1 00:00:01,900 --> 00:00:05,800 Would you turn please in your Bible to Genesis chapter 1? 2 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:11,800 Everyone should have received an Apostles Creed everybody. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,100 Get a little copy of that. I didn't bubble Brock. 4 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:20,600 Could you hit me one? Thank you, sir. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:33,400 Do we have enough? Okay, so we're in our Apostles, 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,200 Creed series. We started last week. 7 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,500 We didn't make it too far. We made it to I believe. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,700 And we didn't know what we believed yet, but we knew we 9 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,100 were going to believe it, whatever it was, but we 10 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:45,800 understood and talked about the importance of the difference 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,300 between knowing something and believing something. 12 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:50,400 And we said that, I don't really believe something. 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,100 Unless it's changing the way that I live. 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,700 I know a lot of stuff. I know, I ought to eat Better. 15 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,700 I know I'll be on my phone less. We all know certain things that 16 00:00:57,708 --> 00:01:00,300 don't necessarily impact what we're doing about it. 17 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:04,000 But believing in something changes everything, we believe 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,300 we saw in the scripture you believe with the heart, that's 19 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:09,700 where we first believed, and with confession, and with the 20 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:11,500 mouth confession is made unto salvation. 21 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:14,900 But we understand that without faith it's impossible to please 22 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,300 God. So believe in God is one of the 23 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:19,300 normative and important things that we're doing. 24 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,800 And we talked about the Apostles Creed, the history of it, how 25 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:26,400 and why it was put together It is not the Bible, but it points 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,800 to the Bible. It's a simple summary of what 27 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,000 the Bible teaches for New Testament. 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,200 Believers a very simple and basic thing. 29 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,300 So the Believers could unite around the things that are most 30 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:38,700 fundamental, is there. Other stuff there, most 31 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:42,500 definitely is, there's plenty of secondary and tertiary things 32 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,500 that could be talked about, but there are primary things and the 33 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:48,200 early church wanted to clarify the church leaders want to say, 34 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,200 let's give something simple and clear so that Christians should 35 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,600 know what Christians should believe. 36 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,700 There's a lot of false doctor, there's a lot of bad teaching, 37 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:57,900 but let's make it very simple so that we can start people here 38 00:01:57,900 --> 00:01:59,900 and say, hey, this is foundational. 39 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,900 This is what Christians should believe. 40 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:04,200 You can't be a Christian if you don't believe this generally 41 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,100 speaking. It's not to say that somebody 42 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,199 couldn't be ignorant and then on their way to learning things but 43 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,400 this is Christian doctrine. If somebody doesn't affirm one 44 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,400 of these things we would say that's not Christian. 45 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:18,100 It's unchristian or if they're similar in close then it's most 46 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:21,300 likely a cult who would say yes yes yes but no to this and we 47 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:24,200 say then we reject that we reject that because it's on 48 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,100 Biblical, it's untrue. So if they repent of that, then 49 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,100 they're welcomed in. It was a simple mistake. 50 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,600 But there are many doctrines that are built against Christian 51 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,300 foundations, but the Apostles Creed is a way to Simply say, 52 00:02:34,300 --> 00:02:39,000 hey, this is what we believe this is the way we see it and 53 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,900 understand it and Define it from scripture. 54 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,000 So the Apostles Creed is a useful tool that points us to 55 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,300 the word of God. We're not preaching all about 56 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:50,000 the Creed, but we're letting the Creed steer us back to the word 57 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,700 to say, where do these doctrines come from and how can we be 58 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:54,800 reassured in them? But first Are going to read the 59 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,600 Creed together right now. So if you've got it with you, 60 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,500 let's begin. I believe in God, the Father 61 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:04,300 Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. 62 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,300 I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was 63 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:13,500 conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 64 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:18,400 He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was 65 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,800 buried. He descended to Hell. 66 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,100 The third day. He rose again from the dead. 67 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,700 He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God, 68 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:33,100 the Father Almighty from there, he will come to judge the living 69 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:37,900 and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic 70 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:40,800 Church. The communion of saints, the 71 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,900 Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the 72 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:47,200 life Everlasting. Amen. 73 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,500 As we see it says, three times there. 74 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:51,000 I believe. And then, as you see, it's 75 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,700 broken into three segments, I believe in God, the Father 76 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,300 Almighty, The next, I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our 77 00:03:57,300 --> 00:04:00,400 Lord and then the next I believe in the holy spirit. 78 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:05,100 So the whole Creed here is is teaching us, the Trinity. 79 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,200 The godhead even though the word Trinity isn't used in scripture. 80 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,500 It's another one of those things. 81 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:11,400 It's not Bible. Exactly. 82 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,900 And yet it teaches bible, exactly. 83 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:15,900 It's a way to clarify and bring something. 84 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:19,100 If you wanted to teach Bible doctrines, most of the time, 85 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:22,200 you're not only going to exclusively quote scripture, if 86 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,000 somebody said, tell me the gospel, The time you're not 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,200 exclusively just going to quote verses, but you would put into 88 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,300 your own words, the Apostles Creed does something similar, 89 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,500 but we see that the godhead has described and taught and 90 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:37,400 instructed to us here. And we start with God, the 91 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,500 Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. 92 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,400 So, that's where we are today. God, I believe in God, the 93 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,000 Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth. 94 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:48,500 So we're going to look at this in a couple different ways. 95 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,800 This morning, we're going to take it in pieces. 96 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,000 We see God is the father we See, God is Almighty and we see God 97 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,600 is the creator of Heaven and Earth, three different things 98 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,900 here that are taught right away, and we're going to look at 99 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,200 exclusively right away at how he is the creator of Heaven and 100 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,700 Earth. So that's why you're in Genesis 101 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:14,700 1:1. In the beginning, God created 102 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:18,100 the heavens and the Earth. This is foundational. 