1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,760 This Great Reset that's coming, you know, and you read about it 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,080 all over the place. And I'm not saying that there's 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,760 nothing to it. I'm sure there is. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,360 You know, you see headlines about how to prepare for the 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,120 Great Reset and what you can do to be financially prepared when 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,360 all of this stuff happens. And I was joking. 7 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,480 I told my wife, I said, you know, if, if there is a great 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,440 Reset, that would be fine with me because we'll be getting a 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,440 big raise. But you know, the, the, the, 10 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,800 everybody's, you know, going to be on the same level financially 11 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,160 and all the money is going to be, you know, I mean, almost 12 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,960 like communism or or socialism that's coming in and we see it. 13 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,840 I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to downplay that at 14 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,040 all. But you know, I was joking when 15 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,440 I said that with to my wife. But but then I did ask the 16 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,320 question, what are we going to do if that does happen? 17 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,200 What if there is some kind of great reset and everything goes 18 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,000 back to zero and all of your money is worth nothing now? 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,320 And you know, you've got you got bank accounts that are, that are 20 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,720 full, but it doesn't count for anything because you can't use 21 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,800 your money. Or what happens when, you know, 22 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,640 the government takes over and everybody's bank accounts are 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,640 digital and they don't like what you're talking about. 24 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,080 And so they just cut your funding off and now you have no 25 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,960 money until you comply or starve. 26 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,040 Then what do you do, right? What, what happens after that? 27 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,080 When the, when the, the great reset or whatever else that they 28 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,720 have planned? I, you know, there's so much of 29 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,000 the global elitism and things that are going on and so much 30 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,720 stuff that happens behind the scenes. 31 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,600 And I suppose that if they were allowed to do some of those 32 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:32,760 things that would have already happened. 33 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,960 I don't know what's holding it back other than God's hand of 34 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,760 mercy. But almost as soon as I asked my 35 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,920 wife that question, what are we going to do when that happens, 36 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,080 the verses from our text this morning came into my mind. 37 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,160 And it's pretty clear in this text that that we should not be 38 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,920 worried about anything the Bible says in Matthew chapter 6 and 39 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,680 verse #25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your 40 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,720 life what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, nor yet for 41 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,480 your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, 42 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,160 and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for 43 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,280 they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns, yet 44 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,000 your heavenly Father feedeth them. 45 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,280 Are you not much better than they? 46 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,200 Which of you by taking thought, can add 1 cubit unto his 47 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,440 stature? And why take you thought? 48 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,160 For Raymond? Consider the lilies of the 49 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,560 field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin. 50 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,600 And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory 51 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,040 was not arrayed like one of these. 52 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,440 Wherefore if God so clothes the grass of the field which today 53 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,440 is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall we not much more 54 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,600 clothe you, O ye of little faith? 55 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,800 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat, or 56 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,840 what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed? 57 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,800 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. 58 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,200 For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these 59 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,760 things, but seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His 60 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,720 righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. 61 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,680 Take therefore no thought for the moral, for the moral shall 62 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,280 take thought for the things of itself. 63 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,280 Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 64 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,480 I think this is interesting because Jesus addresses the 65 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,960 heart of what we think is the most important things to worry 66 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,200 about, right? He wasn't saying don't worry 67 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,040 about your retirement account. Don't worry about your 68 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,600 portfolio. Don't worry about what you're 69 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,520 going to drive or where you're going to live. 70 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,120 Don't worry about how you'll be able to take your next long 71 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,440 vacation. It's interesting that he said 72 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,880 don't worry about what you're going to eat. 73 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,040 Don't worry about what you're going to drink. 74 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,960 Don't worry about what you're going to wear. 75 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,920 To those of us. I think to to us, those things 76 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,280 are of ultimate importance. We may not worry about a 77 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,160 retirement or a car or house or a job or those kind of things, 78 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,040 but we all have to eat and we all have to wear clothes. 79 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,320 And those are things that we spend our life focusing on. 80 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:56,760 How are we going to pay for the next meal? 81 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,520 How are we going to how are we going to be able to buy the 82 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,200 clothes that we need to wear? And yet Jesus tells us not to 83 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,240 focus on those things at all. And what a what a great 84 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,280 illustration he uses in in both cases, he said, think about the 85 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,800 birds. They don't have barns that 86 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,040 they're filling up with all the stuff that they're trying to 87 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,880 save up for. They just go about their life 88 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,519 and guess what? God takes care of them. 89 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,279 He feeds them. They don't have to think about 90 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,440 what they're going to eat. He just puts the food out there 91 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,520 and they go grab it, right? Think about the lilies, the 92 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,240 flowers in the field. Are they going out and, and 93 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,600 working to try to array themselves and things that make 94 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,600 them look beautiful? No, they just grow and God takes 95 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,800 care of them. And in fact, so well that even 96 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,920 Solomon didn't look like a Lily in the field. 97 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,200 And get and get this. Birds are going to be here for a 98 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,600 short time and then they're going to die. 99 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,120 Grass, flowers, they, they last for a little while, but then it 100 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,400 dies. You throw it in the oven and 101 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,120 burn it. And yet, if God is willing to 102 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,240 take care of those things, don't you think He's going to take 103 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,000 care of you? What an amazing thing. 104 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,560 But he tells us that our focus should be on one thing, and that 105 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,320 is the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. 106 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,680 But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. 