1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,800 It's very good to see everyone who's here this morning. 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,500 And I just got to admit my mind is racing, I thought. 3 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:15,700 Okay, I'll speed things up and we won't even do a reading, so I 4 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:17,600 can get right into it. And here we are. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,100 We're already 11:30. I thought that would buy me five 6 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:23,500 minutes. And then the service itself has 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,100 inspired me. It's interesting for those of 8 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:31,000 you that know this month were looking at some of the songs we 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,200 sing and considering them as they apply to God's word. 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,800 And so we're taking these songs and looking at the lyrics and it 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,900 was interesting that the song Money wrote this morning was 12 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,000 the, the other side of that coin. 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,800 It was a song that was inspired by a sermon. 14 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:54,000 Oh, Lamb of God, brother, Wayne mccamey preached, and cause the 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,800 right writer to decide to write a song about it. 16 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:00,000 It works both ways. Absolutely. 17 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,600 But, you know, as I was also sitting there, I thought I 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,300 wanted to be sure and thank those who have already taught so 19 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:09,100 far. I'll make a little confession of 20 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:13,200 sorts, I guess I've always been a little bit hesitant about 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,800 preaching on songs, because I've always been afraid to put too 22 00:01:16,808 --> 00:01:19,200 much emphasis on the writer, and their Rick lyrics. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,200 And not enough on the word, And the teachers have done the very 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,400 opposite and I thank you for that. 25 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:29,700 I believe that's important. You know Jesus as he talked in 26 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:34,900 John chapter 4 and 23 he says, God is a spirit and those that 27 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:41,700 worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth, The fact is 28 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:46,300 Jesus pointed out. People need both, we don't want 29 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:49,900 to have a truth worship, that is void of spirit and we don't want 30 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:54,100 to have a Spirit Worship, that's void of truth, even when we sing 31 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,500 so much, even when Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, in First 32 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:01,000 Corinthians chapter 14, you might recall that really has a 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,100 lot to do with miraculous gifts, and speaking in tongues, and 34 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,199 which is the greatest gift, and all of those things about 35 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,300 miracles. And, you know, in the midst of 36 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:12,200 that. That he says, what's the 37 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,400 conclusion? He says, I will pray with the 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,600 spirit and I will pray with the understanding. 39 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:23,500 Also, I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the 40 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:27,200 understanding. Also, what is happen? 41 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,300 This time as we've looked at these songs in my mind, it has 42 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:36,400 reinforced to me, this very principle, Because quite 43 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,000 frankly, I'm kind of in some ways. 44 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,400 I'm not emotional in another ways, I get real emotional. 45 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,700 I don't remember the few first funeral, I went to and it feels 46 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:49,300 like as a child growing up. I went to funerals, that's what 47 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:51,500 people did my parents mourn with those who mourn. 48 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:55,400 And we went to a lot of funerals and I could pretty much sit 49 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,500 through those funerals. And Beyond impacted in a whole 50 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:01,600 lot of ways. Not that I didn't care, but I 51 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,000 wasn't emotionally engaged in that service. 52 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:14,900 Until I began to sing. and to this day, I can be singing in 53 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:19,100 the funeral of somebody, I don't even personally know and get 54 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:26,300 over whelmed with emotion. Singing brings out, it creates 55 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:29,800 even with music Alone. Can create passion and emotion. 56 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,700 And the reason it's important that we sing with an 57 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:37,900 understanding or we worship in, not only Spirit, but truth is 58 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:40,800 because that emotion can be channeled. 59 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,300 Also in the wrong way, it happens in music all the time, 60 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,200 many wrote Riders have boasted of their ability to turn and 61 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,900 sway People based on the music, they write despite the lyric. 62 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,100 And if you question that just go into some of these music Studies 63 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:00,000 classes that are at some of these universities and you'll 64 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,300 find out how This has been used throughout history. and so as we 65 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:09,500 consider the music that we sing, the worship that we offer to our 66 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:15,500 God and the emotion, and the impact that makes upon us inside 67 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:22,200 It is so important. That we sing and we understand 68 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,000 what we're seeing. And that what we understand is 69 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,400 true. God deserves that and I'll tell 70 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,200 you right now, you deserve it and I deserve it. 71 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,900 Because God created it for us, to take advantage of it would be 72 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:45,200 on his behalf. And yet as so many times happens 73 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,500 with gifts, we maybe give to others, we find that we feel. 74 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,000 We ourselves were the Most Blessed or the most that got the 75 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,200 most out of it. Even though we gave the gift to 76 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,200 them. In my mind, this is The way I 77 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,400 feel about are singing worship at times. 78 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:04,900 Indeed, it's designed to give praise and honor to God and to 79 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:11,400 yet, I feel like it, blesses me, Whatever we do, we want it to be 80 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,100 in truth. The song, we're going to 81 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,900 consider this morning is in Christ alone. 82 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,900 If you wanted any point to follow along, it's number five 83 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,900 in the blue binder. I tell you that in case you want 84 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:27,500 to follow along because most of the time was scriptures. 85 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:30,300 I'm able to cut and paste them and just put them up here for 86 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:32,600 you to read. I don't do any typing because my 87 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,800 typing skills Wayne sorely. I didn't couldn't find this song 88 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:41,400 already typed out for me to cut and paste so you're relying on 89 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,000 my abilities. This morning, I keep finding 90 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,600 errors and so I'll just apologize in advance. 