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 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,800 Luke Chapter. 1. If you would Luke chapter. 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,560 Number one, this morning, if you are a guest with us today, we're 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:36,800 in a series this year looking at Christ is all Colossians 3 verse 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,600 11, that Christ is all and in all. 11 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,320 And we've been looking at some of the characteristics of who 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,760 Jesus Christ is. And we have looked at the fact 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,280 that he is omnipotent. We've looked at the fact that he 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,800 is healer. We've looked at the fact that he 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,440 is servant. We've looked at the fact that he 16 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:51,880 is meek. I'm not going to be able to do 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,240 that the longer the series goes. I won't be able to name them all 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,680 from memory, but it's been exciting to be able to look at 19 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,360 these different characteristics and I am so excited to be able 20 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,120 this morning go to Luke chapter 1. 21 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,360 And I know some of you think of Luke chapter 1 is only for 22 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,200 December. Say what's in what's Luke 23 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,280 chapter 1? It's account of the. 24 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,280 Virgin birth. It's the account that brings us 25 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,560 to the birth of Jesus Christ. But I would submit to you, this 26 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,400 is a 12 month text, not just a text that only applies in 27 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,520 December. And we're also going to see in 28 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,920 this text the fact that Jesus Christ is. 29 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,720 Holy. And that's why I want to present 30 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,160 to you this morning, You know the world does not consider 31 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,800 Jesus Christ to be holy. In fact, they consider it more 32 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,600 to be a punchline at best and problematic at worst. 33 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,000 Entertainment has lampooned and mocked the holiness of Christ. 34 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,520 You can go back to whether it's Jesus Christ Superstar or The 35 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,400 Life of Brian or even more recently, the Da Vinci Code that 36 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,600 takes, slurs and blasphemes the very name of Jesus Christ, who 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,040 we know Him to be from the Bible. 38 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,560 You can see the halls of academia today that do not lift 39 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,520 up Jesus Christ for who he is, but rather belittles Him as well 40 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,200 as those who are the followers of Christ for many Jesus. 41 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,240 Christ isn't the. Name for many use a curse word 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,440 to be able to take His name and to be able to exclaim because 43 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,800 they have hurt themselves or because they have had some great 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,080 calamity in their life to take His. 45 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,880 Name in vain, you know, the world does not believe in the 46 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,000 holiness of who Jesus Christ is. And this shouldn't startle us 47 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,080 because the world is the world, you know, I'm not saying that 48 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,840 it's correct. I'm not saying that it should be 49 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,160 something that we applaud, certainly quite the opposite of 50 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,040 that, But it shouldn't shock us when the world acts like the 51 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,120 world. It shouldn't surprise us when 52 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,120 those who do not know Jesus Christ would mock or even 53 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,760 blasphemy the very name of Jesus Christ. 54 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,440 But for those of us that are children of God this morning, 55 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,440 for those of us who know Jesus Christ as our Savior, the 56 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,880 holiness of God should be one of the most precious 57 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,400 characteristics of all of his precious characteristics, the 58 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,040 fact that Jesus Christ is holy. And so as we get to Luke chapter 59 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,040 #1 this morning, we see the announcement of the Christ 60 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,920 child. We see the announcement of this 61 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:10,280 holy one, this holy thing that is mentioned in verse #35 I 62 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,360 really want us to focus on not just the holiness of Jesus 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,600 Christ, but what that holiness means to you and I today as 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:18,920 well. Would you stand pleased for the 65 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:20,520 reading of God's Word? We're going one verse. 66 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,160 So stand up quick. All right? 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,200 Luke chapter #1 verse #35 It has been our habit. 68 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,080 We will expand upon that initial reading as we focus on the word. 69 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,920 Then we want to see why this word was spoken in reference to 70 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,360 Jesus Christ. And then we finally look at what 71 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,520 this all has to do with us in a personal application. 72 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,640 Luke chapter one, verse 35 says this. 73 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,960 And the Angel answered and said unto her, and that her there 74 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,040 would be Mary. The Holy Ghost shall come upon 75 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,720 thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. 76 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,360 Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee 77 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,440 shall be called the Son of God. That's so quick. 78 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,080 I feel like we should read it one more time. 79 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,960 So you read it to yourself out as I read it out loud. 80 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,040 And the Angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall 81 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,440 come upon thee. The power of the Highest shall 82 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,960 over shadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing 83 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,000 which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. 84 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,360 Will you be seated as we pray together this morning? 85 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,839 Heavenly Father, I do thank you for this time and I thank you 86 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,360 for your blessed word. I thank you that we get to 87 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,640 meditate to consider the fact that Christ is holy. 88 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,280 But I thank you that that has great application to us today as 89 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:35,440 well, when we take it seriously or maybe something that we truly 90 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,160 consider for ourselves and not just to walk away this morning 91 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,840 and realize a theological truth and be no different for it. 92 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:48,160 But may the holiness of Christ compel us to be holy people, for 93 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,880 we are to be holy, for you are holy. 94 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,640 Thank you for this time and again your word, and we ask it 95 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,960 in Christ's name, Amen. Thank you brother. 96 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,280 When we think of this passage, it's not typically with the 97 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,480 exclusive thought of the holiness of God. 98 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,840 In fact, as I just mentioned a few moments ago, we think of 99 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:09,480 this passage truly, we're thinking about the birth of 100 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,360 Jesus Christ. And there's nothing wrong with 101 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,520 that because, well, that's what this passage is about, the very 102 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,800 birth of Jesus Christ. But it is not December, it is 103 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,560 February, and it is still time for us to be able to look at 104 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,720 this text and still consider who Jesus Christ is. 105 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,280 So before we get too deep into it this morning, we have to ask 106 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,680 ourselves, what does this word holy mean as we found it in 107 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,400 verse #35 therefore also that holy thing, what shall be born 108 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,440 of these shall be called the Son of the highest. 