1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:05,400 One day a man went like this and walked into a doctor's office. 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:10,600 He sat before the doctor, and he said, the doctor, I am so so 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,900 depressed. I can't sleep. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,600 I'm low. I want to take my own life and 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,300 the doctor looked to the man and he felt sorry for him. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,800 And he said, you know, I could offer you some medicine. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,300 I could give you some pills, but I think there's a better 8 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:29,400 medicine. Did you know, the funniest man 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,400 in the World is in town. He's at the local circus. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,000 He's a clown, and he's making the whole world laughs go and 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,700 listen to him. He will cure your sadness. 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,500 He'll make you happy. And the man looked back at the 13 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:47,300 doctor and said, no. No, that clown will not make me 14 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:49,400 happy. He can't help me. 15 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:57,400 Why said the doctor? Because I am not clown said the 16 00:00:57,408 --> 00:01:02,200 man, may I ask you a question? Is there anyone watching this 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,300 right now? Who feels like that clown? 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,100 I've been like that at times in my life where everyone's looked 19 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:12,300 at me and thought your life looks great Joe. 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,900 But inside I was broken inside. I was really struggling. 21 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:19,700 So today. I'm going to share with you five 22 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:23,400 Bible verses which really helped me through those dark. 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,700 Occult times. Number one, Ecclesiastes 7 verse 24 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:31,400 10. Do not say why were the former 25 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:36,000 days better than these for you? Do not inquire wisely concerning 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,300 this? I don't know why this happened, 27 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:42,100 but turning 25 was really quite a difficult time. 28 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:44,400 For me. It was, as if, okay, now, I 29 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,100 can't take the boxes, 18 to 24. Now. 30 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:51,900 I've got a tick boxes, 25 to 40, and I felt so very old even 31 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:53,700 though it wasn't. I felt old. 32 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:56,800 Like now, the door of Youth was shot forevermore. 33 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,600 My teenage years have gone. My early twenties, have gone, 34 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:01,100 and that's it. Now. 35 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,300 I'm a fully fledged adults. I couldn't go back to my old 36 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,400 ways. I couldn't go back to partying. 37 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:10,199 I can't go back to night clubs and it really did mess with my 38 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,500 head. I remember specifically, at that 39 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:14,700 time. I started listening to worldly 40 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,200 music. I started dwelling on the old 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,500 days, on my old wild days, it plagued my mind. 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,400 And guys, You're gonna laugh at this. 43 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,100 But I had a sort of, midlife crisis at 25 years old, and on 44 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:32,200 top of all of this life and God. So very, very serious. 45 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,900 Marriage is tough. Isn't it? 46 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,700 For those of you who are married and you're watching this, it's 47 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:39,200 not a Bed of Roses. It's not like it's portrayed in 48 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,900 social media. And in the movies, it could be 49 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,300 tougher, marriage requires work. And at that time, me and Amber 50 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:47,500 were going through a tough patch, you know, I was 51 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,600 struggling in my Ministry. I was going out, street 52 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,700 preaching, nearly every day and I was seeing so little fruit. 53 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:56,100 My Ministry. People were laughing at me. 54 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:00,200 I didn't have many friends. I found that time a really tough 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,100 period. I remember, once hearing a 56 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:06,500 pastor, say if I wasn't a Christian man, if the Lord 57 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:10,400 hadn't saved me, I think I would have got divorced many, many 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,800 years ago. Let me let you into a secret 59 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,000 friends. I can relate to what that Pastor 60 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,600 said in those years. Those two really dark dark years 61 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,600 if it wasn't for the almighty God. 62 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,400 Protecting me, I would have made some big big mistakes just to be 63 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,700 on. I would have ruined my life if 64 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:34,000 it wasn't for the grace and kindness of God, who's kept me 65 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,200 in those dark times. May, I ask you another personal 66 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:42,300 question other tear stains on your Bible. 