91 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,200 In Christ Alone. As I researched this, everybody 92 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,500 was researching the writers I thought. 93 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,100 Okay, I got to come with the great story of emotion and 94 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,600 passion that was at the at the root of this song. 95 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,200 And but I didn't find that I found that this was the first 96 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,800 song. These two people wrote together, 97 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,900 they teamed up wanting to write lyrics. 98 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:11,500 One was better at music, one was better at lyrics, they teamed 99 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:14,600 up, they wanted to write a song and this is their first shot. 100 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:17,800 You know, what their goal was in this song? 101 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,300 This is the coolest part about it. 102 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:23,400 They wanted to write a song that would describe. 103 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,300 The gospel. If you only had one chance to 104 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:32,800 get two people with the song they heard, how would you tell 105 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,800 him the most you possibly could? That was kind of what I took out 106 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,000 of, what they wrote about the inspiration for this song, And 107 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,400 then the title they gave was in Christ alone, but I read that 108 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,400 title, I couldn't help but think of John chapter 14 and verse 6, 109 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,200 where it says, Jesus said to him, I am the way the truth and 110 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,800 the life. No man comes to the father, 111 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,100 except through me. This is indeed the message of 112 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:04,900 the song, it's not just the title sometimes as Edwin. 113 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,500 Pointed out to me this morning, my titles, don't always match 114 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:13,300 where he thinks I'm going. but in this case, the title matches. 115 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,200 And today, I suppose if there's one thing that we need to make 116 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,900 sure we understand and that the world understands as the Jesus 117 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:26,700 Christ, is our only hope our hope is in him. 118 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,100 Alone with that in mind, I would like to go through the lyrics, 119 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:37,400 turn this on the beginning of this says, In Christ Alone, My 120 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,600 Hope Is found. He is my light. 121 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:47,200 My strength, my song. The psalmist said, your word is 122 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,900 a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 123 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,400 We learned from John chapter 1 beginning in verse one that 124 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,300 Jesus said in the beginning was the word and the Word was with 125 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:02,400 God and the Word was God, you keep reading down through that 126 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,000 and you'll get to verse 14, it says the word became flesh and 127 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,300 dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory, as of the only 128 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:16,200 begotten of the father full of grace and truth, he wasn't just 129 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,800 great. He wasn't just loving, he wasn't 130 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,900 just full of grace. But he was full of Truth. 131 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:26,200 You could not find any deceit, any light, anything that wasn't 132 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,700 true in the life of Jesus Christ. 133 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:34,200 Hazard light that the psalmist referred to and the word being 134 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,900 that light we find later on and this is a whole study in itself 135 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:42,100 that Jesus is the word. Jesus is the light. 136 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:48,200 And so when the writer says, in all my, hope I find him because 137 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,100 he is the light, he's everywhere. 138 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:53,700 I get strength and he is even my soul. 139 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,500 And that's what this song will be about this. 140 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:02,500 Cornerstone the lyrics, go on to say this, Solid Ground firm 141 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,200 through the fiercest drought and storm. 142 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:10,200 You know, Peter describe Jesus as a Cornerstone therefore, to 143 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,500 you, who believe he's precious. But to those who are disobedient 144 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,200 the stone, which the builders rejected has become the Chief, 145 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,600 Cornerstone. Now, a Cornerstone basically is 146 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,400 the part of the building that they would use at that time that 147 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,900 set and it's it set the whole pattern for the building. 148 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,200 It said, its location it set where it was Square to. 149 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:34,900 It said its orientation to everything around. 150 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:38,100 It was within the Cornerstone, it was the key to the 151 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:42,700 foundation. Jesus Christ is the Cornerstone. 152 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,200 He's also that Solid Ground through which everything else 153 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,700 will be built. This is described by Jesus 154 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,900 himself in Matthew chapter 7. Beginning in verse 24, he says, 155 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:57,400 therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, these words 156 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,700 that are a lamp to my feet and does them. 157 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,700 I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon the 158 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:07,900 rock the rain descended, the floods came the winds blew they 159 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:11,100 beat on that house. And it did not Fall for it was 160 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:15,200 founded on a rock. That's the verse I think about, 161 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,900 when I think about this, this Solid Ground firm through the 162 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:26,600 fiercest storm, you see Greg, you missed the drought I did I 163 00:10:26,608 --> 00:10:29,100 miss that in this song, every time we've sung it till I 164 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,800 prepared this lesson. We in California. 165 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,900 We know a lot about drought. We've been in it. 166 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,400 We've suffered the every time you look at your water bill. 167 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:38,800 Now I heard somebody saying the other day. 168 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,700 Their water bill is more than their electric bill and there. 169 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,300 Some other Bill combined. I think it was Gas and Electric. 170 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:54,100 Water is precious and it's not just in California. 171 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:57,000 I heard a Californian telling you that somebody and maybe it 172 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,200 was back in Alabama, I can't remember. 173 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,400 They said, well, it's same for me and this was somebody that's 174 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:02,600 back east in a place. I thought they just had a lot of 175 00:11:02,608 --> 00:11:05,500 kinds of water. Water is precious. 176 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,100 Jesus said this song talks about, even through the 177 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:19,700 fiercest, drought I'm okay in Jesus, you know, the scriptures 178 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:24,600 talk about drought, the Bible says, in Isaiah 58 in verse 11, 179 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,300 the Lord will guide you, continually and satisfy your 180 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:32,200 soul in drought and strengthen your bones. 