103 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:19,900 This is fundamental, Christian doctrine. 104 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:22,200 Why are we spending time on this? 105 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,700 Because it's important and because it's easily lost because 106 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,600 Christians are easily deceived Christian's can easily start to 107 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,000 blend ideas ago. Yeah. 108 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,300 Yeah. God created everything and 109 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:35,500 evolution is true to know these things. 110 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,100 One of these things is not like the other and they cannot live 111 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:39,700 together and they cannot be friends. 112 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,700 We did not evolve. We did not. 113 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:44,200 Form. We did not come from something 114 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,100 else. We aren't a giant accident. 115 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:47,600 We were planned. We were chosen. 116 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,900 And we were designed this, these things are exclusive from one 117 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:54,600 another. We can't have come from some 118 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,600 other species. When the Bible says something 119 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,000 different. When Bible says that the Bible 120 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,200 says that God created them male and female in the beginning, God 121 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,200 tells us that we were all plunged into sin because of our 122 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,900 father Adam's sin, right? Adam. 123 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:11,300 A real man who Jesus believed in who Jesus taught about Jesus 124 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:14,100 says the Second. Adam Jesus says, the new man 125 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,700 fundamental stuff here. Simple stuff God, made. 126 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,000 Everything God made everybody. And when I believe that, when I 127 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,400 believe that there's a creator that God did it all, it changes 128 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,000 everything. Now, I have purpose and I have 129 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,700 meaning, I'm not just an animal, I'm not just Stardust, who got 130 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:34,100 lucky because lightning hit the mud puddle or however it all 131 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,600 supposedly happened. But what actually happens now is 132 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,100 I recognize I have purpose. I have design and it's 133 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,000 interesting. Even people who deny this true 134 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,600 Even people who deny this reality, they still live. 135 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,700 Like, it's true because they're made in the image of God and 136 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:49,400 they can't escape it. So, we recognize that grace of 137 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,000 God working in them. It's an inconsistency in their 138 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,700 world view, of course, and anybody who doesn't stand on the 139 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:57,200 word of God is full of inconsistencies and 140 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,000 contradictions because they will they will affirm that something 141 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,200 is, right or they will affirm that something is wrong. 142 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,300 And yet, if you were to ask them by what standard they would say, 143 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:09,500 being a decent human and he would say, what is decent? 144 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:11,400 And they would say doing what's right? 145 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,700 And they you Could ask them when what is right? 146 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,100 And if they were honest eventually they would recognize 147 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:17,800 that they're standing up over Oblivion. 148 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,900 There's nothing there. It's their opinion. 149 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,500 And if they were going to be consistent in their worldview 150 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:25,100 they would have to admit that. It's just the sack of meat 151 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:27,500 between their ears. Its brain chemistry. 152 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,700 It's preference and its opinion. That's it. 153 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,200 There is no right or wrong or good and evil from the world 154 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,800 view that says God didn't create everything but things 155 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,400 accidentally formed. You understand why believing 156 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,000 things matters because it leads to something. 157 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,000 So we said the Apostles Creed is It's theoretical. 158 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,400 It is intensely practical because when you understand 159 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,200 Bible Doctrine it changes everything about the way you 160 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,500 live and function. So that as a Believer you can 161 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:55,300 stand on something that is a solid foundation with a pillar 162 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,300 of truth. And you can say this is, right? 163 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:00,100 And this is wrong. Well who says well God says that 164 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:01,700 settles it this is what gives me. 165 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:03,500 Confidence is what brings me conviction? 166 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,800 This is what actually helps me to bring Clarity to a situation 167 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,900 when people go. Well, I think this, or I think 168 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:12,500 that well, who Am I, who am I? I didn't create And everything. 169 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:16,300 I didn't create everybody and I'm not just another mammal 170 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,100 running around out here. Who's just happy to be alive and 171 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,000 happy to have Consciousness somehow. 172 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,000 Instead, I'm submitted under somebody who is above and 173 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,100 beyond, oh God is the creator of everything and because we 174 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:32,100 believe this, we know that we have meaning and purpose, all 175 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:35,200 people know, this turn to Romans chapter 1. 176 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,700 Matthew Mark, Luke John acts Romans. 177 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:56,500 Romans 1:20. And she'll go to verse 19. 178 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:04,200 For what can be known about God is plain to them. 179 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,400 Even though someone would say, I don't believe in God because you 180 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,600 can't show me God, or I don't believe in this because you 181 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,100 can't show me this God disagrees, and you should agree 182 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:21,900 with God, Christian for what can be known about God is plain to 183 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:24,600 them plane to, who plan to everybody specifically talking 184 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,400 about people living in sinful Rebellion. 185 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:31,400 A lot of what he's going on here is talking about sexual Sim, but 186 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,800 the point is, what can be known about God is plain to them. 187 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,600 It's plain to everybody why? Because God has shown it to 188 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,100 them. How has he done that? 189 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,300 Verse 20 answers that question for his invisible attributes, 190 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,200 namely his eternal power and his divine nature have been clearly 191 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,000 perceived ever since the creation of the world, in the 192 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,800 things that have been made. So that they are without excuse, 193 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,300 here's the logic of God, and here's what God is saying, he's 194 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:01,500 saying he's made himself playing and revealed himself to 195 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,000 everybody. How because he created 196 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,600 everything existence itself, God says is proof of Creator 197 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,500 creation necessitates Creator. If you walk into the kitchen and 198 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,300 you find warm brownies on the on the countertop, you don't go. 199 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,200 Wow. I bet 4.2 billion years ago 200 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,800 there was just ingredients that just found their way to this hot 201 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,600 tray of brownies today. You'd be an idiot. 