1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,259 In chains I was brown, 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,139 I was a madman on the run. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,625 Through the hills I 4 00:00:14,085 --> 00:00:14,585 wandered. 5 00:00:15,044 --> 00:00:17,065 I was running from the sun. 6 00:00:18,245 --> 00:00:20,345 But truth found me there. 7 00:00:21,125 --> 00:00:23,304 It was in my darkest eye. 8 00:00:23,845 --> 00:00:26,565 I traded my black heart for joy, for 9 00:00:26,565 --> 00:00:29,269 something real, something with power. 10 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:33,590 Truth set me free. 11 00:00:34,450 --> 00:00:36,469 Truth came to me. 12 00:00:36,929 --> 00:00:39,750 I once was blind, and now I see 13 00:00:40,210 --> 00:00:40,545 truth 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,780 Welcome to tell the truth, a weekly podcast 15 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,739 about faith, current events, and life in general, 16 00:01:03,879 --> 00:01:05,954 brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church 17 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:09,814 live every Monday night at 6 PM CST. 18 00:01:11,715 --> 00:01:13,334 And welcome back everyone. 19 00:01:13,715 --> 00:01:15,734 It is great to be here Monday, 20 00:01:16,034 --> 00:01:17,334 October 28th. 21 00:01:17,795 --> 00:01:18,834 And I tell you, I don't know about 22 00:01:18,834 --> 00:01:21,120 you guys, but after a Monday where it's 23 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,359 just been a Monday, there's something about that 24 00:01:23,359 --> 00:01:26,079 theme song. Carter Carter and and you with 25 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:27,600 the words, it's just like, oh, man. That's 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,000 so nice. I just like hearing it. Brother 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,079 Dennis, how about it today? How about it, 28 00:01:32,079 --> 00:01:34,094 man? Yeah. Yeah. It's Monday. 29 00:01:35,775 --> 00:01:38,174 I completely understand that. It shouldn't bear false 30 00:01:38,174 --> 00:01:39,454 witness. You know, I'll just leave it at 31 00:01:39,454 --> 00:01:39,954 that. 32 00:01:42,974 --> 00:01:43,474 I 33 00:01:43,935 --> 00:01:46,334 I definitely am empathizing with you today. How 34 00:01:46,334 --> 00:01:49,149 about you, brother Brian? Oh, it's just good. 35 00:01:49,409 --> 00:01:50,930 It's great to be saved. I'll tell you 36 00:01:50,930 --> 00:01:51,430 that. 37 00:01:52,290 --> 00:01:53,890 We'll just sum it up with that. There 38 00:01:53,890 --> 00:01:55,170 you go. Well, 39 00:01:55,489 --> 00:01:58,689 this week we're, coming up on a an 40 00:01:58,689 --> 00:02:00,689 off week because next week we're gonna be 41 00:02:00,689 --> 00:02:01,509 having revival. 42 00:02:01,995 --> 00:02:04,474 So, no offense to our listeners, but we're 43 00:02:04,474 --> 00:02:06,655 gonna be down here getting ministered to. Amen. 44 00:02:07,275 --> 00:02:09,914 We start at Sunday night at 7 o'clock 45 00:02:09,914 --> 00:02:11,115 and then it's the rest of the, 46 00:02:12,074 --> 00:02:14,014 Monday through Thursday, I believe, 47 00:02:14,659 --> 00:02:16,580 at 6 pm. And instead of the podcast, 48 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:18,819 you could just come here. Yeah. Yeah. You 49 00:02:18,819 --> 00:02:20,259 can just, you can just come here. You 50 00:02:20,259 --> 00:02:22,340 can get to hear somebody other than one 51 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:23,939 of us talking, get to hear somebody else 52 00:02:23,939 --> 00:02:25,239 come in and speak. Yeah. 53 00:02:25,780 --> 00:02:27,319 Brother, what was his name? 54 00:02:27,685 --> 00:02:30,264 Alan Carr. Alan Carr. And and we'll probably, 55 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:32,504 we'll probably have those live 56 00:02:32,805 --> 00:02:34,884 maybe. Oh yes. Yes. Yeah. I'm gonna be 57 00:02:34,884 --> 00:02:37,044 streaming them. So, you guys can check that 58 00:02:37,044 --> 00:02:39,125 out. Go to the website and watch it 59 00:02:39,125 --> 00:02:41,780 or our Facebook page. So Yep. And in 60 00:02:41,780 --> 00:02:43,060 fact, with the way this is all set 61 00:02:43,060 --> 00:02:45,060 up, I may just stream them to this 62 00:02:45,060 --> 00:02:47,860 one as well all those nights. So, it'll 63 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:49,240 be on the podcast, 64 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:51,800 live stream side of things, 65 00:02:52,099 --> 00:02:53,534 even if it's not on the, 66 00:02:55,055 --> 00:02:55,555 the, 67 00:02:56,094 --> 00:02:58,034 podcasts and stuff available afterward. 68 00:02:58,495 --> 00:02:59,935 Cause getting that audio is a little bit 69 00:02:59,935 --> 00:03:00,754 tricky, but 70 00:03:01,135 --> 00:03:03,395 we'll, we'll definitely be streaming it live, 71 00:03:04,254 --> 00:03:06,655 during even on the podcast channels and all 72 00:03:06,655 --> 00:03:07,715 of the church channels, 73 00:03:08,094 --> 00:03:10,169 which you can get them at links. Mountainviewbaptistchurch.org. 74 00:03:10,549 --> 00:03:11,049 We 75 00:03:11,430 --> 00:03:14,169 have everything that we, that we stream on. 76 00:03:15,110 --> 00:03:16,629 I just updated that the other day. Cause 77 00:03:16,629 --> 00:03:18,789 we've had to remove Twitter from it because 78 00:03:18,789 --> 00:03:19,989 they want to, they want us to pay 79 00:03:19,989 --> 00:03:21,430 money to live stream now. And I don't 80 00:03:21,430 --> 00:03:22,489 know. Yeah. 81 00:03:23,110 --> 00:03:23,610 Yeah. 82 00:03:24,924 --> 00:03:26,685 But it is, it's so good to be 83 00:03:26,685 --> 00:03:27,504 back and, 84 00:03:28,204 --> 00:03:29,644 hate not getting to do it next week, 85 00:03:29,644 --> 00:03:31,324 but glad we're getting to this week as 86 00:03:31,324 --> 00:03:32,544 a reminder to everyone. 87 00:03:33,644 --> 00:03:34,465 Next Tuesday 88 00:03:35,004 --> 00:03:37,639 is election day. So, you know, we talk 89 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:39,080 about all of the things that are going 90 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,240 on. We've been talking about keeping the truth 91 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,099 going and and telling it. 92 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:45,419 And this is an important one because, 93 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:48,280 you know, the wrong people get elected this 94 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,680 time. They start making people that get online 95 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,835 and say things they don't like stop talking 96 00:03:52,835 --> 00:03:54,915 and we we don't want that. So be 97 00:03:54,915 --> 00:03:57,335 prayerfully prayerfully going into this election. 98 00:03:58,275 --> 00:04:00,594 We have local, if you're here in Alabama, 99 00:04:00,594 --> 00:04:01,875 if you're in DeKalb County, we have a 100 00:04:01,875 --> 00:04:03,955 few offices that'll be up on this one. 101 00:04:04,194 --> 00:04:05,635 If you're in the state of Alabama, we've 102 00:04:05,635 --> 00:04:05,969 got 103 00:04:06,930 --> 00:04:08,530 If you're outside of it, we have federal 104 00:04:08,530 --> 00:04:10,469 offices in your state. It's gonna have offices 105 00:04:10,530 --> 00:04:11,030 and 106 00:04:11,490 --> 00:04:12,469 ballot measures. 107 00:04:12,770 --> 00:04:14,449 Research them. Go find out what they are 108 00:04:14,449 --> 00:04:16,629 between now and then. All of that's 109 00:04:17,009 --> 00:04:19,185 almost every state has a place on their 110 00:04:19,185 --> 00:04:21,024 website where they have all their ballot measures 111 00:04:21,024 --> 00:04:22,004 and everything available. 112 00:04:22,544 --> 00:04:24,384 Read up on them. Don't just check no 113 00:04:24,384 --> 00:04:24,884 because 114 00:04:25,185 --> 00:04:27,425 you don't wanna modify your constitution because you 115 00:04:27,425 --> 00:04:29,425 might be, you know, saying, well, okay, that 116 00:04:29,425 --> 00:04:30,704 law that says I have to go to 117 00:04:30,704 --> 00:04:31,685 church on Sunday 118 00:04:32,019 --> 00:04:33,459 and I'm not allowed to work. I I 119 00:04:33,459 --> 00:04:34,740 I'm just gonna leave that on the books, 120 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:35,939 even though I don't go to church on 121 00:04:35,939 --> 00:04:36,439 Sunday 122 00:04:36,979 --> 00:04:38,120 because I gotta work. 123 00:04:38,740 --> 00:04:40,500 You know, you might wanna might wanna make 124 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:41,879 sure you read those because, 125 00:04:42,259 --> 00:04:43,779 there there have been times where we've had 126 00:04:43,779 --> 00:04:45,939 some weird laws that we've gone back and 127 00:04:45,939 --> 00:04:47,475 cleaned up on some of these ballots 128 00:04:48,274 --> 00:04:49,895 And, you know, so read up on that, 129 00:04:50,194 --> 00:04:52,675 you know, pray, pray, pray about who you're 130 00:04:52,675 --> 00:04:54,194 going to vote for because this one is 131 00:04:54,194 --> 00:04:55,014 so important. 132 00:04:55,875 --> 00:04:57,795 There there's so much going on. There's a 133 00:04:57,795 --> 00:04:58,455 lot of 134 00:04:59,235 --> 00:05:01,810 not true things being said about everybody, which 135 00:05:01,810 --> 00:05:03,970 happens in every election, but it seems to 136 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:05,729 have ramped up this year because man, I've 137 00:05:05,729 --> 00:05:07,009 been hearing it left and right and it 138 00:05:07,009 --> 00:05:09,009 doesn't, man, and it's for everybody. It's it's, 139 00:05:09,009 --> 00:05:10,849 you know, go in there and pray. Take 140 00:05:10,849 --> 00:05:12,689 the time to find out what people said, 141 00:05:12,689 --> 00:05:13,910 what people have done. 142 00:05:14,254 --> 00:05:15,774 And the number one thing you can remember 143 00:05:15,774 --> 00:05:17,694 is if there's somebody in your state and 144 00:05:17,694 --> 00:05:19,375 they're running for reelection, go look at their 145 00:05:19,375 --> 00:05:21,134 track record. But the biggest thing that's trying 146 00:05:21,134 --> 00:05:23,055 to happen is confusion, and that's just coming 147 00:05:23,055 --> 00:05:24,894 from the enemy. You know, the enemy always 148 00:05:24,894 --> 00:05:28,079 tries to confuse us to to, keep us, 149 00:05:28,699 --> 00:05:30,060 up in the air about what we're gonna 150 00:05:30,060 --> 00:05:31,500 do. Well, I didn't know this. I didn't 151 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:33,759 know this. You know? Just remember you're taking 152 00:05:33,979 --> 00:05:36,060 you're taking Christ into the voting booth if 153 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:38,220 you're saved. So Yes. And remember too that, 154 00:05:38,539 --> 00:05:40,504 to pray for peace after this election because 155 00:05:40,504 --> 00:05:42,024 no matter who wins this thing, there's gonna 156 00:05:42,024 --> 00:05:44,105 be a mess. Yeah. It is. It is. 157 00:05:44,105 --> 00:05:46,584 Amen. Absolutely. There's gonna be there's gonna be 158 00:05:46,584 --> 00:05:48,504 a lot of people very angry no matter 159 00:05:48,504 --> 00:05:50,444 who who wins, who loses. 160 00:05:50,904 --> 00:05:52,365 So be praying that that. 161 00:05:52,870 --> 00:05:54,389 And part of our thing as Christians is 162 00:05:54,389 --> 00:05:57,209 we are to be peacemakers. Right. So let's 163 00:05:57,350 --> 00:05:59,269 let us if nobody else will go out 164 00:05:59,269 --> 00:06:01,110 and be the peacemakers, let us Christians go 165 00:06:01,110 --> 00:06:02,949 out when it's all over. Say, okay, everybody, 166 00:06:02,949 --> 00:06:04,250 it's time to calm down 167 00:06:04,629 --> 00:06:06,310 and we'll take the next 4 years as 168 00:06:06,310 --> 00:06:08,365 they come and and just go from there. 169 00:06:08,365 --> 00:06:10,365 We'll have a chance to minister and to 170 00:06:10,365 --> 00:06:11,904 tell the truth. Yes. 171 00:06:12,205 --> 00:06:13,645 Absolutely. Plug. So 172 00:06:14,444 --> 00:06:14,944 Absolutely. 173 00:06:15,485 --> 00:06:17,725 So brother Brian, you've got stuff for us 174 00:06:17,725 --> 00:06:19,084 now to see you got your bible open. 175 00:06:19,084 --> 00:06:20,699 Well just a few things. I mean 176 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:23,180 you know, we were we were Dennis and 177 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:25,920 I talked earlier and and, I had yesterday, 178 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:28,060 we had a really good service and, 179 00:06:28,699 --> 00:06:30,319 Lord Lord moved and, 180 00:06:31,259 --> 00:06:32,319 I had a little something, 181 00:06:32,620 --> 00:06:34,944 prepared for yesterday and sometimes the Holy Spirit 182 00:06:34,944 --> 00:06:35,665 has different, 183 00:06:35,985 --> 00:06:37,525 has a different ideal. So, 184 00:06:39,105 --> 00:06:41,185 but I had this thought, you know, I 185 00:06:41,185 --> 00:06:43,105 just I just had some thoughts. Sometimes my 186 00:06:43,105 --> 00:06:45,185 messages are just the Lord giving me lots 187 00:06:45,185 --> 00:06:46,165 of different thoughts, 188 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:49,259 and and and my thought was, you know, 189 00:06:49,639 --> 00:06:50,139 who 190 00:06:50,759 --> 00:06:52,300 would create something 191 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,620 knowing that that creation 192 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,580 would bring new death and misery? 193 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:00,915 Because really if you sit and think about 194 00:07:00,915 --> 00:07:03,154 it that's what that's what God did. That's 195 00:07:03,154 --> 00:07:05,634 what Christ did. I mean he he he 196 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:06,694 wanted the companionship 197 00:07:07,074 --> 00:07:08,694 of, and the relationship 198 00:07:09,074 --> 00:07:09,894 of a people, 199 00:07:10,754 --> 00:07:13,199 of a creation that that he could he 200 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:14,879 could walk with, talk with, 201 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,300 you know, just share with. 202 00:07:18,079 --> 00:07:20,160 Yes. He is creator and Lord. That is 203 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:20,979 his place, 204 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:24,000 and we are creation, but we've got a 205 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,399 special relationship with him, especially if you know 206 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:26,899 Christ 207 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,579 as Lord and savior. 208 00:07:29,384 --> 00:07:29,884 And 209 00:07:30,665 --> 00:07:33,225 in creating that, he he gave us free 210 00:07:33,225 --> 00:07:33,725 will, 211 00:07:34,504 --> 00:07:37,064 so that we might, pick and choose. Right? 212 00:07:37,064 --> 00:07:39,305 So, he he chose us, but will we 213 00:07:39,305 --> 00:07:41,625 choose him? And so he gives us free 214 00:07:41,625 --> 00:07:44,185 will, you know, we we there's a lot 215 00:07:44,185 --> 00:07:44,685 of, 216 00:07:45,180 --> 00:07:46,400 up in the area about, 217 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:47,960 about, 218 00:07:48,699 --> 00:07:49,180 God's, 219 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:52,139 sovereignty and man's free will, but but it's 220 00:07:52,139 --> 00:07:53,439 there and it's truth. 221 00:07:54,379 --> 00:07:57,235 We he he he chose to create us. 222 00:07:57,394 --> 00:07:59,175 We wouldn't be sitting here on this podcast 223 00:07:59,235 --> 00:08:00,834 tonight if he didn't choose for us to 224 00:08:00,834 --> 00:08:02,914 be to be born at at a at 225 00:08:02,914 --> 00:08:05,314 a place and a time that he knew 226 00:08:05,314 --> 00:08:07,175 before the beginning of the world. 227 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:08,615 And yet, 228 00:08:09,074 --> 00:08:11,519 he also knew how much pain and misery 229 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:13,220 that Brian would bring to him. 230 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:14,419 He knew 231 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,040 that that he would have to, even if 232 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,100 it was just me, 233 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,160 go to the cross or send his son 234 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,919 God to send his son in Christ to 235 00:08:21,919 --> 00:08:22,419 be, 236 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,220 the one who who hung on the cross, 237 00:08:25,944 --> 00:08:28,425 for our sins. And that's just when you 238 00:08:28,425 --> 00:08:30,585 sit and think about that, it's like, what 239 00:08:31,305 --> 00:08:33,785 who would create something that they knew was 240 00:08:33,785 --> 00:08:34,924 was going to 241 00:08:35,225 --> 00:08:37,705 bring them death and misery? Yeah. It just 242 00:08:37,705 --> 00:08:38,924 makes me think of, 243 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,920 what's the worth of one human soul Yeah. 244 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,100 To God. Hey, you know, it's it's amazing. 