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,300 Have you ever been reading the word of God? 68 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,100 And the spirit of God is overwhelmed you so much that you 69 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:52,800 start to shed tears. Well, I remember, I was sat on 70 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,400 the edge of a small. With looking across this 71 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,100 beautiful Lake and I pulled out a small Bible and I was just 72 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,100 flicking through the pages. There was no order. 73 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,600 I was just randomly flicking through the pages. 74 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:09,400 Lord, please speak to me and I turned to Ecclesiastes 7 verse 75 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,800 10. Do not say why were the former 76 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,100 days better than these. The you do not inquire wisely 77 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:20,300 because at that time, I was looking back and I was wishing, 78 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:23,100 I could go back to the days when I wasn't saved. 79 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:25,200 I was wishing. Seeing I could go back to those 80 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,500 wild days when I parted, I got drunk or God in that moment. 81 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:31,900 So Joe, you don't want that at all. 82 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:34,900 You want me? You want the life that I can 83 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:38,800 give you the life that is hidden with Christ in the Heavenly 84 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,500 places. Don't be like loss wife. 85 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,200 Don't look back in the past. Trust me. 86 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,900 Trust me. That I have a plan and a future 87 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,600 for your life. My dear brother. 88 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,200 My dear sister. Are you looking back into the 89 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,100 past? Because you're burdened with so 90 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:58,600 much care or perhaps because you're just fine in life has 91 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,000 become so boring. It's so serious. 92 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,200 It's so narrow the Christian life and you're struggling right 93 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,700 now. What can I just gently remind 94 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,000 you? It's not wise to look back into 95 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,500 your older days. To look back on on memories. 96 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:13,900 There's nothing wrong with reminiscing and giving thanks 97 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:15,800 but too long for those days back. 98 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,700 It's not a wise thing to do. Rather look for the hope. 99 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,600 The future is in the Lord. Jesus Christ, the one who died. 100 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:27,700 Died and gave up his life, as a ransom for your soul. 101 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:34,400 Number two, Psalm 73. The 17 until I went into the 102 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,600 sanctuary of God, then I understood their final and now 103 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,300 whoever you are watching this. I want you to know something. 104 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,200 I deeply care about you. I care about those of you who 105 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,800 are struggling, those of you've made a mess in your life. 106 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,300 I want you to get on fire for the Lord guards. 107 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,600 And why do I have this burden in my heart? 108 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,200 Because I was like you at one time the last video I made was 109 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,000 about being a lukewarm Christian. 110 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:02,100 And I'll tell you over those years over these the this period 111 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:03,900 of time that I'm talking about right now. 112 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,300 I was lukewarm. In fact, I wasn't even lukewarm. 113 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,200 How is cold. I was away from God's and Psalm 114 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,000 73 really did protect me. It saved me. 115 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,600 It kept me. It put me on the right path. 116 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,300 And it gave me wisdom that I needed from the Lord. 117 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:22,600 God to see. Just how foolish I was to fill 118 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,100 my mind to. On so much sin because it just 119 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:30,000 did not satisfy and it wasn't the answer to anything at all. 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,400 So what is Psalm 73 all about? Well, here's this man asaph and 121 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,100 he's struggling. He's seeing around him, these 122 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,400 unbelievers, these Wicked people and their prospering, they're 123 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:42,900 doing well. They're successful. 124 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:45,800 They're rich, they're famous. They be the type of people to be 125 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,800 on the front page of of Instagram who are just doing all 126 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,900 these amazing things, but he himself. 127 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:53,600 He's struggling. He's fine. 128 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,600 In life tough and he actually finds himself getting jealous. 129 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,400 He envies the life of the unbeliever and this jealousy 130 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,000 becomes a sickness in his mind. He wears it like a coat and it 131 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,000 tears into pieces. So what does ASAP do? 132 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,500 Well, he does something that every single struggling believer 133 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,300 should do if you're struggling right now. 134 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:19,500 What should you do? You need to get into the 135 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:23,600 presence of God and a saffy enters into the presence of God. 136 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:28,300 And in the sanctuary of God, God gives him an Insight. 