1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,960 Our church mission is to love as God loves showing compassion 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today, and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:27,080 by today's podcast. Thank you Jesus, Amen. 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:32,040 Someone say thank you Lord, it is Pentecost Sunday. 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,040 Suddenly there was a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,200 filled all the house where they were sitting, peered unto them 10 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,640 cloven tongues like it's fire set up on each of them, and they 11 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,320 were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak in 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,960 other tongues. As the Spirit gave the 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,560 utterance. I felt a little bit of that 14 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,960 wind, a man blowing here just a little while ago. 15 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,760 I'm thankful that it hasn't quit blowing. 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,520 It has blown. Since the Spirit of the Lord 17 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,120 hovered over the face of the deep in Genesis, and it's blown 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:16,480 in the valley of dry bones that Ezekiel saw, it blew up on the 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:22,000 day of Pentecost and it has not quit blowing yet today, Amen. 20 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,120 We're thankful for Pentecost today. 21 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,560 Amen. This morning, if you'll stand 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,560 with me, we'll turn to Psalms 145. 23 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,520 And really folks, thank yous are in order today. 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,320 This has been an eventful month in many respects. 25 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,640 Again, I was telling leadership before church this month that we 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,720 have, we have blitzed our public school system, all of our 27 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,640 schools. We did breakfast for them on the 28 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,040 Teacher Appreciation Week just this past Monday. 29 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,360 We fed the firefighters in our community for International 30 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,840 Firefighters Day. We did our mobile food 31 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,040 distribution on Friday. I don't know how many, Sister 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:09,240 Jen, how many households, 323 people, households and stuff 33 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,200 that was impacted, Amen by that on Friday. 34 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,120 Amen. And so God is good, Amen. 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,760 That's wonderful to be able to be a blessing to your community, 36 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,320 a man and and return something to them. 37 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,920 And so I want to say thank you. I know my wife took food to the 38 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,160 school. Sister Grace, she works in one 39 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,560 too. And I don't work at a school, 40 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,320 but I went to one a man. And so I went to a school and 41 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,480 with that endeavor and Sister Angie Cruz put together the the 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,680 the firefighter appreciation. I know Sister Sheila, I believe 43 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,400 in Sister Grace helped in that endeavor bringing it Amen. 44 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,480 Want to thank them Amen as well. And there's so many different 45 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,120 hands here. Friday we were setting up tables 46 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,520 and canopies and didn't it look like rain and we didn't want wet 47 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,400 cardboard boxes and it just I did. 48 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,520 We got more than what we really expected as far as pallets that 49 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,480 was out there. And and so there were people 50 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,160 here. Brother Kevin Adams was here. 51 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,720 He was work. He his boss let him have the day 52 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,160 off and he said it felt more like work said it felt more like 53 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,720 work than having a day off. But we appreciate, Amen, all of 54 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,600 the help in the many hands Psalms. 55 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,400 Oh yeah. And, and also in this month, we 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,160 paid around $1000 of fees for five high school students so 57 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,440 that they could walk across the stage for graduation as well. 58 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,520 Amen. And so just another year. 59 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,840 Sometimes you don't know that your hands reaching out around 60 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:30,960 here. And that's the reason why I say 61 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,080 it, to let you know when it does take place that you might not be 62 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:40,200 Privy to. Psalms 145, Psalms 145. 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,960 And I know it's Pentecostal Sunday today, but I'm 64 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,240 Pentecostal. So I believe any message I 65 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,040 preach is Pentecostal oriented. All right. 66 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,240 And so I'm going to start with verse number one. 67 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,120 I thought about maybe just reading the one verse that I 68 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,280 wanted, verse 14, but I want to give you context for where this 69 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,640 falls here today. So I'm going to read 14 verses. 70 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,560 It is the Psalm. So they go very quickly and I 71 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,480 can read quick if you can listen quick. 72 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,760 All right, but nonetheless, David says in Psalms 145, I will 73 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:15,840 extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever 74 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,800 and ever. Every day will I bless thee, and 75 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,240 I will praise thy name forever and ever. 76 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,040 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is 77 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,960 unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy 78 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,760 works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts. 79 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,880 I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty and of thy 80 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,880 wondrous works, and men shall speak of thy might, of thy 81 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,680 terrible acts, and I will declare thy greatness. 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,920 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, 83 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,120 and shall sing of Thy righteousness. 84 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,240 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and 85 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,000 of great mercy. The Lord is good to all, and his 86 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,640 tender mercies are over all his works. 87 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,520 All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord, and Thy Saints shall 88 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,480 bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of 89 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,480 Thy Kingdom, and talk of Thy power to make known to the sons 90 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:16,080 of men His mighty acts and the glorious majesty of His Kingdom. 91 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,720 Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and Thy dominion endure 92 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:25,320 throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall 93 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:31,400 and riseth up all those that be bowed down. 94 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,240 That's kind of my key verse today. 