --> 00:20:06,100 The Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus in 1925, which city-like church is proudly 222 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:14,540 a part of, amen, and the United Pentecostal Church in 1945. 223 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:20,180 Just a little footnote, a fun fact, that early pioneers of the Apostolic Assembly in Mexico 224 00:20:20,180 --> 00:20:27,660 actually began baptizing in Jesus' name in as early as 1909. 225 00:20:27,660 --> 00:20:35,780 I'm sorry, Brother McAlister, but we had some Mexican Apostolic that were baptizing in Jesus' 226 00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:36,780 name. 227 00:20:36,780 --> 00:20:44,620 This is a fun fact. 228 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:53,300 But this is, in 1913 is where it was solidified and it was spreading from that point on. 229 00:20:53,300 --> 00:21:00,740 But today the Apostolic Faith thrives globally with roughly 25 million adherents in over 230 00:21:00,740 --> 00:21:08,060 200 nations. 231 00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:13,860 What I presented to you today is a high-level overview of the one faith, someone say one 232 00:21:13,860 --> 00:21:18,460 faith that Paul teaches us about. 233 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:23,700 So let us not ever be swayed. 234 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:31,660 Let us not ever think that what we are a part of is some modern invention that just started 235 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:38,960 at Azusa Street or just started in the last century, that the early fathers were Trinitarian 236 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,560 or even that the apostles were Trinitarian. 237 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:46,340 Let us establish very firmly in our hearts and our minds today that there is only one 238 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:52,820 faith and there is an unbroken historical timeline from the first century to the 21st 239 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:54,100 century today. 240 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:59,940 And so this thing has been around a long time. 241 00:21:59,940 --> 00:22:03,140 Praise God. 242 00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:11,420 So now that I have briefly established a historical timeline for us today about this one faith, 243 00:22:11,420 --> 00:22:16,080 now let's talk about what exactly is this one faith. 244 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,180 What do apostolics believe? 245 00:22:20,180 --> 00:22:22,020 I'm glad you asked. 246 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:30,180 I would like to for a few moments give you a summary of apostolic beliefs and why it 247 00:22:30,180 --> 00:22:32,740 matters. 248 00:22:32,740 --> 00:22:36,240 Number one, what do we believe? 249 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,420 What does this one faith teach us about the Bible? 250 00:22:41,420 --> 00:22:46,840 It tells us and we believe that the Bible, someone say the Bible. 251 00:22:46,840 --> 00:23:00,580 The Bible is the inspired word of God and it is true in all that it teaches. 252 00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:05,120 It is perfect. 253 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,940 It doesn't need to be altered. 254 00:23:07,940 --> 00:23:10,320 It doesn't need to be changed. 255 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,740 It doesn't need to be modified. 256 00:23:12,740 --> 00:23:15,460 It doesn't mean, come on, hallelujah. 257 00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:19,260 It is flawless. 258 00:23:19,260 --> 00:23:28,100 And it is our only authority from what we believe and how we ought to live. 259 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:36,140 Second Timothy chapter three and verse 16 says all scripture is given by inspiration 260 00:23:36,140 --> 00:23:37,140 of God. 261 00:23:37,140 --> 00:23:46,660 Literally in the original it is God breathed and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, 262 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:52,260 for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 263 00:23:52,260 --> 00:24:00,180 This Bible is not just a book about God that men wrote. 264 00:24:00,180 --> 00:24:04,340 This Bible is God's autobiography. 265 00:24:04,340 --> 00:24:11,660 This Bible was written by the Holy Spirit through the hands of men, but it's not written 266 00:24:11,660 --> 00:24:13,620 from the hands of men. 267 00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:19,120 Just thinking and philosophizing about God, theorizing about God. 268 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:25,340 This is God's message to the world today and we can bank our lives on it. 269 00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:27,480 We can build our futures on it. 270 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,500 We can live on this word. 271 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:39,340 Pastor Jacob, why does it matter? 272 00:24:39,340 --> 00:24:47,260 Because the moment we start to add or subtract from the word of God, we are taking the place 273 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:51,980 of God himself. 274 00:24:51,980 --> 00:24:55,940 And then we are subject to judgment. 275 00:24:55,940 --> 00:25:07,340 The Bible warns Revelation chapter 22 verse 18 through 19 at the end of the Bible. 