1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,900 This is your first time being able to be here in this meeting, 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,400 we're glad you're here, and I hope you'll pick up your Bible 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,100 this morning and follow along the things I have to say, is the 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:12,900 most probably the most important thing. 5 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:15,900 I know it's the most important thing that you're going to think 6 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,500 about this week because it's something that we all will 7 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:23,400 absolutely face. There's an old poem by Isaac 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,800 Watts written in 1706. It's called the day of 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,700 judgement, When the fierce North win with this Airy forces, rears 10 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:36,000 up the Baltic to a foaming Fury and red lightning with a storm 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,700 of hail comes rushing down, how the poor Sailors, stand amazed 12 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,500 and tremble. While the Thunder like a trumpet 13 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:48,200 Roars allowed on set to the gaping Waters quick to devour 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,300 them such. Shall the noise be in Wild 15 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,400 disorder? Such shall the dire Terror when 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,400 the Great Archangel shakes, the creation, tears down, Wrong 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,400 pillars in the vaults of Vault, of Heaven, breaks up old marble, 18 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,100 and the Repose of princes sees the graves, open and Bones, 19 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:11,300 Rising, Flames all around them hark, the shrill out, cries of 20 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:14,800 the guilty. Retches Lively bright horror 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,600 amazing. Anguish stare through their 22 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,300 eyelids, while the living worm lies knowing within them 23 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:27,000 Thoughts like old vultures Prey Upon their heartstrings and the 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,400 smart twinge. When the eye beholds, the lofty 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,200 judge frowning with a flood of Vengeance. 26 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:38,500 Rolling before him hopeless Immortals, how they scream and 27 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,200 shiver while Devil's push them to the pit wide, yawning, 28 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,300 hideous and gloomy to receive them headlong down to the 29 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:48,400 sinner. Stop here. 30 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:55,600 All the way ye horrid, doleful ideas, come arise to Jesus. 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,800 How he sits like God with the Saints around him thrown yet 32 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,900 adoring. Oh may I sit there when he comes 33 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,199 triumphant dooming the nation's, then Ascend with him to Glory 34 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,500 while our hosannas All Along The Passage. 35 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:19,900 Shout Redeemer Redeemer Redeemer Jesus is your judge. 36 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:24,300 If you ever needed a neon sign in front of your house in your 37 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:28,900 mirror on a daily basis, this is that opportunity for you the 38 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:30,700 scripture. Absolutely. 39 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,900 Tells us that Jesus is the big deal. 40 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,900 Some of you hear me say that a lot. 41 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:44,600 Jesus is the big deal. Not only is he big, he's 42 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,600 powerful what happens to a lot of people is they see Jesus and 43 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,600 they see the idea that he was meet and they talked about 44 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,800 Jesus, like he was humble and they even draw pictures of 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,500 Jesus, like, he was some sort of a soft soap dish water hand, 46 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:08,800 effeminate man in pictures, Jesus is almighty God. 47 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,400 Jesus is the son of God, when you think about power, you've 48 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,900 never understood, we've never been able to comprehend or wrap, 49 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:23,400 our mind around the kind of power that it took to be this, 50 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,800 because it's exactly what Sinners Like Me. 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,500 Sinners like you needed. John would say, Behold the Lamb 52 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:34,700 of God that taketh away the sins of the world and we see a 53 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:38,100 pitiful little lamb, don't think of it like that, think about it, 54 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:44,900 as a perfect unique, the only one, That's who Jesus is. 55 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,500 Think about the one that literally could raise the dead. 56 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,300 You don't have that power. The brightest position in the 57 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,200 world doesn't have that power. Nobody has that power. 58 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,100 Jesus Does. We're all in every nation headed 59 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,400 toward a day where everyone is going to get to meet him. 60 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,700 And some people it's going to be a wonderful thing to others. 61 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:10,900 It's not only not going to be a wonderful thing. 62 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,500 It's going to be an awful thing. And there are sermons that 63 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,500 strike fear and there are sermons that provoke. 64 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,800 Hope this is one that can do both depending upon where you 65 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,200 sit with Christ. There is never a time where a 66 00:04:26,207 --> 00:04:29,400 preacher should preach a sermon. When you are in a relationship 67 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,400 with God and Christ and you're following him where you feel 68 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,200 like that, you don't have any hope. 69 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,500 You know, what hope is? I want to get this straight 70 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:40,300 right now. Do you know what hope is? 71 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:43,300 It's not. I hope I win the Publishers 72 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:44,800 Clearing House. Sweepstakes Sweepstakes, you 73 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:45,700 know, that ain't going to happen. 74 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:47,400 They give it to somebody that doesn't exist. 75 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,800 I think it's the same fake house. 76 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,200 Every February I filled out, my junk. 77 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,100 All, I gets junk mail, didn't happen. 78 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:58,100 I'm telling you hope is not. Oh I filled out. 79 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:02,100 Oh maybe I'll win this. That of the other hope is 80 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:06,500 earnest expectation. It's going to happen. 81 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:12,400 Because God is faithful that promised, that's who our God is. 82 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,100 That's who Jesus is. And that's where our hope lies 83 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,900 this morning in John are Matthew chapter 24 and verse 36. 84 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,900 Here's what the Bible says. But of that day and hour 85 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:28,000 knoweth, no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my father 86 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,500 only. It's like a surprise visit and 87 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:34,400 it's the last visit. There's not going to be another 88 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,600 one you can get and you can destroy oi the whole fear 89 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,000 concept. Listen, we live in a world today 90 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,400 where people are afraid and people don't understand and 91 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,900 people don't have a clue about Jesus. 92 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:50,300 And so, some preacher plays on that and fear mongers people 93 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:52,300 into thinking. There's going to be a Rapture in 94 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:54,600 a Left Behind series and all that stuff. 95 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,700 That is not biblical. There is no evidence in 96 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:01,200 scripture to support that whatsoever. 97 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:05,000 If you think that you need to study the word of God, I will 98 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,500 give you the materials to do that, that's not right. 99 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,500 Right. And here's why I want to show it 100 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:13,700 to you in first Thessalonians chapter 4. 101 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:18,000 Here's what the Apostle Paul is writing to the church here and 102 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,500 they had people that were coming to them and telling them that 103 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:24,000 there was not going to be a resurrection because it didn't 104 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,500 happen right now. Here's what he said in verse 13, 105 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:31,900 but I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning 106 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:34,400 them, that are asleep. And other words, your loved ones 107 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,300 that are dead. You need to get this. 108 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,000 I don't want you to be ignorant about this Brethren concerning 109 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,100 them, that are asleep, that ye sorrow, not even as others, 110 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,600 which have no hope. There's that word hope again. 