1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,700 Well, if you have your Bibles, please meet me in the second 2 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:16,400 letter to Timothy written by the Apostle Paul. 3 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,300 In chapter two, excuse me, chapter 3 and we will read from 4 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:34,600 verse 1 again. second Timothy chapter 3, beginning in verse 1, 5 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:40,700 the word of God reads but understand this That in the last 6 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:44,200 days, there will come times of difficulty for people. 7 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:50,200 Will be lovers of self. Lovers of money proud, arrogant, 8 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,500 abusive disobedient to their parents ungrateful, Unholy 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,900 heartless, unappeasable slanderous without self-control 10 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:07,100 brutal. Not loving good treacherous. 11 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:12,800 Reckless swollen with Seat lovers of pleasure rather than 12 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,400 lovers of God having the appearance of godliness. 13 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:23,400 But denying its power avoid such people Lord, we come before your 14 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,900 word. And we ask, oh, God, because we 15 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:31,100 confess our weakness. Lord, we do not want this to be 16 00:01:31,100 --> 00:01:34,800 a dead Service. As one man said, how can we have 17 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,900 a Debt Service with the living Christ? 18 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,100 We ask. Oh God, that your power would 19 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:45,100 radiate in this place that your wisdom would be known that. 20 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,900 As we hear the word of God, as we hear these verses, we will be 21 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:52,800 like those officers who were sent Arrest Jesus. 22 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,400 And they came back saying no one has ever spoken. 23 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,600 Like this, man, we want to be exposed to that same wisdom and 24 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,800 power. We asked, oh, Lord, that your 25 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:08,199 people that we would be astounded by your truth and not 26 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,900 just so God, emotionally or intellectually pray that you 27 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:17,700 would cause us to obey this word, to apply it to our lives. 28 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,000 And so Lord, in this moment, may the spirit of wisdom and 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 revelation. Ation rest upon the ministry of 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,700 the word. We confess or God that apart 31 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,100 from your holy spirit's help up apart from the work of opening 32 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:31,200 our minds and burning in our hearts. 33 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,700 This meeting will be futile. And so, have your way in exalt, 34 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:37,400 the name of your son in our midst. 35 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:41,900 And Jesus name, we pray and ask these things because we hunger 36 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,000 for righteousness. Amen. 37 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,300 And amen. Amen. 38 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:52,300 As you are aware last week, we began a new section in the book 39 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:57,100 of 2nd Timothy that introduced us into the theme of the last 40 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:03,600 days and more specifically Paul writes about how as we approach 41 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,300 the Glorious and triumphant return of the Lord Jesus Christ. 42 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:13,600 We will first be met by an amplification and escalation of 43 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,400 ungodly Behavior. Inspired by the spirit of God. 44 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,600 The Apostle begins to go into this list of specific sinful 45 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,500 characteristics, that will pollute the general population. 46 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:34,000 And we learned that such conduct the things that we just read is 47 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,200 mainly energized by the emerging, false teachers, and 48 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,900 false doctrines that will only get worse and only magnify as 49 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:47,300 well as a greater resistance to the gospel and to the truth on a 50 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:51,500 wider level. And this text, those few verses 51 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:56,200 that we read provide the necessary warning for the 52 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,800 difficulties that will come as we as we advance in gospel work 53 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,200 and we really want to see Souls come to Christ, Paul's very 54 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,400 realistic and the Holy Spirit is very realistic and he wants to 55 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,200 let his people know. You will have great difficulty. 56 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:15,800 There will be times of great difficulty, not that the gospel 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,800 is ineffective. Not that people will not be 58 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,000 saved but it has been set. It has been declared that it's 59 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 only going to get worse before it gets any better. 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,600 But it's also the motivation. The motivation that Timothy 61 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,800 would get from this to be all the more passionate about 62 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,800 declaring the truth as Society chooses to spiral into greater 63 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:44,800 depravity and darkness. This is not to be hopeless, it's 64 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,300 to charge the church to be more hopeful and more faithful to the 65 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:52,300 word of the Lord to stand your ground. 66 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:56,000 Let the world fall, let the world stumble but you Timothy 67 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,100 and you Christians who are living in the generation and the 68 00:04:59,108 --> 00:05:01,800 generations to come. That will lead to the second 69 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,000 coming of Christ. Stand your ground. 70 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:09,800 And our goal with these verses last week was to take take the 71 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,900 time to skip over each of these different traits and get an idea 72 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,400 of what is coming, what is already here? 73 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,200 And what's only going to get worse, but we didn't get very 74 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,400 far, did we know we stayed at the first point we stayed at the 75 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,300 first attribute, which was for people will be lovers of self. 76 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,200 And the reason why we stayed there, and the reason why Paul 77 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,900 presents it first, it's because it is the primary cause it is 78 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:44,900 the heart that pumps the life into every other sinful thing 79 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:47,700 that is listed here. It is. 80 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,400 The life Giver. It is the Energizer of all these 81 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,700 sinful attributes and even more Which gives us a great Insight 82 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,300 that if you and I want to see greater Holiness, if we want to 83 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:03,200 deal with maybe some of the things that we are tempted to 84 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,700 fall into, then we must by the power of the Holy Spirit, cut 85 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:12,900 off the lifeline, which is self-love deal with that, and 86 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:17,200 you will deal with many other things kill that and you will 87 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,400 put the death, many other things that choose and decide and want 88 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,900 to put you to death. And that's why Jesus Christ your 89 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:26,900 Lord. I hope your master. 90 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:30,700 I hope has made it the primary condition for his discipleship 91 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:33,200 program that you and I should deny ourselves. 92 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:36,600 Deny yourself, don't love yourself. 93 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:41,900 Don't praise yourself. Don't make you this Center the 94 00:06:41,907 --> 00:06:44,300 moment you do. That is the moment all these 95 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:48,200 other vices will become a reality in your life but denying 96 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,100 yourself brings Fort. A fruit brings Fort many fruits 97 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,800 of great Holiness and righteousness that will bless 98 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,500 others and bless you. But after talking about being 99 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:03,900 lovers of self, he immediately meets it with what we read here. 100 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:10,400 That in the last days, the quality of mankind will be 101 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:17,000 lovers of money. They will love money and this is 102 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 a much more dangerous in that most of us might estimate. 103 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:24,900 It's a much more crucial thing to understand because yes we've 104 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:26,700 always known that. There has been a love of money 105 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:28,000 since the beginning of the world. 106 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,700 But more importantly, we have to understand that in the latter 107 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,000 times, there will be a level of consuming passion for material 108 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,800 gain. Like we have never seen before. 