1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,920 Return in your Bibles. Please do First Corinthians 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,200 chapter 2. We will be finishing First 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,720 Corinthians chapter #2 here tonight by the Lord's grace. 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,280 And we are going to continue our discussion, a very multifaceted 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,760 discussion the last few weeks about wisdom. 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,840 And really, can you talk enough about wisdom? 13 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,760 I mean, when you consider that there was a whole book of 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,640 wisdom, the book of Proverbs, 31 chapters from start to finish, I 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,320 don't think we can look enough at this issue of wisdom. 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,240 But so far, wisdom has been the topic of the day in First 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,440 Corinthians. And why not? 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Because we're going to find out, especially once we get into 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,120 chapter #3 how carnal these people are in Corinth. 20 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,880 We've got a little bit of a taste of it in chapter #1 by how 21 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,600 divided they were, that they were in these factions, they 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,680 were in these camps. But we're going to see even more 23 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,840 so that they needed the wisdom of God in a very real way. 24 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,240 And last week we saw that the Holy Spirit is the key to 25 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,000 unlocking the door of wisdom, and that humility towards God 26 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,680 and a love God are the requirements to use that key. 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,840 If you want wisdom, you need the Holy Spirit. 28 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:31,200 But to be able to have the Holy Spirit's efficacy and power in 29 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,040 your life, you need to have some humility and you need to have a 30 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,640 love for God. Because a believer who doesn't 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,800 love God as they should won't utilize the Spirit because they 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,560 don't cherish Him as they ought to. 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,000 And a believer who's proud that doesn't love God is proud in 34 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,800 their spirit. Well, they won't be humble 35 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,240 enough to listen to the Spirit. So we saw last week that the 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,040 Holy Spirit is the key to wisdom. 37 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,840 But you got to be humble and you have to love the Lord as you 38 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,920 ought. But even as we've been talking 39 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,320 about wisdom for the last few weeks and really this idea, you 40 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:03,680 know, that we need wisdom in our lives. 41 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,200 I mean, I don't know anyone I'd argue with or well, I should say 42 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,280 anyone I would talk with. You know, as Baptist preachers, 43 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,200 we want to argue with everybody. But, you know, I don't know 44 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,720 anybody that I would talk to if I said, hey, you ought to get 45 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,320 wisdom, that they would say, no, no, you shouldn't get wisdom. 46 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,760 I mean, I think everybody saved and unsaved would agree you need 47 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,920 wisdom. I think we all here would agree. 48 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:25,320 We've been talking about wisdom the last few weeks, pastor. 49 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,320 We know we need to get wisdom. But yet, you know, the issue 50 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:33,000 about saying that we need wisdom, it's not very definite. 51 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,120 You know, it's, it's like we need it, But what does that 52 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,760 mean? And what does that mean to me? 53 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,440 What does it look like? Why do I need it? 54 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,040 It's kind of like if someone says, you know, you ought to eat 55 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,360 right, it's like, OK, you ought to eat right. 56 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,120 But you know, can I eat right in the drive through at McDonald's? 57 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,320 I mean, I think so. But well, that's that's probably 58 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:55,480 why I shouldn't be your dietitian. 59 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:56,680 I should just be your preacher. Amen. 60 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,720 But you know, but if you were to say eat right, you know that, 61 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,400 OK, that's good, but what does that mean? 62 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,040 You know, maybe you could summarize it by saying or maybe 63 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,320 further clarifying it by saying eat right for your health. 64 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,160 OK, that that helps us a little bit understand it more. 65 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,480 Or how about this in my situation and maybe others who 66 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,960 have a family members who have been cardiac patients, eat right 67 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,040 so you don't have a heart attack. 68 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,080 Well, that all puts a fine point on it, doesn't it? 69 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,600 Because if I just think about eating right, I may not eat 70 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,800 right. I'll tell you this. 71 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,840 When I think of my father, who was 38 years old, who was 185 72 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,560 lbs and was as fit as could be, and he had a heart attack, it 73 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,560 makes me think about what I eat. You know, understanding that 74 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,840 very specificity of what that means changes the way that I 75 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,760 act. So, yeah, we need wisdom. 76 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,720 But what does that mean? What does that look like? 77 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,600 How does that manifest itself? And so here in the last verses 78 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,680 of chapter #2 Paul's going to give us some very specific 79 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,560 things that we need to know about this issue of wisdom. 80 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,120 And he gives us what I would call the wise of wisdom. 81 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,080 He gives us three wise of wisdom. 82 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,440 And what we're going to see tonight is that only a person 83 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,280 who is acting the fool would willfully neglect the gift of 84 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,760 wisdom. Only a person who is acting the 85 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,800 fool would willfully neglect the gift of wisdom. 86 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,200 So we're going to start in first number 11 here in Second 87 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,480 Corinthians chapter #2 So let's read from verse 11 to the end of 88 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,640 the chapter. It says for what man knoweth the 89 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,720 things of a man, save the spirit of a man, which is in him. 90 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,880 Even so, the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of 91 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,000 God. Now we have received not the 92 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we 93 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,920 might know the things which are freely given to us of God. 94 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,440 Which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom 95 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,320 teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing 96 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,120 spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man received not 97 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,920 the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto 98 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,000 him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually 99 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,480 discerned. He that is spiritual judgeth all 100 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,600 things, yet he himself is judged of no man for who has known the 101 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,320 mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him. 102 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,760 But we have the mind of Christ. Well, there's a lot of themes 103 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,040 that come up over and over those verses, aren't they? 104 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,440 The issue of the Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, 105 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:26,360 judgment, spiritual judgment, the mind of Christ, these are 106 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,080 things that are mentioned to us. But in these verses, as we see 107 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,880 these words and these phrases, we see some wise about this 108 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,800 issue of wisdom. And really, there's three things 109 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:37,880 that I want us to look at tonight. 110 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,240 And you can write these on the back of your prayer bulletin as 111 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,120 we go along. So what are the whys of wisdom? 112 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,040 Why do we need wisdom? Well, first of all #1 it's 113 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:51,560 because we need to know, say, well, we need to know what. 114 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,040 And the answer is we need to know stuff. 