137 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:30,800 He gives him a revelation. What was that? 138 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,300 Revelation? All men die. 139 00:07:34,700 --> 00:07:38,600 You see these rich successful, beautiful unbelievers. 140 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:42,200 They might look good now, but the question needs to be asked 141 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:46,400 how do the end I challenge you right now to find someone who's 142 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,000 doing? Well at life, who doesn't know 143 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,900 the Lord Jesus Christ. Whose Rich who's famous, who has 144 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,600 many followers on Instagram. I challenge you to find that. 145 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:55,900 Person. And then look at their life when 146 00:07:55,900 --> 00:08:00,100 they turn 70 when they get into their 80s, they might look good 147 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:03,400 now, but the question needs to be asked, how does that 148 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,800 unbeliever end. The Bible says, the way of The 149 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,200 Sinner is hard. The Bible says that sin has its 150 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,700 Pleasures for a season is fleeting. 151 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:16,100 But after that, it becomes like a bitter wormwood. 152 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:19,600 You'll never see on social media that the man or woman who Rebels 153 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,300 against God, if they spend their whole life rejecting him. 154 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:25,600 You never see. Miserable, they are in the end. 155 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,500 We only show the best bits. Don't we on social media? 156 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,700 Jack, Nicholson is a very famous example of this Jack Nicholson. 157 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:36,799 Famous actor, won Oscars, very rich, very famous. 158 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,000 And he makes claims that he had relationships with over 3,000 159 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,100 women. Many men would look at Jack 160 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,300 Nicholson's life and think what a great life. 161 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:48,000 That was. How amazing how I wish I could 162 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,400 be Jack Nicholson, but at age 70, how does Jack Nicholson end 163 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:53,600 in an interview? He? 164 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:56,700 He said this I regret messing around. 165 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:59,900 I regret floor and ring around with many different women 166 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,000 because now no woman will ever trust me and I'm scared of dying 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,800 in the house on my own but I want you to compare how the 168 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,300 unbeliever ends their life to the way, the believer at their 169 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:14,500 life. I'm not an old man yet. 170 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,400 Okay, but I've watched I've observed old people in churches 171 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,800 around me and my observation has been this, the older. 172 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,800 They get that they're like wine. Just mature with age because 173 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,300 they realize like an athlete. As he sees the Finishing Line. 174 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,400 They start to speed up. Seeing I'm getting closer to the 175 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,600 end. I'm going to see my Lord. 176 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,800 I'm going to see my savior soon. But the unbeliever as they get 177 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,500 closer to the end. They think I've got nothing 178 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,700 left. Just a bunch of memories of sin, 179 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:47,000 but there's nothing to look forward to. 180 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,300 There's no hope for the future. So my dear friends don't look at 181 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:55,100 the past a dog. Be so obsessed with this world. 182 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:57,600 No, fix your eyes on the Lord, Jesus Christ. 183 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:01,600 And that's why Psalm 73 helped me so much because just, to be 184 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,800 totally honest with you. There was one particular man. 185 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,700 There was a man on social media. I'm not going to name him, but I 186 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,000 was so very, very jealous of him. 187 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:11,200 Yeah. And many followers. 188 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,100 He had a great lifestyle that the world would say, everyone 189 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:17,400 wants that kind of lifestyle. And for some reason, I became 190 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,000 very, very jealous of him. And I wanted to be just like him 191 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,600 but actually five years. Are you? 192 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:26,700 With that man is now it's business as finished. 193 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:30,100 He's not God, has many followers because actually, I believe God 194 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:32,700 has judged him for living and immoral life. 195 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:36,900 I don't say that in any way to gloat or to be happy, but I say 196 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:41,900 it because the Bible is true. The Bible says, in Psalm 37, 197 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,700 I've seen a wicked man spreading himself out like a green laurel 198 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:48,800 tree. So in other words, he's 199 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,100 spreading out. He looks great. 