I'm back to your tensions Book of Matthew.
The 21st chapter. This is a very unique chapter,
very unique circumstance that Jesus is again been faced with
those who are opposing him. You know, the life of Jesus can
be chronologically divided into approximately 200 events.
It depends on who's doing it but usually it's he upper 181 90s if
different events in the life of Our Lord.
The one I use is 212 different events of give and take 200
events. This event right here, is what
we're going to talk about tonight.
Matthew 21, please, let's begin at verse 23.
Now, I'll be reading from the new King James version, Matthew
21, In verse 23. Now, when Jesus came into the
temple, the chief priests, and the Elders of the people
confronting him as he was teaching and said by, what
Authority are you doing these things?
And who gave you this Authority? But Jesus said unto them, I also
will ask you one thing, which if you would tell me I also would
tell you by what Authority I do these things.
The baptism of John Where was it from from heaven or from men and
they reasoned among themselves. Saying, if we say from Heaven,
he will say to us. Why did you not then believe
him? But if we should say, from Men,
We Fear the multitude for all, hold John as a prophet.
So they answered Jesus and said we do not know And he said unto
them, neither will I tell you by what Authority I do these
things. This story is a very masterful
piece of assistance to help me and you to grow spiritually to
make sure that our name is truly written in the Lamb's Book of
Life. If we will yield to the Lord's
and changing hand, it is a magnificent story because we
find Jesus once again standing out of II and Toad and toe and
dealing with those who opposed him.
Now if you will find very few people today who will say, I
oppose Jesus like she did in the day that he lived on this Earth,
but bother actions, they oppose Jesus.
They want to change the way he did things.
And this reading Matthew 21, 23 to 27, these Chief priests, and
these Elders. They've been brought in a
variety of ways to try to get Jesus and trick him.
Get him to say something that they would have just cause to
crucify him. So this time is interesting how
many different times they've tried but this time they asked
him they said the chief priests and the Elders of sitting there
by what Authority do you do these things and who gave you
this Authority? Now I want you to know today,
that's not a bad question. Another one of those by what
Authority and he gave you this Authority.
And I encourage everyone here to keep those questions.
These four questions that we learn in Matthew 21, 23 to 27,
closing your heart and on the tip of your tongue.
That's a great way of having a discussion about of what what
Authority do you do these things and who gave you that Authority
when Jesus was not To answer their question, he could easily
answer their question. However, He chose to use another
approach. He's Auntie what I do boys.
I will ask you a question. You answer mine, I'll answer
yours now. Jesus did that quite a bit
during his ministry whenever you read and study the life of the
Lord and you studied in chronological event or you just
read it through, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
And you take take special attention to notice how many
times. He has questioned numerous of
times. He returned to question with a
question. And Jesus said I want to ask you
a question and your lab sir mind, I'll answer yours, he said
the baptism of John which is a prevailing teaching of the day,
the baptism of John. Where did it come from?
Did it come from heaven or did it come from me?
Again a very good question. They for question by what
Authority who gave you this Authority?
Is it from heaven or in the from men is really a strong approach
And discussing with what nearly any topic from a Biblical basis.
What are the chief priests and the elders were stunned.
By the Lord's response. They had to get over here and
kind of have a little huddle and tried to discuss what we can do
with that. You know, what's going to
happen. If we say it is from Heaven, he
will say, why did you not obey him?
That's what he's going to take. You don't want to go to say, you
can say, why didn't you do it? Why don't you obey him?
If it's from heaven. And another gentleman no doubt
would have said but if we say it from man, look at all these
people, this monster to young people.
They're likely to take our life and do us damage.
We just gonna have to go out there and more or less played
the fifth and just simply say we don't know.
That's what conclusion of their little huddle.
So they go back to Jesus and they said, we can't tell they
knew well and good. The answer to their the
question, the Lord asked and he said, well, myth until are you
but why don't thority I do these things.
It is very interesting. That Jesus knew exactly how to
be to show these Chief priests and these Elders to show them up
and show. They were not been honest this
month to the people they need the baptism of John they knew
where it came from but these people rather say we don't know
than to give the true and honest answer.