109 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,760 What does that word holy mean? Now again, in the world, the 110 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,760 word holy is often used, but it's never used in conjunction 111 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,920 with what the word actually means. 112 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,360 I mean, how many times in the world do people actually use the 113 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,400 word holy? I mean, they use it a lot. 114 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,400 You think of a child that's causing trouble. 115 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,680 What do we call him? A holy terror, something that's 116 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,080 big, that's happening. We would say somebody. 117 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,400 Some people would say holy cow. I remember growing up watching 118 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,200 baseball and WGN and there was Harry Carey. 119 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,280 If somebody hit a home run, he would say holy cow. 120 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,200 Now, what's holy about that cow? Nobody knows. 121 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:11,920 Why was a cow even at the baseball park? 122 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,680 Nobody knows, but he would say holy cow. 123 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,440 There are weird sayings like holy moly and holy guacamole. 124 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,480 I mean, what is holy about guacamole? 125 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,680 I like it as much as anybody does, but there's nothing holy 126 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,520 about it. People say holy Toledo, which I 127 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,920 don't know what Toledo has anything to do with anything. 128 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,520 Holy smokes. Sometimes people use words after 129 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,840 it that are certainly not holy. But this is what the world says 130 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,560 about the word holy, and in fact, it almost desensitizes us 131 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,240 to what the true holiness of God is all about, because we can use 132 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,120 it in conjunction with a. 1000 things. 133 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,280 And none of those thousand things have to do with the 134 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:52,160 holiness of God. So what does that word holy 135 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:53,920 really mean? Well, it comes from the Greek. 136 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,000 Word which is. Hageos and that word hageos 137 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,040 means something that is set apart for or by God, and 138 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,200 something that could be brought near or into God's holy 139 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,960 presence. So really the fundamental idea 140 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,200 of holiness is twofold. One, it's sharing in God's 141 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,720 purity, and two, abstaining from the filthiness of the world. 142 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,920 One, sharing in God's purity and #2 to abstain from the 143 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,160 defilement of this world. There are many different 144 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,960 entities in the Bible that are recognized as holy. 145 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,480 The first would be God himself. Of course, we know Jesus Christ 146 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,840 being God is called this holy thing in verse #35 But even as 147 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,320 you get down into the conversation that Mary has with 148 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,920 Elizabeth, who is carrying John the Baptist, look at verse #49 149 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,720 in the Magnificat where it says in verse 49, For he that is 150 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,640 mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is His name, 151 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,120 and that's Speaking of the Father. 152 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,560 But yet we understand that the holiness of the Father, Son, and 153 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,600 yes, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, it's in the name that three and 154 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,080 one, one and three, they are holy. 155 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,200 So the very first example is God Himself. 156 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,520 Because we truly cannot know holiness if it is not for God. 157 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,560 Because God is not just the embodiment of holiness. 158 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,080 His very essence is holy. It's not just a characteristic 159 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,880 that he carries around like other things and puts up and 160 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,520 puts down. No, no, He is holy in his very 161 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,400 essence, some other holiness or rather holy items or holy 162 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,280 entities that we find in the Bible. 163 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,640 The temple and its furnishings were often called as holy. 164 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,799 They were set apart for a particular use. 165 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,600 By the way, this is one of the reasons that Jesus was so 166 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,039 indignant when he went into His Father's house and found that it 167 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:43,280 was not a House of prayer, but what a House of merchandise. 168 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,040 And in his righteous indignation turned over those tables. 169 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,240 You say, well Jesus, I thought he was meek. 170 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,240 He was meek. That's why He turned over those 171 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,240 tables. Remember, it's power under 172 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,720 control. He sinned not in righteous 173 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,600 indignation. He says this, this is a holy 174 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,320 place and what you are doing here is unholy. 175 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,560 It needs to be removed. The sacrifices that were made in 176 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:06,760 the Old Testament, they were to be holy, meaning you couldn't 177 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,720 just take something out of your flock and just take whatever and 178 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,080 offer it up to God. What are you to do to give a 179 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,480 lamb that was without blemish and without spot, whether it was 180 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,320 a lamb or a goat or whatever it was that you were offering, what 181 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,560 it was meant to be holy, that meant that it was to be without 182 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,680 that blemish. You go back to Malachi and what 183 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:27,320 were they doing? They were giving the halt, the 184 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,840 lame, the things that they didn't want. 185 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,240 You know, I don't want it, but I guess it's good enough for God. 186 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,840 There's nothing holy about. That the nation of Israel was 187 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,080 called to be a holy people. Exodus 19 verse 6 And ye shall 188 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,400 be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation. 189 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,760 They were to be a holy nation. Why? 190 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,280 Because Isaiah 49 verse 6 says, I will also give thee for a 191 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,560 light to the Gentiles. They were to be holy so that all 192 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:57,280 the world would be able to look at the Jews who had the oracles 193 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,960 of God and say these are the people who have the truth about 194 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,200 who God is and the world or was to come. 195 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,120 And we even saw a partial fulfillment of that or maybe a 196 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,800 partial illustration of that in Solomon's reign when the world 197 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,000 came to Solomon, while he was living the way he was supposed 198 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,040 to live and he was, the world would come like the Queen of 199 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,160 Sheba and others. And they say there's something 200 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,880 about you that's different. Even the queen of Sheba had hard 201 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,200 questions to be able to give to Solomon, But when she saw it 202 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,440 says of all the things of his Kingdom, but especially his 203 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,600 ascent into the House of God, that she realized there was 204 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,080 something different about him and something different about 205 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,280 the Kingdom. Israel was to be a holy people. 