181 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:35,800 You shall be like a watered Garden, like a spring of water, 182 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:41,400 whose Waters do not fail. It doesn't matter what life 183 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,900 throws at us today. Jesus Christ, is that answer? 184 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:47,200 It's in this song, it's throughout the scripture, 185 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,100 whether it is a storm that is literally we just don't know if 186 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,400 we can stand against or whether it's the misery and the 187 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,000 loneliness of drought because that's what drought represents 188 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,500 in my mind. It's like it just doesn't come 189 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,400 and it just doesn't come and you, wait and you pray, but it 190 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,900 doesn't come. That's a lot different than just 191 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:08,200 feeling like you're being pelted constantly, right? 192 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:10,500 Right? And yet, it's just as miserable. 193 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,000 And in some people's mind, it's worse. 194 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,200 Some people feel like, at least with the storm, there's 195 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,600 something to fight against with the drought. 196 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,600 You're just waiting and there's nothing you can do and some of, 197 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,300 you know what that's like spiritually. 198 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:33,000 It's just like, there's nothing. And through God's word, he says 199 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,900 that's not true. You're not left with nothing. 200 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,500 In the midst of the drought of life or whatever you're going 201 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:45,600 through, you can be like a well-watered garden. 202 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,200 Everything can flourish? But that's only going to happen 203 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,600 through Jesus Christ. Consequently the, the lyrics of 204 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:00,500 the song, go on to say, what Heights of love, what depths of 205 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:06,700 Peace when fears are stilled? And when striving cease, my 206 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:12,800 comforter, My All In All Here in the love of Christ. 207 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,800 I Stand When you can face a storm and when you can face a 208 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,400 drought and know that it's going to be all right, and that's 209 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,500 everything's going to be okay because you're on the right 210 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:27,200 foundation. He says the depth. 211 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:33,600 The height of love, the depth, the magnitude, the volume of 212 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,300 peace that you can get, when you're feeling her, fears are 213 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:38,300 stilled. And when you stop fighting 214 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:41,700 against it, that's driving it ceases. 215 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,700 It's not talking about death, it's talking about just peace of 216 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:49,400 mind. In Philippians chapter 4 and 217 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,300 verse 6. It says be anxious for nothing, 218 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:58,300 but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, 219 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,000 let your requests be made known to God. 220 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,200 How did he say? We're going to avoid being 221 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,100 anxious and worrying about stuff. 222 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,200 He says, we're going to be anxious for nothing but we are 223 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,700 going to turn to prayer and supplication. 224 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:16,900 We are going to pray to God. We are going to go to God and 225 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:22,300 ask him beg. And we're pretty good at that 226 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:25,400 part. But we're Greg Branch can fail 227 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,000 when I get really worried about something and overwhelmed by 228 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,400 anxiety about something. Is I stopped being thankful and 229 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,000 that's exactly what Paul told the Philippians he says, pray 230 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,700 what you need to pray for beg for what you need to beg for but 231 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:44,000 before you finish, thank him. You're like, what am I going to? 232 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,300 Thank you for, I don't know, but I know you have something to be 233 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:54,600 thankful for. I guess yesterday was the first 234 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,600 time I've been to a funeral buried, somebody in my own age 235 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:02,700 group, Matt Banks, I don't know how many of, you know Banks 236 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:04,700 glass up in Jamestown. Thanks family. 237 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:07,400 Is there into a lot financial and glass? 238 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,800 And they've done commercial and residential glass for 239 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:15,000 Generations I guess. Matt Banks, the class of 1980 240 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,100 Sonora High School. Collapsed Monday night. 241 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,600 Massive heart attack. Killed him instantly. 242 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,500 You see him? You'd say, man, you played 243 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:31,300 football, didn't you? You still stay in shape. 244 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,700 He's just one of those guys. Maybe is a little overweight, 245 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:37,300 but if you're 53 54, I guess you're entitled to a little, 246 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:43,100 he's a grandpa. Three little granddaughters. 247 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:45,100 None of them hardly big enough to barely walk. 248 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,600 My grandson that was born Tuesday that he never got to 249 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,300 see. Nothing else. 250 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:56,500 Today I am thankful for God that I have the breath of life and if 251 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:00,000 everything and if my life other than that was falling apart, I 252 00:16:00,008 --> 00:16:02,900 would know that I could have hope and maybe from here forward 253 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:08,800 something can change for good. Because here. 254 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,400 In the love of Christ. I stand. 255 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:19,800 I can be thankful for that. Let alone. 256 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,200 I've got lots more to think God about. 257 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,100 So even in the midst of whatever is bothering me, whatever's 258 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:31,900 bothering you Thank God. It may require some thinking. 259 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,000 But do you reckon that's God's whole point? 260 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,100 We can get in that rut. And not get out. 261 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:44,900 You know, I want to say this about ruts. 262 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,800 Sorry. Ruts are not always bad. 263 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,500 In Oklahoma. There were some Farm roads that 264 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:56,700 you were grateful for the ruts because they kept you out of the 265 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:57,900 ditch. And if you could keep your 266 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,800 momentum, it would get you through the bad spot. 267 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,400 Ruts were only bad when you were stuck and you couldn't get out 268 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:10,000 of them. Because sometimes it rains and 269 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,500 it gets muddy and it gets slick. And some toes, those ruts are 270 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:18,300 what keep you through but you keep pushing You may think I'm 271 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:22,200 in a rut. Tell you, it could be worse. 