1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,300 Thank you all for coming tonight. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:10,000 And we are so happy to be here and hopefully tonight will be 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,300 able to say something that's edifying to the church and will 4 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:17,400 be able to gain some knowledge from what we're studying in 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,200 Philippians. Of course we're studying 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,500 Philippians 2. Will particularly be studying 7 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:27,700 verses 9, through 15. And and before we start we'll go 8 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:30,300 ahead and read and kind of bring us up to speed. 9 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:33,000 So it's been a couple weeks since we've studied. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,200 So we'll read starting at verse 1 and we'll read all the way 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:43,800 through verse 15. And remember while we're reading 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,800 this that of course, Paul is writing to the church and to the 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,400 congregation in Philippi and he's specifically giving 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:57,400 direction to those members about Unity about how to be Christ 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,500 Christ like and how to get along and how to be humble and all 16 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:03,500 these things. So, let's kind of keep that in 17 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:07,100 mind as we as we start reading, it says there in verse 1. 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,400 Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, If any 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,500 comfort in love, if any Fellowship of the spirit, if any 20 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:21,000 affection and mercy, fulfill my joy, be like-minded, having the 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,400 same love being of one, Accord of one mind, let nothing be done 22 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,800 through self-assembly selfish, ambition or conceit, but in 23 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,400 lowliness of Mind, Let each esteem others better than 24 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,000 themselves himself. Let each of you look out, not 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,500 only for his own interest but also for the interests of 26 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:41,500 others. Let this mind be in you, which 27 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,000 was Is also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God, did 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,900 not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself 29 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:52,600 of no reputation taking the form of a bondservant and coming in 30 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:55,300 the likeness of men and being found in appearance. 31 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:58,600 As a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,000 death, even the death of the Cross. 33 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:05,700 Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the 34 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:10,199 name, which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every 35 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,600 knee, should bow of Those in heaven and those on Earth and of 36 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,100 those under the Earth and that every tongue should confess, 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,000 that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father, 38 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,200 therefore my beloved as you have always obeyed. 39 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:30,800 Not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence work 40 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,600 out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who 41 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,000 works in you both to Will and to do his good pleasure, do all 42 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,600 things without complaining and disputing. 43 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:45,700 And that you may be that you may become blameless and harmless 44 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,800 children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and 45 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,500 perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the 46 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:58,200 world. So on the first to bring us up 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,700 to speed to vs. Starting in verse 9, you know, 48 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:05,600 we want to we talked about last time, how how Jesus humbled 49 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,800 himself and became a servant when he was part of the godhead, 50 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:13,000 and he became a little lower than the angels and came here to 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,500 this earth and and humbled himself and suffered for us. 52 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:21,600 And in his upcoming versus we're going to see because of his 53 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,600 humility. How God exalts him to the 54 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,500 highest position? And there could ever be. 55 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,400 So beginning in verse 9, the word, therefore there is derived 56 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,700 from a Greek word, a couple of Greek words deal and Kaia, which 57 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,600 literally means to. And that is why? 58 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,200 So, because he humbled himself, we could replace the word. 59 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:50,900 Therefore, and that is why. God has highly exalted him and 60 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:53,600 given him the name, which is above every other name. 61 00:03:54,100 --> 00:04:01,000 So to be highly, exalted is to elevate to elevate above all 62 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,600 others, and to be lifted up. It's the same verb that was used 63 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,100 in John 3, verse 14. It says there. 64 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,800 And as Moses, lifted up, the serpent, in the wilderness even 65 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,900 so must the son of man will be lifted up. 66 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:17,700 This was a picture of the serpent was a symbolic to what 67 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,500 would happen to Jesus being lifted up. 68 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,500 And there's sermons have been taught here on that and I don't 69 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:30,200 have time to go into that, but it's a very clear type and anti 70 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:37,700 type of Christ being lifted up. So, This is being done. 71 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:44,300 God Is Lifting Up Jesus. Which which shows actually of 72 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,000 validation or Vindication and approval of god of what Jesus 73 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,700 did here. So God lifted him up because 74 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:54,400 Jesus did what he did and it was lifted to the highest position 75 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:55,800 possible. So that brings us to our first 76 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:00,000 question, what is meant by the phrase and given him? 77 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,500 The name above every name? So Not only was he, highly 78 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:07,900 exalted, he was given a name above every other name, you 79 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:13,100 know, in the Bible names, we can see names time after time being 80 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:17,400 changed from an original name to a different name, and that was a 81 00:05:17,407 --> 00:05:19,000 purpose. There was a meaning behind the 82 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,300 names in the especially in the Old Testament. 