1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:02,600 Well, good morning Crossing Church. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:09,300 How are you doing this morning? Well, good morning Crossing 3 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:11,600 Church. How are you doing this morning 4 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:15,700 away? All right, man, I'm glad that 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,300 you're here. I'm glad to be here, and to be 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,700 able to share with you. And I've been really excited 7 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:28,200 about this series that were in called, if because, I think now 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,500 more than ever, we need to have a really good answer for the 9 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:36,600 hope that is within us. Like, do you know why you 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,200 believe what you believe? Leave do you struggle with 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,200 certain aspects of of what you believe and that's really what 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,400 this is. We launched it on Easter and 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,000 we're kind of moving out from there, answering some of the 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,500 difficult questions that some of you might have or maybe some 15 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:56,800 that you've received from other people. 16 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:00,600 And I really enjoyed what Clayton was able to share with 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,000 us on Easter and then to have Ken Ham last week, what a 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,500 blessing, that was absolutely incredible. 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,700 I don't know how many of you were able to go on Wednesday 20 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:15,200 night when he was we were really able to let him off the leash 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,700 and he went on for a couple of hours, it was just incredible. 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,700 The Crux of what he was sharing is the truth about the Bible, 23 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:32,700 particularly Genesis 12 Genesis 11 and he used that text to 24 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,400 define whether a person has a Biblical worldview or secular 25 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,100 worldview. And that was based on the 26 00:01:41,107 --> 00:01:44,800 historical accuracy of God's word. 27 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,800 Now, there's a whole lot in God's word that you're expected 28 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,500 to put your faith in when you listen to Ken Ham and I want you 29 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,200 to think about this, okay, especially in the light of how 30 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,100 so many of you have been brought up in an educated in school and 31 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:08,199 in college. This is what the Bible expects 32 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,400 for you to believe that Universe was created in six days. 33 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,900 It differentiates humans from animals as God's children. 34 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,700 It describes a perfect world before sin entered it with no 35 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:31,400 death, it describes a single land mass and a single see. 36 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:36,800 It says that there were no animals that ate meat until 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:42,400 after the flood that there was no rain that God actually 38 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,500 watered the Earth in a different way than what we know is the 39 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,900 water cycle that there was no sickness and there was no aging 40 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:55,500 and there was no need for clothes because the climate was 41 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,100 so perfect and that there was no sin in the world. 42 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:06,200 It describes the fall of humanity, where sin and death 43 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,300 interred the world. Even though people at that, time 44 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:12,700 could still live nearly 1,000 years. 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,600 Did it describes this great flood, the destruction of all 46 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,000 mankind with the exception of Noah and his family? 47 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:28,000 And it describes this dispersion of mankind because of the Tower 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,500 of Babel and how they were gradually limited to have a life 49 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:38,800 span of less than 120 years. Now, all of that in Genesis 12, 50 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,200 11 would say, men that requires a whole lot of faith. 51 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,200 Like do I just what do I do? What do I do with all this other 52 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,500 stuff that I believe in? Then that science tells me? 53 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,300 What about Evolution, what about the Big Bang? 54 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,200 What about fossils? And what about dinosaurs? 55 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,100 And what about millions and millions and millions of years 56 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:06,500 and what about science? I was thinking about all of that 57 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:11,300 when I was listening to Ken Ham and it reminded me of being an 58 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,700 8th grade. Now, when I was in eighth grade, 59 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,700 we had, you know, different classes that we would go to one 60 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,300 of those classes with science class, right? 61 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:25,500 And our science teacher was mr. Guernsey, and in that class, 62 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,200 there was a girl that I kind of had a crush on her name was 63 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Glenda. And, you know, I was trying I 64 00:04:32,207 --> 00:04:35,900 was still really awkward when it came to girls in eighth grade 65 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:38,400 and and so I really didn't know how to do that. 66 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,300 And and and I really wasn't trying to do that but when mr. 67 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,700 Guernsey started teaching about Evolution and about the old 68 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:47,400 Earth. There was a lot of stuff, even 69 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,400 an eighth grade that I knew about that. 70 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,200 And so I took him to task on it and I started asking him 71 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,000 questions. And I said, well what do you 72 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,300 think about this or what do you think about that? 73 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,400 And there was a lot of that he had no answer for he was just 74 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,900 Teaching from the book. Now in eighth grade we used to 75 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,600 we got a a yearbook at the end of the year, had everybody's 76 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,300 picture in it things they were involved in and it was the it 77 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,400 was the thing to do back then to pass that yearbook around and 78 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,400 people could sign the yearbook. And I remember as I passed it 79 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,600 around, Glenda took ahold of that yearbook. 