109 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:42,100 We might think that the worst that can come from loving money 110 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,400 is that you become. So ambitious and life that you 111 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,500 neglect your spiritual disciplines and you're not as as 112 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:53,300 frequently attending your church because you want to make the 113 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,200 extra shift, whatever the case may be. 114 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:58,300 Honestly, that's what Christians believe the most dangerous thing 115 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,400 about loving money is is that you don't show up to church and 116 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,900 you neglect your time in the morning and you just become so 117 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:07,400 motivated for for gain that you just walk away from. 118 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:12,200 Basic Christian. Disciplines I'm telling you this 119 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,900 afternoon, that it is much more disturbing than that. 120 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:19,900 Because you know the verse not in 2nd Timothy but in 1st 121 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:26,400 Timothy 6:10 For the Love of Money is a root of all kinds of 122 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,100 evil. Never mind. 123 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:31,300 You just being lazier with your spiritual disciplines. 124 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:35,400 It is a root of all kinds of evil. 125 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,799 So what's the equation in light of understanding the last days? 126 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,500 Here's the equation. Paul says, that, in latter 127 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:46,300 times, there will be a greater love for money and there will be 128 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:51,000 more lovers of money and because of that, then the result will be 129 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,900 according to First Timothy 6:10 that there will be greater evil. 130 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,900 There will be more evil, all kinds of evil, creative types of 131 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,200 evil for one, sole purpose because it is the manifestation 132 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:15,300 of loving gain. The scriptures testify this in a 133 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:20,000 book, the book that most describes what the last days 134 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,600 will look like. In the Book of Revelation, 135 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,800 consider these verses turn with me to Revelation chapter 18. 136 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:30,300 Which describes the response as you're turning there, the 137 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:32,500 response of the inhabitants of the Earth. 138 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:40,500 Once they witness God, judging the Antichrist economic Empire. 139 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,400 Most of this chapter deals with the response of the merchants of 140 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,000 the world, who will witness the Fatal hit. 141 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,800 That the economic system that this world will know during the 142 00:09:55,808 --> 00:09:59,400 tribulation will take. Because as we know that in the 143 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,200 final years before Christ returns, there will be a one 144 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,600 world political system, a one world economic system that will 145 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,300 be led by political figure who is labeled in our Bibles as the 146 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:15,400 man of lawlessness. And this man will be an agent of 147 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,300 Satan, that will introduce a deception. 148 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,900 Unlike the world has ever experienced. 149 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:25,500 And with this, widespread deception will come at false 150 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,300 peace. There will be a false 151 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:34,100 tranquility and they're also be great Prosperity. 152 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:38,000 There will be a flourishing commercialization that will 153 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 bring much luxury into that time and much gained for many people. 154 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:51,200 But God will judge him and God will judge his work and his 155 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,300 kingdom at some point. And I want you to see in 156 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:59,100 Revelation, 18 how again, the merchants will respond to the 157 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:02,700 Swift. Wrath of the Lord, specifically, 158 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:07,300 on the economic headquarters of the Antichrist during the 159 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:11,300 tribulation period. Verse 11 of chapter 18. 160 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:19,900 And the merchants of the earth, weep and mourn for her since no 161 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:24,100 one buys their cargo anymore cargo of gold. 162 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:26,700 Silver. Jewels pearls fine, linen, 163 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,100 purple, cloth, silk Scarlet, cloth, all kinds of scented 164 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:35,900 would all kinds of Articles of ivory, all, kinds of Articles of 165 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,700 Frankincense, rather costly would bronze iron and marble 166 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:44,600 cinnamon spice incense myrrh. Frank Is wine oil, fine, flour 167 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,700 wheat, cattle and sheep horses, and chariots and slaves. 168 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:54,700 That is human Souls. Notice that when God judges 169 00:11:55,700 --> 00:11:58,500 Babylon, which is some say, it's a literal Place. 170 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:02,600 Some states as symbolic term to describe again the headquarters 171 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,400 of the Antichrist economic and political agenda. 172 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,500 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her. 173 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,200 That's disturbing. You know, why? 174 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,700 It's disturbing read the book of Revelation. 175 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:20,600 And if you read the book of Revelation, you will see very 176 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,200 quickly that there is little weeping and mourning from 177 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,100 Sinners on the earth, concerning their sin. 178 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,600 You don't see this kind of reaction when it when it deals 179 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,900 with God trying to get the the world's attention by 180 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,800 Supernatural shakings and plagues and pestilences. 181 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,400 Oh no. If anything read Revelation, 16, 182 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:46,300 you will see that the people will all the more Curse God as 183 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:49,500 they are objects of discipline. When God begins to move 184 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,400 supernaturally in a way that is so obvious that it is a 185 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,600 Transcendent being that is doing these things and they will still 186 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:01,800 bite their tongues. And curse God. what all when 187 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:07,100 their financial gain was damaged, When their sales, when 188 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:11,000 their trade was destroyed, they wept. 189 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:16,100 They were broken. They were dismayed, they were 190 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:19,500 shattered. And I read that and I thought 191 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:24,800 surely this is an example of how man proves that they are under 192 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,700 the lordship of Mammon instead of the lordship of Jesus Christ. 193 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Surely, this is an illustration of how people love money. 194 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:37,100 And there are more concern. According to this verse about 195 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:41,100 the lostness of their gain rather than the lostness of 196 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:44,300 their souls. Do you want to know how you love 197 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,400 money this afternoon? Let me give you a hint. 198 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,800 You're more concerned about your financial condition, then your 199 00:13:50,808 --> 00:13:53,700 spiritual condition. You're more concerned. 200 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:56,800 If you've lost money, then if you've lost your testimony, 201 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,300 you're more concerned. If you've lost something, then 202 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,000 if you've lost your prayer life, you're more concerned that if 203 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,400 you didn't get the newest, instead of growing in the 204 00:14:05,408 --> 00:14:12,300 presence of God, Here we see these people broken over the 205 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:16,500 fact that they, they had so much going for them and it was all 206 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:19,300 taken away at a moment. What a testimony of the 207 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:24,100 fickleness of your finances. There is a very, very fine line 208 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:28,700 between us owning stuff and stuff owning us. 209 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:32,900 And Paul said, in that famous verse about the Love of Money. 210 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:34,900 How it is. A root of all kinds of evil in 211 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,000 the ESV. He goes on to say for it is 212 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,300 through this craving that some have wandered from the faith. 