111 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:53,500 Read on, for, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even 112 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:58,600 so them also, which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him 113 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:02,200 for this, we say, unto you by the word of the Lord, that we, 114 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,200 which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not 115 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,100 prevent them, which are asleep. So, let's think about this. 116 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:12,000 We got dead loved ones. That died faithful to God. 117 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,500 They're in the ground today. And we're alive and Jesus shows 118 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:19,000 up God's not going to make a distinction between us who are 119 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,800 alive. Live. 120 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,700 We don't get special privileges just because of that, in fact, 121 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:25,700 it's the opposite way around. Listen to what happens first for 122 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:29,800 the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with 123 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,600 the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and the 124 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,400 dead in Christ shall rise first. Your loved ones that are in the 125 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,900 ground today. Those tombstones that we have to 126 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:41,900 go visit all of those. One day are going to be 127 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:45,700 Resurrection sites, and don't you ever forget it? 128 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:50,300 Every Cemetery in this world is going to unveil its going to be 129 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,700 an unbelievable sight and the dead in Christ will rise first. 130 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:00,700 Then we burst 17 which are alive and remain shall be caught up 131 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:07,700 together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the 132 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,900 air. And so we shall ever, we will 133 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:15,900 ever be with the Lord, wherefore Comfort one. 134 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,800 Another Either with these words, does that comfort you? 135 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,600 Do you know the people that Comforts that Comforts the 136 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,700 people that are following Jesus Christ that Comforts The People. 137 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:30,200 That are saved. You know what? 138 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,000 That passage doesn't do, it doesn't do anything to comfort 139 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,200 sitters. Do you know the scriptures and 140 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,100 these letters that were written to churches? 141 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:45,100 They were written to help people that were saved. 142 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,700 Sinners can't even pray to God and be heard because Jesus said, 143 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:55,500 we know, God does not hear sinners prayers. 144 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,900 Paul wanted to give hope to people that were saved yet 145 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,100 discouraged. Paul wanted people to have an 146 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:05,000 Earnest expectation. Not to be afraid. 147 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:07,300 Do you know what? I want the church to not be? 148 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,500 I don't want the church to be afraid. 149 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,500 I want you to be able to look forward every night and every 150 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,800 day to the coming of Jesus Christ. 151 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,000 Because it's the one and done. It's going to happen, one time 152 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,700 and it's all going to be over as far as this life is concerned. 153 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,500 Listen to what God did for Jesus. 154 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,600 The Bible says in John 5:22 for the father judges, no man, but 155 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,200 hath committed, all judgment unto his son when Paul was 156 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,500 writing to the Athenians on Mars are not writing preaching to 157 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:43,900 them on Mars Hill in Acts the 17th chapter. 158 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:47,100 Here's just take a look here in Acts chapter 17. 159 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:50,600 He comes up and he preaches to them had never known about God 160 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:53,900 and he preaches how that God of one blood made all the nations 161 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,900 of the earth and he walked him through history and how that God 162 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:03,300 had woven, this amazing tapestry of redemption and finally it 163 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:06,800 culminated in Jesus Christ and his death, burial and 164 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,700 Resurrection. Here's what he said at the times 165 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:15,500 of this ignorance, God winked at but now commandeth all men 166 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,200 everywhere to repent. Why? 167 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:25,800 Because He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world 168 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,400 in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. 169 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,100 Whereof, he hath given assurance and that he hath raised him from 170 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:37,500 the dead. When Jesus got up out of the 171 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:42,400 ground, it's cemented his judgment. 172 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,200 It's cemented Judgment Day. In fact, not only did it cement 173 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,400 that it's cemented, our responsibility in preparing for 174 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,700 that day. Again, the sermon on judgment 175 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,000 will be a great exciting thing for people that are following 176 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,800 Jesus Christ, and it is a terrible thing for people that 177 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,700 are not. If you're here and you're not 178 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,900 right with God, I don't want you to leave here. 179 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:07,700 I don't want you to go to bed tonight and sleep. 180 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:13,600 Well, I'm not opposed to fear. The Bible says it's the 181 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,200 beginning of understanding. When I preach Jesus and him 182 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,800 crucified, the Bible teaches that produces love for God and 183 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,700 people's hearts. But fear has a place we're going 184 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:27,500 to exempt. We're going to talk about that 185 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:31,300 place this morning. Listen in 2nd Corinthians 186 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,400 chapter 5 and verse 10. Paul told the church for, we 187 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,700 must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ. 188 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,800 That every one may receive the things done in his body 189 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,400 according to what he has Done. Whether it be good or bad. 190 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,300 There's a video playing. You know, everybody. 191 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,600 All these Superstars and NFL players that whoop their wives 192 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,100 and drag people out in the streets and do all kind of crazy 193 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,900 stuff on camera. They sure wish it wasn't on 194 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,600 camera because then they would say well it's just your word 195 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,300 against mine. God has a camera so to speak on 196 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:10,400 our life. God's taking video evidence of 197 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,900 our life. I'll tell you what I want. 198 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:17,800 I want some of the parts erased, don't you? 199 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,600 You know where he gives you that ability to do that, when you 200 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,700 follow Jesus Christ unto him, who loved us and washed us from 201 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:32,500 our sins by his own blood. You don't follow Jesus, you 202 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:34,800 don't get to erase it. In other words, you're going to 203 00:12:34,808 --> 00:12:37,500 sit there before the god of heaven and it's going to be 204 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:40,500 outlined and we're going to receive the things that we 205 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:43,100 deserve and there will be no defense attorney. 206 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:48,200 There will be nothing there except pure exactly what we have 207 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:52,000 coming. Unless you follow Jesus. 208 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,800 And then you don't get what you really deserve. 209 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,300 Because you're forgiven. I've got to hurry and talk about 210 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:04,400 Jesus. Our Judge, first of all, he is 211 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,400 righteous. According to second, Timothy 4 & 212 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,100 8. He is faithful and true, and 213 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,800 Revelations 1911, and in righteousness. 214 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,700 He doth judge Christ will be impartial. 215 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,600 First Peter 1:17, God who without respect of persons 216 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:21,900 judgeth, according to Every Man's work, John 8:16. 