1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,520 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,520 County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,840 OK, I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at 6 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,280 the end times there's going to be this big fight between God 7 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,440 and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits 8 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,000 him. Satan hits him. 9 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,120 God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a 10 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,040 word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power 11 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,800 of God. His equal was not God. 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,120 Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel. 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,319 And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and 14 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,280 their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone. 15 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,600 Have you ever watched one of those intense wrestling matches 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,240 on social media where two fighters give it their all? 17 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,760 Many people mistakenly believe that God's confrontation with 18 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,560 Satan will resemble such a match too close to call. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,040 However, that couldn't be further from the truth. 20 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,360 Today, Pastor Lewis wants you to understand that the God of the 21 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,880 Bible, the Creator of the universe, has no rival. 22 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,080 There is no one who can even come close to him, not even 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,280 Satan. And that day when God erases all 24 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,040 evil is coming sooner than you think. 25 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,200 Now here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of Jude, chapter one with 26 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,600 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 27 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,680 Oftentimes that's what makes them the Antichrist because they 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,840 want to be in authority instead of Christ. 29 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,040 So it makes them an Antichrist. And then of course, the third 30 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,040 thing that they mentioned is the fact that they speak evil of 31 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,520 dignitaries. That's speaking evil with angels 32 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:12,000 or the glorious ones speaking evil of them. 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,720 And it go a little further. We can go down a little further. 34 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,800 And once we get to verse 9, he's going to give an example of what 35 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,480 he means by that. But you know, angels really 36 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:26,400 played a a very prominent role with the Lord, even though we 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,600 know angels are lower than Jesus Christ. 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,800 But yet it was angels, It was angels who was here during the 39 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,760 time that the Lord had it even brought in the law. 40 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,120 I'm going to go back to Deuteronomy. 41 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,400 Go Old Testament here for a second and I'm going to try to 42 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:46,320 show this to you how important it is to God about how important 43 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,960 angels were in the prominent place that they had with Him 44 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:56,320 because they were there for a number of very important events. 45 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,360 And over here in Deuteronomy chapter 33, it's going to read 46 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,960 this small verse here 33 and verse 2. 47 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,640 I'm going to read 1 and 2. It says now this is a blessing 48 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,680 with which Moses the man of God, blessed the children of Israel 49 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,560 before his death. And he said the Lord came from 50 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:24,480 Sinai and dawned on them from Sire and he shone forth from 51 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,760 Mount Paran and he came with 10 thousands of Saints, in other 52 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:36,920 words, 10,000 of angels from his right hand came, came a fiery 53 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,960 law for them. And then verse 3 say yes, he 54 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,160 loves the people and all his Saints are in his hand. 55 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:49,720 They sit down at your feet. Everyone receives your words. 56 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,760 So angels were there during the time that when he came down and 57 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,520 he appeared and even over here and this is and this is one that 58 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,120 I I thought was very interesting as well over here in Acts. 59 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,840 Let's go to the book of Acts real quick concerning the angels 60 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,920 in the book of Acts Chapter 7, and most of you probably already 61 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,600 know that we're talking about Stephen. 62 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,040 So now we're looking at what happened when Stephen was being 63 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:22,920 persecuted. And Chapter 7, verse 53, and I'm 64 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,640 going to start at verse 52, he says, which of the angels did 65 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,680 your father's not persecute? He's talking to the Pharisees 66 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,360 and those religious elites who wanted to kill him and they and 67 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,120 they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one of 68 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,200 whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers. 69 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,960 And verse 53 is the one I want you to pay attention to. 70 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,640 He says who have received the law. 71 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,400 How did they receive the law? By the direction of angels and 72 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,120 have not kept it. Direction of angels and have not 73 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,880 kept it. And then just one more Galatians 74 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,320 in the book of Galatians. Just trying to draw a picture 75 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,120 here of the significance of these angels and why he's 76 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,440 talking about how they basically speak evil of dignitaries of 77 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:19,800 these angels. Galatians chapter 3 and look at 78 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,400 with me at verse 14. I'm going to start at verse 2. 79 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,960 It says this only. I want to learn from you. 80 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,800 Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the 81 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,760 hearing of faith? Are you so foolish, having begun 82 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:43,680 in the Spirit that you are now being when I'm now being made 83 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,000 perfect in the flesh? And then I want you to go over 84 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,520 to verse chapter 4 and in chapter 4 go to chapter 3, verse 85 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,320 19. There we go. 86 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,520 OK, chapter 3, verse 19. This is what it says. 87 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,800 What purpose then does the law serve? 