276 00:25:07,340 --> 00:25:16,660 If anyone adds to these things, God will to him the plagues that are written in this book. 277 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:22,580 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away 278 00:25:22,580 --> 00:25:29,620 his part from the book of life, from the holy city and from the things which are written 279 00:25:29,620 --> 00:25:31,460 in this book. 280 00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:37,580 We live in a world church that is challenging the authority of scripture as the word of 281 00:25:37,580 --> 00:25:39,880 God. 282 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,700 People call the Bible a manmade book. 283 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:42,700 You know why they do that? 284 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:46,020 So they can disobey it. 285 00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:54,620 But let me tell you something, heaven and earth will pass away, but the word of our 286 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:58,940 Lord shall by no means pass away. 287 00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:05,020 Someone shout hallelujah today here. 288 00:26:05,020 --> 00:26:07,940 This is the word of God and it matters. 289 00:26:07,940 --> 00:26:12,100 This is the starting point and it matters. 290 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:16,300 So this is what we as an apostolic church believe about the Bible. 291 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,020 It is the word of God. 292 00:26:20,020 --> 00:26:25,660 Now what do we believe about God himself? 293 00:26:25,660 --> 00:26:27,860 About God and about Jesus Christ. 294 00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:38,340 Again, this is some refreshing from what we have heard before, what I taught last Sunday. 295 00:26:38,340 --> 00:26:45,500 But about God and Jesus Christ, we believe that there is only one God and that Jesus 296 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:50,780 is that one God manifested in the flesh. 297 00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:58,700 That he is that one God of the Old Testament, the Elohim, the El Shaddai, the Jehovah, the 298 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:04,100 Yahweh in flesh. 299 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,100 And where do we get this concept? 300 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,700 We get it from the word of God. 301 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:10,660 To see Jesus is to see God. 302 00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:19,100 Colossians chapter 2 and verse 9, for in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 303 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,100 In Jesus Christ is all the fullness. 304 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:24,500 There is a great debate happening in the world today. 305 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,180 It's been happening for centuries. 306 00:27:26,180 --> 00:27:30,580 Is Jesus in the Godhead or is the Godhead in Jesus? 307 00:27:30,580 --> 00:27:36,140 I'm here to tell you that Jesus is not in the Godhead, but the Godhead is in Jesus. 308 00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:37,260 He is all the fullness. 309 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:41,420 He is the visible image of the invisible God. 310 00:27:41,420 --> 00:27:44,820 Now why does it matter? 311 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:46,940 Why does it matter? 312 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:55,020 Because your view of God determines how you view everything else in life. 313 00:27:55,020 --> 00:28:05,100 How could you live for God if you don't have the right revelation of who he is? 314 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:10,900 The right revelation of God is the starting point of our faith. 315 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:19,140 If we get our theology of God wrong, how can we be sure that everything else we're building 316 00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:26,580 on, our faith, our doctrines, our beliefs are in line or correct? 317 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:34,700 If the starting point is crooked, everything else is going to be crooked. 318 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:42,980 But if the starting point is straight, which is God is one and Jesus is God, that ensures 319 00:28:42,980 --> 00:28:45,980 that we're on the right path. 320 00:28:45,980 --> 00:28:47,540 Amen. 321 00:28:47,540 --> 00:28:48,900 What else do we believe? 322 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:55,180 We believe about sin and salvation. 323 00:28:55,180 --> 00:29:04,660 The apostolic, the one this Pentecostal church, we believe everyone has sinned and needs 324 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,140 salvation. 325 00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:10,060 Somebody say amen. 326 00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:20,500 We believe that salvation comes by grace, through faith, through the finished work of 327 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:25,140 Jesus Christ on the cross. 328 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:32,180 That there is no other means by which we find salvation other than Jesus Christ. 