83 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,600 For example, Abram was changed to Abraham, which means High 84 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,600 father. Was his original name to father 85 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,800 of all, which is Abraham, and same with Sarah. 86 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:35,300 Her name was Sir. I was changed to Sarah which 87 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,100 originally was, my princess changed his Sarah, which is 88 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:45,000 mother of all Nations. So the name is a description of 89 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,200 who and what they are their character. 90 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,800 So Jesus is name was not changed because Jesus was who he was and 91 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,200 always is who he's always been, and will always always be who we 92 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,400 always is. So his name doesn't have to be 93 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:05,700 changed but but the name above every name, in Isaiah 42 and 94 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,600 verse 8, which is a prophecy of Jesus. 95 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,700 It says I am the Lord that is my name. 96 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:16,800 I will not yield my glory to another Also in Hebrews chapter 97 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:22,300 1, verses 1 through 4, it says God who at various times and in 98 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:27,000 various ways spoke in times past to the father's by the prophets 99 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:30,800 has in the last days spoken to us by his son, whom he has 100 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,000 appointed, heir of all things through whom. 101 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Also, he made the world's who being the brightness of all his 102 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,500 glory and the express image of his purpose person and upholding 103 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:43,400 All Things by the word of his power. 104 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,900 And when he had his Himself purged, our sins sat down at the 105 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,700 right hand of the Majesty on high, haven't become so much 106 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:55,400 better than the angels as he has by inheritance obtained. 107 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,600 A more, excellent Name than they. 108 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:04,700 So we hear all the time in this, you know, all kinds of names 109 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:08,100 that we hear all the time. And sometimes we wonder what in 110 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:10,000 the world, some parents were thinking, when they named their 111 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:18,400 kids. so, I can guarantee you that that when we hear, or 112 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:23,000 anybody hears, Jesus his name they know who he is. 113 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:27,800 All around the world, somebody could say, oh yeah, Chris. 114 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,400 And in Bakersfield, California, nobody may know that, you know, 115 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,500 people may not know that across the country or whatever. 116 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,400 But when they hear the name, Jesus, everybody knows who Jesus 117 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,900 is a name above all names, so that leads us to the. 118 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:45,800 Next question is deals with verses 10 through 11 verses 10 119 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,600 and 11 say that the name of Jesus, that at the name of 120 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,800 Jesus, every knee, should bow and those in heaven and those on 121 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,600 Earth and of those under the Earth and that every tongue 122 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,100 should confess, that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory 123 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:05,100 of God the father. So that this is the reason why 124 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:07,500 God exalted Jesus. These verses here. 125 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,300 He raised him up so that every knee should bow. 126 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,700 Now this does not mean that every time that the name Jesus 127 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,100 is uttered out of our mouths that we are going to bow. 128 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,600 This is dealing with the second coming of Christ. 129 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,400 This is dealing when when he comes, there is going to be so 130 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,000 much power and so much glory, and everybody's going to know 131 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,300 who he is. At every knee will be compelled 132 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:33,900 to Bow before him. And and and by every everybody, 133 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:37,000 it's talking to talk about those in heaven, those in Earth and 134 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 those under the year. So those in heaven refers to as 135 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,200 the Angels the angels will have in are going to bow to Jesus as 136 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,400 well in First Peter 3 and verse 22, it says who has gone into 137 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,800 heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities 138 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,700 and Powers, having been made subject to him, which is Jesus. 139 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,900 Also when Hebrews 1 verse 6 says, but when he again brings 140 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,600 the first born into the world he says let all The angels of God 141 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,200 worship Him. So that's what they have. 142 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,200 What those in heaven is talking about, is the Angels. 