202 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,900 That's absurd right? That's dumb. 203 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:34,000 That's very unscientific it violates the It method entirely 204 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:36,800 and it doesn't recognize that things are always falling apart 205 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,400 and not finding order God creates order. 206 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:42,700 There was chaos God brought order and still nature is 207 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,200 disordering itself. Things Decay things break Things 208 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,500 Fall Apart because of sin now. But this is what we see 209 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:52,900 happening constantly but God says his invisible attributes. 210 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:57,500 So, God is claiming the invisible is proven by the 211 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:00,100 visible. This is what he's saying. 212 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:06,200 His creation is obvious evidence of him as Creator to the degree. 213 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,900 He says that men are without excuse, the invisible is obvious 214 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:13,900 because of the visible there without excuse for what their 215 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:15,400 without excuse for their unbelief. 216 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,100 Well I feel like if I could just know Saint, there is no thing 217 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,500 that you have to logically persuade somebody of. 218 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,600 If you believe that then you're believing you're buying into 219 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,500 their framework. You're you're buying into the 220 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:29,400 devil's lying framework that says. 221 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,700 Well, if you could show if you could prove, if you could this 222 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,500 but it's not true. People have literally heard the 223 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:41,400 voice of God audibly out loud in scripture and they said, That 224 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,700 was Thunder, there's nothing that when people see it, 225 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:50,300 remember the Pharisees, they saw, Jesus miracles, the Roman 226 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:53,900 guards come to them in the night and go, hey, guys, he was just 227 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,900 resurrected and an angel, knocked us out in the Pharisees. 228 00:11:56,900 --> 00:12:00,400 Didn't say we were wrong. God, forgive us, he's truly the 229 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,200 Messiah. They said, hey, don't tell 230 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:09,000 nobody and we'll pay you. Nobody needs more logical, 231 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 persuasion from you, be free from that lie. 232 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,000 The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. 233 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:19,000 It is through the foolishness of preaching that the humble can be 234 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 healed. It is through the foolishness of 235 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 preaching that people can be restored to go. 236 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,600 That's it. Oh, that's your story. 237 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,900 A Jewish Carpenter died on the cross and he supposed to be the 238 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:31,700 everything in the Alpha and the Omega. 239 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:33,400 You got it. That's it. 240 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:36,000 I can't believe that. No, it's that you won't believe 241 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,800 that you. N and you should but you won't 242 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,400 and I love you and I'll continue to pray for you. 243 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,400 Why? Because you're blind blinded by 244 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,900 who by the God of this world but God has made himself known. 245 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:51,300 He's made himself plane through the you know when the brownies 246 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:55,800 are on the counter that someone made the brownies, it's obvious 247 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,600 to you don't go. These are magic. 248 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:00,600 How do they get here you go? Brock, William made these 249 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,200 brownies or Natalie made these brownies or Don. 250 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,900 Made these brownies 33 brownie makers, that I know in my life 251 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:10,700 when your brownie lover, you can surround yourself with brownie 252 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:17,700 makers. But this is evidence. 253 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:21,000 This is a foundational Truth for Christian doctrine. 254 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 God is Creator. Nobody else. 255 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:26,200 Nothing else before God created, there was nothing. 256 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,300 Except God, what else do we see? What else is the Creed teaching 257 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:34,000 us about God? Well, God is the father and he 258 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,100 is Almighty. What do we see here? 259 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:40,600 We see that God is personal as a father and God is powerful as 260 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,500 the almighty. Both of these are true and both 261 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:46,200 of these are to be deeply. Brace both of these are an 262 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,700 important part of Christian doctrine. 263 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,100 But what you often find is, you might find yourself tending 264 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:54,900 towards one perspective. Over the other, I might find 265 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,000 myself tending towards the personal. 266 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,900 God, while rejecting the powerful God, or I might find 267 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:06,900 myself only having the Viewpoint of God is the powerful God in 268 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:10,000 rejecting and not understanding or receiving the personal 269 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,400 aspect. What does this look like? 270 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,800 Well, the personal God is this is the Jesus or God is my 271 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,100 homeboy kind of approach. Me and the man upstairs. 272 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:21,100 He's cool. He gets me. 273 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,300 I tip my hat to the good Lord, you know, I'm overly 274 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,100 comfortable. If I'm in this perspective 275 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:31,200 exclusively, I'm overly casual. This is the approach that thinks 276 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,200 life is really all about me. This is the I'm great God thinks 277 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,300 I'm great I'll tip my hat to the man upstairs. 278 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:41,500 This is what I've called before country music Christianity I 279 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:46,100 like country music but in a lot of country music it's the God 280 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:49,700 has held so loosely but Still like this Southern American 281 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,500 Christianity thing going on. So it's like we're going to get 282 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,100 down on Saturday night, but we're going to be in church on a 283 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:59,200 Sunday morning and it's well, you were intoxicated the night 284 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,500 before and and sending sexually all these things but it all just 285 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:05,200 works for you. Like yeah, I'm at the Lord 286 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,900 understands me a simple folks like what this is nonsense. 287 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,700 Like, if you loved a new, the Lord, then you would want to be 288 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,700 like him and you would want his best and you would want to walk 289 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:20,100 in Holiness and not Perfection but faithfulness. 290 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,700 So that's a, it's a casual approach where there is no fear 291 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:28,300 of God, in your eyes. There's a fear of God and that 292 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:30,800 perspective even rejects the idea of fear of God. 293 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,500 The personal God, the Oprah God the, everybody's a Christian 294 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,900 kind of God says fear God. Why would I ever fear? 295 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:41,600 God, God loves me so much money. Have you read the Bible? 296 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:45,200 Have you? Because Jesus mr. 297 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,800 Love himself, all the enemies. Not always think they know most 298 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,100 about Jesus is very interesting but all the enemies of God, we 299 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:54,900 always say. Jesus was just about love and 300 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:56,800 and I could never these kind of people. 