107 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,760 Turn over to Psalm 37 because with within just that that that 108 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,040 short conversation with my wife, I had formulated a plan of what 109 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,920 we would do when everything collapses and I hope it doesn't 110 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,680 happen, but it might and what what's the plan when everything 111 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,160 collapses and I and I think that with any good plan. 112 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,720 It all starts before you have to have to actually enact it. 113 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,680 And this one. Has to start now because if you 114 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,160 wait until everything starts falling apart, it's going to be 115 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,440 too late. And the plan is very, very 116 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,720 simple and it's so foolproof, I think that even. 117 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,240 Somebody with a very limited brain capacity can figure it 118 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,600 out, and the fact is based on a Bible truth that I think is laid 119 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,400 out pretty clearly here in Psalm 37 and verse #23 The steps of a 120 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,520 good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his 121 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,200 way. Though he fall, he shall not be 122 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,720 utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 123 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,280 I have been young and now I am old, David says. 124 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:11,920 Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed 125 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,480 begging bread. If the righteous are not 126 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,760 forsaken or found begging, then that's the perfect plan. 127 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,480 Stay at the top of the righteous list. 128 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,560 That's what I told my wife the plan was, and that's what I want 129 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,320 to share with you for a few minutes this morning. 130 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,720 Stay at the top of the righteous list is not a fancy message by 131 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,600 any stretch this morning. I don't have alliterated points. 132 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,160 They're not all perfect and trimmed and everything else, but 133 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,240 I think it'll be help to us this morning if we're willing to 134 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,640 listen. Let's pray and ask for God's 135 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,520 blessing on this message. Father, again, we thank you so 136 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,520 much for your goodness to us. Thank you for an opportunity we 137 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,680 have to be here this morning. I pray, I thank you for bringing 138 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,320 everybody here safely. I pray that you'd give us what 139 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,040 we need to help us today. And again, we thank you so much 140 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,320 for all that you do for us. In Jesus name, Amen. 141 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,400 Here's my first point. And I think you'll understand 142 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,840 that it's not a fancy message. Number one, I'd rather trust my 143 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,640 future to God than to myself, to my government, or to chance. 144 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,680 The government has proven many, many times that they are, they 145 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,440 have no ability to run my life. Well, I don't understand why the 146 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,280 government wants to run my life. But they try and they keep 147 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,400 trying and they keep trying and they keep trying. 148 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,760 And they proven over and over and over again that they have no 149 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,960 idea what they're doing right. But the bureaucrats in 150 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,280 Washington that want to control every aspect of your life prove 151 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,680 over and over and over again that they have no idea what 152 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,720 they're doing when it comes. To trying to run my life. 153 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,480 Right. Everything they touch, they mess 154 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,480 up, and they're continually doing just that. 155 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,480 And it seems to be getting worse every single day. 156 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,960 Why would I put my faith, my trust, my hope in a government? 157 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,680 Well, if everything falls apart, there's always welfare and the 158 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,840 government's just going to be there to catch us when we fall. 159 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,000 And the government's just going to be there to protect us. 160 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,280 And the government's just going to be there to bail us out when 161 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,560 we need it. And many times that's the case. 162 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,000 I mean, look what happened in 2008. 163 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,400 They bailed everybody out. You know, people end up on the 164 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,320 street and they got a house for them and, and hundreds and 165 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,000 hundreds of dollars in grocery, you know, money that they can 166 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,680 just go buy the fancy food if that's what they want, right? 167 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,680 The government's just going to take care of us. 168 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,800 But hey, they've proven over and over and over again that they're 169 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,240 not very capable of doing that. The the the. 170 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,920 Incompetence is the very least of my worries. 171 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,480 There's something much larger at stake than just incompetence. 172 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,080 I think they're they are intentionally trying to make us 173 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,200 fit in with with what is eventually going to be a one 174 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,280 world government that's going to bring the Antichrist in to rule 175 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,559 over the entire world. It's, it's a calculated plan and 176 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,640 it's happening. The Bible says that that the 177 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,400 whole world is going to be ready for the Antichrist to come. 178 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,080 How do you think that's going to happen? 179 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Not going to happen because the president of the United States 180 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,720 stands up and says, I'm the Antichrist. 181 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,360 You're going to listen to me. I'm not saying the president's 182 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,000 the Antichrist, but I'm saying this whole one world government 183 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,920 is going to start coming together and everything's going 184 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:03,040 to be globalized and all of that kind of stuff to, to bring in 185 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,080 the Antichrist. And I'm like, Christ can come 186 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,720 back today and everything that God says is going to happen 187 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,800 could easily happen, right? I'm not saying that oh, he can't 188 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,080 come today because all of this stuff has to happen before it 189 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,680 does, right? He could come back today and 190 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,880 everything that he talks about in the Bible that's going to 191 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,720 happen in the end times could happen tomorrow, right? 192 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,360 But all of these things that we see happening in our world are 193 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,280 just pushing us more and more and more to that. 194 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:26,960 It's not it's not that they're incompetent. 195 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,040 They know exactly what they're doing and they're pushing us 196 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,680 away from God and more toward evil. 197 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,040 And they're, they're bringing in all of these things that God 198 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,200 says is going to happen and making a way for the Antichrist 199 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,320 to come in and be the savior of the entire. 200 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,960 World and bring peace that that the Bible says it's never going 201 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,920 to come by the way, all of this stuff that President Trump is 202 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,880 trying to do over there in the Middle East, it's it's for 203 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,160 nothing. Right. 204 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,480 They cry peace, peace when there is no peace. 205 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,520 That's what the Bible says, right? 206 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,360 Bring in all the board, the peace that you want. 207 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,680 It's not going to happen. It's not going to the Bible says 208 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,240 that it's not going to happen. So I appreciate what you're 209 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,200 trying to do, but you're going against what God is saying is 210 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,400 going to be in the end, right? And that's what I'm saying. 211 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,680 I'm not saying that Trump is the Antichrist or that Trump is 212 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:11,280 bringing in all of these things on purpose. 213 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,120 But but the, but the, those who are at the top, the global 214 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,600 elites are all working toward this one world government. 