272 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:28,600 You can already be in the ditch. Enough said about that. 273 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,600 And the peace of God, when we have that attitude, which 274 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,000 surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and Minds 275 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,900 through Jesus Christ. I want you to know, he did not 276 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:42,400 say it's going to heal your heart and your mind. 277 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,600 And that is important because I know good Christian people who 278 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,100 really care and I pray to God about some things that are on 279 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:51,900 your heart and you really discourage because you don't 280 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:54,800 think it's fixed and you still are worked up about it and they 281 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,300 say at least why am I still worked up about it? 282 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,300 He didn't say it was going to leave. 283 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,400 He says he would guard your heart and Minds. 284 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:06,300 He'll take care of you, you're going to make it. 285 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,800 And in case you're saying yes but it just the pain, I wish 286 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,700 you'd go away. I'm going to tell you, from Greg 287 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:14,500 branches perspective, and maybe somebody else has one like this 288 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:18,600 emotion. For me comes when I least expect 289 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,500 it and I really can't control it once. 290 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:25,100 It does too well. But it doesn't come near enough. 291 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:27,900 Especially when it comes to my dad. 292 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:32,200 I loved him. I'm people I still meet people 293 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,800 and they say they call me Sammy back in Alabama, Sam branch and 294 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,300 I'm like I'm his son. Oh, I knew that but they just 295 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:44,300 saw him little Sammy. I can't always cry and be 296 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:47,600 emotional when I wish I could, when I think about not having 297 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,000 him anymore, I missed that emotion. 298 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,100 It makes me feel guilty. Like I don't love him enough, 299 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,200 like I didn't care enough, I know that's not true but when 300 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,000 that emotion finally comes in, I can cry again. 301 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:08,100 I actually am thankful for that. Because it reminds me that it is 302 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:11,800 in there. Today. 303 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:14,700 Just because you don't have the piece that you wish you had. 304 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,500 It's not all bad either. What God Says is you pray and 305 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:22,300 you have your supplications, you be thankful and the peace of God 306 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:24,800 that passes understanding is going to guard your heart. 307 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,900 And mine through Jesus Christ In Christ Alone. 308 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:32,700 The next verse says, who took on flesh fullness of God in 309 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:35,500 helpless babe. Luke said the angel said unto 310 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:38,500 him do not be afraid for behold. I will bring you good tidings of 311 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:42,000 great joy which will be to all people for. 312 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,300 There is born to you this day in the city of David, a savior who 313 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,000 is Christ the lord. And this will be assigned to 314 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,100 you. You will find a baby wrapped in 315 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:54,500 swaddling clothes lying in a Manger, the picture of God. 316 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,400 In the Flesh starting out as a baby. 317 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:02,900 Full complete God, he would be to us. 318 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:08,400 He starts as a helpless baby. Can't go anywhere on his own, 319 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:15,300 has to be carried everywhere. That is Jesus Christ when we 320 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:17,600 hold our babies and they can't do anything. 321 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:21,100 Remember at some point Jesus started, just like that. 322 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,500 Fullness of God in helpless Bay. This gift of love and 323 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:29,300 righteousness scorned by the ones, he came to save. 324 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,400 Yes, this little baby, this gift of love this, perfect gift will 325 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,600 wound up being scorned by the very people. 326 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,900 He came to save the soldiers. The governor took Jesus to the 327 00:20:40,908 --> 00:20:43,600 praetorium. The whole Garrison around him 328 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,100 and they stripped him and put on him a Scarlet Road. 329 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,100 When they had Twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head 330 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:52,500 and a reed in his right hand, they bowed the knee before, he 331 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:56,800 mocked him saying hail King of the Jews and then they spat on 332 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,600 him. They took the Reed and they 333 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,600 struck him on ahead and when they had mocked him, they took 334 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,900 the robe off, and put his own clothes on him and led him away 335 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:09,900 to be crucified. Within These few words of lyrics 336 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,900 by the writer, as they tried to talk about the Life of Christ, 337 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:17,100 they talk about the baby, all the way to his crucifixion, and 338 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:20,400 what he was dying for was the very people that were killing 339 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,600 him. On the day of Pentecost, the, 340 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,500 the beginning of the church, you think you've done something so 341 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,100 bad, you got will never forgive you. 342 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,400 Oh, you need to visit the day of Pentecost. 343 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,200 The very people who did this were given the opportunity to 344 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,400 repent and become joint heirs with Jesus. 345 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,500 Our God loves you. He loves everybody. 346 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,200 They scorned him. And yet there was the 347 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:52,200 opportunity, despite this, he came to save them. 348 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:58,000 Till on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was 349 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,100 satisfied. I want you to know today. 350 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,500 That the Wrath was not Upon Jesus. 351 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:09,000 There was Wrath, that was satisfied. 352 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,100 That day Colossians 3 and verse size, their 5 says, therefore 353 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,000 put to death your members which are on the earth. 354 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,200 Fornication, uncleanness passion, evil desire 355 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,400 covetousness, which is idolatry because of these things. 