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 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,240 The heart of Cain was exposed because he became jealous, even 6 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,520 to the point of a murderous spirit. 7 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,600 Because of his pride and self righteousness, he killed his 8 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,080 brother. And we have to be careful of our 9 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,160 motives when we do things. Are we doing them out of pride? 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,000 Are we doing them out of self righteousness? 11 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Or are we doing them in faith, understanding that none of our 12 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,920 good works are going to be good enough to get us into heaven? 13 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,120 We don't do good works in order to earn our salvation, but we do 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,880 good works because we are saved. If there were only one way to 15 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,280 reach heaven, how do you think it could be obtained? 16 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,400 Is it through a life dedicated to giving back? 17 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,840 Is it by being a good person? What if I told you that only one 18 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,520 thing truly matters? In today's message, Pastor Lewis 19 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,760 reminds you that there is only one way to have eternal life 20 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,160 with Jesus by placing your faith in Him. 21 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,600 No amount of good deeds or perfect living can bridge the 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,760 gap between you and eternal life. 23 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,560 It is only through Jesus and His grace that you and I can be with 24 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,880 Him eternally. Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,320 Book of Jude, chapter one with today's edition of Living Waters 26 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,240 of Grace. I was home one Saturday morning 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,480 recently and I heard the knocking on the door. 28 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,600 Kind of had an idea who it was. So that's why you didn't rush 29 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,320 down to answer, right? So we come down, we answer the 30 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:10,440 door. I think my wife actually 31 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,560 answered the door 1st and then I was upstairs. 32 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:18,560 I was trying to hide and, and she eventually answered the door 33 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,760 and started talking with them. And she said, wait a minute, let 34 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,040 me ask my husband. I thought, oh man. 35 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,880 So so I came downstairs and this, you know, woman was there 36 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,520 at the door. There was two other people on 37 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,080 the sidewalk looking, watching. So we knew exactly what this was 38 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,800 about. Total witnesses. 39 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,480 So this woman is trying to share her Watchtower information with 40 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,800 me and share her scriptures and try to make me convince me, you 41 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,560 know, that Jesus was not God in the flesh, right? 42 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,640 Yeah. She's just, you know, I believe 43 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:56,920 in Jesus too, just like you do. I said, oh, do you? 44 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,280 Yeah. I believe that Jesus, you know, 45 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,760 is the Son of God. Do you? 46 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,160 Yeah. I believe she is the Son of God. 47 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:03,600 Yeah. Well, I believe that Jesus is 48 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,000 God in the flesh. Oh, no, no. 49 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,760 So she begins to explain to me why Jesus is not God in the 50 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,240 flesh. And because she said it's just 51 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,120 not logical. There's a number of things that 52 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,640 she mentioned. It's just not logical. 53 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:22,520 And that's one of the things I've noticed that they will say 54 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,600 when you start talking about the things of God, you know, these 55 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,880 things are not logical. For example, they think the 56 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,320 Trinity is not logical. So they don't, you know, talk 57 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,320 about the Trinity or what are you talking about? 58 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,000 You know, God in three persons. What are you talking about? 59 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,080 It's not logical, doesn't even make sense. 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,000 So I listened to her talk about that. 61 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,480 And then she, you know, we, you know, we even talked about the 62 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,520 the incarnation. Of course, you know, she totally 63 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,960 got rid of that. No, Jesus, you know, you know, 64 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,000 no, he's not he. He's a son of God. 65 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,680 He was created being, you know, but he's not God in the flesh. 66 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,720 Talk a little bit about that. And and then she went to the 67 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,600 resurrection talked a little bit about about that. 68 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,840 Well, he resurrected, but Aiden resurrect in fully, you know, 69 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,200 body. He's resurrected. 