1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,120 In the name of the glorious Trinity, Father and Son and Holy 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,840 Spirit, forever Amen. Glory be to the everlasting 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,720 mercies which sent you to us, O Christ, the light of the world 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,480 and the life of all. Give us wisdom by your law and 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,480 enlighten our impulses by Your knowledge. 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,560 Sanctify our souls by Your truth and grant that we may be 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,040 obedient to Your words and may fulfil Your commandments at 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,320 every hour. O You who enlightens the 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,480 rational with the knowledge of Your greatness, do enlight, O my 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,320 Lord, our thoughts, that we may meditate upon Your holy and 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,680 divine Scriptures at all times. O Lord of all, Father and Son 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,400 and Holy Spirit, forever. Amen. 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,160 The 1963 song by Leslie Gore that's taking you guys back. 14 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,760 You know, it's before I was born as well. 15 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,480 But 1963 song by Leslie Gore. It's my party and I'll cry if I 16 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,320 want to. It's my party, you know. 17 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:21,560 Yeah. Now that has to me. 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,760 That has two significant points. The 1st is my. 19 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:32,400 That is mine. And if I want to, it's my party. 20 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,600 I'll cry if I want to. They are authoritative words. 21 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,680 They are blunt words and true. It's mine. 22 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,520 I do as I please. Now things brings us to what we 23 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:52,800 are going to discuss today. And it's from the Gospel 24 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,760 according to the preaching of Saint Matthew. 25 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,680 That is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the 26 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,280 preaching of Saint Matthew, chapter 20, verse 15. 27 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:06,000 Jesus says do I can do whatever I want to do with my own. 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,639 Now let me give you a brief this description a the story behind 29 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,200 this. It's the parable of the workers 30 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,760 in the field. Some went out 6:00 in the 31 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,400 morning and they were promised to be given one Dinari. 32 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Let's, let's bring it to today, $200. 33 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:31,600 And then the, the landlord, the landowner went out at 9:00 AM 34 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,520 and saw people hanging out, chilling out, waiting for 35 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,280 someone to hire them. And he hired them and said, I'll 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:44,480 give you 100 Dinari. Then he went out 12 PM, 12 noon 37 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,760 and he did the same, went out at 3:00 PM, did the same and went 38 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,880 out at 5:00 PM and he did the same. 39 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,400 And at 6:00 PM, after 12 hours, he calls his servants and says 40 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:05,480 call all the employees and give them what they have been 41 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,720 promised. Start from the last to the 42 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,600 first. Now the last came who only 43 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,960 worked one hour, remember just one hour and they got the $100 44 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,920 or $200 we promised, right? I'm glad I'm not the landowner. 45 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:24,480 They got the $200. Now those who worked for 12 46 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,280 hours thought great, that must be over $1000. 47 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,040 But they too received $200.00. And they started grumbling and 48 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,080 murmuring and saying what is this? 49 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,720 This is not fair. This is outright not fair, This 50 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,880 is robbery. But the landowner prays me to 51 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,600 his name, resembling Jesus, says, my friend, listen, let me 52 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,400 tell you something. Did we not agree to a contract, 53 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,840 agree to a payment that you work all day, I'll pay you $200.00. 54 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,240 So there's your $200. I'm not doing any evil to you. 55 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,360 I want to give this last person $200. 56 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:11,600 Then he says, are you evil? Are you bitter because I'm good? 57 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,400 There's goodness coming out of me. 58 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,680 Or Jesus says, can I not do whatever I want to do with what 59 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,120 is mine? It's my field, you're my 60 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,800 employees, it's my money, and I'll do what I want to do with 61 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,480 them. So let me now pose your 62 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:34,920 question. What in the world that we see 63 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:42,480 and cannot see tangible and intangible, comprehensible and 64 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:50,440 incomprehensible, speakable and unspeakable, Fathomable or 65 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,160 unfathomable? What in this world, in those 66 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,840 categories doesn't belong to God? 67 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,720 You tell me. Let me blow your minds a little. 68 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,800 As a matter of fact, even evil. Yes. 69 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,000 Oh, Rabi, how can you say that? No, no, no, I don't say the 70 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,080 Scriptures say it. But there's a perfect reason and 71 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,800 there's a there's an interpretation. 72 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,800 Thank God for the church. Thank God for the life of the 73 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,880 church, the framework of the church. 