215 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,960 They would like nothing more than for everybody to be on one 216 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,360 system of currency that they can control all of these other 217 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:23,360 things. And I'm not, I'm not a 218 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,640 conspiracy theorist by any stretch, right? 219 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,760 But open your eyes and look at what's happening in our world 220 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,720 and everything is lining up with what God says is going to happen 221 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,880 in the end. Christ could come back today and 222 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,480 it and it shouldn't surprise us, right? 223 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,360 Everything that needs to happen has already happened. 224 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,280 He, I hope he comes back today and gets us out of this mess. 225 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,600 But if he doesn't, I'm not relying on the government to 226 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,680 bail me out. They're incompetent and they 227 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:52,720 want what's coming. They want what's going to 228 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,400 happen. I've proven to myself over and 229 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,720 over. That I have the ability to 230 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,040 really mess up my life when I try to take things over, do 231 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,320 things in my own strength. And I could tell you stories and 232 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,720 you know, stories of upon stories of of the ways that I've 233 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,600 done that. And it hasn't worked out so well 234 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,560 for me. I don't need my government. 235 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,520 I don't need myself. I don't need chance. 236 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,720 When everything falls apart, the only thing left then is to trust 237 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,120 our future to a God who is already there. 238 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,440 Turn over to Proverbs chapter 3, if you will. 239 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,400 Wouldn't it be great if we had someone who knew just exactly 240 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:31,640 what was going to happen tomorrow and the next day and 241 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,520 next year and we could sit them down and we could ask them, hey, 242 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,120 what do I need to do today? So that I that I, because you 243 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,080 know exactly what's going to happen next year at this time, 244 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,760 what do I need to do today? And they could tell you, well, 245 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,560 I'll tell you exactly what's going to happen one year from 246 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:44,720 now. This is what the world's going 247 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,240 to look like. And if you want to be prepared, 248 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:47,360 then this is what you need to have. 249 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,840 Wouldn't it be nice to have something like that? 250 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,560 Wouldn't be great if somebody could predict what was going to 251 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:54,640 happen in our economy and you could get into the right stocks 252 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,920 and you could buy the right things and they knew exactly 253 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,600 what was coming. And you could be in the right 254 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,560 job for the next huge thing that's coming along, and your 255 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,360 family could be set for life. Be wonderful if somehow they 256 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,040 some way we could just stop worrying about it all and let 257 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,920 someone else take care of that for us. 258 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:17,640 Await there is Proverbs chapter 3 and verse #5 says Trust in the 259 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,480 Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own 260 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,760 understanding, and all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall 261 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,760 direct thy paths. He's already there in tomorrow. 262 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,600 He already knows what's going to happen a year from now. 263 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,040 How do you, how do you handle everything when the world falls 264 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,560 apart? You trust the one who knows 265 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:40,640 what's happening. Let him direct your paths. 266 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:42,960 I don't need to be the one that's in charge. 267 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,000 And I, and I think that's what happens with so many of us so 268 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,840 often is I got to, I got to be prepared. 269 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,040 I got to know what's going to happen tomorrow. 270 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,640 And I'm not saying, listen, I'm not, I'm, I'm not trying to tell 271 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,800 you that you shouldn't prepare if you can prepare, right? 272 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,320 If the, if the world starts falling apart and you're the one 273 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,240 with all the food, then you're in a good spot, right? 274 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,280 I'm not saying don't prepare for those things. 275 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,360 You should prepare to take care of your family. 276 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,320 But all I'm saying is that's not what you should be relying on. 277 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,120 And what happens when you've got 25 years worth of food stocked 278 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,600 up and somebody breaks in and finds out that you got it and 279 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,800 the whole world knows you're the one with food and next thing you 280 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,880 know, you've got two days worth of food left. 281 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,720 Then what? Then what are you going to do, 282 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:26,920 right? You're relying on yourself. 283 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:27,960 You're relying on the government. 284 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,600 You rely on all of these other things. 285 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,600 No, my hope, my trust, My faith should be in the Lord. 286 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,720 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine 287 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,920 own understanding and all thy ways acknowledge him, and he 288 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,400 shall direct thy paths. That's where we put our faith 289 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,560 and our trust and our hope. I've been to the dead. 290 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:52,160 Sea and seen it and and it is way way way lower than it used 291 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,160 to be. I mean by hundreds of feet 292 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:58,080 lower, you, you, you drive along the main highway and you're 293 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,800 looking way down at the Dead Sea. 294 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,520 But they have a line on the rocks along the edge of the 295 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,240 highway to show where the where the level of the Dead Sea used 296 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,240 to be. And it's the lowest point on 297 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,560 Earth. And so everything flows into it, 298 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,280 but nothing flows out of the Dead Sea. 299 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,960 And supposedly a guy was walking along the edge of the, of the 300 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,640 shore of the Dead Sea and he lost his balance and he fell in 301 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,880 the water and he couldn't swim. And so he started thrashing 302 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,640 around. And I, I don't know what, what 303 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,240 must have happened to that guy because I made a little splash 304 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,320 and I got a little bit of it on my, on my lip. 305 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,320 And I, I, I bought, died when I was in the Dead Sea. 306 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,200 It's so salty and so acidic that you can't, you know, they said 307 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,040 that if you drink 1/8 ounce glass of water from the Dead 308 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,400 Sea, it's enough to kill you because of how salty it is and 309 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,560 how acidic and everything else. And so they said no splashing 310 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,360 whatsoever. If you get some of that in your 311 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,120 eye, it's going to burn like crazy. 312 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,800 Well, I did and it burned. And I say, you know what? 313 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,520 I just want to, I'm not going to drink it, but I want to see how 314 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,880 salty it really is. So I just I dip my finger in it 315 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,200 and and. And licked it, it was so bitter. 