217 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,700 If I judge my judgment is true for, I'm not alone, but I and 218 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:28,200 the father that sent me to all those. 219 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,300 There are very few passages that people know very Be well that 220 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:34,800 are not religious. One of them is don't judge me. 221 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,800 You're judging me. You ever heard that before you 222 00:13:39,808 --> 00:13:42,800 ever used that before? Don't judge me, you're judging 223 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:48,100 me. One day, the one that made you 224 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:52,000 the one that created you is gonna judge you. 225 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,800 That's gonna happen. And all the, all the thinking 226 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,700 and although whining in the world that our culture has given 227 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:08,000 people to rationalize sin will be on a shelf and it will not be 228 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,900 admissible. The god of Heaven is going to 229 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:18,200 give exactly what people deserve according to his righteousness, 230 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:22,300 his Holiness. And it only only can be 231 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:27,600 different if you've been washed in the blood of the lamb and you 232 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,000 are now Justified, you want to know how I know. 233 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,800 This is a big deal today. You may carry a lot of guilt, I 234 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,100 run into people all the time that have guilt complexes and 235 00:14:39,100 --> 00:14:42,000 have a difficult time for giving themselves. 236 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,600 Let's see if this works for you think about this know, ye not 237 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,500 that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 238 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:52,600 First Corinthians, 6 & 9, don't you know, that the unrighteous 239 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,200 are not going to go to heaven. What? 240 00:14:56,300 --> 00:14:59,300 What? That's not what our culture 241 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:01,400 says. I'm a good person. 242 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:03,100 Don't, you know, I'm a good person. 243 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,700 I'm real nice. That's not what it says. 244 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:14,100 Don't you know that, the unrighteous shall not inherit 245 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,500 the kingdom of God, but do not be deceived neither. 246 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:21,700 Fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor 247 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:24,800 abusers of themselves. With mankind, nor thieves nor 248 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,600 Covetous nor drunkards, nor revilers nor extortioners shall 249 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,500 inherit the kingdom of God. I live about 20 minutes from 250 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,600 long haired Duck Dynasty. T they didn't get the passage 251 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,900 about First Corinthians, 11 1 through 16, but they're pretty 252 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:42,600 good guys. He read this to somebody doing 253 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,100 an interview and they called it a homophobe and a bigot. 254 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,000 You can wrap all the people up that want to say that when you 255 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,200 read the word of God, that makes you a homophobe or that makes 256 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,700 you a hater or that makes you judgmental. 257 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:01,800 And you can just put them on a shelf because the creator of the 258 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,800 universe is not interested in the unrighteous creative 259 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,200 self-justifying sin justifying habits of mankind. 260 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,200 He's not Here's the hope I was going to give you. 261 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:20,000 Nor thieves nor Covetous nor drunkards, nor revilers nor 262 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,300 extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. 263 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,600 And such were some of you, that means that there are people 264 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,500 right here in this audience, that fit the bill on pretty much 265 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:32,500 anything you want to write right there though. 266 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:34,500 It up in the air, find a bunch of names. 267 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:35,800 You're going to find mine in there. 268 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,800 You're going to find yours in there and listen to what he 269 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,000 says. Here's the hope. 270 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:44,000 And such were some of you but ye are washed. 271 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,800 Ye are Sanctified ye are justified in the name of the 272 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:54,000 Lord Jesus. And by the spirit of our God. 273 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,900 You want to get rid of your guilt complex, get rid of your 274 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,400 sin, you can't do it by yourself. 275 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:02,500 You can't get rid of sin by yourself. 276 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:05,700 The only one that can get rid of sin is Jesus. 277 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,900 I am the way, the truth and the life. 278 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:12,000 No man cometh unto the father. But by me, it's my stripes that 279 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,200 would heal you you won't figure out a new way to get to God. 280 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,000 Only through Jesus, he's righteous. 281 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,599 He's also knowledgeable in Romans 2:16 Paul said in the 282 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:29,600 day, when God shall judge, the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, 283 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,600 according to my gospel, there are things that Jesus knows that 284 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,300 nobody else knows about me or you moving on. 285 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:41,600 Jesus will not be deceived. This is a big one in John 286 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,500 chapter 4, Jesus, sat and talked to a Samaritan woman. 287 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:46,900 Two things are big about that. First of all, Jews didn't talk 288 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:47,800 to me. Most women. 289 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:53,200 Especially not Samaritan women and have a spiritual 290 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,100 conversation with her. And in that moment, she had been 291 00:17:56,100 --> 00:18:01,600 married, divorced, and remarried way too many times. 292 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:03,900 I'm going to give you the whole deal about marriage divorce and 293 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:05,600 remarriage real quick. You're ready for it. 294 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,100 God wants you to be married and stay married. 295 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:11,000 Your whole life. If somebody commits adultery on 296 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,600 you, Jesus said you can put them away for adultery and you're 297 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,600 innocent and you can marry again. 298 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:23,600 Sit this whole 345 marriage junk that our society is dishing out 299 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,500 is garbage. It's going to be judged by the 300 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,000 king of kings and Lord of lords who created marriage. 301 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,800 He Oughta Know How many times we can get married or not, not our 302 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,900 society. So, Jesus tells her, yeah, you 303 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,200 really don't have a right to the man now and she was shocked. 304 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:45,000 You know what the Bible says she did. 305 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,600 She went into the City and said, come see you A man, which told 306 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,300 me all things I ever did is not this the Christ. 307 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,100 Yeah, she was smart. She was smart. 308 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:02,600 She was not fool or he was not fooled in the least in 309 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,800 Ecclesiastes 12:13. The scripture says, the whole 310 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,800 duty of men of man is to fear God and keep his Commandments. 311 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,200 Listen verse 14, says, for God shall bring every work into 312 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,900 judgment with every secret thing. 313 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,800 Whether it be good or whether it be evil, I don't want to leave 314 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,100 you scared today. I don't want you to leave here 315 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:22,700 guilty today. What I want you to recognize is, 316 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,300 there's one thing that can do something about all that fear 317 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:31,700 that these passages can. Happen or to place in your 318 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:35,400 heart. Listen, here it goes blood. 319 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:45,600 If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have Fellowship 320 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:51,400 one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us. 321 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,200 You know what that means keeps on, cleansing us from all 322 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,100 unrighteousness. You don't go home. 323 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,000 You don't go to bed, scared of God. 324 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:05,800 Unless you want to live that life. 325 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:12,400 Then you better go home, and you better go to him to bed, scared 326 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,600 of God. God is Not immune to wanting 327 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,700 people to fear Him. God is not afraid of that, but 328 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:21,800 that is not the relationship God wants. 