1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:04,300 well, if you came today, Thinking that we're going to 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:07,500 continue with Catholicism or other traditions. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:13,100 We won't be and one reason is because there's so much to say 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,300 and eventually we're gonna have to stop at some point, right? 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:19,000 We can talk about the papacy. We can talk about veneration of 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,100 icons. We can talk about indulgences, 7 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:25,600 we can talk about different shades of traditions and all 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,300 really you can do from this point on though. 9 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:32,000 We may revisit such a subject in the future is to be moved enough 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,400 to not take things at face value. 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,100 Value. It's not just assume what people 12 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:39,400 have to say about what they believe, but to go deeper and to 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,700 look deeper into study and realize where people stand. 14 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:47,300 What differences do people truly have scripture tells us that my 15 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:52,800 people perish, right? For a lack of knowledge, were a 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:57,900 faith that prizes knowledge, we're not just running here out 17 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:00,900 of sentiment and emotions everything. 18 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:05,500 About what we believe is based on truth on And our arguments, 19 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,000 our defense, Our Gospel, our presentation, everything that 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,900 you and I experience is based on what has been revealed and so be 21 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,900 inspired moving from this place moving on, from where we were 22 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:21,800 left off in Mark, chapter 7 to grow in your knowledge of the 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,200 word of God, of what you believe, and from there, from 24 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,700 what others believe, and then to compare. 25 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:30,100 And hopefully the Lord will use you as you are equipped to touch 26 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:31,700 other people, I trust that he will. 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,800 One of the things that Bless me from people in the past few 28 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,900 weeks. Was I feel equipped? 29 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:41,200 And that's the point I wanted you to feel more familiar with 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,700 your gospel with R-Truth and also where other people stand. 31 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,600 So that you would be more bold and courageous and willing to 32 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,400 touch other people's lives with the truth will. 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,500 All that being said, we're still in Mark chapter 7. 34 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:55,300 And so, I need you to turn with me in your Bibles to this place 35 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:03,000 and verse 14. This will be more preaching than 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,400 teaching. There's a lot of quoting and 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,500 reading past few weeks but I'm excited to have my head up more 38 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:13,500 this afternoon. Mark chapter 7 verse 14. 39 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:20,600 And he called the people to him again and said to them, hear me 40 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,400 all of you. And understand, there is nothing 41 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,300 outside a person that by going into, him can defile him, but 42 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,500 the things that come out of a person or what defile him, And 43 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:38,000 we entered the house and left. The people his disciples asked 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,500 him about the parable and he said to them. 45 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,200 Then are you also without understanding? 46 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,200 Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside? 47 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:53,700 Cannot defile him since it enters not in his heart, but his 48 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:59,100 stomach and is expelled, thus, he declared all foods clean and 49 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:02,900 he said, what comes out of a person is what defiles him for 50 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,300 from within. Out of the heart of man. 51 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:11,500 Come evil thoughts, sexual immorality theft murder, 52 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:18,800 adultery coveting, wickedness deceit, sensuality Envy, slander 53 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:25,900 Pride, foolishness all these evil things come from within and 54 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:31,900 they defile a person Lord May the words of my mouth and the 55 00:03:31,908 --> 00:03:35,600 meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight and may 56 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,700 our hearts and our ears also be acceptable in your sight. 57 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,700 You promised that when the Holy Spirit would come there would be 58 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:46,500 power power to testify of the truth. 59 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:50,000 We appeal to that power, we depend on that power, we 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:57,800 relinquish all eloquence. All craft all, even personality 61 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,700 And we submit ourselves to The Sovereign work of God who 62 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:06,700 bestows upon his servants, the ability to deliver and 63 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:10,100 communicate your truth. So do so, in this moment, for 64 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:13,300 your namesake in your namesake alone in Jesus name, amen. 65 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,000 I'm sure that if you've been in any lengthy discussion, whether 66 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,800 it was Evangelistic philosophical or theological, 67 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,900 that it did not take much time for the problem of evil to arise 68 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,800 in that conversation. Apart from the diseases and all 69 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,300 the natural disasters that occur on a daily basis. 70 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,700 The polluting immorality that plagues over humanity is very 71 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:41,300 difficult to ignore. And for the most part is easily 72 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:43,700 discerned. Now, it is true. 73 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,900 That the Bible reveals that our discernment concerning, moral, 74 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:49,400 evil and moral good. Can be skewed. 75 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:55,800 Can be dulled can be warped. But you have to understand that 76 00:04:56,700 --> 00:05:00,900 there is a general understanding of morality. 77 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,200 Among Us, most religions can say yes, there's categories of good 78 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,300 and bad. There is right and wrong and 79 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:14,500 even the staunch atheist unknowingly perhaps appeals to 80 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,700 morality when he chooses to accuse and condemn a God that he 81 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:22,700 doesn't even believe in. And you can imagine and you are 82 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:27,900 fully aware that it's no surprise that many many Minds 83 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:30,400 over the years. Many schools of thought to have 84 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,300 a rose on this subject. Countless people over the 85 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,500 centuries of try to make sense of this mystery called evil. 86 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,400 But with all the opinions that have been passed down and that 87 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,400 are continuing to be passed down in our institutions of learning 88 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,200 and with all the great minds over the different civilizations 89 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,200 and cultures that have stuffed our literature and our 90 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,300 libraries, there is absolutely nothing more robust or accurate 91 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:01,500 concerning the subject in of evil than the word of God 92 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:03,400 itself. Nothing? 93 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,600 One Theologian said very cleverly that none can deny the 94 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,000 fact that men are not what they ought to be. 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,600 None can deny. There was something that we 96 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,200 intrinsically sense about ourselves that not everything is 97 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,900 right there is something foundationally wrong. 98 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,400 None can deny that we are not what we ought to be and yet no 99 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,600 human wisdom can give us answers to why. 100 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:31,300 But if you are looking for answers, if you are looking for 101 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,100 a Clarity, then look, no further than what you have in your 102 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:38,200 hands. Because God's word provides 103 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,400 Insight concerning the origins of evil, the identity of evil. 104 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:47,800 The activity of evil. The punishment for evil, the 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,900 presence of evil, the consequences of evil. 106 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,900 And yes, even the future fate of evil. 107 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,300 It's there from cover to cover and what you? 108 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:59,100 And I just read in this text here. 109 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:03,500 This afternoon shows us something about the Lord Jesus 110 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:08,500 and his Insight concerning evil. A staggering inside a humbling 111 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:15,800 insight about morality namely wickedness, iniquity rebellion. 