1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 It's a wonderful joy to be with you this morning, being able to 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,320 be together in the first day of the week, the day that Jesus was 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,160 resurrected from the dead, the day that Jesus taught us with 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,480 his apostles to commune together, the day that we have 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,640 the opportunity to lay by in the store. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,600 All of this is the wonderful part of our worship service to 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,280 God. And we're glad that you're here 8 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,560 to pay respect to God Almighty and his Son Jesus. 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,880 And we're severely thankful that we can be here together to 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,960 praise God together. A number of years ago we began a 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,120 study of the 21st St. congregation and it lasts for 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,160 about two 2 1/2 years. And there was a study on the 13 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:49,320 chronological study of the life of Jesus. 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,400 And what that essentially is, is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, 15 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,240 the four gospels and putting them in chronological order. 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,519 Now, there are many really good tools or aids out there that 17 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,360 have done this for us. And they're just an occasional 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,480 somebody think this went before that, but that's OK. 19 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,080 It gives you a general idea of how things happen in what 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,440 sequence of the general practice that happened during the days of 21 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,280 Jesus. And this to me was one of the 22 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,840 most enjoyable studies that I remember having in my adult 23 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,000 life. It was so interesting to see 24 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:37,680 when Jesus did this miracle. It was at this time of his life 25 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,680 when He was maybe being treated roughly by the scribes of the 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,880 Pharisees or the political leaders of the day or whatever 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,480 the case may be. It is so interesting to see when 28 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,680 He gave a miracle, why He gave the miracle, What was the 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,600 environment whereby He gave that miracle. 30 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,280 But today in our lesson on the three crosses, I don't want to 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,640 leave the wrong impressions. I want to clarify it. 32 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:09,280 The three crosses that we are going to mainly talk about are 33 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,480 is Jesus and the thieves that were nailed on his left and the 34 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,280 thief was nailed on his right on their own individual cross. 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,440 We're going to basically address that. 36 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,480 However, I wanted everybody to remember this is not the only 37 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,560 conversation that happened during the crucifixion. 38 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,280 As a matter of fact, and I won't mention them all, but there's 39 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,560 one occasion where we know that the multitude of people, they 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:44,160 just railed against Jesus. So the people out the community 41 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,120 that were not embracing what Jesus preached and stood for, 42 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,840 they would rail against him and say things very, very unpleasant 43 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,440 to him. And Jesus took it. 44 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:01,080 And then not only that, then you have the faith on the left and 45 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,440 the faith on the right, and they both revived, revealed against 46 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,600 Jesus. They spoke evil against Jesus. 47 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:14,640 They were dying the same way he was dying the same day he was 48 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,160 dying. And these two thieves, one on 49 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,640 the left, one on the right, they themselves found themselves 50 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,480 doing just what the multitude of people did. 51 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,880 Well, that was sad and very unfortunate, but that's the way 52 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,120 it is now. Remember, Jesus was only on the 53 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,080 cross for six hours before he died. 54 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:42,920 However, as time progressed, the thief on the right spoke against 55 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,680 the thief on the left because the thief on the left at that 56 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,040 point, which is several hours later, this thief was rallying 57 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,040 against Jesus again. This thief spoke against the 58 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,240 other thief and said, what are you doing? 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:07,960 You know we are receiving just punishment for what we have 60 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:15,000 done, but this man, Speaking of Jesus, has done nothing amidst 61 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,440 He's innocent. In other words, we're guilty. 62 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,760 So what do you think? Why are you reviving against Him 63 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,280 in such a wicked and a terrible way? 64 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,400 This thief began to show the one on the right, and I have it on 65 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,320 the right intentionally because you know how the bottom puts it, 66 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,960 the good on the left and the bad on the left and the good on the 67 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,280 right. That's why we did it this way. 68 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,280 Now, we don't know from a biblical standpoint, nor even a 69 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:47,240 historical standpoint, whether the left guy on the left or the 70 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,200 left on the right or the one on the right. 71 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,760 But we've designed it this way just to make it easy. 72 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:57,160 But yeah, we understand that this thief right here earlier, 73 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,200 he reviled Jesus. He said he quit and then he 74 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,160 rebuked his Co person who had also been a thief. 75 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,200 And now this thief right here, he began to realize, man, I 76 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,360 better get things right. I'm getting ready to die. 77 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,120 It's time for me to get things right. 78 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,600 And that is the message we need to learn now. 79 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,480 We may not die today. We may not die tomorrow. 80 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,080 But as was mentioned in the prayer this morning, we don't 81 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,600 know when the Lord is going to come back, but we want to be 82 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,400 ready when he died. And when the Lord comes back, we 83 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,720 want to meet him, as the Bible said, in the clouds and in the 84 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,760 air. And so shall we ever be with the 85 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,000 Lord. That's what's going to happen if 86 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,800 the Lord returns during our lifetime. 87 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,960 He would never take it one more step on this earth. 88 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,280 There is no biblical evidence He will. 89 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,200 We'll meet him in the clouds. We'll meet him in the air. 90 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,720 The Bible said every tongue will confess. 