245 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,159 Yeah. We don't think that much about it, 246 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:47,759 you know. And we see stories in the 247 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:49,919 news all day long about people dying and 248 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:51,839 killing each other and doing all these things. 249 00:08:51,839 --> 00:08:54,320 And but man, everyone is so precious to 250 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,745 God. Yeah. Yeah. It is. It is. And 251 00:08:56,745 --> 00:08:58,345 you you talked about last night in the 252 00:08:58,345 --> 00:08:59,164 bible study. 253 00:08:59,705 --> 00:09:02,105 We we talked about that father relationship, you 254 00:09:02,105 --> 00:09:04,504 know, Abba Father Yeah. Was one of the 255 00:09:04,504 --> 00:09:06,345 things that we discussed last night, and we 256 00:09:06,345 --> 00:09:09,620 compared that to to us as fathers and 257 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:12,019 and our children, that that relationship. But when 258 00:09:12,019 --> 00:09:13,639 you really sit and think about it, 259 00:09:14,019 --> 00:09:17,379 you don't plan on, we don't, plan on 260 00:09:17,379 --> 00:09:18,839 our children bringing us, 261 00:09:19,379 --> 00:09:21,159 hurt or misery, and and 262 00:09:21,684 --> 00:09:23,204 and and they don't plan on it either 263 00:09:23,204 --> 00:09:25,784 but there's sometimes some things happen. There's directions 264 00:09:25,845 --> 00:09:27,605 that they go that, you know, you don't 265 00:09:27,605 --> 00:09:29,284 want them to go and and and you 266 00:09:29,284 --> 00:09:31,144 you hurt for them. Maybe 267 00:09:31,524 --> 00:09:34,084 maybe you didn't get hurt by them or 268 00:09:34,084 --> 00:09:35,845 it wasn't their fault but you hurt for 269 00:09:35,845 --> 00:09:38,259 them, you know, those kinds of things. But, 270 00:09:38,259 --> 00:09:39,860 you know, we know we'd do it all 271 00:09:39,860 --> 00:09:42,579 over again a 1000000000 times because we love 272 00:09:42,579 --> 00:09:44,579 them so much. You know? No matter if 273 00:09:44,579 --> 00:09:47,459 they do wrong, we still love them. And 274 00:09:47,459 --> 00:09:49,860 and so but he knew that. He knew 275 00:09:49,860 --> 00:09:51,959 that. He he we don't have that 276 00:09:52,334 --> 00:09:54,735 that intuition. We don't have that crystal ball. 277 00:09:54,735 --> 00:09:56,654 We don't have the mind of God, but 278 00:09:56,654 --> 00:09:59,294 he knew that he would he would have 279 00:09:59,294 --> 00:10:01,774 to send his only son to die for 280 00:10:01,774 --> 00:10:04,174 our sins. He really were not worthy of 281 00:10:04,174 --> 00:10:06,334 that, but he done it anyway. And, 282 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:08,340 I I thought about, 283 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,300 you know, 284 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,300 things that we do 285 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:14,580 things that we create. We create to protect, 286 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,214 we create to enjoy, you know, things that 287 00:10:19,214 --> 00:10:20,514 we have. I mean, 288 00:10:21,134 --> 00:10:23,855 in the computers and phones and a lot 289 00:10:23,855 --> 00:10:26,254 of times they don't bring joy, but but, 290 00:10:26,254 --> 00:10:28,654 you know, that that's what, you know, rides 291 00:10:28,654 --> 00:10:30,194 at 6 Flags, vacation 292 00:10:30,815 --> 00:10:31,954 places, cars, 293 00:10:32,350 --> 00:10:34,370 You know, all those things we we we 294 00:10:34,669 --> 00:10:36,049 create those to enjoy. 295 00:10:37,389 --> 00:10:38,929 We create, military, 296 00:10:41,309 --> 00:10:44,350 missiles and and and ammunition and different things 297 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:46,269 like that to protect us. Those things are 298 00:10:46,269 --> 00:10:47,570 made to protect us, 299 00:10:48,554 --> 00:10:51,514 and we create to improve. Right? We create 300 00:10:51,514 --> 00:10:52,814 to improve life, 301 00:10:53,595 --> 00:10:54,334 our health, 302 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:58,074 we create we create to improve mankind. So, 303 00:10:58,074 --> 00:10:59,332 you know, doctors and medicines and and and 304 00:10:59,332 --> 00:11:00,334 in the medical field and 305 00:11:01,269 --> 00:11:04,089 field and different things like that, exercise equipment. 306 00:11:05,110 --> 00:11:07,750 So so there there's so many reasons that 307 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:08,490 we create, 308 00:11:09,110 --> 00:11:11,190 but but never do we really set out 309 00:11:11,190 --> 00:11:13,429 to create something that we know that is 310 00:11:13,429 --> 00:11:17,225 gonna bring us death, but he did. Yeah. 311 00:11:17,445 --> 00:11:19,125 It's it's a it's a mind blowing thing 312 00:11:19,125 --> 00:11:21,284 in it. And it, you know, it it 313 00:11:21,284 --> 00:11:23,044 it brings me back to, you know, in 314 00:11:23,044 --> 00:11:25,924 Genesis, he created 2 perfect people and had 315 00:11:25,924 --> 00:11:27,924 a perfect relationship with him, and that wasn't 316 00:11:27,924 --> 00:11:30,450 the plan. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't he didn't 317 00:11:30,450 --> 00:11:32,370 back off to plan b Yeah. When Adam 318 00:11:32,370 --> 00:11:34,149 and Eve fell. That's right. You know, 319 00:11:34,690 --> 00:11:37,590 but fast forward to Revelation, and millions millions 320 00:11:37,649 --> 00:11:40,690 around the throne. Yeah. Amen. Amen. I can't 321 00:11:40,690 --> 00:11:43,394 wait. I can't either. Shows you how important 322 00:11:43,394 --> 00:11:45,154 relationship is to God. It is. I mean, 323 00:11:45,154 --> 00:11:47,554 he didn't he was God. Right? I mean, 324 00:11:47,554 --> 00:11:49,475 he could he could entertain himself in any 325 00:11:49,475 --> 00:11:51,894 way he wanted to. Yeah. He wanted companionship 326 00:11:52,115 --> 00:11:54,434 and relationship and so he made us. And 327 00:11:54,434 --> 00:11:54,899 so 328 00:11:55,460 --> 00:11:57,879 it it really shows us how important relationship 329 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:00,740 not only our, of course our relationship with 330 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:02,980 him is most important, but our relationship with 331 00:12:02,980 --> 00:12:04,899 other people in our life, our wives, our 332 00:12:04,899 --> 00:12:07,300 children, our friends as we sit around this 333 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:07,800 table, 334 00:12:08,259 --> 00:12:08,759 how 335 00:12:09,404 --> 00:12:11,164 that we should never take those things for 336 00:12:11,164 --> 00:12:13,164 granted because God puts people in our lives 337 00:12:13,164 --> 00:12:15,824 and relationship is important to him. That's why 338 00:12:16,605 --> 00:12:18,684 I think, you know, things that we do 339 00:12:18,684 --> 00:12:19,345 at church, 340 00:12:19,884 --> 00:12:22,924 our church services, our our, you know, preaching 341 00:12:22,924 --> 00:12:25,519 and and Sunday school and bible study and 342 00:12:25,820 --> 00:12:27,200 all those things that we do, 343 00:12:27,820 --> 00:12:29,980 are are very, very important, but I also 344 00:12:29,980 --> 00:12:32,620 think the fellowship that we have Yeah. You 345 00:12:32,620 --> 00:12:34,700 know, with dinners and different things like that, 346 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:36,860 just getting together as as men and women 347 00:12:36,860 --> 00:12:38,080 of God who who 348 00:12:38,404 --> 00:12:39,465 think alike and, 349 00:12:40,245 --> 00:12:42,804 are like minded. Those things are important and 350 00:12:42,804 --> 00:12:44,325 they should be important to us and they're 351 00:12:44,325 --> 00:12:46,165 important to him too. Yeah. That's like it's 352 00:12:46,165 --> 00:12:48,404 like I I mentioned, a while back about 353 00:12:48,404 --> 00:12:50,565 the softball team we had. Right? Yeah. And 354 00:12:50,565 --> 00:12:52,350 and how much how much we we bonded 355 00:12:52,350 --> 00:12:53,709 together as a team. We really did. You 356 00:12:53,709 --> 00:12:54,909 know, it was like I got to know 357 00:12:54,909 --> 00:12:56,350 people I hadn't really talked to much because 358 00:12:56,350 --> 00:12:57,149 they sit on the other side of the 359 00:12:57,149 --> 00:12:58,429 church, you know, and I don't see them 360 00:12:58,429 --> 00:12:59,870 when we leave because there's just a hustle, 361 00:12:59,870 --> 00:13:01,870 you know, the the bustle of it. Yeah. 362 00:13:01,870 --> 00:13:05,069 But, people like Andrew and even Blake. Yeah. 363 00:13:05,069 --> 00:13:06,509 I got to know him better. That's right. 364 00:13:06,509 --> 00:13:08,235 And it is important for us to do 365 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,595 things together, activities like that. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's 366 00:13:11,595 --> 00:13:13,514 a really good thing. It is. I always 367 00:13:13,514 --> 00:13:15,034 love it when we have our dinners and 368 00:13:15,034 --> 00:13:16,634 stuff here because, you know, you get to 369 00:13:16,634 --> 00:13:18,554 kind of go around and have a seat 370 00:13:18,554 --> 00:13:19,834 at a table with people that you don't 371 00:13:19,834 --> 00:13:21,514 get to talk to very often. And you 372 00:13:21,514 --> 00:13:23,214 learn things. You learn 373 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:25,180 who they are. You learn struggles. You learn 374 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:26,300 what they're going through. And hey, you know 375 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:27,580 what? The person go through that same thing 376 00:13:27,580 --> 00:13:28,879 I'm going through. And it Yeah. 377 00:13:29,180 --> 00:13:30,940 It really gives you a chance to connect, 378 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,340 you know. Yeah. We've we used to go 379 00:13:33,580 --> 00:13:34,940 we we hadn't got to go a lot 380 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:36,460 here lately. I hope I hope we get 381 00:13:36,540 --> 00:13:37,980 Nicole and I get to have more time, 382 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:40,134 but we always used to try to go 383 00:13:40,134 --> 00:13:41,815 with our seniors every time they went to 384 00:13:41,815 --> 00:13:43,975 eat or something like that, you know, and 385 00:13:43,975 --> 00:13:45,355 we had some of the most 386 00:13:45,735 --> 00:13:48,774 fun, enjoyable times with our seniors at church 387 00:13:48,774 --> 00:13:50,875 that that we've had in any activity. 388 00:13:51,495 --> 00:13:52,934 When you get them when you get them 389 00:13:52,934 --> 00:13:54,620 outside the church on a church bus, you 390 00:13:54,620 --> 00:13:56,139 gotta watch them now. I mean, they're 391 00:13:57,899 --> 00:13:58,940 they they they like to have a lot 392 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:01,179 of fun. But, but, yeah, we just, you 393 00:14:01,179 --> 00:14:02,779 know, got to got to get close to 394 00:14:02,779 --> 00:14:05,179 some of them and and build relationships with 395 00:14:05,179 --> 00:14:07,500 some of them, and and those those things 396 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,759 are important. You know? It's important to 397 00:14:10,274 --> 00:14:12,214 it's important to me as a pastor, 398 00:14:13,634 --> 00:14:16,034 to to have a relationship with with my 399 00:14:16,034 --> 00:14:16,774 church members 400 00:14:17,394 --> 00:14:19,414 on an individual basis, you know, 401 00:14:19,794 --> 00:14:21,875 because I wanna be approachable. I wanna be 402 00:14:21,875 --> 00:14:23,809 somebody that they feel like that they can 403 00:14:23,809 --> 00:14:25,170 come to. I know I've said on here 404 00:14:25,170 --> 00:14:27,649 before, I've had I've had pastors, you know, 405 00:14:27,649 --> 00:14:29,250 in in in the past that I just 406 00:14:29,250 --> 00:14:31,570 didn't feel like I could approach them and 407 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:33,730 talk to them and be honest with them 408 00:14:33,730 --> 00:14:35,730 and, you know, and and how what they 409 00:14:35,730 --> 00:14:37,330 would think and if they would give me 410 00:14:37,330 --> 00:14:38,450 the time of day, you know. I've talked 411 00:14:38,450 --> 00:14:39,804 to some of them that had their mind 412 00:14:39,804 --> 00:14:41,884 on 40 other different things. And I know 413 00:14:41,884 --> 00:14:43,644 there's 40 other different things to have your 414 00:14:43,644 --> 00:14:45,565 mind on, but when you're talking to somebody 415 00:14:45,725 --> 00:14:47,565 Yeah. You need to you need to be 416 00:14:47,565 --> 00:14:50,524 focused on that person. So this relationship is 417 00:14:50,524 --> 00:14:52,924 good. That's what God created for us. Yep. 418 00:14:52,924 --> 00:14:55,139 And we just had pastor appreciation day yesterday, 419 00:14:55,139 --> 00:14:56,980 and I didn't get a chance to tell 420 00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:58,899 you how much I appreciate you. You're you're 421 00:14:58,899 --> 00:15:00,579 got the heart of a pastor more than 422 00:15:00,579 --> 00:15:01,940 anybody I've ever seen. Hey. It's, 423 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:05,539 you're you're you're right there, man. You got 424 00:15:05,539 --> 00:15:06,740 the heart of God and you show it 425 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,740 every day. I appreciate that. I do. I 426 00:15:08,740 --> 00:15:10,495 do. Well, I've got a good church 427 00:15:11,195 --> 00:15:12,554 and and a and a loving church. I'm 428 00:15:12,554 --> 00:15:13,774 blessed. Blessed. 429 00:15:15,355 --> 00:15:16,254 I thought about, 430 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:19,115 some of these scriptures I even we talked 431 00:15:19,115 --> 00:15:21,195 about a little bit last year I mean, 432 00:15:21,195 --> 00:15:22,794 last year last week, so I don't even 433 00:15:22,794 --> 00:15:24,715 know where I'm at today. That's that's when 434 00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:25,379 Monday hits. 435 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:27,399 Ephesians 2:10, 436 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:29,080 for we are His workmanship 437 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,039 created in Christ Jesus 438 00:15:32,740 --> 00:15:35,799 unto good works which God hath before ordained 439 00:15:36,179 --> 00:15:38,279 that we should walk in them. And so, 440 00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:40,840 again, He created us 441 00:15:41,745 --> 00:15:42,245 before 442 00:15:43,264 --> 00:15:45,184 before we were even thought of by our 443 00:15:45,184 --> 00:15:46,325 parents or anyone, 444 00:15:47,504 --> 00:15:49,665 to do good works and also, of course, 445 00:15:49,665 --> 00:15:52,065 to have a relationship with him. And then 446 00:15:52,065 --> 00:15:54,404 Ephesians 2, those first seven verses, 447 00:15:55,105 --> 00:15:56,485 and you he hath quickened 448 00:15:57,269 --> 00:15:58,949 who are dead in your trespasses and sin 449 00:15:58,949 --> 00:16:00,789 where in times past you walked according to 450 00:16:00,789 --> 00:16:01,769 the course of the world, 451 00:16:02,149 --> 00:16:03,589 according to the prince of the power of 452 00:16:03,589 --> 00:16:05,509 the air, the spirit that now worketh in 453 00:16:05,509 --> 00:16:07,690 the children of disobedience among whom 454 00:16:08,070 --> 00:16:10,789 also we all had a conversation in times 455 00:16:10,789 --> 00:16:13,134 past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling 456 00:16:13,134 --> 00:16:14,735 the desires of our flesh and of the 457 00:16:14,735 --> 00:16:16,975 mind and were by nature the children of 458 00:16:16,975 --> 00:16:19,855 wrath even as others. But God who is 459 00:16:19,855 --> 00:16:21,774 rich in his mercy for his great love 460 00:16:21,774 --> 00:16:24,894 wherewith he loved us even when we were 461 00:16:24,894 --> 00:16:26,840 dead in sins. And that's I want you 462 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,240 to remember that. I talked about that a 463 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,080 little bit last time. Even when we were 464 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,879 dead in sins, hath quickened us together. In 465 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:34,420 other words, he's made us alive 466 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,519 with Christ by grace you're saved and hath 467 00:16:37,519 --> 00:16:39,360 raised us up together to be made to 468 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,779 sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus 469 00:16:42,164 --> 00:16:43,924 that in the ages to come, he might 470 00:16:43,924 --> 00:16:46,164 show the exceeding riches of his grace in 471 00:16:46,164 --> 00:16:47,464 his kindness towards us 472 00:16:47,764 --> 00:16:48,825 through Christ Jesus. 