1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,520 He came to save us from being influenced and controlled by the 6 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:46,440 passions of the fallen nature. And if you know down deep 7 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,200 inside, man, I know what I should do. 8 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,080 But I can't help myself, Clark. I just can't get out of this. 9 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,520 I understand you can't. I've been there. 10 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,400 The only way you can get out is to get saved. 11 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,120 And when you get saved, God lifts you out of that control of 12 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,360 the flesh and puts a spirit in you. 13 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,520 And now the Holy Spirit enables you to overcome all the things 14 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,360 that are going on in your life that are destructive. 15 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,040 Have you hit a point in your life where you feel like no 16 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,840 matter how hard you try, you can't kick your sinful habits? 17 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,120 Every self help book you've read, every new hobby you've 18 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,960 taken up, every bit of counseling you sought out, and 19 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,680 still nothing works. At least not long term. 20 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,360 Today, Pastor Clark teaches you that there is one important part 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,320 missing from the change that you're striving to make. 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:40,000 Without Jesus, sin will continue to wage war against you, and you 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,440 will continue to fall victim to it. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,040 Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 19 with 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,080 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 26 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,200 Revelation 19, verse 17 Then I saw an Angel standing in the 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,800 sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying, To all the birds 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,320 that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather together for the 29 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,080 supper of the great God, that you may eat. 30 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,600 The flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,880 men, the flesh of horses and those who sit on them, and the 32 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,680 flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great. 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,880 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and the armies 34 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,280 gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse 35 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,840 and against his army. And then the beast was captured, 36 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,480 and with him the false prophet, who worked signs in his 37 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,160 presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of 38 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,760 the beast, and those who worshipped his image. 39 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,720 These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with 40 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,800 rim stone, and the rest were killed with the sword which 41 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,120 proceeded from the mouth of him who sat on a horse. 42 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,600 And the birds were filled with their flesh. 43 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,640 This is probably one of the most horrendous declarations of the 44 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:58,000 judgement of God on the face of the earth outside of some of the 45 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,320 chapters in the Old Testament we read when God went into certain 46 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,520 communities and wiped out every living thing because of the 47 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,040 decadence and the sinfulness of the people. 48 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,960 And I want you to understand today that God is love. 49 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,400 And you might read this and say, how in the world can God be 50 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,200 loved and do something like this? 51 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,280 And we'll get to that in a moment. 52 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,040 So we're just going to go through this verse by verse and 53 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,920 trust that it'll come alive and make sense to you. 54 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,240 As we look at it now, we see in 17 and 18 this particular Angel 55 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,280 that is standing in the midst of the sun. 56 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,840 His brightness is so powerful. The glory of God is all over 57 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,280 this Angel. He's a representative, a 58 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,680 spokesman for the glory of God and the purposes of God, and 59 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,800 he's the one that's declaring what is going to come to pass. 60 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,840 Now, the week before we studied about Christ, and he's the one 61 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,120 that is on this horse leading the armies of heaven to the 62 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,000 earth to bring destruction upon all those who are living on the 63 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,640 earth at this current time that are enemies of God. 64 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,960 People who hate God, who have made a decision in their minds 65 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,760 that they don't want to live for God. 66 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,360 They don't want to have anything to do with God. 67 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,360 They've already accepted the mark of the beast, which is the 68 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,960 mark that is the Insignia on the heart of the unbeliever 69 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,800 signifying that they are enemies of God and they hate the Kingdom 70 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,520 of God and they're enemies of Jesus Christ. 71 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,720 And so he's saying to all these birds that fly to prepare for 72 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,600 this great slaughter, which is called Armageddon. 73 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,440 Some of the movies you guys have seen can't come close to their 74 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,600 horrendous destruction of what's going to come upon the earth at 75 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,280 this time. Birds of the air, birds that 76 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:44,160 fly. Some people feel there's a 77 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,720 symbolic meaning behind some of these terms because of the 78 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,000 technology that we are living in these days. 79 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,240 I've sort of like to stay with the little rendering unless 80 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,920 something would cause me to the sensors. 81 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,320 There's something beyond that. But I I know that the Hawks, if 82 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,680 you see them fly around and they find something dead, doesn't 83 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,160 matter how small or how big it is. 84 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,880 Deer, whatever, they get down and they pick at it and eat it 85 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,280 until there's nothing left, right? 