329 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,900 Fear is one of those things. Again, that is the beginning of 330 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:28,700 understanding. God will bring every secret 331 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,900 ill-will and Malice, and hatred, and envy, and jealousy. 332 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,700 The things that you think of that, sometimes nobody else 333 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:38,600 knows that you think of those of the things that Jesus knows. 334 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:43,800 Think about this. The standard Jesus will use on 335 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,200 Judgement Day is the word of God John 12:48, he that rejecteth me 336 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,800 and receiveth. Not my words. 337 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,800 Hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken. 338 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,400 The same shall judge him in the last day. 339 00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:01,700 The Bible says Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. 340 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:04,000 Let's get this straight Grace. You know what? 341 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,900 Grace is. It's a gift, you don't deserve. 342 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:11,900 Unmerited favor that's Jesus for the grace of God that bringeth 343 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:14,300 salvation hath appeared unto all men. 344 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,400 Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. 345 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,200 We should live soberly righteously and godly in this 346 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,400 present age. Listen to this, though, he said 347 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,800 grace and truth comes by Jesus Christ. 348 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,700 John 1:17. The standard of Truth. 349 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:35,900 What is it? John 17:17 the savior of mankind 350 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:37,900 said, sanctify them, through thy truth. 351 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:41,900 Thy word is truth. You better get your Bible out, 352 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,800 you better start looking at your Bible because if you want Jesus, 353 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:46,700 you've got to pay attention to his word. 354 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,500 There's nothing more disrespectful and more 355 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:51,100 disgusting today. Those suggesting to them to a 356 00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:55,200 world that are religious world's does, which basically says you 357 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,700 can have Jesus, you can have a relationship with Jesus and 358 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:02,300 ignore everything. He says, if you don't like it, 359 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,300 don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. 360 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,400 That's not what you find in scripture, what you find in 361 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,700 Scripture. Is that the word will be our 362 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,800 judge and nothing else is more important than that. 363 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,900 What about people? That tell you things? 364 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:21,700 What about people that change the word of God? 365 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,500 What about that in Revelation 22:18-19? 366 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:30,400 Here's what the Revelator said. I testify unto every man. 367 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,300 That heareth, the words of the prophecy of this book. 368 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:36,000 If any man shall add unto the words of the book of this 369 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,500 prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life 370 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:42,000 and out of the holy city, and from the things, which are 371 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,600 written. Written in this book. 372 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:46,800 Well, that's pretty plain. Why do you think John the 373 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,000 Revelator said that while why do you think he was inspired to say 374 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,300 that? It's because John was in the 375 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:57,100 middle of a big-time theological fight over Jesus. 376 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:58,800 Let me explain to you how this worked. 377 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:03,600 The gnostics would teach that there is a separation between 378 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:09,000 the Flesh and the spirit the flesh, the body it would do bad 379 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,900 things. But the spirit, oh, it was good. 380 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,400 It was good, they would apply that to Jesus. 381 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,400 And there were certain Gnostic teachers that would even teach 382 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,500 that Jesus didn't really come in the flesh. 383 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:27,200 In 1st John, the guy that wrote the Book of Revelation wrote 384 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,800 this to listen, that, which was from the beginning, which we 385 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,200 have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have 386 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:43,100 looked upon and our hands have handled the Word of Life verse 3 387 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,300 that which we have seen and heard declare, we unto you, that 388 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:49,700 ye may have fellowship with us and truly. 389 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:53,200 Our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus. 390 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:56,900 Jesus Christ, notice he said, and I write these things unto 391 00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,800 you. That your joy may be full. 392 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:04,300 You want to know why? It's a big deal that you read 393 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:06,500 the Bible cover to cover? And you know what the scriptures 394 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,000 teach? It's because this is the way 395 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,200 Jesus communicates, this is the way that Jesus is followed. 396 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,400 Jesus said, if you love me, keep my Commandments. 397 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,400 John 14 15. Jesus said. 398 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,700 If you keep my words, my father and I will come and will make 399 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:24,400 our Abode with you. You want God the father and God 400 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,000 the son and God the holy spirit in you, you want their presence, 401 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,200 you want their favor, you want Their Blessings, listen to them. 402 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,600 Listen to them. Every one of you in this room 403 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,800 have parents. Every one of you in this room, 404 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,400 know the parental and family laws that you live by. 405 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:48,100 There are boundaries and every single one of your homes. 406 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,800 If you go to a certain point and you violate those boundaries you 407 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,900 just jeopardized and perhaps even destroyed that 408 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:57,700 relationship. How on Earth can we get that 409 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:01,700 among our own physical families here and not recognize that when 410 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:08,600 it comes to God almighty? He cares and the standard, he's 411 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:14,500 going to judge us by Is truth. We're not going to be compared 412 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:16,800 by each other we run into people. 413 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,300 Sometimes it's a you know what, I'm a better person than people. 414 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:24,800 I know they go to church. That sounds like a good talking 415 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,900 point, doesn't it? Yeah, there's Hypocrites that go 416 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:33,500 to church, I'm not a hypocrite. I'm just an all-out sinner. 417 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:40,500 Let me think about this, I'm not going to go to church because 418 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:43,400 I've compared and said, you know what, some of the things that I 419 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,400 do are better than some people that go to church that are 420 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,200 hypocrites, so you're going to go to hell with all the 421 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,900 hypocrites. How much sense does that make? 422 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:55,600 The hypocrite? Argument is one of the dumbest 423 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,600 arguments I've ever heard? Why would people choose to go be 424 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,700 lost? Because they can't or don't have 425 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,300 a ability to get past a hypocrite. 426 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,200 Paul said, we do not dare make ourselves of the number or 427 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,600 compare ourselves with some that commend themselves but they 428 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,400 measuring themselves by themselves and comparing 429 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,900 themselves. Among themselves are not wise, 430 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,700 second Corinthians 10 verse 12. There are people today perhaps 431 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,300 that fall into the saddest category on Earth. 