1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,500 An abundant entrance or scarcely saved. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,700 And the reason for this is often times, people look at these 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:12,000 passages of scripture and think that they're really contrary to 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 each other. Now just a little background 5 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,500 over the years, it's been several years. 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:22,000 I've actually dealt with both of these passages separately but 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,800 for a long time now I wanted to have a sermon that dealt with 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,500 both of them and find out exactly what Peter divinely 9 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:32,000 inspired by the Holy Spirit. It was saying in each one of 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 them. The first passage we want to 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,600 notice the second Peter chapter 1 and verse 11, where Peter says 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,500 for. So an entrance will be supplied 13 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:46,000 to you abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,300 and Savior. Jesus Christ, I really don't 15 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:51,900 know of a more encouraging passage. 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,100 As we look to the trials of our life and understand that Peter 17 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,100 is saying that the child of God, one day is going to have An 18 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:03,700 abundant entrance into the Everlasting Kingdom. 19 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:06,100 But then again, what about this passage? 20 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:11,500 What about First Peter chapter 4 and verse 18 where Peter said 21 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:16,500 now if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the 22 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:21,900 ungodly and The Sinner appear? I got to tell you what I've 23 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:24,600 always heard in my life among some. 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,700 And even as a little boy, I remember this. 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Somebody one time interpreted this passage from the pulpit 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,100 like this and said the righteous. 27 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:35,700 That's the Christian that's true. 28 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:41,000 The righteous is going to barely make it in other words, you 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,100 remember what Jesus said? And few there be that find it. 30 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:47,400 So sometimes people look at that passage and they say this is 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,100 what it means. If the righteous is barely going 32 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:53,800 to make it another words, just a few of us are going to get in 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,300 Then The Sinner and the ungodly have absolutely no hope at all. 34 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,200 But is that what he's talking about? 35 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,800 And is that what scarcely means are both of these talking about 36 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,900 the same event, or is one of them talking about something 37 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:13,400 else will notice that in detail as we move along. 38 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:19,300 But first of all, let's notice from 2nd Peter chapter 1 verses 39 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:22,900 5 through 7. This is just before that passage 40 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:27,600 in our text Peter said. But also for this reason, giving 41 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,400 all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to Virtue knowledge, 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,600 and to knowledge self-control to self-control perseverance to 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,600 perseverance, godliness to Godliness, brotherly, kindness 44 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,100 and to brotherly, kindness love. You know we look at these 45 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,500 Christian Graces or these Christian virtues. 46 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:53,200 This is very important because understanding these helps us to 47 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,000 understand what Peter said directly out after that. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,700 And by the way if you're looking for a passage of scripture that 49 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:04,300 will help you practically live a Christian Life, it is right 50 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:06,400 here. If you want to know what the 51 00:03:06,408 --> 00:03:09,700 Lord wants from your life, in terms of your growth, it's found 52 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,300 right here from verses 5 to 7. Let's talk about them very 53 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,600 briefly, we've done. This in the past. 54 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,200 So very briefly at this time. Here they are. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,900 He said, add to your faith virtue and virtue. 56 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:25,300 Literally means, moral excellence. 57 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:28,400 In other words, what you're doing is you are making 58 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,600 excellent, the quality of your spiritual life, you are changing 59 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,400 yourself. You're not going to follow the 60 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,600 ways of the world. And by the way, the Greek word 61 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,200 that comes up with that word Virtue is very, it's not very 62 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,200 common in the Bible, but it's very common in in secular Greek. 63 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,500 And it literally means to perform heroic Deeds. 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,900 It means to do things that are excellent. 65 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,500 What does Peter say add to your faith? 66 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:58,100 When you're baptized for the remission of your sins and moral 67 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,900 Excellence, it has to be based on something, though, and that 68 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:06,000 is knowledge, that word knowledge means correct in 69 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,500 sight. That means that you understand 70 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,600 the word of God in the proper manner. 71 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,500 And you properly apply it in your life, too. 72 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,100 This is a perfect understanding. If you look at the very 73 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:24,200 definition of knowledge, that would shoot down, any theory in 74 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,000 the world where people would say, well, what's true for you 75 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:31,800 is true for you and what's true for me is true for me, this is 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,600 knowledge of the word of God. It's correct in sight of it. 77 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,900 So I need to pursue, moral Excellence based on proper 78 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,200 knowledge. You know what that's going to 79 00:04:41,207 --> 00:04:44,900 do. That's going to give me the 80 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:51,900 strength to have self-control. Everybody needs self-control. 81 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:55,300 It literally means to hold yourself in. 82 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,800 Have you ever been angry? I don't know what your 83 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,100 weaknesses are, but if you have an angry and you didn't hold 84 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:08,000 yourself in and you didn't demonstrate self-control and 85 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,400 maybe you said something or did something that you shouldn't 86 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:15,000 have because you were angry. If we pursue this, notice based 87 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,500 on proper knowledge, we're going to have the strength to have 88 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:20,800 holding oneself in then, perseverance. 