1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,800 It's good to see everybody here tonight. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,600 We've got a smaller crowd and we need to continue to pray that 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,000 the crowds will grow as this weekend continues. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,200 Well, you know that there are some journeying to this place. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,200 Let's pray that they have a safe journey if God gives us time. 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,000 And we're thankful to have our visitors with us here this 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,900 evening. And we want you to know you're 8 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:22,700 welcome at any time to be with us. 9 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,100 Please, if you have any questions about the message 10 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:29,600 tonight or the worship, please just ask and we'll try to give 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,300 an answer for The hope that lies within us first Peter 3:15, we 12 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:36,800 are trying to do things that please God here. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,200 We're trying to teach things that are in accordance with his 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,800 will and not just have a Social Club. 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 There are many things in this world that are designed to 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,800 support Society, but the church is designed to give glory to God 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,900 and we support Society by doing that, but that's not its initial 18 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:57,900 design. Its design is to glorify God, it 19 00:00:57,900 --> 00:00:59,700 is the beautiful bride of Christ. 20 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:03,400 Which glue Glory to the one who purchased it by his blood. 21 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,700 And so tonight we're thankful that you're here and we hope 22 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,900 that what we have to say will be helpful to you in. 23 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,100 I, in some way. Let's summarize tonight. 24 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:16,800 We're going to try to summarize all of our thoughts on change 25 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:19,300 and tomorrow night. We're planning on teaching a 26 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:21,600 little something different, come back and be with us tomorrow. 27 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:24,400 But we're going to wrap up our thoughts that we've been 28 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:29,000 teaching on in this week and that is been the necessity for 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,800 change. We've we've looked intently at 30 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,500 acts 17 verse 30, where they're the Bible says, God is 31 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:40,900 commanding all men everywhere to repent. 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,100 We've looked at that word repentance, which means to 33 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:47,600 change, it's not a word, repent isn't a word. 34 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,700 We use to mean change in our common language, but repentance 35 00:01:51,700 --> 00:01:55,100 the word god uses to bring about change in our life. 36 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:58,700 It means a change of Direction on a change of loyalty. 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,500 And most of all a very Real change in our behavior and 38 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:05,500 priorities, we're going to be looking at tonight as well. 39 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:10,800 It makes a change in our world view on our Outlook, our goals 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,300 and those are something that are very important for us to change 41 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,000 in this world. If there was no need for us for 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,400 to change, then Jesus command in Acts 17:30 mean is meaningless 43 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,400 and Jesus Christ. Coming was seems to be 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,100 meaningless because God wants us to not sin any longer. 45 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:33,900 Anger, not live, according to the flesh, but live reflecting. 46 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,400 The fact that we were created by a Creator. 47 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:40,800 Our soul is imitating, is in some ways similar to God. 48 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:45,600 In John 4, verse 23, and 24. The Bible says, God is spirit 49 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,700 and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and Truth. 50 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:52,200 Well, that's part of our nature that is similar to God. 51 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:56,100 God is called in Hebrews, for the Hebrews, excuse me. 12, the 52 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,100 father of spirits, God is the father of our spirits. 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,500 And for those who are Christians, he is the father of 54 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:07,300 which we expect an inheritance and eternal inheritance in 55 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:09,200 heaven. So, this week, we've been 56 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,400 looking at the changes that it takes in order to become a 57 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,900 Christian. Christian means follower of 58 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:17,100 Jesus Christ. We've got to change those 59 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:20,200 aspects of our life. That Christ did not leave us an 60 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,600 example to change. We've looked at passages such as 61 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:26,400 Ephesians, the fourth chapter right quick, we're just going to 62 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:30,700 notice these and Ephesians chapter 4, notice it Says in 63 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:34,000 verse 20, you did not learn Christ in this way, notice 64 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,600 indeed, if you have heard of him and have been taught in him, 65 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,400 just as the truth is, in Jesus that in reference to your former 66 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,800 manner of life. You lay aside the old self, 67 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,200 which is being corrupted in accordance with the lust of 68 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,400 Deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind and 69 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,300 put on the new self, which is in the likeness of God, and has 70 00:03:57,300 --> 00:04:00,900 been created in righteousness and Holiness of the truth, So 71 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:04,300 there's real if you will a description of the change that 72 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:09,200 must take place, he says we've got to put away the old self and 73 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:14,800 put on the new self or lay aside The Old Man and live a new life 74 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,100 in Christ Jesus. We've talked about the 75 00:04:17,108 --> 00:04:20,100 difference between the inner and the outer man. 76 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,800 We've talked about the Flesh and the spirit this week as well. 77 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,200 We've talked about we're going to talk more at link tonight 78 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,200 about those things above and things that are of this world. 79 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,900 World as well. This is a change of perspective 80 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:36,300 and this is something that is an essential. 81 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,900 If you will primary foundational, truth in 82 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:43,500 Christianity, those who are in Christ, have a different. 83 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,600 Hope we have different priorities based on different 84 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,700 objectives and the Bible tells us that we're supposed to lay 85 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:53,300 aside, the things that are of this Earth if you'll turn to 86 00:04:53,300 --> 00:05:00,500 Colossians 3:1 right quickly in Colossians 3 verse 1, he's To 87 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,400 newborn Christians and he there makes a conditional statement 88 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:08,300 and tells us all to reflect on our baptism, if you will. 89 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:10,700 Now this is interesting. I want to show you that he's 90 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:13,600 talking about baptism and just a moment but notice what he says 91 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,700 here in Colossians the third chapter verse 1. 92 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,800 Therefore if you've been raised up with Christ now I want you to 93 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,500 look at that phrase. If you've been raised up with 94 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,500 Christ, what's that talking about? 95 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,300 Is it talking about? Someone's just decision to 96 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:32,900 follow Christ. As a philosophy teacher, is it 97 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:35,600 talking about somebody who's made a decision to become a 98 00:05:35,608 --> 00:05:38,500 disciple or a learner from? Jesus Christ? 99 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:43,500 No In this passage whenever he uses the term raised up. 100 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:49,200 He's talking about baptism, if you will look back at chapter 2 101 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,800 just the previous chapter chapter 2 and verse 12. 