1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,200 I want to invite your attention to a narrative that was found in 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,500 the Book of John the 8th chapter was a narrative that was between 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,800 Jesus Christ himself and some Pharisees. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,800 And this is what Jesus said in John chapter 8, in verse 21. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,500 Jesus actually gave these very tragic words. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,300 He said I go away and you will seek me and you will die in your 7 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:26,900 sin where I go. You cannot come. 8 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:31,200 Then again, in verse 24, he said, Therefore, I said to you 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,200 that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I 10 00:00:35,208 --> 00:00:37,400 am, he you will die in your sins. 11 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:40,600 Very sadly, and very tragically Jesus. 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,400 Gave that condemnation? You will die in your sin. 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,700 You will die in your sins. One time in the singular and two 14 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:54,000 times in the plural, perhaps you've, you heard the expression 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,800 that he has no one else to blame but himself. 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,800 Maybe you have used that expression I know in my life. 17 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,200 I have used it and while that Axiom is true in many ways, from 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,600 a natural perspective, it is especially true from a spiritual 19 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,200 perspective. What am I talking about? 20 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:15,400 What I'm saying is when somebody rejects the teachings of Jesus 21 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:20,500 and dies in their sins, they have no one else to blame, but 22 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,100 themselves. You know, when we go back to 23 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:27,500 John, chapter 1 and verse 9, the Bible says that was the True 24 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:31,300 Light, which gives light to every man, Coming into the world 25 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,300 but very tragically. Today, there are many that don't 26 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,800 live up to the light. Many willfully, refuse to light 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,500 and John chapter 3 tells us that man loves Darkness rather than 28 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,700 light because his deeds are evil. 29 00:01:46,100 --> 00:01:50,900 And so as wonderful as it is to experience the love of Christ, 30 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:54,900 the Peace of Jesus. The joy of Salvation to know, 31 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:58,300 the hope of eternal life, it is equally tragic. 32 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:02,900 That there are many who flat Blatantly and overtly reject. 33 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:07,400 It many refused to light because they choose darkness and many 34 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,800 just simply choose sin. Now, let me say, before going 35 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,400 any further, Jesus is ushering. These tragic words of 36 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,500 condemnation, but he's not talking to the immoral riffraff 37 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:25,600 of society. He's not talking about all of 38 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,400 those that the world knew as a sinner, perhaps those that were 39 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,800 famous. It's in the land, in the area, 40 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,600 as being terrible Sinners. They were not ones that were 41 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,700 guilty of extortion and all the things that the world at the 42 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:41,300 time thought were really, really bad. 43 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,200 Jesus is talking to the experts in Old Testament. 44 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,100 Revelation, he is talking, get this please to the most 45 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:53,800 religious people in the world and he was telling them, you're 46 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,400 going to die in your sins. You know, I think that is a 47 00:02:59,408 --> 00:03:04,600 beautiful picture that a person can be religious and still be 48 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,400 lost. The question is though, how does 49 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,100 it happen? How is it that people die in 50 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:16,500 their sin Unforgiven unjustified unconverted unredeemed and Bound 51 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:20,000 for Eternal punishment? Well, from this narrative, I 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,200 want to pour out, pull out for Attitudes for ways that a cause 53 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,700 a man to miss Heaven. Number one Number one to be 54 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:34,000 self-righteous. Now, what do you think about 55 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,100 when you think of somebody being self-righteous? 56 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:40,200 I'll tell you what I think about, I think about the guy 57 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,300 that nobody likes these are the first things that come to my 58 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:45,400 mind. I think about the person that 59 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,600 nobody likes being around the guy, that's conceded, the guy 60 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,100 that's arrogant. The guy that is Hottie the guy 61 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:56,000 that condescends to everybody else, you know, that guy we have 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,800 all known people in our life that fit the bill of being so 63 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,700 haughty and self-righteous like they were better than everybody 64 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:05,900 else. Nobody likes that guy. 65 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:09,800 I think about what Jesus said. Remember last night, we talked 66 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,300 about the Pharisee and the Publican, but we talked about 67 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:16,200 the Publican, we talked about his heart, we talked about the 68 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,800 very fact that he smote his breast as an outward, sign of an 69 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,700 inward, anguish and said, God be merciful in the original. 