1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800 The verses we read in your hearing before. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,100 Our prayer are really pretty amazing and I suppose that could 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:10,900 be said of all of the Bible, but I think this is especially true 4 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:15,900 because in this case the Apostle Begins by instructing us to seek 5 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,100 those things which are above now. 6 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:22,800 That's pretty commonly given advice even today, just about 7 00:00:22,808 --> 00:00:26,100 all of our teachers and certainly all the preachers are 8 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:29,800 always instructing us and Advising us to seek those. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,600 Those things which are above and to be less worldly minded to be 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,100 less physical minded to be more concerned, with spiritual 11 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:41,500 things, rather than things that are carnal things, our affection 12 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:45,700 is in fact to be on spiritual things rather than on physical 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:48,300 matters. In fact, you can give yourself a 14 00:00:48,308 --> 00:00:51,800 little bit of a test to find out whether or not you are spiritual 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,300 in nature or carnal or I mean by carnal worldly in verse 9, the 16 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:59,800 Apostle tells us not to be Liars. 17 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:05,000 Why do you suppose he said that? Well, because we have put off 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,100 the old man, the old sinful, man, with his deeds. 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,600 And in addition to that, Jesus said, in Revelation, 21, and 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,400 verse 8, that all liars shall have their part in the lake 21 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,500 which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second 22 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,100 death. So there are two very good 23 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,400 reasons for us. Not to be Liars if we are 24 00:01:25,408 --> 00:01:28,200 carnal. However, we might be tempted to 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,100 be that way in verse In verse 10 of this chapter, Paul reminds us 26 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:36,800 that we are new men now. And in this new condition, 27 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,700 physical matters and physical differences. 28 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,900 Sort of disappear and we're know. 29 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:46,200 We're no longer interested whether or not one maybe a Greek 30 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:51,200 or whether one may be a Jew. Now, that's nothing to us in 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,300 America. We really and truly don't care. 32 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:58,800 Whether somebody is a Greek or whether or not one is a Jew, but 33 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,600 in those days in Bible days. And in that part of the world, 34 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:06,100 those two different nationalities did indeed make a 35 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,300 difference because the Jews looked upon everybody. 36 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:14,500 Other than Jews, as, as, as hated and despised Gentiles, 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,300 they really were looked upon as somebody very little better off 38 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:23,000 than a dog maybe. And so Paul is showing that 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,100 whatever your nationality, whatever your race, whatever, 40 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,800 part of the country you are from that really, no. 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,600 Longer matters now, since you are Christ and since since you 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,700 belong to Christ and since you are seeking those things, which 43 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:41,000 are above because after all the old Jewish religion, the old 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,200 religion that made a difference whether or not one was One race 45 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:48,100 or another. That religion is no more, Jesus 46 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:50,900 nailed that law to the Cross, according to the colossian 47 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,900 letter, and it doesn't, it's not affecting us anymore. 48 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,800 He goes on to tell us that circumcision is unimportant. 49 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,600 This was an Really difficult thing. 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,400 For most of those people to believe circumcision had been 51 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,600 imported for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. 52 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,700 It went back to the original Covenant between God and 53 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:14,200 Abraham. But now, Paul said it isn't 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,500 important anymore and he said, it doesn't even matter that one 55 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,600 is. So Savage asked to be called a 56 00:03:19,608 --> 00:03:24,300 barbarian, or even a scythian, which was I'm told even more 57 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:29,800 considered, even more barbarous, than, than any other kind of a 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Barbarian. Why is this also will because of 59 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,400 Christ. He is all and in all and that's 60 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,700 just kind of another way of maybe a loftier way of saying 61 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:45,200 that Jesus Christ is everything to everyone and so no matter who 62 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,100 you are, no matter where you're from, no matter what your race 63 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:54,400 or nationality is Jesus. Christ is all and in all he is 64 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,100 everything to everyone, no matter our color or whatever we 65 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:04,200 might be In between something Christ is all that matters and 66 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,900 Paul says he is everything to everyone. 67 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,800 What I want to mention some things this morning some things 68 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,000 that undoubtedly some of you have perhaps thought about it's 69 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,200 nothing new. Well, let me begin at the 70 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,100 obvious beginning place and say that to me, when I think of 71 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:25,100 Jesus Christ, I think of Jesus Christ as our savior, that's the 72 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:26,900 obvious beginning place, isn't it? 73 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,600 You know, I, one of my very favorite New Testament. 