301 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,400 The only the personal got approach will take the approach 302 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,200 that says I could never serve a God who, and then they fill in 303 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,800 the blank with something. Heretical, I could never serve a 304 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,700 got to be careful if you ever want to make a statement like 305 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,100 that and make sure that what's about to fill in that blank 306 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:12,000 isn't something that's literally in the Bible. 307 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:14,400 I could never serve a God. Who would what? 308 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:20,100 Drown the whole Earth? Except for eight people, I could 309 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:22,100 never do that. Well, that's the only God there 310 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,800 is. So you ought to pick him because 311 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,900 he's the best and he's worthy. Well, what's the other 312 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:30,600 perspective? Well, the other perspective is 313 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,100 my only view of God is. I'm terrified of getting smoked. 314 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:37,800 I don't want to get smited and that's who he's that's what he's 315 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,100 likely going to do. He's a smiter and I Mass Mighty 316 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,600 and it's very likely that that's going to happen to me. 317 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:46,600 Now this view is less common but it's still real and it's still 318 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,700 error why? Because it rejects the close 319 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:51,700 Fellowship, the Lord intended. What do we see in the garden? 320 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,700 He comes and walks with Adam in. The cool of the day. 321 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:55,700 That was the purpose. That was the motive. 322 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,100 If Adam hadn't sinned, we would have all lived happily ever 323 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,800 after and we're walking with the Lord and subduing the Earth and 324 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,500 multiplying and glorifying his name and we closed the curtain 325 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,400 and the rest is history. He's getting back to it and we 326 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,300 will have it again and it will be forever secured. 327 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:16,000 But a lot of times we can have this perspective of I'm just 328 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,099 scared of God. Therefore I run from God and 329 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:22,300 we're forgetting the personal aspect but the the Apostles 330 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,700 Creed points out both which the Bible plainly points out. 331 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:29,100 We see a father we don't see a grandpa who gives you whatever 332 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:33,100 you want without consequence. We see a father who has good a 333 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:36,400 father will bring discipline. A father will bring Comfort. 334 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,400 A father will bring nurture, a father will bring provision? 335 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,400 A father will bring protection of all. 336 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,100 There's the whole package. I'll whip your butt. 337 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:47,500 I'll snuggle you. I'll play with you. 338 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,700 I'll whip your butt again. All the things that a father 339 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:51,500 should be. Why? 340 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:55,000 Because of the love, because of the love is so deep because the 341 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,200 love is so sincere. God is both personal and 342 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:02,600 powerful, and we've got lots of examples through scripture 343 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:07,000 showing us both like I said, we see him drowning the whole earth 344 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,600 in his judgment and in his Holiness and we also see him 345 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,500 personally burying His friend who had been meeting with face 346 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:18,000 to face, and he didn't even tell anybody where he buried him, 347 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,200 he's like, this is just for me, he's so is that Moses with him? 348 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:24,900 But he's, but he's, but he's so tender towards Moses that he 349 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:27,800 says I'm gonna bury him personally and I love him. 350 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,400 And I'm going to care for him, all through the scriptures, we 351 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:31,700 see the same, we see the tenderness. 352 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:36,600 So let's look more at God is our Father, God to God defines 353 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,100 himself as father. He was the first father, he 354 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:46,200 created Mankind in his own image in Earthly, fathers exist to 355 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,500 image the heavenly father. It's important understand. 356 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,600 God does not have fatherly traits. 357 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,500 It's not like, oh, God is kind of like a father. 358 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,100 That would be a misunderstanding. 359 00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:00,800 God is father, that's how he defines in identifies himself. 360 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:04,000 God the father is the one person of the Trinity. 361 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,500 So he is God the Father Almighty. 362 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:09,500 That's who he is. It's not. 363 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:10,700 And you can kind of think about it. 364 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:12,700 Like a dad. No, he is. 365 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,100 The father, Adam wasn't, the first father, God was the first 366 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:17,900 father. He's the father of all creation. 367 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,700 He's the father of all mankind. He's the father of Jesus. 368 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,800 He's the father of everybody and everything. 369 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:27,500 And this is how he has chosen to identify and clarify himself for 370 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:30,600 us. Go to Matthew chapter 6. 371 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,300 Going to look at the Lord's Prayer. 372 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:53,300 Matthew chapter 6. Verse 9 through 13. 373 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:08,500 Matthew 6:9-13, Jesus teaching his disciples had a pray, pray. 374 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:15,200 Then like this, Our Father in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name, 375 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:18,500 Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as it is in 376 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,000 heaven. Give us this day, our daily 377 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,500 bread and forgive our debts as we have also forgiven our 378 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:29,300 debtors and lead us not into temptation, but Deliver Us from 379 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:33,400 Evil, Jesus starts off the Lord. Prayer teaching us that we have 380 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,700 a father to go to. This is what sets up everything 381 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,200 else that we pray this is what prefaces everything else that we 382 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,700 get into whatever we're saying he's he's helping everybody to 383 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:47,100 connect to Father God, this is who he is if he was your father, 384 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:48,900 if you believe that, how would you act? 385 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:52,100 Well I hate my Earthly. Father Mira's, Lee, father was 386 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:54,200 terrible to me. He was a wicked man. 387 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:57,600 He abused me or I had a great father, he was wonderful. 388 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,400 He nurtured he cared he taught he instructed, either way, 389 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,700 whether A great example or a horrible example, we still had 390 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:08,800 an imperfect example, no matter who he was or what he did. 391 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,100 He was in perfect and he fell far short of God, the father and 392 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:16,100 in the ideal Perfection that he brings to us. 393 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,100 What's the best of the best of the best you could imagine in a 394 00:21:19,108 --> 00:21:23,100 daddy your imagination falls short for how good God really is 395 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,800 for how good the father really. Is you thinkin, man? 396 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,400 I could imagine this, it doesn't even come close to how good the 397 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,600 father God is he is better than you think. 