432 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,600 Because their parents have taught them an erroneous 433 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,700 Doctrine which goes like this. If you believe that Jesus is the 434 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:41,300 son of God, you're saved and you don't have to do anything else. 435 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,100 You don't have to follow Jesus, You Don't Have To Worship. 436 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:45,600 You don't have to do anything else. 437 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,200 Here's what James said about that in James, 2, and 20, but 438 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,800 wilt thou know, o vain man, that faith without works is dead. 439 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,900 I don't know about you but that doesn't make me feel very good 440 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:02,200 about a whole lot of doctrinal things that I hear at times on 441 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,800 TV. Do you believe Jesus Christ is 442 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,500 the son of God? You probably wouldn't be here 443 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,300 this morning if you didn't, but I'm going to tell you something, 444 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:15,800 that's very important. The Son of God gets to determine 445 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,500 what faith is and what your faith looks like. 446 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:22,100 You don't get to a no note, no way, does any other preacher. 447 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,000 The reason why there are churches and the reason why 448 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 there are preachers that have favor and have lots and lots of 449 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,600 people that follow them is because they withhold the word 450 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,400 of God and they withhold The Cure. 451 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,800 And here's why this is the condemnation Ation that light 452 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,600 has come into the world and Men loved Darkness rather than light 453 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,600 because their deeds were evil. If a preacher teaches a sermon 454 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:48,300 where you can basically believe in Jesus and you're all good and 455 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:51,000 you never have to worry about your sinful lifestyle. 456 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,400 That's a false teacher. He's teaching lies. 457 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,900 Why? Jesus said this in Matthew 7:21, 458 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,300 not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord shall enter into the 459 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:09,000 kingdom of heaven, but he that, doeth, the will of My Father, 460 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,400 which is in heaven. He goes on to say many will say, 461 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,100 to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy 462 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:17,000 name, and in thy name, have cast out devils, and in thy name, 463 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,300 done many wonderful works. Then, will I profess unto them? 464 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:26,600 I never knew you depart from me. Ye Network lawlessness or sin. 465 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,800 I don't know about you, but I'm going to go with Jesus on this 466 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,700 one. I'm going to go with Jesus on 467 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:40,900 the fact that Peter said be ye holy as I am Holy I'm going to 468 00:28:40,908 --> 00:28:43,800 go with Jesus who said in Matthew 5 in The Sermon on the 469 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,200 Mount be perfect just like your heavenly father is perfect. 470 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,900 You know, the only way you're ever going to be who God wants 471 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,600 you to be, is when you're saved by the blood of Jesus and your 472 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,800 following Jesus, that's the only way. 473 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:01,700 It's the only way. To those who told you that you 474 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,400 can blow off worship and blow off plugging into a local 475 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,300 church. They've lied to you. 476 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,200 People that tell you that the church is unimportant and you 477 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,700 can have a personal relationship with Jesus outside of the church 478 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:18,200 have no clue about how important the church is to Jesus, Jesus 479 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,900 said in Matthew 16:18, I will build my church and the Gates of 480 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,400 Hell shall not Prevail against it. 481 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,300 Ephesians. 1:22 says, that God put everything under Jesus feet 482 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:31,600 and made him head to be over all things to the church, which is 483 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,100 his body Colossians 1:18 through 24, makes that claim. 484 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,800 The church is his body Ephesians 5:24 says Jesus is the savior of 485 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,800 the body. You think you can be saved 486 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,600 outside of the church? Are you kidding me? 487 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,600 Who lied to you? Who told you a lie in your life 488 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,900 and told you church is not important? 489 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,400 Somebody did we live in a culture that's blowing off 490 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,600 Church like never before. It's not a big deal. 491 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,100 I'm going to be okay. I what? 492 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:17,400 What? Jesus said the hour cometh. 493 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,300 And now is when the true worshipers shall worship the 494 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,200 father in spirit, and in truth for the father seeketh, such to 495 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,800 worship him, for God is a spirit and they that worship Him must 496 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,100 worship Him in spirit and in truth, John 4, 23 and 24. 497 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:36,900 That's what Jesus told. The Samaritan woman. 498 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:41,300 And as you're going to follow Jesus and you're going to look 499 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,500 forward to Jesus Christ coming back, one day, you'd better be 500 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,200 in the church and you'd better be worshipping in his church. 501 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:50,400 And you'd better be plugged into his church because I feel sorry 502 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,100 for people that have bought into lies that the church is 503 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:55,100 unimportant, and it's not a big deal. 504 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,800 Jesus said our Paul said this in Galatians 5:19-21, The Works of 505 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,200 the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication, 506 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,700 uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry, witchcraft hatred 507 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:16,300 variance, emulations wrath Strife, seditions heresies, 508 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,000 envyings murders, drunkenness revellings and such like of the, 509 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,200 which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past that 510 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,500 they, which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of 511 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:28,100 God. Here's the point, I want to make 512 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:30,100 about that a lot of time. Times. 513 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,500 We have a little tea category, and you can do this, you can do 514 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:40,100 the ensigns and the out sense. The out Sands republic since 515 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,200 it's pretty hard to cover it up when people murder somebody 516 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,100 else, right? Pretty hard to cover it up. 517 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,100 If you're Red Solo Cup and drunk all the time. 518 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:56,000 Pretty hard, didn't it? Yeah, we don't want that. 519 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,400 We don't want a DUI showing up in the paper. 520 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,400 We don't want to be in jail for some big old bats in, right? 521 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:12,400 But then the inside sins. Envy jealousy. 522 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:20,800 Hate. Not a big deal, right? 523 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,000 Sometimes, I don't think I've done a very good job with this, 524 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,600 we get to focus on people that have committed adultery and 525 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,000 fornicators. Because that those are things 526 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,800 that are like in our face home-wrecking deals, Family 527 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,500 reckon deals. Ruins kids lives. and I'm not 528 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,800 saying we should ever stop focusing on that because those 529 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,200 are sins that our culture is cramming down our throat and 530 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,900 asking us to be okay with But if you read Galatians 5, there's a 531 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:52,800 whole lot in there, that's inside stuff. 532 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,500 In fact, probably a little bit more inside than outside. 533 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,700 And I want you to hear this. Now, not me, I'm not judging 534 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:03,400 you, I'm not judging your life, but Jesus is, he said, I'm going 535 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,600 to tell you again, as I told you in time past. 536 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,600 If you do these things, you won't go to heaven. 