74 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,800 Stories is found in the 19th Chapter of Luke, the first 10 75 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,300 chapters there, I think this really if you were to take the 76 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:42,300 Bible and go from cover to cover, I don't think you could 77 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:44,800 find the mission of Jesus Christ. 78 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:50,700 Exemplified more clearly than In this passage, this is what he 79 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:54,100 was all about. Now, when Jesus was in this 80 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:57,000 world, he very often went from one place to the other. 81 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,600 And on this particular day, he had entered and passed through 82 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,600 the city of Jericho as they went out on the other side of town. 83 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,200 And they came to a tree out yonder somewhere where a 84 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Publican a tax collector and this fellow was the chief of the 85 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,900 publicans that is he was the boss or the top collector. 86 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,600 I suppose you would say of all of them, he had heard that Jesus 87 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,300 was to come that way. Now, that's interesting in and 88 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:28,500 of itself, whether or not you were a believer of Jesus and 89 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:31,000 that time was of really little consequence. 90 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,800 Because whether or not you were a follower or It you would have 91 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,400 just about had to been living in a cave somewhere not to have 92 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,000 heard about him and not to have been aware that. 93 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,600 Here was indeed a great great man, who was able to do things 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,800 that no other ordinary man could do Zacchaeus had heard about 95 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,400 him. He had gone ahead because 96 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,800 someone said Jesus is to pass this way and so he climbed up 97 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,000 into a sycamore tree and I'm told that the Sycamore then was 98 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,500 not the same kind of Sycamore as we. 99 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:08,100 No today it was a different kind of a tree, but at any rate, 100 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:12,200 Zacchaeus had climbed up a tree and there he sat, and I've 101 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,000 always just supposed that perhaps he was somewhat secreted 102 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,500 up there among the foliage. Hoping perhaps to sit up there. 103 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:24,800 Unseen and watch this great personage as he was to pass that 104 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,000 way. By and by Along Came Jesus. 105 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,400 And I suspect there were some who were taught traveling, or 106 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:37,000 walking with him. As they came near the tree Jesus 107 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,800 stopped and looked up into that tree and said Zacchaeus now 108 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,000 think of this. He calls the man's name. 109 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,100 Never saw him never heard of him as far as we know. 110 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:50,400 But he said, Zacchaeus make haste and come down for today. 111 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,300 I must abide at thy house, the old preachers used to preach 112 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:57,300 sermons called when Jesus goes home with a man. 113 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,600 And on this particular day, Jesus went home with Zacchaeus, 114 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:06,800 at least we assume he did. He said he was Do and certainly 115 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,400 a great great change. Came in Zacchaeus life that day. 116 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,600 He said, make haste and come down for today. 117 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,400 I must abide at thy house and Zacchaeus did come down and he 118 00:07:17,407 --> 00:07:20,200 stood before the Lord. And you talked about a noble 119 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,400 confession, he said, Lord the half of my goods, I give to the 120 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,300 poor and if I have taken anything from any man by false 121 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,500 accusation, I restore him fourfold. 122 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,700 Now, let me just stop and say something. 123 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 I don't know what kind of a Publican zakia's was. 124 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,300 There are some Scholars who believe that Zacchaeus Was A 125 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:47,400 Good Man and that may very well. Be the case I wouldn't argue 126 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:51,100 with that but I'm also told that it was a common practice for 127 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:55,800 publicans to extort about four times more than the taxes. 128 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,700 They were owed from their Jewish Brethren and if they could learn 129 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:05,400 anything about you, that was unsavory, something that would 130 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,600 be embarrassing. Something you didn't want told 131 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,600 they would extract many times more than that in order for you 132 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,100 to keep their mouths. Shut. 133 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,500 Well, now it is you don't have to be a rocket scientist to 134 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,800 figure out why that the publicans were despised and 135 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,200 hated by just about everybody because when you saw the public 136 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,500 and coming you had to, you better grab on to your wallet 137 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:30,600 because it was going to be a good bit lighter when he got 138 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,799 through with you. Well, Zacchaeus makes this 139 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,799 confession and he said, if I have taken anything from any man 140 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,500 by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. 