1 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,200 You know, we started talking last week about taking heed, you 2 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,880 know, and it all happened, you know, back around March, I think 3 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:31,160 it was when we were just reading the word and a lot of things 4 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,800 going on. And, and that scripture just 5 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,560 popped out, you know, out of Let me read that main text that we 6 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,720 read last week out of Mark 4 and 23 and 24. 7 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,040 It says if any man has ears to hear, let him hear. 8 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,760 And he said unto them, take heed what you hear. 9 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,640 Take heed what you hear. And I really didn't camp in on 10 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,000 the hearing side of it. And Pastor mentioned something 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,240 about, you know, the scripture that talks about being dull of 12 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,760 hearing. There's lots to say about 13 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:14,680 hearing, but most of us in our circles understand Romans where 14 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,840 he says what faith comes by hearing and hearing from the 15 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,880 word of God and how important our ears are. 16 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:30,360 Our ears are in our life to be able to hear what the Word is 17 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,840 saying so that faith can arise within our life. 18 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,560 And he tells us, listen, we need to even take heed. 19 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:43,960 We need to be beware of what we're hearing. 20 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,200 So there's a lot of things in different directions we could 21 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,000 talk about here where he talks about taking heed. 22 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,480 What you hear, you know, it's not just hearing the word. 23 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,040 You know, we hear things constantly all day long. 24 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,680 We hear bad reports right from the doctor. 25 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,280 Maybe we hear bad reports on the news, maybe right. 26 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:18,400 We hear gossip. We hear all kinds of, you know, 27 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,480 all kinds of things that are happening in the world, good, 28 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,880 bad, ugly, disgusting, all kinds of things. 29 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:31,840 And he's saying, listen, you better be a person that takes 30 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,160 heed to what you hear, not just about hearing God's word and the 31 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,920 good things, but you need to take heed on the other things 32 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,400 that you're hearing. Because we know the Scripture 33 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,360 says life and death are in the what power of the tongue? 34 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:57,000 Because what you hear is delivered through speech or 35 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,080 through the word right from hearing the word of God or from 36 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,320 a word. There is life and death in 37 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:15,640 words, words. And the thing about it is, is 38 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:19,720 that we need to think about these things and what we're 39 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,000 listening to, right? We need to think about it. 40 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,680 We need to beware about what, what are the things that we're 41 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,680 listening to? He tells us. 42 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,880 We need to take heed. We need to discern some things. 43 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,320 We need to have some understanding of some things, 44 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,280 right? So there is a good side of 45 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,880 hearing, but then there is a terrible side of hearing if 46 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,200 we're hearing the wrong things, because the wrong things that we 47 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,920 hear can affect our heart because we made the connection 48 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,680 that the ears or what you're hearing is connected to your 49 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,240 heart. Because as the word is sown, any 50 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,480 word, any word, not just the word, the parable of the sower, 51 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:09,920 any word, as the word is sown it what is sown into a man's heart. 52 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,560 And that's where then it can begin to take root if you don't 53 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:20,600 take heed, if you don't take heed. 54 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,520 And so we talked about being a person that will take heed is a 55 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,360 person that is a person of discernment, full of 56 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,760 discernment. They're awake, they're paying 57 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,520 attention to what they're hearing, and then they're not. 58 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,000 They're going to take captive every word that they're hearing 59 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,240 and they're not going to listen to some things that they're 60 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,400 hearing or people may be trying to say because they don't want 61 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,160 that to affect their life, their heart. 62 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,840 And actually, we know the Scripture. 63 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,720 I don't even, none of this is even in my notes. 64 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,280 We know the Scripture, see, But when you live the word, it's in 65 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,800 you. It's richly dwelling within you. 66 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,320 So then you have the scripture that tells you what to guard 67 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,320 your heart with all diligence. You know how you guard your 68 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,760 heart. One way to guard your heart is 69 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,040 to put some stoppers in your ears. 70 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,840 What are those things called? Earplugs. 71 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,320 Put some ear plugs in your ears so that you don't hear some of 72 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,840 the things that the enemy's trying to say come on through 73 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:32,360 someone else. Or you know, whatever it may be, 74 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,720 that is not going to be profitable for your life. 75 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,200 It's not going to be profitable. It's actually going to cause you 76 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:45,040 harm, right? So He lets us know we need to 77 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,480 not be a heedless person. We need to take heed of some 78 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,760 things that we're hearing. Well, as I was meditating on 79 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,200 this and going through scriptures, I realized that 80 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,920 there was 28 places where He actually tells us to take heed. 81 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:03,480 And aren't you thankful that we have a heavenly Father that 82 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,320 wants to warn us? Because another word for take 83 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,760 heed or beware is a warning. So not only does our heavenly 84 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,520 Father want to show us everything that belongs to us 85 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,040 and how much we are loved and how much you know we have been 86 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,480 given all of these wonderful promises, He also in His word 87 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,120 will warn us. And that's a good thing. 88 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,560 Warnings are a good thing, right? 89 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,120 He'll warn us. He'll let us know, hey, there's 90 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,000 some things as a believer that you're going to need to beware 91 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,200 of. You're going to need to take 92 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:48,440 heed of some things. And we talked about obviously, 93 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,200 that we're to take heed of what we're hearing, right? 