He knew they were not honest therefore why did he do?
He showed they were not honest before For the people, that is a
great story and a great event. Jesus had to be on his toes
every step of the way in his preaching and his teaching
during his ministry. During his entire 33 years on
this Earth, people are always trying to tempt him trick him, a
put him into a bind and he was red and every occasion.
It is so wonderful to read the life of Our Lord, in the four
gospels and the see how it is that he won.
Every time someone confronted him the new King James version
use the word they confronted him.
Confrontation is not very nice. We don't enjoy being confronted.
Oh, but Jesus had to do it day in and day out he had to be on
his toes. But he was a man of God, he was
the son of the almighty. God, he was coming to preserve
us a way that we can reach eternal life.
In heaven, he was tempted in all points like where you are yet
without sin. He preached many great sermons.
He gave many rape Parables. He did many great Miracles.
He my dear friend prayed many prayers and he gained a a
watchful eye and people wanted to go with him and wherever he
would go there be a crowd of people wanted to follow him and
time, teachers had to escape the crowd for a little while.
Maybe just take a breather. Jesus had a mission and his
mission was, I want to save the people from their sins.
Matthew 1 and verse 21. I just absolutely personally,
adore, the opportunity of reading these events in the life
of Jesus and see how he responded to people who were his
adversaries. Christian friends.
Listen, you're going to have adversaries in this life.
They're gonna laugh at you and time to make fun of you.
You go to church every night for all a whole week.
You're going to go to church every Sunday, you're not gonna
miss any. I mean, you go 51 times a year
and you're going to make yourself.
I forgot about 50. Second time of the year, you
can't take me on vacation and not go to church if you're gone
on Sunday and people will laugh at you.
They'll make fun of you but you stand proud, not proud in a bad
way but you stand up being very distinguished and very
committed, I'm following Jesus, he Gave his all for me.
I'm going to give my all to him. It is so wonderful.
So wonderful to see how Jesus responded.
We can learn a lot from that. Now I want to tell you why I
want everybody here to remember to memorize things for
questions. They're not hard by what
Authority who gave you this Authority in the from heaven
from man, nearly any Bible topics you want to talk about in
a home study? With your friends, family
community Prospect, you can talk with them and you can get to
Matthew 21, 23 to 25 and when you get there, you can begin it.
By what Authority who gave you this Authority from heaven or
from men. I love it.
When people ask me about what Authority do you do?
What you do? Now that may worded differently,
they want basically know why do you do what you do?
Now so what I'm glad you asking and if you don't mind I like to
ask you the same thing by what Authority.
Do you do, what you do? Oh, whether you're talking about
singing, whether you're talking about the communion, whether
you're talking about preaching their rooms in the scriptures,
they're teaching in the New Testament where by, we want to
submit ourselves to and we want to make sure that what we do.
We have Authority for it. We want to make sure we have the
authority from heaven, from the word of God.
We want to make sure it's from And not from Men.
The majority of the religious world today, follows the
teaching, a man rather than teaching the Came From Heaven,
yet the Bible said and Proverbs 3 verse 5 Solomon, who wrote
this great book and this is indeed a great book.
When you think of Proverbs, most people think of proverbs 31 and
it is indeed a wonderful chapter about a virtuous woman.
But at this time, it's look at Proverbs 3 and verse Five.
The Bible said, trust in the Lord, lay not to your own
understanding. Now, let's not puts us all in
place. Trust in the Lord do not lean to
whatever you think, what you think.
And what I think does not make something right or wrong while
makes it right or wrong is by what Authority who gave you that
Authority in the from Heaven's? It from me, that's make
something right or wrong. Now, if you had written the
Bible, guess what you would have written it differently than what
the Lord and through the apostles.
And the Holy Spirit, did I would have written it differently.
I was sure. Are you but guess what?
You didn't? I didn't.
It is through the mighty will of God, and his Majestic plan that
the holy scriptures are written. By the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit. It teaches us, everything we
need to know in our spiritual life.
How to worship what we should believe all the great truths of
scripture and we should be so excited to follow it.
We can always go back to these four questions and we can always
go to Proverbs and we can learn. Listen, it's not what I want the
matter. That's why does the Lord want?
