1 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,000 If you have your Bible in your hands today, would you meet me 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,200 in the book is second? Peter chapter 2? 3 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:35,400 2nd, Peter chapter 2. And just place a marker at verse 4 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:42,700 7 for now. And join with me in prayer, one 5 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:48,100 more time. Lord, we need your help. 6 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,800 We need your help unpacking and understanding your word. 7 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:58,100 We ask that you would help us. To comprehend your mind in your 8 00:00:58,100 --> 00:00:59,300 heart. You're perfect. 9 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:02,700 Unchanging will Lord, humble us sober. 10 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:06,200 Us, equip us, encourage us warn us. 11 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,000 Whatever is necessary for your people to be more like your son. 12 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:17,800 we ask Lord that those who are here who might have objections 13 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,000 or stand in opposition to your rule that they would sense the 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,500 weight of the truth and it would cause them To turn to you. 15 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:32,500 We ask, oh, God. That you would Encourage your 16 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,600 people in these days. So that we would feel bold and 17 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,600 courageous to stand for you, Lord, we trust in you, we love 18 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,400 you. You are everything to us. 19 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,900 And we pray o God, that this word would be translated into 20 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:50,400 obedience as we respond to it. In Jesus name, we pray. 21 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,900 Amen. Some of you may not be aware but 22 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:59,000 today we join with the efforts of many pastors around North 23 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,300 America, who have decided to dedicate this Lord's day to 24 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,200 Proclaim, what the word of God says about the will of God 25 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,199 concerning sexuality and identity. 26 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:14,000 The reason for this collaborative initiative is to 27 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,400 respond to a recent law that has been passed in Canada. 28 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,100 Which not only attacks the biblical standard for sexuality, 29 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:25,600 but it even threatens those who would persuade others to believe 30 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,900 it. Here's why what we're doing 31 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:33,900 today is very important. This bill known as bills C4 has 32 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:41,000 been passed and it essentially claims that the belief in God's. 33 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,500 Unmistakably clear? And holy standard for sexuality 34 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:49,100 is a myth, and that is not a word. 35 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:52,300 I am using, that's a word that they have used. 36 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,900 And I just want to read to you a portion of the Preamble of this 37 00:02:55,900 --> 00:03:01,800 legal document, quote, whereas conversion therapy causes harm 38 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,400 to society because among other things, it is based on and 39 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:12,000 propagates myths and stereotypes about sexual orientation. 40 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:17,300 Gender identity and gender expression, including the myth 41 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,100 pay attention, including the myth. 42 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:26,000 That heterosexuality cisgender, gender identity, and gender 43 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,600 expression that conforms to the sex assigned. 44 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,900 To a person at Birth are to be preferred over other sexual 45 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:38,000 orientations gender identities, and gender Expressions. 46 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:41,700 Let me translate that if you believe that. 47 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:46,400 Sexual relations. Should be exclusively expressed 48 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,600 and experience between a man and a woman within the confines of 49 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,000 marriage or that your gender is assigned to you. 50 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,500 At Birth, you are adhering to a myth. 51 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,700 This is an attack on the truth. This is an assault on God's 52 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:08,300 decree, and his design for his creation. 53 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,600 Additionally, this law criminalizes what is labeled as 54 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,000 conversion therapy now, when the majority here, conversion 55 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,200 therapy, what their imaginations race to is. 56 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,000 Generally some grossly used methods that can be labeled even 57 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,900 as torturous means such as shock treatment or some kind of drugs 58 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:37,000 that are given and some kind of strange methods to try to change 59 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:42,600 someone's Behavior. We are in agreement that if 60 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,000 there's any inhumane way to coerce somebody to be something 61 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,300 else that's wrong. That is wrong because no other 62 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,300 means no other method. No other two on other 63 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,600 instrument, other intimidation or manipulation can truly 64 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,400 change. Someone we as a gospel people 65 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,700 believe, only Christ can change. You only the gospel can change 66 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,100 you. And so we are in agreement that 67 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:14,200 if you're To force yourself or for someone else to bend them 68 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,300 into shape that is not right? And that is not what Christians 69 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:22,600 stand for. But that is not what this bill 70 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,800 is trying to make illegal. and if it is, then they have done an 71 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,500 extremely poor and irresponsible job to Define it. 72 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,800 Because when you see the description of conversion 73 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,700 therapy in the legal documents, it is so Broad and so vague, it 74 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:51,100 can easily include pastoral counseling Preaching of the word 75 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:56,700 of God. Evangelizing, or even one on 76 00:05:56,700 --> 00:06:01,200 one. Witness Through the Bible to win 77 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,700 a heart to Christ. And you even have some parents 78 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,300 now in that Nation who are greatly concerned that they can 79 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:14,900 be in trouble for trying to do their Duty as a parent and teach 80 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:17,400 them what the word of God says about who they are. 81 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:22,300 What marriage is really about and what is Honorable to God. 82 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:29,200 Concerning sexuality, And so today with all that being said, 83 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,000 we want to clarify what the culture May deem as a fairy 84 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,700 tale, is actually God's perfect and unchanging will for his 85 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:40,300 creation. And this is not just a flex from 86 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:44,400 the government. There is a penalty, there is a 87 00:06:44,407 --> 00:06:49,300 penalty of your actions. If your activity Fits under 88 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:50,900 their description of conversion therapy. 89 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,200 You want to know what it is to 25 years in prison? 90 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,700 And so either they clarify what they mean, or they are 91 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:04,400 deliberately making this a broad description so that so that 92 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,100 Christians among others? Can be silenced against the 93 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:12,700 narrative. That is trying to be pushed into 94 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:17,200 a generation. At first we thought that we were 95 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,800 going to have to pause in our series and second Timothy to 96 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,400 address this which we were willing to do. 97 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,900 But by God's Providence this subject I realized fits 98 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:30,700 perfectly with our main text as we are going through second 99 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:34,000 Timothy together. Because we've been hearing week 100 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,600 after week after week. Paul, telling Timothy that as we 101 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,400 approach the return of Jesus Christ, there will be greater 102 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,000 times of difficulty because there will be an increase and 103 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,300 intensifying of immorality and unrighteousness. 