89 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,300 It leads to endurance and that means literally to endure or do 90 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:28,400 what's, right? It'll be based on godliness 91 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,900 which is reverence, it's having a practical awareness of God. 92 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:35,600 In every aspect of your life that will be Demonstrated and 93 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,900 brotherly kindness which is brotherly, affection, and the 94 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,400 ultimate is agape self-sacrificing. 95 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:47,100 Love Okay, I was very brief about that. 96 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:50,200 Be very brief about this too. Have you ever stopped to 97 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,900 consider? This is not just a one-time 98 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:55,200 thing and it doesn't just go in One Direction. 99 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,800 Notice how it goes the other way too. 100 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:00,500 And this is very important in the context of what we're 101 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,900 studying, if I have the proper agape love in my life, it will 102 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,300 demonstrate itself in brotherly kindness. 103 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,400 It'll be based upon having a practical awareness of God. 104 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,500 In every aspect of my life. It will do. 105 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:14,500 What? It'll give me the courage to 106 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,700 persevere with endurance to do, what's right? 107 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,200 I will have the strength to hold. 108 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:21,900 Hold myself in and have self control. 109 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,300 It'll be based on proper knowledge. 110 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,600 Correct, inside of the word of God, as I pursue, moral 111 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,000 excellence in my life. Very very practical things. 112 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:38,700 All right, all that being said as we keep it in context, we go 113 00:06:38,700 --> 00:06:42,000 to the next two verses. This is what Peter said. 114 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:47,500 If you'd if these things are yours and abound What. 115 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,400 Thanks. Those things. 116 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:58,000 If these things are yours and abound, you will be neither be 117 00:06:58,008 --> 00:07:01,100 Barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord, Jesus 118 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:06,100 Christ for He Who lacks these things and short-sighted even to 119 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,600 blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old 120 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,800 sins, then in verse 10 for if you do these things, you will 121 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,400 never stumble. That's the new King James. 122 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,900 The King James says, you will never fall. 123 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:31,900 Did you hear that? You will never Fall. 124 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,400 Now, this doesn't mean you will never sin, everybody sins. 125 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:38,900 We have an advocate with the father. 126 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:42,500 Jesus Christ, the righteous. If a man says he has no sin, the 127 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:44,600 Bible says he's a liar and the truth is not in him. 128 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:47,800 So we all have sinned. It doesn't mean you'll never 129 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,700 make a mistake. It means you will never fall. 130 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,900 Notice you will never stumble. In fact, Barn says, what this 131 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:01,700 means is you will never stumble. Meaning you shall surely be 132 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,400 saved. So if we continue to grow in the 133 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,200 knowledge of Christ, adding these virtues to our lives, then 134 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,900 we have God's promise, we will never fall and this is one way 135 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:16,300 we can know that we have eternal life. 136 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,600 I love this. Passage is so encouraging. 137 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:21,500 And first, John chapter 5 and verse 13. 138 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,200 These things I have written to you, who believe, in the name of 139 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,900 the son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 140 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:32,600 Okay. Sometimes, you know things 141 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,700 because Cuz that's just your perception. 142 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,500 Sometimes I might say that. I know something but it's just 143 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:41,299 my perception. The problem is perception, can 144 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:44,100 be mistaken or perception? Can be wrong. 145 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:50,100 The word no here in this passage is found 13 times in the Epistle 146 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:53,100 of First, John. And it literally means this, it 147 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,600 means to know for certain in the here. 148 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,700 And now, what's that mean, does that mean that you can know 149 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:02,400 you're saved? Yes, that means that you can 150 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,600 know that you are saved. Does that mean that when I go to 151 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,000 bed tonight and I ask God to clear my slate and forgive me 152 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,500 for anything. Perhaps then I have done said or 153 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,800 thought or left undone and ask God to forgive me of those. 154 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:16,400 James. Does that mean that I have 155 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,900 confidence When I close my eyes? That if the Lord comes back? 156 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 While I'm asleep, I get to go to heaven. 157 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,400 Yes, that's exactly what that means. 158 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,100 There's a difference though between assurance and arrogance 159 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,800 and there's a difference between confidence and can seat. 160 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:40,400 You can have confidence got to make a point though about being 161 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,700 saved. You know, the Bible talks about 162 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:47,100 we are saved by grace as true. It doesn't contradict anything 163 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,700 that we're saying here, we are saved by grace. 164 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:52,600 Absolutely. And what that means is, I could 165 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,700 never deserve it or earn it. In fact, the Bible says that if 166 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:59,300 I do all that is commanded a required of me. 167 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,600 What am I? I am still deemed an 168 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,700 unprofitable servant saved by grace. 