70 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,000 He was just a spirit. What we just got finished 71 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,600 reading last week, right, that when he resurrected, he 72 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,000 resurrected in the in the body, right, Because Mary Magdalene 73 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,360 grabbed his feet, right? You can't grab the feet of a 74 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,040 spirit, right? So anyway, I made this one 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:31,760 statement to her and this woman turned into an angry demon and 76 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,440 all I said to her, well would you know these things are only 77 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:42,120 discerned in the Spirit, Only the Spirit can recognize these 78 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,720 things. Or you said I don't have the 79 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:50,960 Spirit of God in me. Yes, yes. 80 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,160 And she went on a rant that I never thought a woman that now I 81 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,280 was, I'm about 6-1. Well, I was probably 6-1 then 82 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,160 this woman, you know, probably only came to about here, but I 83 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,600 mean, she just rant and raved and looked up and just I mean, I 84 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,800 she wow, she was angry. She was really, really angry. 85 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,720 We never had another person come back after that. 86 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:23,040 Never had another person called. Have we anybody come back after 87 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,160 that? Yeah, we never had another 88 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,320 person come back after that. So she obviously wouldn't told 89 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:33,480 her homies just bypass that house, OK, 'cause they 'cause 90 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,280 they hanging with it. But yeah, I couldn't believe how 91 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,320 angry she got. But it's the Spirit of God that 92 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:46,080 discerns these things. That's why Paul prayed to the 93 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,280 Colossians. When he prayed for the 94 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:52,800 Colossians Church, he prayed that they would be filled with 95 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:59,760 the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual 96 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:04,880 understanding, spiritual understanding, because that's 97 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,640 how these things are understood. But these false teachers don't 98 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,720 have that. They don't have the Spirit, so 99 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,560 they can't talk about the scriptures or the things of God 100 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,840 from a spiritual standpoint. They can only look at it through 101 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,920 the natural. They can only look at it through 102 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,040 the natural. And that's why they get into so 103 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,240 many problems, because they can't see it through the Spirit. 104 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,520 First Corinthians chapter 2 and 11 says for what man knows the 105 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,560 things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him. 106 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,360 Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 107 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,800 Now we have received not the spirit from the world. 108 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,600 If you have the spirit of the world, you understand the things 109 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,640 of the world. People who are in the world, 110 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,840 they can have a conversation with each other and say things 111 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:03,760 that to us now, those things may sound absurd to us or just like 112 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:05,920 things. There's no way we're doing that. 113 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:09,280 You know, there's no way I'm, I'm going to be in agreement 114 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:13,200 with this, but you can see in the times how people are fine 115 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,840 with some of the way that society is changing. 116 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,640 The people of the world are fine with it. 117 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,320 They're totally fine with it. But us, we're grieved by it. 118 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,440 And it's because the world takes on its own. 119 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,840 The world loves its own. The world deals with its own. 120 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 They understand those things because they have the spirit of 121 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,960 the world. But we have received not the 122 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,680 spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we 123 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:44,120 might know the things that have been freely given to us of God. 124 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,640 We get those things freely through the Spirit of God. 125 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:54,160 But they, they have no understanding of, but yet they 126 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,560 speak negatively about the spirit when you know someone 127 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,280 that could be even someone who goes to church all the time. 128 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,600 And because you may be, you know, walking in obedience, 129 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,880 because the Holy Spirit, you're developing this relationship 130 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,960 with the Lord and you're walking in the Spirit and you're 131 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,440 walking, you're trying to, you're walking in obedience to 132 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,680 the Lord as much as you possibly can in your own cause. 133 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,840 And we, we're all still sin and we're honest about that with 134 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,680 each other. But yet you get someone who's 135 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,880 not into walking in obedience and they begin to start speaking 136 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,680 evil of you. Oh, he thinks he's too good for 137 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,280 us. He thinks he can't do this 138 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,919 anymore. He can't do that anymore. 139 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,000 You know, they start speaking evil of you. 140 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,799 And that's exactly what happened when they start speaking evil of 141 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,000 the teachers who were teaching the truth. 142 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,000 They're speaking evil, those teachers demeaning them to other 143 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,480 people. So then we going down here to 144 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,760 verse 11, like he said, he says, whoa, he said they're like, you 145 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,800 know, before he said they're like group beasts and they 146 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,400 corrupt, you know, they, they, they corrupt themselves with the 147 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,000 things that they do know. And then in verse 11, he says 148 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,200 woe to them for they have gone the way of Cain and in the era 149 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,200 of Balaam for prophet and in rebellion of Korah. 