91 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,720 Every eye will see him. What a grain and a glorious day 92 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:03,560 that will be when Jesus returns and we're able to ascend 93 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,400 together if we are saved. So therefore I encourage 94 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,920 everyone to inventory our own life, make sure that we're right 95 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,840 and we're ready to meet the Maker. 96 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,800 We're ready to go to heaven. And you said, well, I'm I'm 97 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,720 ready. What are you living like? 98 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,160 You're ready. Have you obeyed the gospel in 99 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,320 baptism? For the Lord can add you to the 100 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,280 church daily, such as should be saved. 101 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,560 Have you resolved conflict between one Christian and 102 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,360 another Christian? Have you got those resolved? 103 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,200 You know, the Bible says, you know, somebody's got something 104 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,080 against you, go talk to them and be reconciled. 105 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,120 Have you done that? Oh, I could give you a list of 106 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,240 things. Well, have we done that? 107 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,440 Well, this is what is important today in our Christian life, to 108 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:59,360 get us right with the Lord. Well, the Today we're going to 109 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,000 divide these three categories and the three main points, and 110 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,120 we're going to talk about the gentleman on the left, then 111 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,840 we'll talk about the gentleman on the right, and then we'll 112 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,760 talk about our roar and our Savior right in the middle. 113 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,600 It is such a grand event when Jesus, when he died, he died 114 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,000 because it was an accomplishment, accomplishing 115 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,640 God's will, accomplishing God's way. 116 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,680 And Jesus was so willing, so eager to do that. 117 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,880 Well, let's think about this gentleman right here, the man on 118 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,040 as you're looking into the board, the man on your left, 119 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,720 this thief right here. We don't have any record he ever 120 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,040 changed his attitude, his disposition, his reviling 121 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,360 against Jesus. We don't have any record where 122 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,640 He ever made all that right. If he did, it's simply not 123 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,040 recorded. But all of this is found in 124 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,680 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels. 125 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,760 But what we find is in Isaiah the 5th, 9th chapter, verse 1 126 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,520 and 2, the Old Testament passage. 127 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:14,480 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that he cannot save, 128 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:20,080 and neither is his ear heavy that he cannot hear. 129 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:27,600 But your sins have separated between you and your God. 130 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:33,600 Now we need to remember when we choose to sin, we choose to be 131 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,400 separated from God. The word of God said now is that 132 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,880 if not your sin separates you from God. 133 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,480 We need to make sure to get sin out of our life. 134 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,760 We don't want any part of that in our life. 135 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,360 Sin or keep you out of heaven. Sin is the only thing that will 136 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,840 keep you out of heaven. Sin is the only thing that sends 137 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,880 our soul to hell. Oh, we want to be free, free 138 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,320 from sin. We're going to make mistakes. 139 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,680 We're going to sin. The beauty part about it, as a 140 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:12,080 baptized believer, one who's baptized with the baptism of the 141 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,080 Great Commission, we can pray to God for forgiveness of our sins. 142 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:21,160 And God Forgives what pression is that can be. 143 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,200 Would you go with me in the book of John the 8th chapter verse 144 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:31,600 34, while we find that John 834 has another teaching about sin, 145 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,160 very important principle. And John 834 the word of God 146 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:42,880 said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, listen to what he said, 147 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,960 Whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin. 148 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,880 Now we don't lie to be considered a servant. 149 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:57,320 We think back at many years when people were slaves and servants 150 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,120 and, and that was not right, not fair, but at the day and time 151 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,640 they live, that's just the way it was. 152 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,800 And, and I'm glad that's all changed. 153 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,480 But let me tell you what, this is very serious, even more so 154 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,440 with we've become a servant of sin. 155 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,880 When we choose to sin, we become servants of sin. 156 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,040 We're yielding ourselves to Satan and evil, and we want to 157 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,680 break away from that. There comes a time in your life 158 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,680 you've got friends, family, people at work, whatever your 159 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:34,120 circumstance, that may be a hindrance to you living a 160 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,960 Christian life. They may be trying to get you to 161 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,960 go places, do things, act in such a way, talk in such a way. 162 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,240 Not becoming a Christian. Now, you've got to make a 163 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,680 choice. No, I am not going to do that. 164 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,080 No, I don't do that. I'm a Christian and I don't do 165 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,240 that. I don't go there. 166 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,920 I don't know it that way. No, no, no. 167 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,240 Oh, they may not like you for that. 168 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,120 They may want to just not have anything to do with you. 169 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,680 And guess what? That's OK Anytime somebody is 170 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:09,960 hindering you from living a Christian life or encouraging 171 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,440 you to live in a way that's not Christian, my dear friend, you 172 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,320 can turn and walk away and be thankful that you did. 173 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,760 Because if we don't, then we're going to find ourselves doing 174 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,240 some things that's not right. Well, what we can find not only 175 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:30,400 our sins separating us from God, not only if we sin, we've become 176 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,920 service of sin. Look at what the brother of our 177 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,200 Lord sin at the book of James. You know, reading the book of 178 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,120 James, you know James is very similar to that of Corinthians, 179 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:49,240 not in content, but in approach. James is a practical book in the 180 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,440 New Testament. So is the great book of First 181 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,320 Corinthians, First Corinthians, James of the two most practical 182 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,560 books in the New Testament. Now James doesn't cover the five 183 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:06,560 chapters, First Corinthian covered 16 chapters, but we can 184 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:11,120 learn problem solution, problem solution by reading these books. 