206 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,480 So sure, we can get a biblical understanding of what holiness 207 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,640 is and it has nothing to do with either Toledo or guacabole or 208 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:48,880 cows in its present sense. But the question is this, what 209 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,720 does it have to do with Jesus? Well, again, as we have made our 210 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,960 habit over the last few weeks and to expand our view of the 211 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,880 text and we don't just want to focus on a word and just go off 212 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,160 into our own direction. But why is the word holiness, or 213 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,160 rather the word holy, found in verse #35. 214 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,800 Well, to understand that we should go to verse #26. 215 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,600 So go up just a page, probably away in verse #26 and it says, 216 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,720 in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a 217 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,600 city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espouse, to a man 218 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,240 whose name was Joseph of the House of David. 219 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,600 And the virgin's name was Mary. And the Angel came in unto her 220 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,280 and said, Hail, Thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee, 221 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,320 Blessed art thou among women. And so the Angel gives a 222 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,080 threefold commendation, a threefold greeting. 223 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,400 Mary, you are highly favored. Mary, the Lord is with you. 224 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,920 Mary, you are blessed among women. 225 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,880 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying. 226 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,920 Cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be, she 227 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,280 was confused by why an Angel would be coming to her and speak 228 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,920 to her in such a manner. And the Angel said unto her, 229 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,280 verse 30 Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God, 230 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,960 and behold that thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring 231 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,120 forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. 232 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,880 He shall be great. She shall be called the Son of 233 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,200 the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne 234 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,880 of his Father. David, that phrase there verse 235 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,240 #232 He shall be great. Has there ever been a greater 236 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,160 name in this world than Jesus Christ? 237 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,960 Literally everything in our world revolves around Jesus 238 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,840 Christ. Even our calendar revolves 239 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,000 around Jesus Christ. They may take BC and turn to BCE 240 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,920 and try to take away the fact of what Jesus is marked on the 241 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,320 calendar, but you could still say why is that zero there? 242 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,160 And I don't believe Jesus was actually born at 0, but the idea 243 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,200 is that even our very time is marked around who Jesus Christ 244 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,000 is. He shall be great. 245 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,040 There's none greater. He shall reign over the House of 246 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,400 Jacob Forever. Of his Kingdom there shall be no 247 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,880 end. And Mary said unto the Angel, 248 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,040 verse 34, How should this be, seeing I know not a man the 249 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,040 question of her virginity. How could it possibly be that I 250 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,640 would have a child? Now I do think it's interesting 251 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:09,360 that Zacharias earlier would ask a question of the Angel as well, 252 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,120 and he ended up not being able to speak for several months 253 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:18,800 because of his doubt. But yet here Mary is not taken 254 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,160 to task in the way Zacharias was or the way that Sarah would have 255 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,280 been in the book of Genesis. And I would say the reason why 256 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:29,160 is because Mary's question here is not one of doubt, but rather 257 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,720 one of wonder what God is doing. It's not one of doubt. 258 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,320 I believe it was she would be taken to task, but rather the 259 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,920 wonder of what God was doing, the wonder of the salutation of 260 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,760 what she received. She couldn't wrap her head 261 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,040 around the fact that she knew not a man and she was still 262 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,400 going to be with child. And so the answer in verse 30. 5 263 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Was the Angel said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come over thee, 264 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,920 and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee. 265 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:58,920 Therefore also that holy thing which I'll be born of thee shall 266 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,040 be called the Son of God. First Timothy 316 says, and 267 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,240 without controversy. Great is the mystery of 268 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:07,880 godliness. Consider that phrase, the 269 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,000 mystery of godliness. Could we also say holiness has a 270 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,280 great deal to do with godliness, because it is the very essence 271 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,200 of who God is? Great is the mystery of 272 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,840 godliness. God was manifested in the flesh. 273 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,360 And we see right here that this is what is being presented. 274 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,360 Many mythologies and many false religions have legends about a 275 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,200 God who had sexual relations with a woman and produced off 276 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,760 string. But the idea of a virgin birth 277 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,880 is unique to Christianity. This is not a lewd or crude type 278 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:41,760 of account that we have here before us today. 279 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,600 It's different from any other religion from any other time in 280 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:46,800 any other place. Why? 281 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,960 Because God is different than any other religion in any other 282 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,560 time in any other place. He. 283 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:57,760 He is 1 God, and there are no other gods, and we see here that 284 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,360 he is that holy thing. I mean, that term bothers you. 285 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,120 They're a holy thing. Well, pastor, he's not a thing. 286 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,440 We'll look at that in just a moment. 287 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,240 But consider that when it talks about Jesus Christ being the 288 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,920 Holy One, the Bible presents the fact that Jesus was holy in four 289 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:14,840 different. Ways. 290 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,280 First of all, he was called the Holy One before his birth. 291 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,840 In fact, it says in verse #35 that he shall be called the Son 292 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,000 of God. It doesn't say that he will 293 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,560 become the Son of God, meaning that he became holy once he was 294 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,520 born. You know he will be called the 295 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,360 Son of God, meaning this, that the world will finally recognize 296 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,920 who he always has been. It was not that he was holy the 297 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,280 moment he was born, but rather he is holy before time began 298 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,320 because he's always been in existence. 