473 00:16:49,845 --> 00:16:50,345 So 474 00:16:50,804 --> 00:16:53,284 the this this letter was written to the 475 00:16:53,284 --> 00:16:54,904 church of Ephesus by Paul, 476 00:16:55,524 --> 00:16:56,024 and, 477 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:58,000 he knew the things that went on in 478 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,600 their life because he knew the things that 479 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,839 went on in his life. And this this 480 00:17:01,839 --> 00:17:04,720 letter is timeless because it it it also 481 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:07,039 it's us today. It's the church today. Right? 482 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:10,384 It's it's it's it's, it's Dennis and Brian 483 00:17:10,384 --> 00:17:12,704 and Tyler. I mean, he he knew that 484 00:17:12,704 --> 00:17:14,404 that we were once this, 485 00:17:15,025 --> 00:17:17,345 but now in Christ Jesus, we've been made 486 00:17:17,345 --> 00:17:19,825 this. Right? We were dead in our sins, 487 00:17:19,825 --> 00:17:22,384 and we'll talk about the other the other 488 00:17:22,384 --> 00:17:24,480 side of that in a minute, but but 489 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,240 this is what he done for us. He 490 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,859 brought us out of that. Right? 491 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,759 But even knowing everything that we do, we 492 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:34,019 walked according to the course of this world. 493 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,559 That was our goal, you know, to sin, 494 00:17:36,559 --> 00:17:39,200 to to live out our lives, to please 495 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:39,700 ourselves, 496 00:17:40,264 --> 00:17:42,904 and still, he said, you know, I know 497 00:17:42,904 --> 00:17:44,184 they're gonna do that, but I'm gonna die 498 00:17:44,184 --> 00:17:45,085 for them anyway. 499 00:17:45,544 --> 00:17:47,005 Yeah. Yeah. And, 500 00:17:48,505 --> 00:17:50,984 while we were yet his enemies. Right? Yes. 501 00:17:50,984 --> 00:17:52,664 Yeah. And and and I think that a 502 00:17:52,664 --> 00:17:54,105 lot of people don't get that, you know, 503 00:17:54,105 --> 00:17:55,840 that aren't saved that that you are the 504 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,840 enemy of God. Yeah. And that is not 505 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,619 a place you want to be. Yes. 506 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,759 That's right. But I I love the the 507 00:18:01,759 --> 00:18:04,420 contrast that Paul always gives between you're dead, 508 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,080 now you're life. You're dead, now you're life. 509 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,840 All throughout his letters, you know. Yes. Yeah. 510 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,554 If we could just take some a little 511 00:18:09,554 --> 00:18:11,634 bit of that in Right. Right, and understand 512 00:18:11,634 --> 00:18:13,474 how dead we are to sin or how 513 00:18:13,474 --> 00:18:14,914 dead we are to all this That's right. 514 00:18:14,994 --> 00:18:16,674 Stuff that we used to have. Amen. We 515 00:18:16,674 --> 00:18:18,914 had our laws would be drastically changed. They 516 00:18:18,914 --> 00:18:21,554 would. They would. Yeah. To think about what 517 00:18:21,554 --> 00:18:24,000 he has done for us. Right? 518 00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:28,079 And and we find out that, you know, 519 00:18:28,079 --> 00:18:29,299 we're rich in mercy, 520 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,799 great in his love, made us alive, caused 521 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:35,299 us to see it, present tense. 522 00:18:35,839 --> 00:18:38,000 Now when you read that, that that doesn't 523 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,940 mean that we're sitting in heaven right now, 524 00:18:40,054 --> 00:18:41,255 but he says he calls us to sit 525 00:18:41,255 --> 00:18:44,214 in heavenly places. That's that's that's our that's 526 00:18:44,214 --> 00:18:46,294 our now and that's our future. In other 527 00:18:46,294 --> 00:18:48,694 words, we have a relationship with him right 528 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:50,634 now. Right? We we have become, 529 00:18:51,815 --> 00:18:53,275 we have become ambassadors 530 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,980 of heaven. We have been made 531 00:18:56,519 --> 00:18:58,920 new again. We're born again from the inside 532 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,640 out, and we can experience the things of 533 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,180 God, the things of Christ. 534 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,720 No. We don't have a spiritual body yet 535 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,720 that we can that that is not, 536 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:09,500 subject to sin, 537 00:19:10,015 --> 00:19:12,494 but but we will one day, and and 538 00:19:12,494 --> 00:19:15,295 it'll just keep getting better. But what we 539 00:19:15,295 --> 00:19:17,775 can experience now if we would just let 540 00:19:17,775 --> 00:19:19,295 go and get self out of the way 541 00:19:19,295 --> 00:19:21,054 and let Christ move in our life, man, 542 00:19:21,054 --> 00:19:23,214 he has caused us to sit in heavenly 543 00:19:23,214 --> 00:19:25,880 places. Amen. Amen. And and that's our position. 544 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,720 Right? We're seated with him. And and that's 545 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,720 part of getting the the salvation thing of 546 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,440 this. And and, 547 00:19:31,159 --> 00:19:33,079 I I I just I don't understand people 548 00:19:33,079 --> 00:19:34,359 who say you can lose it. I I 549 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,519 just don't. Yeah. I I I can't grasp 550 00:19:36,519 --> 00:19:38,595 that because you're looking at Abba Father, you 551 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:41,394 know, the perfect father. Right. Perfect fathers don't 552 00:19:41,394 --> 00:19:43,234 kill their kids. No. No. You know, and 553 00:19:43,234 --> 00:19:45,075 all this all the things that happened, we've 554 00:19:45,075 --> 00:19:48,035 been justified, we've been declared righteous, we've been 555 00:19:48,035 --> 00:19:49,794 we've been born again, we've been given the 556 00:19:49,794 --> 00:19:51,474 seal of the holy spirit. All these things 557 00:19:51,474 --> 00:19:54,059 have happened at that moment of salvation. Yeah. 558 00:19:54,140 --> 00:19:56,460 It's not gonna be undone. No. Right? We're 559 00:19:56,460 --> 00:19:58,720 seated with him in the heavenly places. Amen. 560 00:19:58,779 --> 00:20:01,600 Amen. I I've watched I've watched good parents, 561 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:05,279 have children who who went through, 562 00:20:06,059 --> 00:20:07,360 drug abuse and, 563 00:20:07,884 --> 00:20:09,184 all kinds of immorality, 564 00:20:09,884 --> 00:20:11,884 in their lives and and, you know, maybe 565 00:20:11,884 --> 00:20:13,585 ended up in jail or prison, 566 00:20:13,964 --> 00:20:16,765 and I have watched them sit with those 567 00:20:16,765 --> 00:20:17,265 people, 568 00:20:18,525 --> 00:20:20,525 through all of that. You know, may maybe 569 00:20:20,525 --> 00:20:22,365 they had to do some hard parenting and 570 00:20:22,365 --> 00:20:24,339 they had to let them hit rock bottom 571 00:20:24,339 --> 00:20:25,539 and they had to let them fall. They've 572 00:20:25,539 --> 00:20:27,140 done what they need to do there and 573 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:28,819 sometimes God has to do that for us. 574 00:20:28,819 --> 00:20:30,359 Right? Because we make a choice, 575 00:20:31,059 --> 00:20:32,919 but they never stopped loving them. 576 00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:35,619 They never stopped they never stopped being they 577 00:20:35,619 --> 00:20:37,399 never stopped being son or daughter. 578 00:20:37,875 --> 00:20:39,795 They didn't throw them away and say, no. 579 00:20:39,795 --> 00:20:42,434 You're I'm not you're not mine anymore, and 580 00:20:42,434 --> 00:20:44,615 and that's the same thing that God does. 581 00:20:44,674 --> 00:20:46,195 I had to get I had to go 582 00:20:46,195 --> 00:20:46,515 to, 583 00:20:47,474 --> 00:20:49,015 I had to go to court today, 584 00:20:49,394 --> 00:20:51,575 in in Marshall County in Guntersville, 585 00:20:53,012 --> 00:20:54,869 about a I guess it's been over a 586 00:20:54,869 --> 00:20:56,409 year ago now. Y'all remember, 587 00:20:56,950 --> 00:20:59,190 my truck got stolen. Oh, yeah. The one 588 00:20:59,190 --> 00:21:00,629 that the one that the engine blew up 589 00:21:00,629 --> 00:21:01,690 on today. But anyway, 590 00:21:03,349 --> 00:21:05,429 my old truck, I don't drive it much, 591 00:21:05,429 --> 00:21:05,669 but, 592 00:21:06,389 --> 00:21:08,490 but it it it was parked outside. 593 00:21:09,654 --> 00:21:11,575 And, we the COVID night was on a 594 00:21:11,575 --> 00:21:13,414 Saturday morning, and actually we had a work 595 00:21:13,414 --> 00:21:15,414 day at the church. And I was I 596 00:21:15,414 --> 00:21:17,255 was I had gotten up, and I thought 597 00:21:17,255 --> 00:21:18,775 when I was getting ready, I thought I 598 00:21:18,775 --> 00:21:20,855 heard something outside. But, you know, you can 599 00:21:20,855 --> 00:21:23,015 hear cars and things coming by sometimes by 600 00:21:23,015 --> 00:21:25,659 the house. And I thought I heard a 601 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,039 a vehicle crank up but didn't pay that 602 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:29,740 much attention to it. And so I 603 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,940 I grabbed my I grabbed my tool belt 604 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:33,900 and and, 605 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,065 walk out the door fixing to head over 606 00:21:37,065 --> 00:21:38,984 to the church to get my old truck 607 00:21:38,984 --> 00:21:41,065 and and drive it over there. And I'm 608 00:21:41,065 --> 00:21:42,825 just walking, I guess, with my head down 609 00:21:42,825 --> 00:21:44,265 and all of a sudden I look up 610 00:21:44,265 --> 00:21:44,765 and 611 00:21:45,865 --> 00:21:46,444 it's like, 612 00:21:47,065 --> 00:21:48,605 where's my truck at? 613 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:52,240 And I had drove it the night before 614 00:21:52,299 --> 00:21:54,299 some and and and I remember Dakota and 615 00:21:54,299 --> 00:21:55,099 I went and ate, 616 00:21:55,660 --> 00:21:57,259 and she had she had picked me up 617 00:21:57,259 --> 00:21:59,259 at the top of the mountain there and 618 00:21:59,259 --> 00:22:01,259 and I'd gotten a vehicle with her and 619 00:22:01,259 --> 00:22:02,779 I thought did I leave it parked there? 620 00:22:02,779 --> 00:22:04,859 No. I remember bringing it home and I 621 00:22:04,859 --> 00:22:06,244 thought I went in and I told Dakota. 622 00:22:06,244 --> 00:22:08,044 I said, am I crazy? Did did we 623 00:22:08,044 --> 00:22:09,644 leave it? No. We brought it home, Brian. 624 00:22:09,644 --> 00:22:11,265 I said, let's go. 625 00:22:11,644 --> 00:22:12,144 So 626 00:22:12,765 --> 00:22:13,265 Man. 627 00:22:14,044 --> 00:22:17,265 Had to report it stolen and and, anyway, 628 00:22:18,765 --> 00:22:19,515 I had, 629 00:22:19,819 --> 00:22:21,259 we end up we end up getting it 630 00:22:21,259 --> 00:22:23,179 back about 10:30. Well, we got a call 631 00:22:23,179 --> 00:22:25,660 about 10:30 that night, and they had, they 632 00:22:25,660 --> 00:22:27,579 got the guy in Marshall County, and they 633 00:22:27,579 --> 00:22:29,179 called us and said, hey. We got your 634 00:22:29,179 --> 00:22:31,660 truck. So, anyway, long story short, went over. 635 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:33,585 I got my truck. Got it back. Well, 636 00:22:33,585 --> 00:22:35,285 over over a year later, 637 00:22:36,304 --> 00:22:37,365 I get a 638 00:22:37,664 --> 00:22:39,184 subpoena for court, 639 00:22:39,505 --> 00:22:40,325 and and, 640 00:22:40,704 --> 00:22:42,785 they didn't try him in DeKalb County, but 641 00:22:42,785 --> 00:22:44,484 they're trying him in Marshall County. 642 00:22:44,785 --> 00:22:46,224 And so I had to show up, had 643 00:22:46,224 --> 00:22:48,724 a 9 o'clock court date today for that 644 00:22:49,049 --> 00:22:51,370 and, just to get there and find out 645 00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,850 that they had moved the court date until 646 00:22:53,850 --> 00:22:57,230 February 7. Took off where you know and 647 00:22:57,289 --> 00:22:58,670 I just anyway but 648 00:22:59,450 --> 00:23:01,210 but long I know I'm making a long 649 00:23:01,210 --> 00:23:03,289 story long but there was this little couple 650 00:23:03,289 --> 00:23:04,664 sitting in front of us 651 00:23:04,984 --> 00:23:07,625 and and they their son was there. And 652 00:23:07,625 --> 00:23:08,904 I don't know. I'm not gonna sit here 653 00:23:08,904 --> 00:23:10,664 and judge. I mean, he looked like he'd 654 00:23:10,664 --> 00:23:13,305 he'd probably had been through some rough stuff 655 00:23:13,305 --> 00:23:15,705 and maybe been involved in some rough stuff. 656 00:23:15,705 --> 00:23:18,140 And this little old mom and dad sitting 657 00:23:18,140 --> 00:23:20,299 there probably in their seventies, and this guy's 658 00:23:20,299 --> 00:23:22,220 probably in his, you know, at least in 659 00:23:22,220 --> 00:23:23,359 his mid forties. 660 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:24,460 And, 661 00:23:25,019 --> 00:23:26,700 and they're sitting there with their son, and 662 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:28,779 mom's patting him on the back, and he's 663 00:23:28,779 --> 00:23:29,279 waiting 664 00:23:29,740 --> 00:23:30,944 for his court 665 00:23:31,264 --> 00:23:33,505 case to come up that day, his trial 666 00:23:33,505 --> 00:23:35,585 to come up that day and and just 667 00:23:35,585 --> 00:23:38,304 seemed like your sweet little old, you know, 668 00:23:38,304 --> 00:23:40,544 parents there and I thought, you know, there 669 00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:42,865 there they are. I mean, there's there's love 670 00:23:42,865 --> 00:23:45,480 right there. There's no telling what he's put 671 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,960 them through, you know, what he's cost them 672 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,279 over the years and the the and not 673 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:53,400 not just monetarily, but the sleepless nights and 674 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,400 all the things that that, you know, may 675 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,514 have happened. And again, I'm I'm just looking. 676 00:23:58,514 --> 00:24:00,294 I'm just outside looking in, 677 00:24:00,835 --> 00:24:01,335 but 678 00:24:02,034 --> 00:24:03,794 they they are in court with him, you 679 00:24:03,794 --> 00:24:06,355 know, maybe for the 25th time, but they 680 00:24:06,355 --> 00:24:08,835 still love him, and they haven't thrown him 681 00:24:08,835 --> 00:24:09,335 away 682 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,819 because that's their child. Yeah. 683 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,119 Yeah. That's a good picture of it because, 684 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,440 look at what we've done. That's that's God's 685 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,079 enemies. Yeah. Even even after being saved, I 686 00:24:19,079 --> 00:24:21,240 mean, we go astray. Oh, sure. So many 687 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,559 people backslide, and I've done I've been there. 688 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:25,855 I have too. And and he always he's 689 00:24:25,855 --> 00:24:27,954 always open arms. Yeah. Yeah. 690 00:24:28,414 --> 00:24:30,255 That's not to say he won't discipline us 691 00:24:30,494 --> 00:24:32,335 Right. Right? Or cause bad things to come 692 00:24:32,335 --> 00:24:34,095 into our lives to to to shake us 693 00:24:34,095 --> 00:24:36,815 out. That's it. That's it. But, man, the 694 00:24:36,815 --> 00:24:38,434 love he gives us is just 695 00:24:40,289 --> 00:24:40,789 unconditional. 