102 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,500 Well, let's start reading verse 11. 103 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,400 And in him you were also circumcised with a circumcision 104 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,600 made without hands and the removal of the body of the flesh 105 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:09,600 by the circumcision of Christ. Having been buried with him in 106 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,400 baptism in which you were also raised up with him through 107 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,400 faith, in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 108 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:21,100 Now this is what he's talking about here. 109 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,100 He says you have to be raised up with him. 110 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,000 That's an important phrase and he talks About. 111 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,200 That's how we get United with him in the likeness of his 112 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,200 death. Romans 6 verse 3, really 113 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,300 starting read verse 1. Through verse 6 of Romans, 6 114 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,600 chapter it, basically teaches the same thing that were United 115 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,900 with Christ in the likeness of his death, burial and 116 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:47,200 Resurrection in baptism whenever we come and we die to our old 117 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,200 life of sin are immersed in water and raised up to walk in 118 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,100 newness of life. Isn't that wonderful? 119 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,500 That's what's being talked about here and it says this This 120 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:01,200 person who is trusting in God and baptism, is not trusting 121 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,000 that the water washes away, anything. 122 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,400 You know, that's something interesting about baptism before 123 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,500 we go on the Bible tells us, it's not the element of water 124 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:14,000 that is Holy in, baptism. There's nothing in the water. 125 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,700 Unlike those beer commercials there's nothing really important 126 00:07:17,700 --> 00:07:21,400 about the water other than it's a it's an element that we are 127 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:26,300 immersed in so it doesn't have to be holy water that somehow 128 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:29,400 Water itself is affections and taking away sin. 129 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:34,500 No, that's not it and it's not even us in baptism, you know, 130 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:37,100 the Bible doesn't, you know, it's really interesting when 131 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:39,400 people begin to talk about the Plan of Salvation. 132 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:42,800 They say now listen, the Bible says salvation in Ephesians, 133 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,400 it's not of Works. Lest any man should boast and 134 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,000 baptism is a work there for baptism is not be essential, but 135 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,800 guess what? The Bible takes pains to tell us 136 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,200 that baptism is not our work. Notice what he Says, right here, 137 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:01,100 again, verse 12 having been buried with him in baptism in 138 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:04,700 which you were raised up with him through faith in the working 139 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:08,300 of God. God does the working in baptism? 140 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,500 It's not man. Whenever a man does his own 141 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:15,200 believing. The Bible says Jesus said, 142 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,500 unless you believe I am, he you shall die in your sins, in John 143 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:21,800 6, and he tells us to do our own repenting. 144 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,300 It's our responsibility to repent acts 17:30. 145 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,200 It's our responsibility. Us ability to confess Christ. 146 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,700 Matthew 10:32, whoever shall confess me before men him? 147 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,799 Will I confess before my Father, which is in heaven, but when it 148 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,500 comes to baptism, you have to submit to somebody else. 149 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,400 If baptism is a work, it's somebody else's work and that 150 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,400 and we have to submit. We are most passive in baptism, 151 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:50,200 but the Bible says, the person doing the work of baptism is God 152 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:54,700 It says, through faith in the working of God. 153 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:59,600 God is the one who washes away sin and first, Peter, 3, and 154 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,800 verse 21. The Bible says, the baptism is 155 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,100 not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but an 156 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:07,500 appeal of a good conscience toward God. 157 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,600 It's not, it's not that out of the water. 158 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,400 It's obeying. God, it's where we meet. 159 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,300 God, God meets us with salvation. 160 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,900 Titus 2:11 says the grace of God, that brings salvation has 161 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:21,700 appeared unto all men. It's appeared to everybody. 162 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:25,600 Then why isn't everybody saved? Because not everybody receives 163 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,500 the gift. That's right. 164 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:31,600 Not nobody can earn to earn it. Nobody can purchase it. 165 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,300 The gift is offered to everyone but everyone has to receive a 166 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:38,300 gift. A gift on received his not 167 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:41,100 enjoyed. If I say your birthday, your 168 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:44,900 birthday car is over at my house Frank and all you have to do is 169 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:47,300 come get it. You say well, thank you Glenn 170 00:09:48,100 --> 00:09:50,200 and you never come. Get it for a month or two. 171 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,400 I'm going to call you Up and say why haven't you come and picked 172 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,400 up your car? Oh I know it's there. 173 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,200 Thanks very much and I say but you're never going to enjoy it 174 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,700 if you don't come get it. And that's what God says to man. 175 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:03,300 The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all 176 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:06,800 men know the doctrine of predestination where God only 177 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,100 elect some people to be saved. And so people will be lost is 178 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:13,100 not true. Jesus said it's offered all 179 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,500 Jesus. Tasted death for every man, God 180 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,300 loves the whole world. First Timothy to God is not 181 00:10:18,308 --> 00:10:21,100 willing that any should perish but that all should All should 182 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,800 come to repentance. God wants everybody to be saved, 183 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,400 and it's offered to all but not everybody receives the gift. 184 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,600 Well, Glenn, how do I receive the gift? 185 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,300 Ah, how do you receive the gift in your faith? 186 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:36,000 You repent of your sins. You confess his name before men 187 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,000 and you're baptized for the remission of your sins Acts 188 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,700 2:38. That's how you receive the gift, 189 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,500 you obey the Lord and whenever you obey the Lord a baptism you 190 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:48,100 are raised up to walk with him. Now let's go back. 191 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,400 If you will to Colossians Colossians chapter 3, And let's 192 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,700 begin. Let's talk about what we do. 193 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:56,800 I do after we've been raised up with Christ Colossians 3 verse 194 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,600 1. Therefore if you've been raised 195 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,600 up with Christ, like I said that's an illusion of baptism. 196 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,200 Chapter 2 verse 12. He says, keep seeking the things 197 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:11,900 above where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, not the 198 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:16,000 things that are on the earth for you have died and your life is 199 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,100 hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life is 200 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:21,600 revealed? Then you also Be revealed with 201 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,800 him in glory. He says here not the things that 202 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,800 are of the earth and it uses the word world. 