1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,960 is where it's sitting. But tonight we're going to be looking at the authentic church, the 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:12,560 authentic church. And one of the things I just maybe want to hit on tonight before we really 3 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:20,000 delve into the lesson is that since the Russians started their attack on Ukraine, you realize 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,560 there's been over almost 500 churches that have been destroyed, churches, seminaries, 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:33,080 those type things. But what's really more amazing than that is that even though throughout 6 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,600 all the centuries empires have destroyed buildings all over the world, the thing that we have 7 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:44,280 to remember is that the church has not been destroyed. The church has not stopped. And 8 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:52,000 they're saying they can't hear me in the back. You cannot hear, okay, can I have, oh there 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:01,640 are you, we've got volume now. Okay, can you hear me now? That's better, okay. I won't start 10 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,240 over, I'll just continue on from where I'm at. So basically we're just a little bit high 11 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:13,400 because I get a little bit of ringing. Yeah, I got just a little bit of ringing, testing, 12 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:22,320 yeah. That's better, good. So but the body, the church has not been destroyed. No matter 13 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,520 what Satan has tried to do, it has always been there. So that's one of the things we 14 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:36,400 have to hold on to. Everything in the church centers around Jesus Christ. Amen. Now here's 15 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:43,520 what I want to throw out tonight, questions you can't answer. Mike, okay, tell me a food 16 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:52,600 that is advertised that when you get that food served to you, it is not what you ordered 17 00:01:52,600 --> 00:02:05,680 or not the quality of what you ordered. Burger King. Skyline chili, okay. I'm not going to 18 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:11,120 go Burger King. We're on, we're live, so I'm not going to go Burger King. But Skyline, 19 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:34,600 Skyline chili is just as bad. What about Skyline chili? It was horrible. Okay. Yes. Okay. Two 20 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,200 more, two more quickly. Did you have one? Did you just cross your hands like I'm not 21 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:48,000 going to say what I'm going to say. Yes, ma'am. Did you have one? You didn't? What about this? 22 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,520 Have you ever gone someplace to get crab cakes? How many of you like crab cakes? Oh, but when 23 00:02:54,520 --> 00:03:04,640 you get your crab cakes, there's a lot of breading and not much crab. But if there is crab, it's 24 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:11,640 imitation crab. And that's just one of the things that really gets to me is when you 25 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:17,600 sit there and you go and I enjoy crab cakes, but when you get there and it's just breading 26 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:27,240 and imitation. So that's not true to really what it is, is it? But you had an answer. 27 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:34,240 What was your answer? Raising Canes. Raising Canes. Because the food was when I went there, 28 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:43,240 the one time I went there was pretty good. However, the menu is like tiny. It's like a tiny selection. 29 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,240 It's like even though the food was pretty good, I would never want to go back. They're good at what they did. 30 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:53,240 They're not nearly the variety of like say chicken fillets or leech chicken. Okay. 31 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:59,240 I was thinking the whole swallow was not sweet. The whole swallow was not sweet at all. 32 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,240 If you're listening tonight, yes, sir. I like all food. 33 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:23,240 Well, I will say this. I can go with anything except for the ketchup burger. That probably beats all of them. 34 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:32,240 Jesus is the main ingredient in our church. Jesus is the main ingredient. He is the reason that we're here tonight and that we're coming together. 35 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:38,240 And so we go there. It's not going to work. Okay. All right. Well, I'll just go from memory and from the scripture. 36 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,240 I'll just do it that way. I'll exegete from here rather than from there. 37 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:52,240 So basically, if you would open your Bibles with me to set a first Peter chapter two, first Peter chapter two. 38 00:04:52,240 --> 00:05:03,240 There won't be a video or there won't be any of the things that normally always bring. And I've got a ton of stuff that won't open. 39 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:13,240 So that's just kind of one of those, one of those sad things that happen in the world in which we live. 40 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,240 You live by electronics. They'll be your downfall. Okay. 41 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,240 All right. Why don't we go to the Lord in prayer and then we'll start our study tonight. 42 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:31,240 Father God, we love you and we praise you and we give you the glory and the honor for who you are. 43 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:41,240 How you have orchestrated this world, how you've orchestrated our lives, how you're sovereign and that you've got a plan for all of us. 44 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Father, we just pray more than anything else that you will reveal your plan to us. Make yourself real. 45 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:58,240 Let the spirit of God lead us in such a way that we can see and feel and know that our hope is in you and you only. 46 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,240 We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. 47 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:06,240 Okay. So we'll be getting in first Peter chapter two verses one through five. 48 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:16,240 And I'm going to open up to chapter one and I want to read two verses and try to kind of set the stage for who we're going to be looking at tonight. 49 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:26,240 Because what we see is Paul is letting us know about the grace of God in holiness and in fear and then also in love. 50 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,240 And that's in chapter one verse 24 and 25. 