95 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,480 The last verse, the Lord upholdeth all that fall and 96 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:44,440 riseth up, raiseth up all that all those that be bowed down. 97 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,680 This morning, just for a little bit, I want to talk about the 98 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,360 paradox of the fall. The paradox of the fall. 99 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,480 Hallelujah. Let's pray today, Father. 100 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,200 We're thankful again, Lord, for those that have gathered 101 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,520 together, Lord, on this day, Lord, to worship, to praise, to 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,720 give of themselves, Lord God of their time and their attention. 103 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,520 Lord Jesus, to you to home. Lord Jesus, that relationship, 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,760 Lord, that they have or perhaps the Lord to begin 1 Lord, that 105 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,240 they never had, I pray, O Lord, today touch our minds and our 106 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,960 hearts are fresh. Lord today, God, as we look one 107 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,560 more time, God into your word, these are the words that speak 108 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,560 of you in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Amen 109 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:29,960 and Amen. Everybody say Amen. 110 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,520 You may be seated this morning in Jesus name. 111 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,240 Likewise, we're so thankful for all the folks. 112 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,160 This has been surgery week. We've had a surgery every day 113 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,120 this week, but Thursday around here at the church. 114 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,240 And so we're so thankful that God has seen each and one of 115 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,800 them that has went through surgery through and have been 116 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,080 with them, the hand upon them. And we're grateful today for 117 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,600 that. This year, as this church 118 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,240 family, many of you know, each year I try to read a different 119 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,000 version or translation of the Bible through in that calendar 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,480 year. And so this year I'm reading a 121 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,600 chronological home and Christian standard Bible this year. 122 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:11,240 And so much of what then whenever I come to preach or 123 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,280 teach inspiration has come per southeast from that particular 124 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,080 translation and what I have read. 125 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,440 And so the inspiration for this really comes from that Bible 126 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:27,200 that I was reading whenever I came across Psalms 145 in its 127 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,120 translation. It has a certain portion of this 128 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:36,360 verse phrased like this. It says the Lord helps all who 129 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,560 fall. And so that phrase is really 130 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:45,440 couched here within a Psalm that is known to be a Psalm of 131 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,560 praise, the superscript that's above the Psalms or the titles 132 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,360 that are above the Psalms. There's a lot of arguments out 133 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,480 there about whether or not they are inspired because within the 134 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,640 Hebrew language, in Hebrew Bibles, the text is included. 135 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,680 It's not distinguished as apart from the inspired, what we would 136 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,520 say was the inspired part of the text. 137 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:13,560 But this Psalm, Psalm 145, is the only of two psalms. 138 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,360 In all of the 100. And 50 psalms. 139 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,520 That is labeled as a. Psalm of Praise. 140 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,160 I double checked that just last night and I went through each 141 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,840 chapter one by one and read all the headings just to make sure, 142 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,640 but it is one of only two that's denoted the. 143 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,760 Psalm of praise and notably. It is described as David's Psalm 144 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,200 of praise. It begins. 145 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,880 And you can look down. Through there with me it. 146 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:44,560 Though it begins with David. Saying I will extol the in verse 147 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:49,080 #1 When you reach the finality of the last verse of this 148 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,320 chapter, there has been a host of people, or might I say all. 149 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,280 People that. Have gathered together in this. 150 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:03,080 Praise course as it says, Let. All flesh bless his holy name. 151 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,920 In other words, what started as a solitary man acknowledging 152 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,440 through the text God's graciousness, God's greatness, 153 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:18,160 God's glory, God's goodness, now toward the end just kind of 154 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:23,560 crescendos, if you will, with the last verse encompassing all 155 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,080 participating in this praise and adoration. 156 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:32,520 Verse two tells us that. One man, he blessed God day by 157 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,360 day, but. As the scenario goes, it amps up 158 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,880 to verse. #4 to where? One generation praises. 159 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,200 God's works to. Another generation declaring his 160 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,440 mighty acts, we. Come to verse #10 and the 161 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,000 circle. Gets broader and says that the 162 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Saints bless him and. Make known then to the. 163 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,960 Sons of men or. Just ordinary common man about 164 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,280 the good things and. Precious things of God. 165 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,280 This is something that gets larger and the circles get 166 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,440 larger. It's just David a lone. 167 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,400 Warrior of God, and before you know it, the Saints are 168 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,440 declaring it, and then they're declaring it just to ordinary. 169 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,520 Man, people that are not necessarily. 170 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,880 In covenant with God, the Saints have made God's mighty acts 171 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,480 known, Amen, which which no doubt impart effects and 172 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,120 impacts. This collective voice at the 173 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,800 end, that's blessing God's. Name in the last verse. 174 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,240 So what started out as just a very low vibration if you will, 175 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:41,600 of 1 voice turns? Into a roar, inescapable roar at 176 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:43,800 of the people at the. Very last verse. 177 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,960 And when you come to. Verse #14 There is a a switch 178 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,880 that has been flipped. The the all ALL switch. 179 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,160 Has been flipped in verse #14 From that verse forward, it 180 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,880 seems like there's a focus on this word all it begins with 181 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,360 again in verse 14. The Lord upholdeth, or if you 182 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,000 will, helps. All that fall, but. 183 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,120 Consider some of these other verses. 