104 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,200 And we spent one message. If you've been to this church 105 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,400 long enough, you know, that we have addressed this subject 106 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,700 head-on multiple times, there was one morning, where we spoke 107 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:05,400 on the objections, the main objections that people bring up 108 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:09,000 concerning our belief that since such as homosexuality is, in 109 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,300 fact, a sin. And we spend another day 110 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:16,700 together, discussing how this crazy behavior, and these 111 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:22,000 beliefs is not disconnected but Deeply connected to God's 112 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,200 passive wrath on a society that has continually rejected him as 113 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,700 Supreme and sovereign. But I want to come to this 114 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:35,000 subject with a different angle. I want to come to this subject 115 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,200 mainly to address what the attitude of Believers should be, 116 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:45,800 and what our actions should be, as we are moving faster and 117 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,500 faster into a world. That is not only upholding 118 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:55,600 corruption. but will now persecute those who are 119 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,000 consecrated unto Christ, Remember what Paul said and 120 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,200 warned about last week that as we come to those final minutes 121 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:09,500 of the last hour of the last day, there will be a greater 122 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,500 absence of heartfelt Thanksgiving to God. 123 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,700 That there will be an absence of gratitude to the source of all 124 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:22,900 good and perfect things and amazingly enough after speaking 125 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:27,000 about those who would be ungrateful, he says that there 126 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,000 will be also an increase. Of those who would be Unholy. 127 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,800 And that's the portion where we find ourselves today as this day 128 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:40,800 is dedicated to speak about a real life illustration for you 129 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:46,900 and I about how unholiness will spread will spread into the 130 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,900 mainstream. And how Unholy is will not only 131 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,800 be tolerated, but it will be praised and not only will it be 132 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,200 praised, but it will threaten those with persecution who would 133 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,300 stand against it from the highest form of human authority. 134 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,200 That we know this is not a light thing. 135 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:13,800 This is a serious thing and this demands us as a people who have 136 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,500 been called the Salt and Light to know how to appropriately 137 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,300 respond. Two things that are coming to 138 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:26,400 this nation sooner than later. And so I want to speak briefly 139 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,500 about the attitude of the believer and we're going to look 140 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:33,300 here in 2nd Peter chapter 2 beginning in verse 6. 141 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,900 If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he 142 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:44,200 condemned them to Extinction. Making them an example of what 143 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,500 is going to happen to the ungodly and if he rescued 144 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,400 righteous lot greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the 145 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,300 wicked for as that righteous man lived among them day. 146 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:00,400 After day, he was tormenting his righteous Soul over their 147 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,400 Lawless Deeds that he saw and heard. 148 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:10,100 These verses describe to us that the annihilation of Sodom and 149 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:13,100 Gomorrah which is recorded in great deal in the Book of 150 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:17,000 Genesis was not merely mentioned so that we can have in a 151 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,700 historical account of how God and his righteousness displays 152 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,700 his wrath against iniquity. No, no Sodom. 153 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,800 And Gomorrah represent. Way more than that, Sodom and 154 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,800 Gomorrah according to these verses. the Holy Spirit teaches 155 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:39,000 us that it serves it serves as an example of what will come to 156 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,200 Future Generations that even though sin may be legalized and 157 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,000 even though it may be normalized, The wrath of God, 158 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,400 for those who praise it and practice, it is imminent. 159 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,200 Is imminent, Sodom and Gomorrah stand, as Memorials of societies 160 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:04,100 and Nations and cities that would uphold that which is 161 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:10,100 perverted and twisted and corrupt, it stands as a warning. 162 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:13,700 To people who would look back at this document, who would look 163 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:17,800 back at this unchanging word and say, this is what God will do 164 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:21,500 and the Lord Jesus himself on more than one occasion. 165 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:26,300 Has reference to Sodom and Aura in order to teach and illustrate 166 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:30,300 about the final judgment. In fact, let me take it further. 167 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,900 The Lord, Jesus Christ himself was at Sodom and Gomorrah and 168 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:38,100 gave approval of God's wrath upon those cities. 169 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:42,800 Sodom and Gomorrah sobering, reminder that. 170 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,900 Those sinful societies may be distracted by sophisticated 171 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:53,800 planting and building marrying and selling God's righteous. 172 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:59,100 And holy judgment is on its way. But that's not the reason why 173 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:00,700 we've come to this text this afternoon. 174 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,600 That's not the main point. Our purpose is to examine why 175 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:15,400 rather how lot is mentioned. That in the midst of this sin 176 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:21,500 soaked city called Sodom. There was a man by the name of 177 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:26,000 lat. Who's actually righteous and 178 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,900 interestingly enough. The righteousness of lot is not 179 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:35,500 defined To Us by his deeds, but it is described to US based on 180 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:39,600 his inner attitude, concerning the evil around him. 181 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:43,100 In other words, his righteousness is given to us. 182 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:49,300 It's told to US based on what he felt Because how your heart 183 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:54,200 reacts and responds and what your thoughts say reveal what 184 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,800 Christ has done to it. And what do we see here that he 185 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:02,900 was greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 186 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:06,000 and he was tormenting his righteous Soul over their 187 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,100 Lawless Deeds. Now, if you've read the Genesis 188 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:15,300 depiction of lot, this this is kind of troubling because lot 189 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,900 made Monumental mistakes while. Living in Sodom that would make 190 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:23,300 it very difficult for anybody to be convinced to even call them a 191 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:26,000 good person. Never mind crowning him as 192 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,300 righteous three times as Peter does here. 193 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:34,200 And as difficult as this may read a scene though, may seem 194 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,000 irreconcilable. We have to understand that the 195 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,300 Apostle here is not trying to convince us that lot was 196 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:40,500 morally. Perfect. 197 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,600 But what he is trying to tell us is that he was not completely 198 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:50,600 contaminated by the dominating sin of his day. one way that is 199 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,800 proven is by the hospitality that lot shows to those heavenly 200 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,400 guest in contrast to the gang of men that wanted to rape them 201 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:03,000 instead, Yeah, he was influenced. 202 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,100 There was a level of compromise but through this commentary, we 203 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:11,500 understand that this man was not totally lost to the degree that 204 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:13,900 he could not determine what was right and what was wrong. 205 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:19,800 And although many people use lot to point to a negative example, 206 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:23,200 to point as an example of a worldly Christian here. 207 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,700 I see and we should see together that there is some positive 208 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:29,400 instruction that we can gain from the life of lat. 209 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:31,700 Here's my question to This afternoon. 210 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:37,700 May I ask you today, what the sin around you is doing to your 211 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:43,700 soul. Are we as God's righteous people 212 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,800 broken over? The lostness that our generation 213 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,800 is swimming in. Is there a sense of concern of 214 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,900 the coming judgment? That will be poured out on those 215 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:02,200 who bury themselves in greater and deeper Darkness as Bill see 216 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,900 four layers, another blanket of iniquity upon the nation of 217 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:14,200 Canada, Are we stirred to watch a people swimming in their filth 218 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:17,800 as God's forgiveness stands on the shore of Grace? 