1 00:00:02,100 --> 00:00:04,300 All right, turn your Bibles tonight at First Peter chapter 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,100 3, First, Peter chapter 3, if you will. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,200 We're going to read this verse here in just a second. 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,800 I'm going to split this up this lesson I'm going to split into 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:18,500 two just because it's a little bit lengthy and it's we can 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:22,100 definitely get too out of it as far as the amount of things that 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:23,700 we need to talk about in this lesson. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:29,300 So next week, next week brother Josh and actually the next two 9 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:30,700 wins. Tonights will be gone. 10 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:34,300 So brother Josh is going to cover and and do a couple 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:36,300 lessons on Wednesday night. Brother Brian's going to preach 12 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,500 on Sunday mornings and and Sunday nights. 13 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:41,900 Jason brothers, my brother-in-law is going to come 14 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:44,100 up here and preach on the second Sunday night that were gone. 15 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,700 So a good lineup for you while we're gone. 16 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:49,500 And then we'll, so you'll have to remember what we talked about 17 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:53,000 tonight because we're going to we're going to pick up but we're 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,300 coming back in on Tuesday morning I think at 10:00 on 19 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,700 February the 28th. So March the first is that 20 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,000 following Wednesday so you might want to Here. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,099 There's no telling what you're going to get on that Wednesday 22 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:07,700 night. But anyway, we talked last week 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,400 kind of the, you know, the context, really, the brief 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,200 history of the biblical fundamental movement, the 25 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,900 biblical fundamentalist movement. 26 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:19,600 And so what I want to look at tonight is a little is a little 27 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,200 bit more of these specific truths that are under attack. 28 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,300 In fact, let's look at our text there and I've got a lot of 29 00:01:25,308 --> 00:01:27,400 verses for you tonight. So as many of these as you can 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,100 turn to got a lot of them up there on the screen as well. 31 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:32,400 So that way. Hey, if you can't turn to all of 32 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,000 them, there's not tons. But again, turn to it. 33 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,200 At least you can write it down to maybe go back and look at it 34 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,700 later. But First Peter chapter 3, and 35 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:42,100 verse number 15 says this, but sanctify, the Lord God in your 36 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:46,100 hearts and be ready. Always to give an answer to 37 00:01:46,100 --> 00:01:49,400 every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in 38 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,500 you with meekness and fear. Now we stopped we stopped a lot 39 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:53,900 of time to be ready. Always to give an answer to 40 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:56,000 every man. And I think that I mean, it's it 41 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,900 fits within that context, I don't think there's anything 42 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:01,900 wrong with was saying that but basically, what this Is is we 43 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:05,200 have that there is an outside world, there's an unsaved world 44 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,800 that's looking at us and if we can't articulate what we 45 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,500 believe, if we can't articulate, what this hope is that we have 46 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:15,700 then we're missing out on a huge part of what Christianity is 47 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,800 sanctify, the Lord God in your hearts and be ready. 48 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,800 Always to give an answer to every man that asketh asketh 49 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,900 you. A reason of the hope that is in 50 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:28,700 you with meekness and fear. So what's the message of the 51 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:32,300 biblical fundamentals? What truth what what truth is 52 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:33,900 worth contending for? If we're talking about 53 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,500 contending for the faith, what are we talking about when we're 54 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:40,000 talking about that? And why is it so important that 55 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,300 we guard, ourselves and guard, our church from liberalism and 56 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,000 rationalism and all the other isms that are out there that are 57 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 threatening, the way of God's word in the Gospel of Jesus 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,700 Christ? Let me, let me revisit our 59 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,100 example or illustration from last week about the best ball, 60 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,600 right? The basketball game, and, and 61 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,100 the fundamentals of basketball. Are dribbling and shooting and, 62 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:06,700 you know, defense and offense and a lot of different other 63 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:10,600 things. And obviously, when you go back 64 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,600 to those fundamentals, it doesn't make you a radical, it 65 00:03:13,608 --> 00:03:14,700 just makes you getting. It. 66 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:17,400 Just means that you are a student of the game and that 67 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,700 you're serious about making sure you're playing the game the 68 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,000 right way. But if we go back and look at 69 00:03:22,008 --> 00:03:26,000 that illustration and maybe think for a minute that instead 70 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,300 of dribbling a basketball, we decided we're going to kick the 71 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:31,500 basketball instead, instead of having the who Oop at 10 feet, 72 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:33,600 we're going to lower it and put it at ground level instead of 73 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,800 having it the same width as a as the cylinder that you see on the 74 00:03:36,808 --> 00:03:39,800 basketball hoop, we're going to make it quite a bit bigger, and 75 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 then we'll actually make the floor a little bit wider, as 76 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,800 well, a little bit longer at a few more players. 77 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Well, you don't have basketball anymore. 78 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,000 If soccer, right? It may resemble a few of those 79 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 things because you still have the, you know, of court and you 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,800 still have a basketball and you still have a thick, but you 81 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,700 don't have basketball anymore. You have a soccer game. 82 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,300 It's going on. And you know, there might be 83 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,600 some slight similarities. But in actuality we've literally 84 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,500 changed the sport by changing just a few of the simple 85 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:13,700 fundamentals. And so the same thing is true 86 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:16,899 when it comes to these truths that are Central to the 87 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,200 Christian faith, so much so that when you alter them or when you 88 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,900 vary from them or when you reinterpret them, you no longer 89 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,800 have sure Christianity and that's exactly what we're seeing 90 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:32,300 happening, really across the entire Spectrum but even And and 91 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:35,400 what's probably most alarming is that you're seeing it happened, 92 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,000 within so-called independent, fundamental Baptist Churches. 93 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,400 There are changing the fundamentals of the faith and 94 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,800 still trying to call themselves. Independent, fundamental Baptist 95 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,400 at the same time, you can't have both. 96 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,600 You may have a variation that slightly resembles Christianity, 97 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,000 but if you've lost the central principles, then you've lost the 98 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,600 faith. The difference is that we're not 99 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,800 simply playing a game, right? The stakes are so much higher 100 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,500 than we're not, we're not doing this for We're doing this for 101 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:03,200 eternity. This is about truth. 102 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,800 The Eternal Destiny of The Souls of men and women are at stake 103 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,600 and when we if we get this wrong or if we change the fundamentals 104 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,500 and we change what Christianity is then, there's there's a 105 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:20,900 serious Eternal consequence truth is not negotiable. 