184 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,000 Again in verse 14 it says. He raises up all those that. 185 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,600 He bowed down. Verse 15. 186 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,840 Says the eyes of all. Wait upon him 16. 187 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,040 He satisfies the desire of every living. 188 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,080 Thing. Or all living things he. 189 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,960 Verse. 18 He is 9 to all that call. 190 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,360 Upon him, verse 20, he preserves. 191 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,640 All that love him. And so verse 14 starts this this 192 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:41,920 pattern of the all idea of. All waiting all. 193 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,240 Desiring those that are nigh. To him. 194 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,880 All. Amen, that call. 195 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,840 Upon him he'll preserve all. Verse 14 illustrates to us. 196 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,920 That he'll help all that fall. He'll raise up. 197 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,320 All those that are bowed. Down it addresses if you willed 198 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,120 the universality of man's weakness, whether he be a Jew, 199 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,800 whether he be a Gentile, whether it be he be a Samaritan. 200 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,240 The verse over and over again does not just refer. 201 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,280 To his covenant. People alone, but to the sons of 202 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,640 men. All of humanity. 203 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,760 God's actions. Described here are the 204 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:23,200 description of God's general kindness toward mankind and 205 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,520 toward creation. Because we all, everybody say 206 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,280 all. We all have this propensity to 207 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:31,480 fall. We all. 208 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,760 Have this inkling if you. Will this proclivity if you will 209 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,800 to be overwhelmed by. Circumstances. 210 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,280 And become bowed down. I know this morning, you know, 211 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,120 whether we want to admit it or not, but all humans regardless 212 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,960 our background. Regardless our status, 213 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,080 regardless our beliefs, regardless whatever it may. 214 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,600 Be we all encounter difficulties. 215 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,480 In this life. We make mistakes. 216 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,200 We face overwhelming challenges. Amen. 217 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,120 At some. Point. 218 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,400 This is the condition of humanity. 219 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,760 This is the condition of man. It's not just stated in the 220 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,760 Bibles. That stated, even in our classic 221 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,600 literature that is written, you read, if you will, anything most 222 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,000 things that you would want to read even concerning William 223 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,280 Shakespeare, and you're going to understand that he often depicts 224 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,240 characters who are facing profound struggles and some type 225 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,920 of moral dilemmas. And what he is doing is 226 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,680 exploring the. Depths of human. 227 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,640 Amen. Fallibility Our. 228 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,480 Mess ups our, pitfalls our. Times of struggle and we read 229 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,800 those type of things or. Visit those types of. 230 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,840 Plays that he is pinned and as a. 231 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,080 Human, I can say I. Identify with that. 232 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,360 I know what it's like to fail. I know what it's like to be 233 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,880 burdened down with. Circumstances even in the area. 234 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,760 Of developmental psychology, they indicate that every. 235 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:57,400 Individual faces some types of normative challenges in crisis. 236 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,600 Once again, just reinforcing. That falling and being 237 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,480 overwhelmed. Are a part of the. 238 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,680 Human condition, the lives that we each. 239 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:11,080 Live in Genesis chapter number. Three, the Bible says that the 240 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,200 fall of. Adam and Eve suggests clearly to 241 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,800 us. That all humanity is inherently. 242 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,760 Flawed. We're flawed. 243 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,520 We're. Prone to sin. 244 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,640 That fall in the very beginning. It. 245 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,680 Illustrates the fundamental brokenness and burden a man into 246 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,520 this human existence that you and I share. 247 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,560 Not only were we impacted by the initial fall in the garden, but 248 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,760 we also the new. Testament writer says we also. 249 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,360 Fall short of the glory of God and can I say OFT times that 250 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:50,320 happens daily. All who fall refer to 251 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,920 individuals. Who have? 252 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,640 Failed and made mistakes and. Experienced hardships all. 253 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,400 Who are bowed down are. Oppressed. 254 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,640 And burdened by life's physical problems and emotional 255 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:09,640 challenges, Job said in his book Man is born of a woman of a few 256 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,120 days and full of trouble, Solomon said. 257 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:19,720 All his days are sorrows. His heart taketh not rest, even 258 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:25,160 in the night, Isaiah said. Even the youth shall faint and 259 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,640 be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. 260 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:35,440 It is not today, it is not today if you fall, it's when you fall. 261 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,360 This is the certainty of the human condition, young and old 262 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,200 alike. I've come to rise on this Sunday 263 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,440 morning. That although. 264 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,040 This may be true. We can be assured that God will 265 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:54,360 help us when we fall. It was God that prepared a spot 266 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:59,000 at the King's table for a fallen and lame Mephibosheth. 267 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,880 It was God that offered forgiveness to a very troubled 268 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,960 and fallen David. It was God that instilled into 269 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:14,800 the prophet Micah a mentality that said When I fall, I shall 270 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,200 arise. He raised God raised a seemingly 271 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,440 dead uticus that suffered from a third story fall. 272 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,440 He placed a sunken Apostle Peter back on the surface of the water 273 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:38,440 so he could get back to the bow. Haggard specializes in the fall. 274 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,080 Someone say Amen. And I'm not going to. 275 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,120 I'm not going to. Any qualms here today? 