200 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,000 The whole world can see him and thinks what a great guy, he is. 201 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:56,800 But then the sound carries on. But I looked for him in a few 202 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,500 years time and I couldn't find it though. 203 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:03,000 I looked hard. He was nowhere to be seen and 204 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,100 God does cut down the wicked and there is a day where those 205 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:11,400 Pleasures will just die down, but we need to look to Christ 206 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,600 because there is a treasure in Christ that no one can take from 207 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,300 us. Number 3, Psalm 23 verse 4. 208 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:23,100 Yay, though. I walk through the valley of the 209 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:29,500 shadow of The I will fear no evil for you are with me, your 210 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,000 rod and your staff, they comfort me. 211 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,400 Hey now talk to me. Tell me what have the last 12 212 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,100 months look like for you. Have they been good mumps or if 213 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,300 they've been hard mums. Let me be totally honest with 214 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,400 you. The last 12 months for me have 215 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,500 been some of the most blessed months of my life. 216 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:52,400 But the same time they've been some of the hardest months in a 217 00:11:52,408 --> 00:11:54,900 year. I lost my home. 218 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:58,300 Basically, we found asbestos in the brand new home. 219 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:02,100 We bought and it cost us, tens of thousands of pounds to remove 220 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:03,600 it. And we lived with my mom and 221 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,700 dad. Some of you have noticed that I 222 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:09,300 where I was wearing the same clothes week in week out that 223 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:12,800 black T-shirt with with those are spray-painted colors on 224 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:13,900 them. Why was that? 225 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,900 Because we literally had a couple of shirts to our back and 226 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:20,800 we lived in a little box room with my little baby song, great 227 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,100 times. It was a great year in a lot of 228 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:24,900 ways. But it was very tough. 229 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:29,400 My wife, Emma had a cancer scare where she had nodules on a 230 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,400 thyroid and 48 mom. She was going back and forth. 231 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,800 Is it cancer? Is it not? 232 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,400 Does she need surgery? It's been a tough year for a lot 233 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,000 of us. It's been a really really hard 234 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,200 year and I remember in the darkest Point especially around 235 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,300 this time when the asbestos we thought we'd been exposed to it. 236 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:51,800 And we thought our son. Samuel had been exposed. 237 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,600 I remember around winter, too. December last year, I was lying 238 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,400 in bed and I just couldn't get up. 239 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,600 That there was days and days, that went by, where I just did 240 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,000 nothing because it was just too much, the anxiety. 241 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,900 The stress was too much for me to get out of bed and face the 242 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:12,100 day, I just couldn't cope. And if you've not got anxiety, 243 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:13,900 you've never been in those Dark Places. 244 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,500 You've got no idea what I'm talking about, but some of you, 245 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,900 I'm describing your life and perhaps you're in that point, 246 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:26,600 right now, the Psalm 23 A Lifeline because David says, 247 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:29,900 though, I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. 248 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,700 You might be in that dark time, but you've got to keep walking 249 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,700 and that's what I knew. Just take one step at a time. 250 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,400 Don't try and Rush with the valley. 251 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,000 Don't try and run through the valley. 252 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,100 Just take one step at a time because Jesus Christ holds out 253 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:49,500 his hand and says, I've walked through that Valley before I've 254 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:52,300 conquered death. I've risen from the dead and 255 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,200 I'll get you through. And it was like, Jesus all the 256 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,200 way, there was just whispered in my ear. 257 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,300 Just trust me in this Darkness. He'll be okay. 258 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:02,500 Joe. I'll get you through that Valley 259 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:06,400 and he kept me and today, we're in a different place and we 260 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,100 Rejoice that there is light at the end of every tunnel. 261 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,900 If there's someone watching this now and you're in a period of 262 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:16,700 depression, you're in a low State, just remember this. 263 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,900 Even in the darkest of nights morning, always comes and you 264 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:24,200 might be in the blackest part of Alive. 