143 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,900 Now, those in the earth is to us that you and I everybody from 144 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:15,700 the beginning of time to the end of time. 145 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,300 And when you think about that, everybody will bow. 146 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:22,900 I mean, think it all about all the people who opposed Jesus 147 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,300 think about the high priest. Think about this, the Sanhedrin 148 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:32,100 think about Muhammad. I mean, those leaders of 149 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:36,300 different religions are going to bow to Jesus at the second 150 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:38,800 coming. That's pretty amazing when you 151 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,800 think about that. Every knee shall bow. 152 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Now those under the Earth is referred to, as of course, the 153 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,600 dead those who are in the in the hadean realm at this time. 154 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:54,200 I don't know. All there is to know about this. 155 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,400 I'm going to admit that, but but we need to notice that Jesus has 156 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,800 power transcends, all time, all Dimensions. 157 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:05,200 If that's what you want to call space and all places. 158 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,300 There's not one part of creation that is not going to recognize 159 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:12,600 Jesus at the second coming. All, we're all of us. 160 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:16,100 All will recognize Jesus for who he is, that he is Lord of all. 161 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,100 So, you know, think about all of us who look forward to that time 162 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:23,800 who look forward to Confessor his name and look forward to 163 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,100 bowing to him when on the second coming. 164 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:29,700 But but even those who oppose him now, who don't look forward 165 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:32,200 to them, are going to be bowing as well. 166 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,400 So when we recognize Jesus for, who he is, and what he has done, 167 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,900 of course, it's always to God, be the glory. 168 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,100 So, Paul explained. So Paul is just explain to us 169 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:51,600 before how the humility, and how he is exalted work. 170 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,000 And Jesus could be only exalted if he was humbled first. 171 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 If he was humble first and same with us, do we have to be 172 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,300 humble? We have to be humble. 173 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,500 People will be humble, Christians, and God will 174 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,800 recognize us for that. And they in time a judgment, 175 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,600 that's a great lesson for us. That brings us to verse 12, 176 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,900 Which says they're therefore my beloved as you have always 177 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,600 obeyed. Not as in my presence only but 178 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,500 now much more in my absence working out your own salvation 179 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:23,100 with fear and trembling. So the question here is, how 180 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,200 does one work out his own salvation with fear and 181 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,900 trembling? So, if we read further in verse 182 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:34,400 15, Paul refers to the members, their Philippines children of 183 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,000 God, you know, us as parents are extremely happy when our kids 184 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,700 follow our Direction. When were around, we tell them 185 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:44,800 to take out the trash to take out the trash, tell him dust the 186 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,100 house. They does the house. 187 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:48,900 Tell him to act, right? When they're at school and a 188 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,900 crack at school. But when it's, we're away. 189 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:54,600 And they do what we want them to do. 190 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:59,500 It makes us so proud of our kids and what they do, you know we 191 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:01,600 can trust them being away. We know they're going to make 192 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,300 the right decision and we get word back from those who are 193 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,200 around them that they have You know, done what we expect them 194 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,100 to do and that's kind of what Paul is saying here. 195 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,400 You know, it's good that you're doing what you're doing while 196 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,600 I'm here. But do it even more when I'm not 197 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,200 here, when I'm not here to visit you. 198 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,800 Or, you know, follow the will of God. 199 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:30,300 So that leads us to a question in hand. 200 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:32,800 How does how does one? How do we work out? 201 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,600 Our own salvation with fear and trembling? 202 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,800 Now we cannot work out our own salvation on our own. 203 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,600 That is not our, there's nothing we could do to earn our 204 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,500 Salvation. Nothing at all. 205 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,700 We do not work to earn it yet. We work because we have been 206 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:57,800 saved. So, the verb here, the this this 207 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,600 word workout is a verb and it is defined as a continuous action. 208 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,800 We referred to, as going through a race or competition. 