141 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:42,700 I'm gonna give him four times more back than what I took. 142 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,400 And Jesus said, and get this. Now, Jesus said this day is 143 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:53,500 salvation come to this house for so much as he also is a son of 144 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:58,900 Abraham. and then in verse 10 he said, for the son of man is come 145 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:05,600 to seek and to save that which was lost I want to tell you, 146 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:09,800 there is no verse in the Bible that more clearly expresses, the 147 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,000 mission of Jesus Christ than that one. 148 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,900 That's why he came. He came to make a better way. 149 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:22,600 He came to make it possible for folks like us and even this 150 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,900 Publican who may have been guilty of taking things by false 151 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:29,200 accusation, but he came to make it possible for folks who are 152 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,000 fault ridden Mortals to stand before, God, free of sin and 153 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,400 inherit Heaven forever. So, when I think of Jesus 154 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:43,000 Christ, I think of the obvious beginning place, That Jesus is 155 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,300 our savior. you think what a great person is Jesus must have 156 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:53,100 been To have been considered and chosen by the father to become 157 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,500 the head of the church in Ephesians 5 and verse 23. 158 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:59,600 The Apostle said, for the husband is the head of the wife 159 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,700 even as Christ is the head of the church. 160 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:03,400 And he is the savior of the body. 161 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,800 Now, in that passage the Apostle Paul, of course, said some 162 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,100 things that are very much applicable today as far as 163 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,300 husbands and wives were concerned, but make no mistake 164 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:19,600 the context, or there or the import and the thrust of that 165 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,400 that statement was to show that Jesus Christ is the head. 166 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:26,900 The one who has the power to govern the church, he is King 167 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:29,500 Jesus. And so this indicates the kind 168 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:33,000 of personage grand personage that heaven considered him to 169 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,200 be. No wonder that Paul says that 170 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:39,900 Our conversation or our way of life is to be from above, or to 171 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,500 be from heaven, in Philippians 3, and verse 20, he said, for 172 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,300 our conversation is in heaven. That just literally means our 173 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:52,000 way of life, our manner of life, and that's almost always the way 174 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,600 the word conversation is used in the King James version. 175 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,300 Our conversation is in heaven. From whence also, we look for 176 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,200 the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 177 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,000 Philippians 3, verse 20, here's something else that you may not 178 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,900 have considered. And that is that in this passage 179 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:12,800 is found inspired affirmation to all Jews, as well as everyone 180 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,300 else that the Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ are one and 181 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:19,700 the same man. No question about it. 182 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:24,700 He is the Messiah, he is the savior John said of Jesus. 183 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:29,400 In first, John four and verse 14 and we have seen and do testify 184 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:33,800 that the father sent the son to be the savior of the world. 185 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:36,900 There you are, you Don't get any higher than that. 186 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:40,000 And so the Jews who are still looking for the Messiah to come 187 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,700 our away Yonder too late and looking for that because way 188 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:47,200 back Yonder in all of those early days, both the Apostle 189 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,700 Paul as well as John testified that Jesus Christ has come to be 190 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:56,100 the savior of the world, but let me say today, number two, That 191 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:00,100 Jesus Christ is not our savior unless we are willing to be 192 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:04,000 saved, you know, I've actually heard people say on radio and 193 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,200 television that they weren't doing this that of the other, 194 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,600 and one day, the Lord just kind of came along and just saved 195 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,500 him. Well, that would be wonderful, 196 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:15,200 but the Bible doesn't teach, not. 197 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,600 Even one case of anything, like, even remotely similar to that 198 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,300 ever having happened. Jesus doesn't save us against 199 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:27,800 our will that has to become our desire to be saved in 200 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,400 Revelation, 3 verse 20. Jesus said, behold I stand at 201 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,800 the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door, 202 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,000 I will come in to him and will sup with him. 203 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,200 And he with me. And by the way, the word sucked 204 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,500 their means take supper with him. 205 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,700 I will come in and take supper with him and he with me. 206 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,900 So, what a picture it is of Jesus standing at our hearts 207 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:57,000 door and knocking and every time you read the word of God, and, 208 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,500 and here, the invitation of the Gospel Jesus is knocking at your 209 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,600 heart's door. Now, you have to open the door. 210 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,300 He's not going to break it down and come in and save you. 211 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:09,500 In spite of everything that you can do. 212 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:15,900 I may have told this story here. Before, but I remember probably 213 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:18,600 the first Bible that I ever owned when I was just a little 214 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,300 boy my parents I suppose gave it to me or one of my family 215 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:27,800 members maybe but at any rate in the very opening page of that 216 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,300 Bible, I never will forget, there was a lithograph picture 217 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:35,200 in there of Jesus standing before a door, a black and white 218 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,400 picture, of course, and he standing before this door, 219 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:44,500 knocking at the door. I remember reading that when the 220 