299 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,720 So we see that Jesus is holy before he was born, but then we 300 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,800 also see that holy at his birth because it says the holy thing 301 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,920 which shall be born of thee. Now I'm not going to go too deep 302 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,720 in the weeds this morning about this, but the fact is there are 303 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,920 many newer translations that instead of using the term holy 304 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,400 thing, we'll use the term holy one. 305 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,760 Now at first that would maybe be understandable because if you're 306 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,920 like me, you read holy thing there and you thought well. 307 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,520 Jesus isn't a thing, right? And so maybe that's bothersome 308 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,480 to you at first, but the idea there, particularly when you go 309 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,360 into the Greek, and I won't say that I understand all the 310 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,160 intricacies that are there, but when you go into it, the 311 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:28,240 emphasis is not on what title he will bear, but who he is. 312 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,000 It's not the emphasis on what title he will bear. 313 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,280 If the emphasis on the title he would bear, then he would be the 314 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,400 Holy One, but rather. It's who he is. 315 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,480 He is the holy thing. No, no, it's not calling him a 316 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,760 thing like we would call a random object or element a 317 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,520 thing. It is literally recognizing who 318 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,720 he is in his character that he is that holy thing and that when 319 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,880 he was born he already was that holy thing and he would continue 320 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,880 to be that holy thing. His Holiness was directly 321 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,160 related to a supernatural conception. 322 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,920 He had to be holy to be our Savior. 323 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,400 He had to be born differently to be our Savior. 324 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,440 He had to be born of a virgin, born outside of the fact of the 325 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,359 sin that was passed from from from the man, from a generation 326 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,040 to generation. What's different? 327 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,680 A different birth unlike any other birth in history. 328 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,560 He was holy before his birth. He was holy at his birth. 329 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,640 He was holy his entire. Life Hebrews 415 For we have not 330 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,920 an high priest, which cannot be touched with the feeling of our 331 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,480 infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, 332 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,800 yet without sin. This isn't my message and I 333 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,680 don't have time, but I'm going forward anyway. 334 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,280 You say Pastor Jesus doesn't understand what I'm going 335 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,440 through. Pastor, I'm going through some 336 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,480 deep waters right now. Pastor, I'm going through some 337 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,120 temptations. Pastor, I have some 338 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,560 difficulties. And sure, there might be people 339 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,600 who can understand, but how could Jesus possibly understand 340 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,160 that which I'm going through? Well, the Bible tells us that he 341 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,120 was tempted at all points, as we were and as we are, yet without 342 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:08,680 sin, that he lived this life. And one of the things that he 343 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,920 accomplished in this life was that in his humanity that he 344 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,880 experienced the temptations of which we experienced, yet is 345 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,280 without sin. So when we look at the idea of 346 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,960 Jesus and say, well, could Jesus know what it was like to go 347 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,920 through loss? Jesus knew it was like to go 348 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,200 through loss because he lost people. 349 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,520 Jesus knew it was like to go through temptation because he 350 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,320 was tempted. You say, well, he was tempted 40 351 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,880 days in the wilderness. If you think in his 33 years he 352 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,040 was only tempted 40 days, that's not like we were tempted. 353 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,840 We're tempted every day. I don't know about you. 354 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,720 I'm tempted about every hour. I'm being tempted right now. 355 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,360 It's like, stop this thing right now. 356 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:45,880 Do we move on as everyone's hungry? 357 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,200 What's going on? I'm not going to give him that 358 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:52,360 temptation. We're always tempted and he was 359 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,400 yet without sin. Are you weary? 360 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,240 Are you heavy hearted? Tell it to Jesus. 361 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,920 He's a friend that's well known. You've no other such a friend or 362 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,320 brother. Tell it to Jesus alone. 363 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,680 He was holy during his life. You know what? 364 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:13,720 Since his death, burial and resurrection, He's still holy. 365 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,760 Before his birth, At his birth again, his life and the way that 366 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,760 he died, was buried and resurrected and lives again, 367 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,320 He's still holy. Romans 1 verses 3 and 4 368 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,440 concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the 369 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,360 seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the 370 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:36,680 Son of God with power according to the Spirit. 371 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,680 Of. Holiness by the resurrection of 372 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,280 the dead. The spirit of holiness involved 373 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,320 in the very resurrection of Jesus Christ, Yes. 374 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,720 How does that all work together? I don't know that I understand 375 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,480 other than the Bible says it and I believe it. 376 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,200 Is there any resurrection without a holy Savior? 377 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,800 The answer is no. There's no hope for Christ, and 378 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,840 there's no hope for us today as well. 379 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,360 First Corinthians 15 makes it very clear. 380 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,440 Without the hope of the resurrection, we're as old men, 381 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,880 most miserable. If there's no hope for Him, then 382 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,440 there's no hope for us. Christ is holy. 383 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,480 He always was holy. He was hole in his life. 384 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,840 He'll always be holy. He is the holy God. 385 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,120 So, understanding that Jesus is indisputably the Holy One who 386 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:27,520 has been set aside for us, we ask ourselves this question as 387 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,280 we move. Through our message, we asked 388 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,960 ourselves, what does this word mean? 389 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:36,360 Well, we saw the word holy means that it's to be part of the 390 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,760 righteous of God, but also to separate ourselves from the 391 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,120 filthiness of the world. We saw how Jesus was the 392 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,760 fulfillment of that by looking at our text, the announcement to 393 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,240 Mary of the virgin birth and why it was necessary. 394 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,000 We could spend a whole message on why the virgin birth was 395 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,440 necessary, but yet we see that it only emphasizes the very 396 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,840 holiness of Jesus Christ. No, we're not worshipping Mary 397 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,400 this morning. That's not what we're talking 398 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,400 about. We are admitting exactly what is 399 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,000 said in the Word of God in that threefold commendation that was 400 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,960 given to her. She was highly favored. 401 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,400 The Lord was with her where she's blessed among women. 