276 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,480 Having fallen is not an. Excuse because we've. 277 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:56,960 Not been left without help, God upholdeth or supports and helps 278 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,520 all that fall. There is no criterion here. 279 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,680 In the scripture it's not. It's not stated that God helps 280 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,520 those who fail that were pushed or put there. 281 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,400 There's no criterion here. It doesn't matter whether your 282 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,200 fault was your fault, whether your fault was someone else's 283 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,480 fault, whether your fault. Was just power for the course 284 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,200 of. Being part of the fabric of 285 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,800 humanity, God made his plea to 1:00 and all whether it's your 286 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,320 fault, somebody else's fault, an institution's fault, God helps 287 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:41,080 all who fault he opposed us. Is the verbage in. 288 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,640 Scripture. He opposed us. 289 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,280 My wife sheets I've said this enough times that she grabs it 290 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,640 all the. Time the ETH on the end of a 291 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,720 word. Particularly in the King James. 292 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,720 Usually denotes in the Hebrew that it is a word that is an 293 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,280 action that happens but. Continues to happen. 294 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,360 The ETH denotes a continuation. So when we talk about God. 295 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:03,680 Upholds, Amen. All who fall. 296 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:05,560 It's not that he does it in the moment. 297 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,600 But he upholds and he. Keeps upholding. 298 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,280 He supports and he keeps supporting. 299 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,880 He helps and he keeps helping. Ladies and gentlemen, I got. 300 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,480 Good news for you. If a Sparrow cannot fall to the 301 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:24,760 ground without God noticing, He's there for your fault as 302 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,360 well. It is the master plan of the 303 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:32,480 Bible. Genesis, major ordeal in the 304 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:39,120 beginning is called what we often call the Fall and the rest 305 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,320 of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation for that matter. 306 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:50,240 The rest of Scripture is the unfolding of God's help with and 307 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:58,480 for humanity's fall until it describes in the New Testament 308 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,040 Scripture of those that have been receptive to his help. 309 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,960 He then describes like this, Paul said in the epistle that 310 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:12,560 God has raised us up together and made us to sit in heavenly 311 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,200 places in what is that? What's going on? 312 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,400 God's help somebody that's failed. 313 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,440 God's helped all who He's going to raise us up and He's seating 314 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:27,000 us in a place that's higher than when we were at before We fail. 315 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,120 Someone say Amen. If I can say it like this today, 316 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,000 and I'm not asking anybody to go there, but I'm just wanting the 317 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,360 comfort of knowing this. Each of us is one fall away from 318 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:51,040 hell, but as in the literal life that we live, many of us will 319 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,360 not accept health if we don't think we need help. 320 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,000 Sometimes it takes a complete fall for us to depend on or be. 321 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,480 Open to aid. Because let's get falls are 322 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,840 embarrassing. It's been, it's been I don't 323 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,520 know how. Maybe a couple years ago now, I, 324 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,400 I had a pattern of of running about 2 1/2 miles in the morning 325 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:12,840 that I got foot problems couldn't run anymore. 326 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,120 So I'll walk, but when I could still run. 327 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,800 And I, there's a part of my run that always happens right along 328 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,360 3rd St. which is, you know, in this metropolis of Mount Carmel 329 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:27,400 can sometimes be quite busy. I mean, you got you got the 330 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,880 Roach church up there. You got. 331 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,040 You got, you know. Cactus cuisine and ice cream, 332 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,800 you know, and stuff. And so it could be quite busy. 333 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,520 And so, man, I'm up there to, I'm a, I'm a running and I, I 334 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,440 listen, I, I could click off some stuff that went back 335 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,120 whenever I, I ran, but, and so I was running. 336 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,040 And if anybody's ever. Walked the sidewalk of 3rd St. 337 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,600 It's up, down. Pieces jutted up. 338 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,360 I mean you. Got to you got. 339 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,760 To have an awareness of where your feet are going. 340 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,800 So I'm running, man. I've done this 1000 times. 341 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:01,800 It's I'm just cooking alone, Christy. 342 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,840 I'm I kind of. Looking around a little bit. 343 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,560 First mistake and I'm just cooking alone and I'm telling 344 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:12,040 you in a nanosecond. I mean, I it was like it 345 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,080 happened. I didn't know it. 346 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,560 Happened till after it happened. I mean, I just. 347 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,520 Boom, right down on the ground, son. 348 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:18,400 I get up. What do you do? 349 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,320 You. Get up as quick as. 350 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,520 Possible you try to look. Around you're like. 351 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,520 I got right because falls are embarrassing. 352 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:34,960 Some are fatal. I yeah, I mean, there are 353 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,840 vehicles going by that morning and I'm like. 354 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,680 I hope they're just so in tune with what's in front. 355 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,160 Of them or maybe? Distracted by their phone. 356 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:48,840 I'm sorry, Jesus, that they didn't see me fall, so I was 357 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,320 surveying the area. I'm going forward. 358 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,760 You know how, especially when you're with a crowd and 359 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,400 something like that happens, you're masking any pain that you 360 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,320 might be experiencing? We were telling everybody. 361 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,400 I'm fine. I'm OK. 362 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,960 It's OK when we're not. It's like if someone came to me 363 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,600 right now, I probably. Said yeah, it's great and. 364 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:14,240 I'm like, huh? I mean my Penrod. 365 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,920 He had a fall that. Changed his life, almost took 366 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,160 his arm. Nothing on the surface seemed 367 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,160 wrong after his fall, but internally something happened. 