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:47,100 original artist painted that picture from which the 221 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:53,800 lithograph was made, That he sent out the set out the picture 222 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,900 after he had made it send out some copies of it for his peers 223 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,800 to critique and everybody wrote back it telling him what a 224 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,100 wonderful job. It was what a great picture it 225 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:06,100 was and you know how that kind of thing goes. 226 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,600 But one man was honest. The more so than the others and 227 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,200 he said, you know, you did do a beautiful job but you left off 228 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,300 the latch-string There's no latch string and there's no way 229 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:22,600 for Jesus to open the door even though he is knocking at the 230 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,400 door and the artist wrote back and said, I appreciate your 231 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,900 criticism and it was indeed a Keen Eye, that caught that. 232 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,200 But it was not a mistake on my part, it was on purpose. 233 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,100 He said you see this represents Jesus knocking at our hearts 234 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:42,900 door and the last string is on the inside for you to open. 235 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:45,900 Jesus cannot open it. You must open it. 236 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,100 Well, that's quite a weighty subject and quite a weighty 237 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:52,300 statement. It is true. 238 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:56,200 I'm sad to say that sometimes people will compliment you, 239 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,700 especially if you're preaching and may not even realize what 240 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:03,500 you have said. In fact, I'll go further than 241 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:05,600 that. There have been times that I've 242 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,600 been complimented for a great sermon when I didn't preach it 243 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,100 at all. In fact, I remember a few years 244 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:14,200 ago, at the Fourth of July meeting Pat. 245 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,600 And I went to Lebanon one morning because we Wanted to 246 00:15:16,608 --> 00:15:20,000 listen to Ronnie, Wade, building, was absolutely full. 247 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,400 We got there just a little bit late sat toward the back and one 248 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,900 of the Brethren asked, if I would wait at the Lord's table, 249 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,400 which I agreed. And after the service, since we 250 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,400 were sitting at the back, I got to the door a little earlier 251 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,000 than some of the others and two or three people came by and told 252 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,200 me what a great sermon I had preached. 253 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,000 Well the truth of it is Ronnie waded preached, the sermon it 254 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,900 wasn't me at all and so Sometimes we just kind of 255 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:51,700 mechanically just sort of in a perfunctory manner, I'll tell 256 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:53,200 somebody what a great job they've done. 257 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,700 When in fact, we may even be mistaken about who did it. 258 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,300 And so most of the time we preachers kind of take 259 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:03,100 compliments like that with a grain of salt, but now make no 260 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:04,800 may not make no mistake about it. 261 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,700 We do enjoy it. We like to have people come by 262 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:12,700 and tell us that we've done a good job, but it needs to be if 263 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:15,800 we have, in fact, done the job and so that that's kind of an 264 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:16,800 important thing. Thing. 265 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,800 But that's the way it was, with the case of this, man, at the 266 00:16:19,808 --> 00:16:22,800 door, Jesus is not going to open it. 267 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,100 We have to open it, and if I want to be saved, I have to go 268 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,800 to Jesus, because there is no other way for me to be saved in 269 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,600 Acts 4 and verse 12. Peter said, neither is there 270 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,100 salvation in any other for there? 271 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:35,700 Is none. Other name under Heaven given 272 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,500 among men whereby we must be saved. 273 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,800 So if you want to be saved, if I want to be saved, it's going to 274 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,500 have to be through the name of Jesus Christ. 275 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,200 In first, rather Second Corinthians. 276 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,400 I haven't verse 19, the Apostle Paul said to whip, that God was 277 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,400 in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their 278 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,900 trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us, the word or 279 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,700 Ministry rather of reconciliation. 280 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,099 And so, when you think about this, this is one of the reasons 281 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:08,599 that the church is so important. Today Paul says that God is 282 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:13,099 found in Christ. Now when you consider that to be 283 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:16,599 in Christ, is to be in the church because to be in the body 284 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:18,800 of Christ is to be in the Church of Christ. 285 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,900 According to Colossians 1, verse 18, Ephesians 1 and verse 3. 286 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:25,900 Also Ephesians 1 verses 22 and 23. 287 00:17:26,099 --> 00:17:29,200 So to be in Christ is to be in the church. 288 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,900 And why is it so important to be in the church? 289 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,400 Because that's where God is and that's where reconciliation 290 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,900 takes place. That's the reason that we can 291 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:42,200 meet God and I should say that's the way that we can meet God and 292 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,400 be reconciled to him, is in the church and an Thing is found in 293 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,500 Ephesians 1 and about verse 3 where Apollo said that in the in 294 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:55,300 Christ in Heavenly places, all spiritual blessings are to be 295 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:57,800 found. Obviously, if all spiritual 296 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,500 blessings are to be found in Christ, in his body, in his 297 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:05,400 church, then there are no spiritual blessings. 