356 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,000 The wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience in 357 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,500 which you yourselves. Once walked when you lived in 358 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,900 them, God's Wrath is going to be on people that Do this matter 359 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:42,500 fact, you used to do this? When you walk that way. 360 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,800 Someone says I did some of that. That's why I'm having trouble 361 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,700 forgiving myself over some of that he says to them in the 362 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:55,200 church and colossi, you used to do this, God's Wrath will be on 363 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,100 people that continue to. You used to be like that. 364 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:01,400 Let's consider John's connection to this. 365 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,700 The Bible says, he who believes in the Son of God has 366 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:09,600 everlasting life, but he who does not believe the son, shall 367 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,700 not see life, but the wrath of God, Abides on him. 368 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,900 The fact is we learn from this and a host of other scriptures, 369 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,400 I'm not going into right now that the wrath of God is going 370 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,100 to be on people who disobey and will not walk according to 371 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:30,300 Faith. But when you come in faith, 372 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:35,100 accepting Jesus Christ and his plan, his will for your life. 373 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:41,600 That wrath is covered. It was covered on the cross, the 374 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,000 wrath of God, that required a sacrifice because of that sin. 375 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,400 Jesus Christ became that atoning sacrifice and in that God's 376 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,700 Wrath, for those sins was satisfied. 377 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,800 He was not angry with Jesus, Jesus fulfilled prophecy. 378 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:04,300 He that was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased, The 379 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:10,100 Wrath was upon the sin that you and I deserved for every sin on 380 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:14,300 him was laid, John 1, verse 29, Behold the Lamb of God, which 381 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:18,000 takes away the sin of the world, John to, and one my little 382 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,900 children. I write to you. 383 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:23,300 So you don't sin and if anyone sins, we have an advocate with 384 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:25,200 the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. 385 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:28,700 He is himself to propitiation for our sins, not ours only, but 386 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,100 for the sins of the whole world, it's not our own little sin-free 387 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:33,800 Club. It's for everyone. 388 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:37,300 That Jesus did this. This is going to come port and 389 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:40,500 later but we'll keep moving here in the death of Christ. 390 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,400 I live a lot could be said about this but I want you to know 391 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,200 Romans chapter 6, says don't, you know, as, as many of us as 392 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:54,100 were baptized into Christ were baptized Into his death. 393 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:57,500 It's in the death of Christ that we live. 394 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,600 How do we participate in that through baptism? 395 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,200 And if I don't do it full enough later, I apologize because that 396 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,400 is our connection to this Saving Grace. 397 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,100 We are buried with him, through baptism into death, just as 398 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:13,900 Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, even 399 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:17,000 so we also should walk in newness of life, as sure as 400 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Jesus rose out of the Grave to walk. 401 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:22,400 We rise to walk in a new life, the death that he died. 402 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,100 He died to sin once for all the life that he lives. 403 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:30,800 He lives to God likewise you also reckon yourselves to be 404 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,000 dead, indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus, our 405 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,800 lord, if you have not been baptized into Christ today, I 406 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,000 want to beg you to do that. Jesus, did it and he did it. 407 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,900 He said to fulfill all righteousness and he was 408 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,500 sinless. Who are we to not want to do 409 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:51,500 that? There in the ground. 410 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:55,800 His body lay. Light of the World by Darkness. 411 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,100 Slain, now for times sake, I'm just going to tell you Matthew 412 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:02,100 2757 through 61. Jesus Christ was buried after he 413 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:06,100 died on the cross. The very light of the world was 414 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:12,200 slain by Darkness. Then bursting forth in Glorious 415 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,300 Day up from the grave he rose again. 416 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:20,000 Matthew 28 verses 1 through 8, he died but yes Heroes, that's 417 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 why we read in Romans 6, that just like Heroes we too can know 418 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,200 them that we can rise verse 2 says and I like this one too. 419 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,700 I want to miss it. Behold. 420 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:31,600 There was a great earthquake for the an angel of the Lord 421 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,000 descended from Heaven came, and rolled back the Stone from the 422 00:26:34,008 --> 00:26:36,700 door and said on it. And he said, he is not here. 423 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:41,100 For he is risen. As he said. 424 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,500 And as he stands in victory since cursed, his Lots, it's 425 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,000 lost. Its grip on me. 426 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:54,300 For I am his he is mine. but with the precious blood of 427 00:26:54,308 --> 00:27:00,100 Christ, It was Jesus sacrifice his willingness to die that 428 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,300 purchased me out of the sin debt Iowa. 429 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,400 That was the death. Who is he that condemneth? 430 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,600 It is Christ who died. Furthermore is also risen. 431 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,300 Who is even at the right hand of God who also makes intercession 432 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,300 for us. Jesus stands there at the right 433 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:22,000 hand of God, he sits there. He's described Acts 20 and 7 434 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,500 says, therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock 435 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,800 among whom the Holy Spirit has made, you overseers to Shepherd 436 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,400 the Church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. 437 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:38,600 The Church of God, there's God the Father, there's God the son, 438 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,900 there's God the spirit right? We know that from scriptures, 439 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:43,300 how do we know which God's here? He says it's the one who 440 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,200 purchased it with his own blood, the Church of God which he 441 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,100 purchased with his blood. That's Jesus Christ. 