1 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,000 If you have your Bibles, please meet me in the book is second 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,900 Timothy and as you're turning, there may also add that just 3 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:20,300 because we are doing membership in this church. 4 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:23,800 Does not mean that we don't love our guests and visitors. 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,700 And so, if you are a guest or visitor here this afternoon, 6 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:29,900 welcome. We're so blessed that you can 7 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:33,600 sing with us and receive God's word together. 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,800 We hope that you would leave here loving Jesus more than when 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,800 you came in. That is our prayer for guests 10 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,700 and members. So God bless you. 11 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:47,200 If you're there in, second Timothy meet me in chapter 3. 12 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:50,600 Anna meet me in verse 6 of chapter 3. 13 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:55,600 And let's read and then we will pray. 14 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:01,900 The spirit of God says, for among them are those who creep 15 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:09,300 into households and capture weak woman burdened with sins and led 16 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:14,500 astray by various passions. Always learning and never able 17 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:19,300 to arrive at a knowledge of the truth just as jannes and jambres 18 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:22,200 opposed Moses. So, these men also oppose the 19 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,500 truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the 20 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,800 faith. But they will not get very far 21 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,100 for their Folly will be playing to all. 22 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,800 As was that of those two men? Lord, we ask you today. 23 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,800 Lord, we ask you today to help us understand these verses, but 24 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,300 we thank you for a place for people that love your word and 25 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:51,100 love. Would you honor our hunger for 26 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,500 righteousness and Phyllis this afternoon? 27 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,700 Lord. We confess our weakness or 28 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:01,000 inability to understand or even to communicate this truth apart 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,800 from the power of the Holy Spirit. 30 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:07,000 And so Lord, we just we just call upon you with desperation. 31 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,900 In our hearts, we want to know your mind, your heart, your will 32 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,400 we want to know your character, your ways. 33 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:16,800 So we pray o. God, that you would give us the 34 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,300 attention that would be able to receive this word and totality 35 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:26,200 and then the power to obey it the power to obey it, but we 36 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,900 submit ourselves to you in this time in Jesus name, we pray. 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:37,600 Amen. after Paul, for won't for Warren's of the deceptions that 38 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,500 will come in the last days and the characteristics that will 39 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,900 describe those who will Populate, the Earth. that will 40 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:53,200 become normal, that will become praised and commended These past 41 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,000 few weeks, we've been trying to understand these things 42 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,600 separately but we we haven't touched on each of them. 43 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,900 That's okay. But we come to the final portion 44 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:05,200 of this text and we see that before the, the verses we read, 45 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:07,600 we recognize that Paul is given Christians. 46 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,100 A brief instruction in relation to how we should respond to the 47 00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:14,800 Future corruption, that has been prophesied in the scripture. 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,600 And the summary of how Christians should apply this 49 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,100 long list of Despicable practices. 50 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,100 And attitudes is found at the end of verse 5, it's only three 51 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:28,700 words really but it is deeply meaningful important for us to 52 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,700 grasp. Paul tells Christians, Paul 53 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:35,300 tells Believers. Paul tells Timothy after hearing 54 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,700 about lovers of self and pride and by those who are 55 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,900 disrespectful towards Authority and slanderous, he says avoid 56 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:49,400 such people Avoid such people, that is the Christians take away 57 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,000 of how we are to properly counter. 58 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,500 The flood of Filth, that will that will come our way, maybe 59 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:02,100 even our lifetime to avoid. Simply means to turn yourself 60 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:05,400 away to keep yourself at a safe distance from those who are 61 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,700 dominated by the flesh. But how was Timothy supposed to 62 00:04:09,708 --> 00:04:11,700 avoid something that was supposed to happen in the 63 00:04:11,708 --> 00:04:14,400 future? Is this not telling us of a day 64 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,899 to come? Is that telling us about the 65 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,000 people that will surface in a future time? 66 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,600 Surely absolutely but for there to be a present application, 67 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,900 implies something very important that the things, the evil 68 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,900 beliefs and behaviors, that will be known, then are in operation 69 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,800 right now. They are here, they were there 70 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,900 in Timothy's day. They were there long before that 71 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:43,800 and they're, they're here in America and 2022. 72 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,500 So the understanding here is not is not to just see it as a 73 00:04:47,508 --> 00:04:50,800 future thing, but as a present reality and as we heard week 74 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,000 after week, those things that we learn in verse 1, to verse 5 75 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,500 will only intensify as we race towards the final hour before 76 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:04,700 the return of Jesus Christ. Avoid such people is that really 77 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:09,400 the best way to relate to those who are spiritual blindness? 78 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,500 Who aren't hypocrisy, who are consumed with wickedness? 79 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,400 Are we not supposed to reach those people? 80 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:18,800 Are we not supposed to relate to those people? 81 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,500 The answer is yes or no the answer is yes or no. 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 God clearly tells us to avoid such people but remember back a 83 00:05:27,008 --> 00:05:31,700 few verses when he says that the servant of the Lord must I'm to 84 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:36,400 everyone able to teach with patients with the hopes that 85 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,300 some of them might be able to Escape From The Snare of Satan. 86 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,300 Our participation and seeing people liberated from darkness 87 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:50,300 is not possible unless we interact with such individuals. 88 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,100 And therefore, we cannot mistakenly think that to avoid 89 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:59,400 such people is equivalent to not engaging with these people. 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,800 At the same time, Christian listen to me, there is a warning 91 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:12,400 in these words to be extremely careful about who we entertain 92 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,100 in our lives about who it is that we allow to have close 93 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:20,600 proximity to us who we associate with, who we allow to be in our 94 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,700 Inner Circle because I want to tell you today that there are 95 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:26,800 many Christians who believe they have the restraining power. 96 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,700 To resist, being influenced by others. 97 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:35,800 And I want to tell you, you don't There are those who are 98 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,100 convinced that they are impervious to the influences of 99 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,600 attitudes and the actions of others, that it doesn't matter 100 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,100 who they are around, who is around them. 101 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,900 He had the Holy Spirit speaks candidly to Christians about 102 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,000 this being a deception. This is a deception that 103 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Christians can fall under. And we are told by Paul in First 104 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,600 Corinthians 15, do not be deceived Bad Company. 105 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,400 Ruins good morals. We always emphasize on the 106 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,700 second part Bad Company ruins good morals. 107 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,600 And we forget the first aspect of that. 108 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:17,300 Verse do not be deceived. Implying what Christians can be 109 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:21,900 misled and thinking that I can have bad company without Then 110 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:26,100 consequences. This is dangerous. 