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Fellowships Pulpit ministry 

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We thank you for tuning in as we

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learn from God's Word together. 
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Amen. 
When my race is complete, as the

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song said, may my lips still 
repeat, Yet not I, but through 

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Christ in me. 
I pray that is your prayer, that

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you live your race, however long
that race is, because you don't 

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really know where you are in 
that race. 

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Some of you could be closer to 
the finish line than others, but

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we are all still in the race. 
And so may we run the race with 

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diligence. 
May we run the race with 

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passion. 
May we run the race focusing, 

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fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the 
author and the perfector of our 

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faith. 
You have your Bibles. 

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You know where we are if you've 
been with us. 

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If not, turn to the 119th Psalm 
as we continue looking at our 

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study. 
Living live in the light of 

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God's Word. 
And that is what we intend to 

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do. 
That is what we have been 

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looking at. 
That is what we have been 

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teaching. 
How do we, as professing 

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followers of Christ, actually 
live our lives in light of the 

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Word of God? 
As we sang a moment ago, Thy 

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word is a lamp unto my feet and 
a light unto my bath. 

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I don't know how people walk 
around in the darkness of this 

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world without the Word of God 
leading every single step of 

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their lives, but many attempt to
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And I pray that we not accept 
that as who we are, but we who 

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are followers of Christ and 
people of the light, that we 

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would walk in the light as He is
in the light. 

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Today in 119th Psalm, we'll be 
looking at verses 137 all the 

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way to 144. 
And we will be talking about 

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these verses in length, as you 
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But it's often been a struggle 
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history. 
And the struggle is this, to 

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determine right from wrong. 
However, where we live in our 

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day, in our age, it's not that 
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Is it right? 
Our grandparents could look at 

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something and say this is right 
and this is wrong. 

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And they weren't afraid to 
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wrong. 
However, we live in a day and 

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time where we don't need to 
learn to distinguish between 

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right and wrong. 
We need to learn how to 

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distinguish between right and 
thought right. 

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And what I mean by that is the 
relative truth that has 

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inundated our culture. 
Wrong has all but been erased 

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from the ideology and the 
thinking of our modern age that 

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we live in. 
In fact, the easiest thing to do

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is just to remove wrong in its 
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And whatever's right in your 
eyes, well, that's right for 

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you. 
And whatever's right in your 

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eyes, it's right for you. 
And whatever's right in my eyes,

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it's right to me. 
The problem is, is that we see 

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that's a pattern that we saw 
long ago in Scripture when there

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was no king and every man did 
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And it leads to chaos and it 
leads to destruction, and it 

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leads to carnality, and it leads
to sin. 

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And today what we're going to be
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and what he's teaching us is how
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right from thought right? 
How do we distinguish what is 

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right? 
Now I'm going to give you the 

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short answer. 
Are you ready? 

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God and his word. 
And we can distinguish right and

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thought right from God and his 
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It's this simple. 
If man has an opinion that 

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opposes. 
The word of. 

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God man's opinion is tell her so
smart and God's opinion is a 

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plus. 
Students, man's opinion is wrong

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and God's opinion is right. 
Now, I don't want you to forgive

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that because I'm afraid in our 
culture, oftentimes this has 

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been forgotten because of the 
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see so prevalently prevalently 
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But biblically, there is right 
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And I pray that we would be a 
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to be biblical and everything 
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we say and everything that we 
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what is right and we want to 
discard and run from those 

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things which are wrong. 
And so we see, as Richard Baxter

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took a note of, and he said 
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your rule and that will be your 
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Nothing can be right that is 
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It is impossible for something 
to be right in quotations that 

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isn't direct contradiction to 
what God has already established

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in his word, because God is he's
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In fact, in the Psalm that we're
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verses that we're going to cover
the first verse and and 1:37 

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there and we'll get to all of it
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He says righteous are you, O 
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So anything that contradicts the
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Wrong. 
You're going to participate this

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morning. 
Whether you like it or not. 

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God is right. 
And things that contradict God 

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in His word, they are wrong. 
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I want to show you that this 
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the major issues in our day and 
in our culture, the topics of 

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debate, the things that people 
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about, whether they're right or 
whether they're wrong. 

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And God has taken a firm stance 
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And if God has taken a firm 
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already said his opinion about 
the matters, his opinion is, and

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man's opinion that contradicts 
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You believe that, do you believe
in Sola Scripture, that is 

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scripture alone that allows us 
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therefore what is wrong? 
Do do you agree with that? 

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Because for the believer, there 
is no room to agree with 

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anything else. 
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And what I'm going to do is I'm 
just going to wade right off 

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into it. 
All of the topics that 

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everyone's afraid to talk about 
in church, I'm going to talk 

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about them in church this 
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So go ahead and just brace 
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I'm going to wade right off into
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Risk all the emails that are 
coming, all the hate mail, all 

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the social media posts. 
Risk the fact that people may 

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leave the church because they 
don't think that God is. 

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They think that man is. 
And so let's look at these 

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things because I don't want to, 
while you are under my care as 

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your shepherd, I don't want to 
lead you astray. 

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I don't want to teach you to 
compromise. 

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I don't want to teach you to be 
soft in your biblical worldview.

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Because at the end of the day, 
what we're going to see is that 

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the difference in opinions about
all of these matters is one side

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has a biblical worldview and the
other side has a man centered, 

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sinful, unbelieving worldview 
driving their. 

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Thoughts. 
So let's talk about the first 

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one that no one likes to talk 
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How about divorce? 
How about divorce? 

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And I know what many of you are 
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Well, I've had a divorce and I 
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God is full of grace and mercy 
and He will forgive you of all 

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of these things that we're going
to talk about if you seek 

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forgiveness through Christ. 
I'm not here to condemn you for 

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the sins that you have 
committed. 

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It's not my place. 
What I am here to do is to help 

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you distinguish between right 
and wrong as we look at the word

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of God. 
And so we talk about the topic 

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of divorce. 
And because in our time we know 

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this, people get divorces for 
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When we know that Jesus himself 
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divorce would be acceptable, and
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fornication, to adultery, and 
that is even after. 

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You have tried to reconcile. 
But I see so many in today's 

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time they just want to get a 
divorce because they wake up 1 

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morning and you know what? 
They just want to change. 

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They just want something 
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And So what they began to do, 
they began to find every fault 

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that they can find in their 
spouse. 

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And let me just tell you, my 
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If you're married to me, it 
doesn't take you long to find 

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faults. 
But what is God's opinion on? 

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This What does God think about 
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Here's what God thinks about it.
He reveals that to us in Matthew

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chapter 19. 
In fact, Jesus himself said this

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when he was talking about the 
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In verse 6 of 19 He says you are
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Flesh therefore what God has 
joined together, let no one 

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separate. 
There's Jesus stance on divorce.

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It should not happen, it should 
not be accepted, it should not 

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be acceptable. 
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Because God says that it is 
wrong and God is he's right. 

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Let us not forget what Malachi 
says in Malachi chapter 2 verse 

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16 when it's plainly and openly 
says this for I hate divorce, 

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says the Lord the God of Israel.
He doesn't hide his opinion 

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about it. 
He makes his opinion well known,

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doesn't he? 
I hate this. 

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This thing does destruction. 
This thing brings reproach. 

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That's for all of the couples 
who would adopt the relative 

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thinking in our age that would 
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him, just leave him and take all
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of it, because you're going to 
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And that's a bad opinion. 
Why? 

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Because it's contrary to God's 
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And God's opinion is right, not 
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His opinion is right. 
All. 

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Of the time. 
How about this next, a little 

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hot button that we could push. 
How about racism? 

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Racism. 
And God covers this in his word,

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as he will cover everything that
man wants to debate from a 

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humanistic perspective. 
He'll cover it. 

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He'll give his opinion. 
How about Galatians 328, when it

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says there is neither Jew, nor 
Greek, nor slave, nor free, nor 

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male, nor female? 
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one in Christ? 
Jesus. 

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There's your answer to racism. 
Let's unite in Christ. 

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It doesn't matter the color of 
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It doesn't matter your 
background. 

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It doesn't matter where you were
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Let's come together in Christ. 
Let's see things as Christ sees 

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things in regard to race, as the
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In fact, in Acts chapter 17 
verse 26, we see some clarity on

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this from one man. 
He made all the nations so that 

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they should inhabit the whole 
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From that one man was Adam. 
You want to really get down to 

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it? 
We all stem from Adam, don't we?

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So we're really all one race. 
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So who are you to decide that 
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other, that you have favoritism 
toward one color of skin or the 

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other? 
James says this and James 

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chapter 2 verse 9 he says But if
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committing sin. 
That's what James calls racism. 