329 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:36,420 But we must be saved. 330 00:29:36,420 --> 00:29:41,060 There is no way that if there is sin in your life and you have not repented that you will 331 00:29:41,060 --> 00:29:44,540 make it to heaven and be saved. 332 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:52,300 Romans 6 23, for the wages of sin is death. 333 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:59,060 But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 334 00:29:59,060 --> 00:30:00,580 Hallelujah. 335 00:30:00,580 --> 00:30:02,540 Why does any of this matter? 336 00:30:02,540 --> 00:30:08,420 It matters because if you ever hear a gospel, a doctrine that tells you that we are all 337 00:30:08,420 --> 00:30:15,340 just essentially good people and we're not really sinners and Jesus and Christianity 338 00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:21,100 is kind of like just a self-improvement course. 339 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,700 You know, and we just gather just to pump each other up. 340 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:29,180 No, we need to understand that we are lost without him. 341 00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:33,980 That sin is real and it's deadly and it's destructive. 342 00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:42,060 But the grace of God is also real because where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 343 00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:43,060 Hallelujah. 344 00:30:43,060 --> 00:30:48,500 Sin is real, but so is grace. 345 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:56,920 The only way to find grace is to seek God and to apply his word to our life. 346 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,780 And that's where we come to the next belief about the gospel. 347 00:30:59,780 --> 00:31:04,460 Thank God for the gospel and conversion for God so loved the world. 348 00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:05,460 Amen. 349 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:10,500 John 3 16, that he gave his only begotten son, whosoever would believe in him would 350 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:15,100 not perish, but have everlasting life. 351 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:20,220 We believe the gospel is the good news that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose 352 00:31:20,220 --> 00:31:22,860 again. 353 00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:26,300 But how do we apply this gospel to our lives? 354 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:32,580 How do I make what Jesus did for me over 2000 years ago a reality in my life? 355 00:31:32,580 --> 00:31:41,940 We apply the gospel to our lives by repenting of our sins, death to sin, being baptized 356 00:31:41,940 --> 00:31:49,300 in water in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. 357 00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:51,340 And baptism is a type of burial. 358 00:31:51,340 --> 00:31:58,660 We are being buried and then receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, resurrection. 359 00:31:58,660 --> 00:31:59,980 So we apply the gospel. 360 00:31:59,980 --> 00:32:05,100 The gospel is that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again. 361 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:11,940 When we are baptized, when we are converted, amen, we repent of our sins, we die to our 362 00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:18,020 sins and then we are buried like Jesus was, but our burial is a watery grave. 363 00:32:18,020 --> 00:32:19,260 Amen. 364 00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:25,420 And then when we receive the Holy Spirit, there is a regeneration, there is a resurrection 365 00:32:25,420 --> 00:32:27,020 of life. 366 00:32:27,020 --> 00:32:30,740 There is a quickening of our mortal bodies. 367 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:37,300 Acts 2 38, then Peter said unto them, repent and let every one of you be baptized in the 368 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:44,140 name of Jesus Christ for the remission or the forgiveness of sin and you shall receive 369 00:32:44,140 --> 00:32:46,740 the gift of the Holy Ghost. 370 00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:47,740 Clap your hands. 371 00:32:47,740 --> 00:32:48,740 Let's give. 372 00:32:48,740 --> 00:32:50,460 God's a praise today. 373 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:51,460 Thank you, Jesus. 374 00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:56,380 Pastor Jacob, why does it matter? 375 00:32:56,380 --> 00:33:00,180 I'll tell you why it mattered because God's way is the only way. 376 00:33:00,180 --> 00:33:01,860 Amen. 377 00:33:01,860 --> 00:33:05,700 And the only way to obey the gospel is to repent. 378 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,020 Someone say repent. 379 00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:14,700 If you don't repent and you just get baptized, you go down to dry sinner and you come up 380 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:18,300 a wet sinner. 381 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:21,820 It was just for show. 382 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:25,980 But if you repent and you say, God, forgive me of my sins. 383 00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:28,540 I don't want to live that way anymore. 