398 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,900 Think he is better than you could hope he is better than you 399 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:37,300 would ever dare dream. I can go, I can get pretty 400 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,800 imaginative but it won't get close enough because God is that 401 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,600 good. Why? 402 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,600 Because anything that you think is good originates from him 403 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,800 anyway, because God is goodness. He is goodness revealed. 404 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,400 He's goodness embodied. There's nothing better than the 405 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,800 father. Any idea that we have, that's 406 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,500 not good about God is just wrong. 407 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:02,800 It's just absolutely incorrect. You have the best father to go 408 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,700 to and only as Son of God can say, father, but this is exactly 409 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:08,600 what Jesus teaches. And this is what the New 410 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,800 Testament teaches that all of us are, we have been made the sons 411 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,200 of God. That means we have the 412 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,200 inheritance that he has provided and Jesus starts with this 413 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,500 important understanding. He's reminding us We're loved 414 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:24,000 children with a good father. Father is the Revelation and the 415 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,600 foundation of all that follows, God is father is what makes 416 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,600 everything else. Makes sense. 417 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,300 Another approach makes sense, another approaches as safe. 418 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,400 Nothing is as loving, look in chapter 7 here, Matthew as well. 419 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:48,700 Versus 7. 7 through 11 ask and it will be given to you seek and 420 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,700 you will find knock and it will be open to you for everyone who 421 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:57,700 asks receives and the one who seeks finds and to the one who 422 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:01,500 knocks it will be opened or which of you. 423 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:06,700 If his son asks, him for bread, will you give him a stone or if 424 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:09,500 he asks for a fish? Will you give him a serpent? 425 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,300 If you then, who are evil know how to give good gifts to your 426 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:18,200 children. How much more will your father 427 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,200 who is in heaven? Give good things to those who 428 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,900 ask him. Jesus Compares us Earthly 429 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:27,600 fathers, he calls us evil. You being evil knowing how to 430 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,400 love and care for your children. He said how much more it's such 431 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,400 an obvious understanding for Jesus to know the goodness in 432 00:23:33,408 --> 00:23:36,000 the love of the father. It's such an obvious thing. 433 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,200 He's going, the father is so much better than all of you. 434 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:41,100 He's looking around at Earthly people, he's gone. 435 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,100 I know my father and I know your father, he's way better than all 436 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,800 of you are. And you, you know, goodness 437 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,200 though, you still no goodness as Earthly fathers, you know how to 438 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,300 care for your children. You're not going to harm your 439 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:56,000 children as an Earthly father. He's talking in the normative 440 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,100 General sense, how it should be. He's saying you being evil know 441 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,700 how to do what's right? How much more your heavenly 442 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,800 father? This is the Comfort to the 443 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,300 Saints. This is what should this is what 444 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:07,700 would have comforted the early Believers. 445 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:10,500 Hey, what do we believe? Here, you know, we're followers 446 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:12,800 of the way now, we've put our faith in Jesus. 447 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,800 What does this really look like? Well, that means god is your 448 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,900 father guys. Father. 449 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,400 Okay, that's good news. I have I never had a father 450 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,300 before. Yeah, you do. 451 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:25,400 Now you do now. He's a father to the fatherless 452 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,400 and he's good. Oh, is he kind of like Caesar? 453 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,300 Because you know, the Romans have said Caesars a father? 454 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:32,400 No, no, he's way better than Caesar is. 455 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,500 He like Zeus the no Zeus just wants to zap you with lightning. 456 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:38,400 Remember, Jesus is like, waiting for you to mess up and to put 457 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,700 you On blast but we don't have that. 458 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,900 We have a father who actually loves us and who wants what's 459 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,800 best? And who wants what's right? 460 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:52,700 He's always seeking our good. back in chapter 6, all this is 461 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:55,800 is in the same context here where Jesus is still preaching 462 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:01,600 and teaching chapter 6 and verse 8, He says right before he told 463 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,700 us the Lord's Prayer says do not be like them talking about. 464 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,400 The Gentiles do not be like them for your father and your father 465 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,200 knows what you need before. You ask him, your father knows 466 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,200 what you need before you ask He knows when the sparrow Falls. 467 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:21,000 He feeds the animals Jesus says you're worth much more than 468 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,100 sparrows than many sparrows. Humans are worth more than 469 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,400 animals. Why? 470 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,100 Because God said so because we are made in His image and his 471 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:31,300 likeness, he goes you're worth much more than the flowers of 472 00:25:31,308 --> 00:25:32,900 the field, the flowers of the field. 473 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:35,200 Don't worry about tomorrow. The birds aren't worried about 474 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,900 tomorrow. Hey you got a father if you 475 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,600 believe that you have a Heavenly Father well that changes the way 476 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,600 you look at the week without change the way you look at your 477 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,500 checkbook. If you believe you have a 478 00:25:45,508 --> 00:25:47,900 heavenly father, will that change the way you look at the 479 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:51,200 news? Will that change the way you 480 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,800 look at the the newest tragedy and the latest thing that's 481 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,100 taking place over the new thing that you're supposed to be 482 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,100 afraid of? People who don't have a father 483 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,100 or panicked because they are their own covering. 484 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:05,400 If your own head, if you're the top of the food chain, that's a 485 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,500 scary place to be because anything that can take you out, 486 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:10,500 it's over. But when you have a Heavenly 487 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:14,100 Father, Like Jesus taught, you, you have a safe place to go. 488 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:16,500 This is who are God, is he, is deeply. 489 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:18,900 Personal, God is also all-powerful. 490 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,300 What does it mean that God is Almighty? 491 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,700 I believe in God, the Father Almighty creator of heaven and 492 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:27,900 earth. Oh, mighty means. 493 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,800 This having complete power omnipotent. 494 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:35,300 Our father is personal but he's also all-powerful. 