115 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,800 I don't know about you, but there's a lot. 116 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,520 You didn't think you'd get that as an answer in a sermon, did 117 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,480 you? Stuff right? 118 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,320 But we need to know a lot of things in this life, don't we? 119 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,320 And where do we get the answer to those things? 120 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,000 Well, Paul starts verse #11 with a comparison to help us better 121 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,440 understand the ministry of the Spirit and the ministry of the 122 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,760 Spirit in our lives. So look at verse #11 It says for 123 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,240 what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which 124 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,840 is in him. Even so, the things of God 125 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,760 knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. 126 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,480 That may sound like a little bit of circular reasoning there, and 127 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,720 what exactly is going on, but there's a very clear point 128 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,920 that's being made there. Listen, can I know your 129 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,320 innermost thoughts? The answer is no. 130 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,680 And by the way, aren't you glad your pastor doesn't know your 131 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,800 innermost thoughts? Amen. 132 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,080 But there's another part of that I'm sure glad you don't know the 133 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,800 pastors innermost thoughts. It works both ways, friend. 134 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,840 I don't want to know. You don't want to know. 135 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,600 Look, we can't know each other's innermost thoughts when we look 136 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,280 at animals, perhaps even our pets, we may think we know what 137 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:09,320 our pet is thinking, but we really don't know what our pet 138 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,640 is thinking. I was holding Toby, which I 139 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,080 think maybe everyone around here knows Cali and Toby. 140 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,400 Anyone ever heard of him? But holding Toby and I was just 141 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,680 remember just just petting him and I kind of hold him like a 142 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,960 baby just kind of in my arms. And I was petting him and he was 143 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,040 just purring. And he just, you know, cats 144 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:27,760 can't smile, but you know, they kind of had that look. 145 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,360 You feel like they're smiling at you. 146 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,240 And he was really close to my face. 147 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,400 And it was just really this loving moment. 148 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,840 And the next thing I knew, he batted me in the face and hissed 149 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,720 at me. It's like I thought I thought we 150 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,760 had a connection, man. I thought we were having a 151 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,360 moment. And all of a sudden I thought I 152 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:45,880 knew what he was thinking and he didn't. 153 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,280 And he knew what I was thinking very quickly as I blew in his 154 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,080 face and he ran off. He jumped out of my, my, my arms 155 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,760 and ran off. And we had we, you know, we, we, 156 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,160 we got over it. We're good now. 157 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,680 Thank the Lord we patched it up. But you know, I don't know what 158 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,080 you're thinking. You don't know what I'm 159 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,800 thinking. You know, I don't, I don't know 160 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,760 what an animal, you know, the only entity of which I know it's 161 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,120 innermost thoughts. It is me. 162 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,440 Only I can know my innermost thoughts. 163 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,160 And even sometimes that's a struggle, isn't it? 164 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:16,400 We'll talk about that in a minute. 165 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,600 But, but if anyone is to know their own thoughts, it would be 166 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,480 myself. You can't know my thoughts and I 167 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,280 can't know your thoughts. So the comparison that's being 168 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,880 made here is if someone is to know their thoughts, it would be 169 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,200 the spirit of the person. The Spirit of Adam knows the 170 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,559 thoughts of Adam. The spirit of Tim knows the 171 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,280 thoughts of Tim. The spirit of Kaylee knows the 172 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,600 thoughts of Kaylee. But here's the issue. 173 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,120 If you want to know the thoughts of God, where do you go? 174 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,320 You go to the Spirit of God, that the Spirit of God, and 175 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,480 we're getting there in just a moment, but the Spirit of God is 176 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:02,080 the one who reveals the very thoughts of God and Amen, 177 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,000 because we can't figure that out on our own. 178 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,640 Who? Who could have think of the 179 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,640 thoughts of God? Who could know the thoughts of 180 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,680 God? They're unattainable for us. 181 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:12,960 But yet it's the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you. 182 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,400 If you're saved, it's the Holy Spirit who lives inside of me 183 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,520 that that same Holy Spirit can discern and has the very 184 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,640 thoughts of God and is able to help us understand God more. 185 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,440 The Spirit of God is the only revealer of the thoughts of God 186 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,680 in the same way that your spirit is the only revealer of your 187 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:34,840 thoughts. And you might say, well, what 188 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,360 about the Word of God? We'll get to that in just a 189 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,600 moment because where did the word of God come from? 190 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,200 It came from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, didn't it? 191 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,960 So even through the Scriptures that we have, and we'll talk 192 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,600 more about that in just a second. 193 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,520 And by the way, all of this, This is why I would say that 194 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,800 receiving counsel and biblical counsel is so important because 195 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,720 you know, I don't know what you're thinking, but only you 196 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,480 do. And so having counsel sometimes 197 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,240 and being able to talk to someone about the issues of 198 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,720 life, that other person is able to bring Scripture and to bring 199 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,560 the Spirit to you in the sense that to bring the Illuminum of 200 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,640 the word of God into your life so you can better understand 201 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,880 your own thoughts. Because listen, we may be the 202 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,480 best people who know us, but we don't always know us like we 203 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,200 should. Should we? 204 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,920 Just like sometimes you say, you know, I feel down well, why I 205 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:30,440 don't know, I'm struggling, why? I don't know, man, I'm happy. 206 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,040 Why? I don't know, I'm just happy 207 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,200 today. You know, sometimes we struggle 208 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,400 even in those areas trying to articulate these things, but yet 209 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,080 the Holy Spirit is the one that helps us to get that which we 210 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,360 need to know. Now why is this so important? 211 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,240 Well, verse 12 gives us the explanation. 212 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,520 It says now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the 213 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,200 Spirit which is of God. Now why? 214 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,600 That we might know the things that are freely given to us of 215 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,240 God. So God has given us some things 216 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,720 freely and He wants us to know about these things. 217 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,360 Well, how do we know about these things? 218 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,680 We know about them because of the Spirit. 219 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,640 Where's the 1st place that we could consider that to be the 220 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,400 case? Salvation. 221 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,240 Is salvation a free gift? Yes, it is salvation by grace 222 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,200 through faith. How do we know about salvation? 