209 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:09,200 So it's continuous. So once we get saved once we get 210 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,400 baptized and follow the will of God, it's time to go to work. 211 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:19,000 We're working through our Salvation in First Corinthians 9 212 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,700 verses 24 through 25. It says, do you not know that 213 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:26,700 those who run in a race All run, but one receives the prize run 214 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:28,500 in such a way that you may obtain it. 215 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,500 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all 216 00:13:31,500 --> 00:13:33,800 things. Now they do it to obtain a 217 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:39,600 perishable Crown, but we for an imperishable crown and and and 218 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,500 fear. And trembling here is, is 219 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:45,700 basically a reverence for God, we have a respect for God, we 220 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:48,600 understand his power. We understand that he can blot 221 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,100 our name out of the book of life. 222 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:51,900 We understand that he can save us. 223 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,300 We understand that. At that, he that we are going to 224 00:13:55,300 --> 00:14:00,100 be judged on that final day and there's no greater motivator 225 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:05,000 than that than to fear what judgment will be for us. 226 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,800 So, we need to work our out, our own salvation work, because we 227 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:19,300 have been saved Verses 13 and 14 says 48 is God who works in you 228 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,600 both to Will and to do for his good pleasure, do all things 229 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,800 without complaining in disputing. 230 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:28,600 And the question is, how does God work in us? 231 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:33,200 And why is it important to do all things without complaining? 232 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:42,000 So God works. God works from some examples in 233 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,700 the Bible. He works. 234 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,900 He worked by Distributing spiritual gifts and First 235 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:50,700 Corinthians 12, he worked in Peter and Paul in Galatians 2 236 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:54,800 and verse 8. He worked by raising Jesus from 237 00:14:54,800 --> 00:15:00,300 the dead and he will also work in us when transforming our 238 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:04,000 bodies when this life is over in Philippians, 3 and 21. 239 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:07,500 I don't know. All there is how God works in 240 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:08,600 it. I don't know. 241 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,300 I don't think any of us are going to ever know the entirety 242 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:16,000 of how God works in US. But we know he does because we 243 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,100 can read it. Now that same power that worked 244 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:25,000 in the Bible works now in us I don't know how but it does 245 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,300 because Paul said it's the same power that will save us the same 246 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:31,200 power that will wash our sins. Clean one that hears. 247 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,500 Our prayers ones that gives us our needs. 248 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:37,400 Our Comforts that Comforts us and we'll eventually judge us. 249 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,500 There's all manners of how God works in us how we in dwells in 250 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:50,000 us and I do not have the knowledge and wherewithal to get 251 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,700 all that to understand that to preach it, but he does work in 252 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:56,600 US. Someone wants to comment on that 253 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:57,800 later on. That's great. 254 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,900 Without complaining and arguing, you know, this follows the same 255 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:05,500 line in which Paul was teaching the congregation at Philippi and 256 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:08,500 with unity in verse 2, through 4, you know, we called them to 257 00:16:08,508 --> 00:16:13,600 be unified this teaches us as a congregation that we need to get 258 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,600 along that. We need to our have a Christian 259 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,900 attitude, to be humble considerate serving on, obedient 260 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:24,400 to death, So that brings us to our next verse or last verse, 261 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,700 which is verse 15. And it says there that you may 262 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:33,200 become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in 263 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,300 the midst of a crooked, crooked and perverse generation among 264 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:38,700 whom you shine as lights in the world. 265 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:41,700 So what is meant by the phrase crooked and perverse generation? 266 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,600 This goes all the way back to the Old Testament Deuteronomy, 267 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,200 chapter 32, verse 5. And it says there, they have 268 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,700 corrupted themselves. They are not his children 269 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:54,200 because of their blemish at perverse and crooked generation. 270 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,200 That was Moses speaking about the issue, The lights. 271 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,300 So God has a path to our Salvation And it is referred to 272 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:04,000 in the New Testament as a straight and narrow path. 273 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 So the passions that this is referring to is those who do not 274 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,099 walk a straight and narrow path but pervert it or distort it and 275 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:15,000 meaning and change the path to make it crooked as one bite. 276 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,800 That's what's meant by a crooked and perverse generation man. 277 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,599 Is the only one who can pervert God's work. 278 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:22,800 We are God doesn't perverted Jesus doesn't prefer it. 279 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,800 The the apostles didn't pervert. It But us as man thinking that 280 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,800 we know better than God can mess things up real quick, if we're 281 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,500 not careful. So in conclusion, just to 282 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:37,200 quickly go over kind of what we've studied. 283 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:43,300 So far number one, Jesus became a humble servant and because of 284 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,900 that God, highly exalted Jesus and gave him authority over all. 285 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:50,900 We are to continually work because we have been saved. 286 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:55,300 We need to Revere God and Jesus, we need to not argue with each 287 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:58,000 other or complain about each about each other within the 288 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,900 congregation. And we do not want to prefer 289 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:05,600 pervert, God's word. 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