316 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,720 So if a guy that falls in and can't swim and he's thrashing 317 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,600 around, I don't know what would have happened to this guy. 318 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,280 But either way, he finally, he finally got to the point where 319 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,560 he lost all of his strength because he was thrashing so hard 320 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,440 and he stopped trying to save his life. 321 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,960 And the next thing you know, he was just floating on the top of 322 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,800 the water. It's so the water is so buoyant 323 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,680 because of how much salt is in it. 324 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,280 And we did it. If anybody would sink in the 325 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:31,280 Dead Sea, it would be my wife. But even she floated, you sit 326 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,920 down and you just completely let go and you just float right on 327 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,120 the top of the water, arms and legs both up out of the water 328 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,920 and your body just floats because of how how much salt is 329 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,440 in there and how buoyant the water is. 330 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,760 But I think what a great, what a great lesson, what a great 331 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,400 picture for us when you try to do. 332 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,440 Everything to save your life and when you try to do everything to 333 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,560 make it on your own, you're thrashing around and. 334 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,760 It's for nothing, because when you just stop doing all that and 335 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,880 put all your trust and all of your faith and all of your 336 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,960 weight on Christ, you realize He's enough. 337 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,560 All that thrashing around in the Dead Sea counts for nothing. 338 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,120 Because you're not doing anything anyway. 339 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,840 The water's holding you up. You might think you're the one 340 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,240 doing all of it because you're thrashing and trying to keep 341 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,880 your head above water, but you're not doing any of it. 342 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,520 The. The sea is what's holding you 343 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,520 up. And the same is true when it 344 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,000 comes to our lives, when it when it comes to doing everything on 345 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,280 our own. We're thrashing and doing all 346 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,080 this stuff to try to keep our heads above water, and boy, I'm 347 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,560 a good thing. I'm a strong swimmer. 348 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,840 It's a good thing I can handle all these things because look at 349 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,080 me, my head's above water and I'm doing OK. 350 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,840 What happens when you can't do that anymore? 351 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,240 What happens when you lose your strength? 352 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,960 What happens when you just can't go? 353 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,840 On anymore and you have to let go. 354 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,120 Then what? Well, you weren't doing it in 355 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,160 the first place. And then you realize that God's 356 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:02,640 the one that's actually holding you up. 357 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,400 So why not just let him do that from day one? 358 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,720 That's my point. But how do you prove your trust 359 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,680 in God? How do you, how do you show him 360 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,319 that you're relying completely on him? 361 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,920 How do you let him know that your faith in the future is in 362 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,200 him? How do you just let go and let 363 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,839 God worry about your future? How do you get to that point? 364 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:24,640 Well, his number 2, and again, very, very simple #2 that the, 365 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,079 the plan is very simple. Live righteously. 366 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,520 Live righteously. Turn over to Luke chapter 10. 367 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,640 I don't know, you might be thinking, well, that's, that's, 368 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,200 you know, that that's too simple. 369 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,120 Well, it worked for Elijah and the woman, the widow woman of 370 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,720 Zarephath and her son. They, they were down to nothing. 371 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,400 And yet for 3 1/2 years during the drought, God sustained them 372 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,680 because they were relying completely on Him. 373 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,920 It worked for Job when he had lost everything. 374 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,160 It worked for Paul living righteously, worked for Paul as 375 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,760 he traveled on his missionary journeys from church to church. 376 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,560 In fact, it was a command from Christ himself that we're not to 377 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,200 be worried about the things of this life. 378 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,720 Luke chapter 10 and verse #1 After these things the Lord 379 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,280 appointed others 70 also, and sent them two and two before his 380 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,600 face into every city and place, whether He himself would come. 381 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,160 Therefore, said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but 382 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,880 the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore the Lord of 383 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,720 the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. 384 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,920 Go your ways, Behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 385 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:34,360 Carry neither purse nor script, nor shoes, and salute no man by 386 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,480 the way. See, our job and our 387 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,840 responsibility is to put the Kingdom of God first. 388 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,280 Live righteously first and let him figure out the details. 389 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,360 Stop trying to do it on your own. 390 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,280 Stop trying to figure everything out. 391 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,000 Stop trying to to make all the plans that are going to set you 392 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,440 up financially for the rest of your life in the next 10 lives 393 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,040 if you need it all. Right. 394 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,840 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. 395 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,720 Put it on. Him stop thrashing around trying 396 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,760 to keep your head above water and just let go and let him hold 397 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,920 you up. So here's the last point that I 398 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,600 want to give you this morning. And there's a couple points 399 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,360 underneath this, but we're not going to be long number #3 how 400 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,240 do you live righteously? How do you live righteously? 401 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,160 Such a simple message this morning. 402 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,920 But if you'd get a hold of this idea, if you get a hold of this 403 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,080 idea of just living righteously before God, it would change 404 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,240 everything about your life. The first thing is this, confess 405 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,880 all known sin. It's simple. 406 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,080 I wish we could just say, all right, I'm confessing all my 407 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,680 known sin and and be done with it, you know, but it only makes 408 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,680 sense that you cannot be righteous if you're harboring 409 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,600 sin in your life. There is no righteousness mixed 410 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,680 with sin, and there is no sin mixed with righteousness. 411 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,800 You cannot be righteous and have sin in your life. 412 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,160 You cannot be righteous and have sin in your life. 413 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,600 You might think you're righteous. 414 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,120 You might think that you're doing OK. 415 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,800 You might think that you look good to everybody else, and you 416 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,240 might. But you cannot be righteous if 417 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,440 you have sin in your life because those two don't mix. 418 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,320 Think about. If you were going to make a cake 419 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,960 and you followed that recipe to a tea, now I can follow the 420 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,520 recipe of a cake to a tea and it still is not going to come out 421 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,440 right. But people who know how to cook 422 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,880 and bake and all of those things can follow a recipe and it comes 423 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,240 out and it's good. But let's say that we followed 424 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,960 the recipe for making this cake to AT everything that it said, 425 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,680 we put it in there, we measured it out exactly with the 426 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,800 measuring cups and spoons and all of those things. 