1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:03,600 It's great to be here this morning. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,000 It's a privilege. Always to preach the Gospel of 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,100 Jesus Christ. It is especially an honor and a 4 00:00:09,107 --> 00:00:11,600 privilege to do that on the Lord's day where we're called to 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,000 remember the one who called us out of Darkness Into His 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,800 Marvelous Light. There was a powerful piece of 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,700 evidence that was given almost 2,000 years ago as to God's 8 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,500 commitment to us and how much he loved us. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,300 And that was he sent his son to die for us. 10 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:30,900 And we're here this morning to show forth to the world. 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,900 That Jesus died. And although that's a great 12 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,900 Paradox. It is a paradox in this way, it 13 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:41,200 was bad for him, it was great for us and that is something we 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,500 need never ever forget. Darkness is one of those things 15 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:48,200 that we spent a lot of time dealing with believe it or not. 16 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:52,000 It doesn't matter where you go darkness is one of those things. 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,600 Where sometimes you find, fear. I know that in three little 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,400 girls where I live. There are night lights and we 19 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,800 don't just have Night Lights. We have multiplicity of not 20 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,000 lights. Just in case one of the Night 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,300 Lights goes down because darkness is not a good thing for 22 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:08,100 going to bed at night. We've got little pink, flamingos 23 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:11,200 that light up. We got princesses that light up. 24 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,900 We've got Onna and Elsa on the ceiling that will light up. 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,800 We got lots of ways that we can bring just a little bit of light 26 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,600 into a room, so that some girls can go to sleep. 27 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,400 Darkness is something I've always been afraid of, you know, 28 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,600 that moment whenever you're riding your bicycle at night and 29 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,000 you're a little boy and you think I'm going to I'm going to 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,500 stay as long as I can. And wherever I am and you come 31 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,800 up a road and you see a stump and all the sudden that thing is 32 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,700 turning into a bear. It's not really, but the 33 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:41,100 darkness just has a way of making everything just looked 34 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:44,000 like it's coming after you. Well, darkness is one of those 35 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,100 things that Satan doesn't tell you about Satan does not tell 36 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:49,500 you about how things how things really end. 37 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:51,200 He doesn't tell you the in-game ago. 38 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,700 He just simply tells you to experience the physical good 39 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:57,300 stuff and fun. I say good stuff, the physical 40 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:01,000 enjoyment, the instant, fleshly gratification of, whatever sin 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,600 Going through. But what he doesn't tell you, is 42 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,000 it ends in a place literally of outer darkness when Jesus came. 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,200 He described it like this light has come into the world but men 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,100 loved Darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,900 Have you ever been asleep? Really, really asleep. 46 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:23,600 And you found a little girl that found your 1000 Lumen or however 47 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,600 much it is one of them like cannons and they come right up 48 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,400 to your face and go and shine that light and you just have 49 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:34,500 this physical Physical reaction of just, it is a physical 50 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,800 reaction. When you were asleep, you're in 51 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,300 darkness. But all the sudden you've got 52 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:41,100 this light cannon, that's now in your face, and you have this 53 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,600 reaction to it. Sometimes, that's how people 54 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,100 react to the Lord. He is such bright light. 55 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,200 He doesn't allow you to stay asleep. 56 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,500 He's going to make you run away. His light is going to shine on 57 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:54,900 you. It's going to shine, but the 58 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:57,900 reality many times is that people run away from it. 59 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,700 You look at this guy and this image and all the Darkness of 60 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:03,900 the room, our enemy. We don't know how dark that is, 61 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:06,900 but I can promise you, if you use your imagination, you can 62 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:09,700 see some faces that are lurking in the shadows, many of which 63 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:12,100 may be, are looking to see what this guy is going to do. 64 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,800 And I do not understand for the life of me, The Human Condition 65 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,200 that many times misery loves company. 66 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,300 And you find people that are dwelling in darkness and they 67 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:26,500 find reasons to justify that Darkness over and over and over 68 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:28,200 again. Will God rescues us from 69 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,500 darkness? And we're going to go through 70 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,100 the book of Colossians chapter 1 this morning in about 30 71 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:37,800 minutes, look at the land of around that Paul was writing as 72 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,100 he wrote to these people. Sometimes we don't know or look 73 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:44,600 at the geography, but it's pretty neat to think about that. 74 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,300 You look at hieropolis and colossi and laodicea over here 75 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:51,500 as Ephesus. That's kind of a other region 76 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,600 that were the Tri-Cities and Ephesus that Paul spent time 77 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,100 working establishing congregations in Acts 18 and 78 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,200 also Acts 19. It was all about water. 79 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,000 If you look at these cities, most of them are on waterways. 80 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,100 They had to do that to get things back and forth together. 81 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,500 But again when you look at the colossian letter, here's what 82 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:13,900 the Bible says, Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of 83 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,800 God and Timothy our brother to the Saints and faithful brethren 84 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,600 in Christ who are in colossi Grace. 85 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,400 You and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus 86 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,200 Christ. We give thanks to God in the 87 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,700 father of our Lord. Jesus Christ. 88 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:29,300 Praying. Always for you since we heard of 89 00:04:29,308 --> 00:04:33,700 your faith in Jesus Christ, and of your love for all the saints, 90 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,300 because the Hope which is laid up for up, for you in heaven of 91 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,100 which you heard before, in a word of the truth of the Gospel, 92 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,900 which has come to you as it is now in all the world and is 93 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:49,100 bringing forth fruit as it is also among you since the day, 94 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:53,000 you heard and knew the gray. S of God in truth as you also 95 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,200 learn from epaphras. Our dear fellow servant who is a 96 00:04:56,300 --> 00:05:00,500 faithful minister of Christ on your behalf who also declared to 97 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,300 us your love in the spirit. A lot of things in here. 98 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:06,400 First of all, when you get to the Bible and you need to 99 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,600 understand how it works, it goes like this, the Old Testament 100 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,700 from Genesis to Malachi that was getting us to the point of how 101 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:16,900 the Messiah, the Son of God was going to come into the world. 