51 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:41,240 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass, the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away. 52 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:46,240 But the word of the Lord endureth forever. 53 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:52,240 And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 54 00:06:52,240 --> 00:07:07,240 And so as we look at our text tonight and that's where we I want to set that up because in chapter one, we enter into chapter two and chapter two says where for laying aside all malice, 55 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:23,240 and hypocrisy, and in these and all evil speaking. I want to stop there for just a second because malice is the idea of the desire to harm another person. 56 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Someone is filled with malice, they would say, and through their malice, they would do something evil against someone else. 57 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:40,240 And so he is saying, Peter is writing here, he said, lay aside malice, all guile. 58 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:46,240 And that's just outright guile is to lie to someone outright. 59 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,240 Have you ever had someone look at you right in your eyes and lie to you? 60 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,240 Oh boy. And what do you want to do to him? 61 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,240 Remember your Christians. 62 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,240 Washed their mouth out with soap, Dave says. 63 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,240 But this whole idea of deliberately misleading someone. 64 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,240 And then there's he also then mentions hypocrisies and this hypocrisies. 65 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:19,240 Since I don't have my PowerPoint tonight, I'll just do that like that and turn it off. 66 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:31,240 Hypocrisies and in these and all evil speaking. Let's take a look at each of these because in the is wanting what someone else has. 67 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,240 I envy. 68 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,240 My brother Eugene. 69 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,240 Lucas Michael. 70 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:49,240 As one other person, they can play a musical instrument. 71 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:54,240 And I can't. And I'm in the same bloodline as they are. 72 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:59,240 And I when I was taking piano lessons, my teacher told me. 73 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,240 I only started when I was 28. 74 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:06,240 She said, you know, I'm going to stop taking your money. 75 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,240 Am I that bad? She says, yes, you are. 76 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,240 At 28, I stopped piano lessons. 77 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,240 I probably should have started early, but I stopped taking piano lessons. 78 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,240 But she was honest, truthful. 79 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,240 She could have just told me, you're doing okay. 80 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,240 And just continue to make money because I was coming faithfully every week. 81 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,240 But I just couldn't. 82 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:33,240 I could get the right hand to play and the left hand to play. 83 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,240 But I couldn't put them together. 84 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,240 It just it was something in my brain just wouldn't work right. 85 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,240 There I was trying to toil with that. 86 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,240 But envy, wanting what belongs to someone else. 87 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,240 And then lastly, evil speaking or slander. 88 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,240 And that's destroying a person's reputation. 89 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:58,240 It's really easy to destroy reputation in the era in which we live. 90 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,240 Because we can transfer data about someone else so quickly. 91 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,240 It's amazing. 92 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,240 So how do you unfollow someone on Facebook? 93 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,240 You delete them. 94 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Okay. 95 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,240 How do you open Facebook? 96 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,240 I don't even know. 97 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,240 I don't even use Facebook, but we can block them. 98 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,240 You can friend them. 99 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,240 You can unfriend them. 100 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,240 You can say all manner of things about them while on there. 101 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,240 And so what Peter is saying is that we are to lay aside. 102 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:33,240 And it's basically we're to take our robe and lay it away from us. 103 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,240 Lay that aside. 104 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,240 All those things that we used to be. 105 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,240 I now am going to place those away from me. 106 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,240 I don't want that on me. 107 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,240 I don't want the smell of it. 108 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,240 I don't want the look of it. 109 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,240 I want all that away from me and as far as I possibly can. 110 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:54,240 And so he's asking us to do that, to put those kind of things away from us. 111 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,240 And especially all evil speaking. 112 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:02,240 Now, as newborn babes, how many of you, 113 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,240 when I was a nurse, there was a lady her name. 114 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Oh, what was her name? 115 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:15,240 I can't remember her name, but she told me one time, she says, oh, Michael, when you do your rotation through nursery, it's going to be something else. 116 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:20,240 She said, I had a baby in there that was so ugly, only a mother could love it. 117 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,240 And I thought to myself, well, that's kind of cold. 118 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,240 When I saw that child, I'm just teasing. 