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He calls it sin. 
James doing that under the 

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inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 
Therefore, I know this. 

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I know that if we show 
favoritism based on someone's 

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nationality or their skin color 
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It is that we separate and 
distinguish people with these 

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days. 
If we show favoritism or 

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partiality towards someone else,
we sin because God says that 

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it's sin. 
And God is He's right. 

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What about sexual immorality? 
That's any sex outside of 

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biblical marriage. 
That includes your play time on 

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the computer in your imaginary 
sexual world. 

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God has a stance and He has an 
opinion about sexual immorality 

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and it's high time that we 
consider what He says is right 

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in regard to sexual immorality. 
First Corinthians chapter 6 

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verse 18, he says flee from 
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Then he goes on and he says your
body is the temple of the Holy 

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Spirit. 
This is no place for you to 

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entertain these things in a body
that belongs to the Spirit of 

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God purchased by the precious 
blood of Jesus Christ. 

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How about Hebrews 13, four where
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honor among all and let the 
marriage bed be undefiled. 

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He's saying that there's 
holiness in the sacred union of 

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marriage when you come together 
in the act of sexual intercourse

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and outside of that it's all 
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How about this in First 
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three, he says for this is the 
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You want to know the will of God
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He says this is the will of God,
your sanctification. 

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There's something big at stake 
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He says that you abstain from 
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Of it, every ounce of it that 
you flee and that you abstain 

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from it. 
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immorality, when the world says,
you know what, you ought to live

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with someone out of marriage and
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there's absolutely nothing wrong
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If it's right for you, then it's
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God says that is what is wrong. 
Any sex outside of the marriage 

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covenant between you, your 
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So he settles the issue about 
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right. 
How about the next hot button in

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our culture, Homosexuality. 
Oh, pastor, are you really going

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to talk about that? 
Yes I am, because God has an 

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opinion about it and I'm sad to 
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Are not resting in the opinion 
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Oh, you do until someone that 
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then you quickly turn and you 
try to justify embracing their 

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sinful and detestable lifestyle 
simply because that's someone in

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your family. 
But just because they're in your

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family and they do something 
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Because who's right? 
God's right, and what does he 

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say about the sin of 
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In fact, in Romans chapter 1, 
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paraphrase this just for the 
sake of time, he's giving us the

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distinguishing March of a 
reprobate, of a generation of 

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reprobates, of those who God 
gives over to their natural and 

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sinful affections. 
He says women exchange natural 

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relationships for unnatural ones
with women, and men committed 

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shameless, shameless acts with 
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He's talking about sexual acts. 
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please listen up. 
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destroyed because of the sin of 
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homosexuality. 
Please know that I know that 

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they're trying to erase that. 
They're trying to make it say 

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something other than what it 
said. 

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But that is absolutely not the 
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Go back. 
I love all the critics. 

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You want to say that's not what 
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Gomorrah, then, then tell me 
what you know about that story. 

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Well, I don't know a whole lot 
about it, but I know that's not 

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what it's saying. 
Oh, it's not. 

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They saw these angels and they 
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wanted to have a sexual 
relationship with men and, and 

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even a lot said, I'll give you 
my daughters. 

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Why? 
Because that's the the depravity

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of the human mind. 
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their sinfulness. 
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homosexuality over and over and 
over again. 

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He's never left what he's 
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In fact, the First Corinthians 
chapter 6, he says neither the 

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sexually immoral nor men who 
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Will inherit the Kingdom of God.
That's for all these people who 

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want to say things like this. 
Well, I know someone and they're

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actively practicing an 
unrepentant lifestyle of 

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homosexuality, but they're a 
believer. 

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No, they are not. 
Stop saying that they're not a 

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believer. 
And before you go to make 

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accusations and you go to say 
that I'm spewing hate, I am 

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telling you this for the 
well-being of your own soul, 

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that unless you repent from your
sinful lifestyle and turn to 

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Jesus Christ and you are 
forgiven in Him, you do not have

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a portion in eternal life or in 
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Why? 
Because God's right in what He 

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says. 
Your opinion is wrong. 

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God hasn't changed His mind. 
In Leviticus chapter 18 verse 

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22, He says you shall not lie 
with a man, man as one lies with

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a woman. 
He shows his opinion and his 

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view on this. 
It is an abomination. 

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Now when God says that it's an 
abomination, He is and everyone 

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who disagrees with him is. 
You're getting this. 

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There will be a test at the end 
and I think you're going to do 

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very well. 
What about the next thing that 

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we see so often debated, even 
debated and discussed in the 

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church? 
The sin of abortion. 

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Yeah, I call it what it is. 
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Because God said you shall not 
commit murder. 

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Exodus chapter 20, verse 13. 
And when you take the life of an

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unborn child, you are 
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Murder. 
When you approve of that, you 

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were committing murder. 
You said, well, they, they don't

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know anything. 
They're not even a person yet. 

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How about Jeremiah chapter one, 
verse 5, where he says this, 

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Before I formed you in the womb,
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You know what that is? 
That's intimate knowledge of 

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them before they were ever 
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That's why I'm disturbed by the 
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to God's foreknowledge. 
God for knows people. 

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He intimately knows us before we
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Before He ever formed you in 
your mother's womb, He knew you 

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intimately. 
Who are you to disagree with? 

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God, who says I knew that child 
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Who are you to oppose him? 
You're wrong. 

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And God again remains 
undefeated. 

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And he is, he's right. 
How about immigration? 

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Oh, wow, I told you, we're 
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How about immigration? 
How do we treat those who are in

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our country illegally? 
I'll tell you how you don't do 

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it. 
You don't spew hate in your 

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recliner while you're watching 
Fox News. 

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Let me let me say that again. 
You don't spew hate while you're

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sitting in your recliner 
watching Fox News. 

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I know what many of you say when
we talk about this difficult to 

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talk about topic, right? 
All of a sudden you all become 

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Border Patrol or ICE agents. 
You forget what the word of God 

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says, and if you're not Border 
Patrol or you're not an ICE 

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agent, or you're not some judge 
with a warrant in your hand, who

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has a right to actually. 
Fulfill the laws of this land 

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and to hold someone accountable 
who breaks them. 

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Here's what you're to do 
according to the word of God. 

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Leviticus 19 verse 33 says when 
an alien lives among you, you 

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listening, you shall love him as
yourself because God is man is 

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what he says you should. 
You should love him as yourself.

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He doesn't cover it just there. 
What about Exodus 22 verse 21? 

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You shall not wrong an alien or 
oppress him in any manner in any

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way. 
I know you all have your 

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opinions about it right? 
You all have your opinions about

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immigration. 
You all have your opinions about

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should a wall be built, should a
wall not be built? 

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All those things. 
Your opinions don't matter. 

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These people are here as 
believers. 

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Are you doing what is right 
towards them? 

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Have you ever stopped to think 
this, that perhaps God, by his 

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grace and his Providence, 
because He works in all 

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situations, doesn't He has 
allowed them to come to this 

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country so that we can love them
like ourselves, so that we can 

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share the gospel with them, so 
that they have a hope for 

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eternity? 
Well, but you would rather play 

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ICE agent or Border Patrol 
agent. 

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Oh, don't forget what Jesus said
in Matthew 2535. 

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He said I was a stranger and you
welcomed me. 

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And whatever you do to the least
of these, you have done it. 

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Unto who? 
Him. 

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Oh, I know I'm not going to win 
the popularity contest today. 

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I got news for you Church. 
I stopped trying to win the 

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popularity contest a long time 
ago. 

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Why? 
Because God is right. 

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And I will side with God on 
every situation because He has 

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proven himself the right to be 
right. 

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How about this? 
Since we're getting them all, 

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let's not leave any out. 
How about support of Israel, 

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right? 
Because we see in our college 

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campuses these days, you know 
what we're we're having 

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peaceful, peaceful protests 
protesting Israel. 

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Pro Palestinian, right? 
Peaceful protests that include 

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Molotov cocktails being thrown 
at cars. 

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Not sure about that. 
Don't know how that's peaceful 

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at all, but you know, hey, 
people want to define things the

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way that they want to define 
things. 

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But what about Israel? 
Here's what God says about 

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Israel. 
In case you've forgotten Genesis

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chapter 12, verse three, He 
makes a promise to Abraham. 

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Oh, and let me just remind you 
that you've been engrafted into 

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that promise. 
He says this, I'll bless those 

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who bless you and I will 
dishonor, curse those who curse 

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you. 
I'll be very careful when you 

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get into the political realm and
start just spewing the opinions 

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of uneducated man who opposes 
holy God. 

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How about we do this Psalm 122, 
verse 6, what it says, Pray for 

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the peace of Jerusalem. 
May they be secure who love you.