74 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,680 Thank God for the church fathers, even evil. 75 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:27,360 In Isaiah chapter 45 verse 7, we read, for He formed light and he 76 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,800 created darkness. Now listen, He formed light and 77 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,920 created darkness. So because he formed light, 78 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,920 darkness was created. We're going to talk about that. 79 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,240 So for he formed light and he created darkness. 80 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,880 He made peace and he created evil. 81 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,120 Is Isaiah erring here? He that is God made peace and 82 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,040 created evil. I am the Lord God, I who have 83 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:59,040 done all these things. Now let's come to my favorite 84 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,040 church fathers, one of my favorite Saint John Chrysostom. 85 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,080 We call him Johannan Pommedawa, John the mouth, the golden 86 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,000 mouth. Look at what he comments. 87 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,760 God said through the prophets, I, God, am making peace and 88 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,480 creating evils. See the key is in making and 89 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,720 creating. And he goes on to say what sort 90 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,600 of evils? Captivity, servitude, that is 91 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:33,520 bondage and things like that. Not fornication, not sex out of 92 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,600 marriage, not a homosexual relationship. 93 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:44,480 No, no, not not licentiousness, that is wastefulness, not 94 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,560 avarice, that is greed and anything like that. 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,400 He goes on to say do not let the false prophets undermine you. 96 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,600 That is the government's today. Do not let the false prophets 97 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,760 undermine you. God can give you peace and 98 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,560 consign, that is, entrust you to captivity, which is the meaning 99 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,440 of making peace and creating evils for you to learn. 100 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,320 He goes on to say for you to learn that this is true. 101 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,600 Let us make a precise examination of the individual 102 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:24,720 expressions after saying before, that is, before he said I made 103 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,200 evil. He says I am the one who brought 104 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:32,760 light and darkness into being. He then went on to say making 105 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:39,840 peace and creating evils. He cited 2 opposite 1st and then 106 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,360 two opposites after. That is for you to learn that he 107 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,600 is referring not to fornication but to calamities and to 108 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,400 disasters. He goes on to say I mean what is 109 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,920 said as the opposite of peace. Clearly captivity, not 110 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,480 wastefulness, no fornication or greed. 111 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,720 So just as he cited 2 opposites first, so too in these causes. 112 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,920 So he's saying when he says I created good or I made good, 113 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,360 automatically evil is created. That's all. 114 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,000 We're going to talk about that because I've I've, I've 115 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,840 mentioned that Isaiah that says God has created evil. 116 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,920 I want to clarify it also. Other church fathers comment and 117 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:34,039 say evil is also the punishment of sin through the law. 118 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,159 Now when does sin become in existence? 119 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:43,240 When is sin actually committed? When law is broken or disobeyed? 120 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,720 So when the law came, Saint Paul comments on this sin then came. 121 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,480 So God didn't create sin. God created the law, which 122 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,520 automatically brings sin. So God didn't create evil as in 123 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,800 evil. Let me give you an example when 124 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,920 you're traveling, and I've given this before. 125 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,120 Let me share it again. I think this is a great example. 126 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,760 Let's copyright it. Stephen trademarket. 127 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,840 Asha Gennad's a great example. When you're traveling on a 128 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,760 street and there's no signs, there's no Rd. signs at all, you 129 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,240 can do as you can drive as fast as you you want, as fast as you 130 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,840 please, and you're not committed in crime. 131 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,840 There's no crime. Now, naturally, yes, naturally, 132 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,400 and that's another story. But naturally, yeah, it's bad, 133 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,200 it's wrong. But according to the law of 134 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,600 speeding and the law of driving, there's no crime. 135 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,920 But as soon as that sign, that speed sign of 50 or 45 or 136 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,320 whatever it is, is posted and you drive 100, then there is 137 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,560 there is a crime. So and then there is a 138 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,600 punishment of crime. So that sign which the 139 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,040 government has placed on the road has also placed the 140 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,160 punishment, the evil of the crime itself. 141 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,400 I think you understand what I'm saying. 142 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,440 So let's get to back, back back to it's my party and I'll cry if 143 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,680 I want. You see, beloved, everything 144 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:13,880 belongs to God, everything belongs to God is held by God 145 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:19,560 through His Son Jesus Christ, being God by nature, true God of 146 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:24,760 true God being God by nature, by power and by authority. 