213 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,900 We got to read our Bibles slowly, he didn't say it is 214 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:50,400 through the gaining, just the craving of it. 215 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,800 Just the appetite alone has the ability to pull you away from 216 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,900 your faith, never mind, having the stuff, just wanting it and 217 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,400 dreaming about it, and wishing it, and going into debt for it. 218 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:08,900 Just the craving has the ability to persuade you away from what 219 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,500 truly matters, and that is your personal walk with the Lord 220 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:18,200 Jesus Christ. There's a very fine line, think 221 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:23,700 about it. As we look at this, notice, the 222 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,900 reaction between these Merchants concerning, the loss of their 223 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:30,500 possessions. And a man, like job When 224 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,600 everything was stripped away from him, because God allowed 225 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,300 Satan to have a hand on his stuff, on his farm, on his land, 226 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,100 on his cat, on his own children. Notice the difference of 227 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:41,900 reaction? Oh, he wept. 228 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,100 Oh, he was broken but he worshipped He worshipped, why? 229 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,400 Because he had stuff, but stuff didn't have him. 230 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,900 These people, they wept. Why? 231 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,300 Because all they had was stuff and that was taken from them. 232 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:57,800 There's a very fine line between us owning money and money owning 233 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,600 us. And it's very unpopular teaching 234 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,300 to talk about the love of money. And I'll tell you, this is 235 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:04,200 because many preachers Love Money themselves. 236 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,800 Many people are in Ministry just for the sake of financial gain. 237 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:13,800 I fear for you preacher and how you will stand before God 238 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,300 because you have all along served Mammon instead of the man 239 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:22,400 Jesus Christ. But secondly, the you hear the 240 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,400 list there and did you notice that a majority of the materials 241 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,800 that were mentioned? Describe luxury, over a 242 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,200 necessity? Look at the list again. 243 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,500 What is this cargo of? Gold pearls fine. 244 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:38,000 Linen, purple, cloth, silk, this is talking about extravagance. 245 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 This is talking about about stuff that you add on to what is 246 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 necessary. And it is true that the sadness 247 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,700 here stems from their sales and their trade, taking a blow. 248 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,700 And the merchants not being able to make more as a result of what 249 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:55,600 God had done, but consider how strange this is. 250 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,500 This is during the tribulation period, this is during a time 251 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,300 where the world will know unusual, manifestations of God's 252 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:06,599 Wrath. Up to that point we really are 253 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,599 just experiencing God's passive wrath where he lets people and 254 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,900 Nations dive into their sin. But when the tribulation period 255 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:17,500 comes, it will be very much God's Act of Wrath on display. 256 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:23,000 And so you're going to see catastrophic things millions of 257 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,599 people dying animal. All these things just just 258 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,200 turning to Ash. And yet you look at this in 259 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,700 Revelation, 18 and what do you see a people who are still 260 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:35,800 concerned about the newest and the Latest. 261 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:41,100 Look at how the grip of the Love of Money can a can so get you 262 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:45,400 that it can distract you from the very thing around you. 263 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,800 That is signaling the second coming of Jesus Christ. 264 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,400 Then in Jesus talked about the last days being like that, they 265 00:17:51,408 --> 00:17:54,700 will marry given to marriage. They will drink, they will eat. 266 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:58,300 They will buy, they will sell in the last days, the days of Noah, 267 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:01,100 the days of lot. We think that when the 268 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:03,600 tribulation period comes, were all going to be in Bunker's 269 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,800 know, there's going to be people here that are going to be very 270 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:13,600 much busy, with their work, and growing, and stocks, and real 271 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,200 estate and jewelry and fashion and furniture. 272 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:23,300 Not knowing that you were at the threshold of the return of Jesus 273 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:28,400 Christ. Materialism has such a powerful 274 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:34,200 convincing power over people that it can even keep the 275 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,600 devotion of men and the final hours of History. 276 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:43,400 But did you notice the last thing that was mentioned on this 277 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,900 list? the last thing on this list that 278 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:54,300 these Merchants are so disturbed about slaves, That is human 279 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:57,900 Souls. The word slaves in the original 280 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:02,000 simply means bodies. The bodies of men and in other 281 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,200 word, for word translations, like the nasb, the new King 282 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,200 James, the King James, they would they would say slaves and 283 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:17,000 human Souls /, human lives. What does that mean? 284 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,100 The spirit of God is showing us that the love of money will be 285 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:25,700 so great in the last days that people will become objects for 286 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,500 sale. That people, their bodies will 287 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:33,600 actually be Commodities. Not the service of people not, 288 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:39,100 not slave labor. No people People will actually 289 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:44,400 be given a people actually be on the same list as cattle and 290 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,400 chariots. Because we were being told by 291 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:53,000 this that the love of money will be so great, that the desire 292 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,600 Financial game will be so intense that humans themselves 293 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:04,100 will be for sale. We're already seeing that today. 294 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,200 We're seeing though, you do not see it. 295 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,200 So obviously, it's happening. It's even happening this 296 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,400 afternoon where little girls are being kidnapped by vicious man 297 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,800 and being sold into sex trafficking. 298 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,000 All that. That seems so vile and 299 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,100 Despicable, right? Well, pornography makes an 300 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,000 annual revenue of twelve billion dollars. 301 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:31,300 And guess what the commodity is a pornography? 302 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,600 Humans. Their bodies. 303 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:37,000 You don't think we're living in the last days. 304 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:42,200 Or what about the services that are given under the guise of 305 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,300 healthcare. When in reality, there is 306 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:48,700 genocide happening in the wombs of mothers on a daily basis. 307 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,600 And even some of those body parts that are extracted, are 308 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,600 are sold and used for research when I living in the last days, 309 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,900 huh? Are you waiting for a volcanoes 310 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,100 to erupt and waiting for tsunami? 311 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:03,500 Don't come. But Paul says here. 312 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:10,400 There's going to be lovers of money. and notice on that list 313 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:16,700 in Revelation 18 where the human Souls were, they listed Last. 314 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:20,900 Last there. Last on the list. 315 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:28,100 To say that man will cherish in a steam material Goods over the 316 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:34,400 sanctity of human life. In the last days, there will be 317 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,000 lovers of money. We're in the last days we're 318 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 seeing it and it's only going to get worse, brothers and sisters. 