And we've got to have that heart.
The heart that said is what the Lord wants.
That's what matters. It's not what I want.
I'm a would have done things differently.
I know I would have and you would have.
But listen, we are Servants of the Lord Almighty.
We're yielding to, his unchanging hand.
You know, we used to sing a song and it's been a long time that I
remember it being in one of our selling books yield not to
Temptation for yielding is sin. So many times we we read and we
study And we leaned over to the way of the world and we yield to
Temptation This song said that so well and some of you may have
never heard that song but but most of us my age around.
We've heard it. Will you scared all the time?
Preachers used to preach on it and really made us think do not
yield to Temptation for yielding is sin.
Dear friend, I want you to make sure that in your life in your
worship, wherever you may be move off to and attend a an
assembly somewhere else. You make sure that is a faithful
congregation that if worshipping by the authority of the Lord
Jesus Christ, their worship about things that came from
heaven and not from man, they're trusting in the Lord and not
their own. Now, Proverbs 16 and 25 is very
similar to Proverbs 3 & 5 is It's worded a little bit
differently but it says the same basic truth and Proverbs 16.
And 25 Solomon, said the following He said there is a way
that seems right unto man, but the end thereof is the way of
death. so, I understand if we engage and we embrace the way of
man, We're not going to be saved.
Our name is nothing to say written in the Lamb's Book of
Life. Our name is going to be blotted
out. If you want to make sure your
name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, you know, the what the
Lord wants. And you do not yield a man's
way. Men and women have managed to
start a great number. 138 thousands of different religious
organizations. Every item of worship has been
changed the singing, the prayers, the communion, the
contribution. The teaching, all of that has
been changed by man, not by God. But by man, It is amazing.
How people embrace the ways of man rather than staying true to
the word of God? I do not understand.
I do realize that some people are deceived by smooth and fair
speeches. They're deceived because people
are very persuasive and what they teach?
I ask of you to take your word of God with you and keep it
close. Ladies, keep it in your purse.
Keep it in the car and keep it handy, man.
Keep it in your pocket. Keep it in your glove box of
your car. Keep it in your desk, at work,
whatever your circumstances. Keep it handy.
And when someone has an opportunity, and they ask you a
question, but ready to pull it out and say, well, here's what
the Bible says. Says, or simply what does the
Bible say about that? You know, I love it.
When people say, how do you really believe whatever?
I guess, you know what? I'm dealing with you, it doesn't
matter what I believe, but that doesn't make it right or doesn't
make it wrong. What matters is what the
scriptures teach. That's what makes it right or
wrong. Now it matters what I believe as
far as obeying the will of God, but I can say is wrong but that
doesn't make it wrong. What makes it wrong is?
If it violates the will of God, I can say.
It's right, that doesn't make it right.
Unless it's supported by book chapter and verse in scripture
and that is his thought and the message.
We need to leave with people we have to play.
Seized along the way. Give them food for thought and
my dear friends, listen, Matthew 21, 23 to 27 establishes, by
what Authority, and this little story.
And those few verses teach volumes of lessons that will
help people get committed to serving the lord.
And that's what it's all about. To make sure that our name is
really written in heaven. Well, you know, when you go down
to John 8, verse 31, 32 Jesus, Preaching, one of his masterful
messages, he said in John 8:31-32.
He said, if you continue in my word, Then are you my disciples?
And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set.
You free share with your friends, share with your family.
Make sure you yield to the things that are true and you
will be saved. If if Jesus said if you continue
in my word then are you my disciples and you shall know the
truth and the truth shall set you free if they condition a
word. And the condition that you
continue in my word, then you're my disciple and you will know
the truth and the truth will set you free.
My dear friends, you know, your life better than I do.
You don't have to try to persuade me.
You're right, you need to know within yourself, you're right.
And you're right before God Almighty, and you can know that
if you continue following his word, if you continue in my
word, Jesus said, then you're my disciple.
Now, I'll tell you something. If you're not following his
word, you're not a faithful disciple.
Now that Might Sting but that is the truth.