86 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,120 They tear all the meat off the bones and there's absolutely 87 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,400 nothing left of the flesh. And this is what's going to 88 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,040 happen. And it says this is going to 89 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,400 occur, the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains. 90 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,600 So we see all the important human beings on the face of the 91 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,960 earth. There is no discrimination with 92 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,160 God's judgement. He'll deal with the small and 93 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:37,080 the great, the famous and the those who aren't famous and the 94 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,840 representing. This flesh is the life. 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,000 As I read in Romans chapter 8, it's lived in sin against God. 96 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,560 The flesh is an enemy of God. And I want you to flip over to 97 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,400 Galatians 5 for a minute so we can reflect on this a little bit 98 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,440 more. There's nothing evil about the 99 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,920 skin on my bones or yours. This is the tent that God's 100 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,480 given us. What's evil is the capacity of 101 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,360 the heart to use this body that God has created against his will 102 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,000 and his purposes and his truth and his word When we take this 103 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,880 physical body and use it for things that God has not intended 104 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,200 it to be used for. Now we're going to look at 105 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,840 Galatians 5 and it's going to talk about this war that we all 106 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,960 struggle with the difference between the the flesh and the 107 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,760 spirit. And it says in verse 16 of 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,960 Galatians 5I say, then walk in the spirit and you shall not 109 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,920 fulfill the lust of the flesh. Now, before we're Christians, 110 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,800 and some of you were adults here, some of you were younger. 111 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,400 So depending on how long you've lived on the earth, you, you've 112 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,760 experienced different things. But I can remember a time in my 113 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,680 life where this flesh, this desire, this wicked heart did 114 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,360 all kind of bad stuff. And it didn't bother me. 115 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,800 I mean, my conscience told me it was wrong, but I blew my 116 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,360 conscience off. I did what I wanted to do. 117 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,440 I was a child of God's wrath. I wasn't a child of God at one 118 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,560 time. And so I just had a propensity 119 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,120 to do evil and wicked things. I did many of them in my life. 120 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,840 And the wages of sin, the Bible says is death. 121 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,400 And so if it wasn't for the grace of God working in my life 122 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,800 and turning my heart toward him and and saving me and changing 123 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,560 me, I would be hell bound as we speak. 124 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,600 So we're either walking in the power of the Holy Spirit or 125 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,840 we're walking in the flesh. Now that says the flesh lusts 126 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,840 against the Spirit means that wars against God's will, and 127 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,880 it's contrary to God's will that you don't do the things that you 128 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,840 would like to do. So if you're here today and you 129 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,840 don't know God and the Holy Spirit isn't in you, you're just 130 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,320 going to do what your flesh tells you. 131 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,680 If it tells you to get drunk, you're just going to get drunk. 132 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,480 If it tells you to be immoral, you're going to be immoral. 133 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,360 If it tells you to steal or to be greedy or to be vindictive or 134 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,160 vengeful or hateful or bitter or angry or drug addicted, it's 135 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,480 just going to control you. It's like a bondage. 136 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,600 It's like, that's why we need to be saved. 137 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,920 Christmas Eve, I said Jesus came to save his people from their 138 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,360 sins. He came to save us from being 139 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:16,400 influenced and controlled by the passions of the fallen nature. 140 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,080 And if you know down deep inside, man, I know what I 141 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,040 should do, but I can't help myself, Clark. 142 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,480 I just can't get out of this. I understand you can't. 143 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,440 I've been there. The only way you can get out is 144 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,760 to get saved. And when you get saved, God 145 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,840 lifts you out of that control of the flesh and puts a spirit in 146 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,679 you. And now the Holy Spirit enables 147 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,679 you to overcome all the things that are going on in your life 148 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,640 that are destructive. It says if you're led by the 149 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,159 Spirit, you're not under the law. 150 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:48,840 Meaning if you're without Christ today, you're going to be judged 151 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,080 at the judgment seat, the great white throne, the book will be 152 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,280 open and you'll stand there saying, well, I was good, I help 153 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,400 people, I did this, I did that. I didn't do this. 154 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,280 I didn't do that. Well, God's law is going to say, 155 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,320 well, did you do this? Did you hate? 156 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,280 Did you honor God above all things? 157 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,320 Did you commit adultery? And some of us might sit here 158 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,240 and say, well, I never did that. So I'm pretty good. 159 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,280 Well, the Bible says if you looked upon a woman with lust, 160 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,040 you've already committed adultery. 