70 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:29,600 It says to me The Sinner and Jesus said that man went away 71 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,500 Justified. Meaning that man went away, 72 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:36,900 acquitted, not guilty. And forgiving, I want to talk 73 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:40,800 about The other guy though because Jesus gave a parable for 74 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,100 those that would trust in themself those, that would be 75 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:49,000 self-righteous and he talks about this Pharisee and the 76 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,400 Bible says that he goes into the temple to pray and the very 77 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,300 first thing. It says he goes and he prays 78 00:04:55,300 --> 00:05:00,300 thus with himself, he separates himself from all others and he 79 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:03,900 prays thus with himself. And he said, God, I thank thee 80 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:07,100 that I am not like other men. Are I thank thee that I may? 81 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:10,200 I'm not an extortioner. I thank thee that I'm not like 82 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,600 all the rotten rotten rotten rotten people in the world. 83 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,400 Oh, you did such a great job on me. 84 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:22,300 He might as well have just said. But folks, you don't have to be 85 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:27,200 guilty of any of that. You don't have to be guilty of 86 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:32,500 any of that to be guilty of being self-righteous. 87 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:37,800 All you have to do is believe that you are righteous all by 88 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,800 yourself. All you have to do is be 89 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,700 completely content with your condition that you're in to feel 90 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:47,500 like you don't need a savior that you don't have a sin 91 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,400 problem. Maybe you're a good person. 92 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:53,700 I got to tell you something about good people. 93 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,300 When I was going through Cancer Treatments, you know what I 94 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:02,800 found. I found that this world is 95 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,500 filled with wonderful people, that's a fact. 96 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,600 And so when all the people in the world say, when people say, 97 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,100 oh, everybody's rotten everybody's bad, that is not 98 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,600 true. There are wonderful people in 99 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,000 the world. Let me share with you. 100 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,700 Something that happened from some wonderful person that I 101 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:25,600 still to this day, after almost seven years have no idea who did 102 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,000 it. I remember that I've been going 103 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,500 through treatments, I had a feeding tube in my Stomach and I 104 00:06:30,508 --> 00:06:33,600 remember I'm in my chair at my house and somebody knocks on the 105 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,100 door and I got up and I was sick and I got to the door and open 106 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:43,100 the door and I looked down and there was an envelope and I 107 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:45,700 picked it up and I opened it up and in there was six hundred 108 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:49,900 dollars and there was a little handwritten note in there and it 109 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:54,000 simply said, I know you're going through some tough times right 110 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,600 now. I hope this helps you and your 111 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,800 family as you go through this trial in your life. 112 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,800 I looked very hurriedly around the corner, but the car was gone 113 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,000 and I couldn't catch it. I still to this day, have no 114 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,600 idea who that was. My point is folks the world is 115 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,700 filled with wonderful people, it just means they're not saved. 116 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:20,500 There's a lot of people in the world that are wonderful. 117 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:25,700 People they're just not saved. Have you ever talked to somebody 118 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:28,400 that said this I'm not a religious person. 119 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,500 I'm not a Christian I'm not A member of the church but I'm a 120 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:36,300 good person and I think that if God is keeping score somewhere, 121 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:40,200 in other words, if there's some big score sheet on one, if 122 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,400 there's a line drawn right down the middle on one side would be 123 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,700 the good things on the other side would be the bad things. 124 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:49,500 I'm not perfect. So, there'd be some bad things 125 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,900 on that side. Surely there would be But I'm a 126 00:07:52,907 --> 00:07:55,600 good person. I think there would be a whole 127 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,400 lot more. Good on the other side than the 128 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,400 bad. Therefore I think I'll go to 129 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,100 heaven. I'm a good person. 130 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,900 What about that? Folks, folks that's a person 131 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,000 that is righteous all by themselves. 132 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:20,100 You know, Jesus said in John chapter 14, Jesus said, I am the 133 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,300 way, the truth and the life. He said, no one comes unto the 134 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:30,200 father except by or through me. Now, if somebody wants to go to 135 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,400 heaven, the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, and 136 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,600 Jesus was telling these self-righteous Pharisees that 137 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,000 very thing. He's going to say that where I 138 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,900 go, you cannot come, and Jesus would say that, we're in John 139 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:46,300 14. And verse 6. 