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 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,840 Would you turn in your Bibles please to 1st Corinthians 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,120 chapter #2 First Corinthians chapter #2 Once you've done 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:36,600 that, mark it and get to not Galatians Genesis chapter. #3 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,520 because we'll go there in just a moment as well. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,240 We'll start in First Corinthians chapter 2, but then we will go 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:49,280 over to Genesis chapter #3. How does a person get wise? 13 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:51,200 You know, it's an age-old question, isn't it? 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,760 How does a person become wise? And I know we've talked a lot 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,680 about wisdom over the last few weeks from First Corinthians 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,760 chapter #1 but it does come upon us here in our text here tonight 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,640 as well. How does a person get wise? 18 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,720 Is it because they have a college education? 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,240 Is it because they have a high IQ? 20 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,360 Is it because they have lots and lots of books in their library? 21 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,000 Is it because they watch an endless stream of lectures or 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,760 Ted talks on YouTube? Is it by memorizing an 23 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,920 encyclopedia? How does a person get wise? 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,000 Well, I will say this, and you could probably attest to this 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,720 with people you have met in your own life. 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,560 Some of the wisest people that I have ever met are people that 27 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,880 maybe never graduated from high school and some of the most 28 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,480 ignorant. And frankly, I don't know what I 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,520 want to say here. We'll just stick with ignorant. 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,520 How about that? Some of the most ignorant people 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,880 that I've ever met have their last names end with PhD. 32 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,520 You know, it's not necessarily about how much education you 33 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,240 have with how wise you are. So what makes the difference 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,800 when it comes to wisdom? Well, I would attest to you this 35 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,440 evening that the Bible talks much about this. 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,600 We go to Proverbs chapter 2 verses one through 6, where it 37 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,440 says, My son, if thou will receive my words, and he hide my 38 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,480 commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,200 wisdom, and apply thy heart unto understanding. 40 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,920 Yeah, if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest up thy 41 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:23,000 voice for understanding, if thou seekest her as silver and 42 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,920 searchest for her As for hid treasures, then shalt thou 43 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:29,200 understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,320 For the Lord giveth wisdom. Hear me. 45 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,320 The Lord giveth wisdom. Out of his mouth cometh 46 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,080 knowledge and understanding. Now, Paul talks about this very 47 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,960 issue tonight as he continues his conversation about what real 48 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,840 wisdom is all about. But the bottom line when it 49 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,720 comes to wisdom, and really it's the place we've been getting to 50 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,960 the last few weeks we've been looking at it, is that when it 51 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,160 comes to wisdom, the world just doesn't get it. 52 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,920 When it comes to wisdom, the world just doesn't get it. 53 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,400 But the good news is. That you can and I can. 54 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,000 And that's a blessing because it doesn't come down to the amount 55 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,920 of books that you have or the education you have or the IQ 56 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,640 that you may think that you have, whether you're a Mensa 57 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:13,360 candidate or not, that it really comes down to this. 58 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,840 If you are a child of God, the wisdom of the universe is 59 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,440 available. To you and. 60 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,600 That's an amazing prospect that we have. 61 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,440 Well, let's go ahead and read First Corinthians chapter #2 and 62 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,840 we'll read verses 6 through 10 this evening. 63 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,360 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not 64 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,040 the wisdom of this world, nor of the Princess of this world that 65 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,600 come to not. But we speak the wisdom of God 66 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,360 in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before 67 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,520 the world unto our glory, which none of the Princess of this 68 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,840 world knew. For had they known it, they 69 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,520 would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 70 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,320 But as is written, I have not seen nor are heard, neither have 71 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,120 entered into the heart of man, the things which God has 72 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,760 prepared for them that love Him. But God revealed them unto us by 73 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,760 a spirit. For the Spirit searches all 74 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,640 things, yeah, the deep things of God. 75 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,760 And while the five verses that we just made read may seem a 76 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,880 little bit like a repeat or retread of what we've looked at 77 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,040 over the last few weeks, I believe that it just takes us 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,240 even deeper into this issue of wisdom and the fact that if you 79 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,399 are a child of God, wisdom is available. 80 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,120 To you at the ready now. Wisdom has always been. 81 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,080 A battleground between two distinct thought processes. 82 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,840 In fact, consider this. The issue of wisdom was probably 83 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:35,520 the very first battleground in human history. 84 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,360 That's why I want to go to Genesis chapter #3. 85 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,560 So why don't you turn there quickly? 86 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,680 Save your spot here in First Corinthians chapter 2, but go to 87 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,960 Genesis chapter #3 and you know that in Genesis chapter 3 we see 88 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,600 the fall of mankind. And so here in Genesis chapter 89 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,640 3, let's start in verse #1 we'll get right into it, because you 90 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,560 have your place already. And it says, Now the serpent was 91 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,680 more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had 92 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,280 made. And he said unto the woman, Yay 93 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,320 hath. God said, Ye shall not eat of 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,120 every tree of the garden. What is Satan's first way of 95 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,800 trying to get mankind's heart away from God? 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,880 He says Yay hath God says, listen, when the word of God is 97 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,120 questioned, it's in a bad place. Now I'm not talking about you 98 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,320 questioning someone who preaches the word of God, the Bereans, It 99 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,280 says in the book of Acts, we're always searching the Scriptures 100 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:28,880 to see whether the things that Paul said were so no, we're 101 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,160 talking about questioning God and questioning his word about 102 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,120 whether he is real, about whether he is valid, about 103 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,120 whether he is true. Yeah, hath God said, and Eve 104 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,560 says, it says in verse 2, under the serpent, we may eat of the 105 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,880 fruit of the trees of the garden. 