106 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,600 It's not abstract right? Truth does not change with 107 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,700 political pressure. Does it change with secular 108 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:30,000 whims? It doesn't change with cultural 109 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,200 decline. God's truth is eternal. 110 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:35,300 It's on changing. Its absolute and I mentioned 111 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:38,600 this before you don't find your truth right. 112 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,100 There is no. Well this is you know you just 113 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:44,600 you just live Your Truth seeing that all over the place now. 114 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,600 No there's Not Your Truth. There is truth and there's your 115 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:52,400 opinion that's it and a lot of what people are promoting as 116 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,100 their truth is just their opinion about the truth. 117 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:00,100 And they've changed they've changed both and so on a 118 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:02,300 personal level Level. This truth is very powerful and 119 00:06:02,308 --> 00:06:04,600 when I say personal talking about me, I'm talking about us 120 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,900 individually. This, this truth has the power 121 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,300 to transform your life from Darkness to light, from the 122 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:13,700 power of Satan unto God. This truth will enable you to be 123 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:16,900 born into gods, family, become a new creature, in Christ 124 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 experience, The unsearchable Riches of God's grace, and now, 125 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,300 and for all of eternity, Just mere words, cannot describe the 126 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,400 importance of the divine power of these truths. 127 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,500 The fundamentals of the faith. So what are they? 128 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,600 Some of these are going to overlap a little bit with what 129 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,500 we've talked about when it comes to being a Baptist. 130 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:38,800 But for the most part, we're talking about what it means to 131 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,000 be a fundamental Baptist. So almost assuming that all the 132 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,400 things that we've already talked about, when it comes to, that 133 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,900 whole acrostic that we've gone through. 134 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:51,900 On the Baptist, distinctives are already set in place these 135 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,800 things. Then are things that we'd find 136 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,600 inside. So tonight, I want to give you 137 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,700 the second or at least start the second of what we are doing in 138 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:03,200 this little mini series on the offshoot of be of what it means 139 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,200 to be a Baptist, the meaning of biblical fundamentalism. 140 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,300 And that's what we talked about last week, but what I want to 141 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,200 give you tonight and then in a couple weeks when we get back 142 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,000 together on, this is the message of biblical fundamentalism or 143 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,800 the message of the biblical fundamentalist. 144 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,200 So number one. And I think I probably should 145 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,700 have asked you what do you They are but then we'd be all over 146 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:27,100 the all over the place and yes we're going to get to that next 147 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,400 week and yes, that's one of them and whatever else. 148 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,900 But the first one, if you had, if you had to guess, you'd 149 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,900 probably all get this one right. And that is the inspiration and 150 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:38,600 the authority of the scriptures, right? 151 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,900 And we talked about that biblical Authority, that's the 152 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:43,300 number one thing that makes us Baptist. 153 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:48,100 We're not going off of any other Creed's or any other books or 154 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:50,300 any other anything. The Bible is our final 155 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,300 Authority. So turn over to Second Timothy 156 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,000 Chapter 3, fundamental Christians believe that the 157 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,600 Bible is inspired. And when I say inspired it, 158 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,500 literally is god-breathed. Now, obviously, you know, some 159 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,000 of the ways that we can tell who wrote the books of the Bible is 160 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,500 that will, sometimes they say, I wrote this book and or I 161 00:08:09,508 --> 00:08:13,100 dictated this book and this guy wrote it, wrote it out or you 162 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:16,600 know they refer to themselves is I in there and you can tell 163 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,700 exactly who it is and then of course you see they all have 164 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:20,100 different personalities and everything else. 165 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:23,700 So how did God write the Bible? If If these men were actually, 166 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,300 the ones that did it. Well the Bible says the holy men 167 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:29,300 of God spake, as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 168 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,000 So God, used their personalities. 169 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,400 God used their writing styles. God used their lingo if you will 170 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,700 but God gave them exactly what to write and that's what it 171 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:40,400 means. When we say that the Bible is 172 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:46,100 inspired and it's the only it is it only is the word of God. 173 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:51,100 We believe that the Bible is to be received to be believed and 174 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:54,900 to be followed Early, as the very word of God, for a Biblical 175 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,300 fundamentalist, the word of God is the final Authority. 176 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:00,100 And that's what God's that's what the Bible says about about 177 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:02,400 his truth. And second Timothy chapter 3, 178 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:08,400 verse number 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. 179 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,000 God breathed, that's where that word. 180 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,500 Inspiration means all scripture is given by inspiration of God, 181 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:17,500 and is profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for 182 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:20,400 instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be 183 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,600 perfect throughly, furnished. Unto all good works. 184 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:28,400 Now, Hebrews turn over to Hebrews chapter 4, Because 185 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,300 Hebrews tells us that the the word of God is more than just a 186 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:34,300 book. It's not just a collection of 187 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,900 great ideas, or great teaching, or moral codes or, you know, 188 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:43,200 great Proverbs, or just a book of Psalms, you know, it is all 189 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,800 of those things, but it's a living book. 190 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,600 I remember hearing a story of Charles Spurgeon, one time he 191 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,700 set the book down and he said it's alive, its alive, and he 192 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:56,400 was actually almost like it was a snake or something like that. 193 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,200 But it is. It's a, it's a Alive. 194 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,800 It's explosively. Powerful has the ability to 195 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,300 transform our lives and that is the reason why you can read the 196 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:09,300 Bible through every single year for, you know, for your entire 197 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,700 life and you're still going to get something new out of it. 198 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:16,200 Every time you read it because it's a living book and it's God 199 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,000 that is speaking through his word every single time you read 200 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,100 it. It's not like you know well 201 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:26,500 Jackson was Jackson easy the back I don't know how old he was 202 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,400 probably first or Right. But he got a hold of a book or 203 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,500 we give him a book on Pistol Pete. 204 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:35,800 And I think it was like 400. And how many pages 475 Pages, 205 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,400 something like that. And first grade second grade he 206 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,600 read through this entire book and and then he picked it up and 207 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,600 read it back through again. And then he picked it up and 208 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,600 read it back to her again. And I mean, the pages are all 209 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,000 twisted and curled and finally I said, get a different book. 210 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 You can't read that one again. He's read the thing. 