102 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,200 He had to jump through all those Hoops, every one of those, every 103 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,600 one of those pages. Just is an amazing page because 104 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:26,900 it points toward and looking forward to Jesus coming into the 105 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,500 world. But then, in Matthew, Mark, 106 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:30,400 Luke. And John. 107 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,300 That's about telling us. He did come into the world, he 108 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,300 is the Messiah and you read the book of Acts and how the church 109 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:38,300 was established. And that's when the gospel 110 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:39,900 began. It was beginning to be preached 111 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:42,500 to all the world and that's what's happening right here. 112 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:46,400 But then, as churches began to be established in cities, like 113 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,300 colossi or Bakersfield California. 114 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,700 There were problems. Is that would creep up. 115 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,500 And so, he writes to the Saints, he writes to the church, those 116 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,200 that are in colossi. He says, to those who were in 117 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,200 colossi, those that he calls literally faithful Brethren. 118 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,300 And then he says, I've heard your faith in Christ Jesus and 119 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,100 of your love for all the saints. In other words, there ought to 120 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,700 be things that you hear about of congregation, there ought to be 121 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:16,900 ways that you could go into a place or not, even go into a 122 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:18,700 place. And you can say, okay, tell me 123 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:21,400 about the church at plans Road. In Bakersfield. 124 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:25,400 Tell me about the church in Strong Arkansas or at Park in 125 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:26,500 Farmville. Louisiana. 126 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,100 Tell me about that church. You could have never been there 127 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:31,400 before. And what you read about today is 128 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,300 a real live Church. They don't have superheroes, 129 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:36,700 they had normal people just like you but there was something 130 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:40,000 about him that was unique and that was that they were pretty 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,500 on the ball. There were some problems, there 132 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,200 were some teaching that they had to get but they were pretty much 133 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:47,900 on the ball and one of the things that ought to 134 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,500 characterize all churches of Jesus. 135 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:53,800 Christ is your love for all the saints, that's demonstrated. 136 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,900 And then he says, because of the Hope, which is laid up for you 137 00:06:56,900 --> 00:06:59,700 in heaven of which you heard before, in a word of the truth 138 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:01,500 of the Gospel which is come to you. 139 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:04,300 This is very, very important stuff. 140 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:07,400 The Bible describes, this is fruit whenever you preach the 141 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,000 gospel. It produces fruit. 142 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,100 You know what God wants? He wants fruit, he wants fruit 143 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,700 from us. He as being a child of God, in 144 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:18,500 other words when you preach the gospel to people, there's going 145 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:20,600 to be fruit in the form of people that are saved. 146 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:23,000 And he also wants fruit out of us. 147 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,200 As individuals and collectively as the congregation. 148 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:30,600 And he places a great deal of emphasis upon truth. 149 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,000 You heard a new the grace of God in truth. 150 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:35,800 And then he also tells us there's some people that work 151 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,200 among you. You know, we prayed for Frankie 152 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,400 this morning, he should always do that. 153 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,100 You should pray for the, you should pray for the people that 154 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,400 are working. That's so serious. 155 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,800 In such a big deal. This guy was a heavy hitter, his 156 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,400 name was epaphras and it also tells us that whenever you're 157 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,400 trying to be, all you can be and a congregation is being all you 158 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,000 can be, you can do that. And you need to do that. 159 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:01,500 But there's always going to be a way that I submit to Chris and 160 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:04,500 Chris submits to Terry and Terry some it's different. 161 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,900 There's going to be teaching that we all need and were 162 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:10,700 members one of another, when we sing songs, the Bible says that 163 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:14,300 we teach and admonish and we encourage one another, that's no 164 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,400 small ball thing. Don't take that for granted, 165 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,200 don't take your voice. For granted, don't take what you 166 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,900 say for. Granted, absolutely, very 167 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:27,100 important to always be a people that have the word of God and a 168 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:30,100 song on. Lips because it has power and 169 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:34,400 God designed it to be something that would constantly fuel Us in 170 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,100 the body of Jesus Christ. Verse 9 says, for this reason. 171 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:41,200 We also since the day, we heard it, do not cease to pray for 172 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,100 you. And to ask that, you be filled 173 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:46,700 with all knowledge of his will. In all wisdom, and spiritual 174 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,400 understanding, who do you pray for? 175 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,900 I just talked about praying for Frankie. 176 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,900 Hey, Frankie would tell you this. 177 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:54,400 Pray for one another, pray for each other. 178 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,100 When you notice, are you perceive that somebody's having 179 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,300 a bad moment? Somebody is going through stuff. 180 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,400 Somebody is really light as kicking their teeth in right, 181 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:07,100 then you pray for them. I promise you of all the things 182 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:09,700 I know about God. There are some times, just like 183 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:12,600 a perfect, father would be there are times when his children are 184 00:09:12,608 --> 00:09:15,500 crying out to him. He moves Heaven and Earth to 185 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,200 make it change. I don't know how he does all 186 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,800 that to him, be the glory for whatever he does. 187 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,200 But I know this you and your mouth on your knees with a heart 188 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,200 that is a pleading and begging the father for your brothers and 189 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,100 sisters in Christ wherever they are all over the world, you're 190 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,800 making a the greatest difference you could ever make. 191 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:36,700 And it has to do directly with what's coming out of your mouth 192 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,900 and who you're talking to, we're dealing with the god, that is 193 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,100 infinitely powerful, and he wanted us to be filled with the 194 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:45,900 knowledge of his will. In all wisdom and spiritual 195 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,700 understanding that we may walk worthy of the Lord, fully 196 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:52,100 pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing 197 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,500 in the knowledge of God. There should never be a time 198 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:56,900 where I say, yeah, I know what I need to know. 199 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,300 I'm just going to show up and it's all going to be good. 200 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:01,300 Don't do that. Please don't do that. 201 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,300 We're leaking vessels. You know what I've learned about 202 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:06,900 people? I've known I've known men and 203 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:09,000 women that were super, super strong. 