495 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:37,400 That's good news, right? Don't you want your dad to be 496 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,500 the most powerful as a kid? That's what I said. 497 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,000 My dad can beat up your dad. This is way better than my dad. 498 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,300 Can beat up your dad. This is my, my God is my dad. 499 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,000 My dad is my God. My father is God, and he's 500 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,700 all-powerful. He's perfect in all his ways and 501 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:57,600 he's Unstoppable. Our father is the almighty one 502 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,100 who can do. Anything, he knows everything. 503 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,400 This is important. Simple foundational Doctrine, 504 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,100 God knows everything. He sees everything, he knows 505 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:10,000 like David was saying in the psalm before I even speak a 506 00:27:10,008 --> 00:27:13,700 word, the Lord knew what was coming, he knows my inward, most 507 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,500 thoughts, the things that I'm dodging, things that I'm not 508 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:19,200 even wanting to take time to meditate on and think about to 509 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,800 repent of and to root out the Lord knows it's all there. 510 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,200 He sees it all that's scary and he loves me, he's personal and 511 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,800 he's powerful. His power also means that he has 512 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,500 wrath because he is so holy. He's so loving. 513 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,300 He's also just and righteous and consistent. 514 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:43,500 This is how the grace of God on the fear of God, go together the 515 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:45,700 grace of God, the personal side that we would think of, in the 516 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:47,900 fear of God. We think that they're divorced, 517 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,800 they can't be separated. You can't separated. 518 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,000 You can't have intense love and not have judgment. 519 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,600 You can't have intense, love and not have wrath. 520 00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:59,500 We understand this. When we think about an 521 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,000 understanding of a willingness to act on the behalf of someone 522 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 that you love, Who Do You Love most on this Earth? 523 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,500 And now imagine someone hurting them and doing something to 524 00:28:10,508 --> 00:28:13,600 them. I think that you feel that is a 525 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,500 righteous wrath that you feel there can be an unrighteous 526 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,000 wrath as well but there's a righteous wrath when there's 527 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,100 love there is there is a willingness to act on the behalf 528 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,400 of the one who is so deeply loved and this is always true of 529 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,300 God. This is what again why it's 530 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:31,600 nonsensical when the enemies of God and tried to teach the 531 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,700 Believers of God. The the enemies of God will say 532 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:38,400 foolish things that make no sense and they'll say well if 533 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,400 God if I was God just Stop, don't even finish your dumb 534 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,700 sentence. But if I was God, I would do it 535 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:49,200 like this. Well, spoken like a sinful human 536 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,900 who isn't God, and who doesn't love God, and who doesn't pursue 537 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,700 God in any way? But go on, if I was God, I would 538 00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:00,200 just say, hey, everybody. It's okay, here's the problem 539 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,600 with that. Hey, y'all, it's not okay? 540 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:08,300 This is what a good judge recognizes a good judge when 541 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:10,100 he's got the ax murderer in front of him. 542 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,400 He doesn't go. You know what? 543 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:16,400 I'm just going to say it's okay. Is that a good judge? 544 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:20,600 Is he just, is he righteous? Was he good to the victim? 545 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,200 Was he good to the loved ones? Oh but I just feel like love is 546 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:32,200 love and mercy his mercy and and you know, kindness is kindness. 547 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,100 Well, you said three things that didn't make any sense. 548 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:38,100 Those are just circular reasoning that bear. 549 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:42,500 No fruit and mean nothing again standing out over Oblivion. 550 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:45,100 It's my feelings. As my preference is instead of 551 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:49,000 what God is defined is normal. Love requires wrath? 552 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:50,800 This is obvious. This is simple. 553 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,700 It's a willingness to act on behalf of the one love God. 554 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:58,400 Love the Israelites. So the Egyptians found out, 555 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,500 didn't they through all ten plagues? 556 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,500 The Wrath increases and increases and increases and 557 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,000 increases and increases y because of my love for my 558 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,900 people. When there's love, there's a 559 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,300 willingness to act on behalf of the ones loved and sometimes the 560 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:18,500 ones loved even feel that as the Israelites often did as a father 561 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:22,300 will discipline his children, loving fathers will do that. 562 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,700 Why? Because love brings that motive. 563 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,400 If I love my sons, I will discipline them. 564 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,600 If I hate my son's, I won't discipline them. 565 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:34,000 I've reminded my children that for ever since they were very 566 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,900 little would say, hey, if the Bible says, if I don't spank 567 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:39,500 you, it means that I hate you. There's a lot of kids in this 568 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:42,900 Don't spank. But there's three in particular 569 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:44,700 that I love more than all the other children. 570 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:47,600 I love all the children in the world but there's three in 571 00:30:47,608 --> 00:30:51,100 particular that I love more in that love most and I will 572 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,400 discipline them because I love them because of my deep love for 573 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,500 them. I will bring training, I'll 574 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:58,000 bring instruction, I'll bring the needed discipline, the right 575 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,100 thing at the right time, it's because of love that, I'll do 576 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:29,700 that turn to Hebrews chapter 11. Why can't God just Overlook sin? 577 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,300 Well, it's not a bad question as long as they're not bad faith 578 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:35,300 along with it. God can't Overlook, send those 579 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:38,200 because God Is So, holy God Is So Perfect. 580 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,600 Well, if he's just, if he's in charge of everything, if he's 581 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,500 the rule maker, it's not that he's the rule maker, he is the 582 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,900 rule itself, he is goodness. And in him, there is no Darkness 583 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:52,300 at all. Hebrews 11 verse 26. 584 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:00,000 That's a Hebrews 11. I'm in Hebrews 10. 585 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,400 Hebrews 10 verse 26. For if we go on sinning 586 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,600 deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth there, no 587 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,100 longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation 588 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:26,900 of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the 589 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:31,400 adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law 590 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,100 of Moses dies without Mercy on the evidence of two or three 591 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,800 Witnesses. How much worse punishment do you 592 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,600 think will be deserved by the one who has Trampled Under Foot, 593 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,600 the Son of God and is profaned. The blood of the Covenant by 594 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,400 which he was Sanctified and has outraged the spirit of Grace, 595 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,200 for we know him who said vengeance is mine and I will 596 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,600 repay. And again, the Lord will judge 597 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,200 his people. It is a fearful thing. 