119 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:34,240 Only a mother could love it. 120 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:44,240 Now, for those of you who are tennis smart, what is it about a baby's cheek that if you brush it, an infant, if you do that, what do they do? 121 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,240 They turn to the finger. 122 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,240 Why? 123 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:57,240 Is it hunger or is it there's nerves that are in place? 124 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:05,240 That slowly stop working as the child gets older, but touching a baby's face right there, they turn for it. 125 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,240 As if that's the feel of the nipple. 126 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,240 And so they're looking for, hey, it's time to eat. 127 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:23,240 As newborn babes, what are some things that are really clear about babies? 128 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,240 Okay, I want three things. 129 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,240 Why do they cry? 130 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,240 They want something. 131 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,240 Do they know what they want? 132 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,240 Sometimes they do. 133 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:42,240 If they're hungry or babies hungry all the time, or babies hungry all the time. 134 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,240 Listen to your mom. 135 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,240 She said, yes, yes. 136 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,240 Babies are just always hungry. 137 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Unless they're sleeping. 138 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,240 What else do babies do? 139 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,240 They sometimes they smile, but even more important than that. 140 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,240 They cry, but more important than that. 141 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:06,240 They wet and they, yeah, they do that. 142 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:13,240 Babies whole desire is to survive. 143 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,240 They don't realize it. 144 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,240 It's like, I'm hungry. 145 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,240 I'm wet. 146 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,240 I'm poopy. 147 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,240 I'm uncomfortable. 148 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:42,240 And it's up to the parent, the guardian or whoever to interpret the conditions of what's around that child to give them what they need to stop them from crying, to stop to promote their growth and to make them feel safe. 149 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:51,240 When I was working in the nursery, when I was going through my nursing rotation, I can remember grabbing babies like this and they had two of them. 150 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,240 And they're just crying up a storm. 151 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,240 And I finally figured out a way to keep those rascals from crying. 152 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:03,240 I turned them the other way and put my hand between their necks and hold them like that. 153 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,240 And they put their stomachs right there. 154 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,240 They stopped crying. 155 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,240 Cool. 156 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,240 Up and down. 157 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:15,240 I got mine quiet. 158 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:21,240 But instinctively, they know those things that help them. 159 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,240 Now, Peter says this to us. 160 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:29,240 He says, as they desire the sincere milk. 161 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:43,240 And this word desire means a longing and they can't understand why they want milk, but it's the thing that satisfies. 162 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:50,240 And boy, have you ever, have you ever fed a baby and then right on the middle of their back and then what happens? 163 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,240 Bird. 164 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,240 Oh, that, and they just feel so good. 165 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,240 It's like, oh, I can have a little bit more now. 166 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,240 So they desire that and that desire is so strong that they can't explain it. 167 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:11,240 They can't tell you what's going on, but give me more milk and then give me a bath and let me sleep. 168 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,240 But let's stick with what Peter says here. 169 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:25,240 The sincere milk of the word, the milk of the word, the elementary things of the faith that God is a creator of heaven and earth. 170 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:33,240 That he sent his son, he died, he rose again and he's coming back again. 171 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,240 Those are the facts. 172 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:44,240 That that is the milk of the word that is that portion of the word that can bring anyone from being lost into his glorious light. 173 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,240 It's just sincere milk. 174 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:55,240 But when you get that milk and when you have it, then there's there is something that should happen. 175 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,240 You should be able to what? 176 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,240 Grow. 177 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:05,240 It's, it would be unnatural if all of a sudden the baby didn't want to drink milk. 178 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,240 Like, nope, nope, nope, nope. 179 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,240 I want Gatorade. 180 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,240 I want something else. 181 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,240 It's unnatural. 182 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:21,240 It's like a believer when they come to Christ, it's unnatural for us to go, I don't really need to know anymore about God. 183 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,240 I know enough about God. 184 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,240 I'm saved and I got it made. 185 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,240 I'm going to heaven. 