1 00:00:02,100 --> 00:00:06,500 Well, last evening, we talked about the credibility that we 2 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:10,800 can put in the, in the Bible, the offered proofs of its 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:16,200 inspiration and its veracity. And tonight I want to sort of 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:21,100 continue in that vein of thought and say that if we believe in 5 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:25,700 God, as the Supreme Being, who created the heavens and the 6 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:29,900 Earth and all things, therein then we must also believe. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,400 Believe that God has all power and authority, David describe 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:43,200 God as being Eternal omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent in 9 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,800 Psalm 20 and verse 1. David said Lord, thou has been 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,100 our Dwelling Place in all generations. 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,800 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever. 12 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,500 Thou has formed the earth and the world even from Everlasting 13 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:01,300 to Everlasting Thou Art God. A young children, want to know, 14 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:05,000 where did God come from, and this passage answers that 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,300 question. It says that God is from 16 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:10,500 Everlasting to Everlasting. He didn't come from anywhere. 17 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,400 He's not going anywhere. He is the self-existent Eternal 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,400 God. Again, in Exodus 3 and 14, God 19 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,400 said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, thus, shalt thou 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,400 say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you You 21 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:34,800 in Genesis 17 and 1. The Bible tells us that when 22 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,200 Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram 23 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,100 and said unto him, I am the almighty God. 24 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:46,900 Walk there, before me and be thou perfect. 25 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,700 Yes, God is Almighty. That is omniscient. 26 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,500 He's um, omnipotent. He is omniscient. 27 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,300 All-knowing omnipresent and eternal. 28 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,200 Now considering this we see that all authority or power has been 29 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,000 committed to Christ after Jesus had conquered death, hell and 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,400 the grave. He stood before his disciples on 31 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,700 the mountains said. All power is given unto me in 32 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:22,100 the revised version. This is rendered all authority, 33 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:27,100 is given unto me and in Matthew 17, and verse 5. 34 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:30,700 That we noticed a moment ago, Jesus was on the mountain. 35 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:33,900 That is called the Mount of transfiguration with his 36 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:38,600 disciples we hear God acknowledging Christ and saying 37 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,800 this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased hear. 38 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,500 Ye him that was in response to a suggestion by Imola by Peter 39 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:51,700 that they build three Tabernacles one for Moses and 40 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:54,000 one for Elijah and one for Christ. 41 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,300 Well, you know, there was a time when men had to listen to Moses. 42 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,200 There was a time when then had to give heed to Elijah. 43 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,700 But now God says, I've committed all authority to Christ. 44 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:11,600 You hear him in the Hebrews 11 and verse 1, we hear the Divine 45 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,900 writer saying God who at sundry times and in divers manners 46 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:19,700 spake in time past unto the father's by the prophets hath in 47 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:24,000 these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,300 appointed. Heir of All Things by whom also, 49 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:30,400 he made the world's whoo. Being the brightness of his 50 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,600 glory and the express image of his person and upholding All 51 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,700 Things by the word of his power. When he had by himself purged, 52 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:43,500 our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. 53 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,300 Now, these Apostles that Jesus chose were good men, he chose 54 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:53,400 them from the low walks of life. He took them under his tuition 55 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,500 and talk them for three and a half years and Christ delegated 56 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,100 this authority to the apostles to speak for him. 57 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,100 And the Holy Spirit, unerringly guided those Apostles. 58 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:13,200 This we learn from God's word and John 17 verses 8 and 14, 16 59 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,200 and 13 and 14. And 26. 60 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:23,100 Now, these, holy inspired men of the 1st Century revealed and 61 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:28,800 confirmed the final message of God to man all whooping, 62 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,400 Practice in religion what is not contained in the apostles 63 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,000 doctrine. That is the teaching of the 64 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,100 Apostles, either under specific or under generic Authority sin 65 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:46,300 in doing. So according to Galatians 1 66 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,600 verses 6 through 9 in that place. 67 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:55,400 The Apostle Paul said that that if any man was preaching, 68 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,400 something that was not in accord with God. 69 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:01,700 With what the Apostle Paul spake, he said, let him be 70 00:05:01,707 --> 00:05:07,100 accursed. Now again these holy men of God, 71 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:15,500 spoke for Christ and acceptance of this truth that this is 72 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:21,100 Authority from God and it is specific and generic Authority 73 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,100 as well. That would revolutionize this 74 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:28,200 world of ours because acceptance of this truth would prohibit 75 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,000 people from Going back to the Old Testament for religious 76 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,700 Authority. It would also make void 0, 77 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:37,400 man-made, rules and human Creed's. 78 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:42,000 It would put the pope and other human officers out of business. 