319 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:45,300 But we come back to our main text. 320 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:48,600 And after telling us that for people will be lovers of self 321 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,000 lovers of money, Paul moves on to say that they will be proud 322 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,300 and arrogant. Again, the ESV is unique here 323 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,300 because another word for word translations, the word proud is 324 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:05,200 replaced with the word boastful, boastful, and the original 325 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,600 Greek, the word as eyelids own actually meaning empty 326 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,000 Pretender. So I believe that the best fit 327 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,300 for that is actually boastful because the original says empty 328 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,700 Pretender and it helps make a distinction when you have 329 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:23,900 boastful there instead of proud because the neighboring word is 330 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,500 arrogant and being boastful and arrogant they overlap but 331 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:31,500 they're not the same thing. But Paul says in the last days 332 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:36,300 there will be empty Pretenders and this is to speak about how 333 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,200 men will exaggerate their own greatness. 334 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaks about one who boast about their accomplishments, their 335 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,600 knowledge, their abilities, their experiences, by stretching 336 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,600 the truth or even making claims that have no basis in reality. 337 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:59,400 It highlights the attitude of someone who comes off and wants 338 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,900 to make sure everybody knows that they are superior. 339 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,200 Or they're the most significant one in the room. 340 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:12,400 And it is essentially the verbal manifestation of self-love. 341 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,000 So in the last days, there are going to be people who are going 342 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,900 to give the impression that they are something or someone when 343 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:21,400 reality, they are something else. 344 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,500 And let me give you a very innocent example. 345 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:26,700 You got people today that edit themselves to the point where 346 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:29,700 they are different online than they are in person. 347 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:33,300 It's a cultural thing. It's normal to us. 348 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:36,700 It's like it seems fine, but I think it speaks of what Paul is 349 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:40,100 talking about here. Even on a physical level. 350 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:43,100 We want to show people that don't know, us in reality and 351 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:45,600 people are making tons of money on this through Instagram and 352 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,800 other things. And they have so skewed 353 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,800 themselves that they are pretending. 354 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,100 To look like somebody to have perfect skin to have the perfect 355 00:23:57,100 --> 00:23:59,200 shape and to be perfectly symmetrical. 356 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,400 You, what is that? Is that just? 357 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:06,200 It's fun. No, it says something in the 358 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,300 last days, this is going to become very known, very common. 359 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:19,400 And it's going to be widespread. Arrogant as well boastful and 360 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,000 arrogance again. They overlap but they're not 361 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,700 necessarily the same thing because you can be arrogant and 362 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:28,000 not be boastful you can be arrogant and not necessarily 363 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,400 trumpet it. It's not as vocal. 364 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,300 It's something that manifests in different ways, but it primarily 365 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:40,800 plagues the heart and it's a, it's a convincing of yourself 366 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,200 that you Harbor. And that is you are greater than 367 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,300 everybody else. Just about everybody else and 368 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,600 the eyes of the inner man. They look at others with 369 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,800 contempt. And although they don't demand 370 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,500 the praise of others, there is an internal worship service 371 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,800 happening continually in the internals parts of who they are. 372 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:09,400 The Arrogant eventually cannot hide their arrogance. when you 373 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,800 esteem yourself above others as preeminent, in value and worth, 374 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,300 It will, it will make itself known. 375 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,700 Sometimes it's known through actions other times. 376 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:26,300 It verbal vomit, it just slips out in the right time. 377 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,200 And there's some kind of comment that is made. 378 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,700 Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, 379 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:35,500 this is the channel in which the heart is revealed. 380 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:39,600 And sometimes as proverb says, all it takes. 381 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,300 Is a look that can speak much louder than words. 382 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:51,200 Why am I saying all this? Because in the last days, 383 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:56,600 humility will be a rarity. In the last days, a humble 384 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,300 spirit. Will not be as common as 385 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:06,100 boastfulness and arrogance. Over history, we have lost 386 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:10,900 species of animals and in like manner as we advance from 387 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:14,000 generation to generation. Humility will become nearly 388 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,100 extinct. The Bible speaks about this sin. 389 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:24,500 And great, great warning and James 4:6. 390 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,200 We are told. God does what Tommy? 391 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,300 He resists or he opposes the proud. 392 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,300 Guess what's so fascinating about that? 393 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:37,900 Verse? James is talking to Christians, 394 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:42,600 ain't talking to non-believers and he's not teaching about the 395 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,100 pride of those who have not submitted to the righteousness 396 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:48,500 of God in Christ Jesus, he's actually talking to Christians 397 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,700 and if we don't believe that, then Peter borrows the same 398 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,000 language. When he tells Christians, clothe 399 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,100 yourselves, in humility toward one another. 400 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:59,400 And then he says, for God, opposes the proud, but he gives 401 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,300 grace to the humble. What's amazing about that word 402 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:09,300 resist or opposes? Is that it actually means to 403 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:13,900 range in battle against. You know what that means. 404 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:18,600 It's a military term. So let me translate it and 405 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:25,400 simple language, God. We'll go to war against the 406 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,700 proud. Unless somebody knows I can't 407 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:34,200 find of any other kind of sin that God speaks in such manner, 408 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:40,600 he will set up the battle ranks, he will declare war against 409 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,000 those who have harbored arrogance. 410 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:48,800 You know why? That's concerning to me? 411 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:51,800 I don't know about you. I have enough things fighting 412 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,500 against me. Hey, I have this flesh to deal 413 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:58,700 with I got the world to deal with. 414 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,900 And I got the devil to deal with and so do you and the hordes of 415 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:04,700 demons? They oppose me daily and I'm 416 00:28:04,708 --> 00:28:09,300 sure they oppose you too. But according to this verse, if 417 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:15,000 I want to add one more, all I have to do is be unrepented in 418 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:22,200 my pride and, and I have God to deal with and guess what if God 419 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,300 is on our side, it doesn't matter who stands against us, 420 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:32,900 the flesh, the devil All the hordes of hell if God is for me. 421 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,800 None of these things can overcome me. but if God is 422 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,700 against me, It is a matter who I have on my side. this is a 423 00:28:41,708 --> 00:28:45,700 matter of I have the entire world standing behind me with 424 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:49,200 their hands on my back, as Paul said, rhetorically to the 425 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:56,500 Corinthians, are we stronger than he So you can only imagine 426 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,700 the war is that the Lord will have with people in the last 427 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:01,100 days. As there will be a greater 428 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:03,500 military of the boastful in the arrogant. 