204 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,900 But then they got to a point in their life, just kind of again, 205 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,100 I use this illustration a lot because it's true. 206 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:17,000 Life's coming at you fast. Wife's going to do, it's very 207 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,800 best through the God of this world. 208 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,800 That is Satan to kick your teeth in and he's gonna do everything 209 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,000 he can to make you stop. Feeling yourself up. 210 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,900 And what God is basically saying is this every time you get a 211 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:33,200 chance, fill yourself up. You're feeling down, you're 212 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,000 feeling. You're feeling like literally 213 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,900 your half-empty you're drained, fill yourself up. 214 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:41,000 Those are the moments where you need to lean in more than ever 215 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,500 before. And God's plan is that he has a 216 00:10:44,508 --> 00:10:48,800 plan strengthened with all might according to his glorious power 217 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,600 for all patience and long-suffering with joy. 218 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:56,100 Giving thanks to the father who has qualified US to be partakers 219 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:57,900 of the inheritance of the Saints. 220 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,000 In light, listen, he has delivered us from the power of 221 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,800 darkness and can fade conveyed us into the kingdom of the son 222 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,600 of his love in whom we have Redemption through his blood, 223 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:13,000 the Forgiveness of sins. Has anybody told you that 224 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,700 Darkness has power? Sure it does Darkness has power. 225 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:23,700 He said he he took us out. He has greater power. 226 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,000 He's delivered us from the power of Darkness. 227 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,100 Are you here this morning and you don't feel that you don't 228 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:32,600 have to just feel something about that? 229 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,900 You can know it. You can know that you've been 230 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,500 delivered from the power of darkness and none of us know, 231 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,900 preacher of the Gospel. What everyone, anybody to come 232 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:45,500 to an assembly of God's people and leave not knowing what it 233 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:47,100 is. It is to leave the power of 234 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:52,100 Darkness. You can this morning but it's 235 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:54,900 not me. It's going to do it. 236 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,700 It's no man in this group that's going to do that or no woman. 237 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,100 But God can do it. This is whether or not you want 238 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,000 that. That's the most difficult thing 239 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,500 that ever ever existed. The Bible says, whom we have 240 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:16,700 Redemption through his blood. The Forgiveness of sins. 241 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,200 You got sand in your life. You see this right here. 242 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,400 You see this table? This table was set almost 2,000 243 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,600 years ago by the son of God. This table is very, very 244 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,700 meaningful if you're here, and you've never seen it uncovered 245 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:36,500 before you're going to see it uncovered in just a few minutes. 246 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:40,700 After I finished preaching, it's a table. 247 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:42,700 That's representative of exactly what the Apostle. 248 00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:45,800 Paul by inspiration of the holy spirit said, we have Redemption 249 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,700 through his blood. We're fixing to have communion 250 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,600 of the blood of Jesus Christ. We constantly remember, and we 251 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,100 announce it, we tell the world basically. 252 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:56,900 He did this for us. Every time we partake of that 253 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:01,200 loaf, that that is his body that was just shredded for us. 254 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,800 Not physically broken, not a bone was broken, but broken in 255 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,600 the sense of what all they did to his body. 256 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,200 Every time we drink of that cup, we're telling the world and 257 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:14,400 we're telling ourselves that blood is, the only thing that 258 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,200 saved us. He's your only hope. 259 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:19,800 He's all that you have and he's reminding. 260 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,400 The colossian church about this. I want to tell you about the 261 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:29,300 desperate situation that were in here because it's just words 262 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,400 sometimes. Until sometimes you take a page 263 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,300 out of History, this page out of history boschwitz and Dachau and 264 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:39,500 several of these prison camps. These are men and women lines in 265 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,800 Nazi Germany. The prison lines that Hitler 266 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,300 would have whenever he wrote Mein Kampf, one of the things 267 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,800 you need to know about Hitler is that he was a man who believed 268 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,800 in Darwinism. He did not believe in God. 269 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,500 He did everything he could to run from God. 270 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,400 He would preach a superior and a master race of Germans 271 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,200 basically. And if you know anything about 272 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:05,200 the Olympics about 1939, when Jesse Owens and American blew 273 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,400 out all the Germans, every one of the snowflakes lost compared 274 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,400 to this guy, it was amazing. It was Awesome. 275 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,700 It was also awesome. That whenever you talk about 276 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:18,300 Hitler, he would talk about how it was great to be a German. 277 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:22,000 He wasn't even, German wasn't born in Germany, but that's what 278 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 he would preach. And he would preach this, this 279 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 doctrine of hate. And so what he did is he 280 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 convinced everybody that the real mess up problems of World 281 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,800 War One. And the treaties that Germany 282 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,400 had to sign, they were really the fault of a lot of different 283 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,900 people and he would pin it on several different groups of 284 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:39,800 people. But one of them was he pinned it 285 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:44,000 on the Jews. And he would go long and he 286 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,100 would dehumanize the Jews in mind. 287 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:49,500 Copy told the world exactly what he was going to do. 288 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:52,300 He would have all of his SS guard read. 289 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,100 Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man that was in 1871. 290 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,400 And 1859 he got the real problem with what he put out about, 291 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,000 basically the strong survive and preached. 