211 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,800 Like four times about Pistol Pete. 212 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,600 It's an interesting book but you know, Pete Maravich, a great 213 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,100 testimony of being saved. Saved. 214 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:00,300 And he wrote about that and that's that's kind of what the 215 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:04,000 whole book was about Christ. Transformed his life. 216 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,300 But you know it's one thing to read a book about the same 217 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:09,000 person over and over and over again. 218 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,800 It's another thing to read a living book about the same 219 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,600 person over and over and over again. 220 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,000 You're only going to get the same information given back to 221 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,800 you every time you read a book about Pistol Pete. 222 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,800 But when you read the Bible, it's a living book in the Bible 223 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,800 says in Hebrews chapter 4 and verse number 12, by the way, 224 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,600 this ought to be what we're going for every single time we 225 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,900 read. Bible for the word of God. 226 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:33,700 Hebrews 4:12 is quick and powerful and sharper than any 227 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,400 two-edged sword piercing, even to the dividing asunder of Soul 228 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,900 and Spirit and of the joints and Marrow and is a discerner of the 229 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:42,700 thoughts and intents of the heart. 230 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,300 Well, that's why it's a living book. 231 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:47,300 He knows what we're thinking when we're reading it, he knows 232 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:49,800 what the intent of our heart is when we're reading it. 233 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:52,200 So he can take all of those things and apply it. 234 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:55,200 Hey, when you read the Bible through when you were 15 years 235 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,700 old, that's a whole lot different than when you ring the 236 00:11:57,700 --> 00:11:59,500 bell. Go through at 35, right? 237 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:02,100 Your circumstances have changed. Your life is changed. 238 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:05,700 A lot of things are different and because it's a living book, 239 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:07,400 it can still be applied in that way. 240 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:09,200 Turn over to Proverbs Chapter 30. 241 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,300 Because, in addition to this, the word of God is pure, it's 242 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:17,300 perfect, it's without error. God has preserved his word for 243 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,400 us today. I don't think there are there 244 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,000 there are no errors in the word of God. 245 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,000 Well, you know, they would have been better if they had said 246 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,800 this or of hit if it had been written. 247 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,100 Sway, right. Everything that we that critics, 248 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,700 who claim to be errors, in the word of God or contradictions in 249 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:42,000 the word of God, they're just apparent contradictions are 250 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,300 there are there are no contradictions in the world. 251 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:46,800 What it says, it says this, number in this passage, and it's 252 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,700 talking about the exact same thing and has a different 253 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:50,100 number. It's just an apparent 254 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,800 contradiction every one of those contradictions. 255 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:56,400 So so so called can be explained. 256 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,200 But it Proverbs chapter 13, Verse number 5 says this, every 257 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,400 word of God is pure, he is a shield unto them that put their 258 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,200 trust in him. Well there's got to be at least 259 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,700 one other. Think about how big the Bible 260 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,300 is, how many chapters in books and words there are in the 261 00:13:12,308 --> 00:13:14,700 Bible. Hey he is a shield unto them, 262 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:18,600 that put their trust in him. We just have to trust that. 263 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,500 When God says, his word is pure, his word is perfect. 264 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:25,600 His word is complete. That he knows what he's talking 265 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,400 about. It takes trust, it takes Faith 266 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:31,000 because I don't know, I don't know, Hebrew and Greek. 267 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,800 And all of these, you know, Aramaic. 268 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,800 Like some of the books of the Bible were written in. 269 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:35,900 I don't know. All of that. 270 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:38,500 I don't, I don't, I can't translate the Bible from Hebrew 271 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:41,700 and Greek, I just have to take my faith that God's given us his 272 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:46,600 pure unadulterated perfect word. So these passages all teach very 273 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,800 clearly that the the fact that God's word is Supernatural, it's 274 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,000 literally given from God, to man, and it has the power to 275 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,100 transform Our Lives. The second thing that is a 276 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,800 fundamental of the faith is the Virgin birth. 277 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:06,100 Turn over to Isaiah chapter 7. Got a couple verses here that I 278 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,100 want to look at. If you're if you get there 279 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:11,400 quickly, then you can turn over to Luke chapter one as well, but 280 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,200 the biblical fundamentalist believes that Jesus Christ was 281 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,700 born of a virgin and this is not just, oh, that's cruel. 282 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 You know? That's, that's pretty 283 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,400 interesting. He was born of a virgin. 284 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:24,700 It's absolutely necessary for Jesus Christ to be born of a 285 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:27,300 virgin and we'll talk about why in just a second. 286 00:14:27,300 --> 00:14:30,200 But let's look at a couple verses here that make it very 287 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,900 plain, that that's what the Bible is talking about. 288 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,000 Or that that this is a fundamental of the faith. 289 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,400 Isaiah 7 verse 14. Therefore the Lord himself shall 290 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,900 give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive 291 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,900 and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. 292 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:50,200 That's a miracle, right? A virgin cannot conceive. 293 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,000 Luke chapter 1, Luke chapter 1 and verse number 26. 294 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:57,100 And this is the story of Gabriel coming to marry. 295 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,300 And telling her that she is going to give birth to Jesus 296 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:04,700 Christ. But in Luke 1:26, And the sixth 297 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:07,900 month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of 298 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:12,800 Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin, espoused to a man, whose 299 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,500 name was Joseph of the House of David. 300 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:18,600 And the virgin's name was Mary. Now this is really interesting. 301 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,400 I don't want to get into too much because I'm going to plan 302 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,600 on doing this when we get back from our trip but obviously been 303 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,300 doing a lot of study on Israel. Do you know that that the city 304 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,600 of Nazareth was only a population of about 400 people? 305 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,700 Very, very tiny. I mean, you think about 400 306 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:37,200 people have that many people that live, you know, within you 307 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,500 know, quarter of a mile of this place and as Earth was very, 308 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:41,700 very small. And so and that's why even to 309 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:43,800 think of said, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? 