94 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,800 And then he talked about the fact that we were to take heed 95 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:59,560 of ourselves. We need to be concerned about 96 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,440 ourselves. We don't need to be a believer 97 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,320 that's going around being concerned about what everybody 98 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:12,120 else is doing and how they may be growing or not growing or 99 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,200 what they may be doing in there. That's none of our concern. 100 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:22,520 Our concern is to take care of what he could take heed to 101 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,520 ourselves. Yes, we care for people. 102 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,680 Yes, we want to be there for people. 103 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,760 Yes, we want to help people grow in all of those things. 104 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,240 But we don't want to allow other people's problems to become our 105 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,960 problems, right? This is what I'm saying. 106 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,160 We don't want their issues to become our issues, right? 107 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,440 No, we want to take heed to ourselves. 108 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,280 We want to be concerned about where our spiritual walk is and 109 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,240 where our life is spiritually and what God is doing in and 110 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,600 through our lives so that we can be the best benefit for others 111 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,680 that we come in contact with, right? 112 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,280 But he says that we're to take heed unto ourselves and then 113 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,440 take heed unto doctrine, right? So we need to be people that 114 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:22,160 are, you know, making sure that we are hearing the right 115 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:27,520 doctrine or the truth, right? The truth of God's word. 116 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:35,720 And then he goes on to say again that we are to take heed in how 117 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,000 we're building our life. What are we building our life 118 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,760 on? What is the foundation of our 119 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,280 life being built on? Is our foundation being built on 120 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,800 the philosophies of this world? We better take heed. 121 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,640 We better take heed that we're not allowing traditions of man 122 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:59,680 to be built upon, right, nowhere to be building our life upon the 123 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,480 what unadulterated word of God, the truth of God's word, right? 124 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,160 And let him do it. And then we talked about where 125 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:15,920 he says that we need to take heed ourselves to be people that 126 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:20,640 will be those that will always offer forgiveness to people. 127 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:28,040 Because if you choose not to forgive, how many times 70 * 7? 128 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,200 He's letting us know you need to take heed because who are you to 129 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:41,160 withhold forgiveness when you've been forgiven much, right? 130 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,840 So we need to take heed to make sure that we're always staying 131 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,600 in a position of a believer that you are easily able to forgive 132 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,560 people and let it go and move on, right? 133 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,960 And that should be your heart. And so we talked about that. 134 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:04,240 Well, today I want to talk out of Hebrews chapter 2, Hebrews 135 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,960 chapter 2, verses one through 4. I want to start with it. 136 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,480 I was going to start with Hebrews 3, but I want to start 137 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,000 with Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2, Chapters one through 138 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 4 or not chapters one through 4, verse one through 4. 139 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,720 It says this. Therefore we ought to give a 140 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,960 more earnest heed. Say a more earnest heed. 141 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,840 OK, so in all the other scriptures that we read about, 142 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,720 he just said we need to just take heed. 143 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:42,760 But now in Hebrews 2, he's saying now we need to even take 144 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:49,880 more heed, a more earnest heed. We need to take it more serious 145 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,520 right now. Look what he says, that he tells 146 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,200 us that we ought to give a more earnest heed to the things which 147 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:02,400 you have what heard here, now he's letting us know. 148 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,280 Listen, we need to take heed to what we hear. 149 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,600 But now in Hebrews, he's reminding us you need to take 150 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:14,400 even more earnest heed in what you've heard and what you've 151 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:22,240 heard, lest any at any time we should let them slip. 152 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:30,280 That means you can sit in church for 30 something years and if 153 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:36,120 you are not giving heed to the Word of God and what you've 154 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:43,360 heard, it can slip. We are never in a place that we 155 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:49,080 can just coast. We're never in a place that we 156 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,760 can just say, well, I've heard enough of that. 157 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:00,480 No, he's letting us know. Listen, you need to take an even 158 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:05,640 more earnest heed to the things that you have heard so that 159 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:11,000 these things don't slip, that these things don't slip. 160 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:17,240 Say, Don't slip, don't slip, don't let them slip, lest at any 161 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:23,120 time we would let them slip. For if the Word spoken by angels 162 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,920 was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience 163 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:32,840 received a just recompense of reward, how shall you escape if 164 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:40,920 we neglect so great a salvation which at the first began to be 165 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,280 spoken by the Lord? This is important because you 166 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,280 have to remind yourself when we are up here as people, human 167 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,200 beings, pastors in the fivefold ministry, and we are speaking 168 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:59,520 forth the Word of God, it is not just our words, it is the spoken 169 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,480 Word of God from Him and what He is saying. 170 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,600 And so many people say, oh, well, that's just Pastor Earl or 171 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,760 oh, that's just Pastor Mike saying, no, it's not. 172 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:18,880 It is the word of God. It's the word of God and he's 173 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:24,360 letting us know it was spoken to you, what happened, You received 174 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,640 it and made Jesus the Lord of your life because the word was 175 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:32,680 spoken to you and revelation came on, the light came on that 176 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,840 you needed salvation. And he said, and it was 177 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,400 confirmed unto us by them that heard him, God also bearing them 178 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,720 witness, both with signs, wonders, with miracles, and the 179 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,720 gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own will. 180 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,200 So he's letting us know there was something spoken to you for 181 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:00,280 you to be able to get into a great salvation. 