1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,300 In a heated conversation with the Pharisees and scribes, Jesus 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:09,900 defended his credentials as the begotten Son of God and he 3 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:13,300 pointedly accused them by saying that if Abraham were their 4 00:00:13,300 --> 00:00:16,400 father, as they claimed, then they would have allowed 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,300 Abraham's, example, or they would have followed. 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,800 I should say, Abraham's example, and believed the word of God, 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,700 and if they were thus the children of God, they would have 8 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,500 been braced, the Son of God who came and demonstration of God's 9 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:32,800 power, but they refused to Except even the most obvious of 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,100 evidences, they rejected the truth of their own scriptures. 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:40,600 And Jesus points out that since their religion was based upon 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,000 falsehood, and upon a lie that their father was not the god of 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,100 truth. But rather the God and Father of 14 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:51,300 every lie, and all liars, Satan himself. 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,100 He's a rather scathing words. When Jesus says, you are of your 16 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,700 father, the devil, he was a murderer from the beginning and 17 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:03,100 Abode, not in the truth. Because there is no truth in him 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,500 for. He is a liar, and he is the 19 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,000 father of it, and it's also difficult to look someone in the 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,100 eye and say, I believe you're wrong about that. 21 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,900 Or I believe, maybe you're a little bit off base, or your 22 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:19,400 misguided, Jesus looked at these Hypocrites and he said, you're 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,700 of the devil and the devil is a liar and I know that you're the 24 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,600 children of the devil because you're following and you're 25 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,200 believing a lie, a tough pill to swallow, but the truth 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,800 nonetheless us. And the fact of the matter is 27 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,800 whether or not we really have the backbone of the confidence 28 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,400 to stand and declare it. So the fact is, when you reject 29 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,700 or anybody rejects the truth, there is nothing else to 30 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:47,300 believe, but a lie, if I don't believe what is right. 31 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:49,500 Then obviously, I believe what is wrong. 32 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:51,200 Because everybody believes something. 33 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,600 And there are only two choices where that is concerned when you 34 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,700 for whatever reason reject the truth of God you have given the 35 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:00,800 devil, an open invitation to deceive you through sin. 36 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,900 Paul said that this is what happened in second Thessalonians 37 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:07,100 2 and verse 10. When he spoke of some by saying 38 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:09,699 they received not the love of the truth that they might be 39 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:11,700 saved. And for this cause God shall 40 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:16,200 send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie that 41 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,000 they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,400 pleasure in unrighteousness because they did not desire to 43 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,000 know and obey the truth. God allowed them to believe a 44 00:02:27,008 --> 00:02:32,500 lie and see the end and damning whence of their sin. 45 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,900 You don't really boils down to one thing tonight. 46 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:38,200 And that is that every person stands at a Crossroads and that 47 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,100 we only have two choices in life. 48 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,300 We can either open our heart and our mind to what God says about 49 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:47,300 any and every matter, or we can choose to believe the lies of 50 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:49,900 the wicked one. Now it's no surprise that most 51 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:53,000 people have chosen to reject the truth tonight concerning any 52 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,500 number of subjects, morality salvation, the church, the 53 00:02:56,500 --> 00:03:00,200 necessity of Christian Living and on and on we might go and as 54 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,400 the result Geordie of people about us. 55 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,800 Believe the many lies that Satan has pawned off on a world that 56 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,800 seems eager to be deceived. Let me explain how this works. 57 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,900 God says, through Moses in the beginning, I created the heavens 58 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:14,900 and the Earth. That's a simple. 59 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:17,700 Declarative statement that God in the beginning of time, 60 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:20,600 created all that. Is he created the heavens and 61 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,200 the Earth? And tonight I have a had the 62 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,400 faith to accept that statement or I am an Infidel. 63 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,300 I either believe what the Bible says there or I reject the truth 64 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:34,500 of the ER well, the world finds that hard to accept and so some 65 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:37,300 Infidel scientists can come along with a Preposterous 66 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:41,400 theories such as that, man. Originated from A non-sex 67 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,700 Primitive, Life Cell, that spontaneously evolved and over 68 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:48,700 the course of millions and millions of years that sell 69 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:51,700 finally developed. And it evolved to the point that 70 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,900 it became a creature with legs, and with arms, and sprouted 71 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:58,600 hair, and started climbing, trees and eating bananas. 72 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,100 And that's your great, uncle Harry. 73 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:03,600 And People believe that and teachers can stand up in a 74 00:04:03,608 --> 00:04:07,000 classroom and they can teach that and people will believe 75 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,200 that they accept that simply because they have said, no, and 76 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,700 their mind in the Bible truth that in the beginning, God 77 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:14,600 created the heavens and the earth. 78 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:17,700 Now, God had a simple principle when he created all living 79 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:19,600 things and he made them of two genders. 80 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,000 He made male and he made female and one need only. 81 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,800 Look at the course of nature to understand that this is God's 82 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,000 system and God's plan for the propagation of the human race. 83 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,800 And for that kind of companion. A ship, but the world says it is 84 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,400 not that way, they reject that. And so some sociologists can 85 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,800 come along and tell us that marriage can be between two men 86 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,800 or two women or that two men or two women can constitute a 87 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,400 functional and loving home. Just as much as any traditional 88 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,500 home with a traditional mother and father, and we've reached 89 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:52,600 the point today that the world upholds homosexuality, and 90 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,500 obviously, unnatural lifestyle as a glorified lifestyle, 91 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:59,300 instead of being, what the Bible calls it, and that is an 92 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,400 Abomination, against God. Jesus said I am the way, the 93 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,800 truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father. 94 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,700 But by Me, Jesus also said, if you continue in my word then are 95 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:11,800 ye my disciples indeed. But the world says that that's 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,800 too dogmatic, that's too narrow. They reject that kind of bigoted 97 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,300 Theology. And so you end up with so many 98 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:22,000 denominations and various religions and factions and sects 99 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,500 in the world that people today don't even know whether there is 100 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:29,000 such a thing as absolute truth or Truth Versus error. 101 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:32,500 It's all just a feeling it's all just An experienced it all, it's 102 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:35,200 all, just what you choose to believe, or what road, you 103 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,500 choose to go down in life and there really is no standard that 104 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:40,700 dictates the difference between right and wrong. 