402 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,640 That doesn't mean we pray to her. 403 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,400 That doesn't mean we have shrines to her, That doesn't 404 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,560 mean that we make her into a Co redemptrix as is taught by the 405 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,240 Catholic Church. No, what are we saying? 406 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:21,320 That she was blessed among women? 407 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,000 But her blessing came not because of who she was. 408 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,960 Her blessing came because of a who Jesus Christ was. 409 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,240 And even she recognized that she was going to give birth to her 410 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,560 own. Savior even she recognized, but 411 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:35,960 we see that. But then we ask ourselves this 412 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,280 question. Pastor, what does this mean to 413 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,640 me? You might say, I understand what 414 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,480 holiness is. It has nothing to do with 415 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:48,800 avocados and onions and garlic. OK, guacamole, just some of you 416 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,960 painted. I understand, Jesus holy. 417 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,160 But what does this have to do with me? 418 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:02,120 Well, two things. First, only the Holy Son could 419 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:07,000 make us holy so that we could avoid the penalty of sin and 420 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,840 judgment in our life. The call of the Old Testament 421 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,160 was this. Be holy, for I am holy. 422 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:18,440 The problem with that call was this man on his own can't 423 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,600 fulfill it. Well, Pastor, if I just live by 424 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,440 the law, then I will be able to achieve eternal life. 425 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:29,120 In theory, yes, but the law was there not to show us the path of 426 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:32,880 righteousness, but as much to show us this is how unrighteous 427 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,280 we are and to push us to to show us that there is a better way. 428 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:40,200 And that better way is not us following the law, but that 429 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:45,040 better way is Jesus Christ. The law doesn't show you that 430 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,440 you're innocent. It shows you where you've 431 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,560 transgressed. It shows you where you're guilty 432 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,480 and that's what he was be holy for I'm holy. 433 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:53,640 And they sacrificed in the Old Testament. 434 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,320 They sacrificed those bulls and those goats. 435 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,320 And I just read about Solomon, who, who, who at the opening of 436 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,080 the temple sacrificed so many animals that it it, you can't 437 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,920 even comprehend it in your mind. And yet that wasn't enough to. 438 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,320 Forgive the people their sin and we covered the sin, he said. 439 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,080 Why wasn't it enough? Well, if it was enough, then 440 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,840 Jesus Christ would have to die on the cross and we'd be having 441 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,800 a BBQ after every Sunday and we wouldn't be. 442 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,000 Some of you like that idea, but not what I'm talking about. 443 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,840 You wouldn't like it because back in the Old Testament you 444 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,640 brought a sacrifice. You killed it yourself. 445 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,120 Sometimes we think, well, you handed the priest. 446 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:33,040 The priest takes care of the work. 447 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,680 No, you had to handle that blood yourself. 448 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,440 You had to be able to take care of. 449 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:38,400 So I don't think I could do that. 450 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,760 Mankind's never been able to take care of their sin problem. 451 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,200 Only Jesus Christ hand and only a holy Savior with his precious 452 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,680 and sinless blood on the cross could ever save a soul. 453 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,080 Hebrews 10 verse 4 says the sacrificial system was not 454 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,880 enough for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and 455 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,880 goats should take away sin. But Second Corinthians 521 says 456 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,160 for he has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we 457 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,920 might be made the righteousness of God in him. 458 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,560 The only way that we can be saved is with a righteous God, a 459 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,480 holy God, one who never sinned. Only he could make the sacrifice 460 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,160 to pay the penalty. We couldn't. 461 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:16,840 Pay on our own. Amen. 462 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,760 And if you don't know Jesus Christ today and you're hoping 463 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,560 to be able to do something on your own, say, pastor, you say 464 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,320 this every week. I'm going to say it every week 465 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,040 until God takes me home because this is what we do. 466 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,040 This is why we're here. Why do we meet in this building 467 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,120 here with no parking and all this stuff? 468 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,120 I know we got no party. The snow, it's not, it's part 469 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,760 of, it's the snow part of it's where we are. 470 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,360 It's OK. So are you saying should we even 471 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:41,920 come here? I go to a church, they tell us 472 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,480 to park in an insurance company and maybe I'm parking at a 473 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,800 warehouse. Some of you probably parked over 474 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,000 at the at classy canines back there or or pickleball. 475 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,840 Like, I'm sorry, all right, but why don't we put up with all 476 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,760 this? Because there's a message that 477 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,160 needs to get out there. That's right. 478 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,880 That only Jesus Christ will save you a holy savior. 479 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,760 That's why it's so important. If you don't know him today, 480 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,520 it's not about you getting baptized. 481 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,880 It's not about you joining this church. 482 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,480 It's not about you giving us money. 483 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,320 It's not about taking a sacrament. 484 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,560 It's not about any of those things. 485 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,240 It's not about becoming a Baptist and. 486 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,280 I'm a Baptist. From the top of my head, the 487 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,800 bottom of my shoes, you'll know what I'll say. 488 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:19,920 But I'll tell you this, it won't get you to heaven. 489 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,400 That's right. Jesus will get you to heaven. 490 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,360 Amen. Call upon him. 491 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,280 So there's other ways not at work. 492 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,120 There's plenty of ways. None of them will work, Only 493 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:33,560 Jesus Christ. He's holy. 494 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,640 So how does the holiness of God apply? 495 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,400 Well, if he's not holy, you can't get saved. 496 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,080 But he is, and you can be made the righteousness of God through 497 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,920 him. He can do in you that which you 498 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,120 cannot do yourself. Call upon the name of the Lord 499 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,600 and thou shalt be saved. That's the first thing. 500 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,920 The second thing deals with us who are believers here today. 