111 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,400 There are many reasons why Christians would believe this. 112 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,200 That they have some inner fortitude, where they can't be 113 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,500 swayed by a person or a crowd into the wrong direction. 114 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,200 Some think that it's just harmless that is just 115 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,400 relationships. It's just, it's just just having 116 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,700 time together. Others would think that, well, 117 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:53,000 you know, it's just me being kind and, and that is what they 118 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,600 work with. When in fact, they are really 119 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,700 wanting to satisfy a fleshly pleasure by being associated. 120 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:03,900 To some And yet, there are other good-hearted Christians that 121 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:07,900 have good intentions, and they are willing to link themselves 122 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:10,000 to others and be present. Have them be present in their 123 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,700 lives for the sole purpose of saying, I want to win them to 124 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:16,500 Christ. I want to I want to attract them 125 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,000 to the gospel. I want to bring them closer to 126 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,100 the truth and that is a noble, cause that is something that we 127 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:26,500 should apply. That is something that we should 128 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,000 Endeavor to do. But let me remind you this 129 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,700 afternoon that as much as you might be trying to win some 130 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:38,600 people, there are some people who want to win you There's some 131 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,900 people who want to win, you away from Christ. 132 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,000 When you away from Holiness who want to win, you away from the 133 00:08:46,008 --> 00:08:50,700 principles of God's word, you have to understand that today. 134 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:56,400 But at the same time we also want to be present and those who 135 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,800 are arrested by Satan and his lies. 136 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,100 So what do we do? How do we work this out? 137 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:08,500 Very simple, get wisdom. That is what Jesus told his 138 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,100 original band of Soul winners, while he was on the earth. 139 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,900 He says, behold, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves 140 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:18,500 and what did he say? Be wise as what serpents and 141 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:23,500 innocent as doves. That is very famous verse but 142 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:25,700 people don't often quote what he says, next. 143 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:29,200 The first few verse in Matthew 10, 17, that was Matthew 10:16 144 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:34,000 after he says, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, 145 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,200 he goes on to say, beware of men. 146 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:44,700 Beware of men. In other words, in your 147 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,400 endeavors to relate build relationships. 148 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,800 And your decisions are who you're going to let in, who 149 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:51,900 you're going to keep at a distance. 150 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,800 Be cautious, be alert, be Discerning, be realistic about 151 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,900 people. There are some who actually want 152 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:03,600 to lure, you away from the truth that you want to share as much 153 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,900 as you want to help people. Can I remind you today that 154 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,800 there are people out there that want to harm you I want to harm 155 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,700 your testimony your relationship with Christ. 156 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,200 You even physically, As much as you want to see people saved 157 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,700 realize that there are some people who want to take 158 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:19,900 advantage of your sacrificial love. 159 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,100 So, this calls for a discernment, this calls for a 160 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:32,200 wisdom. and if we don't, We may be inviting life-altering 161 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,900 problems. That could have been avoided and 162 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,700 that is exactly what Paul is. Teaching Timothy here in those 163 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:42,800 verses that we read. The potential threats of some of 164 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,200 those who are driven by carnal desires and those carnal desires 165 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,100 are listed in verse 12, verse 5. And that's in essence. 166 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,800 What Paul is telling Timothy is, hey Timothy, listen to me. 167 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,500 Understand what I'm trying to say that you and your people 168 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:04,500 need to learn to avoid other, some specifically, because as 169 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:07,200 much as they might be spiritually, blind, there are 170 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,800 some within that camp that are not just unaware, unbelieving. 171 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,200 They are vicious. And they're out for blood. 172 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:19,300 And they actually want to do more damage than you can 173 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:22,200 imagine. And Timothy, I want to tell you, 174 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:25,000 they are not immediately recognizable. 175 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:29,300 Some of them have the appearance of godliness and that is the way 176 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:31,800 they have their way, with those who are truly Godly. 177 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:36,600 Didn't we read it? And verse 6 we are told for 178 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,200 among them among who again the list of those people in verse 1 179 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,500 to verse 5, notice how honest the Bible is, it doesn't say all 180 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:50,300 of them, it says some of them. In other words, not everybody 181 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:54,100 who is outside of Christ is a lethal threat to you. 182 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:56,600 Not, everybody is a danger to you. 183 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,900 Now everybody's going to lead you into deception or two ways 184 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:01,500 of life that will be destructive, not everybody but 185 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,700 some of them will Because some of them will that alone requires 186 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:08,500 for us to be on guard and to seek God, for discernment. 187 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:13,700 Who to avoid who to allow, who to permit and who to disregard. 188 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,300 And these people here, some of them though, not all of them 189 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:22,200 have the potential, they have a goal, they were Twisted 190 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,100 ambition, and that is what we read to capture certain people. 191 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Timothy, I need to tell you something that there are people 192 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,400 within the camp of those who do not obey Jesus Christ as Lord, 193 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,200 who don't just not believe in the gospel, but they actually 194 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:45,300 seek to take people captive And Paul is warning here, not a 195 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:49,200 physical kidnapping but about those who are skillful and 196 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,700 seducing, the Mind those who are able to trick people, the 197 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:58,200 Apostle is most likely primarily warning about those who have 198 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,100 false teaching and lure people into their damning Doctrine but 199 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,000 it's not just limited to that. He could very well be speaking 200 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 about those who have a cloak of Holiness, but it has since come 201 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,800 to those who are naive in order to manipulate them so that they 202 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,300 can take advantage of them physically. 203 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:25,400 Financially. And everything in between, can I 204 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,800 prove that to you go to the book of Jude with me right before the 205 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,900 Book of Revelation? 1 chapter verse for Jude verse 206 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,600 4, we are told as we turn our Bibles there. 207 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,700 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were 208 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:54,100 designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who 209 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:59,900 pervert the grace of our God, into sensuality and deny, our 210 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:02,500 only master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 211 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,200 So there are people out there who not only attack the 212 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,100 authority of God's word, but there are false people out there 213 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:13,500 who take God's word twist it and Jude uses the word perverts it 214 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,600 perverts. It isn't, it isn't a language to 215 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,900 milk a verse for here who pervert, the grace of God. 216 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:22,500 Right. Look at before that, who have 217 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:26,400 crept in unnoticed, isn't it the same language that Paul uses in 218 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,700 second Timothy? Verse 6 and chapter, 34 among 219 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,800 them are those who creep into households. 