112 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,900 And All of that relates to you and I see human beings. 113 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,500 And my aim today. Is to provide at least three 114 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:28,200 simple thoughts, three simple thoughts of the Lord is 115 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:33,200 conveying here, concerning that very topic and here's my desire, 116 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,600 God, help us. Here's my desire that if you're 117 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,900 in this, if you're in this place and you're a person who can 118 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,500 identify through the Revelation, that is presented here today, 119 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:47,600 that you need a new heart. That you would be moved by this 120 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,600 truth enough to come before the presence of the king and say, 121 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:55,400 God give me a new heart. And if you're a person in this 122 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,000 place who has been born again, you can genuinely say, I have 123 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,900 been transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 124 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,600 That you also would be moved not to appeal for a new heart. 125 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,400 But perhaps for a new Joy, a new Joy, a new praise a new song 126 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,400 because you in this place are enjoying the miracle of the new 127 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:22,800 birth because of his grace. And so the sinner in this place, 128 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:28,200 this afternoon can glorify God through the repentance and the 129 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:33,000 person who has experience this amazing gospel, you would also 130 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,700 be able to glorify God by rejoicing afresh in his goodness 131 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:41,200 over your life. And so, I have three thoughts 132 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,200 for you today, and as I told you, it will be preached to you. 133 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,600 It will be preached to you. If it feels Evangelistic, then, 134 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,200 so be it. But let your heart be moved 135 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,800 because even Christians need to hear the gospel then, not Paul 136 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,500 say in Romans that it is through the preaching of Jesus Christ 137 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:04,100 that we know strength. It is through this gospel and 138 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:07,900 the preaching of Jesus Christ, not the world, but the Saints 139 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,200 tap into a supernatural strength. 140 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:15,200 We need to hear the gospel. We need to explore deeper truths 141 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,500 of the gospel and here's Christ giving us an Insight concerning 142 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:20,600 the gospel. But before we get to that truth, 143 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,200 here's Point. Number one, point number one, 144 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:31,100 the source of evil is from within What do we see here in 145 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:34,200 verse 20? And he said, what comes out of a 146 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,400 person is what defiles him, three staggering words in verse 147 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:47,000 21 for from within for, from within in a Jesus before he 148 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,300 displays this catalog of Filth that populates every person's 149 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,300 inner being he prepares his listeners, he gets him ready, 150 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:58,800 has he get him ready? Well, we're told here in verse 151 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,500 14 here All of you and understand. 152 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,500 Hey, pay attention, pay attention, and humble yourself 153 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:07,400 to be willing to accept what I'm about to say. 154 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:10,400 And then from there, he says something quite strange. 155 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,700 Perhaps, to us. There is nothing outside a 156 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:15,300 person that by going into, him can defile him. 157 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,000 But the things that come out of a person or what defile him, 158 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,700 what is Jesus, speaking about, we remember the wider context. 159 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,800 Remember before we went into that mini-series on tradition 160 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:28,400 where it all started from the Pharisees, came to Jesus and 161 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:31,300 said, why do you disciples not wash their hands before they 162 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:35,000 eat, they weren't concerned about their hygiene there. 163 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,900 A concern over the fact that their disregard of the 164 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,900 ceremonial and ritual cleansings. 165 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,600 That were preached and taught and passed down to the masses. 166 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:49,600 And that kind of tradition that had binding conviction on others 167 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,000 is what Jesus challenged because it was based like a lot of 168 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 tradition today. It was based on skewed theology, 169 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,900 let me say this tradition is neutral. 170 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:06,500 It can be used to highlight and honor a truth or it can be used 171 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:10,600 to Eclipse a truth. And in this case, this idea of 172 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,700 ceremonial cleansing eclipse, the truth, more than just 173 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:16,400 eclipse the truth. It. 174 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,500 Diverted people from the truth and put their focus on an 175 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,800 external morality instead of true inner Holiness. 176 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:28,000 And so Jesus challenges that thought and he provides clarity 177 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,600 about it and he says, listen it's not about the externals 178 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,100 because what were they were, what they were teaching was what 179 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:38,400 you do with your body is what determines your standing in the 180 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:42,300 The presence of God, what you eat, what you touch, how you 181 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:47,000 protect your hands, how you protect your feet, all of that 182 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,100 is ultimately going to determine you experiencing God's favor. 183 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,100 And Christ comes on the scene again, and he exposes all of 184 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:58,700 that. What Christ is essentially 185 00:11:58,700 --> 00:12:01,500 saying is listen, the primary polluting factor that blemishes 186 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,400 souls and corrupt behavior is not external. 187 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:11,300 It's in you It's in you. In other words, the primary 188 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:13,800 thing that you and I should be concerned about is not what's 189 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,900 outside, but what's inside? And this concept may be familiar 190 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:20,800 to us, right? We've heard it all our lives. 191 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:21,900 Most of us. In this place. 192 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:27,300 I least I assume But because of the desperate lack of true 193 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:31,400 teaching in Jesus day, even the disciples prove that this is 194 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,200 very difficult to grasp. You've been trained and you've 195 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,300 heard all your life that it's about. 196 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:41,700 Don't do this, don't do that. And here now Christ comes and 197 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:44,300 he's not presenting something new he's presenting what the 198 00:12:44,308 --> 00:12:47,000 heart of God was even in the old Covenant, it's your heart. 199 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:52,700 It's what occupies Within. and I suppose that some people today 200 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:56,500 have trouble acknowledging this truth as well since it is a 201 00:12:56,500 --> 00:13:00,500 humiliating Declaration of the condition of man and so contrary 202 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,800 to Modern psychologists and philosophers philosophers 203 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:09,200 pacifier generation with It's generally understood that the 204 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,900 wrong. We commit is what the wrong that 205 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:13,600 we commit is what makes us sinners. 206 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,900 It's deeper than that. It's not the wrong that you 207 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:23,400 commit, that makes you a sinner. We are not merely Sinners 208 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,000 because we sin we sin because we're sinners. 209 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,700 What'd you do to doesn't necessarily determine who you 210 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,200 are though? There is a facet of Truth to 211 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,600 that, but it's much more complex. 212 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:39,500 You do what you do because of who you are. 213 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,500 That's the essence of what Christ is saying. 