1 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,260 And welcome back, everybody. 2 00:01:14,860 --> 00:01:17,700 Hey, we have sound working on all the places. I'm happy. 3 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,960 I was having to check my levels. 4 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:28,380 Oh, it's good to be back this week, going into a little bit of a special holiday tomorrow, Veterans Day. 5 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,400 So we definitely take a moment and give a little shout out to all our veterans. 6 00:01:33,020 --> 00:01:41,700 If we have any listening and if we don't, if you have some in your family or you know some, which you probably do, if you live anywhere in the United States, say a thank you. 7 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:42,240 Amen. 8 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,740 Because we owe those folks quite a bit, guys and gals both. 9 00:01:47,180 --> 00:01:52,600 They've done a lot to keep our country safe and protect our freedoms. 10 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,240 So we really appreciate them, and I'm glad we have a day to honor them and remember them. 11 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:03,860 And tomorrow, if you have a chance, despite the fact that if you live in the South, it is apparently going to be absolutely freezing, 12 00:02:04,070 --> 00:02:09,960 and you get to watch icicles start hanging off your house in November for the first time in a long time. 13 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,180 Maybe try to have something like a hamburger or something tomorrow. 14 00:02:15,620 --> 00:02:16,680 Brother Dennis, how are you doing? 15 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:17,540 Besides being cold. 16 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:19,740 Just chilling, brother. 17 00:02:21,620 --> 00:02:27,100 No, I saw a video on Facebook of a friend of mine that lives up just south of Knoxville. 18 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:28,960 It looked like a blizzard, man. 19 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,460 They were getting some snow there. 20 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:32,180 Yeah, I think Gatlinburg was getting some snow. 21 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:32,760 Wow. 22 00:02:32,980 --> 00:02:36,060 Well, it spit a little bit at our house, but not much. 23 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,100 But, man, it's just cold. 24 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:39,220 I'm not ready for this. 25 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:41,400 No, no, it's way too early. 26 00:02:41,660 --> 00:02:42,360 Way too early. 27 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,500 Man, I am, for the last, like, 10 years, it's been, like, 70 up until, like, you know, Christmas Eve. 28 00:02:46,660 --> 00:02:47,520 I know. 29 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:49,540 It's going to be 70 by the end of the week. 30 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:49,840 Yeah. 31 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:50,180 Yeah. 32 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:50,800 Yeah. 33 00:02:50,980 --> 00:02:53,020 So everybody be sick next week. 34 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:53,460 Yeah. 35 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:53,680 Yeah. 36 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:54,440 All the sniffles. 37 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:55,920 I don't like the weather. 38 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:56,800 Just wait a few days. 39 00:02:57,580 --> 00:02:57,900 That's right. 40 00:02:58,739 --> 00:03:00,300 The joy of living in the South. 41 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:00,760 Yeah. 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:02,760 Brother Brian, how are you doing tonight? 43 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:03,500 Great, man. 44 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Doing good. 45 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:04,600 Doing good. 46 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,460 I don't know if y'all knew this, but we've got a grandbaby and we're keeping her tonight. 47 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:09,300 Yeah. 48 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:10,380 She's spending the night tonight. 49 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,960 So we'll get down here. 50 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:12,860 I'm out of here. 51 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:14,800 Gotcha. 52 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:15,200 Gotcha. 53 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:15,660 Gotcha. 54 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:15,740 Yeah. 55 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:20,540 Well, definitely, definitely take the time to spend some time with that grandbaby and love on her. 56 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,140 She's a doll, man. 57 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:23,780 She's a blessing. 58 00:03:24,190 --> 00:03:24,520 She is. 59 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,560 Seems like she's a little bit of a mess when she wants to be. 60 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:28,320 She can be. 61 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,060 She can be. 62 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,080 But overall, she's a pretty good baby. 63 00:03:32,150 --> 00:03:33,960 I told them both. 64 00:03:33,990 --> 00:03:42,040 I said, guys, this next one, if y'all decide to have another one soon, you better pray about it hard because this one's too good almost sometimes. 65 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:51,100 She gets upset when she gets hungry or sleepy, but other than that, she's usually pretty smiling and all that. 66 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:52,880 And they're not all like that. 67 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:55,040 No, no. 68 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,120 And usually if the first one's like that, it goes downhill after that. 69 00:03:58,230 --> 00:04:00,420 I have to do an extra sesim on the next one. 70 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:07,080 Oh, well, last week we did Matthew 24. 71 00:04:07,660 --> 00:04:09,980 We're going to be finishing it up tonight, I believe. 72 00:04:10,170 --> 00:04:10,740 Is that right? 73 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,560 Yeah, we should, I think so. 74 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:16,459 All right, we're going to be trying to wrap it up and then diving back over to. 75 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:17,459 Well, probably cover. 76 00:04:17,780 --> 00:04:20,880 If we, 25 still kind of hangs in. 77 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:21,280 Okay. 78 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,480 So if we can do 24 and 25, that'll be good. 79 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:24,900 Awesome. 