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Why would we pray for the peace 
of Jerusalem? 

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Because here's the deal. 
There will be no peace in 

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Jerusalem until the Messiah 
returns, and when he returns, 

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the Prince of Peace will 
establish peace once and for all

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for the people of Israel. 
And there is that remnant who he

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will save. 
Romans Chapter 11 definitely 

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covers this force, though we 
often times want to read over 

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it. 
Paul teaches that Israel's not 

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been rejected. 
So far as they will not have a 

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future in His redemptive plan, 
He still has a plan for their 

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redemption. 
So pray for peace, because the 

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only one who can redeem them is 
Christ. 

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Pray that they would see. 
As we see in Isaiah the prophecy

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of Israel looking back, saying, 
surely he bore our sin, surely 

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his iniquity, our iniquity was 
upon him, surely he was the 

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Messiah as they finally. 
Realized that his scripture says

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that they will. 
How about the role of women in 

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the church? 
Go on and buckle your seat belt.

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Enjoy the ride because there are
major denominations who are 

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disputing this over and over and
over again and it's wasting time

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as people are going to hell. 
God has spoken on these issues 

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that so many people are afraid 
to side with God on. 

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Let me just tell you what he 
says he says in First Timothy 

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chapter 2 verse 11. 
Let a woman learn quietly. 

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I do not permit a woman to teach
or to exercise authority over a 

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man. 
He is talking about the roles 

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and the leadership in the 
church. 

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And I want you to understand the
context of that because there 

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are many people who are going 
around now because they have a 

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family member who's a woman 
who's claiming to be a pastor, 

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that they have to embrace her as
a pastor. 

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She is not a pastor. 
She is a woman who is walking 

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out from underneath her biblical
role, out from the will of God, 

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out from what God has already 
spoken, and she is wrong. 

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Now, listen, there are many 
times that I don't fault her 

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because she's wrong. 
You know what? 

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She's having to step into that 
role because men are not 

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stepping into it. 
And if men would step up and be 

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the men of God that they're 
supposed to be? 

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Teaching their families, 
teaching others in the church. 

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We wouldn't have this problem. 
Images. 

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You know what, for the last 100 
years is the only time it has 

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been a problem in the church. 
Why? 

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Because we won't simply side 
with God in the fact that he's 

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right on this. 
I know what's going to happen. 

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Well, Pastor, you're saying that
a woman doesn't have a role in 

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the church. 
That's not what I'm saying at 

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all. 
That'd be like saying a woman 

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doesn't have a role in the home.
Does a woman have a role in the.

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Home. 
You bet she does. 

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But who's the leader? 
The husband Women have roles in 

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this church. 
This church couldn't do what it 

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does, ministering to others 
without women participating and 

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even leading women's ministry. 
You earned an announcement a 

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moment ago. 
What was it? 

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Hey ladies, D groups are signing
up. 

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If you have any questions, ask 
Brandy. 

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That is not Pastor Brandy. 
That is Brandy, wife of Pastor 

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Kirk. 
I couldn't do what I do without 

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her role in supporting me. 
But she is not a pastor in this 

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church. 
She never will be a pastor in 

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this church. 
And she watches. 

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Are you OK with that? 
And she's OK with that. 

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00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,360
You know why? 
Because God says it's right. 

456
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,000
Even though man wants to argue. 
Women's roles in the church 

457
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,080
ought to mirror women's roles in
the home. 

458
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,760
Women are mandated. 
By God in both places as they 

459
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,440
mirror one another in scriptures
just admit to male leadership. 

460
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520
I don't say that just because 
I'm a male. 

461
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,120
I say that because the word of 
God speaks it plainly and 

462
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:13,520
clearly. 
He said, well, that was only 

463
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,400
just one place that you always 
pull out of first Timothy 

464
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,120
chapter 2. 
How about this First Corinthians

465
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,480
chapter 14. 
The women should keep silent in 

466
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,320
the churches. 
He's talking about speaking 

467
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,360
gifts at the time he's. 
Saying that they should not 

468
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:26,720
exercise them in the 
congregation. 

469
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:27,880
Why? 
Because that would assume the 

470
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,920
authority over a man and 
leadership over a man. 

471
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,400
He gives us clarity in his word 
why this is so dangerous. 

472
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,080
It's just as Eve was deceived in
the garden through her emotions.

473
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,720
Women are prone to that. 
I don't say that to slight you. 

474
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,000
That is a. 
Compliment to you. 

475
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,120
It is beautiful because when 
your child skins their knee and 

476
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:51,120
you run over there and you and 
your feelings nurture them and 

477
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:54,160
you love them and you bring them
back to health and you, you can 

478
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,000
stop them from crying when a dad
just like, do something with 

479
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,600
them. 
You're fulfilling your biblical 

480
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,440
role, and it's beautiful when we
see those things, right the way 

481
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,080
that God says that they are, 
right? 

482
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:14,320
And so the role of women in the 
church, yes, I went there, but 

483
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,560
why stop? 
How about transgenderism? 

484
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,960
You said, Kirk, you surely don't
think that the Bible and that 

485
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,840
God in his word addresses 
transgenderism. 

486
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,760
Yes, I do. 
I think he addresses it in the 

487
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,480
first book of the Bible when it 
says this. 

488
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,600
And male and female, he created 
them. 

489
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,840
Did you catch that? 
I've already seen how you're 

490
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,360
answering the right and wrong 
questions. 

491
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,440
I believe that you're all here 
in this room. 

492
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,720
A+ students. 
How many genders did God create?

493
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:52,560
And they are. 
And you guys were probably all 

494
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,480
first in your class. 
God says he created them all, 

495
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,200
male and female. 
There is no male and female. 

496
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,520
And fill in the blank. 
Or what pronoun do you identify 

497
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,760
with? 
Or who are you or what are you? 

498
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,640
People are confused. 
They think that they know more 

499
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,520
than God and they're wrong. 
God is right. 

500
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,280
And when your baby is born on 
that beautiful day when God has 

501
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:25,440
graced you with such a blessing 
and the doctor lifts them up in 

502
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,000
that light, whoever deliver 
delivers your baby holds them up

503
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,240
for the first time. 
Before you cut that cord, I'm 

504
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,280
going to tell you how you can do
this. 

505
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,160
And I'm not even going to be 
that graphic. 

506
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:45,520
Look right between their legs, 
and what God has already deemed 

507
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,080
and said about them is right. 
They are either male or they are

508
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,840
female. 
Created a Maggio day in the 

509
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,840
image of God and so know this 
know that when we look at the 

510
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,360
word of God, God. 
Is always right, male and 

511
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,360
female. 
He created them. 

512
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,920
In fact, in Deuteronomy he makes
it even more clearly so that 

513
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,800
people understand. 
He says a woman shall not wear 

514
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,080
men's garments and men shall not
wear a woman's cloak. 

515
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,840
He even covers the sin of cross 
dressing. 

516
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:23,160
For us, and here we are, 
thousands of years later, 

517
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,360
debating God on an issue that He
has already settled. 

518
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,800
How about this last one? 
Can I do one more? 

519
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:34,920
Oh, don't worry, this is just 
introduction. 

520
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,280
We haven't even gotten to the 
sermon yet. 

521
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,440
I told you this morning I'm 
preaching from Psalm 119. 

522
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,600
I hadn't even read it yet. 
Oh, but you'll see why I'm going

523
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,640
to read it in just a moment. 
But we must establish the things

524
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,400
that everyone else is afraid to 
establish before we can look at 

525
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,720
why they are so important. 
How about creation versus 

526
00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,000
evolution? 
Right as you send your children 

527
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,400
off to these indoctrination 
stations each day, please know 

528
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,040
this. 
There's someone who thinks that 

529
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,400
they're right, teaching your 
children that they evolved from 

530
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,880
some kind of ape species, and 
they are dreadfully wrong. 

531
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,560
How do I know this? 
Because Genesis 1 says this one.

532
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,440
In the beginning, God created 
the heavens. 

533
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:31,040
And the earth, He created it all
just as it is, cautions 116 For 

534
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,320
by Him all things were created, 
and through them all things in 

535
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,040
heaven and earth, all things 
that were created, were created 

536
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,520
by Him and through Him. 
He is the creator of everything,

537
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,240
just as it is. 
It did not evolve. 

538
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,120
But you don't understand. 
I have a difference in opinion. 