140 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,100 I am the way, the truth, and the life. 141 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,000 If no one comes unto the father except by or through me the only 142 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,000 way to go through, Jesus Christ is to be in Jesus Christ, 143 00:08:57,700 --> 00:09:03,100 there's no salvation outside of Jesus Christ and Galatians 3:27 144 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,000 for as many as have been baptized into Christ, have put 145 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 on Christ or simply put have clothed themselves with Christ. 146 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,500 So Jesus said you got to go through me. 147 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,500 How do you go through Jesus? So by being in Jesus, how are 148 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:24,600 you in Jesus by being baptized into his body. 149 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,600 First Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 27. 150 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,800 Now, you are the body of Christ and members. 151 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,700 The new King James says individually the Old. 152 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:39,800 King James says, in particular, what's the body Ephesians 153 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:44,300 chapter 1, verses 22 and 23. We find that the body is the 154 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:52,500 church in Acts chapter 2. Beginning there in verse 36 when 155 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:57,000 the very first gospel sermon was being preached, the sermon is 156 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,900 being preached and these were the words that were spoken, let 157 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:04,900 all the house of Israel, know, assuredly that God hath made 158 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,600 that same. Jesus whom ye have crucified 159 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,800 both Lord and Christ. Now, when they heard this, they 160 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,100 were pricked in their heart and they said to Peter and the rest 161 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:15,900 of the Apostles men and Brethren. 162 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,800 What shall we do then? Peter said unto them, repent and 163 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,300 be baptized every one of you. In the name of Jesus Christ for 164 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:27,800 the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the 165 00:10:27,808 --> 00:10:31,800 Holy Ghost for the promise, is unto you and to your children 166 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,500 and to all that are afar off. Even as many as the Lord, Our 167 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:39,600 God shall call. And with many other words did he 168 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:44,500 testified saying exhort and save yourself from this untoward? 169 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,000 Generation verse 41 says, then they that Gladly received his 170 00:10:49,008 --> 00:10:54,500 word were baptized and they were added unto them that day about 171 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:58,300 three thousand Souls. The steps to be in the body of 172 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:01,100 Christ to be. Put into the church, is to be 173 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:02,700 baptized for the remission of sins. 174 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,100 And that's when our sins are washed away. 175 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:10,000 And Jesus adds us to his church. In fact, in verse 47 of Acts 176 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,600 chapter 2, it says praising God. And having favor with all the 177 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,500 people and the Lord added to the church daily. 178 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:23,200 Such Such as were being saved. Now, you know, Jesus says you're 179 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,900 going to seek me but where I go you cannot come. 180 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:30,600 You know what they said. In verse 22 of our narrative, it 181 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,600 says therefore the Jews. And by the way you remember this 182 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,700 in this gospel, when it talks about the Jews, it's not talking 183 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:41,400 about the multiplicity of those with Jewish blood running 184 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,400 through the veins. It's not talking about that. 185 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:46,800 It's talking about the religious leaders. 186 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,300 That oppose Jesus, And now Jesus says, I'm going away and you're 187 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:53,200 going to look for me but you won't find me, you know what 188 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,300 they said, he said where I'm going, you cannot come and they 189 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:00,500 said of all things self-righteous Pharisees. 190 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:07,000 Is he going to kill himself. Is he going to kill himself? 191 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:11,100 Have you ever stopped to consider the reason for that? 192 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,500 Why did they say that? Why did they mock Jesus? 193 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:16,700 And bring up the issue of suicide. 194 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:22,400 Josephus said, this about Orthodox Judaism, I read this. 195 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:25,800 That people that, they believe that people that committed 196 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,300 suicide, would not only not be able to go to the paradise of 197 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:34,100 God, to go to Abraham's bosom. They would not be able to go. 198 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,700 Oh, they're not only that, would they not be able to go but, you 199 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:40,600 know, they go, they would go to hell and they would go to a very 200 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,600 special part of hell. They would go to the deepest 201 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,000 darkest, pit of Hell. I don't know the extra crispy 202 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,400 spot, whatever that means. Listen to what these 203 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,600 self-righteous smug Pharisees said. 204 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:03,700 Jesus said I'm going away and you can't go where I'm going and 205 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:06,400 they said will he just kill himself? 206 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:12,100 Will he just commit suicide? What a terrible thing to say 207 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:17,200 that the sinless Spotless, Son of God whose words they heard 208 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,400 whose Works, they had seen whose character had impressed, them 209 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:25,300 was to be jeered and mocked, and blasphemed and treated 210 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:29,000 sarcastically. Signed to the darkest pit when 211 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,700 compared to what they thought they deserved. 