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 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:44,200 And even our leadership did it in 2015 and drape the entire 6 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,560 White House with the rainbow for gay pride. 7 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:55,840 God have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. 8 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,000 And then again, even with the chance to transgenderism, if we 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,680 go to Genesis, back in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 27, it's 10 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,600 very clear. In my opinion, it's very clear. 11 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,680 Gender and sexuality are topics that are leading in culture 12 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,760 today, being discussed often. The world has a very specific 13 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,880 opinion about these topics. Gender is fluid and sexuality is 14 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,040 whatever you decide it is. But is that what the Bible 15 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,640 teaches? No. 16 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,280 God created men and women distinctly, and sexuality is 17 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,840 meant to be enjoyed in the context of marriage between one 18 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,360 man and one woman for life. Pastor Lewis reminds us of this 19 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,520 biblical truth today and encourages us to stand strong no 20 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,280 matter what our world says now. Here's Pastor Lewis in the Book 21 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,320 of Second Timothy, Chapter 3, with today's edition of Living 22 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,040 Waters of Grace. Let each of you look on not only 23 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,120 he says not only he's not saying that you never look on your own 24 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,360 interest, but he says don't look only on your interest, but also 25 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,440 on the entrance, on the entrance of others with this self love, 26 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,440 this pride. It's it's love instead of 27 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:21,440 worshipping and loving God, OK. When we love ourselves instead 28 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,360 of worshipping and loving God, what they do is that they love 29 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,520 themselves and make gods of themselves and become users of 30 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,080 people for their benefit. And that's one of the dangers of 31 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,360 loving self because we begin to instead of loving people, we use 32 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,720 people, we use people for our own benefit. 33 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,720 The next one he talks about, he talks about the lovers of money, 34 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,200 lovers of money. And when you love money, it be 35 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,920 you become covetous because you want what money can give you. 36 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,240 And that's a part of self love. Become lovers of money. 37 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,800 You go out and go get the things that give you pleasure, the 38 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,800 things that feel your lusts. And instead of using things like 39 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,800 money, which is provided by God to provide for our own needs, 40 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,640 instead of using them for that, or use them to glorify God, or 41 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,280 use them using money to bless other people, instead of using 42 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,520 it that way, we love money and make idols out of the money and 43 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:28,080 the things and often things. But we use people instead of 44 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,640 using money. We instead use people instead of 45 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:34,560 loving people. So it's a misplaced love there. 46 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,640 It's a misplaced love. We should be loving others, but 47 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,320 instead we love things and we use others. 48 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,880 We get it backwards there. We get it backwards there. 49 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,960 And what Paul is saying that in these last days people will 50 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,920 misplace their love. They'll love themselves and 51 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:58,280 things instead of loving God and loving others and using things 52 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,480 for God's glory. The next one he says is 53 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,920 boasters. He talks about these boasters. 54 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,440 Boasters. This is vaunting and praising 55 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,680 themselves. If we are to boast. 56 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,240 The Bible tells us that if we do boast, we are. 57 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,920 We should boast in the Lord and not in ourselves. 58 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,920 The boasters are people who like to make I statements. 59 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,240 I statements. I did this, I did that. 60 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,560 I have this or I have that. I have this ability or I have 61 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,440 that ability. I'm I'm this and I'm that. 62 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:40,840 It's a lot of I statements enjoy telling you things that they've 63 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:44,240 done to help somebody else or things that they have done that 64 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,640 promotes themselves. It's vaunting, it's prideful, 65 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,760 and these things come directly. This boasting comes directly 66 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,840 from Satan himself. If you look back in Isaiah 67 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:59,600 chapter 14, verses 13 and 14, I'll just read it to you. 68 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,120 You don't have to turn there, but it says, for you have said 69 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,000 in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. 70 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:10,200 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. 71 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:15,240 I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest 72 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,360 sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights 73 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,880 of the clouds. I will be like the Most High all 74 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,840 these I statements I will, I will, I will, I can, I can, I 75 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:34,800 did, I did beware of these I statement These are people who 76 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:36,960 are full of pride, full of pride. 77 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:42,200 Psalm 32 and two says this my soul shall make its boast in the 78 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,400 Lord and the humble shall hear of it and be glad and I just 79 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,160 also want to read for you Jeremiah. 