106 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,240 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the 107 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,760 garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye 108 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,480 touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the 109 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,720 woman, Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the 110 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,080 day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and he 111 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,640 shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 112 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,480 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it 113 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,360 was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one 114 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,920 wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave 115 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,280 also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 116 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,040 So what does the Bible tell us here? 117 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,840 That as Satan questions the woman about her relationship 118 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,480 with God, and about this fruit that is there, he says this. 119 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,240 He says, For God doth know that in the day He eat thereof, then 120 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,800 your eyes shall be opened, and He shall be, as God's knowing 121 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,720 good and evil. And here I believe we find 122 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,440 perhaps Satan's greatest lie of all, perhaps his most 123 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,040 foundational lie of all, which is this is that we can be 124 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,720 independently wise apart from God. 125 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,840 They had all wisdom. They had God, a relationship 126 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:52,600 with him. They walk with him in the cool 127 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,600 of the garden. The Bible says, but here is 128 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,600 Satan and says this, He's holding back from you. 129 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,200 He's withholding what you really deserve. 130 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,200 Do you want to really be wise? Do you want to really know 131 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,200 what's happening and what's going on? 132 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:08,160 Here's what you need to do. Get a hold of that fruit. 133 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:11,400 And he's withholding his very best from you. 134 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,040 And his very first tactic, if you will, was this is that 135 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,240 there's no need for God, no need for his revelation, that you can 136 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,320 be wise of yourself. And by the way, there's a lot of 137 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,280 people that think that way even today, don't they? 138 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,360 That wisdom can be found apart from God. 139 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,480 And the fact of the matter is, although people can be wise even 140 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,680 if they don't know Jesus Christ as their Savior in certain 141 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,880 aspects of their life, but when they are that way and they have 142 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,400 knowledge and they have wisdom, it still comes from God because 143 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,520 all wisdom and all knowledge flows from God and God alone. 144 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,680 And so it says right here, here's the battleground. 145 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,960 He says you can be independently wise. 146 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,040 And listen, you can't be wise apart from God. 147 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,080 We can be wise in our own conceits. 148 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,080 We can be wise in our own thought processes. 149 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,120 We can be wise in our own way of living. 150 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,040 But there's no true biblical wisdom apart from God. 151 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:11,960 Now go back to or go down to rather verse #15 and look at 152 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,320 verse #15 very quickly with me, it says, and I will put enmity 153 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,720 between thee and the woman, in between thy seed and her seed. 154 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,360 It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise its heel. 155 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,000 Now this verse that we see right here in Genesis 36, let's try 156 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,919 that again in Genesis 315. A great mystery has been 157 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:35,400 revealed. At least this mystery has been 158 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,240 presented. Maybe would be a better way of 159 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,640 saying it. It's sometimes called the proto 160 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:45,160 V, Proto V. That's proto vangelium. 161 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,760 All right. It's right here phonetically in 162 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,520 my notes, and I still can't get it right here. 163 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,480 It's the first mention of the gospel in the Bible. 164 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,480 That's why we just say it that way instead of what am I doing, 165 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,160 Joe? All right. 166 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,360 And so it's the first mention of the gospel in the Bible. 167 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,160 But when you read that, it really, it's hard to maybe 168 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,000 recognize that it's the gospel, isn't it? 169 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,240 I mean, maybe the first time you read that you said. 170 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,800 You know that. Doesn't really sound like the 171 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,160 gospel to me, and I don't have time this evening to go into why 172 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,760 is the gospel. I've explained it before here at 173 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,200 the church, but I would tell you this, it's the very first 174 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,200 mention of it, and it's a mention that is still quite 175 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,880 mysterious, isn't it? There's a whole lot of more 176 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,360 information that we don't know about. 177 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,200 Do we know the name of Jesus Christ? 178 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,400 Do we know that He is going to be Incarnate? 179 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,920 Do we know there's going to be a cross? 180 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,640 Do we know that He's going to shed His blood? 181 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,000 We don't know that. What we know is a mystery has 182 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,600 been presented to us here and throughout the Bible, and 183 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,080 particularly that the Old Testament. 184 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,640 This mystery is revealed a little bit more and a little bit 185 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,160 more as we see prophecies are made. 186 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,920 We find out that the Savior is going to be born in Bethlehem. 187 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,560 We find out that He is going to live and that he is going to 188 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,440 die, and Proverbs or rather Psalms chapter 22 talks about 189 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,520 the smitten Savior and even give some of the words that were on 190 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,600 the cross and that not a bone would be broken while he was on 191 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,800 the cross. And so this mystery starts 192 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,760 gradually being revealed until we find that Jesus himself is 193 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,280 revealed as the one who was the actual revelation of that 194 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,000 mystery. Romans 16 verse 25 and 26 Now to 195 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 him that is of power to establish you according to my 196 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,880 gospel. And the preaching of Jesus 197 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,000 Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, which 198 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,840 was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest 199 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,800 and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the 200 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,120 commandment of the everlasting God made known to all nations 201 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,640 for the obedience of faith. So what this is saying is there 202 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,440 was a time in the Old Testament when there was a mystery that 203 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,080 was unclear necessarily everything was going to happen. 204 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,960 That's why people took it by faith in the Old Testament that 205 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,400 there was going to be a Savior to come. 206 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,520 But then Jesus Christ comes and he reveals himself. 