80 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,100 And you know what? She wrote in it, some to 81 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:32,700 somebody who believes the same way that I do about about 82 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,800 creation. Thanks for being so brave and 83 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:45,300 courageous. That's not why I did it. 84 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:52,000 But boy, it sure felt good. so that's what Ken Ham has devoted 85 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:58,700 his life to He's devoted his life to reversing that 86 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,100 understanding that we've been taught from childhood, that none 87 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,200 of the things I just mentioned her true. 88 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,800 And it's constantly reinforced by every media Outlet by every 89 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,000 nature Channel, by every science organization. 90 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:15,500 And that's why Ken Ham offers Answers in Genesis, the Creation 91 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:19,900 Museum, the ark encounter, all of the educational books and so 92 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:24,200 much more Because your mind does matter. 93 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,900 And there is incredible. Scientific proof for what the 94 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:29,900 Bible says, you're just not taught it. 95 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:39,600 But can I can I trust it? Can I trust this book? 96 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,600 How do I turn my back on? What seems like? 97 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,800 Almost everybody else believes and turn toward the Bible to 98 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,600 believe what it says do. Do I have to just turn my brain 99 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,800 off and accept this impossible story in order to have faith? 100 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,100 You know, it's so hard for us to trust anyone with anything 101 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:04,000 today, right? Because everyone is spinning. 102 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:09,500 So how do I put my trust in God's word and while I'm at it, 103 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:14,600 how do I know that God's word is something that I'm reading that 104 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,900 I can actually rely on? And that's what this sermon is 105 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:25,900 about if the Bible is accurate, if this is accurate Then it 106 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,100 literally changes, everything doesn't. 107 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,200 So, I want to welcome all of our locations, all around this area, 108 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,500 to be able to learn and to worship together. 109 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,500 And if your Insider online, we're thankful for each and 110 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:45,000 every one of you as well. And we're going to dig down into 111 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,500 this truth today. The Apostle Paul taught Timothy 112 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:58,100 that he could trust God's word. He said it in second, Timothy 113 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,200 chapter 3, verses 16 and 17 and it's right before. 114 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:08,500 All of us that go into pastoral Ministry were ordained into 115 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,900 pastoral Ministry and part of being ordained is to have a 116 00:08:11,907 --> 00:08:16,700 charge read to you and it is from 2nd, Timothy chapter 4. 117 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:19,000 It's in the Versus right after this. 118 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:22,600 So to understand what we're charging to do, to preach the 119 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,600 word to be, you know, prepared in season and out of season, all 120 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:33,100 those words that are are spoken over, us are precluded, with 121 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:38,900 these words. All scripture Paul says, is 122 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:46,100 god-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting 123 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,200 and training in righteousness. So that the servant of God, may 124 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,900 be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 125 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,100 God breathed. Hmm. 126 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,900 What does that mean? Some of the older translations 127 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:07,000 of the Bible? Use a different word that you 128 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,200 use, a single word for those two, that that hyphenated word 129 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,000 and it's the word inspired. Some of you may have heard the 130 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,800 word inspired. All scripture is inspired by 131 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,200 God. It comes from a Greek word, 132 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:23,900 which is theou, noose dose. It literally means the very 133 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:29,300 Breath of God, like the air that comes out of the mouth of God. 134 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,600 What does it mean, though? Well in 2nd Peter 1:21, Peter 135 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:39,400 describes it to us and this is what he says for prophecy. 136 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,600 Never had its origin in the human will. 137 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,400 So just stop right there before I go on. 138 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,200 It means that this is not something that somebody was 139 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,800 thinking and just decided to share that with you because this 140 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,400 was this was his understanding and his will that he wanted to 141 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:03,300 teach you with says no. Prophecy ever had its origin in 142 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:07,200 the human will. So, there's no agenda here, 143 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,100 right? But profits through, though, 144 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:17,100 human spoke from God as they were carried Along by the Holy 145 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,900 Spirit. So they were speaking the words 146 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:24,200 of God carried Along by the Holy Spirit. 