537 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,600 My mama was a clean freak neat, nut, whatever you want to call 538 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,300 it. She was. 539 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:18,000 She had some OCD problems. She ironed her sheets and all 540 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,600 that good stuff and folded dirty clothes in a motel room, my 541 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,900 whole life. She called it. 542 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,000 Grit on her floor, we lived in the country. 543 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,400 That's a problem. You come in from a Hayfield, you 544 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,400 come in from working all day. Here's what she would do. 545 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,100 Sometimes she would go nuts, cleaning, and she'd put a note 546 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:37,300 on the door. You're not coming in. 547 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,900 That's what the note said. I just mopped the floor. 548 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,800 That's what it would say. She would even look her precious 549 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,000 boys outside. I know that's shocking. 550 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:50,800 Probably we get her turned into CPS it today, right? 551 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,500 But then she would come to the door when it was time to come 552 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:57,200 in. And she'd say, take those nasty 553 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,100 clothes off and go get in the shower. 554 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,000 And she'd say just about like that to don't you bring that 555 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,400 Grid in here so you know what we do? 556 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:10,900 It was just boys. We shuck our dirty clothes and 557 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:14,600 we go right to the shower. That was just inside the garage 558 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:19,900 door and we get in at one by one and we wash ourselves off. 559 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,400 And then not only were, we welcome, everything was fine. 560 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:26,000 You bring your dirty clothes in my mama's house. 561 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:29,000 You bring stains on my mama's carpet, she's not going to be 562 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,500 happy with you. It's not okay. 563 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,400 Do not pass. Go, do not collect $200 who 564 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,400 brought the mud in. That's one of those deals, 565 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,000 right? You probably had some Grandma 566 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,500 neat, nut somewhere. That's that way. 567 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:50,800 Here's what Jesus is saying. I came and died for you and 568 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,000 showed you a different way to live and you don't get to live. 569 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:59,300 And keep the dirty clothes when I'm trying to give you the robe 570 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,400 of a king's son. I'm trying to put shoes on your 571 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,600 feet that will keep you out of that. 572 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:08,100 I'm trying to put a robe on you. I'm trying to prepare your mind. 573 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,200 I'm trying to lead you to a better life. 574 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:14,200 You don't get to come in my father's house with your dirty 575 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,100 clothes on. You got to take them off. 576 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,800 You know, the only one that can take them off for you. 577 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:28,000 Is Jesus. The Bible teaches us that 578 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,800 ananias came and preached. The Saul of Tarsus before he 579 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,500 became the Apostle, Paul and said, arise, and be baptized and 580 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:39,400 wash away thy sins. Calling on the name of the Lord. 581 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,900 Do you have dirty clothes on? If you do, I want you to listen 582 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:50,900 to this next passage because it's close to the very end of 583 00:35:50,908 --> 00:35:54,100 the Bible and Revelations. 20 verse 11, it says and I saw a 584 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,100 great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the 585 00:35:57,100 --> 00:36:00,800 Earth and Heaven fled away. And there was found no place for 586 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,100 them. And I saw the dead small and 587 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:05,300 great stand before God, and the books were opened. 588 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:07,900 And another book was opened, which is The Book of Life and 589 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,900 the dead were judged out of those things which were written 590 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:15,000 in the books, according to their works and the Sea gave up the 591 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,300 dead, which were in it and death. 592 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,800 Death, and he'll delivered up the dead which were in them and 593 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,600 they were judged, every man, according to their works. 594 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:28,200 You know what Jesus says about our works Matthew 7, the same 595 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,600 passage that talks about Judge, not that you be not judged says 596 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,200 this every tree that bringeth not forth. 597 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,700 Good fruit is hewn down and cast Into the Fire. 598 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,500 Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them. 599 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,100 What Jesus was condemning in Matthew, 7 1 through 5 is saying 600 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:53,200 that, you know what people's motives are and you can judge 601 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,500 people's hearts. You can't do that. if you're a 602 00:36:57,508 --> 00:37:01,700 fornicator or you're a drunkard or you're full of hate and envy, 603 00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:07,200 That's fruit. It's fruit. 604 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:12,800 And I'm not judging you when I say that God is not okay with 605 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,500 that kind of fruit. You want to know why? 606 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:21,000 I'm not judging, because all I have to do is say, hey, Jesus 607 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,700 said you're going to know them by their fruit and this kind of 608 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,600 fruits not okay. Hey, I see a lot of fruit that 609 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,400 looks like this who judged to Jesus judge that person and the 610 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,600 job of every Christian is to put God. 611 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,900 Between that person and help them. 612 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,300 See that that real problem is between them and God. 613 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,500 It's not about me, I'm not your judge, I'm not your savior, I'm 614 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:49,600 not your king, I'm not your creator but Jesus is Very 615 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,400 quickly. I want to say this because it's 616 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,000 very important. Jesus is going to surprise a lot 617 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,500 of people because they have not used what he has given them and 618 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,600 they've wasted every talent that He put in their body to use. 619 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:08,100 You know, your body's a rental vehicle, you're going to give it 620 00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:10,900 back First Corinthians 6, says, where the Temple of the Holy 621 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:14,200 Spirit. That's, that's our that's who we 622 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,800 are. Our body is God's, Not Our Own. 623 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:21,600 We were bought with a price Matthew 25:14 says, for the 624 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,700 Kingdom of Heaven, is as a man. Travelling into a far, country 625 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:26,800 who called his own servants and delivered unto them. 626 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,800 His Goods, he gave it a one five, talents to another two, 627 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,600 and to another one. And to, every man, according to 628 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,900 his ability and straightway took his journey and he that had 629 00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:37,600 received five talents went and traded with the same and made 630 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,000 other five talents. And likewise, he that received 631 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,600 to also gain the other two, but he the receive one. 632 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,700 An indignant, the Earth, and hid his Lords money. 633 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:48,100 And after a long time, the Lord of those servants comes, and 634 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:56,400 reckons with them. You know what happens, you know 635 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,000 what happens? Jesus blessed the two and the 636 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,300 five talents, Ervin and said, you've been Faithful over a few 637 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:03,800 things. I'll make you ruler over many 638 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,200 things. Enter thou into the joy of the 639 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,900 Lord and to the one Talent, man, he cast him into outer Darkness 640 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,900 where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth. 641 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,100 You see, God expects you to use your body and your mind and your 642 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:21,000 hands. Not for your own Glory, but for 643 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,700 his and here's what you're going to see if you're a logical about 644 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:28,100 this, what God is going to do. If you allow him to be in charge 645 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:30,600 of your life, it is, it's going to change you. 646 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,400 He's going to alter you, he's going to make you better. 