265 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,500 But morning is on its way Daylight's there. 266 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,500 And remember in these dark times. 267 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:32,000 Jesus Christ will say this to you. 268 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,100 I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. 269 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:37,800 I'm right by your side. So you can do it. 270 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,500 Just take my hand. Trust me and I will get you 271 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:47,500 through this Darkness. Number four, James. 4:14 says 272 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:52,600 this for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears 273 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,400 for a little time. All time, and then vanishes 274 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,600 away. I want to give you a piece of 275 00:14:57,608 --> 00:14:59,500 advice. If you're a young person, you're 276 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:02,000 watching this video. I want to give you the most 277 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,900 precious piece of advice that you could ever learn. 278 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:10,300 As a young person, know this, you ain't gonna live forever and 279 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:12,800 to every single young person. You need to. 280 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,000 Remember your creator in the days of your youth. 281 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:18,500 You need to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ. 282 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:22,600 You see, the Bible is true when it says life is but a vapor 283 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:25,600 we've all had a couple. Tea or a cup of coffee and we 284 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,700 put the kettle on and we've seen that missed come out of the 285 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:31,400 kettle. It's there for a short time and 286 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,200 then it vanishes never to be seen again. 287 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,300 We've all seen the man down the street and he's puffing on an 288 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:39,500 e-cig. He's vaping and you see that 289 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:44,600 Vape come out, it's there. And then it vanishes never to be 290 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,200 seen again. And James says that is what your 291 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,500 life is. Like. 292 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:52,700 It's so brief. It's so fragile. 293 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:55,300 We as My beings are so vulnerable. 294 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:58,500 You know, there are many things you can get back. 295 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,800 If you lose money in life. You can often get your money 296 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,200 back. If you lose your job. 297 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,900 You can get a new job. If you lose your car, you can 298 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:08,700 buy a new car. But there's one thing you can't 299 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:12,300 get back and that's your time time is precious. 300 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,800 So every single day I actually have a cold shower. 301 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,700 I know you think I'm crazy, but I have a cold shower every 302 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,900 morning and as that cold water hits my body. 303 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,400 I say, thank you. God. 304 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:25,900 Thank you for another day on this Earth. 305 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Thank you for another day to turn from sin to, to respect 306 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,500 you, to honor you to live for you. 307 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,700 Another chance to, to witness to share the gospel. 308 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,600 So because time is so brief. We need to make sure that we use 309 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,100 the days wisely. And we seek out opportunities to 310 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:45,800 try and win as many Souls as possible because eternity is 311 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,200 long and we want to bring as many people to Christ. 312 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:53,000 We so make sure you make every single day count and you give 313 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,700 thanks. That today you're alive today. 314 00:16:55,700 --> 00:17:00,000 Your heart is beating because God has granted you another day 315 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:04,099 on his very, very Green Earth. And lastly, number five. 316 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:09,300 Second Corinthians. Five verse 21 says this, the, he 317 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:16,200 made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become 318 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:20,200 the righteousness of God in him, you know, really it was this 319 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,800 verse, which helped me to understand what the Was I 320 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,400 remember when I got saved around that period of time, I heard an 321 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,300 open-air preacher. Say this God poured out all of 322 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:35,700 his wrath on Jesus Christ for your sin. 323 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,900 And in that moment, it was like a lightbulb moment. 324 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:43,300 I understood that God had to be angry at someone for my sin and 325 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:45,500 that someone was not just anyone. 326 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:49,100 It was the son of God who had never done anything wrong and on 327 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:52,400 the cross. He took my sin in his body and 328 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,700 was punished there. On that tree so that I could be 329 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,200 forgiven. And that verse second 330 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,800 Corinthians five verse 21. I came across it at the same 331 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,000 kind of time. He that's God made him. 332 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:09,500 Jesus Christ to become sin. So on the cross, Jesus became 333 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,700 our lies, he became our blasphemy. 