219 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:23,300 Pleading for them to come and experience his life and his 220 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,900 favor. By simple Act of Faith. 221 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,300 Do we feel pain this afternoon or we know I'm going to get to 222 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:33,700 that in a moment? Do we feel pain? 223 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,900 Because we are witnessing a people who are blindly walking 224 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:42,000 towards a cliff, with their fingers in their ears, as God 225 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,500 has through many faithful, people crying through them to be 226 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:50,600 healed of their blindness, in to turn from self-destruction. 227 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:54,800 Is there any any sense of disturbance? 228 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,100 Because you see lot made a lot of mistakes. 229 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:02,900 He made a lot of disappointing decision in his life, but we are 230 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:05,099 told according to this text that there is one thing. 231 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:08,599 He did not allow himself to get to and that is to be completely 232 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,300 desensitized to the evil around him. 233 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,099 This man did not become numb because lawlessness was normal. 234 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:21,900 There was a sense of excruciating, agitation and deep 235 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:27,500 trouble, while living in Sodom. And the reason why I bring this 236 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,800 before us this afternoon, I want to let you know ahead of time 237 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,500 that this message is not going to answer the objections to the 238 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:36,600 common arguments against what we believe. 239 00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:42,000 This is going to be intensely practical and a call for us to 240 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,200 Simply Be in tune with the heart of God. 241 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,600 You see what we discover about our thoughts, what we discover 242 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,800 about our internal attitude, concerning the outrageous 243 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,900 behavior, and beliefs that is being promoted is an indicator 244 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:03,400 of the health of our souls. Let me tell you, let me tell you 245 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,200 this way, I know of people and I have read already of comments of 246 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,900 professing Christians, that would be much more angry about 247 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:13,700 what I am preaching on today than about the sin that will Dan 248 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:19,900 people for eternity. So let me say something that may 249 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:26,100 shock you if our Spirits are not stirred, if we're not Disturbed, 250 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:32,700 if this, if this kind of news, if this plunging into deeper sin 251 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,700 is not something that shakes us to a certain degree, then we 252 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:43,200 might be one step closer to a warning that Paul gives to 253 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,000 Christians. And that warning is found in the 254 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,100 book of 1st Corinthians chapter 6, beginning in verse 9. 255 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,700 And here is what Paul says to Christians. 256 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:55,700 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the 257 00:18:55,700 --> 00:19:00,100 kingdom of God? Do not be deceived? 258 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:08,700 Do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters 259 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,900 nor adulterers, nor men who practice, homosexuality, nor 260 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,400 thieves nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers nor 261 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,200 swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 262 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:22,700 Here's the charge that the holy spirit gives to a church. 263 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:31,800 Do not be deceived and the charge to be free from deception 264 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,100 is twofold. The primary charge is for people 265 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:38,100 who think that they can live in habitual. 266 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:41,800 Unrepented sin, and still think that they are headed for heaven. 267 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,200 Paul's charge here is to remind his readers that it is 268 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:53,300 impossible to claim salvation in Jesus Christ, because that 269 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:58,900 salvation will cause you to hate your sin, reject your sin and 270 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:02,200 pursue all in the snow. You may fail along the way and 271 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:07,000 it is impossible to say that you can embrace the cross while 272 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:12,600 embrace your favorite sin. It doesn't work. 273 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:18,800 It doesn't make sense that is either proof that you have not 274 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,000 understood the gospel to begin with OR that your profession is 275 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,100 false. And this scripture is deeply 276 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:30,900 concerning to those who believe that you don't have to repent in 277 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,100 order to be saved. Which is popular in our day. 278 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,800 But moreover, this command to not be deceived to remain in the 279 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,100 light to remain free from trickery and lies is not 280 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:46,200 limited. It's not limited to the 281 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,900 potential convincing and justification of my own sin. 282 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:54,800 In other words though, we can be deceived and though we can 283 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,200 justify particular habit or love for something of the flesh. 284 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,000 We can also be deceived by the Fate about the fate of those who 285 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,700 are promoting or defending their own particular sin. 286 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:16,300 Because as celebrities come out as laws are implemented in order 287 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,700 to soothe the consciences of Sinners and to silence the 288 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:24,600 Heralds of righteousness. As family members and friends 289 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,800 that we dearly love invite us to support their ungodly sexual 290 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:33,100 Pursuits and beliefs. We got to guard our hearts. 291 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,500 Because the normalization of such sins mixed with the 292 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:42,000 pressures of persecution added with the conflict of The 293 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,500 Emotional turmoil of not wanting to lose touch with people that 294 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:51,000 we truly care about can make lies much more appealing. 295 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:59,100 Yeah. Maybe maybe maybe I'm wrong 296 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:00,900 about this whole understanding of sin. 297 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:06,000 Some of the nicest people, I know are in monogamous same-sex 298 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,200 relationships. In fact, people that identify as 299 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,600 gay or nicer than most Christians. 300 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,400 I know, Can God really reject the people who are only living 301 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,000 by impulses that they feel like they have been born with. 302 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:28,400 Is that just is that right? How can something? 303 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,400 So pure like love and falling in love. 304 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,100 Be deemed as evil and as an Abomination. 305 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:40,000 I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can worship a God 306 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,600 who believes that. So, I still believe in God, but 307 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,400 I have my mental scissors out and I'm just going to cut out 308 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,400 the parts that might contradict, or I would do a very great 309 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,600 Injustice to the Bible, to convince my idea of who God is. 310 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,000 You know what, my call to you. This afternoon is It's not to 311 00:23:02,008 --> 00:23:04,600 give you statistics from what psychologists say about the 312 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,600 lifestyle of those who are living in skewed, sexual conduct 313 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:13,100 is to Simply ask you to be careful and to charge you not to 314 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:20,400 be deceived. Do not be deceived. because even 315 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,000 a righteous man, like Loft with all of this praise concerning, 316 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,200 what he felt was challenged even with this great righteousness 317 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:36,500 roaring within him, even such a man Came to a low point in his 318 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,300 convictions. And the only way you can see it 319 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:40,900 is, when you go to the account for yourself. 320 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:46,600 So turn to Genesis, 19 and fast-forward to verse 16. 321 00:23:53,400 --> 00:24:03,300 Genesis 19. Let's read from verse 15, rather 322 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:09,400 as morning dawn, the Angels urge lot sang Up, take your wife and 323 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,000 your two daughters. Who are here, lest you be swept 324 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,700 away in the punishment of the city? 325 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,300 This is astounding. This is like wow. 326 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,800 If this in serve as a warning I don't know what will verse 16 327 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:26,700 but he lingered But he lingered so the men seized him and his 328 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:29,800 wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being 329 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,400 merciful to him and they brought him out and set him outside the 330 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,400 city. What's so disturbing about Lots? 331 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,000 Hesitation is that this is not the first time he was told that 332 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,500 judgment was coming. The Angels Came Today before the 333 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:48,200 Angels arrived and told them before. 