598 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,700 To fall into the hands of the Living God. 599 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:06,200 So what's possible is it's possible to take versus on their 600 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,700 own and say I'm building my entire perspective of God off of 601 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:13,900 this passage alone. I could do it over here as well. 602 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:17,400 I, I like this passage. Well, you, you can like that 603 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,500 passage, but we're to take the Bible and all of its counsel. 604 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:23,300 What does the whole scripture teach us about God? 605 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:27,000 I thought he was father and now he's gonna burn people up both 606 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:32,700 and yes, also, God is kind good. Loving father, he is Almighty. 607 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,700 He's holy, he's perfect. He has standards, he has 608 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:39,000 expectations. He is set apart in every way. 609 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:43,000 God is perfectly good. God is light and there is no 610 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,800 darkness in him. That means he cannot and will 611 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,500 not have fellowship with Darkness. 612 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:50,800 If he did, then he would no longer be good. 613 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,600 He would be dimmed. He would be tainted. 614 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,300 That's not possible. So what is what's the only 615 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:57,800 option? Well the only option is to take 616 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,400 all the impure and to make it holy like him that's the only 617 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,200 hope. He will not turn down his 618 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,900 volume. The only opportunity that anyone 619 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:08,000 has is that ours could be turned up. 620 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:11,600 That we could be brought to somehow some way that we could. 621 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:14,800 Be brought up into his presence, so that's why. 622 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:18,600 Every world religion would teach, everybody senses the 623 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,699 distance from God. So that's why every world 624 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:22,800 religion teaches that, you got to do something. 625 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,400 So I even pagans will say even heathens will say you got it 626 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,500 just be a good person. You know. 627 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:31,400 Like everybody feels this drive towards goodness. 628 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,900 Unfortunately, nobody can actually accomplish it. 629 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,100 Everybody's goodness, everybody's Deeds are filthy 630 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,000 rags. God says, hey, you turned your 631 00:34:39,007 --> 00:34:40,500 volume. You did your very best, right? 632 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:43,600 Yes, it's not good enough. It's never going to be good 633 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:44,900 enough. Well, that's not a very 634 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:47,000 encouraging thing. For a father to say, you're 635 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 forgetting the almighty, you're forgetting, his goodness, his 636 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,199 Holiness as Justice. Well, I don't like that. 637 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,699 Well, there's good news by the way, he could have left it there 638 00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:58,000 and he would have been right to do so. 639 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,800 But the good news is our father is merciful, our God is so good. 640 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,200 Our father is so kind and he made a way, these are two 641 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,100 separate worlds, is what I'm trying to show you. 642 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:11,600 I don't want you to just think. Oh, he's personal and friendly 643 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,700 Daddy, but sometimes you got to be scared of him. 644 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:15,600 No, no, that was where I started. 645 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:17,000 To show you. But when I want to show you is 646 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,500 it's the same God, the Father, the almighty, the Creator, and 647 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,500 Heaven and Earth. It's not a good day and a bad 648 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:24,000 day. It's not the Old Testament. 649 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200 And the New Testament, we're reading the New Testament. 650 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,500 By the way, in Hebrews right now, this is the same God he's 651 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:34,000 always good, he's always perfect, which is why he will 652 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,700 always deal with the axe murderer. 653 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,000 Like like we reference the judge a minute ago. 654 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,500 Should what should happen with the axe murderer? 655 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,600 Well, could he be changed into something else? 656 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,500 Now, you're getting somewhere. Could he be made new? 657 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:50,900 Yes, but Justice still has to be satisfied. 658 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,900 So who's going to satisfy this Justice? 659 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:56,500 Because God's not going to just Overlook something and go and no 660 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:57,800 big deal. It is a big deal. 661 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,200 It's such a big deal that blood had to be shed. 662 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,900 It's such a big deal that something had to happen. 663 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,100 But that's the common perspective of sinful humans. 664 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,100 If God is God, why can't he just say? 665 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:13,700 It's fine because it's not fine, it's not In the Israelites, like 666 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:16,500 we're referencing a minute ago, they were only spared. 667 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:18,900 Why? Because of the blood of the 668 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,000 Lamb? That's the thing that spared 669 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,200 them. That's the thing that made the 670 00:36:23,208 --> 00:36:26,100 difference that night, as the death angel came, the wrath of 671 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:29,700 God came for judgment. How could you be spared from 672 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,300 this? You got to take the blood of the 673 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:33,800 lamb and it's got to be applied to the doorpost. 674 00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:38,200 That was the Passover. So the instruction came to Moses 675 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,800 and God told Moses. I'm going to destroy everybody 676 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,200 tonight. I've been, I've been warning 677 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,000 Pharaoh. I've been warning Egypt, I've 678 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,600 been warning them over and over. And now here we come time's up 679 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,200 that bowl of Wrath has been filled up. 680 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,300 Look at God's patients were so foolish and ignorant. 681 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:57,200 When we say, I don't understand why God it's, I don't understand 682 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,400 why he didn't do it sooner. It's a lack of understanding of 683 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,300 God's holiness whenever we think, well, that seemed extreme 684 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:06,300 when he said, kill every man. A woman child and animal that 685 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:07,900 seemed extreme whenever he said this. 686 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:11,200 Whenever he said that, that know what's Wild is that he didn't 687 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,100 annihilate us, instantly at Adam. 688 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,500 That's what's crazy, everything else. 689 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:19,600 Every other moment that I take a breath is Grace, it's the 690 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,900 miracle of Mercy. It's love. 691 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,100 It is God's extravagant love. It's only in my extreme 692 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:27,800 arrogance where I go? Well I don't know why he would 693 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,300 punish that. You ought to be amazed that 694 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:32,300 you're getting to breathe and think thoughts. 695 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,100 That's his incredible Mercy. But for the grace of God, I 696 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,500 would already be receiving everything I already deserve, 697 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:43,200 which is eternity in Hell, burning and suffering with Satan 698 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,300 and all the enemies of God. That is exactly what I deserve. 