214 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:52,700 For, from within out of the heart of man, the heart of man. 215 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,400 What is the heart of, man? It is the essential part of your 216 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,300 personality is the very thing that defines your affections, 217 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:04,300 your Ambitions, your convictions, your attitudes. 218 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,900 The inner seat that inspires your thoughts, your words, your 219 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:14,500 decisions, It is that core element that makes you you. 220 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,200 And what Christ is saying, is that thing that makes you, you 221 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:28,500 is a fountain of wickedness. And it is desperately fractured. 222 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:38,100 The human heart is broken. The human heart is deceptive. 223 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,000 It is perverted. It is selfish. 224 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,200 It is stubborn. It is a theater that endlessly 225 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,600 plays evils Ten Thousand Times, Ten thousands, it is a tireless 226 00:14:54,900 --> 00:15:00,300 Idol manufacturer, it is a cesspool of corruption. 227 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:09,300 Happy Father's Day, right? To which some might say. 228 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:15,400 Excuse me, preacher. Yeah, you with the suit it would 229 00:15:15,408 --> 00:15:16,600 being a little extreme, aren't you? 230 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,500 Huh? I would say that I'm a good 231 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,700 person. I'm a good dad, I provide for my 232 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:27,200 family. I'm not like other fathers who 233 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,900 run away from their wives and their responsibilities. 234 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:31,700 I pay the bills, I take my family on vacation, I sacrifice 235 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:35,900 my own sleep, my own hobbies to serve my own. 236 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,000 I'm a good mother, you know what I have to do on a day-to-day 237 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,800 basis to train my children raise up my children. 238 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,500 I'm not like other 20s, I'm not like Millennials there. 239 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,300 I'm not like gen Z who have wasted their lives and their 240 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:55,000 youth and debauchery and shame. I've preserved myself, I've kept 241 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,900 myself, I pay my taxes. I'm good to my neighbor's, I 242 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:02,500 obey the laws of the land. How dare you ascribe to me? 243 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:08,500 Such horrific descriptions? And my answer to you is twofold, 244 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:11,800 if those thoughts have traveled through your mind, as I preach 245 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,300 in this microphone and here's the first thought to what 246 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:19,900 measure, what standard of goodness are you comparing your 247 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:24,600 goodness? Do you see what Jesus mentioned 248 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:29,200 first in this list of sins and verse 21 for from within out of 249 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,900 the heart of man? Come, here's the first thing 250 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,700 evil thoughts. Evil thoughts. 251 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,600 Now most of us, if not, all of us outside of Christ would never 252 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,000 entertain the idea that evil thoughts would be an offense. 253 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:49,300 Why it's intangible? Their imaginations. 254 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:51,400 Within the boundaries of my imagination. 255 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,500 They're just they're just ideas, they're not harming. 256 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:59,000 Anybody, they're not defiling, they're not hurting. 257 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,500 There's just being rehearse from within And yet, it's a very 258 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:08,599 first thing that Jesus underscores. 259 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,500 As a violation. Why? 260 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,800 Because what we consider innocent is actually in 261 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,000 primarily offensive to the one who inhabits heaven and knows 262 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,800 the heart of all men. You see sin is not measured by 263 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,099 how harmful it is to others. What our words, our actions due 264 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:30,400 to our companions are family members or friends or even our 265 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,500 enemies. There is a vertical reality to 266 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:37,300 our morality That we often ignore. 267 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:42,000 In our self assessment, pay attention to this, our personal 268 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,400 scorecards of Holiness would look a lot different if God was 269 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,800 the one grading them. Our personal score cards of how 270 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,100 good we are. Would have a different grade of 271 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:57,700 God was the one who determined whether you pass or fail. 272 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:01,700 And Jesus mentions evil thoughts, because that's where 273 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:04,900 everything is birth from, right? It starts with the imagination 274 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:09,000 before becomes manifestation and so there's even Insight here 275 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,300 concerning the order of things. Evil, thoughts, evil thoughts 276 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,500 But evil thoughts. I mean what's the big deal? 277 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:20,000 Well, it's a big deal to God. Secondly here's my second 278 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:23,300 objection to your objection. Are you pleased? 279 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,900 If you're a good person and you have to be honest, are you 280 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:31,700 honest enough to look at human history and admit that are 281 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:35,000 books. That are documentaries. 282 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,200 Testified that are potential to do. 283 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,800 Evil is so great. As men and women so great. 284 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:48,000 I know your immediate temptation is to distance yourself from 285 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,000 ancient civilizations and barbaric, societies and 286 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,300 ideologies. But do you doubt that under 287 00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:59,600 certain circumstances and desperate situations if the 288 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,300 temperature is right? If the government permits in the 289 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:05,200 culture, accepts it that you too, can become a beast? 290 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:10,100 If you're unhinged, if what you have in your heart is merely a 291 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:13,000 seed. And if that seed is water, just, 292 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,600 right? It can become a bed of weeds and 293 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,200 more few and transform you into something that you yourself 294 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,600 would never be able to recognize. 295 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,700 You don't even have to look too far. 296 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:27,900 The 20th century has been declared the bloodiest and most 297 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:30,300 destructive Century of all of human history. 298 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:34,200 The 20th not the first, not the second, not the 18th to the 299 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,500 20th. Just a few Generations ago, we 300 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:43,000 have slaughtered more people than any time since the 301 00:19:43,008 --> 00:19:46,900 Inception of this very world. So much for Progressive, right? 302 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:53,000 So much for men, developing right so much with all our cures 303 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,600 and all our discoveries and all our inventions. 304 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,900 Those things don't prove anything. 305 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,300 If anything they just give us more instrument and more ways to 306 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:07,400 be evil. And amazingly, the Bible itself 307 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,200 has been authored by God to be what a history book. 308 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,600 God didn't give us a book of systematic theology, where you 309 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,900 go to a concordance, or you go to some index and say, okay, 310 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:21,100 what is justification mean? And you come and you see a list 311 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:22,500 of the definitions of justification? 312 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,300 No. There is some truth to that 313 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:28,000 there is some element of that but you have a history book in 314 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,500 your hands and I believe there's one specific purpose among many 315 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:34,900 for that turn with me to Galatians 4:4 in your Bibles. 316 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,600 I want you to see something with me. 317 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,800 Maybe someone that you've never thought about. 