429 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,000 And let's be very Vigilant here believer. 430 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,500 Let's be very, very Discerning concerning. 431 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,400 Spiritual warfare. If pride is the very thing that 432 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:19,000 invites God's Army against me. One of Satan's greatest 433 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,400 strategies against the Christian what the temptin to be proud. 434 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,300 Consider that. One of Satan's greatest 435 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:32,600 strategies is to allow the heart to become puffed up. 436 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:37,200 And this is how clever he is because when we allow that Pride 437 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:43,000 to be planted, a nourished and mature, and the enemy knows, 438 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,600 never mind, I don't have to deal with them. 439 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:50,800 God will deal with them. When Jesus Christ returns to 440 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:55,100 this world. To this Pride, pumped Pride, 441 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:59,000 filled world, I want you to see how he's going to deal with this 442 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,600 sin. It's quite amazing because one 443 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,400 of the prophets, the Minor Prophets and their minds are not 444 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,800 because they're less significant than Isaiah, Jeremiah and 445 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,600 Ezekiel just because their prophecies are a little shorter. 446 00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:13,200 One of the Minor Prophets, pulls the curtain back and give us a 447 00:30:13,208 --> 00:30:16,800 little peek into the millennial reign of Jesus when he 448 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,400 physically Returns on the Earth. And I want you to turn to that 449 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,000 book called Zephaniah with me in chapter 3. 450 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,500 And I want you to see how the Lord Jesus Christ will 451 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:33,100 specifically handle the people of Israel. 452 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,700 And those who are proud and arrogant in the midst. 453 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,300 I'll give you some time to find Zephaniah. 454 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:48,900 It's not a very popular book. Zephaniah, chapter 3. 455 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,400 And once we hear the rustling of the leaves, calm down will 456 00:30:53,500 --> 00:31:00,100 expound. Zephaniah chapter 3 again. 457 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,300 This is a prophecy about the world to come. 458 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,300 Not heaven. This is why we believe in the 459 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:08,900 literal reign of Christ because you have a lot of prophetic 460 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:12,600 words to deal with Because they haven't happened yet and if 461 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,300 we're just waiting for heaven and we have a lot of wasted real 462 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,000 estate in the Bible. Is that when I Chapter 3 463 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,500 beginning in verse 11 on that day, you shall not be put to 464 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,000 shame. Because of the Deeds by which 465 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,400 you have rebelled against me. Now, look what happens for then. 466 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:35,100 On that day Christ returns and becomes king. 467 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:42,200 I will remove from your midst, your proudly, exultant ones and 468 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,300 you shall no longer be haughty in my Holy Mountain. 469 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:51,600 Think about this when the Lord Jesus Christ, pierces, through 470 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,200 the skies, and with those Pierce feet lands on the Mount of 471 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,200 Olives, one of the top priorities that Christ will come 472 00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:02,500 to accomplish is to cleanse the world from Pride. 473 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:08,700 Is to wash the hearts of those who try to be in close proximity 474 00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:13,100 to his Dwelling Place from haughtiness because those who 475 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,700 have haughtiness harbored in their hearts cannot be close to 476 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,500 his Earthly Throne, he will not tolerate it. 477 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:26,200 As he comes as the Messiah, he will deal with this Pride. 478 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,300 That will be so common. Can you imagine a world will 479 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,700 Pride will be suffocated? It's hard to imagine, you know, 480 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:34,700 why? It's hard to imagine because we 481 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:38,100 live in a culture today, that celebrates Pride as confidence. 482 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:45,600 And a strength. But our King is Meek. 483 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:51,600 And he is humble gentle lowly in heart, and he will demand from 484 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,800 the citizens of the world to reflect his character. 485 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,500 And so when Jesus first came into the world, he said, learn 486 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:02,500 from me for, I am gentle and lowly in heart, but when he 487 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,400 comes again, he's not going to say learn from. 488 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,800 He's going to make you be humble. 489 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:12,000 Because when we stand before the superiority of his glory, the 490 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:16,400 moral Majesty, the radiating righteousness, the power of his 491 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:21,000 wisdom. Pride will have a very difficult 492 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000 time surviving under his Rule and reign. 493 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:33,200 And I look at this, and I get excited because if what will 494 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,500 characterize the last days is that there will be the proud and 495 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:38,800 the Arrogant, what do you think? Will characterize the 496 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,300 inhabitants of the earth? When Jesus comes look at verse 497 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,800 12. But I will leave in your midst 498 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:51,500 of people, humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the 499 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:54,000 name of the Lord, because that's one of the evidences that you 500 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,200 are humble, and lowly. You are dependent on the Lord. 501 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,500 You hide in the Lord, you seek wisdom from the Lord, your 502 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:04,500 protection is the Lord. Your provision is not your bank 503 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:07,800 account, it's the Lord, the humble, and lonely. 504 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,100 That's who I'm going to leave in the midst. 505 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,300 I'm going to come and clean up all the junk. 506 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:17,100 That the human heart has created and that the Antichrist has 507 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:20,800 encouraged and I will leave in your midst, the humble and 508 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:26,199 lowly. I'm excited. 509 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:31,500 Come Lord, Jesus. But I'm not just excited because 510 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,699 this is a glorious window into that time. 511 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:38,400 I'm excited because it holds application power for today. 512 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:43,300 Well, what do I mean by that? Well, ask this if Jesus is going 513 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:47,300 to deal with the pride in the world, by becoming the ruler of 514 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:51,100 the Earth. The righteous King of the 515 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:54,600 Nations. Then what is the solution for 516 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,699 the arrogance? That might so live comfortably 517 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:01,700 in my heart, the pride of my heart, the heartiness, the snob 518 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,800 Enos of my heart, the same solution for the world. 519 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,400 When he comes, Jesus Christ must sit on the throne of my will. 520 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,900 If Jesus Christ sitting on the throne on Mount, Zion will deal 521 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,600 with the pride and the world. And Jesus Christ sitting on the 522 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,500 throne of my heart will deal with the arrogance that will try 523 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:23,600 to live so comfortably Within Me. 524 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,300 In other words, as you submit to him as we seek him as we crown 525 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:37,900 him as Lord and Master every single day, trust that he will 526 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:43,100 be faithful to remove the pride from the midst of us. 527 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:49,400 And to, instead replace it with a humility that reflects his 528 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:55,600 character. the more I behold, the example of Christ, the more 529 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:59,700 I pray for the reality of Christ of my soul, The More, I Seek to 530 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:04,500 imitate Christ, the less pride has the power to have its way in 531 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:08,900 me, The solution to the pride in this world will be when the 532 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:13,300 Prince of Peace comes. To eliminate it with his power. 