368 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,880 What I'm telling us today is God's there to help with our 369 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,840 false, known and unknown aftermaths. 370 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:43,320 Are known and unknown after Mass and we just need to let God in 371 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,120 and. Help. 372 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,160 Us, we don't have to put on I'm strong front. 373 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,320 Listen, we're part of the human. Condition. 374 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,640 What is Reece going to look? Over at me and say he failed 375 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,920 probably that's. Probably what he's going to do. 376 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:02,160 But none the less, he can't say he's never tripped. 377 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,720 There's probably most of us. Can't say we never lost balance 378 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,440 or never fell on our face too. That happens in the literal, but 379 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,440 in even a spiritual, the human condition is. 380 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,200 That is what we're prone to. So I don't have nothing to hide 381 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,960 today because you've probably had your face planted on the 382 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,800 ground too. You probably had some difficulty 383 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,240 that overwhelmed and burdened and dismayed that weighed you 384 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,600 down to the psalmist said in Psalm 103, David said for he 385 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,960 knoweth our frame. He remembered that we are just 386 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,280 God knows who you are. God knows your makeup. 387 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,760 God knows what you're prone to. God knows the air of you just 388 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,840 being a human and what you have a downfall for God knows that. 389 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,280 But the Bible tells us likewise that that same God is drawn to 390 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,920 that type of weakness. He's drawn to the broken, He's 391 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,720 drawn to the contrite. David said he cannot despise the 392 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,520 broken, He cannot despise the contrite. 393 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,240 Scripture says his strength is made perfect or made complete. 394 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:18,200 And weakness God can restore many times again put us in in 395 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,240 positions that we would have never been before had it not. 396 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,400 Been. For the fall. 397 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,120 But we got to surrender to his help. 398 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,720 I love, I love to read, you know that. 399 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,360 I love to read about. Mountain climbing might not be 400 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:39,040 here Forte, but I'd love to read about people climbing Everest or 401 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,160 some of the 10 highest peaks of the world or seven. 402 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,360 Love that with most climbing routes for my mountain climbers 403 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,960 there is what's known as as a leader and he is ahead of the 404 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,400 pack and he goes up before anybody else and he may be 405 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,760 placing boats, anchorage boats in the the rocks or the sheer 406 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,720 face for others that are coming up and climbing behind him. 407 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,400 However, every leader or anybody for that matter that is a 408 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:13,120 climber needs a good belayer. The belayer is the person that's 409 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:18,360 below the climber. The belayer controls. 410 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,200 The amount of. Slack in the rope attached to 411 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:29,040 the climber as he either ascends or descends too much. 412 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,440 Slack could lead to a longer. Fall if he loses his. 413 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,880 Grasp. On the side of the. 414 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,480 Mountain, but too little rope could. 415 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Impede his movement upward. The tension the blayer maintains 416 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:53,520 on the rope assist the climber. Assist him with his balance and 417 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,840 with his stability. By the amount of tension the 418 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,600 belayer puts on the rope, it allows the climber to traverse 419 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,000 over some of what might be considered the most challenging 420 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,960 sections of the climb. Because the right amount of 421 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,160 tension is put on the rope by the belayer there has. 422 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,600 To be constant communication. Listen to me well. 423 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,600 There has to be. Constant communication between 424 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,280 the belayer and the climber it's essential how they. 425 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,000 Can they need to converse back and forth so that they can 426 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,600 coordinate movements and and make each? 427 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,160 Aware of what their actions are and their status is it's. 428 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,880 Important to have a belayer the. Belayer must pay continuous 429 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,760 attention. To the climbers movement and be 430 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,640 ready to act immediately. If he needs. 431 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,480 To lock off the rope to stop a fall, as it is said. 432 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,560 In the book that I read, it said for the. 433 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:53,280 Belayer catching the leaders. Fall is routine because belayers 434 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,960 help all leaders who fall. The belayer is an indispensable 435 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,240 part of the climbing team. And can I tell you this morning? 436 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:10,040 That God serves that purpose. In our lives and as long as I 437 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,760 know someone has tension on the rope and as long as I know 438 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,880 someone's. Feeding me enough to make 439 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,200 further heights. Or taking up the slack. 440 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:25,200 So that I don't fall too far, or knowing that if I do mishandle 441 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,680 or miss grab and I do fall, he's going to lock it in place to 442 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:36,520 keep me from dying. Then his presence alone. 443 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,400 The presence of the belayer them puts a little. 444 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,640 Bit of confidence in my. Mind and my step telling me 445 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,520 maybe I can tackle some more challenging areas and make 446 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,360 bolder moves because I have a belayer. 447 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:57,360 Let me tell some folks today. You're going to do some. 448 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:01,520 Great things for God. But it will be in the. 449 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,120 Process of. Trying and attempting to do 450 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,640 that, you'll come to the realization of you cannot just 451 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,320 hope for it, go after it, but you have confidence that you're 452 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:22,040 not at this journey alone. You have a blayer with the right 453 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:29,520 tension that's watching not if, but when you fall. 454 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,240 Now, I've said all of this this morning. 