427 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,160 And we got it exactly the way that the recipe said to do it. 428 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,920 But we decided before we stick it in the oven, you know what, 429 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,560 I'm going to put 1/4. Of a cup of sand in this cake. 430 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,200 You could follow that recipe to AT, but I can tell you this, 431 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,760 when that cake comes out, it's going to be inedible because 432 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,600 it's got 1/4 of a cup of sand in it and it makes it impossible to 433 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,360 eat a cake that's full of sand. And yet we do the same thing 434 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,440 with God. God, I'm going to. 435 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,160 I'm going to. Follow your plan to a tee. 436 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,720 I'm going to live the way that you want me to live to a tee. 437 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,440 But I'm just going to do these couple other things over here 438 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,880 that are that are part of my plan. 439 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,040 I'm just going to do it my way for a little bit. 440 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,160 And I'm just going to add a couple of these things in here 441 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,560 because this is what I want to do. 442 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,600 And this is the way that I think I should live. 443 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,800 And these these are things that you know, I'm giving you most of 444 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,280 it. I'm doing almost everything that 445 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,080 you want me to do. But these few things here, those 446 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,560 are things that you can't touch. Those are things that I'm just 447 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,680 going to keep doing. You can't have those. 448 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:37,880 You messed the entire thing up. You make it unusable because 449 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,920 righteousness and sin cannot coexist. 450 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,520 If you expect to be righteous before God, you've got to get 451 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,400 the sin out of your life. And the problem that I find with 452 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,960 most people is not that they don't know that they're sinning, 453 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,400 it's that they know that it's there and they're just not 454 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,760 willing to get it out because either it's been there for so 455 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,520 long or either they've always done it that way, or they've 456 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,680 always been able to hide this. And, and they don't always go to 457 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,440 it. And so they can, they can hide 458 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,640 it from the people that are around them the most. 459 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,040 You can hide it from the church, you can hide it from the pastor, 460 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,400 you can hide it from your family. 461 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,880 Because I'm only doing this every now and then. 462 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,880 I'm not addicted to it. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 463 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,120 drowning in that sin. So I'm just going to keep this 464 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,560 over here in the corner and I'll just go back to it from time to 465 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,960 time. God can't use that. 466 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:32,320 That's unconfessed sin and if you have sin that is in your 467 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,520 life that is unconfessed, you cannot live righteously. 468 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,520 First John chapter 1 and verse 9 says this. 469 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,760 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us 470 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,400 our sins and to. Cleanse us from all 471 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:54,040 unrighteousness. We use first John One often when 472 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,480 we're trying to lead somebody to Christ. 473 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,800 But as I've said many times, first John is written to 474 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,400 Christians. We are the ones that need to 475 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,000 confess our sins, but God cannot forgive a sin that you will not 476 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,720 confess. God's not just going to come 477 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,240 into your life and make you clean everything up. 478 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,400 Now he can, he can bring trials, he can bring difficulties, he 479 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,400 can bring hardships into your life to, to point you in the 480 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,760 direction of, Hey, I'm, I'm chastising you because you're my 481 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,200 child and you need to get this right. 482 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,240 He can do some of those things, but he's not going to come in 483 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,520 and just clean everything out unless you confess it and 484 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,480 forsake it. If we confess our sins, He is 485 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,800 faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from. 486 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,000 All unrighteousness. But there's an if at the 487 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,520 beginning of that verse, and it depends on what we do with it. 488 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,000 If we confess he is faithful, he's going to do his part. 489 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,160 He's going to do everything that he said that he was going to do, 490 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,440 but you have to do your part. You cannot be cleansed from all 491 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,240 unrighteousness until you are ready to confess the sin to Him. 492 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,080 Turn over to James chapter 1. James chapter 1. 493 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,520 This takes it, I think, a step farther. 494 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,640 Now obviously confessing our sins and forsaking those sins is 495 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,160 is the key to getting forgiveness and the key to 496 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,000 having Christ cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 497 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,120 But living in righteousness requires confessing all that 498 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:21,920 known sin, because the Bible says in James chapter 1 and 499 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,920 verse 27, pure religion and undefiled before God and the 500 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,600 Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their 501 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,440 affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 502 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,920 That's a difficult thing to do. You know how hard it is to walk 503 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,920 through the mud and not get a little bit of that mud on your 504 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,080 feet, not get a little bit of that mud on your? 505 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,160 Clothes. That's a difficult thing to do, 506 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,440 right? But what happens when you do get 507 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,760 some mud on your feet? Do you just walk in the house 508 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,200 and just traipse through the whole house with all that mud 509 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,840 and then walk back out and oh, well, I guess I'll fix it later? 510 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,920 No, most of us wouldn't do that in our houses, right? 511 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,600 You get the mud off your shoes before you go in the house. 512 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,960 You'd keep it out, all right? And yet we walk through the mud 513 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,240 of this world and we collect all of it and we let it. 514 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,000 We let it collect on us. And then, Oh well, I guess one 515 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,080 of these days somebody will come along and clean it up. 516 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:18,960 That's not the way that it should be. 517 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,840 Pure religion is to keep yourself undefiled, keep 518 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,280 yourself unspotted from the world. 519 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,520 That's what God expects us to do. 520 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,840 Back in 1818, there was a guy who was a Hungarian Dr. by the 521 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:39,640 name of Ignaz Semmelweis, and he was a well, it just just a 522 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,240 regular, a regular doctor. But back then, the doctors did 523 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,760 everything pretty much. But he was born into a world 524 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,720 that was that, that really they didn't understand anything about 525 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,040 germs. And so the, the, the, as he, as 526 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,800 he got into the hospitals and delivering babies and things, 527 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,440 one out of six women died while they were in the hospital during 528 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,920 childbirth. One out of 6. 529 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,960 And what these doctors would do is they would spend the mornings 530 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,680 down in the morgue cutting up the bodies and doing all their 531 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,360 dissection and autopsies and trying to figure out the cause 532 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:13,600 of death for all these people. And then they would go up in the 533 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,120 afternoons and they would rotate and go up and deliver babies and 534 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,040 they couldn't figure out how all these women were dying. 535 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,960 Doctor Semmelweis and and he had a little bit of a personality 536 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,400 from everything that I've read about him that was hard to get 537 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,280 along with. And so the doctors that were 538 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,320 there in the hospital with him didn't really like him, but he 539 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:38,400 figured out that in 11 years and delivering over 8500 babies, he 540 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,320 only lost 184 mothers. That was a that was just an 541 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:47,040 astronomical number of of births without deaths compared to most 542 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,480 of the doctors of that day. And so he argued. 