223 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,200 Well, it's the Spirit who draws us. 224 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,720 It's the Spirit who woos us. It's the Spirit who says, hey, 225 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,840 what that preacher saying you need to listen because you need 226 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,720 to accept the gospel message? No, I remember all the messages 227 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,880 that I heard at Westgate Baptist Church from the youth were 228 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,280 there. And I remember over and over, 229 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,120 particularly as it got closer to the place where I was, I was so 230 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,320 confused about being a Lutheran and what it meant to be born 231 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,240 again. But I remember the Holy Spirit 232 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,200 just working in my heart that it wasn't some other entity. 233 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,240 It wasn't just my own thought process, but it was the Holy 234 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,240 Spirit saying this Adam, you need to get saved. 235 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,600 Romans 816 the Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit 236 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,080 that we are the children of God. It is the Holy Spirit that uses 237 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,520 the word of God and we're going to see this theme constantly 238 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,280 through here that the Holy Spirit uses the word of God to 239 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,040 be able to help you to understand you need to be saved. 240 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,360 But I would also say this that when it comes this issue of the 241 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,960 Spirit giving us understanding of the things that are freely 242 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,040 given to us of God, It's not just of salvation. 243 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,640 I would also say this, it's about everything else. 244 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,960 There's a lot of things to know about in the Christian life, 245 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,480 aren't there? There's a lot of things to grow 246 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,280 in. You say, pastor, I've pretty 247 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,800 much I've attained you know what I need. 248 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,600 I've I've done pretty well over the years. 249 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,080 I would say you've got a lot more to learn if you think 250 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,320 that's the case, because I would tell you, the more I get in this 251 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,120 word, the more I realize, the more I need to get in this word. 252 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:49,760 Do you understand what I'm saying? 253 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,200 The more I learn about the Lord, the more I realize, the more I 254 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,320 want to learn about the Lord. It's not like you get to the 255 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,080 place you say, you know what, I'm pretty satisfied with this. 256 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,120 You know, you read a novel, maybe you read it 20 times. 257 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,360 You could probably get pretty bored. 258 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,840 You could read the word of God once a year for the rest of your 259 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,720 life. And not only would you never get 260 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,520 bored, but you would be constantly be helped. 261 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:14,400 You'll be encouraged. The perfect law of liberty, that 262 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,400 mirror is right in your face. And the word of God, You read 263 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,520 the Word of God, but the word of God reads you. 264 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,040 And how does that happen? It's because the Holy Spirit 265 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,600 wants to teach you things in your life. 266 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,120 I go back in my mind to second Peter chapter #1 you know, add 267 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,880 to your faith. Well, the verse is right before 268 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,160 it says according as His divine power. 269 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:40,280 I would say divine power would equate the Holy Spirit according 270 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:45,040 as His divine power hath given to us all things that pertain in 271 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,240 the life and godliness. Now you can go back in the 272 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,880 Greek, you know what that all things means, all things He's 273 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,000 given you, all things that pertain in the life and 274 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,880 godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to 275 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:59,520 glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great 276 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,120 and precious promises. That by these you might be 277 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,400 partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption 278 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,760 that is in the world through lust. 279 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,520 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, 280 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:12,400 remember. And then we went through all of 281 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,960 those right there. Where does all of this process 282 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,560 come from that we can receive everything that we need? 283 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:20,480 Yes, everything that we need in the daily Christian life? 284 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,480 It comes by yielding ourselves to the Spirit who wants to teach 285 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,920 us these things because it's the Spirit of God who can reveal the 286 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,920 thoughts of God. You know, it makes me think of 287 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:33,960 Peter and John. You know, those guys didn't get 288 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,880 along. I don't know if you ever heard 289 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,760 about that, but they didn't get along very well, did they? 290 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,160 And then you get to Acts chapter 3, and the Holy Spirit is now in 291 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,720 the ministry of indwelling the believer. 292 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,040 And you can see the difference in the believers on the day of 293 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,360 Pentecost. And then Peter and John are 294 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,040 walking into the temple or towards the temple, and there's 295 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:01,120 a man who is lame. And he says, this lame man says, 296 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,360 you know, could I have some money? 297 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,880 And Peter says what I think is one of the great things that a 298 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,000 Baptist preacher could say, silver and gold have I none. 299 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,120 But he says, he says, silver and gold have I none. 300 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:16,360 But he says, but such as I have, I give thee rise up and walk. 301 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,520 And sure enough, he does. And of course, everyone 302 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,840 rejoiced. Well, everybody but the 303 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,120 religious elite, the Pharisees. And it ends up that Peter and 304 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,400 John get hauled in to the Pharisees. 305 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,080 Now, may I remind you these two guys were fishermen. 306 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,120 Now I'm looking around. I don't think anyone is a 307 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,720 professional fisherman that's here, but I would say at least 308 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,320 not tonight. But I think about this and, and 309 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,280 I, I understand that, that at that time, you're not talking 310 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:52,120 about the most elite of society, the most educated of society. 311 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,640 And here they are. They're standing in front of the 312 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,680 Sanhedrin and Peter is preaching. 313 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,040 You know, I'm not talking about putting his foot in his mouth 314 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,360 like he normally did. The man is preaching. 315 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,640 And listen what it says in Acts chapter 4, verse 13. 316 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,200 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived 317 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:13,040 that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled and 318 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,400 took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. 319 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,600 Now have you and I been with Jesus in the way that Peter and 320 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,120 John have? No. 321 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,680 Do we get to walk for three years with Jesus? 322 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,840 We did not. But I would tell you this, the 323 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:33,360 Spirit of God, the Triune Godfather, Son and Holy Ghost, 324 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,320 the Spirit lives inside of you if you know Jesus Christ your 325 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,640 Savior. And you may be unlearned and 326 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:44,240 ignorant as far as this world believes, but listen, the Holy 327 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,120 Spirit can be your teacher and the Holy Spirit can be your 328 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,680 guide. You know, I want to be your 329 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,040 helper as your pastor. I do. 330 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,200 I mean, if I didn't, that wouldn't make me a very good 331 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,840 pastor, would it? I want to be able to help you in 332 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,200 the things of the Spirit. I want to be a help you in the 333 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,680 things of the Bible. I hope you ask me questions. 