455 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:41,560 Just to get here said all of this, to get to the namesake of 456 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,560 thy sermon, to the paradox of the fall. 457 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,720 If you'll back back up to verses 6 and seven, I want to read them 458 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,360 one more time in your hearing, The Bible says, And men shall 459 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:02,040 speak of thy might, of thy terrible, or thy revered and 460 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,000 respected acts, and I will declare thy greatness. 461 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,680 They shall, men shall, they shall. 462 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:15,640 Abundantly utter. The memory of the great goodness 463 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,960 and shall sing of thy righteousness. 464 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,480 Everybody got thinking kept. Will you allow me to get just 465 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,680 technical here for a moment? All right, just ride the horse 466 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,880 with me. The Hebrew word translated as 467 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:35,120 the phrase the memory. This is the technical stuff. 468 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:40,480 Just hold with me is a Hebrew noun in what's called the common 469 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,880 masculine singular construct form that's. 470 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,720 Technical, Brad. McGee, that don't mean anything. 471 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,200 It don't mean much to me either until I begin to look up what 472 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,120 these things are. When we consider that this is 473 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:59,360 singular, Brother Mason, it says in this form in what's called a 474 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:04,520 parsing, that singular indicates that the singular form of a term 475 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,320 refers to a single item or a collection of items, all of the 476 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,120 same kind. So for our purposes this 477 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,480 morning, the memory could represent a collection of 478 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,640 recalled events. That demonstrated God's great 479 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,080 goodness or. It could be a single, solitary 480 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,600 event. With that in mind, today I want 481 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,160 us to remember. That. 482 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,480 A fall happened before the. Fall. 483 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:51,200 Happened in Genesis. It is my personal belief this 484 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,120 the memory. That goodness of the memory. 485 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,040 I believe that men abundantly uttered. 486 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,960 Over and over and over. Again that they declared 487 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:10,360 repeatedly this the memory, I believe that men. 488 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760 Were singing that was accompanied with singing the. 489 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,640 Bible says they were singing of God's God's righteousness, which 490 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,240 was then as though it was an. Illustration of God's justice. 491 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,280 Of what was right the memory. Paradox is created by. 492 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:32,600 The memory and then the fact that the Lord helps all who? 493 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,440 Fall, stay with me. Of course, when I'm Speaking of 494 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:42,440 the memory, the solitary thing, I am referring to Lucifer's 495 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,760 fall. It is depicted in Scripture. 496 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:56,560 As a fall so tragic. The severity of Lucifer's 497 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,120 mistaken attitude so severe. That it's depicted. 498 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,720 In scripture happening. According to God's word, prior 499 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:10,280 to the fall of Adam and. Eve as a fall, Isaiah 14 and 12 500 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,680 says. How art thou fallen? 501 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:19,960 From heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how art thou cut? 502 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,120 Down to the ground Which? Didst weaken the nation's his 503 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:29,600 actions were so. Vile, the Lord who helps all who 504 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:35,360 fall left. Him to his consequence. 505 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:41,880 And even initiated the fall because revelation. 506 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,160 Tells us we'll read the verses that God cast him out. 507 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,360 He was cast. Out from heaven. 508 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,000 Revelation 12 and verse 9. And the Great Dragon was cast 509 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,840 out. This is a reflection. 510 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,720 Backward that old serpent called the Devil. 511 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,000 And Satan, which deceiveth the whole. 512 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 World he was. Cast out into the earth. 513 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,280 His angels were cast out with him, and I heard. 514 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,120 A loud voice saying In heaven now has come salvation and 515 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,160 strength and the Kingdom of our God the. 516 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,400 Power of his Christ for the accuser of. 517 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:23,000 Our brethren is test down which accused them before our God day 518 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,840 and. Night. 519 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:30,080 Do you understand the paradox then here in Scripture? 520 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:38,920 That God is willing. That God is eager, that God is 521 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:45,320 desirous to help and to support all who fall. 522 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,520 Do you understand how that must be the twisting of the sword in 523 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,480 the? Side of our adversary do. 524 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,680 You understand how that must be a little adding insult to injury 525 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,400 concerning your enemy because God's able to help and wants to 526 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:06,000 help you with your fall, but he leaves him to his demise. 527 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:12,120 He leaves him to his future. He leaves him to his dismay, he 528 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:17,320 leaves him to his heir. From Genesis forward, Satan then 529 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:23,639 has attempted to cause men, humanity, men and women to fall. 530 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,480 He wants them to trip up. He wants them to form their He 531 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,880 wants them to fumble. He wants them to blunder. 532 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,880 He wants them to join him in his dissent. 533 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:40,159 We not even seen the New Testament. 534 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:43,520 Scripture. When Jesus had his days right? 535 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:46,840 Right before his. Public ministry began 40 days 536 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,679 and nights, he fasted. In the wilderness. 537 00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:51,239 And he hungered. And Satan came to Tim. 538 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,199 Tim. And one of the temptations that 539 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,400 Satan came to Jesus with was this. 540 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,280 He took him to the height of the pinnacle of. 541 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,080 The temple. And he said cast yourself down, 542 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,720 Cast yourself what you say. He said, I want you to fall. 543 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,520 Cast yourself down from here. And while God. 544 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,640 Refuses in this day. To help Satan, Amen. 545 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,280 With a fall that even God initiated here. 546 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:29,960 He though will help you and me with the falls that we have in 547 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,920 our life. God casts Satan down, but he 548 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,520 desires to raise you up. God, that's Satan down, but he 549 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,600 desires to elevate you. Don't you think that gets under 550 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:53,800 the skin of your adversary? God is so. 551 00:35:53,800 --> 00:36:03,040 Bent on this whole aspect that someday in the future the devil 552 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:11,920 the scripture says will be bound. 