318 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:56,200 Galatians 4:4. but when the fullness of time had come God 319 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,800 sent forth his son, born of a woman born under the law to 320 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,900 redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive 321 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:05,000 adoption as Sons. Glory be to God. 322 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,200 Look at those first few words but when the fullness of time 323 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,000 had come the Holy Spirit through Paul indicates that at the 324 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,700 appropriate time at the perfect time, the Son of God became man 325 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:22,700 he became man to become our substitute and there is much 326 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,500 debate and speculation about God's choice of the timing in 327 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,500 human history for the Incarnation of Christ. and it 328 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,300 would be a whole message in itself, to consider the 329 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:36,200 heart-stirring reasons, why Jesus came when he came Why 330 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,000 Jesus came when he came because according to God, he came at the 331 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,800 perfect time at the bullseye Mark and there's an element of 332 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,600 God's choosing of that time. That is Sovereign and hidden and 333 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,700 veiled from our understanding, that makes God God and you and I 334 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:53,100 creatures. Oh, but from time to time, he 335 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:56,400 gives us a glimpse into his wisdom so that we can have more 336 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,500 Outburst of Joy concerning his glory. 337 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:03,200 At the fullness of time, I believe one of the reasons why 338 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,300 Christ came when he came is because it has to do with the 339 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:11,000 patient development of Israel's history, as a testimony to the 340 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,500 world about our desperate condition and need for a savior, 341 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:19,400 did you catch that? After so many manifestations 342 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,900 after so many miracles after God had raised up so many men 343 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:28,200 throughout the generations to visit this Covenant people after 344 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,700 establishing a very unique relationship, with this one, 345 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:34,300 people group, and giving them a very powerful law along, not 346 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,700 just to be kept to themselves, but to shine in the world with 347 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:39,300 its warnings and with his blessings. 348 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:43,600 After all of that, showering of sovereign Mercy. 349 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:50,300 You have a nation who over and over again, rebelled disobeyed 350 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,800 turned their backs, worshiped other gods. 351 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,200 And in God's great wisdom. When you pick up this book and 352 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,500 read through it before, you would come and meet with Christ. 353 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:07,500 In the gospel of Matthew, you would have already been 354 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:13,500 confronted and convinced of how deplorable and twisted we really 355 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:17,700 are. Is that the sense you get? 356 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,800 When you read the Old Testament, when you go through the Book of 357 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,000 Judges and you see that after all these saviors, and all these 358 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000 super naturally empowered men, and even woman, we still go back 359 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,800 to our sin. We still go back to our vomit. 360 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,200 Okay, fine. No, judges. 361 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,400 Here are some Kings and then you read, why. 362 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,500 After one king following the? Next very, very little were able 363 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:42,400 to be consistent and even in their consistency, they still 364 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,100 fail because there man. And then you come to the 365 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:47,300 prophets, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets. 366 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,500 And you see even in these prophets though, they were 367 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:53,800 Sanctified vessels, they were vessels still and the people 368 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,300 still did not respond to the pleas of these men who are 369 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:00,900 passionate for the glory of God and so you're overwhelmed by 370 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,100 that. And you look at Israel and 371 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,100 you're tempted to condemn Israel because we think to ourselves 372 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:09,400 well, if I was at Mount Sinai and I saw the glory of God come 373 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,000 down like that. I would serve God my whole day 374 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,200 life, all my days, every second. Oh really. 375 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,700 And we convinced ourselves in that one. 376 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:20,600 That's not the intention of why it's there in your Bibles is to 377 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:26,100 show you. This is you This is you and it 378 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:28,200 would be a testament to Future Generations. 379 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Yes, even in 2023 that if you dare to care for your soul 380 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,900 enough to read this Bible, you would read it. 381 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:39,000 And you again be confronted with your depravity and mine. 382 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:44,700 When the fullness of time had come Christ comes with the 383 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,600 backdrop. Of a Nation who fractured and 384 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,900 shattered. Any possibility of standing and 385 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:58,000 right with God. And interestingly, when you read 386 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 the Bible, You also see that it's not just about a past 387 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,700 reality but even testifies of a future reality, what do I mean 388 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,900 by that? You have some who say who would 389 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:09,800 be very upset with this message very upset. 390 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,100 We're inherently good. We're inherently good. 391 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:17,700 And this is what you hear in modern messages, you're a good 392 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:19,100 person. You're just a victim of your 393 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:21,900 environment, right? And this is what we're preaching 394 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:24,000 in our culture. This is what our government is 395 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,800 flirting with, if we just abolish poverty all together, 396 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:33,900 and if we give equal opportunity to all then, we will know 397 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:37,900 Utopia. We will know a great, if not a 398 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:42,600 total decrease in crime, we will know Harmony, we will know 399 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,900 peace. We will know true joy and 400 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,600 happiness. And the Bible knowing our 401 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,300 foolish thinking doesn't just help us by looking to the past. 402 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,900 It points us to the Future because do you know that the 403 00:25:54,908 --> 00:25:57,600 Bible predicts and tells us and prophesize that there is a date 404 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,300 to come in this world. Not having in this day, where 405 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:04,000 Christ will come establish, his Rule and Reign and because of 406 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,300 his government that will be headquartered there in 407 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:10,400 Jerusalem, there will be a peace and prosperity in this world 408 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,500 like this world has never known never known. 409 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,200 It will be an addenda kind of Revival, you will have an 410 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,700 atmosphere and you will have a from corner to corner across the 411 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,500 globe. A renewing of what was lost 412 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:32,000 there in Genesis 1 and 2. And that excites us we a say, 413 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Amen to that, we look forward to that. 414 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:38,200 But despite that Holy atmosphere, the Bible reminds us 415 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,100 yet. Again of How Deeply rooted your 416 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:43,500 sin and mine is as Sons. And Daughters of Adam, let me 417 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:46,800 prove it to you. Go to Zechariah Chapter, 14 is 418 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,600 Zechariah. 14 is one of the most descriptive text that details. 419 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,200 What it will be like when Christ comes to this world. 420 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,000 Again, maybe you don't know. This Christ is coming back, not 421 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,200 to take us to heaven, and keep us there. 422 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:10,000 There is going to be a period of 1,000 years where he has to 423 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,000 fulfill some promises that he made first. namely to Israel and 424 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,800 namely to a person named David And Zechariah 14 17 to 18. 425 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,200 Now, this is just one puzzle to a grand puzzle of what that 426 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,000 Millennial reign will look like and most of it is glorious. 427 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:32,900 It's exciting. I mean, the lion lying down with 428 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,800 the lamb, right? Children being able to play with 429 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,500 serpents. You have the geographical You 430 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,600 have the animal kingdom. You have politics and 431 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,900 governments. Every aspect of our universe 432 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:52,000 will be influenced by Christ's physical presence here in glory. 