207 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,280 Now Can you imagine the day that He comes in that triumphal 208 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,880 entry, the day that He's on that donkey, the day that they're 209 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,640 taking palm branches and laying it down, The day that people are 210 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,640 saying hosanna, hosanna, Lord save us all is taking place. 211 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,400 And it's all because of a prophecy that was made in 212 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,680 Zechariah Chapter 9, verse 9. Rejoice greatly. 213 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:18,680 O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, 214 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,320 thy King cometh unto thee. He is just and having salvation 215 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,600 and lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the full of an 216 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,840 ass. Now you say, OK pastor, 217 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:31,200 everything you just said is true. 218 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,240 I understand what you're saying, but what on earth does this have 219 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,880 to do with First Corinthians chapter #2 And that's a fair 220 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,640 question. But we're going to see in just a 221 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,720 moment that this mystery is spoken of in the text that we 222 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,720 just spoke, that we just read in First Corinthians. 223 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,960 And the fact of the matter was, is that at that time there were 224 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,360 two different responses on that day, wasn't there? 225 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:55,680 There were people who believed Jesus was who he said he was, 226 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,760 and there were people who said he's a fraud, he's an imposter, 227 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,800 he's not God, he should die. There were two responses. 228 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,280 May I submit to you that today there's still 2 responses to 229 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,720 Jesus Christ. There's faith and there's 230 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:16,840 unbelief, and from that there is wisdom and wisdom withheld or 231 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,160 wisdom and wisdom avoided, or wisdom that doesn't want to be 232 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,200 assimilated in the heart of the unbelievers. 233 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,800 I want us to look at this here at our text as we see number 234 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:33,720 one, that wisdom is a mystery. Number one, wisdom, there it is, 235 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,760 is a mystery. Go back to First Corinthians 236 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:44,680 chapter #2 there is some mystery that is associated with this 237 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:47,400 issue of wisdom. Well, how could that be? 238 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,520 Well, letter A, it's because wisdom is hidden from the world. 239 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,880 Look at verse #8 it says which none of the Princess of this 240 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,560 world knew. For had they known it, they 241 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:01,880 would not have crucified the. Lord of glory. 242 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,760 The wisdom of who Jesus was was hidden from the world. 243 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,320 It was hidden from those who refused to open their hearts to 244 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,480 the Spirit. Look at verse #14 But the 245 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,520 natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for 246 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,880 they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because 247 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,200 they are spiritually discerned. Romans 1 verses 18 through 20 248 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,880 say. For the wrath of God is revealed 249 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,840 from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness 250 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,120 of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness, because that 251 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,320 which may be known of God as manifest in them, for God has 252 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,680 showed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him 253 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,320 from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being 254 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,760 understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power 255 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,600 and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. 256 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,840 What is being said here is not that God hid wisdom from someone 257 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,320 in the sense that we don't want God said, I don't want you to 258 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,520 see what salvation is about. I don't want you to know what 259 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,920 the gospel is about. You can't know the gospel, 260 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,520 remember that veers into Calvinistic teaching where some 261 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,800 people are saved and some people are damned and God's the one 262 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,240 that decides and free will is an illusion. 263 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,800 No, no, this is not what's being said here, but that God reveals 264 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,960 himself to all men and that there is a group of people that 265 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,240 don't want to know God, that willfully do this. 266 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,560 They don't want to hear, they don't want to know that they, 267 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,160 they, they looked Jesus in the face when he was going into the 268 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,240 triumphal entry and they wanted nothing to do with him. 269 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,080 I can't fathom that. I'd like to think that if I saw 270 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,560 Jesus during his earthly ministry that immediately I 271 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,280 would have recognized who he was, That immediately I would 272 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,000 have realized, wow, this is a man that I need to follow for 273 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,120 the rest of my life and into eternity. 274 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,920 There were those who looked at him in the eye and said I want 275 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,320 nothing to do with him. There were people who wanted 276 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,480 nothing to do with him where they saw him raise Lazarus from 277 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,200 the dead. And the Bible says that some 278 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,400 rejoiced and believed and others said we need to kill Jesus and 279 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,800 Lazarus. I don't understand that other 280 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,960 than there are people who are willfully ignorant, that they 281 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,320 don't want to know God and they don't want to know the wisdom of 282 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,960 God and it says they would have crucified the Lord. 283 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,440 Of glory. That's a reference to. 284 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,280 Psalm chapter 24 when it says who is this king of glory? 285 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,760 And Psalm chapter 24 is a triumphal Psalm, much like Psalm 286 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,360 chapter 22 is a Psalm of crucifixion and Psalm 20. 3 is a 287 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,200 Psalm of the shepherd. Psalm 24 is a triumphal song of 288 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,680 the the King, the sovereign being crowned, that king being 289 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Jesus, who is this king of glory? 290 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,000 They looked at the King of glory and they said this, let's 291 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,320 crucify him. That is the opposite of wisdom. 292 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,320 That is the exact opposite of anything that could resemble 293 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,360 wisdom. But you want something that 294 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,240 makes your head spin the night you say, oh, pastor, nothing 295 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,160 would make me happier on a Wednesday night after working 296 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,360 all day to have something that would make my head spin and make 297 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,880 me feel like I'm going underwater. 298 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:57,960 So, you know, let's go for it anyway. 299 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,280 All right, think about this for a second. 300 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,840 God knowing that these worldly authorities that are mentioned. 301 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,360 Here these Princess of the world, knowing that they would 302 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:15,360 reject him, knowing that they would reject the mystery, he 303 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,080 still used them to be able to fulfill his purposes. 