334 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,200 The fact, in fact, the whole day passed by whole evening, a whole 335 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,800 night, And he even witnessed Supernatural intervention from 336 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,200 these angels, causing blindness to come about to these men who 337 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,300 are at his door trying to receive these guests for their 338 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,500 sensual Pleasures. Lot saw that with his own eyes 339 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,900 and yet still, he feels this hesitation to leave. 340 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,900 Sodom, can you imagine that? Can you imagine that? 341 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:20,400 There's a man here, who is lingering, as there is sulfur 342 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,600 ready to be rained, upon his own home. 343 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,900 And the question to ask is why the hesitation, why are you even 344 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:28,600 leering? Why are you even 345 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,600 second-guessing, why are you not already left? 346 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,500 The only way to get the the pure interpretation is to understand 347 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,500 the sequence of events and right before this, right before we are 348 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:45,400 told that he was lingering and waiting and contemplating and 349 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,800 pacing back and forth wondering if he should do it. was that he 350 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,800 tried to persuade his sons-in-law to join him and they 351 00:25:53,800 --> 00:26:00,600 rejected it He tried to convince him that judgment was coming. 352 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,300 He tried to tell them that God's Wrath is going to be poured upon 353 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,700 because the sin of Sodom has become a cry to the heavens. 354 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:10,000 Would you join me to escape the wrath of God? 355 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,200 Would you join me to know the mercy of God? 356 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:17,300 You see, we see a man here who is lingering because he realizes 357 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:21,600 some of his own family. Will not join him. 358 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:25,300 He lingered. Because he knew that the 359 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:28,700 decision to separate himself would cause him to Forfeit 360 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:34,000 relationships and even the fortune that primarily attracted 361 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,600 him to Sodom in the first place. This is why this man who do and 362 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,500 Peter, we are told was stirred because of his sin around him 363 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:49,600 also lingered because it really came close to home. 364 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,200 And it challenged his emotional attachments, the history that he 365 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,000 had with these people. And here we see an example of 366 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,800 what can happen to even the righteous in Sodom. 367 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:08,500 This is why I'm charging you to be careful because what we're 368 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:13,300 hearing, as a preview with our neighbors up, north is just a 369 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:17,400 glimpse of the aggression. And the persuasion that will 370 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:25,600 come from an ungodly Folk. and my concern is, That this will 371 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,700 cause a greater divide in the minds and hearts of those who 372 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,100 claim to be professing Christians. 373 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:36,800 There for my call this morning is simply this continue to 374 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,600 Anchor yourself. Continue to align yourself and 375 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,000 the posture of your heart to God's heart concerning 376 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:49,900 concerning righteousness. Holiness his will and his 377 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,900 purpose is for those who believe on his son, and those who reject 378 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:59,900 his son, And God's attitude is not limited to abhorrence God's 379 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:03,600 attitude towards even these grotesque sins. 380 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,900 Is great affection for them to be saved. 381 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,900 It's great affection for them to actually come to the knowledge 382 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,400 of Christ. But no effective action can be 383 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,000 made until we have laid the foundation of the right thoughts 384 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,600 and attitudes about the whole thing to begin with. 385 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:27,600 And I'm not here just to clarify that God condemns such Behavior 386 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,600 because I can point that from Genesis to Revelation and I hope 387 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,500 I hope all of us in here who love God's word already are 388 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:38,400 convinced of that. But what I want to charge you is 389 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,400 to be careful of the tide of deception that is coming. 390 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,300 And it's already here. But also of the right attitude, 391 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:49,200 not just the defensive but the offensive not just a hideaway in 392 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,100 our bunkers. But to go out into the streets 393 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,200 of Sodom so to speak and to bring out as many people as 394 00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:00,200 possible to escape God's Wrath and to know his embrace, And so 395 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,300 the attitude that I'm charging you today is to be free from 396 00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:09,000 deception and to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit as you, soak 397 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 yourself in the word of God, surround yourself with the right 398 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000 people and continue to bring every opinion. 399 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,700 Every law, every form of entertainment. 400 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,000 Every popular coming out video every false, Christian to the 401 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:29,600 scriptures, Because it's amazing. 402 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:34,700 What we will see. When the temperature really gets 403 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:39,200 hot. It's amazing to see where people 404 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,100 will stand when there will be a price to preach this word. 405 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,600 You've been warned. You have been warned. 406 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:52,500 But I want us to retract. I want us to pull back from 407 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:59,000 Genesis 1916 to see to see a few things about how we can not just 408 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,500 Not just guard our hearts, which is vitally important, but also 409 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:06,800 to win the hearts of others. Come back to verse 12 of Genesis 410 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:15,300 19. Genesis 19 verse 12, we read 411 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:17,900 that the men said to lot these angels. 412 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,300 Have you anyone else here sons and lost Sons daughters, or 413 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:26,400 anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place for 414 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,800 we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against 415 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,000 its people has become great before the Lord and the Lord has 416 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,500 sent us to destroy it. You know, it's so amazing. 417 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,500 The main point of lot story in Sodom is actually how God 418 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:43,700 honors. The prayers and intercessions of 419 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:47,200 his uncle Abraham, that's what is you come to the conclusion of 420 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,300 this chapter and what you learn is that God was faithful to 421 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,600 Abraham standing in the gap for his nephew. 422 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:00,100 But in the midst of that main plot, we read here that lot 423 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:06,000 himself receives a commission. He receives instruction, he 424 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,700 receives a call. And before this moment in lot 425 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:15,800 story he wasn't very exemplary and the way he related to a 426 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,500 morally shattered City because when you come to verse 1, look 427 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:23,400 how we are introduced to lat the two angels came to Sodom in the 428 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,800 evening and lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom when lot saw 429 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,300 them Heroes to meet them and bowed himself with his face to 430 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:32,800 the Earth. There's no detail on the Bible, 431 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,300 that's my accident. The fact that we are told that 432 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:40,000 lot was sitting at the gate is much more significant than him, 433 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,700 maybe waiting for guest, that's not what's Happening Here. 434 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,200 The gate was much more than just the entrance and the exit from a 435 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,000 city, the gate, according to the Bible proves to us that this was 436 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,500 the location of cities where there will be transactions made 437 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:57,600 where legal things are done and were civil and religious 438 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,100 sometimes authorities will come to make such transactions or 439 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,400 deal. So, what does that tell us about 440 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,600 lot? Lot. 441 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,800 Did not just move to Sodom lot became over time. 442 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,500 A civil Authority. In Sodom. 