334 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,920 You have questions about the Bible or about what it means to 335 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,160 be able to be a disciple. And you know, we have 336 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,000 discipleship courses here that we go through. 337 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,079 I think all those things are important, but I want you to 338 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,280 understand this and I want you to listen to me, what I say 339 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,200 about this very, very carefully here tonight. 340 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,240 If you know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have the same access 341 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,480 to the truths of God as I do. So I've not been to Bible 342 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,599 college. That doesn't matter. 343 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,760 No, I mean, Bible college was important for me to be able to 344 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,920 go to, to be able to get the training that I need to learn 345 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,280 more about the Bible. Yes, I understand that and I'm 346 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,520 not discounting that. But what I'm saying is we've 347 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,280 been talking about this now for weeks, is that you have the very 348 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:45,160 wisdom of God Almighty at your doorstep. 349 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,240 If you will avail yourself of the Holy Spirit, He will speak 350 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:51,760 to you. He will teach you, He'll tell 351 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,520 you what you need to know. He is the one who will guide you 352 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:59,520 in all truth. We have the Spirit of God inside 353 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:00,960 of us. So while the world may think us 354 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,040 ignorant, we can know God in a real and intimate way. 355 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:06,880 Why? Because His Spirit that knows 356 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,040 him lives inside of us. That's incredible. 357 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,920 Now Peter and John speaking before Sanhedrin are a good 358 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,840 example of the next point as well, which is this. 359 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:19,880 It's that we don't just need to know, but the other why? 360 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,560 The second why of wisdom is this. 361 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,600 We need to speak. Look at verse #13 Paul says 362 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,520 this, which things also we speak not in the words which man's 363 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,520 wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth, comparing 364 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,560 spiritual things with spiritual. Now when he's talking about we, 365 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,280 we speak because first of all, we saw just a moment ago we know 366 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,360 that was what we saw in the previous verse, and that we 367 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,440 might know the things that are freely given. 368 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,240 And verse 13 says that we need to speak, or at least we talking 369 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,160 of Paul and his companions. What's exactly is he talking 370 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,520 about? Well, that goes back to verse 371 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,320 number one of the same chapter. So just go a page back. 372 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,040 You might not even need to do that. 373 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,280 It says in chapter 2, verse 1. And I, brethren, when I came to 374 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:05,400 you, came not with Excellency of speech or wisdom, declaring unto 375 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,960 you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know 376 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,120 anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 377 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,640 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much 378 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,960 trembling. And my speech and my preaching 379 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,640 was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but the 380 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,880 demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 381 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,760 So he says, when I came to you and spoke, he's talking about 382 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,680 when I came to you and I spoke and I preached. 383 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:31,560 He says I came not in my own thought processes. 384 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,920 In fact, why would he not come in the world's thought process? 385 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,280 Well, if you jump over to chapter 3, verse 19, look at 386 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:39,880 this. It says for the wisdom of this 387 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,680 world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the 388 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,440 wise and their own craftiness. And again, the Lord knoweth the 389 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,560 thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 390 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,640 So going back to verse #12 now that we've kind of looked at the 391 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:58,240 bookends there, it says, now we or verse #13 which things also 392 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,440 we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth. 393 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,960 We just explained why that is, but which the Holy Ghost 394 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,280 teacheth. And then it says comparing 395 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:12,080 spiritual things with spiritual. Now that's an interesting phrase 396 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,000 there, isn't it? Comparing spiritual things with 397 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,480 spiritual? Now it might seem a little bit 398 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,440 complex, but I think in the context of what Paul is talking 399 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,600 about in his preaching ministry, remember we saw that he's 400 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,520 referencing preaching earlier before. 401 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,760 I believe that what he's saying is that they're to take two 402 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:32,960 elements. Comparing spiritual things of 403 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:38,000 spiritual is taking the spirit inspired word and the spirit 404 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,040 induced wisdom from above and putting them together. 405 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,400 Comparing spiritual things with spiritual, comparing the word of 406 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,440 God, putting together the word of God and the Spirit of God, 407 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,800 that these go together because when Paul spoke, he used the 408 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,520 word of God and the Spirit of God. 409 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,520 I think that's clear in the context of what we see here. 410 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:04,880 Think of it this way. Now I have, I've sailed many, 411 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:11,080 many see in this area, in fact, well, OK, once last week, but 412 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:17,600 and, and we almost died. But, but I, I don't have to be 413 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,400 an expert to know this, that if you are going to sail, you 414 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,320 probably need a couple things as far as navigation. 415 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,400 You need a map or a chart, as you know, we in the business 416 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,120 call it. And you also need a compass. 417 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,400 Now, if you have a compass and no chart, you always know where 418 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,840 north is, but you don't know where to go. 419 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,960 If you have a chart and no compass, you know what the sea 420 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,840 looks like, but you don't know where you are in it. 421 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,080 Comparing spiritual with spiritual means this is that we 422 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:01,760 have the Word of God and the Spirit of God together and that 423 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,880 we are able to use them both to be able to get that which we 424 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,800 need. Paul says this, when I spoke it 425 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,560 was with the Spirit of God and the Word of God together. 426 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,560 Comparing spiritual things with spiritual, it was the spirit 427 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,760 inspired word and the spirit induced wisdom that comes from 428 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,640 above. And they came together because 429 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,400 listen, if you have the Spirit of God but yet not the word of 430 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,400 God, you were lacking, aren't you? 431 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,240 Because you can live with the Spirit of God within you, but if 432 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,160 you don't read your Bible, you're missing a lot of 433 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,040 direction that you need. And do you remember what it was 434 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,760 like before you got saved and you opened the Bible? 