543 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,120 And this is what he he, he wrote. 544 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:56,560 He said perpetual fever is caused by decomposed material 545 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,360 conveyed to a wound. I have shown how it can be 546 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,600 prevented. I have proved all that I have 547 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,600 said. But while we talk, talk, talk, 548 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,840 gentlemen, women are dying. I'm not asking anything world 549 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,520 shaking. I'm asking you only to wash, 550 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:15,280 wash your hands. What he figured out was if you 551 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,240 came up from the morgue and washed your hands. 552 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,120 They didn't know anything about germs. 553 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,840 He didn't know why it worked, but he knew that if you wash 554 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,600 your hands, women live and the babies live. 555 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,320 The other doctors didn't figure that out. 556 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,600 They didn't know they they, they didn't know anything about the 557 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:35,360 the transfer of germs from a decomposing dead body to a woman 558 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,120 who is giving birth. And these women were dying. 559 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,360 And he begged them, please, I'm telling you, you will save lives 560 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,440 if you will just wash your hands. 561 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,080 They didn't like him and they didn't like him telling them 562 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:53,520 this Hungarian Dr. coming into America, telling them what to do 563 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,000 in their hospitals. And so they ignored his advice. 564 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,440 And at 49 years old, he died in an insane asylum because he went 565 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,680 crazy. He could not believe that these 566 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,440 doctors would just not wash their hands to save the lives of 567 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,040 these mothers. And after he died, everything 568 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,080 went back to normal. They had been doing this for 569 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,360 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. 570 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,600 Why do we need to change anything now? 571 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,760 But then along came the germ theory of disease. 572 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,720 And they realized that germs are transferred from decomposing 573 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,640 dead bodies to wounds. And they put two and two 574 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,480 together. And they realized, you know 575 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,840 what, all you have to do is wash your hands. 576 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,320 And we can save the lives of these mothers. 577 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,800 How often do you wash your hands? 578 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,960 Hopefully it's often, but even more, how often do you wash your 579 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:53,120 heart? You go out into the world and 580 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,240 get all that filth all over it, and then you want to come and 581 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,720 live a holy life. And it doesn't happen because 582 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,040 you haven't washed. You have not as David did in 583 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,920 Psalm 51 verse 10, he says created me a clean heart, O God, 584 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,880 and renew a right spirit within me. 585 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,960 There are things that we see, things that we hear, things that 586 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,960 we do that are not pleasing to God and going on about our lives 587 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,200 without stopping to clean our hearts from those things is 588 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,880 going to harm us spiritually. And you may not die spiritually 589 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,680 from it, but it's going to cause you a lot of harm. 590 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,840 And there are going to be a lot of people who actually die 591 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:44,720 spiritually, just completely give up on everything, run back 592 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,920 into the world, give up on anything that has to do with 593 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,600 with spirituality and godliness. Because they got some of that 594 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,880 dirt on their hands that they just were not willing to 595 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,680 cleanse. You want to live righteously? 596 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,440 Confess all that known sin #2 if you will turn over to Mark 597 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:10,120 Chapter 9 #2 confess your lack of faith in him. 598 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,560 I told you this was a very simple message. 599 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,200 These are not things that you don't already know. 600 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,560 In fact, they're things that you've heard many, many, many 601 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,120 times if you've been coming to this church for any length of 602 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,800 time, because these are things that I point out often. 603 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,400 But Mark Chapter 9 and verse 23, the Bible says this. 604 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,600 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are 605 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,640 possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of 606 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,280 the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe, 607 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:48,560 help thou mine unbelief. When you are afraid that 608 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,240 righteousness alone is not going to sustain you, then you are 609 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,560 proving your lack of faith in the promises of God. 610 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,080 And again, I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to be 611 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,600 prepared, not saying that you shouldn't try to provide for 612 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,520 your house. I'm not saying those things. 613 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,160 But so many of us have the mindset that, well, I'll, I'll 614 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,200 trust in God, but at the same time, I'm going to do everything 615 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,720 I can to make sure that everything is taken care of. 616 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,960 And if all of that doesn't work, then I'll put my faith in God 617 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,360 and trusted Him to help me through these things. 618 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,880 Psalm 84 and verse #10 The Bible says for a day and night courage 619 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,280 is better than 1000. I had rather be a doorkeeper in 620 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,400 the House of my God than to dwell in the tents of 621 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,040 wickedness. For the Lord God is a son and 622 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,240 shield. The Lord will give grace and 623 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,520 glory give this. No good thing will he withhold 624 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:44,240 from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the 625 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:49,040 man that trusteth in the No good thing will he withhold from them 626 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,200 that walk. Uprightly, you want to be taken 627 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,640 care of when everything falls apart. 628 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,480 Stay at the top of the righteous list. 629 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,480 No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. 630 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,240 I've been young and now I am old, David said. 631 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,080 Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed 632 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,240 begging bread. Do all the things that you can 633 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,280 do to plan and prepare and everything else. 634 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,000 But in the end, those things could all be worth nothing. 635 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,760 If you're not living for the Lord, you're not living the way 636 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,760 that He wants you to live. The truth is that trusting God 637 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,760 alone and living for Him can sustain us through any difficult 638 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,280 time. We just have to confess our lack 639 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,600 of faith in Him and determine going forward that we're simply 640 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,760 going to rely on Him as we live in righteousness. 641 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,600 And here's the last thing that I want to say this morning about 642 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,600 how do you live righteously? First of all, you have to 643 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,200 confess all that known sin. If you got sin in your life, God 644 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:49,600 can't bless it #2 confess your lack of faith in Him and #3 very 645 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,440 simply just do right. Just do right. 646 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,560 I know it's, I know it's easier said than done, but 647 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:03,400 righteousness is, it simply involves just doing right. 