443 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:13,800 He became a leader to a certain degree, he might have even been 444 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,900 elected to this position, which is deeply concerning, if this 445 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:21,800 man has righteous convictions because how is it that they're 446 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,900 allowing this man to be in the position of making and 447 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,400 determining decisions. When they stand in Polar, 448 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Opposites concerning their worldview, So lat, yes, he was 449 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,100 righteous in his emotions, but lot here is showing a level of 450 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:42,700 compromise because he was able to blend in with the society. 451 00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:46,100 And this is how we are introduced to him. 452 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:51,700 And then we come down to here and we realize that at this 453 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:56,000 point, his Outlook was Sanctified, it was transformed 454 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,200 and it was changed upon the revelation of Heavens 455 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,800 perspective and the Eternal understanding of what's 456 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,200 happening in Sodom, you understand. 457 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:08,900 This is where everything was altered from. 458 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:11,300 This is where everything really really change and put them into 459 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:14,000 a new gear. This is what launched him into a 460 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,500 new way of relating to those that he had no problem living 461 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:22,600 with to a certain extent. The fate of his co-workers, his 462 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,600 friends, his extended family, awakened him to reach out with 463 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,400 the truth and to no longer attempt to put all his efforts 464 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,600 to try to blend in as much as possible. 465 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,500 What changed him what God said about them? 466 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:42,400 What changed them and understanding of their future, 467 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,800 if they remain in a state of rebellion against God, what 468 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,600 stirred him? Truth. 469 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,300 And you see regardless of what kind of position he had in his 470 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:58,400 culture, no matter what, kind of even decisions he was making for 471 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,600 the apparent, well-being, for his people. 472 00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:06,100 Lot proves here that he was governed by a Heavenly law. 473 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,400 Lot here proves that he was motivated and moved by 474 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,000 Constitution. Known as the word. 475 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:21,400 More than anything else and that is exemplary because I want to 476 00:34:21,408 --> 00:34:23,800 tell you today that no matter how much the criminal code in 477 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,800 Canada changes and no matter what kind of developments may 478 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,199 happen in our own country. The mission and the message of 479 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:36,400 our faith will never change. Never I was talking to a friend 480 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,900 last night who is in Canada and we were discussing this this 481 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:43,500 bill and I had asked him well what's your local church doing? 482 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:44,800 What are the church? What are you hearing about the 483 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,500 churches? And how are they responding to 484 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,400 this? I know of some who are choosing 485 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:52,400 to preach behind the pulpit in order to even pay a price for 486 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,300 declaring God's word. But what's going on here? 487 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:57,600 Told me, well were there, but many of the pastors have come 488 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,600 together and have sent a letter to the government to clarify 489 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,300 what they mean by. Conversion there. 490 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:08,600 They want to know because it's just too ambiguous and so we're 491 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,300 waiting on their response. I said well that's wise and I'm 492 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,600 sure that's helpful. But in later on as I went to bed 493 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,900 late at night, I thought to myself. 494 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,600 Well, even if they get an answer, does it really matter? 495 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:26,100 It doesn't even if conversion therapy includes penalizing, 496 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:28,900 those who would declare the word of God or if it excludes it and 497 00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:31,500 you can exercise your religious freedom, all you want, the 498 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:35,700 mission doesn't change, the message will never change 499 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:40,000 whether it's a legal or illegal God's word remains forever true. 500 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,600 So what does it matter? What does it matter? 501 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:49,400 And here we see that this man of a prominent position, dropped, 502 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,500 any cares or concerns about how he was going to be seen or what 503 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:55,100 kind of things were going to happen to him because he's been 504 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:58,800 convinced at this time through these Heavenly Messengers that 505 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:04,000 God's word is triumphant. No matter what kind of laws are 506 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,400 resistance, they come up with God's will will be accomplished 507 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,000 and no man can withstand it. And so, he moves. 508 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:15,900 And he moves forward to do what God told him to do. 509 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,100 And maybe this play the same faithfulness. 510 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:22,300 Moving forward made pulpits, be found faithful. 511 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:26,200 Make people the people of God be true to the witness of the 512 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,900 scriptures. So let it be known, let it be 513 00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:33,000 known on this day. That God has created man in his 514 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,100 own image. Male and female he created them. 515 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:41,000 No one has the authority to dictate or alter the sex that he 516 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,600 or she has been assigned to at conception. 517 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,600 Such an attempt on any level is an assault on the sovereignty of 518 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,400 God. As we have been all intricately 519 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,600 woven in our mother's womb by his perfect, Divine wisdom as 520 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,100 our creator. And though the rampant campaign 521 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:05,900 of homosexuality and in a long spectrum of other expressions of 522 00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:11,300 skewed, sensual conduct is becoming a norm and is trying to 523 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:16,000 attack marriage and sexuality. Let's go further understand that 524 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,900 this push for transgenderism and to be known as different things 525 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:24,200 that don't make sense, even to science and biology. 526 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,300 We're going to a new level, it's not just trying to alter 527 00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:29,600 sexuality is trying to alter reality. 528 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:38,900 And here's the understanding. If there is anybody who is 529 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:42,700 living in a fantasy? It's not the Christian who has a 530 00:37:42,707 --> 00:37:47,600 biblical worldview. It's the people who try to 531 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,300 believe something about themselves or others that is not 532 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:57,400 even consistent with science. And although the instructions 533 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,800 from the Heavenly Messengers, provide Insight of how God 534 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,800 clearly condemns such ways of thinking and how it is an 535 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,700 Abomination and is worthy of judgment, how it is a stink to 536 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:12,900 the nostrils of a holy God. It is also not void of Hope. 537 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:17,400 Because we were told here in verse 16. 538 00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:20,400 That he lingered. Yes. 539 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,300 But early on he was told to go and rescue as many people as 540 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:29,300 possible before leaving You know what I find. 541 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,100 So amazing about that. Think very carefully about how 542 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:34,400 this story is written and given to us. 543 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:39,800 When these angels and verse 12 here say have you anyone else 544 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,500 here sons and lost Sons? Daughters are anyone you have in 545 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,800 the city, bring them out of the place, you know, what's so 546 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,800 incredible? There is an omission of a 547 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,700 certain quality. Because when Abraham interceded 548 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:55,100 for his son or rather his nephew and not just his nephew. 