105 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:44,000 And so, again, I say that if you reject the premise of God's 106 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,600 word, if you reject the truth, all there is to believe is a 107 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,000 lie. And if you refuse to listen to 108 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,300 God, the only one left to listen to is the devil. 109 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,300 And the Bible says, he is the father of Lies, I believe. 110 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:01,600 Tonight, if there are at least seven lies that see, Attempts to 111 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,300 whisper into any eager and listening ear. 112 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,800 And he has certainly deceived our world with his moral and 113 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,200 religious Fabrications. And I think we can take the 114 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,400 deceptions of the devil and we can really boil them down, 115 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,100 categorize them and 27, basic falsehoods that he has passed 116 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:19,800 off on the world tonight and I want to discuss them with you 117 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,200 for a few minutes. I want to begin by saying that 118 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,600 Satan number one, wants you to believe that there are many ways 119 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:30,200 to get to God. If there is a God, there are 120 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,100 many ways Ways to approach him to, please him to serve him and 121 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:39,200 to finally inherit eternity with him, despite the fact that Jesus 122 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,700 in John 14 and 6, very dogmatically said, I am the way, 123 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,100 the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the 124 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:50,100 father. But by Me, Jesus said, in words, 125 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:53,600 that could not be any plainer in John, chapter 10 and verse 9, I 126 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,300 am the door. And by me. 127 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,400 If any man shall enter in, he shall be saved. 128 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,300 Jesus claimed in Matthew 28 and verse 8, In all authority in 129 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:06,100 heaven and on Earth has been given unto me and Paul in 130 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,100 Colossians 3 and verse 17 said whatsoever ye do in word or 131 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:12,300 indeed. It must all be done in the name 132 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:14,800 of or by the authority of the Lord. 133 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,200 Jesus. Now it's convenient when one 134 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,800 finds God's way too restrictive or too narrow or unpleasing to 135 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,300 think that some other way will do just as well. 136 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:28,900 And as a result of that kind of rationale man is fooled around 137 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:30,600 over the course of hundreds of years. 138 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:34,200 And he has built for himself, a maze of denominations and 139 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,600 religious factions and told the world. 140 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,600 That one of them is just as good as another. 141 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,700 Until today, we have reached the point that you can't hard to 142 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:44,600 distinguish any of the religions in the world. 143 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,800 In fact, this was really driven home in my mind here, just a few 144 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,200 years ago. Immediately after the horrible 145 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,200 tragedies of 911, you may remember that there were a 146 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,600 number of reactions amongst our nation really around the world 147 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,900 after that horrible day, and one of them for a very brief amount 148 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,400 of time it seemed There was going to be a little bit of a 149 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,200 religious Awakening at a religious revival. 150 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:09,800 A Revival of spiritual thinking on the part of people, I know, 151 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,500 one thing that It produced was a rallying cry for Unity for 152 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:18,600 ecumenical Unity for religions to come together and to find 153 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,200 Common Ground. Instead of focusing upon their 154 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,700 differences and being alienated. And they explained that the 155 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:27,200 reason that we were living in the climate that we are in the 156 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,600 world is because people are religions really can't get 157 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:31,100 along. Long. 158 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:33,299 And so religion is the culprit of the problem? 159 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,900 Well, it our local paper down home. 160 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:39,299 One day, I was shocked when a newspaper article came out. 161 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,200 That said, one of the largest and mainstream denominations in 162 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,400 town was going to host a forum or a seminar that coming weekend 163 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,700 and again this is not some far left organization. 164 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:54,200 This is not some Fringe or radical group. 165 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:59,000 This is a large mainstream respected denomination, not only 166 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,800 in that Community but throughout the country. 167 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:05,900 And this group was going to hold a forum inviting preachers of 168 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:07,900 various religions to come together. 169 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,700 And not only were they going to invite the quote-unquote, pastor 170 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:14,900 of another denomination in town but they were as well going to 171 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,200 invite one of the local Jewish rabbis and a Muslim. 172 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,100 Clear it to this meeting and these men were all going to be 173 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,800 given an opportunity to get up and explain their beliefs and 174 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,500 talk about their beliefs and they would take questions and so 175 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:28,400 forth. And this preacher with this 176 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,700 denomination was quoted as saying that it is Is time that 177 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:35,900 we begin focusing on the areas, in which we agree, instead of 178 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:40,000 focusing upon the areas in which we disagree because he said, we 179 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,500 really have more in common than we have that. 180 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:44,700 What divides us. Now I'm going to tell you that's 181 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,800 where we are today. We live in a pluralistic 182 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,700 society. We live in a society today where 183 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:54,800 no one can claim that they have the truth to the exclusion of 184 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,900 other people and I'm going to dogmatically and unashamedly. 185 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:02,100 Say tonight that I have nothing religiously In common, I have no 186 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,400 basis. No grounds for any type of 187 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,000 fellowship or Unity. Not even the beginning point of 188 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,300 such with anybody who believes that. 189 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:12,200 Jesus Christ is anything, but what he claims to be. 190 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,500 And that is the only begotten, Son of God, God in the form of 191 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,300 man who came down and vicariously died for the sins of 192 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:21,100 man. And he is the only way to get to 193 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:23,300 heaven. And I unashamedly say tonight 194 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:26,300 that I don't believe they'll be a person man woman, boy, or girl 195 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:29,100 at the age of accountability, that will walk through the Gates 196 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,500 of Heaven, who has not placed They're obedient faith in Jesus 197 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:34,300 Christ. There is no other way to get to 198 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,000 heaven. Man's goodness, will not get you 199 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,200 there who you are, will not get you there. 200 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,800 The fact that you live in a certain country will not get you 201 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,600 there. The fact that your parents are 202 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,300 religious will not get you there. 203 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,200 Jesus said I am the way I am the truth and I am the life and I 204 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,300 know that that's too narrow and that's too dogmatic for people 205 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:55,500 in this world today, but I believe that Jesus is the only 206 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,500 way to heaven and will always be the only way to get to heaven. 