169 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,100 Let's understand what unprofitable servant literally 170 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:14,100 means it be like this. It'd be like, if I, for example, 171 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:18,500 hired Chris as a painter and I said Chris I'm going to pay you 172 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:22,500 ten dollars an hour and I go to work for Jack holiday and I 173 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:27,400 contract out Chris's Services. I'm going to pay Christian but I 174 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,300 said kill Jack holiday, I'm going to charge you $30 an hour. 175 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,500 Chris Osborn has just become a profitable servant to me. 176 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,100 In other words, he is doing more for me than I'm doing for him. 177 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,100 So what that means is when you talk about being a child of God, 178 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:49,200 there's no way in the world that I could ever do more for Jesus 179 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,300 than he's done for me, I cannot be of more value to Jesus than 180 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:56,000 he is to me. Because, without Jesus, I am 181 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 lost. That's what that means. 182 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,000 So, what it's saying is we're still not going to deserve it 183 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 but we've obey the word of God. And when we do, we need to 184 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,500 understand. We're still an unprofitable 185 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:11,000 servant saved by grace. But this word no means to know 186 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 for sure. Certain that we have eternal 187 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:16,500 life. All right. 188 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,900 We can believe in the in that very fact. 189 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,900 Now, don't misunderstand me, please. 190 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:28,000 Please hear what I'm saying? we don't believe and preached a 191 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,400 doctrine of once saved, always saved because that's 192 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:37,900 unscriptural, Because a man can fall from grace and be lost. 193 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:42,500 So a man can fall anybody can fall and be lost. 194 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,900 I'm not preaching a doctrine of once saved always saved, but 195 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:50,000 let's be very careful not to also of the flip side of that 196 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,100 preacher doctrine of once saved and forever lost. 197 00:11:55,200 --> 00:12:00,000 You can know you have eternal life now there are conditions in 198 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,500 1st. John Chapter 2, there are 199 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:06,600 conditions and we're going to sum it up in a general passage 200 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,200 Now by this, we know that we know him. 201 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,300 Now this word no is the same word right there. 202 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,400 It means to know for certain. So what John is saying is by 203 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,300 this, we can know for certain that we know meaning we have a 204 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,600 relationship with how many people in the world would love 205 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,000 to have a Relationship with God. How many people in the world? 206 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,600 Think they have a relationship with God? 207 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:33,800 But John said there's a condition. 208 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,600 He said this we may know for certain that we have a 209 00:12:36,608 --> 00:12:42,000 relationship with God if we keep his Commandments. 210 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,400 He who says I know him and does not keep his Commandments is a 211 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:51,200 liar and the truth is not in him but whoever keeps his word. 212 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,900 Truly, the love of God is perfected in him by this. 213 00:12:54,900 --> 00:13:01,100 We know that we are in him. The love of God is perfected in 214 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:02,300 him. Hold that thought for just a 215 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:04,600 minute. I'm going to get to that phrase 216 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:09,400 in just a second, but first of all, two things, keeping his 217 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:15,400 Commandments is the same thing as keeping his word and keeping 218 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,600 his word is the same thing as keeping his Commandments. 219 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:24,000 Do you know why God's word is in his Commandments and God's 220 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,800 Commandments is in his word? That's the condition. 221 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,800 God commands are expressed in his word. 222 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,700 This is a Perpetual action, but what about this phrase right 223 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:39,100 here? The love of God is perfected in 224 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:40,700 him. Now, you can read various 225 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:47,000 Scholars, I have on this very sentence and sometimes they are 226 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,600 at odds with one another as to what he's talking about. 227 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,400 For example, is this saying, is this God's love for man? 228 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,500 Or is this man's love for god? Well, let's notice what it says, 229 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,500 but whoever Keeps his word. Truly, the love of God is 230 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:05,900 perfected in him? Is that God's love for man? 231 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Well, let's take a look at it in John. 232 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,400 Chapter 3 and verse 16. The Bible says that God. 233 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,500 So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that 234 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,700 whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have 235 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,800 everlasting life. When did God loved us? 236 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:25,200 When we were yet? Sinners, and when we were yet, 237 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,600 sinners Christ died for us, okay? 238 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:34,800 So it cannot mean that my obedience to God perfects God's 239 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,700 love for me. It has to mean my love for God 240 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:45,200 has to In fact, by the way, this is actually better rendered. 241 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,700 The love for God is perfected in him. 242 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,900 When you keep his Commandments, your love for God. 243 00:14:55,900 --> 00:15:00,900 Is perfected in you. It's Proof of Your Love and the 244 00:15:00,908 --> 00:15:04,000 word perfected, their, by the way, means to be fully developed 245 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,800 fully developed. Talk about love for just a 246 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,700 minute. You know, love is a greater 247 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:12,500 motivator than fear, don't, you think? 248 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,400 All the years of coaching, I've known a lot of coaches that were 249 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,100 loud. And over the years, I got less 250 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:24,100 and less loud. And sometimes coaches, 251 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:27,400 especially Old School coaches, they coached where the 252 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,600 motivating factor was driven by fear. 253 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,300 In other words, make the player afraid of you and therefore, 254 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,700 he'll perform. All that does is make the player 255 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:41,900 play. Tight uptight tense nervous. 256 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:46,600 And, by the way, you will do greater things out of love than 257 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,100 you will ever do out of fear. Absolutely. 