203 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,100 We're going to notice in first John 2 and just a moment these 204 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:36,200 are similar are if you will send an M ideas, they're parallel 205 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,700 metaphors. God says if we have been saved, 206 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:45,200 if we have been baptized, that symbolizes a death to an old 207 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,400 life, and a resurrection, to a life that has a new Direction. 208 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:55,300 A new objective things that are set above, not the things that 209 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:59,000 are on the earth, we have another objective, we have 210 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,900 another goal, another Journey. We are heading in a different 211 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:05,300 direction than people in this world are headed in. 212 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:08,200 Is all your life's objectives are. 213 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,800 They were Lee goals. Are all the things you want to 214 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,700 accomplish or acquire, or all the things that you want to do 215 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:19,100 with your life of a worldly nature. 216 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,300 Are they have Worley accolades or worldly Rewards or do we have 217 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,000 the, our life set toward those things that above are we laying 218 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,200 up Treasures in Heaven or Treasures on Earth. 219 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:37,800 This is a primary change of objective. 220 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,800 For those who are in Christ This is a I marry change those who 221 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,500 are Christians aren't looking for all of their rewards in this 222 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:49,400 world. In fact God tells us that if we 223 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,000 try to live Godly in Christ Jesus, we will suffer 224 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,100 persecution here. And throughout history, this has 225 00:12:56,100 --> 00:13:00,600 been the case, we live in an unusual time in history, where 226 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,300 Christians have the freedom to speak their mind, where 227 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:05,900 Christians don't have. We don't have any fear right 228 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:08,000 here. And right now of our faith, 229 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,400 there are some brother and in foreign lands, Do I'll guarantee 230 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,300 you some of our brethren in the South Philippines are scared for 231 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:16,100 their life. And I just talked to Doug 232 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:18,200 Edwards. Not like, who'd got back from 233 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,900 India, he's been over there setting up some Churches and in 234 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:27,600 eastern India, and some of their preachers. 235 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,300 And some of their members get beat up for confessing Christ to 236 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:32,500 Hindus. They get beat up. 237 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:35,200 Now, this isn't just a nice story, it's nice to read about, 238 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:37,400 it's something that has happened a long time ago. 239 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:39,400 This happened just in the last few months. 240 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:43,400 I You to think about that. Do you really have a fear of 241 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,100 when you inviting someone to church? 242 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:48,500 That somebody's going to say, you're why I'm going to beat you 243 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:51,400 up for that. And not only that, the laws of 244 00:13:51,408 --> 00:13:55,200 the land are set up, not not to benefit you. 245 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,800 In fact, you can be arrested by the law of the land for trying 246 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,400 to evangelize a Hindu the laws of the land. 247 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:09,500 You can be put in prison justly for confessing Christ or 248 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:13,400 carrying a Bible to somebody who you didn't know, didn't want it. 249 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:15,200 Now, that's what I'm talking about. 250 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,700 We're talking about real persecution really today, but 251 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,200 some people preach, what we call the health and wealth 252 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,900 Christianity, and that is, if you're living right? 253 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,100 Everything should be Rosy. And You have to do is just open 254 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:30,700 your mailbox and money. Pours out my friends, God told 255 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:35,000 us that we are not supposed to look to this world for our 256 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,800 reward. He tells us to set up sites and 257 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:43,600 sets our affections on things above not on things of this 258 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,300 world. So this is a primary shift 259 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:51,900 because often, where our heart is, where our treasure is, there 260 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:57,200 will our heart be also where our treasure is so So, we've got to 261 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,800 shift our treasure. From one of an Earthly nature, 262 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:08,100 to one of a Eternal nature from a temporal to an eternal shift 263 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:11,700 in priorities. We really must because that is 264 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:15,400 so key to living a successful Christian life. 265 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:18,400 Because what happens if you're like the brethren in Africa? 266 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,900 What happens if you're like the brother in India who are not? 267 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:24,400 Physically blessed, is your god, cursing, you in some way, are 268 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,200 you cursed? Because you're not wealthy. 269 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:30,500 No, God, never promised us Earthly wealth, he Promised us 270 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:33,500 Heavenly wealth, he promised us Eternal reward. 271 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:38,400 Not attempt reward, the Bible takes pains to tell us not to 272 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,100 lay up Treasures on Earth. Where moth? 273 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:46,700 Where moth not Moss, where moth and can corrupt it. 274 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,400 We're thieves can break in and steal. 275 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:52,800 But the lay up Treasures in Heaven. 276 00:15:53,300 --> 00:16:00,200 And so the Bible tells us to redirect our Ambitions, our 277 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Ambitions to spiritual Ambitions, please turn to First 278 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,300 John, the second chapter right quick. 279 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:10,400 I want you to know that this is a real priority of the heart. 280 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,000 Here he tells us and he uses some terms here in 1st John that 281 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 are that I think are real practical and telling us how to 282 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,100 make this heart shift. First John uses the word love 283 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:25,000 often. In fact the word love is used in 284 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,500 first John 26 times. He uses the word love and we 285 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:32,900 know what the word love carries with it. 286 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,900 The baggage this world has word has with it. 287 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:40,300 The word love, implies commitment, the word and love 288 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:44,900 implies emotional attachment. The word love, implies a 289 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:48,000 willingness to sacrifice for the good of the object love. 290 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,200 In other words, we we want to, we love someone, we want to 291 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,100 sacrifice for their welfare Philippians 2 3 through 5. 292 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:59,100 That's what the word love entails and God uses the word 293 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,600 here to talk about our priorities. 294 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,400 Notice what he says, well I just want to show you how the word is 295 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,500 used, and my friend, John uses it positively many times. 296 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:13,300 Throughout the book look at 3:11, the this is the message 297 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:14,800 which we have heard from the beginning. 298 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,900 That we should love one another. Not as Cain who was the evil one 299 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:19,800 and see. Brother. 300 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:21,599 And for what reason did, he slay him? 301 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:24,400 Because his deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous. 302 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:26,800 Okay, heated, love. And because of that, in be 303 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,400 gripped in and caused him to kill his brother. 