435 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,280 You had the word of God, but you looked at it and you might as 436 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,840 well have been reading a foreign language because it meant 437 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,800 nothing to you, because why the Spirit of God was not within you 438 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,680 to be able to help you to learn the words that were inspired 439 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,280 from the Spirit. And so it's the Spirit of God 440 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,240 and the word of God that come together. 441 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,400 Remember the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8? 442 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,080 He's reading Isaiah 53, the chapter that spoke of the 443 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,720 smitten Savior. And he, he looks at Philip and 444 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,360 Philip says, do you know what you're reading? 445 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,840 And he says, how can I unless someone explains to me he 446 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,360 couldn't understand it on his own, He needed a spirit filled 447 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,880 man explain it until the Holy Spirit said, Yep, that's you, 448 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,080 you need to get saved. And he saw water. 449 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,040 And he says what hinders me from being baptized? 450 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,200 And he says, well, if you believe in your heart and the 451 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,560 gospel message, then you can get baptized. 452 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,120 And that's what happened. Now let's bring this back to us 453 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,840 for a moment, because it, this is Paul talking of himself. 454 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,240 And we say that we need to speak. 455 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,040 But it really says that Paul is speaking here, right? 456 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,640 The we here. I can't twist the Scriptures 457 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,520 here when it says in verse #13 these things also we speak. 458 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,120 I don't believe he's talking about you and I along with him, 459 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,200 but I don't think it's much of A leap to say this. 460 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,960 If this was the way that Paul was commanded to speak, to speak 461 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,360 in a way that was honoring to the Word of God and to the 462 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,400 Spirit of God, then shouldn't we be speaking the same way in our 463 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,120 ministries? So in my ministry, no, no, 464 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,760 you're a pastor. Paul was a missionary. 465 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,680 I am neither, so this really doesn't apply to me at all. 466 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,640 And that may be true. You may not be a pastor, but you 467 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,360 are called to be a proclaimer of truth. 468 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:29,960 No, no, if you are part of a local church, it is your job to 469 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,640 be a proclaimer of truth. To who? 470 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,560 Well, one to a lost and dying world that needs a savior. 471 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,600 And how are you going to show them to get saved? 472 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,120 Well, it's because of the Spirit of God and the Word of God 473 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,520 comparing spiritual things of spiritual. 474 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,240 That's the only way that the lost is going to be saved. 475 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,400 You think you or I have ideas of how people can get saved on 476 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,640 their own? I said Sunday night that if the 477 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,320 world had ideas of how to redeem themselves, they would have done 478 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,560 it by now. But they're descending into 479 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,000 further chaos. You know, if we're going to win 480 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,040 the lost, what do we need? The Word of God and the wisdom 481 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,680 of God from the Holy Spirit. But I would say this, even 482 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,840 within our church, what do we need to do? 483 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,160 It's not just the preacher that preaches. 484 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,160 Each of our lives preach. We're interconnected. 485 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,320 First Corinthians chapter #12 says this. 486 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,920 We're a body that each of us play a part. 487 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:25,720 And yes, you here have to be someone who compares spiritual 488 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,240 things with spiritual, that you're willing to help one 489 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,200 another, give encouragement, love, even sometimes a gentle 490 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,400 and loving rebuke to be able to give what is needed. 491 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,720 Hebrews 1024 and 25, let us consider one another to provoke 492 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,480 unto love and to good works. I think a lot of people just 493 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,600 hear that word provoke, and they just want to provoke each other. 494 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:48,680 That's what some churches are like. 495 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,960 They just provoke each other. But it says provoke. 496 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:55,400 I mean to prod unto what? To love and good works, and 497 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,960 that's why the next verse makes so much sense, not forsaking the 498 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,000 assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but 499 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,880 exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day 500 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,480 approaching. You know, what I love about the 501 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,040 fact that people stay around here till, oh, dark 30 after 502 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,640 every service is that that's part of the ministry of people 503 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,400 just talking to one another, encouraging one another. 504 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,440 It's it's in some of those conversations that you might get 505 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,640 something that might last with you longer than what I preach 506 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,680 here tonight. Now, in my vanity, I'd like to 507 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,200 think that everything I say here tonight is going to last with 508 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,960 you forever. But I'm also not a fool. 509 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,760 And it could just be tonight. What you needed to hear was a 510 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,960 conversation that happened in the back at 8:45 more than what 511 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,400 came from this pulpit tonight. You know, I'm not diminishing 512 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,960 the preaching of the word of God, not at all. 513 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,720 But I'm saying this is that you have to be a proclaimer of truth 514 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,960 as well. God's called you to do that. 515 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,200 Why? With a spirit and the word. 516 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,920 James 516. Confess your faults one to 517 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,520 another. Pray for one another, that you 518 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,680 might be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of 519 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,000 a righteous man availeth much. Galatians 6-1 and two brethren, 520 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, 521 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,840 restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering 522 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,640 thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 523 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,680 Bury one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 524 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,000 Listen, if someone here is overtaken in the fault, the 525 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,200 first thing we ought to do is try to love them to correction 526 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,400 in the Word of God. Now, if correction is not 527 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,080 achievable, then there's other things that have to take place. 528 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,920 But it's our desire for correction always to be that 529 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,760 which is the goal. Well, how does that happen? 530 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,360 What happens when we all of 1 heart say this? 531 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,680 We're going to compare spiritual things with spiritual. 532 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,200 We need to speak. It's not just the pastor's job. 533 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,720 There's a public ministry that each and every one of us have, 534 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,400 and we should be able to speak wisdom one to another. 535 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,160 It can't just come from the pulpit. 536 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,440 Listen, giving counsel is a sign of spiritual maturity, that 537 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,000 you're able to give counsel to somebody. 538 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,760 But I will say before you get too far down that road, if 539 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,760 you're able to give counsel, then you need to be able to 540 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,760 receive counsel because giving counsel is a sign of spiritual 541 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,040 maturity. But I would say even more so, 542 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,600 receiving counsel is a sign of spiritual maturity because yes, 543 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,080 you might be able to help someone else, but know this, 544 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,680 they might be able to help you or someone else may be able to 545 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,080 help you. And I do need to say we need to 546 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,320 be careful with this. We can't be puffed up with 547 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,000 pride. I'm the church corrector. 