147 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,440 He poses this question to all of us. 148 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:31,920 Can I not do as I please with my own? 149 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Now that answers many questions and puts us in our places in a 150 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,320 spiritual check when we ask God why? 151 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,680 Why? Let's do that, let's ask God. 152 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,880 Join me in asking God a few questions and you may have your 153 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,640 own, but I pray that these answers will answer your 154 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,520 question. Why must I obey you? 155 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:07,080 Oh God, why? If we read scriptures, listen to 156 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:12,600 our conscience and our mind, maybe not even read scriptures, 157 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,040 but the law of nature, the conscience will say because you 158 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,440 are mine. God is saying, why must you obey 159 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,400 God? Because you are gods. 160 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,760 He created you from dirt. God created me from dirt. 161 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,080 God is saying I created you from dirt. 162 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,360 You cannot come from nothing. Guys, let's not be fooled by 163 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:41,280 this stupidity, this ridiculous law that something came from 164 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,640 nothing. It's proven that it's wrong. 165 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,480 It's a theory. It's an inconsistent theory. 166 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:53,480 For the past 7008 thousand years, it's constantly changing 167 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,600 because it's inconsistent. Let me tell you what is 168 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,200 consistent for six to 7000 or maybe 10,000 year years. 169 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,520 Genesis chapter 2, verse seven, the first part and the Lord God 170 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,880 formed Adam from the dust, from the soil. 171 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,120 And look at what our disobedient did. 172 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,040 So I created you. I made you, you are mine. 173 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,720 Now if that's not good enough, God is saying I made you a 174 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,600 living soul. I could have kept you as a as a 175 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:32,200 fashion dirt, a body made of dirt and no life a lifeless 176 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,120 dirt. I could have done that. 177 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,800 But I breathed in your face the breath of life. 178 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:44,360 I gave you that life. Not 2 molecules out shopping, 179 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,280 colliding and an explosion happened and then life came. 180 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,240 No, no, no. I gave you that life. 181 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,920 Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, second part of that verse. 182 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,840 I breathed into his face, God breathed into his face, breath 183 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,680 of life and Adam was a living soul. 184 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,160 I gave you life. You are mine and you 185 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,880 transgressed and I planned your planned, your reinstatement, 186 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,480 your redemption. I came down and took on your 187 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,800 flesh. I took on death. 188 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,680 I died and I overcame death for you all for you. 189 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:28,120 So when I do what I want to do with you, through you, by you, 190 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,920 which is mine, I do it for your own good. 191 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:37,120 It's all for your good. Why am I restricted with what I 192 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:44,280 can do with my own wisdom? You know we always confess to 193 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,560 the Lord in our frailty, in our foolishness. 194 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,880 In truth, Oh my Lord, we are not worthy. 195 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,240 Have mercy upon us, Oh my Lord, for we are not worthy through 196 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,120 our frailty because of our foolishness. 197 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,240 Why? Why am I restricted to brag 198 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,000 about my fool wisdom and to do what I want to do with my 199 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,800 wisdom? Because God will answer. 200 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,080 It wasn't your wisdom from the beginning. 201 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,680 Don't brag about your wisdom. It's not yours. 202 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,520 I gave it to you along with knowledge and along with 203 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:20,960 understanding. Grace upon grace. 204 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,040 Proverbs chapter 2, verse 6. For your good, I gave you 205 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,240 wisdom. So today you can make a car, 206 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,520 right, Steven? In two years time, it's going to 207 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,680 be a cab. It's a Tesla. 208 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,200 You can buy it for $30,000. You can use it and there's no 209 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,040 steering wheels there because the car drives by itself. 210 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,960 You can use it for your own personal use or you can rent it 211 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:47,840 out. And yeah, people can hire the 212 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,440 cab, right? I gave you that wisdom, not Elon 213 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,560 Musk. God bless you. 214 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,120 It wasn't your wisdom. It wasn't it was God who gave 215 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,440 you that wisdom. God gave us that wisdom. 216 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,240 That's why we are restricted because you know what I just 217 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:04,120 mentioned? It's great. 218 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:05,680 I love it. Now, I don't know how safe it 219 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:06,760 is. That's that's another story. 220 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,320 But I love that. I love to see man succeed in 221 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:16,880 technology for good, for good. I like social medias, Beloved. 222 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,200 Look at what we're doing through these mediums. 223 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,240 We're preaching the word of God. We're bringing people to 224 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,880 understand, to know their creator. 