539
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,520
Well, square it up with God 
because both of you can't be 

540
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,800
right. 
As we're going to see in just a 

541
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,800
moment, He's always right and 
when we stand toe to toe against

542
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,800
Him, we are always wrong. 
How about this, the earth being 

543
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:11,000
billions of years old, when in 
fact we know that in Genesis the

544
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,400
earth was created in six days. 
Exodus confirms that in 20 verse

545
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,280
11 that in six days the Lord 
made the heaven and the earth 

546
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,320
six days. 
Now if you have a problem 

547
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,960
understanding how long a day is,
go back to Genesis and you'll 

548
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,920
see this. 
There was morning and there was 

549
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,040
evening and God's word says that
was a day. 

550
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,400
And so if the earth was created 
in six days, the earth is 

551
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,520
somewhere between 6:00 and 7000 
years old. 

552
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,080
And to put another number on 
that. 

553
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,240
Is to disagree with God. 
It's to say that you know more 

554
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,520
about the creator and how he 
created. 

555
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,640
I know what the skeptics say 
they said, but the earth looks 

556
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,520
older than that. 
Adam looked older than two 

557
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,000
minutes old when he was created 
too. 

558
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,040
Adam was created a grown man. 
God has the. 

559
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,720
Power to do things that 
mesmerize, mesmerize the wisdom 

560
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,120
of or thought wisdom of man, 
doesn't he, in fact? 

561
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,240
Our wisdom's foolishness to him,
as we learned last week. 

562
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,040
And so we've hit all of our the 
major buttons that we face in 

563
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:20,080
debating right or wrong, or as I
said, right or thought wrong in 

564
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,880
our time. 
And God has taken a stance on 

565
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,480
every single one of these 
issues. 

566
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:34,520
And God is in all opposing views
they are. 

567
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,120
Oh, that's music to the ears of 
this pastor in this postmodern 

568
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,960
secular worldview that we live 
in, to know that there is still 

569
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,120
a group of people who say God is
right and His. 

570
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Word is right and man, if he 
opposes God and His word is he's

571
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,800
wrong this world has the Fonzie 
complex. 

572
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,560
I said that earlier and dated 
myself right. 

573
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,400
You remember Fonzie he would 
never admit that he was wrong. 

574
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:16,199
This world doesn't even want to 
use the term wrong, but anytime 

575
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,480
that you square knuckles with 
God in your. 

576
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:24,400
Debates. 
He's right and you're capital 

577
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,120
WRONG. 
Wrong. 

578
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,800
And so we asked this question 
with all of the differences and 

579
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,120
opinions in this world, because 
we can find someone who will 

580
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,639
believe just about anything, 
can't we? 

581
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,000
With all of these differing 
opinions in the world, why does 

582
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:54,600
God and His Word and God through
His Word have the right to be 

583
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,600
right? 
This is the question that the 

584
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,280
psalmist is going to answer for 
us today as we get into our 

585
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,400
text. 
Here's what he says. 

586
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,360
Verse 137 Righteous are you, O 
Lord, and your laws are, say it 

587
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,920
with me, class right. 
The statute you have laid down 

588
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,040
are righteous. 
They are fully trustworthy. 

589
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,760
My zeal wears me out for my 
enemies. 

590
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,400
Ignore your words. 
Your promises have been 

591
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,040
thoroughly tested, and your 
servant loves them. 

592
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,960
Though I am lonely and despised,
all the people around me have a 

593
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,600
difference opinion, a difference
in opinion than me. 

594
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,400
And, and, and they, they despise
me. 

595
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,240
It's as though I'm lowly and 
despise. 

596
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,360
I do not forget your precepts. 
Your righteousness is 

597
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,200
everlasting in Your law is true.
Trouble and distress have come 

598
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,920
upon me, but your commands are 
my delight. 

599
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:48,440
Your statutes are forever right.
Give me understanding that I 

600
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:50,120
may. 
Live. 

601
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Let's pray together, Father, in 
the name of Jesus, we come to 

602
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,520
you, thanking you for your word,
thanking you that it is true. 

603
00:35:54,520 --> 00:36:01,160
And it is right now as we 
endeavor to see exactly why we 

604
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,240
can trust Your Word as right. 
Lord, give us insight. 

605
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,480
Give us insight from your word. 
As you use the. 

606
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:13,760
Teachings, the writings of the 
Psalmist here to instruct us and

607
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,520
lead us and to guide us into 
righteousness. 

608
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,360
For your name's sake. 
May you receive all the glory 

609
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,720
and honor and praise for it. 
Lord, I pray for the soul who's 

610
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:25,800
here today who has spent their 
life kicking against you, trying

611
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:32,680
to justify their wrong as right.
God, I pray in your mercy by 

612
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,800
your grace today that you would 
usher them out of darkness and 

613
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,400
into light, that they would 
believe what is right, that they

614
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,640
would believe the truth of the 
gospel as revealed in your word 

615
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,040
today, and that they would be 
saved. 

616
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,200
May you receive the praise for 
it in Jesus name, Amen. 

617
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,040
So God's Word is right, and I 
hope we can all agree on that. 

618
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,000
But let's talk about why God's 
Word is right before we depart 

619
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,360
today #1 because of its perfect 
author. 

620
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,560
Well, I love that the psalmist 
doesn't leave this out. 

621
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,920
Watch what he says. 
Righteous are you, Oh Lord, you 

622
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,520
are righteous. 
You are right. 

623
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,960
You are perfect in every degree 
and in every manner. 

624
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,280
He says righteous are you, Oh 
Lord, and your laws are right. 

625
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:21,840
The statutes you have laid down 
are righteous. 

626
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:27,640
They're right, they're perfect, 
they're fully trustworthy, says 

627
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,600
in 3139, My zeal wears me out 
for my enemies. 

628
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,520
Ignore your words. 
When the author is completely 

629
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:40,120
perfect in regard to something, 
their works are also perfect. 

630
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:45,040
And there is but one completely 
perfect author, and it is God 

631
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:49,920
himself and his God who has 
breathed and inspired His Word. 

632
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:55,120
Therefore, His Word is perfect, 
and we can count on it being 

633
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,240
perfect because the author of 
Scripture. 

634
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,840
Is perfect Second Samuel chapter
22 verse 31 it says As for God, 

635
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,200
His way is perfect. 
The Lord's word is flawless. 

636
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,720
He Shields all who take refuge 
in him. 

637
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,560
Why is his? 
Word because he establishes 

638
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:16,640
first and foremost because it's 
author is perfect. 

639
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,520
I want you to understand that 
when you open the Word of God, 

640
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,920
you are not opening the word of 
man. 

641
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,160
These men were simply carried 
along by the Holy Spirit. 

642
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:32,000
You are opening the eternal 
literal word of God, inerrant 

643
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,960
and infallible. 
And so when you open the pages 

644
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,720
of Scripture, no, there was not 
a flawed author involved in 

645
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,760
this. 
God is a perfect author. 

646
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,280
Everything that he says is 
perfect. 

647
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,760
In Second Timothy chapter 3, 
verse 16 says all Scriptures. 

648
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,560
God breathed all of it. 
Not one part of it was not 

649
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,280
breathed out by God himself. 
And God is perfect, and He is. 

650
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,720
Righteous, just as the Psalmist 
has laid forth for us today. 

651
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:10,120
He is perfectly righteous, right
in all he does and in all he 

652
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,840
says. 
Psalm 1830 it says, As for God, 

653
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,240
His way is perfect. 
The word of the Lord is 

654
00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,840
flawless. 
He is a shield for all who take 

655
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,320
refuge in him. 
If that sounds familiar, that's 

656
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,040
the psalmist declaring exactly 
what we saw declared in Second 

657
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,160
Samuel. 
He's perfect and he is flawless 

658
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,240
in all of his ways. 
Deuteronomy 32 Four He is. 

659
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:38,200
The Rock, His works are perfect 
and all His ways are just. 

660
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,960
A faithful God who does no wrong
upright and just is He. 

661
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,080
That's why I spend so much time 
teaching you from the Scriptures

662
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,960
who God is. 
So when you see His perfection, 

663
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,560
you see His righteousness, you 
see His Majesty, you know that 

664
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,440
every word that comes from His 
mouth is just as majestic and 

665
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,680
just as righteous and just as 
perfect. 

666
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,080
You can trust that He is right 
and His word is right because 

667
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,160
the author of His word is 
perfect. 

668
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:16,680
He's opposite a flawed mankind. 
He is opposite of me and all of 

669
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,600
my reasoning and all of my 
humanistic thinking, my 

670
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:25,200
theories, in fact. 
Isaiah 55 verse 9, it says as 

671
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,760
the heavens are higher than the 
earth, so are my ways higher 

672
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,640
than your ways, and my thoughts 
than your thoughts. 

673
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:43,200
Let us see Him for who He is. 
The author is perfect and for 

674
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:49,800
His word it's perfect unflawed, 
just as He is unflawed. 