304 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,440 And he knew the free will decisions that they were going 305 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,800 to make before the foundation of the world and used them to be 306 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,200 able to secure salvation for you and me because that's how he 307 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,800 went to the cross. He said, whoa pastor, could you 308 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,000 repeat that on Sunday, maybe after I've had a few days of 309 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,160 rest. Do you understand that God took 310 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,120 the unbelief, God took the foolishness of the unbeliever 311 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,720 before the foundation of the world, as the vessel of which he 312 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,040 would go to the cross? He knew they would put the nails 313 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,320 in his hands. He knew they would shout crucify 314 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,800 him. He knew that they would spit at 315 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,359 him and mock him and curse him and buff at him and put the 316 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:10,240 crown of thorns upon his head. And God used them. 317 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,160 Any way to fulfill his purpose? You want to talk about wisdom? 318 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,760 That's a wise God. I can't handle myself. 319 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,440 I can't figure myself out. Let alone a church, let alone a 320 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,839 state, let alone a country, let alone a continent, let alone a 321 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,000 world of 8 billion people and all the people who ever lived in 322 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,240 God is. Over it all, that's the kind of 323 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,800 wisdom I need. It's not the kind of wisdom that 324 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,080 says, oh, God's not real. Oh, Jesus, he's, you know, he's 325 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,400 nobody. You know, it seems very clear 326 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,640 here that they have rejected the Lord of glory, and with that 327 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,840 they have rejected wisdom itself. 328 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,520 So these people, wisdom has been closed off. 329 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,800 Sure, they can stumble upon wisdom here and there because 330 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,640 all truth is God's truth, but they cannot truly know wisdom, 331 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,160 no matter how much education, knowledge, books, or accolades 332 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,240 they possess. However, there is good news for 333 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,720 us tonight because I believe, you know, we know Jesus Christ 334 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,840 our saved this evening. If you do, there's some very 335 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,480 good news for you. And that's this, that wisdom is 336 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,880 revealed to the believer. So while the unsaved have closed 337 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,240 them off from true wisdom because they know not Christ, 338 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,480 wisdom is revealed to you. And I look at verse #6 how be it 339 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,400 we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom 340 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,320 of this world or the Princess of this world that come to not? 341 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,360 So Paul was talking about, remember speaking because we saw 342 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,920 in verses one through 5 a couple weeks ago, the last time I 343 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,920 preached from here, that he was talking about his manner of 344 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,720 preaching, his manner of speaking, the way he spoke to 345 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,000 the people at Corinth and when he went to other churches as 346 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,640 well. But He says, howbeit we speak 347 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,040 wisdom among them that are perfect. 348 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,080 While wisdom is not truly available to the unbeliever, it 349 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,360 is available for those of us who are believers. 350 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,000 This is the good news that you don't need any of those things. 351 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,400 I mentioned the beginning of the message that you need the Lord 352 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,520 to be able to truly get wisdom. Colossians 126 through 28. 353 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,680 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from 354 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,760 generations. Remember the mystery, That 355 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,960 mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, 356 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:27,560 is now made manifest to His Saints, mystery solved, to whom 357 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,120 God would make known. What is the riches of the glory 358 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,680 of this mystery among the Gentiles? 359 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,440 Which is Christ in you? The hope of glory whom we 360 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,080 preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all 361 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,760 wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in. 362 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,360 Christ Jesus to those of us who were saved. 363 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:51,280 It's mystery solved. Now we know who Jesus Christ is. 364 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,960 We've trusted Him in our Savior, and because of that, now true 365 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,360 wisdom can be accessible where it was not accessible to us 366 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,200 before. Remember, true wisdom before was 367 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,320 foolishness to us. That's chapter one. 368 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,040 It was foolishness. But now that we know who He is, 369 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,840 it's like, wow, this makes sense. 370 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,760 That's why you can read your Bible after you get saved. 371 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,640 You say, wow, this makes sense and you read it before you got 372 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,760 saved. You said this is a bunch of of 373 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,560 gobbledygook. I don't know what's going on. 374 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,680 I don't understand it. I'm reading the words, but it 375 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,680 doesn't connect to my heart. And now it does because you're 376 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,680 saved and you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you. 377 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,320 But there is a caveat here when it says that he speaks wisdom 378 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,120 among them that are perfect. Now, if you're like me, you 379 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,680 think of that word perfect. Do you think, well, I'm not 380 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,520 going to be perfect until I get to heaven, right? 381 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,600 Until we get to be with the Lord, we're not going to be 382 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,840 perfect. But the way the word perfect is 383 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:48,040 used here in the Greek is the word teleos, which means mature, 384 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,600 complete or fully developed to be a mature believer, that 385 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,120 that's what it's Speaking of here when it's talking about 386 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:59,080 this type of perfection, not our ultimate perfection when we 387 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,600 reach glory. So why is this important? 388 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:08,920 If the mystery has been revealed to us, then we have to make sure 389 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:14,600 to receive it that we are perfect or spiritually mature. 390 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,720 Listen, the day you got saved, were you wise in all things? 391 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,080 No. I mean, are we wise in all 392 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,720 things now? No, I think the answer to that 393 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,680 is pretty clear. Even for the believer, maturity 394 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:36,040 is necessary because if we are not mature and we are not humble 395 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:39,600 in the way we approach the Christian life, then we're not 396 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,320 able to receive the wisdom that we need. 397 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,440 Listen. If you think you know 398 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,880 everything, then you have no need of wisdom. 399 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,360 But in the Christian life, we have to get to the place where 400 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,680 we're constantly learning, where we're constantly listening, 401 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,480 where we're constantly saying, Lord, what do you want to teach 402 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,480 me today? What do I need to know today? 