298 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,200 That can be found out of Christ out of his body and out of his 299 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,200 church. So, if you're looking for 300 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,200 spiritual blessings, my friend, it's in the church that you're 301 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:16,200 going to find him. No. 302 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:19,400 No other place and so if I want to be saved, I'm going to have 303 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,600 to go by Christ, you know, in John 14 and verse 6. 304 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:26,900 Jesus said, I am the way the truth, get this. 305 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:30,200 Now I am the way the truth, and the life. 306 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,700 No man cometh unto the father. But by me, if you want to get to 307 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:38,300 heaven, you're going to have to go by Jesus Christ. 308 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,800 How do I go to Heaven by Jesus Christ? 309 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:43,400 Well, I go to Heaven by obeying the gospel. 310 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:46,500 The scripture tells me in Romans 10:17. 311 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:50,400 So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, 312 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,400 the Bible tells me also that faith is important. 313 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,400 Read it to me, not only do I get it from having heard the gospel, 314 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,100 but it is important to me in Hebrews 11 and verse 6. 315 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,400 I think I miss quoted that I meant to say, Romans 10 and 17 316 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,500 and Hebrews 11 and verse 6. Paul said, but without faith, it 317 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,900 is impossible to please him. For he, that cometh to God must 318 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,800 believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who 319 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,500 diligently seek him. So we hear the gospel. 320 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:23,100 And we believe the gospel and then we repent of our sins, Luke 321 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:26,200 13, and 3 said, I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall 322 00:19:26,208 --> 00:19:29,000 all likewise perish. And there's a whole sermon can 323 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,900 be preached on that one verse there and then we're ready to 324 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:33,700 confess the name of Jesus Christ. 325 00:19:33,708 --> 00:19:37,300 I love the passage that's found in Romans, 10 verses 9 and 10. 326 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:40,000 Where Paul said that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth, 327 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,500 the Lord Jesus. And shalt believe in thine heart 328 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:44,200 that God hath raised him from the dead. 329 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,100 Thou shalt be saved for with the heart, man, believeth unto 330 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:48,800 righteousness. And with the The mouth 331 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,500 confession is made unto salvation, then we are ready to 332 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:57,300 be baptized into Christ again, the reason this is so important 333 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,300 is because in Christ or in his church is where all blessings, 334 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,000 spiritual blessings, are to be found and no wonder Paul said in 335 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,200 Galatians 3 and verse 27, or as many of you as have been 336 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,800 baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 337 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:15,500 So the way we get into Christ is through baptism and that's where 338 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:18,600 all spiritual blessings are found because when we get The 339 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,800 Christ, we are reconciled to God. 340 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,300 That's where God is and we're members of the church and our 341 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,900 sins are forgiven us. These are great, great things 342 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,500 and wonderful truths in and of themselves. 343 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:35,000 This is the way that we go to the father, by Jesus Christ. 344 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:42,100 According to John John the 14th chapter and verse 6. 345 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,900 But let me say also today in verse number 3 that Jesus Christ 346 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:49,800 strengthens me. He really does. 347 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,400 In Philippians, 4, verses 12 and 13, Paul said and this passage 348 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,900 will make you sad. If you really think about it, he 349 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:02,800 said I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound 350 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:05,800 everywhere. And in all things I am 351 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,800 instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and 352 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,000 to suffer need. I can do all things through 353 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,200 Christ which strengtheneth me. This passage has really a kind 354 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,900 of a sad side to it but it has a glorious and a Triumph. 355 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,600 It sound as well, because through Christ who strengthens 356 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,700 him. He could do all things. 357 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,000 Now, let me just say I'm well aware of the fact that the way 358 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 the Lord strengthened Paul and the way he strengthens me are 359 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,600 different. I know that. 360 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:42,100 Paul received direct Revelation, you read aphasias the third 361 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:45,600 chapter, and Paul tells how he received the mystery referring 362 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,700 to the gospel and he tells how he received it by Revelation and 363 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:53,400 Revelation is something that always comes directly from God. 364 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:57,000 Well, we don't get that today and yet we have the very 365 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Revelation that Paul had Paul said in Ephesians 3 and about 366 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,700 verse for if I remember correctly he tells how that that 367 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:06,800 ref of that mystery was given to him. 368 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,200 And he said, I wrote it a for in few words get this. 369 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:16,000 Now I wrote it a for in few words and when you read you will 370 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,500 understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. 