310 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,700 I think that's one of the reasons why it was just such a 311 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:50,300 tiny backward, a little place, you know, but one of the, one of 312 00:15:50,308 --> 00:15:53,000 the many reasons and we're going to, we're going to do a series 313 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,600 on this, at some point, maybe this year, if not, then maybe 314 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,700 beginning of next. But one of the many reasons that 315 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,700 that our church and And me, personally, use the King James 316 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:07,300 version of the Bible. Is it carefully protects the 317 00:16:07,308 --> 00:16:10,000 great fundamental doctrines of the word of God? 318 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:14,100 Like the Virgin birth. You start changing words, words 319 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,300 mean things and things that are different. 320 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,200 Cannot be the same. We start changing words. 321 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,500 You start changing doctrines. And this is a perfect example of 322 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:23,900 that. In several of these modern 323 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,200 translations Mary is referred to as a young woman. 324 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,000 Rather than a virgin, and there's a great difference 325 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,800 between a young woman and a virgin, right? 326 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,100 If Jesus is born of a young woman, that's not Supernatural. 327 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,400 People are born of young women all the time. 328 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,800 Being born of a virgin is something that's super natural 329 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,200 and has only happened once and that's what Jesus Christ. 330 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,900 So the Virgin birth of Christ is foundational to the Christian 331 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:53,000 faith. You take rationalism and 332 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,200 liberalism and what they do is they take away the supernatural 333 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:59,200 incarnation of God. God God becoming man. 334 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,000 That's what the Incarnation is by just reducing married to this 335 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,500 young woman and Jesus to the Natural offspring of another 336 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:10,900 man, right. That thinking reduces Jesus from 337 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:17,800 a perfect Eternal only begotten, son of The Only Living God into 338 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,900 just some mere mortal man who simply happen to have a keen 339 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,900 understanding and and maybe a good teaching style, right? 340 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,900 That it changes everything because of Jesus was born. 341 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,900 Born through the lineage of a sinful man. 342 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:35,900 The Bible says wherefore as by one man sin entered into the 343 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,100 world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for 344 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:41,300 that. All have sinned. 345 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,900 Then Jesus is in that same line and he is a sinful man just like 346 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:51,100 we are If Jesus was not virgin born, then he did, he's no 347 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:53,700 different than us and he doesn't have the ability and the power 348 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:57,000 to take away our sins either. So the Christian life is not a 349 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,400 philosophy, it's a faith. It's not the product of a good 350 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,700 teacher who lived a couple thousand years ago and happened 351 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,000 to suffer this. This tragic death at the hands 352 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,300 of the Roman authorities as this is something so much bigger than 353 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:13,100 that, because the Christian Life is a vibrant relationship with a 354 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:18,700 living resurrected savior. Who was born Not of man, it was 355 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:21,900 born of God, he was 100% God In the Flesh. 356 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,100 Jesus didn't have the sinful bloodline of an Earthly father 357 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:28,300 flowing through his veins. If he had, he would not have 358 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:30,900 been able to forgive our sins. He was he was born of God. 359 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,500 His bloodline was pure, his bloodline was wholly. 360 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:36,900 His bloodline was perfect without that Scarlet thread of 361 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:38,700 Truth. The entire tapestry of the 362 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:44,500 Gospel of the word of God falls apart This virgin birth is 363 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,700 absolutely a fundamental of our faith Turner. 364 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:50,800 The First Peter chapter 1, because number three, another 365 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,600 fundamental of our faith. Is the blood atonement? 366 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,300 And by that, I mean that fundamental Christians believe 367 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:03,500 the blood of Jesus Christ is the complete and full atonement for 368 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:07,600 the sins of every man. Jesus Christ had to shed his 369 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,000 blood, he had to shed his blood on the cross. 370 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 He couldn't have been killed by hanging. 371 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,600 He couldn't have been killed by, you know, strangling or 372 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,200 something like that. He had to hit blood had to be 373 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,100 shed first. Peter 1:18 makes it very clear. 374 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:25,900 For as much as you know, that you were not redeemed with 375 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:29,700 corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation 376 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:33,500 received by tradition from your father's, but with the precious 377 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,600 blood of Christ as of a lamb, without blemish, and without 378 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,900 spot. And we start looking at at these 379 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:41,500 verses that we find in the New Testament that describe that 380 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:45,800 boy, it gives a whole new picture to what we find in the 381 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,800 Old Testament of all the sacrifices, and all of those 382 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,100 things that were done, they were just a picture of what was 383 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,600 coming in the New Testament without the shedding. 384 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,000 Eating of blood. The Bible says, there is no 385 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,300 remission. So if Jesus was just, you know, 386 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:04,800 hanged by the neck until you know until dead, then his blood 387 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,400 he would not have shed blood and there would be no remission for 388 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,600 those sins. So, a lot of pseudo, Christian 389 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,400 religions, teach a sort of partial atonement. 390 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,400 In other words, they claim to believe that Jesus blood paid 391 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,000 for our sins, but then they add Works to that atonement. 392 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:21,900 A Jesus had to die on the cross. Yes, he had to die on the cross, 393 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:25,300 but then we also have Fill in the blank. 394 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:28,000 I mean, they had all kinds of other things to it, you know, we 395 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,600 also have to confess our sins every week, we also have to, you 396 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,400 know, do communion. We also have to make a 397 00:20:34,408 --> 00:20:37,300 pilgrimage to the holy land or, you know, any number of things 398 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:40,700 that they say that has to be done in order to to have sins 399 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:44,500 forgiven as though, Jesus, Paid, partially for our sins and we 400 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:47,100 have to make up the rest of that payment by doing things on our 401 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:49,100 own. Well, that that's not, that's 402 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,700 not atonement, that's not the remission of sins and that 403 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:56,100 cheapens the death 'The cheapens the blood of Jesus Christ. 404 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,000 I heard a pastor tell his story that he was witnessing to a man. 405 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,100 And he shared this, this principle of the full atonement. 406 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:05,200 Jesus Christ died on the cross and shed his blood and his blood 407 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,900 pays for our sins. And he said to this pastor, he 408 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:11,000 said, I've always thought of my relationship with Christ as a 409 00:21:11,008 --> 00:21:14,000 50/50 relationship. He did his part of the Cross, 410 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,500 but I still have to do my part to earn that payment for my sin. 411 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,900 He said, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying 412 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:24,500 that it's 100% Christ and 0% me. And the best. 413 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,100 Is that, absolutely? That's what it is. 414 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:28,100 It doesn't have anything to do with me. 415 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,700 I can't work my way to heaven. I can't earn my way to heaven. 