80 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,640 This is one of my favorite verses actually, when it talks 81 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,120 about boasting and talks about who we should boast or how we 82 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,600 should boast. But in Jeremiah 9 and 23, he 83 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,840 says, Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his 84 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:08,000 wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the 85 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,560 rich man glory in his riches. But let him who glories or let 86 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:19,680 him who boasts, let him boast in this that he understands and 87 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,560 knows me, that I am the Lord, exercising loving kindness, 88 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,040 judgement, and righteousness in the earth. 89 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:32,000 For these things, in these things I delight, says the Lord. 90 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,960 If we are to love somebody, we're to boast. 91 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,440 If we're to glory in anything, it should be in the Lord, 92 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,840 because no matter what it is that we have anything of any 93 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,960 significance, anything that's any good, it comes from Him. 94 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,000 We don't have anything of our own, anything. 95 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,440 It all comes from him. So where are we able to boast? 96 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,840 In Second Corinthians 10/17 it says, But he who glories or he 97 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,040 who boast, let him boast in the Lord. 98 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,920 And then he and then he talks about this, this pride, this 99 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,160 pride, these the next one is proud. 100 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:18,000 These people are proud, they're arrogant of themselves, they are 101 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,720 wise in their own hearts. And pride actually leads to 102 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,080 rebellion against God all the time. 103 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,240 Pride leads to rebellion against God and and pride, you know, 104 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,000 what pride mostly comes in at is in our reluctance or in our 105 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,880 neglect to pray because when things are going well, we feel 106 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,920 like we got it. We got it. 107 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,920 You know, I'm Lord, I got this now. 108 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,040 I don't need you man, not for this. 109 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,520 So we don't pray, we stop praying. 110 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,240 Praying is one of the most important parts of our humility. 111 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,520 It shows our humility. If there's anything that shows 112 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,680 our humility, most it's it's our prayer time. 113 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,280 When we go into prayer and we surrender to the Lord and we let 114 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,840 Him know how helpless and powerless we are and how great 115 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:16,120 and how mighty he is, that's where our prayer time is about 116 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,440 in many cases. And and when we don't pray, it's 117 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,600 a sign of our pride. The arrogance to think that we 118 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,480 can handle things on our own or the Lord is the last one that we 119 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,280 do go to for prayer. When we pray, we look at every 120 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,159 other Ave. look at every other resource, everything else, and 121 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:38,440 then we go to the Lord. It's like, well, this is my last 122 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,640 resort. It shouldn't be our last resort. 123 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,200 It should be the first thing we do. 124 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,840 This should be the first thing that we do. 125 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,920 So pride does lead to rebellion eventually reach it leads to 126 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,320 rebellion against God and against his word. 127 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,480 There's some biblical examples of this rebellion, you know, for 128 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,200 example, the Tower of Babel, that is an example of rebellion 129 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,240 against God. When God opened the the door of 130 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,080 the ark and he let Noah and his three sons out, he told him to 131 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,200 be fruitful, multiply and spread it over the earth, go out 132 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,800 throughout the whole earth, fill the whole earth. 133 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,120 Don't just go to one place, He said, fill the whole earth. 134 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,240 But then these people came to Babel, Shinar, which is 135 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,720 basically Babylon. He came there and, and, and 136 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,400 instead of doing what God told him to do, they said we want to 137 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,080 stop here and we're going to make a city here and we are 138 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,280 going to build a tower here that's going to go up to the 139 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,000 heavens. Because we can do anything of 140 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,760 ourselves if we just stick together and we put our minds to 141 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,360 it. There's nothing that we can't 142 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,600 do. We don't have to obey that 143 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,720 commandment to go spread out that let's all stay together. 144 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,920 Let's be of one language. So Tower of Babel, we're not 145 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:06,920 going to do it, Lord, we're not going to spread out. 146 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,640 We're not going to go out. We're going to all stay 147 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,400 together. But God is God. 148 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,720 If you don't submit to his will, He will make you willing to 149 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,640 submit to his will when he desires to. 150 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,520 And that's exactly what he did with them. 151 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,040 Pharaoh. That's another example of 152 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,960 someone who just wanted to rebel against God. 153 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,600 Let my people go. No, I'm not letting your people 154 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:30,440 go. Who are you, God? 155 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,040 Who is your God that I should listen to him? 156 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,280 Total rebellion. Pharaoh thought he was a God 157 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,320 himself. Total rebellion, and God had to 158 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,040 humble him as well. Well, we're seeing a lot of 159 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,960 rebellion today. We see it also today. 