371 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,200 What I know. And what, you know, today, as a 372 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,400 result of reading, the book is exactly the same mystery and 373 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,600 he's exactly the same message, as Paul knew. 374 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,500 The only difference is he got it directly and we had to read it, 375 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,100 but there is no difference in the message. 376 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:41,200 There is no difference in the strength and there is no 377 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,800 difference in the strengthening factor of the message and 378 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:50,000 through Jesus Christ. I am strengthened by the word of 379 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,600 Truth. Now, The fact that Christ lived 380 00:22:54,600 --> 00:23:00,300 in Paul and according to Ephesians 3 verse 17, Paul said 381 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,200 that Christ, dwells in Us by faith. 382 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,500 The fact that Christ lived in, Paul gave him the strength 383 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:08,800 desired and demanded for any task. 384 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:11,600 And just as that was true, it is also true. 385 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,600 As I just mentioned that that Jesus dwells in Us by faith, how 386 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,400 do you get Faith Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word 387 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,100 of Truth? Romans 10, and verse 17. 388 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:25,100 So we Can be strengthened by Christ. 389 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,300 How in the world do you face the sufferings in the trials, and 390 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:32,200 The Temptations and the heartaches of life without the 391 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,000 Lord? You thought about that? 392 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,300 Several times, I've been to the cemetery and left a loved one 393 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,700 there. And I'm always sad, I'm not 394 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:46,900 going to deny that. But, you know, when I leave 395 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:50,100 there while I am sad and lonesome. 396 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:57,700 I have always built up. By the knowledge and the belief 397 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,300 that there will be a reunions someday. 398 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:05,800 This is not it for us, death to a Christian is like a comma. 399 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,600 In a sentence, there's more coming after this, the, you 400 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,100 know, the sentence is not over. When you see a comma, it's not 401 00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:16,900 over till you see the period And so death for a Christian is like 402 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,800 a comma. And we know there's going to be 403 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,000 a reunions day and that reunions will be forever. 404 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,500 So we have a great deal more than others. 405 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:31,100 But now when you take that all away, How in the world is a 406 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:32,600 parent? Take a child. 407 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:39,000 A husband, a wife. You know, any loved one, how do 408 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,600 you take somebody like that to the cemetery and leave and 409 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:47,200 really believe in your heart? This is it there's nothing else 410 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:49,500 I'm not going to see him anymore. 411 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:54,100 This is all she wrote I'll tell you right now I just took we 412 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:57,500 don't quite know how people get through that I really don't you 413 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:02,000 know in first Samuel the 17th chapter is found maybe my 414 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,300 all-time Old Testament. Favorite story. 415 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:10,300 As long as I can. remember when I was a little boy, I would 416 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:13,700 listen to my father and other preachers as they would relate 417 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:17,400 that story and I would just be Spellbound, though, I knew very 418 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,000 well. What was coming next? 419 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,300 I'm talking of course, about the time when David as just a lad 420 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:28,900 was told by his father to go and take the fair, or find out how 421 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:33,500 his Brethren were doing. Now, David had some older 422 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:36,800 brothers and if I recall correctly, three of them had 423 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,200 gone off under the command of King Saul to fight against the 424 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,100 Philistines. After they'd been gone a while, 425 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,600 his father sent David, who was the Bible indicates? 426 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,100 Was just a boy. In fact, the scripture says, at 427 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,900 this time, that his complexion was Ruddy that is he was 428 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:57,800 red-faced, like boys are and he was fair. 429 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,100 In other words, his complexion was unmarred by a beard or 430 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,600 anything. Such as an older man might have 431 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,000 had. So he was just a ruddy-faced boy 432 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,900 and he sends this boy up there to find out how he is Brad's 433 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:14,200 Bernard. Doing it is interesting. 434 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,400 Course, David had no idea. Neither did his father, that the 435 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,700 time would come and wouldn't be too far off, either that, this 436 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:25,500 ruddy-faced boy, would take over King Saul's job as king and 437 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,900 leader of Israel. But that's another subject. 