161 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,960 How many men here have looked at woman with lust? 162 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,760 Raise your hand. Every one of us. 163 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:25,120 So we've broken that law, right? We've broken that law, all of 164 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,200 us. So we're guilty. 165 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,480 We don't have a chance. We don't have a way out. 166 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,880 The books are open and God says you did this. 167 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,680 And the Bible says if you've offended God in one, you've 168 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,680 offended him in all. So you're guilty of everything 169 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,640 that the Bible says is sinful. But if you're a letter of the 170 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:42,880 Spirit, you're not under the law. 171 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,720 What a relief. We'll stand at the judgment and 172 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,800 we're accepted into the heavenly Kingdom because we're part of 173 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,080 his family now. The Holy Spirit dwells in US. 174 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,440 The Holy Spirit lives in us. We're not habitually sinning 175 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,440 anymore, and that doesn't mean we still don't sin. 176 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,480 We're tempted and, and as Christians we still fail, all of 177 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,720 us. But when we fail, we want to 178 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,320 repent, we want to get right with God. 179 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,320 We just don't say, well, that's just the way I am, no big deal. 180 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,520 Our conscience bothers us and the Holy Spirit corrects us and 181 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,880 brings us back into a place of obedience. 182 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,080 So then the more we grow in the word and the more we know the 183 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,760 Lord, the more we walk according to the Spirit. 184 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,960 We're not interested in following the following desires 185 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,600 anymore. They're not appealing to us. 186 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,080 There's no, there's no interest. The desires have been lifted out 187 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,680 of our hearts. What are the works of the flesh? 188 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,520 What does a person do if they're under the influence of their 189 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,880 sinful nature? What says it's evident? 190 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,880 Adultery, Fornication. One time someone came to me for 191 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,400 counseling a guy and his girlfriend, and they said, we're 192 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,680 in the Bible. Does it say, yeah, you can't 193 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:49,000 have sex before marriage? And I said, and I read him and 194 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,880 he said, well, what's that mean? Well, fornication means any kind 195 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,960 of sexual relationship outside the confines of marriage. 196 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,320 Uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery. 197 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,480 That word for sorcery has also been translated pharmakeia in 198 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,360 the Bible, meaning any kind of influence of messing around with 199 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,600 any kind of drugs, marijuana or whatever it is, hatred, 200 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,040 contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish 201 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,560 ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, 202 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,800 drunkenness, partying around rubber leaves, the like of which 203 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,400 I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, and 204 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,240 this is the Apostle Paul warning this church in Galatia, and you 205 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,120 might want to underline this in your Bible, that those who 206 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,080 practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 207 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,360 So if this is your lifestyle, this is how you're living, 208 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,440 doesn't matter what you say you believe Christ isn't your 209 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,320 savior, He isn't your Lord. If you're living this way, you 210 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,560 won't get into the Kingdom of heaven. 211 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,720 Now, if you're here today and you know you're living that way, 212 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,040 the Lord would want you to repent. 213 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,200 He would want you to come clean with him and say I'm in trouble, 214 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,400 Lord, and I know it and I can't leave here today unless you save 215 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,280 me. Can't leave here today unless 216 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,720 you save me, Lord, because I know today that if I continue in 217 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,560 this way of life, I'm going to end up in hell and I don't want 218 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,320 to be there. And God doesn't want you to be 219 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,920 there. He loves you, for God so loved 220 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,960 this world that he gave his only begotten Son. 221 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,240 Why did he give Him? So that we wouldn't have to go 222 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,240 to hell, that we could be forgiven, and that we could 223 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,520 become descendants of God and have nature like God and live 224 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,960 like God, and be sons and daughters of God and do godly 225 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,600 things, not ungodly things. And it says those who are Christ 226 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,680 have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 227 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:39,280 It means they don't have the ability to influence and control 228 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,240 you anymore. If you really belong to Christ, 229 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,920 the Lord has overcome in your life through the power of the 230 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,880 Holy Spirit that you don't have to submit to the temptation and 231 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:50,320 the desire. Some people say, well, I have a 232 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,640 drinking problem. Well, if you have Christ in your 233 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,680 heart, you're not going to have a drinking problem anymore. 234 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:56,880 You're just not going to drink. You're not going to want to. 235 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,360 The Holy Spirit's going to give you the ability and the power 236 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,120 not to drink. But if you say, I've asked, but 237 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,880 he won't help me and I keep doing it and I, well, there's 238 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,400 something wrong there. Because if the Spirit of God is 239 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,720 in you, you're not going to have to be under the control of that 240 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,520 influence anymore. And that's in every area of our 241 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,000 life. Some men struggle with 242 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,800 pornography, or some people struggle with drug addiction, or 243 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,120 some people struggle with being lazy on their job or bitter or 244 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,040 whatever it is. You don't have to allow any of 245 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,600 this sinful nature to control you anymore. 