You there such a thing as the Bible talks about blotted out
your name out of the Lamb's Book of Life, how terrible it would
be for you to have salvation in the palm of your hand.
I wanted to let it just drift away and get away from you
because Satan is put something before you that you've chosen to
yield to my new friends. Stay faithful to the end all the
way to the end, eternal life. Your home.
Well, you know, as you continue to think, I don't want to follow
men. You look at John 14 and verse 6
and Jesus made it abundantly clear.
No ifs, no ands, no buts. Jesus said in John 14 verse 6 at
this location. Speaking to his Apostles, he
said I want you to know, I am the way.
I am the truth, I am the life. No man comes to the father but
by me Me. Wow, that's a powerful passage.
I love John 14, John 15 and John 16 where Jesus is talking to his
Apostles and he was really consoling them you know.
As a matter of fact if you take a look at John 14 verses 1
through 3. Those are the passengers you
here at many or most funerals. And it's vital to haven't used
had a funeral but the occasion that it was given with Jesus
consoling, his Apostles about his departure, what Jesus said
to them, let not your heart be troubled.
Do you believe in God believe? Also in me in my father's house,
he said there are many mansions. If it were not so I would have
told you, I go to prepare your place and if I go, I will come
again that where I am there. You may be also Don't you know
that automatically right off the bat?
Relax, the apostles. They were very alarmed in that
kind of upset because Jesus and said I'm going to leave and
there's only very few verses that he said, I'm the way I am
the truth. I am the life you stay following
me and heaven will be your home and John 17.
He prayed for those Apostles, I mentioned, I love reading John
14, John 15, and John 16. Those are three chapters for the
Lord is consoling. His fossils about his departure
and then and John 17. He praised, he praised the
mighty prayer and if many of your Bibles will have
subheadings Some version was say, Jesus prayed for himself.
Geez, the pray for his current of disciple mean an apostle and
then Jesus prayed for future Apostle, our future disciples
but someone worded differently, but he, if you break that prayer
into three categories, he began for praying for himself.
He begins with O Father. Glorify, thou me with thine own
self, which I had with thee before the world was Verse 5,
wow. Jesus said I'm ready to come
home. Dad, I'm ready to come home.
Father, I want to be with you. I wanted to be like he was
between me and you before the world was I'm ready to come
back. He was nearing his death and is
ready. John 17 is truly The Lord's
Prayer. Many people like to go over to
Matthew 6, verse 9 through 13. Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed, be thy name. Great passage of scripture and
they said, that's the Lord's Prayer.
And in school, I'm back in our days, in school back before you,
you couldn't have a Bible and you couldn't have prayer.
We recited that prayer every morning.
Stood up, we had to stand up beside our desk and we would
recite that every morning and it wasn't a Christian School to the
puppet School. And then we would salute the
flag, and that's just kind of a morning routine.
My dear friends, listen times have changed, and you just can't
hardly do that anymore, not without some difficulty, but I
love it. When I know that people are
still staying the course and talking to people about
spiritual things. Well, in John 17 verse 20 and 21
when Jesus was praying for The Apostle and fourteen fifteen
sixteen, he spoke words of comfort and then pray to God
Almighty for his Apostles. He said I pray that you'll all
be one as thou art with me. I want you to be one.
He said I want my future disciple, the Hue.
And that is me that we're one that will tell you what a church
unified is priceless. Total Priceless a church in
constant disarray constant fussing and fighting and feuding
and people mad at somebody for this, that of the other for
doing something or not doing something on and on it goes that
can be disruptive to the growth and the maturity of a
congregation. Everybody get ahold of this now.
Jesus, I pray that all the future decide would be one.
Just not the father and the son are one.
When tell you something, however, you whatever number you
place on your membership. However, number it is, that's
the number is great. I won't tell you sir, every
member men and women, Boys and girls.
Everybody. It is their duty to promote
peace and Harmony in the church. It takes everybody in the
congregation to have the Oneness that Jesus talked about in John
17. And do you know what it takes on
a one person to file that up only one person, somebody got up
on the wrong side of the bed and they going to take it out on
somebody else and and here they go.
Mouthing off and popping off and making somebody feel terrible.