220 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:40,000 So what's the idea here is that they cunningly come off as 221 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,700 knowledgeable and spiritual people? 222 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:47,200 They come off as innocent and so innocent, do they come off that 223 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,400 they are actually able to enter into people's personal domains 224 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,400 and sit and have dinner with them and sit in their living 225 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,200 rooms. And so they come into people's 226 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,600 personal lives under false pretenses. 227 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:05,600 And so it's not immediately seen they worm their way and they 228 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,200 convince people falsely. And some of these imposters will 229 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:14,000 create friendships friendships in order to lure people away 230 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,700 from the gospel or not tonight, even believe it in the first 231 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:19,600 place. But not just that there are some 232 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,700 who actually build relationships through the shared love of a 233 00:15:23,708 --> 00:15:29,400 supposed gospel. when in fact they perverted practically and 234 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:34,800 they seek to cause you to join them in their perversion, Of 235 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,700 Truth. So we're not just merely talking 236 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:43,500 about people who are clearly in lies about God or false 237 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:44,900 religions. We're talking about those who 238 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:51,800 pervert the grace of God. And listen, as much as you and I 239 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,500 should feel safe in this Community of Faith, we should 240 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,200 not be foolish, we should not be foolish to believe that there 241 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:03,300 are not some who were willing to daringly enter into your Slither 242 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:07,300 away. In order to do just that Lure 243 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:12,600 some away. We cannot think for a moment and 244 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,700 be ignorant of the schemes of the minions of Satan, to think 245 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:18,300 that he just lurks outside. Oh no, he didn't just lurk 246 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,300 outside. He seeks to lure those from 247 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:23,800 within, from the protective care of Elders. 248 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,400 And those who make up the body of that local church, you got to 249 00:16:27,408 --> 00:16:29,500 believe it. But these wolves are clever, 250 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:32,700 man. They are clever, they know who 251 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:36,400 to sniff out, they know exactly who to go for as a primary 252 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,100 target. They don't just go for anybody. 253 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,700 Paul is about to describe the Criterion who it is that these 254 00:16:42,700 --> 00:16:47,400 men specifically gravitate towards who it is that they 255 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,500 often convince and draw away from the truth, either from 256 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:55,200 initial belief. Or because there are weak in the 257 00:16:55,208 --> 00:17:00,700 faith into destructive Behavior. Read it again. 258 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:03,900 Would you in verse 6? For among them are those to 259 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:07,099 creep into households and capture weak woman. 260 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:15,400 Weak woman. You can breathe woman. 261 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:20,400 He's not saying all woman my sister's, he's not generalizing 262 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,000 your sex. He speaking about a certain 263 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,300 class of woman. He speaking about those that He 264 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,500 by the spirit has observed. There is a pattern here. that 265 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:36,900 when these false teachers in these false people come after to 266 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:41,300 devour, they often initially come after those who are women 267 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,600 And somebody cleverly pointed out that even from the 268 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,400 beginning, when Satan slid with his way, to the first parents of 269 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,200 humanity, he did not go to Adam first. 270 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:58,700 He went to Eve, And those who Advocate error have followed his 271 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:03,800 example ever since. Perhaps some would mistakenly 272 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,000 think that the weakness of woman. 273 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,700 Here, remember he's not saying all women are weak. 274 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:12,000 He's being about a certain category of women who are weak. 275 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:16,300 Some would probably think that this speaks of a unique gullible 276 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:21,200 nastas or are trustworthy spirit that just just believes anything 277 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,200 that they here and that would be a misinterpretation of what Paul 278 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,400 is saying here. About weakness, the weakness 279 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,800 that he is describing here speaks of a Frailty and 280 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,000 morality. And in spirituality, he's not 281 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,400 speaking about a less than average intelligence or ability 282 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,500 to reason that is not the case at all. 283 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:46,400 What he's saying about weakness is described in these verses, 284 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:49,400 the weakness here is and what we just read. 285 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,600 And what's profound about Paul's thoughts. 286 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,600 Your, by the spirit is that these characteristics of what 287 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:00,400 makes a woman or a man week is that it is connected to 288 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,000 deception. Meaning if these things are true 289 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,700 in a person's life they are more prone to being deceived and 290 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,800 there are evil men out there who are fully aware of that and will 291 00:19:10,808 --> 00:19:13,600 take advantage of it. So let's look at these 292 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,800 characteristics. Remember weakness is not. 293 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaking of all women, let me clarify weakness is speaking 294 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,500 about a category of women who through pattern have fallen 295 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,400 victim primarily to these evil men. 296 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,600 Number one, We are told here, they are burdened with sins. 297 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,200 They are burdened with sins. The idea of being burden here, 298 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,600 speaks of having sins heaped, upon them, and experiencing the 299 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,200 heavy guilt that wrongdoing often causes it speaks about a 300 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,600 conscience that is tormented, almost it speaks about your past 301 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:55,200 sins, or your present sins that stir up humiliation. 302 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,300 That caused you to be disappointed in yourself to the 303 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:02,000 point where it even affects your emotional stability. 304 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:07,600 False teachers, please pay attention and false professing 305 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:13,100 Christians love to play on people's shame and guilt. 306 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,800 They loved it. They can smell it. 307 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:23,300 And what they do often is that they cleverly seek to discover 308 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:28,100 your secrets, your failures of the past, maybe your struggles 309 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:31,900 in the present, because they realize that if having these 310 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:35,400 insights, they can easily manipulate you. 311 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,800 Sometimes that manipulation looks like promising, false 312 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:46,600 relief, or false salvation. Is it not true that many people 313 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,200 seek out spiritual things? When they've made a wreck of 314 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,200 their lives? When because of their decisions 315 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,600 they have been LED on a path of destruction and and emptiness 316 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,800 and being void, they begin to seek out Transcendent realities 317 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,000 and and that can be good because they can find the gospel but 318 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,400 false teachers also want to present something that is not 319 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,900 true. And so, sometimes oftentimes 320 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,000 people who are burdened by their way of life, crushed by what 321 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,200 they've done to people into themselves, begin to now yearn 322 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,500 for something else, some answers to what can fill and help them, 323 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:28,100 not realize their shame and help them distract themselves from 324 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:32,000 their pain. And they are introduced to false 325 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,500 teaching false teachers welcome to the world of Cults. 