88 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,560 It was added because of transgressions till the seed 89 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,080 should come. To whom the promise was made to. 90 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,800 The seed obviously was Jesus Christ, and it was appointed 91 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,600 through angels by the hand of a mediator. 92 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:24,760 Now a meteor does not mediate for only one, but God is 1. 93 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:28,240 So he talks about the importance of angels and how important it 94 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,680 was at the time of the law and the presenting of the law, how 95 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,240 the angels even came with him. Over in Exodus talks about how 96 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,800 the angels, the Lord came with him at the time when he came to 97 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:44,440 to Mount Sier, which is where he came to present the law. 98 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,320 So when you talk about all these things and all these things, how 99 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,360 they combine and these men who did not have a problem was 100 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,960 speaking evil of these dignitaries. 101 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,040 And so he gave an example. He said in the women, you being 102 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,760 mere men don't have a problem speaking evil of dignitaries. 103 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:07,240 Yet Michael the Archangel who is more powerful than most men, he 104 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,160 wouldn't even speak evil to an Angel. 105 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,520 So look at what he says in verse 9, back in Jude verse 9, he 106 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,240 says, yet Michael the Archangel and contending with the devil, 107 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,040 what he disputed about the body of Moses dared not bring against 108 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,440 him a reviling accusation, but said the Lord rebuke you. 109 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,560 So he's making a point here. And what he's saying is that 110 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,640 these dreamers, these false teachers, they don't mind 111 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,840 speaking evil about angels or dignitaries or these spiritual 112 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,840 authority, spiritual authorities, they don't mind 113 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,680 speaking evil of them and they don't know anything about them, 114 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,720 but yet they speak evil of them. But yet Michael the Archangel 115 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,960 who was constantly before the throne of God, who was basically 116 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,680 the battle Angel. I mean, he would come to me back 117 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,480 in the book of Dan and talked about Michael the Archangel 118 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,280 doing battle with the devil when he wanted to come to Daniel, 119 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,360 when Daniel had requested a word and he was coming, but he was 120 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,240 being delayed because he was in battle. 121 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,560 What a devil, what a demon. So Michael the Archangel was not 122 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,360 a wimp. He was powerful Angel and had a 123 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,640 lot of authority. But yet he would not bring a 124 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,720 railing accusation against Satan. 125 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,640 He said the Lord rebuked you. And it was an example of his 126 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,159 understanding of authority to understand that even though he 127 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:40,679 may be as powerful as Satan to see, Satan's equal is not God. 128 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,960 Michael the Archangel will be Satan's equal God is not Satan's 129 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,160 equal God. Speak with a word and Satan's 130 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,400 gone. OK? 131 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,840 I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at 132 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,320 the end times, there's going to be this big fight between God 133 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,560 and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits 134 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:00,160 him. Satan hits him. 135 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,280 God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a 136 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,160 word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power 137 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,120 of God. His equal was not God. 138 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,480 Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel. 139 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,680 And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and 140 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,760 their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone. 141 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,400 Satan's gone. So we need to understand that. 142 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,240 So, but Michael would not do that on his own. 143 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,640 That's the whole point. He would not come against Satan 144 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:37,240 on his own and just say, well, I curse you and, and I'm I'm going 145 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,360 to cast you out. He don't do that on his own. 146 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,800 He submits to the will of God, to the will of the Father 147 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,240 because he understands order, he understands authority. 148 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,640 And that's the point that Jude is making here. 149 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:54,840 That's really an impressive point. 150 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,640 It's an important point because you hear these false teachers, 151 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,240 they always want to talk about they casting out the devil. 152 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,320 They're casting them out. They're sending him out of here. 153 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,400 They're doing this. No, no. 154 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,800 Anybody remember the story about the sons of Skiva, seven sons of 155 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,120 Skiva over in the book of Acts when they thought that they had 156 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,520 the power to just go and cast Satan out on their own, that 157 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,120 devil jumped on them. He jumped on them and they end 158 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,720 up running out naked and whooped. 