186 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:43,240 But there is so much more beyond the milk of the word that just gets me to the door, to the precipice to being able to look over into the land of rest, the abundant life and all the other great things that God has to offer us. 187 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:52,240 But more than anything else, God wants to answer and offer us answers to the questions that's the longings in our soul. 188 00:16:52,240 --> 00:17:07,240 He put some questions and longings in us that we can't pull it together, but we know he put it there and only he can satisfy. 189 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:12,240 And when he satisfies, then we have that peace that the Bible talks about. 190 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,240 Okay, let's move on. 191 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:23,240 Now that we may grow thereby, and if I don't hurry, ooh, I've only gotten two verses. 192 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:52,240 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious to taste when they used to do in the circumcision of little boys, occasionally in the dedication of babies, the Jewish priest, the rabbi would take ground fig. 193 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,240 And put it in the roof of the mouth of the baby. 194 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:05,240 And they would concentrate on that while they went through the motions of the ceremony. 195 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:10,240 Give them that taste of something good and sweet and nutritious. 196 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:16,240 And so God wants to give us those things that we're going to need also. 197 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,240 Now, moving along. 198 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:26,240 We've tasted that the Lord is gracious for by grace, so you say through faith. 199 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,240 Okay, not of works. 200 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,240 Nobody can brag about, huh, I'm good. 201 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,240 There's some people that can sing. 202 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:35,240 There's some people that can preach. 203 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,240 There's some people that can do some wonderful things. 204 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:48,240 But no matter how wonderful they are, they're never good enough to say that what I've done allows me to walk into the kingdom of God. 205 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:55,240 There is a door there and the only way you can get through that door is the door that Jesus is knocking on. 206 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:01,240 And if you answer that door, he'll come in, he'll dine with you, he'll sup with you, he'll fellowship with you. 207 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:05,240 Now, moving along. 208 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:17,240 To whom coming as into a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and, he says, precious. 209 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,240 Peter uses that word. 210 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:25,240 Peter the rugged fisherman likes to use that word precious and other soft words like that. 211 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:32,240 And I think it's really interesting how he does that because we are chosen of God and precious. 212 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,240 And so the Greek term means to be selected. 213 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:52,240 God through his infinite wisdom before Harvey Lee and Oscar Gentry even knew each other already had a plan for me. 214 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:57,240 And he was working out that plan even before I got here. 215 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,240 And he's working out a plan for all of mankind. 216 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:16,240 What is that plan that he would lay out a path for the redemption of man and that he would be able to go to the marketplace of sin and utilize that plan to redeem man, 217 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:26,240 to buy him, to purchase him from that wretched place of sin and bring him into the state of righteousness. 218 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,240 And that is what God is able to do for you and for I. 219 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:36,240 So it says here that chosen of God and precious. 220 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,240 How many of you knew that I was precious? 221 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,240 I got one lady in the back go, yes, I know two people. 222 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,240 I'll give you your $5 after this is over. 223 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,240 I'm pre, you want five too? 224 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,240 10. 225 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,240 I'm righteous. You know what else I am? 226 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,240 I'm righteous. 227 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,240 I'm redeemed. 228 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,240 I'm blessed. 229 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,240 And I tell my wife to call me Lord. 230 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:13,240 I haven't gotten there yet, but I'm working on it. 231 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:21,240 All the promises of God or yes through Christ Jesus and that yes through Christ Jesus is who I serve. 232 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:26,240 All the promises of God find their yes in Jesus. 233 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:34,240 Jesus who lives in me through his Holy Spirit has made me joint airs. 234 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,240 I am joint airs with Christ. 235 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:42,240 Think about that joint airs with Christ. 236 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,240 I didn't have to suffer. 237 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,240 I didn't have to live the life on earth and do the things that Christ went through. 238 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,240 But he did. 239 00:21:52,240 --> 00:22:01,240 Think about what Dr. Luke wrote when he said Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, was driven into the wilderness. 240 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,240 He was full. 241 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:11,240 But after the temptation, he came back in the power of the Holy Spirit. 242 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:23,240 That dunamis power that allows me to lay aside all those things, the malice, the envy, the evil speaking. 243 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:29,240 I can lay all that aside because of what he's done. 244 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:42,240 It's just almost mind blowing when you think about being a joint air with Christ and the life that he's allowed us to be able to partake of. 245 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,240 Now verse 5, 246 00:22:44,240 --> 00:23:00,240 It's also a lively stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 247 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,240 Acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 248 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:17,240 When I look at that, we, the people of faith, have become lively or living stones. 