212 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:34,900 You know. These were so self-righteous 213 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:37,600 people that they thought their sin was not a problem. 214 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,500 They didn't need a savior, they thought they were all right. 215 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,100 They were religious. They were moral to some degree, 216 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:44,500 and they thought that was enough. 217 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:48,300 The Jews had developed the system of Salvation by human 218 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:50,200 achievement. In fact, they were the very 219 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,000 epitome of achievers, but in Luke 16 and 15. 220 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 The Bible says, for what is highly esteemed among men? 221 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:01,300 Is an abomination in the sight of God. 222 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,100 In fact, the Book of Proverbs says, the way of a fool is to be 223 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:10,900 right in his own eyes. You know, one way to miss Heaven 224 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,300 is just be self-righteous count on the religion of human 225 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:19,900 achievement count on crediting your good deeds. 226 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,800 Feel like you don't need Jesus. You know, it's very interesting 227 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,600 about people's attitudes, they'll listen to this. 228 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,800 This was in Melbourne. Australia, listen to this in a 229 00:14:29,808 --> 00:14:31,900 daily paper. There was a letter written to 230 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:35,400 the paper and it was regarding views of evangelism. 231 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:40,700 Listen to this after hearing an evangelist on the air, after 232 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:44,900 viewing him on television, after seeing reports and letters 233 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:48,800 concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type 234 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,600 of religion, that insist that my soul, and everyone else's needs 235 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,600 saving, whatever that means. I've never felt like I was lost, 236 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,100 nor do I feel like I daily wallow in the mire of sin. 237 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,200 Although, repetitious preaching insist that I do know, give me a 238 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:11,300 practical religion that teaches gentleness and tolerance and 239 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:13,200 acknowledges. No barriers. 240 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,000 That remembers the agent and teaches children. 241 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,100 Goodness, And not sin and get this. 242 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,600 Then he wrote. If in order to save my soul, I 243 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,700 must accept such a philosophy as I've recently heard preached, 244 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,200 then I prefer to remain forever condemned. 245 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,800 What a terrible choice to make. Look at the Lord's response to 246 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:43,700 look at verse 23. Jesus basically is saying this, 247 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,900 you've got your directions mixed up, he said you're from beneath 248 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:51,100 and I am from above. Now, there's one thing that they 249 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:56,000 knew, they knew he was talking about his death, and they said 250 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,600 he's going to kill himself. And Jesus says, wait a minute. 251 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:02,700 I'm from the above Kingdom, and you are from the below Kingdom. 252 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,200 Remember we mentioned this, a few To go there are only two 253 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,900 kingdoms and it has nothing in the world to do with a goodness 254 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:13,800 of a person or not nothing to do with the person's goodness. 255 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:19,900 There's the kingdom of darkness and there's the kingdom of 256 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:24,600 God's, dear son, and that's it. You ever stopped to wonder why 257 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,600 Jesus said in the great Sermon on the Mount. 258 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,600 When Jesus says, now you are the light of the world, you know, 259 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,700 Jesus Christ is the True Light. The Disciples of Jesus Christ 260 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:40,600 are The Luminaries that magnify that light in the world of 261 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,600 darkness. In other words, the entire world 262 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,500 is in darkness. - and we that are Christians are luminaries to 263 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:51,700 take the word of God, to those that are in darkness. 264 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:56,000 So they would see their way out of darkness and come to the 265 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,200 light. Jesus said, your directions are 266 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,900 mixed up. I'm from the above Kingdom and 267 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:07,400 you are from the below Kingdom. He would say in verse 44 you are 268 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,900 of your father, the devil and the desires of your father, you 269 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:15,099 want to do and he goes on and speaks about the devil. 270 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:21,900 Now Jesus said your directions are mixed up. 271 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,900 And you're wrong. I'm from the above Kingdom and 272 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,900 you are from the below Kingdom. So number one, one way to miss 273 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:34,100 Heaven. Be self-righteous. 274 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,500 Here's the second one though, it's found in verse 23 also, and 275 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:41,400 it's the word worldly. Jesus said, you are of this 276 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,900 world and I am not of this world. 