207 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,000 But you know, we shouldn't really be Prize at, that's the 208 00:11:02,008 --> 00:11:04,900 mentality of millions of people in this country and around the 209 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:08,300 world, they calls after all preachers have hammered home for 210 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:10,800 Generations. Now into people's minds here, it 211 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,000 doesn't matter what you believe, it's all about a good feeling. 212 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:16,300 It's all about that. You just try to get along with 213 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,300 other people, it's all about the warm fuzzy feeling. 214 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:21,600 You have about other people because really people are 215 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,200 sincere and they're willing tension and what we believe in 216 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,800 what we practice, why that's just mechanics, and that's 217 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,500 irrelevant and that's unimportant. 218 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:30,700 Why not take the next step and say that? 219 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,200 People that reject Jesus Christ. As the Son of God, they just 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,400 have a different understanding than we do. 221 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,300 They just come from a different background than we do and we 222 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:43,300 need to tolerate and we need to co-exist and we need to extend 223 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,700 the right hand of Fellowship to all of these religious people 224 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:48,900 around the world. Don't believe it for a minute 225 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,800 because tonight it is a lie of the devil that there are many 226 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,600 ways to get to God. Get into heaven is not like 227 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,000 looking at a road map of the United States and choosing the 228 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,200 most scenic route to get. Our, but Jesus said straight and 229 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,200 narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there. 230 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,900 Be that find it, Matthew 7 and 14. 231 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:13,000 The Bible declares there is one body and Paul said that Christ 232 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,700 is the savior of that body Ephesians 5 and 23. 233 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,000 And it boils down to this tonight, you're either in that 234 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 body or you're not, you're either in the church that Jesus 235 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,700 Built, or you're not and your salvation depends tonight upon 236 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:30,000 whether or not you are in it. One is not as good as another 237 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,700 one, believe it. Is not as valid, is another one 238 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,800 church, is not as right as another Satan and they want you 239 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,900 to believe that, but Jesus says, every plant that my heavenly 240 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:44,100 father hath not planted shall be rooted up, Matthew 15 and verse 241 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:46,800 13. Number two, though Satan wants 242 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:52,000 you to believe that the word of God is not absolutely true. 243 00:12:52,900 --> 00:12:57,000 Now, it's alright to believe that the Bible has good points. 244 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,700 It's alright to believe that the Bible has an overall. 245 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:05,000 Hood moral message and in encouraging moral by which to 246 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,300 guide your life, but it's going a little far to say that the 247 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:14,700 word of God is just that that it is the word of God. 248 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:20,300 Inspired of God and Authority in all matters of faith and 249 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,500 practice. And you know that's been the 250 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,500 tactic of Satan since the beginning. 251 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,900 We know the story. When God created the original 252 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:30,700 pair and place them in the Paradisio Garden. 253 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,800 And it wasn't very long after God had given them one law to 254 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,800 keep one prohibition. God said there's a tree in the 255 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,300 midst of the garden that you are not to partake of you and eat of 256 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:42,700 every tree of the garden. But God said the tree of the 257 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:45,600 knowledge of Good and Evil. God said, Thou shalt not eat of 258 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,600 it and God said, if you do eat of it, you will die. 259 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,900 There was nothing convoluted. There was nothing hard to 260 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,100 understand about that. If you could see through a 261 00:13:53,108 --> 00:13:55,100 ladder, you can see what God was saying. 262 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,100 There is one tree. Do not eat it. 263 00:13:57,100 --> 00:14:00,000 Leave it alone or you will die. That is sin. 264 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,600 It is transgression. You know, my law that was God's 265 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,500 unction unto Adam and the some to Eve Satan's live it into the 266 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:09,000 garden. And he approached Eve with a 267 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,400 half insinuating, a remark. He said hath. 268 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,800 God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden. 269 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Satan was not seeking information. 270 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:22,000 Satan knew just as well as he did. 271 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,500 What God had said. He knew that that tree was 272 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:27,600 off-limits and forbidden so far as they were concerned and so he 273 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,500 wasn't sincerely trying to find out what God had said We Know 274 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:31,400 Better. Than that. 275 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,200 But rather Satan was trying to plant the seed of doubt in the 276 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,700 mind of eat, he was trying to get Eve devaney. 277 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:40,100 Well, what did God really say? What did God really mean by what 278 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:42,000 he said? Anyway, maybe it's not just 279 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,200 exactly. Like I thought it was maybe I've 280 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,500 overlooked something here, maybe I read too much into what God 281 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:51,000 was saying, you know, sometimes it's easier to allow a seed of 282 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,400 Doubt get planted in our mind. And if it stays there, it grows 283 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,100 and it grows into something big over time. 284 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,500 Maybe you have started out for church, some Sunday morning got 285 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,300 in the car with your wife and got just a few blocks down the 286 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:07,000 street, she begins to mumble and think to herself, you know, I'm 287 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,900 not sure. I turn the oven off and she had 288 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:11,300 started lunch a little early. She said, I'm not sure, I turn 289 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:14,200 that up and off and then she thinks well, maybe I did, she 290 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,600 gets a few more blocks down the street. 291 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,800 She says, no, you know, I think I left that oven on well, maybe 292 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,900 not. And then you get a little 293 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:22,400 closer. She says, I know, I didn't, I 294 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,500 just can't ride. No, I didn't turn that oven on 295 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,000 and by the time you pull it, by the time you pull into the 296 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,300 parking, lot of the It's building. 297 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,400 She is convinced that the house has burned to a heap of Ash and 298 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,700 you've got to turn around and race back to the house, all to 299 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,600 find out that she did turn the oven off, but she allowed that 300 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,700 thought to cross her mind. And because that seed of Doubt 301 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,800 was placed there that seed of Doubt grew until she had 302 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,200 convinced herself that that was the case. 303 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,600 Well that's really what happens to Eve here. 304 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,300 I think Satan says hath. God said that you shall not eat 305 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:55,400 of every tree in the garden. Did God really say that and she 306 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,300 starts thinking? Well what did God say? 307 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,200 And Then she overreacts a little bit. 308 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,500 She says, yes God said. We should not eat of this tree. 309 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:05,600 Neither should we touch it? Lest we die? 310 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:08,900 Well there unless something wasn't recorded in the scripture 311 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,800 that God said the Bible doesn't say anything about God. 312 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,500 Saying not to touch it. God said not to eat of it. 313 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,600 She's overreacting. She's questioning. 