249 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:30,240 I'm part of that makeup of what God is building on the earth. 250 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,240 He takes you, but you here, he takes you, but you here. 251 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,240 Everybody's got a place and a responsibility just like the body. 252 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,240 Where are all my feet people? 253 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,240 I got to place them in the right spot. 254 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,240 Where are all my people who have compassion? 255 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,240 I need to put them in this spot. 256 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,240 All those people who have the gift of administration put them in that part. 257 00:23:52,240 --> 00:24:09,240 And then through the spirit of God, all those parts begin to operate and function together into such a way that they bring honor to the God who has made us those lively living stones. 258 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,240 I'm not a stone out there. 259 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,240 Just think about a stone out by itself. 260 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:19,240 There's another way over there by itself way over here. 261 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:34,240 God is able to go beyond the restraints of prejudice, of hate, of mistrust, and all the other things you could think of. 262 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:47,240 And he can bring a people who were no people together in him to sing his praises. 263 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:55,240 All those who were at one time estranged and lost, he is able to bring in. 264 00:24:55,240 --> 00:25:00,240 Think about the people that come and worship here on a given Sunday morning. 265 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240 Here's a blessing. 266 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,240 I want to tell you guys, here's a blessing. 267 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,240 I get a chance to stand right here. 268 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,240 And every Sunday I get to look out and see the people. 269 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,240 And Miss Laurie, I did this the other Sunday. 270 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,240 I went, man, I don't know who those people are on that side. 271 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,240 There's some new people over there too. 272 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:26,240 And before I can get done and get out, many of them have moved on. 273 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:33,240 But God is bringing together a group of people that is just mind blowing. 274 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,240 It's amazing. 275 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:43,240 We had four African gentlemen come in Sunday and they sat right there. 276 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:49,240 Typically on Wednesday night, there's an Indian or Bangladeshi family that sits over there. 277 00:25:49,240 --> 00:26:02,240 I spoke with Dr. Luke, who is Vietnamese, and he said to me, I saw you sing at church. 278 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,240 Okay, I thought to myself, I only met him at work. 279 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,240 He said, my wife goes there a lot. 280 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:15,240 I think so. 281 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,240 Wow. 282 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:26,240 How is he able to bring people who don't know, don't like, don't want to raise this way together, 283 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,240 but can bring us together to worship him in spirit and in truth? 284 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,240 God is not a black thing. 285 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,240 He's not a white thing either. 286 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,240 But God is a God thing. 287 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,240 Isn't that amazing? 288 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,240 God's a God thing. 289 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:50,240 And he doesn't bend to looks, colors, shapes, sizes, ages, all that stuff. 290 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:59,240 But he loves me just as much as he loves Mike. 291 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,240 There's no difference between us. 292 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:13,240 Now, Mike is suffering from lack of pigment. 293 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:18,240 I'm sorry. 294 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,240 But my God can look beyond that. 295 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,240 Isn't that wonderful? 296 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,240 Oh my goodness gracious. 297 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,240 It's, now where am I? 298 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,240 Anyway, so we've done that. 299 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,240 We've talked about the lively stones. 300 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,240 Now, who are we? 301 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:43,240 Let me go to verse okay. 302 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:58,240 You therefore which believe he is precious unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the bill is disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. 303 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,240 Verse, let me go back up to verse six. 304 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:15,240 Wherefore also it is contained in Scripture, behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone elect precious and he that believe in him shall not be confounded. 305 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,240 God will never disappoint. 306 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,240 He has the power to achieve. 307 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:34,240 He has the discretion and sovereignty to lead and to be what man needs him to be so that we can become just like Jesus Christ. 308 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:46,240 So we look at this and we move on and we try to understand that he said he lays a stone, a chief corner stone in Zion. 309 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,240 And we won't be confounded. 310 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,240 Then verse seven. 311 00:28:49,240 --> 00:29:03,240 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious, but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the bill is disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner. 312 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:11,240 He's precious to those who believe he's a rose of charen. 313 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,240 He's a bright morning star. 314 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:27,240 The book of Psalms speaks of so many wonderful things about our savior, but he was also despised and rejected. 