79 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,900 It would put an end to do nomination alone. 80 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:49,200 Die aggressive practices if men would simply accept the fact 81 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,500 that God has made his last Revelation to man and it 82 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,800 contains the authority that God has. 83 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,000 Well, remember God. God has all authority. 84 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,000 He committed this authority to his son, Jesus Christ. 85 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,600 Our Savior delegated authority to the apostles and they wrote 86 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,400 it down for us and we have it in this little old black back book. 87 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:18,600 That we call the Bible God's. Holy word. now, our question 88 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:25,600 tonight is simply this Does it really matter what God says? 89 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,800 You know, if we worked and establish the truth of God's 90 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,300 word, then people still need to know how to answer this 91 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:36,900 question. Does it make any difference? 92 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:42,500 What God has said, are we free to accept it or to ignore it to 93 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:46,700 reject it or to receive it? Does it make any difference? 94 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:52,000 I say we're living in a time and in a society today that tells 95 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,100 you, it doesn't matter. They tell us that oil. 96 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,500 Well, if you want to deprive yourself by living, according to 97 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:03,500 the strict mandates of God's word, then that's all right. 98 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:05,600 But you see that's not for everybody. 99 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,200 They say one of our president said in an interview that was 100 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,100 printed in Christianity today that the approach to specific 101 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:20,800 moral issues should Change as popular opinion changes. 102 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:25,300 In other words, it doesn't really matter what God says what 103 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:30,500 matters is public opinion? What it says and I say this is 104 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,700 had a pervasive influence on our society today. 105 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:38,000 In fact, it's had a pervasive influence on the church and some 106 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,100 Christians have been heard to say that times have changed and 107 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,400 the church should change along with the times and all listen, 108 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,900 they're not talking about modes, Travel, they're not talking 109 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:52,700 about methods of communication, they're not talking about rules 110 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:55,700 of physical life. They're talking about obedience 111 00:07:55,700 --> 00:08:00,200 to the Eternal laws of God and this is where we come in 112 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,800 conflict with God's will. Sometimes people like to think 113 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:08,600 that we have altered the elementary, the Eternal truths 114 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,900 of God's revelation, but we haven't altered God, and his 115 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:18,400 character and his law, we have an altered sin, And sinners. 116 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:26,200 So we see that this is error I find in the world today and 117 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:32,500 sometimes in the church, there is a Live and Let Live Spirit. 118 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,500 There's an attitude that were to say, nothing that would by any 119 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:41,799 stretch of imagination, offend anyone, it's to be nothing but 120 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,900 love, love, love, and I submit that, there is no Backbone in 121 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:52,500 that kind of preaching. There's no backbone and gospel 122 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:57,000 preaching if done under those circumstances and many times, 123 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,100 unless that's what you're preaching, people despise the 124 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:04,300 nature of it and they also despise the man who preaches it. 125 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:10,200 I asked tonight, have we become so broad-minded, so liberal and 126 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,200 view that it doesn't really matter. 127 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,300 What God says how we become so tolerant that anything you want 128 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:20,900 to believe anything. Thing you want a practice anyway 129 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,300 you want to worship is simply thought to be okay. 130 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:29,100 Have we reached the point in our society today, where we just 131 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:32,000 reach up and mentally, turn off, anyone? 132 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,200 Who preaches, something. Contrary to what we've always 133 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,800 believed or taught and where we categorically reject anything 134 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:44,000 that does not meet our approval. Well I certainly hope that is 135 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,000 not the case and I don't believe it is with the great majority of 136 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 people who are Members of the body of Christ. 137 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:57,100 Again, we ask the question, does it really matter what God says? 138 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,900 You know, we have to have authority in religion and when 139 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:06,400 Jesus took those those little old cords and drove the money 140 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:11,700 changers out of the temple, the scribes and Pharisees asked him 141 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,900 this question by what Authority doest, thou these things. 142 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,400 And Jesus told them, well, I'll tell you what my authority is, 143 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,200 if you'll answer a question for me. 144 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,600 He sent the baptism of John. Was it was it of heaven or of 145 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,000 men? And they knew they were in a 146 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,500 dilemma. They were no match for the Son 147 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:38,800 of God, because they knew, if they, if they said, well, John's 148 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,900 baptism was from Heaven. He's going to say, why didn't 149 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:44,000 you receive it on the other hand? 150 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,700 If they said, well, it was of men, then they had to deal with 151 00:10:48,700 --> 00:10:51,100 the people because all the people believe John was a 152 00:10:51,108 --> 00:10:53,900 prophet. So they said we can't tell. 153 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,700 Yes, they knew that you had to have authority in religion and 154 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,700 you know over there in God's book in the third chapter of 155 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:08,100 Colossians he says whatsoever you do in word or deed do all in 156 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:10,100 the name of the Lord. Jesus giving. 