442 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,100 God, the son. I know I'm flying through, but 443 00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:59,700 If we need more, put it in the, in the, in the back, say, I'd 444 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,900 like to hear more on this no guilt in life. 445 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,300 No fear in death. This is the power of Christ in 446 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:10,700 me because of this salvation plan because of this 447 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:12,700 opportunity. I don't have to walk around with 448 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:14,600 guilt. I don't have to be afraid in 449 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,400 life. That's the power of Christ for 450 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,500 God, has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of 451 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:24,900 love and of a sound mind. Paul told Timothy, therefore do 452 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:28,800 not be ashamed of the testimony of Lord nor of me his prisoner, 453 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,700 but share with me in the sufferings, for The Gospel, 454 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:37,500 According to the power of God who has saved us and called us 455 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,300 with a holy calling, not according to our works, but 456 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:45,300 according to his own purpose and Grace, which was given to us in 457 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:50,800 Christ Jesus Before Time began. But now has been refilled by the 458 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,500 appearing of Our Savior Jesus Christ whose abolished death and 459 00:28:55,500 --> 00:29:00,100 brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 460 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,700 So much can be said about this. But one thing I think about is I 461 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:09,700 think of those scriptures and this whole no fear in death, You 462 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:12,500 remember what Paul said? He said, we're not going to 463 00:29:12,508 --> 00:29:14,600 sorrow like those who have no hope. 464 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:17,400 Did he say we're not going to sorrow? 465 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,500 He says no we're not going to sorrow like they do. 466 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:25,900 We're going to have sorrow Jesus wept when Lazarus died and Jesus 467 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:30,800 know he's about to raise him. Death and loss is emotional. 468 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,800 But we don't sorrow, like, people that sorrow without hope, 469 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,900 at least we have hope. Because he is abolished death 470 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,400 and brought him mortality to light. 471 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:48,800 We can get through this from life's first cry. 472 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:54,100 To final breath. Jesus commands, my destiny. 473 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,600 Now, this is one of those. I really think it's important to 474 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,700 understand spirit and truth. And I'll blow through this as 475 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,500 fast as I can. But this is the one part of this 476 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:08,200 song that I think we can, there's multiple meanings and a 477 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,400 matter. A fact, if you use the primary 478 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:15,500 definition for this word destiny that you find in in dictionaries 479 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,400 that's false Doctrine and I won't explain to you why. 480 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,200 So it's important. Now there are secondary 481 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,200 definitions and we talked a lot about poetic license for People 482 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,400 that write music and there's a lot of examples like this and I 483 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,800 just want to make sure that when we sing this, when we talked 484 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,300 about the destiny, that's commanded by Jesus. 485 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:37,200 We understand it in light of Truth in Scripture. 486 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:41,200 Destiny is a word if you just look up an English dictionary 487 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,400 because that's what they wrote Our Song Book. 488 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,600 It's the seemingly inevitable or necessary succession of events. 489 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,900 That's definition number one, number two, it's one Spate 490 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,800 number three, that which determines event set of 491 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,500 Supernatural agency or a necessity. 492 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,800 So I go to fate to determine the outcome of events before they 493 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,600 occur. The third definition of fate is 494 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,500 ones final outcome. Now, if when you sing this song 495 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:15,900 from life's first, cry to final breath, Jesus commands, my 496 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:18,900 destiny. And you mean that Jesus from the 497 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,900 day I was born. He was going to determine my 498 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:25,000 final outcome than that is absolutely scriptural. 499 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,500 And I'll work thought will prove that. 500 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,900 But if when you sing this, you say from life's first cry to 501 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:35,700 final breath, Jesus, determine the outcome of my events before 502 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,300 they ever happened, and they just set them in order and 503 00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:39,800 there's nothing I can do about it. 504 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,900 And that's not right. And there's a lot of reasons, 505 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,000 you say, well, I have always thought that now, I'm kind of 506 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,800 worried. Oh no, don't worry this. 507 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,800 You're going to like this message better, trust me. 508 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:52,500 But that's why I think it's important that we cover about it 509 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,400 in this song, Jesus commands. Now, I'm going to tell you why. 510 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,000 I think we can sing it, because this phrase Jesus commands is an 511 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,400 active verb. I mean, think about it. 512 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:05,400 It's something ongoing Jesus commands, he's something he's 513 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,000 doing. It's not past tense. 514 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,700 If it said Jesus commanded my destiny, then that would imply 515 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:16,800 that you believed in some predestination that meant before 516 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,900 you were ever born. At the moment, you're conceived. 517 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:21,200 Everything was just planned and you didn't have a choice in it. 518 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:26,600 But because it says it's active and ongoing, I believe. 519 00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:32,900 It's implying the final outcome. And that's exactly true when we 520 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,600 have, I believe it conception but if you want to make it the 521 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,600 first breath outside the womb you make it what you want to 522 00:32:38,608 --> 00:32:42,500 make it I guess but the Bible's clear Jesus our God acknowledges 523 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:44,500 and participates in life within the womb. 524 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:50,000 From very Inception, I believe Jesus commands, the destiny, the 525 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,800 destination, the final outcome of everybody. 526 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:58,600 To the point they die. And it can change. 527 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,400 I know that because the Apostle Paul says that he beats his body 528 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,400 keeps it brings it into subjection lest at any time when 529 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,100 he has preached to others, he himself should become a 530 00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,500 Castaway. He wasn't already a Castaway. 531 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,800 He's worried about becoming one, so he wasn't set. 532 00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:18,000 There was Choice, he had. And we want to talk about the 533 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,700 reason. It matters is because of a false 534 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:24,300 Doctrine called Calvinism. Calvinism, basically has five 535 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:28,200 tenets and and Brian spoke on them within the not too long 536 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,200 ago. So I'm not going to go. 537 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,400 D, but tulip is kind of the acronym total depravity. 538 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,300 What that means is mankind. There's nothing we can do. 539 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:40,200 Could ever do couldn't do. It's just weird. 