647 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:36,300 You wanna know what's going to happen to the Christian Man. 648 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,600 And the Christian woman, they get married that are under the 649 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,300 control of Jesus Christ, they're going to be a better man and a 650 00:39:42,308 --> 00:39:44,300 better woman. They're going to have a better 651 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:48,200 marriage. And gods going to keep that 652 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,800 going until they die. You know what? 653 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,400 I've learned, I've learned it. When you first start out, and 654 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,200 you first start using your talents, your kind of wheat need 655 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,100 about it and you're not very good teaching. 656 00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:00,500 The word of God good night. I've never thought I would do 657 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,600 this first time. Anybody ever heard me all they 658 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,800 saw was the top of my head and what was 58 Pages? 659 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,000 Took me about 12 minutes now you're praying. 660 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:16,100 Oh, please. Whenever you use something, it 661 00:40:16,100 --> 00:40:20,000 gets better. You go start visiting people. 662 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,500 It's going to be difficult at first. 663 00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:24,600 You go start serving people. Sometimes it's going to be 664 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,600 difficult. You keep increasing those 665 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,000 talents, you've hone those skills. 666 00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:30,900 I promise you. There are people in this 667 00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:34,400 building that cook and do and go above and beyond. 668 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,900 And when they first started, they're not even close to what 669 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:41,800 they were when they started out. God expects you to use your 670 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,200 talent. We all have it. 671 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,500 And if you don't know what it is, chances are the people 672 00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:51,800 around, you do listen to them, figure out what it is and grow 673 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,800 that talent, because Jesus is coming one day and he's 674 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,700 absolutely takes it. Personal if we don't take what 675 00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,900 he has given us and we use it for his glory. 676 00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:06,600 And again, the logic is I'm going to inherently bless you 677 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:11,200 and give you something greater. I'm going to make you greater 678 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,400 than you ever. Could have been if you'll just 679 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,300 devote your heart to me. That's really what talent 680 00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:23,300 multiplying is all about last of all, when Jesus comes, he's 681 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:31,100 going to separate people. When the son of man, Matthew 25 682 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:34,300 shall come in his glory, verse 31, with all his holy angels 683 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,400 with him, then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory. 684 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,300 And before him shall be gathered, all nations and he 685 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:41,900 shall separate them from one another. 686 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:45,000 As a Shepherd, divideth his sheep from the goats and he 687 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000 shall set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left 688 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,400 then shall the king say unto them on his right hand. 689 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,600 Come you blessed of my father inherit the Kingdom prepared for 690 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,400 you from the foundation of the world. 691 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:59,500 This Matthew 25 passage is a real big one because it's Knows 692 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:05,600 how much Jesus requires of your care and concern and love for 693 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,100 other people. He gets down to the 694 00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:12,500 nitty-gritty. He says I was sick. 695 00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:16,000 You didn't visit me in prison. I was naked and you clothed me. 696 00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:17,700 Hungry thirsty. Didn't give me anything to eat 697 00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:21,400 or drink. And they said, when did we see 698 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,800 you this way? When did we see you this way? 699 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,900 And Jesus said, in his much as you have done it unto one of the 700 00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:32,000 least of these my brethren. You've done it unto me. 701 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,800 If you don't in the course of your week of your month of your 702 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,100 year ever, have any interaction where you do anything for 703 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:43,900 anybody else in the body of Christ, this passage should 704 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:49,600 rattle your cage. The church is not about one man 705 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,400 or one woman or one family. The church is about each. 706 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,900 And every there is no big and little, there are every single 707 00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:04,000 member is important. Jesus is going to come and say, 708 00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:10,300 hey, All of my Lambs, all of my sheep. 709 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:15,500 You never had time for one single one, and you don't have 710 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:17,900 time for anybody else that saved. 711 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:21,200 And anybody else that serving me and following me and you can't 712 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,400 give your time and you can't devote yourself to that. 713 00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:27,600 It's just the same as if you slap me in the face and you 714 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,700 didn't have time for me. Judgment Day is personal with 715 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:38,200 God. Judgment Day is when God's mercy 716 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,900 and his grace will be on display for those who were in Jesus 717 00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:45,800 Christ, but it will also be a day and which God's Wrath is on 718 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,800 display for people that have thumbed their nose at every 719 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,800 teaching, and every doctrine that Jesus came and gave his 720 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,500 life's blood this morning. We're going to sit or stand 721 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:56,400 around the table. There's going to be a loaf of 722 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,000 unleavened bread that we are going to partake up and there's 723 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,900 a cup filled with grape juice. The reason we do this is because 724 00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:07,100 almost Thousand years ago, the Savior said. 725 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,100 This cup is the New Testament ratified by my blood. 726 00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:20,000 It means every page of this New Testament, has been ratified by 727 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,500 the blood that he shed on Calvary, and that's how Jesus 728 00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:28,500 would say my words, they are spirit and they are life to you. 729 00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:34,500 and when people walked away from Jesus dejected turned to his 730 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:38,800 disciples and said, when he also go away and bless Peters Hearts, 731 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:47,500 he said to whom shall we go thou Hast the words of eternal life, 732 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:51,600 you may follow yourself, you may follow your mama, you may follow 733 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,500 your daddy, you may follow a boyfriend or a girlfriend, but 734 00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:59,000 unless you're following the words of Jesus Christ that were 735 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,500 blood-bought words in a Blood Bought Covenant, you do not and 736 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:08,000 will not and have not followed words that give life, this 737 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,700 message gives life. One day, he's going to be able 738 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:17,100 to speak life, eternal life to you when he calls your name. 739 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,000 You can't find that anywhere else. 740 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:22,700 You can't have that anywhere else. 741 00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:31,000 But Jesus. There's a story I'll close with. 742 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:39,000 preacher wrote about a a funeral that he had to go to. 743 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,600 He said it was the worst funeral he'd ever been to in his life. 744 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,500 Some of you have been to a lot of funerals and you've been to 745 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:49,600 some bad ones. Some that just rip your guts 746 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,900 out. Preacher said it was the funeral 747 00:45:54,900 --> 00:46:01,300 of a 20 year, old young, man. He was the apple of his parents 748 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,400 eye. Beautiful young man. 749 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,500 Everybody loved him. Everybody liked him. 750 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,800 He was curate. He was riding his motorcycle 751 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,700 that his mama didn't want him to ride. 752 00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:16,900 She was always on him about safety. 