159 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:33,120 He said, look, we know, we know Jesus and we even know Paul, but 160 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,640 we don't know nothing about you. And they jumped on him. 161 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,960 So, you know, so he, he's making the point here that we just 162 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,120 like, just like Michael the Archangel, we have to submit to 163 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,080 the authority of God. And it's God who cast him out. 164 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,920 It's it's God who rebukes Satan. It's God who does that. 165 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,360 So then in the verse 9. Now, now where the story comes 166 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,520 from, I don't know this whole story about how when they were 167 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,800 arguing over the body of Moses, it's a book and it's not a 168 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,120 scriptural book. It's called the apocryphal. 169 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,760 It's an apocryphal book. And the name of the book is 170 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,560 actually called Assumption of Moses. 171 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,960 I've never read it. Not saying that it's scripture 172 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:23,080 because it's not, but this was the example that he used that 173 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,400 apparently there was some story in this book about Michael 174 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,680 battling with the with Satan over the body of Moses. 175 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,120 Now, I don't know why they were battling over the body of Moses. 176 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,320 He may have wanted to Satan might have wanted to get the 177 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,440 body of Moses to desecrate it, or he might have wanted to get 178 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,760 it to try to make an idol out of it and have people worshipping 179 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,960 it. That which would be obviously in 180 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,560 contrast with what God wants. God doesn't want him to be 181 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,200 worshipped. God is to be worshipped. 182 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,400 You know, as we say often times, you know, it's not great men 183 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,600 that do great things through God is God who does great things 184 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,200 through mere men. So we don't know why he wanted 185 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,240 the body of Moses and you know, but he used that example as a 186 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,120 way to try to illustrate that even the Michael the Archangel 187 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,720 who was powerful, a holy Angel, would not even bring a railing 188 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,200 accusation against Satan, but he submitted to the authority of 189 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:23,440 God and says God rebuke you. So we go on down to verse 10 and 190 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,680 he says, would these speak evil of whatever they do not know? 191 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:29,800 They speak evil about things that they don't even know. 192 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,200 They don't know anything about these spiritual things that they 193 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,200 speak of. So they speak evil of it, and 194 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,640 whatever they know. Naturally, like Butte beasts, in 195 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,640 these things they corrupt themselves. 196 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,720 Woe to them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, have run 197 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,760 greedily in the air of Balaam for profit, and perished in the 198 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,280 rebellion of Korra. A few things here. 199 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,760 First of all, let's back up and talk about what he means by they 200 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,880 speak evil or whatever they do not know. 201 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,440 These are men who don't have the spirit. 202 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,000 So because these are men who don't have the spirit, they 203 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,280 don't understand spiritual things, they don't understand 204 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,360 spiritual things. It doesn't make sense to them. 205 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,040 Their spirit is not alive to receive spiritual things. 206 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,160 Which is why two people can come into church and sit down and one 207 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,040 person, the spirit, will reveal truth to that person. 208 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,840 The next person sitting right beside them heard the exact same 209 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,240 thing. They don't get it at all because 210 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,720 one is dealing with it from the natural and the other one is 211 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,120 dealing with it from the spiritual talks a lot about that 212 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,040 in Scripture. You know, we can be blind to the 213 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,560 things of the truth and have no understanding of those things if 214 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:49,200 we don't have the spirit. I mean, think about yourselves 215 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,720 when we when you know, when you tried to read the word of God 216 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,080 before you had the Holy Spirit, you couldn't understand what you 217 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,080 were reading. You couldn't couldn't even keep 218 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,680 your interest. You probably put it down. 219 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,920 But once you receive the Spirit and the Spirit opens your eyes 220 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,000 and you pray, when you open that Bible woman, I'm not saying 221 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,520 anything happens right away. It takes time. 222 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,480 You know you got to diligently seek Him. 223 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,080 And when you diligently seek Him, he rewards that by 224 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,040 revealing more and more truth to you. 225 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,000 The more you're seeking, the more you get into His word, the 226 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,400 more you come before him, the more you ask Him to reveal the 227 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,280 truth to you. But in your natural, there's no 228 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,680 way you can do it. We none of us could. 229 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,880 We couldn't understand the word of God, couldn't understand it. 230 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,400 I like what it says over in second. 231 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,160 Over in first Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14, it says 232 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,960 this. It says the natural man does not 233 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,960 receive the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to 234 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,160 him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually 235 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,880 deserved. So nor can so he can't even 236 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,880 receive them, which means he can't even hear it coming into 237 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,320 his heart. He can't even hear it, you know, 238 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,520 comes into him and, and just basically bounce out. 239 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,280 It's like the it's like the seed that was just tossed and it went 240 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,040 wayward. You know, the seed that was just 241 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,360 tossing and went by the side just didn't even get it. 242 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:21,800 Just didn't even get it because they can't receive it and nor 243 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,440 can they know it because it's foolishness to them. 244 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,960 The Word of God, the gospel is foolishness to people who are 245 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,560 not saved, just like it was to us. 246 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,320 How many times do people try to share the word of God with you 247 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,640 before the Spirit opened your eyes and you said, man, what are 248 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,120 you talking about? What are you saying? 