246 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,720 So that's what's great about being a Christian. 247 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,600 You're free from sin. You don't have to sin anymore, 248 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,800 and you actually have the capacity to not sin. 249 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,120 I mean, when that begins to sink in and you realize that you're 250 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,800 free, it's incredible. Yeah. 251 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,000 It makes you a whole new creation, a whole different type 252 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,400 of human being. Because before crisis in our 253 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,080 life, all we do is just keep doing the stuff that we know we 254 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,640 shouldn't do. It's it comes naturally because 255 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,320 we're all sinful people. But when Christ comes into our 256 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,960 life and changes us, all of a sudden we have the ability and 257 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,720 the power to make choices now and say, I'm not going to live 258 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,600 this way anymore. I'm not going to do this 259 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,040 anymore. We're going to have to maybe 260 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:09,680 talk to some people and say, guess what? 261 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,560 My relationship with you is ended as of now. 262 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,160 And they'll say, well, why? Because I can't live this way 263 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,480 anymore. I can't sleep around anymore. 264 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,760 I can't do this anymore because God lives in me now. 265 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,440 They'll probably look at you like you're nuts. 266 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,000 That's OK. They might ask you, what do you 267 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,800 mean God's in you? And then you can tell them 268 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:33,320 what's happened to you. And then perhaps God will save 269 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,920 them as well. And it says if we live in the 270 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,200 Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 271 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:45,120 So that's the major difference between this teaching and 272 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,600 revelation regarding why is he going to destroy all this flesh 273 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,560 on the earth at this time? Because these people are enemies 274 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,160 of God. They're walking this way, 275 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,440 they're living this way, and they don't care. 276 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,880 They've heard the truth. They know the truth from the 277 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,800 standpoint of it being communicated to them. 278 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,800 But they're the kind of people that refuse to submit and 279 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,640 repent. And perhaps you're here today in 280 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,480 that camp, you're refusing to repent. 281 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,400 Well, God wants you to know today that if you refuse to 282 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,280 repent, this is what you're going to face. 283 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,360 And even worse, if you don't end up in this situation, you die 284 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,960 before this event occurs. You're going to be in hell 285 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,320 forever. That's a cold hard fact, but 286 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,480 it's the truth. You're going to be in hell 287 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,520 forever and ever. Philippians chapter 3 verse 3 288 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,600 says we're not to have any confidence in the flesh, not any 289 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,520 confidence in our own self ability. 290 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:38,800 And this, this is important for Christians today in our jobs, in 291 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,720 our marriages and our raising of our children and our ministries, 292 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,160 whatever. If we depend upon our own 293 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,560 abilities and we're trusting in our own wisdom, we're having 294 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,240 confidence in our fallen nature, which will do nothing but mess 295 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,840 things up. We're not to have any confidence 296 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,800 in human ability. The world today teaches us about 297 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,840 self esteem. To be confident, feel good about 298 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,960 yourself, you have to love yourself. 299 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,600 Well, the Bible says we already do love ourselves. 300 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,840 I mean that's a that's a given because all our focus is most of 301 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,560 the time on ourselves. So it proves that we have this 302 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,840 insatiable love for self that we have to constantly deny. 303 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,760 Jesus says if any man will follow me, let him deny himself. 304 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,320 That's the hardest thing to do as a human being, to deny 305 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,880 yourself will. But it says not to have any 306 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,080 confidence in your human ability. 307 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,640 It says Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 5. 308 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,440 Not that we're sufficient of ourselves to think of anything 309 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,920 as being from ourselves, but our sufficiencies from God. 310 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,800 In other words, I receive my esteem from God. 311 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,800 Where God says you're beloved, you're accepted in the beloved, 312 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,880 holy and without blame. That should make all of us feel 313 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:50,040 fantastic. It's not what you think of me or 314 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,640 what I think of you or what we think of one another. 315 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,080 I mean, it's nice to think good things about you. 316 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,400 Don't want anybody to hate you or not like you or disrespect 317 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,120 you. But it really shouldn't bother 318 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,840 us because God says He loves you with an everlasting love. 319 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,599 He cares about you, He's for you and He's not against you. 320 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:10,000 He has plans for you in the days ahead, plans of hope and plans 321 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,920 of a future. John 663 says it is a spirit who 322 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,520 gives life. The flesh profits nothing. 