277 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,200 You know, we talked about worldliness all the time. 278 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,800 What in the world does it mean? And I'm going to tell you this, 279 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,600 too, I'm going to tell you this too. 280 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,200 It doesn't mean you cannot enjoy life, doesn't mean that at all. 281 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,900 And it doesn't mean you have to walk around with a long face. 282 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:02,800 I'll tell you this, a religion, that makes the man, look, sick 283 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,300 will not cure the world, that's fact and if we walk around with 284 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,500 long faces on all the time, like we're miserable, we're not going 285 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:13,000 to save anybody who would want to be a part of that. 286 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,100 Nobody Jesus says, you are of this world, but what does that 287 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,500 mean? Now we can enjoy the things of 288 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,700 the world that are not sinful absolutely, but what was Jesus 289 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:29,200 talking about the word world, there is the word Cosmos and 290 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,200 it's talking about this, it's talking about a system. 291 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,800 In fact, one definition for Cosmos is this listen to this 292 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,400 the invisible spiritual system of evil that fights the kingdom 293 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,400 of God. Now tell you. 294 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,000 That sounds like Some big deep dark guy that fought Superman. 295 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,700 That looks like some big deep dark force. 296 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,100 I love what Jesus said though, because Jesus spells it out, 297 00:18:56,100 --> 00:19:00,600 your Jesus said, it's the cares of this world. 298 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:06,300 It's the deceitfulness of riches, it's the invisible 299 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:10,900 spiritual system of evil that competes with the kingdom of 300 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:14,300 God. So what's that folks? 301 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:19,900 That's anything that is anything that competes with the church, 302 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:25,000 anything that competes with the Lord, you can plug it in all 303 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,300 these things. By the way, Jesus said, the 304 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,800 cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches. 305 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,200 And you know, why? They choke out the The seed. 306 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,600 And by the way, have you ever planted something? 307 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,600 If you're a plant in a garden or you have your planted some 308 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,300 flowers, have you ever planted something good? 309 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,600 You go out and you prepare the soil and you plant something 310 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,300 good and then all of a sudden one day you got to weed that 311 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:51,200 grows right next to it. Or you got a thorn that grows 312 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,100 right next to it. Have you ever stopped to 313 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:57,500 consider that when something is good planted next to something 314 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:00,300 that is bad, that which is bad, always wins. 315 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,200 It will always overtake that, which is good in time. 316 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,800 That's why Jesus talked about ridding the field of all of the 317 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,900 garbage and tilling the soil and preparing the soil, and getting 318 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:19,900 rid of all of those things. The world here folks is a world 319 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,100 system, we use that to, we use it in that way. 320 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:25,000 We call it the world of politics. 321 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,900 The world of Education, we call it the World of Sports. 322 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:33,900 And when we say that, we're talking about the things that 323 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,300 make up those particulars the system. 324 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,800 Jesus said to these people, you're the children of that 325 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,700 system. You're the children of the 326 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:45,500 cosmos. You're the children of the 327 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,300 devil. This world system is opposed to 328 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,700 the truth. It's supposed to righteousness. 329 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:54,400 It supposed to Holiness. It supposed to Purity. 330 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,300 What do we have? Materialism humanism carnal 331 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:04,700 ambition Pride greed self-pleasure self desires, it 332 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:08,800 exists, its opinions are wrong. Its aims are selfish. 333 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:13,500 Its Pleasures are sinful. Its influences are demoralizing. 334 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,900 It's politics are corrupt, its honors are empty. 335 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,900 It Smiles are fake. It's Love Is false and fickle 336 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,100 and on and on it goes in first John 2:15-17. 337 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,300 Team 217, we find the love that God hates. 338 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:33,400 And John says, do not love the world or the things that are in 339 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,300 the world. If anyone loves the world, the 340 00:21:36,308 --> 00:21:40,100 love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world, 341 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:42,600 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of 342 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,900 life, it is not of the father, but is of the world and the 343 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,500 world is passing away in the less lust of it, but he who does 344 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:55,500 the will of God abides forever. Now, obviously these things in 345 00:21:55,508 --> 00:21:58,600 this system, Are characterized by three of the following 346 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,200 things. Number one, the lust of the 347 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,600 flesh, that's passion. The lust of the eyes that's 348 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,600 covetousness and certainly the sinful pride of life, boastful 349 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:14,000 arrogance. You know, the good news is this. 350 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,300 Remember, when I said, there's only two kingdoms. 