648 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,160 What is what does he say in John chapter 14 verse #15 if you love 649 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,000 me, keep my commandments. You know what he's saying, Just 650 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,080 do right. You think that's so simple? 651 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,920 Nike built an entire empire on something just simple. 652 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,200 Just do it. Just do it right. 653 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,200 So simple, just do it. It seems like everybody can, but 654 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,360 they, they, they convinced everybody that if you wear a 655 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,440 pair of Nikes, you can do anything you want to do, right? 656 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,400 You can run faster, you can jump higher, right? 657 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,440 You can look cool while you're doing it. 658 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,440 Just do it. Just do it. 659 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,480 They built their entire Nike empire on that little slogan 660 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,760 right there. Why can't we make that work for 661 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,200 Christianity? Just live righteously. 662 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:54,920 Just do it. Just live righteously Easy, said 663 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,280 Hard. Done many times. 664 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,440 But that's the simple solution. That's what it comes down to 665 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,800 Just do right. Just do right. 666 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,280 How hard is it to just do right? I know we face the the flesh and 667 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,040 I know we face the the temptations of the devil, and I 668 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,719 know there's so many things in the world that distract us. 669 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,120 But how hard is it to just do right? 670 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,000 When you're presented with a with a temptation and you can 671 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,840 you have the option to do what God wants you to do, or you have 672 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,560 the option to to fall back into the same old rod that you've 673 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,440 always fallen into. How hard is it to just say, you 674 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,840 know what I'm just going to do right? 675 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,639 I'm just going to do right? Yes, it's difficult sometimes 676 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,520 because of those temptations are are are are they seem to be 677 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,199 overwhelming, but there hath no temptation taking you. 678 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,800 That is but such as is common to man, God will with the 679 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,400 temptation also make a way of escape that he may be able to 680 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,040 bear it. Just do right, just do right, do 681 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,560 what God wants you to do. Just live righteously, just just 682 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,760 do what he wants you to do in your life. 683 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,520 That's it. How do you how do you live 684 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,280 righteous? You just do right. 685 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,280 I wish sometimes, you know, when when our kids were younger, 686 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,720 especially and, and, and they getting in trouble again for the 687 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:13,080 same thing. Didn't we just have this battle 688 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,280 yesterday? Now you're back in the same spot 689 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,920 again. Just do right. 690 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,960 You want to grab them by the lapel and say just do right. 691 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,000 But I'll be honest with you. There's a lot of you that I wish 692 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,880 I could just grab by the lapel and say just do right. 693 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,680 Just do right. It would solve all of your 694 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,160 problems. It would take care of so many of 695 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,800 the issues that you deal with. I wouldn't have a job and that 696 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,280 would be fine. I only work 3 hours a week 697 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,000 anyway. I would love to go back to doing 698 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,960 nothing with my life. Just do right. 699 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,680 That's that's how you that's how you live righteously. 700 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,880 That's how you please God. That's how you make sure that 701 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,120 you are the righteous that is not forsaken and not begging 702 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,720 bread. That's how you please the Lord. 703 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,520 Just do right. If you love me, keep my 704 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,600 commandments, he says. It seems to me it's he gave his 705 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,680 life for us. Can we not just live for him? 706 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,640 Do you realize what is coming for you? 707 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,200 If you know Christ as your Savior, do you realize the the 708 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,960 blessings of heaven? Do you realize everything that 709 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,080 he's promised to them that love Him? 710 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,960 We have so much that he's given us. 711 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,320 And yet we're faced with a choice. 712 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,680 I can do right or I can do it my way and we're like my way. 713 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,520 Why do we do that? Just do right. 714 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,200 Just do right. I hope that's the thought that 715 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,680 goes through your head every single time you're faced with a 716 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,800 decision and you're looking at I could do this, but I but, but I 717 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,600 don't have to. I could you know what? 718 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,080 Just do, right? Just do right. 719 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,480 Put that in a place where you can see it every morning. 720 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,840 Put it in a place where you can put it, write it on something, 721 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,680 carry it in your pocket. Just do right. 722 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,920 And we should put it on a coin and give one to everybody. 723 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,080 Just do right. It's, it's, it's that simple. 724 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,200 The the Christian life summarized brought all the way 725 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,240 down to those 3 little words. Just do right. 726 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,240 Everything would be pleasing to the Lord at that point. 727 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,360 In closing, I want you to turn to one last verse. 728 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,200 Turn over to Matthew chapter 5. How can we live in 729 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,080 righteousness? How can we make sure that we 730 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,520 have our names at the top of the righteous list? 731 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:47,360 In the Antarctic summer of 19 O 8 and 19 O 9, Sir Ernest 732 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,000 Shackleton and three of his companions that attempted to 733 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,640 travel to the South Pole from their winter quarters. 734 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,840 And they set off with four ponies to help them carry 735 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,040 everything that they were trying to take down their all the 736 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,600 supplies and everything that they were going to need. 737 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,840 And weeks later, their ponies were dead. 738 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,240 Their rations were completely gone. 739 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,400 And they were, they had turned back toward their base and they 740 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,520 had not reached the South Pole, but they knew that they could 741 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,400 not go any farther or they were going to die. 742 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,640 And Ernest Shackleton, obviously they lived, but he wrote about 743 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,280 this in a book called The Heart of the Antarctic. 744 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,360 But all together they, they trek for 127 days. 745 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:34,240 And in that book he wrote that the predominant conversation, 746 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,960 everything that they talked about on that journey back when 747 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,760 they were starving, when they had nothing left, they didn't 748 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,720 even have the ponies. They didn't really have most of 749 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,680 their stuff because they didn't even have the ponies to carry 750 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,160 their stuff. So they had to leave a lot of it 751 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,880 there. They'd eaten everything they 752 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,520 had. They were, they were just, they 753 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,480 were just doing everything they could to stay alive. 754 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,920 Almost the entire conversation, every single day when they woke 755 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,200 up and started hiking was about food. 756 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:05,320 They talked about massive feasts and all the food that they were 757 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,200 going to eat when they finally got back to civilization and all 758 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,200 the things that they loved, all the food that they, they, you 759 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,040 know, everything they were, they were there. 