326 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,500 You know how many Cults bring in people you know how they bring 327 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:43,200 in people many reasons, one of them is this they bring a an 328 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:49,000 invitation into a communal life. And that's a perversion of what 329 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 we know in the church but they try to convince you of some 330 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,800 satisfaction of some kind of love which is a false love. 331 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,100 It's packaged with poison and people who are burdened by life, 332 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:02,300 people who are lonely, people who have made decisions that 333 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:05,200 have caused them to be in a certain place gravitate towards 334 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,500 these false teachers because these false teachers gravitate 335 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:11,200 towards them. But it's not just limited to 336 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,000 that. People who are burdened with 337 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,300 sins. These people who are false can 338 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:20,000 smell it and they capitalize on it. 339 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,600 Not to lead you into damning beliefs, but to use that as a 340 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,300 weapon against you. And what these people will do is 341 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:30,800 they will often smear your failures in your face especially 342 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,600 when you do not give them what they ask of you. 343 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,800 They know how to they know how to play on your guilt, in order 344 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,900 to steer you in a certain direction. 345 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,300 And if you don't believe what I am saying, this is biblical, 346 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:45,400 this is a psychology, this isn't scripture. 347 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,000 This is the strategies of those who are consumed with the Flesh 348 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:51,000 and want to consume others to satisfy their flesh. 349 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,400 Turn with me to Second Peter, chapter 2, verse 14. 350 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,200 So remember there are those who come after people? 351 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,500 Who are burdened with sins as Peter says, promising them 352 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,600 Freedom while they themselves are slaves to corruption. 353 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,200 That's the new age. That's every other religion 354 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,400 apart from the true one promising, you Freedom while 355 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,500 they themselves are slaves to corruption. 356 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,800 But there are others who will manipulate those who are 357 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,800 unsteady who are burdened in order to satisfy their sin. 358 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:29,700 Second Peter 2, 14 proves it. This is a this is a context on 359 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:32,600 false teachers and Peter says about these false teachers. 360 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:35,600 They have eyes full of adultery. You know what that means? 361 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:39,600 They are so consumed with lust that every woman they look at is 362 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,800 it 10 shal fantasy to being fulfilled. 363 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,700 Somebody that they can commit adultery with somebody that they 364 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:48,600 can get to commit adultery with them there. 365 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,000 Their eyes are full of adultery, they just see women as objects. 366 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,000 But look how they do it. Look how they lure people, they 367 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,700 have eyes full of adultery insatiable for sin. 368 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:07,700 They entice unsteady Souls. They have hearts trained in 369 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:12,700 greed, accursed children. I want to tell you that, 370 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:18,200 Predators can easily detect those who have broken pasts. 371 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,400 And they favor those kinds of people as prey because they 372 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:31,200 know, they know that they have an advantage with somebody who 373 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:36,800 is emotionally damaged. Or unstable and their soul or 374 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,100 not anchored, who don't understand their identity in the 375 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,600 freedom that they have in Jesus Christ have been set free by the 376 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:47,600 knowledge of the truth. Burden with sins. 377 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,800 These weak women are burdened with sins but not just burden 378 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,100 with sins. They are LED was we what are we 379 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:56,700 told and led astray by various passions. 380 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,400 At the end of verse 6, this is not the same as the previous 381 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,600 Point. What Paul is teaching here is 382 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,900 that the communicating truth is that these women are driven by 383 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:09,400 the flesh? Their decisions and their 384 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,300 desires are not governed by the word of God. 385 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,200 They are dominated by the natural mind. 386 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:18,800 Now, by the influence of the indwelling power of the Holy 387 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,900 Spirit by the Flesh, and notice he doesn't mention any 388 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:27,300 particular sins, he says, LED astray by various passions, 389 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,200 there is a wide spectrum of selfishness, that all have the 390 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,600 same effect and they can include anything that we've studied over 391 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,500 the past several weeks, from verses 1 to verse 5. 392 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:43,300 It can be women, who are unrepentant of, pride of Gossip 393 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,600 of slander of the Love of Money of materialism. 394 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,600 But here's the main point because their lives are not 395 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,100 governed by the spirit, they're easily Guided by the wrong 396 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:02,800 people. To tolerate any sin can be 397 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800 catastrophic in many ways. But let me give you one 398 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:11,500 consequence of sin that many do not consider When sin when a 399 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:16,300 life of obedience is not repented of but cherished and 400 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:21,800 embraced it blunts it. Dulls a person's ability to 401 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,800 discern. It creates a fog. 402 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:32,000 It does something to reason. It does something to your 403 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,000 ability to see things as they are, as they should be seen. 404 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,900 And there are so many examples, but the one verse that comes to 405 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:44,400 mind that makes us so clear. It's found in the prophets book 406 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,800 Hosea and 4:11. I believe this is worth turning 407 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,900 your Bibles to to see the wisdom of God, concerning the 408 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:56,900 consequences of sin. He speaking about his people, 409 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,800 his people who were destroyed for, what a lack of what. 410 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,600 Knowledge is the same chapter Hosea 4:6? 411 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,900 My people are destroyed, what a powerful. 412 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:13,300 Word destroyed shattered crushed because of a lack of knowledge. 413 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:20,100 And then he goes on to say in Hosea, 411 and speaking about, 414 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,100 The equation of lacking the truth of God. 415 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,500 And the addition of this, look at this and verse 11, whoredom. 416 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,700 Wine and new wine, which take away the understanding. 417 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:42,300 Whoredom wine and new wine. It does something. 418 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:49,100 It takes away understanding. Now, there's no debate that if a 419 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:52,200 person is intoxicated with drink that, they lose their ability, 420 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,100 at least a lot of ability to discern or to make right. 421 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,900 Judgments. That's obvious. 422 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,100 But what might not be obvious is that the Holy Spirit places in 423 00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:04,100 the same? Verse of the category of wine 424 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,400 whoredom? A promiscuous, life Indulgence, 425 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,000 sexual immorality. And would you have ever guessed 426 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,400 that something like whoredom? Would have the same effects to 427 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,900 the mind to the spirit of a man, as alcohol does to the body. 428 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:25,700 Is anybody ever considered that? This sin can lead someone to 429 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,200 just as much foolishness as a person? 430 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:36,300 Who is intoxicated with alcohol can be That's why I'm Proverbs 431 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,900 6. We are told that he who commits 432 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:42,200 adultery lacks sense. He lacks sense. 433 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200 She lacks sense. She didn't understand. 