182 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,560 But he's letting us know the things that you've heard. 183 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,800 You need to take earnest heed to them so that they don't slip. 184 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:15,480 They don't slip, OK. And it's so easy for things to 185 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,720 slip. Haven't you heard the state? 186 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:24,200 Oh, it just slipped my SO A heedless person is one that 187 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,400 gives no thought to what is being spoken. 188 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,480 I mean, I've been in situations and you tell people something 189 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,920 that's going to help them be able to, you know, have a 190 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,200 problem solved within their life, whatever the situation. 191 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,520 Maybe it wasn't spiritual, maybe it was spiritual, but or maybe 192 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,200 you gave them advice about something else and then you give 193 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,080 it to them and they don't take heed to it. 194 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,120 They just let it go in one ear and out the other. 195 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,760 And then they come back to you and ask you another question 196 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,080 because they're dealing with the same situation. 197 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:07,280 And you're like, well, let me remind you, we just had this 198 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,560 conversation over a year ago and I gave you the answer to your 199 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,600 problem. Did you not give heed to it 200 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,400 right? Did you not give thought to it? 201 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,920 Did you not do it? You see what I'm saying? 202 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,320 You just let it slip. You let it slip. 203 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,600 I mean, you've heard it. You heard me say it. 204 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,920 You heard me give you the answer to be able to fix your problem. 205 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,600 But here you are back again. You're not heeding. 206 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:48,200 You're not heeding. You're not yielding to the words 207 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,200 that are being spoken and given thought to Him and meditating on 208 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,840 Him and put Him in action in your life. 209 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,240 You see what I'm saying? Now let me read that out of the 210 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,120 Amplified Hebrews chapter 2 and verse one for this reason. 211 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,160 That is because of God's final revelation in His Son Jesus and 212 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,840 because of Jesus's superiority to angels. 213 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:17,160 We must pay closer attention than ever to the things that we 214 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:24,920 have heard so that we do not in any way drift away from the 215 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:34,520 truth. Truth is vital in the hour that 216 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:41,360 we are living, vital in the hour that we are living. 217 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:48,760 And we must take earnest heed to the truth. 218 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,520 I mean, pay more attention to it than ever. 219 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,000 The things that you've been taught, the things that you have 220 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:06,240 heard so that you don't let them slip, because there is a lying 221 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,079 spirit out there that is trying to get lots of people to 222 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:16,920 apostasize in these last days from the truth, from the faith 223 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,119 of the doctrine. That's why he told her. 224 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,280 You need to take heed yourself and the doctrine. 225 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,840 So if what people are saying doesn't line up to scripture, 226 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,280 you better take heed and not listen with an ear. 227 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:42,000 Do not be an ear for someone to funnel lies through because it 228 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:50,000 will affect your life, it will affect your life, it will infect 229 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:56,680 your life. So don't just give your ear to 230 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,600 anything and anyone. Amen. 231 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:06,560 We have to be smarter than this, and we would be if we actually 232 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,280 took heed to the Scripture that we've been reading for years and 233 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,400 if we're not allowing it to slip. 234 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,520 The things that we've heard, you see that what the things that 235 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:24,560 we've heard through doctrine, through Scripture, Amen. 236 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,400 So that you do not drift away from truth. 237 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:35,080 Now go to Hebrews chapter 3, Hebrews chapter 3 and verses 12 238 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:39,600 through 15. Here we see He's letting us know 239 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,800 this is what happens when you are a person that will not give 240 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,040 earnest heed to what you've heard. 241 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:56,000 You will slip and then slipping is going to develop into what 242 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,040 we're getting ready to see right here in Hebrews chapter 3. 243 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,040 This is the process. Hebrews chapter 3, verses 12 244 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,920 through 15. Take heed, brethren. 245 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,800 Who is He talking to? Believers. 246 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,680 This is very important that you realize this. 247 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,000 Take heed, brethren. He's talking to the believers. 248 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:22,240 He's talking to, brethren, he's talking to the church in 249 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:28,120 Hebrews, lest there be any of you with an evil heart of 250 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:33,880 unbelief. And when you look at this word, 251 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,400 what does it say in departing from the living God? 252 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,920 When you choose to be a person that will not give earnest heed 253 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:49,520 to what you've heard, earnest heed to yourself, earnest heed 254 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:56,800 to truth when you allow yourself to slip from the truth that you 255 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,960 know which the Bible says. I don't even have this in but 256 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,560 see the Word lives in me. The Bible says that he who knows 257 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,880 what to do, that means you've heard in Scripture what to do 258 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:17,160 and you didn't give heed to it, so it became what to you sin? 259 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:24,800 So a person who will not take earnest heed to what they've 260 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,480 heard to themselves through doctrine, through teaching, 261 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:33,320 through the truth of God's Word, if we allow it to slip, then 262 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:37,640 it's going to move us into a posture of unbelief. 263 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,080 So I don't care if you're sitting in church and you keep 264 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,600 hearing, if you're not doing what you've heard, you're 265 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:53,440 slipping. You're slipping. 266 00:20:55,320 --> 00:21:00,720 And where are you slipping into unbelief because you don't 267 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,560 believe the word that you've actually heard. 268 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,880 You're slipping into unbelief. All right. 