416 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,800 There's nothing that I can do. Let alone must do to earn my 417 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,100 salvation. Jesus didn't make a partial 418 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,200 payment on the cross. He made a full payment for our 419 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,400 sins, and that's why he cried it is finished. 420 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,900 What is he talking about when he said it is finished, that 421 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:52,700 atonement, that sacrifice that full payment for our sins, turn 422 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:54,000 over to Romans chapter 3? Three. 423 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,300 That's why the Bible teaches. That Jesus is the propitiation 424 00:21:58,300 --> 00:21:59,700 for our sins. You know what that word 425 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,800 propitiation means. It means a full payment. 426 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,700 He was the full payment for our sins. 427 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,700 Romans chapter 3 and verse 25 says this. 428 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:16,900 Whom God, hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in 429 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,000 his blood, to declare his righteousness. 430 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,500 For the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance 431 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,700 of God now, turn on the first John F to that. 432 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:29,400 I want you to see there. In first John first, John, 433 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:36,300 chapter 2 1st, John chapter 2. Jesus Christ had to die on the 434 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:38,400 cross. His blood had to be shed in 435 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,700 order to pay for our sins had. We not sinned. 436 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,500 Jesus Christ, never would have had to die. 437 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:46,100 Obviously, you knew that Adam was going to say. 438 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:49,500 He knew that that that sin was going to be passed from one 439 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,600 person to the next, and he knew that Jesus was going to have to 440 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,000 die. Just in his foreknowledge. 441 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,100 He knew that but had we never said, he never would have had to 442 00:22:58,100 --> 00:22:59,200 die. There was nothing that he would 443 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,300 have had to die for right first, John chapter 2 and verse number 444 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:06,600 2 and he is the propitiation Ian for our sins, the full payment 445 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,700 for our sins, and not for ours, only, but also for the sins of 446 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:11,900 the whole world. Go, a couple of chapters later 447 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,600 in chapter 4, first John first, John chapter 4 and verse number 448 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:21,900 10. Herein is love not that, we 449 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:26,800 loved God, but that he loved us. And sent his son to be the 450 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,500 propitiation for our sins. Jesus Christ. 451 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,400 Had to die on the cross to pay for our sins had we not sin, he 452 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,900 never would have had to die. There is nothing that we can do 453 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:40,500 to earn it, there's nothing that that, we must do to earn it. 454 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,400 It's 100% Jesus and 0% me. Now in addition to that, there 455 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,700 are some groups that teach that the blood of Jesus Christ was 456 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:49,700 not Significant to our Redemption. 457 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,700 Turnover Hebrews chapter 9, I kind of alluded to this already 458 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:56,800 but they D emphasize the blood. They say that that it was his 459 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,500 death alone that paid for our sins. 460 00:23:58,500 --> 00:23:59,800 The problem with that is that the Bible? 461 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,900 Very clearly tells us in Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 22. 462 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,100 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood. 463 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,000 And without shedding of blood is no remission. 464 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,600 How do you get around that? How do you how do you say that? 465 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,100 Well, he didn't have to shed blood, he just had to die on the 466 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,900 cross or he just had to die without the shedding of blood. 467 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,500 There is no remission turn over to Acts chapter 20. 468 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:30,000 God has said throughout the Bible that death by the shedding 469 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,500 of blood is the payment for sin and it's for that reason that 470 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,600 Jesus became the ultimate perfect sinless sacrifice for 471 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,700 all sins for all time. When he died and he shed his 472 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,800 perfect blood on the cross. His blood became the full 473 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,700 payment for our sins once and for all. 474 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:51,600 So I will need to be saved. Once don't need to be saved over 475 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,100 and over and over and over again. 476 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,700 Jesus died once for the full payment of our sins for the 477 00:24:56,900 --> 00:24:59,900 Appreciation of our sins is what the Bible says in Acts chapter 478 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,600 20, verse number 28, take heed, therefore unto yourselves and to 479 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,000 all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you 480 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,100 overseers to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased 481 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:15,200 with his own death. No, it doesn't say that does it 482 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,500 but you have purchased, with his own blood, his blood being shed 483 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:23,200 was necessary. Romans chapter 5, Romans chapter 484 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,500 5, and verse number 9. It's a lot more scriptures about 485 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:28,700 the importance of the blood of Jesus Christ. 486 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:32,200 I think I meant to give them to you as a list because I'm not 487 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,200 going to take the time to read it, but I do want to, I do want 488 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,200 to read Romans chapter 5, and verse number 9. 489 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:41,400 But he says this much more than being now justified by his blood 490 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:45,300 we shall be saved from wrath through him. 491 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,300 There's a lot more scriptures that talk about the importance 492 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:51,200 of the blood of Jesus Christ. Given to you quickly if you're 493 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,600 writing these down but he fission is chapter 1 and verse 494 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:58,400 number 7, Colossians chapter, 1 and verse number 14, Ephesians 495 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:03,500 1:7, Colossians 1 14, Hebrews, 9:12 through 14, verse John 17, 496 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:07,700 Revelation, 1:5 Revelation 7:14. 12:11. 497 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:10,300 He was 1224, lots of other verses are. 498 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,100 If you want that list I'll give him to you later. 499 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,800 But I mean there's a lot of verses that talk about the blood 500 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,300 of Jesus Christ and the fact that he shed that blood for the 501 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:22,600 remission of our sins biblical fundamentalist do not believe in 502 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,800 Salvation by works. We don't believe in Salvation by 503 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,200 baptism. We don't believe in Salvation by 504 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,800 religious practice. We don't believe in partial 505 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,500 atonement. We stand on the word of God that 506 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:35,800 Jesus blood is the only and the full payment. 507 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:40,500 For the sins of mankind. Number four, we got a good 508 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,900 handful of verses here, most of them in the Book of John so if 509 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:46,200 you want to turn over to John chapter 20 and you can stay 510 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,500 there. If you do, if you can't turn 511 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:51,900 very quickly but number four is the deity of Jesus Christ. 512 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:57,900 When I say the deity of Jesus Christ, what do I mean by that 513 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:00,000 somebody, somebody want to tell me. 514 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:03,800 Miss Barbara. Yeah everybody. 515 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,200 Jesus Is God right? The deity of Jesus Christ. 516 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,400 Now if Jesus was not God that he couldn't do what he did and 517 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,000 shedding his blood and pain for mankind and all this stuff. 