434 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,600 He does understand what this is going to lead to. 435 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,700 So there's an intoxicating influence from sin. 436 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:55,300 And we see that in numbers 25 you don't have to turn there 437 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:58,900 verse 1. When the sons of Israel are now 438 00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:02,600 committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab, they're 439 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,000 getting involved physically with these Idol worshippers and then 440 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,100 in the very next verse, we are told that they start worshipping 441 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:10,600 these false gods. How did you go from Intimate 442 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,300 Relationships to Bow before an idol? 443 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,000 Well, because whoredom Takes away. 444 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,700 Understanding. What about, what about an 445 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:22,200 individual like, Solomon? That guy remember his community 446 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,500 of wives that he had. what a tragic figure a man with so much 447 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:30,000 wisdom, wisdom from God, wisdom to build God's house, but 448 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,000 because because of a lust, A lust for power, political power, 449 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:40,600 a Lust For Women obviously. That wisdom became blurred. 450 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:46,100 And it's not just lust, my brother and sister, it's not 451 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:48,300 just limited to whoredom and new wine. 452 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:51,500 So if you've been with us on Friday nights, we have a case 453 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:55,400 study of somebody who has lost all sense of perception, 454 00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:00,600 concerning his fellow man himself and God King Saul. 455 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,100 Oh, the craziness of this man, believing things about God, 456 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:08,600 believing things about the right people about the wrong people, 457 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,900 it's just unfathomable. And where does it all start? 458 00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:13,700 From all, you just trace it back. 459 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,000 He allowed pride and jealousy to rein in his heart. 460 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,900 And that pride in jealousy, bread deception. 461 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,800 And he couldn't see God, right? He could interpret events, 462 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,100 right? He couldn't see the people, 463 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:29,600 right? Sin impairs our judgment. 464 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,000 This is why we should flee from it. 465 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,100 Peter tells us to war against the passions of your flesh, 466 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:40,700 because they wore against you. Sin is not some little pet that 467 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:42,900 you can keep in your living room and visit once in awhile and 468 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:46,100 feed when you're hungry, when she's hungry, no sin will 469 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:50,900 destroy your life. It will shatter your life. 470 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:57,700 I'm just blown away by how under emphasize sin is, And many 471 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:02,300 puppets today. And if sin is cherished, if it 472 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,200 is tolerated, listen, it should be no question that it would 473 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,700 lead somebody to the wrong people and even to the wrong 474 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,800 beliefs especially when those beliefs allow you to hold onto 475 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,700 your sin. So Paul says these false 476 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,800 teachers, these people have an appearance of godliness, even 477 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,300 who might even hold a Bible. These people come after those, 478 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,600 who are LED, not by the spirit, not by the word, but by the 479 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:31,500 impulses of their flesh, Lastly says something quite 480 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,200 interesting. In verse 7. 481 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,600 Here's a third characteristic of those who are weak morally. 482 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,600 Weak spiritually. There are always learning and 483 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,100 never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 484 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:52,500 So this verse alone deals with any controversy about the 485 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,800 weakness here being spoken of of being uneducated or 486 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,600 simple-minded. That's not the case at all. 487 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:01,900 In fact, the woman that Paul has in mind, when he is teaching on 488 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:05,800 this demonstrate, great hunger for knowledge. 489 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,600 They actually eager to acquire information and let's put it in 490 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,100 our context. Some of these women can have 491 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:18,000 their beees, they're amazed their phds. 492 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:20,400 Some of them can be Avid readers, they can be students of 493 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,400 History, they can be familiar with the political landscape. 494 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,600 They can debate philosophy and they can even attempt to satisfy 495 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:34,300 their spiritual pitch by listening to gurus and teachers 496 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,100 who might even call themselves Christians, when in fact, they 497 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:41,700 are not biblical. But with all of that education, 498 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,500 with all of that acquirement of general knowledge would all of 499 00:32:44,508 --> 00:32:48,000 the questionable, faith-based teachings, that they are 500 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,400 plugging into their ears through podcast. 501 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,300 Paul has one main concern about these women, who are weak their 502 00:32:55,300 --> 00:33:00,200 biblically illiterate They're always learning. 503 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,600 But they never arrived to the knowledge of the truth and 504 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,100 primary, that means that they reject the gospel all together, 505 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:12,400 but it's not limited to that the word knowledge here. 506 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,300 Speaks about a correct and precise understanding. 507 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:18,700 It's the same thing that Paul prayed for, for the Ephesians, 508 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:21,800 when he says, oh that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened 509 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,400 concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ that you would have 510 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,400 a precise laser focus understanding of Jesus, a deeper 511 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,300 grasp of Truths of God. These women never arrived there. 512 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,000 They don't, it's not speaking about you having a memorized 513 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,800 Systematic, Theology. It's not about you being a 514 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,700 theologian. It's more than that. 515 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaking about a disinterest, in the things of God. 516 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaking about a failure, to see the beauty of the gospel and 517 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,400 wanting to discover deeper things in him. 518 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,200 He speaks about not being governed by the authority of 519 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,600 God's Sovereign word, And Hosea said it, my people are destroyed 520 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,400 for a lack of knowledge. Blend it all together. 521 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,900 Now, blend all these characteristics together. 522 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,199 What do you have when a person either rejects or is this 523 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,900 interested in discovering the glories of God's word? 524 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,300 What's going to happen eventually you will settle for 525 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:29,500 lesser things for cheaper. Substitutes that this world 526 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:34,100 offers namely sins, namely idols. 527 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,900 And when a person is ensnared, they are arrested by their sins 528 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:41,300 and they are void of the fulfilling Fellowship that comes 529 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:45,300 Through Jesus Christ, their candidates. 530 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,800 They are more susceptible to being led astray. 531 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,600 And sometimes being led astray means to believe heresy and 532 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:59,200 other times, it means being used and abused by merciless people 533 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,800 who claim to be religious. And sometimes they will abuse, 534 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,000 you financially, just look at the false teachers that are 535 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,700 being funded. And other times it can mean your 536 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:18,900 body being used by somebody Who tricked you with a few verses to 537 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:20,600 convince you that they were a man of God. 538 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:26,600 We've been speaking about week woman so far and again it's not 539 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,800 just limited to. Men are not exempt from this. 540 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,600 So, if your man in this place, you think you can be week as 541 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,100 well, but Paul again is seeing a pattern throughout history. 542 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:39,100 By the spirit. He understands something 543 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:41,400 specific. We've been speaking about week 544 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,300 woman. Let me address my sister's this 545 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,400 afternoon. As a brother. 