And then you've dominoed one down to two and then it goes to
3 to 4 and then people began to take sides and and he just
Begins to go downhill fast. It takes everybody to be
peaceful and provide Harmony. One person is all it takes to
create a division or problem. My friends, don't you ever dare
become that one person? Keep your name written in the
Book of Life. Keep your name written in heaven
and make sure that you are not responsible for a problem Jesus.
Pray that the Apostle will be one.
He prayed for future. Disciple would be one.
Let's continue on here first rather than one of her sin.
Wow. And this passage of scripture,
the Apostle Paul is writing a troubled congregation The
congregation a car rent. And before we thump on them too
much, let us understand that church and car.
Rent was a newly established congregation.
It was in a town of 600. Current thousand people over a
half. A million people made up the
city of car rent. And there are a bunch of
different cultures within that, but they didn't have not have a
church that did not have a faith for congregation.
And what Paul said, I'm a rotten heart of there and I'm going to
stab his church, they need the Lord.
And the first Trend in chapter 1, after Paul had established,
this great work, you can read about that in Acts 18, we're not
take the time to do that right now, they wrote them a letter
and there was division in the grouping.
There's much. I can preach about First
Corinthians. What would you can?
Look at verse 10. if you're with me first thing the 110 this is a
powerful passage now I beseech you therefore brethren In the
name of the Lord, Jesus Christ that you all speak, the same
thing. Get a hold of that same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be
perfectly joined together and the same mind and in the same
judgment. Now, if you write in your Bible,
you might want to underline the same thing.
Underline, no division. Underlying perfectly joined
together. Underlying saying, mind
underlying science saying judgment, that one verse is
power packed. It really helps us to
understand. This is what the Lord's will is.
It takes effort, genuine effort, it takes love and commitment to
the Lord to do that and then all throughout First Corinthians.
You know, First Corinthian is One of the most practical books
of the New Testament. Really first strengthen, and
James are considered to be the most to to most practical verse
in the Bible. It does your problem and a
solution, problem and solution. All the way through 1st
Corinthians problem and solution.
And it's wonderful, but and preach out of is either.
But to breach out of I've held gospel meeting where every
sermon wasn't first strengths and where you went, you know,
situation by situation and learn what we could.
And reminded that a problem here with their solution.
If we have that problem, we need the same solution Today, in
order to fulfill that prayer that Jesus, pray, we need to be
of the same mind. The same Accord, the same
judgment, and we need to really follow that now.
Second Corinthians 13 and verse 5, the Apostle Paul wrote The
Church of Corinth. First Corinthians, 16 chapters
second Corinthians, 13 chapter. That's 29 chapters.
He wrote to the Church of car rent.
Now these letters were separate for shrimp is Sacrament.
The mm by the wasn't long after he wrote.
First one that wrote the second one.
But he said in Chapter 13 Verse 5, which is the very last
chapter of sankranthi and he said, examine yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith, prove yourself know yourself how
Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobate.
The word reprobate, simply means unable to stand or passed the
test. Examine yourself.
Prepare yourself, know yourself. Listen, you've got to examine
yourself and know yourself, prove yourself OPP, just get all
wrinkled up. She's anyway, you got to prove
yourself. People.
Don't like that. But, you know what?
The Bible talks about that you need to take an inventory of
your life. Examine it.
Prove it and know yourself. You know what before you can
really ever really know yourself.
Self. You've got exactly himself and
prove yourself. Then you can really know
yourself. All right.
Second, Peter 2, verse 1. Now we can turn to a another
thought of what happens. When people follow men.
Let's look at second Peter 2 1 and then when go to First Char
and 4 verse 1 and revelation 22 and I want to just simply show
you that the Lord addressed the fact that he was fully aware of
the fact and second They're 21. They're be false prophets out
there, he was. So, there should be false
teachers among you second, Peter, 2 wine.
And in first sign for one there to be false Spirits out there
and revelation 22 verse 2. There will be false Apostles,
even during the day of the writing of John, he said to the
church at Ephesus, there's false apostles who claim to be
Apostles that or not. And found those men to be Liars.