533 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:18,400 And the only Power for Pride to die in my heart, is if Christ 534 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,400 becomes the king of it, we should be very careful of 535 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,800 praying things as a church, really because when we pray, 536 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:31,200 Lord lead this ministry. Lord have your way in our midst. 537 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,000 Lord be the center of attention and have all things unto your 538 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,000 glory. You know what? 539 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,400 He might do as a response. Remove the pride. 540 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,400 From the midst, remove the exalted ones, remove the ones 541 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,300 that are a part of the ministry to have it for their selves and 542 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:53,600 their own name and their own reputation, be careful. 543 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,000 The same way, he will cleanse the earth when he becomes king 544 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000 of Christ is King of Maranatha Bible Church Christ will cleanse 545 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,500 this place. From Pride from those who will 546 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,700 not allow him to cleanse their hearts first. 547 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:15,500 And we come back to our text and second Timothy And we read. 548 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,300 We're making progress. We didn't stay on one. 549 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,500 For people will be lovers of self. 550 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:24,100 Lovers of money, proud, arrogant, and then interesting 551 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:25,800 enough in the ESV. We are told that people will 552 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,600 become abusive. Abusive, that is an interesting 553 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,000 translation of the original word, which is in the Greek 554 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,500 Blasphemous sound familiar. It's where we get the word 555 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:42,700 blasphemous. And that word is so pregnant. 556 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:47,400 With application, it speaks of to speak evil against to revile 557 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:54,900 against To ridicule to slander and even to be abusive. 558 00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,500 And most people have limited the sin of blasphemy as being 559 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,700 something that we can only do against God. 560 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:06,500 No, we can be Blasphemous against one another. 561 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,700 And that's why I believe that. Yes we chose the word abusive to 562 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:14,600 widen the application of the original word to not make people 563 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,800 think that it's something that people only do against God, know 564 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,800 they will, they will do it against others. 565 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,400 Paul by the spirit, listen to this foretells that there will 566 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,100 be a heightened level of insults. 567 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:32,500 Of disrespect of vulgarity of cursing Of Dishonor and 568 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:37,300 reviling, that will be the common language of the folk. 569 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:43,400 And even though such words, carry the force to cut to wound 570 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,800 to destroy, even defile the imagination of those who are in 571 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,500 the presence of blasphemy, it will be so prevalent. 572 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:54,400 It'll be so normal. And you know that we're living 573 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:59,000 in that day, whatever Direction you turn into your eyes, will 574 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,300 see your ears will hear a blasphemy. 575 00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:06,500 It's in our entertainment. If we can call it that, It's in 576 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:09,000 the music. It's in the conversation. 577 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,700 On the commute. It's in the conversation at 578 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:15,900 work. It's so prevalent and I wonder 579 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:20,600 if Paul had a chance to make a weekend, visit to America and 580 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,100 then head back to heaven on Sunday evening. 581 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:27,600 He would make the observation. This is the blasphemy that I 582 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,500 told Timothy about 2,000 years ago. 583 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,300 This is it, I'm sure he would come to that conclusion and we 584 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,800 can spend the rest of the remaining time pointing to how 585 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,900 it's real here, how it's real. There you're fully aware of it. 586 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,800 But again, remember this point that when we started this 587 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,000 section and Timothy, we don't want to just study the evil 588 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000 behavior that will mature, the wickedness that will grow in our 589 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,100 generation and the future Generations. 590 00:39:55,100 --> 00:40:00,100 If God does not tarry, we want to make an ambition that if this 591 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,000 world is only going to get darker than let the light of 592 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,500 Christ shine brighter. Let's match the wickedness with 593 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:09,400 righteousness. If the world is going to succumb 594 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,400 to the power of the evil one, and allow the flesh to dominate, 595 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:16,700 Then we met, we submit to the power of the spirit and still 596 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:20,900 remain the salt of the earth. And so I'm reading this and I'm 597 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:24,300 thinking, okay, yeah, abuse abuse with the language abusive 598 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,600 with slander and reviling, and cursing. 599 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,300 I mean, you got Christians today who are calculated with their 600 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,500 cursing because you want to be cool or not. 601 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:42,100 Cool, your amateur, your marring, your testimony, I can't 602 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:47,100 help but think about how every ugly Dimension, that Paul lists. 603 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,300 Your Christ is the exact opposite. 604 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,500 He is the exact polar opposite. And when I saw this, that people 605 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,600 are going to use their tongue to be abusive, the my mind rushed 606 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,500 to well, how did Jesus use his tongue? 607 00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:04,700 Because he's our example. And if the world is going to 608 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,100 intensify in this, then Lord, let Christ be real. 609 00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:10,500 Even with this mouthpiece and I couldn't help. 610 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:13,400 My mind, went to that Prophecy of the suffering. 611 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,000 Servant in Isaiah, chapter 50, would you meet me there? 612 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,100 It's so precise about one of the elements of the Messiah who will 613 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:23,000 come into this world and it doesn't deal with his healing 614 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000 power though. That is wonderful, doesn't deal 615 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,500 with his miraculous abilities. It doesn't deal with doesn't 616 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:32,500 necessarily deal with his power. For preaching. 617 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,500 Though it is included in that. Look at what this is about. 618 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,800 Jesus this is what Isaiah foretold about Christ your lord, 619 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,600 your savior, our master and Isaiah chapter 50 verse 4. 620 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:51,500 We read the Lord, God has given me The tongue of those who are 621 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:56,200 taught. That I may know how to sustain 622 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,400 with a word. Him who is weary morning by 623 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,900 morning. He awakens, he awakens my ear to 624 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:09,400 hear as those who are taught You know, that verse, I'm sure 625 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,000 you're convinced can be a whole sermon series. 626 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,300 What does it say about Jesus? As this is one of the suffering 627 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:21,000 songs of the Messiah. We are told here that Christ 628 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,200 says, the Lord, God has given me all. 629 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,200 Look at the humility. Look at the servanthood. 630 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:30,000 Look at the dependency of Christ in the flesh. 631 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:35,600 The Lord God Yahweh has given me and I received something from 632 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:41,300 him. what is it that he is received from God the tongue of 633 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:47,500 those who are taught or learned, And as I said earlier, in prayer 634 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:52,900 that tongue was so impressive. So powerful so captivating it 635 00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:57,100 dripped with the honey of God's word it dripped with piercing 636 00:42:57,100 --> 00:43:00,400 power convicting strength, comforting Grace. 637 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,600 That even when the Pharisees sent those officers to arrest 638 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,100 and they came back Spellbound like where is he? 639 00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:10,500 The like we've never heard anybody spoke like him. 640 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,600 We've never heard anybody other words. 