80 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,120 Well, we'll be diving into that. 81 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:31,620 And yeah, so let's get going. 82 00:04:31,820 --> 00:04:31,920 Yeah. 83 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:32,320 Amen. 84 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:33,060 Amen. 85 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:36,620 So we left off last week. 86 00:04:37,460 --> 00:04:37,940 What was it? 87 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:38,640 Verse 30. 88 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,340 Do you remember, Tyler? 89 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,280 That is a very good question because I don't remember. 90 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,060 I mean, you talked about the fig tree, right? 91 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,420 I don't know if we made it completely. 92 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,420 I think we made it to the fig tree. 93 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:48,880 Okay. 94 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:49,360 Didn't we? 95 00:04:49,570 --> 00:04:50,120 I think so. 96 00:04:50,290 --> 00:04:52,020 Well, was that starting verse 32? 97 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:53,180 Yeah. 98 00:04:53,580 --> 00:04:53,760 Yeah. 99 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,820 So now learn the parable of fig tree. 100 00:04:59,020 --> 00:05:05,360 When his branch is yet tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh. 101 00:05:05,740 --> 00:05:11,380 So likewise, ye, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near even at the doors. 102 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:23,540 So from what I study, the fig tree, Jesus really begins to apply the lessons that they had been learning back in Matthew chapter 21 and those things. 103 00:05:23,940 --> 00:05:28,040 We may have talked about that a little bit, but the fig tree represents Israel. 104 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:37,640 I mean, from what I see and what I study, you look at Jeremiah 24 and Hosea chapter 9 and verse 10. 105 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,160 A couple of things there that I want to read. 106 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:43,720 Jeremiah has 10 verses here. 107 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:44,460 It said, 108 00:05:44,460 --> 00:05:49,280 The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord. 109 00:05:49,460 --> 00:05:58,400 After Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehochium. 110 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,140 After Nebuchadnezzar, the king carried them away. 111 00:06:02,580 --> 00:06:07,460 The king of Judah and the princes of Judah were the carpenters and the smiths from Jerusalem 112 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,040 and had brought them to Babylon. 113 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:14,100 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that were first ripe, 114 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,280 and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten. 115 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:19,680 They were so bad. 116 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:24,840 Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? 117 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:31,020 And I said, Figs, the good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten. 118 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:32,120 They are so evil. 119 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:37,380 Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, 120 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:43,680 Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, 121 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:49,000 whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 122 00:06:49,430 --> 00:06:51,640 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good. 123 00:06:51,750 --> 00:06:56,560 I will bring them again to this land, and I will build them and not pull them down, 124 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,260 and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 125 00:06:59,590 --> 00:07:03,320 And I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord, 126 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,180 and they shall be my people, and I shall be their God. 127 00:07:06,580 --> 00:07:09,820 for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. 128 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,960 And as the evil figs which cannot be eaten, 129 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:15,180 they are so evil. 130 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:17,120 Surely, thus saith the Lord, 131 00:07:17,220 --> 00:07:19,820 so will I give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, 132 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,480 and his princes in the residue of Jerusalem 133 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:24,580 that remain in this land, 134 00:07:24,780 --> 00:07:26,560 and them that dwell in the land of Egypt. 135 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,040 And I will deliver them to be removed 136 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:31,800 into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, 137 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:34,020 to be a reproach and a proverb, 138 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:50,140 And then Hosea chapter 9 verse 10. 139 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,980 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. 140 00:07:53,190 --> 00:07:57,580 I saw your fathers as the first stripe in the fig tree in her first time. 141 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:04,420 But they went to Baal Peor and separated themselves unto shame. 142 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,560 and their abominations were according as they loved. 143 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:13,260 So still today there are fig trees growing in abundance in Jerusalem. 144 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,100 So this is something that they really understood. 145 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,720 They understood the prophecy of the fig tree. 146 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,420 They understood what he was talking about there. 147 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:24,340 Yeah, and I like to think of this too. 148 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,600 He talks about when this branch becomes tender and puts forth the leaves. 149 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:30,500 You know summer's near. 150 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:30,840 Yeah. 151 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,599 And I like to think, I always use the comparison of, I guess, of storm clouds. 