403 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,240 And the Lord can help us with that. 404 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,440 Proverbs 11 verse 2, when pride cometh, then with shame, but 405 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,640 with the lowly is wisdom. James 313 who is a wise man and 406 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,600 endued with knowledge among you, let him show out of a good 407 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,680 conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 408 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,680 Humility and wisdom have to go together. 409 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,800 And if you want wisdom, if you want to have that wisdom as a 410 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,720 believer, you, you're going to only be able to truly receive 411 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,640 it, to truly absorb it if you are humble. 412 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:34,520 Now I found this to be true. I am not old, but I'm older that 413 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:35,960 people keep telling me how young I am. 414 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,880 I don't feel as young as people keep telling me that I am, but I 415 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,160 do know this. The older you get, the more 416 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,200 resistant you are to receive wisdom. 417 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,120 You know why. You've heard the sermons before. 418 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,160 You've read the Bible passages before. 419 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,880 You've lived life, you've seen things, and I will say that when 420 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,560 you're younger in the faith, it's very easy to absorb. 421 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,760 The wisdom of the word of God, because there's a humility of 422 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,280 saying I know what I was and I know what I am now. 423 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,680 I'm barely saved. I barely know Jesus Christ as my 424 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,440 savior. And the whole world is new, 425 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,680 like, like everything is being unfolded to me. 426 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,840 I'm seeing the life in a whole new way. 427 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,320 And it's easy to just accept that wisdom. 428 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,360 But then we get a little bit more professional. 429 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,120 We've been to some church services. 430 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,040 We know a few things. Maybe we've taught some lessons 431 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,640 ourselves. Maybe we've been in a pulpit and 432 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,720 preached. Maybe you've been in a classroom 433 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,040 and taught. Maybe you've been considered 434 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,000 some level of authority within a church. 435 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,360 And all of a sudden it gets a little bit harder to be humble, 436 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:49,880 to receive wisdom. But I do know this. 437 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:57,280 God uses pastors preaching. Passages other people. 438 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,080 God uses all of these things as vessels to make sure that we 439 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,920 receive wisdom as believers and to make sure that we are humble 440 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,960 in those things. Let me tell you, there's nothing 441 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,520 more humbling than receiving wisdom from somebody that has 442 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,440 known the Lord a lot less time than you have, but yet speaks. 443 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,520 Truth or sometimes even out of the mouth of a child to be able 444 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,120 to say something and to make you realize. 445 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,000 I've been resistant to some wisdom that God wants to place 446 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,560 in my life. The older we get, we should be 447 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,440 more willing to receive wisdom, but I feel like the older we 448 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,400 get, the more resistant we are to receive wisdom because we 449 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,240 perceive ourselves to be wiser. We may never articulate that, we 450 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,680 may never say that, but we carry ourselves in that manner. 451 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,800 But we need to be able to hear from the Lord. 452 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,080 I remember Ahab and Josephat, they were looking to see if they 453 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:53,440 were to go down to battle together. 454 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,320 And Ahab had all of these homemade preachers that he had, 455 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,000 all of his prophets of Baal. All they wanted to do was tell 456 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,640 Ahab whatever he wanted to hear. And Jehoshaphat, who probably 457 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,840 should have been with Ahab in the 1st place, but he was there 458 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,640 anyway and he was yoking up with him to be able to go down the 459 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,520 battle. And Jehoshaphat even had the 460 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,800 presence of mind to say, isn't there anyone here that'll speak 461 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,080 for God? I just need to hear from God. 462 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,640 And we have to be in the place in our life as believed every 463 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,440 day when we get into our Bible. God, I want to hear from you 464 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,640 that every time we get into church that we say, God, I want 465 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,280 to hear from you because that's the key to wisdom. 466 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,760 The unsaved close themselves off from that because they know not 467 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,280 God. They have created their own gods 468 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,120 and their own minds. But you and I who know Jesus 469 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:44,120 Christ our Savior, we have to be on that road to perfection and 470 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:47,120 there has to be some humility within us to be able to say, 471 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:50,200 yes, Lord, I see wisdom in your word. 472 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,960 Yes, Lord, I see wisdom from the Holy Spirit applied to my heart. 473 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,760 Yes, Lord, I your wisdom in the preaching and in the teaching 474 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,920 and through my relationships and my friendships with other godly 475 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:03,120 believers. Lord, help me to accept it so I 476 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,960 can be better. Listen, we're just all in the 477 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,800 progression of our sanctification, of getting 478 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,480 closer to God until we get to glory. 479 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,800 I don't care if you've been on this, on this earth for nine 480 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,480 years or 90 years, no one's arrived. 481 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,800 Until we meet Jesus Christ, and there's more to learn. 482 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,640 So what do we see? We see that wisdom is hidden 483 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,080 from the world, but it is revealed to the believer #2 how 484 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,240 do we receive this wisdom? How do we receive it? 485 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,800 Well, the Spirit's the key. The Spirit is the key. 486 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,640 If wisdom is a locked door, then the Holy Spirit is the key in 487 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,720 which the treasures behind the door are accessible and the 488 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,560 Spirit brings 2 gifts to the believer in regards to wisdom. 489 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,360 And first of all it's this that the the believer, you see the 490 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,080 believers enlightenment. Look at verse #10 it says, But 491 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,800 God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. 492 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,160 For the Spirit searcheth all things, yeah, the deep things of 493 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,200 God. Now I know we've mentioned this 494 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:07,000 before, but it bears repeating here from verse #10 how can a 495 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,360 person know God without God revealing himself to us? 496 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,600 There's no way that you can research God independently on 497 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,280 your own. Apart from Him. 498 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,320 You can't hike high enough. You. 499 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,360 Can't fly high enough, you can't journey long enough, you can't 500 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:29,120 dig deep enough, that there is no way to research God 501 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,720 independently without Him revealing some of Himself to us. 502 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,120 And He's revealed Himself through creation again, Psalm 503 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,680 19, the heavens have declared the glory of God and the 504 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,160 firmament show with His handiwork. 