185 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,760 And it's so enjoyable to be able to learn a lot about how we can 186 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,560 improve our life. Would you look with me please 187 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:22,560 that James the 1st chapter, you sit here on the board. 188 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:28,360 James one verse 15, the brother of our Lord said these words. 189 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,520 Look here then. When lust has conceived, it 190 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,080 bringeth forth sin. Sin. 191 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,400 When it is finished, it bringeth forth death. 192 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,520 This is very, very important. You're seeing the consequence of 193 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,120 sin. When sin is complete, it 194 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,960 bringeth forth death. I want everybody here to 195 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,440 inventory your life and to do the things that are right and 196 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,120 pleasing in your life, and nothing will hinder you from 197 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,440 going to heaven. But if today you turn loose of 198 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,520 your life and you just go do what you want to do, you talk 199 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,920 like you want to talk. You want to act like you want to 200 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,880 act, you don't want to do what God said. 201 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,640 Let me tell you what that can cause us to lose our soul 202 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,280 eternally, forever more everlasting punishment. 203 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,600 We don't want that. We don't want that. 204 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,000 Oh, we can give the whole lesson about what it means to die in 205 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:31,120 sin, But understand this thief, he died in sin from anything we 206 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:36,800 find biblically recorded. The thief died in sin, and he 207 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,240 died as a Sinner before he died as a Sinner. 208 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:47,080 We die separated from God because we were servants of sin, 209 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,760 and sin brought forth death. Listen, Fred, there's no picnic 210 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,840 there. So I want, here's what I want 211 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,880 from you. I want you to make a commitment 212 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,120 to the Lord that you will always live a life that will please 213 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,040 Him. You lift up his name. 214 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,440 You'll be more than happy to tell people in your neighborhood 215 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,720 and your working, the school and everywhere you go. 216 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,960 You'd be glad to share the good news with them about the 217 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,280 goodness of God. Well, this thief right here, I 218 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,440 don't want to have your name on this list. 219 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,880 I certainly don't want my name on it. 220 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,640 One who's dying in sin. I made you briefly the other day 221 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,760 in one of our lessons that one of the challenges in the preach 222 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,880 men of preachers is preaching the life of someone that you 223 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,040 really fear for their eternal soul. 224 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,480 You fear for it. And you, you want to say some 225 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,520 things to encourage the family, but you don't want to mislead 226 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,160 them thing. Well, this guy right here, boy, 227 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,480 he's got it made when he don't have it made. 228 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,240 Not if he's an atheist, an agnostic or an infidel or such 229 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,320 like. No, you know God will be the 230 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,280 judge and that one of the most beautiful things about First 231 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,240 Corinthians 5 and 13. God said I'm going to take care 232 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,000 of those without you. Just take care of those within. 233 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,880 See, we work together to take care of those within you help 234 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,160 me, I'll help you. We work together and that's what 235 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,800 the beauty part about it. You know what I've loved about 236 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,160 this meeting and believe me, this doesn't happen everywhere. 237 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,840 I have loved the fact that whenever we've assembled 238 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,240 together, you know, people are speaking kindly and thoughtful 239 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,440 and polite of one another and commended. 240 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,240 This brother does this, this sister does that, and they work 241 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,280 so very hard. That is wonderful to have. 242 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,840 The brothers have brothers and sisters who are working together 243 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,160 diligently to make the work go stronger and better for the 244 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,560 church. You know, it's fine for women to 245 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,240 work. You know, Romans 16 verse one, 246 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,120 the Bible says feed you with a servant of the church. 247 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,280 And there's a place where Bible talks about different men who 248 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:00,720 had a lot of worship in their home and their their families 249 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,760 were husband and wife who did that. 250 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,440 It's great to have camaraderie with the brothers and the 251 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,320 sisters working together for the common good of the congregation. 252 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,560 OK, now let's look at another gentleman. 253 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,480 This time we're looking at the gentleman on your right. 254 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,640 Generally, people on the right are right with God. 255 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,280 We want that. Now, right off the bat, the man 256 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,480 on the right, who we don't know his name, but this man on the 257 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,800 right wasn't doing what was right. 258 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Now early on you remember we referenced the fact that he 259 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,680 reviled against Jesus just like the one on the left reviled 260 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,600 against Jesus. But let me tell you what 261 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,760 happened here. Now we'll be noticing every one 262 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,880 of these from Romans, the 6th chapter, until we get the very 263 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,760 last one. And it's a Hebrew passage, but 264 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,560 all the first several from Romans, the 6th chapter. 265 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,880 And this gentleman right here, unlike this gentleman, the first 266 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,400 things that we have a record of, he died in sin. 267 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,160 This gentleman right here died to sin. 268 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:09,720 How do you die to sin? You die to sin by giving up sin 269 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,319 out of your life. You lie. 270 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,480 You quit lying. You steal. 271 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,800 You quit stealing. You're immoral. 