760 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,280 They were trekking through this, through the just, you know, 761 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,040 blinding whiteness of the Antarctic. 762 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,200 All four of them had dysentery. They didn't know if they were 763 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,120 going to survive, but every hour was occupied with thoughts of 764 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,360 eating. That's the only thing that they 765 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:36,040 could think about. And Jesus, who also knew the 766 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,560 ravages of food deprivation, said this in Matthew chapter 5 767 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:44,960 and verse number six. Blessed are they which do hunger 768 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:50,000 and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. 769 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,640 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, 770 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,960 for they shall be filled. I think we can understand 771 00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,920 Shackleton's obsession with food. 772 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,720 Most of us have that same obsession and we're not even 773 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:07,000 starving, but that offers us kind of a glimpse into the 774 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,600 passion that Jesus intended for us to have with righteousness. 775 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:16,200 When you want righteousness as bad as you want to eat, and when 776 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,160 you want righteousness as bad as you want to drink. 777 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,120 Then you will have righteousness. 778 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,360 The problem is, most of us put an emphasis on all the things 779 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,320 that don't matter over living righteously. 780 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:38,920 When you hunger and thirst for righteousness, he says, you'll 781 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,520 be filled. You'll have the righteousness 782 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,840 that you want. So what are we left to say then? 783 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:48,200 The reason you don't have righteousness is because you 784 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,520 just don't want it bad enough. No, no, I want to live for God. 785 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,840 I want to be righteous. I want to be holy. 786 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,880 I want to be clean before Him. I want, I want him to be pleased 787 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,560 with my life. No, you don't, or you would. 788 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,920 You might say that you want it, and you might think that you 789 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,440 want it, and you might hope that you can have it, but you don't 790 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,120 really want it because if you really wanted it, you would have 791 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,760 it if you hungered and thirsted for righteousness. 792 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,040 The way that you hunger and thirst for food, you will have 793 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,720 it right. How many times does the Bible 794 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:24,320 even say, hey, when somebody's starving, you can understand why 795 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,640 a thief would steal a loaf of bread. 796 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,000 Doesn't make it right, but you can understand why you would do 797 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,800 it. Because he's starving. 798 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,560 He's going to go get something to eat. 799 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,480 When you want righteousness that bad, you'll do whatever you have 800 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,760 to do to have it. So why don't you have it? 801 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,400 It's because you don't want it bad enough. 802 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,000 You don't hunger and thirst for righteousness bad enough, or you 803 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,160 would be filled with righteousness. 804 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:52,480 When living righteously is all you can think about, when you 805 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,760 filter every thought and every action through that lens, then 806 00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,040 you will live righteously. And the very verse that we 807 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,000 looked at in the beginning will apply to you as much as it did. 808 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:09,120 David, I've been young and now I am old, yet have I not seen the 809 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,360 righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread? 810 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,800 What do you do when the world falls apart? 811 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,360 What do you do when when there's nowhere left to turn because the 812 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:23,320 government's not there to bail you out and you've relied on 813 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,480 yourself so many times and realized that that doesn't work 814 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,280 either, and chance didn't help anything because you just can't 815 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,960 get lucky. What do you do then? 816 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,320 How about live righteous? The righteous are not forsaken, 817 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,200 and his seed will never be begging bread. 818 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,200 When everything flies off the wheel and the world's in an 819 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,240 upheaval, will you be taken care of? 820 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:53,680 I'll tell you this. I suppose that all depends on 821 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,400 whether or not you're living righteously. 822 00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,160 Because the righteous will not be forsaken. 823 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:07,080 God takes care of His own. It just is a matter of whether 824 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:11,040 or not you're on the righteous list or not as to whether or not 825 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,080 you're going to be taken care of. 826 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,600 How do you do that? You got to confess that sin, get 827 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,800 it out of your heart, confess that lack of faith and just do 828 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,040 right. Just do right. 829 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,400 That's how you find God's blessing. 830 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,680 That's the, that's the best plan that you could put in place for 831 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,800 when everything falls apart. I'm just going to live, right? 832 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,560 I'm just going to do what God wants me to do. 833 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,480 I'm going to live to please him and let him figure out how he's 834 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,800 going to take care of me. He takes care of the birds. 835 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,480 Promise you that I can promise you this. 836 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,000 When the world falls apart, the birds will still be out there 837 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,800 singing and eating because God takes care of them. 838 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,240 When the world falls apart, there's still going to be 839 00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:54,720 flowers. They're still going to be just 840 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:56,880 as beautiful as they always have been because God takes care of 841 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,800 them. And when the world falls apart, 842 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:05,480 those who are his, those who are the righteous, will not be 843 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,600 forsaken. He'll take care of them too. 844 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,760 Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat or what you 845 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,400 shall drink, or what you shall put on. 846 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,920 After all those things do the Gentiles seek, but seek ye first 847 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,560 the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all of these 848 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:29,560 things will be added unto you. What a plan, what a plan. 849 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,800 Simple, simple, hard to do, but simple. 850 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,840 You're willing to do it. Are you willing to do it? 851 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:41,760 Let's pray. Father, again, we thank you so 852 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,880 much for your goodness. Thank you again for the 853 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:45,440 opportunity we've had to be here this morning. 854 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,080 I pray that you just help us all to get to the mindset where 855 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,800 we're just going to do what's right. 856 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:57,280 Just going to live for you. Just going to follow your plan 857 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,640 and live righteously. God, may you help us to not rely 858 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,240 on ourselves. May you help us to not rely on 859 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:06,040 the government. May you help us to not rely on 860 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:11,440 anything else but you. And may you help us to live for 861 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,200 you. Thank you again for all you do 862 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,560 for us in Jesus name, Amen. If you stand at your seats with 863 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,280 your heads bowed and your eyes closed, we're going to have a 864 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,160 time of invitation. The piano's going to play. 865 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:27,960 And as she does, if God spoke to your heart this morning, you 866 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:28,240 come.