225 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,120 Look at what we do through Instagrams, through Facebooks, 226 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,400 through Snapchats. I have all of those through 227 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,360 Twitter. Do people still use Twitter? 228 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,640 They do, right? Yeah, through Twitter. 229 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,560 What else is this now? There's there's a lot more 230 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,320 things now. Sorry, tick ticked. 231 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,400 Oh, no, no, I don't have ticked, unfortunately. 232 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,760 Look at what we do through this. Yes, people use it for evil. 233 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,000 That's the wisdom God doesn't want you to use. 234 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,520 He restricts you don't use it for evil. 235 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,720 You don't need to take a picture of your body and your and your 236 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,760 dress and say this is my dress. Well, congratulations. 237 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,760 God bless you, Brachta, Brachta. Why do you want me to show me? 238 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:05,120 Show me your dress. Talk to me about your life. 239 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,360 Talk to me about your your, your experience with God. 240 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,400 Use your wisdom, your knowledge, your understanding for good, not 241 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:19,400 for evil, because God uses you who are His property, because He 242 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,400 bought you by that precious blood of His Son Jesus Christ 243 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,520 for good. Why am I restricted with what I 244 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,560 can do with my knowledge and wisdom? 245 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,760 Well spoke about that. God gave it to you. 246 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,480 Why can't I do as I please with my body? 247 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,880 My body? We've already ascertained that 248 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,640 because I fashioned it again from dirt. 249 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,560 It's not yours. You didn't make it. 250 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,080 I made it. Well, my parents. 251 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,520 Yeah. Your parents. 252 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:51,800 Yeah. Birds and the bees. 253 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,280 Yeah, your parents made it. But keep going. 254 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:55,480 Where did your parents come from? 255 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,720 Keep going and going and going. Then you come to the flood and 256 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,000 you go post flood and pre flood and you keep going. 257 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,040 Adam and Eve. God made them, Adam and Eve. 258 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,640 I created you, God said with XX chromosomes. 259 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,040 My dear sisters, I created you with that. 260 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:16,240 It was perfect. I created you with XY 261 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,119 chromosomes, my dear brothers, I fashioned you. 262 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:26,079 I designed and instructed it in a way that is great for my 263 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:28,520 beloved sisters, our dear females. 264 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:33,680 I gave you uteruses for childbearing so that you can be 265 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,320 a part of me. Something from you will come, 266 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,760 even the the the the male. Something comes from you. 267 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,200 You become a creator. You give life. 268 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,600 Just just as I am the fountain of life. 269 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,880 Through you there's life. I gave you breasts to produce 270 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,320 milk for child suckling. I'm not going to keep going with 271 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,960 that because they may be underage listeners, but you get 272 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,080 the point. I made you and I made you 273 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,520 perfect. I have every right to use you 274 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,960 and what you have, what I've given you for His glory and for 275 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,840 your good. For your good. 276 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,080 All of it is mine. I can do and demand as I please 277 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,960 with it. I can do what I please with you. 278 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,280 God is telling us be grateful beloved brothers and sisters, be 279 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:29,320 grateful and take heart that God is good. 280 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,000 Be grateful and take heart that God can do anything with you 281 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,600 because all that he does, as I said, is good. 282 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,840 Hence all He created was good as we read in Genesis chapter one 283 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,080 verse 31, chapter 131. Yes, good, actually perfect 284 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,320 Psalm chapter 100, Psalm 100 verse 5. 285 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,640 The Lord God is good and his grace is for eternity and his 286 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,480 faithfulness for a generation of generations. 287 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,000 So I want God to use me as he pleases because he is good. 288 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,360 Nothing evil will come from God. Nothing. 289 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,200 The only evil has to say this God cleanse me to come from God 290 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,160 is when he tells me don't because when I do that's the 291 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:21,440 evil that's created from what God has made me not to do what I 292 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:29,800 do how I do and when I do with what is mine is always good and 293 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:34,600 pleasing says the Lord God all good for you. 294 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,400 Why because he loves you. He loves us beloved. 295 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,360 Look at what he's telling you and I come on stop here we go. 296 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:45,920 Stop, pull over to one side and stop your vacuuming stop your 297 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,280 diaper changing. Stop doing what you're doing. 298 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,120 Please. Please not for God's sake, for 299 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,240 our sake, for our knowledge and understanding. 300 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,880 Please listen, honey, Linda, listen. 