540 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,500 Totally depraved. We're sinful even if we wanted 541 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,700 to believe we couldn't have God didn't let us and make us an 542 00:33:44,708 --> 00:33:48,200 appoint us to that because we are totally depraved, it 543 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,500 believes in unconditional election. 544 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:54,000 That means that if people will be elected or saved 545 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:56,400 unconditionally, regardless of what they believe, what they 546 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,300 don't believe what God, just picks you like. 547 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:02,600 It's just like, Like that. Or if you looks and says, I'll 548 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,100 take you, I'll take you. That's unconditional election. 549 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:09,800 Has nothing to do with what you believe it has everything to do 550 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,400 with just God's going to just decide. 551 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,100 That's a principle of unconditional, limited 552 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:16,600 atonement. That means the other side of the 553 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,699 coin when God does unconditionally select some 554 00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:23,500 people that limits the rest, that's limited atonement. 555 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:25,500 It means some people are lost and there's nothing they could 556 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:28,699 do to be saved. Yeah, there's people that 557 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:31,500 believe that, matter of fact, most of the religious world that 558 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,900 accepts Calvinism, accepts that and they don't even realize it. 559 00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:39,800 Irresistible Grace, this kind of goes back with unconditional 560 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,199 election, you're like, well, what are some? 561 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,800 I don't want to be saved and God just going to make them say, oh, 562 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,000 it's irresistible. They once he decides, he just 563 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,300 puts the Holy Spirit Adam and they can't resist. 564 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,900 That's irresistible Grace, and perseverance of the Saints. 565 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,900 Now, I'm going to time out. Lest you think? 566 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:58,100 I'm making this up and so that you can so I can make some of 567 00:34:58,100 --> 00:34:59,500 the people calvinist. Look bad. 568 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,800 This is off their website. I'm not going to use the 569 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,700 scriptures, they try to point it out because anyway we're going 570 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:08,600 to cover some of them. I didn't make this up and it's 571 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,100 not my Twist on it, perseverance of the saints. 572 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,400 That means the Saints who ever saved. 573 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,700 They're going to make it through somehow no matter what 574 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:19,500 regardless we call that predestination or once saved 575 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:22,500 always saved what's wrong with that Doctrine? 576 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:25,500 And that's implied by this concept of Destiny. 577 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:27,200 That's why we're even on this subject. 578 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,200 If limited atonement is true, then the word of God would not 579 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,400 be for everybody in the world, right? 580 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,400 It's only for people to be saved yet. 581 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,700 The word of God says of itself that it is for everybody in the 582 00:35:38,707 --> 00:35:40,300 world. Matthew 28:18. 583 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,200 Jesus came spoke to them saying all authority has been given to 584 00:35:43,207 --> 00:35:47,200 me in heaven and on Earth go therefore and Make Disciples of 585 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,400 all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, Son and 586 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,700 the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I 587 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,100 have commanded you and lo. I Am With. 588 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:58,700 You Always even to the end of Age. 589 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:05,200 First of all, it is for every nation something that's only for 590 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,500 a select few, that they picked out wouldn't be for every 591 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,500 nation. Second of all predestination and 592 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,600 unconditional election. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 593 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,200 says in him. Also, we have obtained, an 594 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,700 inheritance being predestined, I chose this passage because some 595 00:36:20,707 --> 00:36:22,400 people say, we don't believe in predestination. 596 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,200 I do, we better it's in there. But what does it mean? 597 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,400 Being predestined? According to the purpose of him 598 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,600 who works all. All things according to the 599 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,500 counsel of his will. Greg sounds like he's saying 600 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,200 what you said. They were saying that we who 601 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,800 first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of his glory. 602 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:47,000 The apostle that Rose says, we who first trusted him, they had 603 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,200 a personal choice in this. It didn't just happen. 604 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,100 They trusted. And they would be to the praise 605 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:53,400 of his glory but it doesn't stop there. 606 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:58,100 It gets better in him. You also trusted after you heard 607 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:00,800 the word of Truth, The Gospel of your salvation. 608 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,600 If this was predestination that was unconditional and really 609 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,300 just happened and it was irresistible. 610 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,300 You couldn't do anything. Why does he point out? 611 00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:10,700 It came as a result of you here in the word of God. 612 00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:14,000 It says it came as a result of them. 613 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,800 The apostles remember they were miraculously and do endowed with 614 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,900 it, right? They could read it in a book. 615 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:21,500 They were getting it for the first time. 616 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:28,300 So they had to trust it. That's why in my mind Paul said 617 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:31,400 I keep myself into subjection lest at any time. 618 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,200 Once I've told this to somebody else, I don't do it. 619 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,500 I gotta do it too. So I'm not a Castaway. 620 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:39,900 He couldn't read it. He didn't get it here. 621 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:43,600 It, he was endowed with it. Everybody else, trusted it 622 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,700 after, they heard it from the apostles. 623 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,500 And that's how they were predestined. 624 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,500 What do I believe about this? Predestination, I believe that 625 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,900 God, before the foundation of the world set that he knew how 626 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,200 he was going to save, man, and that anybody who would believe 627 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,700 this, who would follow his will would be born again. 628 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:05,900 It was predestined to be saved. Not that he set your whole life 629 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,700 in order. Quite frankly, if that's what it 630 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:09,700 means, you don't need the rest of the Bible. 631 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:12,100 You just need a page. It says, God's already decided. 