147 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,400 Now, the two people I've just quoted Paul and Peter. 148 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,400 They should know about this. Why? 149 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,900 Because they were inspired writers. 150 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:40,900 They personally experienced this Supernatural reality called 151 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:45,400 inspiration where God and His holy spirit worked in them to 152 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,800 breathe that out of them. So when they wrote all this down 153 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,800 that they were reading, they were writing the actual words of 154 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,900 God. But you might say, well, that's 155 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:01,800 what the Bible says about the Bible. 156 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,000 Couldn't it have been changed over the years? 157 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,300 How do I know that? It was copied? 158 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,800 I mean, it's accurately. I mean, it's 2,000 years old. 159 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,900 I mean, the, the, the last writings in the New Testament 160 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:22,000 are nearly 2,000 years removed for up, from from us, and the 161 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,700 printing, press wasn't invented until over 1,000 years later. 162 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:31,800 So, how do I know that it was copied correctly or more 163 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,900 accurately? I mean it's pretty old. 164 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:37,800 So I mean it could have been manipulated and people could 165 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,900 have used it for their own purposes. 166 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:46,400 And I think those are all. Valuable questions and I'm going 167 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,900 to answer them today. Okay. 168 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,000 So let's just and some of this is going to be a little nerdy. 169 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:53,700 OK. Some of you are going to feel 170 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:55,800 like I'm going to school here but it's okay. 171 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,000 It's okay to do that and it's okay to take notes and it's okay 172 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,300 to be reminded about the truth of these things if you already 173 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:03,500 know them. All right. 174 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,800 Here's number. One reason. 175 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,800 Number one that I believe you can trust this book, the 176 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,900 biblical manuscripts have been reliably transmitted from the 177 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:16,100 author's to us. Today that means what the 178 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:22,000 authors wrote down, you have that exact information. 179 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,400 That's a big statement to make, isn't it like, wow, I mean, how 180 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,600 do you know that Jerry? How can you you can't go back? 181 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,600 2000 years? Well, you kind of can and and 182 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,300 I'm going to explain that about five years ago, Alice and I had 183 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:43,800 a great opportunity and that was to travel on vacation to London 184 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,400 and to Scotland to England and Scotland. 185 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,600 And before we ever left, I had done a lot of studying the 186 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,000 things that I wanted to see. And It a lot of things that 187 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:56,200 other people would like to do. But, you know, I'm a little 188 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,300 quirky and there was some things I wanted to see the other people 189 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:01,300 probably would never think about now. 190 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:04,600 I wanted to go to the British museum because the history of 191 00:13:04,608 --> 00:13:08,200 the world is in the British Museum and there's incredible 192 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,200 things to see there. But there was one particular 193 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,800 thing I wanted to see in the British Museum and that is I 194 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,200 wanted to go to the surge on RIT Blatt museum inside the British 195 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,800 Museum and some of you are going the what? 196 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,100 And I said yeah The Surge on RIT Blatt. 197 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:31,400 Museum is actually inside there. When you first walk in, it's 198 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:37,700 over to your left. Okay, what's in there? 199 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,500 Well, Priceless things are in there, like, if you want to see 200 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,000 the original copy of Alice in Wonderland, it's in there. 201 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,900 You want to see the original copy handwritten copy of 202 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Robinson, Caruso, it's in there. If you want to see, like, the 203 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,900 original Masters that like, handle and Grieg and Chopin and 204 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,200 and all of the, all the great musical Masters, all their stuff 205 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,800 is in there handwritten notes. Like that the notes on the page 206 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,700 that they wrote by hand or in their, if you're into the 207 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,200 Beatles and Beatles music all of the original manuscripts that 208 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,700 they wrote on the back of like, birthday cards and stuff, for 209 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:20,200 all of the songs they they're in there, you know, if you're into 210 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,400 Emily Dickinson and you want to see her writing desk and her 211 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,200 original manuscripts, they're in there. 212 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,200 There's all kinds of stuff that's in the surge on RIT black 213 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,200 museum inside of the British museum. 