549 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:58,300 But for the righteous with his nephew and mind, he had been 550 00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:01,800 pleading for who the righteous the righteous. 551 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,300 What if there's this amount of righteous? 552 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:04,700 What if there's that amount of righteous? 553 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:07,600 What if it comes down to this amount of a handful of 554 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,700 righteous, the righteous, the righteous, the righteous, and 555 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:13,400 God affirms, and confirms, I will Spirit, if there are this 556 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,600 many righteous this many righteous. 557 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,300 But then when these these representatives of God come they 558 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:23,700 tell Lat, have you anyone else here sons of lost Sons, 559 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,600 daughters or anyone? You have in the city? 560 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,700 I don't see the righteous. I see anyone who is willing to 561 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:34,300 escape the wrath of God. I see anyone who is willing to 562 00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:38,400 take on the warning and apply it with sobriety and obedience. 563 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,100 I see God's grace here that it's not just the righteous who could 564 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:44,100 have escaped. But even those who would simply 565 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:49,300 by faith, trust in the message that lot would Proclaim And so, 566 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:53,900 yes, we must stand firm and clearly Define how the Bible is 567 00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:57,400 against such things, but at the same time, we must also offer 568 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,300 the hope that change is possible. 569 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:05,900 A transformation is available. And here's the thing, when we 570 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:12,100 come to this, we realize that lot obeys that instruction, the 571 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:15,100 message of what's coming without compromise. 572 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,200 He was faithful in what he said. And what's so amazing here is 573 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,500 that it provides an example that we must have the balance of the 574 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,900 wrath of God in the glory of God in his goodness. 575 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:31,600 That marriage is so needed. And so I want to also say let it 576 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:37,600 be known that if there's anybody anybody that might feel trap 577 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:42,000 that might feel so overpowered by particular sin that, you 578 00:40:42,008 --> 00:40:47,300 know, even in your conscious, God condemns There is hope for 579 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:50,600 you. That Jesus Christ. 580 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,600 Truly wants to see you saved forgiven and renewed by his 581 00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:00,000 blood. and if you just but trust that what you are seat them, 582 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,500 what you are enjoying prematurely and what you think 583 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:08,300 is actually going to satisfy that void, If you just convince 584 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:12,900 yourself enough that this is wrong, and you see what God says 585 00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:16,700 about it, you're one step closer to Hope and change. 586 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:20,900 And as you call upon Christ, not only will he deal with your 587 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:23,500 Eternal destination. He will transform you. 588 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:28,600 Now, he will Infuse you with the person of the Holy Spirit to 589 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,900 such a degree that you can Rise Above The Temptations and the 590 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:35,800 impulses of your flesh. This gospel is so powerful. 591 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,400 And so real, that it actually supernaturally, Alters your 592 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,500 reality. But you must repent and believe. 593 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:50,400 Stop trying to use and muster up all your strength to convince 594 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,100 yourself that God approves of it. 595 00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,500 He doesn't approve of it, he disapproves of it, but he so 596 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,300 loves you that in that state, he is willing to save you. 597 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,300 And so throw yourself at his feet with whatever strength you 598 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:07,700 have left with whatever Measure of Faith that you have give it 599 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,000 to him. Instead of trusting in a false 600 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,800 lie that will damn you and even destroy you in this life. 601 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:22,200 Lat shows us that although he had failed in the past, he is in 602 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,200 this moment. Swimming Upstream while the rest 603 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,800 of the culture. His neighborhood is workplace 604 00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:28,700 are headed in the other direction. 605 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,600 Don't be ashamed of the Gospel. But we see something else. 606 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,400 Not only does he prove to us that he was governed by a 607 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,800 Heavenly order by Heavenly law, by Heavenly perspective. 608 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,300 He was willing to engage others with the truth. 609 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,700 Notice, what he does here after he's told and asked if there's 610 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:51,600 anybody else in verse 14. So law went out and said to his 611 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,700 sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters up. 612 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,400 Get out of this place for the Lord is about to destroy the 613 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,200 city, but he seemed to his sons and law to be jesting. 614 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,700 Notice we're lot. First goes when he learns about 615 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:12,800 what God is about to do. His family was his first mission 616 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,200 field. He could have gone anywhere but 617 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,700 he goes to those who have married his daughters and though 618 00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:21,200 the message may have been difficult to hear and though it 619 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,300 would have put a great risk to how they would have viewed him 620 00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:28,100 and related him from this moment on this man was not convinced 621 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:31,100 about the temporal. He was operating by the eternal. 622 00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:37,400 And so, he was compelled by a truth that he knew that they 623 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,600 needed. And so he visits them. 624 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,100 And you have many good-hearted Believers today who are 625 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:48,800 overwhelmed by even even the thought of approaching somebody 626 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,700 that they dearly care about that they love. 627 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,300 And to present them with the gospel because of this 628 00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:59,100 particular sin being so sensitive to truth And that is 629 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:02,600 only because a culture is praising it and calling people 630 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,300 Heroes to those who would embrace it and declare it. 631 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:07,800 So it does make it a little bit more difficult, but I want to 632 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,200 tell you something, it's not as complicated as you're making it 633 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,400 seem to be. I have a hunch that if you saw 634 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,200 Paul preached the gospel to a homosexual, it wouldn't look 635 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,300 much different than how he would preach to a thief. 636 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,300 Because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of 637 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:24,700 God. All are in need of his grace. 638 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:30,400 Whether it's You jumping up from this, Cliff to this cliff and 639 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,800 you fall here or you fall there, it doesn't matter. 640 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,500 We all fall short of the glory of God. 641 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:40,700 And so though your personal history may be twisted and dark, 642 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,900 you know, how to preach the gospel to somebody who is 643 00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:48,500 outside of Christ? It's the same message, it's the 644 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,700 same truth, it's the same remedy. 645 00:44:51,700 --> 00:44:55,500 It's the same cure. The same cure for the drunkard, 646 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,400 the same solution for the South. Righteous Pharisee the same 647 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:04,700 direction the way for the person who is caught up in Pride, or 648 00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:10,000 lust or Envy is the same thing for the homosexual for the 649 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,300 transgender, for the one who was lost in, how they even 650 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:15,100 understand their own bodies. It's no different. 651 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,700 So, this man communicates this truth, so plainly. 652 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:24,400 So clearly, But in Lots case, the tone of his delivery was 653 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,300 urgent and the theme of his message was judgement because at 654 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:32,000 any moment that sky was going to be lit up by Heavenly Fire. 655 00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:36,000 And so it was very brief and very direct. 