157 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:13,400 Thanks to God and the father by him. 158 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,900 Think about that folks. Everything we do in religion in 159 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:23,100 word or deed has to be done in the name of the Lord, Jesus 160 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:24,400 Christ. Now, what does that mean? 161 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,800 And let me ask you this question. 162 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,700 Suppose some night. The sheriff comes to your house. 163 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:35,600 Pulls out his pistol and takes the butt of it and knocks on the 164 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,400 door and said, open up in the name of the law. 165 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,100 What does that mean? That means open up by the 166 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:44,900 authority of the law, doesn't it? 167 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:49,600 He has the authority to tell you to open that door and the same 168 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,700 is true. When we do things in the name of 169 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,200 the Lord, that means by his authority, we must have 170 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,100 authority. In religion and God has given 171 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,600 that authority to Christ to tell us what to do Christ. 172 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,200 Gave it to the apostles to tell us what to do. 173 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:09,900 They committed it to writing and we have it in our possession 174 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:13,100 tonight. Does God really mean what he 175 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:17,600 says? Well, I submit that it matters 176 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,500 what God says. If you're interested in a 177 00:12:20,508 --> 00:12:26,400 productive happy life, I want you to look for a moment at Adam 178 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,400 and Eve. Again this evening how 179 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,300 beautiful, how Carefree how happy how fruitful? 180 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:38,000 How productive must have been their lives? 181 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,300 In the Garden of Eden? I want you to imagine for a 182 00:12:41,308 --> 00:12:44,000 moment. What it must have been like to 183 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,900 live in a paradise of beauty and safety where there was no fear 184 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:51,100 of anything. There was no disease, no death, 185 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,700 no hazards, no hunger, no poverty. 186 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:57,600 It knowing Zarate. No sorrow, no tears. 187 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:00,600 The temperature was always perfect. 188 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:03,000 The food must have been new and exciting. 189 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,900 Every day. The company was superb because 190 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:09,000 they lived in concert with their maker and Creator. 191 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,300 And all was well until they listen to the voice of the 192 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:14,500 tempter. And let me tell you, if you 193 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:19,000 doubt that it matters what God says, let me remind you that in 194 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,700 our society today are prisons and jails are full. 195 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,900 Or did you know that there are over 1 million Americans in 196 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:30,600 jail? Let me show your our hospitals 197 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,900 and nursing homes that are bulging at the seams. 198 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,600 Let me take you to the insane asylums that are full. 199 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,200 Let me show you the cemeteries where the marble shafts shoot 200 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,800 Skyward. Reminding us of the death of 201 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,500 loved ones. Let me show you the wasted 202 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:50,100 blasted lives of those hooked on drugs and alcohol. 203 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:53,700 We have over 12 million known alcoholics in. 204 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:58,200 Our society today, let me show you the images of millions of 205 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,400 hungry babies and desperate men and women who can't feed them, 206 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,600 who are literally starving to death. 207 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,100 What's the reason for all of this Sadness and Sorrow? 208 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,300 Every bit of it was caused by those who think that, it didn't 209 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:17,300 really matter. What God says, sin got into the 210 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:21,300 world as a consequence of Adam and Eve's transgression. 211 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,300 And the result was all of this trouble that we see around us 212 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:29,000 today. The Bible says, by one man sin 213 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,400 entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon 214 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,700 all men, that's in Romans 5, and verse 12, look at Kane. 215 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,500 Came the son of Adam and Eve their firstborn was like some of 216 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:48,500 our modern stood, a who feel like it what they want and what 217 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:52,200 they think. Supersedes everything else you 218 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,000 see. Cain felt that it didn't really 219 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,600 matter. What God Said. 220 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,100 Evidently God had given Specific Instructions about how they were 221 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:03,800 to worship God. Somebody said, how do you know 222 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,200 that while the Bible says in Hebrews 11 and forth? 223 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,700 A table walk by faith, that by faith Abel offered unto God, a 224 00:15:11,708 --> 00:15:14,300 more excellent sacrifice than Cain. 225 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,000 How did he get Faith? Why the Bible says in Romans 10 226 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,700 and 17 that Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word 227 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:25,400 of God? So, I have evidence there that 228 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:29,300 Kane was instructed about what to do in the matter of worship. 229 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,200 But instead of doing what God had said, evidently he got 230 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,000 something else. And when God accepted able and 231 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,100 his offering and rejected Cain and his offering Cain became 232 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:45,800 jealous of his brother, this jealousy turned to Envy. 233 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:49,600 Envy turn to anger, anger turned to murder. 