314 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:19,300 The wheels are turning in her mind. 315 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:22,200 What did God really say? She's not exactly sure of 316 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,600 herself and Satan sees the opening. 317 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:29,100 He sees the vulnerability and he seizes upon And he denies what 318 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,000 God said. He said not only will you not 319 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,600 die. Your eyes will be opened and 320 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,500 you'll be able to see like gods and he painted the tree as being 321 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,500 perfectly harmless. Now, you know, are is usually 322 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,500 mixed with truth. It was true that the tree was 323 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:47,200 not physically. Fatal, it was true that the 324 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,600 fruit on that tree was just as edible as the tree next to it. 325 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,400 It was not poisonous but it was and it was true. 326 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,300 The eating its fruit would do what Satan said it Would do it 327 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:00,300 would bring about the knowledge of Good and Evil. 328 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,800 It was wrong, though, to even suggest that eating the fruit 329 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,900 would not really do what God said it would do. 330 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,500 And that is bring about their separation from God. 331 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:13,000 And cause death claiming to believe the Bible is not in and 332 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,900 of itself, believing the Bible and believing some things that 333 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:20,200 are contained in. The Bible is not parallel to 334 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,300 accepting the word of God by faith or letting the word of 335 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:27,400 Christ dwell richly within you. Now, few people among those who 336 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,400 profess Religion deny, the entirety of the Bible, most 337 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,600 people accept some teaching or Psalm statement son, premise of 338 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,700 the word of God, millions of people. 339 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,900 And I do mean millions of people who go to church every Sunday 340 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,700 who profess religion, they deny or they ignore some portion of 341 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:49,800 the scripture and they justify that in a number of ways that we 342 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,400 may talk about later on in this meeting, they deny the 343 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,100 inspiration of the Bible. They say that the Bible was just 344 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:58,200 generally revealed by God, but not inspired by the Holy Spirit. 345 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,000 And so therefore, it's not word by word and line, by line, 346 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,700 literally, the word of God. They deny the relevancy of the 347 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:06,900 authority. The sufficiency the, the 348 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,900 application in modern times of the word of God and Satan 349 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:13,700 convinces people to believe that he'll the Bible just merely 350 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:16,800 becomes somewhat of a good book, but a book that is wracked with 351 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,400 error, a book that is insufficient a book that is 352 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,200 unable to guide, man, and help man, to steer through the 353 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,200 complicated course of life in our modern day. 354 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:28,700 Satan is convince people that doctor A matter of personal 355 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:31,500 preference or belief. But Jesus said, Thy word is 356 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:33,500 truth. John 17 and 17. 357 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,700 Satan says, there is no such thing as a moral absolute. 358 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,700 That truth is relative. David said, however, the word of 359 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:43,500 the Lord is Right, Psalm 33. And for Satan says, God really 360 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:45,600 didn't mean what he said. You can't take God. 361 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,600 Literally Paul says, let God be true. 362 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:54,400 But every man, a liar Romans 3 and verse 4, David said in Psalm 363 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,100 119 in 160 Thy word is true from the Canning. 364 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:02,300 And every one of the righteous judgments endureth forever. 365 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,200 Satan wants you to believe tonight. 366 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,500 The word of God is not true. I asked you if the word of God 367 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:11,200 is not true. What is number three? 368 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:16,700 Satan wants you to believe. God will make an exception in my 369 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:20,800 case and what a deception this really is. 370 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:24,400 God will make an exception in my case. 371 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,700 How many people subconsciously believe that? 372 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,600 How many people have been lulled into a sense of complacency and 373 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,800 false security thinking? Yes, there's a God and God is 374 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,700 going to judge sin. One of these days but God looks 375 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:41,500 at me a little differently than he does other people. 376 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:44,700 I've got a little bit of a different kind of relationship 377 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:46,600 with God. Then people out yonder. 378 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,500 Who don't profess religion? Surely God takes into account 379 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:53,600 who I am and the background. I come from, you know, 380 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,900 contemporary Society has made a mockery of the rule of law and 381 00:19:56,900 --> 00:19:59,400 Justice. Our system today is really 382 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,800 broken in many respects and I know that that's the case, 383 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,600 because you can basically get out on a busy street corner at 384 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,600 High Noon and commit first-degree murder. 385 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,400 And if you've got enough money and you can hire an influential 386 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,500 enough Attorney At a smart enough, Attorney. 387 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:15,300 He can usually work that around. If you get, just the right jury 388 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:18,500 that you can get off the hook. If you don't get completely 389 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,300 acquitted, then you can at least get a reduced sentence. 390 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,300 You can get off on some lesser charge, that's just the way our 391 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,000 system works. There are loopholes in the law 392 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,200 today and people know how to seize on those loopholes and 393 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,500 they know how to get people in trouble out of trouble. 394 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:35,000 Rather, regardless of the trouble, they really should be 395 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,800 in. And because we live in a society 396 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,300 that does have loopholes and safeguards and we really live in 397 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:44,300 a society Doesn't accept responsibility for its actions 398 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:46,300 anymore. We've really been lulled ourself 399 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:48,200 into believing in religion, that that's that. 400 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,800 It's that way with God. There are loopholes in the law 401 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,900 of God. God looks at us differently. 402 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,900 It's really not going to happen to me. 403 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:58,100 I'm not going to have to stand before God and account for my 404 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:01,000 life. God looks at me differently. 405 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:07,400 Wrong God makes no exceptions for anyone in Romans 2 and verse 406 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,900 2 Paul said but we are sure that the Judgment of God is according 407 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,600 According to truth against them which commit such things. 