304 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,100 Notice. He says, in verse 13 do not be 305 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,400 surprised Brethren if the world hates you. 306 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,400 Right there, verse 13 verse John chapter 3. 307 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,500 So we know that we have passed out of death and life because we 308 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:45,100 love the Brethren he who does not love abides in death. 309 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,100 Oh, that love is important here and the Apostle. 310 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:54,800 It, excuse me, John is making it very, very clear here, that who 311 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,700 we love and how we love our. So, vitally, vitally important, 312 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,700 and how we can't hate anyone, because if we hate, it's 313 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:07,100 evidence of a lack of fellowship with God, God notice verse 16. 314 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:10,200 We know love by this, that he lay down his life for us and we 315 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,500 ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren. 316 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:15,200 Well, this is talking about a real change, isn't it? 317 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,700 Yeah, we've got a love the Brethren and he teaches this 318 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:20,800 over and over. And again all the way through 319 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:27,100 this passage, one of the things he says Here toward the end of 320 00:18:27,108 --> 00:18:32,700 this book is that we're not to love in word or in tongue, but 321 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:38,800 in deed, and in truth. Well, all the way through. 322 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,400 They are Verse 18, excuse me, 3:18 little children, let us not 323 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,600 love with word or with tongue but in deed and in truth verse 7 324 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,100 of chapter 4 brother--and, let us love one. 325 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:52,500 Another for love is from God. So you see, he knows how to use 326 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:56,900 this word but then there's a few times in this book that he uses 327 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:01,000 it negatively that is that we're not supposed to look. 328 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,300 He often says love, I want you to learn how to love. 329 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:07,300 I Want to Love Like Jesus loved and then he says, oh and I want 330 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,900 to tell Tell you, there's something that I don't want you 331 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:12,900 to love as well. Notice if you will in 1st, John 332 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,900 Chapter 2, we're going to start reading with verse 15. 333 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,100 Notice what he says right off the bat, do not love the world. 334 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,100 This is something he says. I want you, you know how to 335 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,700 love, and here's something. I don't want you to love. 336 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,600 I don't want you to love the world. 337 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,600 If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in 338 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,100 him. Whoa, this is pretty basic it. 339 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:49,100 Evidently reflects salvation, he tells us this is such a great 340 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:53,600 priority that if you can't change your heart here, it's an 341 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,300 evidence that you don't know God. 342 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,300 Now that's pretty good. That's pretty impressive. 343 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,000 It's a real test. Notice for all that is in the 344 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,900 world verse 16, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the 345 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:08,100 boastful pride of life is not from the father, but is from the 346 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,600 world and the world is passing away and also its lusts, but the 347 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,000 one who does the will of God lives forever. 348 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:19,200 What all does this mean? What how can I know that? 349 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,100 I don't love the world. I don't want to love the world 350 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:25,300 after reading that he tells me stuff is specifically, I must 351 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:26,500 not love the world. World. 352 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:30,100 In other words, I've got to put this out of my life and make 353 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:33,500 sure that I love those things that are above love, the proper 354 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:35,300 things. How can I make sure? 355 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:39,500 Well, let's study the word world for just a moment tonight. 356 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,800 And see if we can get a real handle on this because this is 357 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,800 so vitally. Vitally important, the word 358 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,900 world is used, basically three ways in the scriptures, the word 359 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:53,300 world, it's talking about three ideas. 360 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:57,800 Now, we know how words can be used as Figures of speech. 361 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:03,200 There are words that are used in our culture that don't don't 362 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,100 survive. If you will a literal definition 363 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:10,200 of their terminology, I remember back in the 60s, people used to 364 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,000 say, well, that's really cool, you know? 365 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:16,200 And what we don't do that anymore. 366 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,900 We are kids, whenever we say, oh, that's really cool. 367 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,500 Our kids go, man, that you're showing your age is showing your 368 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,600 age. You know, that's not evening. 369 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,600 And then I remember when listening to my kids and they 370 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,300 said, man, that's really bad, that's really bad. 371 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,400 And what does that mean? And that meant good. 372 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,400 I finally figured that out something bad was good, that's 373 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,700 really bad and then for a little while they use the world that's 374 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,700 real fat. That was good, that was good. 375 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,900 I still use that word that way. But anyway, the whole point is 376 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:51,500 that what's what we're talking about is that words can have 377 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:53,200 different meanings in the scriptures. 378 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,200 Well, the word world has that same kind of Thing, the word 379 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,200 world can apply to many many different than the one. 380 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,100 One thing that we all expect is that the word word world 381 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:07,400 sometimes is used in reference to the cosmos. 382 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,500 And that is in reference to the planets, in reference to the 383 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,700 sphere. The material sphere upon which 384 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:16,300 we live. Let's, let's look at some of the 385 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:20,500 passages. Notice the Bible says, in Acts 386 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:25,100 17 and verse 30 24, Mmm. Excuse me. 387 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:33,200 Acts 17 verse 24. God it says The God Who made the 388 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,700 world and all things in it since he is, Lord of Heaven and Earth 389 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:39,100 does not dwell in temples made with hands. 390 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:44,400 Well, here in this verse the word world and all things in it, 391 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,100 is talking about the literal dirt Planet. 392 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:53,200 He's talking about this sphere and he says, God made the world 393 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,300 and everything in it. He's talking about created 394 00:22:55,300 --> 00:23:00,300 things and he says, God made this word, although the world. 395 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:04,700 Now in Romans 1 and verse 20, it's used this way and verse 396 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:07,800 well contextually in Romans 1 verse 20. 397 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:13,300 For, since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes. 398 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:16,400 His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen 399 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,600 being understood through what has been made. 400 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,700 So that they are without excuse here. 401 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:24,100 He's talking about the created world as well. 402 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:27,800 And he says this world is just the material world, the dirt, 403 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,200 the planet itself. John is says this, this is, 404 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,400 excuse me in these passages. The Bible is just talking about 405 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,800 the material world that matters You will and notice. 