438 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:33,100 He makes his way up there to the battle line and the Bible tells 439 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:38,000 us in first Samuel chapter 17 that the Israelites were on one 440 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,800 side of a mountain, the Philistines on the mountain 441 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,900 opposite and there was a valley in between and they just kind of 442 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:48,100 been camped up there at a stalemate for a long time about 443 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:52,000 40 days. In fact, And every day morning 444 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,500 and evening, there was a fellow that would come out from among 445 00:26:55,500 --> 00:27:00,300 the Philistines whose name was Goliath, he was six cubits and a 446 00:27:00,308 --> 00:27:05,200 span in height which would make him something over 9 feet tall, 447 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,200 don't know what he would have weighed, but he was a mighty 448 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:14,200 man, and he was trained in the art of warfare and every day 449 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,700 morning and evening, this fellow had been coming up and facing 450 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,900 Israel on the hill or the mountain on. 451 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Opposite and telling them your Israelites, we're Philistines. 452 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:26,500 There's no need for all of us to fight. 453 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,100 Send a man down here to fight me, and if he kills me will be 454 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:34,300 your servants, if I killed you kill him, you'll be our 455 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,700 servants. Well, the Jews thought that they 456 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:39,900 knew how that was going to turn out and every time that he would 457 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:42,000 make such a statement, they would turn and run. 458 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:49,000 Now, just about the time that David got there, this man made 459 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,700 that challenge and Israel turned and ran. 460 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:59,900 And David was absolutely. He just couldn't figure it out. 461 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,800 And he said, to somebody, what shall be done to the man who 462 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:10,400 kills this Gentile for who is this uncircumcised Philistine 463 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,000 that he should defy the armies of the Living? 464 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,100 God tell, you know, to somebody that's been running every day. 465 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,700 Twice a day for 40 days to have a little boy, come up and talk. 466 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,500 Like he's so big and the breeches right here is just a 467 00:28:24,508 --> 00:28:26,700 little bit hard for these fellows to take. 468 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,400 And so the brothers began to try to get him go on back home. 469 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,500 You just up here to see the fight, anyhow. 470 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,100 Well, he just couldn't hush up. In fact, those of us who have 471 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:43,500 raised boys or girls know that you don't shut one up very easy. 472 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:47,900 I may have told you this before, but I'm going to tell it again. 473 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,400 When Lance our son was just all about 4 years old. 474 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,200 I guess we went into Florida one time for a meeting. 475 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,100 First time he had ever been there we went home that night 476 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:02,500 with that afternoon before Services. 477 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,100 We went home with some folks that we had never met before. 478 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,300 They later became good. Friends of ours. 479 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,000 But as we're sitting at a beautiful table with white, 480 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,400 linen tablecloths and candlesticks. 481 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,600 And I mean we really kind of felt out of place. 482 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,000 My son began telling all the family secrets. 483 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:23,200 It just so happened that on the way to the meeting. 484 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,500 We've been traveling all summer long in the car and on the way 485 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:29,300 to the meeting Pat and I got into it over when to do the 486 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,600 dirty laundry. We had a trunk full of dirty 487 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,400 laundry and I wanted to do it then and she wanted to wait till 488 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,700 we got on into Jacksonville, Florida. 489 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,100 And so we got a little sharp with one another. 490 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:42,000 And she said, I'll tell you one thing. 491 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,400 She said, I if I could find an airport, I'd go home. 492 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,600 And I said, well I'll tell you what. 493 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,200 If I can find one, you're out of here. 494 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:55,400 And so, you know, a kid sat in the backseat big, I had that 495 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,700 night at the dinner table it. We talk the weather down, you 496 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:01,600 know, and didn't have anything else to say, any kind of got 497 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,600 quiet and Lance piped up, and said my mom and dad and nearly 498 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,300 had a divorce on the way down here. 499 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,800 And so then of course we had to tell the story and explained it 500 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,100 all. Well, that's the way it was with 501 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,400 David. You can't shut a little boy up. 502 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,500 David wasn't going to be hushed. He just continued to make these 503 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:20,700 these these boast, you know, he wished he had the chance to go 504 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:22,500 fighting. They just couldn't get rid of 505 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:25,300 him. And finally saw brought him in 506 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:28,600 and said, you know, tried to reason with him but that didn't 507 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,900 work either. David said, you know, I'm not 508 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:33,000 afraid to dismantle. I said the same God that 509 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,600 protected me when Ally in a bear came out to the flock, Said he 510 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,400 protected me from the ball from the Paul and the mouths of those 511 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000 animals, he said he'd protect me from this from this Philistine 512 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,200 to just let me get at him. I'll show you what I'm talking 513 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,200 about. And so saw brought out his coat 514 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,000 of armor and put it on David, and I've always thought that 515 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,100 David must have looked like, Sad Sack. 516 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:58,700 If you can ever remember some of you. 517 