675
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,440
Numbers 2319 says God is not man
that he should lie, nor son of 

676
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,000
man that he should change his 
mind. 

677
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,400
Does he speak and did not act? 
Does he promise and not fulfill?

678
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,360
No, he doesn't. 
He's perfect and everything that

679
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,800
he promises he does fulfill. 
He is perfectly righteous. 

680
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,320
Not only that, when we look at 
our perfect author, he's 

681
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,840
perfectly righteous, but he's 
also perfectly reliable, to 

682
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,920
which I'm so thankful for. 
That when I stand on the Word of

683
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:24,280
God, I stand on the reliability 
of a faithful God, and He is 

684
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:30,480
unable, please get that. 
He is unable to be anything but 

685
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:36,280
trustworthy and true. 
That is who He is, not just what

686
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,800
he does. 
It encompasses his entire 

687
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,200
character. 
Psalm 111. 

688
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,480
Seven. 
The works of his hands are 

689
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,120
faithful and just, and all his 
precepts are trustworthy. 

690
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,600
Second Samuel 728 And now, oh 
Lord God, you are God and your 

691
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,560
words are true and you have 
promised this good thing to your

692
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,600
servant. 
He says I can trust you, I can 

693
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,600
trust your word. 
Why? 

694
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,560
Because you are perfectly 
reliable. 

695
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,040
Have you ever had to rely on 
God's word? 

696
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,920
I can tell you this, 30 plus 
years studying the word of God, 

697
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:13,280
relying on His truth, not one 
single time has he ever failed. 

698
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,280
Not one single time will he ever
fail. 

699
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,120
He is perfectly reliable and 
trustworthy. 

700
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:28,280
Therefore his word established 
through that perfect author. 

701
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,320
It's not only perfectly 
righteous, but perfectly 

702
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,200
reliable. 
The psalmist goes on and he says

703
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:37,960
this. 
My zeal wears me out. 

704
00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:41,240
It seems so out of place. 
You know what he's saying. 

705
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,640
He is so perfect and his word is
so righteous that it deserves my

706
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:56,160
passion, deserves my passion. 
Does not the perfect word of God

707
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,680
established through a perfect 
author deserve our passion? 

708
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,720
The psalmist here said is saying
I'm. 

709
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:05,640
Eaten up by my passion for the 
Word of God. 

710
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,400
I wish the American church would
be eaten up by passion for the 

711
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,240
Word of God to stand on it and 
say this is right. 

712
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,560
Thus saith the Lord, we don't 
care about the opinions of man. 

713
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,800
We don't care about the liberal 
agenda. 

714
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,520
We care about truth from the 
Word of God because it comes 

715
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,960
from our perfect author who is 
perfectly righteous and 

716
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,400
perfectly reliable. 
We can trust in Him. 

717
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,800
That we would have. 
Zeal for the Lord. 

718
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,040
There's nothing wrong with zeal.
Did you know that? 

719
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:39,800
There's wrong when we have zeal 
without knowledge, but when we 

720
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,120
have knowledge from the 
Scriptures to back up our zeal 

721
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:50,280
and we are eaten alive by the 
very Word of God, God is honored

722
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,000
by that, that Paul says in 
Romans chapter 12 verse 11, to 

723
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,400
never be lacking in zeal, never 
be lacking in zeal, but keep 

724
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,320
your spiritual fervor, that fire
serving the Lord. 

725
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,080
How can we do that? 
Trusting in His Word, it is 

726
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,520
reliable. 
Knowing that he's never going to

727
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:12,320
fail you. 
He has never failed anyone who 

728
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:22,240
has trusted in his word. 
Psalm 2317 says do not let your 

729
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:26,760
heart envy centers but. 
Always be zealous for the fear 

730
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:33,280
of the Lord. 
Always be zealous for the fear 

731
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,320
of the Lord, the psalmist says. 
My zeal wears me out. 

732
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,200
He says. 
The Lord is worthy of my zeal. 

733
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,240
He says even though my enemies 
ignore your words, even though 

734
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:49,320
everyone around disagrees with 
me, I rest in the authority of 

735
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,400
the Scripture because of this. 
It's perfect author who is 

736
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,320
perfectly righteous and 
perfectly reliable, and I am 

737
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,360
going to trust in Him and not 
the opinions of man. 

738
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,640
And so we can know that 
scripture is right. 

739
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,520
And all opposing views are wrong
because of Scripture's perfect 

740
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,760
author. 
Secondly, God's Word is right 

741
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,520
because of its proven 
authenticity. 

742
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,440
Watch the psalmist here. 
Your promises have been 

743
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,160
thoroughly tested, and Your 
servant loves them. 

744
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,880
No, I am lowly and despised. 
No, others hate me for it. 

745
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,080
I do not forget your precepts. 
Your righteousness is 

746
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,240
everlasting and your law is 
true. 

747
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,760
Church, please listen to me. 
The Word has been and is 

748
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:48,520
continually being thoroughly 
tested as a refiner tests and 

749
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,600
heats the metal and it. 
Over and over and over again 

750
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,760
passes the test of being 100% 
pure. 

751
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,600
In fact, if you have a King 
James Bible this morning, it 

752
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,840
says right there, thy word is 
very pure. 

753
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:10,400
It's very pure. 
In fact, there is nothing as 

754
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,800
pure. 
And the word has proven through 

755
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,080
the course of time it's 
authenticity because it has been

756
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,000
tested by fire. 
Did you know this? 

757
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,080
It has been tested by fire. 
In fact, it's being tested now. 

758
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,560
And this is the fire of friends.
What are we doing? 

759
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,360
We're scrutinizing the Scripture
and we're asking ourselves the 

760
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,520
question, is Scripture right or 
am I right? 

761
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,840
Is Scripture right or are the 
opinions of the world right? 

762
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,560
We, even as friends of God, are 
putting the Word of God too much

763
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,400
scrutiny today to come to the 
conclusion, do we believe and do

764
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,880
we trust in the Word of God? 
Absolutely. 

765
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,680
So we see that it's been tested 
by the fire of friends, those 

766
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:56,240
who examine and then who agree, 
as the psalmist did, that the 

767
00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:01,000
word of God is pure. 
Psalm 19 verse 9, it says the 

768
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,800
fear of the Lord is pure, 
enduring, forever. 

769
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,120
The ordinance of the Lord are 
sure and all together righteous.

770
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,080
They are more precious than 
gold, than much pure gold. 

771
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,000
They're sweeter than honey, than
honey from the honeycomb, he 

772
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,560
says. 
The words of God are more pure 

773
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,920
than pure gold. 
The purest of gold you can 

774
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,960
imagine His word is even more 
pure. 

775
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,800
Why? 
Because it is perfectly pure. 

776
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,560
And it stood the test of time in
proving that as it has been 

777
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:31,200
scrutinized scholar after 
scholar, even men of God who 

778
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:36,240
love God and who love His Word. 
Every day I open the Word of 

779
00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:37,680
God. 
And you know what I do? 

780
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,880
I read through the pages of 
Scripture and I scrutinize and I

781
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,400
look, is this true? 
Or is what I'm feeling true? 

782
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,840
And I find this out time and 
time again. 

783
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,480
My feelings aren't pure. 
God's word is pure. 

784
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,040
It has passed the test over and 
over and over again. 

785
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,280
And we as believers who trust in
that have experienced time and 

786
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:10,960
time and time again his 
faithfulness, the fact that his 

787
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:16,920
words are pure. 
Oh, we relate with the hymnist 

788
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:24,200
Loosa Loosa Steed and she wrote 
in 1882 if I get that year 

789
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,880
right. 
You can Fact Check me on that. 

790
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,600
And it goes like this. 
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus 

791
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:38,040
and to take him at his word, 
just to rest upon his promise 

792
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,320
and to know. 
Thus saith the Lord. 

793
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,840
His word has been tested by fire
from his friends, just as this 

794
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,280
hymn writer says. 
And then she goes on in a course

795
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,360
and you know it. 
Sing it with me, Jesus. 

796
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:06,360
Jesus, how I trust him, how I've
proved him more and. 

797
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:14,720
More Jesus. 
Jesus, precious Jesus. 

798
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:22,240
Oh, for grace to trust Him I 
want. 

799
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:26,160
It is by His grace through His 
Word that we have learned to 

800
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,560
trust Him over and over and more
and more. 

801
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,880
Why? 
Because His Word has proven to 

802
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,720
be authentic. 
He is faithful to it. 

803
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,240
Tested by fire, the fire of 
friends, but also the fire of 

804
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:41,480
foes. 
Haven't the foes tested the Word

805
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:45,080
of God throughout history? 
And the Word of God still 

806
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:50,040
remains undefeated from all of 
the hatred of its enemy. 