351 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,600 Jesus died to Deliver Us from the kingdom of darkness. 352 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,700 And when we are baptized, we are delivered from the kingdom of 353 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:29,400 darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's. 354 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,800 Dear Son. All right, Miss Heaven. 355 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,000 Be self-righteous, be worldly, but number three, be 356 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,800 unbelieving. In verse 24, Jesus said except 357 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,700 Believe that I am, he you will die in your sins. 358 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:52,200 Now I want to talk about the idea of belief Simply believing 359 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,300 will not save a person, but unbelief will condemn a person. 360 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:01,100 Jesus said, except you believe that I am he you will die in 361 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:05,600 your sins and I got to say this in Mark 16:16 when Jesus said he 362 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,400 that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. 363 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:10,500 I want to talk about that word belief. 364 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,900 There's a lot of people in the world that believe in the 365 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:19,600 concept that there is a God in heaven and that his son, Jesus 366 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,600 Christ, came to this world and died for the sins of the world. 367 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:27,000 There's a lot of people that believe in those facts. 368 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,400 That is not the belief of the Bible. 369 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:36,600 The belief of the Bible is not simple, acceptation of facts, 370 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,300 belief of the Bible, always brings about the idea of having 371 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:45,200 the forced to obey. In other words, I read about and 372 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,600 I study about and I hear about and I've taught about what the 373 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,700 Lord has done for me, and I believe it so much that I'm 374 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,200 willing to lay down my life and do whatever. 375 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,900 The Lord has told me to do having the force. 376 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:05,900 To obey. Jesus told them before, I am the 377 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:09,500 bread of life. He said I'm the Living Water. 378 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:11,200 He said, I am the light of the world. 379 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,300 He said, I am the Good Shepherd. He said, I am the vine. 380 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:20,500 And finally, he said, I am the resurrection and the life Jesus 381 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:21,800 knew. If they didn't believe the 382 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,200 things that he said that they would never believe in the 383 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,700 things that they must do in order to be saved. 384 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:31,200 You know, there's a lot of people today. 385 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,100 I've met a lot of people in my life, you have to and they fail 386 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,200 to believe having the forced to obey. 387 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,200 Have you ever heard somebody say, you know what you're 388 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,900 showing it to me but I'm just not seeing it. 389 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,100 I just don't see it. I was talking to a preacher not 390 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:52,900 long ago and he said very sadly that somebody said that to him, 391 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,400 I just don't see it. A person that has a good and 392 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,200 honest heart will hear the word of God. 393 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:03,800 God and believe with the forced to obey the word of God. 394 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,400 And that's the only way to be saved. 395 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,200 Jesus knew they would never even get there. 396 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,000 You know why they didn't believe it all. 397 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,900 And that's why he said, except you believe that I am, he, you 398 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:19,700 will die in your sins. But finally, tonight, there's 399 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:24,100 another one, there's a fourth thing that will cause a person 400 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:28,900 to miss heaven and that is to be willfully, ignorant, you know, 401 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,900 if you look Verse 25 of this text. 402 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:32,900 It's amazing what their response is. 403 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,800 They said, well, who are you? Jesus just said, except you 404 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,600 believe that I am. He you will die in your sins. 405 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,600 You know what they said? Well, who are you take a wild 406 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,300 guess. Are you kidding? 407 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:51,500 And today's common vernacular. I mean, really Jesus said, 408 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:54,200 except you believe that I'm here dying Seto, who are you? 409 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,400 Willfully ignorant, it's unimaginable. 410 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,700 They should have known Jesus healed. 411 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:05,200 People fed thousands walked on water turned water into wine, 412 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,500 incredible power. They had heard his words, they 413 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,200 had heard the things that he spoke and yet they said, Who are 414 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,000 you? These Jews said, who are you or? 415 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,400 Who do you think you are? Folks? 416 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,700 This is willful ignorance. It should have been patently, 417 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,500 obvious, who he was, but notice the Lord's response to that 418 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,500 verse. Jesus simply says, just what 419 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,000 I've been saying from the beginning, he in essence is 420 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,100 saying. I've been telling you who I am 421 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:36,700 from the beginning. It is not a secret. 