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:03,700 What Sad Sack was this? This is a full grown man's Army, 518 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,700 you know coat of mail and David, is this a little Slight built 519 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,600 fella. It must have been a pitiful 520 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,400 sight and David took a look at himself and he said I cannot use 521 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,800 these things. For they have not been proven 522 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,200 you know, I thought so many times in fact, I can remember 523 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,300 the old preacher saying that through the years when 524 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:34,700 Innovations came along and were introduced to God's people, 525 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,000 wouldn't it have been nice if there had been somebody with 526 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:47,400 enough wisdom to say we can't use these They haven't been 527 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,900 proven. Of course, the scripture says 528 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,500 prove all things hold fast to that, which is good. 529 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,600 But of course, that wasn't done, at least, not sufficiently 530 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,500 enough. And the church was split more 531 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:03,000 than one time. So David takes all of this off 532 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,700 and he goes out with his little Shepherd's sling and he picks up 533 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:09,700 five, smooth stones at the brook. 534 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Only one of which would be needed. 535 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,900 As he went out to meet the giant, the giant sees him coming 536 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:21,800 and apparently David had this sling, but he also had his 537 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,800 Shepherd's staff, which was probably just kind of second 538 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,600 nature to him and he said, have you come out against me as you 539 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,900 would a dog with sticks and staves and stones. 540 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:38,800 He said, come here to me, I'll give your flesh to the birds and 541 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,000 the and the beasts of the field. The Bible says he cursed David 542 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:49,100 by his gods. I don't remember exactly what 543 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:54,700 David said, but the gist of it was I'm coming to you in the 544 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:59,700 name of the god of Heaven. And I'm going to get your head 545 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:02,600 today because the battle is the Lord's. 546 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,800 And that's exactly what happened. 547 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,900 He said, you come to me with swords and Spears but I come to 548 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:16,000 you in the name of God Jehovah. He let go of the stone and it 549 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,400 buried himself and the Giants forehead and down. 550 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,500 He went and David goes up and takes this giant sword, which 551 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,700 was undoubtedly almost bigger than he can handle, but he hacks 552 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,500 his head off and carried it back to Israel. 553 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,500 And that day, that day a great fight Was Won. 554 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,200 And I want to tell you something, Israel, learned a 555 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,400 great lesson. Lesson that day from a little 556 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,600 boy, that had more faith than anybody else. 557 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,200 And I submit to you that it was not a case that day of a little 558 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,000 boy. Who just got lucky. 559 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,300 I don't believe that at all. I think he had some help 560 00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:59,800 supernaturally, so and you do to David trusted in the Lord for 561 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,000 help and in our battles with life and all of its Temptations, 562 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:08,000 we would surely fail but we can conquer all of them. 563 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,900 If Jesus Is With Us, Israel was delivered by Moses. 564 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:18,500 We're delivered a Christ I could go on and on Christ Is Our 565 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:20,900 Redeemer. Peter said in First Peter 1 566 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:24,000 verses 18 and 19 for as much as you know that you were not 567 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,199 redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your 568 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,000 vain conversation received by tradition from your father's, 569 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:33,300 but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb, without 570 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:37,699 blemish and without spot. And Paul said in whom we have 571 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:40,400 Redemption through his blood, even the Forgiveness of sins 572 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,600 Colossians 1 and verse 14. And finally first 16 and verse 573 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,600 20. He said for your bought with a 574 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,900 price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit 575 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:56,699 which are Gods. Now, I've just barely touched 576 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,100 the top. Because the scriptures teach us. 577 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,800 That Christ is also our Hiding Place Colossians 3 and 3. 578 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:09,300 He is our foundation. First Corinthians 3, 10 and 11. 579 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,000 He's the door, John 10 and 9, he's the purchaser Acts, 20 and 580 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,200 28 and the word of God tells us that he is the truth. 581 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,300 The prophet, the priest and the king. 582 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:23,100 And Isaiah said, his name would be called wonderful counselor. 583 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,100 The Mighty God, the Everlasting, father, and the Prince of Peace. 584 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,000 He's also called the lily of the valley and the Rose of Sharon. 585 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:38,000 he is the resurrection he's the Good Shepherd, you can just go 586 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,500 on and on Jesus Christ is just no wonder the Bible says he is 587 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:47,900 all and in all He is everything to everyone. 588 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,300 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 589 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:58,100 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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