632 00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:16,600 Good luck. That's not what the bible does 633 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:20,800 it it testifies, to us? It gives us a chance to believe 634 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:26,000 it gives us a chance to mess up and fix through God's grace and 635 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000 awesome message. It is 2nd Corinthians, 5 and 10 636 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000 for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ. 637 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,000 That each one may receive the things done in his body. 638 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:38,900 According to what he has done, whether good or bad that is not 639 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,700 unconditional election. There are conditions and it's 640 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,800 based upon your choice. You said Greg, now I'm scared 641 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,500 again. Let's talk about this destiny. 642 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,900 John says, if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we 643 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,500 have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ, 644 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:56,400 his son cleanses us from all sin. 645 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,600 You say, Greg, I still I make mistakes. 646 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,400 That's alright. Jesus blood still clings us. 647 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,800 You it's not a one-time gift and then if you mess it up again, 648 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,500 you lost it. No, it will continue to cleanse, 649 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:15,000 and that's based upon oh, one thing we learn in first John, 650 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,800 one and seven, we know that we can be walking in the light and 651 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,900 still make mistakes or sin. Yet, the blood of Christ will 652 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:27,600 cleanse us. That's a very complicated 653 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:32,300 statement and yet, it says it. How does it do that? 654 00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:34,900 I mean does God doesn't hold us accountable. 655 00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:36,900 No, here's how I believe it happens in. 656 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:40,200 Fortunately, I got a pretty good emphasis to get you to believe 657 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,300 it too. Because two verses later in 658 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,900 verse 9. It says, if we confess our sins, 659 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,100 he's faithful. And just to forgive us, our sins 660 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,100 and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 661 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,700 So I can be a faithful Christian and I can sin and I'm not like, 662 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:56,700 poof lightning strike you wasted on you Greg? 663 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:59,100 No. Because when I sin, I'm going to 664 00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:02,000 realize that I'm going to confess it and he is faithful. 665 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,800 And just for Ginza And cleanse us of everything. 666 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:09,200 Now, if I want to continue in that sin, that blood of Christ 667 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,100 does not continually cleanse me, Hebrews 10:26 says that is 668 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:16,900 showing despite to the spirit of God's grace and under the Moses 669 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:19,900 lall people died. How bad how much worse do you 670 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:22,300 think it's going to be who people that trod underfoot the 671 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:26,100 Son of God like that? No, he does not tell us, go 672 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:28,900 ahead and do your thing and then it's all going to work out. 673 00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:31,700 He says, when you sin you don't have to worry about, you're 674 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,800 headed straight to hell. Now, Jesus blood is there 675 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,700 because you're going to when you sin, you're going to know it and 676 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:41,800 you're going to confess it as the apostles told Simon, pray to 677 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,900 God, that the sin of your hearts forgiven you and he absolutely 678 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:47,300 will. That is how you can have this 679 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:50,700 confidence. It's not this destiny that you 680 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:53,800 couldn't control and it was whatever its choices you're 681 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,700 making. Based on the grace God, extended 682 00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:00,900 to us that we didn't deserve. That we did nothing to Merit. 683 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,500 Therefore no power of hell, no scheme of man. 684 00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:12,300 Can ever pluck me from his hand. Because I have that choice, 685 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,900 nothing anybody can do to me. Where have we been in this song? 686 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:18,600 We've been through drought. We've been through storm. 687 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,800 We've been through persecution, perhaps. 688 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:25,700 We've even been subject to our own sinfulness but there's 689 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:28,000 nothing. Anybody else can do. 690 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,100 No power. That Satan has in all the power 691 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:35,100 of hell that can pluck you out of the hand of God. 692 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:42,000 There is no scheme that people at school or people that work or 693 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,200 God forbid. People at church can plot 694 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,000 against you that can cause you to lose your salvation. 695 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,600 It's between you and God. And he has absolutely done 696 00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:00,200 everything, he possibly can to provide you a red carpet path 697 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,400 into the family. We find this in scriptures 698 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,600 Romans chapter 8, I am persuaded that neither death, nor life 699 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,000 Angels, principalities Powers needs things present, nor 700 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,500 anything. Still yet to come, your like 701 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:14,900 Greg. What if we do really have an 702 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:19,300 Armageddon? So, now that maybe to say it 703 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,000 could be bad, but it's not going to stop anything that God says 704 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,300 to do or your salvation nor height nor depth, nor any other 705 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:29,200 created thing shall be able to separate us from the love which 706 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:34,600 is in Christ Jesus, our lord, therefore, the final verse of 707 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:39,600 the song till he returns, Or calls me home. 708 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:48,000 Here in the power of Christ. I'll stay. today, if you're not 709 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,500 standing in the power of Christ, I hope you've seen through the 710 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:55,400 lyrics of this song as they are supported and proven to be true 711 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,700 from the word of God that it's time. 712 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:03,000 That you stood in this power. But because it's an awesome 713 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,900 power meant for you. So it's only going to sing it. 714 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:07,900 Now Brian's going to do that, don't worry. 715 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:14,500 And this services But right now you have the opportunity to 716 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:17,200 respond, if you're not a Christian and you need to become 717 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,600 one. He that believeth and is 718 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,400 baptized shall be saved, Jesus, Mark 16:16. 719 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,100 If you're willing to change your life that means whatever God 720 00:43:24,100 --> 00:43:25,700 wants you to do. Look, 13 and 3. 721 00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:28,600 If you're willing to confess him before men and be baptized, we'd 722 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,300 love to assist in that. 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