234 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,800 And he killed his brother in an envious jealous rage evidently 235 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,000 shading the first human blood upon the face of the Earth and 236 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,200 when God questioned him about it, it he replied in a very 237 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,100 Cavalier fashion. Am I? 238 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:07,300 My Brother's Keeper Kane, lost communion with God. 239 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,800 He was driven away from the presence of the Lord. 240 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,700 He became a vagabond in a fugitive in the earth and we 241 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:19,100 hear him cry out in despair. My Punishment is greater than I 242 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,400 can, bear Genesis 4 and verse 13. 243 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:27,600 Oh I say if you're interested in living a happy productive life 244 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,300 then it does matter what God says, in fact, nothing upon the 245 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:36,300 face of this Earth is more important and more urgent than 246 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:40,800 what God says. But it also matters if we're 247 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,700 concerned about the future of our children and grandchildren 248 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,400 Wouldn't be so bad. I guess to live just a wild 249 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,600 Reckless life. If we were the only ones 250 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,900 affected, But you know, there are others to consider and there 251 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:02,900 are so many precious boys and girls today who would grow up to 252 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:08,500 be moral spiritually minded Christians if their parents 253 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:13,200 really believed that it mattered what God Said I submit that the 254 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,500 real reason that that's not the case as their parents, do not 255 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:21,300 believe it is necessary to set the right example before them 256 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,000 and teach them the precepts of God. 257 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,800 There are plenty of children today who can tell you the plot 258 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,400 of the latest latest movie, but they couldn't describe the 259 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,000 scheme of redemption that can tell you the names of all the 260 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,300 actors and actresses in Hollywood, but they couldn't 261 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:43,500 name the 12 apostles. If their lives depended upon it, 262 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 they can quote baseball, and basketball and football 263 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,200 statistics. But they couldn't name the books 264 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,000 of the Bible and the reason maybe because their parents 265 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:57,200 couldn't do that, either make No mistake about it, friends the 266 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,300 battle for the minds. And The Souls of our children, 267 00:18:00,700 --> 00:18:05,800 is being fought and either won or lost in our homes. 268 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,900 Our attitude toward What God Says. 269 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:12,500 And our attention in our obedience to that is going to 270 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:16,300 impact the lives of our children and grandchildren. 271 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,000 Now I know that old Maxim. Spare the rod and spoil. 272 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,200 The child is not in the Bible. That's one of those old Chimney 273 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:30,700 Corner sayings but the the equivalent of that is found in 274 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,600 the Bible when it says in Proverbs 22 and 6, train up a 275 00:18:34,608 --> 00:18:38,600 child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not 276 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,800 depart from it. Now training is a different word 277 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,000 from teach. Beecher said, children are not 278 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,100 so much to be taught, as to be trained to teach a child, is to 279 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:56,700 give him ideas to train him, is to reduce those ideas to 280 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,400 practice. Now, if you think that your 281 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,500 example and your attitude toward What God Says does not affect 282 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:09,100 your children and grandchildren, then you need to learn some of 283 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:12,900 the vital lesson. Of the Bible's, I want you to 284 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,200 look for a moment at David. David's a great man. 285 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,900 He's describing the 13th chapter of acts as a man after God's Own 286 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:23,400 Heart. David was passionately loyal to 287 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,000 God. He's rightly regarded as a 288 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,500 patriot, a resourceful executive, a wise administrator, 289 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:35,700 but I want to tell you this, as a parent, David was an utter 290 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,900 failure. His great career was without a 291 00:19:38,908 --> 00:19:43,500 blemish until he came. Aim to mature years in an idol 292 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:45,400 and evil. Our he coveted the beautiful 293 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:51,700 woman Bathsheba, who was uriah's wife He committed adultery with 294 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:55,800 her and to cover his sin. He then plotted the murder of 295 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,600 her husband and when he was confronted by God's Prophet old 296 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,900 Nathan, He warned him that his attitude toward the word of God 297 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:09,000 would soon bear, bitter fruit. And that the sword would never 298 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,500 depart from his house and how true that was, what sorrow what 299 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:19,500 heartbreak came to David through his children, one son, amnon 300 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:24,700 raped, his own half sister, Tamar David's daughter and two 301 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:28,100 years later. Another son, Absalom Tamar 302 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:32,400 Tamers, brother plotted. The murder of Eminent and it was 303 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:37,200 carried out by his servants. Now, Absalom was greatly loved 304 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:43,600 by David because he was one of these dashing swashbuckling 305 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,400 handsome, young men who had a way with people. 