258 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,400 I believe that I believe that you will get more out of a 259 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,400 person when they do it out of love and respect, then if 260 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,100 they're afraid of you and that's what the Bible is talking about 261 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:03,200 here we get to the point in our Christian growth, our Christian 262 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,000 Life, where we've grown in Christ and guess what? 263 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,400 Now everything we do is motivated and driven by our love 264 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,100 for God, we're going to do greater things. 265 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,300 Now, I will say this, when you obey the gospel, you hear the 266 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:20,000 gospel preached and you realize I'm in a lost condition, aren't 267 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,500 you a little bit afraid of that? Because you won't be lost, sure, 268 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:27,200 but as you grow in Christ, love starts taking over. 269 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,600 Love Takes Over fear, love is the motivating factor and by the 270 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,300 way when you do that, it is perfected in you. 271 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,800 It is fully developed. Now, when you do all of that, 272 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,800 let's go back to Second Peter 1 and 11. 273 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,100 I love this for. So an entrance will be supplied. 274 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,900 Lied to you abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord 275 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:53,400 and Savior. Jesus Christ, let me just ask 276 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,700 you something really quickly. Does that right there? 277 00:16:56,700 --> 00:17:01,900 Look like just barely squeak in. Does that look like barely make 278 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:05,099 it to you? Don't you see here? 279 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:09,400 The entrance is supplied abundantly into the Everlasting 280 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,200 Kingdom. In other words, we Supply the 281 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,000 virtues abundantly and God supplies the entrance in the 282 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,500 same way. When these things are bound, by 283 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:25,800 the way, a bound means exist in large, quantities or large 284 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,600 amounts. Abundantly is Extreme 285 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,300 quantities. So, our part is large amounts of 286 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:35,300 obedience. God's part is large amounts of 287 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,900 entrance into the Everlasting Kingdom, okay? 288 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:40,000 You might be wondering if there's a lot of 289 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,400 misunderstandings today about things that Daniel spoke of 290 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:46,400 Chris preached on Daniel not long ago. 291 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:48,800 I just want to notice one passage because I want to 292 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:49,800 notice. What is this? 293 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,900 Everlasting Kingdom? What is the connection with that 294 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:57,200 to Daniel chapter 2? In Daniel chapter 2 and verse 295 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,900 44. And in the days of these Kings, 296 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:06,200 the god of heaven will set up. A kingdom that's the church 297 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,500 which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom, that's the 298 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:12,600 church. Shall not be left to other 299 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,900 people. It shall break into pieces and 300 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:20,600 consume all these kingdoms and get this and it shall stand 301 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,600 forever. The Everlasting Kingdom of 302 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,700 second. Peter 1, in 11 refers to the end 303 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:31,400 of the world. When the kingdom in Daniel 2:44, 304 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,300 the church will be delivered back again to the father. 305 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:42,500 Now, Daniel foretold of a time of an indestructible Kingdom 306 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,800 established on earth, that is the church. 307 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:50,000 The kingdom is indestructible, it will always exist, it will 308 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,600 continue to exist and it's what Jesus Will. 309 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:55,700 Dover to his father, it will abide forever. 310 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,000 You know, I find some really encouraging things about this. 311 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,400 Don't ever think. For one minute that the church 312 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,300 is going anywhere. It's not. 313 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,400 Now, I know that sometimes members of the church they fall 314 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,000 by the wayside, they fall away, maybe they turn their back on 315 00:19:14,008 --> 00:19:17,900 what's right? But the church itself, the 316 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:22,200 church as a whole that is the kingdom that Daniel prophesied 317 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,400 about and that's what will be handed over to the father. 318 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,700 In the end, the church is going nowhere. 319 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:33,500 It is indestructible, it will last forever and that's why 320 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,700 Peter calls it. An everlasting Kingdom. 321 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:41,100 This is hard times. You may remember this, some of 322 00:19:41,108 --> 00:19:45,500 the older folks might remember times in life when things were 323 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:48,700 really bad and sometimes we that are younger. 324 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:50,800 We think we understand things that are bad. 325 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,400 We don't have a clue not in this country. 326 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,600 We don't even have a clue. We don't know what a hard time 327 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,100 is not really. And even the older folks that 328 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:02,300 might remember a time back in the depression or back in other 329 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,300 periods of time and there were persecution. 330 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:09,800 There was things that went on those hard times and the church 331 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,700 always what? It always grew. 332 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,600 Have you ever considered that every time, there's hard times, 333 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,800 the church grew in history, you know why? 334 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,100 It's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter what a man thinks 335 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:24,500 he can do. He can't destroy it. 336 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:29,600 Cannot cannot it will last forever. 337 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:32,700 Okay? So what happened between Daniels 338 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:36,300 prophecy and what Peter said when he said about the 339 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:39,400 Everlasting Kingdom, abundant entrance? 