1000 years, no Revelation 553 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,440 20. And again, I want to read it. 554 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,520 I don't want. This to go bias and verse one. 555 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,760 This is something that. Shall take place something that 556 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:28,040 will happen, John. Said and I saw an Angel who come 557 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,120 down from. Heaven having the key. 558 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:39,000 Of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and. 559 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:45,120 He laid a hold on that dragon, that old serpent, which is the 560 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:52,160 devil and Satan compound. Him. 1000 years verse three and 561 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:58,680 cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal. 562 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,120 Upon him Watch me now. So there's a day in the future. 563 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,680 God still has a plan for the Satan who fell from heaven to 564 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,640 earth. There's. 565 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:11,040 Going to come a day, one Angel with one chain is going to bind 566 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,800 one devil, and he's going to open up a bottomless pit. 567 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,240 Listen to me. A pit that is bottomless is a 568 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:21,440 pit without a bottom. That means when the devil is 569 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,120 cast. Into such a pit. 570 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,160 It will be a perpetual fall for 1000 years. 571 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,760 It will be a has no bottom. It'll be a perpetual fall for 572 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,440 1000 years. What are you doing, Jesus? 573 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,280 I'm just turning the sword of the paradox of the fall. 574 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,240 He's going to be fallen for 1000 years and he's going to have to 575 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:46,000 remember while he falls, all those I helped that did fall, 576 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,800 all those that I saved that did fall, all those. 577 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:58,440 Someone say Hallelujah, he's going to remember everybody else 578 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,080 that was afforded the help. But he didn't and he's fallen 579 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:10,120 for a perpetual 1000 years. Oh yes, Oh brother, no. 580 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,440 The devil knows the word he used. 581 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,120 It in the garden. He used it with Jesus. 582 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,040 He twisted. Listen the only way. 583 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,400 You can twist something, you got to know it. 584 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,640 Good enough in order to be able to do that. 585 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,080 You you can't twist something that you're not familiar. 586 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:34,600 With what is genuine or true to begin with, not to know it. 587 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:43,320 In order to manipulate it, he knows the word with. 588 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,840 That this is just me, Brother Reese. 589 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,600 But I can only imagine in those thousand years of perpetually 590 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,800 falling, that he begins to remember some verses like, 591 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,640 though he may fall, thinking of mankind, he shall not be utterly 592 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,160 cast down. For the Lord upholdeth him with 593 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,840 his hand. I will uphold thee with the 594 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:17,680 right hand of my righteousness. Now unto him that is able to 595 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,240 keep you from falling and to proceed you faultless. 596 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,200 He said it's the our only wise God. 597 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,840 And I believe that going through the mind of the adversary will 598 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,720 be every scripture where God said He'd help his people, every 599 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,600 scripture where God said he'd help mankind get back up after 600 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,360 they stumbled as the enemy of our soul is in a everlasting 601 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:52,880 thousand year fall. Psalms 145 homework assignment 602 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:59,600 take psalms 145 and takes take Matthew chapter #6 the section 603 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:07,240 that portrays and and speaks of the Lord's prayer, and you start 604 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,880 seeing correlations between psalms one and 45 the Lord's 605 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,240 prayer. Psalms 24 and 1:45 talks about 606 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,640 his King and Kingdom and dominion being everlasting. 607 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,240 We, we have the same type of talk over in the Lord's Prayer. 608 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,880 All right, We there's talk back and forth. 609 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,200 It talks about 1:45 about the Lord providing even for all 610 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,880 living things from His hand. We read in Scripture about give 611 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,440 us this day, Our Daily Bread. There's correlations. 1 612 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,680 Correlation. One such portion of the Lord's 613 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,720 Prayer that parallels verse #14 that we've been preaching from 614 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:47,800 today is whenever Jesus said pray after this sort and lead us 615 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:54,920 not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 616 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,960 To borrow old. Phrase this dates some people, 617 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:02,320 but it still doesn't go as far back as I could go. 618 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,120 But the Lucifer has fallen and can't get up. 619 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,920 But brother alone, that doesn't have to be our story. 620 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,680 In Jewish practice, this Psalm was recited twice in the 621 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,560 morning, once in the evening. Why? 622 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,360 To accentuate the paradox of the fall. 623 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:31,640 If you can stand for me this morning, I'll hasten to the 624 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:38,320 close. Because the paradox lies in the 625 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:46,320 contrast again between God's help for humanity, contrasting 626 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:53,200 his judgment on Lucifer, Satan, who many ways helped even 'cause 627 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:58,400 his own fault through pride and rebellion, he receives no aid he 628 00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,640 receives. No. 629 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:06,240 Recourse. This stark difference, then, 630 00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:12,440 underscores God's mercy and God's grace toward. 631 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,680 Us. So Satan is left to his fate, 632 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,840 but you and I. We're offered the hopes of 633 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:26,400 redemption. We're offered the hopes of grace 634 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,120 highlighting then in that moment. 635 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:37,880 God's. Profound love for all man kind. 636 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,360 Who were made a little. Lower than the angels. 