408 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,400 Now, the context is the Jews were relying on the Blood of 409 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,800 Abraham. And they were reasoning amongst 410 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,400 themselves. Well, you know, we're Abraham's 411 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,100 children and since we are the Seed of Abraham, we have a 412 00:21:28,108 --> 00:21:31,600 special connection with God and we have a special relationship 413 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,700 with God. And we're not like these filthy 414 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:36,900 Gentiles out here who don't know God and don't have a covenant 415 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,300 with God. When in truth, Paul is saying 416 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:43,100 they were guilty of the same sins of the Gentiles were and 417 00:21:43,100 --> 00:21:45,500 they stood just as condemned in the eyes of God. 418 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:50,800 But they denied that because of who they were, Paul says, wrong, 419 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,500 the Judgment of God is according to truth against all of those 420 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:59,200 who commit sin regardless of who they are his conclusion in, 421 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,400 Romans chapter 3, and verse 23 is for all have said, he reasons 422 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,000 in Romans, chapter 1 that the Gentiles were estranged from 423 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,200 God. In Chapter 2, he talks about the 424 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,400 Jews, his conclusion in chapter 3. 425 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:14,000 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God and his 426 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,900 premises Romans 1 and verse 16. For I am not ashamed of the 427 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:19,800 gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and To Salvation 428 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,300 unto all them that believeth to the Jew first and also under the 429 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:27,600 Greek, that doesn't mean that the Jews were preferred by God. 430 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,500 In this particular case, it simply means that God took the 431 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:34,500 gospel to them first and then he offered it unto the Gentiles but 432 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,800 it was offered unto all because it was the answer for every man 433 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,500 said, man, could not rely on the blood coursing through his 434 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,600 veins. He could not rely upon who his 435 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,600 forefather or his forefathers. Were he could not rely upon what 436 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,200 religion. He had embraced up into that 437 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,500 point, Man, stood on equal, footing in the eyes of God and 438 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:55,500 would and will be judged by the life that they lived. 439 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,300 God judges sin tonight, regardless of who commits it, 440 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,700 you may have sat on a Pew of a church building. 441 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:05,500 All of your life, every Sunday. God will judge your sin. 442 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,300 Just like he judges, the man who's never darken the door. 443 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:15,200 God judges in God, judge, Sodom and Gomorrah because of its 444 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,300 embracing perverted Lifestyles and he buried them with 445 00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:20,600 Brimstone. There's not a doubt in my mind 446 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,700 that this nation is rotting and Decay. 447 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,100 Modern man is ripe for Destruction, and God is letting 448 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,300 that happen because of our outright rejection of decency 449 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,100 and morality. And because we have embraced as 450 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:34,800 a society. As a modern age, those very same 451 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,800 things in Noah's day, God opened the windows of heaven and The 452 00:23:37,808 --> 00:23:40,400 Fountains of the deep. And he drowned, the Human race 453 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,300 because the thought of man's heart was only evil continually 454 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:46,200 Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5. Don't think for one minute that 455 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,700 God is not aware of the filth and the vulgarity and the 456 00:23:48,708 --> 00:23:51,200 profanity that have absolutely saturated. 457 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,900 Our society today and turned it into a moral Cesspool when God 458 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:59,100 looks upon a society that sanctions, the slaughter of a 459 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:02,900 helpless and innocent child. Every 21 seconds in an abortion 460 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,700 clinic, don't think for one minute that he does not very 461 00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:07,400 well. And vividly, remember, the 462 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,600 atrocities that the people of Israel committed While 463 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,600 worshiping Baal Baal of the valley of hinnom by burning 464 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,700 their babies as a sacrifice, to the Pagan. 465 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:19,800 God, Molech and sent them into the harsh captivity of Babylon. 466 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,600 Heater says, in First Peter, wanted 17 the father who without 467 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,100 respect of persons judgeth according to Every Man's work, 468 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,100 God may not deal with Nations on the same level that he did with 469 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:34,700 Israel and with nations in that old age. 470 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:38,000 But I can tell you God, judges sin today, just like he always 471 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,900 had and there is coming a judgement day. 472 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,700 Day. When every man and every woman 473 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:44,200 is going to stand before God and they're going to have their 474 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,900 lives open before God like a book and they're going to answer 475 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:50,500 for their deeds and you will be there and I will be there. 476 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:53,900 And God will not judge based upon who you are. 477 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,200 He will judge upon what you were and the life you lived you will 478 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,800 not escape the Judgment of your sins because your father, your 479 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,200 mother, your grandfather, your grandmother, your husband, your 480 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,100 wife or your children, lived a righteous life, you will right 481 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:09,000 into the heaven into heaven on the coattails of no one. 482 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:11,800 You will only Only be saved. If you have obtained, the 483 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,200 Forgiveness of your sins on God's terms and there are no 484 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,200 exceptions to that rule. Not one. 485 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,100 Number 4. Satan wants you to believe. 486 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:25,000 I cannot be happy if I live a Christian Life. 487 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,100 And the world really has a strange definition of Happiness 488 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:32,600 to me. I really don't get it. 489 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,600 I have to admit to you maybe someone could explain it but I 490 00:25:36,608 --> 00:25:39,000 have yet to see anyone that's given me a satisfactory 491 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,700 explanation of how the things that the world thinks makes them 492 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:46,100 happy will make them happy. The world says that to be happy, 493 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:47,700 you have to get drunk every Friday night. 494 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:50,800 Be married at least three three times and that to be happy. 495 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,500 You have to play golf or go fishing on Sunday to be happy. 496 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:55,900 You have to have a college degree and make it a hundred 497 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:58,000 thousand dollars a year that to be happy. 498 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,800 You have to have everything you ever wanted. 499 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,400 To be happy, you have to live on the right side of town to be 500 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,500 happy, you have to drive the right kind of car. 501 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,400 And you have to achieve just the right socioeconomic status, 502 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:10,400 right after all, God and the church and family and so on and 503 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,500 so little peace of mind. What's that all about? 504 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,300 You only go around one time. Time, grab the horrible, the 505 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:18,800 tail make the most of it, it's all about you and you deserve to 506 00:26:18,808 --> 00:26:21,500 be happy. And then he says, look at those, 507 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:24,300 pitiful people over there. Look at those people who have to 508 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:26,500 go to church, look at those people over there, that live 509 00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:29,900 their life bound up by an outdated set of Victorian 510 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:33,200 morals, and rules and regulations of that Bible. 511 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,800 Look at those people over there, that can't go out and do all the 512 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,900 things that we do and kick up our heels in the sand and have a 513 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:42,300 fun time and drink and curse and Gamble and do everything else. 514 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,800 Look at that, you know some people. 