406 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,400 He says, that's something that God made. 407 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:48,200 And after he looked on all that he had made, he said it was good 408 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:51,000 but this can't be what John is talking about. 409 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:54,600 And first, John 2, when he says love, not the world. 410 00:23:55,300 --> 00:24:00,200 It's not, it's not a sin to enjoy this world in this way. 411 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:05,400 And the book in Acts 17 verse 24, the Bible says, God is Lord 412 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,400 of Heaven and Earth. There's nothing immoral or 413 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,300 inconsistent. With God's creation, and with 414 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:16,000 his nature, God, appreciated everything that he had made and 415 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,800 called it good. In this world, God doesn't say. 416 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,200 In order for us to live, here we as Christians have got to hate 417 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,400 existing. I want to get that really 418 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,600 playing because the gnostics at the time of Christ taught that 419 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,400 very Doctrine and the book of Colossians was written to refute 420 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,400 it. In other words, he they were 421 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:44,900 teaching That God is all spirit and world is all evil is all 422 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,400 carnal and they could not coexist. 423 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,900 That's why they denied that, Jesus Christ came in the flesh 424 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:53,500 because they could not believe that a spirit God would combine 425 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:54,800 with this world. The world was evil. 426 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,500 Spirit is all good and therefore, we should deny the 427 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,500 flesh. We should all inflict pain on 428 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,900 the Flesh and it somehow it showed spiritual superiority and 429 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:06,200 Paul speaks. He says the severe treatment of 430 00:25:06,208 --> 00:25:09,300 the body is a false religion. He says it really is. 431 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,100 Is and there's people who still believe that today that you 432 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,400 ought to be a Hermit. You want to deny this flesh, and 433 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,500 deny that God made anything pleasurable. 434 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,900 As one writer said in history, a famous one, by the way, he said 435 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:23,000 he believed God created everything from the waist up and 436 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,800 the devil everything from the waist down, well that's not God. 437 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,100 Looked at everything he made and said it was good. 438 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:34,100 So man has taken worldly things and use them to create lust. 439 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,700 Lust is unlawful desire, but the desires that we have in this 440 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:43,500 world are not inherently evil. God looked on his creation and 441 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,000 said it was good. So don't fall into the Gnostic 442 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,100 trap. Don't fall into that trap of 443 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:53,100 thinking. This world does not reflect God. 444 00:25:53,700 --> 00:26:00,000 The Bible says it does Romans 1, this world reflects God, Well, 445 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:05,300 the hating, this world will lead people to commit suicide and and 446 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:08,400 leads people drink Kool-Aid, Guyana and all kinds of things. 447 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:12,300 The Bible doesn't say that is the sign of his followers. 448 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:15,700 Know, there is a form of the love of this world that we're 449 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,700 going to get to in a minute. That the Bible says is wrong, 450 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:24,800 but God doesn't say, I want you to hate material existence but 451 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,300 there's a second way in the word. 452 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:29,800 The word world is used in the scriptures and And that is in a 453 00:26:29,808 --> 00:26:34,800 more symbolic sense. It refers to Mankind in general 454 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:38,300 by naming the planet. In other words, it's metonymy, 455 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:42,000 he names the planet to expect to be a. 456 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:46,800 If you will suggest its inhabitants, John 3:16, one of 457 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,200 the verses that everybody knows and scriptures God. 458 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,900 So loved the world. Well, it would be wrong to 459 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:58,800 return, put that planet, excuse, they got ahead of myself, it 460 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,900 would be wrong to interpret that statement that God loved the 461 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:08,200 dirt of this world that God loved the dirt only and you 462 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,200 know, people he just kind of tolerates. 463 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,500 There's some people that, that practice, the worship of Nature 464 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:15,500 and they literally teach the world would be. 465 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,700 Better off all the people were dead off of it that we're one of 466 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,400 the biggest environmental hazards in the history there. 467 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,900 I know some tree huggers guys. It was grew up in Oregon, but 468 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:29,600 the whole fact of the matter is is that's not what this passage 469 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,100 is teaching when it says God, so loved the world. 470 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,600 It's really not suggesting anything about the planet he's 471 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,800 talking by metonymy about you and I, as inhabitants as 472 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:45,200 inhabitants of this world, he's naming the planet or the Earth 473 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,800 to suggest the people on the Earth when God so loved the 474 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,400 world that he gave his only begotten son, notice the 475 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,900 scriptures on this if You will in John 1 and verse 10. 476 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,100 The Gospel of John chapter 1 and verse 10. 477 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:03,900 The Bible says, he was in the world and the world was made 478 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:06,200 through him and the world did not know him. 479 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:14,300 Now, 18 seems to suggest that it gives the dirt a suggestion of 480 00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:17,500 intellectual knowledge, or ability to know something. 481 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,700 No, no. We know that the dirt doesn't 482 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,200 have that kind of memory he's talking about people. 483 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,600 He's saying the people didn't know him in that sense. 484 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,600 In John 1 verse 29, go on down. The few verses to verse 29, the 485 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,400 next day he saw, Jesus coming to him and said, Behold the Lamb of 486 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,100 God who takes away the sin All of the world. 487 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:42,700 I didn't know that the planet could commit a sin. 488 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,200 The Bible says in John, the first chapter that lost proceed 489 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,200 sin and sin. When it is finished, bringeth 490 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,700 forth, death, you mean the planet can lust, no, my friends, 491 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:58,200 everything in this world obeys God's design except for man 492 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,700 whenever an animal does what it does it's not lusting when a 493 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,900 when a lion kills an antelope it does it's not a moral issue. 494 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,900 You don't find lions with ulcers over worrying about the 495 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:16,200 antelopes family. You don't find them going. 496 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,700 Oh, my, what have I done? No, they kill because it's God's 497 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:23,300 design, the everything else in the world. 498 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,700 Every other creation of God does what it does by Design man, is 499 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:30,300 the one who has guilt where the one who could commit moral and 500 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:34,300 ethical sin, not this planet, and not even animals in this 501 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,500 plan. Therefore, whenever it's saying 502 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:40,900 takes away the sins of the world, he's talking about us by 503 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:45,900 metonymy, he's talking about us, you and I and so he's not 504 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:49,500 talking about this planet. He's talking about Mankind, in 505 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:52,000 general notice, there are many other passages. 