546 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:53,100 God wants you to be strong. God wants you to be strong 547 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:57,000 strong and and a strength that the Bible describes, not as the 548 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,100 world describes. Not not financially strong, not 549 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:05,000 physically strong. Spiritually. 550 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,100 Strong. I want you to be encouraged by 551 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:09,100 this. I want you to leave here. 552 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:13,800 Built up with these thoughts. It is very difficult to 553 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,700 manipulate a woman. Who is secure in her adoption in 554 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:21,500 Jesus Christ. Someone who has truly tasted the 555 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:24,400 grace of God and seeks to grow in the knowledge of her savior. 556 00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:31,600 It's very difficult to move. So, study study your word. 557 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:33,500 I know it's difficult. If you're a mom with babies 558 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:38,100 running around, But that does not exempt you from the 559 00:36:38,107 --> 00:36:42,800 invitation of knowing your God. Jesus just as much as your 560 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,100 savior, as your husband, savior, as your brother savior, there's 561 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:51,300 this misconception that men should be more theologically 562 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,300 discerning. And sophisticated and woman 563 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,400 said, who asked Apollo's, how he felt when a couple came up to 564 00:36:59,408 --> 00:37:05,500 him, and the wife knew just as much as the husband study, know, 565 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,100 your God be secure and understand these truths until it 566 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,900 causes you to worship. Not so that you can answer 567 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:13,200 questions. If somebody comes up to you to 568 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,200 see if your knowledge, oh no to cause your heart to be ravished 569 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,300 with the beauties of Jesus. Evil men will find it. 570 00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:27,200 Very problematic to persuade a lady who like Mary of Bethany, 571 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,900 enjoy sitting at the feet of the Lord. 572 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,900 Who is mesmerized by him, who eats his every word, how can you 573 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:38,700 move a woman like that? When in that setting, there was 574 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:42,800 so much distraction but she was focused on the bread of life. 575 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,500 Oh, would you practice her posture? 576 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,700 Even if it's just a few minutes a day before the hoodlums, get 577 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,700 up. Before chores. 578 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:56,700 Come would you learn to do it while you're doing those things? 579 00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,800 Just just practice the posture of looking at the Lord 580 00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:03,800 worshiping him. Spontaneously, receiving his 581 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,700 words studying at talking about it with your husband talking 582 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:11,200 about with your friends, if you're single Satan and his 583 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,600 minions have little to work with. when they encounter a 584 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:21,900 woman who is led by truth rather than emotions, Who take this 585 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,400 word and determine how they discern. 586 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:31,000 How they decide? How they even feel, no matter, 587 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,300 who says what? Paul speaks of weak woman, but 588 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:40,500 we pray that the woman of MBC would be strong strong. 589 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:46,600 God wants you to be strong and brothers, encourage the woman 590 00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,800 spiritually. Encourage them, spiritually 591 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,900 speak spiritual things, to them have conversations and be 592 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,800 patient. Be loving. 593 00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:03,200 Ask questions, have debates. build up your sisters because 594 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,300 there are evil men of there that want to manipulate take 595 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,800 advantage of. We read here in verse 8. 596 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:16,700 That if you are strong, you'll be able to avoid people, like 597 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,700 who Paul is about to mention. Just as jannes and jambres 598 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:24,800 opposed Moses. So these men also oppose the 599 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,600 truth, men corrupted in mind, you might be thinking who would 600 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:33,700 dare take advantage of people especially women Men who are 601 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:38,000 corrupt in mind Twisted. Selfish driven by less. 602 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,400 That's who they're not just out there. 603 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,300 Sometimes they sit in places like this. 604 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,600 Men corrupted in mind, and disqualified regarding the 605 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,900 faith. Those names are not familiar. 606 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,500 They're not familiar to me. It shouldn't be to you, you know 607 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,200 why? Because only mentioned here, the 608 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,800 only mention once in all of the Bible. 609 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,300 And the debate is, where did Paul get these names? 610 00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,500 Because it is often believed that these men were the Two 611 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:08,200 Chief magicians that stood against Moses, when Moses came 612 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,800 against pharaoh to see his people set free. 613 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,800 And so Jewish tradition claims that and we can spend the next 614 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,200 15 minutes talking about the sources that Paul had and how 615 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,300 that relates to this efficiency and the inerrancy of scripture. 616 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,400 But we're not going to go there because that's not Paul's main 617 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:24,900 point. Nor is it the holy spirit's? 618 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:26,500 That's a conversation for another time. 619 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,300 The main idea here is that Paul by the spirit points to these 620 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:33,900 two men, we have their names but we know what they did in Exodus 621 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,500 for a specific reason. There are many people in the Old 622 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,300 Testament that have opposed truth, that have stood against 623 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:42,600 men of God, the message of God but why? 624 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,800 These two specifically? Why these two men, why that 625 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,300 specific scenario? And I present to you three 626 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:55,000 potential reasons. Number one, the ambition of 627 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,100 these magicians is the same as false teachers and false 628 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,500 Believers today. What were they doing? 629 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:05,200 When Moses came and said, let my people go and God had given him 630 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,500 a host of Miracles to perform what were these magicians doing? 631 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,000 They were trying to perform the same Miracles with the goal of 632 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,200 making sure that God's people would not be set free. 633 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,300 They were trying to restrict and there are trying to cut off any 634 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:25,700 potential of pharaoh or anybody else being persuaded that, these 635 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:27,400 people deserve salvation and false. 636 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,900 Teachers do the same day bar people from the truth. 637 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:33,300 They don't want people to experience. 638 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:37,000 What only Christ can provide and whether they are aware of it or 639 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,500 not, whether they are intentionally doing. 640 00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:42,400 So does not justify their falsehood. 641 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:48,300 Satan has all these false teachers with different masks 642 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:52,300 for the same purpose, to make sure that people do not know the 643 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,000 Deliverance of the Passover Lamb. 644 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,200 So they have the same ambition. And what's important here is 645 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,800 that it's not just a bar people from accepting the gospel. 646 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:06,300 But it's also to ensnare people. Again, who have might have 647 00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:10,300 believed the gospel to bring you back to your former sins, to 648 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:13,100 bring you back into the days of Egypt, where you are governed by 649 00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:15,000 pharaoh and not by the god of Israel. 650 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:22,700 So these magicians, desire to see you enslaved, desire to see 651 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,800 those two never be set free and those who have been set free to 652 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,900 do, just what those people were tempted to do in the wilderness. 653 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:34,000 Let's go back to Egypt. Some would even say that these 654 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:39,500 magicians followed Israel Into the Wilderness that's tradition. 