214 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,200 But I didn't go there to see that even though it was very 215 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,600 cool to see that. I went there because the two of 216 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,900 the three oldest manuscripts of the New Testament are in there. 217 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,600 now, some of you may have read in your Bibles like if you go to 218 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,100 the Book of John chapter 8, And you look up at the top there 219 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:57,700 will be a like a little note, and it'll say, the earliest 220 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:02,200 manuscripts do not contain. The first verses from John 221 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,100 chapter 8, and you go what, right? 222 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,100 The earliest manuscripts refers to three. 223 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,400 There were three of them. One was found in a monastery at 224 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,600 Mount Sinai. One was found. 225 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:21,300 Interestingly enough in a crocodile. because in Alexandria 226 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:26,000 Egypt, there was a mummified crocodile and they used 227 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,400 parchment Vellum parchment from a torn up New Testament to stuff 228 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,100 the crocodile And that's where they found the second one. 229 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:39,200 The third one is in, in a vault in the basement of the Vatican. 230 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,100 And they have big long names, codex, sinaiticus codex, 231 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:46,900 vaticanus codex, Alexandra, Eunice. 232 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,700 Yeah, but basically, that's what they are. 233 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:54,300 The three oldest compilation, manuscripts, handwritten 234 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:59,300 manuscripts of the New Testament, and it was amazing to 235 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:03,500 be able to go into that room. And look down through the in 236 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:09,800 the, into the glass case and see The oldest manuscripts going 237 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,800 back to the to hunt second. The third century. 238 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,500 Ad. So we're talking about 1,700 239 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,200 years and do you know what's amazing about that? 240 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,900 You look at those earliest manuscripts, and you compare it 241 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:26,300 to what you have in your Bible or on your phone app and it's 242 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:31,900 the same It's the same, it's in the original language. 243 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,900 It's in koine Greek, which is pretty hard to read. 244 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:39,100 Because koine Greek is all capital letters, no spaces 245 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:41,600 between words and no punctuation marks. 246 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:44,500 That was how they wrote back then. 247 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,800 But in the original language, it's the same. 248 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:55,200 It's exactly the same. The reason that those are so 249 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,600 important, those two copies of the New Testament are. 250 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,300 So important is that they prove that the Bible has been copied 251 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:07,099 carefully and correctly over 1,700 years but they are not, 252 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:09,200 the only ones. Those are the ones that are 253 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,400 compilations of the whole new testament. 254 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:17,099 There are fragments and manuscripts over 24,000 of them 255 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:21,200 all over the ancient world of the New Testament and some of 256 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,599 them date within 30 years. Years. 257 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:31,000 Of the original writings. And all of these can be checked 258 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 against the Bible that you and I hold in our hands today. 259 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,500 And what it does is it proves to you and proves to me that we are 260 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:41,700 holding exactly what was originally written. 261 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:48,000 On top of all this Jesus taught us that there was an eternal 262 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,400 quality to God's word. He said in Matthew 24:35, he 263 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,200 said these words Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my 264 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:03,900 words will never pass away. It means that God is protecting 265 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:09,900 the purity of his word so that we hold the truth in our hands. 266 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:14,800 He also said four simple words in John 17:17. 267 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:19,300 And this is important, because this is right before Jesus went 268 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:22,200 to the Garden of Gethsemane where he was arrested, and then 269 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,200 crucified, the next day, and when he was praying with his 270 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,600 disciples, he said these words, sanctify them means set them 271 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,600 apart for a holy purpose. That's what sanctify means, 272 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,800 sanctify them by the truth. And then these four words, your 273 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:48,900 Word is truth. Jesus, testifying to the truth 274 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:51,800 of God's word. Today, what we call this, we 275 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,000 have a big word for this. Is called plenary. 276 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:58,300 Verbal plenary inspiration. Or inerrancy. 277 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,600 It means that the Bible that you have and its original language 278 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:08,700 is without error, it's true. Some people will say that, the 279 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:11,600 Bible contains the word of God. That's a lie. 280 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:16,600 It doesn't contain. It it is The word of God. 281 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,700 And you've got it. You have it, you've got all 282 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:27,200 these different translations of it. 283 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,400 You have all these, you know, different variances of it right 284 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:36,500 there on your app for free. Everything you need is right 285 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:41,000 there and it is absolutely true and dependable. 