306 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,400 Absalom War, elegant clothing. He had long. 307 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,200 Well, groomed hair, and when he drove his big Chariot through 308 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:03,300 the roads and streets, 50 men ran in front of him pretty soon, 309 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:07,400 he began to covet the power and the kingdom of his father, David 310 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,900 and provoked, a rebellion and David pleaded with his captain 311 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:14,900 of his host. Joab to deal gently with the 312 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:18,200 young man, for my sake, but joab. 313 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,800 Ooh, that absalom's death was necessary if he would put down 314 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:25,000 the rebellion. And when he was surrounded with 315 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,600 10 men, they shot those three, darts into the heart of Absalom. 316 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,600 And it also penetrated the heart of King David. 317 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:38,600 And one of the saddest scenes of the Bible, joab, dispatched, a 318 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,000 kushite to go with the message of absalom's death, but a godly 319 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,100 man named a him. I has wanted to go and David 320 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:52,700 Made it well ahem, I is outran, the other man. 321 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:56,600 And as soon as he entered the gate, David had a question on 322 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:01,300 his lips and you know, that question was not, did we win? 323 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,300 What were our casualties? How did the battle go? 324 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:10,800 Oh no, it was his the young man, Absalom safe. 325 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,300 Him. I is love the king so deeply 326 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:17,600 that he couldn't even answer the question and about that time, 327 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,900 the kushite messenger ran up and David ask again, is the young 328 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:28,200 man, Absalom safe and the kushite replied, the enemies of 329 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,800 my Lord and King, and all that Rise Against Lee to do the hurt. 330 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,000 Be as that young man is and David perceived the answer, 331 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,600 David's cries. He went to the wall above the 332 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,100 gate, to his chamber. Echoes down through the 333 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:48,600 corridors of time. All Absalom Absalom, my son, my 334 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,100 son Absalom would. I died for thee? 335 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,400 Oh Absalom, my son. My son. 336 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,700 Never forget, friends. That it does matter what God 337 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:01,000 says. Let me tell you that your 338 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,300 attitude your example toward What God Says is the strongest 339 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:10,800 influence at times in the life of your children, what a parent 340 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:17,800 is always more important than what he says, but then I submit 341 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:23,000 it really matters what God say is if we're concerned about the 342 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:28,600 consequences of sin, It seems to me that many people both in the 343 00:23:28,608 --> 00:23:32,300 church and out of the church have accepted, the teaching of 344 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:38,100 universalism that everybody is ultimately going to be saved. 345 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,700 In fact, many people have no patience at all with the 346 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:45,700 preacher who tells of the fate of Sinners, many want little or 347 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:50,000 nothing said from our pulpits. About the Doom of unregenerate. 348 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,600 Sinners reminds me of people's attitude toward the dangers of 349 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,500 smoking. Poking few years ago on The 350 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:06,100 Tonight Show, we're told Johnny Carson was talking about deep 351 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:08,900 sea diving, and interviewing a deep-sea diver. 352 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:15,300 And the man demonstrated with a film was showing an underwater 353 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:18,200 gun whereby. He could defend himself against 354 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,600 sharks. And in this film clip, he shot 355 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:28,400 this, this gun and immediately it killed the shark instantly. 356 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:32,800 And Carson said, wow, what was in that shot? 357 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,500 And the divers answer was bleeped out. 358 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:42,200 Because they had a cigarette sponsor for the program later, 359 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,000 it was revealed to be nicotine. You see the sponsors did not 360 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,600 want the audience to know the consequences of cigarette 361 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,100 smoking? And many people are like that 362 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,400 about seein? They don't want people to know 363 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,600 and they don't want to know about the consequences of sin. 364 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:04,100 Did you know that many people want to believe that everybody 365 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,000 will ultimately be saved regardless of their Virtual 366 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:12,700 condition yes, no matter that there was no faith or obedience, 367 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:16,900 people are judged to be saved. No matter how careless, how 368 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,500 indifferent how disobedient one may have been. 369 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,600 He's judged to be saved. Little girl, went to the 370 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,000 cemetery with her father. One time they were walking 371 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,400 around looking at the headstones, loved one in heaven 372 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,400 asleep, in Jesus. And all of those wonderful 373 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,900 sayings, the little girl. Remote where the bad people were 374 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:41,400 buried. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? 375 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:45,400 Well, according to them, it's practically impossible for 376 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,100 anybody to be lost and people have told me, well, you know, 377 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:53,700 I'm not a bad person, I'm no worse than anybody else. 378 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:55,400 And, of course, that may be true. 379 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,700 But I'd like to remind you, that the rich man, of Luke 16 was 380 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:05,300 lost, wasn't he? Yes, the Bible says, and in 381 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:10,700 hell, he lift up his eyes. Sighs being in torments, Luke 16 382 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:15,500 and verse 23. Remember this was after death 383 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,300 and before the Judgment, because you remember what that rich man 384 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:24,700 said, he said I have five Brethren living, they were still 385 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,200 alive. This was before the final 386 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,400 judgment, this was after death. So in the light of this passage 387 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:37,000 alone, the theory of universalism is false Many other 388 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:42,100 Bible passages support The View. That the doctrine of universal 389 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:46,700 salvation is false. Look at Romans 3, and verse 23, 390 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,700 where Paul said, for all have sinned and come short of the 391 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:53,900 glory of God, what happens to those who are guilty of sin, 392 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:58,300 Romans, 6, and 23 said, for the wages of sin is death. 