315 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,240 So he understands where we are and what we have to go through. 316 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:39,240 But that same one that the that many rejected now the same has become the head of the corner. 317 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,240 Now verse eight is a is an interesting verse. 318 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,240 Let's get into it just real quickly. 319 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,240 And a stone of stumbling. 320 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,240 A stone of stumbling. 321 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:55,240 And so as we look at this whole idea of a stone of stumbling. 322 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,240 I had this one slide. 323 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,240 Let me let me ask you a question. 324 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:06,240 Have you ever seen someone walking and they go? 325 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,240 What is the second thing they do? 326 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,240 They look around. 327 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,240 Why? 328 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,240 Let's see if anybody's looking. 329 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,240 The same has become a stumbling stone. 330 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:33,240 We live in an era when people will say anything about Jesus, anything about God, they will blaspheme his name unmercifully. 331 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,240 And they kick against the stone. 332 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:44,240 And no matter how hard they kick, the stone doesn't move, but they get bruised. 333 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,240 Look at the protests that are going on right now. 334 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:58,240 Would you ever would have believed in your life that people in America would protest against Israel? 335 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:03,240 Whoa. 336 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,240 Those who curse you, I will curse. 337 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,240 Those who bless you, I will bless. 338 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:20,240 And yet we're living in a time where people are just kicking that stone and they're not getting anywhere with it. 339 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:25,240 And it's going to always and will continue to be that way. 340 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:36,240 In characters with Christ, the stone, the rock, separate those who believe in him from those who refuse to believe in him. 341 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:45,240 The truth of Christ, what he represents, the truth of Christ and what he did, the wisdom of Christ and how he will reign, 342 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,240 the beauty of Christ and how he is so gracious, all comes to a head. 343 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:55,240 And many today are saying that I won't believe in a Jesus. 344 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,240 I have nothing and he has nothing for me. 345 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:04,240 I refuse to believe what he wants to do. 346 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,240 So what is our role? 347 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:18,240 There was a phase or an era where people utilize lifestyle evangelism. 348 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:24,240 And basically you didn't go out and tell anyone to confront them about their faith. 349 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:30,240 You just live your life in such a way that hopefully they would see it in you. 350 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:38,240 Now, it has some merit to it, but there's still something about going to someone and saying to them, 351 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:48,240 years ago I came to a point in my life when I realized that everything I was trying was falling apart. 352 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:55,240 And I realized that some guy told me something about sin and I couldn't understand really what he meant, 353 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:00,240 but then he said that for God so of the world that he gave his only begotten son, 354 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:07,240 that whoever believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life. 355 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:15,240 I don't know if my life is going anywhere because it's just looked like a dead end street. 356 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:24,240 But I crossed over and I came to accept what Christ did for me on the cross and it's made me a new person. 357 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:32,240 That testimony miraculously helps another person go, 358 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:37,240 I need Christ as my Savior. 359 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:46,240 And if he can be his Savior and be my Savior, he can be her Savior and he can be their Savior. 360 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,240 And sure, my lifestyle evangelism is following me and people are watching me. 361 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,240 Someone's always watching Christians, amen. 362 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,240 They're looking to see that dead Curtis. 363 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:04,240 You know her? She says she's a Christian. 364 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,240 They're always looking. They're always watching. 365 00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:17,240 And poor Marie. 366 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:29,240 All the God we serve is unfathomable how he is and what he's able to do in the lives of his people. 367 00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:33,240 And here's a crown of what we're getting at tonight. 368 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:40,240 He says in verse nine, and this is just great, 369 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:47,240 but ye are a chosen generation. 370 00:34:47,240 --> 00:34:53,240 God said, I want you Michael Gentry. 371 00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:57,240 And he said it before the foundations of the world. 372 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,240 And when I was born, he said, I want you Michael Gentry. 373 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:06,240 And as I grew up, he still said, I want you Michael Gentry. 374 00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:12,240 And he made things and he brought about things in my life so that Michael Gentry heard enough about him 375 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:24,240 that he was convicted and at 10 years old said, I need Jesus as my Savior. 