286 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,300 That's reason number one. The biblical manuscripts have 287 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:47,900 been reliably transmitted from the author's to us today. 288 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,800 Reason, number two, I'm going to give you is there is no motive 289 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,400 on behalf of the author's to cause us to distrust what they 290 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,800 said to de-stress their testimony. 291 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:03,100 In his book cold-case Christianity, Jim Warner Wallace 292 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,900 who was a Los Angeles. Cold Case homicide. 293 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:10,900 Detective describes how you establish a credible and 294 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:14,300 reliable witness. There are four critical areas 295 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:18,000 that are examined before you trust a witness in a, in a 296 00:20:18,008 --> 00:20:21,700 criminal case. Number one was the witness 297 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:24,600 there. Did they see it? 298 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,600 Did they personally experienced it? 299 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,700 Second have? They been accurate and honest in 300 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,100 the past? You don't want to bring a 301 00:20:34,108 --> 00:20:37,800 witness forward, you know who lies about everything else 302 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,900 because you know it's likely that they're going to be lying 303 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:42,800 about this as well. Do an honest in the past number 304 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,200 three is there a dip additional evidence? 305 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,800 That corroborates what they're claiming and number four. 306 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:58,100 Do they have a motive to lie? Now under the motive to lie, the 307 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:03,300 three greatest motives to lie are these two lust power or 308 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:07,900 greed? Now, there is no evidence that 309 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:11,300 the authors of the New Testament had any of these motives. 310 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:14,700 Matter of fact, all evidence to the contrary less power and 311 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:19,500 greed is not and it's something any of them received anything 312 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:23,300 like that, for writing what they wrote in the New Testament. 313 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:26,900 In fact, I had everything to lose and nothing to gain and 314 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:31,500 they did lose everything. In giving their testimony. 315 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,700 Some of you may be familiar with this book, it's called foxes 316 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:40,100 book of Martyrs. It Was Written hundreds of years 317 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:44,900 ago, by John Fox. And he did painstaking research 318 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:48,900 on what happened to the original Apostles and then other church 319 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:54,200 leaders beyond that. So it has historical accounts of 320 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,900 what people were willing to do because of their faith in Jesus 321 00:21:57,900 --> 00:21:59,800 Christ. But we're going back to the 322 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,300 original Witnesses. We're going back to the 323 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,500 original. Authors write. 324 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:14,300 And there was only one of the 12 disciples that did not die in 325 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:19,100 wasn't martyred killed because of his testimony. 326 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:23,100 And that was John. John who wrote the last book of 327 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:27,200 the New Testament. The Book of Revelation did not 328 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,800 have to die in a horrible way. Of course, there was a lot of 329 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,200 other things that happen to him, like being banished to the 330 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,200 island of Patmos and things like that. 331 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,000 But he did not die in that other way. 332 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,400 However, the rest of them did, And their stories are pretty 333 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,200 graphic and pretty gruesome. One of them are always affected 334 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,400 me was. John Mark, the one who wrote the 335 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,800 Book of Mark. He was dragged. 336 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:58,200 Tied to the back of a chariot and dragged through the streets 337 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,400 of Alexandria and he survived it. 338 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,000 And they left him there, all night, and then dragged him 339 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,000 again the next day, he still didn't die and then they stoned 340 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,700 him to death. Wow. 341 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,500 I mean, you could read about Peter who was crucified upside 342 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:21,800 down, because he didn't think he that he was worthy to die. 343 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,900 The same way that Jesus did or Thomas, who was speared by a 344 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:29,700 Hindu Shaman, because he was in prayer. 345 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,600 All of these stories relate to people who are willing and in 346 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:41,700 fact did give their lives. For what they believed. 347 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,800 There was nothing to gain from their testimony. 348 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,700 And it was because of their testimony of Jesus Christ that 349 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:57,100 they died that way. Simply that two weeks ago 350 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,900 Clayton was speaking on on Easter and he said, how 351 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:04,800 ridiculous it would be to die for something that you knew was 352 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,800 a lie. And the apostles would have 353 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,600 known. It was a lie. 354 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,600 If in fact it was a lie that Jesus rose from the dead. 355 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:14,800 Why in the world would you die for that? 356 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:18,400 People who died for a noble cause they believe it's the 357 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,400 truth. But they would have known that 358 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,500 it was a lie. And it's obvious to us today 359 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,400 that that's not the way any kind of normal person would ever 360 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,400 behave. So there's no motive on behalf 361 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,300 of the author's to cause us to de-stress their testimony. 