753 00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:25,800 He was struck and killed. He was the only son, the only 754 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:31,500 child they had. Preacher said, you can't imagine 755 00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:36,000 the outpouring of grief. It came around that family, it 756 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,700 was just lying after a line that the mom and the dad were just 757 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,600 devastated devastated. It's not even a good enough 758 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,200 word. They couldn't hardly stand up. 759 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,700 They it was one of those deals. They had cried until the tears 760 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:54,200 would no longer come. The preacher did his best to get 761 00:46:54,200 --> 00:47:00,600 through the service. and as he said, his last a man and people 762 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:06,300 began to follow by The father motion. 763 00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:10,300 To the preacher to come to him. That told the story and the 764 00:47:10,308 --> 00:47:13,300 preacher went over to his charity, said when everyone, but 765 00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:16,300 the family is out, I want to say a prayer. 766 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:21,500 At the casket. And I said to you, do you think 767 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:23,200 you can do it and he said I'm going to do it. 768 00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:28,500 The preacher went to the funeral director outline, the father's 769 00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:33,500 request with swift dignity. Everyone else was ushered out 770 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,400 This man. And his wife, drew, the strength 771 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:43,400 to rise one last time and go to the head of the coffin that held 772 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,000 onto their beautiful baby boy. And all those memories. 773 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,600 The preacher said, I still remember the prayer. 774 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,500 Oh God, thank you for giving us this boy. 775 00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:00,700 He's 20 years. Thank you for all the love. 776 00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:07,700 In the memories. and the goodness that he brought us, 777 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:16,400 Father, help us to go on, help us to overcome this and this 778 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,100 tragedy. Help us to live our life for 779 00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:23,400 you. Forgive us. 780 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,700 And please father. Do what you can for our boy. 781 00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:34,300 We know you were a just and a good God. 782 00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,500 Do what you can for our boy. He closed his prayer in Jesus 783 00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:44,800 name. Took three steps toward the door 784 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:50,200 and collapsed. two strong men, grabbed him under his arms and 785 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,000 ushered him to the Car that waited and take him to the 786 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,200 cemetery. His mother gasp and literally 787 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,700 fainted. One of the nephews that she had 788 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:06,100 picked her up and carried her to the car and put her in it. 789 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:11,200 Preacher said, I turned away and I wept as I have not wept in a 790 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:18,300 long, long time. truly, he said it was the saddest funeral I've 791 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:22,400 ever been to because that boy Was not a Christian. 792 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,800 Wasn't a Christian. I want to tell you this. 793 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:35,500 When I was a young man, I heard my dad say this and I never 794 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:40,600 forgot it. My dad loves us all of us, 795 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,100 Brothers, we talk to our dad several times, I do several 796 00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:49,200 times a week. I remember as a little boy, he 797 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,900 would say in the Pulpit, he was preaching. 798 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:54,900 I would rather come around the curve. 799 00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,700 See my boys. Haven't had an automobile wreck. 800 00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:05,900 And their flesh that I would give my life for it. 801 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:14,400 Wrapped around a tree. and know that they were safe and going to 802 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:19,200 go to heaven, then I would see them live their lives. 803 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,500 Outside and away from Jesus Christ. 804 00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:30,000 I want to tell you something. That always stuck with me. 805 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:35,700 Always stuck with me. And I wanted to stick with you 806 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:39,800 today. Jesus said be thou faithful unto 807 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:45,700 death and I will give thee a crown of righteousness, God's 808 00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:50,000 not asking you to be perfect but God's asking you to be faithful, 809 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,200 he's asking you to give heart soul and mind to him. 810 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,500 Because one day, you're going to face him. 811 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,600 And the hands that are outstretched inviting the world 812 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,300 to come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I 813 00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:11,600 will give you rest are the same hands that can save you, but 814 00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:16,200 they're also the same hands. That one day will be your judge. 815 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,800 The hands today can be your savior. 816 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,900 The hands today can heal you. The hands today can mend your 817 00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:25,800 broken heart, and put you back together again. 818 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:33,700 One day those hands will hand down a sentence Where do you 819 00:51:33,700 --> 00:51:36,600 stand with the hands of Jesus today? 820 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,700 Have you been baptized for the remission of your sins into 821 00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:44,600 Christ? Jesus based off your faith and 822 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,000 confession? That Jesus is the son of God and 823 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,000 your commitment to change your life. 824 00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:53,300 Maybe you've done that. But you've let send get a hold 825 00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:56,000 of you. This is what we do here. 826 00:51:57,700 --> 00:52:00,400 Every single person that's not going to come forward this 827 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,400 morning. That's been faithful. 828 00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:06,900 And that is Forgiven has done this before. 829 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,800 They've had a moment where they weren't okay with God, and they 830 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,000 got right with God, but it takes courage to step outside. 831 00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:23,100 The pull of your life. Satan is pulling for all he's 832 00:52:23,100 --> 00:52:27,600 worth. I'll give one more story. 833 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:32,400 I'm done. My wife Julie has a grandmother. 834 00:52:33,700 --> 00:52:37,100 That is suffering from a terrible disease, that many of 835 00:52:37,100 --> 00:52:39,400 you know, all too well in your family's dementia. 836 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,200 When she was a young mother, she had four children. 837 00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:53,600 Her husband was not a Christian and he gave her the worst 838 00:52:53,700 --> 00:52:56,500 possible. You could never imagine the kind 839 00:52:56,500 --> 00:53:00,300 of grief, he did later on in his life, she want him to Christ and 840 00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:03,500 he would in bitter tears. Talk about how miserable a man. 841 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:07,200 He was early on in their marriage, their children were 842 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,200 little, they started to go to church one Sunday morning and he 843 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,100 wanted to play hardball and be nasty about it. 844 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,400 And they literally had a tug-of-war over the children in 845 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:22,000 the Yard. She never back down for a 846 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,800 second. Not a second. 847 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:31,100 And she won. And all of her children follow 848 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:37,000 Jesus Christ today. Listen, we feel like we're in 849 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,200 the tug-of-war for you this morning and we're on the line 850 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,700 with you. Most importantly, the greatest 851 00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:46,900 most powerful creator of the universe will not lose that 852 00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:50,700 battle if you'll just grab a hold and let us pull you over, 853 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:55,900 let us help you let the Lord help you but don't stay where 854 00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:59,100 you are. Don't stay in sin. 855 00:54:01,900 --> 00:54:05,600 Won't you come? We thank you for listening to 856 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:10,400 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 857 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:13,900 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 858 00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:17,200 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 859 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,600 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at True 860 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,100 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 861 00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:31,000 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 862 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,400 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 863 00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:38,100 We would love for you to be our honored guest.