384 00:33:28,540 --> 00:33:30,380 I've died to my old self. 385 00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:32,500 I die to my old life. 386 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:36,380 I want nothing about my old life anymore. 387 00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:43,120 When you repent, truly make a 180 degree turn from your old life and then you are born again 388 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,340 of the water and of the spirit. 389 00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:48,660 That is what true conversion looks like. 390 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:51,740 It's not a sprinkling of water on top of you. 391 00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:53,700 It's not just saying a prayer. 392 00:33:53,700 --> 00:34:00,500 No, it is to obey what the apostle preached on the day of Pentecost. 393 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:06,620 Repent, be baptized in Jesus name and be filled with the gift of his spirit. 394 00:34:06,620 --> 00:34:07,620 Amen. 395 00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:11,860 I'm going to be just a few more moments. 396 00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:20,580 But there's a couple other beliefs that I want to cover about Christian living. 397 00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:24,460 We are a part of that one faith. 398 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:26,860 Anybody glad to be a part of that one faith? 399 00:34:26,860 --> 00:34:29,220 Amen. 400 00:34:29,220 --> 00:34:38,140 And that one faith requires us to live a life that is in honor of and in worship to the 401 00:34:38,140 --> 00:34:46,220 God who delivered us out of sin, out of bondage. 402 00:34:46,220 --> 00:34:49,420 And now we are called into his marvelous light. 403 00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:50,740 Amen. 404 00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:58,820 To be a peculiar people, his own special people, a royal priesthood, a chosen generation. 405 00:34:58,820 --> 00:34:59,940 Amen. 406 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:11,260 And we believe that as Christians, apostolics, that we are to love God, primarily love God. 407 00:35:11,260 --> 00:35:17,780 Every aspect of your Christian life, your conduct, your behavior, everything flows, 408 00:35:17,780 --> 00:35:21,980 number one, out of a love for God. 409 00:35:21,980 --> 00:35:24,460 Amen. 410 00:35:24,460 --> 00:35:30,100 Not because, just because the pastor told you, or just because of this or that, but 411 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:35,260 because you love him. 412 00:35:35,260 --> 00:35:41,900 I don't have to live holy only, I get to live holy. 413 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,620 It's a privilege. 414 00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:49,740 And we believe that as Christians, we are to love God and love others. 415 00:35:49,740 --> 00:35:56,180 We are to submit to God, submit to authority, to submit to our spiritual leaders. 416 00:35:56,180 --> 00:36:06,100 We are to worship God, to live a life that is pleasing to him, both on the inside and 417 00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:07,100 on the outside. 418 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:16,220 Through a life of modesty, contentment, chastity, purity, devoid of the things that this world 419 00:36:16,220 --> 00:36:19,540 tells us we ought to do. 420 00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:22,140 We are God's people. 421 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:27,980 And there are things that God calls us to abstain from, to flee from. 422 00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:29,180 Hallelujah. 423 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:30,520 Amen. 424 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:35,140 To look different, to act different, to think different. 425 00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:37,020 That's what we believe. 426 00:36:37,020 --> 00:36:47,260 We are to uphold the sanctity of human life, in and out of the womb. 427 00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:48,900 We are to uphold the sanctity. 428 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:53,100 I'm talking about Christian living here, is that all right? 429 00:36:53,100 --> 00:37:00,860 Uphold the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. 430 00:37:00,860 --> 00:37:10,420 Uphold the sanctity of the human biology that God gave us, and to honor that distinction 431 00:37:10,420 --> 00:37:15,700 of gender, that if God made you a woman, you should stay a woman. 432 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:20,500 And if he made you a man, you should stay a man. 433 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:24,260 Praise God. 434 00:37:24,260 --> 00:37:30,700 I don't care what Christian organization is allowing or approving certain things. 435 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:38,060 I don't care what flag they're. 436 00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:41,500 Somebody said this is Pride Month. 437 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,940 I feel like we're getting cheated here because isn't like Father's Day this month? 438 00:37:45,940 --> 00:37:48,940 And I'm like, come on now. 439 00:37:48,940 --> 00:37:50,620 But I'm going to tell you what I'm proud about. 