515 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 How do you have happiness? As I said, he's strange to me. 516 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,700 Getting high on drugs until you have fried your brain, like an 517 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:55,400 egg. Does not sound like happiness to 518 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,300 me. But millions of people have been 519 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:02,100 duped into believing that it is because they'll do anything to 520 00:27:02,108 --> 00:27:08,400 get their hands on the stuff. Getting into a drunken stupor 521 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,500 and making a fool out of yourself and waking up the next 522 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,200 morning, feeling like someone has your head but no Vice. 523 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,400 I don't get where that's happiness, I don't get, well, 524 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,500 that's a good time. I understand how people fall 525 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:23,500 into the Trap of Temptation and I understand how people get 526 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:26,200 addicted to the stuff. I understand that good and well, 527 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,300 but I have never understood how people think that's fun. 528 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,900 But people do because tomorrow night by the millions, young and 529 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:39,700 old will go out and they'll hit the bars, and they'll have their 530 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:44,900 keg parties and they'll have their drug parties, and that's 531 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,900 fun to them. That's what it's all about. 532 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,000 To them. They spend their life, they live 533 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 up there week to get the Friday, so they can do all of that. 534 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,300 Catching some disease or raising a child on welfare because of my 535 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:02,300 irresponsibility and my lust in my selfish, desire for pleasure. 536 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,500 That doesn't sound like happiness to me. 537 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,700 And doesn't sound like a well-rounded life and doesn't 538 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:12,800 sound like a successful life because it's not Let me tell you 539 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,600 what happened. This is happiness, is going to 540 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,200 church on the Lord's Day. David said, in Psalm 122 and one 541 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,800 I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of 542 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,800 the Lord. And if you feel like going to 543 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,900 church is a labor, if you feel like going to the church, going 544 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,600 to church is a drudgery you need to get converted. 545 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,900 Because the fact of the matter is the person that loves the 546 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:34,700 Lord Has No Greater Joy in his life than to come together with 547 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:37,900 the people of God, and seem to God and read his word, and study 548 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:40,900 his word and pray together with those of like Precious faith. 549 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:43,200 That is a joy in the Life of any Christian. 550 00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:46,200 Happiness is keeping the Commandments of God, Proverbs 29 551 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,300 and verse 18. He that keepeth the law. 552 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:51,500 Happy is he, happiness is trusting in God, their life's 553 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:53,600 uneven and uncertain circumstances. 554 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,500 As David said, in Psalm 146 and five happy. 555 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,700 Is he that hath. The god of Jacob for his help, 556 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,300 whose hope is in the Lord, his God, which made Heaven and Earth 557 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,500 the sea and all that they're in is and keepeth Truth forever. 558 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,800 In other words, happiness, it's facing whatever life throws your 559 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,700 way knowing that you've got a god like that on your side. 560 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,000 Happiness is living a life for others, Proverbs 14, and 21. 561 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,200 He that hath Mercy on the poor happy, is he, the world is all 562 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,900 about me. The world is All About Me Myself 563 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:29,000 and I what makes me happy what I can get what I can achieve. 564 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,300 But the life of the Christian is self abasing in devoted to 565 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:37,700 others. You say, where's the happiness 566 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,200 in that? Do you know psychologists have 567 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,700 proven that people who live at altruistic life? 568 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,600 People who live a life, a selfless Life, Giving of 569 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,000 themselves getting of their time getting of their money under 570 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,500 those who are in need are happier and more contented and 571 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:59,000 at peace with himself people. It's true. 572 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,000 And that's what the Christian life is all about. 573 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:07,400 Happiness for the believer. Here's the ultimate definition, 574 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:11,300 happiness for the believer. Is drawing our last breath on 575 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:15,100 this Earth. And one minute later having God 576 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,800 opened the curtain of immortality into paradise and 577 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,500 ultimately eventually spending an eternity in a city that is 578 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:25,300 filled with holy happy, singing, laughing people. 579 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:28,300 In Robes of pure white happiness, is going to a land 580 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:31,000 where tears never fall because God wipes them away. 581 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:33,500 Happiness is going to a place where there is no pain, no? 582 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:36,200 See, Sickness no disease, no dying, no disappointments. 583 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,000 Our heartaches where you have neighbors, like Abraham and 584 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,800 Isaac, and Jacob, and Peter, and James and John doar. 585 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,700 You can stumble around in life and throw your life away and 586 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:49,500 live for yourself and live for sin. 587 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,300 And have your supposed good time for a little while. 588 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,900 And then you could be cast into a lake of fire and an abyss of 589 00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:02,200 darkness, where the souls of the unrighteous weep unceasingly, 590 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,400 and grind their teeth together in pain and endless frustration. 591 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:08,000 You can go to a lake of Eternal fire where you will never be 592 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,800 consumed. Just endlessly suffer. 593 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,900 You can go to a place where you'll have neighbors, like, 594 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,700 Hitler and Haman, and Charles Manson, you can go to a place 595 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:16,900 where you, perhaps, we'll never see your children, or your 596 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:19,500 mother or your father. Again, that's called hell, and I 597 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:23,200 don't call that happy. But Satan would have you to 598 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,700 believe. You can't be happy if you live a 599 00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:27,400 Christian Life number 5. Satan would have you to believe. 600 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,200 My son is my business and I'm not hurting anyone but me. 601 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,100 My son is my responsibility and what is it to you? 602 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,800 If I live a life of sin? Well, and Deuteronomy 5 and 603 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,300 verse 9. Moses said, Thou shalt not bow 604 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:45,200 down thyself on the graven images nor serve them for I, the 605 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,400 Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Visiting the iniquity of the 606 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,100 father's upon the children, unto the third, and fourth generation 607 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,000 of them. That hate me. 608 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,000 Now, I think if there's a modern application to that passage, if 609 00:31:57,008 --> 00:31:59,500 there's a moral principle there within that, passage that 610 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:02,700 extends, right on down to you and me, it is that sin has 611 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:07,700 consequences that Outlast. Us sin has consequences that far 612 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:11,700 across the generational divide, and some people do them their 613 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:15,300 families to failure and destruction and despair and 614 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,500 unhappiness, and a life of drudgery and slavery to sin, 615 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:24,000 because of the choices they make. that's how influential you 616 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,600 are, and you may not realize that But you hold the destiny of 617 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:34,800 lives in your hand. Here in the last few years, I've 618 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,800 experienced the joy that most of you sitting out here tonight. 