272 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,640 You quit being immoral. You do. 273 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,839 You quit doing all these things. You know, I've recently, two 274 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:28,440 years ago, I finished researching all of the specific 275 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,760 sins mentioned in the New Testament, well over 100 of 276 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,560 them. And then I used them in 277 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:40,520 meetings, on several meetings throughout last year of 2023. 278 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,080 And people really enjoyed it because some of the words, 279 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:48,160 they're not our normal English words and we don't have clues 280 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,280 what they even talk about. So we do one or two or three 281 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,080 things. We maybe go to Bible dictionary 282 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,200 and look up the word or even a little bit quicker than that, 283 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,360 you go to a modern day translation and you look up and 284 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,600 see how they worded that word or phrase and see how they worded 285 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,000 it. And you can probably learn quite 286 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,280 a bit from there. Or you can simply go to a a word 287 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,960 study encyclopedia and learn more about the word and learn 288 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,600 where it came from. Well, this is what happened 289 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,440 here. It was such a great joy to go 290 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,360 through that because as you read through, you know, there are 291 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,760 several lists in the Bible, you know, like works of the flesh 292 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,520 and fruit of the Spirit. One of those, the good ones bad, 293 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,160 of course, but there's several lists in the Bible and what me 294 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:38,040 and you need to do, we need to make sure that none of that goes 295 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,440 into our life. Well, this gentleman here, I 296 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,680 don't know what all he did. He was a thief, but we don't 297 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,600 know what all he did. But we do know one thing, before 298 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:53,040 he died, he died to sin and we died to sin, and I'm getting sin 299 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,640 out of my life. So I'm going to encourage all of 300 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,240 you. You've made a commitment to the 301 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,120 Lord. And when you make a commitment 302 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:03,240 to the Lord, you get with the program and you get rid of sin 303 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,920 out of your life. Husband and wife get rid of sin 304 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,040 out of your life. You commit yourself to each 305 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,680 other. You know, many weddings that 306 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:17,400 we've officiated out, you know, and we do I require before I 307 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,720 would do a wedding. They have pre marriage 308 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,080 counseling. I don't have to do it. 309 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,840 I don't mind doing it, but I don't have to be the one that 310 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,200 does. They can do it for somebody 311 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,160 else, but I want them to have it because pre marriage counseling 312 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,040 is so imperative, because you 0 right in on the strength and the 313 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,840 weaknesses of your relationship. Very, very important and what we 314 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,040 want to do as Christian people, we want to do everything in our 315 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,800 power and our might to be successful of the husband of the 316 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:54,120 wife, of the son, of the daughter, as the child of God, 317 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,840 son or daughter of God Almighty. We will do everything we can to 318 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,760 be right with the Lord. With this thief right here, he 319 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,800 started out not on too good of a term, but he ended up doing 320 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,360 quite well and from every indication, we learned he was 321 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:12,040 saved and I'll share that with you here in a few moments. 322 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,960 I want to turn with you to Romans the 6th chapter. 323 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,720 These are not hard. Romans 6th one through 23 the 324 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,840 whole chapter. I'm not going to read the whole 325 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,040 chapter, but this whole chapter of Romans 6 is 23 verses. 326 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,680 It ended up talking about the wages of sin is death. 327 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,160 But this is really important. We're going to read in Romans 6 328 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,640 and one, make a brief comment, Romans 6:00 and 2:00, and then 329 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,440 you put those two together and we'll read Romans 6 and 12, all 330 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,160 of this, and we go together and it can work out quite well. 331 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,760 So let's turn over to Romans 6th chapter and see what we can 332 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,680 learn. Romans 6 is a powerful chapter. 333 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,520 It's one that really helps us get our strength and our 334 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,320 stability things right with the Lord. 335 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,400 The Robinson says chapter maybe look at verse one. 336 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:05,160 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that 337 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,960 grace may abound? On Paul's error, he's asking a 338 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:14,440 question, redundant as it is. He said, are you going to 339 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,920 continue to live in sin? That grace may abound. 340 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,000 So you said what? I'm saved by grace, therefore 341 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,840 it's OK if I sin wrong. It's not OK if you sin. 342 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,040 Just because Jesus lived that perfect life and Jesus died at 343 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,400 Calvary doesn't mean you can go out there and say, think and do 344 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,640 anything you want to do because you cannot. 345 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,400 Oh, look at verse 2, the tithes Titan never verse one. 346 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,280 The Bible says God forbid. In other words, shall we 347 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,960 continue to sin that grace left bound, God forbid. 348 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,640 How should we that are dead to sin live any longer? 349 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,680 They're in, you know, if you're dead to sin. 350 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,880 What that means is I am not living in sin anymore. 351 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,440 I am not getting away. This is very, very important and 352 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,240 it's very essential that we make right decisions. 353 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,080 We make right decisions now. Listen, this is time you come 354 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,160 overnight. This is not going to be 355 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,800 something that that you would always be able to do I 356 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,840 Christian, I want you to be right and ready to meet your 357 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,400 Maker in order to do that. And you have sin in your life 358 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,200 like this gentleman had sin in his life. 359 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,520 He should have got right with the Lord just as quick as this 360 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,040 gentleman got right with the Lord. 361 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,240 But the difference is this gentleman owed up to his sin. 362 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,840 This thief on the cross. We never have any Bible record 363 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,640 where he owned up to it. This thief right here, you know 364 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,040 what he said to Jesus? He says, Lord, Remember Me when 365 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,360 you come back into your Kingdom. That is powerful. 