807
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:55,440
Surviving attacks and attempts 
to destroy it throughout the 

808
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,800
ages going all the way back to 
the Old Testament. 

809
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,000
There in the book of Jeremiah we
see king Jehoiakim who was an 

810
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,440
evil king and what did he do? 
He burnt Jeremiah's prophecy 

811
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,680
there in Jeremiah chapter 36. 
Interesting fact is God said OK 

812
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,840
Jeremiah he thinks he won but he
doesn't win. 

813
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,800
My words eternal. 
Go tell him everything that I 

814
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,240
told you to tell him. 
Write it down. 

815
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:17,400
Take. 
It to him and then I'm going to 

816
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,360
add to it so that he gets it 
this time. 

817
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:24,080
Go back and look, evil men have 
been trying to destroy the word 

818
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,800
of God even as far back as 
Jehoiakim. 

819
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,120
Oh we don't have to mention we 
know. 

820
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,360
Historically, it's proven 
Diocletian under the tyranny of 

821
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,320
Rome, burning the scriptures and
executing all of those who 

822
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,120
possess any portion. 
Of the word of. 

823
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,160
God, how about the Catholic 
Church? 

824
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,680
Forbidding laypeople to even own
their own copy of the 

825
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:46,840
Scriptures. 
Now, I know some of you have 

826
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,400
your opinions about that, but 
it's high time you know that 

827
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:54,040
there was a Reformation. 
In that reformation, we declared

828
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,360
that the Catholic Church is 
incorrect and they are wrong and

829
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:06,160
that God is right. 
No man should be forbidden to 

830
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,120
have a copy of the word of God 
in his hand, that he can see 

831
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:10,920
that God is right and man is 
wrong. 

832
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,560
About the French Revolution and 
all the burning of scripture 

833
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,560
that took place there for all 
the many communist regimes 

834
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,000
throughout history. 
Well, let's mention Nazi Germany

835
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:22,640
if you want to talk about trying
to destroy. 

836
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,160
The Word of God. 
And you know what? 

837
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,240
It just won't go away. 
It just won't go away because 

838
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:31,240
the Word of God is very clear 
and it declares this about 

839
00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:34,680
itself. 
Isaiah 40, verse 8. 

840
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,800
The grass Withers and the 
flowers fall, but the Word of 

841
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:42,040
God endures forever. 
You cannot destroy the Word of 

842
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:49,280
God, try as you may. 
Many of men, many of women have 

843
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,400
attempted to do so. 
The fire of the foes, but yet it

844
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,920
has endured the test, proving 
its authenticity. 

845
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,960
The Word of God has been tested 
by fire, but it's also been 

846
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:05,760
tested by faith, hasn't it? 
Hasn't it though the fires 

847
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,280
tested ignoring what Jesus said,
that heaven and earth will pass 

848
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:14,920
away, but his words will never 
pass away, still attempting to 

849
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,160
destroy it? 
But then there is the test of 

850
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,800
faith, where the Word of God 
proves itself to those who 

851
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,880
believe in its promises. 
How many times has the Word of 

852
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:27,080
God proven itself to you as a 
believer where you apply the 

853
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,480
truths that you see in 
Scripture? 

854
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,840
You apply the opinion of God and
what stance He takes in the 

855
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,040
issue, and He shows Himself to 
be faithful over and over and 

856
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:38,280
over again. 
Romans 1011, Paul quoting the 

857
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:42,640
Old Testament, He says anyone 
who trusts in him will never be 

858
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,360
put to shame. 
When you trust in the God of 

859
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,000
Scripture who reveals himself in
the truth of the word of God, 

860
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,800
you will never be put to shame. 
He is faithful to his own. 

861
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:58,840
Word know this, believe this. 
Rest in that the test of faith 

862
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,040
has proven the authenticity of 
Scripture time and time again. 

863
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,320
Men and women holding on to the 
truths that they possess in 

864
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,480
these 66 books, in every 
situation that they face in 

865
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:16,320
life, His word proves to be 
eternally and absolutely true. 

866
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,320
Psalm 33, what we read in our 
Scripture passage this morning, 

867
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,200
verse 4. 
For the word of the Lord is 

868
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:29,000
right and true. 
He is faithful and all He does 

869
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:35,040
He proves himself over and over 
to be faithful and true to His 

870
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,400
Word. 
David declares this in Psalm 51,

871
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,360
verse 4. 
As he's repenting, he says you 

872
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:44,320
were right and you're proved 
right when you speak. 

873
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,200
When God speaks, He is right and
He's faithful to everything that

874
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,320
He has declared. 
Time and time and time again. 

875
00:53:54,400 --> 00:54:00,920
God has allowed His Word to be 
proven as authentic to those who

876
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:06,120
oppose it and to those who trust
in it over and over and over 

877
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:10,800
again. 
He is faithful to show you the 

878
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,440
proven authenticity of His Word,
that it came from eternal God 

879
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:19,840
and it is eternal. 
So the Scriptures have endured 

880
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,520
through the strenuous testing, 
yet they still. 

881
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,760
Remain you holding them in your 
hand this morning. 

882
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:34,640
Still remaining, still giving 
you strength, still proving to 

883
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:39,840
you how faithful God really is. 
So we move to the Third Point 

884
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:46,360
and the final point. 
It says God's word is right 

885
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:53,440
because of its powerful ability.
Please don't miss this one, he 

886
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,160
says in 143. 
Trouble and distress have come 

887
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:02,120
upon me, but your commands are 
my delight. 

888
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:08,840
Your statues are forever right. 
Give me understanding that I may

889
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,320
live. 
So the psalmist is now going to 

890
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:17,440
remind us that the powerful 
ability of the Word of God 

891
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:23,440
proves that it can be trusted 
and that it is absolutely right.

892
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,400
He speaks of the Word of God as 
having a powerful ability. 

893
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,760
I want you to pay close 
attention to the specifics of 

894
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,560
this because the first one you 
all know this to be true. 

895
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:40,360
That God's Word has the powerful
ability to bring comfort to the 

896
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:45,840
afflicted. 
His Word has the ability, the 

897
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:51,440
miraculous ability. 
And power to bring comfort even 

898
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:57,840
to those who are in the most 
stressful, bothersome, troubled 

899
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,200
situation. 
Psalm 11949 You remember this 

900
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,600
earlier on in our study, he says
in verse 49. 

901
00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:05,360
Remember. 
Your word to your servant, for 

902
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,480
you have given me hope. 
My comfort in my suffering is 

903
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,080
this. 
Your promise preserves my life, 

904
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:13,920
he said, Even in the midst of my
suffering. 

905
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:22,160
I hold on to and I find comfort.
From your promises, Oh, I know 

906
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,040
this to be true because what you
don't understand that I do 

907
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,400
understand Because I'm pretty 
sure that none of you in your 

908
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:32,640
lifetime have actually 
participated and officiated 

909
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:38,040
funerals. 
I have officiated more than my 

910
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:45,840
share even though I know to some
of you I only look to be 25 in 

911
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:52,960
certain fake applause. 
But I am astonished every time 

912
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,880
how the Word of God does exactly
what the Word of God says that 

913
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:02,760
it will do and just sharing the 
scriptures with people how they 

914
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,800
are comforted in those times of 
distress. 

915
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,360
The scriptures bring comfort to 
the. 

916
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,440
Afflicted. 
What an ability that we don't 

917
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:13,920
have. 
Usually if I try to say 

918
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:20,240
something I mess it up, but you 
can take the word of God and you

919
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,800
can share a passage. 
Of scripture with someone in 

920
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,520
immediately you see their entire
countenance change. 

921
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:32,440
It's as if in the unseen God 
lifts their arms up as they 

922
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:39,440
lifted Moses arms in the desert.
He has a powerful ability 

923
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,760
through His Word to bring us 
comfort no matter the situation 

924
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,960
that we face. 
In fact, Second Corinthians 

925
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,000
chapter one verse 3, it says, 
praise be to the God and Father,

926
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,600
our Lord Jesus Christ, the 
Father of compassion and the God

927
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,320
of all comfort, who comforts us 
in all our troubles so that we 

928
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,480
can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves 

929
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,640
receive from God. 
And where do we receive that 

930
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:02,800
comfort? 
From the Scriptures. 

931
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:07,440
And what does he say here? 
The God of all comfort gives us 

932
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:11,640
comfort from His Word so that we
can then take His Word and we 

933
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:16,240
can give it to others. 
What is a beautiful thing to see

934
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,800
in a body of believers like 
this? 