506 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:57,300 That we could talk about tonight, but we're not going to 507 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:00,700 have time to get to all them. Let's get to the what first John 508 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,200 2 is really talking about in first John. 509 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,800 The second chapter whenever he says, love not the world, 510 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,100 neither the things in the world. The word world is used in this 511 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:12,400 sense of sin. If you have your Bibles, please 512 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,400 open to Galatians chapter 6. And Galatians chapter 6 right 513 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,200 quick. Notice what he says, here in 514 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,700 verse 14, may it never be that? I should boast except in the 515 00:30:21,708 --> 00:30:26,000 cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Christ through which the world 516 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,700 has been crucified to me and I to the world. 517 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,600 Now, what's he talking about here? 518 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:36,200 He wasn't literally talking about this world or house. 519 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,000 Paul Couldn't Write what he wrote. 520 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,300 He would be dead. Whenever he used the word 521 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:44,900 crucified here and use the word world. 522 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:48,400 He's talking about choices and decisions and priorities. 523 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:52,600 And he's saying there's a certain sphere that I have no 524 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,300 life. I have died to that. 525 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:57,300 I no longer live in and any sins. 526 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,500 This is the type of the world that the Bible tells us not to 527 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,500 love. It is talking about a world of 528 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:08,100 sin and unrighteousness. It's talking about that, which 529 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,500 is alien to God. It's talking about, Thing that 530 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:15,300 God didn't create that dirt in it, it's talking about that, 531 00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:21,400 which man, engages in a world or atmosphere, or if you will a 532 00:31:21,408 --> 00:31:25,900 culture of sin, notice some other passages in James. 533 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:29,300 The first chapter in verse 27, the word is used this way in 534 00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:32,700 James 1. And verse 27. 535 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:37,200 The Bible says pure and undefiled religion in the sight 536 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,600 of our god, father is this to visit orphans and widows in 537 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:48,300 their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world. 538 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,700 Now mother's you should not use this passage to tell your 539 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:56,200 children not to get dirty because that's not what he's 540 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,800 talking about. It is misusing the scriptures to 541 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,900 apply it. So literally he is using here, 542 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:09,000 the symbol of the world to suggest the sphere of sin and he 543 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,500 says to keep oneself unstained from the world means to keep 544 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:18,000 oneself out. Of the culture of sin out of 545 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,300 this sphere of sin. So it is in this way that the 546 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:26,600 world is used here in 1st John Chapter 2, If any man comes to 547 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,100 God he must not love the world of sin. 548 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,600 He's not talking about loving your coffee, he's not talking 549 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,100 about loving a sunset. He's not talking about loving 550 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,300 your beautiful wife or beautiful husband or horse or anything 551 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:45,200 else so your flowers are your roses Some people say, well, 552 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,500 it's a sin to love anything in this world. 553 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:52,100 That is not what first John. 2 is saying he's saying, don't you 554 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:55,700 love sin, Christians have to hate sin. 555 00:32:55,700 --> 00:33:00,100 In fact, the Bible says it in very explicit terms, like that 556 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:05,300 to love, God is to hate sin and evil and the wicked way that is 557 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:07,600 the attitude. That is the kind of love. 558 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:10,700 We're supposed to give up. If you will Romans 12 and verse 559 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:13,800 9 to a love, God is to abhor evil. 560 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,300 And to love what is good? We've got to abhor evil. 561 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,800 We've got to have an attitude change about evil. 562 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:26,300 Hmm, let's look at a few other passages in James, 4, and verse 563 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,900 4. Just go over a few verses James 564 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,900 chapter 4 and verse 4, you adulteresses, do you not know 565 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:36,700 that friendship with the world? There's that word world again. 566 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:40,300 Friendship, is the world. Is hostility toward God. 567 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,900 Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes 568 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:49,400 Himself, an enemy of God. Does that mean we're not 569 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,400 supposed to love the environment that we're not supposed to love 570 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,100 other people who are in this world that are of a temporal 571 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:56,900 nature? Once again, no, that's not what 572 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,400 he's talking about. He's talking about loving sin, 573 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:08,500 loving unrighteousness, loving wickedness, Desiring wickedness, 574 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,500 wanting wickedness. He says, if you want to be a 575 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:15,800 friend with the world, that is the sinful world, then you 576 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,400 cannot be. A friend of God, you can't love 577 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,699 God and sin at the same time. You've got to put one of them to 578 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:27,699 death in your life. Notice in Matthew, the 6th 579 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,699 chapter in verse 24. This concept is put just a 580 00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:33,900 little bit different terminology, Matthew 6, and 581 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:40,600 verse 24. No, man can serve two masters 582 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,400 for either. He will hate the one and love 583 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,800 the other or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. 584 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:50,500 You cannot serve God and wealth. Or Mammon is what the King James 585 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,100 says, you can't serve both of these things. 586 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,000 Well, who is your lord? Who is your god? 587 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,700 Who do you try to be friends with? 588 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,600 Here's if I'm going to sum up what I'm trying to say tonight 589 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,800 is there's a lot of people in this world. 590 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,400 Having a loving have a love affair with sin. and they want a 591 00:35:07,408 --> 00:35:13,800 love affair with sin, but they want the benefits of the 592 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,100 Covenant. With God, they want heaven after 593 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:19,600 all this world is over. They want to be married to God, 594 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:22,600 but God says, listen in order to remain, married to me, you've 595 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,400 got to be faithful, you've got to say forsaking all others. 596 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:29,600 I will keep myself only unto him, but we want to carry on a 597 00:35:29,607 --> 00:35:32,200 love affair. After were married to God, we 598 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,400 want to love the world and the things in the world. 599 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,500 We want to sin, we want the pleasure of sin would your wife 600 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,000 tolerate, that would your husband tolerate that well 601 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,500 knowing God doesn't Either he says the church is the bride of 602 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:45,400 Christ in the Book of Revelation. 