376 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,240 And he came into my life and saved me. 377 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:41,240 I was chosen a long time ago to bring forth his praises and his glory right now. 378 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:46,240 And he's working in lives of people that you know, 379 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:56,240 wanting to have you usher in the truth to their lives so that they can understand 380 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:02,240 and they can accept and they can embrace the love of God that he has. 381 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,240 So I'm chosen. 382 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:08,240 I'm a chosen part of the priesthood. 383 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:12,240 I don't need, and I'm going to say this for as reverently as I can, 384 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:18,240 but I don't need Pastor Ben to pray for me because I can pray also. 385 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:25,240 Now it's a privilege and it's a responsibility on his end to pray for me, 386 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:33,240 but I don't have to say, well, God, until Pastor Ben prays for me, I guess I'm kind of stuck here. 387 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,240 Oh, wouldn't that be bad? 388 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:39,240 Because what if Pastor Ben forgot? 389 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:45,240 What if I forgot to pray for you? 390 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:48,240 So I can go to God myself. 391 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,240 And you know what I like more than anything else? 392 00:36:51,240 --> 00:37:02,240 I can confess my sin and nobody else has to know. 393 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:05,240 See, I heard this a long time ago. 394 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,240 This is good. 395 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:16,240 Sacred sins on earth are an open scandal in heaven. 396 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,240 Ouch! 397 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:24,240 Don't think about that, Amy. 398 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,240 Wow, I'm chosen. 399 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,240 I'm part of a priesthood of believers. 400 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:36,240 I can go to God myself and I can have a relationship with him apart from anyone else, 401 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:40,240 but because I have a relationship with him and you have a relationship with him, 402 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,240 we have a relationship with each other. 403 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:47,240 And I am to cultivate that relationship. 404 00:37:47,240 --> 00:37:52,240 And cultivate that relationship. 405 00:37:52,240 --> 00:38:03,240 Now, everyone would cultivate, look at the blessings and the strength that would come to the body of believers. 406 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:08,240 Okay, so, but more than that, I'm a holy nation. 407 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:16,240 It means that we as believers belong to God. 408 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:21,240 You are not your own, but you've been bought with a price. 409 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,240 I'm not my own. 410 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,240 I don't get to choose and dictate how, when, where and what. 411 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:34,240 I can try, but ultimately God gets his way. 412 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:36,240 It's amazing. 413 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,240 Now, I'm a... 414 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:41,240 This is so true about me. 415 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,240 Verse 9 says here, let me read it out loud because some of you 416 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,240 don't laugh when I read it, but just listen. 417 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:57,240 It says, but you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar. 418 00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:05,240 I think I am peculiar because sometimes I smile when many others are not smiling 419 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:09,240 and sometimes I cry when others are not crying. 420 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:18,240 And sometimes I care when others don't care and sometimes I hurt when many forget 421 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:26,240 because of a God who lives in me through his spirit makes me that peculiar, strange person 422 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:31,240 that they look and go, why, why don't, why won't you fight back? 423 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:35,240 Why won't you do to them what they did to you? 424 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:37,240 Why? 425 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:44,240 It's because of the spirit that lives within driving and holding me accountable 426 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:49,240 and convicting me to make me the kind of peculiar person that I am to be. 427 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:58,240 And so he called me. 428 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:03,240 Have you ever heard God? 429 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:06,240 There have been times in my life when I've heard people say, 430 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:10,240 I've never been one of those where the Lord came to me and said, Michael, 431 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:13,240 this is what I want you to go do. 432 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:16,240 I just never have. 433 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:18,240 But I do know this. 434 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:26,240 There's been a calmness and a still small voice that I know is from the Lord. 435 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:31,240 And I can sense it and I know it and it's confirmed in his word. 436 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:37,240 And then what's really, really, really interesting is sometimes when he's confirmed it in his word 437 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:43,240 and you know it in your heart, somebody else, like what Pastor Jennings did to me about three weeks ago, 438 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,240 asked me about the same thing. 439 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:50,240 And I just thank you, Lord. 440 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:53,240 His word was confirmed. 441 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:59,240 I didn't go telling him what was going on in my life, but he came to me and he asked me. 442 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:03,240 And I was like, oh, I'm struggling with this. 443 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:05,240 How did he know? 444 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:08,240 It's the spirit of God. 445 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,240 Isn't that amazing? 