505 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,400 And He's revealed Himself in these days through His Word, 506 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,040 where we have 66 books that teach us all about Him. 507 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,160 And He brings us enlightenment. They're called here in this text 508 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,200 in verse #10 the deep things of God. 509 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,760 And listen, you don't have to be a shallow believer that God has 510 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,320 given you everything that you need to be able to learn more of 511 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,640 Him. He's given you His Word. 512 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,560 He's given you his Spirit if you're saved, and you can learn 513 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,720 a little bit more about Him every single day. 514 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,440 The Spirit wants to teach you the things of God and the 515 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,400 treasures are at the ready. Every morning when you wake up, 516 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,160 there's new treasure for you to be able to dig out. 517 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,000 Every night when you go to bed, there's some new treasure that's 518 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,720 waiting for you to be able to mine out before you go to sleep 519 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,440 on your break time, there's some ability to be able to mine out 520 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,560 the treasure of the Word of God. On Sundays we ought to come with 521 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,680 our pickaxes ready to be able to get the wisdom of God and put it 522 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,360 in our pails to be able to take it home with us. 523 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,280 The believers have this ability to be enlightened through the 524 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,040 Holy Spirit. I've told you before that I've 525 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,600 gone many times to the Boston Public Library, and I like 526 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,920 studying there, but I'm always intrigued by the Reading Room. 527 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,240 And the Reading Room is so incredible. 528 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,280 You know, the Boston Public Library is the oldest Public 529 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,040 Library in the United States, but the Reading Room is a 530 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,480 tourist venue all of its own. If people want to go do tourist 531 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,920 things without spending money, one of the places they go is the 532 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,760 Boston Public Library. And honestly, it's a great place 533 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,920 to go. But it's always interesting to 534 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,080 me to be sitting in a room with all these books. 535 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,160 There's 10s of thousands of books. 536 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,640 The ceiling is probably 40 feet high. 537 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,280 They have all of these lamps and all these wooden tables. 538 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,040 And it's ornate and it's beautiful. 539 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,760 And there are people that are just walking around doing this. 540 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,080 They're taking pictures, everything. 541 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,360 They're taking selfies of themselves with the books. 542 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,560 You know what nobody does in that room? 543 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,520 Read the books. Nobody reads the books. 544 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,760 No, a bit. I don't think I read the books 545 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,060 either. I just sit in there and use the 546 00:29:53,060 --> 00:29:56,320 Wi-Fi. But anyway, the point being that 547 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,720 all of that record is around and nobody's checking it out. 548 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,320 All that records around, everybody wants to be around it, 549 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,960 but nobody wants to utilize it. Now, how much more so for us as 550 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,600 the believers that God has given us a treasure trove in His Word. 551 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:19,960 That God has given us 66 books from cover to cover, truth from 552 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,440 beginning to end, and God wants you to learn more of Him. 553 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,520 But often times all we do is we put it under our arm, we take it 554 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,160 to church, we could use it as a prop. 555 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,160 We have it on the table and we take it with us here or there or 556 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,960 everywhere, but do we really get in deep and learn the lessons 557 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,840 that God wants us to learn through the power of the Holy 558 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,800 Spirit? Because that's what he wants to 559 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,280 teach us, the deeper things of God. 560 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,240 Do you want to know God? He wants you to know him. 561 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,240 He's not a God far off that says, well, you'll never get to 562 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,160 know me. He says come the wall. 563 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,960 Partition's been broken down. The Old Testament. 564 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,800 Believers can't even understand we're going to see on Sunday, by 565 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,600 God's grace, as David attempts to bring the Ark of the Covenant 566 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,920 back to the Tabernacle and a breach was made. 567 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,280 They didn't. Follow the prescribed rules for. 568 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,280 Handling the ark of the covenant and because the ark of the 569 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,760 covenant was just touched, a man died. 570 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,240 But here in the New Testament era that we live in, God beckons 571 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,400 us to come. Why would we just fool around 572 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:34,000 with these wisdom, with the wisdom that we have around us, 573 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,240 like taking selfies of ourselves and not just get in and be 574 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,720 enlightened. This is what God wants from us. 575 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,400 The Spirit is the key to the believers enlightenment. 576 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,320 But also let her be the believers wonderment. 577 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,200 I love this look at verse #9. As is written, I have not seen, 578 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,080 nor ear heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man 579 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,920 the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 580 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,240 Now what am I going to say about verse #9 the first words right 581 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,360 there, But as it is written. What does that mean? 582 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,840 It's been written somewhere else. 583 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,120 This is a call back to a verse that is found somewhere else in 584 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,760 Scriptures. In this case, it's Isaiah 585 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,040 chapter 64. Verse #4 and verse #9 586 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,840 underscores the transcendence of God's wisdom, the fact that 587 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,880 God's wisdom is far above anything else that we can 588 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,000 imagine. It's far above the human 589 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,080 perception of the eyes, of the ears, of the heart. 590 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,480 Anything that you can sense, God's wisdom is far above it. 591 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,800 And this contrasts with the Princess of the world in verse 592 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,240 8, whose willful ignorance stem from relying on their worldly 593 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,680 wisdom rather than on God's revelation. 594 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,200 Those Princess in verse #8 they were relying on what they could 595 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,720 hear, what they could see, whatever passed the smell test. 596 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,960 And because they were relying on their own wisdom, they rejected 597 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,920 Christ. But when we. 598 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,400 Use the wisdom that God has given us. 599 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,160 Listen and we submit ourselves to you. 600 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,160 Can't even imagine. Of what God can do in your life. 601 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,440 One of my favorite verses is Ephesians 3 verse 20 and 21. 