269 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:15,040 So then what does he say? And that you can begin to depart 270 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:21,920 from the living God, but exhort one another daily while we still 271 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,360 have today, while we can still call today, today we are to 272 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:32,520 exhort you, we are to encourage you, we are to admonish you. 273 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:37,080 And all of you that are mature believers are should be doing 274 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,760 that to everyone else you're coming in contact with. 275 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:46,320 You ought to be right in a position that you are exhorting 276 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,600 one another every day as long as we still have the day least any 277 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:57,520 of you what become hardened. So when you get into a posture 278 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,480 of slipping and not doing what you've heard, you move into 279 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,520 unbelief. But as a believer, it's more 280 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,880 dangerous because you don't just move into unbelief. 281 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:22,160 You start hardening. You start hardening, You start 282 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:30,800 hardening yourself through what? The deceitfulness of sin, of 283 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,840 sin, because you know what to do and you're choosing to allow 284 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,160 yourself to not do what you've heard. 285 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,400 And you've moved over into unbelief. 286 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,960 You move over into a place of sin and you begin to allow 287 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:51,120 yourself to become hardened through being deceived that you 288 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,280 think because you're here, you're still hearing. 289 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:05,400 But you're, we know what James says, Be ye, what doers of the 290 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,320 word that you hear. Be ye not hearers only, but be 291 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:14,120 ye doers of what you heard. So this is very important. 292 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:21,360 Being hearers of the word is not good enough because you have to 293 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:24,840 do it. And if you don't do it, you'll 294 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,600 slip from even the things that you heard. 295 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:34,400 Then you'll walk into a place of sin and deception and unbelief 296 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,920 and begin to start hard. That hardening process will 297 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,320 begin to start happening. For we are made partakers of 298 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,200 Christ. So he's reminding you, listen, 299 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,880 you've been made a partaker of Christ. 300 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:54,360 If we hold what the beginning of our confidence steadfast until 301 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,480 the end. What was the beginning when we 302 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:02,880 got born again, when we were in a place of faith when we heard 303 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,440 the word and we became obedient and we became a partaker of 304 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,280 Christ because he was, you know, talking about this great 305 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,080 salvation that we've been given in chapter 2. 306 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,280 And so he's moved on over. He says, listen, you've been 307 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,280 partakers of Christ. And if we hold to the beginning 308 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,520 of our confidence, what steadfast until the end. 309 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:31,080 While it is said today, if you will hear His voice hearted, not 310 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:39,120 your hearts as in provocation, you see that here is voice, here 311 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,640 is voice. Another thing you can say is 312 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,920 hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. 313 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,720 Hear what the Spirit is saying through the word of God. 314 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,400 Obey it, do it, don't let it slip. 315 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,840 Be a person that's going to take heed to what's being taught, to 316 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,000 what's being said, and I'm going to apply it to my life and I'm 317 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:07,440 not going to let it slip. I'm going to actually stay a 318 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,120 person that's constantly in a position of faith and doing 319 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,760 God's word so that I don't fall into unbelief. 320 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:22,240 And we know this whole chapter in chapter 3 is talking about 321 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:28,120 given the example of the children of Israel when they 322 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:34,000 were in the wilderness. And let's read that real quick 323 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,720 just as a reminder because He let us know that they were a 324 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:43,360 type and shadow of what we could look at in the New Testament as 325 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:51,720 an example for our lives. It doesn't matter that they were 326 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,880 not born again and have the Spirit of God living in them. 327 00:25:54,880 --> 00:26:02,840 He still used them as an example for a believer to take heed of. 328 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,720 Look what He says, and I'm going to read it out of the amplified. 329 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,400 I'm going to read chapter 3, verses 7 to 19. 330 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,240 It says. Therefore, just as the Holy 331 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,240 Spirit says today, if you'll hear His voice, remember we're 332 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,120 talking about taking heed to what you hear. 333 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,720 Do not harden your hearts as your Father's did in the 334 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,840 rebellion of Israel at Meribah on the day of testing in the 335 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,200 wilderness where your father's tried me by testing my 336 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:38,440 forbearance and tolerance and saw my works for 40 years and 337 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,000 found and I stood their test. Therefore I was angered with 338 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,480 this generation and said that they always go astray where in 339 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,680 their heart and their art. That's why he's saying listen. 340 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,200 That's why he's given this example. 341 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,560 You've got to, you've got to not let your heart become hardened 342 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,240 because of unbelief. And they did not know my ways 343 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,680 nor become listen to this progressively better and more 344 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,680 intimately acquainted. So they could have known him 345 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,160 better and been more acquainted with him in the wilderness. 346 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:20,320 And they chose to stay in rebellion and not hear His voice 347 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:26,680 and harden their hearts towards him, trying to speak to them 348 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,600 while they were there. And then what did he say? 349 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:35,120 He said in verse 11. So I swore an oath in my wrath. 350 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:38,680 They shall not enter My rest, the promised land. 351 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:45,400 Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be any of you, a 352 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,520 wicked and unbelieving heart. You can have a heart that has 353 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:56,680 been recreated in Christ, but because of not doing the word, 354 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:02,000 slipping from what you've heard, continuing to walk into a place 355 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,160 of unbelief and sin and harden your heart. 