501 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,920 Only a holy Son, first of all, could make a people holy so they 502 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,720 could avoid judgment and receive eternal life. 503 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,200 But the second thing is this. For the believer today, the 504 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,280 holiness of God holds great application to us as well. 505 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,400 For the sake of time, I'm not going to have you turn there, 506 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,080 but we did just read during the worship time, Isaiah chapter #6 507 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,920 it's one of the most beautiful accounts of the holiness of God 508 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,280 you'll see anywhere in the Word. If you're in a place where you 509 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,200 don't know where to read in your Bible, one day. 510 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:35,320 I don't know what to read. Isaiah chapter 6 could be a good 511 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:42,520 go to for you because when you see the Lord high and lifted up 512 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,680 and you see that angelic scene that surrounds him and the only 513 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,560 thing that perhaps is of its equal in the Bible in showing us 514 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,280 the scene would be Revelation chapter 4 and Revelation chapter 515 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,960 #5 but as you see this scene, what's. 516 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,040 Cried out. Holy, holy, holy. 517 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,840 And we can look at that two different ways. 518 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,160 The first is that in the Hebrew that we would maybe say in 519 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,120 English, we would say that someone is very, very holy. 520 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:15,600 They wouldn't use it in that way. 521 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,880 They would use the same word three times, and the three times 522 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,040 in a row would be the highest form of that word. 523 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,480 So saying holy, holy, holy means there's none more holy than our 524 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,080 God. But we can also look at it this 525 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,160 way, that it's the holiness of the Father and the holiness of 526 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,960 the Son and the holiness of the Holy Ghost, who are all involved 527 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,560 with that scene that is there. You say, Pastor, I didn't read 528 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,360 about Jesus in that scene. We just read Isaiah chapter #6 529 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,640 and it seemed like the Father was there. 530 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,400 But I don't see anything about Jesus. 531 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,200 Again, may I remind you, if the Father is there, the Son is 532 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,200 there. If the Son is there, the Holy 533 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,120 Ghost is there. But I do want to take you 534 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,440 somewhere else, So turn to. John chapter 12, very quick. 535 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,560 You can you can leave Luke chapter one. 536 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,120 You're safe. All right, I will make you go 537 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,920 back. John chapter 12. 538 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,360 I kind of want to get Mexican for lunch now. 539 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,520 I'll be honest with you. I've been talking about 540 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:14,120 guacamole so much. Everyone's going to El Mariachi 541 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,360 for lunch. That's a it's a problem. 542 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,240 John 1237. You want to see a sad verse in 543 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,440 the Bible? Start verse 37. 544 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,480 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they 545 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,160 believe not on him. That's a pretty sad state of 546 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,200 affairs, isn't it? Jesus did so much I didn't 547 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,600 believe. Now look at verse 38, that the 548 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,240 saying of Isaias. Now Isaias would be Isaiah, that 549 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,680 the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he 550 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,680 spake, Lord, who hath believed our report, and to. 551 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,840 Whom hath the arm of the Lord revealed? 552 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,320 Therefore they could not believe because that Isaiah said again, 553 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,440 he had blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they 554 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,520 should not see with their eyes nor understand what their heart 555 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,280 and be converted and I should heal them. 556 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,600 Stop right there. You say, where did Isaiah say 557 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,080 this? In Isaiah chapter 6 in the 558 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,920 verses that just followed what we read in the time of worship, 559 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,200 and we're not going to go there for study, go there later, but 560 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,400 you'll find that they said who will go for us? 561 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,880 By the way, when they're saying who will go for us? 562 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,960 The Lord. The Lord is talking to himself. 563 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,120 His lawyer's talking to himself. That would be father, Son and 564 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,040 Holy Ghost who will go for us. And Jeremiah, who had already 565 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,480 recognized his sinfulness, said this here am I send me. 566 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,680 And the message that was given is the message that we just read 567 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,920 right here. And that message by the 568 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:46,520 inspiration of God said applied to what took place in John 569 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,000 chapter 12 when people didn't believe. 570 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,200 And the kicker is verse 41, these things spake Isaias when 571 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,480 he saw His glory. Now who was His glory? 572 00:29:54,480 --> 00:30:00,640 The glory that he saw in chapter 6 and spake of him, Well, who's 573 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,520 him? Well, this chapter's about 574 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,120 Jesus. Isaiah chapter #6 is as much 575 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,080 about Jesus Christ as it is the Father. 576 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:17,720 When they saw the holiness of Christ, when he saw the holiness 577 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,800 of God, they have brought him to a place that he recognized even 578 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,200 as a believer, his sinful state. He says, I may think I'm doing 579 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,240 well, but compared to him I'm a man and I'm done. 580 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,600 I'm a man of unclean lips. But then understanding that 581 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,000 Jesus, I think I'm not taking this out of context here. 582 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,440 Father, Son and Holy Ghost all present, but he's given this 583 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:49,200 heavenly call by the Savior. Go and preach the message and 584 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,560 that very day that very event is given application. 585 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaking of Jesus Christ here in John chapter #12 the pastor that 586 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,760 that's that is really awesome. But I don't have anything to do 587 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,240 with me. Well has everything to do with 588 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,040 you. Christ was holy and this allowed 589 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,080 him to be used by his Father. Christ was used as a. 590 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,320 Father, because He was holy. When we takes holiness 591 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:25,000 seriously, He'll use us as well. I'm not saying that you'll never 592 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,840 be used of God if you live in a way that's apart from the Lord. 593 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,480 There are people that in their flesh can serve the Lord for a 594 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,560 time. But I will say this, you can't 595 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,200 truly be the servant of God that He wants you to be unless you 596 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,160 take holiness seriously. Well, you're some kind of 597 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,840 Pharisee pastor. You try to tell us how to live. 598 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,720 I'm not telling you how to live. The Lord is the one who's 599 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,840 telling us how to live. The ward is that He is the one 600 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,240 that is holy. We have called upon Him to save 601 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,080 us, and if we're believers, then we ought to live in a way 602 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,240 there's befitting of that holiness so that we can be used. 603 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,160 Isaiah couldn't be used as God wanted to. 604 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,240 He was used before. He was used in five other 605 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,440 chapters, but he couldn't be used for that which God totally 606 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,160 had planned for him until he came to recognize the holiness 607 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,200 of God and the unholiness of Himself. 