518 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,400 There's been plenty of people who have died as a martyr in 519 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:23,100 their faith, right? I mean, you look at almost any 520 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,400 cult you can think of, or I mean, Joseph Smith died as a 521 00:27:26,408 --> 00:27:30,100 martyr for his faith, right? There's a lot of people who have 522 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:33,500 died as a martyr. Artur, well, Jesus did the exact 523 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:35,300 same thing. He died as a martyr for his 524 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:37,600 faith. If that's how you see him, 525 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:41,500 right? He's not just the same as just, 526 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,700 some Martyrs who died for the cause he was God, and that's 527 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:47,700 where we talk about the deity of Jesus Christ. 528 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:49,800 Some people believe that he was a good teacher. 529 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:53,200 He was a man with, with Keen Insight, he was this profound 530 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,100 philosopher. Some people especially the Jews 531 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,500 in a lot of cases would look at him. 532 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,600 Actually, it's very interesting. And I say this as Religious 533 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,400 zealot, but you know, the Jews. Don't even recognize Jesus at 534 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,000 all. He's not it to them. 535 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,000 He wasn't just this good teacher, or this philosopher or 536 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,900 anything like that, he's nothing to them. 537 00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:17,200 They don't even they. It's very, very interesting. 538 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,100 They don't even know who Jesus is at all. 539 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:22,200 But the reason that this doesn't make sense, is that Jesus 540 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,700 claimed to be God In the Flesh, right? 541 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:27,700 That's one of the reasons why the Jews crucified him in the 542 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,800 first place, he was claiming to be God. 543 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:33,600 So he can't be this good man. This great philosopher. 544 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,200 That's good teacher, but not be God at the same time, right? 545 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,900 Because that's what he claimed to be. 546 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:43,800 He claimed to be God. If he was not God, that he was 547 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,500 the biggest fraud that's ever lived in history. 548 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:50,400 Not some good man, not some good teacher, not some great 549 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,100 philosopher, and all these other things, he was, he was too wise. 550 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:58,600 He was true and pure to be a lunatic, right? 551 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,300 He wasn't crazy. But most of his followers died 552 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,200 for what he taught and for what they experienced as he as he led 553 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,700 them personally, right? And that's the other thing you 554 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:09,100 think about too. And I don't want to get 555 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:11,500 sidetracked with this but you know the whole idea that they 556 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,600 said well the disciples came and stole his body. 557 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:16,500 You can maybe get away with that hopes for a while. 558 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:18,800 But you know what happened? Was every single one of the 559 00:29:18,808 --> 00:29:23,700 disciples they were all tortured and martyred for what they 560 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:27,800 believed about Jesus. I mean, you know, if you're 561 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,000 trying to carry out a hoax, you're going to go, you'll go 562 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,200 far with it, but you're not going to go to the point where 563 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,700 you're willing to die for a hoax, right? 564 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,900 They saw too much and they knew too much personally about Jesus 565 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,000 for them to believe that it was just some hope. 566 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,500 Folks that they were trying to pull off or something like that, 567 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:48,300 but biblical fundamentalist, take this day in. 568 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:51,500 Once again, with the Bible on this issue, we believe that 569 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:56,100 Jesus Christ was and is literally God, we believe that 570 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,200 Jesus was God in a body. God, In the Flesh. 571 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,900 Come down to earth to seek and to save that, which was lost you 572 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:05,600 and me, here's some biblical reasons why we believe in the 573 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,900 deity of Jesus Christ. Number one, Thomas referred to 574 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:10,400 Jesus Christ as God. Now I know. 575 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:14,100 You know, anybody can say anything but I think this is an 576 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,100 interesting thing. And interesting point here in 577 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,700 John chapter 20 and verse, 28, Thomas answered, and said to 578 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:25,300 him, my Lord and my God, that was after he had done. 579 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:27,600 What stuck his fingers in the nail hole. 580 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,400 Stuck, his stuck, his hand in the in the spear hole if you 581 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,800 will. And he said, wow, this really 582 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,400 you really are. This really is my Lord and my 583 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,100 god well Thomas is one thing but it's completely different. 584 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:45,500 When the heavenly father refers to Jesus Christ, as God we see 585 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:49,000 in Hebrews, 1:8 course we have in the gospels as well. 586 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,700 You know, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased hear. 587 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:55,400 Ye him. That was at the baptism of 588 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,600 Jesus, right? We have all of those passages 589 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,500 that we could look at. But I think this one in Hebrews 590 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,700 is pretty interesting but unto the son, he saith thy. 591 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:09,300 This is God obviously talking unto the son he saith thy Throne 592 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,000 o God. Is forever and ever. 593 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:15,600 A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. 594 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000 God is calling the sun god. That's about as clear as it can 595 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,300 get that. God, the Father himself is 596 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,200 referring to Jesus Christ as God. 597 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:28,000 Don't have a first. Timothy 3:16. 598 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,100 Keep your finger there and John, because we're coming back to it. 599 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:35,200 But first Timothy 3:16 the scripture refers to Jesus as 600 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,200 God, and I'm just pulling one verse out here. 601 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,700 There's lots of verses that talk about these things. 602 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:42,300 We could that we could, we could point to, but for the sake of 603 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:44,800 time, I'm just going to a couple of them here without 604 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,600 controversy. First, Timothy 3:16 great is the 605 00:31:47,608 --> 00:31:49,400 mystery of godliness God was manifest. 606 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,000 Fest in the flesh. God was manifest In the Flesh. 607 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,700 Justified in the spirit seen of angels preached unto the 608 00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:59,400 Gentiles believed on, in the world received up into Glory. 609 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,000 Well, who's it talking about? Jesus Christ, right? 610 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,400 But the Bible, very plainly calls him. 611 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:09,600 God, John 1:1 is another one. In the beginning was the word. 612 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:12,900 The word was with God and the Word was God. 613 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,800 Who's the word, Jesus? Right. 614 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,300 By the way, the Mormon bible says the word was a god changes. 615 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:23,100 The meeting that simple, tiny little single letter, A changes, 616 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:27,200 the entire meaning of not just that verse, but the entire 617 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,000 Bible, with one single letter, tell me that it's not important. 618 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,600 When you start changing things in the word of God, and changing 619 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,600 versions, and everything else, in the beginning was the word 620 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800 and the Word was with God. And the Word was God. 621 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,400 The scripture says he was God. Now here's another thing. 622 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,600 Then is Christ himself claimed to be God, turn over to back to 623 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,800 John chapter 10. I've got several references here 624 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,000 at John, that we're going to try to cover quickly here. 625 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,500 John 10, verse number 30. I and my father are one. 626 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,500 Wow. No wonder they, they crucified 627 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,200 him, right? They didn't. 628 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,800 They didn't believe that. They didn't believe that he was 629 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,500 the Messiah, but that is, that's some powerful powerful words. 