362 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:40,700 That's that second reason, the third reason is the books of the 363 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:45,600 Bible are the ones, the earlier, the earliest followers of Jesus 364 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,300 considered authoritative. Now, I'm going to nerd out a 365 00:24:49,308 --> 00:24:51,400 little bit so some of you are going to go. 366 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:55,500 Okay, you're losing me here because we don't necessarily 367 00:24:55,900 --> 00:24:58,400 really find a lot of interest in history. 368 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,500 But I think it's important for you to know it. 369 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,800 Because if you want to put your faith in that book, this book 370 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,000 right here, I think you need to have good solid answers. 371 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:17,000 People love to speculate about the Lost gospels or like, you 372 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,100 know, the Gospel of Judas or the gospel of the Hebrews and and 373 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:26,000 and or single, a single Source called they call Q That was 374 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,700 supposed to be copied by everyone, but the actual truth 375 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:34,300 is right in front of you. All you have to do is go back to 376 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,300 what the earliest, Christians believed, what they trusted and 377 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:41,000 what they passed along. As God's word, there are over a 378 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,700 million quotations of the biblical text by those early 379 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,700 church leaders, the people that were immediately after the 380 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:53,700 apostles, there's enough of those quotes to nearly 381 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:57,800 completely reconstruct, the New Testament in themselves. 382 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,000 And I'm just going to give you three of them. 383 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,300 Okay, Ignatius Jesus was a church leader in ancient 384 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:09,200 Antioch, modern-day Syria and he considered the four gospels that 385 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,600 were being circulated. He considered them authentic and 386 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,000 wrote about that in 115 ad. Why is that important? 387 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,300 Well, the last Bible book, The Book of Revelation was written 388 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:26,100 about 95 ad. So you're talking about 20 years 389 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:31,200 later, 20 years later, all four gospels were had been written 390 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,000 and they Were being widely circulated and the head of the 391 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,400 church in Syria. At that time. 392 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,000 Antioch. Where the Apostle Paul started? 393 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,600 His missionary Journeys, said that those four gospels were 394 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:52,300 authentic 115 ad by one, 70, AD, tation combined, the four 395 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,400 gospels into what was called the DIA tests are on. 396 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,200 And it was handwritten and it was, it was sent out to all the 397 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:07,600 churches by 1 80 ad Arena satcher Church leader in ancient 398 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,300 Europe, recognized the books of the New Testament and considered 399 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,800 them well-established. You see what? 400 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,100 You've been taught, you've listened to Dan Brown and you 401 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:20,800 watch The DaVinci Code. And you think well this all 402 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,000 happened in these, these councils like the canonization 403 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,000 councils like the nice Ian. In Council in 325 ad, if you if 404 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,800 you think about it you've been thinking that but the truth is 405 00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:38,900 that the Bible had been used for 225 years. before anybody got 406 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:43,600 together and said, yeah, These are actually real. 407 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:50,200 All that those canonization things were doing was that where 408 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,100 they were adopting things that were already. 409 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:57,100 Generally affirmed in the early church, they were already being 410 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:01,500 widely used as biblical Authority, there was nothing new 411 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:04,100 that was offered in those councils and there was nothing 412 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:08,200 removed they were simply recognizing what was already. 413 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,700 The general practice of the churches and anything that would 414 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:15,700 seek to discredit that and there were people writing things to 415 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:19,400 discredit that That were immediately put down and 416 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,800 discredited. Why am I telling you all that? 417 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,100 So you survived the nerd moment. Okay. 418 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,800 I'm telling you that because the bottom line is that the Bible is 419 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:37,100 accurate. If the Bible is accurate, it 420 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:40,000 changes everything. And I can tell you that, the 421 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,800 Bible is accurate. What you hold in your hands. 422 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:47,700 If the same words that the earliest Christians heard, these 423 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:50,900 are the words that God breathed into those who wrote them down, 424 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,500 even willing to give their lives for it, as our Lord, and savior, 425 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,100 did God kept his word and protected. 