356 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:14,640 And this is what it's saying, an unbelieving heart which refuses 357 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:20,680 to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart that turns away from the 358 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:26,200 living God. You can be a believer and fall 359 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:32,120 away from the living God. And that is the progression of 360 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:38,440 how it works. You see that and then he goes on 361 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,360 to say, but continually. This is why I say encourage one 362 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,680 another every day as long as it is called today and that there 363 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,560 is an opportunity so that none of you will be hardened into 364 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,720 settled rebellion. Rebellion is not just saying I 365 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,600 don't want God. Rebellion is is not doing what 366 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:05,800 you know God has said to do. See, we just think rebellion is 367 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,640 all this heinous stuff that people do. 368 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,720 Again, no. Rebellion is when a believer 369 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,640 sits here and knows what to do and refuses to do it. 370 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,680 It's sin. It's rebellion. 371 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,960 You can still have rebellion in the house. 372 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,360 Because there's people that will choose not to forgive when we 373 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,680 know God said you have to forgive. 374 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:42,840 That's rebellion. It's rebellion. 375 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,320 You have to call it what it is. It's not just some person 376 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,200 running around, you know, doing drugs and doing all. 377 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,360 No rebellion in the house is when you know what to do and you 378 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,040 choose not to do it. You're disobeying God. 379 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,680 You're rebelling against what He has said, and when you 380 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,040 constantly do that, you become deceived and you become 381 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:10,440 hardened, an unbelieving heart which refuses to trust. 382 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:15,160 You're refusing to trust that God's Word can actually pull you 383 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,600 out of whatever it is He's telling you to do. 384 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,720 You see, you refuse to trust Him. 385 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:29,240 You refuse to rely on Him, and so verse 13 says, but 386 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,280 continually encourage 1A day at one another. 387 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,560 Then it goes on in there and it says so that none of you will be 388 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,280 hardened into settled rebellion by the deceitfulness of sin. 389 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:47,440 It's cleverness, right? For we believers have become 390 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,200 partakers of Christ sharing and all that the Messiah has for us. 391 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:58,080 If only we hold firm our newborn cons confidence. 392 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,280 What is our newborn confidence? The day we got born again and we 393 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,200 were a babe in Christ, That's that newborn confidence. 394 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,760 That's your great day of salvation. 395 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,680 And so he's reminding us, listen, you better hold on with 396 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,680 confidence and faith, just as you did on the day that you 397 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,440 trusted him and believed him that He could save you and 398 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,720 deliver you from hell. Rich originally LED us to him 399 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,440 until the end. While it is said today, while 400 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,920 there is still opportunity, if you hear his voice and do not 401 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,840 harden your heart, as they provoked me in the rebellion in 402 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:42,160 in the desert. For we were excuse me, for we 403 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,360 were they who heard and yet provoked him with rebellious 404 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,480 acts. Was it not all those who came 405 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:54,120 out of Egypt led by Moses and with whom he was angry for 40 406 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,400 years? Was it not those who sinned, 407 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,840 whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert? 408 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,880 And to him he did swear an oath that they would not enter into 409 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,880 rest, but to those who disobeyed, those who would not 410 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,680 listen to His word. So we see that they were not 411 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,640 able to enter into His rest or the promised land because of 412 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:22,680 unbelief and unwillingness to trust in God. 413 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:30,000 So he's letting us know here we must take earnest heed. 414 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,080 We must take heed. We must not be people that know 415 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,120 what to do and choose not to do it because we will begin to 416 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,360 slip. We will begin to become 417 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,320 deceived. We will begin to partake in sin 418 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,480 and become hardened in our heart. 419 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:52,200 And those people are the ones that are going to fall away in 420 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,000 the last days. They're going to fall away from 421 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,800 the faith. That's what that means. 422 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,160 They're falling away from the faith. 423 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,520 They don't believe God. They may come to church and sit 424 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,480 here religiously, but they don't do a thing that he says to do. 425 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,920 They don't do a thing. OK? 426 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,520 So we have to take heed. We have to recognize this 427 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,520 because, you know, we've been talking a lot out of First 428 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:25,200 Timothy chapter 4, where he says the Spirit speaketh 429 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,320 expressively, that in the latter time some will depart from the 430 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,480 faith. And the reason why they can 431 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,520 depart is because they have been hardened to the truth and they 432 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:44,400 will become deceived and by the lives of the enemy, they'll be 433 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:50,560 seduced easily because they refuse to even do the truth that 434 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,920 they've heard. So they'll be easily swayed, 435 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,960 they'll be easily seduced. They'll be easily able to be 436 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,360 talked out of their faith in God. 437 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,640 And who are they being talked out of it with? 438 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:13,520 The enemy with other people. So I told you that that 439 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,760 religious stuff didn't work. I told you that wouldn't work 440 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,920 with your marriage. I told you no. 441 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,600 He's trying to get you off the truth of God's Word, and He's 442 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,159 trying to get you to rebel against what God has said that 443 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:35,400 He can do for you. If you'll trust completely in 444 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,880 Him, if you'll have faith completely in Him, if you'll 445 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,480 actually do the things that He tells you to do, then you'll see 446 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,040 these things happen in your life. 447 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,360 Second Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 3 says this. 448 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:55,840 Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you, for that day will 449 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,640 not come unless the apostasy comes first. 450 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:05,880 And that is the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith by 451 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,400 professed Christians. This is what's going to happen. 