334 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,800 He became our sex outside of marriage, our pride. 335 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:20,000 Our anger are lost on the cross Christ became that's in and it 336 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,400 says, in the Bible, it pleased, the Lord to bruise. 337 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,600 Him. Not because he hated his son. 338 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,400 He loved his son dearly, but because he hated us into here. 339 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,600 We are at Calvary. There was a legal transaction. 340 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,400 The worst of Joker, be the worst of you was laid on Christ Jesus. 341 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,300 And then, the best of Jesus Christ. 342 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:44,900 Can be, imputed can be given to you as a gift. 343 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,500 So, Christ's perfect track record his righteousness. 344 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,400 His love, his godliness can be given to you as a gift 345 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,400 instantly, like, That so God doesn't see Joe Kirby and his 346 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,200 drug dealings. He doesn't see Joe Kirby and his 347 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,000 anger and his fights and his sex outside of marriage. 348 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:05,700 God sees the righteousness of Jesus Christ. 349 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:09,000 Because as soon as you put on Christ, as soon as you put your 350 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,500 faith in the Son of God, you get all of his righteousness given 351 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:17,100 to you as a gift. And that is why the gospel is so 352 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:19,200 amazing. Because God doesn't see you 353 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,800 anymore. He sees his blessed son, the 354 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,800 Lord Jesus Christ. Adopts you into his family and 355 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,700 says I love you. You're a child of God. 356 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,000 I'm with you forever. I will never leave you. 357 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,600 I'll never forsake. You come be with me forever in 358 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,600 all of eternity where you'll serve me in the new creation. 359 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:41,800 So as I draw this video to a close, can I ask you? 360 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:44,800 What are your five? Favorite Bible verses? 361 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,000 But on a serious note. I wonder if there's someone 362 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,200 watching this now and you're thinking I don't have a favorite 363 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,000 Bible verse. I'm not familiar with the Bible. 364 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,600 And I don't know this Lord Jesus Christ. 365 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,900 You've just been preaching. Well, if that's, you could I 366 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:04,700 say, gently come to Christ, come to the Savior who died for you 367 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,100 and loves you. So dearly and if you want to do 368 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,300 that right now, would you pray this prayer with me? 369 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,300 It's not a magic spell. It is just a prayer that that 370 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,700 really is an expression of what's going on in your heart 371 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:18,900 that you want to receive Jesus Christ. 372 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,100 So just pray, these words quietly wherever you are 373 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:27,700 Heavenly Father. You know, everything about me 374 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:35,100 and you know that I'm a sinner and for many years. 375 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:41,300 I've loved my sin. Thank you that Jesus died on the 376 00:20:41,308 --> 00:20:46,100 cross. Thank you, that he offers his 377 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:52,100 righteousness to me. And today, this very day. 378 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:59,300 I receive that righteousness and I put my faith in him, the 379 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:07,000 savior of the world, sir, please God have mercy on me a sinner. 380 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,200 Save me. And today this very day. 381 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:20,200 I commit my life to him. I pray these things in Jesus 382 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,900 name. Amen. 383 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,500 If you prayed that prayer, please again, let me know in the 384 00:21:27,508 --> 00:21:31,100 comment box and I'll try and get in touch with you because it's 385 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:33,100 so important that we look after you. 386 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:34,600 Now. You've given your life to the 387 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:35,900 Lord. Jesus Christ. 388 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:38,600 One more thing. I actually made a video about 389 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,500 Psalm 73, and it was actually my first sort of viral Christian 390 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,600 video. If you'd like to watch, you can 391 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,100 click here and see it right now. And if you haven't yet? 392 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,400 Ribbed, please do subscribe. We'd love you to join this 393 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,600 little family off the curb Ministries. 394 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,100 God bless you all. Thank you for watching, and 395 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,700 don't forget to tell me your five favorite Bible verses.