603 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,600 And he doesn't want his church to have a love affair with the 604 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,000 world. We've got to break up. 605 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,000 We got a break up, dating the world. 606 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,500 We got to break up our relationship with the world. 607 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,600 You we can't be married to Christ and still carry on a love 608 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,200 affair with the world. We can't do it. 609 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,200 Now if we, if that makes sense to us in this world. 610 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:07,000 Can't we understand that spiritually? 611 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,400 That makes sense. Spiritually, that makes sense. 612 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,300 That's what the Bible says. You've got to forsake, your love 613 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,600 affair with the world. You got to break up with the 614 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,600 world, in order to have a great relationship with your husband 615 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,500 Christ. He's the one that loves the 616 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:28,000 church. He died for the church. 617 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,100 Ephesians. 5 tells us Christ. Loved the church so much. 618 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:36,100 He died for her. He paid a price for her and we 619 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:38,600 need to be committed and devoted back to him. 620 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,100 So, we've got to get out of loving the world. 621 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,300 No man can serve two masters and my friends. 622 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:46,300 You can't love the world and love God to sin. 623 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,700 Is this world of Darkness, that we've got to get out of our 624 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,600 hearts. We've got to change our 625 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,400 priorities, we've got to change our love's in Colossians, the 626 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,900 first chapter in verse 13. The Bible says that this way, he 627 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:01,600 rescued us, from the domain of darkness and transferred us into 628 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,100 the kingdom of his dear son, one, the domain of darkness is 629 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:09,500 the world of First, John 2. It him is the light, but God is 630 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:11,100 of the light. And in him, there is no 631 00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:13,900 Darkness. First John 1 and verse 5, we 632 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:18,600 cannot love both God and sin. So do you love sins? 633 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:21,600 Is there any sin in your life that you're in love with? 634 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,200 The Bible says, to put it out of our life, we have got to no 635 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,200 longer loved the world. This is that change change of 636 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,100 heart. Change of priorities that we've 637 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:38,300 been talking about. Let's look at first John 2 very 638 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:40,400 very quickly and then we'll bring our lesson to a close 639 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:45,200 tonight. In first John 2, he names, he 640 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,300 names this, these things and context really I believe the 641 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,300 questions answered but let's go first. 642 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:54,100 John 2 verse 15 and 16 again, look at it really carefully as 643 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,900 we read it together. First, John 2 verse 15, do not 644 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,900 love the world or the things in the world. 645 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:04,200 If anyone loves the Father, the Excuse me, loves the world. 646 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,800 The love of the father is not in him for all that is in the 647 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,800 world. Now he's going to tell us what's 648 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,100 in this world that we're not supposed to love the lust of the 649 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:20,100 flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life is 650 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:23,600 not from the father. Well, he can't be talking about 651 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:28,800 this planet because it is of the father, but he says sin is not 652 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,800 of the father. This planet is sin is not Sin is 653 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:40,200 created whenever we choose to satisfy a god-given desire in an 654 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:45,900 ungodly way. That's what lust is. 655 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,500 It's to satisfy a god-given desire. 656 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:58,200 In a ungodly way, is not of the father, but is from the world. 657 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,000 Now, we've got to change that. The lust of the flesh is of, 658 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,500 it's talking about the things, the way, the world, satisfies 659 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:15,600 its desires, We have got to put these things out of our Lives. 660 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,700 Take care of first second Corinthians, 10, verse 5 as we 661 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:21,100 reviewed last night. The Bible says, we've got to 662 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:24,600 take every thought captive and bring it to obedience to Christ. 663 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,700 And I've got to hush, I've got two more pages of notes, but I 664 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:35,200 can't get to them tonight. Hush I do want to get leave you 665 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,200 with one last illustration right quick. 666 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,400 Listen, very carefully, Hernando Cortes whenever he sailed over 667 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:48,000 here to conquer, if you will America and Mexico and all that 668 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,400 area whenever he landed here, he had 11 ships and 700 men and he 669 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,800 landed at Veracruz in the spring of 1519. 670 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:00,900 And you know what? He did, whatever he landed 671 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:04,800 there. He did something that caused a 672 00:40:04,808 --> 00:40:07,200 certain kind of motivation in his men. 673 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:12,000 He unloaded the ships and he burned them. 674 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,200 He burned, the ships isn't that amazing? 675 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,000 Why would a guy do that? Well, you know, if you're in a 676 00:40:22,008 --> 00:40:25,400 new place and you get into trouble, there's always that 677 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,300 sense. Well well, you know if this gets 678 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,600 too rough, I can just pack up and go home. 679 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,500 I can just load up, leave load up and leave. 680 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:37,500 But he wanted a kind of commitment out of his men where 681 00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:41,300 they knew there wasn't any going back and he says when we get 682 00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:44,000 back, we're going to have to build ships to go back. 683 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,200 We're not, that's what he wanted, some commitment out of 684 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:49,300 it. You know what? 685 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:51,700 I'll tell you what. That, if I was a soldier on that 686 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:55,400 ship, it would give me some commitment to succeed, wouldn't 687 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,500 it? I wouldn't be one and say, well, 688 00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:59,000 you know, we got two options here. 689 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,800 We can fight these guys, or we can get the ship and leave. 690 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,400 Oh that's right. The ship has been burned. 691 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,200 I guess we only have one option. We got to fight these guys and 692 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,300 we got a win, right? Will Christians. 693 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:14,500 That's what we've been talking about here tonight. 694 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,400 How many of us want to go to heaven? 695 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,000 But we not broke up with the world yet it's time, we burn 696 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,700 some bridges. It's time, we burn some ships, 697 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,400 it's time. We took stock of our heart and 698 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,900 realized that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 699 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:41,100 James 1 and verse eight year are not going to live a successful 700 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:44,900 Victorious, Christian Life. As long as you have two hearts, 701 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,400 as long as you have two Ambitions, two goals. 