935
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,360
Someone who goes through a trial
and they're not sure why they're

936
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,480
going to through the trial, but 
they find in Scripture those 

937
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,800
words of comfort and those words
of comfort carrying them all the

938
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:30,680
way through that trial. 
And when the trial is over, God 

939
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,200
then uses them. 
They'll be passing somebody in 

940
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,800
the hallway and they'll overhear
a conversation. 

941
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:37,880
Somebody's had the same 
diagnosis as them. 

942
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,000
Somebody's going through the 
same difficulty with their 

943
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,840
children as them. 
And they'll take that same 

944
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:46,320
scripture that God powerfully 
used to comfort them and to give

945
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,360
them strength as they went 
through this difficult time. 

946
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,640
And they will recite that to 
another believer. 

947
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,680
And you will watch as God 
empowers them and comforts them 

948
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,960
by His Word. 
How His Word? 

949
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,680
Has the ability, the powerful 
ability to comfort the afflicted

950
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,600
no matter what you're facing, no
matter what you're going 

951
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,280
through. 
You know, even the lost people 

952
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:14,920
understand this because just 
prior to the moments of death, 

953
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,200
you know who they call for? 
They're in that hospital to come

954
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:23,080
by that bedside chaplain. 
If that chaplain's a believing 

955
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:24,240
chaplain, what is he going to 
do? 

956
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,040
He's going to take the 
scriptures and he's going to sit

957
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,880
down by that bed and he's going 
to recite the word of God to 

958
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,400
them, giving them comfort in 
that dark time. 

959
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,640
You know how I know that the 
lost world knows that the word 

960
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:42,560
of God comforts us. 
And someone passes away who's 

961
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,480
one of the first people that 
they call when they're making 

962
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,920
Funeral arrangements. 
They call me and they don't call

963
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,200
me because I'm entertaining and 
I tell good stories and I'm 

964
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,600
funny. 
They call me because they want 

965
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:56,920
someone to bring the word of God
to that hurting family. 

966
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,240
So that they can. 
Hear comfort from the word of 

967
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,440
God and that they can receive 
that powerful comfort. 

968
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,920
His word has the powerful 
ability to comfort that's. 

969
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:09,560
Why? 
His word is right. 

970
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,680
You've all experienced it in 
your life. 

971
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,480
That moment of darkness, that 
one scripture verse that pops up

972
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,560
on your phone. 
Giving you hope so you can make 

973
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,080
it to the next day. 
And the next day He provides you

974
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,760
with another, and another, and 
another, and He comforts you, 

975
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,520
and He carries you by His word 
over and over and over. 

976
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:32,960
Again, He powerfully comforts 
his children through the 

977
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,760
scriptures. 
Isaiah 4913. 

978
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,040
It says shout for joy, you 
heavens, rejoice, you earth 

979
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,520
burst into song you mountains. 
For the Lord comforts his people

980
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,640
and will have compassion on his 
afflicted ones. 

981
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:48,960
I'm thankful that is in 
reference to my God who comforts

982
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,440
me by his word even in my 
affliction. 

983
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,840
He brings comfort to the 
afflicted powerfully. 

984
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:58,840
The psalmist said trouble and 
distress have come to me. 

985
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:01,480
There's affliction, but your 
commands, they're my delight. 

986
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,720
I'm comforted by them. 
I I'm not worried about the 

987
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,200
uncomfortable feeling of this 
affliction and this distress 

988
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,440
that I'm going through, Though 
it's real and though it's 

989
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:17,120
painful, I find delight in God's
Word because it has the powerful

990
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,400
ability to comfort me in those 
difficult times. 

991
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,200
He goes on and he says in 144, 
your statutes are forever, 

992
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,720
right? 
He says it again. 

993
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:27,280
They're right. 
Forever. 

994
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,240
Eternally right. 
And he says give me 

995
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,920
understanding that I may live. 
This is a life and death matter 

996
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,240
to him. 
He says give me understanding of

997
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,040
your word that I may live. 
Why? 

998
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:42,440
Why would he say it like this? 
Because not only does God's word

999
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,880
have the powerful ability to 
bring comfort to the afflicted, 

1000
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:49,640
God's word has the powerful 
ability to breathe alive into 

1001
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:53,400
the dead. 
You don't believe me, Go back to

1002
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,720
John Chapter 11 in your Bible. 
You can flip over there. 

1003
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,800
You know the story, Jesus, 
friend Lazarus who was dead and 

1004
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,560
in the grave fact Scripture says
he was already stinking. 

1005
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,120
He'd been in the grave for so 
long. 

1006
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,440
Jesus shows up on scene and 
there in verse 43 of Chapter 11.

1007
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,320
Jesus calls out in a loud voice.
Lazarus come out. 

1008
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,280
And the dead man came out, his 
hands and feet wrapped with 

1009
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,720
strips of linen and a cloth 
around his face. 

1010
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,520
And Jesus said to them, take off
the grave clothes and let him 

1011
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:23,400
go. 
He didn't need grave. 

1012
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:24,960
He didn't need grave clothes any
longer. 

1013
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:26,400
Why? 
Because he was alive. 

1014
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:28,760
And what made him alive? 
A wish. 

1015
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:37,240
A Hallmark card, No, the very 
word of God breathe life into 

1016
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:39,800
him. 
When Jesus said Lazarus come 

1017
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,640
out, that is the same voice that
said let there be light. 

1018
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:47,600
That is the same voice who spoke
everything into creation. 

1019
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,640
That is the same voice on the 
day that you were born again 

1020
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:54,760
that spoke to your dead soul, 
quickening you to life so that 

1021
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,800
you could believe and so that 
you could trust in Jesus as your

1022
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,720
Lord and Savior. 
And he said, Lazarus, come out. 

1023
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:04,800
That is the word of God and the 
word of God transfers people 

1024
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,400
from death into life. 
The psalmist said, Give me 

1025
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:13,400
understanding that I may. 
Live and the Word of God is 

1026
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:16,800
spoken. 
Things come to life. 

1027
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,800
Oh, you remember Ezekiel. 
In the valley of dry bones. 

1028
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,120
And he said, Son of Man 
prophesied to these dry bones. 

1029
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,200
He said, can they live? 
He said, You and you alone, 

1030
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,800
Lord, know if they can live. 
He said, preach to them. 

1031
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:30,920
What did he preach? 
He declared the word of God. 

1032
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:34,600
And what happened? 
The bones came together. 

1033
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,320
The sinews and the muscles came 
upon the bones. 

1034
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,960
The Spirit entered into them and
knew life was given to them, and

1035
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,120
they rose to their feet. 
A vast army for the Lord. 

1036
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,360
What a picture. 
And the word of God is 

1037
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,560
proclaimed because it has the 
powerful of ability. 

1038
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:57,440
Dead men come alive. 
Dead women come alive. 

1039
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,440
Oh, his powerful word, doesn't 
it resonate with those who are 

1040
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,960
spiritually deaf? 
Oh, just as Lazarus was already 

1041
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,960
dead, he couldn't have heard the
word of Jesus Unless Jesus 

1042
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,880
quickened his ears to hear come 
out, He was already gone. 

1043
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:14,640
He'd not just passed out. 
He'd not just swoon. 

1044
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:16,600
They had already wrapped him in 
grave clothes. 

1045
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:17,800
He was. 
Dead. 

1046
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:24,080
The same for us spiritually. 
We can't hear the Word of God 

1047
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:32,720
until by the Word of God, our 
deaf ears are unclogged and we 

1048
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,400
hear the truth for the very 
first time. 

1049
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,120
And the truth is that we are 
dead in our sins and in our 

1050
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:42,840
transgressions, but we can be 
made alive in Christ Jesus. 

1051
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,920
The truth is that we are 
wretched and we are pitiful, and

1052
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,600
we are poor and we are blind and
we are naked. 

1053
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:55,800
But He allows us to hear that. 
We would hear His call out of 

1054
01:04:55,800 --> 01:05:01,160
that darkness as He ushers us 
into His marvelous light by His 

1055
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:06,520
powerful word, resonating to 
those who were once spiritually 

1056
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:10,560
deaf, allowing us to hear the 
things of God clearly, to hear 

1057
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:13,520
the Word of God clearly as it is
proclaimed. 

1058
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,120
The Spirit then opens our ears 
to the truth. 

1059
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,520
He empowers us to believe and to
repent. 

1060
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:25,080
And in that moment we are born 
again and we are saved forever. 

1061
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,040
Why? 
Because of the powerful Word of 

1062
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,920
God that breathes life into the 
dead. 

1063
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:37,000
Isaiah 2918 says in the day, in 
that day the deaf will hear the 

1064
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,080
words of the scroll, and out of 
gloom and darkness, the eyes of 

1065
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:43,120
the blind. 
We'll see. 