160 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:55,480 Look at the rebellion that we have in the sexual immorality of 161 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,560 our life. You know, people, you know, God 162 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:00,920 said this is marriage and this is where sex belongs. 163 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,360 It belongs in marriage. It's the marriage bed that is 164 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:10,920 honorable and undefiled. But fornicators and adulterers, 165 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,120 God will judge. It's what the Scripture says in 166 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:19,240 Hebrews. But today we have people and I 167 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,280 did it. I was in rebellion against God. 168 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,520 At one point I thought, I don't need to get married. 169 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,400 I could just live with this woman, I love her. 170 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,200 God said no, no, it was in rebellion. 171 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,920 And today it's in rebellion. When people live together as 172 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,280 opposed to get married, I can. It's basically them saying I 173 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,480 don't have to listen to God's command. 174 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:43,880 I can do what I want to do. I can be with who I want to be. 175 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,080 I don't need some piece of paper to tell me that I'm married. 176 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,880 I don't need to stand before God and make a commitment to him to 177 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,560 say that I'm married. Well, it's God's institution. 178 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:01,520 Yes, we do. He make this institution. 179 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,440 He put this institution in place. 180 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,040 We didn't do it ourselves. It's rebellion against him when 181 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:12,120 we don't do it his way. It's also rebellion with this 182 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,320 gay, with this, this marriage of, of gay pride in this 183 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,840 marriage even in fact, they even call it gay pride. 184 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,120 It's them. It's, it's them being prideful 185 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:25,440 and basically saying, God, I'll tell you what, my God, no, God 186 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,400 said marriage is between a man and a woman. 187 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:32,000 It's between a man. For this reason, shall a man 188 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:38,680 leave his wife and be 1 flesh? I mean, I'm sorry, a man should 189 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:42,480 leave his mother and his father and be joined to his wife and be 190 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:48,640 1 flesh for that reason only. A man leaving his wife and every 191 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,520 wife is a woman, every wife is a woman leaves his man leaves his 192 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,480 wife and and and leaves his family and goes to be joined 193 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,080 together with his wife. But now in our society we say we 194 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,880 don't have to do it that way because you say it. 195 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,760 I can be in love with whoever I want to be in love with. 196 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,400 I'll join myself to whoever I want to join myself to. 197 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,320 I don't have to listen to you God concerning that. 198 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,600 And he already he told us that in Genesis chapter 2 and he told 199 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,560 us again, Jesus even said it. And I, you know, I, I, I 200 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,040 shouldn't, I shouldn't and I admit it that I shouldn't. 201 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,280 But I do get a little annoyed when I hear people say Jesus 202 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,480 never talked about gay people not being able to get married or 203 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,840 not being able to be together. He most certainly did in Matthew 204 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,360 19 when he repeated the same thing that God his father. 205 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,520 He said it back in Genesis chapter 2. 206 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,160 For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother 207 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:01,760 and be joined to his wife. What is Jesus telling us? 208 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:07,360 Marriage is between a man and a woman, and anything else that 209 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,480 people want to call marriage other than that is in rebellion. 210 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,360 It's in rebellion and even go as far as they call it gay pride. 211 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,680 They admit it. It's our pride that we do this 212 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,120 out of rebellion. And then it goes even further. 213 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:30,720 They took the rainbow that God gave to Noah as a sign that he 214 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,480 will not destroy the earth again by water. 215 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:41,920 They took that sign, that covenant sign that was from God, 216 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,640 and they put it on their banner. And even our leadership did it 217 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:56,920 in 2015 and draped the entire White House with the rainbow for 218 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:01,280 gay pride. God have mercy on us. 219 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,800 Have mercy on us. And then again, even with the 220 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:12,480 chance to transgenderism, if we go to Genesis, back in Genesis 221 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:17,040 chapter 1 and verse 27, it's very clear. 