393 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,900 But the gift of God, is eternal life through. 394 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:05,700 Jesus Christ, Our Lord, if you serve Satan, all of your days, 395 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:11,000 if you give him the strength of your youth, And you give your 396 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,400 years to him and you never obey the gospel. 397 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,800 Listen, he's going to pay you your wages what you've earned 398 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:23,600 and what is it that he's going to give you White's death 399 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,800 separation from all that's holy separation from all that's good 400 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,100 and glorious. You know, the death that's 401 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,300 completed here, is not separation of the spirit from 402 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:38,000 the body. It's the separation of the soul 403 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 from God. It's that Eternal casting away 404 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,600 from God's presence because he says, on the other hand, the 405 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,100 gift of God is eternal life. So he's talking about eternal 406 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:54,300 death and eternal life. Again, Ezekiel 18 and 20. 407 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:58,100 It says the soul that sinneth, it shall die. 408 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,800 The son shall not bear. The iniquity of the father. 409 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:04,500 Neither shall the father bear, the iniquity of the son, the 410 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,300 righteousness of the righteous, shall be upon him. 411 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:12,100 And the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him and Daniel 12. 412 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:15,300 And to the prophet said, many of them that sleep in the dust of 413 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:19,700 the Earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to 414 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:23,700 shame and everlasting contempt. Again, in Matthew 7, and verse 415 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,600 13. Jesus said, enter ye in at the 416 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,700 strait gate for wide is the gate and Broad is the way which 417 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:34,100 leadeth the destruction and many there be which go in thereat 418 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,300 because Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth 419 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:41,300 unto life and few there. Be that find it again in John, 420 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:45,600 the 5th chapter and verse 28. Jesus said Marvel, not at this 421 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,400 for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the 422 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,600 graves. Shall hear his voice and shall 423 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,900 come forth. They that have done good unto 424 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:55,900 the resurrection of life and they have done evil unto, the 425 00:28:55,900 --> 00:29:01,000 resurrection of damnation in Matthew. 25 and verse 46. 426 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:04,500 Jesus spoke of those on the left hand and he said, these shall go 427 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,200 away into Everlasting punishment, but the righteous 428 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:13,500 into life, eternal. Oh, and then I meet others who 429 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:19,000 have evidently accepted the doctrine of once saved always 430 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,400 saved. They really believe that because 431 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,300 one time they confess the name of Christ and were baptized, 432 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,700 they shall be eternally saved. You know, I've talking with many 433 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,400 broken hearted mothers who cling to that fragile hope that 434 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,300 because their child, their loved one was baptized one time that 435 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:49,400 they are eternally saved. But I would remind you friends 436 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:54,700 that the rich man of Luke, 16 called Abraham father. 437 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,900 And Abraham referred to him as son. 438 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:02,800 Now, that means that he was a descendant of Abraham. 439 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:07,200 One who had been born into God's covenant during the Mosaic. 440 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,300 Dispensation he was a covenanted person. 441 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,100 So we have an example of a covenanted person who died and 442 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:19,500 lost his soul. Look, also again at another 443 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:21,900 passage. This is the parable of the 444 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:25,300 fishing, net in Matthew, 13 and verse 47. 445 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,900 I wear the Savior say it again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like 446 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:33,900 unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every 447 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:38,700 kind, which when it was full, they drew to Shore and sat down 448 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,100 and gathered the good into vessels but cast the bad away. 449 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:46,700 So shall it? Be at the end of the world, the 450 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:49,800 Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the 451 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,000 just and shall cast them into the furnace of fire and there 452 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,700 shall be wailing. And gnashing of teeth from the 453 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:02,000 kingdom of heaven. The angel look divided, some and 454 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,900 cast them into the furnace of fire. 455 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,100 Now, think about this. The only way to get in this 456 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:11,300 kingdom is how by the new birth, isn't it? 457 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:15,400 Because Jesus said in John 3 and 5 except a man be born of water 458 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,300 and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 459 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:24,100 So from these conclusions, it's obvious that some who have been 460 00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:28,300 born again who have entered into the kingdom have become Wicked 461 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:33,400 and we'll finally be cast into the furnace of fire in writing 462 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,400 to the children of God, who were dangerously close to losing 463 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600 their souls and inspired Penman Road. 464 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:43,200 Wrote in Hebrews 10 and verse 35, cast, not away. 465 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,600 Therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward 466 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,200 for. You have need of patience that 467 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,500 after you have done the will of God you might receive the 468 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,100 promise again and Hebrews 4 and verse 1. 