292 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,600 The doctrine of Darwinism that we might know now is the theory 293 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,100 of evolution. But in 1871 he preached this 294 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:15,600 Doctrine and put it in writing and it had all of his guys that 295 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,500 were close to him as SS guard reader. 296 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:21,000 And it basically goes like this, we should make sure that we 297 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,400 breed human beings, the strong with the strong and get rid of 298 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,700 all the week. If there's any weakness, if 299 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:29,000 there's any sickness in your family, want you to stop. 300 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,400 And think about that, his whole philosophy was, let's let him 301 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,100 die. In fact, let's encourage it. 302 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:37,600 Lets get rid of them. He viewed this group of people 303 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,600 the Jews as needed to be exterminated, it wasn't just 304 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,600 them. Wasn't just Jews. 305 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,300 There were Gypsies and others that he wanted to destroy. 306 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:49,800 But the Jews were a major selection and he would draw rat 307 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,700 noses for Jews, and he would call them all kinds of names. 308 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,900 The point of it, is, you have to dehumanize somebody in order to 309 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:58,500 kill him. You can't go up to him and say, 310 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,100 hey, you you human being, I'm going to kill you and I feel 311 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:03,200 nothing about it, but you can kill a rat. 312 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Phil Phil. All right, about fact, if you 313 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:12,400 feel pretty good about killing rat, You've never known 314 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,100 desperate in your life. To the kind of desperate. 315 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:20,200 These people were feeling. They were told they were going 316 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,000 to certain places. There were going to go certain 317 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,400 here. They're in Ian and they would 318 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,000 literally put them in cattle cars on railroads and they would 319 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,200 take them toward these death camps. 320 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,100 And they would separate them out. 321 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:35,500 And I want you to think about how much you have to take out a 322 00:16:35,508 --> 00:16:40,200 Min for those men, not to come across that line and get their 323 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,500 wives, but there was also another line for children. 324 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,400 It's what I'm not telling you about as well. 325 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:47,700 It was separate all these people out. 326 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:50,800 And they would put them in these death camps. 327 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:56,300 Today, you can go to museums and you can find piles of shoes. 328 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,000 Piles and piles and piles of shoes. 329 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,300 Now, these are not shoes that people just got worn out and 330 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:05,300 didn't want to wear anymore. These are shoes of these. 331 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:10,300 These people right here, let me tell you what these are. 332 00:17:11,700 --> 00:17:16,900 Those are wedding rings. Those are people that took rings 333 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:20,200 off their hands. And then the museum today, you 334 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,000 can see wedding rings. There are other boxes of teeth. 335 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:29,600 There's everything you can imagine every atrocity known to 336 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,500 man. If you were fixing to have a 337 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:36,500 baby, you were a science experiment for the Nazis. 338 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,500 They didn't care about you, remember. 339 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:42,700 They think about you, not even as a human being. 340 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:45,600 They think of you as nothing but less than an atom, will not even 341 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:52,600 a good animal. And they pile these Jews in 342 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,500 these debt Chambers, these gas Chambers and you see the walls 343 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,100 and you see the columns across the top and they were barely 344 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:00,700 lit. And they literally would 345 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:03,800 completely take their clothes off of them and they thought 346 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,600 they were getting a shower. Then they would turn the gas on. 347 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,100 We've never been in a desperate situation like that. 348 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:19,400 You see this right here? You see those marks on the 349 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,000 walls? Those remarks from human hands. 350 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,300 That called way past their fingernails into the very bone 351 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:28,800 itself. Trying to figure out a way to 352 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,900 get out of those moments and they're still there staining, 353 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:37,300 the walls and those literally. Now museums Of one of the worst 354 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:40,700 periods of human history. Of one of the worst examples of 355 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:43,600 people that decided that another group of people were not 356 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,900 valuable anymore and not only not valuable anymore that they 357 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:50,500 needed to be exterminated and anywhere from 6 to 12 million, 358 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:55,600 Jews died. But I'm going to tell you what 359 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,400 this represents this represents people that wanted to get out of 360 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,900 there and they tried every which way they could, they could to 361 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:02,900 get out of there and they couldn't get out of there. 362 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,200 There's a guy one time. That was giving advice pretty 363 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,500 popular, guy to families and marriages and a guy stood up in 364 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:19,600 the in the group and he was talking about his, his family 365 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,000 and he wanted some advice in the way this guy works, is you just 366 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,800 stand up and you're going to own it, you're going to own your 367 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,500 problem and you're going to tell me what your problem is and I'm 368 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:28,700 going to give you advice in this guy's there. 369 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,600 Any tells this guy he can tell this guy's really not into it. 370 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,500 You know, sometimes you talk to people. 371 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:36,200 They just kind of halfway want to fix it. 372 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,300 They don't really want to fix it. 373 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:38,400 They just kind of halfway want to fix. 374 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,200 Well, this guy stands up and he says got a problem with my wife, 375 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,600 not looking too good. He's kind of cavalier about how 376 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,400 he's explaining this to this guy. 377 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,800 And this guy says, hey, you know, let me just say this, is 378 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,000 there anything you're not willing to do and the guy 379 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,500 sitting there and you can tell his calculating like, okay? 380 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,600 This is where I have to make a full commitment and you can tell 381 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,700 you didn't really want to is like you know what, this is 382 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,900 going to work. Well then the guy gets a little 383 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,100 defensive when somebody tells you, oh, you this thing going to 384 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:08,400 work sometimes. Then you say, oh no, it's gonna 385 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,500 work, it's gonna work. Like okay, it's gonna work. 386 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:13,600 He said, I know you're missing. My point until you want your 387 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,200 marriage to work. As bad as you want to breathe. 388 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,800 It said, Let me Give an example of this. 389 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,300 I'll tell you guys a story from Pat Riley, from the Lakers days. 390 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:26,300 They said Pat Riley used to go in and try to motivate and Pat 391 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:29,800 Riley's a tremendous motivator always has been. 392 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,300 He goes into the locker room and he has a bucket. 