637 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,440 What are you saying then this morning with McGee? 638 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,880 I'm saying this on this Pentecost Sunday as we depart 639 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,400 from this place. I think we should leave living 640 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,800 with confidence. That. 641 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:59,520 No matter how many times we fall, I have this promise. 642 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,960 God helps or upholds all that do. 643 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,480 I think I need to leave this place this morning embracing the 644 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,760 paradox. Of the fall, knowing that while 645 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:20,720 Satan's fall is irreversible. Our faults, nothing more, but 646 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:27,120 opportunities for God's redemption, God's restoration. 647 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:31,920 So this morning, if we can just bow our heads today, I implore 648 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:39,600 you today to trust in the Lord who helps all who fall and raise 649 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:45,640 up all those who are bowed down. It's a song of praise. 650 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:51,280 It is the memory of Satan's fall that's abundantly uttered that 651 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,240 everybody recognizes. And know that brings, if you 652 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:59,960 will, a greater light to the fact that God is helping us in 653 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,840 our failures, and God is helping us when we're overwhelmed by 654 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,480 dismay and we're overwhelmed by challenge and conflict. 655 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,840 It's the paradox of the fall. God is eager. 656 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,200 This morning, if you're sitting under the sound of my voice, 657 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,440 maybe you've experienced with being with your head bowed down. 658 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,760 Maybe if you've experienced a fall, so to speak, Amen. 659 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,720 Whether it's been recent or whether it's been long ago, God 660 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,640 upholdeth all that fall. That's your word of 661 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,280 encouragement today. That's your word of 662 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,680 encouragement today. He'll help you, Sir, ma'am, 663 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,960 He'll help you. Doesn't matter. 664 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,400 Old or young. Again, Isaiah said. 665 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,200 Even the youth faint doesn't matter. 666 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,840 It's not about our strength that say, well, this this, this 667 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,040 little, this little thing right here, this is this. 668 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,040 This is a little pinpoint or a little clue that they're not 669 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,240 gonna have that. No, you're part of the fabric of 670 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:00,640 humanity. You're gonna fall sometimes. 671 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,960 You're gonna make mistakes. You're gonna get up and gonna 672 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,680 brush yourself off and you're gonna hope that no one has seen 673 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,440 no one. No one has has been aware of any 674 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,080 of it. There may be a little sense of 675 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,880 embarrassment. But when the crowd has thinned 676 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,080 out. And it seems like no one is 677 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,600 there to help you up. There'll always be God. 678 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,920 There'll always be God. The woman even inscription New 679 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,880 Testament Bible says caught in the very act of adultery. 680 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,160 She has all these people that's going to accuse her. 681 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,560 And Christ says, well, he that is without sin, you cast the 682 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,520 first stone and from the the youngest to the oldest and Otis 683 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,000 to the youngest, they begin dropping stones and backing up. 684 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,600 And she arises and he says, where are your where are your 685 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,080 your condemners? Where are these people that 686 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,280 accused you? And she said no, Lord. 687 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,600 The the the crowd got really, really. 688 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,640 Thin but standing. There wasn't someone. 689 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,520 A man who was eager to cast a stone. 690 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,800 He was just wanting to write in some dust and send her on her 691 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,760 way with redemption and restoration. 692 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:13,520 Because he helps all that fall. Listen, he's not changed from 693 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:19,240 Genesis. He's not changed through First 694 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:23,280 Samuel, the kings with all of these different dynamics of 695 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:28,400 kingships that rose and fell. He's not different with the 696 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:34,320 Apostle Peter that denied him. He told him I have prayed for 697 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:38,240 you and when when you are strengthened, he said you're 698 00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:41,480 going to you're going to be a conversion tool for your 699 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:45,200 brethren. What are you doing, Lord, on 700 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,120 Pentecost? I want you to speak what's 701 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,040 necessary for salvation. How in the world? 702 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:57,120 Apostle Peter, can you go from denial to preacher at the birth 703 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:02,400 of the church because God helped a man who fail? 704 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,920 Sorry ma'am, he knows you. He knows what you're dealing 705 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,680 with. He knows with the bout over head 706 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,320 and the slumped over shoulders. He wants to raise you up, make 707 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,760 you to sit together in heavenly praises with Christ Jesus. 708 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,280 He's causing your adversary to endure a perpetual Amen, a fall 709 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,520 and someday a perpetual fall for 1000 years, but he's wanting to 710 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,880 lift you up today. Would someone make themselves 711 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,120 vulnerable and say, God, I surrender, here I am, Lord, lift 712 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,280 me up. God, I'm walking, but I'm still 713 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,320 dealing with pain of a fall. God, I'm walking, but I'm still 714 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,000 dealing with some of the agony and some of the accusing voices 715 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,160 of my head. Lord Jesus of being. 716 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:44,680 Bowed over. God wants to help all who fall. 717 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:46,800 Hallelujah. Can we just be mindful of him 718 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,640 right now on the closure of this service? 719 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:54,000 He's here, He's real, he's eager, he's kind, he's gracious. 720 00:47:54,440 --> 00:48:08,520 Hallelujah, Jesus. I used to be a prisoner. 721 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,440 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 722 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,600 information about our services and activities, you can find us 723 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:22,480 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the username FACMC. 724 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,880 Again, that's FACMC. Thank you and have a blessed 725 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:27,120 day.