469 00:31:56,100 --> 00:32:00,400 He said, let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of 470 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,000 entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to come 471 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,800 short of it again and Hebrews 3 and verse 12, we hear the same 472 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,700 writer saying Take heed Brethren lest there, be in any of you, an 473 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,000 evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Living. 474 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:24,100 God, now there's no doubt in my mind that God is merciful 475 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:30,200 compassionate, and loving the Bible pictures him as this kind 476 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:35,000 of God, after all God gave us, Jesus didn't he? 477 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,500 He gave us the church, the Bible, all All spiritual 478 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:45,200 necessities of life but that same Bible that says God is love 479 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,400 first. John four and eight also 480 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,200 declares in Hebrews 12 and verse 29. 481 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,600 That our God is a consuming fire. 482 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,500 Remember how God has dealt with sinners in the past. 483 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,600 He turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, he consumed 484 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,300 nadab and abihu with fire. He burned, Sodom and Gomorrah 485 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:10,400 from the face of the Earth, he destroyed the An Army in the 486 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,100 midst of the Red Sea, and he killed hundred and eighty-five 487 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,500 thousand of snow crabs troops in one night. 488 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:24,200 He drowned, every person living in Noah's day except those eight 489 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,100 Souls who were in The Ark. The Bible tells us of the fate 490 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:32,900 of Judas, who betrayed our Lord. It says, he by transgression 491 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:38,400 fell that he might go to his own place acts 1 and verse 25. 492 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,600 What was that? That place. 493 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:45,800 Well, Jesus said of the of the Apostles none of these is lost, 494 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:51,800 save the Son of Perdition. So we know what that place was 495 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,200 does. It matter what God says? 496 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,700 Well it certainly does if you're concerned about the consequences 497 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:03,400 of sin and although Jesus loved the whole world so much that he 498 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,200 gave himself for it. Jesus was called the Friend of 499 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,199 Sinners and yet the strongest word Ever to fall from human 500 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:19,000 lips were spoken about the punishment for sin by Jesus the 501 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,600 word for hell, which describes the Lake of Fire. 502 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,500 Eternal punishment is the word. Gehenna, that's found 12 times 503 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:33,500 in the New Testament. Did you know that 11 of those 12 504 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:36,699 times? It was the Gentle Savior From 505 00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:41,600 Galilee who use that word. It's a contradiction and thought 506 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,300 to say that you believe in a person and yet you don't believe 507 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,199 what he says. And so if you really trust the 508 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:52,000 master, you'll receive all of his teaching rather than 509 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,699 accepting only what you want and rejecting the rest. 510 00:34:56,500 --> 00:35:00,400 But then I want to mention, lastly, tonight, That it 511 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,700 matters. If we intend to make Heaven our 512 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:08,100 Eternal home Maybe it wouldn't be so tragic to ignore the 513 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:12,300 message of God. If death were the end of it all, 514 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:16,500 as many people believe. There are some materialist to 515 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:20,100 think, when a man dies that ends it all. 516 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,200 And that's certainly a gloomy opinion. 517 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,600 But if the rich man were here tonight, he could say, well, I 518 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,000 died. All right, but I had an 519 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,400 existence in the spirit world. Don't believe those who tell 520 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:45,100 you, otherwise, It is Saint that Alexander Campbell. and, His 521 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:54,200 Nemesis that he debated about whether or not. the Bible is 522 00:35:54,200 --> 00:36:01,500 true and whether or not Christianity is true, were 523 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,200 discussing one time in a meeting after that famous debate over 524 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,800 God's Little acre where all of his loved ones were buried and 525 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:17,700 this man remarked he said, you know, I have no fear of death. 526 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:24,900 I have no fear of death or of punishment and Alexander 527 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,800 Campbell said, well, do you have any hope and death? 528 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,600 He said, oh no, I have no hope and death. 529 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,100 He said, well, look out you under it, that Ops feeding out. 530 00:36:34,100 --> 00:36:36,900 Younger says, you're in the same condition. 531 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:41,000 He has no fear of death and yet he has no hope of in death. 532 00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:46,400 Well, a person should realize the consequences of living in 533 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,700 sin because man is more than simply animal life. 534 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,000 The Apostle Paul said in second, Corinthians 4 and 16, though? 535 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,900 Our outward, man, perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by 536 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,700 day. Now that Spirit are the inward 537 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:06,600 Man. Simply lives in this body. 538 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,100 It's called a tabernacle by the Apostle. 