696 00:24:41,169 --> 00:24:43,669 Right. Yeah. Yeah. It really is. It is. 697 00:24:43,730 --> 00:24:45,409 It's like like we talked about last night 698 00:24:45,409 --> 00:24:47,409 too is, you know, I asked how many 699 00:24:47,409 --> 00:24:49,269 people had kids. Right? So 700 00:24:49,649 --> 00:24:51,409 did your view of God change when that 701 00:24:51,409 --> 00:24:53,649 first child was born? Absolutely. You pick up 702 00:24:53,649 --> 00:24:55,305 that little baby, and you you understand 703 00:24:56,265 --> 00:24:58,744 just magnitudes of order better. Yes. How much 704 00:24:58,744 --> 00:25:01,244 God loves us. Yeah. Yeah. You understand creation 705 00:25:01,305 --> 00:25:03,244 more, don't you? Yeah. It's like Yeah. 706 00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:05,945 Woah. This is part of me. Yeah. You 707 00:25:05,945 --> 00:25:07,965 know? This is part of me. And 708 00:25:08,744 --> 00:25:09,404 you know 709 00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:12,099 I've I've mentioned on here before that I 710 00:25:12,099 --> 00:25:13,240 was adopted and 711 00:25:13,619 --> 00:25:15,299 and and my parents who raised me are 712 00:25:15,299 --> 00:25:17,619 my parents. Yeah. Right? You know that I've 713 00:25:17,619 --> 00:25:18,759 never thought of them. 714 00:25:19,299 --> 00:25:21,059 They couldn't be any more my parents if 715 00:25:21,059 --> 00:25:22,920 they were blood. Right? Yep. 716 00:25:23,299 --> 00:25:24,599 But I will say this, 717 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:25,640 when 718 00:25:26,224 --> 00:25:27,684 when I when Nicole, 719 00:25:28,384 --> 00:25:30,545 when she was pregnant and and carrying our 720 00:25:30,545 --> 00:25:31,285 first child, 721 00:25:32,465 --> 00:25:34,305 I I just it was like it was 722 00:25:34,305 --> 00:25:36,724 overwhelming to me because I never knew anyone 723 00:25:37,664 --> 00:25:40,460 who had Brian's blood in them. You know? 724 00:25:40,460 --> 00:25:41,759 I never knew anyone, 725 00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:45,099 who who had my blood flowing through their 726 00:25:45,099 --> 00:25:47,659 veins. Yeah. And now and then and then 727 00:25:47,659 --> 00:25:50,779 here Tatum comes and this this this little 728 00:25:50,779 --> 00:25:53,805 child that's that's mine, she's part of me. 729 00:25:53,884 --> 00:25:56,045 Yeah. And I'm like, oh my gosh. I 730 00:25:56,045 --> 00:25:58,684 mean Yeah. You're talking about a realization that, 731 00:25:58,684 --> 00:26:00,684 like, man, I I it was something else. 732 00:26:00,684 --> 00:26:02,605 And then again with Brenda, the same thing. 733 00:26:02,605 --> 00:26:03,985 You know? I told, man. 734 00:26:04,365 --> 00:26:06,059 You know? And and then, of course, and 735 00:26:06,059 --> 00:26:08,880 then summer comes along, and and I'm understanding 736 00:26:09,259 --> 00:26:11,339 the the side of, you know, adoption, you 737 00:26:11,339 --> 00:26:13,259 know, or bringing somebody in that may not 738 00:26:13,259 --> 00:26:15,099 be my blood, but loving them the same. 739 00:26:15,099 --> 00:26:15,919 So yeah. 740 00:26:17,339 --> 00:26:19,339 God's been good. He's been so good to 741 00:26:19,339 --> 00:26:20,240 us. Amen. 742 00:26:21,255 --> 00:26:21,755 Amen. 743 00:26:22,055 --> 00:26:23,914 Well, you know, and just like the parents 744 00:26:24,375 --> 00:26:26,134 that you were talking about that you saw 745 00:26:26,134 --> 00:26:27,815 on the court, you know, they're more than 746 00:26:27,815 --> 00:26:29,974 likely that that son of theirs, that child 747 00:26:29,974 --> 00:26:31,414 is gonna have to go off and have 748 00:26:31,414 --> 00:26:33,255 to do something that the court orders them 749 00:26:33,255 --> 00:26:34,695 to do. And just like that, God does 750 00:26:34,695 --> 00:26:36,309 the same thing for us. You know, he 751 00:26:36,309 --> 00:26:37,590 loves us. He's going to be there with 752 00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:39,190 us and he's going to be standing around 753 00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:40,309 next to us. But then when it comes 754 00:26:40,309 --> 00:26:41,289 time for the discipline, 755 00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:42,650 it's okay. 756 00:26:43,029 --> 00:26:44,869 Now you have to go do this. Right. 757 00:26:44,869 --> 00:26:46,630 And I don't like it. You don't like 758 00:26:46,630 --> 00:26:48,309 it, but you have to do this because 759 00:26:48,309 --> 00:26:49,590 of the choices you've made that have put 760 00:26:49,590 --> 00:26:50,710 you here. You look at what he did 761 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:52,794 with children of Israel. All right. 40 more 762 00:26:52,794 --> 00:26:53,294 years. 763 00:26:53,595 --> 00:26:55,674 Yeah. I see it. You know, this, this 764 00:26:55,674 --> 00:26:57,274 was a 2 week journey. You know, you, 765 00:26:57,274 --> 00:26:58,954 you were out here for a few months 766 00:26:58,954 --> 00:27:01,274 at most just, you know, and, and, and 767 00:27:01,274 --> 00:27:03,434 now, now it's 40 years of just walking 768 00:27:03,434 --> 00:27:05,490 in circles in the desert. And he's still 769 00:27:05,490 --> 00:27:07,170 with them. Yeah. He's still with them. And 770 00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:08,529 he stayed right with them. He did. And 771 00:27:08,529 --> 00:27:10,210 some people that he used in a great 772 00:27:10,210 --> 00:27:11,890 and mighty way didn't get to walk into 773 00:27:11,890 --> 00:27:13,750 the promised land, did they? No. 774 00:27:14,130 --> 00:27:15,750 I mean, you know, so, 775 00:27:16,957 --> 00:27:19,865 there we we've gotta follow him like our 776 00:27:19,865 --> 00:27:22,105 children need to follow us if we're gonna 777 00:27:22,105 --> 00:27:23,785 be a good father, but but we're not 778 00:27:23,785 --> 00:27:25,625 gonna stop loving them if they don't. No. 779 00:27:25,625 --> 00:27:27,545 No. Not at all. And and I love 780 00:27:27,545 --> 00:27:29,464 a little further down there in Ephesians chapter 781 00:27:29,464 --> 00:27:32,150 2, verse 13 says, but now in Christ 782 00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,609 Jesus, you who were once 783 00:27:33,910 --> 00:27:36,789 far off have been brought near by the 784 00:27:36,789 --> 00:27:38,089 blood of Christ. And, 785 00:27:38,869 --> 00:27:40,470 and you know, that's the thing it's like, 786 00:27:40,470 --> 00:27:42,630 okay, you're, you're far off. You've left. You've 787 00:27:42,630 --> 00:27:44,410 gone as far away as you can go. 788 00:27:45,424 --> 00:27:46,164 Come back. 789 00:27:46,625 --> 00:27:47,365 Yeah. Yeah. 790 00:27:47,664 --> 00:27:48,164 Yeah. 791 00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:50,464 And even the next verse is, you know, 792 00:27:50,464 --> 00:27:52,785 like why would somebody create something they know 793 00:27:52,785 --> 00:27:54,085 they're gonna have to die for? 794 00:27:54,384 --> 00:27:56,065 For He Himself is our peace who made 795 00:27:56,065 --> 00:27:57,744 both groups into 1 and broke down the 796 00:27:57,744 --> 00:27:59,960 barrier of the dividing wall. That's right. Amen. 797 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,359 Amen. And that's what it was all about 798 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:03,740 his love for us. Yeah. 799 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:04,619 Amen. 800 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,500 Amen. 801 00:28:06,759 --> 00:28:09,000 Going back to the to the heavenly places, 802 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,759 you know, I and I want people to 803 00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:13,080 think about this while we're discussing this. I 804 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:13,580 mean, 805 00:28:14,164 --> 00:28:16,565 in your Christian life, is there more? Is 806 00:28:16,565 --> 00:28:18,565 there more that you could be experiencing? Are 807 00:28:18,565 --> 00:28:20,565 you just scratching the surface? You know, do 808 00:28:20,565 --> 00:28:21,224 we put 809 00:28:21,605 --> 00:28:24,325 God in a box? And I believe the 810 00:28:24,325 --> 00:28:26,804 joy that we that we can have, the 811 00:28:26,804 --> 00:28:28,585 fullness that we can live, 812 00:28:29,259 --> 00:28:31,179 and and the hope that we can hang 813 00:28:31,179 --> 00:28:31,919 on to 814 00:28:32,539 --> 00:28:34,380 is the presence of the Holy Spirit that 815 00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:36,539 we can experience in our life. It's it's 816 00:28:36,539 --> 00:28:37,200 it's limited 817 00:28:38,059 --> 00:28:40,700 by our faith. Right? It's limited about how 818 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:41,200 far, 819 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:44,875 we trust and believe that he went for 820 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:47,355 us knowing that, man, he that that's what 821 00:28:47,355 --> 00:28:48,494 I want us to imagine 822 00:28:48,954 --> 00:28:51,595 in asking this question. Who would create something 823 00:28:51,595 --> 00:28:53,454 that creation would, 824 00:28:53,835 --> 00:28:55,355 who would create something that he knew he 825 00:28:55,355 --> 00:28:57,419 was gonna have to die for? Think about 826 00:28:57,419 --> 00:28:59,899 how far he'd left heaven. He left his 827 00:28:59,899 --> 00:29:01,119 throne. He left 828 00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:04,779 everything that was good and righteous and clean 829 00:29:04,779 --> 00:29:05,599 and pure 830 00:29:05,980 --> 00:29:06,799 and holy 831 00:29:07,339 --> 00:29:09,525 to come to a filthy 832 00:29:10,085 --> 00:29:11,144 sin driven 833 00:29:11,445 --> 00:29:13,605 world to die for a bunch of people 834 00:29:13,605 --> 00:29:15,684 who didn't deserve it. Yeah. Just think think 835 00:29:15,684 --> 00:29:17,924 about leaving leaving his glory Yeah. And the 836 00:29:17,924 --> 00:29:20,085 and the humility he had to be born 837 00:29:20,085 --> 00:29:20,744 a helpless 838 00:29:21,205 --> 00:29:23,205 tiny little baby that can't take care of 839 00:29:23,205 --> 00:29:26,140 himself. Yeah. Can't do anything for himself anymore. 840 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,220 Right? He's the creator and and 841 00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:31,259 what the sustainer of the universe. Amen. Everything's 842 00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:33,559 held together by him, Colossians 1 tells us. 843 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:35,079 That's right. And all of a sudden, he's 844 00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:37,319 a helpless baby. Yeah. Yeah. That's 845 00:29:38,054 --> 00:29:40,615 it's hard to imagine, but just how much 846 00:29:40,615 --> 00:29:43,034 he gave up for us and what a 847 00:29:43,414 --> 00:29:45,974 what a great work he's done for us 848 00:29:45,974 --> 00:29:47,914 and in us with salvation. 849 00:29:49,014 --> 00:29:51,434 So, my sins that were many were nailed 850 00:29:51,679 --> 00:29:53,539 to the cross. Amen. Man, 851 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,299 what a what a 852 00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:57,700 what a great sacrifice that was. 853 00:29:59,279 --> 00:29:59,779 So 854 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,400 what did Jesus do for us? Of course, 855 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,240 he went to the cross. Right? He created 856 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:05,140 us knowing 857 00:30:05,444 --> 00:30:07,524 that we would betray him, knowing we would 858 00:30:07,524 --> 00:30:09,605 turn our backs on him, knowing that we 859 00:30:09,605 --> 00:30:11,625 would nail him to the cross, 860 00:30:12,005 --> 00:30:14,345 but also knowing that that was the only 861 00:30:14,484 --> 00:30:17,204 way. Yeah. Nothing else would work Yeah. To 862 00:30:17,204 --> 00:30:19,384 save his creation that he loves so much. 863 00:30:19,384 --> 00:30:21,613 Yeah. You said something about scratching the surface, 864 00:30:21,613 --> 00:30:23,842 man. You know, I'll I'll leave here on 865 00:30:23,842 --> 00:30:26,071 Sunday wanting to be, you know, the second 866 00:30:26,071 --> 00:30:28,300 coming of Elijah or something, you know, and 867 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:30,529 then Monday hits. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not so 868 00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:33,045 fond of Elijah anymore. I just Yeah. You 869 00:30:33,045 --> 00:30:35,384 just walk out of some days defeated. Yeah. 870 00:30:35,605 --> 00:30:37,285 You know? And that's that's when we gotta 871 00:30:37,285 --> 00:30:39,444 reconnect and get on our knees. That's exactly 872 00:30:39,444 --> 00:30:42,265 right. That's exactly right. I sent somebody, 873 00:30:43,045 --> 00:30:45,704 I sent somebody a message today that we're 874 00:30:47,099 --> 00:30:49,500 just having a hard time just, you know, 875 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,420 going through some stuff. And and, 876 00:30:52,619 --> 00:30:54,000 and I told him I said, 877 00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,660 the Bible says in Psalms 37, it says 878 00:30:57,660 --> 00:30:59,500 I have been young and now I am 879 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:02,244 old, yet have yet have I not seen 880 00:31:02,244 --> 00:31:03,464 the righteous forsaken 881 00:31:04,005 --> 00:31:05,865 nor his seed begging bread. 882 00:31:06,325 --> 00:31:09,365 He is ever merciful and lendeth and his 883 00:31:09,365 --> 00:31:10,424 seed is blessed. 884 00:31:10,805 --> 00:31:13,045 You know, he he takes care of us. 885 00:31:13,045 --> 00:31:14,105 I mean, you know, 886 00:31:14,484 --> 00:31:14,984 so 887 00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:17,679 I I I'm I'll be the first one 888 00:31:17,679 --> 00:31:19,920 to say that, yeah, worry hits me and 889 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,960 and and things, you know, bring me anxiety, 890 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,440 I guess, and whatnot. But but man, God's 891 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,359 up there saying stop worrying because I got 892 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:29,380 this. I got you. Yeah. You know? 893 00:31:29,815 --> 00:31:32,055 He's gonna take care of his own, and 894 00:31:32,055 --> 00:31:33,835 and one day he's gonna take us home. 895 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:35,894 Yeah. And and that that reminds me again 896 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,394 of that that that scripture from Zephaniah 897 00:31:38,775 --> 00:31:41,494 that he's for us. Yeah. He's for us. 898 00:31:41,494 --> 00:31:43,580 Yeah. He's he will exalt over us with 899 00:31:43,580 --> 00:31:45,519 shouts of joy. Amen. Amen. 900 00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:47,820 It's I can't remember where it was. It's 901 00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:49,980 somewhere in Zephaniah 3 maybe. I can't remember. 902 00:31:49,980 --> 00:31:51,420 And don't we sing it in a song 903 00:31:51,420 --> 00:31:53,180 too? I don't know. Yeah. I think so. 904 00:31:53,180 --> 00:31:53,259 He 905 00:31:54,059 --> 00:31:57,044 your your Christmas song from last year. It 906 00:31:57,044 --> 00:31:59,284 was Christmas last year because I remember when 907 00:31:59,284 --> 00:32:00,644 y'all did this, and I cannot remember the 908 00:32:00,644 --> 00:32:01,784 name of the song right now, 909 00:32:02,085 --> 00:32:03,684 but you got to that last verse, and 910 00:32:03,684 --> 00:32:05,924 I just remember it. I mean, Brooke just 911 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:07,845 broke out into it. He is for us. 912 00:32:07,845 --> 00:32:09,444 He is for us. He is for us. 913 00:32:09,444 --> 00:32:09,908 He is for us. He is for us. 914 00:32:09,908 --> 00:32:11,544 He is for us. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. 915 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,200 And I mean, you know, to think about 916 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,640 that Yeah. You know, and I love the 917 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,420 way you said it. You know, he's he's 918 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,960 it's not just that he's for us. He's 919 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,680 rooting for us. Yeah. He's cheering for us. 920 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,615 Yeah. He's cheering us on. He's he's he's 921 00:32:25,615 --> 00:32:27,934 in those stands saying get it get it. 922 00:32:27,934 --> 00:32:30,815 Go go go. Right. Yeah. Amen. He don't 923 00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:32,734 he don't miss a ball game, you know. 924 00:32:32,734 --> 00:32:35,554 That's it. That's it. Yeah. He's always 925 00:32:35,855 --> 00:32:36,994 always there. 