422 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,700 You remember the early on Jesus said in the temple he said is my 423 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,600 father's house. Said you destroy me. 424 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,100 And in three days, I will rise again. 425 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:50,200 He said to Nicodemus, he was the son of God. 426 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,200 He said to the woman at the, well, that he was the promised 427 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,900 one. He said, he was the Savior, it 428 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:59,100 was clear. And all of that also was 429 00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:03,000 verified by miracles. In fact, there's 39 specific 430 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,700 separate Miracles that can be counted. 431 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:08,500 That was performed by Jesus Christ himself. 432 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,500 I'm not talking about the overlap or the duplicates in the 433 00:27:11,508 --> 00:27:17,700 gospel, I'm talking about. 39 specific Miracles and they 434 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:22,800 simply said, who are you? You know, back in Chan verse 12. 435 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800 Jesus gave the invitation. He said, I am the light of the 436 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,800 world, he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but have 437 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,000 the light of life, that's the invitation. 438 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,300 Now comes the condemnation. He said, I have more to say to 439 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:38,900 you. And what I have to say is from 440 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:45,400 my father, now, Have you ever heard the term agnostic? 441 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:47,900 We're talking about willful ignorance here. 442 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:51,100 Have you ever heard the term agnostic? 443 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:56,500 You know what an agnostic is, an agnostic is really a willful 444 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,200 category. It is a willful classification 445 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,500 of I don't know. It is somebody that puts 446 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:06,800 themself in a willful category of I'm a willful. 447 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,800 Not know where. In other words, I'm not going to 448 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,400 say that I believe and I'm not going to A then I am an atheist. 449 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,900 I'm going to be the ultimate fence Rider. 450 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:21,300 I'm going to be an agnostic and I'm going to say my willful 451 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,200 classification is I just don't know. 452 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:28,500 Do you know what the Latin equivalent for the word agnostic 453 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:32,500 is? It's the word ignoramus. 454 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,300 True story. I want you to picture this. 455 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,200 Go up to somebody. Oh do you believe? 456 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,600 No. Oh you're nathie is hollow. 457 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,500 No no I'm not an atheist. I'm gonna Ignoramus. 458 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:50,600 Same word. Willful ignorance. 459 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:56,400 Please get this. Willful ignorance always runs 460 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,000 hand, in hand, with willful rejection. 461 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:07,400 Willful, ignorance always runs hand in hand, with willful 462 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,400 rejection. Look at verse 28. 463 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,800 When they understate, it says, in verse 27. 464 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,900 They did not understand that he spoke of them of the father. 465 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:19,600 He said, I think to speak for my father. 466 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,700 Then it says, in verse 28, then Jesus said to them. 467 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,800 When you lift up the son of man, then you will know that I am. 468 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,100 He and that I do nothing of myself. 469 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:33,800 But as my father taught me, I speak these things. 470 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,900 When are they going to know? Jesus said, you're going to know 471 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:40,800 when I am lifted up. Jesus said one time that if I be 472 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,700 lifted up, I will draw all men or All Peoples unto me. 473 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,800 Now, I've heard people interpret it like this and say, well, what 474 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,400 that means is if we lift up Jesus in our life, It will draw 475 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,700 people to Christ, you know, while that may be a secondary 476 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,000 idea or that, maybe a true statement in some way in a 477 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:05,700 figurative sense, that is not what the Lord meant. 478 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,900 When he said, if I be lifted up, he's talking about being lifted 479 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:13,100 up on the cross and Jesus tells these self-righteous Pharisees. 480 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:16,000 They said, well, who are you? And he said, oh, you're going to 481 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:24,600 know when I am lifted up. Their eyes would be open after 482 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,900 all. When Jesus was on the cross, the 483 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:33,400 center Ian said, truly, this was the son of God, how did he see? 484 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:37,700 He saw what was happening on the cross, add to that that the 485 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:42,900 graves burst open and dead people came alive, add to that 486 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:45,600 the veil in the temple was ripped from top to bottom and 487 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,400 access to God was thrown open, add to that the Holy Spirit came 488 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,200 on Pentecost, and the church was established add to that. 489 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,700 The apostles went about, Preaching the word and literally 490 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:01,700 turn the world upside down for Jesus Christ. 