340 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,100 Let me notice five quick things. First of all, number one, Jojo 341 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:47,000 and Isaiah all prophesied about the establishment of the 342 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,400 Kingdom. As the church, many years later, 343 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,200 John, the Baptist. What did he say? 344 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:58,300 The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and that phrase at hand, 345 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:02,500 literally means close enough that you can touch it, it can be 346 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:04,900 perceived by the senses. It's that close. 347 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:08,500 Then what happened? Here comes, Jesus, Jesus comes 348 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,900 on the scene. He also says the Kingdom of 349 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:15,500 Heaven is at hand close enough to touch it, but Jesus, add some 350 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:19,200 things too. Jesus, then says, some of you 351 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,300 will still be living when you see the kingdom of God, come 352 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:25,800 with power. It's going to come in their 353 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,000 lifetime long long time ago. What else, Acts chapter 2, the 354 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,500 very first gospel sermon was being preached to those that now 355 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,200 had an opportunity to respond to it. 356 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:37,900 And they were offered the gospel. 357 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:39,900 They were offered the Plan of Salvation. 358 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,800 They were baptized for the remission of their sins. 359 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,100 Three thousand Souls were saved and Jesus added them daily to 360 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:54,600 the kingdom or the church. And finally, from Acts chapter 2 361 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,800 on this Kingdom folks. Don't let people think there's a 362 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:02,000 kingdom coming. The kingdom is always spoken of 363 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:08,300 as already in existence. So the point for us is this to 364 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:12,100 be in the Everlasting Kingdom that we've talked about, you got 365 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:17,200 to be in the Kingdom or the church today in this life, the 366 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,700 kingdom will be delivered back over to the father. 367 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,300 When he comes in first Corinthians, 15 and 24, notice 368 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,300 then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom, that's the 369 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:31,400 church to God the father, when he puts an end to all Rule and 370 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:39,000 all authority and Power, so, An abundant entrance Everlasting. 371 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,300 And you know why it's Everlasting? 372 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:47,200 It's Everlasting because it's eternal You know, God gave us 373 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,800 the concept of time. But God doesn't care about time. 374 00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:57,600 God is not concerned about time, he gave time for us. 375 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:05,700 He wants us to redeem the time. He wants us to make good use of 376 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,500 the time. But time is something for us. 377 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:11,700 It's not for God. God does not deal with time and 378 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:16,000 care about time, but when you talk about Everlasting, you are 379 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,000 talking about something that is eternal, you're talking about 380 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,100 something you cannot count. I cannot count. 381 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:26,000 And you know why it's Everlasting. 382 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,600 Here it is. Those that are saved forever in. 383 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,500 Eternity, will have no worries at all. 384 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,400 When that be great, wouldn't it be great to finally not have a 385 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,300 worry or a care in the world? Think about all the stress, you 386 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:40,300 might have. And all the worry. 387 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:43,000 You have get this. If you make Heaven, you were 388 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,900 going to be saved and you will have no worries. 389 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:49,500 But on the other hand, those that are lost, will have no hope 390 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,800 for all eternity. So that is the phrase abundant 391 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,800 entrance into the Everlasting Kingdom. 392 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,300 So what does the phrase mean scarcely saved? 393 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:03,600 What's that mean? Well, first of all, it does 394 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,300 scarcely. Saved mean is it referring to 395 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:09,800 the end of time? When it says, if the righteous 396 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,700 scarcely be saved, where shall The Sinner and the ungodly 397 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:18,300 appears that the end of time? No, no, it is not. 398 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,300 It's referring to something else. 399 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,800 First Peter chapter 4 beginning in verse 17, please notice the 400 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,400 context and stay with the flow here for the time. 401 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,900 Has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. 402 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,400 And if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those 403 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,600 who do not obey the gospel of God. 404 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,900 Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the 405 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,500 ungodly and The Sinner? Appear. 406 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:51,400 Now Peter is talking about. He is writing this letter in 407 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:57,900 about ad, 65 or possibly ad 66. He is writing about an event 408 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:04,700 that's about to happen in ad 70. They were understanding the fact 409 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:05,700 that they were under great persecution. 410 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,900 He's writing this letter about 80-65 about something that's 411 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:13,800 going to happen in ad 70. What's the event in the event? 412 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,700 Is the destruction of Of Jerusalem. 413 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,500 That's the event. The destruction of Jerusalem. 414 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:26,100 Now, Jesus spoke of this event, too. 415 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:32,600 In Matthew chapter 24, notice this is Jesus predicting the 416 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,100 destruction of the temple and beginning in verse 1, verses 1 417 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:39,900 and 2. Then Jesus went out and departed 418 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:44,000 from the temple and his disciples came up to show him 419 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,500 the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, do you 420 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:52,400 not see all these things? Assuredly I say to you. 421 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,600 Not one stone shall be left here upon another. 