440 00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:54,220 I'm proud that my name is written in the book of life. 441 00:37:54,220 --> 00:37:56,580 I'm proud to be an apostolic. 442 00:37:56,580 --> 00:38:00,380 I'm proud, hallelujah, of this. 443 00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:01,660 Not in my own righteousness. 444 00:38:01,660 --> 00:38:02,940 Don't get me wrong. 445 00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:10,740 But the Holy Ghost empowers us to live right, to honor God with our thoughts, with our words. 446 00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:11,740 Hallelujah. 447 00:38:11,740 --> 00:38:13,300 Amen. 448 00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:21,460 With our actions, with our attire, with our finances, basically everything. 449 00:38:21,460 --> 00:38:26,060 Romans 8 13, for if you live according to the flesh, you will die. 450 00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:32,060 But if you live by the spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 451 00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:34,060 How many of you want to live today? 452 00:38:34,060 --> 00:38:35,900 Hey, hallelujah. 453 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,220 How many of you want to live today? 454 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:42,340 I've got to put to death the deeds of the flesh and the deeds of the body. 455 00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:44,820 And like Paul said, I die daily. 456 00:38:44,820 --> 00:38:52,080 I got to crucify this flesh so that the Spirit of God can thrive and live in my life. 457 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,220 This is what I'm after. 458 00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:55,460 I want to be a part of that one faith. 459 00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:59,780 I want to be a part of that one Lord, one faith and one baptism. 460 00:38:59,780 --> 00:39:03,020 I want to walk that straight and narrow path. 461 00:39:03,020 --> 00:39:06,100 Narrow and straight is the gate that leads to eternal life. 462 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:09,140 But why is that gate that lead to a destruction? 463 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:11,140 I want to be a part of that one faith. 464 00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:15,660 Can somebody give God some praise today if you want to be a part of that? 465 00:39:15,660 --> 00:39:16,660 Hallelujah. 466 00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:17,660 Hallelujah. 467 00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:18,660 Hallelujah. 468 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:19,660 Why does it matter? 469 00:39:19,660 --> 00:39:21,540 I'll tell you why it matters, brother, as I close. 470 00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:22,860 I'll tell you why it matters. 471 00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:24,860 Because God has called us to be his witnesses. 472 00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:27,380 That's why it matters. 473 00:39:27,380 --> 00:39:31,860 To be a light, Jesus said, you are the light of the world. 474 00:39:31,860 --> 00:39:34,620 We got to be the light of the world, church. 475 00:39:34,620 --> 00:39:39,820 We got to be a city light. 476 00:39:39,820 --> 00:39:42,820 A city on a hill. 477 00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:44,380 Hallelujah. 478 00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:47,700 Why does it matter? 479 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:57,680 It matters because God called us, he said, come out from among them and be separate. 480 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:02,700 He didn't call us to blend in, but to stand out. 481 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:10,940 He didn't call us, Jesus, to be a copy of the world, but to be an original. 482 00:40:10,940 --> 00:40:13,700 To be his people. 483 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:22,660 To trust him in everything of our lives. 484 00:40:22,660 --> 00:40:25,420 Everything about me is submitted to you, God. 485 00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:31,460 My mind, my body, my emotions. 486 00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:32,860 Hallelujah. 487 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:45,460 The way I think, the way I act, my relationships, my finances, it all belongs to you. 488 00:40:45,460 --> 00:40:52,820 My children, everything. 489 00:40:52,820 --> 00:41:00,320 Finally, we believe about the future. 490 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:11,580 We believe as apostolics that Jesus is coming again to catch away his church. 491 00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:17,140 We believe according to scripture that in the end, there's going to be a final resurrection 492 00:41:17,140 --> 00:41:19,140 and a judgment. 493 00:41:19,140 --> 00:41:27,900 And that the righteous will inherit eternal life and that the unrighteous, eternal separation 494 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:30,500 from God. 495 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:35,580 The Bible says this, and we are to comfort one another with these words in 1 Thessalonians 496 00:41:35,580 --> 00:41:44,820 chapter four, verse 16, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with 497 00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:48,620 the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. 