491 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,900 And went about performing miracles to confirm the word 492 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:12,100 Jesus said, it'll be made evident when I am lifted up, 493 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:19,400 folks. I got to say, Sometimes, people 494 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:27,100 sometimes members of the church. We don't tell people as plainly 495 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:32,500 as boldly, as we should what their spiritual condition is. 496 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,600 I got to share something with you years ago. 497 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,600 I held a meeting in Northern California. 498 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,100 There was a young boy about 12, 13 or so, and he decided early 499 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:46,700 on in the meeting to obey the gospel. 500 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,000 He was baptized into Christ and it was a wonderful meeting and 501 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,300 everyone was very excited. He still faithful member of the 502 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:55,100 church by the way that many years ago. 503 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,600 Later on in the meeting though, I enquired about his brother 504 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,700 that was 18 turning 19 and he wasn't a Christian. 505 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:12,100 I went to his grandfather and his father and I said, how come? 506 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:17,000 He's not a member of the church. What does he say when you talked 507 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 to him about it? What has he said? 508 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:28,800 They said, we don't say a word to him about it get this because 509 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,100 we don't want to run him off. Let me ask you something. 510 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,600 Can you name the one place in all the world that's farther off 511 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,700 than lost? The one place that's farther off 512 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:47,700 than lost. I went up to the young man, and 513 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:49,800 by the way, this story has nothing to do with me. 514 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,200 I went up to the young man, the last Sunday of the meeting in 515 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,100 between services and I said, are you saved, or do you believe 516 00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,600 your saved in your current condition? 517 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,700 He said, no. I said, why haven't you obeyed 518 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:03,500 the gospel? You know what? 519 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,100 He said? No one has asked me. 520 00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:13,000 And I said, well, I'm asking. He obeyed the gospel he to 521 00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,100 after. All these years is a faithful 522 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:20,800 member of the body of Christ. One more thing though. 523 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:22,900 Have you ever heard somebody say? 524 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:25,400 Just preach Jesus and all the happy stuff and Don't Preach. 525 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,200 Hell, Don't Preach about the negative stuff. 526 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,800 I heard somebody say one time you can't save anyone. 527 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,700 By preaching - stuff or preaching about hell, you just 528 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,800 got to preach love and just preach acceptance and preach. 529 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,500 All the fun stuff and good stuff. 530 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:42,500 After all, Jesus was the epitome of Love. 531 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,500 Yeah, that's true. Jesus was the epitome of Love. 532 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:48,500 Absolutely. And there's no greater love 533 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:49,600 that. A man would have been. 534 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,500 It would lay his life down for his friends, Jesus laid down his 535 00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:56,600 life for the sins of the world. But I want you to notice folks, 536 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,700 what's Jesus preaching on In this passage, is he preaching 537 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:05,700 about happy stuff. Listen to this, he's preaching 538 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,800 about hell. He's telling those 539 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,699 self-righteous Pharisees that you're going to die in your 540 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:12,900 sins. That were I go, you can't go. 541 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:15,900 He's telling them. They're going to be eternally 542 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:21,000 lost why they rejected him. They rejected him. 543 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,600 What about the outcome? Listen to this. 544 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:35,199 Look at verse 31, verse 30 as he spoke these words many believed 545 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:40,000 in him. This is Jesus Christ himself. 546 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:43,800 He spoke these words of condemnation and when he did to 547 00:34:43,808 --> 00:34:46,900 those self-righteous Pharisees guess what, the other people 548 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:50,000 that were there, they heard, they believed. 549 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:55,900 Jesus went further, then Jesus said to the Jews, who believed? 550 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,300 If you abide in my word, you are my disciples, indeed, and ye 551 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,400 shall know the truth and the truth. 552 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,100 Shall make you free for ways to miss Heaven, folks. 553 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:14,300 Be self-righteous, be worldly. Let the cares of this world, be 554 00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:17,900 more important than the church. Just believe that you are good 555 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,500 enough as a person. But without obeying with the 556 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,500 Lord tells you to do in your life, be worldly. 557 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,000 Allowed the things of the world to be more important than 558 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,600 serving God, be unbelieving. Meaning you don't have the kind 559 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,400 of belief that has the forced to obey with the word of God tells 560 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,700 you in your life. Or simply hear the word of God. 561 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,900 See what the word of God says, and be willfully ignorant of its 562 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:42,800 truths for ways to miss heaven.