249 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,480 Where's the next party? I don't want to hear what you 250 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,600 talking about. I mean, it's being real. 251 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,320 That's the way it was because we couldn't receive it. 252 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,840 I was home one Saturday morning recently and I heard the 253 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:04,880 knocking on the door, kind of had an idea who it was. 254 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,760 So that's why you didn't rush down to answer, right? 255 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,520 So we come down, we answer the door. 256 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,640 I think my wife actually answered the door 1st and then I 257 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:17,920 was upstairs. I was trying to hide and and she 258 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,480 eventually answered the door and started talking with them. 259 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,200 And she said, wait a minute, let me ask my husband. 260 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,560 Oh man. So so I came downstairs and 261 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,240 this, you know, woman was there at the door. 262 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,040 There was two other people on the sidewalk looking, watching. 263 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,480 So we knew exactly what this was about. 264 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,160 Total witnesses. So this woman is trying to share 265 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,120 her Watchtower information with me and share her scriptures and 266 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:51,080 try to make me convince me, you know, that Jesus was not God in 267 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,320 the flesh, right? Yeah. 268 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,520 She's just, you know, I believe in Jesus, too, just like you do. 269 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,400 I said, oh, do you? Yeah, I believe that Jesus, you 270 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,040 know, is the Son of God. Do you? 271 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,280 Yeah, I believe Jesus is the Son of God. 272 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,440 Yeah, well, I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh. 273 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:09,880 Oh, no, no. So she begins to explain to me 274 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,079 why Jesus is not God in the flesh. 275 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,680 And because she said it's just not logical. 276 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,200 There's a number of things that she mentioned. 277 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,319 It's just not logical. And that's one of the things 278 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:22,280 I've noticed that they will say when you start talking about the 279 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,880 things of God, you know, these things are not logical. 280 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,359 For example, they think the Trinity is not logical. 281 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,640 So they don't, you know, talk about the Trinity or come, what 282 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,280 are you talking about? You know, God in three persons. 283 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,240 What are you talking about? It's not logical, doesn't even 284 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,520 make sense. So I listened to her talk about 285 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,720 that. And then she, you know, we, you 286 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,680 know, we even talked about the the incarnation. 287 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,880 Of course, you know, she totally got rid of that. 288 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,120 No, Jesus, you know, he, no, no, he's not he, he's the son of 289 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,040 God. He was created being, you know, 290 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,240 but he's not God in the flesh. Talk a little bit about that. 291 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,280 And and then she went to the resurrection, talked a little 292 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,800 bit about about that. Well, he resurrected, but Aiden 293 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,080 resurrect in fully, you know, body he'd resurrect. 294 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,800 He was just a spirit. Well, we just got finished 295 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,320 reading last week, right, that when he resurrected, he 296 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,360 resurrected in the in the body, right? 297 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,760 Because Mary Magdalene grabbed his feet, right? 298 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,040 You can't grab the feet of a spirit, right? 299 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:22,080 So anyway I made this one statement to her and this woman 300 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:30,080 turned into an angry demon and all I said to her well would you 301 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:35,720 know these things are only discerned in the spirit Only the 302 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,200 Spirit can recognize these things. 303 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,000 Are you saying I don't have the Spirit of God in me? 304 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:51,960 Yes, yes and she went on a rant that I never thought a woman and 305 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:57,680 now I was I'm about 6-1 Well I was probably 6-1 then this woman 306 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,440 you know probably came to about here. 307 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:03,920 But I mean, she just rant and raved and looked up and just, I 308 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:09,360 mean, I she wow, she was angry. She was really, really angry. 309 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,080 We never had another person come back after that. 310 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:17,040 Never had another person. Have we had anybody come back 311 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:18,400 after that? Yeah, we never had another 312 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,560 person come back after that. So she obviously went and told 313 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:28,560 her homies just bypassed that house, OK, because they hang 314 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,040 with it. But yeah, I couldn't believe how 315 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:34,920 angry she got. But it's the Spirit of God that 316 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,520 discerns these things. That's why Paul prayed to the 317 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,680 Colossians. When he prayed for the 318 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:46,000 Colossians Church, he prayed that they would be filled with 319 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:52,720 the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual 320 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,640 understanding, spiritual understanding, because that's 321 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,280 how these things are understood. But these false teachers don't 322 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,280 have that. They don't have the Spirit, so 323 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,000 they can't talk about the Scriptures or the things of God 324 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,160 from a spiritual standpoint. They can only look at it through 325 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,120 the natural. They can only look at it through 326 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:18,640 the natural and that's why they get into so many problems, 327 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,160 because they can't see it through the Spirit. 