641 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:19,100 Like he uttered. But this prophecy doesn't deal 642 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:22,000 with the the wisdom that confounds the wise. 643 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000 It doesn't deal with necessarily the scriptures that Jesus pulled 644 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,200 out of the Bible though. It includes that the the 645 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,100 application the ability of Christ tongue is right here that 646 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:39,100 I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. 647 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,000 So all that Revelation, all that knowledge that he had received 648 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,300 from God as he grew up. The scripture tells us in wisdom 649 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:52,100 and stature it had the ability to lift the weary head. 650 00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:55,800 Can you make like, look how compassionate God is? 651 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,000 That one of the Prophecies of the Messiah is that when he will 652 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:04,400 use his tongue, people who are discouraged, beaten by life, 653 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:09,600 deflated will feel as strength. To move on. 654 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,100 That was the kind of preacher. Jesus was when you heard Jesus 655 00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:20,000 preach, it provided strength. It provided life, it provided 656 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,400 hope. Unlike the Pharisees, when they 657 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,800 preached Jesus condemned them, you throw burdens on people that 658 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,700 you yourself are not even able to carry. 659 00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:32,200 That was not Jesus. He lifted burdens when he spoke 660 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,500 to the alleviated, when he spoke, he healed when he spoke 661 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,800 people sense. A bomb to their souls. 662 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:40,400 If you're aspiring to be a preacher, imitate your master 663 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,700 that even in the hardest words, the hardest rebukes people will 664 00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:47,800 still feel his strength. That's the spirit of Christ and 665 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,300 the true preacher that even if it's a rebuke, they would sense. 666 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,600 There we are. Hearts come to life. 667 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:01,100 But how did he achieve this? How did Jesus as yes? 668 00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:04,600 Truly God. But also man, how do we achieve 669 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,600 this ability to sustain people with the word, unlike the abuse 670 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,300 that will be known in the last days? 671 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:18,600 Morning by morning, he awakens. He awakens my ear as to hear, as 672 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,700 those who are taught the speaks about the fellowship that Jesus 673 00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:27,700 had with the father. Was it sporadic? 674 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,900 Morning by morning. I want you to never read those 675 00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:36,100 passages in the gospels. The same way again, when you 676 00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,500 read that Jesus often secluded himself to lonely places to 677 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,200 pray, or when you read in Mark, that Jesus woke up. 678 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,100 Even before the sun came up, you know what he was doing that 679 00:45:45,100 --> 00:45:49,200 morning, he was receiving the tongue of those who are taught 680 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,900 He was receiving the Revelation, he needed for that day to 681 00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:59,100 sustain someone else with his words. 682 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,500 Are we not imitators of Christ? I read this and I thought Lord, 683 00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:10,900 do I do this morning by morning. Do I come to you and to your 684 00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:13,400 word? Not some subjective thing. 685 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,300 But do I come to your word and do I come with an open ear and 686 00:46:18,300 --> 00:46:22,400 do I say Lord awaken my ear that I may know how to sustain with a 687 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:26,900 word. I don't want, I want to stand 688 00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:29,700 and complete opposite to the to the world who are so quick to 689 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:32,800 tear down and Destroy. They will be abusive, but Lord, 690 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,900 if I'm going to live in these last days, make me like you. 691 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,000 I want to be the person that when people hear me speak, they 692 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,700 are only built up. They feel that much more grace 693 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,700 and energy to live as a Christian. 694 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,400 It feel that much more joyful to be in the will of God. 695 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,000 And if they Veer off that my words, by your grace will bring 696 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,100 them back. And that can only come from one 697 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,300 thing brothers and sisters. If you want to have that kind of 698 00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:05,600 tongue, unlike the tongue of the world that holds no wisdom, no 699 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,200 ability to provide strength, even modern-day psychology. 700 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,800 It's so silly to me when I hear these people even Christians and 701 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,700 I won't mention these peoples names because I believe they're 702 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,400 good people. But these philosophers these 703 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,300 modern speakers that write books about the meaning of life. 704 00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:26,600 And stop, there's no power. It's just how to tidy up your 705 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,100 life a little bit, but it doesn't have the ability to Only 706 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:31,600 God can give him that sustain with a word. 707 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:35,300 I want to be that vessel by God's grace. 708 00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:38,600 I hope you would want it to, but it can only come from one thing. 709 00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:42,300 Can't come from Seminary. Can't come from degree, and 710 00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:44,700 listen, those who acquire greater knowledge. 711 00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:47,800 You want to know if it really came from God, when they speak, 712 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,400 does it give you Grace? I don't care how much knowledge 713 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,400 they have. You can study books and memorize 714 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,800 it. And you can just spew out 715 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,900 information, even Bible information, if it doesn't have 716 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:02,600 If it doesn't have the fruit of sustaining with a word, it's 717 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,400 just knowledge and God's touches in on it. 718 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,400 Morning by morning, he awakens. He awakens my ear to hear. 719 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,100 As those who are taught, can you picture it in Jesus? 720 00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:18,400 As this world is going to pull away from God? 721 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,100 More and more. Of course, they're going to 722 00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:24,600 inherit abusive tongues but as we come closer and closer God 723 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,700 deposits, deposits are knowledge not to impress people with 724 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:32,700 debates, not to Simply Be apologetic with our faith, but 725 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:39,000 to even provide strength to the weary heart, Look at the next 726 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,800 verse. In verse 5, we read something 727 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:47,000 and we'll close here. Because if we want to achieve 728 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,400 that yes we have to have that morning by morning fellowship. 729 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,100 And if you work night shift, don't be condemned. 730 00:48:53,100 --> 00:48:56,600 Okay? I often tell people, people get 731 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,200 sober and I love that bird and brother, I can't my scheduled 732 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,300 this and that and I just say give God what you can give him 733 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:08,200 And like the woman who anointed his head and anointed his feet, 734 00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:11,300 Jesus will defend you and say she has done what she could. 735 00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:17,400 But when we come to Isaiah 50, look at verse 5, Messiah 736 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,700 continues, the Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not 737 00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:25,700 rebellious, I turn, not backward, let's just read on to 738 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:28,500 prove that this is Christ. I gave my back to those who 739 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:32,100 strike and my cheeks, to those who pull out the beard, I hid, 740 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:34,200 not my face from disgrace and spitting. 