422 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:58,300 That shall not be thrown. Rome down. 423 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:04,300 Now, here comes verse number 3, and verse number 3 is their 424 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:05,600 response. To what. 425 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,000 Jesus just said in verses 1 and 2, very important to stay with 426 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,400 the context very important. So here comes verse 3, this is 427 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,800 so misunderstood in the religious World, here it is. 428 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:22,100 Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to 429 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:27,500 him privately, saying, tell us when these things be Be what's 430 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:30,000 these things? Those things? 431 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:35,400 Those things. What shall these things be when 432 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,900 is it going to happen and what will be the sign of your coming 433 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,800 and the End of the Age? Incidentally the King James says 434 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:50,300 the end of the world so people say oh what's the sign of the 435 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:53,500 end of the world? Know that word is better. 436 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:57,100 Rendered age notice they asked three questions. 437 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,000 Please get this. This is not two events. 438 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:05,700 They're not asking questions about two events. 439 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,500 They're asking questions about one event. 440 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,100 What's the event? What Jesus just said in verses 1 441 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:14,900 and 2? They asked the following 442 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:20,200 questions about that one event. Tell us when these things be, 443 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,100 what things, what he just said, in verse 1 and 2. 444 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,700 What else? And what will be the sign of 445 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:29,300 your coming? That is a phrase often times 446 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:32,100 used in the Bible, referring to judgment. 447 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,600 Or Vengeance. What's he talking about? 448 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,700 What Vengeance, what judgment, what? 449 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:40,000 He said in verses 1 and 2? Talking about the destruction of 450 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,500 Jerusalem and the third question, what's going to be the 451 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:48,400 end of the age? Tell us those things, three 452 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,700 questions. One event. 453 00:27:53,600 --> 00:28:00,100 Now Jesus gave the following. He gave five remote signs. 454 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,500 And he gave one immediate sign to remember this to all those 455 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,900 that want to apply these words to the end of time, show us the 456 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:13,900 end of time and all of that Jesus gave five remote signs and 457 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:17,800 one immediate sign to the event that they were inquiring about. 458 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,500 And that is the destruction of Jerusalem, okay? 459 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,700 Here's number one, here's number one. 460 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:31,000 There were going to be false Christ's In Matthew 24, verses 4 461 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000 and 5. And Jesus answered and said to 462 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,800 them, take heed that no one deceives you for many will come 463 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,700 in. My name, saying I am the Christ 464 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,700 and will deceive many, that's the first sign it's going to 465 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:43,800 happen. Jesus said that's a remote sign, 466 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,400 okay? Here's another one. 467 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,800 It's going to be worse. You know. 468 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,000 People do all. Look look the wars. 469 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,200 It's going to happen and of times coming that way song about 470 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,800 Matthew 24, verse 6 and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. 471 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,400 See that you are not troubled for all these things must come 472 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,000 to pass, but At the end is not yet. 473 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:11,000 Here's another one. How about this famines famines 474 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:15,400 for it's in verses 7 and 8 for nation will rise against nation 475 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,800 and Kingdom against Kingdom and there will be famines 476 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,400 pestilences and earthquakes in various places. 477 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,300 Get this. And all these are the beginning 478 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:30,100 of Sorrows. What else? 479 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,200 How about Affliction, verses 9, and 10. 480 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,500 Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you. 481 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:42,100 And you will be hated by All Nations for my name's sake. 482 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:47,000 And then many will be offended will betray one another and will 483 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:54,000 hate one another. Again these were remote signs 484 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,800 but then there's another one. There's another one. 485 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,900 And by the way, this one makes it absolutely proof positive 486 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:04,300 that it's referring to something that happened in the first 487 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:06,900 century and is not going to be something's going to happen 488 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:07,800 later on. This is it? 489 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,400 You know, what is divine inspiration? 490 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,100 How do I know that Mark's account Mark 13 and 11? 491 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,100 But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry 492 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,300 beforehand or premeditate what you will speak. 493 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:24,100 But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that for it is 494 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:26,800 not you who speak but the Holy Spirit. 495 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,200 Here's another one in Luke 21, 14 and 15. 496 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:33,400 Therefore settle it in your heart's, not to meditate 497 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,600 beforehand on what you will answer for. 498 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,000 I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your 499 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,500 adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist all of this 500 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:50,600 happened. Obviously, in the first century 501 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:57,700 in addition, in addition before Jerusalem fell The gospel was 502 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:02,700 preached to all the world. He considered that before 503 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:09,200 Jerusalem fell and AD 70. The gospel was preached to the 504 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:15,100 whole world, Matthew 24:14 and the gospel of the Kingdom will 505 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:19,300 be preached in all the world as a witness to All Nations and 506 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:25,300 then the end will come Well the end is the destruction of 507 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,600 Jerusalem. These were the remote signs. 508 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,100 What about the immediate sign? I love this. 509 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,100 And by the way, just watch from now on through the rest of the 510 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:38,800 lesson. Watch the handiwork of God 511 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,900 because I believe that none of these things were possible 512 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,200 without God. He gave him five remotes. 