630 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,900 I and my father are one. I mean, could you imagine if I 631 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:15,100 came in here and said, yeah, I mean God or equal. 632 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,100 You know, I've been that that that's, that's blasphemy, that's 633 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:21,300 why they said, That because they didn't believe that Jesus was 634 00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:24,000 the Messiah and believe that he was God and all those other 635 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,300 things, but Jesus Christ himself said I and my father are one. 636 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:36,200 John chapter 5 verse number 17, John 5:17, but Jesus answered 637 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,600 them. My father, worketh hitherto and 638 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,100 I work. Therefore, the Jews sought the 639 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,100 more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but 640 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:47,700 said also that God was his father making himself equal with 641 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,300 God. Well, John chapter 12 verse 642 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:57,600 number 45 is another one. John chapter 12 and verse number 643 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,000 45, and he that seeketh me see, if him that sent me well who 644 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,700 sent him God the father right for God. 645 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,300 So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. 646 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,199 So God, the Father sent Jesus Christ to this earth. 647 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:17,100 And Jesus is saying, if you seen me, you've seen God He's called 648 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:19,600 himself God. John chapter 14. 649 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,400 We'll just look at one more for the sake of time. 650 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,699 John chapter 14 and verse number 9. 651 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:32,199 Jesus, saith unto him. Have I been so long with you and 652 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,100 yet hast thou not known me, Philip he. 653 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:36,500 That hath seen me. Hath? 654 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:40,000 Seen the father and how sayest thou, then Shew us the father. 655 00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,100 Believe you sell, not that I am in the father and the father in 656 00:34:43,107 --> 00:34:45,000 me, the words that I speak unto you. 657 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,800 I speak not of myself, but the father that dwelleth in me, he 658 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,199 doeth The Works. Believe me, that I am in the 659 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,500 father and the father in me or else believe me for the very 660 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,000 Works sake. You saying you've seen you, if 661 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000 you've seen me and you've watched me Worked and you've 662 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,400 seen God and you've watched him work. 663 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,000 He's doing those Works through me. 664 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,300 I am God. That's that's huge. 665 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,100 But a single Doctrine. This single Doctrine really is a 666 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,100 key litmus test for the false religions. 667 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,100 Who do they say? Jesus is. 668 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,000 Most of them, at the very least, downplay, the deity of Jesus 669 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,600 Christ. Some of them out, not say that 670 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,500 he's not God at all. Christians who believe the Bible 671 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,500 literally have always stood for the doctrine that Jesus Christ 672 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,500 is God. Let me cover one more tonight. 673 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:33,700 It's pretty quick turn over to Acts chapter one more than 674 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:34,800 anything. I just want to read a few 675 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,000 passages and then we'll be done. Number five is the bodily. 676 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,000 Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily. 677 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,800 Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Acts chapter 1 and verse number 678 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,300 2 until the day in which he was taken up after that. 679 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:54,200 He through the Holy Ghost hath, given Commandments unto the 680 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,800 apostles whom he had chosen to mall. 681 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:02,700 So he showed himself alive after his Passion, by many infallible 682 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:05,500 proofs being seen of them forty days. 683 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,600 And speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of 684 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,700 God, the proofs of the resurrection of Jesus Christ are 685 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,200 many. He was on this Earth for 40 days 686 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,800 after he resurrected after he rose from the dead but he was 687 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,800 literally seen by over 500 people for 40 days after he 688 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,200 resurrected, right? He personally 8 and spoke with 689 00:36:23,207 --> 00:36:25,300 the disciples in the Roman authorities of the Jewish 690 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:27,400 leaders. Worked hard to cover up his 691 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,100 resurrection. But the verse that we just read 692 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,900 actually states that he showed himself Alive by many 693 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:38,000 infallible, proofs showed himself to Great, crowds of 694 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,800 people, Jesus Christ showed himself alive. 695 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,300 After his death, went to look at two more passages. 696 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,300 The Bible is very clear that Jesus literally Rose from the 697 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,900 Not just that his Spirit was seen around not his ghost. 698 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,500 He literally rose from the dead. Matthew chapter 28, Matthew 699 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:58,100 chapter 28 and Luke chapter 24 and then we'll be done. 700 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:03,800 Matthew chapter 28 verse number 9, and as they went to tell his 701 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,800 disciples behold. Jesus met them saying all hail 702 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,500 and they came and held him by the feet and worshiped him then 703 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:12,300 said Jesus unto them. Be not Afraid. 704 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:14,800 Go tell my brother and that they go into Galilee and there shall 705 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,500 they see me verse 11 now? When they were going behold, 706 00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:20,700 some of the watch came into the City and show it unto the chief 707 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,400 priests. All the things that were done 708 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,600 and when they were assembled with the elders and had taken 709 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,900 counsel, they gave a large money under the soldiers saying, say 710 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,100 ye his disciples came by by night and stole him away while 711 00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:32,600 we slept. And if this come to the 712 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,900 governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you. 713 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:37,300 So they took the money and did as they were taught. 714 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:40,000 And this saying is commonly reported into the Jew among the 715 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,600 Jews unto this day, right? They bought the soldiers off. 716 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:45,900 Now, this is this is really interesting to me because if a 717 00:37:45,908 --> 00:37:48,700 soldier was found sleeping on the job, the pennant, the 718 00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:51,000 penalty for sleeping on the job was death. 719 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,100 If they knew that the disciples had come and taken the body. 720 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,800 If they knew that this whole thing was a hoax, why would they 721 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,700 have told the soldiers? Hey, we know you were sleeping 722 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:05,300 on the job. We know that that you are worthy 723 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:07,200 of death, but instead of putting you to death, we're going to 724 00:38:07,207 --> 00:38:11,000 give you money here, take this money and just say that they 725 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,100 came and took him in the middle of the night. 726 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:20,300 Alright, Luke chapter 24. To the world. 727 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:22,700 This is a ridiculous. Thought a man literally rising 728 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:26,700 from the dead, right? Liberal Scholars constantly are 729 00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,700 trying to rationalize away. The resurrection by saying that 730 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,200 Jesus wasn't really dead or by accepting the lie that the 731 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,700 disciples stole his body. There's what's known as the 732 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:38,500 Swoon Theory. The Spoon Theory is that for 733 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:40,900 those three days, Jesus was not actually dead. 734 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:44,600 He was just kind of in a coma so he didn't rise from the dead. 735 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,700 He came out of the grave but he wasn't actually dead, right? 