426 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:02,800 What he wanted us to read, what he wanted us to know what he 427 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,400 wanted us to 0. Obey in order to build a life 428 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,600 that was pleasing to him. It has withstood the test of 429 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,700 time, it has withstood, countless criticism and there is 430 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:18,400 no shortage of proof for that. It's right there for you. 431 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,500 To look at the real issue, isn't that? 432 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:29,900 The real issue is Faith. Your faith, your faith in the 433 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:34,700 one who gave it, And right now you might be thinking well Jerry 434 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:38,200 I need some more faith. No, you don't. 435 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,700 It's not how much Faith you have. 436 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,700 It's who your faith is in. You don't need more faith, you 437 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:49,100 need more Jesus. That's what I need. 438 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:52,800 Just more Jesus. And this is where I find out 439 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,700 about him. This is where I come to 440 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,900 understand him. And when I have Jesus, and I 441 00:29:57,908 --> 00:30:00,300 have his word, I have everything I need. 442 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:04,200 If I can believe that Jesus rose from the dead, come on, I can 443 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,000 believe the rest of it, and when I do it changes everything. 444 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:14,300 It changes everything. You know what I read in here? 445 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,900 Just indulge me. I read. 446 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,300 That he's my breath. And my Builder, my banner, my 447 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:30,200 bridegroom, my bread of life. I I read that he's my Creator 448 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,500 and my comforter, my counselor, my confidence, my cornerstone, 449 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,700 my commander, my coming King, I read that, he's My Hope, and my 450 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:43,700 horn, and my healer, my Holiness, my high priest, in my 451 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:47,400 Hiding Place. I read that, he's my gate, my 452 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,800 grace, my glory, my Indescribable gift, I read that, 453 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,000 he's my light. My life. 454 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,000 From the Lamb of God and the Lord Of Love. 455 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,300 Come on. Now, I read that, he's my maker, 456 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:03,200 my master, my Messiah, my mediator, my Merciful Savior, My 457 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,300 Morning Star. I read that, he's my peace, my 458 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:11,400 power, my prince, my Potter, my provider, and my Passover, I 459 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,100 read that he's my Rising Sun and my Radiance in my Ransom, my 460 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:19,400 Refinery, my refuge, my rock, my ruler, my righteousness, my 461 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,500 resurrection and my reward, I read that he's My, my seal my 462 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:29,500 shield, My Savior, my shepherd, my stronghold, my sustainer, My 463 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:33,700 Sanctuary, my shelter, my sure, Foundation, my support, my song 464 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,400 and my source. I read that, he's the son of God 465 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,700 and the son of man, the alpha, the Omega, the beginning, and 466 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:44,000 the end, the first, and the last. 467 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,500 And when I read this book, with all of my unending questions, I 468 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:58,400 find that he's all my answers. and when I put my faith in him, 469 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,400 Then this word. Ghost from here. 470 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:16,900 Into here. And when this word, Goes from 471 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:24,100 here into here. He finds his forever place. 472 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:32,400 Because the human heart. Is the throne that he wants to 473 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,600 rain from. This is his forever place. 474 00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:47,300 We're moving to a time of decision just because we live in 475 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:51,400 a world on a culture that's been secularized doesn't mean that 476 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,500 what you're learning or what you've heard or what you thought 477 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:58,200 is true. It's just been secularized. 478 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,700 I would really encourage you to Dig Down Deeper if you're a 479 00:33:05,708 --> 00:33:09,600 scientific person, if you want to know more about what that 480 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,500 means. Dig Down Deeper, it can take it. 481 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,200 Many of the greatest scientists of the world were believers. 482 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,100 Don't think for a minute, that Satan doesn't have an agenda to 483 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:31,400 keep you from that knowledge. It's just a fact because it 484 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,400 strengthens your faith and Satan wants no part of that in your 485 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:41,200 life. so I would encourage you to take the time and to do the 486 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:46,700 work to understand it more, but even if you have all the answers 487 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:53,300 even if you know, The answers to all these questions. 488 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:54,700 It's still really doesn't matter. 489 00:33:56,100 --> 00:34:03,300 Until you make it your own until you step out of being a 490 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:08,000 spectator. Of looking at truth or trying to 491 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,100 understand it from a distance you know just stepping out of it 492 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:16,500 to actually stepping into it. And being in relationship with 493 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:18,800 Jesus Christ. Because that's what he's calling 494 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,800 you too. He's just saying that all these 495 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,600 other things don't need to trip you up. 496 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,000 They don't need to push you away from that knowledge. 