150 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,400 Well, first of all, they're brute beast. 151 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,600 And that means that they're only living in a way that satisfies 152 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,960 the flesh, their primal instincts, brute beasts. 153 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,640 You're living like a brute beast and that means you're just 154 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,880 living to satisfy your urges. That's why animals are able when 155 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,760 he said, you know, they corrupt themselves and in, in those 156 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,320 things that they that they do know, because the only thing 157 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,480 they do know is their urges, their loss, their desire for 158 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,200 natural things. And that's why animals can get 159 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,080 trapped. We have some people here who are 160 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,520 hunters. They trap animals or they lure 161 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,440 animals. How do they trap them? 162 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,880 They lure them. How do they lure them? 163 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,840 They lure them by things that they're driven to eat, things 164 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,880 that they're driven to do. If you got an animal who loves 165 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,080 meat, you put a piece of meat in a box, he's coming for it. 166 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,680 He's coming for it. And when they come for these 167 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:19,960 things, they don't come with a regard of the consequences of 168 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,400 what they're. They don't even think about 169 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,680 those things. Only thing they're thinking 170 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,480 about is that I want to get to the meat because I'm going to 171 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,240 satisfy this urge to eat. I want to satisfy this urge to 172 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,880 eat. That's all they have, That's all 173 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,880 they know. And when we live in disobedience 174 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,200 to the Lord, when we live just doing what we want to do, 175 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,000 ignoring the Spirit of God, then we live almost like brute 176 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:53,760 beasts, just satisfying our flesh, satisfying our flesh. 177 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,680 And how many times did we and men today, how many times do 178 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:05,800 they fall into trouble following after their urges? 179 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,280 How many pastors have fallen? How many people have fallen 180 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:18,080 falling into these traps that the enemy sets to try to lure 181 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,640 you to satisfy your flesh? I'm going to tell you something 182 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,640 that's going to everyday there's something that the enemy is 183 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:32,400 going to try to do in your life to try to set you up to fall 184 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,960 into one of his traps and he knows what you desire. 185 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:43,680 He knows where you're weak. So I so important stay close to 186 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:47,800 the word of God and in prayer and to be filled with the spirit 187 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,480 to ask every morning, Lord, fill me with your spirit today so 188 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,640 that I can walk in obedience to you because I can't do it on my 189 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,360 own. We would fall into every trap 190 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,120 that the enemy was set if we try to do it on our own brute 191 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,880 beasts. So when we try to please our own 192 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,240 selves, that's what happened. We're like brute beasts. 193 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,320 And he says woe to them. That woe means it's like an 194 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,680 expression of of coming up calamity. 195 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,560 Whoa, it's almost like a cursing. 196 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,920 It's like an expression of of calamity or judgment. 197 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,440 Woe to them. Jesus used it quite a bit in in 198 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,120 Matthew 23 when he was talking to the Pharisees and he said woe 199 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:38,640 you hypocrites, woe to you. They have gone in the way of 200 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:44,680 Cain the heir of Balaam for profit, and also of Korah. 201 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,520 Now it's interesting because Jude almost makes it seem like 202 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,160 he thinks you already know what that means. 203 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,600 You know, like he's like, he's sure that everybody who's 204 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,640 reading this knows what that means. 205 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,440 What does it mean to go in the way of Cain? 206 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,640 What does it mean to go in the in, in in the era of Balaam for 207 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,080 profit? What does it mean to go on the 208 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,120 rebellion of Korah, of Korah? What does that mean? 209 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,880 Well, unless you read the Old Testament, you won't know what 210 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,880 that means. And but he just assumed that 211 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,000 everybody read it because that's all they had was the Old 212 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,480 Testament. So let's look at these. 