655 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:42,100 And there are the voices that were continually convincing, 656 00:42:42,100 --> 00:42:45,000 these people to go back to Egypt. 657 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,100 It's called the mixed crowd and the Book of Numbers and that's 658 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:50,700 not a far-fetched interpretation. 659 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,600 The ambition of these magicians are the same of false teachers 660 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,700 and Timothy's day. And today false people who come 661 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:02,100 into the church even, secondly, The deception of these 662 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:06,600 magicians. Has the same power as false 663 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,100 teachers today. Now, the way you're going to see 664 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:11,500 that is if you go to Exodus with me, so go with me to Exodus as 665 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:14,100 we close in a moment here, I want you to see something, you 666 00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:16,200 know this, but I want you to see it for yourself. 667 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:25,700 Let's begin in Exodus chapter 7. Exodus chapter 7 verse 10. 668 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:35,100 This is after Let's begin in verse 10. 669 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,800 So Moses and Aaron went to pharaoh and did just as the Lord 670 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,400 commanded, Aaron cast down his staff before pharaoh and his 671 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,000 servants, and it became a serpent. 672 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,700 Then pharaohs summoned, the wise, men, and The Sorcerer's 673 00:43:49,700 --> 00:43:53,600 and they The Magician's of Egypt also did the Same by their 674 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,700 secret Arts. Go to verse 22. 675 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,900 This is after the Nile was turned into blood and all water 676 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:04,700 sources were turned into blood. We're told an exodus 7 verse 22, 677 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:09,100 but the magician's of Egypt did the Same by their secret Arts. 678 00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:12,300 So Pharaoh's heart remain hardened and he would not listen 679 00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:19,800 to them as the Lord had said go to chapter 8 verse 7, But the 680 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,500 magician's did the Same by their secret arts and made frogs come 681 00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:28,200 up on the land of Egypt. So we see in the first few 682 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,700 plagues. The first few Miracles, 683 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:34,000 whatever, Moses did The Magicians matched it. 684 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,300 Now, I want you to imagine what an onlooker would think, every 685 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,900 time Moses did something The Magician's did the same, you 686 00:44:42,908 --> 00:44:45,200 know what could potentially, run through their mind, there's no 687 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,700 difference between the god of Israel and the gods of Egypt. 688 00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:53,200 There's similar they can do the same things, equal power, equal 689 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,000 messages, equal equal promises, maybe there's no difference 690 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,200 here. And so, you see here that these 691 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,300 men were deceiving people including Farrell primarily 692 00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:06,500 pharaoh, to see that the god of Israel is not as powerful as he 693 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:10,000 says he is and listen false teachers do the same. 694 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,000 To the undiscerning, they see the package, they see the 695 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,900 performance, and they go, there's no difference here. 696 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:19,500 There's no, there's no difference here. 697 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:26,000 Very similar messages. Very similar ideas, very similar 698 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,100 Concepts, maybe even the same God. 699 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:31,800 And I want to tell you, that's not just for those who interpret 700 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,000 religions all, as one different packages, leading to the same 701 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,300 person you even have some Christians professing 702 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:43,900 Christians. Who are not Discerning and all 703 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:47,000 it takes is for somebody to come in and speak. 704 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,300 Christian he's quote, a few verses and hold the Bible and 705 00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:55,000 maybe even have it highlighted and they show you. 706 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,100 It's highlighted. That must be the real deal, 707 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,800 really. Really. 708 00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:05,600 They have an appearance of godliness. 709 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,200 Just like those magicians had an appearance of having the same 710 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:14,300 power as the power of God. So demented, a persuade people 711 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:18,400 with a form of power, a form of Salvation in falsehood and clear 712 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,500 faucet. But even in Christendom with a 713 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:26,100 false Christian message, by the way, can I let me just say this? 714 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,800 Please please, do not think that false teachers have pulpits all 715 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,900 the time. Did they creep into Pulpit? 716 00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:39,000 So they creep into households. They crept into households. 717 00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:46,300 Not all false people, where Shepherds clothing, they wear 718 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:51,400 sheep's clothing. And so they can very well be in 719 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,800 the pew. And today they don't just creep 720 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,100 into household, by knock on your door, like this ancient time. 721 00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:01,900 They creep into your households through your television through 722 00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:08,400 YouTube. Lastly, not just the Ambitions 723 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,300 of these magicians. Being the same as false teachers 724 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:14,800 today, not just the deception, but also the fate and Paul ends 725 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,400 this thought on an encouraging note in verse 9 back in. 726 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,900 Second Timothy, he tells Timothy something that he would not be 727 00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:25,900 overly burdened by, as he brings us hopeful note concerning these 728 00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:30,800 people, we are told that after he mentions these names of their 729 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:35,000 future and the future is clear of these men, but they will not 730 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,700 get very Far for their Folly will be playing to all. 731 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,500 As was that of those two men? Let me simplify what he's trying 732 00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:46,200 to say. These people that persuade the 733 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,400 masses. These people that persuade even 734 00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:54,500 naive innocent burdened people within the church. 735 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,500 They're not going to get away with it, they're not He says, 736 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:03,200 their Folly will be plain to all that's what happens to those two 737 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,800 magicians. What happened? 738 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,700 Eventually? It came to the miracle of the 739 00:48:06,700 --> 00:48:09,900 Nats, right? Moses performs that miracle and 740 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:12,200 they try and they couldn't. And they look at Fair, they go, 741 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,300 that's the Finger of God, they've reached a limit. 742 00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:20,200 They could, they could not cross a certain line with their 743 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,700 abilities and in the side of those who are Discerning, they 744 00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:27,300 said these guys are fake, they're not the real deal, 745 00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:33,900 they're not legit. And to a certain degree, God in 746 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:38,600 this lifetime is willing and has been and can expose people. 747 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,200 He can if he even think about these false movements throughout 748 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,400 history, they haven't lasted, they just come and go. 749 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:50,400 There are others who try to manipulate people from within 750 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,200 and they seem Christian they seem Godly and God exposes them. 751 00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:58,300 Their Folly will be plain to all not. 752 00:48:58,300 --> 00:49:05,700 Everybody will get away. but even if Throughout a lifetime or 753 00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:07,900 throughout centuries. There are false things that are 754 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:09,900 not. They're not going away. 755 00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:13,400 They're not being exposed. There is a day coming when God 756 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,700 will expose them. Remember, this is in the 757 00:49:15,700 --> 00:49:19,500 context, here's full circle in this section of the last days. 758 00:49:21,300 --> 00:49:24,800 And in the last days, not only will Things become more ugly. 759 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,600 But God will have the final say. Not only will deception be 760 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,700 rampant, but truth will penetrate and bring all things 761 00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:38,300 to light. And you think about these men, 762 00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:43,300 not only did they perform these deceptive Miracles, not only 763 00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:47,400 were they exposed but in one of the Miracles were God in the 61 764 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,900 precisely brings boils on the Egyptians these magicians. 