222 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,840 In my opinion. It's very clear, He says. 223 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:27,040 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God. 224 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,840 He created him, male and female. He created them. 225 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,520 Now I've looked and I've searched and I've still have not 226 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,360 been able to find where he created them. 227 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,000 Male, female and transgender. I haven't found it yet. 228 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,600 Don't think I will. Again, that is in rebellion to 229 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,520 God. You don't tell me, God, whether 230 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,800 I'm a man or a woman, I tell myself it's based on how I feel. 231 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,360 Rebellion, total rebellion. And this is the world we're 232 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,120 living in. This is the world we're living 233 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,920 in. So when you say the last times, 234 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,080 boy, it sure sounds like it, doesn't it? 235 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,320 The last days sure sounds like it. 236 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,080 I think you've heard me enough on that one. 237 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,880 OK, blasphemers. And I think I make this one last 238 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:22,640 look. Like I said, we can't. 239 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,840 I want to take my time and go through these because I don't 240 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,440 want to rush to them because there's so many messages in 241 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,000 this. But blasphemers is are those who 242 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,080 speak contemptuous and bitter words against others. 243 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:42,440 It's acting or or causing slander, revelling or showing 244 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:47,080 lack of reverence for God, showing opposition to the 245 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,240 authority of God and of God's word is blasphemy, blasphemy. 246 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,040 And we're going to see a lot more blasphemous people or 247 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,800 people who are blaspheming God in the later days. 248 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,040 We're always starting to see some. 249 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,720 We're already starting to see some. 250 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:06,520 Anyone who goes against the authority of God, heresy. 251 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,839 All that is blasphemy and it's in First Timothy 6 and one it 252 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:16,520 commands against that behavior that blasphemy should that that 253 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,560 you know anybody who any behavior that blasphemes the 254 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:24,640 Lord First Timothy chapter 6 and verse one talks against that and 255 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,040 this is what it says it says let as many bond servants as are 256 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:35,040 under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor so 257 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:41,640 that the name of God and his doctrine may not be blasphemed. 258 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,600 We don't do anything against God, anything against His word 259 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:51,400 or his doctrine that would be blasphemous against him. 260 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,640 And I'm going to do one more. He talks about disobedience to 261 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,440 parents, and this is the last one I'm going to do today. 262 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,000 But when you talk about disobedience to parents, it's 263 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,960 really disrespect for parents. And when you disrespect your 264 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,160 parents, if you, if you can do that and disrespect your parents 265 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,360 and do that continuously, then you're not going to have any, 266 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:19,200 any respect for anybody else. If I don't respect my parents, 267 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,640 who should I respect? I obviously don't respect God 268 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,560 because he's the one that gave us that 5th commandment, right, 269 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,600 that says honor your father and your mother so that your days 270 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,720 will be long upon the earth. He's going to give us that 271 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,960 commandment. So if I disrespect or if I don't 272 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,200 honor my father and my mother, that I'm already in disrespect 273 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,240 to him. I'm disrespecting my parents. 274 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,480 I don't honor them. I'm not in obedience to them. 275 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,480 So then who will I obey? I'm not going to obey anybody, 276 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,720 not going to obey anybody. And this is what this is talking 277 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,360 about. In the last days, there'll be 278 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:04,600 people who just won't have any obedience to any authority. 279 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:10,520 They'll just do whatever they want to do, no boundaries, Just 280 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,880 do whatever they want to do, whatever pleases them, 281 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,280 regardless of who defends, regardless of what laws it may 282 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,000 break. Don't care, don't care. 283 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,520 But I want to say this, I want to say this in closing, and then 284 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,120 we can pick this up again next week. 285 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,280 But I want to say this, that in order for a child to be 286 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,320 disobedient, there must first have been instruction. 287 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,800 There must first have been commandment. 288 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,160 There must first have been guidance. 289 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,360 Johnny, don't do this. Don't do that. 290 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,240 That must have been spoken first. 291 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:54,160 Because if our children don't have any guidance, if they've 292 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:59,200 never been given instruction, if they've never had any 293 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:06,000 expectation of what to obey, how can we call them disobedient? 294 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,640 They can only obey what they've been given commandment for, what 295 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,280 they've been given instruction for, and that comes back to 296 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,160 parents. But if you have parents who are 297 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:26,280 disrespectful and not obedient to their parents, how would they 298 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,120 raise theirs? That's why it's so important to 299 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:34,280 be in a place of teaching where you can be under the word of 300 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,240 God. So that young parents, I applaud 301 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,520 you young people who are bringing your children and 302 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,280 they're seeing you come and sit under the word of God. 303 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,720 Those of you who are teaching your children at home the word 304 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,480 of God, they understand discipline, they understand 305 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,440 authority, they understand that you are under authority. 