433 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,700 And yet, with all of that, it almost it almost feels like 434 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:59,700 heaven when you read about it. It's not heaven entirely. 435 00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:03,200 Because despite the king's presence and his perfect 436 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,300 leadership, there will be a population who have not yet been 437 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,000 renewed and resurrected. And here's a glimpse of that 438 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:12,200 verse 17. This is about the millennial 439 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,400 Reign. This is not today. 440 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:15,700 This is the millennial Reign it's to come. 441 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:19,900 And if any of the families of the earth, do not go up to 442 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:24,300 Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, there will be 443 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:28,000 no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does 444 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,700 not go up and present themselves, then on them, there 445 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:33,700 shall be no rain. There shall be a plague the 446 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:36,200 plague with which the Lord afflicts the Nations that do not 447 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,400 go up to keep the Feast of booths. 448 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,800 We look at that, we say, oh, that's interesting. 449 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:47,200 No, no, it's theological. So I understand that What will, 450 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,000 what will populate the world, who will populate the world in 451 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 part will be the resurrected Saints, but it's not just going 452 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,500 to be the resurrected Saints. You're going to have those who 453 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,600 have been Preserved from judgment. 454 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,400 Even the final judgment to come in this world that will also 455 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,300 populate this world. And they have not been 456 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,200 regenerate, and they will reproduce. 457 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,300 And even again under this amazing government, you will 458 00:29:15,308 --> 00:29:17,300 still have people who resist the king. 459 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:22,500 Because the king will demand for Global acknowledgement of who he 460 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,600 is. And there will be pilgrimages to 461 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,400 Jerusalem were Kings and people from Nations, will come not to 462 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,300 hear a preacher talk about Jesus, but to see Jesus himself. 463 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:37,200 And yet there will be families of the earth who don't go up. 464 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,600 We're not going up to worship him. 465 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:42,900 We're not going up to acknowledge Him, we're not going 466 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:45,000 up to honor his command, we're staying right here. 467 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,600 I mean, look how powerful his government is. 468 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,100 No government can do this. Find you don't want to come. 469 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:55,400 No rain on you guys. No rain Supernatural authority. 470 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,900 Over nature itself. And you know what? 471 00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:02,900 I find even more. Fascinating Revelation, 20, you 472 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:05,000 have to turn there gives us another insight about what will 473 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,000 be like during that time. And we were told that Satan 474 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 himself would be subdued for a thousand years. 475 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:16,500 He'll be Chained and placed in an abyss and he will not be able 476 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,400 to freely roam around. Like he confessing Job chapter 1 477 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:25,000 to deceive and to tempt. His influence will be 478 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:31,400 relinquished and yet those Satan's presence and his minions 479 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:36,600 are put in a place where they cannot have, what they've had 480 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,600 for. So long in our world, you still 481 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,600 have people who will resist the king. 482 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:49,000 You still have people who say I don't want to worship him I 483 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,200 don't want to come near him. Why how huh? 484 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,700 Because the human heart? j.c. 485 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:01,900 Ryle said we need no bad company to teach us and no devil to 486 00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:05,800 tempt Us in order to run into sin, we have within us the 487 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:14,000 beginning of every sin under heaven So, go away with that 488 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,300 idea of environment can environment influence us? 489 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,900 Yes, can people arouse us? Yes, candyman's causes do 490 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,200 things. Yes, but the source, The 491 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,900 Fountainhead, the mouth of where it all comes from is in your 492 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:31,300 heart. Yeah, even behind that, pretty 493 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:36,100 little blouse. A nice tailored suit. 494 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,900 The source of evil is from within Point number to, the 495 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,500 problem of evil is universal. Jesus, very few specific and 496 00:31:46,508 --> 00:31:50,200 what he said here in Mark chapter 7 for from within out of 497 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,900 the heart of men not? Amen. 498 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Not some men, not a people group, not a specific race. 499 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:03,600 Not criminals only but mankind, as a whole is infected with this 500 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,000 poison. So whether your Society, your 501 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,700 status in society is high or low, whether your bank account 502 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,000 is Fuller empty. Whether you're educated or 503 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,500 Porter poorly read, whether you are famous or unknown, whether 504 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,200 you have accomplished much or little all men, According To, 505 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,600 Jesus are inclined to do that. Which God says, do not do. 506 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,900 There is not one part of this world you can run to, where this 507 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:36,500 isn't true. There is not one culture or 508 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:41,300 ethnicity. Where there are not infected 509 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:46,400 with this disease, wherever you go, you will find this problem. 510 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,700 Whoever you meet, they have the same diagnosis. 511 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,400 I want you to think about that. You can't escape from it. 512 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,500 You can't run from it. There's not one part of this 513 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:00,000 world. That is untouched. 514 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,000 And have you ever stepped back and asked why Have you ever just 515 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,700 paused and looked at the universality of sin and said, 516 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,500 how is this true? Why is this? 517 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,900 Why are we all the same? only a fool would deny that 518 00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:21,400 there is not something wrong with us in our wiring, And this 519 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,100 observation is yet another point that defensive veracity of the 520 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,800 word of God. Because it's in the word of God, 521 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,900 where we get the answer that tells us why it is. 522 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:36,100 All of us are the way we are, and why sin itself encompasses 523 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:40,500 all men and all women. You know, this verse, you can 524 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,000 turn there if you'd like. But in Romans 5:12 Paul says 525 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,300 therefore just that sin came into the world through one man 526 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,900 and death through sin, so death. Has spread to all men because 527 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:57,200 all sinned. Through one man. 528 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,700 I notice Paul's being very specific, he saying, just as Sin 529 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:05,700 came into the world. Paul is describing this sin in 530 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,000 our world. He's not talking about the 531 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,300 origins of sin because John tells us about the origins of 532 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,100 sin. And first John 380 tells us 533 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,500 about the devil, who was sinning from the beginning even before 534 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,000 the world was created. And that's a mystery in itself, 535 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,900 right? How did Satan's in, I get it but 536 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,100 we're not here to answer that. Well, Paul is here addressing is 537 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:30,600 sin in our world. And it happened through one man. 538 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,199 One man, one man brought sin universally one man, brought 539 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,000 about death universally, that's why we all die. 540 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:41,699 I've wondered this, you might make fun of this kind of thing. 