452 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:18,000 This is what is happening in the hour that we're living, people 453 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:25,000 that have professed Jesus as Lord, as a Christian, they got 454 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,640 into rebellion and they have pasta sized for their faith and 455 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,520 now publicly proclaimed they're no longer a Christian and a 456 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,920 believer. Many people I know that have 457 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,960 done that. And then you have the people 458 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,680 that say, well, they really weren't a believer. 459 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:45,800 Yes, they were because I don't believe Scripture can uphold a 460 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:54,440 once saved, you're always saved philosophy or doctrine that is a 461 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,760 doctrine. Scripture doesn't uphold that 462 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:04,040 you can reject, denounce, harden yourself, turn away, walk away 463 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,800 from the truth that you know you can do it. 464 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:15,920 And I know people who have. And so we have to then be people 465 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,640 that recognize there's plenty of warnings in his scripture for us 466 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:24,440 as believers that say we must take heed and many and multiple 467 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,320 ways of taking heed to ourselves, right? 468 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,480 And so then he goes on to say in Luke 18, because we've said this 469 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,560 Scripture multiple times, This is why, you know, Jesus says, I 470 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,360 tell you that he will avenge them speedily. 471 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,400 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, will he find faith 472 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,320 in the earth? That's what he's coming back 473 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,440 for, faith. Will he find faith in the earth? 474 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:58,360 Will he find actually a group of people, his body, his church, 475 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:03,520 that have faith, true, unadulterated faith. 476 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,720 And that's what he's looking for. 477 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:12,200 And we have to be believers that say, yes, I believe God not just 478 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:17,720 in Word, but in deeds. I do what I've heard to do in 479 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:22,720 every circumstance in my life. I may fail, I may not be 480 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:29,200 perfect, but I get back up and I put the word to work in my life 481 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:35,480 again so that it don't slip and I don't become deceived or 482 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,480 rebellious or hardened towards what I know I'm supposed to do 483 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,520 as a believer through the word of God. 484 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:46,680 Amen and see you as a believer. If you have the word of God 485 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,480 because you've meditated in and day in and day out, you have it 486 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,840 richly dwelling on the inside of you. 487 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:58,640 How can you not do what the word says? 488 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:05,040 It boggles my mind. If you know what God's Word has 489 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,800 said and you say you read it every day and not let's put the 490 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,200 cherry on the top and you're filled with the Holy Ghost and 491 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,880 then you still don't do it. You are rebellious. 492 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,320 That is just the bottom line. You don't want to do it. 493 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:31,000 You don't want to do it. Hallelujah, you don't want to do 494 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,160 it and blows my mind. I'm like, how could you not want 495 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,040 to do it? I mean, I just want to do 496 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:43,200 everything that he says so that I am taking heed myself, right? 497 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,200 Why would you not want to do it when it's guaranteed promise and 498 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,280 victory in your circumstance and in your situation and in your 499 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:58,560 life, it's guaranteed a promise. Amen. 500 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,200 For those who will believe and those who will do what the word 501 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,720 says to do. Now look at Hebrews chapter 10 502 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,600 back to good old Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 38. 503 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:16,720 It says now the just shall what live by faith shall live by 504 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:20,920 faith. But if any man, what draws back? 505 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,400 So here's another scripture that shows that just because you may 506 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,360 have lived by faith, you can draw back and not live by it any 507 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:35,760 longer. You can draw back, you can slip 508 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,240 away. You can pull back from doing 509 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,400 what you may have once done earlier in your walk with the 510 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,480 Lord. And so he's saying, listen, 511 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,000 don't be one that's going to draw back. 512 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,560 Why? Because my soul will have no 513 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,720 pleasure in him. God has no pleasure in a person 514 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,640 that will pull back and draw back from their faith in Him. 515 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:10,680 You see that? Now let's look at another. 516 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:17,920 Take heed. Here we see in Luke 2134 it says 517 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,160 this take heed to yourself again. 518 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,600 We already read it in First Timothy chapter 4 where we 519 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,800 talked about, he said take heed to yourself and to your 520 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,280 doctrine. Now here's a second confirmation 521 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,240 where he says now you need to take heed to yourself again. 522 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,600 Say again, So he's letting us know, and you know what this is? 523 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,960 This is Scripture letting us know that God cannot do this for 524 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:48,080 you. He says you are to take heed. 525 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,640 He's not going to do it for you. You are to take heed. 526 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,200 In all these scenarios that we just talked about through 527 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,600 Scripture, You're the one that has to take heed. 528 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,840 God can't do it for you. And so here in this one, he 529 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,480 says, listen, take heed yourselves, lest at any time 530 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:12,640 your hearts be overcharged with drunkenness and the cares of 531 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,560 life. I don't know how to pronounce 532 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,240 that other word. Y'all can say it. 533 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,760 Dissipation. OK. 534 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,600 My. Yeah. 535 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,280 The suffer it. What is that word? 536 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,480 How do you pronounce it? Huh. 537 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,360 Surfing. I'm just joking. 538 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,160 How do you pronounce it? Nobody's saying it. 539 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:37,520 Surfeding. Surfeding. 540 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,120 OK, OK, I get it now. I understand it. 541 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,760 OK. And drunkenness and the cares of 542 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:49,040 life so that the day that day won't come upon you. 543 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,480 What? Unaware, right? 544 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,720 Unaware. What day is he talking about? 