393 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:37,000 One of those guys has a bucket of water that they've got their 394 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,800 ankle in you know they didn't have all the fancy stuff they 395 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,900 have now and weren't hooked up to everything. 396 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,300 You just stick a bad ankle in a bucket eyes. 397 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,200 He goes in before the game and sticks his head in the bucket of 398 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,000 ice. For a long time, I'm not talking 399 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 about a little time. They said we started getting 400 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,200 worried about him. We start thinking what in the 401 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,900 world. And finally, he came up for air, 402 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,100 and it's point to his players was, and this is the same point. 403 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:09,600 This motivational van was making to this, this bad husband, he 404 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,000 said until you want it to work until you want it. 405 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:16,300 As bad as you want to breathe, it won't work. 406 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,700 There's a lot of Truth in that. Do you want to be saved as bad 407 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:24,500 as you want to breathe? Be like, well, I don't know. 408 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,400 Well, I'm going to tell you about how bad you want to 409 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,600 breathe fight or flight will take over you. 410 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,100 Let somebody shove your head under water. 411 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:31,500 It's going to take about two seconds for you. 412 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,400 Realize you can fight off a bear. 413 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:37,600 I was the littlest brother. I was but little baby brother. 414 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,900 I know what it is for brothers Savannah's here. 415 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:43,000 My niece, my older brother knew what it was to hold my head 416 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,300 under water. I knew what it was to fight off 417 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:49,000 a brother, eight years older than me to come up there and he 418 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,700 was about to kill me but it He's one of those fun things, right? 419 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:56,000 Wasn't fun for me. Sometimes, I had it coming. 420 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:57,500 I was the aggravating little brother. 421 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,500 But until you want it, as bad as you want to breathe. 422 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:10,800 Until you want it. As bad as you want to breathe. 423 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,900 You don't want it. It's going to take that. 424 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,700 We've got to be a people that know what it is to recognize the 425 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:22,200 situation we're in. And we've got a want to get out 426 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,200 of this moments, and we got to do everything we can to one out 427 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,400 so bad. There's nothing we won't do. 428 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,200 There's no wall. We won't try to climb out of. 429 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,100 Do you know the power of our God? 430 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,800 Here's what the Bible says. These people knew that. 431 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,100 Whenever one of their, they would start trying to hold their 432 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:39,700 breath as this gas and they would see people dropping. 433 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:41,400 They would hold it as long as they could. 434 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,000 As they literally, Claude, the walls But they were all dying. 435 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,300 Here's what Paul said. But God, who is rich in Mercy 436 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:55,400 because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we 437 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,900 were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ and 438 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:03,000 raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly 439 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,200 places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come. 440 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,000 He might show the exceeding Riches of his grace, in his 441 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,300 kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 442 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:17,600 Here's the difference, we had this coming, we had this coming, 443 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,400 we deserve to die. Jesus did not die. 444 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:24,700 Earth to die, but he died. Anyway, God, commendeth his love 445 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,000 toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for 446 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,900 the ungodly. Verse 15 says he Jesus is the 447 00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:34,900 image of the invisible. God, the firstborn over all 448 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:38,200 creation for by him are all things created that are in 449 00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:39,600 heaven. And that are on earth, visible 450 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,200 and invisible, whether Thrones, or dominions, or principalities 451 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,800 or Powers. All things were, you were 452 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,500 created through him. And for him, he is before all 453 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:50,600 things and in him all things consist and he is the head of Of 454 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,700 the body, the church. Who is the beginning, the 455 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,500 firstborn from the dead. That in all things, he might 456 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,500 have the preeminence. He's making an authority 457 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,400 argument there. The holy spirit is he's 458 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,300 basically saying, who are you going to surrender your life to 459 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:04,700 who is it? That is now in charge of your 460 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,100 life and that somebody is the one that spoke the world into 461 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,900 existence. That's who you want in charge of 462 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:15,000 your life. That's who you want leading you 463 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,500 You want the one that saw? What you cannot do for yourself 464 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:23,900 and he did it for you. You want him, you want him in 465 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:26,600 charge? You want the one that has always 466 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,400 been? In charge of your life. 467 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,800 The Bible says in verse 19 for it pleased, the father that in 468 00:24:32,808 --> 00:24:36,100 him, all the fullness should dwell and by him to reconcile 469 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,600 all things to himself by him, whether things on earth or 470 00:24:38,608 --> 00:24:41,700 things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his 471 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:44,800 cross. And you, who once were alienated 472 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,200 and enemies in your mind by Wicked Works yet. 473 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,000 Now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh, through 474 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,200 death, to present you, holy and blameless and above reproach in 475 00:24:54,208 --> 00:24:56,500 his sight. If indeed you continue in the 476 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,600 faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the 477 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,700 hope of the Gospel. gospel, which you heard, which you 478 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,700 preached it to every creature under Heaven of, which I Paul 479 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:09,900 became a minister You know who had to make the way for you. 480 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,600 Jesus. Those hands. 481 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:22,600 Those hands had to be nailed that body had to be physically 482 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,800 abused. Paul said a rather Jesus said in 483 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,800 Luke chapter 24. He said everything in the law, 484 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,400 everything in the profits, and everything. 485 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,900 In the psalm says, the Christ had to suffer. 