656 00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:40,600 And though we should not shy away from judgment in our 657 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,300 presentation. And though we should not fail to 658 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:47,900 be urgent. There is also the importance of 659 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,600 including the present reality of what the gospel will do in your 660 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:56,300 life. Meaning, when you look back at 661 00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:58,800 what Paul said to the Corinthians and that text that 662 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,500 we read that, those who practice, such things will not 663 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,100 inherit the kingdom of God, that's not where he ended it. 664 00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:06,200 That's not where he put the period mark. 665 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:07,900 He did not just present the gospel. 666 00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:11,800 Truth to those, including those in and strange sexual behavior. 667 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,300 He didn't just say, you're not going to go to heaven. 668 00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:15,600 If you practice these things you come to verse 11. 669 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,100 Let me read in 1st Corinthians 6 and such were some of you. 670 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:24,000 And such were some of you but you were washed, you were 671 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,100 Sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus 672 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:30,700 Christ. And by the spirit of God, And so 673 00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:34,700 Paul sandwiches this truth. Yes, you can be deceiving thing. 674 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:38,500 You could hold onto your sin and inherit eternal life but he also 675 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:42,100 concludes by saying, but that is not who you are today. 676 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,300 He's speaking those who have been changed implying, what that 677 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:50,000 we have to tell people that Christ can actually change you. 678 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:55,900 We're not just telling people that if you don't stop, if you 679 00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:59,000 don't change, you're going straight to hell. 680 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,600 We're telling people, this gospel is so unique, there's 681 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,500 nothing like it that upon Faith. You can actually receive a 682 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:11,200 supernatural strength that can alter your very desires. 683 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,800 That can cause you to love God to such a great degree that you 684 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,500 will love him more than what your flesh. 685 00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:24,200 Craves for day in and day out. One of my first friends that I 686 00:47:24,207 --> 00:47:26,900 have when I became a Believer confessed to me that he 687 00:47:26,900 --> 00:47:28,700 struggled with same-sex attraction. 688 00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:30,000 I mean, I was a brand new believer. 689 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,900 I was still figuring out simple Doctrine and this came to me and 690 00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:36,700 I thought to myself, Lord, you threw me in the deep end. 691 00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:40,400 But in that moment, there was a Grace. 692 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,700 Because, because why would I react to a certain way? 693 00:47:43,700 --> 00:47:47,300 With this sin? When all sin is is going to be 694 00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:50,700 condemned? And so, I just began to ask 695 00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:54,100 honest questions to this person who I could not tell was 696 00:47:54,100 --> 00:47:57,800 struggling with such things because he seems so righteous in 697 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,600 his convictions and his practice in his worship, and I asked him 698 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,200 honesty, why aren't you living there? 699 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,100 Because you're telling me that you can't wait to be married to 700 00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:10,500 a woman and have children? Why? 701 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,900 Why is that the case? And he had told me without 702 00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:17,700 hesitation, he told me without stuttering that my love for 703 00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:19,600 Christ is greater than my love. Sin. 704 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,800 Jesus Christ is so beautiful to me. 705 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,900 He's so wonderful. He had saved me that the 706 00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,300 satisfaction I have in knowing that I'm walking in his will is 707 00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:34,100 greater than whatever lust can be quenched That's the gospel, 708 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:39,900 that's the gospel. And we have to be clear and so 709 00:48:39,908 --> 00:48:41,800 let me be intensely practical here. 710 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,900 Do we have anything in our hearts? 711 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:49,500 That's prayerfully planning to sit down with people that we 712 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:53,100 know that we love to say, I got to tell you something that I 713 00:48:53,107 --> 00:48:55,800 would tell anybody else, who is outside of the knowledge of 714 00:48:55,808 --> 00:49:00,300 truth that has saved my soul. And do you know, have to kick 715 00:49:00,300 --> 00:49:03,700 down the door open? Like a lot might have had and 716 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:05,900 panic lie. Tell them that they have to run. 717 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,800 Sometimes in certain occasions, that is necessary. 718 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,100 All I'm asking you to do and I can give you, I can't give you 719 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:15,700 actually five steps to how to do it. 720 00:49:15,700 --> 00:49:17,700 I can't because every person is different. 721 00:49:18,500 --> 00:49:24,200 Every situation is unique. Every Dynamic Demands. 722 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:25,500 A different kind of wisdom though. 723 00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:29,600 The message is the same all I'm asking you today is why are you 724 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,400 so intimidated? Why are you so fearful to have a 725 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,800 conversation with that person? Because the most unloving thing 726 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,300 that lock could have done in response to this invitation to 727 00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:44,100 see other people come with him, was to not say anything. 728 00:49:44,700 --> 00:49:46,500 Let me just put this into perspective. 729 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,900 How would you feel about lat? If after reading verse 12, he 730 00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:53,300 was told by these angels, the invitation is open, bring 731 00:49:53,300 --> 00:49:57,500 whoever is willing to come. Go and judgment is delayed, so 732 00:49:57,500 --> 00:49:59,600 that he can do this. How would you feel if he had 733 00:49:59,607 --> 00:50:06,500 responded? I don't know. see my son's and 734 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:09,900 other kind of agree with that and they're married to my 735 00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:13,800 daughters and I don't want to make it awkward. 736 00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:15,500 I don't want it to be uncomfortable. 737 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,900 If they ask me, I will say something but I don't think I'm 738 00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:21,200 going to introduce it because I don't want to step on anybody's 739 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,000 toes. And so I appreciate that but, 740 00:50:26,300 --> 00:50:27,700 you know, I'm going to just trust God. 741 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,400 Can you imagine that? And the verses of Genesis 19 742 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,900 that being given to us? Be honest. 743 00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:40,400 How would you feel about it? And so I extend extend that 744 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,600 lustration to examine our own Hearts. 745 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,300 Why are we so afraid of giving a truth that can supernaturally 746 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:52,800 transform somebody? Why can a people be so bold 747 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,600 about telling you and me and our children that there is 60, 748 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,300 something different gender identities without blushing. 749 00:51:00,100 --> 00:51:05,200 Why can gay organizations go on YouTube and jokingly say we're 750 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:09,900 coming for your children but you and I we squirm when we think 751 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:12,400 about the idea of sitting across the table from somebody, we went 752 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,300 to school with this. I got to tell you about a truth 753 00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:15,800 that changed me and it can change you. 754 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,300 If Canada and any other government is going to be, so 755 00:51:22,300 --> 00:51:26,900 aggressive me the church in righteous fierceness. 756 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:33,600 Reach the Lost. And guess what? 757 00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:36,900 The response of such people in our lives. 758 00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:40,500 Whether stranger of familiar, friend is not our 759 00:51:40,500 --> 00:51:43,400 responsibility. I want you to notice what they 760 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,600 say at the end of verse 14, but he seemed to his sons-in-law to 761 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,900 be jesting. What is sad? 762 00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:57,600 Sad, sad conclusion. Here lot storms into this house 763 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,600 and he sits his sons-in-law. Then he goes, I got to tell you 764 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,500 what, I just learned judgment is coming. 765 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,900 This place is going to be turned into Ash. 766 00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:10,100 And as they're listening, they start laughing. 767 00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:13,000 And the reason why they're laughing is not because he 768 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,400 delivered it in a humorous manner, it's because what he was 769 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:24,800 saying that the content seems so absurd, so silly, so, out of 770 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:31,000 touch with reality that they thought it was a myth, Sound 771 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:35,800 familiar. That was a joke. 772 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,900 They thought it was void of any true substance. 