926 00:32:39,450 --> 00:32:40,670 First Peter 2/24, 927 00:32:41,690 --> 00:32:42,910 who his own self 928 00:32:43,289 --> 00:32:44,430 bear our sins 929 00:32:44,809 --> 00:32:46,569 in his own body on the tree that 930 00:32:46,569 --> 00:32:49,869 we being dead to sins. Now remember before 931 00:32:50,009 --> 00:32:51,930 I said we it said we were dead 932 00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,045 in our sins. Right? That was that contrast 933 00:32:54,045 --> 00:32:56,045 that Paul was making. Yeah. We were dead 934 00:32:56,045 --> 00:32:58,204 in our sins, but and that go and 935 00:32:58,204 --> 00:32:59,904 this brings it together here, 936 00:33:00,765 --> 00:33:01,164 that, 937 00:33:01,644 --> 00:33:03,484 that we were we were dead in our 938 00:33:03,484 --> 00:33:06,269 sins, but now we're dead to sins. Yeah. 939 00:33:06,269 --> 00:33:08,210 It said being dead to sin 940 00:33:08,590 --> 00:33:10,450 should live unto righteousness 941 00:33:10,990 --> 00:33:13,950 by whose stripes you are healed. Amen? Amen. 942 00:33:13,950 --> 00:33:16,029 When we go backwards and we forget that 943 00:33:16,029 --> 00:33:16,529 and 944 00:33:16,990 --> 00:33:18,690 we have those Mondays that stink, 945 00:33:19,694 --> 00:33:21,954 then, you know, we need to be reminded 946 00:33:22,015 --> 00:33:23,474 of that sometimes that, 947 00:33:24,174 --> 00:33:26,255 hey. We're we're not dead in our sins 948 00:33:26,255 --> 00:33:28,734 anymore. We're dead to sin. Right? We still 949 00:33:28,734 --> 00:33:30,654 have a sin nature. I understand that in 950 00:33:30,654 --> 00:33:33,259 the flesh, but in our spirit, man, we 951 00:33:33,259 --> 00:33:35,440 are something new. We are we are being, 952 00:33:36,619 --> 00:33:37,759 we we are, 953 00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:41,279 being sanctified. Right? I mean, to be glorified 954 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:43,835 one day and oh, man. What a what 955 00:33:43,835 --> 00:33:46,335 a blessing it is and and and it's 956 00:33:46,474 --> 00:33:48,875 I think we're talking about before. It's it's 957 00:33:48,875 --> 00:33:52,315 positional sanctification. Right. You're lining ourself up with 958 00:33:52,315 --> 00:33:53,775 with him, with Christ. 959 00:33:54,714 --> 00:33:56,980 Yeah. And and Paul Paul says it in 960 00:33:56,980 --> 00:33:59,380 Romans 6, you know. And and Romans 6 961 00:33:59,380 --> 00:34:00,980 is pretty difficult for me to understand because 962 00:34:00,980 --> 00:34:02,819 it's it's hard it's hard for me to 963 00:34:02,819 --> 00:34:05,220 grasp that I'm dead. Yeah. Right? But we 964 00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:06,980 have to consider ourselves dead is what he 965 00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:09,219 says. He says, even so, consider yourself to 966 00:34:09,219 --> 00:34:11,365 be dead to sin, but alive to God 967 00:34:11,365 --> 00:34:13,445 in Christ Jesus and said, therefore do not 968 00:34:13,445 --> 00:34:15,204 let sin reign in your mortal body so 969 00:34:15,204 --> 00:34:16,885 that you will obey its lust. But he 970 00:34:16,885 --> 00:34:18,744 says, before that up in 971 00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:21,684 verse 5, he says, for if we have 972 00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:23,605 become united with Him in the likeness of 973 00:34:23,605 --> 00:34:24,265 His death, 974 00:34:24,590 --> 00:34:26,190 certainly we shall also be in the likeness 975 00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:27,969 of His resurrection, knowing this, 976 00:34:28,429 --> 00:34:31,170 that our old self was crucified with Him 977 00:34:31,309 --> 00:34:33,070 in order that our body of sin might 978 00:34:33,070 --> 00:34:34,750 be done away with so that we would 979 00:34:34,750 --> 00:34:37,230 no longer be slaves to sin. Yeah. And 980 00:34:37,230 --> 00:34:39,070 and we just have to reckon ourselves as 981 00:34:39,070 --> 00:34:40,964 dead to sin, right, Every day. Yeah. We 982 00:34:40,964 --> 00:34:42,484 do. We have to remind ourselves, wait a 983 00:34:42,484 --> 00:34:44,005 minute. This is not who I am anymore. 984 00:34:44,005 --> 00:34:46,324 Yeah. I'm created in Christ Jesus now. That's 985 00:34:46,324 --> 00:34:48,005 the old man. That's yeah. That's the old 986 00:34:48,005 --> 00:34:48,744 man. We 987 00:34:49,045 --> 00:34:50,565 we sing the old man is dead, and 988 00:34:50,565 --> 00:34:52,724 then we let him creep back up again. 989 00:34:52,724 --> 00:34:53,534 You know? So, 990 00:34:54,789 --> 00:34:55,529 but, you 991 00:34:55,829 --> 00:34:56,329 know, 992 00:34:56,630 --> 00:34:58,650 again, he he done this 993 00:34:59,109 --> 00:34:59,609 knowing 994 00:34:59,989 --> 00:35:01,909 he he died on the cross. He he 995 00:35:01,909 --> 00:35:03,449 lived on this earth in 996 00:35:03,829 --> 00:35:05,349 in in a lot of misery and a 997 00:35:05,349 --> 00:35:07,670 lot around of sin around a lot of 998 00:35:07,670 --> 00:35:08,170 sin. 999 00:35:08,984 --> 00:35:11,464 He lived here to be tempted in every 1000 00:35:11,464 --> 00:35:14,284 way, and I really honestly believe, guys, that 1001 00:35:14,984 --> 00:35:16,844 that when Satan tempted Jesus, 1002 00:35:18,105 --> 00:35:20,505 he tempted him in every single way. We 1003 00:35:20,505 --> 00:35:22,585 could go through the different things there that 1004 00:35:22,744 --> 00:35:24,364 and the ways that he was tempted, 1005 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,619 and and I don't think he left anything 1006 00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:29,920 out that we're tempted with today. Yeah. You 1007 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,619 know, whether it be 1008 00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:34,659 or whether it was he was tempting our, 1009 00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:38,340 our our conscience, where he was tempting our, 1010 00:35:39,505 --> 00:35:41,664 our greediness or whatever it may have been. 1011 00:35:41,664 --> 00:35:43,764 He was tempted, I think, in every way, 1012 00:35:44,144 --> 00:35:46,385 in those in those ways that Satan tempted 1013 00:35:46,385 --> 00:35:48,465 him, and he resisted them and he resisted 1014 00:35:48,465 --> 00:35:51,210 them through the word of God. Yeah. But 1015 00:35:51,369 --> 00:35:52,889 but he went to a cross and he 1016 00:35:52,889 --> 00:35:55,289 died for us knowing that we were gonna 1017 00:35:55,289 --> 00:35:57,609 sin, knowing that we that some people would 1018 00:35:57,609 --> 00:35:59,949 not even accept him, that he would create 1019 00:36:00,089 --> 00:36:02,329 some that would never accept him, but he 1020 00:36:02,329 --> 00:36:04,170 still died for their sins. They just didn't 1021 00:36:04,170 --> 00:36:04,989 accept that. 1022 00:36:05,684 --> 00:36:07,385 And and he did not send 1023 00:36:07,684 --> 00:36:08,825 an army of angels, 1024 00:36:09,285 --> 00:36:10,965 that would not fix it. He didn't put 1025 00:36:10,965 --> 00:36:11,465 together 1026 00:36:11,844 --> 00:36:14,005 an army of people that could I mean, 1027 00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:14,985 that he could you 1028 00:36:15,285 --> 00:36:15,785 know, 1029 00:36:16,644 --> 00:36:17,144 Peter, 1030 00:36:17,605 --> 00:36:19,605 cut cut the man's ear off, or I 1031 00:36:19,605 --> 00:36:21,900 could soldier's ear off, but he said, woah. 1032 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:23,900 No. No. Yeah. You know, he could've they 1033 00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:26,380 he could've possibly stopped it right then, you 1034 00:36:26,380 --> 00:36:28,300 know, and and they they may have defeated 1035 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,300 those guys and he may have escaped, but 1036 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:31,420 it was time for him to go to 1037 00:36:31,420 --> 00:36:32,940 the cross. And so he didn't let that 1038 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:34,215 happen. They could've never 1039 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:36,855 won the war, but what he done was 1040 00:36:36,855 --> 00:36:37,355 Jesus 1041 00:36:37,815 --> 00:36:38,315 alone 1042 00:36:39,094 --> 00:36:42,215 came and waged war on sin. He brought 1043 00:36:42,215 --> 00:36:42,715 victory, 1044 00:36:43,494 --> 00:36:44,155 to us 1045 00:36:44,454 --> 00:36:46,235 through the cross and the grave, 1046 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:50,239 a picture of pain, suffering, and death is 1047 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,079 what he brought to him, but through that, 1048 00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:54,079 he brought life to us. Yeah. You know, 1049 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:55,599 that's the beauty of it. When you think 1050 00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:56,099 about 1051 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,619 in the Old Testament, 1052 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,260 the number of times that god 1053 00:37:00,795 --> 00:37:01,295 called 1054 00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:04,574 one of his children to be the warrior. 1055 00:37:04,714 --> 00:37:06,014 Yeah. You know, David, 1056 00:37:07,194 --> 00:37:08,954 you have the story of Gideon, which is 1057 00:37:08,954 --> 00:37:11,135 just, you know, incredible. You have other stories 1058 00:37:11,194 --> 00:37:11,934 all throughout 1059 00:37:12,315 --> 00:37:14,929 their their travel into the promised land and 1060 00:37:14,929 --> 00:37:17,750 the victory after victory, and God calling 1061 00:37:18,210 --> 00:37:19,829 the children to be the warriors. 1062 00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:21,510 And then here we are, 1063 00:37:21,889 --> 00:37:24,369 after everything they've gone through, you've got the 1064 00:37:24,369 --> 00:37:24,869 Roman 1065 00:37:25,250 --> 00:37:25,750 rule, 1066 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:26,869 and 1067 00:37:27,425 --> 00:37:29,505 here the Jewish people are, they're ready. They're 1068 00:37:29,505 --> 00:37:31,264 thinking the Messiah is gonna come, and he's 1069 00:37:31,264 --> 00:37:32,864 gonna do what we did back in David's 1070 00:37:32,864 --> 00:37:34,704 day. He's gonna come in here, he's gonna 1071 00:37:34,704 --> 00:37:36,545 call us to fight, and we're gonna get 1072 00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:38,545 up, and we're gonna fight. But you see, 1073 00:37:38,545 --> 00:37:40,704 there's the problem. They thought they were gonna 1074 00:37:40,704 --> 00:37:43,630 fight. They didn't win the original victories. The 1075 00:37:43,630 --> 00:37:45,230 vast majority of them, God just went, here 1076 00:37:45,230 --> 00:37:45,890 you go. 1077 00:37:46,269 --> 00:37:48,030 He said, go do this thing. Go march 1078 00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:49,570 around the city 7 times 1079 00:37:50,349 --> 00:37:52,430 and play music and shout real loud, and 1080 00:37:52,430 --> 00:37:54,030 all of a sudden the place collapses. I 1081 00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:56,690 mean, Jericho, you know, it's like, wait, what? 1082 00:37:57,284 --> 00:38:00,164 They actually had reached the point where they 1083 00:38:00,164 --> 00:38:00,664 forgot. 1084 00:38:01,204 --> 00:38:03,284 They forgot. No. No. No. No. When we 1085 00:38:03,284 --> 00:38:05,784 waged war the way God told us to, 1086 00:38:05,924 --> 00:38:06,905 we had victory. 1087 00:38:07,364 --> 00:38:07,864 Every 1088 00:38:08,644 --> 00:38:09,704 single time 1089 00:38:10,210 --> 00:38:12,789 we did something he said not to do, 1090 00:38:12,849 --> 00:38:15,410 we lost. Yeah. Every single time we stepped 1091 00:38:15,410 --> 00:38:16,550 out. And so God, 1092 00:38:16,849 --> 00:38:18,789 the beauty of what he did in Christ, 1093 00:38:19,170 --> 00:38:21,429 he sent him to to do that fight. 1094 00:38:21,890 --> 00:38:23,510 No more no more of us. 1095 00:38:23,890 --> 00:38:25,905 We're we we have to have armor. We've 1096 00:38:25,905 --> 00:38:27,905 gotta protect ourselves. We've gotta have the shield. 1097 00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:29,425 We've gotta have our sword. We've gotta be 1098 00:38:29,425 --> 00:38:30,565 able to defend ourselves, 1099 00:38:31,025 --> 00:38:33,585 but we're not fighting. We're not actually fighting 1100 00:38:33,585 --> 00:38:35,525 the war. We're just on the outskirts. 1101 00:38:36,144 --> 00:38:38,070 He's already won it. Sure he has. 1102 00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:40,710 In every in every war, there's there's gonna 1103 00:38:40,710 --> 00:38:42,949 be sacrifice. Right? In every war, there's gonna 1104 00:38:42,949 --> 00:38:45,190 be somebody who has to die, and with 1105 00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:47,449 every great victory comes that sacrifice. 1106 00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:50,170 Mhmm. And and Christ said, look. 1107 00:38:50,894 --> 00:38:52,094 None of you are gonna be able to 1108 00:38:52,094 --> 00:38:54,655 do this. You know, you could all die, 1109 00:38:54,655 --> 00:38:56,414 you could all fight this fight, you could 1110 00:38:56,414 --> 00:38:58,735 all be murdered and you and and when 1111 00:38:58,735 --> 00:39:00,735 we look at the disciples, we know that 1112 00:39:00,735 --> 00:39:02,974 that in some way somehow they did sacrifice 1113 00:39:02,974 --> 00:39:03,474 themselves, 1114 00:39:04,489 --> 00:39:07,130 you know, in in in a way Peter, 1115 00:39:07,130 --> 00:39:08,889 you know, was said to have been hung 1116 00:39:08,889 --> 00:39:09,789 upside down, 1117 00:39:10,650 --> 00:39:12,569 on the cross because he wouldn't he wouldn't 1118 00:39:12,569 --> 00:39:15,069 hang like Jesus did, right, and and 1119 00:39:15,449 --> 00:39:16,969 and we can go through all of them 1120 00:39:16,969 --> 00:39:19,289 and some of them boiled in hot water 1121 00:39:19,289 --> 00:39:20,885 and all these different things that 1122 00:39:21,344 --> 00:39:22,965 happened, but none of those sacrifices 1123 00:39:23,265 --> 00:39:24,085 would would 1124 00:39:24,704 --> 00:39:27,184 win the war on sin. And exiled. They 1125 00:39:27,184 --> 00:39:29,025 were they were exiled. They were murdered. They 1126 00:39:29,025 --> 00:39:31,344 were they were jailed. They were I mean, 1127 00:39:31,344 --> 00:39:33,505 it was just one after another after another. 1128 00:39:33,505 --> 00:39:35,425 Yeah. They they had to to pay a 1129 00:39:35,425 --> 00:39:35,880 price. 1130 00:39:36,359 --> 00:39:38,920 Yeah. There's a cost, but but the ultimate 1131 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,139 victory was through Jesus. 1132 00:39:40,519 --> 00:39:42,519 Amen. Exactly. And that's what we continue to 1133 00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:43,659 to die for today. 1134 00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:44,839 Amen. And that's 1135 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,319 you were saying something about the the the 1136 00:39:47,319 --> 00:39:49,034 the he died for the whole world. He 1137 00:39:49,034 --> 00:39:50,954 didn't just die for certain people. That's right. 1138 00:39:50,954 --> 00:39:52,094 He died for the whole 1139 00:39:52,394 --> 00:39:54,315 entire world. It's like John 3, you know, 1140 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:56,315 we we like to quote John 3 16, 1141 00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:58,315 but 17 through 21 is a little bit 1142 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:00,635 different. Right? Right. He goes into, for God 1143 00:40:00,635 --> 00:40:01,914 did not send the Son in the world 1144 00:40:01,914 --> 00:40:03,514 to judge world, but that the world might 1145 00:40:03,514 --> 00:40:05,809 be saved through him. He who does he 1146 00:40:05,809 --> 00:40:07,989 who believes in him is not judged. 1147 00:40:08,289 --> 00:40:10,210 He who does not believe has been judged 1148 00:40:10,210 --> 00:40:12,289 already. Yeah. Because he has not believed in 1149 00:40:12,289 --> 00:40:14,130 the name of the only begotten son. That's 1150 00:40:14,130 --> 00:40:16,050 right. So it it he he breaks this 1151 00:40:16,050 --> 00:40:18,614 thing into 2 camps. Yeah. Right? There's believers 1152 00:40:18,614 --> 00:40:21,175 and unbelievers and that's man, the judgment that's 1153 00:40:21,175 --> 00:40:23,414 coming for somebody that spits on that. Yeah. 1154 00:40:23,414 --> 00:40:25,255 That's right. That's right. And everybody wants to 1155 00:40:25,255 --> 00:40:27,414 jump on us as Christians to say, well, 1156 00:40:27,414 --> 00:40:28,855 who are you to say my sin is 1157 00:40:28,855 --> 00:40:30,295 wrong? Who are you to say what I'm 1158 00:40:30,295 --> 00:40:31,894 doing is wrong or if this is right 1159 00:40:31,894 --> 00:40:32,909 or if this is wrong? 