486 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,900 My sins made him suffer. Why? 487 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:48,200 Because God is just God's just. If you ever wondered how it is 488 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,500 that inside all of us, there's this thing where we want 489 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,000 somebody to get what's coming to. 490 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,200 I have it real strong, the force runs strong in me on that one. 491 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,500 Somebody gets what's coming to him, you know, the word. 492 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:01,000 I really kind of that. That's a real problem for me. 493 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,100 It's great to say this person that hurts a little kid. 494 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:06,700 This person that does this, this person that does that, they 495 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:09,000 ought not to, they ought to get what's coming to him. 496 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:11,500 Do you know where I need to start saying that in the mirror 497 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:17,800 every single morning? But Jesus got what was coming to 498 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,700 me. And he got, what was coming to 499 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,600 you? No one off to have to beg you, 500 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,900 to come to worship. Every Lord's day to sing, 501 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:30,200 praises to Jesus, to God, to the spirit, that literally made all 502 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,300 of this happen. They weave together. 503 00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:36,300 A plan, that was only reserved in their mind and today you're 504 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,900 here to celebrate a death that dot was died for you. 505 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,600 You're here to talk about and listen to and watch a service, a 506 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,100 memorial that announces to the world that Jesus died, and 507 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:52,200 literally in his flesh. Something amazing happen for our 508 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,400 benefit verse 24. Says, I now rejoice in my 509 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,600 sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh. 510 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,000 What is lacking in the afflictions of Christ? 511 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,200 For the sake of his body, which is the Church of which I became 512 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,300 a minister according to the stewardship from God, which was 513 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:09,700 given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, the mystery, 514 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:13,300 which has been hidden from ages from Generations but now has 515 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,300 been revealed to his Saints to them. 516 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:19,300 God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory. 517 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,900 Free of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in, 518 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:28,300 you the hope of glory. Mystery. 519 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:34,500 We like Mysteries, I don't know if you ever remember there used 520 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,900 to be a show where William Shatner before he started making 521 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:41,200 silly commercials used to have this show called Unsolved 522 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,500 Mysteries. When I was little preteen that 523 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:50,200 came on I have never drawn the shades at night, more and 524 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,600 locked. My bedroom door. 525 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:54,400 More than listening to Unsolved Mysteries. 526 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,300 Because you just would think that whoever done the deed that 527 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:00,700 still out there lurking around that they're still looking for, 528 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,600 it happened in your neighborhood and the guy was seen last in 529 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,400 your neighborhood. That's how it kind of affected 530 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,900 me. I want you to take that same 531 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:14,600 consideration. and understand that the mystery, The mystery 532 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,600 was revealed and is being revealed to you today at your 533 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,600 address and your ears and your heart. 534 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,900 And the goal is for everybody in the whole world to understand 535 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:25,100 this mystery. Listen to what the Apostle Paul 536 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:28,600 said in Ephesians 3, how that by Revelation, that's the Bible he 537 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,400 made known to me. The mystery is I've written 538 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,300 already by which when you read you may understand my knowledge 539 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,100 in the mystery of Christ. Which in other Ages was not made 540 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:40,100 known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed by the 541 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,500 spirit to his Apostles, and Prophets that the Gentiles. 542 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,000 That's all Us should be fellow heirs with the Jews. 543 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,900 In other words, and of the same body, there's just one and 544 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:53,000 partakers of his promise in Christ, through the gospel of 545 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,500 which I became a minister according to the gift of the 546 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,700 grace of God, given to me by the effective working of his power. 547 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:02,000 You want to know why I said that, he said that, because this 548 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,700 is a guy that it is very best to destroy the church. 549 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:08,100 And now he's writing about God's plan, really, to allow him to be 550 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:11,500 in it. To me, who I'm lit, Who Am less 551 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,100 than the least of all the saints. 552 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,500 This Grace was given that I should preach among the 553 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,100 Gentiles. The unsearchable Riches of 554 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:23,800 Christ and to make all men. See What is the Fellowship of 555 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,100 the mystery? Which from the beginning of the 556 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:30,000 ages has been hidden in God who created all things through, 557 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,900 Jesus Christ to the intent. That now, the manifold wisdom of 558 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:40,400 God, by me, they'd known by the church, to the principalities 559 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,700 and powers in The Heavenly places. 560 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,300 According to the Eternal purpose, which he accomplished 561 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,800 and Jesus Christ, Our Lord So, let me go back and just break 562 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,300 down one or two things very quickly. 563 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 We understand the mystery now. It used to be a mystery. 564 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,200 Now, it's been revealed. What's the mystery Well, I doubt 565 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,000 there's anybody in here. Maybe after Services. 566 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,700 You can come tell me if you're a natural born Jew and you got a 567 00:30:07,708 --> 00:30:11,400 lineage for your just Jewish by birth most of us in here. 568 00:30:11,408 --> 00:30:16,200 Can't say that most of us in here are Gentiles what God did 569 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,500 is he changed everything in Jesus Christ. 570 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,000 It used to be about the Jews and the bloodline that would bring 571 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,800 Jesus into the world. And what God did to help us 572 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,300 understand how powerful Jesus is the son of God, he said, look, 573 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,500 it used to be a bloodline that was back to Abraham were These 574 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:33,000 Jews would say I've got Abraham's blood in my veins. 575 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,800 When Jesus came along, the Bible says that we have the power to 576 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,300 become a part of the family of God. 577 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,600 He said we are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 578 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,700 For as many of us as have been baptized into Christ, have put 579 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:49,200 on Christ, therefore there is neither Jew nor Greek. 580 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,600 There is neither Jew nor Greek Bond or free male nor female. 581 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:57,100 But Year all one in Jesus Christ and if you be in Christ, then 582 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:59,900 are you Abraham's seed and heirs? 583 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,400 According Cording to the promise. 