619 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,700 Have experienced some of you many years ago. 620 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,800 And that's to bring a brand new life into this world. 621 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:49,200 And both times. I don't think I've ever since 622 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,200 two more overwhelming, feeling of responsibility than to hold a 623 00:32:52,208 --> 00:32:56,100 child newborn in my arms and looked down and say they are my 624 00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:02,700 responsibility and the life. I live the words, I say the 625 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,100 choices. I make the priorities that I 626 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:09,700 have is in large part and perhaps solely going to 627 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:13,000 determine whether they spend eternity because they will live 628 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,900 forever. Just like I will whether they 629 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,800 spend eternity in heaven or hell. 630 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 My friend is my business, it's nobody's business, but mine the 631 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000 center says, the devil would have them to believe how foolish 632 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,400 that is in. We remember the sin of Aiken of 633 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,700 taking The Spoils of Jericho and how in so doing, he harmed his 634 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:34,200 nation and his family. According to Joshua, the seventh 635 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:39,300 chapter Israel lost in their battle against AI because of his 636 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:43,400 Aikens soon. His family died in retribution 637 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,800 for Aikens sin. I repeat your sin will destroy 638 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,200 the people, you claim. Claim to love. 639 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,800 When a man breaks the long goes to prison, his family goes to 640 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,500 prison with him in a manner of speaking, when the young person 641 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:58,000 throws his life away and alcohol and drugs and promiscuity, and 642 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,900 sinful living, he takes his parents into a period of Torment 643 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:05,500 with in their life. And they don't realize the pain 644 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,800 that their mother or their father experiences. 645 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:10,900 During those long and sleepless nights wondering where they're 646 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,100 at, who they're with, what they're doing. 647 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,800 I've seen young men and young ladies who follow their 648 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,800 unbelieving, father or mother straight down the road to hell, 649 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,600 because they look up to them and they want to be what they are 650 00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:26,800 King, David's sins destroyed his son Absalom, when he was a boy, 651 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:30,400 Absalom, watched his father, seduce, another man's wife, he 652 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,800 watched his father lie, he washed his father manipulate and 653 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,199 conspire, he finally saw his father become a murderer as he 654 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,100 killed Uriah. And so, absolutely, no surprise 655 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,600 grew up to be just as disloyal as his father, taught him to be, 656 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:44,600 he killed. David's other. 657 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,100 On his brother amnon. He later tried to steal the 658 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:49,500 kingdom. He did what his daddy did he 659 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:50,400 cheated? He lied. 660 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,400 He manipulated and finally tried to kill his own father because 661 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,500 David taught him how to do it. And David, the chickens came 662 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,600 home to roost for David. The sword never departed from 663 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,100 his house. He said my sin is ever before me 664 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,400 and never in his life was that any more true than after that 665 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,700 tragic battle in the woods Absalom was killed and they bore 666 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:15,400 the news back to David and he locked himself in his chamber 667 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,500 and he cried and he well do Absalom Absalom. 668 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,700 What I have died for thee, o Absalom, his sons destroyed his 669 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:27,800 family, several years ago. Was a father who came home. 670 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:33,300 To his three children. And had to tell them that he had 671 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:35,800 gotten a note that day or found a note that day from their 672 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,000 mother saying that she was leaving and never coming back. 673 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,300 She disappeared. The two older children were able 674 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,700 over the course of time to somewhat adjust. 675 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,700 But the little ten-year-old boy simply could not. 676 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,700 One night, his father came home from work and the little boy 677 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:01,500 asked him said, father can we please go out tonight and look 678 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,400 for Mom? And let's go get her and let's 679 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,500 bring her home the father tenderly explain son we've been 680 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:12,700 through this before. And believe me, if I knew where 681 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:16,000 your mother was, we would go find her but I don't know where 682 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,200 she's at. The boy began to cry and he 683 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,600 said, Daddy, please, let's just go find Mother and bring her 684 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:23,900 home. I want things to be like they 685 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,500 used to be the father growing impatient and frustrated said, 686 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:28,500 son. I'm telling you, I don't know 687 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:29,900 where she is now, let's just drop it. 688 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,400 I don't hear no about it. The sun began to sob and he 689 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,700 said, Daddy, please. Let's just go find Mom and bring 690 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,400 her home and I want her to cook supper. 691 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:43,100 Like she always did And the father shouted, I don't know 692 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,200 where your mother is. I just hush about it. 693 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,200 Let's go to McDonald's and get something to eat. 694 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,300 And the boy said, I don't want to go to McDonald's. 695 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,200 I want my mother. But they went to McDonald's. 696 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,100 And they ate. And that little ten-year-old boy 697 00:36:57,100 --> 00:37:01,900 sunk into a deep depression in his life that never broke. and 698 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:09,100 some years later, 12 years, in fact, still living under the 699 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:12,300 auspices of that. Sorry mother, he went into a 700 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:17,200 McDonald's down the road here in Los Angeles and he shot 22 701 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,600 people because of the rage that was inside of him. 702 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:25,300 Don't tell me, it's my life. It's not your life. 703 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:27,400 It's the life of your wife. It's the life of your husband. 704 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,400 It's the life of your children. It's the life of your mother. 705 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,700 It's the life of your father, and their life counts just as 706 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:35,600 much as yours does. Number six, Satan wants you to 707 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,500 believe. There is no judgement day, and 708 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,400 it doesn't matter whether you believe there is or not. 709 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:43,700 There is it, did it matters? Not if you choose to believe 710 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:45,900 that, there is no Harold. You can still go there. 