1160 00:40:33,389 --> 00:40:36,030 Look. It's already been called. Right? It wasn't 1161 00:40:36,030 --> 00:40:38,389 us who said that. You've already been condemned 1162 00:40:38,389 --> 00:40:40,909 if Right. Haven't trusted in Christ and you 1163 00:40:40,909 --> 00:40:43,150 and you wanna follow your life and your 1164 00:40:43,150 --> 00:40:45,869 way and go your own way. You know, 1165 00:40:45,869 --> 00:40:48,609 the judgment comes from him. Right? I mean, 1166 00:40:48,885 --> 00:40:51,525 so that that's that's what the world doesn't 1167 00:40:51,525 --> 00:40:53,925 understand. This this is where this is where 1168 00:40:53,925 --> 00:40:55,765 the judgment comes from. You know, and here's 1169 00:40:55,765 --> 00:40:57,545 the thing. I I actually just, 1170 00:40:58,244 --> 00:40:59,144 the other day, 1171 00:40:59,445 --> 00:41:01,065 you know, I joked with you guys beforehand 1172 00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:02,458 that that one of these days I'm going 1173 00:41:02,458 --> 00:41:04,442 to bring in the questions from Twitter and 1174 00:41:04,442 --> 00:41:06,425 that where people people post things and say, 1175 00:41:06,425 --> 00:41:07,650 hey, Christians, what are you going to do 1176 00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:08,769 with this? Or what are you going to 1177 00:41:08,929 --> 00:41:10,230 how do you answer this? 1178 00:41:10,690 --> 00:41:12,690 But one of the ones was somebody actually 1179 00:41:12,690 --> 00:41:15,010 said, well, you know, no, Christ never does 1180 00:41:15,010 --> 00:41:17,515 actually just come out and condemn anything. He's 1181 00:41:17,515 --> 00:41:19,434 not he's he's, you know, he's just kind 1182 00:41:19,434 --> 00:41:20,875 of telling people and I'm like, have they 1183 00:41:20,875 --> 00:41:22,394 not read John? I remember thinking at the 1184 00:41:22,394 --> 00:41:24,155 time, have they not read John 3? And 1185 00:41:24,155 --> 00:41:26,474 John 3:18, he who believes in him is 1186 00:41:26,474 --> 00:41:28,315 not condemned, but he who does not believe 1187 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:30,449 is condemned already because he has not believed 1188 00:41:30,449 --> 00:41:31,809 in the name of the only begotten Son 1189 00:41:31,809 --> 00:41:34,289 of God. I mean right there you have 1190 00:41:34,289 --> 00:41:35,909 the two things that the world 1191 00:41:36,210 --> 00:41:38,929 rails against today. He condemns those that do 1192 00:41:38,929 --> 00:41:39,590 not believe 1193 00:41:40,449 --> 00:41:43,074 and he flat out says, I'm the only 1194 00:41:43,074 --> 00:41:45,715 begotten Son of God. He's right there claiming 1195 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:47,494 to be God. Yeah, absolutely. 1196 00:41:48,114 --> 00:41:49,954 And the only reason we're not condemned is 1197 00:41:49,954 --> 00:41:51,954 because that judgment has been poured out on 1198 00:41:51,954 --> 00:41:52,454 him. 1199 00:41:53,315 --> 00:41:55,635 The judgment I deserve, the wrath I deserve 1200 00:41:55,635 --> 00:41:57,315 has been poured out on him. Well for 1201 00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:59,609 an unbeliever the same applies. It's just you're 1202 00:41:59,609 --> 00:42:02,889 not accepting it. Yeah. You you chose to 1203 00:42:02,889 --> 00:42:04,969 to pay for it yourself for eternity. I 1204 00:42:04,969 --> 00:42:06,969 believe that the that the cup of wrath 1205 00:42:06,969 --> 00:42:09,130 that's talked about in Revelation is is the 1206 00:42:09,130 --> 00:42:10,809 wrath that was poured upon him on the 1207 00:42:10,809 --> 00:42:11,309 cross. 1208 00:42:12,250 --> 00:42:12,750 Because 1209 00:42:13,155 --> 00:42:15,235 when when he's when he's praying in the 1210 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:17,574 garden, he's he's praying and just 1211 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:20,775 sweat becomes blood. You know, he drips blood. 1212 00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:23,335 He says he says, father, 1213 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:25,554 if it be thy will, let this cup 1214 00:42:25,554 --> 00:42:28,190 pass from me. What what cup was he 1215 00:42:28,190 --> 00:42:30,269 talking about? I believe he was talking about 1216 00:42:30,269 --> 00:42:32,429 that cup of wrath that's poured out on 1217 00:42:32,429 --> 00:42:35,409 man, and and Christ said, but 1218 00:42:36,030 --> 00:42:38,750 thy will be done. Right? So so on 1219 00:42:38,750 --> 00:42:40,825 the cross I want you to think about 1220 00:42:40,825 --> 00:42:42,825 this because on the cross that's what took 1221 00:42:42,825 --> 00:42:43,325 place. 1222 00:42:44,025 --> 00:42:45,244 The wrath of sin 1223 00:42:45,864 --> 00:42:46,844 was poured 1224 00:42:47,224 --> 00:42:49,785 upon Yeah. The son of God. I mean 1225 00:42:49,785 --> 00:42:52,285 every heinous crime, every 1226 00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:54,139 evil thinking 1227 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:55,260 minded 1228 00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:59,179 murderer, thief, child molester, whatever it may be, 1229 00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,359 all those things, the the the guilt of 1230 00:43:02,359 --> 00:43:03,659 all those sins 1231 00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:06,519 and and the pressure and the anguish and 1232 00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:09,194 and all the anxiety of it, Everything, 1233 00:43:09,494 --> 00:43:09,994 everything 1234 00:43:10,295 --> 00:43:12,775 was poured up out upon him. And then 1235 00:43:12,775 --> 00:43:15,275 the wrath of God upon that sin 1236 00:43:15,734 --> 00:43:18,155 that that God was punishing him 1237 00:43:18,614 --> 00:43:21,174 who was who was not guilty, who was 1238 00:43:21,174 --> 00:43:21,674 innocent. 1239 00:43:22,050 --> 00:43:24,610 He was being punished for all those things, 1240 00:43:24,610 --> 00:43:26,449 all the things that God upholds, all the 1241 00:43:26,449 --> 00:43:29,650 things that God completely hates and makes him 1242 00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:30,949 sick at his stomach. 1243 00:43:31,489 --> 00:43:33,570 Christ took those things upon him on the 1244 00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:34,070 cross 1245 00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:36,375 and and he died for every one of 1246 00:43:36,375 --> 00:43:38,535 those people whether or not they accept it 1247 00:43:38,535 --> 00:43:40,135 or believe it or trust in it or 1248 00:43:40,135 --> 00:43:42,695 not. He still took that upon him. That 1249 00:43:42,695 --> 00:43:44,454 was why he was in so much anguish. 1250 00:43:44,454 --> 00:43:46,135 Look. He knew what he had to do. 1251 00:43:46,135 --> 00:43:48,454 I also believe people say, well, even Christ 1252 00:43:48,454 --> 00:43:48,954 himself, 1253 00:43:49,420 --> 00:43:52,219 you know, didn't, you know, tried to, tried 1254 00:43:52,219 --> 00:43:53,579 to get out of it in some way 1255 00:43:53,579 --> 00:43:55,179 or prayed could he get out of it. 1256 00:43:55,179 --> 00:43:57,500 He knew that that was the only way. 1257 00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,280 He knew that that's where he was going. 1258 00:43:59,579 --> 00:44:01,514 All that was for us. Right? That was 1259 00:44:01,514 --> 00:44:03,534 for us, Lord. You know, nevertheless, 1260 00:44:04,074 --> 00:44:06,554 thy will be done. He knew exactly where 1261 00:44:06,554 --> 00:44:07,835 he had to go and what had to 1262 00:44:07,835 --> 00:44:09,355 be done. There was never a doubt in 1263 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:11,275 his mind. No. But can you think of 1264 00:44:11,275 --> 00:44:11,934 the anguish 1265 00:44:12,315 --> 00:44:14,815 and and, and the pain of the father 1266 00:44:14,875 --> 00:44:15,694 pouring out 1267 00:44:16,349 --> 00:44:18,910 his anger upon sin and his punishment on 1268 00:44:18,910 --> 00:44:22,050 sin on his only begotten son, and then 1269 00:44:22,430 --> 00:44:23,250 and then 1270 00:44:23,550 --> 00:44:26,030 actually turning away from him because he couldn't 1271 00:44:26,030 --> 00:44:28,030 be in the presence of sin. For a 1272 00:44:28,030 --> 00:44:28,530 moment, 1273 00:44:28,894 --> 00:44:30,734 for a moment, Christ knew what hell was 1274 00:44:30,734 --> 00:44:32,494 gonna be like. Now I Christ didn't he 1275 00:44:32,494 --> 00:44:34,734 did not go to hell. Okay? He did 1276 00:44:34,775 --> 00:44:37,375 he he that that's that's a a a 1277 00:44:37,375 --> 00:44:41,150 bad theology there. But but he experienced what 1278 00:44:41,150 --> 00:44:42,989 it would be like because one of the 1279 00:44:42,989 --> 00:44:44,510 one of the things that's gonna happen in 1280 00:44:44,510 --> 00:44:46,670 hell, yes, you're gonna be or the lake 1281 00:44:46,670 --> 00:44:48,829 of fire, you're gonna be burning for all 1282 00:44:48,829 --> 00:44:50,690 eternity and it's gonna be terrible. 1283 00:44:51,150 --> 00:44:53,390 But the worst thing about it all is 1284 00:44:53,390 --> 00:44:55,710 is is the absence of of God, the 1285 00:44:55,710 --> 00:44:58,405 absence of Christ that's gonna be there that's 1286 00:44:58,565 --> 00:45:00,724 oh, man. It's it's gonna be terrible. Yeah. 1287 00:45:00,724 --> 00:45:02,244 And there's there's another side to this thing 1288 00:45:02,244 --> 00:45:03,684 too. And I'm reminded of, 1289 00:45:05,045 --> 00:45:07,444 how what was it? The Mel Gibson movie, 1290 00:45:07,444 --> 00:45:09,364 The Passion of the Christ. Mhmm. You remember 1291 00:45:09,364 --> 00:45:10,849 that scene where he's dying on the cross 1292 00:45:10,849 --> 00:45:12,369 and what comes down out of heaven is 1293 00:45:12,369 --> 00:45:14,769 a teardrop? Yeah. Yeah. Think of the pain 1294 00:45:14,769 --> 00:45:16,949 the father had upon that wrath of the 1295 00:45:17,010 --> 00:45:20,150 son. Absolutely. Right. Yeah. It's just it's it's 1296 00:45:21,170 --> 00:45:23,434 there's no other story that that could ever 1297 00:45:23,434 --> 00:45:25,594 be like it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't wanna 1298 00:45:25,594 --> 00:45:27,515 do this, but I've got to. I mean, 1299 00:45:27,515 --> 00:45:29,434 we know that as fathers, sometimes we have 1300 00:45:29,434 --> 00:45:31,594 to This is how much I love you. 1301 00:45:31,594 --> 00:45:33,454 Yeah. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Amen. 1302 00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:34,494 And then 1303 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:36,255 to be 1304 00:45:37,430 --> 00:45:39,050 someone in this world 1305 00:45:40,309 --> 00:45:41,530 who hears the gospel, 1306 00:45:42,230 --> 00:45:44,309 who has this spelled out for them, do 1307 00:45:44,309 --> 00:45:44,970 you understand 1308 00:45:45,829 --> 00:45:48,809 what Christ did is he took the price 1309 00:45:49,030 --> 00:45:50,170 of your 1310 00:45:51,734 --> 00:45:53,674 your guilty verdict. He took 1311 00:45:54,054 --> 00:45:54,954 your punishment. 1312 00:45:55,255 --> 00:45:55,755 Yeah. 1313 00:45:56,054 --> 00:45:57,114 And to willingly 1314 00:45:57,894 --> 00:46:00,074 reject that and say, no. I've got this. 1315 00:46:00,934 --> 00:46:03,114 That to me is one of the most 1316 00:46:04,250 --> 00:46:05,869 crazy things I've ever heard 1317 00:46:06,409 --> 00:46:08,190 is to know and and there 1318 00:46:08,650 --> 00:46:11,130 are so many people. They hear. They've been 1319 00:46:11,130 --> 00:46:13,309 told. They've had it explained. They know. 1320 00:46:14,170 --> 00:46:15,530 And and you can look at them and 1321 00:46:15,530 --> 00:46:18,409 say, what got poured out on Christ? They're 1322 00:46:18,409 --> 00:46:19,230 on the cross. 1323 00:46:20,264 --> 00:46:21,484 That's the payment. 1324 00:46:21,784 --> 00:46:22,844 That's the price. 1325 00:46:23,144 --> 00:46:25,085 That's the cost of your sin. 1326 00:46:26,184 --> 00:46:27,625 He's already paid it. All you have to 1327 00:46:27,625 --> 00:46:28,444 do is accept. 1328 00:46:28,824 --> 00:46:31,565 No no no special anything. Just accept. 1329 00:46:32,025 --> 00:46:34,125 And they go, nah. Yeah. 1330 00:46:34,569 --> 00:46:36,969 Yeah. And and believers forget it. You know? 1331 00:46:36,969 --> 00:46:38,889 Yeah. But yeah. And that's part of what 1332 00:46:38,889 --> 00:46:41,049 communion, our lord's supper is about is is 1333 00:46:41,049 --> 00:46:43,769 remembering that moment when when he died. It 1334 00:46:43,769 --> 00:46:45,769 really is. I don't think we make it 1335 00:46:46,489 --> 00:46:48,170 well, we can't make it holy. It is 1336 00:46:48,170 --> 00:46:49,425 holy, but I don't think we 1337 00:46:49,985 --> 00:46:51,605 It's it's hard to yeah. 1338 00:46:51,905 --> 00:46:53,824 You know? It's this thing we do every 1339 00:46:53,824 --> 00:46:56,304 5th Sunday, you know, and some churches do 1340 00:46:56,304 --> 00:46:58,005 it different times, you know, 1341 00:46:58,785 --> 00:47:00,244 quarterly, whatever. But, 1342 00:47:00,945 --> 00:47:02,864 yeah. We did we just don't we just 1343 00:47:02,864 --> 00:47:05,319 don't take all that in. Yeah. And this 1344 00:47:05,319 --> 00:47:07,579 should drive us to want to evangelize 1345 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,739 more than we ever have before. 1346 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,519 Yeah. I think there's 2 reasons 2 big 1347 00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:14,760 reasons. There's many reasons to evangelize, but I 1348 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,519 think there's 2 big reasons. One should bear 1349 00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:17,500 our love for mankind, 1350 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,880 that that the Lord has put in our 1351 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,335 hearts as as as people who are who 1352 00:47:22,335 --> 00:47:24,974 have been saved and and are, are part 1353 00:47:24,974 --> 00:47:26,994 of the family of God. We should want, 1354 00:47:27,614 --> 00:47:29,235 to reach out to all mankind 1355 00:47:29,614 --> 00:47:31,454 and and share the gospel with them so 1356 00:47:31,454 --> 00:47:33,855 that everyone can be saved. But the other 1357 00:47:33,855 --> 00:47:36,800 reason is is that we do not want 1358 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,559 what Christ done on the cross to be 1359 00:47:38,559 --> 00:47:40,880 done in vain. Right? I mean, I I 1360 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,800 I wanna do everything. There's nothing that I 1361 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,699 can do to reconcile it, but but man, 1362 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,599 can we do our part to reach out 1363 00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:49,545 and to say, hey, you know, He died 1364 00:47:49,545 --> 00:47:50,905 for you and and and He I don't 1365 00:47:50,905 --> 00:47:52,425 want Him to do this in vain. Trust 1366 00:47:52,425 --> 00:47:54,984 in Him. Don't turn from Him. Yeah. It's 1367 00:47:54,984 --> 00:47:56,505 just a just a hard message to get 1368 00:47:56,505 --> 00:47:58,744 to get across us in in this day 1369 00:47:58,744 --> 00:48:00,284 and age where people are so 1370 00:48:00,585 --> 00:48:01,484 just preoccupied 1371 00:48:01,784 --> 00:48:04,340 with so many things. Yeah. You know, and 1372 00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:06,980 even as believers we're preoccupied with all the 1373 00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:08,500 garbage in this world that we don't need 1374 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:09,640 to be involved in. 1375 00:48:10,739 --> 00:48:12,039 And man, I don't know. 1376 00:48:12,579 --> 00:48:14,500 I just wish every day every believer could 1377 00:48:14,500 --> 00:48:15,000 just 1378 00:48:15,380 --> 00:48:17,160 pause and hit the reset button 1379 00:48:18,019 --> 00:48:18,679 and remember 1380 00:48:19,775 --> 00:48:21,934 the love shown on the cross. Yeah. You 1381 00:48:21,934 --> 00:48:24,094 know? And and that that that movie was 1382 00:48:24,094 --> 00:48:25,375 just that that was one of the most 1383 00:48:25,375 --> 00:48:27,375 moving moments in any movie I've ever seen. 1384 00:48:27,375 --> 00:48:29,535 Mhmm. Where that teardrop just falls right out 1385 00:48:29,535 --> 00:48:31,295 of heaven because the father's feeling the pain 1386 00:48:31,295 --> 00:48:33,055 too. Yeah. He does not wanna do that. 1387 00:48:33,055 --> 00:48:35,510 Yeah. Amen. That's how much he loves us. 1388 00:48:35,510 --> 00:48:37,110 Yeah. You know no matter how, 1389 00:48:37,590 --> 00:48:39,829 people may look at it or or what 1390 00:48:39,829 --> 00:48:41,510 kind of person Mel Gibson may be, he 1391 00:48:41,510 --> 00:48:43,110 may not be the best example for a 1392 00:48:43,110 --> 00:48:44,409 Christian person. Yeah. 1393 00:48:45,269 --> 00:48:45,849 That movie 1394 00:48:46,605 --> 00:48:48,364 really he really put a lot of thought, 1395 00:48:48,364 --> 00:48:50,445 a lot of biblical thought and and, 1396 00:48:51,405 --> 00:48:52,864 and really stuck to 1397 00:48:53,164 --> 00:48:55,164 the word of God as he as as 1398 00:48:55,164 --> 00:48:55,644 he, 1399 00:48:56,684 --> 00:48:58,844 as he made that movie. And and the 1400 00:48:58,844 --> 00:49:00,224 guy that that played, 1401 00:49:00,650 --> 00:49:02,269 that played Jesus in there, 1402 00:49:03,130 --> 00:49:05,210 cannot remember his name. He's a he's a 1403 00:49:05,210 --> 00:49:05,289 real 1404 00:49:06,170 --> 00:49:09,769 yeah. Yeah. Jim. Jim. Yeah. Yeah. He, you 1405 00:49:09,769 --> 00:49:11,210 know, he was struck he was struck by 1406 00:49:11,210 --> 00:49:12,670 a lot and I think twice 1407 00:49:13,594 --> 00:49:15,755 Yeah. During that that movie. But, 1408 00:49:16,394 --> 00:49:18,795 but he's a he's an outspoken Christian too 1409 00:49:18,795 --> 00:49:20,734 in his in his faith. So, 1410 00:49:22,635 --> 00:49:23,594 but, yeah, that's, 1411 00:49:24,635 --> 00:49:25,295 it just 1412 00:49:26,170 --> 00:49:27,769 that movie made a lot of people think 1413 00:49:27,769 --> 00:49:29,929 about what he went through, but still it 1414 00:49:29,929 --> 00:49:32,090 it didn't even hold a candle. No. No. 1415 00:49:32,090 --> 00:49:34,250 And people won't watch it. Yeah. Right? It's 1416 00:49:34,250 --> 00:49:34,750 just 1417 00:49:35,130 --> 00:49:37,210 too bare. You know, it's just too raw. 1418 00:49:37,210 --> 00:49:39,135 Yeah. And that's what it that's what it 1419 00:49:39,135 --> 00:49:39,635 was. 1420 00:49:40,255 --> 00:49:42,655 It was just ugly. Yeah. Very, very ugly 1421 00:49:42,655 --> 00:49:43,855 all the way through. It was, you know, 1422 00:49:43,855 --> 00:49:46,114 Isaiah 53 come to life. Yeah. 1423 00:49:47,055 --> 00:49:49,535 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of that. Speaking of 1424 00:49:49,535 --> 00:49:50,035 that. 1425 00:49:50,414 --> 00:49:50,914 Segue. 