765 00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:54,700 We were told were also exposed to the Boyles they were judged 766 00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:57,700 by God. And that's what's going to come. 767 00:49:57,700 --> 00:50:00,800 That's what Paul is saying. Timothy, although, you may have 768 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,500 seen people captured, although you seen people being hindered 769 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:08,300 from being saved, and maybe even seen people from within, who 770 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:10,700 were close to coming, who had some kind of understanding 771 00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:12,600 Christian, but where were Swept Away? 772 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,400 Know this, God will have the final word. 773 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,500 And whether in this life or in the life to come, people will 774 00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:24,200 see the Folly of everything or everyone who's outside of Jesus 775 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,100 Christ. And so I encourage you today to 776 00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:32,200 be encouraged to be encouraged that no matter what people are 777 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:39,700 getting away with. Do you have to face God? 778 00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:43,000 One day? They will oh many things have 779 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,300 been said, but I want to steer a direction out towards the Lord's 780 00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:50,500 table. and I wanted to just prepare ourselves to meet with 781 00:50:50,500 --> 00:50:56,400 the Lord and to reflect on our Redemption know this if you are 782 00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,400 in this place and I want to make a gospel call here if you are in 783 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:05,000 this place, You're visiting, you may be a Christian, you may not 784 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,800 be a Christian. But this is, this is a message 785 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,000 for you. And what sense maybe you are 786 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,000 burdened with sins and you're trying to find relief. 787 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,300 And you've picked up books and you're listening to different 788 00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:26,200 teachers and spiritist and you came out here for just for 789 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:30,200 curiosity sake. I want to let you know that no 790 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,300 one can give you Freedom apart from Christ. 791 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,900 No one you will fail. You'll be disappointed. 792 00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:38,400 You will be empty. You might be happy for for a 793 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,100 brief season but you will realize that nothing has the 794 00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:46,100 power to fill that void. Nothing can roll the burdens off 795 00:51:46,100 --> 00:51:50,700 your shoulders, the burden of a conscience that is troubled by 796 00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:56,800 your actions, your words Only Christ can deliver you and he 797 00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,200 wants to deliver you today. Maybe you are LED Away by 798 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,700 various passions and it has led you into dangerous places. 799 00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:07,100 No, this, no matter where your feet have taken, you no matter 800 00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:09,900 what your hands have performed, no matter what you have, even 801 00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:11,500 believe, no matter what you might even believe. 802 00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:13,500 Now, Christ is ready to forgive you. 803 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:20,600 He is he wants to restore your redeem, you It may be. 804 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:25,900 You are always learning. Maybe to you Christianity is a 805 00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:30,400 hindrance to intellect. I want to let you know something 806 00:52:30,700 --> 00:52:33,100 that this book has been through intense scrutiny. 807 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,900 Men have tried to bury it, men of try to burn it. 808 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:40,400 Men of try to dismiss it, but the word of the Lord endures 809 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,600 forever, this word has transformed lives. 810 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,400 This word has test the stood, the test of time, this word will 811 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,300 be the very thing that will last forever with God. 812 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,600 And your conscience Bears witness to you this afternoon. 813 00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:03,300 That you are a sinner that you have a judge to face. 814 00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:08,400 One day, God is instilled that in man and that's why men wants 815 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,100 to dismiss God as much as possible. 816 00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:12,500 They don't want to have to face the reality that when they give 817 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:15,400 their final breath, they will meet the king of the universe. 818 00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:19,500 But may I add something to that thought that, that same King 819 00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:22,900 that man will stand before. Came into this world. 820 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,100 He died on a cross. He went into a tomb heroes from 821 00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:29,600 that grave. So that he can purchase your 822 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:36,800 Redemption. so, if your burden today, That burning can be 823 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,600 lifted off of you, but only one name can save you. 824 00:53:39,700 --> 00:53:42,400 And that's Jesus call upon his name. 825 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,400 I've done my part and I'm here afterwards, with Pastor Daniel 826 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,900 and other leaders in this place. Other Christians in this place, 827 00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:50,400 that might lead you to that truth. 828 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,900 More importantly, leads to this a living Christ who's willing to 829 00:53:56,908 --> 00:53:58,300 intervene in your life right now. 830 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,900 Call upon his name Believers. Would you examine yourselves in 831 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,100 this moment? Are you walking right with the 832 00:54:05,107 --> 00:54:08,000 Lord? Do you testify to the unity of 833 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,300 the body of Christ? Or is there disunity in your 834 00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:11,700 language? Is there disunity in your 835 00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:13,400 actions? Is there somebody that you're 836 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,900 supposed to reconcile with today? 837 00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:17,300 Is there somebody that you're supposed to sit and say, sit 838 00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:19,700 down with the say, hey, we have to deal with this before we come 839 00:54:19,700 --> 00:54:21,000 to the Lord's table. Do that. 840 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,800 Don't come, don't come judge you. 841 00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:25,200 Lest you be judged. That's what the text tells us. 842 00:54:27,100 --> 00:54:29,500 And for those who are not Christians in this place, we ask 843 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:32,000 you kindly not to participate in this because this is an 844 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,500 ordinance reserved for those who have believed on Jesus Christ. 845 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,800 If you're in this place and you're not a Christian, we don't 846 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,000 we don't judge you. In this sense, we look down on 847 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,400 you with scorn. We just ask you kindly not to 848 00:54:42,408 --> 00:54:45,400 participate because the Lord strictly reserves is for his 849 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,500 children. And so as we come you're going 850 00:54:48,500 --> 00:54:50,200 to take the elements, bring it with you. 851 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,400 We just ask that you don't eat or drink yet because we're going 852 00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,900 to sing A Hymn. And I'm Pastor Daniels going to 853 00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:57,900 lead us in a few words to reflect and then we will eat and 854 00:54:57,900 --> 00:54:59,400 drink together. Let's pray. 855 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:11,600 Louis, thank you for this word. Thank you, that even in a word 856 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,400 of warning you can encourage us. And we pray o God that we would 857 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:21,900 be encouraged to be strong, both men and women. we pray o God 858 00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:24,000 that you would protect this assembly from those who are 859 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:31,200 false And that Lord we would be able to discern and dissect and 860 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,200 determine through the word who's for you, and who is against you. 861 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,800 Father in heaven. We ask that as we come to this 862 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,400 table, the Lord's table, that it would have a sanctifying effect 863 00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,700 on this. People on all of us, Lord, and 864 00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:48,400 Lord. If it will do anything, May 865 00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:53,400 renew a joy in your salvation that as we hold this element of 866 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,100 bread and is element of the cup that we would remember that. 867 00:55:57,100 --> 00:56:00,700 It's not about our good, it's not about our Behavior, it's not 868 00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:03,800 about our performance that is purchase anything, but it's what 869 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,000 Christ has done. And Lord we might be going 870 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,200 through many trials, troubles, we might be wanting certain 871 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,400 things, but Lord made this may this time. 872 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,500 Now, remind us that we have all that we need in Jesus. 873 00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:20,100 Please Lord, make that real in us, this afternoon in Jesus name 874 00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:21,400 we pray. Amen.