545 00:41:55,720 --> 00:42:00,560 The day of Christ return so we can get, so he's telling us, 546 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,160 listen, we need to take heed ourselves and make sure we're 547 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,800 not in a position of sin as a believer because the day that he 548 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,800 returns, we could be caught unaware. 549 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,600 I don't want to be unaware of the trumpet because I don't want 550 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,240 to. I don't want to have to live 551 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:22,840 through the tribulation. I want to be taken up out of 552 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,640 here, so I'm not going to put myself as a believer in any 553 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:34,440 situation that's going to bring what my heart being overcharged 554 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:40,000 with drunkenness and the cares of life and that word that we 555 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,320 said so that that day won't come on me unaware. 556 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,560 See that? So he's letting us know we need 557 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,120 to take heed so that we're not caught unaware and actually be 558 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,200 left behind because I believe you will be left behind as a 559 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:04,560 believer if you're unaware. So we have to be aware because 560 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,280 that's what he means by take heed. 561 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:11,080 Remember, beware, have discernment, take heed. 562 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,760 Don't be heedless. Don't be thoughtless about this 563 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,200 thing. Think about it, meditate on it, 564 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,760 be able to discern what's going on through scripture and what's 565 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,200 going on with what we're seeing take place in lives, right? 566 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,840 And don't get caught in the drunkenness. 567 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:38,520 Now, this is not just talking about drunk with alcohol, though 568 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:43,640 it is for all those that still believe in drinking. 569 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:49,440 As a Christian we do not one because of this scripture 570 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:55,760 because he tells us to be sober minded and not intoxicated. 571 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,320 And that's what this scripture is talking about. 572 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:04,240 You're so intoxicated, not just with alcohol, which it does mean 573 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:09,160 with that as well, but you are so intoxicated with the cares of 574 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:14,360 the world, the deceitfulness of riches, the busyness of life, 575 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,800 the things that you have to do just to survive in life, work, 576 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:26,640 you know, all the things that you get so intoxicated you can't 577 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:31,240 even think straight. This is what it's talking about 578 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:36,560 as well, but it also isn't talking about intoxicated with 579 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:41,800 alcohol. OK, so I don't want anything 580 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,800 now. When I was a teenager, I didn't, 581 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,120 you know, I want, I wanted to drink. 582 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,840 I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to be intoxicated. 583 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:59,960 But when I got born again, I wanted to have a sober mind and 584 00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:04,920 a clear mind because I know what I did when I was like that. 585 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:13,360 You'd wake up and not even know what you had done, right? 586 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,880 So this is what he's saying. Listen, don't be deceived, don't 587 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,920 be deluded. You need to be sober minded. 588 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,720 You need to not allow things of this world, the cares of life, 589 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:31,800 all these things to get you intoxicated that you are caught 590 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,200 unaware of his return. Right. 591 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:41,760 OK, now look at Luke 21. This is good. 592 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:46,800 I know this is heavy teaching, and it's not, you know, popular 593 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:52,840 teaching. But guess what? 594 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,080 It is? It's truth. 595 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,320 It's truth. I'm going to even get closer to 596 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:07,000 you, Luke. Oh, I want to read that in the 597 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,480 Amplified. That's what it is. 598 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,640 I want to read Luke 21 in the Amplified. 599 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,600 It says be on a guard so that your hearts are not weighed down 600 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:20,760 and depressed with the giddiness of debauchery and the nausea of 601 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:25,360 self indulgence and the worldly worries of life. 602 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:31,280 And then that day when the Messiah returns will not come on 603 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,240 you suddenly like a trap, for it will come upon all those who 604 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:39,640 live on the face of all the earth. 605 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:46,480 So be alert, keep on alert at all times, be attentive and be 606 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,720 ready, praying that you may have strength and ability to be found 607 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,440 worthy and to escape all these things that are getting ready to 608 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:59,280 come and take place. And stand in the presence of the 609 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,560 Son of Man at His coming. See that. 610 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,400 So he's letting us know. Listen, we need to take heed. 611 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,840 We need to recognize the signs of the times. 612 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,600 We need to take heed ourselves. We need to, you know, be a 613 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,960 person that is expecting and ready and staying sober minded 614 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,200 in these last days and not letting things overtake us. 615 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,960 Amen. Now look at this is our last one 616 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,480 we're going to talk about and then we'll close. 617 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:35,600 And this one is very important because I'm, I'm starting to get 618 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,560 very concerned about no one heeding this scripture. 619 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:49,560 Matthew 1810. Take heed that you despise not 620 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,640 one of these little ones. For I say unto you, that in 621 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,640 heaven there are angels always. Behold the face of the Father, 622 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,840 which is in heaven, and he's talking about here being a 623 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:12,000 stumbling block to little ones. And we're not just talking about 624 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,800 little ones as children, though He is. 625 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,440 This is in context. I I don't know why I didn't put 626 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,760 that in full context, but I didn't so y'all can read it. 627 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,080 Despise not one of these little ones. 628 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:30,400 Little ones is. It could be a child, but it also 629 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:37,640 can be an immature believer. And you as a believer must take 630 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:45,920 heed to not being a stumbling block to a babe in Christ. 