702 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,000 In two sets of priorities. You may have one set of 703 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:50,400 priorities. Iot. 704 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,100 That works some of the time and the other side of the, but you 705 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,100 are going to be unsuccessful at both. 706 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,200 You're going to be a miserable Sinner and a miserable 707 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,500 Christian. As long as you have two hearts 708 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:02,600 in this world. If you want to be successful, 709 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,100 you're going to have to purify your hearts and James 18. 710 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,900 James, excuse me, 48. Tells us purify your hearts you 711 00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:14,500 double-minded. Purify the word purify means 712 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:19,300 makes single something that was double context, really make 713 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,300 single make of single substance purify your hearts. 714 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:25,600 In other words, make one out of two, you got to get rid of wine 715 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,500 whenever we come to Christ, we've got to give up our love of 716 00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:34,100 sin. Glenn, I don't love sin, really? 717 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,900 No, you just want to cheat on God, we want the pleasure of 718 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,800 sin. We don't want a relationship, we 719 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,700 want what God has to offer. We want the inheritance. 720 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:47,000 We want the father's house when we go to heaven, but we want a 721 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,300 little something on the side. We want sin in our life still, 722 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,700 and as long as that happens, James 18 says, we will be 723 00:42:55,700 --> 00:43:00,300 unstable in all our ways. There's a reason why Christians 724 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:03,100 aren't successful. It's because they not broken up 725 00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:06,500 with the world. He's got a breakup. 726 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,300 Got a breakup. You've got to tell Christ. 727 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:11,900 I'm going to be faithful to you. I'm going to be committed to 728 00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:13,800 you. I'm going to be respectful of 729 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,600 you. I'm going to honor you. 730 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:19,400 I will forsake all others and cling only to you. 731 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:24,200 Because we are the Bride of Jesus Christ so it's time we 732 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,600 burned some chips. It's time we take every thought. 733 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,400 Captive it's time. We set our eyes on things above. 734 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,200 Not the things are on this world and if there's ever going to be 735 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,100 a compromise, my friends with things in this world, we got to 736 00:43:35,107 --> 00:43:38,300 make sure that we remain faithful to God and our call to 737 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:40,900 follow him in All in every situation. 738 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,800 I hope this has been helpful. Like I said, I didn't get to 739 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,200 everything I wanted to say tonight but be thankful for 740 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,200 that. So tonight, I just want to, I 741 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,200 just want The challenge, all of us in summarizing what we? 742 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,600 This is kind of what we've been talking about all week. 743 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,400 A lot of times we talk about this all week and people go. 744 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,200 Yeah, you have it that's hard and that's difficult. 745 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,800 But tonight we just wanted to really focus that it is 746 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,900 essential that we love not the world. 747 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,800 It's essential that we break up because we won't be successful 748 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:15,700 if we don't That's why we are unstable is because we've not 749 00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:17,400 purified our heart. Do you want to go to heaven 750 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,400 tonight? Then what in this world is worth 751 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:21,600 leaving? In your life? 752 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,100 That's in. There is no cynic worth, 753 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:27,100 exchanging heaven for get rid of desire to sin. 754 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,700 Don't let your heart in be sinners. 755 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:32,300 Like we talked about last night, don't desire things that are in 756 00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:34,700 this world. Set your heart on things above, 757 00:44:34,700 --> 00:44:37,300 not the things that are on the earth for your life is hidden 758 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:40,100 with Christ in God. If you'd then be raised up with 759 00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:43,000 Christ set, My mind on things above. 760 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,000 So tonight rearrange your priorities rearrange your life. 761 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,000 If there's any compromise between your job and following 762 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,200 Christ, who's going to suffer. If there's any compromise that 763 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,300 has to be called for what's going to go. 764 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,900 God's got to come first God's got to come first. 765 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:04,000 So tonight, are you willing to be purifying your heart and your 766 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,100 mind, are you willing to give up forsake? 767 00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:09,800 All others, are you willing to make yourself pure and only for 768 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,800 God tonight? That's It takes 4 before you 769 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:13,800 answer question. Yes. 770 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,500 And marriage. You have to think about those 771 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:19,200 things. Don't you Don't you before you 772 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,700 have to say. Now, I've got a file of dating, 773 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:24,700 I've got to ask myself, do I want to stop dating? 774 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:28,800 You know. Some girls. 775 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,200 And guys, they don't want to stop dating when they get 776 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,800 married. That's really bad. 777 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,800 But we know when we get married, what we say is your it? 778 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,200 You're the only one. I'm going to be looking to. 779 00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:44,200 This is the only relationship I'm going to have in this world 780 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,400 in marriage whenever it comes to God. 781 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,400 We've got to love him with all of our heart soul, mind and 782 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,300 strength and it's costly. It means forsaking all others 783 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,200 but my friends. Oh, the joy that comes from 784 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,500 having a pure and wonderful relationship with God. 785 00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:04,700 Tonight, you will not have any more one. 786 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,400 A relationship than the one you will have. 787 00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:10,500 If you will give up your love of the world. 788 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:14,100 There is no sin worth exchanging heaven, for I don't care what's 789 00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:16,400 in, you've got in your life, you might be saying, I'd like to be 790 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,700 a Christian but Glenn, I love this sin too much to give out. 791 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:23,400 Is it really worth your soul? Is it really worth eternity? 792 00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:28,100 My friends, God loves you, Jesus died for you and he is calling 793 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:31,800 for you with all the everything that he can God Gave You 794 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,100 evidence that. He loves you. 795 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:36,800 So he wants you to go to heaven. He wants you to be saved the 796 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,700 grace of God is extended, but you've got to make the choice. 797 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:41,700 God's not going to force you to marry him. 798 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,500 You've got to say, yes. So in your faith, repent of your 799 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:49,500 sins tonight forsake. All others confess your name 800 00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:52,900 before men confess his, excuse me, his name before. 801 00:46:52,900 --> 00:46:57,300 Men, Matthew 10:32, and allow yourself to be submerged in 802 00:46:57,300 --> 00:47:03,800 water and have your sins washed away like Paul Acts 22:16 arise, 803 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,400 be baptized and wash away your sins. 804 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,100 Tonight, won't you have your sins washed away Acts 22:16? 805 00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:18,200 Like Paul you can tonight. you can, if you will We thank you 806 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,500 for listening to our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ 807 00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:26,100 at 22:15 plans. 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