608 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,440 And once he took the holiness of God seriously, God was able to 609 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,160 use him in a way that he never imagined. 610 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,960 And I would tell you this morning that God believer wants 611 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,920 to use you in a way that you never imagined. 612 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,040 And maybe he has used you before and maybe you thought that he's 613 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,920 used you before and so that's good enough. 614 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,600 No, no, the more we dial into, the more we recognize, the more 615 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,360 we take seriously the very holiness of God, the more God 616 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,400 will use you with your friends, with your family, in your 617 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:49,360 church, in your life. Once we take him seriously, if 618 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:54,880 God used the holiness of Christ, then he's looking for you to be 619 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:59,440 holy as well. Oh, so I got to well, I got to I 620 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,120 got apart from I don't even know that wasn't in my mess in my 621 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,160 notes here. How am I going to do this? 622 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,240 Philippians 39 and be found in him not having my own 623 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,320 righteousness, which is of the law. 624 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,760 Do you remember this? But that which is through the 625 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,760 faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by 626 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:26,520 faith, that we receive His righteousness and salvation, but 627 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,880 then we are to live in that righteousness with His power and 628 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,800 help. Ephesians 5424 you put on a new 629 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,080 man which after God is created in righteousness and true 630 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,360 holiness. I've mentioned this before 631 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,720 second Timothy 35 where it says having a form of godliness but 632 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,120 denying the power thereof from such turn away. 633 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,920 It talks about Timothy and Paul and some of his last words to 634 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,360 Timothy makes clear that unholy living. 635 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,080 In fact, the verses previous to that name all hosts of unholy 636 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,880 types of living, but they were people that still had this 637 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,000 outward veneer of godliness. But he says those people have no 638 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,360 power. He says turn away from them. 639 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,199 But I would also take that and use this application. 640 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:27,600 If with ungodliness comes no power, then with godliness and 641 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:35,080 holiness comes power. The opposites would be true 642 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,840 here. If with unholiness comes no 643 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,719 power, because God. Is not going to use you in the 644 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,760 way that He wants to use you because you are not right with 645 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,480 him. Then when we are right with him, 646 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,679 as we should, and we keep close accounts with him, and we 647 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:51,000 confess our sins to him on a regular basis and we know who He 648 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,400 is and we want to live for him, He can use us in ways we can't 649 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,240 even imagine. Brought a coffee cup with me 650 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:01,400 this morning and got this cup. This nice cup right here, isn't 651 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,560 it? We got this in North Conway, NH 652 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,480 we love. In North Conway and yeah, this 653 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,160 is this is nice, isn't it? It's one of several coffee cups 654 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,160 that I bring here to the church and usually break after a few 655 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,080 weeks. I've broken quite a few coffee 656 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:19,600 cups here over some time. And you know, this cup's pretty 657 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,080 useful, isn't it? I mean, put coffee in it. 658 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,000 I can't really come up with anything else. 659 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,600 Coffee because that's what we want. 660 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,840 We want coffee. That's what we're looking for. 661 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,320 You could put liquids in it. This is this is what it's built 662 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,400 for. It's made for that. 663 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,000 There's only one problem, this coffee. 664 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,320 It looks good on the outside, doesn't it? 665 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:44,680 There's one part I didn't show you that's the inside doesn't 666 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,520 look good, does it? In fact, it looks pretty gross 667 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,320 on the inside. You know, I'm not going to tell 668 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,320 you what it is, but it might rhyme with molasses. 669 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,920 The interesting thing about this is you can still use this. 670 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,840 I mean, I could go out in the garden in the spring, scoop up 671 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,800 dirt with it. I had a fight, a workshop. 672 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,800 If I was handy, I could maybe put screws or bolts or something 673 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,560 like that in there, put little knickknacks. 674 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,800 But a leaky faucet I could put underneath, catch some drips. 675 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,800 Oh, yeah, you can use this. Here's the problem. 676 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:33,160 Is this what the Craftsman intended it to be, do you think 677 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,880 A Craftsman says, you know what? I want to build something that 678 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,560 could catch drips. I need to build something that 679 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,640 could scoop up soil. It'll look like a cup, but it's 680 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,040 not a cup. It's a it's a soil scooper. 681 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,560 It could be used for that, but that's not what it's for. 682 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:58,040 That's not what it's for. The Craftsman has made it for 683 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,440 one purpose, and while it may have other lower purposes, it 684 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:07,360 will never fulfill its highest calling until it's clean. 685 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,600 What did holiness have to do with you? 686 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,240 Everything. Amen. 687 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:19,320 God wants to use you. God wants to use you. 688 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,240 But when you see this, you realize He will not use you the 689 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:29,480 way in which He intends to because there's people He 690 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,480 doesn't want you to meet. Let me repeat that again. 691 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,440 There are people He does not want you to meet because you 692 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,600 will not truly show them Christ as you want. 693 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,240 There are people you will not come in contact with. 694 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,440 There's messages you won't preach. 695 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,360 There's classes you won't teach. There's songs you won't sing. 696 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,080 There's influence you won't have. 697 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,840 We'll look at that tonight. You won't have those things 698 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,040 because you. Are a very useful soil. 699 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:06,040 Digger, a very useful faucet, drip catcher, a very useful nut 700 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,680 and bolt holder. But you are not what the Master 701 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:15,000 intended. So how do I get clean, pastor? 