My dear friends, you've got to stand up and be firm.
You've got to stand up and get a dust at the Lord, however,
rugged or however, a smooth, a person, maybe and explaining
whatever they want to explain you.
Put you compare to book chapter verse in the Bible.
I love it. When people ask me, why don't
you do this a lot to say, well, because of the authority given
to us by the Lord. And it's from Heaven is not from
man. Man, I love taking them right
back to Matthew 21, many question.
I believe I could say most questions, people asked, I would
go to Matthew 21 and let's turn over here.
Let me show you. You go to Matthew 21 and
established by what Authority and who gave you this Authority.
I've got several lessons that when I'm preaching on
establishing Bible Authority and such like I'm a began here but
then I take off down another path and and Can you own show on
the importance of scripture but that's not what this meeting is
designed to do and so tonight will be the only lesson on that.
Well where do people go? If they don't follow Heaven,
that is God. And Jesus, and they go to
following man. Many people say, well let all of
that. My current just be my God.
All right, look at that. 23 verse.
Okay, let's take a look at that because what people say today,
you've heard it, you've heard it.
Most of you've all heard it. If you've been involved in
personal work at all, you've heard it.
People saying we'll listen it doesn't hurt my conscience at
all or do this or do that. The Apostle, Paul wrote these
words and Paul lagrone heard about Paul I should say and Paul
earnestly at 23, verse one right here.
Here that's 23 verse 1 and Paul earnestly beholding the capsule.
He said men and Brethren. I have lived in all good
conscience before God until this day.
Wow, if you take time to read out 23, you see Paul standing
before the council defending himself.
He said, I want you to know I've lived in all good conscience but
he's going to betray him to them how he has sinned.
How he was wrong. Listen.
Just because something does not bother your conscience does not
mean it's okay. It doesn't mean that at all, you
know why, the Bible talks about it?
And first 10242 that people can have their conscience seared
with a hot iron Them tell you something.
Now, this is very pointed, very direct but I'm going to say it
because this needs to be heard and you need to be reminded of
this. I'm sure you've heard it before,
but you need to be reminded of this and I do too, if you commit
a sin, whatever that sin is something you say, something you
do places, you go, whatever the sin is the first time you do it.
I mean, they just all managers hurt your conscious and
something terribly. But the next time it's not quite
as bad, the third time, not near as bad, and that's saying the
new. I could commit that sin and it
doesn't bother me anymore. That's when you get really
scared. Because I can commit sin, I can
lie and they don't bother me anymore.
I can be immoral and that doesn't bother me anymore
because I've done it so much. Whenever you get to the point
that you commit sin and it doesn't bother you anymore.
My dear friends, you better get your ducks in order.
Are you going to go to hell? It is a problem and it's a
problem. We've got to come to grips with
just two called the death of all that your conscious doesn't mean
God has said, oh good boy a good girl, know if you can commit a
sin and it doesn't bother you. You've got to stand up, and let
the devil know you're not going to take me to hell.
I'm going to follow Jesus and I want to repent of my sin.
I'm going to confess my faults and I'm going to have prayer.
I'm a member of the family of God, I want my name right back.
I can Outlast bugs of life. I want my name written in heaven
and I'm going to turn my back on.
Satan. I'm turn my back on sin.
I'm turning my back on evil and I'm going to press on So, I
asked if you examine yourself, like we've already read and make
sure you don't have sin in your life that you think.
I'm just going to pretend it's not there.
No, no. You got to get rid of it, get
rid of it. Okay, some people.
So, I want to just follow the religion, my forefathers, my
parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents and whoever
You know, the Apostle Paul laid out so abundantly, clear and
Jesus. Did Jesus said in John Ford, 23
and 24. Paul did, and Galatians 1 and 14
showing the other religion of your forefathers is okay, if it
was okay, but if it was not okay, you got to make a change
when Paul and Grayson 114, he talked about how the religion of
his forefathers, what he was doing Paul was not intending to
be mean spirited when they put Steve in the death or assisted
in that, that's the first record we have a Paul.
He was known as Saul acts 7 + 58.
When they were stoning Stephen to death, they laid their coats
out of young man's feet back. 758 whose name was Saul.