1066
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,640
Oh, if you're in Christ, you 
were living that, aren't you? 

1067
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,720
The word of God proclaimed, 
opening your deaf ears and 

1068
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:55,520
opening your blind eyes so that 
you can see your need for Christ

1069
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:00,480
and Him doing just as His Word 
says that He does, saving all 

1070
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,360
who turned to Him and call on 
Him. 

1071
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,640
Isaiah 35 five, it says it again
and reference to the same thing.

1072
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,080
Then will the eyes of the blind 
be open? 

1073
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,640
The ears of the death deaf 
unstopped? 

1074
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:15,400
What are you saying? 
The God, through His Word, has 

1075
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:20,760
the power to breathe life into 
deaf ears so that they can hear,

1076
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,040
so that he can then breathe. 
Breathe. 

1077
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,320
Life into the dead soul so that 
it can live. 

1078
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,240
He regenerates the spiritually 
dead. 

1079
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,040
Ephesians 2 verses one through 
5. 

1080
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:35,600
I'll read it as quickly as 
possible. 

1081
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,920
It says, As for you, you were 
dead in your transgressions and 

1082
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,200
sins. 
He knows me exactly, doesn't he?

1083
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,320
Dead. 
He didn't say kind of dead. 

1084
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,320
A whole lot of bad and a little 
bit of good. 

1085
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:52,880
No, you were spiritually just as
dead as Lazarus was physically. 

1086
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,560
He said whence you used to live 
when you follow the ways of this

1087
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,680
world and of the ruler of the 
Kingdom of the air, the Spirit 

1088
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,880
who is now at work in those who 
are disobedient. 

1089
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,360
And he says this so that we all 
understand we're in the same 

1090
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,120
boat. 
All of us lived among them at 

1091
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:10,000
one time. 
Among who the depraved because 

1092
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,640
that's what we are apart from 
Christ. 

1093
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:13,880
He's just gratifying the 
cravings of our flesh and 

1094
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,320
following his desires and 
thoughts like the rest. 

1095
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:22,400
We were by nature deserving of 
wrath, describes me to AT that 

1096
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,280
in my sin, doing only sinful 
things deserving of the wrath of

1097
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:32,640
God. 
But verse 4 because of his great

1098
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:37,560
love for us, God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with 

1099
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,360
Christ, even when we were dead 
in transgressions. 

1100
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:43,600
It is by grace you have been 
saved. 

1101
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,800
And how did he do this? 
The proclamation of the word of 

1102
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:51,640
God as the gospel went forth. 
It has the powerful ability to 

1103
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:56,200
open the deaf ears. 
And to open the blind eyes, and 

1104
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:01,120
to breathe life into the dead 
soul, so that they will come to 

1105
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:06,760
life in Christ. 
Because He loved us and He gave 

1106
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:11,600
Himself for us that we would 
hear the word of God and that we

1107
01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,880
would be made alive. 
I pray today that you would hear

1108
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:21,479
the Word of God and see its 
powerful ability even call some 

1109
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:26,680
of you who were spiritually dead
this morning and to raise you to

1110
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:31,040
spiritual life and faith on the 
Lord Jesus Christ, forgiveness 

1111
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,319
of sin and eternal life that He 
promises. 

1112
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:42,640
God's Word is right because of 
its powerful ability. 

1113
01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:50,520
I know it to be right because I 
have witnessed time and time and

1114
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:56,479
time again, not only in my life,
but in the lives of many of you 

1115
01:08:56,479 --> 01:09:06,359
and so many others who in the 
Word of God went forth life 

1116
01:09:06,359 --> 01:09:13,479
transpired, new life and eternal
life for all those who believe 

1117
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:16,720
and trust in Jesus Christ, 
surrendering to Him as their 

1118
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,680
Lord, and they're saved. 
Have you experienced the 

1119
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:26,120
powerful ability of God's Word 
to comfort us, to bring comfort 

1120
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,680
in our affliction and to breathe
life into the dead? 

1121
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,680
Do you know this power 
personally? 

1122
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:40,680
He has the right to say what is 
right in the Word of God because

1123
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:45,439
His Word has the powerful 
ability to bring comfort to the 

1124
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:49,920
afflicted, breathe life into the
dead. 

1125
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:55,800
So I wrap this up to the 
believer. 

1126
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:04,640
May we clearly see you today 
that God's Word is right. 

1127
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:10,440
There is no room to compromise 
in regard to that for anyone, 

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for anything. 
God's Word is right. 

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May we stand with the apostle 
Paul as he does in Romans 

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chapter 3 verse 4, when he says,
let God be true in every man, a 

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liar. 
Let us see who is true and let 

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us side with him and side with 
His word on every issue. 

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Though we may become afflicted, 
though we may have to suffer, 

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though we may have to face 
persecution, many have faced 

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death because they stood in the 
fact that God's Word and God in 

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his word is absolutely, 
imperfectly right. 

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Do you believe God's Word is 
right? 

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You're awful quiet. 
Do you believe God's Word is 

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right? 
Then to the believer, I say 

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this, live like it. 
It's that simple. 

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If you really believe that the 
word of God is right, live like 

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it's right. 
There is no room for compromise.

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There is no room for 
negotiation. 

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Let God be true and every man a 
liar to the unbeliever. 

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May you recognize that God's 
Word is right just as well 

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today, and know that His Word is
right when it declares that all 

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who have not believed in Jesus 
Christ as Lord and Savior will 

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face the eternal wrath of God 
and the justice of God in hell 

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for all eternity. 
I don't say that to scare you. 

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I proclaim that though it'd be a
scary thing, it's true. 

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And it's. 
Right. 

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01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:04,400
And how do I know that it's true
and it's right? 

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Because we've already 
established that God's word is 

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true and right, and God has 
declared this, that all who 

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depart from this world. 
Will perish for all eternity 

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01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:17,680
because they have not 
surrendered to Jesus Christ as 

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Lord and Savior of their life. 
Now you see what Scripture says 

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01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,120
is right. 
It is right when it says that we

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are all sinful. 
There's none righteous, no, not 

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01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,400
one. 
There's no one who seeks after 

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01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,120
God. 
It is right when it says that 

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we've all fallen short of the 
glory of God. 

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And we need to repent and to 
turn to Christ for forgiveness. 

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God's Word stands right, and I 
pray that you would believe that

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today, that God would in His 
Word reveal to you your need for

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Jesus Christ because you are a 
Sinner. 

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01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:59,400
That you would in desperation 
call upon the only name under 

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01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:02,640
heaven given to men, whereby we 
must be saved, and that is the 

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name of Jesus Christ. 
Knowing that the Word of God is 

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01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,240
true, that whosoever calls upon 
the name of the Lord shall be 

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01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:11,360
saved. 
In your desperation, upon seeing

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01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:14,560
your sinful condition, upon 
seeing the deserving wrath that 

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01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:18,240
you will face in hell, may you 
run to the feet of Jesus and cry

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01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,120
out for His mercy, and know that
He is faithful to save all who 

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01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,320
come unto Him. 
Oh, may the Spirit open your 

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01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,600
eyes today and open your ears to
hear the truth. 

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01:13:29,440 --> 01:13:34,520
May He quicken you to life so 
that you can and so that you 

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01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:37,840
will believe. 
Jesus plainly said this. 

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01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:41,640
I am the way, the truth and the 
life, and no one comes to the 

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01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:46,440
Father but by me. 
Come to Jesus today and be 

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01:13:46,440 --> 01:13:47,520
saved. 
Let's pray together. 

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01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,680
Father, in the name of Jesus, we
come to you, thanking you for 

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01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:53,280
your word, thanking you that it 
is right. 

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01:13:55,800 --> 01:14:02,680
Father, forgive us when we 
square up to You in opposition 

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01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:10,280
based on our opinions or our 
feelings for our agendas. 

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01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:18,480
Forgive us. 
May we see today that You have 

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01:14:18,480 --> 01:14:25,200
every right to be right and You 
are right on everything that 

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01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:30,240
Your word has declared, and You 
are perfect and righteous in 

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01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,160
every area. 
Let us rest in that. 

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01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:35,920
Let us trust in that. 
But I pray for the soul who's 

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01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:39,400
here today, who's not trusted in
the perfect righteousness of 

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01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,240
Jesus Christ to save them and 
cleanse them from their sin. 

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01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:46,920
Lord, I pray today that you, by 
your grace, would draw them unto

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01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:50,680
yourself for salvation, that 
they would repent. 

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01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:54,200
Turn to you and we'll give you 
all the praise for it in Jesus 

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name, Amen. 
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