497 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,800 What I'm calling you today is not too knowledge. 498 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:35,600 I'm not calling you today to accept a certain criteria. 499 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,699 What I'm calling you today is to come into relationship with 500 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:42,800 Jesus Christ. One that's intimate and personal 501 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,000 because that's what it boils down to. 502 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,300 That God Almighty. Who created the universe 503 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:56,000 created? You Loved you enough. before you 504 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,200 were ever thought about by anyone else, but him To send his 505 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:05,200 one and only son Jesus to come to this earth. 41 Express 506 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:10,100 purpose to pay the debt of your sin and mine on the cross. 507 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:15,500 So that God would remain true to himself. 508 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:22,500 Adjust all powerful, God, that demands payment for sin. 509 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,700 But a loving God. Who pays the price himself. 510 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:36,400 And here we are right now. Children of God, some of us 511 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:40,900 recognize it, some of us, don't some of us have never allowed 512 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,400 Jesus to come into that relationship with us. 513 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,600 We've never opened our heart to that possibility, let alone the 514 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,300 introduction of that relationship. 515 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:56,000 But when you do, It changes everything all that this sermon 516 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,400 was designed to do was to push away the stumbling block. 517 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:04,200 To realize that you can trust him. 518 00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:09,300 That he made your mind, he doesn't want you to turn it off. 519 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:15,000 He wants you to use it. But what I'm calling you today 520 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,200 is not so much of a mind thing as it is a heart thing. 521 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,300 Because that's where relationships are. 522 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,000 That's where love is. It's in here. 523 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,900 If you don't have an intimate personal relationship with Jesus 524 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:33,700 Christ. Today, there is nothing standing 525 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,000 in your way except to you. There's going to be somebody 526 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,100 right over there by that baptistery would love nothing 527 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:43,000 more than to talk to you about next steps. 528 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,400 Pray with you about where you are right now. 529 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:55,600 And this could be. The most wonderful day of your 530 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:02,200 life. Many of you are here today and 531 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,100 you've made that decision for Christ, but you know, stuff 532 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:09,000 Creeps in. Doesn't it where we start to 533 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,600 doubt him doubt his presence doubt, the truth constantly 534 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:20,200 inundated with all that stuff. Maybe today is a day where you 535 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,400 say, you know what, Lord, I do believe in you. 536 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,600 I do. I believe you. 537 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:33,600 You didn't lie to me. You told me the truth, I accept 538 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,900 it and I accept you all over again. 539 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,200 To just be how he recognizes you. 540 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:46,500 Because when God looks at you today in this room, you know 541 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:50,200 what he sees? A lot of little kids. 542 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,200 There's no grown-ups in this room spiritually. 543 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,600 Just a lot of children. Now, i-i've got grandkids in a 544 00:38:00,607 --> 00:38:03,400 lot of times grandkids, they like to fake being grown ups. 545 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,500 And there's some of you that are faking being grown up right now. 546 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:11,900 But Jesus said if you want to come to me you have to come like 547 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:16,300 a little child because in fact spiritually that's what we all 548 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:24,300 are. So, I want you to take this 549 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:29,000 moment right now. I mean there may be things in 550 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,500 your life that are just overwhelming. 551 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:36,600 You just crushing you, the lower story is dragging you down. 552 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,700 And I want you to know that up here on your knees. 553 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:45,300 There's a place of peace. A place of reassurance. 554 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:50,500 Place of hope. And the one person. 555 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:56,400 Who has the answers? Would you stand with me? 556 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:06,400 Heavenly Father. I'm so glad that we don't just 557 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,600 have to say almighty God or Ancient of Days, but we can use 558 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,600 this familiar pronoun. And just call you father. 559 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:23,600 Because we are your children and I know that we're not always 560 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,900 good children. I certainly am not always a good 561 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:32,600 child. And I know there are times I do 562 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,200 things that would never make you proud. 563 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,600 But I'm so thankful that your patient with me. 564 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,300 And with all of us here to love us. 565 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,100 Until you finish your work in US. 566 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:52,300 And I pray right now. That your Holy Spirit would work 567 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:55,300 unfettered in this place among your children. 568 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:59,900 Forts in Jesus name I pray. Amen. 569 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:59,900 Forts in Jesus name I pray. Amen.