366 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,640 This thief here, get him forgiveness of his sin. 367 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,720 He says, Lord, Remember Me. Number one, He recognized Jesus 368 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,240 as Lord. He recognized the teaching of 369 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,120 Jesus about paradise. Lord, Remember Me when you come 370 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,160 back into your Kingdom. He remember what the Lord said 371 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,320 about the Kingdom. It was so wonderful to see 372 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:21,360 people who are ready to die and ready to meet their Savior. 373 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,000 My dear friends, today, one of the greatest, grandest, most 374 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,080 glorious event that can ever happen in your life is that 375 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,640 before you die, you're right. And you're ready to meet your 376 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,760 Maker. Oh, you know what people say, 377 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:36,960 don't you? Oh, yeah. 378 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:38,920 Well, don't worry, Alan. I will, man. 379 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,600 Right before I die, I get it right with the Lord. 380 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,000 Well, when are you going to die? When? 381 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,640 I don't know exactly when I'm going to die, but before I do, 382 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,160 I'm going to ride with the Lord. How you going to know? 383 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,480 If you don't know when you're going to die, you don't know 384 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,680 when you're going to die. The reason today you want to 385 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,720 devote and dedicate your life to the Lord, let nothing, whatever 386 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,120 interfere, is because you don't know #1 when the Lord is going 387 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,400 to come back. Just mentioned in prayer this 388 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,520 morning, The Lord can come right back during our lifetime. 389 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,920 We don't know when He's going to come back, but when He comes 390 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,320 back, we better be right or we can lose our eternal life. 391 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,680 That's huge. I just want everybody to be 392 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,600 committed and absolutely solely committed that I'm going to stay 393 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,480 right with the Lord. And when I mess up, I'm going to 394 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,800 fess up and I'm going to make things right. 395 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,000 Well, that's exactly what's happened right here. 396 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,160 This man realized he had done wrong. 397 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,520 He he finally come to the point he recognized Jesus as Lord. 398 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,080 And look with me at Romans 6 and verse 12. 399 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,560 What we find right here in this passage. 400 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,480 It's really amazing. He says #1 this is great. 401 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:55,960 Let not sin. Let not sin therefore reign. 402 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:59,480 And your mortar body that you should have been in the lust of, 403 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:06,000 don't let sin stay in your body. Now you can play it down, you 404 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:06,560 say. You know what? 405 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,160 Guess what? You know Big Bill. 406 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,720 I know. Yeah, I lied. 407 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,400 But, you know, everybody lied. Yeah, I know. 408 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,320 You know, I dress him more. You know, everybody dresses them 409 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,600 more along the way, you know? Yes, I know. 410 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,160 I did this and I did that, and I acted this way. 411 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:25,320 I quit making excuses. When you sin, you sin and you 412 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,600 own up your sin. I had the baptized believer over 413 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,240 and over and over again. The Bible says confess your 414 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,680 sins, confess your fault, confess, confess and confess. 415 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,840 You know why? Because you've got to take 416 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,440 ownership of your sin and get rid of it. 417 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,680 You've got to get rid of your sin. 418 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,000 You can do this in order to go to heaven. 419 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,120 So therefore, if you've never been baptized, you need to see 420 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,640 just how quick you can get that done because you're baptized, 421 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,040 you're making a lifelong commitment. 422 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,320 You know when you stand for a preacher or someone who's 423 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,080 officiating your wedding and they ask you, do you take him a 424 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,280 hurt? But your lawful wedding, husband 425 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:09,080 or wife, whatever your situation is, if you're the man or if 426 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,040 you're the woman, and you know what, the more we talk about it 427 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,600 and do you keep yourself to him or her as long as you both shall 428 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,680 live. You know, we're making a 429 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,680 commitment. You know what we're making? 430 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,800 We're making a vow. And Ecclesiastes, the 3rd 431 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,640 chapter, it said you're better off to never make a vow than to 432 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,080 make one and break it. Whoa, that sounds pretty hefty. 433 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,000 You never, ever make a vow and break it. 434 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,600 You make a vow to the Almighty God. 435 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,240 I will keep myself to Him or her all the days of my life. 436 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,480 She, they will be my spouse from now on, and I will be there for 437 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,720 them. That is what is beautiful and 438 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,320 wonderful, and that's what we need to do. 439 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,160 That's the kind of commitment we make to the Lord and even 440 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,520 greater because the Lord's commitment takes us all to 441 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,760 eternity. Well, you know what? 442 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,120 There's another passage in Romans 6 I want you to look at, 443 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,520 and that's verses 18 through 22. Listen, sometime, whenever you 444 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,680 feel like, you know, maybe I don't have my grip together on 445 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,520 my spirituality, grab a hold of Romans the 6th chapter and read 446 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,760 it. It will help you get us back in 447 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,280 line. Verse 18, Romans the 6th 448 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,440 chapter. Please notice here the Bible 449 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,920 says being been made free from sin, you become servants of 450 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,880 righteousness. Wow, things are changing. 451 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,560 Earlier we read it becoming you're a servants of sin. 452 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,960 If you live in sin, you're a servant of sin. 453 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,280 And now here we're learning that you've become servants of 454 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,040 righteousness. Guess what? 455 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,520 You've got a choice. You've got a choice to make 456 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,400 right and wrong, good and evil, heaven and hell. 457 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,920 It's your choice. Which one are you choosing? 