548 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,000 You know that that may be fine. Your spiritual gift may be to be 549 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,160 the judge, the church's judge, jury and executioner. 550 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,880 That might be what you think. But I will say this, when you 551 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,440 have the right spirit, you understand you're not looking 552 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,000 for a reason to go and correct other people. 553 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,880 In fact, you're committing other people to prayer 1st and you're 554 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,840 asking the Lord how he can use you in that process. 555 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,560 And when you do so, you it's done so in humility. 556 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,280 But we need to speak. And when we do so why with the 557 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,880 Spirit of God and the Word of God together? 558 00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,400 Well, God couldn't use me for that. 559 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,680 My, my question would be this, Why? 560 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,440 Well, I've done things in my past. 561 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,200 I'm pretty sure all of us have a past. 562 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,920 If you didn't have a past, then you wouldn't need to be saved. 563 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,160 Well, God couldn't use me for that. 564 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,400 Well, and I understand. Listen, if you have a past, you 565 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,600 may need to be a little bit circumspect about your, your 566 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,640 past and, and you don't want to show that you, you know so much 567 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,680 more. But doesn't that go back to the 568 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,280 issue of pride, having humility? And where do you get wisdom 569 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,480 from? Remember, there is no wisdom 570 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,240 without humility because you won't listen to the Spirit. 571 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,640 So it all goes together. But talking about being a judge, 572 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,640 jury and executioner, that also brings us to #3 tonight, which 573 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,840 is this number one, we need to know #2 we need to speak #3 we 574 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,400 need to judge. This is where people get a 575 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,920 little bit uptight. Oh, pastor, the Bible says don't 576 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,920 judge. Don't you know the Bible says 577 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,720 don't judge. And I'll tell you this, there 578 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,600 are a lot of people who don't know a lot about the Bible, but 579 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,000 they will tell you this. The Bible says don't judge. 580 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,960 They don't know John 316, but they say, don't judge. 581 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,360 Hey, you don't judge. Don't you know that? 582 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,920 Bible says don't judge? They even probably know it's in 583 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,400 Matthew Chapter 7. And what they've done is they've 584 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,920 taken a list of about 8 verses, scrabbled, scribbled everything 585 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,960 out around it, and all they left was 2 words. 586 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,360 Judge not and don't know the context or anything that goes 587 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,080 along with that. Matthew Chapter 7 is one of the 588 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,760 most misquoted passages of scripture. 589 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,840 You realize judgment is needed in every area of life. 590 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,640 In fact, if you don't have judgment, I worry for you. 591 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,600 You have exercised judgment today multiple times. 592 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,120 When you reached in the fridge this morning and you saw that 593 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:45,480 that milk said July 30th on it. And you know what you did? 594 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,600 You kind of looked at it from the outside, swirled it around 595 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,440 to see if there's any cottage cheese forming inside. 596 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,880 You sniffed it. If you have a kid, you say, hey, 597 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:59,640 Peyton, taste this. You know, you know, you know, 598 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,960 that's judgment. You see what I'm saying? 599 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:03,960 Listen, that's judgment, all right? 600 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,960 But no, you take all of the data and you say, OK, this is all 601 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,040 right. You say, well, do I want to 602 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,800 purchase this or not? And you check other places to 603 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,520 see what the prices are at different stores. 604 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,080 Do I buy it online? Do I buy it in person? 605 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,800 Do I even need this in the 1st place? 606 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,720 That's exercising judgment. Hey, do I trust this person or 607 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,280 not? This person has betrayed a trust 608 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,480 in the past. Can I trust them? 609 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,640 Again, we're not talking about forgiving. 610 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,400 I'm talking about can I trust them with something precious or 611 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,600 deep that takes judgment. If you don't use judgment, 612 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,680 you're a fool. So when the Bible says judge 613 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,280 not, it's not talking about not using judgment. 614 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,280 That what's cond, what's condemned in the Bible is 615 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,640 hypocritical judgment that comes from a prideful heart. 616 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,560 Hypocritical judgment that comes from a heart of pride. 617 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,360 John 724 says judge not according to appearance, but 618 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,120 judge. Righteous judgment. 619 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:07,040 John 816 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not 620 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,880 alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 621 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,720 Jesus says I judge now He came not for judgment. 622 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,520 He actually says that later in the sense that his goal would 623 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,440 come to his earthly ministry was to seek and to save that which 624 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,360 was lost. But Jesus Christ is the 625 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:27,280 righteous judge and so we have to in having the mind of Christ, 626 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,480 doesn't that isn't that what it says at the end of the chapter, 627 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,800 to have the mind of Christ? If we have to have or we are 628 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,000 able to have the mind of Christ, what do we need to do? 629 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,920 We have to judge righteously. Not that we are someone's judge, 630 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,840 jury and executioner, but we need to understand some things 631 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,880 in life. But getting back to these 632 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,240 verses, because I think this is where we really need to drill 633 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,760 down here, this issue of judging. 634 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,320 Look at verse #14 But the natural man receiveth not the 635 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,400 things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness unto him, 636 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,920 neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. 637 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,840 And that's what we're talking about. 638 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,520 A few moments ago you would have sat in a church service before 639 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,240 you got saved and before the Holy Spirit started working your 640 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,280 heart. And you thought these people are 641 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,800 crazy. And then you come here and you 642 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,080 say, man, this is like home. Well, what changed? 643 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:09,720 Did they change? No, you changed. 644 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,920 The Holy Spirit changed in your life. 645 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,600 You read the Bible before and again, it could have been in 646 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,240 Greek, Hebrew or English and you would have known the difference. 647 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,800 You got saved. You started to understand some 648 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,760 things in the Word of God. That's the Spirit. 649 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,840 Look at verse 15. But he that is, He is spiritual, 650 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,280 judgeth all things, yet He himself is judged of no man. 651 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,440 So when we say that we need to judge, the Word is used at the 652 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,640 last word of verse 14, and then it's continued on into verse 653 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,680 415. And the issue is this 654 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:46,320 discernment, discernment, judgment is needed to be able to 655 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,240 have discernment. And it says he that a spiritual 656 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,720 judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 657 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,720 A spiritual person can discern truth through the Spirit, but 658 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,800 the unregenerate cannot judge the believers understanding. 