699 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,500 I've earned it just by being born through Adam. 700 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,100 I've earned it and I deserve it. This is Christian doctrine. 701 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:58,400 This is understanding, God, the Father Almighty. 702 00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:01,700 Wow, this is comforting, he's father, he's Almighty. 703 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:04,200 He provided the blood of the Lamb to the Israelites. 704 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,400 And, of course, the blood of the Lamb that night was just 705 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,300 pointing to the Future lamb. The lamb who is going to be 706 00:38:09,308 --> 00:38:14,000 slain for everybody. Through Christ God's justice, is 707 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:19,000 fully satisfied and God's. Mercy is freely given so me the 708 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000 axe murder, plot twist, surprise, surprise, me the ax 709 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,700 murderer. Can I be forgiven? 710 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:27,100 I can be forgiven, but I've got to be made. 711 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:28,700 New God. Doesn't say Joe Michael. 712 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:31,300 It's no big deal. God says it is a really big 713 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,700 deal, but I love you. So I'm going to save you. 714 00:38:34,708 --> 00:38:39,000 I'm going to rescue you, but I'm going to make you new, like your 715 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,600 unacceptable as you are. I don't accept you. 716 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,100 As you are, I'll make you into something new. 717 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:47,600 I'll Transform. You, I'll take away your sinful 718 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,000 nature. So, you'll truly have a new 719 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,700 identity. You won't be an Ax Murderer 720 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,600 anymore. But what about the punishment 721 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,700 for your sin, I can't just go, here's a freebie. 722 00:38:56,900 --> 00:38:59,500 There's got to be suffering, there has to be because God is 723 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:02,500 Justice. God is just and judgment is 724 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:05,700 good. So this is where the sun comes 725 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:08,300 in. And Jesus says, I'll take the 726 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:12,400 punishment, we will, we will do this miraculous substitution 727 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,900 where I will give people my righteousness and I will take on 728 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:19,500 their sin. He became sin who knew no sin, 729 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,400 so that we could become the righteousness of God in Christ. 730 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:27,200 So through Christ, God, satisfies his Justice and he 731 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,800 points all of his wrath at Jesus for you. 732 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,900 And for me, I deserve a lot worse. 733 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:34,900 Yeah. Look at the cross. 734 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,100 That's why the cross is such a horrific and wonderful thing. 735 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,100 You see it. All you see the mercy of God, 736 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,900 you see the love of God. And you see the wrath of God 737 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:49,100 poured out. Why is the cross such a? 738 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,400 It's such a just place but at the same time we feel this 739 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,200 Injustice because they're an innocent man. 740 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,600 They're an innocent man, truly innocent more innocent than any 741 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,700 newborn baby you've ever seen an innocent man, taking the penalty 742 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:04,200 for everybody. Why? 743 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,900 Because the godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit 744 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:12,900 decided And Jesus submitted to the will of the Father. 745 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,400 The father is the one that Jesus submits to the father provides 746 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,300 leadership in the godhead, although there are equal in 747 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:23,100 every way co-equal and coeternal, they have different 748 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:24,800 roles and we're going to look at the different roles of the 749 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,200 Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as we go through the 750 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,500 rest of our series, but this is the good news, your father loves 751 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,800 you. Your father frees you from sin. 752 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,400 Your father disciplines you. He's just a good father. 753 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:40,900 Anything gets good anything, that's true. 754 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:44,600 Anything that's beautiful. It's because our heavenly father 755 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,600 has initiated our heavenly father is not bad and Jesus came 756 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,500 to protect us from the big bad heavenly father. 757 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:55,000 That is a misunderstanding and a heretical teaching its 758 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,700 foolishness. The godhead is united in his 759 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:01,400 purpose and his will and his love towards us and our heavenly 760 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,100 father our God I do the creator of Heaven and Earth he is good. 761 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:07,200 He has for us he is to be trusted. 762 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,200 He is to be obeyed and he has to be loved like a father. 763 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,600 He is CBO approached and fellowshipped with like a 764 00:41:12,608 --> 00:41:14,500 father. He is to be respected and 765 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:18,400 honoured life a father both. And at all times Heavenly Father 766 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,100 we love you. We approach the throne of grace 767 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:23,900 with boldness because Jesus made away. 768 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:28,900 It was your purpose in your plan to love us, you knew that we 769 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,200 would send against you. You knew what it would cost. 770 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,500 You knew that it would break your heart as we rebelled. 771 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:39,100 You knew that it would break your heart as your only son gave 772 00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:42,300 himself and you gave him freely because of the extreme love you 773 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:45,800 have for us that were thankful for your infinite power. 774 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,900 The you will fully complete the you have fully and completely 775 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:54,000 defeated death that you have defeated sin, the you'll defeat 776 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,400 all of your enemies. And that you will rule Forever 777 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,000 on your throne and that you call us up to sit beside you. 778 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,200 We won't be strangers. We won't feel awkward around 779 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,700 you. Will feel comfortable, it'll 780 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:11,700 feel normal. We approach our father with joy 781 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,400 knowing that he Delights in us. God, thank you so much for your 782 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,100 mercy and your compassion, help us to see you as you really are 783 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,200 not to understand you with dichotomies but to understand 784 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,600 you and truth that you are the one God, the Living God, who is 785 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,300 worthy of Our Praise Or Glory adoration and worship. 786 00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:34,900 Thank you for rescuing us and for caring for us. 787 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:39,800 Well God, we ask that you continue to massage your truth 788 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,200 into our hearts and continue to bring us Revelation so that it 789 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,500 would change the way that we live make. 790 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:47,700 All these things show up practically this week in our 791 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:50,400 lives. Help us to live differently 792 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,700 because we have a Heavenly Father Who is all-powerful. 793 00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:58,200 We thank you in Jesus name now. The Lord bless you and keep you 794 00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:00,500 the Lord. Make his face shine down upon 795 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:03,500 you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance 796 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:06,700 upon you and give you great. Peace in Jesus name. 797 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:07,800 Amen.