602 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,120 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly. 603 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,240 Above all that we ask or think according to the power that 604 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,840 worketh in US, unto Him be the glory in the Church by Christ 605 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,080 Jesus throughout all ages world. Without end. 606 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,720 Amen. He's able to do exceeding 607 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,840 abundantly above all that we ask or think I had not seen. 608 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,160 Ear is not heard nor that entered in the heart of man. 609 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,320 It's incredible promises. They bring hope. 610 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,080 No matter how foolish the world may think we are. 611 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,920 And remember chapter one, they think we're foolish for 612 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,360 believing these things. Listen, no matter how foolish 613 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,160 the world thinks you are for being a Christian. 614 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,040 No matter how foolish the world thinks you are for sharing your 615 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,680 faith at work. No matter how foolish the world 616 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,040 thinks you are for going to church 3 * a week. 617 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,880 No matter how world foolish the world thinks you are for giving 618 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,520 tithes to the church. No matter how foolish the world 619 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,560 thinks, listen, in the eyes of God, you can't even imagine what 620 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,719 He has prepared for you. So you submit yourself to that 621 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,520 wisdom and be in wonderment at what He can do. 622 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:21,639 I remember when I was praying very intently about whether 623 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:25,320 Diane and I would get married. And it was just, you know, we 624 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,400 had progressed to a place in our relationship where we didn't 625 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,920 want to go much further without really knowing the Lord's mind 626 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,120 in these things. And I remember hearing the 627 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,040 preaching of the word of God and just feeling that it was the 628 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,440 Lord saying, this is what I want for your life. 629 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,440 And, and me submitting to that and Diane actually in the same 630 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,280 message independently submitting to that is an unbelievable 631 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,880 story. I've told it before here a 632 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,679 couple of times. But I do remember going back to 633 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,120 my dorm that afternoon. It was funny because in the 634 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,560 morning I was in too much of a hurry. 635 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,400 I think I woke up late probably, if I'm being honest, before 636 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,600 church, and I didn't get to read my Bible that day. 637 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,400 And so I just decided, well, I'll read my Bible when I get 638 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,720 home that afternoon because I had a couple hours in between 639 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:06,120 morning service and evening service. 640 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,680 I went back to the dorm and I remember reading First 641 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,640 Corinthians chapter #2 and I remember thinking about, I think 642 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,800 Diane and I are getting married. I think this is what the Lord 643 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,800 wants for our life. And I remember reading verse 9, 644 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,080 but as it is written I have not seen. 645 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,560 Nor ear heard. Sort of entered into the heart 646 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,440 of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love 647 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,320 them. I thought, God, you did this for 648 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,960 me. You know, in that moment I 649 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,200 imagined in my mind, I understood it all. 650 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,920 God put us together. Life's going to be great. 651 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:51,120 It's amazing. And by the way, that's all true. 652 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,400 But I couldn't see it all. I didn't know that we'd have 653 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,360 four children. I couldn't have imagined the 654 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,920 fact of seeing 1 married and I got to perform the ceremony and 655 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,200 to have another married and I get to perform that ceremony and 656 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,760 that had to have I'd have to have two son in laws, I guess. 657 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,640 But I couldn't have imagined. And you know what, I look at it 658 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,920 now at the age of 42, I think I see it all and I realize I still 659 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:25,360 don't see it all be grandkids and very young daughter that you 660 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,840 know in 30 years is going to get married because I'm married out 661 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,000 at this point. You know what I'm saying? 662 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,000 Yes, you can raise your hand. We see you bait. 663 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,320 You know where you are. OK, I can't say it, but in God's 664 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,120 graciousness, but you know, you Kick It Out even further. 665 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,240 And let's say that God allows me to be 70 years old and Jesus 666 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:48,760 hasn't come back yet. I still won't understand it all 667 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,080 until we get to glory and see all of the things that he's done 668 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,000 through our life. The people whose testimonies or 669 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,240 the people who had testimonies, Maybe they came to salvation 670 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,560 because of a track we gave and we didn't even know. 671 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,400 We just laid a track somewhere and we didn't realize that 672 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,320 someone picked it up and got saved and their lives changed 673 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,880 forever and their families changed for. 674 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,920 Do you realize that if you submit yourself to God and his 675 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,760 plan and His wisdom? You can't even imagine how God 676 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,600 can use your life. You can't even imagine how you 677 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,920 can. Transform your family. 678 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,320 You can't even imagine how we could transform a a family 679 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,480 history that was bleak or that wasn't good, and to be able to 680 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,920 turn it around and to turn it into something that's a goodly 681 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,400 heritage. You can't even imagine. 682 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,440 You can't even imagine how God could take the tragedy of your 683 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,880 life and turn into something beautiful. 684 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,560 You can't even imagine how God could take the fact that you 685 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,440 walked away from God for a long period of time, but then you 686 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,600 came back and that he used that and to his honor and to his 687 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,280 glory. You can't even imagine. 688 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,520 You know what the world says to that? 689 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,200 That's crazy. You know what I say to that? 690 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,880 I stand in wonder of the God that we serve, that we submit 691 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,400 ourselves to His wisdom, that He can do exceeding abundantly 692 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,160 above all that we ask or think. You know, In the darkest days of 693 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,800 World War 2, Corey, 10 Boom, a Dutch Christian watchmaker, and 694 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,520 her family hid Jews from the Nazis. 695 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,960 Driven by their love for God and their fellow man, she was 696 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,240 arrested in 1944 and Corey and her sister Betsy were sent to 697 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:27,080 the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp. 698 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,800 In the midst of this horror, Corey and Betsy clung to their 699 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,240 faith. One night, cramped in a flea 700 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:37,720 infested barracks, Betsy read from a small smuggled Bible. 701 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,240 She read First Corinthians chapter #2 Now listen to this. 702 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:46,960 When they reached verse 9, I have not seen, nor ear heard, 703 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,960 neither have entered into the heart of man The things which 704 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,760 God had prepared for them, that love them. 705 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,800 They marveled. The Nazi saw only a prison, but 706 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,360 God revealed a hidden treasure, a place of worship. 