323 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,839 If I'm up here trying to motivate you today and my own 324 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:26,160 ability and my own passion and my own desire as a human being 325 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,520 and trying to persuade or cause your mind to think differently 326 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,400 through my own strength, my own ability, it'll profit nothing. 327 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,920 The words that I speak to your Spirit and they are life. 328 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,400 And that's my prayer for us as a ministry, that it's a spirit 329 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,360 that's speaking. It's not the flesh, it's not 330 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,320 human ability, it's not the wisdom of man, but it's the 331 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,400 wisdom of God. First Corinthians chapter one, 332 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,000 verse 2631. If you flip over there for a 333 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,400 minute and if you pick anything up as we're studying together, 334 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,680 pick up the difference between a life that's directed by the 335 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:05,080 Spirit and a life that's directed by pride of fallen 336 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,960 natures. Verse 26 for you see your 337 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,720 calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh 338 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,960 human ability, right fallen nature, not many mighty not many 339 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,560 know Bo are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the 340 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,800 world to put the shame the wise and God has chosen the weak 341 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,200 things of the world to put the shame. 342 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,080 The things which are mighty and base things of the world and 343 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,960 things which are despise God hath chosen, and the things 344 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,400 which are not to bring to nothing. 345 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,040 The things that are that no flesh should glory in his 346 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:42,160 presence, that no flesh should glory in his presence. 347 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,720 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom 348 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,000 from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption 349 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:54,520 that it is written. He who glories, let him glory in 350 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,680 the Lord. And so we're here today as 351 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,520 brothers and sisters for the most point. 352 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,360 Most of us are Christians here today, and God is calling all of 353 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:09,280 you for some purpose. And he's not looking for people 354 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,360 who are highly educated. Of course, he can use highly 355 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:15,960 educated people, but he doesn't have any kind of agenda. 356 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:21,160 When he chooses people to serve him, He chooses people who the 357 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,280 world might say many times are losers. 358 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,320 He chooses the outcast, the downcast. 359 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,320 He chooses the insecure. He chooses people who know down 360 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 deep inside I can't do this, Lord. 361 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,880 He chooses people who have failed. 362 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,360 And so he looks out in an audience and he says not many 363 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:44,040 wise out there today, not to put anybody down. 364 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,480 Not many noble, not many mighty are called, but God has chosen 365 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,800 the weak and the foolish things of this world. 366 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,200 How many of us are weak and foolish here today? 367 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,880 That's all of us. So he's calling all of us to 368 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,120 serve him. And you might say, well, I can't 369 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:02,720 do this. I'm not as good as him or I'm 370 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,040 not as good as her. That's sinful. 371 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,040 When God says he's choosing you because you're weak and foolish, 372 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,600 just admit it, Lord. I'm not going to compare myself 373 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,600 with anybody else. I'm what you tell me in your 374 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,040 word, I am. I'm weak, I'm foolish, but I 375 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,160 want to surrender this body to you for you to use for your 376 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,560 glory. And as God begins to use you and 377 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,920 work in your life and bless people through your life, you 378 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,880 will know it has nothing to do with you. 379 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,800 And that's why it says there in 31. 380 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,400 He who glories, let him glory in the Lord. 381 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,533 I remember when we were training to be missionaries and my sister 382 00:20:40,533 --> 00:20:42,920 in law's here today, she was with the new trials mission in 383 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,640 Africa with in Senegal and boot camp was tough. 384 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,040 It was the second phase of the training. 385 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,880 We went to Bible college. We got all that great head 386 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,480 knowledge, right. We had to memorize the book of 387 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,480 Ephesians. We thought we were really it 388 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,680 right? I mean, we really thought we had 389 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,560 it together. We had a handle on the word and 390 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,280 all that. We go to the boot camp and we're 391 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,400 around these deep Christians that are training us and, and 392 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,560 they're telling us why we got to get from what's in here down to 393 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,920 here because we're all in. There is a bunch of immature, 394 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,280 proud, self willed people that are claiming that they're being 395 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,920 called by God to be missionaries. 396 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,120 And, and the truth was that, yeah, God's calling us to serve 397 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,560 him, but there's work that needs to be done in our life before we 398 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,840 can serve him. They had a Tuesday night 399 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,360 meeting. It was an open night meeting 400 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,440 where you'd all sit here like this and they do worship. 