736 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:52,100 But the facts are Are undeniable that stone was rolled away. 737 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:55,800 The Roman government was greatly disturbed by this occurrence, 738 00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:59,400 the followers of Jesus Christ, after that were willing to die 739 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,400 for that which they were eyewitnesses to. 740 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:06,000 Well, Luke chapter 24 verse number one, now upon the first 741 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,100 day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the 742 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,700 Sepulchre bringing the spices, which they had prepared, and 743 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:13,700 certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled 744 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,700 away from the Sepulchre and they entered in and found. 745 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:19,800 Not the body of the Lord Jesus. By the way, the way they All 746 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,800 these Stones was sealed not in an entrance, it was sealed over 747 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,700 the entire doorway. There's no way that you could 748 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:29,900 have gotten to that seal from the inside. 749 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,700 Unless you were strong enough to knock that whole Stone over. 750 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:35,200 Well it wasn't knocked over. It was rolled back right? 751 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,800 Verse verse, number 4, verse number 3 and they entered in and 752 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,600 found out the body of the Lord Jesus and it came to pass as 753 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,900 they were much perplexed. Thereabout behold, two men stood 754 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:48,400 by them in shining garments and as they were afraid and bow down 755 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,700 their faces to the Earth, With they said unto them. 756 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,200 Why seek ye the living among the dead? 757 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:55,100 He's not here. He's risen. 758 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,400 Remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee 759 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,900 saying the son of man must be delivered into the hands of 760 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:04,200 sinful, men, and be crucified and the third day rise again. 761 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:08,300 And they remembered his words see that the followers of Jesus 762 00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:14,400 Christ, knew that they had seen the literal resurrected body of 763 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,600 Jesus Christ. And that's why they were willing 764 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,200 to go all the way to the death. For this message, the first 765 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,800 century world was turned completely upside down by this, 766 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,200 this event, this historic event, Jesus Christ, rising from the 767 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,600 dead and more importantly. This event really is the 768 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,400 Cornerstone of the Christian faith because a bible-believing 769 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,800 Christian who is fundamental in his Doctrine will always contain 770 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,000 for the bodily. Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 771 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:44,400 you can go find the graves of Buddha and Joseph Smith and all 772 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,100 of these other guys who claim to be leaders of what's now 773 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:50,100 worldwide. Religions You can see their 774 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:53,400 graves. Jesus is grave even though they 775 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,400 don't know exactly where it is, although they think they know 776 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,300 now has nothing in it and there's a reason why because he 777 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:01,000 didn't see didn't stay in there for long. 778 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,100 He only borrowed it for a couple days and then he came up out of 779 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:05,800 that grave and that was the end of it. 780 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,300 That was, that was the beginning of the, the message of the 781 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,500 gospel. And that's something that that's 782 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:13,900 so special. That we have that. 783 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:17,800 No other religion in the world has Jesus Christ. 784 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Rose from the dead and the bodily. 785 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,900 Resurrection. Of Jesus Christ is one of those 786 00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:25,600 fundamentals of the faith will talk about a few more when we 787 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,200 get back together next time. But I encourage you to be here 788 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,000 next week, brother. Josh, I've heard preaches a lot 789 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,200 better. When there's more people here, 790 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,900 so the type of message you get depends on how many people are 791 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:42,800 in the auditorium next week. So come on in and be a part of 792 00:41:42,808 --> 00:41:44,900 that pray for us while we're gone as well. 793 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,500 Just for safety. You never know what could 794 00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:50,900 happen, especially over there. The I'm sure you've heard about 795 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:55,100 the The. Earthquake that happened and 796 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:59,200 it's not all that far from where we are going to be the land of 797 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,200 Israel and all this stuff is kind of on the southwestern 798 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,900 corner of the Mediterranean Sea. And where this earthquake 799 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:08,700 happened is really in the, in the, in the northwest corner of 800 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,200 the Mediterranean Sea, right up in that area. 801 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,900 So, it's in turkey and Syria kind of where they, where they 802 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,400 meet. It's it's, you know, I mean, 803 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,800 it's a decent little hike from where we're going to be but not 804 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,700 all that far. So Anything Could Happen, 805 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:22,500 obviously that area is a hotbed too. 806 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:27,700 Right now with all the the tension between the Muslims and 807 00:42:27,707 --> 00:42:31,900 the Jews and all that stuff. So I know people go there all 808 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:35,400 the time and you know, they come out of there just fine but just 809 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,700 just pray for us while we're gone. 810 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,300 And I'm looking forward to seeing what we're going to see 811 00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:41,900 over there. And then being able to show you 812 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:45,400 I think it's going to open up the Bible in a whole new way and 813 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:48,300 betting on how everything goes maybe within I don't know 3 814 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:51,700 years or so we'll try to put it together a trip and get 815 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:53,300 everybody over there. Who wants to go? 816 00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:57,000 But we'll see what happens. Lord willing, let's pray. 817 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,600 And then we'll be done for tonight. 818 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:03,300 Father, we love you again. We thank you for your word. 819 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:05,900 I thank you for the fundamentals of the faith. 820 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:09,200 I pray that no matter what culture says, no matter what 821 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,300 society says, no matter what other churches are doing to help 822 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:15,300 us to stand for the truth of the word of God that we wouldn't 823 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,200 waiver we wouldn't bend and that we'd be found faithful. 824 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,300 When you come back I'll pray that you just give us a good 825 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,300 week, the rest of the week and thank you for all you do in 826 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:25,700 Jesus name. Amen. 827 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:03,300 Father, we love you again. We thank you for your word. 828 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:05,900 I thank you for the fundamentals of the faith. 829 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:09,200 I pray that no matter what culture says, no matter what 830 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,300 society says, no matter what other churches are doing to help 831 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:15,300 us to stand for the truth of the word of God that we wouldn't 832 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,200 waiver we wouldn't bend and that we'd be found faithful. 833 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,300 When you come back I'll pray that you just give us a good 834 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,300 week, the rest of the week and thank you for all you do in 835 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:25,700 Jesus name. Amen.