541 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:46,100 But I thought to myself, how is it that we we all die? 542 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:52,000 Why is it that some don't die if this is just all happenstance 543 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,100 and where the product of goo and a collision? 544 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,600 Why is it that we all have the same fate? 545 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,000 And there's something unnatural about death, something doesn't 546 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,200 feel right about there's something in all of us that 547 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,900 resisted that. If you're still saying you you 548 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,500 protect yourself from danger, anything that would threaten you 549 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,500 the very reflexes of your body attest to that right? 550 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:20,100 You blink, and you Flinch. Why why? 551 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,500 Why is it that there's no Academy in our world? 552 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,300 Why is it that there's no school or University or 553 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,400 pre-kindergarten her kindergarten class that teaches 554 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,800 you to do? Evil come and learn how to lie 555 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:38,000 come learn, how to steal come learn, how to be selfish. 556 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,200 Because it's in you. You don't need to be taught. 557 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:51,700 You know exactly how to do it. Because of one man, he explains 558 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,900 that our first parents namely Adam was granted a unique 559 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,900 responsibility ones that's not to be repeated apart from Christ 560 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,700 but a unique responsibility and his responsibility is to govern 561 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:05,000 or was to govern and nurture the world. 562 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,100 And he assumed the role of man's representative and the decisions 563 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:10,300 he made would have consequences for the rest of us. 564 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,800 And the natural world that he was called to take care of and 565 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:19,500 one preacher, put it this way. Adam did not sin as a man. 566 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:26,000 Adam sinned as man. Big difference because the 567 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,800 implications of that are massive and here is one of them. 568 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,700 As long as there are humans, there will be sin. 569 00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:35,400 As long as there are humans, they're obese in. 570 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,700 Take a dozen people, six men, six woman, train, them, and 571 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:44,800 develop the technology to be able to colonize another planet 572 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,300 stuff, them in a rocket, blow it up into the atmosphere. 573 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:53,100 Let them land on Mars. And create a new world. 574 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:58,100 Let's start fresh, right. If this is really about our 575 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:00,800 environment. If this is about all these other 576 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,900 tricks and ideas, then let's just get a blank canvas, maybe 577 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:07,100 that's the real solution, we just need a fresh start. 578 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:10,300 Surely we have your learned after thousands of years of 579 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:14,600 scars Upon Our Land and Upon Our people, we've learned enough to 580 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,300 say if we got it, if we get a new chance at it, we can do it 581 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:21,500 right. And what would you have if we 582 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:26,000 took over another planet and try to do it all over again? 583 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000 You would have Earth 2.2 or 2.0. That's what you would have. 584 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,600 Because it's not about. How you do things, what you 585 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,400 learn, what programs you develop. 586 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,700 It's about the heart. And here's the funny thing, we 587 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:44,700 actually tried that and it didn't work. 588 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:47,900 We tried going to Mars. No, I'm not talking about that. 589 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:52,500 We tried restarting in this world and failed. 590 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,800 Remember the flood that that's what it was all about. 591 00:37:57,300 --> 00:38:00,100 Again, it's a history book to show you that, that kind of idea 592 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:03,000 itself is not even worthy to be entertained. 593 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,800 God takes one family, puts him on an arc, and close them and 594 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,900 protects them. And he washes this world squeaky 595 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:17,900 clean. He takes just a remnant of the 596 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:20,900 animals of every kind, puts him in that boat as well. 597 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:27,300 And he scrubs this place from east to west north to south that 598 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:33,100 our lands and this family exits, that our God makes a covenant. 599 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,600 With this family that feared God, during a generation that 600 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,600 had absolutely no regard for God. 601 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:44,300 And what do you have in the very opening chapter of that new 602 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,200 start in history? Noah following in the footsteps 603 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,700 of Adam. Adam, sinned with the fruit. 604 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,900 No, Ascend with a fruit, different fruit. 605 00:38:57,100 --> 00:39:03,100 But Same Heart. He gets drunk before we can even 606 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:08,900 enjoy our new world. And his sons at least one of 607 00:39:08,908 --> 00:39:11,900 them, shames him and embarrasses them, and it just all goes 608 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:16,600 downhill from there. So what's the solution? 609 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,300 It's not to put man in a new environment. 610 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:23,400 It's not to get a reset button. It's to give man a new heart. 611 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:27,600 And how is that to be done? Exactly. 612 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:33,000 Let me give you a couple verses before we close and Ezekiel 613 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:45,100 chapter 18 verse 31. Ezekiel 18:31. 614 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:50,900 The Lord says, cast away from you, all the transgressions that 615 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,600 you have committed and make yourselves a new heart. 616 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:01,300 And a new spirit. Why will you die o House of 617 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:05,900 Israel? That looks like good news, 618 00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:07,700 right? That looks hopeful. 619 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,600 Yeah, it is. God doesn't want you to die in 620 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,500 your sin. But is it really hopeful that 621 00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:16,500 what I just read to you excite you? 622 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,800 If you read it carefully. It should plunge you into deeper 623 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,400 despair. Hypothetically, you come into my 624 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:32,900 office and I'm a doctor and you sense something strange in your 625 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,400 body. So you go through a series of 626 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,600 tests and we do those tests and we discovered that in your body 627 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:42,200 is a burning cancer. That is soon to eat away at your 628 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,200 flesh. It is lethal and you will die. 629 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:52,000 No, cure, no answer, no remedy. Your fate is sealed. 630 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,400 And you because you cherish your life because you have enough 631 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,900 awareness of your own life and realize that there is something 632 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:05,400 wrong with, you are willing to accept that news and you feel 633 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,700 that that pit in your stomach and there's a cold sweat that 634 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:14,200 covers your brow. But there's a sense in which you 635 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,900 are also grateful because you discovered this, right? 636 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,500 Someone someone describe what this message was up to. 637 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,600 This point is Harsh. But do you do that with your 638 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:24,800 doctor? When he tells you honestly, 639 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,800 what's wrong with your body or do you think him? 640 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,300 Can you come to the proper prescription? 641 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:35,700 Before an honest diagnosis. That is exactly why Jesus says 642 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,100 what he says. That's exactly why this is being 643 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:40,600 preached. And so there's a sense of 644 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,300 relief, right? Okay. 645 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,600 This is what I have. This is what I'm struggling 646 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,600 with, but doctor, you're a doctor. 