301 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,520 Please listen to what Isaiah chapter 49 verse 6 is telling 302 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,320 us. God is telling us, Behold, on 303 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:16,760 the palms of my hands. I have engraved you on the palm 304 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,600 of my hands. You see all who believe in 305 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,640 Christ, you do say it. Do you say it to yourself? 306 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,640 Say what I mean, yes, I do. You believe in Christ while you 307 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,640 are in the hands of the Father. So let him do what he pleases. 308 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:39,960 Don't grumble because it's good. Now in the case of death, you 309 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,160 know this is the most difficult circumstance in life. 310 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:49,960 You know when I think one thing that may ease pain and help to 311 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,440 understand and come to our understanding and acceptance of 312 00:20:54,440 --> 00:21:00,200 death is that remind ourselves from whom was life in the 1st 313 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,800 place? Who gave us life who go back to 314 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,520 Genesis, it was God, praise and glory be to his name. 315 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,120 Look at what we have. What do you have? 316 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:14,440 You have wealth, you have wealth, your stocks did well 317 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,360 last night. Praise God you sold many houses 318 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,160 within the month. Praise God you have wealth. 319 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,000 May the Lord replenish it and multiply it a hundredfold. 320 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,240 You know, when we pray on a a bride and a groom, we pray that 321 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,200 God will increase the bride and the groom in health, wealth and 322 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,280 faith. Wealth. 323 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,440 Yeah, so that you can do good because it's his, it's not 324 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,040 yours. And when you do good, don't take 325 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,080 pride, don't brag about it. It's not yours. 326 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,280 It's God's right. What is it? 327 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,880 Wealth, health, material, children, etcetera. 328 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:55,760 These are all provisions from God and he can use them as he 329 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,120 pleases. Let me ask you a question again. 330 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,800 Is not free will from God as well, you know, And that's a 331 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,320 gift of independence, right? Yeah, I'm free. 332 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,440 I'm free. I'm free will who gave you free 333 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,760 will who who created you with free will, with rationale and 334 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,120 you know, understanding for you to choose who got Yes, yes, God 335 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:26,840 did. And yet God at times so rightly 336 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,400 so meet in perfect and fitting interferes with our will. 337 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,760 Now some will say, well, well, where's the where's the loving 338 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,560 God who's interfering with my free will? 339 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,240 Well, if you pay attention, God interferes for good. 340 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,200 Remember our beloved Jonah the prophet. 341 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,720 You know all Assyrians must remember Jonah the prophet, 342 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,400 Jonah Yonan, right? And all Assyrians should that be 343 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,080 grateful. He didn't want to go to Assyria. 344 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,400 He didn't want to go to Nineveh. No, he wanted to see Nineveh 345 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,480 destroyed, right? When God, when God returned and, 346 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,200 and and showed mercy on the city of Nineveh, he was, he was such 347 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,920 a grumbling. He wasn't happy, right? 348 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,760 What did God do? He didn't want to go. 349 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,920 There's his free will, but God caused him to go. 350 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,800 God put him on a boat and there was a storm and he knew. 351 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,160 He said, listen, throw me out, throw me out in the water. 352 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,000 And then the whale swallowed him and and the story goes on, 353 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,240 right? Yeah, God can interfere with 354 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,840 your free will, of course, because he gave you that free 355 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,640 will. And when he sees that your free 356 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,320 will is being used for evil, you know, pray to the Lord. 357 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,800 Lord, I pray. Now let let this be our prayer 358 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,760 point. Now, if you've parked to one 359 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,880 side and you're at home, bow your heads. 360 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,600 Let's pray. Lord, Lord, we surrender our 361 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,600 free will to You. When we are using it for evil. 362 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,280 We surrender, Render it to You so that you can interfere and 363 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,200 take over and use it for good, just as you did with Jonah your 364 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:11,120 prophet. Having a God that is good, 365 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:17,120 gracious, and full of mercy, we should at all times commit all 366 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:22,120 that we have from Him to Him to do as He pleases. 367 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,920 Let us not murmur, beloved. Let us not murmur, grunt, and 368 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,440 complain when Christ does as He pleases with what is His. 369 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:37,320 Let us not think evil because He is good. 370 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:42,000 Let us humble ourselves before Him that we may receive the 371 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:48,680 promise of exaltation by Him. Let us glorify Him at all times, 372 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:54,720 surrending, surrendering all of our life into His perfect hands. 373 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,280 Praise and glory be to His name, now and at all times and 374 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,720 forever. 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