1426 00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,119 But he was wounded for our transgressions. He 1427 00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:56,460 was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement 1428 00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,639 of our peace was upon him. And with 1429 00:49:59,639 --> 00:50:00,539 his stripes, 1430 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:01,980 we are healed. 1431 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,514 All we like sheep have gone astray. We 1432 00:50:04,514 --> 00:50:06,674 have turned everyone to his own way. The 1433 00:50:06,674 --> 00:50:08,914 Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of 1434 00:50:08,914 --> 00:50:09,894 of us all. 1435 00:50:10,355 --> 00:50:11,255 He was oppressed 1436 00:50:11,714 --> 00:50:12,694 and he was afflicted 1437 00:50:13,074 --> 00:50:15,954 yet opened not his mouth. He was brought 1438 00:50:15,954 --> 00:50:17,954 as a lamb to the slaughter and as 1439 00:50:17,954 --> 00:50:19,494 a sheep before the shears 1440 00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:22,210 is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 1441 00:50:22,210 --> 00:50:23,730 He was taken from the land of the 1442 00:50:23,730 --> 00:50:26,289 living. For the transgression of my people, he 1443 00:50:26,289 --> 00:50:27,029 was stricken. 1444 00:50:27,569 --> 00:50:30,309 And he made his grave with the wicked 1445 00:50:30,529 --> 00:50:32,230 and with the rich in his death 1446 00:50:32,675 --> 00:50:35,715 because he had done no violence, neither was 1447 00:50:35,715 --> 00:50:36,534 there deceit 1448 00:50:37,474 --> 00:50:40,434 in his soul an offering for sin. He's 1449 00:50:40,594 --> 00:50:41,734 he shall see, 1450 00:50:42,275 --> 00:50:44,914 he shall see his seed. He shall prolong 1451 00:50:44,914 --> 00:50:47,349 his days and the pleasure of the Lord 1452 00:50:47,349 --> 00:50:49,670 shall prosper in his hand. He shall see 1453 00:50:49,670 --> 00:50:51,670 of the travail of his soul and shall 1454 00:50:51,670 --> 00:50:54,809 be satisfied by his knowledge. Shall my righteousness 1455 00:50:55,110 --> 00:50:57,050 shall my righteous servant justify 1456 00:50:57,590 --> 00:51:00,010 many for he shall bear their iniquities. 1457 00:51:00,574 --> 00:51:02,815 Therefore, will I divide him a portion with 1458 00:51:02,815 --> 00:51:05,154 the great and he shall divide the spoil 1459 00:51:05,214 --> 00:51:07,694 with the strong because he hath poured out 1460 00:51:07,694 --> 00:51:10,275 his soul unto death and he was numbered 1461 00:51:10,494 --> 00:51:11,474 with the transgressors 1462 00:51:11,855 --> 00:51:14,280 and he bear the sin of many and 1463 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,019 made intercession for the transgressors who is 1464 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:18,940 us. Mhmm. Yeah. 1465 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:20,140 Man. 1466 00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:21,019 Yeah. 1467 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,640 Praise the Lord for what he's done. Amen. 1468 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:26,860 I don't know why 1469 00:51:27,295 --> 00:51:29,875 He created us to die for us, 1470 00:51:30,175 --> 00:51:31,315 but I am so 1471 00:51:31,695 --> 00:51:34,835 glad that He did. Amen. Yeah. Amen. 1472 00:51:35,295 --> 00:51:36,835 So grateful that 1473 00:51:40,619 --> 00:51:42,960 so grateful that God gives us the choice 1474 00:51:44,380 --> 00:51:46,859 to make it that personal relationship because that's 1475 00:51:46,859 --> 00:51:48,799 the thing. He could have just created us 1476 00:51:49,819 --> 00:51:51,579 to do what he what he ordered us 1477 00:51:51,579 --> 00:51:52,559 to do. Yeah. 1478 00:51:53,065 --> 00:51:54,664 He didn't have to give us a choice. 1479 00:51:54,664 --> 00:51:55,945 He didn't have to let it be our 1480 00:51:55,945 --> 00:51:57,644 choice. But like I say, he wants companions 1481 00:51:58,265 --> 00:51:59,324 that choose 1482 00:52:00,105 --> 00:52:02,045 to be with him. Amen. Yeah. 1483 00:52:03,465 --> 00:52:05,224 And, you know, that's the thing. People can 1484 00:52:05,224 --> 00:52:07,224 talk about, well, a loving God wouldn't do 1485 00:52:07,224 --> 00:52:08,639 this and wouldn't do that. It's like 1486 00:52:09,679 --> 00:52:11,839 a loving God gives you a choice. It's 1487 00:52:11,839 --> 00:52:13,760 always somebody that doesn't know God that says 1488 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,880 it. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. They don't 1489 00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:18,639 know the love of God. Right? They don't 1490 00:52:18,639 --> 00:52:21,885 know what agape is. No. They sure don't. 1491 00:52:21,885 --> 00:52:23,885 And that and that choice is such a 1492 00:52:23,885 --> 00:52:26,065 beautiful, beautiful thing. And as Christians, 1493 00:52:28,445 --> 00:52:30,204 this this should, like you said, it should 1494 00:52:30,204 --> 00:52:31,805 make us wanna evangelize. It should make us 1495 00:52:31,805 --> 00:52:33,644 wanna tell people, look at them and just 1496 00:52:33,644 --> 00:52:34,289 say, hey, 1497 00:52:34,849 --> 00:52:35,750 Look. There 1498 00:52:36,369 --> 00:52:37,910 you you have a choice. 1499 00:52:38,449 --> 00:52:40,690 You don't have to live the evil life. 1500 00:52:40,690 --> 00:52:42,289 You don't have to go out and do 1501 00:52:42,289 --> 00:52:44,789 the things the world says and drive yourself 1502 00:52:44,849 --> 00:52:47,570 crazy. Let's be honest. If you live like 1503 00:52:47,570 --> 00:52:49,650 the world, you're going crazy all the time. 1504 00:52:49,650 --> 00:52:51,005 Yeah. You're chasing 1505 00:52:51,464 --> 00:52:52,125 a dream 1506 00:52:52,505 --> 00:52:54,824 that is not likely to ever even come 1507 00:52:54,824 --> 00:52:56,364 true even if you get 1508 00:52:56,744 --> 00:52:57,964 everything you want. 1509 00:52:58,824 --> 00:53:00,984 Yeah. You you might have a little easier 1510 00:53:00,984 --> 00:53:02,444 time of it while you're alive, 1511 00:53:03,144 --> 00:53:04,605 but are you really happy? 1512 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:05,699 You know what? Go 1513 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,160 go ask Donald Trump, ask Elon Musk, ask 1514 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:10,980 Jeff Bezos, 1515 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:11,840 ask, 1516 00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:13,300 Mark Zuckerberg. 1517 00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:15,940 Billionaires, ask Bill Gates, 1518 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:16,719 ask, 1519 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,039 the other guy from Microsoft. I can't remember 1520 00:53:19,039 --> 00:53:21,474 his name right, Steve Ballmer. Hey. Are are 1521 00:53:21,474 --> 00:53:23,574 you happy? Are you really 1522 00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:25,635 happy? Some of them will say, yeah. Yeah. 1523 00:53:25,635 --> 00:53:27,635 Really? You you you're you're at peace. You 1524 00:53:27,635 --> 00:53:29,635 don't have to worry about it. Well, no. 1525 00:53:29,635 --> 00:53:31,715 No. I've gotta worry about stuff. Yeah. I 1526 00:53:31,715 --> 00:53:33,474 gotta focus on things. I gotta keep doing 1527 00:53:33,474 --> 00:53:34,675 stuff, and I gotta stay ahead of all 1528 00:53:34,675 --> 00:53:35,730 the people that are trying to 1529 00:53:37,010 --> 00:53:37,116 rip me off, and all the people that 1530 00:53:37,116 --> 00:53:38,210 are trying to take my stuff, and all 1531 00:53:38,210 --> 00:53:39,730 the people that want me to just give 1532 00:53:39,730 --> 00:53:40,789 everything to them. 1533 00:53:41,730 --> 00:53:44,789 That's not happiness, that's not peace, that's miserable. 1534 00:53:45,090 --> 00:53:47,650 And even if there's moments of happiness, there's 1535 00:53:47,650 --> 00:53:50,474 no joy there. No, it doesn't last. Yeah. 1536 00:53:50,474 --> 00:53:53,215 Yeah. That's the word. Contentment. There's no contentment 1537 00:53:53,275 --> 00:53:56,075 there because it can't last. Yeah. Every moment 1538 00:53:56,075 --> 00:53:58,075 of peace what little bit you get, every 1539 00:53:58,075 --> 00:53:59,914 moment of happiness is just that. It's a 1540 00:53:59,914 --> 00:54:01,535 moment, and it's fleeting. 1541 00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:05,140 You can choose to be happy. You can 1542 00:54:05,140 --> 00:54:07,780 choose to have joy. You can choose to 1543 00:54:07,780 --> 00:54:08,280 have 1544 00:54:08,980 --> 00:54:11,460 peace. Yeah. Choose to have a life. That's 1545 00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:14,739 right. Yeah. That's right. More abundant. Thank you. 1546 00:54:14,739 --> 00:54:16,920 This is a terrible example, but, 1547 00:54:17,539 --> 00:54:18,195 you know, 1548 00:54:18,594 --> 00:54:21,235 we've got a a Scooter's Coffee here in 1549 00:54:21,235 --> 00:54:23,175 Rainsville and one in Fort Payne and, 1550 00:54:23,555 --> 00:54:25,235 Nicole and I have kinda become a little 1551 00:54:25,235 --> 00:54:26,934 bit addicted to it and shameful 1552 00:54:27,474 --> 00:54:28,114 shave. But, 1553 00:54:28,835 --> 00:54:30,454 the peanut butter blender. 1554 00:54:32,950 --> 00:54:34,869 Man, I get that thing with a couple 1555 00:54:34,869 --> 00:54:36,170 extra shots of espresso 1556 00:54:36,470 --> 00:54:38,010 and extra peanut butter. 1557 00:54:38,869 --> 00:54:40,329 And that first 1558 00:54:41,269 --> 00:54:44,410 that first sip of that thing is so 1559 00:54:44,574 --> 00:54:45,074 good 1560 00:54:45,695 --> 00:54:47,375 all the way to the bottom, but then 1561 00:54:47,375 --> 00:54:49,074 when I get to the bottom and they're 1562 00:54:51,054 --> 00:54:53,295 it's like, man, well, that was good for 1563 00:54:53,295 --> 00:54:54,594 a minute, but it's gone, 1564 00:54:54,894 --> 00:54:55,875 you know. Yeah. 1565 00:54:56,335 --> 00:54:58,880 And that that's it. It's fleeting. It's it's 1566 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,960 not gonna stay. It's not gonna you keep 1567 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,519 keep drinking that. Right? Or you'll keep you'll 1568 00:55:03,519 --> 00:55:04,500 you'll be £855. 1569 00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,239 But but but, man, for that moment and 1570 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,400 for that time, it's it's really good, and 1571 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,714 it makes me happy, but it doesn't bring 1572 00:55:12,714 --> 00:55:14,574 me joy. Yeah. You move the world's largest 1573 00:55:14,635 --> 00:55:17,054 live wire, man. You'd be like, woah. 1574 00:55:17,514 --> 00:55:19,755 Exactly. Closing around. And that only lasts for 1575 00:55:19,755 --> 00:55:21,534 a moment and you crash. Right? 1576 00:55:22,155 --> 00:55:23,755 And then for the next 3 days, it's 1577 00:55:23,755 --> 00:55:25,914 like, wow. He's not moving. Yeah. What's going 1578 00:55:25,914 --> 00:55:26,369 on? 1579 00:55:26,930 --> 00:55:28,530 But that's the thing. It's all all the 1580 00:55:28,530 --> 00:55:30,210 things of the world. It's so fleeting. It's 1581 00:55:30,210 --> 00:55:32,309 so temporary. This world is 1582 00:55:32,849 --> 00:55:35,590 ephemeral. It's it it doesn't last. 1583 00:55:35,970 --> 00:55:37,829 And we know that. We know that. 1584 00:55:39,014 --> 00:55:41,414 As Christians, we have the ability to say 1585 00:55:41,414 --> 00:55:43,335 to others, Look, there's a way to find 1586 00:55:43,335 --> 00:55:43,835 joy. 1587 00:55:44,295 --> 00:55:46,154 You know what? You may we're we're not 1588 00:55:48,054 --> 00:55:48,954 Okay. Prosperity 1589 00:55:49,255 --> 00:55:50,954 gospel people out there, listen. 1590 00:55:51,414 --> 00:55:53,255 Nowhere in the Bible does it say you're 1591 00:55:53,255 --> 00:55:54,074 gonna be 1592 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:55,260 super wealthy, 1593 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,220 have the nice cars, have the best house, 1594 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,119 have all these other things. It says that 1595 00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:01,740 you will have life more abundantly. 1596 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,099 That may be life more abundantly in poverty. 1597 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,559 Yeah. You better focus on the eternal. Yeah. 1598 00:56:07,559 --> 00:56:09,320 Get your eyes off this world. Yeah. Yeah. 1599 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,244 Christ. I mean, even even, you know, when 1600 00:56:12,244 --> 00:56:14,324 Christ was telling people, he he never made 1601 00:56:14,324 --> 00:56:15,924 any promises to people. If you're gonna have 1602 00:56:15,924 --> 00:56:17,684 this easy, he said, come follow me and 1603 00:56:17,684 --> 00:56:19,284 you're gonna have nowhere to sleep. You're gonna 1604 00:56:19,284 --> 00:56:20,565 have nowhere to lay your head. You're gonna 1605 00:56:20,565 --> 00:56:22,025 be out here with me in the field 1606 00:56:22,404 --> 00:56:23,545 sleeping in the dirt. 1607 00:56:23,859 --> 00:56:26,339 Watch a village in the middle of Africa 1608 00:56:26,339 --> 00:56:27,960 or Somalia somewhere that, 1609 00:56:28,260 --> 00:56:30,900 you know, that that, an evangelist comes through 1610 00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:33,880 there and and whole villages get saved, and 1611 00:56:34,019 --> 00:56:35,699 they they don't they don't know what they're 1612 00:56:35,699 --> 00:56:37,300 gonna get to eat the next day. They 1613 00:56:37,380 --> 00:56:39,864 they're they're they're living in huts at the 1614 00:56:39,864 --> 00:56:40,364 very 1615 00:56:40,744 --> 00:56:43,164 best. You know, they're fighting off snakes 1616 00:56:43,465 --> 00:56:45,625 and bugs that'll kill you in the instant, 1617 00:56:45,625 --> 00:56:47,864 you know, all these things going on. But 1618 00:56:47,864 --> 00:56:48,844 you see them 1619 00:56:49,224 --> 00:56:51,724 in church service after church service and 1620 00:56:52,025 --> 00:56:52,876 they're singing these songs in an African language 1621 00:56:52,876 --> 00:56:53,644 and just praising Jesus to the highest 1622 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,730 language and just praising Jesus Yeah. To the 1623 00:56:56,730 --> 00:56:58,214 highest because they have something that they they 1624 00:56:58,214 --> 00:57:00,039 understand. Look, I don't have much in this 1625 00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:00,539 world, 1626 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,000 but I've got a promise beyond this world 1627 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,079 that Christ has given me that he said 1628 00:57:05,079 --> 00:57:06,059 I'm going to 1629 00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:06,860 prepare 1630 00:57:10,635 --> 00:57:11,614 a place for you. 1631 00:57:11,914 --> 00:57:13,275 And if I go to prepare a place 1632 00:57:13,275 --> 00:57:15,114 for you, I will come again and receive 1633 00:57:15,114 --> 00:57:16,635 you under myself that where I am there 1634 00:57:16,635 --> 00:57:18,875 you may be also. That's joy. Yeah. That's 1635 00:57:18,875 --> 00:57:20,635 like some of these underground churches where a 1636 00:57:20,635 --> 00:57:22,474 missionary would go in there, and they want 1637 00:57:22,474 --> 00:57:24,474 them to preach all day. Yeah. It's, you 1638 00:57:24,474 --> 00:57:26,610 know, it's an 8 hour church service. Yeah. 1639 00:57:26,769 --> 00:57:29,570 Yes. And we're not It's not a 20 1640 00:57:29,570 --> 00:57:31,170 minute personal story and, like, hey. Let's go 1641 00:57:31,170 --> 00:57:33,010 get something to eat. That's right. They're soaking 1642 00:57:33,010 --> 00:57:34,450 up all the gospel they can. Yeah. When 1643 00:57:34,450 --> 00:57:36,130 they can. You know, those under the the 1644 00:57:36,130 --> 00:57:38,789 underground church service, great great example. 