584 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,200 In other words, God made a way for us to sit here in this 585 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,900 assembly and be able to be just like everybody else as his 586 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,300 children. And we need to thank Jesus for 587 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:17,100 that because our Our savior. Died. 588 00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:23,800 So we can sit at the same table. He sits at He made it available. 589 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:30,700 He made it available, not just that the Bible describes, this 590 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:34,000 Fellowship of the mystery that used to be hidden and he said 591 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,600 that now God's purpose, his manifold wisdom is made known by 592 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,800 the church. What is the church? 593 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,800 The church just simply means Ecclesia in the original. 594 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,000 It just is the called out what are we called out? 595 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:53,000 If were called out of Darkness into light, Is it my plan is in 596 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,300 the thing. I'm going to show to the world 597 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:56,900 is I'm going to bring people out of their sins and I don't care 598 00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:58,900 what they look like and what their background is and I don't 599 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,700 care what race they are. I Don't Care What ethnicity are. 600 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,400 I don't care. Okay, who they are? 601 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:09,700 Because there's somebody that tore apart all the differences, 602 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:14,700 that separate ethnicities, and races and languages. 603 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,800 And that somebody was Jesus Christ. 604 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:22,100 That somebody was Jesus Christ, not only that he said the Angels 605 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,600 found out about it. He said the principalities and 606 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,800 powers in The Heavenly places found out about it. 607 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:34,500 You know who that is anxious. Angels God kept it in his mind. 608 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,900 When the Bible says, there was a mystery, it was a mystery in 609 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,400 heaven for the angels to they didn't know about it. 610 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,400 Do you know that the Angels long to look into these things? 611 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:45,600 Lots of people long to look into these things and now you get to 612 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,200 know the manifold are multifaceted. 613 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,500 Wisdom of God, that you are God's plan. 614 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,100 You right here in these pews are the manifold wisdom of God. 615 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,700 You're the mystery revealed. God can take people, no matter 616 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:01,300 who you are and where you are and put you in one body. 617 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,000 And strip away, all the genetic predispositions, that we may 618 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:12,000 have and grow in us one group. One savior can do that. 619 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,900 And that was Jesus. He can take you from your 620 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,700 background, he can take you from your sins. 621 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,700 He can take you from all of this and he can accomplish all of it 622 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,400 because that's his eternal purpose that he accomplished in 623 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:27,100 Jesus Christ. Our Lord verse 28 says him. 624 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:30,500 We preach warning. Every man and teaching every man 625 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:33,700 in all wisdom that we may present every man, perfect in 626 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,000 Jesus Christ, that means complete to this end. 627 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,400 I also labor striving according to his working, which works in 628 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:45,400 me mythili. All Paul did all of his life is 629 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,500 he wanted to bring men to Jesus. He even tried to make a deal, 630 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,100 the Holy Spirit. Wouldn't let him go there but he 631 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:56,200 did let him explain it. The Holy Spirit gave him the 632 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,400 words to say it like this? I would give my life. 633 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,800 Basically, I would trade places with all the Jews if I could. 634 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,400 I wish that my brethren, my Jews, my family, my people. 635 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:12,400 Would come to know Jesus like I do. 636 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,400 God won't let you make that trade. 637 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,699 It won't let that happen. That's not yours to make. 638 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,400 It's not yours to make its each Soul at a time and what Paul did 639 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,600 is, sometimes he did it individually, sometimes he would 640 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,699 go in and he would reason with people whatever it was. 641 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,199 Sometimes he would have large groups of people. 642 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,600 Sometimes he was in jail, and he would convert Caesars household, 643 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,400 amazing. His goal was to bring men to 644 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,900 present them and get them ready to meet Jesus. 645 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:45,199 Do you know what we're trying to do this morning, we're trying to 646 00:34:45,207 --> 00:34:46,900 get everybody ready to meet Jesus. 647 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,600 If I told you that after Services, Jesus was outside the 648 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,000 door, Or he was here, he was here right now. 649 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:56,900 You tell me what would be on your heart and mind. 650 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,000 Tell me what you be wanting to do. 651 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:02,600 I'm gonna tell you what Paul was trying to do. 652 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:08,400 He said that we may present every man perfect in Jesus 653 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,900 Christ. He said I'm doing this with all 654 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,000 that I have. And God works in me to do this. 655 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:18,200 It's not me. It's not Frankie, it's not any 656 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,300 other preacher of the Gospel. It's God working. 657 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,100 It's his power. Paul said, I'm not ashamed of 658 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:28,500 the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it, is the power of God unto 659 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,900 salvation, to all, who believe to the Jew first and also to the 660 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:33,700 Greek, you may have come here this morning and thought you 661 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,100 were just going to attend a service and you were going to 662 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:38,300 feel good about attending to worship service and you should 663 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:40,700 attend feel good about attending to worship service. 664 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,400 That's great but maybe just maybe you're not ready. 665 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:47,400 Maybe just maybe though you're ready. 666 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,600 Now, to recognize that Jesus Christ is all you need and he's 667 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,100 the one that's going to fill you up. 668 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:01,700 He can fill you up. if you're low and you're down and out and 669 00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:06,500 you don't have any more strength to go, there is somebody that 670 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:11,500 can work in, you mightily in a way and with functions that I 671 00:36:11,508 --> 00:36:15,700 don't fully comprehend But I know this. 672 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,400 That there is a possibility for us to live a Victorious Life in 673 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:26,300 the midst of circumstances. That are hard to even talk 674 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,300 about. And the reality of being able to 675 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:34,000 live, that life is Christ in you the hope of glory. 676 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,800 Is Christ in you. If Christ is in you, you have an 677 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,400 Earnest expectation. You have a hope of one day, 678 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,600 being with him in glory. If you have been drained by sin 679 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,400 and sin, by the way, will drain you send will drain Jesus right 680 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,900 out of your life. Sin will drain you and make you 681 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:55,800 feel like the Lord's, not doing anything for you. 682 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,100 And the church is not doing anything for you and I just I 683 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:00,300 need to be somewhere else. I need to do something else. 684 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,800 That's not the Lord doing that that's in doing that. 685 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:05,800 Stop letting the devil drink out of your drink. 