513 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,000 I he always telling them you're going to be persecuted, you can 514 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,400 have some hard times going to happen and even God's people are 515 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,800 going to be persecuted. But here are the remote signs. 516 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,000 And when you see these remote signs understand they are a sign 517 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,500 of that day but the end is not near now. 518 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,000 He's going to give an immediate son. 519 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:04,800 How we going to know Lord. How are we going to know when 520 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,800 it's actually going to come? Here is the immediate sign. 521 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:13,500 Matthew, 24:15, I love this. Therefore, when you see the 522 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,300 abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the Prophet 523 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,600 standing in the Holy place, this right here means standing in 524 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,400 Jerusalem, Holy place, there is a phraseology referring to 525 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,600 Jerusalem. What he saying is when you see 526 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,800 the abomination of desolation, spoken of by, Daniel the Prophet 527 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:37,800 standing in Jerusalem, He told him to flee. 528 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,600 He told him to flee. Look at Luke's account. 529 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:50,500 Luke 21. Look at this. but when you see 530 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:56,200 Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know it's the Desolation, 531 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,700 it's desolation is near then let those that are in Judea flee 532 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:05,700 where to the mountains Let those who are in the midst of her 533 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,100 depart and let those who are in the country in her. 534 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,000 For these are the days of Vengeance that all things which 535 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,700 are written. May be fulfilled. 536 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:21,900 That's the immediate sign. He said when you see the armies 537 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:26,200 coming, Get out. And flee. 538 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,300 And by the way, misunderstanding, this passage 539 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:32,700 and trying to make it to the end of time, is the reason that 540 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,200 sometimes people in the religious world have sold their 541 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,800 possessions. Oh, IMA. 542 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,200 Look around, is kind of bad going on. 543 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,400 Bad stuff going on today. Bad stuff going on today. 544 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,300 I'm so my position. Lord must be come back. 545 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,000 There's Wars and famines and pestilence that and go stand on 546 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,500 a Mountaintop only to have to walk back down. 547 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,500 You know why? Because they try to make that 548 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:56,800 passage mean the end of time. They try to make the end of time 549 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:00,300 something that you can attach signs to, that's not what the 550 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:03,100 Bible says. In fact, the Bible says nobody 551 00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:06,900 knows when that day is going to be except the father only. 552 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,800 So when the Lord comes back, we don't see signs. 553 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,000 We have something else. Bible says, it's like a thief in 554 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,100 the night. Unannounced. 555 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:20,900 But the signs here were regarding the destruction of 556 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,500 Jerusalem. Jesus said these words and Luke 557 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:25,500 21 and a t-33. Okay. 558 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:30,199 Now fast forward in your mind. 80-65, Five years before the 559 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:34,199 ultimate destruction. And persecution is on Peters 560 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:38,000 mind. His pain is Guided by the Holy 561 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,600 Spirit and he spreads ink on parchment and this is what he 562 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,600 says, stay in the context with me. 1st Peter, 4:12 through 16 563 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:49,199 Beloved. Do not think it strange 564 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:53,199 concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some 565 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,400 strange thing happened to you. But Rejoice to the extent that 566 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,300 you are partakers of Christ's sufferings and when his glory is 567 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:05,900 revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding Joy, if you are 568 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:07,300 reproached for the name of Christ. 569 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,100 Blessed, are you for the spirit of glory? 570 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:12,700 And of God rests upon you on their part. 571 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:17,100 He has blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified but let 572 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:19,200 none of you suffer. Suffer as a murderer, as a 573 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,600 thief, and the evil doer, or as a busybody in other men's 574 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:27,100 matters, yet, if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be 575 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:32,000 ashamed but let him glorify God. In this matter, he said all that 576 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:36,600 and here's our text, he said all that and here's our text 577 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,400 persecution was on his mind 80-65 and then he said this For 578 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,600 the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. 579 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:53,000 And if it begins with us first, then we'll be the end of those 580 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,900 things who do not obey the gospel, and then there's this. 581 00:35:56,300 --> 00:36:01,000 Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the 582 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,100 ungodly and The Sinner appear? That's the context. 583 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,500 Watch this though, this right here. 584 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:12,600 Does not mean barely and a few of us that is a 585 00:36:12,607 --> 00:36:14,500 misinterpretation of the word scarcely. 586 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:18,600 Scarcely means with difficulty, that's what that means. 587 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,600 What he's saying is, if the Christians in that time and AD 588 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:28,200 70 are going to with difficulty be spared and not go down to the 589 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,500 destruction of Jerusalem. Where's that going to leave the 590 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:35,900 ungodly? And where's that going to leave 591 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:41,800 the center? If the righteous one is 592 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,100 scarcely. Safe. 593 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:44,900 James McKnight says it like this. 594 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:51,500 When God best punishes the nation, if the righteous Jews, 595 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:55,200 who believe in Christ, that's Christians with difficulty. 