306 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,360 And you are the first example, just like Jesus Christ was an 307 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:04,760 example of that for us. He was under the authority of 308 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,640 his Father when he walked upon this earth. 309 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,320 Because I only do what my father does. 310 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,640 My father says, I only do what my father says. 311 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,760 I don't do my own thing. Even when it came to going to 312 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,120 the cross, he said, Lord, I don't want to go, but not my 313 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,440 will. Your will be done. 314 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,880 I'm not going to disobey you. I just want to know is there 315 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,040 another way I can do this? But I'm not going to disobey 316 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,480 you. I'm not going to dishonor you. 317 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:39,320 He's our example, so we must be an example. 318 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,080 Forget if they see us that we are submitted to God, that we 319 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,560 are submitted to his authority. We're submitted to his leading. 320 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,680 Then when we give direction to them, we're not telling them to 321 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,600 do anything that we're not doing ourselves. 322 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,640 And that's important and that's important. 323 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,720 So we want to close there with disobedient to parents and we 324 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:06,720 come back, we'll go into unthankful and unloving and all 325 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,880 of those, you know, it's such a blessing because as we read 326 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:14,240 through these, we see how Jesus was in almost every situation 327 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,600 was just the total opposite of all those things. 328 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,720 And and I don't know about you, but even as I look at some of 329 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,880 those things, I think about it. So you know what some of those 330 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,760 things actually was me and some of those things are even me now. 331 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,120 Sometimes I get off, I get off cue. 332 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:38,640 I still need the Lord to help me to not fall into these things on 333 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,560 a regular basis. I still need the Lord to give me 334 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,920 direction, to give me instruction, to give me those 335 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,320 boundaries. I still need the Lord to do that 336 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:52,720 for me and to work in my heart so that I'm not disobedient, so 337 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,960 that I'm not lovers, a lover of myself, so that I don't become 338 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,800 in love with money and what money can do. 339 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,720 I don't want that to be me. I don't want to be proud. 340 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,360 And there's times that I can be. I can be those things without 341 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,680 the help of God. I can be all those things. 342 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,320 So Lord, I need them. I need you. 343 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:19,600 I need you to help me with this all the time. 344 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,400 And as I think about Jesus Christ, he was our example. 345 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:28,960 He was our example of what to be here in the Earth realm, and he 346 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:35,120 walked in a way that was so selfless that it took him all 347 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:38,240 the way to the cross. That's why he gave his life for 348 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,280 us, because he was selfless. If he was a lover of self, 349 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,640 there's no way he would have gone to the cross for us. 350 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:52,640 But he was selfless. He came to be a ransom for us 351 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:58,800 and we knew deserve it. Thank you for tuning in to 352 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,880 Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Louis Harrell. 353 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,440 We're currently in the books of First and Second Timothy. 354 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,360 Some of the things included in these New Testament letters from 355 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:14,000 Paul are that the young and newly established Pastor Timothy 356 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,760 was being encouraged to hold fast to what was true. 357 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,120 He was challenged to confront and address the false teachers 358 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:26,120 that were rising up. He was also reminded to accept 359 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:30,000 his calling to the ministry with gratefulness and to address the 360 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,200 happenings going on in the Ephesian church. 361 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,760 Paul was imparting his experience and knowledge to the 362 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,040 next generation. Timothy was receptive to 363 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,960 learning and gleaning what he could from Paul's wisdom. 364 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,960 This is how it should be in ministry across multiple 365 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,920 generations. Those who have lived a little 366 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,360 more life should be open to sharing their successes and also 367 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,440 things they've learned along the way that we're not a wind. 368 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,360 The younger generations coming up can learn and appreciate much 369 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:06,600 from those ahead of them and perhaps avoid some of the same 370 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,040 pitfalls that their mentors work through mentoring. 371 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,560 It's a beautiful relationship when the hearts are in the right 372 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,840 place to learn and grow. You trust that you're in a 373 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,560 community where this is happening. 374 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,760 Older ones providing advice and wisdom and each side learning 375 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,560 and growing from one another. This certainly was the case for 376 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,280 Paul and Timothy as they were comrades for the sake of the 377 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,280 gospel. For more information on where 378 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,400 this teaching came from, go to calvarychapelonline.com. 379 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,920 There you can also learn about our service times to join us in 380 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,200 person. This has been living waters of 381 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:48,760 Grace.