That's the first time we find him, mentioned in the New
Testament. That's all later.
Became the Apostle Paul and he said he's, I've lived in all
Good conscience before God until this day.
But once he saw the light, literally saw the light and Acts
chapter 9, or did he ever make a change?
And he was so quick to say, Lord, what we have me to do.
He was ready not to follow the religion of it for fathers by
default of God. I want you to know today, you
need to believe what you believe because you know the Bible
teaches that Be thankful to your father in Heaven.
If you were raised in a Christian home, someone took the
introducing you to tell you the truth of the young person and
you obey the gospel. Stay the course to you and our
assembly who are first generation Christians.
And by that I mean your parents and your grandparents and maybe
Aunts Uncles, nieces and nephew. They're not members of the
Lord's church but you are congratulations.
You've taken a difficult path but you where you ought to be in
the Lord's Church. And he's done, always easy
because your family may want to go do this or do that.
You said well I can but I'll be home before on be home for the
Lord, stay on to be home for worship.
You can always follow the religion of your family, is the
religion of your family strong. Paul was Paul, the Apostle was
an educated man. He was so educating.
He was educated under doctor Gamaliel, who the doctor of the
law? But he was a wise man.
And when he found out his wrong, he saw quick ways to change
that. The religion, the majority old
man. That's what some people want.
Especially if their business medical doctors, I've heard
medical doctor said, well, I go to the church Downtown, you
know, the big whatever XYZ church because that's where the
business is. He can draw businesses way.
We had one telling us that before, that's why I go there.
Jesus let me make known just cause majorities do.
It does not make it right. Most people be lost.
Few people be saved, Matthew 7:13 and 14.
Oh many people follow Creed books, and catechisms and other
writings of, man. I don't follow who rises from
God. In Matthew 15 verse 9.
In Colossians 2 verse 21 in Isaiah 55, verse 8, and verse 9.
It teaches you that. Any other writers is not in the
writings of God. Touch not taste not handle or
not. Isaiah said my thoughts are not
your thoughts. Neither are your ways.
My ways saith the Lord as the heavens are higher than the
earth. So are my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Don't follow man, that's your deal.
Do not follow man. Feel free to always ask.
Whoever the brother is is teaching.
You know, if there's some point that's made that you have never
heard before or you want to think about About.
After the book chapter verse and make sure you stay true to the
scriptures. We're establishing.
What is the authority Who Came From Above?
Jesus Christ, is the solution. You remember that question and
are attached by what Authority do you do these things and who
gave you that authority? Jesus said in Matthew 28 and 18.
All authority is given to me in heaven and in Earth.
That wasn't hard for the Lord of answered, but he knew at that
moment, he needed to take a different approach.
John 12:48 the words that I have spoken, they're going to judge
you in the last day, you know, in your Bible.
Read it study it obey, it being a student of the word.
You may just read a few verses each day.
But met at the Bible says, meditate upon them because in
the final day, we're going to be judged was written in this book.
We're going to be judged by that, and if your name is
written, in the Lamb's Book of Life, if your name is written in
heaven, it's because you've obey this word, if you Nah baby, it's
not there. I ask you today.
Please consider your Eternal Soul of where you are.
Are you ready to meet your maker if today were then to the world
would Heaven be your home of Jesus?
Say to you, I'm sorry, but the part, I don't know.
You depart for me. I've never known you.
Oh, how sad of Warriors that is. But on the flip side well done
thou good and faithful servant you've been wise over a few
things and I'll make you ruler over many things.
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
I love that. But let me tell you what?
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
The only way to ever hear that. It should be a good and faithful
servant. It's overweight ever hear it?
You're never hear. Jesus.
Say, well, he's a good old boy. Go ahead and say it.
No, no, you've got to be good and faithful to stay in the
Lamb's Book of Life. If you're ready to meet your
maker, God bless you. And if you're not get right
tonight, you've heard the word today.
Believe it. Repent of your sin to confess a
beautiful name of Jesus. I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God. Be buried in baptism, washes
away, your sins. The Lord added to the church
daily, such as should be saved. We thank you for listening to
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