213 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:26,720 He said, first of all, you go in the way of Cain. 214 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,480 How did Cain go? Well, if you read Cain's story 215 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:39,680 way back, Genesis 4, that's where you read the story of Cain 216 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:43,680 and Abel, where Cain actually killed his brother Abel. 217 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,680 Now prior to that, though, they both came to God and offered a 218 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:54,560 sacrifice. Abel, Cain's brother, offered a 219 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:59,240 sacrifice of blood. There was a he was a shepherd, 220 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,760 so he offered a sacrifice from his flock. 221 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:09,080 It was a sacrifice of blood. Cain, on the other hand, brought 222 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,880 a sacrifice that was from the field. 223 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,920 Cain was a farmer, so he brought a sacrifice that was of the 224 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:24,360 field, of his of his produce. Now, is it wrong to present a 225 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,000 sacrifice of produce? No. 226 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,040 Is it wrong to present that sacrifice of blood? 227 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:39,040 That's not what the issue was. The issue is that only one of 228 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,760 them presented it in faith. Only one. 229 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,640 And it was Abel. And the reason why it's even 230 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,680 said that Abel presented it in faith. 231 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,880 Again, you'd have to go back into Genesis chapter and chapter 232 00:14:53,880 --> 00:15:00,040 3 before where they were, when Adam and Eve sinned, when they 233 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:06,400 were in the garden. If you remember when they 234 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:13,360 sinned, they made fig leaves to put around their bodies to cover 235 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,000 themselves up because they knew that they were naked, their eyes 236 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,840 were open, they made fig leaves. God wasn't satisfied with that. 237 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:30,520 That's not the sacrifice that he wants for sin. 238 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,320 It had to be a blood without the without the remission, you know, 239 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,640 without the shedding of blood, there can be no remission of 240 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,240 sin. So it had animal had to die. 241 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,520 Something had to die to cover that sin. 242 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,920 So he, God sacrificed an animal for them. 243 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,400 So the blood had to be shed for the remission of the sins and 244 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 they put, he covered them with that. 245 00:15:55,160 --> 00:16:00,080 So when Abel came in that same vein, because of faith, the only 246 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,200 way we're getting to the Father is through Jesus Christ and 247 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,080 through the blood of Jesus Christ. 248 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,400 So when Abel came and he presented the sacrifice with 249 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:17,640 blood, that was in obedience to the sacrifice that God wants, 250 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,320 and it was done in faith. It was done in faith. 251 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,200 Hebrews chapter 4 he says very clearly, and I'll read it to 252 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,800 you, you don't even have to go look for it, I'll read it to you 253 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,200 over in Chapter 11. He says this. 254 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:40,520 Hebrews 11 For by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent 255 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,160 sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that 256 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,040 he was righteous God testifying of his gifts. 257 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,800 And through it he being dead, still speaks. 258 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,440 He received that sacrifice because it was sacrifice. 259 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,000 And faith, you see, Cain offered a sacrifice that was just from 260 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,319 works of his own hands. Works. 261 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:09,560 It was a sacrifice of works. You know, look what I do I earn 262 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:15,640 this, but Abel understood that without the remission of blood 263 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,640 there can be without the shedding of blood, it could be 264 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,720 no remission of sins. He understood that. 265 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,760 So that's why his his offering was accepted and and Cain's 266 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,160 wasn't Bible also said, and this is my favorite Scripture. 267 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,640 In fact, when I'll die, I want this to be on my head stone 268 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,480 because it brought me through when I first got saved. 269 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,400 Help me understand faith. Hebrews 11/6. 270 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,840 But without faith it's impossible to please Him. 271 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:54,840 When you come to God, you must believe that He is and that He 272 00:17:55,560 --> 00:18:02,160 is the rewarder of them. That not casually seek Him, but 273 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:07,080 diligently seek Him. That verse got me through a lot. 274 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:13,160 That verse got me through a lot. So that's why Abel's sacrifice 275 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:18,560 was accepted and Keynes was not. But as a result of the heart of 276 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:23,720 Cain was exposed because he became jealous even to the point 277 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,320 of a murderous spirit. Because of his pride and self 278 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,200 righteousness, he killed his brother. 279 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,800 And we have to be careful of our motives when we do things. 280 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:36,480 Are we doing them not a pride? Are we doing them not a self 281 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,840 righteousness? Or are we doing them in faith, 282 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,000 understanding that none of our good works are going to be good 283 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,000 enough to get us into heaven? We don't do good works in order 284 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,720 to earn our salvation, but we do good works because we are saved 285 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,520 and it's who we are. It's who we are. 286 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:00,080 So then we're going to go just just one more Balaam, he said. 287 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,960 You'll run greedily in the air of Balaam. 