631 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:52,000 So that means we should be living what the standard is in 632 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,680 the Word of God before them so that we don't become a stumbling 633 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,760 block them and cause them to sin or cause them to have doubt in 634 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:07,040 God or to cause them not to be able to trust in the 635 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,040 establishment of God's Word and what He has ordained through His 636 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:18,840 Word being a stumbling block. And he actually said woe to 637 00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:26,280 those who are stumbling blocks, that you might as well tie a 638 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,240 millstone around your neck and throw yourself into the lake. 639 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,800 If you call somebody to stumble, what does that mean? 640 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:41,640 Somebody to doubt God's word, Someone to think, well, you're a 641 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,560 hypocrite. Why would I want to live for the 642 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:48,360 Lord? You're living a life of sin. 643 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:53,160 You're a stumbling and this is to a new believer or even a 644 00:49:53,160 --> 00:50:00,280 child, because a child looks up, looks up to us. 645 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,000 And we and This is why I say the most dangerous thing as a 646 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,960 believer in Christian marriages is that you are upholding the 647 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,200 standard of what your children are hearing in the word in the 648 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,560 church, because they'll know whether or not you're living it 649 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,200 because they're hearing it and they're thinking, well, Wyatt, 650 00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:28,520 mom and dad doing that and you're being a stumbling block 651 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,560 to your own children. And This is why a lot of 652 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,440 children don't want anything to do with God, right? 653 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,840 And it's your fault. You were the stumbling block. 654 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,440 You were to your own child's life. 655 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:49,000 Look at Mark Mark Chapter 9 and verse 42. 656 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,120 Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe and 657 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:57,520 trust in me to stumble, that is to sin or lose faith. 658 00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,040 That's this is the amplified reads it like that. 659 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:05,240 It would be better for him if a heavy millstone 1 requiring a 660 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:10,440 donkey strength to turn it were hung around his neck and he were 661 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,200 thrown into the sea. There it is. 662 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,360 I already said it, but here it is for you to see with your only 663 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,240 eyes, because it's not me who's saying it. 664 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,800 It's the word of God that's saying it right. 665 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,440 So it's very important that we take heed ourselves and, and, 666 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,760 and we take heed to saying, am I being a stumbling block to 667 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,000 someone in the church? Am I saying something I 668 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,640 shouldn't be saying that's going to cause them to fail? 669 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,200 Am I saying something that's going to lead them down a wrong 670 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:49,920 Rd. of belief or wrong path or causing them to doubt God's word 671 00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,440 because they're not seeing it in my life because I'm saying it's 672 00:51:53,440 --> 00:52:00,640 not working. So we have to be responsible and 673 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,320 take heed. Now look here at Romans chapter 674 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,600 14 and this is what we're going to close with Romans 1413. 675 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:16,840 Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on 676 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:21,800 one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a 677 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:28,480 stumbling block or an obstacle or an the, the King James 678 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:34,680 Version says, or an occasion for your brother to fail or a 679 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:38,520 hindrance in the way of a brother. 680 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:45,120 We have a responsibility that if we come to this house and we're 681 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,760 saying we're believers and we're knowing what we should be doing 682 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:55,200 in Scripture when we choose not to do it, and someone that may 683 00:52:55,200 --> 00:53:00,280 be more, less immature than us in the faith sees us not uphold 684 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,480 the Scripture properly, it's going to cause them possibly to 685 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:09,000 stumble. And you're going to be the one 686 00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,880 that's going to be held accountable for that. 687 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,320 That's going to have to stand before God for that. 688 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,880 He said it'd be better for you to go jump into the sea with a 689 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:26,280 rope and a rock around your neck than to call someone to stumble. 690 00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,800 And I'm seeing it happen. Seeing it happen. 691 00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:40,080 And as pastors over the flock, we have a responsibility to 692 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:47,280 protect the little ones. And so we have to bring 693 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:51,400 correction to the ones that know better and say, what are you 694 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,240 doing? They're a new believer. 695 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,400 Can you not discern where they're at spiritually? 696 00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:05,360 Why are you telling them that? Amen. 697 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,280 And do you know that's good? Because we're the ones that are 698 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:14,720 the accountable to that to watch over people's soul to, to, to 699 00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:18,080 make sure that they are going to be able to grow properly and 700 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:23,360 nothing's going to be able to hinder them for properly seeing 701 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,840 the truth of God's word. That is safety. 702 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:32,840 That is the pastor coming in and protecting the flock when we 703 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,360 have to bring correction to people and say you, you've been 704 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,080 in the church 10 years. What in the world are you doing 705 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,840 in front of this person and acting like you don't even know 706 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:46,240 what the Word says? We love you, but you ought to 707 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:50,560 know better. You know what to do. 708 00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,240 Why are you doing this? You know, come on, make an 709 00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:55,960 adjustment. And you know what else? 710 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,240 You need to go ask that person to forgive you. 711 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,600 We've done it to protect little ones. 712 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:11,040 You need to go ask them to forgive you because what you did 713 00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,480 just could cause them to stumble and actually has caused them to 714 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,560 stumble and question their faith. 715 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,520 Question and trust in their trust and ability to believe 716 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,200 God's Word. Amen. 717 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,680 And he lets us know, listen, we all have these responsibilities. 718 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,960 We're all supposed to take heed to these things. 719 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,080 It's not just our responsibility, it's your 720 00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,400 responsibility. And as a believer, it's your 721 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,640 responsibility as you read and we read in the Scripture that 722 00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,680 every day we, as long as we have a day, we ought to be 723 00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,160 encouraging one another, strengthening one another, 724 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:49,080 building one another up. What in faith and in God's 725 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:55,880 truth, and speaking the truth in love, and actually doing the 726 00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:02,400 Word so that we don't deceive ourselves lest we slip and fall 727 00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:02,920 away?