659 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,120 See, we as believers are able to see the full picture in this 660 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,560 world because of the Spirit. But the people who are unsaved 661 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,880 cannot understand who we are. It's like being on the outside 662 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,080 looking in. I'll put it to you this way. 663 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,600 Before you got saved, let's say you used to go to the bar room 664 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,800 and it was just a place where people were happy. 665 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,080 They're joyful frivolity. It was good camaraderie. 666 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,679 You know, that's what it was. But you know, once you're saved, 667 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,120 you start to see past all that, don't you? 668 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,800 And you see a lot of other things. 669 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:43,800 You see sadness, you see people that maybe don't have friends, 670 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,080 and that's the only place that they have any kind of friends 671 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:52,400 whatsoever. You see lust, you see vanity, 672 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,760 you hear cursing that you never heard before. 673 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,320 The people used to talk like that here. 674 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,040 Yeah, they always did. I'll put it to you this way, in 675 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,440 a way that you may be understanding more. 676 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,120 You ever watch a movie before you got saved? 677 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,760 And he said, but it's a family movie. 678 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,360 Oh, this is great. And then after you got saved, 679 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,360 maybe got right with the Lord, started doing some things and 680 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,520 discipled a little bit, you watch that same movie and all of 681 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,400 a sudden you were cringing 10 minutes in. 682 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,920 You said this was in here. Who? 683 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:23,160 Who put this stuff in the movie? Since the last time I watched 684 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,880 it, It's the same movie. Hey, the movie didn't change. 685 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,480 You did. Holy Spirit lives inside of you. 686 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,080 So what it's being said here the spiritual can judge all things 687 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,760 meaning this, that we understand the realm of the spiritual, but 688 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,320 now we have clarity of the realm of the unsaved that we didn't 689 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,680 have before. But the unsaved, it says here 690 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,800 the unsaved himself is judge of no man meaning this. 691 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,920 The unsaved look at us. They don't get it. 692 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,680 They don't get why we go to church all the time. 693 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,080 They don't get why we would give money in the offering. 694 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,880 They don't get why we'd support missionaries. 695 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,000 They don't get why we would have special meetings where we might 696 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,960 go to church multiple times in a week. 697 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,960 They don't understand why I'd have a back to school bash and 698 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,560 not really want anything from anybody. 699 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,880 And we're not even campaigning. We're not really getting 700 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,240 donations at the door or anything. 701 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:10,800 We just want to meet people and tell people, but they don't get 702 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,560 it. In fact, we will have people 703 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,840 that will come here next week and they're they're waiting for 704 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,920 the other shoe to drop. They're just waiting for for the 705 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,320 hook, like, OK, yeah, we'll get the book. 706 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,000 It's the supplies. But what, you, you, you need 707 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,880 blood. You want Social Security number? 708 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,560 You need my tax returns. And the answer is yes, we do 709 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,440 need all of those. No, that's not true. 710 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,880 They can't understand that. We just want to minister to 711 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,480 people because that's what Jesus Christ does. 712 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,560 And we want to see people saved because that's what God's called 713 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,400 us to do. So what I love about this first 714 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,400 is this, do you realize now you get the whole picture that 715 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,040 you're saved? You have discernment. 716 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,520 You see what the old way of life was and you say, hey, that 717 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,360 wasn't so fun. The good old days weren't so 718 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,600 good. All that fun wasn't so fun. 719 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,320 I think of all the the laughter and the joy I had. 720 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,440 But now I remember there was a lot of crying when I got home 721 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,280 and a lot of things I don't remember because of what 722 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,320 happened. How does that happen? 723 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,520 It's a spirit. The Spirit helps us to judge, to 724 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:30,280 discern the things of our life. We have to in essence, as it 725 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,080 says in verse 16, for with known the mind of the Lord, that He 726 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,280 may instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ 727 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,640 and actually goes back to Isaiah chapter 40 verse #13 hearkening 728 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,760 back to the Old Testament. But we are to have the judgment 729 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,200 of the mind of Christ. Did Jesus Christ have 730 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,160 discernment? You better believe it. 731 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,400 That's why He did not sin, Because He discerned between the 732 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,360 right and the wrong, and that we with the mind of Christ can do 733 00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,520 the same. Now listen. 734 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,360 Why do we need this discernment? Why is it so important that we 735 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:09,040 listen to the Spirit? Because we've only really looked 736 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,720 at 2 spheres so far, haven't we? We've looked at the regenerate 737 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:16,880 and the unregenerate, the saved and the unsaved, but Paul is 738 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:22,080 going to open up a new theater of battle, if you will, here in 739 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,000 chapter 3 verse one. Now we're going to get a taste 740 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,280 of this and we'll get into it next week. 741 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,000 But look at what it says this. And I brethren, could not speak 742 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,640 unto you as spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes 743 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:34,880 in Christ. You know what he's going to go 744 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,800 on and say? He said, I want to share some of 745 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,800 this wisdom with you, but I couldn't because you are too 746 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:47,640 much like the world. Do you like this tonight? 747 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:53,280 Do you want this gift? It's available, but it's because 748 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,560 of pride. If it's because you don't love 749 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,600 God as you should, it's because you're carnal. 750 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,760 Listen, you're not able to access these things as you want. 751 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,120 You lose the judgment that you need. 752 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,800 That's why even Christians who have backslidden, they make 753 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,200 decisions and they justify them in ways that they're twisting 754 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,800 the Bible into a pretzel. But to them, it makes sense. 755 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,360 Why? Because they stopped listening 756 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,840 to the Spirit. Oh, the Spirit still lives 757 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:20,840 inside of them. Don't be wrong. 758 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,760 We're not messing up with our theology there. 759 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,560 But they stopped listening to the Spirit. 760 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,440 And that's why the Bible says quench not the Spirit. 761 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,400 First Thessalonians, chapter 5. These are some amazing gifts. 762 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,880 These are the whys of wisdom. Why do we need wisdom? 