647 00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:51,600 Surely you have something? And the doctor looks at you and 648 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:57,700 he says, here are some tools. Go back to your house and get 649 00:41:57,700 --> 00:42:02,200 the cancer out yourself. How would you feel? 650 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,400 How would you feel? Here are some instruments. 651 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,100 Good luck. You know, you have this cancer. 652 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000 Try to deal with it yourself. what you're supposed to feel is 653 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,500 in even deeper pit in your stomach and a fresh, showering 654 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:28,300 of that cold sweat over your brow, to realize, I can't I 655 00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:31,900 can't you're asking me to do something. 656 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:36,000 That is impossible. I can't perform surgery on 657 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,900 myself. I don't know the deepest parts 658 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:41,500 of what. I'm not familiar with my anatomy 659 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:44,700 to dig deep in there and remove that lump. 660 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:51,700 There is just no way. And that's exactly the aim of 661 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:57,400 this charge in Ezekiel 1831. It's not to inspire you to try 662 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,300 to work your way out of your depraved condition. 663 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,500 It's to bring you to a point where you say create in myself, 664 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:13,000 a new heart, Make a new Spirit In My Own Strength. 665 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,300 I can't. You're asking something that's 666 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:22,400 impossible of me. I'm finished. 667 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,600 I'm done. Let me put my house in order. 668 00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:33,100 Let me eat drink and be merry for tomorrow. 669 00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:40,200 I die. But Ezekiel doesn't finish with 670 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,900 his revelation. Because you keep reading in that 671 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,800 prophets writings and you come to 36:26. 672 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,200 In the Lord says through him and I will give you a new heart. 673 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:58,900 I not you. I will give you a new heart and 674 00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:02,800 a new spirit. I will put within you and I will 675 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,900 remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh and give you a heart 676 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:07,800 of Flesh. And I will put my spirit within 677 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,900 you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to be 678 00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:12,800 obey my rules. How many times do you have to 679 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,500 say? Aye aye. 680 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:19,600 Aye. You can't write, I can't. 681 00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:21,300 You can't get the cancer out of your. 682 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:22,900 I can't get the cancer out of me. 683 00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:29,900 Then I'll do it. Come to the foot of the cross. 684 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:38,400 Come filthy broken. And lay there in humility and 685 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:42,000 repentance Faith submit to my righteousness and allow me to 686 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,200 perform in you, what you are. Nobody else can do. 687 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:47,900 This is point number three. Yes. 688 00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:50,800 Point number one is, as a source of evils within Point number 689 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,200 two, is that the problem of evil is universal and point number 690 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,700 three, is this, that the remedy of your sin is not within but 691 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:03,300 outside, it's not within its in him. 692 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:08,200 I will do it. That is Our Gospel appeal. 693 00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:12,200 Is to raise up, the mirror of God's word in front of you, to 694 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,000 show you God, standard and to press you and to help. 695 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,900 You see, just how depraved and Lawson deplorable. 696 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:22,000 You really are, not in light of your neighbor, not in light of 697 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,500 society, and unlighted, the crazies that are dominating 698 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:27,800 social media. No, no, and light of a holy God, 699 00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:32,000 And for you to say, well, that's me. 700 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,300 And then you feel the temptation of your hand reaching for a 701 00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:40,400 knife. Reaching for your own Works, 702 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,600 reaching for your own efforts, reaching for your own ideas, 703 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,000 reaching for what you even see the commands in this word and to 704 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,500 apply them to yourselves and to bleed that sin out of you and to 705 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:54,800 bruise yourself into righteousness and to be molded 706 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,500 into the very image that God requires of you in order to be 707 00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:00,900 accepted by him and that is not where God wants you to go before 708 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:03,600 you reach out your hand. He halts it and he grabs your 709 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,600 wrist. And he gets your attention with 710 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,700 the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he says, not with your hands. 711 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:13,500 But with my pierced hands now, where you go with your feet but 712 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,100 where my feet have gone. Now, what you do with your mind, 713 00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:19,400 but with what, this Crown of Thorns have done to this face. 714 00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:24,700 It's me, it's what I have done. It's what I will do for you. 715 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:32,700 And when he does this something Supernatural happens, I will 716 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:37,300 give you a new heart. How do I know if I'm born again 717 00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:39,600 preacher? Well, how do you know if you 718 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,200 actually had physical heart surgery? 719 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,800 Would, you know, you would know Even if everybody else in this 720 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,800 whole world, told you, that you didn't get it, you have a scar 721 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:54,100 to prove it. Is it any different with 722 00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:57,200 spiritual surgery? Some would say yes, some would 723 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,600 say that you can come into contact with this gospel and not 724 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,900 be changed because it's just this idea. 725 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,900 It's just a mere confession. No, it's a supernatural 726 00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:11,200 transformation. The means is Faith. 727 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,900 The supply is Grace. But the result is powerful. 728 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,700 It's tangible. It's observable first in you, 729 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,200 and in another's. And I want to just give you one 730 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,500 Glimpse and I'm finished here. I'm going to give you one 731 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:30,500 glimpse of just a description of why it is that this is 732 00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:33,900 Supernatural First Corinthians 6 verse 17. 733 00:47:35,900 --> 00:47:39,600 It's not really a text referred to to give some kind of color. 734 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,000 To the transformation that occurs with this new heart 735 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,500 transplant. But let me give you this one to 736 00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:54,500 consider. 1st Corinthians 6:17. But he, who is joined to the 737 00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:57,900 Lord becomes one spirit with him. 738 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,000 He who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 739 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,300 Pulses at the heels of describing what happens when a 740 00:48:06,308 --> 00:48:09,100 man and a woman come together and sexual union to become one 741 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:12,400 flesh. And he describes the the 742 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,200 profound bond that that really is. 743 00:48:15,900 --> 00:48:19,600 And then he goes from there to give us a more deeper Bond. 744 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,100 Yeah, you become one flesh with another human being, but when 745 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:28,000 you come to Christ and are joined to him, you become one 746 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 spirit. The innermost part of Who You 747 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,000 Are. Is joined to the Lord. 748 00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:41,500 Now, hold on, joined to the Lord and you didn't change. 749 00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:51,600 Union with the spirit of God. And you don't have any desire to 750 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,700 obey his commands, you have no inclination to adore him. 751 00:48:57,700 --> 00:49:01,800 You have no part of you that wants to worship Him and love 752 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,900 him. How how? 753 00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:06,200 Please? Tell me how please I'm lost. 754 00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:14,500 Tell me how how Join with the Lord in the spirit unphased 755 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:20,200 unchanged the same. Someone's not telling the truth 756 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,500 here. But I go with what the Bible 757 00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:30,100 says. and we must present a gospel that doesn't cheapen the 758 00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:35,200 gospel but provides man, The only solution. 