288 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,000 Well, Balaam was back in the Old Testament also. 289 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,560 In order to get to Balaam's example, you'd have to go back 290 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,880 to Numbers chapter 22. And I definitely suggest that 291 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,600 you go back and read that when you get an opportunity because 292 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,320 it talks about Balaam who was a, was a prophet, but he was a 293 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,480 prophet with, he's kind of unscrupulous, put it that way. 294 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:33,320 He used his gift of prophecy that God gave him. 295 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:38,120 He used it for money, for filthy lucre, use it for money. 296 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:43,920 And because he used it for money, eventually, again 297 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:48,880 exposing his heart, he could not curse, which is what Balak the 298 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,080 king at that time wanted him to do. 299 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,680 He wanted Balaam to curse the children of Israel and they were 300 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,680 coming out of Egypt and they were now on his territory and 301 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,000 they wanted, he wanted those children cursed. 302 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,800 Well, Balaam realized that he couldn't curse them because God 303 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,520 had blessed them. However, because of his heart 304 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:19,600 and because he wanted the money, I'll show you how to lead them 305 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,240 into sin so that they become a curse to themselves. 306 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,880 And he tempted them with the women, the Pagan women. 307 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:33,120 He tempted them with them and they fell into sin with these 308 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:38,760 Pagan women. Again, sexual immorality being 309 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,520 the headline of that particular sin because of the urges that 310 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,120 these men had, not being able to restrain them on their own and 311 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,160 went into disobedience against God. 312 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,960 So Balaam cursed was able to have those children basically 313 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,200 curse themselves. And I'm going to wait before I 314 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,680 go in the court because that's a story that takes a little bit 315 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,040 more of a description that I think is really important. 316 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,000 And I don't want to rush through that. 317 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,480 Now think about, as we talked about earlier, our our 318 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,040 thankfulness to just be saved, the salvation that Jesus Christ 319 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:24,400 came and died for for us. And when I think about all these 320 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:29,560 men, all these situations that these false teachers have fallen 321 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,880 into because of their rejection of Jesus Christ, because of 322 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:40,640 their rejection of the apostles doctrine and truth, they are 323 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,880 bringing sin on themselves. But Jesus Christ came and he 324 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,880 brought his word with he gave us his word. 325 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:54,280 And as we said, all Scripture is inspired by God and it's all 326 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:58,200 profitable for doctrine, which means it's profitable for 327 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,920 teaching. It's also used for to correct 328 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,560 us. It's used for reproof and for 329 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:13,520 instruction in righteousness. And I'm so grateful that Jesus 330 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:20,440 came as the word of God, Word made flesh that we would 331 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:26,880 actually people who witnessed his life actually saw, not just 332 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:33,000 read, but actually saw the word of God being lived out in the 333 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:39,320 person of God the Son. And we have that opportunity 334 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:45,240 when he gave his life and paid for our sins, which we could 335 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,400 have never done on our own. No matter what, how good we 336 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,760 think we were, how good we think we are, we would never be good 337 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,320 enough to be able to achieve salvation. 338 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:06,240 But Jesus Christ died on that cross that we would have our sin 339 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:11,000 debt paid. It's paid in full. 340 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,720 It's already done. So for those of you who have not 341 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,200 taken advantage or those of you who have not received His 342 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,800 salvation, you don't have to do anything for it. 343 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:30,040 It's already done. You just have to accept it. 344 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,480 Accept it. First of all, accept the fact 345 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,320 that we needed it. I needed Jesus to come and die 346 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,960 for me because I'm a Sinner. I needed Him to die for me. 347 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,360 We have to accept that and the fact that He died not for 348 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:50,720 himself, but He did it for us. He died for me. 349 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,000 He died for you, God, for all of you. 350 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,760 That's why He's our God. You've been listening to Living 351 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,720 Waters of Grace with Pastor Lewis Harrell at Calvary Chapel 352 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,920 Westmoreland in Greensburg, PA. As Pastor Lewis continues to 353 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,560 preach through the book of Jude, he wants you to realize that you 354 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,640 can't be a part time Christian. 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