686 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,500 Sometimes the devil's drinking with a big straw faster than the 687 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,500 Lord, God Almighty is piling in. And that's just kind of how it 688 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,600 works. He will drain you dry. 689 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:21,700 He'll leave you hopeless. He'll leave you away from God. 690 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,200 He'll lead you with all kinds of guilt and stain that you don't 691 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,800 feel like you can get off. What I want to tell you is this 692 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:31,000 that vessel that you feel like this morning will never be able 693 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,600 to be full again, there is a God in heaven, that can put all 694 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,700 those broken pieces back together again, and fill you up. 695 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,800 That's the power of the Gospel. That's the power of the god that 696 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,100 we serve and that is the power of a Christ that we're here to 697 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:49,900 celebrate and remember this morning. 698 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:54,200 And there is one other being in the godhead three that must 699 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,100 never be ignored. He is the one that has inspired 700 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:00,700 the Apostle Paul to write to this church. 701 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,900 And he is one that the father and the son, both took issue 702 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:10,400 with anyone that would grieve or frustrate. 703 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:14,200 And there is no greater grief, that you will ever give the holy 704 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,800 spirit of God. Then when he has convicted you 705 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:23,300 of what you need to do, and you resist him and walk away. 706 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,000 If you're here this morning and, you know, you need to make a 707 00:38:26,008 --> 00:38:29,700 change in your life that change is between you and God and we 708 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,700 want to help you with it. In fact, we're that's how it's 709 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:35,300 going to work. You see? 710 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:38,400 The Bible says that when you want to be saved, you have to 711 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,900 come to the Lord. You have to, he said, go into 712 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:44,100 all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature, he who 713 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,300 believes and is baptized shall be saved. 714 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:48,500 Why would he say that in Matthew 28? 715 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:52,000 He said, go and make disciples of all Nations, baptizing them, 716 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,900 in the name of the father, in the name, of the son, in the 717 00:38:53,908 --> 00:38:56,400 name of the Holy Spirit, listen in the name of the father, in 718 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,300 the name of the son, and the name of the holy spirit is the 719 00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:01,200 only kind of baptism you ever need to be a part of and it is 720 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,500 for the remission of your sins. You see the father and the Son, 721 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,300 and the Holy Spirit, are the only ones that can justify your 722 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:13,100 sins and your mistakes and You may go to some man that tells 723 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:15,800 you you've been absolved from sin that man lied to you. 724 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,500 I can show you the words of the Father, the Son and the Holy 725 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,700 Spirit directly revealed. I can show it to you in 726 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,400 scripture right now. You want it, here goes John 727 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,200 8:24, the Son of God says he that if you don't believe that I 728 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,300 am he you will die in your sins. The Son of God said in Luke 13 729 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:34,000 and 3. I tell you nay but unless you 730 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,700 repent you will all likewise perish. 731 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:38,200 The Son of God said, whosoever therefore, shall confess me 732 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:39,700 before men. I will confess him before my 733 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,700 father but if you don't confess me before men I will not confess 734 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:46,900 you before my father. Jesus, the son of God said, go 735 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,100 and preach the gospel to Every Creature, he who believes and is 736 00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:51,300 baptized shall be saved. He that does not believe shall 737 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:53,200 be damned. Jesus is the one that said in 738 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,200 John 3 and 5 except a man be born of water and of the spirit, 739 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,900 he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 740 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:02,600 That happened in Acts 2:38, they cried out, recognizing their 741 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,100 lost condition men and Brethren, what shall we do? 742 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:08,700 The Holy Spirit, inspired the Apostle, Paul the Holy Spirit, 743 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,800 literally had fallen upon these men and they began to speak by 744 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,000 the power of the Holy Spirit and they said repent. 745 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,500 Baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the 746 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,500 remission of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the 747 00:40:19,508 --> 00:40:22,300 holy spirit for the promise, is to you and to your children and 748 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:24,000 to those that are fought off far off. 749 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,300 And to as many as the Lord, Our God shall call, then they that 750 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,500 gladly received their word were baptized and that same day were 751 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:36,200 added unto them about 3,000. Souls verse 47 says the Lord 752 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,000 added to the church daily such as were being saved. 753 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:45,300 Have you been saved? That's the plan because I just 754 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:49,400 showed you from the Son of God from the Holy Spirit. 755 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:53,800 And from God, the Father Will you surrender to that plan? 756 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,600 Will you come this morning and confess your faith that you 757 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,800 believe? Jesus Christ is the son of God. 758 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,900 It's the most important thing that'll ever cross your lips. 759 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:07,200 You will have the assistance of someone that will help you in 760 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,000 surrendering to being baptized into the death, burial and 761 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:17,100 resurrection of Jesus Christ. And you arise to walk in newness 762 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:20,200 of life and all your old life is done away with all the things 763 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,900 that you felt guilty about and you're ashamed of, and you wish 764 00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:25,000 nobody else could know about those things. 765 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,400 Nobody else is going to know about. 766 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,700 This is an offer from the Father, the Son, and the Holy 767 00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:35,500 Spirit. We thank you for listening to 768 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:40,400 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 769 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,900 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 770 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,200 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 771 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:52,700 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at True 772 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:55,100 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 773 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:01,000 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 774 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,400 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 775 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:08,100 We would love for you to be our honored guest.