458 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,520 Are you choosing to make those right decisions and live the 459 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,880 right life? I pray God that you are this is 460 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,120 so beautiful and so wonderful. Go with me to Hebrews. 461 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,520 Don't one pass them really talks about is Hebrew 12 and verse one 462 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,920 Hebrew 12 and one should automatically set off with a 463 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,800 remembrance in your head because Hebrew 12/1 is right after 464 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,720 Hebrew 11. All of those by faith. 465 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,840 These men and these women did great works and they were, they 466 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,280 were illustrated in this way by faith, Abraham, by faith Isaac, 467 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,080 by faith. Sarah, my dear friend, I hope 468 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,120 and pray that we live that kind of life. 469 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,680 And then finally, when the Hebrew 11 is completed, the very 470 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,080 next verse, which happened to be the next chapter, Hebrew 12 471 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,640 verse one, it says Wherefore sin. 472 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,880 We also are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses. 473 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,520 You know what those witnesses are those witnesses, those 474 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,160 people that lived in Hebrew 11 by faith, Abraham and Isaac and 475 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,880 on and on and goes those who were witnesses and we're 476 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,480 compassed about. We're so great a cloud of 477 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,240 witnesses. Let me tell you how to live a 478 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,040 faithful Christian life. I want you to remember the fact 479 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,960 that they're a great cloud of witnesses pulling for you. 480 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:24,200 Just imagine yourself in a stadium witnessing a ball game 481 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,880 and there are thousands upon thousands of people there and 482 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,800 everybody rooted for this particular team to win. 483 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,400 Well, think about that in the way of living your Christian 484 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,800 life. Here you are. 485 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,480 You're living your Christian life out here on the field. 486 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,560 You're up and down the field, back and forth, back and forth, 487 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,320 and all these hundreds of thousands of people said, come 488 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,000 on, come on, you can make it. You can make it just like a 489 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000 football. Somebody's running carried out 490 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,240 football and they've done cutting loose and they're 491 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,960 heading down the field. We're saying go, go, go, go. 492 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,440 Well, that's what people are doing for you in Hebrew 12/1. 493 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,480 They're so compassed about with so great of cloud of witnesses. 494 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,080 You got people working for you, God's working for you. 495 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,320 Christ is working for you. The oldest spirit is working for 496 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,720 you. The angels are working for you. 497 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,480 Your brothers and sisters in Christ working for you. 498 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,240 Those have already gone on before. 499 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,720 They're pulling for you. My dear friends, guess what? 500 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,920 Are you pulling for yourself? Are you really hanging on and 501 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,600 doing the right thing? This is what is so very 502 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,800 important. Oh, what we have learned 503 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,200 already. If we die and sin, the end 504 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,440 result is not good. It's not good. 505 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,200 If we have sinned and we all have sinned and come short, then 506 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,600 we have these sort of situations and we put these verses and 507 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,080 many, many more that we can talk about into our life. 508 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,960 But now here is the remainder. Here is the beauty, the man in 509 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,640 the middle, your Lord and your Savior, Jesus Christ. 510 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,920 Dear friend, I want to be very pointed, very honest with you, 511 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,520 but I don't want you to speak up. 512 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440 But I want, I want you to think in your own mind, when is the 513 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,200 last time that I've told anybody about Jesus? 514 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,320 When I told him how great he was or how great he is? 515 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,360 I tell him how he's the Son of God and how we can pray every 516 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,520 prayer we pray, we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus. 517 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:26,120 Isn't it wonderful today to be a Christian man or woman who that 518 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,120 when you pray, you pray your heavenly Father in the name of 519 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,640 Jesus Christ? And we learned last night and 520 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,880 the Holy Spirit intercedes through your prayers. 521 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,600 Wow, the devil doesn't stand a chance. 522 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,680 I love him. The only thing I want to see 523 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,400 with the devil, I love it. I love to see his backside teeth 524 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,080 running away, just like he did with Jesus in Matthew 4. 525 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,360 The Bible says then the devil leaveth him. 526 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,520 He ran away. The angels came in ministering 527 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,160 unto Jesus. I just want you to be so ready 528 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,080 that whenever, whenever your life ends, you know, before I 529 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,600 left Dallas. And I flew out here. 530 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,760 They called it a three hour and 8 minute flight, so somewhere in 531 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,040 that ballpark I would assume. And then by the time I got out, 532 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,320 I turned my phone off like they asked us to. 533 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,840 And then I turned my phone on. When I landed, we landed. 534 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,000 They said you're welcome, turn your phone back on and turn it 535 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,320 on. And the very first message is my 536 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,080 first cousin had passed away. He died in the last three hours. 537 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,000 And then I was up in the sky flying from Dallas, TX to here. 538 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,360 But he died. He was the preacher of the 539 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,480 gospel of a southern, a regional type preacher, you know, 540 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,600 Tennessee and Alabama and Georgia, occasionally 541 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,480 Mississippi. But he's been doing that for 542 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,040 many, many years. And he's helped a lot of souls 543 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,640 be saved. He didn't baptize somebody last 544 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,640 Sunday. Or he was out helping. 