498 00:41:48,620 --> 00:41:51,900 And the dead in Christ will rise first. 499 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:56,600 All right, Grandpa Rodriguez, you're going before me. 500 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,980 He gets to go first. 501 00:41:57,980 --> 00:42:02,140 All those that are past in the Lord, they're going first. 502 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:03,140 Amen. 503 00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:04,140 Is that all right? 504 00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:05,140 They're going to go first. 505 00:42:05,140 --> 00:42:12,740 But then those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds 506 00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:14,860 to meet the Lord in the air. 507 00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:20,660 And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 508 00:42:20,660 --> 00:42:23,780 Would you stand with me here this afternoon? 509 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:26,180 Why does it matter what we believe about the end times? 510 00:42:26,180 --> 00:42:28,060 I'll tell you why it matters. 511 00:42:28,060 --> 00:42:32,140 Because how you view the end will determine how you live in the present. 512 00:42:32,140 --> 00:42:33,140 Oh, hallelujah. 513 00:42:33,140 --> 00:42:42,580 There are some that are living this life with no awareness, with no concept or with no fear 514 00:42:42,580 --> 00:42:45,940 that the Lord could come at any moment. 515 00:42:45,940 --> 00:42:53,140 But my view of the end time, my view of Jesus coming in the twinkling of an eye, oh, at 516 00:42:53,140 --> 00:42:58,220 any moment, and no man knows the day or the hour when the Lord shall appear. 517 00:42:58,220 --> 00:43:04,940 But when that day happens, that is causing me to live my life in such a way that when 518 00:43:04,940 --> 00:43:09,700 that trumpet sounds, I am ready to meet my Maker. 519 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:11,380 I am ready to meet. 520 00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:12,380 So I've got to live right. 521 00:43:12,380 --> 00:43:13,380 I've got to live that one day. 522 00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:19,380 And we ought to comfort each other with these words. 523 00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:23,140 I'm going to invite the praise team if you can prepare yourself to come up. 524 00:43:23,140 --> 00:43:25,460 In a moment, we're going to worship the God together. 525 00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:28,820 But I want to tell you this as I just finished this altogether. 526 00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:29,820 Hallelujah. 527 00:43:29,820 --> 00:43:31,500 Thank you for your patience today. 528 00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:36,420 I want to tell you in closing, the Bible talks about the falling away of the faith and the 529 00:43:36,420 --> 00:43:37,420 last days. 530 00:43:37,420 --> 00:43:43,660 There's going to be a falling away, and we're seeing it even now in this generation. 531 00:43:43,660 --> 00:43:51,700 Falling away of the very elect of God, or departing from the faith, or compromising their faith, 532 00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:55,820 or abandoning the faith, forsaking the faith. 533 00:43:55,820 --> 00:44:01,140 And we today, church, I feel this in my spirit today, and this is why the Holy Ghost has 534 00:44:01,140 --> 00:44:08,220 led us in this series, this direction, is because we must do what Jude taught. 535 00:44:08,220 --> 00:44:16,420 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I 536 00:44:16,420 --> 00:44:26,060 found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend, to contend, to contend earnestly 537 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:33,000 for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saved church of the living God. 538 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:39,780 We have been called by the Lord to contend for this one faith that has been delivered 539 00:44:39,780 --> 00:44:40,780 to us. 540 00:44:40,780 --> 00:44:47,940 God has delivered to you that one faith, and he's calling upon the church in this hour 541 00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:55,180 to stand strong and to hold your head up high and to serve the Lord with everything that 542 00:44:55,180 --> 00:44:56,180 you have. 543 00:44:56,180 --> 00:45:02,260 I wonder if there's somebody right now that can begin to render under God's worship, begin 544 00:45:02,260 --> 00:45:09,740 to render under God some praise, render under God the glory through his name, and say, Thank 545 00:45:09,740 --> 00:45:10,740 you, Jesus. 546 00:45:10,740 --> 00:45:13,740 I'm not just a part of any church. 547 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:15,740 No, no, no. 548 00:45:15,740 --> 00:45:21,340 City Light Church is not just another flavor among all the flavors out there. 549 00:45:21,340 --> 00:45:24,020 We are that one faith. 550 00:45:24,020 --> 00:45:27,020 We are that one church. 551 00:45:27,020 --> 00:45:30,020 And I'm glad to be a part of it. 552 00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:32,020 Why don't we worship him today? 553 00:45:32,020 --> 00:45:33,020 Why don't we thank him? 554 00:45:33,020 --> 00:46:02,020 The name of Jesus is to be praised.