707 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,600 With love for God and humility before His Word, they turned 708 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,520 their suffering into a sanctuary, praying and singing 709 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,800 hymns. It ended up that the place that 710 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,880 they lived there in the concentration camp, that 711 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,800 building became infested with fleas. 712 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,520 They thank the Lord for the fleas. 713 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,480 You know why they kept all the guards out? 714 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,440 So that they can pray and praise and sing and worship God. 715 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,800 Corey later recounted how the Holy Spirit unlocked this wisdom 716 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,040 for them. In her humility, she trusted 717 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,640 God's plan even when it made no sense to the world. 718 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,120 After Betsy's death, Corey was miraculously released due to a 719 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,240 clerical error just a week before all the women her age 720 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,600 were sent to the gas chambers. She spent the rest of her life 721 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,680 sharing this mystery, God's redemptive power, and suffering 722 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,880 across the globe. Years later, Corey forgave one 723 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,880 of her former guards, an act of love and humility that baffled 724 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,920 the world but reflected the spirits work in her, she wrote. 725 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,560 When he tells us to love our enemies. 726 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,720 He gives along with the command, the love itself. 727 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,400 When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the 728 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:15,160 command, the love itself. Can I say to you that the world 729 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,200 doesn't understand that? The world couldn't understand 730 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,360 that, but you can. Why? 731 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,280 Because you have the same Holy Spirit that lives within you, 732 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,320 that live within Corey Tenbu. Now we live in different 733 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,000 circumstances, no doubt, but yet through the trials of life that 734 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,240 we have that pale in comparison to what she dealt with, we can 735 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:41,440 submit. Ourselves to this. 736 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:46,880 Wisdom and realize that God will give us the strength that we 737 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,640 need to be able to understand. And through the Spirit of God, 738 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:55,440 we can have this level of wisdom, but it's for those who 739 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,440 humble themselves and also it's to those who love God. 740 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,520 Because if we don't love the Lord as we ought to, we don't 741 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,800 submit ourselves to His plan. It says that right there in 742 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,600 verse #9 God has prepared for them that love Him. 743 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,600 Why? Because those that truly love 744 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,240 Him will humble themselves and submit to the wisdom, and 745 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:15,760 they'll be able to receive these things. 746 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,640 When you're not constantly bucking and kicking and fighting 747 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,840 against what God is doing, but you submit yourself to Him and 748 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,920 His wisdom, you can have joy unspeakable and full of glory. 749 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,400 I'll, I'll use this and I'll be done just as an example of what 750 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,120 wisdom is like and how we can unlock wisdom. 751 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,760 When I worked at Kay Jewelers, I think I've told you before, I 752 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,840 was a third key manager, which meant I was a manager just 753 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,800 without any extra pay. So it was a way to get them to 754 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,200 get me work more without actually paying me more. 755 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,600 But I learned that when I was a third key, there were some 756 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:54,800 things that took place with the safe that added extra security 757 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,360 because we had 10s of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry in 758 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:03,280 the safe every night. And there was one key and there 759 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:08,840 were two codes and one person had the key and different people 760 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,600 had the codes. Nobody could have both the 761 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,160 codes. You could have a key and a code, 762 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,400 but you could not have the key and both codes. 763 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,840 And So what was needed was the key to turn the codes to be able 764 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,640 to be put in one on the top dial, 1 on the bottom dial, and 765 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,760 then you were able to turn the handle. 766 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:31,360 If you want wisdom, there's only one place to receive it. 767 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,320 The key is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one that 768 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,440 speaks to us as our teacher and our guide. 769 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:40,760 He is the great applier of the Word of God within our hearts. 770 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:46,520 But I will say that that vault will still not open unless you 771 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:51,680 turn the dial of humility and the dial of love for God to the 772 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,720 right numbers. So when you have the key of the 773 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:57,560 Holy Spirit, but you're humble enough to listen to the Holy 774 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:03,520 Spirit and you love God enough to be able to encourage and 775 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,600 listen to his speaking to you, then the riches that are inside 776 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:14,000 that safe open up to you. Now, I think of those those 777 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:18,400 books at the library. The Bible doesn't talk 778 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:24,520 extensively about matters of life in the sense of birds or 779 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:31,080 planets or aerodynamics or electronics or the Internet. 780 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,040 It doesn't speak about those things. 781 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,160 The Bible does speak about history, and when it does speak 782 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,960 about history, speaks truly, does speak about science here 783 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,320 and there. When it does, it speaks truly. 784 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,800 But the Bible is not where we look to for those things in the 785 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:48,320 sense of that if you're wanting to learn more about up, you 786 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,120 know, planets, you would look at a book about planets. 787 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,440 What I'm saying is this. We could do without all of those 788 00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,960 books. You could do without a book of 789 00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,440 planets. You could do without a book of 790 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:05,000 of Internet, electricity, birds, insects. 791 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,680 You could do without all those books and you could live a 792 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,240 fairly contented life. You cannot do without this book. 793 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:21,240 You can't do without this book. The wisdom of life is found 794 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,200 here, and the Holy Spirit is the key. 795 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,640 But we'll be humble, and we love God the way we ought so that we 796 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,800 can learn the lessons that He wants to teach us. 797 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,240 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 798 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:36,160 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 799 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:39,640 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 800 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:44,240 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 801 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:49,040 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 802 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,880 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 803 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:53,080 grow in His Word.