539 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:13,800 Paul in second Corinthians five. If and, when a person dies, 540 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:18,900 there's a separation of the two in recording, When Rachel died 541 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:23,600 in childbirth, here's what Moses wrote in Genesis, 35 and 18. 542 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,400 He said it came to pass. As her soul was departing for. 543 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,100 She died that she called his name benoni. 544 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,500 But his father called him Benjamin note. 545 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:39,400 The clarity of language. They're a departure of her soul 546 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:45,200 from her body is called Death Solomon said that when one dies, 547 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,400 the spirit returns to God, who gave it in? 548 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,800 Other words to his disposal to do with it, as he sees, fit 549 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,400 Ecclesiastes, 12 and 7, and James made it very clear when he 550 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:04,100 said in James 2 and 26, that the body without the spirit is dead, 551 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,900 To overthrow the materialistic a nihilist, you nice view of the 552 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:12,700 Sadducees who didn't believe in Angel. 553 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:16,200 They didn't believe in a resurrection. 554 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,000 They didn't believe in a life after death. 555 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:22,100 They're sort of like our modern Jehovah Witnesses in that 556 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,900 respect. But Jesus, quoted the language 557 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:28,100 that God used to describe himself to Moses. 558 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,600 And although it had been hundreds of years since Abraham, 559 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,600 Isaac, and Jacob had lived Jesus. 560 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:39,000 Quoted God. As saying, I am the god of 561 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,000 Abraham and the god of Jacob, and the god of Isaac. 562 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:49,900 He didn't say, I was the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or I 563 00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:54,300 used to be the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or I will be 564 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:56,600 the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 565 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,900 He said, I am in other words, in some sense, those great 566 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:04,600 Patriarchs were still living as far. 567 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:09,600 His God was concerned and Jesus. Then added God is not the god of 568 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,000 the dead, but of the living, you know, I've asked the witnesses 569 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,100 many times to complete this syllogism. 570 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:23,000 God is the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God is not the 571 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,200 god of the lip of the dead, but of the living there, for what 572 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:32,100 Well, that conclusion necessarily is, there is a sense 573 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,700 in which Abraham Isaac and Jacob still live. 574 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:41,800 Luke 20 and verse 38 record. Jesus is saying for all live 575 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:47,200 unto him, that means there's an afterlife That means that 576 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,100 there's something beyond the grave. 577 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:54,100 It's not all of life to live if prepared and it's not all of 578 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,300 death to die if unprepared either. 579 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:01,100 You and I are going to be in a place of waste and loss. 580 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:05,600 Where hope is a stranger where no gospel ray of light has ever 581 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,700 penetrated, or we are going to be in the presence of God 582 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:13,500 Christ, the Holy Spirit, the angels and the redeem spirits of 583 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:19,900 just men made perfect because heaven is a prepared place for a 584 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:25,900 prepared people. I've heard people say, oh, you 585 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:29,600 know, if I'm lucky to get to heaven, if I'm lucky enough to 586 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,600 get to heaven, I don't care if I just live a little cabin out 587 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,500 here in the corner somewhere. Well, let me tell you something, 588 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:40,800 folks. If you go to heaven, it will it 589 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,500 be? Because you were lucky, it won't 590 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:48,000 be because Dame Fortune Smiled On you it won't be as some 591 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,500 people count it. When they win the lottery, that 592 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:56,200 your lucky number is come up, it won't be because you've won and 593 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,600 some kind of a Celestial dice roll. 594 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,100 It will be because you have heeded, the words of almighty 595 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:08,600 God, it will be because you have done what the Apostle Peter 596 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,100 said. Ed and that's given diligence to 597 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,800 make your calling and election. Sure. 598 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,200 I'm through tonight, I may be speaking to someone who's never 599 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,100 obeyed, the gospel and never tendered obedience to the 600 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:25,100 commands of God. Let me tell you very clearly and 601 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:27,900 plainly. As I know how what God has 602 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,400 commanded you to do. You know, Jesus said not every 603 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,100 one that saith unto me Lord. Lord shall enter the kingdom of 604 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,600 heaven, but he that, doeth, the will of My Father, which is in 605 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,600 heaven, you know, if I Never bring people to ask the 606 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,200 question. What is God's will for me? 607 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,400 I can tell them quite plainly. Jesus said, this is the will of 608 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,200 God that you believe on him that I sent me. 609 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,200 We must believe in Jesus. We have to have faith in him and 610 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,100 without faith. It's impossible to please God. 611 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:05,100 Again, we must repent of sins. Jesus says, unless you repent, 612 00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:08,800 you except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 613 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,700 We Have to acknowledge Christ. 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