328 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,200 First Corinthians chapter 2 and 11 says for what man knows the 329 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,120 things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him. 330 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,680 Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 331 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,960 Now we have received not the spirit from the world. 332 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,680 If you have the spirit of the world, you understand the things 333 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,640 of the world. People who are in the world, 334 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,760 they can have a conversation with each other and say things 335 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,480 that to us now those things may sound absurd to us or just like 336 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,600 things. There's no way we're doing that. 337 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,800 You know, there's no way I'm, I'm going to be in agreement 338 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,640 with this, but you can see in the times how people are fine 339 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,160 with some of the way that society is changing. 340 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,920 The people of the world are fine with it. 341 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,400 They're totally fine with it. But us, we're grieved by it. 342 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,400 And it's because the world takes on its own. 343 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,720 The world loves its own. The world deals with its own. 344 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,760 They understand those things because they have the spirit of 345 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,640 the world. But we have received not the 346 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:28,160 spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we 347 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,440 might know the things that have been freely given to us of God. 348 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:39,760 We get those things freely through the Spirit of God, but 349 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,440 they, they have no understanding of, but yet they speak 350 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,800 negatively about the Spirit when you know someone that could be 351 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,000 even someone who goes to church all the time. 352 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,160 And because you may be, you know, walking in obedience, 353 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,400 because the Holy Spirit, you're developing this relationship 354 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,360 with the Lord and you're walking in the Spirit and you're 355 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,720 walking, you're trying to, you're walking in obedience to 356 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,280 the Lord as much as you possibly can. 357 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,080 And you know, because and we, we're all still sin and we're 358 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,280 honest about that with each other, but yet you get someone 359 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,000 who's not into walking in obedience and they begin to 360 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,360 start speaking evil of you. Oh, you think she's too good for 361 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:20,880 us? He thinks he can't do this 362 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,480 anymore. He can't do that anymore. 363 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,440 You know, they start speaking evil of you. 364 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,240 And that's exactly what happened. 365 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,600 When they start speaking evil of the teachers who were teaching 366 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,160 the truth. They're speaking evil. 367 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,560 Those teachers demeaning them to other people. 368 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,120 So then we go on down here to verse 11, like he said, he says, 369 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:44,640 whoa. He said they're like, you know, 370 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,120 before he said they're like group beasts and they corrupt, 371 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:50,360 you know, they corrupt themselves with the things that 372 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,520 they do know. And then in verse 11, he says 373 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,560 woe to them for they have gone the way of Cain and in the era 374 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,440 of Balaam for prophet and in rebellion of Korah. 375 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,560 Well, first of all, they're brute beast. 376 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,600 And that means that they're only living in a way that satisfies 377 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,800 the flesh, their primal instincts, brute beasts. 378 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,400 You're living like a brute beast and that means you're just 379 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,440 living to satisfy your urges. That's why animals are able when 380 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,200 he says, you know, they corrupt themselves and in, in those 381 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,640 things that they that they do know, because the only thing 382 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,600 they do know is their urges, their lusts, their desire for 383 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,200 natural things. And that's why animals can get 384 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,000 trapped. We have some people here who are 385 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,320 hunters. They trap animals or they lure 386 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,160 animals. How do they trap them? 387 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,560 They lure them. How do they lure them? 388 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,320 They lure them by things that they're driven to eat, things 389 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,240 that they're driven to do. If you got an animal who loves 390 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,040 meat, you put a piece of meat in a box. 391 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,320 He's coming for it. This has been Living Waters of 392 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,760 Grace, a ministry of Calvary Chapel Westmoreland in 393 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,200 Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis Harrell has been teaching 394 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,760 through the book of Jude. This is a book of warning as the 395 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,800 audience that Jude was writing to was coming under attack from 396 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,480 false teachers. Even in the early days of the 397 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,280 church, there were teachers who claimed to have a unique 398 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,720 revelation from God that superseded Scripture. 399 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,840 Pastor Lewis wants you to be sure to be on your guard against 400 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,920 those teachers today as they will try to distract you from 401 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,800 following the way of Jesus. By focusing on what God's Word 402 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:41,360 says, you can call out false teachers for what they are and 403 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,360 stay on the good path. 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