545 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,680 One of the sisters who needed her yard mowed, He was out 546 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,760 mowing her yard. He was 78 years old and he was 547 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,040 out taking care of her, helping her. 548 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:02,360 My dear friend, I just want you to put a premium on your life 549 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,600 and a premium on your eternal soul. 550 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,160 You don't know when it's going to all be over. 551 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,880 We don't know that you're not. Paul described it in First 552 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,040 Corinthians 15. Paul described it this way. 553 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,600 I'm watching you blink your. Eyes, the Bible said, in the 554 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,600 twinkling of an eye. In a twinkling of an. 555 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,000 Eye. That's how quick. 556 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,320 Wow, that's pretty impressive. The main thing is it's not when 557 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,520 it's going to be. It's not how quick it's going to 558 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,000 be. Is that my ready? 559 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,000 That's what matters. And when you take a good hard 560 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,560 look here and Matthew 1 and 21, this is Speaking of Mary, the 561 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,560 mother of Jesus. And what we learn. 562 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,200 Right here is Mary, the mother of Jesus. 563 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,240 The Bible said that she shall bring forth the Son and I should 564 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:59,080 call his name Jesus preacher save his people from their sins. 565 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,880 Dear friends, I praise in the Lord worthy Jesus is going to 566 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,080 save us from our sin. Let me tell you what you commit 567 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,679 a sin, you can get forgiveness of it, but you got to be willing 568 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:11,920 to do it. You've got. 569 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,920 To be willing to. Say I am wrong. 570 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,440 You've got to be like the prodigal son of Luke 15, he 571 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,760 said. Here's what I'm going to do. 572 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,880 This is after years he lived his life for wicked. 573 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,360 I'm going to return home. I'm going to go to my father and 574 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,840 I'm going to say Father, I've sinned. 575 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,000 You know, that's really not. Hard to say. 576 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:36,920 I I have sinned. That's not hard to say. 577 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,280 Oh, it may kind of rub your grain the wrong way. 578 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,159 You may want to figure out a way out of. 579 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:46,159 But let me tell you what, it's a whole lot easier to say that 580 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,080 than to hear. Depart from me. 581 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,560 I know you, not depart from me. I've never known you. 582 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:52,800 I don't want to hear those words. 583 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,520 None of them. Looking to know how. 584 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,440 No surgery. I don't, and I don't want it for 585 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,360 you. Jesus is here to save us. 586 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,720 Matthew 1 and 21 and John 129. Oh this is such a beautiful 587 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,520 passage. The Bible said with John, He saw 588 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,680 Jesus come and he said, Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh 589 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:19,080 away the sin of the world. Wow, what an impressive time 590 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,760 that had been been. I love, that's what I loved 591 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,720 about studying the chronological study of the life of Christ. 592 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:28,960 And you go through it and you see these little events that are 593 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,400 really big events, but you've read through it so many other 594 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,560 times, but now you're looking at it and you're putting your feet 595 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,760 into their sandals and you got your ears out into the words of 596 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,080 Jesus and you're listening and you want to do what the Lord 597 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,160 said to do. You want to hold back from what 598 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,080 he said, to hold back from. You want to serve Him in a way, 599 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,680 and you want to go out and tell everybody about it. 600 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,800 This is the Lamb of God. He takes away the sin of the 601 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,440 world. Oh, look here with me. 602 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,440 Please. Look at Hebrew 9 and 26. 603 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,320 In Hebrew the 9th chapter and verse 26, here's what the word 604 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,640 of God says. Oh. 605 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,840 This is so neat. I I just really love reading in 606 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,680 Hebrew because this is a book that he's written to keep people 607 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,800 steadfast and unmovable and all week about in the work of the 608 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,600 Lord just like to talk about in Corinthian Hebrew 9 and 26 for 609 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:26,320 then listen here for then must be often have suffered since the 610 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,760 foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the world 611 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,760 have he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 612 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,880 Look at those last three words. He's sacrificed of himself, 613 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,880 Jesus willingly sacrifice. You know, there's a song we used 614 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,240 to sing in I, I don't really remember the last time we sung 615 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:52,160 this song, but he could have called for 10,000 angels to 616 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,280 rescue them. Oh, that is so cool, Jesus. 617 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,160 All he would have to do is his little finger and those angels 618 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,920 would have come down and they would have left the little crazy 619 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,200 spot where those people were the crucified, the Lord of glory. 620 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,800 I love that song. I remember we sung that back 621 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,520 when I was just a kid. But it it just, it kind of 622 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:18,000 brought a real genuine feel in my heart because Jesus could 623 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,840 have come off of that cross. He could have come. 624 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,760 Off of there and but had he did that there's no way you could 625 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,440 have been saved me no way I could have been. 626 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,080 But Jesus did that Hebrew 926 shows us Jesus did. 627 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,680 He stayed right there. He stayed there because he 628 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,440 wanted you saved. He wanted you to go to heaven. 629 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,560 Now the ball is going to be left in your court here in just about 630 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,480 5 minutes. It's going to be left in your 631 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,640 court because you've got to make the decision. 632 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,480 I'm going to be, I'm going to live the right life. 633 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,520 I'm sorry that I messed up, but I will live the right life. 634 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,680 I will prayer for me because I'm a baptized believer. 635 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,680 Whatever the case may be, it's very, very important that we do 636 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,640 this. OK, now we look at first John 637 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,160 one verse 7 and then first John 3 and verse 5. 638 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,840 You know the first John one verse 70. 