446 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:15,240 God is just too good to be true. 447 00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,240 But thank goodness he is. 448 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:19,240 Thank goodness he is. 449 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,240 So we're not a people, but we're the people of God. 450 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:30,240 So this designation refers to Christians who through Christ have been reconciled to God. 451 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,240 I'm going to speed along here just real quickly. 452 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:39,240 Which in times past were not a people, but are now people of God, which had not obtained mercy, 453 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:49,240 but now have obtained mercy. 454 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:55,240 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstained from fleshly lust, 455 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:59,240 which war against the soul. 456 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:04,240 Having your lifestyle, having your conversation, having the way you carry yourself, 457 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:09,240 having the way you answer, having the way you write, having the things that you do 458 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:17,240 and the things that you think about, having all those things where the Gentiles, 459 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:23,240 we want to have an honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evildoer, 460 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:28,240 they may be by your good works, which they shall behold. 461 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:36,240 Glorify God in the day of visitation. 462 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:49,240 It's going to come a day when all of this is going to all come together. 463 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:56,240 In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, the dead in Christ are going to what? 464 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,240 Rise. 465 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:08,240 Now, I don't know if there will have, I don't know, Pastor, how that, will that rising be in the physical, 466 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:16,240 regenerated body, will it be something we can see if a God was blown up in World War I? 467 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:19,240 Do all those pieces come back together? 468 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:28,240 I don't know how that happens, but we're going to see it happen. 469 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:41,240 And then we that remain after we see that spectacle are going to be caught up. 470 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:45,240 We're going to be caught up. 471 00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:48,240 And there will be forever with the Lord. 472 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:54,240 No, you're not that some of you will be judges doing the Merlinner or Reina Christ. 473 00:43:54,240 --> 00:44:00,240 You know, heaven and glory is not going to be, well, okay, we made it. 474 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:05,240 What do we do now? 475 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:10,240 There's banquets, there's judging, there's seeing all the things take place. 476 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:19,240 There's going to be so much going on in heaven, it's kind of hard to wrap our minds around it, but it's going to take place. 477 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:23,240 Peter said, lay aside all that stuff. 478 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:26,240 I can lay it there. 479 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:29,240 I can lay it at the feet of Cross. 480 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:34,240 I can come with a brother and sister and say, help me pray with me. 481 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:36,240 Help me and hold me accountable. 482 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:40,240 Help me be this. 483 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,240 And I'll do the same for you. 484 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:45,240 Oh my goodness. 485 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,240 And then we, what will happen all that? 486 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:52,240 He will get the praise, the glory and the honor for all that we do. 487 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:54,240 That's pretty awesome. 488 00:44:54,240 --> 00:45:14,240 And it's because Christ gave his life for the sins of the world and granted us the privilege to be a part of his church. 489 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:18,240 I'm a part of the body of Christ. 490 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:24,240 The church is a building, the church is an organization that does good things, the church is all these other things. 491 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:36,240 But what the world misses is that the central part of our faith and the central part of the church is Jesus Christ. 492 00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:47,240 And he is going to reign, rule and have a just a magnificent time overcoming the evil that is in the world. 493 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:55,240 I wish I could take another 15 minutes and talk about what hell is going to be like for the devil and his many angels. 494 00:45:55,240 --> 00:46:05,240 And for those who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ and for those who have blasphemed the Holy Spirit and will not be a part of the book of life. 495 00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:12,240 What is going to be in store for them is unfathomable. 496 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:14,240 And we should really be concerned. 497 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:19,240 I think Jude says something about snatching them out. 498 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:23,240 The very fire, the very hell that they are almost condemned to be. 499 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:25,240 It's going to be amazing. 500 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:30,240 Father God, we love you and we praise you for this night. 501 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:42,240 And for what we see and what we have experienced because of your word and because of the life that you lived here on this earth. 502 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:53,240 Lord, as we leave this place tonight, I just pray that you will just allow one thing to stick real clearly in the minds of everyone tonight. 503 00:46:53,240 --> 00:47:00,240 That we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood. 504 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:07,240 And that there are some wonderful things that you have in store for us as it is in heaven, so on earth. 505 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:09,240 Lord, we love you and we praise you in Jesus' name. 506 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:14,240 Let us all say, let us all say, let us all say, amen. 507 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:40,240 Amen. God bless you.