759 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,400 What is the solution? Christ. 760 00:49:43,500 --> 00:49:46,200 Is that too simple for you, does that offend you? 761 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:51,500 You know, going through Ministry even for this short amount of 762 00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:57,500 time. I've realized that all these 763 00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:02,000 ideas and all these Newfound studies and all these tricks and 764 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:07,900 all these programs. They're powerless, powerless. 765 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,500 Am I put myself in a position to be accused of being simplistic. 766 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,600 But when you realize what Christ can do to the human heart wide, 767 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,200 look elsewhere. It applies to your marriage, it 768 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,700 applies to your habits, it applies to your addiction, it 769 00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:30,800 applies to your trauma. It applies to absolutely 770 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:36,200 everything. You know, over the years you see 771 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,400 what the gospel can do. This is the story that came to 772 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,700 mind on my way here and I thought I would I would share 773 00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:46,000 because for whatever reason, the image when reflecting upon the 774 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,000 profoundness and the power of this truth, this is the image 775 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,100 that came to me. A few of us early in our walk 776 00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:57,800 with the Lord were invited to go to a few Catholic high schools 777 00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:00,000 and Catholic high. Schools and Canada are no 778 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,900 different than public schools, really? 779 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,400 I went to them. I went to a Catholic elementary 780 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,700 school. I went to Catholic High School. 781 00:51:09,300 --> 00:51:11,600 And we are invited to go into these classrooms, these 782 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,900 religious classrooms. I did this day, I have to figure 783 00:51:14,900 --> 00:51:17,600 out because I don't understand how it happened, where they 784 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:22,300 invited a group of friends to come into classrooms and to 785 00:51:22,300 --> 00:51:25,700 share testimonies and ultimately the gospel, the true gospel. 786 00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:29,400 To this day, the group of people that were participating, that 787 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,400 participating that are just, we recognize the miraculous element 788 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,800 of it. And in one particular school, 789 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:38,100 they put us in there, Chapel there, Catholic Chapel room, and 790 00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:41,600 one class after the other all day just came through and we had 791 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,800 a little system because there was a group of us, maybe five of 792 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,500 us, four of them would share their testimonies and Powerful 793 00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:49,600 testimonies. I mean, testimonies are being 794 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,600 delivered from drugs and gangs and violence and perversion 795 00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:57,000 unforgiveness. One of the brothers who You're 796 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,800 visiting us. His brother was murdered right 797 00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,600 in front of his eyes, held his dead body there in the streets. 798 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,500 After partying in the bar and he was able because of Christ. 799 00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:07,500 After that saying what happened to my brother? 800 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,600 Where is he? He found Christ and he found 801 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,000 Christ in a real way. When he found Christ in a real 802 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,400 way, he was able to look at those murders in that courtroom 803 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:20,400 and forgive them publicly, those kind of testimonies And they 804 00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,800 were profound testimony. There are moving testimonies, 805 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,600 but we made it every single time. 806 00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:31,200 We settled it. That the gospel would be 807 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,100 presented at the end. And can I tell you something? 808 00:52:35,900 --> 00:52:39,600 When the gospel would go forth? I looked at those faces from 809 00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,700 time to time and I've never seen them more gripped, more touched, 810 00:52:45,300 --> 00:52:48,400 more moved, despite everything that we said, despite the 811 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:53,300 Charisma that was there in that room, despite the drama of those 812 00:52:53,300 --> 00:52:58,700 stories, when the gospel was presented, It, paralyzes those 813 00:52:58,700 --> 00:53:01,800 students. Because there's no other news 814 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,900 like it. It's the only thing that brings 815 00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:06,500 a solution. It's the only thing that brings 816 00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:11,800 an answer and in the sheer Silence of that place we didn't 817 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,600 know what the results of those meetings were on one day. 818 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,600 We got a box full of these letters from these students and 819 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,900 we open them one by one and each one of those. 820 00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:25,600 What you said, gave me hope what you said. 821 00:53:26,900 --> 00:53:29,500 Help me realize I have another chance. 822 00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:33,000 What you said? Help me not kill myself. 823 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,000 What you said? Helped me realize that there is 824 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,500 a love outside of my abusive father and neglecting mother. 825 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:44,200 What you said what was that? The gospel was said For it is 826 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,200 the power of God unto salvation, my friend. 827 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,400 I end here. I said that 10 minutes ago, I 828 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,900 mean it this time. Is your heart changed. 829 00:53:55,300 --> 00:53:59,500 Is it changed? Have you experienced what? 830 00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:03,600 I am speaking of have you come to the end of yourself, where 831 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:08,800 you realize, just how dark your heart is and how deceiving it as 832 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,700 been to you. And enough is enough. 833 00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:16,400 The pattern, my life has testified that my ideas and my 834 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,700 concepts of my convictions have failed me. 835 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,400 Have you come to that point? Now, if you have what is your 836 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,500 solution because if you're not careful, that same perverted 837 00:54:25,500 --> 00:54:28,300 hard, that is deceived you with your sin can Really trick you 838 00:54:28,300 --> 00:54:31,100 about how you can be free from your sin and so be careful. 839 00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,300 I make an appeal to a real appeal. 840 00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:37,400 My appeal is this come to Christ today? 841 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:42,000 Be saved today today? Yes, Father's Day Meet Your Real 842 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,300 Heavenly Father, come to him. Repent of your sin trust in him. 843 00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,000 I even dare you to not leave this place and lay flat on the 844 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,800 ground and cry out to him until you're a transformed creature. 845 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,100 He'll do it. He will do it. 846 00:54:57,300 --> 00:55:00,100 He will give you a new heart. You can't go anywhere else, you 847 00:55:00,100 --> 00:55:04,900 can't do anything for yourself. If you choose not to do so 848 00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:06,900 today, which I think is a tragic mistake. 849 00:55:06,900 --> 00:55:10,300 Never forget those words call upon his name and you shall be 850 00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:12,900 saved. Call upon his name and you shall 851 00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:15,200 be saved Lord. We thank you for this word. 852 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:20,300 And we ask Gardens time, we would rejoice in our salvation. 853 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,500 Maybe we become dull concerning the gospel, maybe we have fallen 854 00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:33,500 into the Trap of thinking that the gospel needs some help. 855 00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:41,000 But thank you for reminding us. You alone can give a new heart. 856 00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:44,600 Even if there's one person in here. 857 00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:51,300 Who doesn't have that new heart? We thank you for speaking to 858 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:56,600 them and we asked that they would be changed. we pray that 859 00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:03,300 they would be desperate enough to say, Heal me, save me, change 860 00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:05,100 me. Lord. 861 00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:10,700 I am a poor preacher week stammering. 862 00:56:12,100 --> 00:56:14,200 You have to do it by your spirit. 863 00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:17,800 You have to Lord. And we give you the glory for 864 00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,300 it, and look for the Saints in the land. 865 00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:22,900 We rejoice in this gospel, we give you praise, we lift our 866 00:56:22,900 --> 00:56:24,500 hands. We lift our voices, and we say 867 00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:27,800 thank you. That we can look back at a 868 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,900 moment and say that was the day. My heart was changed. 869 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,700 Receive more glory for that Jesus name, amen.