773 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,700 And so they totally dismissed it and they even mocked and scorned 774 00:52:43,700 --> 00:52:47,400 it welcome to 2022. You don't think Sodom and 775 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,700 Gomorrah as an example, just look up and see who our 776 00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:59,000 neighbors have become. But the reason why they thought 777 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,100 he was jesting is important to understand. 778 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:07,300 You see a lot lived so long among them as one of them that 779 00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:11,600 his testimony had no power. There is no weight to it. 780 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:20,700 This man here was so camouflaged with the sodomites and those who 781 00:53:20,700 --> 00:53:24,300 lived in Gomorrah that when it came time to actually deliver 782 00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:28,800 something of spiritual value. They could not even receive it 783 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:33,200 with a hint of seriousness. And so this is what I want to 784 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,900 tell us that if this world is going to criticize us for 785 00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:39,900 believing something in the Bible to be a myth. 786 00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:45,500 May they not criticize us. For being crazy and out of touch 787 00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:47,800 because we don't practice what we preach. 788 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,700 Let them call us whatever they want to call us. 789 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,300 But may they criticize a consistent people? 790 00:53:58,100 --> 00:54:02,300 May they criticize a people that apply this word in every area in 791 00:54:02,300 --> 00:54:06,000 life and not just in a way in which you want to just manifest 792 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,000 your anger because you feel like there is a organization or a 793 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,300 narrative that's coming for your kids, for example. 794 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,700 It's a myth. We don't believe what you're 795 00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:17,200 saying, because we don't believe you believe what you even 796 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,300 believe in? Because look at this, this and 797 00:54:19,300 --> 00:54:23,800 this and that. So lot lost his testimony. 798 00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:26,400 That is a great danger for many Believers today. 799 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,100 But I have to also say this that you would be amazed to know the 800 00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:34,600 excuses that people will have in wanting to reject the truth and 801 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,700 you'd be amazed to know how desperate they will become an 802 00:54:36,700 --> 00:54:38,400 even accusing you. Right? 803 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:43,500 And you accusing me I've being imperfect vessels, giving them 804 00:54:43,500 --> 00:54:45,800 the permission to continue to live in their own way. 805 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,800 But lot here proves to us that faithfulness to God. 806 00:54:53,500 --> 00:54:57,200 Is necessary despite the reaction response of those 807 00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,500 around us. So I have two things for you 808 00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:04,300 closing this message, and I have a feeling that there are going 809 00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:06,600 to be a lot of questions, which is fine. 810 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,500 Could spend the next hour if you want answering them. 811 00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:14,600 Now, But I have a very simple straightforward message for all 812 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,300 of us for ever is watching as well. 813 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:24,400 Let your heart remain soft. Let your heart remain in tune 814 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:30,500 with the heart of God. I've been told many years ago 815 00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:34,600 that there was somebody. That wasn't coming to her youth 816 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:38,300 group at the time and when asked why they said well brother, 817 00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:40,500 Daniel believes that abortion is a sin. 818 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,100 And that homosexuals are not right with God. 819 00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:53,900 It's kid, I think was like 14. Stay in this book. 820 00:55:55,700 --> 00:56:01,000 Fear God trust in his judgments no matter what is swirling 821 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,100 around you and secondly me that attitude by the grace of God. 822 00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:09,400 Not cause us to be fearful but to be active in our faith. 823 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,400 And to see the signs of what's Happening including Bill C4, and 824 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,700 only for it to be a greater motivation to sit with people 825 00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:19,500 and to preach the gospel. Even if they have to throw you 826 00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:26,800 in jail for 5 years, You know, it's so amazing here in verse 16 827 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:30,800 that lot only added more injury to his testimony when he was 828 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,800 lingering. Can you imagine? 829 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,500 I mean it doesn't say but I can just imagine what his 830 00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:37,900 sons-in-law thought. You just told us last night that 831 00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:39,800 judgment was coming and you're hanging around here, sweeping 832 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:46,200 your floor. So that lost urgency could have 833 00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,400 even affected his testimony even more. 834 00:56:48,700 --> 00:56:52,200 And that is why I praise God for the pastors across North America 835 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,400 were behind pulposus. A, if that's how you're going 836 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,500 to, that's how you're going to criticize the word of God, that 837 00:56:56,500 --> 00:57:02,900 will declare all the more Don't lose your urgency as as lot did. 838 00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:07,600 Stay, prayerful, ask God for opportunities, and Open Hearts, 839 00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:11,700 and just believe that the gospel is enough. 840 00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:14,400 That there doesn't need to be tricks. 841 00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:16,800 And there doesn't mean little things to try to manipulate 842 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,900 somebody's way of thinking just present Christ and watch him 843 00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:26,000 change a desperate Soul, he has to be ready to answer objections 844 00:57:26,100 --> 00:57:27,900 and you can find that message on YouTube. 845 00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,700 Yes, be ready to give statistics if you need to, but the 846 00:57:31,700 --> 00:57:35,000 substance of our message, the substance of the Christians 847 00:57:35,100 --> 00:57:39,000 conversion therapy is Christ and Christ Alone. 848 00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:44,500 Simple enough, but many Christians are making it 849 00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:47,700 complicated. And many Christians are ready to 850 00:57:47,700 --> 00:57:51,100 compromise. So may this church be found 851 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:53,900 faithful and whatever is coming down the pike. 852 00:57:54,500 --> 00:58:17,100 Let's pray. Louis, thank you for how your 853 00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:19,800 message encourages us to have a certain attitude. 854 00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:24,300 And actions ready to be implemented. 855 00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,400 In a day where people are being swept up into greater deception. 856 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:36,000 Lord, we ask that our own Hearts would not become numb. 857 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:39,500 Numb, in a way that it might cause us. 858 00:58:40,700 --> 00:58:45,400 To be an active and we asked, oh God that no matter how close 859 00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:50,200 this deception and people conforming to The Narrative of 860 00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,500 this day, no matter how close it comes to home. 861 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,800 May we love you more than our family. 862 00:58:55,300 --> 00:58:58,100 They would love you more than our friends may. 863 00:58:58,100 --> 00:59:03,500 We love them enough to pray fully present the truth as he 864 00:59:03,508 --> 00:59:04,500 would. Anybody else? 865 00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:06,400 That we know there's an O Christ. 866 00:59:07,500 --> 00:59:10,700 We asked oh Lord, that are watching world would see a 867 00:59:10,700 --> 00:59:12,900 church that. So believes what they preach 868 00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:14,700 that they're willing to pay a price for it. 869 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,500 Especially for the nation of Canada. 870 00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:21,400 We ask the Lord if it's possible to extend the freedoms that they 871 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:26,400 once enjoyed but Lord if that has has come to an end, we ask 872 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,500 Lord that you would embolden ministers and congregations. 873 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:36,000 That would show the world that we love you, too much to change 874 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,700 this message. And we want you to come to the 875 00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:41,100 truth, even if we have to be punished for it. 876 00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:47,100 We asked, oh Lord. That is we feel the Temptations 877 00:59:47,100 --> 00:59:49,500 in the doubts that might creep into our hearts. 878 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,800 That it would quickly be extinguished by the truths that 879 00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,200 we heard today, and the truths that we will discover, as we 880 00:59:55,200 --> 01:00:01,000 continue to study your word. Find his faithful find his true. 881 01:00:01,900 --> 01:00:05,600 Find us to be true, ambassadors of Jesus Christ. 882 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,500 For we know that this world desperately needs it. 883 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,900 We give you all the glory for your wisdom, this afternoon, and 884 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:14,700 your name we pray. Amen. 885 01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:16,700 Can we stand and Worship the Lord together?