711 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:49,100 The Earth is round whether you choose to believe it or not, and 712 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:52,500 sin is real, and hell is real and sin will Send you there, 713 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,500 whether you believe it or not, Peter said, in second, Peter 3, 714 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:58,300 verses 3 through 11, the last days there would be scoffers 715 00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:00,800 walking after their own lusts, and they would say, where is the 716 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,100 promise of his coming? Because since the father's fell 717 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,100 asleep, all things continue as they always were from the 718 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:07,600 beginning of the creation. In other words, if there really 719 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,800 was going to be a second coming, if the Lord really was going to 720 00:38:10,808 --> 00:38:13,500 return he'd have been here by now, will you mean all this 721 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:17,400 business about a judgement day? And Peter says, you know, this 722 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:22,100 that life continues upon this Earth the wild continues As it 723 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:25,600 is second by second and minute by minute an hour by hour 724 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,700 because of one thing, and that is the patience of God. 725 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,900 But one day like the Sands, in an hourglass, they're going to 726 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:35,500 run completely out. His patients is going to be over 727 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:42,300 and Peter says That like a thief in the night. 728 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,300 Suddenly. Christ is going to return. 729 00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,700 This Earth is going to be destroyed and the world is going 730 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:55,300 to be summoned together before the Throne of Jesus Christ in 731 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,300 judgment. As certain as the fact, you're 732 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,600 sitting where you are the day of judgment, is an appointed day 733 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,200 acts 17 and 30. Every one of us will be there 734 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,100 and we will give an account of ourselves to God. 735 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:08,300 Romans, 14 and 12, every knee shall bow in that day and every 736 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,600 tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, Romans 14 and verse 11, 737 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:14,400 one day, I'm going to stand Before the Throne of Christ, and 738 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,100 I'm going to be made to account for every thought I had and 739 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,700 every word I said, Ed and everything I've done in life, it 740 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:24,300 is not been washed away by the blood of Christ. and you two 741 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,600 will answer for The Gap that lies between where you are and 742 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,100 where you should have been You're not going to die and then 743 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,500 a demise and be no more. You're going to live forever 744 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:36,800 forever forever and forever and forever somewhere either in the 745 00:39:36,808 --> 00:39:40,000 presence of God or in the abyss of hell and that choice is yours 746 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,200 but don't believe for one second. 747 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,900 There is no judgement day. And lastly tonight Satan wants 748 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,300 you to believe. I have plenty of time and 749 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:50,000 perhaps this is Satan's, most deceptive tactic. 750 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,700 I have plenty of time that allows you to have all of the 751 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:58,300 Good Intentions in the world. You don't have to antagonize the 752 00:39:58,300 --> 00:39:59,500 church. You don't. 753 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:03,000 After deny, the truth of God's word, you don't have to go 754 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,100 around and argue against the Bible and tell people there is 755 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:09,500 no God and the Bible isn't true. You don't have to do any of 756 00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:11,600 that. In fact, really, being lost is 757 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,000 the easiest proposition in the world because it takes no effort 758 00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:21,100 being lost requires one thing. And that is waiting one 759 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,600 heartbeat too long to meet God on his terms. 760 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,600 Now, life is fragile. If you could blow your life 761 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,400 right down to hours. We think of life in terms of 762 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,600 years, you can just boil your life right down the hours and 763 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:44,000 minutes and seconds. And at some point out there in 764 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,200 the future, That clock is going to move the last time where 765 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,700 you're concerned. and you may know that minute is approaching, 766 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:56,100 and you may not But that day is coming. 767 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,500 And Solomon tells us in Proverbs 27 of one boast not thyself of 768 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:03,600 tomorrow. For thou knowest, not what a day 769 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,800 may bring forth. You may not be alive at the next 770 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,200 rising of the sun. You do not know that tonight and 771 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,500 I don't say that to frighten you tonight. 772 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:15,600 I don't say that just simply to repeat preacher rhetoric 773 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,300 tonight. I say that tonight because it is 774 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:22,600 true. You do not know about tomorrow, 775 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:24,800 you don't know about an hour from now. 776 00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:31,500 Your line of work may have brought you into contact with 777 00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:35,500 Carnage and death. Mine has from time to time as a 778 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:38,100 preacher of the Gospel. I have stood at the bedside of 779 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:42,200 dying Saints, some of them there after a long-term illness, some 780 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,100 of them there after a sudden heart attack. 781 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:48,200 For four years, I worked in broadcast journalism, until here 782 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,800 just recently. And in a fairly smaller Market. 783 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,300 Where it's kind of all hands on deck. 784 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,200 And one of my jobs in the evening after most of the 785 00:41:59,207 --> 00:42:02,800 reporters and photographers had gone, home was when we would 786 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,700 hear those codes, come over the scanner. 787 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,200 That there had been a horrible accident or shooting or 788 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,900 stabbing. I had to get a camera and go out 789 00:42:11,908 --> 00:42:15,300 there and cover. And I suppose over for years, I 790 00:42:15,308 --> 00:42:19,200 did a lot of that. And in the course of that time, 791 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:23,600 I saw a lot of carnage. I wasn't really kept back from 792 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,000 it. I was able to be right up there 793 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,300 where all of it was and I suppose in one respect, you get 794 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:33,000 a little bit jaded to it. You get a little bit callous to 795 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,100 it once you seen it enough, but I can tell you that of all of 796 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:39,800 the Fatal wrecks scenes that I have been to and all of the 797 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,000 corpses I've seen laying on the pavement. all of the bodies that 798 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000 I've seen brought out of a house on a stretcher, I have never one 799 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,800 single time seen that, that I did not stop and think about how 800 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:59,400 fragile life is and was not reminded that that person One 801 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:05,900 hour ago was just as alive as I am and one hour ago had no idea, 802 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:10,800 they would be dead. And there may be a funeral home 803 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,400 in this town with an empty Gurney tonight and your body 804 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,900 could be the next to lie upon it. 805 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:21,200 And you just don't know at this moment, but Satan deceives 806 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,700 people into believing you have time. 807 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,600 It's fine to obey the gospel. You need to be worried about 808 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,500 that, but not now you have typed enjoy life. 809 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,200 Do what you want to do, you can get around to that when you're 810 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,000 older. And thus he whispers into the 811 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,300 ear of many willing hearts and causes them to stumble right 812 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:43,400 into the pits of Eternal destruction. 813 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:47,400 The poet said, the clock of life is wound but wants and no man. 814 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,900 Hath the power to tell just when those hands will stop it. 815 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:55,100 Late or early our live and love and toil with will be place. 816 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:59,000 No faith in tomorrow for the earned, the hands may be still 817 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:03,600 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 818 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:09,300 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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