702 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,360 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have 703 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:25,400 fellowship with one another, and the blood of Christ Jesus His 704 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,760 Son cleanseth us from all sin. And John, as he continues to 705 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:34,280 speak to believer, says this. If we say we have no sin, we 706 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,040 deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 707 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,840 But if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive our 708 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,640 sins, to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 709 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,440 What do we need to do? Once you're saved, you have to 710 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,320 confess the sin that you have every day. 711 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,160 So wasn't that a Catholic thing? No, that's a Bible thing. 712 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,440 We get it in the right order, though. 713 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,400 And the idea is that you don't have to come to me to confess 714 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,720 that the door has been way too laid wide open. 715 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,240 The veil has been torn in two from top to bottom. 716 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:13,560 Only God could do that. Why? 717 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,760 To show that we can go directly to the Lord for the forgiveness 718 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,880 of sins. God wants to use you. 719 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,800 And he might use. You here and there, but He may 720 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,080 not use you as you as He intended. 721 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,080 In fact, I put it to you this way. 722 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:37,200 A holy God uses holy people to fulfill a holy calling. 723 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,760 If you wrote one thing down from today's message, it would be 724 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,120 this. A holy God use the holy people 725 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,840 to fulfill a holy calling. Why would a holy God use unholy 726 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,000 people to fulfill a holy calling? 727 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,200 So, Pastor, what are you saying I need to do? 728 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,200 I'll give you an application that we would teach the 729 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,400 children. Oh, be careful little ears what 730 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,760 you hear. Oh, be careful little lies what 731 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,720 you see. Oh, be careful little feet where 732 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,600 you go. Say, pastor, I'm beyond those 733 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,600 kind of things now. Well, then you are beyond the 734 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,560 holiness of God and you're in a place we can't help you. 735 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:16,960 That's. Right, that's. 736 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:23,160 Good. Make a swing of this first. 737 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:31,000 We're almost done. You say you're meddling, pastor. 738 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,560 Call it what you want, but I'm going to help you. 739 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,000 What you watch on TV matters. Don't think it does have an 740 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,720 influence on you. The violence, the sex, the 741 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,640 language. You would never take the name of 742 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,960 Jesus Christ uses a curse word, but you'll allow someone to come 743 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,360 into your home and do that from Hollywood. 744 00:40:54,040 --> 00:41:01,320 Be careful what you listen to, music that glorifies drugs, sex, 745 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,720 all kinds of different things that you wouldn't do yourself, 746 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,320 but you listen to someone else talk about it and sing about it. 747 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:13,200 Be careful little ears what you hear. 748 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,360 We have so many ways to get information. 749 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,360 It's scary how much information we can get from this. 750 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,720 I asked Siri a couple days ago. I'm talking like Siri's a 751 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,480 person, but I asked Siri, can you find out such and such and 752 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,760 such information? And it just pulled it up. 753 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,080 Now, 9 times out of 10, it'll pull up something a lot 754 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,800 different. Say what's the closest Mexican 755 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,720 restaurant you know to Liberty Baptist Church and it'll say, 756 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,440 oh, if you were looking for the nearest Indian cuisine in 757 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,840 Huntsville, AL, I'll help it. I didn't say that, but you can 758 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,680 pull up anything on this phone. And by anything I mean anything 759 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:02,080 I would suggest you. Mankind wasn't created in a way 760 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,880 to have to know what everybody's doing all the time on social 761 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:10,480 media, what all the news is all the time, what everything to be 762 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,560 able to think a thought. I wonder what the answer that is 763 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,760 and to find it in five seconds. I don't think God necessarily 764 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,520 wanted our brains to be able to handle all that because what we 765 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,000 do is we take all of that in and guess what? 766 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,640 We don't think about the holiness of God. 767 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:26,680 Hey, pastor, you're telling me what to do? 768 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,640 Well, somebody ought to. No, I'm not trying to be cute. 769 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,640 What I'm saying is I want you to be confronted with the holiness 770 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,280 of God. And you say I'm not giving you a 771 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,960 list of shows not to watch, but don't come with me after church. 772 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,240 Say, pastor, give me, give me your shows to watch and not 773 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,400 watch. Say you pray about it, you go, 774 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,400 you go compare what you're watching to God's Word. 775 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,800 No, I'm not. I'm not going to spoon feed you 776 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,280 with that. Well, Pastor, is this a movie I 777 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,760 should be watching? Compare it to God's Word and you 778 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,880 go to that. This is not a ministry where I'm 779 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,440 going to go around and just start handing you a list. 780 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,400 Don't go here, don't do this, don't watch this, don't go 781 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:01,400 there. Boycott this. 782 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,120 Don't go here, don't. There's no end to that. 783 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,320 And by the way, the issues of life, they keep changing. 784 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,280 What's a hot button issue this week? 785 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:13,960 We'll not be out by the issue next week. 786 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,920 The issues keep changing. You know it doesn't change. 787 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:26,080 Get with that and you'll know if God's people took holiness 788 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,240 seriously. And in case you're concerned, 789 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:34,240 I'm preaching to myself first. If God's people took holiness 790 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:39,000 seriously, a holy God could use a holy people for a holy calling 791 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,840 to do more with us than we could ever imagine. 792 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,680 But we can't just have this idea that we love our little Jesus on 793 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,840 Sunday, but we'll live the way we want to the rest of the week. 794 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,560 That's not what Christianity is about. 795 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,440 That's not what he saved you for. 796 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,560 That's not the calling upon your life. 797 00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,600 He saved you for something higher and more noble and more 798 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,280 glorious than just rolling around in the mud. 799 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:10,720 In this world. God's holy God uses the holy to 800 00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:15,640 let a holy God use you as His holy servant to fulfill a holy 801 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,000 calling. Thank you for listening to the 802 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,600 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 803 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,200 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 804 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,360 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 805 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:32,200 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 806 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,120 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 807 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,160 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.