401 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,680 And then you'd wait on the Holy Spirit to speak. 402 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,240 And sometimes 10 minutes, nothing's happening. 403 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,800 And they'd play some more music. And then someone would come up 404 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,280 and they'd share the words, you know, and they'd break it. 405 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,080 And they'd maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15, and whatever the 406 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,440 Holy Spirit's leading them. And, and they would be speaking 407 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,040 to the body. And then they'd sit down and 408 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,560 someone else would get up and share. 409 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,360 And maybe a woman would come up and sing a song or read a Psalm 410 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,040 or it was powerful and dine deep inside. 411 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,720 As you're sitting there, you know God wants to use you too, 412 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,160 that you're afraid because you're thinking, what if I look 413 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,200 like a fool? What if I say something that's 414 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,320 stupid? What if I'm not correct? 415 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,080 Or what if I blow it or whatever, you know, and God's 416 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,160 like that, your heart's thumping. 417 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,440 You know you're supposed to say something. 418 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,440 You don't. You've all had those 419 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,520 opportunities when you're in a meeting and you know God wants 420 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,560 to use you at Wednesday night study to say something, to pray 421 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,080 or whatever, step out in faith. And it's scary. 422 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,760 And I remember the first time I went up there and I thought I 423 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,960 had something to say When I got up there, I looked in the Bible, 424 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,400 I realized I had nothing to say. It was terrible. 425 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,160 I got up there and I'm supposed to say something. 426 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,000 I have absolutely nothing to say and I could have read something 427 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,880 here, but the Lord whisper in my ear, you're a phony clerk. 428 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,600 You're a phony. If we got to deal with you're 429 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,560 going to be humble and you're going to be and I'm like 430 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,640 freaking out and at the back of the wall. 431 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,760 It says this first to bring to naughty the things that are that 432 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,720 no flesh should glory in his presence. 433 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,720 It says in First Corinthians 1550, flesh and blood cannot 434 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,720 inherit the Kingdom of God. The part of us we war against 435 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,320 will not be in heaven. That's good news. 436 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,040 The fallen sinful nature will not follow us into the Kingdom 437 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,400 of God. When we get into the Kingdom of 438 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,360 God, the former things that pass away, there'll be no more pride, 439 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,760 there'll be no more selfish ambition. 440 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,840 There'll be no more anger or hatred or unforgiveness or 441 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,360 bitterness or lust. All that stuff is going to be 442 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:23,640 gone, the unyielded self life that we still struggle with and 443 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,680 as a pastor I have to constantly bring my will under subjection 444 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,680 of the Lord and say Lord not my will but your will be done in 445 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,480 every area of my life. That unyielded tendency in our 446 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:42,480 lives that fights against us in this body, the flesh, to try to 447 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,880 make excuses for sin or attitude won't be in the Kingdom of 448 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,520 heaven. In the Book of Revelation, 449 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,760 Pastor Clark is taking us through all kinds of events and 450 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,720 happenings that are predicted for the future. 451 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,480 But for those who believe and follow Jesus, there's much to 452 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,320 look forward to in heaven with Jesus. 453 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,240 However, for those who are here on earth during the Tribulation, 454 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,640 there's all kinds of chaos that will unfold. 455 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,120 The Bible talks about an Antichrist, a false prophet, and 456 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:20,000 of course that evil enemy Satan. You see how there are such 457 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,240 clever attempts for the enemy to disguise himself as God and even 458 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,640 the Trinity, the true Savior of the world is God and how he 459 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,640 comes to rescue through his triune nature, God the Father, 460 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,520 Jesus the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 461 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,960 Just like Satan tried to take over for God in heaven and was 462 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,440 cast out, Satan will try to convince people on earth that he 463 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,680 is the triune God to be worshipped instead of the 464 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,520 legitimate God in heaven. It's an attempt, and although he 465 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,640 will capture plenty in his schemes, he will not win. 466 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,320 The true God wins, and Revelation unpacks how that will 467 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,560 all happen in detail. Be encouraged because there's a 468 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,120 way out for all of this madness that will ensue on this earth. 469 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,920 But you don't want to wait indefinitely to make that 470 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,000 decision about Jesus. We don't know when the church 471 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,960 will be raptured, and you want to be ready to be with Jesus. 472 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,080 To learn more about this, head over to calvarychapelonline.com. 473 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,880 We're so glad you've been with us today. 474 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,040 And if you'd like to connect further with this ministry, find 475 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,640 us on Facebook or YouTube. You can also download our mobile 476 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:41,200 app at calvarychapelonline.com. 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