1645 00:57:39,375 --> 00:57:41,295 They're not going out and fellowshipping when they 1646 00:57:41,295 --> 00:57:43,375 leave. They don't talk to each other. No. 1647 00:57:43,375 --> 00:57:44,655 They have to act like they've never met 1648 00:57:44,655 --> 00:57:45,614 each other. They have to act like they 1649 00:57:45,614 --> 00:57:47,054 don't know each other because if one of 1650 00:57:47,054 --> 00:57:48,034 them gets caught, 1651 00:57:48,574 --> 00:57:50,574 you can't you can't be caught with them. 1652 00:57:50,574 --> 00:57:52,175 You can't be caught. Well, you knew this 1653 00:57:52,175 --> 00:57:54,014 person over here. You've been seen associate with 1654 00:57:54,014 --> 00:57:56,869 them because that, getting caught there doing that, 1655 00:57:56,869 --> 00:57:57,369 and 1656 00:57:58,150 --> 00:57:58,650 atheists, 1657 00:58:00,230 --> 00:58:01,050 non believers, 1658 00:58:01,430 --> 00:58:01,930 agnostics, 1659 00:58:02,309 --> 00:58:03,530 ask yourself this, 1660 00:58:04,150 --> 00:58:05,289 what is it 1661 00:58:06,150 --> 00:58:07,450 that makes people 1662 00:58:08,234 --> 00:58:08,734 today, 1663 00:58:09,434 --> 00:58:11,755 not a 100 years ago, not a 1000 1664 00:58:11,755 --> 00:58:12,414 years ago, 1665 00:58:12,795 --> 00:58:13,295 today 1666 00:58:13,914 --> 00:58:14,654 in China, 1667 00:58:15,755 --> 00:58:17,914 in the Middle East North Korea. In North 1668 00:58:17,914 --> 00:58:19,594 Korea Mhmm. In, 1669 00:58:20,474 --> 00:58:21,934 various parts of the world. 1670 00:58:22,579 --> 00:58:23,800 What makes people 1671 00:58:24,260 --> 00:58:24,760 today 1672 00:58:25,139 --> 00:58:26,280 in those areas 1673 00:58:27,219 --> 00:58:28,280 say I'm willing 1674 00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:29,800 to risk 1675 00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,400 being caught, 1676 00:58:32,099 --> 00:58:33,079 put in prison, 1677 00:58:34,019 --> 00:58:34,840 and murdered 1678 00:58:35,539 --> 00:58:36,039 Yeah. 1679 00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:39,715 Or the Bible. And and this is something 1680 00:58:39,715 --> 00:58:41,655 you mentioned earlier about the election. 1681 00:58:42,114 --> 00:58:44,034 There's a campaign out there to get rid 1682 00:58:44,034 --> 00:58:44,695 of disinformation 1683 00:58:45,635 --> 00:58:48,114 and and hate speech. Yeah. And how long 1684 00:58:48,114 --> 00:58:50,583 is it? Hate hate is subjective thing. It 1685 00:58:50,583 --> 00:58:51,489 can mean anything you want it to mean. 1686 00:58:51,489 --> 00:58:53,311 Yes. Right? And how long before government says, 1687 00:58:53,367 --> 00:58:54,309 Christianity's hate speech? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, 1688 00:58:54,690 --> 00:58:57,170 there's some already saying that. Absolutely. And and 1689 00:58:57,170 --> 00:58:58,710 we're right at the door of losing that. 1690 00:58:59,089 --> 00:58:59,589 Yeah. 1691 00:59:03,295 --> 00:59:06,255 There'll be a time where and we'll probably 1692 00:59:06,255 --> 00:59:07,474 see it if we live, 1693 00:59:08,094 --> 00:59:10,195 in, for another 20 years. 1694 00:59:10,815 --> 00:59:13,215 I think we'll see pastors getting arrested in 1695 00:59:13,215 --> 00:59:15,715 the pulpit in Alabama, in 1696 00:59:16,210 --> 00:59:18,930 Tennessee, in Georgia, and places that we we 1697 00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:21,730 call the bible belt, Kentucky, places North Carolina, 1698 00:59:21,730 --> 00:59:22,469 South Carolina, 1699 00:59:22,849 --> 00:59:26,309 places that are are just saturated with churches 1700 00:59:27,250 --> 00:59:29,030 and supposedly church people. 1701 00:59:29,329 --> 00:59:30,390 We will see, 1702 00:59:30,954 --> 00:59:32,954 we will see people arrested in the church 1703 00:59:32,954 --> 00:59:35,534 and, you know, if not if not killed 1704 00:59:35,835 --> 00:59:37,835 for for what they believe in. Doctors were 1705 00:59:37,835 --> 00:59:39,914 getting arrested during COVID. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I 1706 00:59:39,994 --> 00:59:40,875 I've heard of them, 1707 00:59:41,434 --> 00:59:44,724 coming into churches and and wanting to, to, 1708 00:59:45,670 --> 00:59:47,590 examine the sermon notes. Examine the sermon. Yeah. 1709 00:59:47,590 --> 00:59:49,590 That happened in Houston. Yeah. Yeah. Sure did. 1710 00:59:49,590 --> 00:59:51,829 10 years or so ago. Man, my I 1711 00:59:51,829 --> 00:59:52,809 will say this, 1712 00:59:54,550 --> 00:59:56,329 I have always stood on 1713 00:59:56,869 --> 00:59:58,010 the idea that 1714 00:59:58,535 --> 01:00:00,295 if if you're gonna say it, you gotta 1715 01:00:00,295 --> 01:00:02,454 be willing to be accountable for it. And 1716 01:00:02,454 --> 01:00:03,974 that means if if the government says you're 1717 01:00:03,974 --> 01:00:05,575 not allowed to say it, if you're gonna 1718 01:00:05,575 --> 01:00:07,094 keep saying it, there's gonna be a price. 1719 01:00:07,094 --> 01:00:07,594 Yeah. 1720 01:00:08,135 --> 01:00:09,575 Pastors, don't be afraid to put it out 1721 01:00:09,575 --> 01:00:11,890 there. Amen. Don't hide it. Just record it. 1722 01:00:11,890 --> 01:00:13,730 Just stick it out there for everybody to 1723 01:00:13,730 --> 01:00:15,329 see. That way they're not busting into the 1724 01:00:15,329 --> 01:00:16,929 church saying, see let me see your sermon 1725 01:00:16,929 --> 01:00:18,769 notes. You say, go watch the videos. Yeah. 1726 01:00:18,769 --> 01:00:20,849 Every Wednesday night for a long time, I 1727 01:00:21,090 --> 01:00:23,110 we've been going through the letters of Paul. 1728 01:00:23,445 --> 01:00:25,925 And every every Wednesday night almost I say, 1729 01:00:25,925 --> 01:00:27,684 okay, guys. Where did Paul write most of 1730 01:00:27,684 --> 01:00:29,684 these letters from? And I know they get 1731 01:00:29,684 --> 01:00:32,344 tired of getting to prison, guys. So, hey. 1732 01:00:32,565 --> 01:00:35,045 Get get ready. Right? It's worth it. It's 1733 01:00:35,045 --> 01:00:38,105 worth it. Every single stripe, every single 1734 01:00:38,630 --> 01:00:39,449 pain, suffering, 1735 01:00:40,150 --> 01:00:40,650 jail 1736 01:00:41,030 --> 01:00:43,670 sale that you may spend time in it 1737 01:00:43,670 --> 01:00:46,469 is worth it all. Don't you may back 1738 01:00:46,469 --> 01:00:49,430 down. You may lose everything here, but you 1739 01:00:49,430 --> 01:00:50,809 have a home 1740 01:00:51,465 --> 01:00:53,864 and a place next to the father waiting 1741 01:00:53,864 --> 01:00:56,585 for you that's prepared for you, and it's 1742 01:00:56,585 --> 01:00:58,505 just waiting. Because what good is it if 1743 01:00:58,505 --> 01:01:00,105 you gain the whole world and you lose 1744 01:01:00,105 --> 01:01:03,065 yourself? Yeah. So so those of you that 1745 01:01:03,224 --> 01:01:05,530 if there are people listening that don't believe 1746 01:01:05,530 --> 01:01:08,010 or you're questioning it, you're wondering about it, 1747 01:01:08,010 --> 01:01:10,329 ask yourself that one question. If you really 1748 01:01:10,329 --> 01:01:12,829 need that extra little bit of a push, 1749 01:01:13,130 --> 01:01:14,269 just ask yourself, 1750 01:01:14,730 --> 01:01:16,510 why are people still today 1751 01:01:16,889 --> 01:01:18,570 willing to lay down their life for this 1752 01:01:18,570 --> 01:01:21,344 message? And the answer is, because there's something 1753 01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:21,844 here 1754 01:01:22,864 --> 01:01:24,704 that we can try to explain. We can 1755 01:01:24,704 --> 01:01:27,824 use words like joy, contentment, peace. You know, 1756 01:01:27,824 --> 01:01:29,204 we can say these things, 1757 01:01:30,065 --> 01:01:32,644 but there are no words to express 1758 01:01:33,449 --> 01:01:36,409 what it is that Christ gives us. It's 1759 01:01:36,409 --> 01:01:39,309 impossible to put into words. Paul tried, and 1760 01:01:39,369 --> 01:01:41,309 he did a great job, but it's 1761 01:01:41,690 --> 01:01:44,190 just missing until you've experienced it. 1762 01:01:44,570 --> 01:01:45,789 And it's not a feeling. 1763 01:01:46,094 --> 01:01:47,695 That's the thing. It's not an emotion. It's 1764 01:01:47,695 --> 01:01:49,775 not a feeling. It goes so far beyond 1765 01:01:49,775 --> 01:01:51,155 that. It is an assurance. 1766 01:01:51,614 --> 01:01:52,514 It is the 1767 01:01:53,215 --> 01:01:54,914 the knowledge that you 1768 01:01:55,215 --> 01:01:57,695 know that you know that you know that 1769 01:01:57,695 --> 01:01:59,760 you know. Amen. I was dead and now 1770 01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:01,599 I'm alive. That's right. That's why I've been 1771 01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:02,739 quickened by Christ. 1772 01:02:03,199 --> 01:02:04,800 And and you know, I I like I 1773 01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,480 would like to think that what we say 1774 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:06,980 here, 1775 01:02:07,519 --> 01:02:09,440 the words that we say, the things that 1776 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,925 are topics that we talk about will bring 1777 01:02:11,925 --> 01:02:13,605 many people to Christ. And some of you 1778 01:02:13,605 --> 01:02:15,445 may be listening right now and you're saying, 1779 01:02:15,445 --> 01:02:18,244 no, buddy. You know, nothing you're saying has 1780 01:02:18,244 --> 01:02:20,344 affected me, but let me tell you this. 1781 01:02:21,525 --> 01:02:23,605 No matter what I say, no matter what 1782 01:02:23,605 --> 01:02:24,085 what, 1783 01:02:24,485 --> 01:02:26,405 what any of us say in this room 1784 01:02:26,405 --> 01:02:27,144 right here, 1785 01:02:29,099 --> 01:02:31,179 The Holy Spirit of God is is is 1786 01:02:31,179 --> 01:02:32,719 who's gonna come to you 1787 01:02:33,099 --> 01:02:34,780 in the room that you're in and the 1788 01:02:34,780 --> 01:02:36,539 truck that you're in and the in the 1789 01:02:36,619 --> 01:02:39,099 at the job that you're on. The Holy 1790 01:02:39,099 --> 01:02:41,335 Spirit of God because what we're we're saying 1791 01:02:41,335 --> 01:02:43,894 is holy spirit filled, not because anything we've 1792 01:02:43,894 --> 01:02:45,494 done because this is coming out of God's 1793 01:02:45,494 --> 01:02:47,655 word and the holy spirit of God will 1794 01:02:47,655 --> 01:02:49,735 go so much further than this than these, 1795 01:02:49,974 --> 01:02:52,074 these preachers and these men in this room. 1796 01:02:52,215 --> 01:02:53,974 It will go so much further and it 1797 01:02:53,974 --> 01:02:54,474 will 1798 01:02:55,079 --> 01:02:57,239 be sharper than any 2 edged sword. So 1799 01:02:57,239 --> 01:02:58,140 when you say, 1800 01:02:58,519 --> 01:03:00,680 yeah, that podcast didn't affect me, but man 1801 01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,440 there's something I just can't get off my 1802 01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,079 mind. It's not Brian. It's it's not Dennis. 1803 01:03:05,079 --> 01:03:06,920 It's not Tyler. It's the Holy Spirit of 1804 01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:08,940 God that's speaking to you. Listen. 1805 01:03:09,344 --> 01:03:11,505 Don't deny it. Don't don't try to don't 1806 01:03:11,505 --> 01:03:13,264 try to walk away from it because it's 1807 01:03:13,264 --> 01:03:15,744 real. It's life, man. Yes. Accept it. It 1808 01:03:15,744 --> 01:03:17,505 is just the best thing it'll ever happen. 1809 01:03:17,505 --> 01:03:18,484 Amen. Amen. 1810 01:03:19,425 --> 01:03:20,644 Well, I think we're 1811 01:03:20,945 --> 01:03:23,344 towards the end of it tonight. Thank everyone 1812 01:03:23,344 --> 01:03:24,005 for listening. 1813 01:03:24,619 --> 01:03:26,860 And next week, if you're in the area, 1814 01:03:26,860 --> 01:03:28,539 you can come out to Mountain View Baptist 1815 01:03:28,539 --> 01:03:30,719 Church here in Sylvania. We're gonna be having 1816 01:03:31,019 --> 01:03:31,519 revival 1817 01:03:31,820 --> 01:03:34,480 6 o'clock every night from Monday to Thursday, 1818 01:03:34,539 --> 01:03:36,780 7 o'clock Sunday. We would love for as 1819 01:03:36,780 --> 01:03:38,719 many people to come and hear the word 1820 01:03:38,864 --> 01:03:40,545 as can get here. We'll be streaming it 1821 01:03:40,545 --> 01:03:42,144 online if you're not in the area, so 1822 01:03:42,144 --> 01:03:43,925 hopefully you'll get to hear it there. 1823 01:03:44,385 --> 01:03:46,324 And brother Brian, if you would, 1824 01:03:47,025 --> 01:03:48,085 pray us out tonight. 1825 01:03:49,184 --> 01:03:51,445 Father, we thank you for 1826 01:03:51,909 --> 01:03:53,909 the love, the mercy, the grace, and the 1827 01:03:53,909 --> 01:03:55,750 kindness that you show us that we don't 1828 01:03:55,750 --> 01:03:56,250 deserve. 1829 01:03:57,190 --> 01:03:59,030 Lord, I thank you for these 2 men 1830 01:03:59,030 --> 01:04:01,030 sitting here with me. God, I pray that 1831 01:04:01,030 --> 01:04:03,829 you'd just pour your blessings out on them, 1832 01:04:03,829 --> 01:04:04,329 god. 1833 01:04:04,949 --> 01:04:06,170 Lord, I pray that 1834 01:04:07,315 --> 01:04:08,775 that something that we say 1835 01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:11,394 that through the holy spirit of god that 1836 01:04:11,394 --> 01:04:12,375 you will take it 1837 01:04:12,675 --> 01:04:14,614 and plant it in the hearts of many. 1838 01:04:14,994 --> 01:04:17,954 Lord, I know that that that your word 1839 01:04:17,954 --> 01:04:20,755 says that your word will not go out 1840 01:04:20,755 --> 01:04:21,255 void. 1841 01:04:21,769 --> 01:04:24,010 And so, lord, we we speak your truth 1842 01:04:24,010 --> 01:04:25,630 today in your word, 1843 01:04:26,010 --> 01:04:28,010 and we ask you, god, just to plant 1844 01:04:28,010 --> 01:04:28,510 it 1845 01:04:28,969 --> 01:04:30,969 and and to water it and grow it, 1846 01:04:30,969 --> 01:04:32,030 lord god. And 1847 01:04:32,409 --> 01:04:33,630 let us be vessels, 1848 01:04:34,545 --> 01:04:36,704 lord god, willing vessels to do what you 1849 01:04:36,704 --> 01:04:39,184 called us to do. Lord, I pray that 1850 01:04:39,184 --> 01:04:40,724 if you tarry until 1851 01:04:41,264 --> 01:04:44,405 Wednesday night, god, let us gather together and 1852 01:04:44,545 --> 01:04:47,264 study your word. And Sunday, let us gather 1853 01:04:47,264 --> 01:04:50,099 together and worship and preach your word. But, 1854 01:04:50,099 --> 01:04:50,599 God, 1855 01:04:51,059 --> 01:04:54,199 that's not enough. Lord, let us every single 1856 01:04:54,579 --> 01:04:57,139 day as men and women of God, let 1857 01:04:57,139 --> 01:04:59,539 us open up your word and let us 1858 01:04:59,539 --> 01:05:02,339 spend time in it knowing you more, growing 1859 01:05:02,339 --> 01:05:05,444 closer to you, and God praying to you, 1860 01:05:05,444 --> 01:05:08,404 speaking to having a conversation with you, and 1861 01:05:08,404 --> 01:05:10,724 Lord most of all listening to you. Let 1862 01:05:10,724 --> 01:05:12,484 us do that, God, and thank you for 1863 01:05:12,484 --> 01:05:13,144 the opportunity 1864 01:05:13,844 --> 01:05:15,304 to be able to reach 1865 01:05:15,605 --> 01:05:16,424 many people 1866 01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,199 for the cause of Christ. God, we ask 1867 01:05:19,199 --> 01:05:20,420 these things in Jesus' 1868 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:22,660 name. Amen. Amen. Amen. 1869 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,780 Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, 1870 01:05:26,079 --> 01:05:28,099 Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson, 1871 01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,635 Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our 1872 01:05:31,635 --> 01:05:33,574 theme song, Truth Set Me Free. 1873 01:05:33,954 --> 01:05:36,295 I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio. 1874 01:05:36,755 --> 01:05:38,755 We hope you can join us live next 1875 01:05:38,755 --> 01:05:40,375 Monday at 6 PM CST. 1876 01:05:40,675 --> 01:05:41,655 Thank you for listening. 1877 01:05:44,949 --> 01:05:46,809 Was in my darkest hour. 1878 01:05:47,429 --> 01:05:50,230 I traded my black heart for joy, for 1879 01:05:50,230 --> 01:05:52,730 something real, something with power. 1880 01:05:54,949 --> 01:05:57,130 Truth set me free. 1881 01:05:57,750 --> 01:05:58,250 Truth 1882 01:05:58,550 --> 01:05:59,985 came to me.