639 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,400 This verse is so encouraging. It is just so. 640 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,000 Rewarding. Look at what it says. 641 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,680 But if we. Walk in the light as He is the 642 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,840 light. We have fellowship one with 643 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,680 another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from 644 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,680 all sin. Grace, I want you now, if you 645 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,920 don't mind those who who are so disposed, open up your Bible, 646 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,680 the first John 1. I want to show you something 647 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,360 because this is really neat. This will be a source of 648 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,840 strength and encouragement to you. 649 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,960 I promise you. One thing is a source of 650 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,880 encouragement to me. I love to share it with other 651 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,760 people in the home study. I'd love to share it with people 652 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,240 that have struggled and living a Christian life. 653 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,360 So wait a minute, hang tight, hang tight. 654 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,400 Let's take a look at first Sean One. 655 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,920 I'm going to focus the. Attention of verses 6 through 656 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,280 10. Just a very brief reference, but 657 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,520 listen, this is beautiful. Now please would you look at 658 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,720 verse 6. Please not word if 2 letters I 659 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:22,440 if, if all right, look at verse 7, but if second word, OK, but 660 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:28,480 if all right, look at verse 8. If first word if look at verse 9 661 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,400 if look at verse 10 if and what is this going to mean to me and 662 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,400 you? It's going to show your 663 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,800 forgiveness of sin given to you by God is conditional on you 664 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,680 doing the right thing. If you confess. 665 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,080 Your thoughts one to another, if you confess your sins, that's 666 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,120 what all this teaches. These are all conditional bases. 667 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,520 Now there's a couple of points I don't want you to miss, but the 668 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,680 fact of the matter is if we commit sin and we don't confess 669 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,440 our sins, we're going to die in our sins. 670 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,800 Now you got a choice. You don't want to do that. 671 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,880 But here's another very beautiful part. 672 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,560 And you take a good hard look here at this because the Bible 673 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,120 teaches. That he his he will cleanse us 674 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,520 from all and righteous and this cleansing is a continuous 675 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,240 action. You continue to confess, he will 676 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:27,080 continue to to forgive. But when you get stubborn or 677 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,280 absolutely. In a way for. 678 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,080 I am not going to make this right. 679 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,360 Listen, that is a bad choice. I love for shine. 680 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:43,000 One, I love verse 6 and 10 because this shows me if I do my 681 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,600 part, God will do his part and our part, your part and my part. 682 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,760 We've got to admit sin. We've got to yield his 683 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,880 unchanging hand. We've got to stay following Him. 684 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,360 And if we confess our sin, the Bible says He is faithful. 685 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,200 He is just to forgive us. But notice those condition 686 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,520 terms, It's not that you're going to have it whether you 687 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,560 repent or not because that's not right. 688 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,760 You've got to show ownership of your sins. 689 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,560 I have sinned. You remember the product sent a 690 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,640 minute ago. I have sinned. 691 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,840 Even David and old Odin, he did some what you may cause on big 692 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,760 sin. You know, he had a man killed. 693 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,320 He committed a daughter with the wife. 694 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,000 He had all kind of issues, but guess what he said? 695 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,200 But he made it right. He became the friend of God, 696 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,720 good friend today, let me assure you, one thing, you want to be 697 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:37,280 the friend of God, you want to do the right thing. 698 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,600 Just stay dedicated to Him. And then looking first, John 699 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,680 3:00 and 5:00, because in this particular passage, it drives 700 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,480 the nail home. Bible says. 701 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,520 And you know that He would manifest and take away our sins. 702 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:59,040 And in him. There's no sin, O Christians, I 703 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,000 ask of you. At this point of our. 704 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,360 Service, I want you to examine yourself, whether you be in the 705 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,720 faith. I want you to prove yourself. 706 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:11,280 I want you to know yourself, except you'll be able to 707 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,840 reprobate. That is second Corinthians 13 708 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,640 verse five. And then I want you to be saved. 709 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,080 But it's way more important than whatever Alan wants. 710 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,640 I want you to want to be saved. God wants you saved. 711 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,400 What are you going to do about it? 712 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,880 Now here's the situation. Bottom line, you can die in sin, 713 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,680 you can die to sin, but the Savior died for sin, so you can 714 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,160 go to heaven. So therefore, my friends, you 715 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,840 got to make the choice and it's your choice and you can do this, 716 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,680 you can do the right thing. It's just a matter are you 717 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,040 willing to? It concerns me when people just 718 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,840 hang on to it. I go to places on somewhat of a 719 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:58,040 regular basis and, and I know brothers and sisters who have 720 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,120 managed to get out of the Lord, but sometimes they'll come. 721 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,520 Maybe we're friends or I go see them and they'll end up coming, 722 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,640 Not every time, but sometimes. Then I know of congregation 723 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,520 where they've got two or three young people that have never 724 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,800 obeyed the gospel and some who are older men never obey the 725 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,440 gospel. Listen, this concerns me. 726 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,760 You're saying no to God. You're not saying no to me. 727 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,680 You're saying no to. God, God gave his only begotten 728 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,800 Son, but whosoever believed with him should not perish by him 729 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,240 every night and life. Don't you say no to God. 730 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:38,040 God is going to win this battle. Understand that we just ask you 731 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,960 at this time if you're right and and ready to meet your maker, 732 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,040 God bless you, but if you're not right, let's get right now. 733 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:44,720 Kind of.