763 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,200 Because we need to know. We need to know stuff. 764 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,640 Where are you going to get that from the Spirit? 765 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,480 Because we need to speak. God's called us to be ministers 766 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,920 of grace. And so how do we do we need to 767 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:50,440 speak comparing spiritual things, spiritual and we need to 768 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,160 judge. We need to have some 769 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,640 discernment. And there's a, it's a complex 770 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,120 world we live in and how do we navigate the complexities? 771 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,280 It's the Spirit. But here's what's amazing to me. 772 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,040 You have all of these gifts at the ready. 773 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:10,280 But here's the problem. Oftentimes we lean far too much 774 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:16,320 on others and not on the Spirit. Listen, will you have a problem? 775 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:20,040 Where's the 1st place you need to go to the Lord in prayer? 776 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,960 Well, I'll call the pastor. You can call me. 777 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,400 Make sure you call the Lord first. 778 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,440 I'm not trying to be flippant how I say that, but you 779 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,240 understand what I'm saying. You talk to the Lord first. 780 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:33,960 Why? Because if you come to me and I 781 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,760 ask you about it and you say, well I haven't really talked to 782 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,240 the Lord about it first and say I'll meet with you next week, in 783 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,400 the meantime you get with the Lord. 784 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,520 Why? Because I'm not your priest. 785 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:48,000 You remember that we, we will Baptist were never part of that 786 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,000 in the 1st place, but the priest had to be in the way of God. 787 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,520 There's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. 788 00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:59,480 Thank the Lord you have this gift. 789 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,040 Use it. These are the whys. 790 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,360 Who doesn't need these things? We need them till we get to 791 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,680 glory and the Spirit is inside of us. 792 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,080 I'll use this example and I'm done. 793 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,000 Imagine for a moment this is totally imaginary. 794 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,160 Just want to make this very clear. 795 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,600 Imagine that. I got a call this afternoon from 796 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:22,480 a bank in Boston and I had an inheritance I knew nothing of, a 797 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,560 family member that I didn't know that just passed away. 798 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:30,120 And they had bequeathed to me $50 million. 799 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,560 Could you imagine that? I would only have to, I could 800 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,160 only imagine it because it wouldn't happen. 801 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,400 But I made it $50 million. And they told me that it was at 802 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,720 the bank, this bank, large bank, downtown Boston. 803 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,720 And I'm about to get off the phone. 804 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,760 I'm about to tell Diane. And I look at her and she's, 805 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,960 she's working on ironically, some of our finances and she's 806 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,040 looking at the budget and it's, you know, it's tight. 807 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,200 In fact, we're, we're pinching pennies just to be able to make 808 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,440 it. Again, this is theoretical. 809 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,680 Just to be clear, I'm not, it's not a call for, you know, 810 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,640 donations or anything for the pastor. 811 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,360 I just want to make clear, but there's a serious part to this. 812 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:21,000 I just found out I have the answer to everything that we 813 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,960 need, in essence, an unlimited supply. 814 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,320 Now we know that's not true, but in general, I mean, it'll be 815 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,480 fine. And she says, I explained to 816 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,880 her, I just got this call $50 million. 817 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,200 And she says, are you kidding? This is great. 818 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,120 This fixes our budget. This fixes everything. 819 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,280 This is everything. I don't even need to worry about 820 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:45,680 this anymore. She closed the laptop. 821 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,320 She's not even counting the pennies anymore. 822 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,440 It's like everything said, listen, before you get carried 823 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,400 away. I mean, it's in the middle of 824 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,520 Boston. I mean, who wants to drive down 825 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,440 there? I probably have to pay to park. 826 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,920 It's probably 50 bucks. I'm going to go in. 827 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,600 Is it probably got one of those lines. 828 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,680 You know, they, they probably have those, it looks like you're 829 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,440 going to Disney World. You know, just keep going back 830 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:09,840 and forth. There's still some banks that 831 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,200 have those lines. You know, you just keep going 832 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,120 back and forth and back and forth and it just I probably 833 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,400 have to wait there an hour or two. 834 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,960 You know, they told me when I get there, I have to have my ID 835 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,680 and I had to give a fingerprint to be able to identify who I am. 836 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,480 It's, I'll be honest with you. I mean, it's great and all, but 837 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,520 it's, it's, it's going to be a lot of work. 838 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,800 And I'd probably just, you know, we're, we're probably, I mean, 839 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,360 we're making it now, right? I mean, we're making it 840 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,480 according to what you're saying. We're making it. 841 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:37,960 I mean, sure, it's tight, but we're making. 842 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,480 And you're looking at me the way that you ought to be looking at 843 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,600 me because that's ludicrous. But a lot of you live like that, 844 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,160 and your pastor lives like that too, sometimes that you have 845 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,520 something greater than $50 million deposited in your 846 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,640 account. You have the Holy Spirit who 847 00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:00,480 lives inside of you, and we've got every excuse of the book not 848 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,680 to be able to avail ourselves to his wisdom. 849 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:07,280 And you've got a treasure that is unspeakable in earthen 850 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,920 vessels. The Bible says in this body, why 851 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,360 would you not utilize him? Could it be because you're too 852 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:18,480 comfortable in your sin and you'd rather not speak to a Holy 853 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,640 Spirit? And I don't mean to speak to him 854 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,440 as audibly, but you understand what I'm saying is that you 855 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,080 don't want to avail yourself to him because he's holy and you're 856 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,440 very comfortable in your carnal sin. 857 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,800 It's a problem. Comfortable in your own ways, 858 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,680 your own thought processes. You just, you just don't think 859 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,280 it's possible. Maybe you don't trust Him 860 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,840 enough. Listen, he's good for it. 861 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,040 You can trust Him. Avail yourself. 862 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,360 These are the wise of wisdom. These and infinitely more are 863 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:53,800 brought to you by the God of heaven. 864 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,840 Avail yourself to the greatest treasure you could ever imagine, 865 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,000 which is Christ in you, the hope of glory and His Spirit. 866 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,840 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 867 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,760 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 868 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,240 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 869 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:15,840 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 870 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,640 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 871 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,480 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 872 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,680 grow in His Word.