741 00:49:34,300 --> 00:49:37,500 This is Christ. But when you look at verse 5, 742 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:40,300 notice, he says the Lord, God has opened my ear. 743 00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:42,700 And if we're not careful, we're not familiar with Biblical 744 00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:45,400 language and phrases. We might think that it's just an 745 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,500 emphasis that he was very attentive and is quiet time in 746 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:50,300 the morning. No, that's not what it is. 747 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:53,600 We heard earlier that. Yes, he comes morning by 748 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,900 morning, he listens, he comes to the word and he was rich. 749 00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:00,600 He was the word. But then we're told that the 750 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:05,500 Messiah says the Lord, God has opened my ear, and he's not 751 00:50:05,500 --> 00:50:09,700 talking about made me more attentive, know the Messiah, who 752 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:14,300 would come, was alluding to what you read in, Exodus 21, some 753 00:50:14,300 --> 00:50:17,800 things that most Christians would Skip and that's laws 754 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,000 concerning Hebrew slaves. Can I show you what this means? 755 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,300 Let's turn there. And these were the instructions 756 00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:30,600 that were given. To the slave masters in the old 757 00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,200 Covenant. There was rules. 758 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,000 And as you read these rules, you're going to quickly get the 759 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,800 impression that slavery in the Bible is not the same way. 760 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:43,600 We understand American slavery. Exodus 21. 761 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,900 Look at this. Now these are the rules and 762 00:50:45,900 --> 00:50:48,900 verse one that you shall set before them. 763 00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:53,000 When you buy a Hebrew slave, He Shall Serve six years. 764 00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:56,300 And in the seventh he shall go out free. 765 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,100 For nothing. And then we come here to verse 766 00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:02,200 5. So this is the rule. 767 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,100 If you purchase a slave, he's really like an employee. 768 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,300 He comes on in and after six years, no matter who he is, no 769 00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:12,500 matter how close he is to you, no matter how much he's done for 770 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:15,200 you. My law is you have to let him 771 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,800 go. But the slave has a choice and 772 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,800 the fact that a slave has a choice implies that he was not 773 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,100 being beaten and whipped and had a iron collar around his neck. 774 00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:30,700 Know look at verse 5 but if the slave plainly says, I love my 775 00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:32,300 master. How can you love your master of 776 00:51:32,300 --> 00:51:34,600 your slave? The way we understand slavery? 777 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,400 This is important. As you answer people's 778 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,800 questions. I love my master, my wife and my 779 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,600 children. I will know, I will not go out 780 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,600 free. If you're a slave, you're 781 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,500 counting down the days for that sixth year again, different 782 00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:51,500 concept of slavery, as people would understand it. 783 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:55,400 And our history, I will not go out free. 784 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,900 Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him 785 00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:04,900 to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear 786 00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:09,100 through with an awl, and he shall be his Slave forever. 787 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,200 So, if a man would be free after six years and in his heart and 788 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,900 goes, but I love my master, he has treated me so, well, I enjoy 789 00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:20,900 his, his Fellowship, I enjoy his friendship. 790 00:52:20,900 --> 00:52:24,400 I want to be a part of him and his family forever, then he 791 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,300 would turn around and he would say, I want to be your slave 792 00:52:27,300 --> 00:52:31,200 forever. So then the master would take 793 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:38,100 him before God open his ear. Take a sharp instrument known as 794 00:52:38,100 --> 00:52:45,500 an all and Pierce it on the doorpost as a sign of his slave 795 00:52:45,500 --> 00:52:54,700 ship to him forever. Jesus says and Isaiah 50 verse 796 00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:58,500 5. The Lord God has opened my ear. 797 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:07,300 what is he saying that as the servant of God, he was a slave 798 00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:10,400 to God. Forever. 799 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,900 He was dedicated to the cause of God. 800 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:19,700 He loved his God as his master and he chose to not do his will 801 00:53:19,700 --> 00:53:26,700 on the Earth, but the will of him who sent him. and because of 802 00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:32,100 that, dedication ever since he was a babe, God honored him 803 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:38,000 morning by morning with a tongue of those who are learned to 804 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,500 empower others. That is Christ but that is an 805 00:53:42,500 --> 00:53:46,300 invitation for you. And I you want to be used by God 806 00:53:46,300 --> 00:53:48,900 this afternoon. You want to be set apart? 807 00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:52,200 You want God to? So touch your mind and your 808 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:57,800 tongue that when you speak it Springs out life Open your ear. 809 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,700 I'm talking about morning devotion time. 810 00:54:02,300 --> 00:54:04,600 I'm talking about the opening of the year, that Jesus described, 811 00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:08,500 put your ear on the doorpost and let God pierce it. 812 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:14,300 And let him claim you forever. That is the vessel that God 813 00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,700 uses. The one who says I'm yours. 814 00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:19,300 I'm not going to be passionate about you for 6 years. 815 00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,700 I'm not going to serve you like everybody serves you in the 816 00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:24,600 beginning of my faith. When I come to know you, I'm 817 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:30,000 yours forever. The day, I die, I'm dedicated to 818 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,200 you. And it is those types of vessels 819 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,700 who will stand out in the last days. 820 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,700 It is those types of instruments who have dedicated their whole 821 00:54:40,700 --> 00:54:44,500 life to God that God will use and that's why there are many 822 00:54:44,500 --> 00:54:47,600 Christians that don't have that, you know, why? 823 00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:49,500 Because they haven't given everything to him yet. 824 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,800 They're his there, they're his employee. 825 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,200 They love God, but it's like in and out, right? 826 00:54:55,200 --> 00:55:03,200 It's like, No, dedicate yourself and watch what he will do in and 827 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,400 through you. Let's pray. 828 00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:32,100 Heavenly Father, we realize according to your word that we 829 00:55:32,100 --> 00:55:40,300 are indeed in the last days. For we see what mankind has 830 00:55:40,300 --> 00:55:43,400 become and what direction mankind is headed towards. 831 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,000 But Lord, we will not study this. 832 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,700 Merely as a subject, we longed to know what is our call in in 833 00:55:51,700 --> 00:55:55,900 all of this. And we pray and we beg of you. 834 00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:58,600 Oh God. That although these times will 835 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,400 be difficult, although there will be a greater rejection of 836 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,700 the gospel and a greater South love. 837 00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:11,000 Make us like your son. Conform us to His Image. 838 00:56:11,100 --> 00:56:14,700 Even down to the detail of how we use our words. 839 00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:21,300 If the law will reject you day after day, then Lord, may we be 840 00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:24,000 like the master who met with you morning by morning. 841 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:30,200 We submit ourselves to you. If anybody in here has not fully 842 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,200 given themselves as a bond servant of Jesus Christ made 843 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,600 today, be the Turning Point. May they say I love my master 844 00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:42,500 and I will not go away from him. I will not just visit him, I 845 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:44,100 will not just come for the holidays. 846 00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:48,900 I will be his slave forever. May that be true of every 847 00:56:48,900 --> 00:56:51,500 servant and Maranatha Bible Church. 848 00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:56,700 We asked oh God that we would be found faithful in these Final 849 00:56:56,700 --> 00:57:00,400 hours of History. We asked oh God, that although 850 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:05,100 there will be perilous times, you will see a city on a hill 851 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,300 through this local body. Among many other local bodies 852 00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,200 that will shine bright for Christ. 853 00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:17,600 Well, we submit to you and worship, not just in song, but 854 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,900 through our Our Lives. We give you all the glory, and 855 00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:24,300 thanks for the word of the Lord today, and Jesus name we pray. 856 00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:25,300 Amen.