596 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,900 Can be saved from the destruction of Jerusalem. 597 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:01,500 Where will the ungodly and the sinful part of the nation show 598 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,600 themselves saved from divine. Vengeance. 599 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:15,100 Some of you have heard me say. as we wrap up our lesson, Of 600 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,700 what happened? And I, again this has to be the 601 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:20,000 hand of God. This is amazing. 602 00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:25,000 Josephus records and he was there. 603 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:32,300 Josephus records. That when Rome came and took. 604 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:41,400 Jerusalem. He said that 1.1 million Jews 605 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:49,100 were killed. He said 110,000 more were taken 606 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:53,400 captive. But then he said, for whatever 607 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,200 reason is, I said it, what forever, whatever? 608 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:02,500 Reason Rome pulled back. the armies of Rome pulled back and 609 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:11,700 Josephus a historian said and every Christian got out scarcely 610 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:15,400 saved. With difficulty. 611 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,200 Every Christian got out. Now, Josephus didn't know. 612 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,900 I would imagine Why Rome pulled back. 613 00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:30,400 But why not give it the credit that it's due? 614 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,700 ROM pulled back I believe because that's exactly what God 615 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:38,100 wanted. How did they know, how are they 616 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:39,700 prepared? You know, why? 617 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:42,600 They were prepared because 37 years before. 618 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:46,800 Jesus said, here are five remote signs and an immediate sign. 619 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000 And when you see the immediate sign get out, and that's what 620 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,800 they did. And you know what God did? 621 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,300 He just had old Rome, pull back a little bit and the Christians 622 00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:06,900 got out. so, so, Applying to us today that passage the righteous 623 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:09,400 scarcely being saved is not talking about the end of time. 624 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,700 It's not talking about eternity. It's not talking about the 625 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:16,100 Christian today. What is talking about the 626 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:20,400 Christian today is what Peter said about the Seven, Christian 627 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,000 Graces or virtues. If these are things that are in 628 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,100 my life and they are abounding in my life, Then this. 629 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,400 We will be neither be Barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of 630 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,700 our Lord, Jesus Christ for He Who lacks these. 631 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:37,800 Things as short-sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that 632 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,800 he was cleansed from his old sins. 633 00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:42,200 So what else are we going to have? 634 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:47,700 If we do these things, we are not going to stumble ever, we're 635 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,500 gonna fall. I'm Gonna Fall Away. and 636 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:54,500 finally, for an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into 637 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:58,400 the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 638 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,700 So, I don't know how it's going to be, you know, I've heard 639 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:08,700 people say, you know, I'll just be a sweet, a street sweeper in 640 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:13,400 heaven, I would too. Or I just want to barely make it 641 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,700 in if I can just barely squeak in, that's all I want. 642 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,600 I just want to get in, you know, I feel that way too. 643 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:19,800 But that's not what's going to happen. 644 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:24,800 If I make it, it will be an abundant entrance into the 645 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,100 Everlasting Kingdom. That's what it says. 646 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:30,000 I don't have to put that blow the doors off. 647 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,500 I don't know. But it's an abundant entrance 648 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,300 into the Everlasting Kingdom. Can you know? 649 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:38,800 You're saved? Yeah, keep his word, keep his 650 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,300 Commandments. Keep those things in your life 651 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,500 have Jesus Christ. Be the advocate with the father. 652 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,600 When we sin ask, God to forgive us in the blood of Christ 653 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,000 washes, that's in a way to yes. Yes, we can know with assurance, 654 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,300 that we have eternal life. Are we keeping his word? 655 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:55,400 Are we keeping his Commandments? Are we obeying? 656 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,400 What he said to do in our Christian Life? 657 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,500 But before all that. The only way that all of those 658 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,300 things become a benefit to you is first of all, you got to 659 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:09,100 contact the blood. Without blood, without being 660 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:12,400 covered by the blood. You can't be saved the way to be 661 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,600 saved, is simply by being covered by the blood. 662 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,100 How you do that? You come believing in Jesus, you 663 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:21,800 repent of your sins, you make a change in your life. 664 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,200 You confess the precious name of Jesus Christ. 665 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,600 You say the words, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of 666 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,500 God. Those are steps that point 667 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:33,000 toward, or lead to the point of salvation. 668 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:37,000 But the only way you're saved is in baptism when you go down to 669 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,300 the water, Very grave of baptism, first Peter 3:21, the 670 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:46,500 like figure, whereunto even baptism doth also now save us. 671 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,900 You know why? That's when you get the blood 672 00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:51,600 and that's the only place you get the blood. 673 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,400 And then you have it for the rest of your life. 674 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,200 And if you live Faithfully unto death, you're going to get an 675 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,800 abundant entrance into the Everlasting Kingdom. 676 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,700 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 677 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:12,400 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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