152 00:08:35,849 --> 00:08:38,479 You know, storm clouds come, you know, it's about to rain. 153 00:08:38,659 --> 00:08:39,919 You hear the thunder, you see the lightning. 154 00:08:40,180 --> 00:08:40,440 That's right. 155 00:08:40,599 --> 00:08:41,659 It's kind of the same thing there. 156 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:47,880 And this is kind of related to, I think, to one of the biggest signs that we have that we're in the end times. 157 00:08:48,260 --> 00:08:49,020 Yeah, absolutely. 158 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,440 Is in 1948, Israel became a nation again. 159 00:08:53,790 --> 00:08:54,760 And that's unheard of. 160 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,440 It's miraculous, really, that a people group had disappeared from their homeland. 161 00:08:58,780 --> 00:08:59,020 That's right. 162 00:08:59,140 --> 00:09:02,720 That was close to 2,000 years or whatever it was, 1900-something years. 163 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:03,280 That's right. 164 00:09:03,540 --> 00:09:04,620 Gone and come back. 165 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:05,320 Yeah, yeah. 166 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,900 And they're still migrating into Israel to this day. 167 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:08,300 They are. 168 00:09:08,420 --> 00:09:08,860 They are. 169 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:12,360 And still haven't got back all their land, but they are a nation again. 170 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:12,860 Right. 171 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:13,140 Yeah. 172 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:13,480 Yeah. 173 00:09:13,660 --> 00:09:19,280 Well, was it 67 or 68 they had the war where they captured Jerusalem again? 174 00:09:19,380 --> 00:09:19,880 Yeah, yeah. 175 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:20,760 And that was a big deal. 176 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:21,240 It was. 177 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,360 And they still hold Jerusalem, but there's just a problem there. 178 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:24,780 Mm-hmm. 179 00:09:25,260 --> 00:09:25,580 Absolutely. 180 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:26,960 A problem called the Dome of the Rock. 181 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:27,400 That's right. 182 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:28,340 Which belongs to the Muslim. 183 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:28,680 Yeah. 184 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:29,260 Yeah. 185 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:29,720 But. 186 00:09:30,420 --> 00:09:30,720 Amen. 187 00:09:31,180 --> 00:09:31,460 Amen. 188 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,380 But it's, it's put, it's puts forth its leaves, I believe. 189 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:36,780 Yeah. 190 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,020 And, and, uh, we know he's right at the door. 191 00:09:39,220 --> 00:09:39,500 We do. 192 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:40,240 We do. 193 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:41,320 He's, he's right there. 194 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:41,940 He's waiting. 195 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:42,680 He's waiting. 196 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:44,700 Uh, 34. 197 00:09:45,260 --> 00:09:45,940 You want to read 34? 198 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:46,480 Yeah. 199 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:46,780 Yeah. 200 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:52,580 It says, uh, truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take 201 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:52,820 place. 202 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,780 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 203 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:03,820 Now, here's one just kind of off subjects a little bit, but a lot of people will read Matthew, Mark and Luke. 204 00:10:03,930 --> 00:10:06,020 So, oh, wow, Jesus never claimed to be God. 205 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:07,760 That's a God statement. 206 00:10:07,910 --> 00:10:08,260 It is. 207 00:10:08,260 --> 00:10:09,880 My will never pass away. 208 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:10,200 Yeah. 209 00:10:10,510 --> 00:10:10,620 Amen. 210 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,340 It's written in red and it's the words of Jesus. 211 00:10:15,660 --> 00:10:17,420 And yeah, he is God. 212 00:10:17,660 --> 00:10:18,420 Yeah, absolutely. 213 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:19,020 Amen. 214 00:10:19,460 --> 00:10:19,540 Absolutely. 215 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,780 So this generation, what does he mean by generation? 216 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:24,540 You know, a lot of people have a lot of different ideas. 217 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:30,420 And a lot of people will go back to that fig tree thing and say, well, that was Israel budding in 1948. 218 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:31,240 Yeah. 219 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,660 Well, it's been how long now? 220 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,720 You know, it's been past 70 years, which a lot of people consider generation or 40 years. 221 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:39,140 Right. 222 00:10:39,420 --> 00:10:40,140 Is it 100 years? 223 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:40,760 Yeah. 224 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:45,300 I don't know that he's talking necessarily about Israel becoming a nation again, 225 00:10:45,580 --> 00:10:49,900 but these things that he said in the previous verses all the way back to the first of the chapter. 226 00:10:50,260 --> 00:10:50,820 Yeah, absolutely. 227 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:51,960 Yeah, I think it could be. 228 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:59,000 The Greek word for generation, it can refer to a nation or the nation of Israel will not pass. 229 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:04,940 Or it could refer to the generation who will be living at the time of these events taking place. 230 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:10,220 So a generation said to be about 20 years. 231 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:13,880 So, of course, these events will be finished in seven years. 232 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:15,100 Oh, yeah. 233 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:24,420 You know, he could be talking about the preservation of the Jewish race. 234 00:11:25,780 --> 00:11:27,460 Haman tried to destroy them. 235 00:11:27,850 --> 00:11:29,360 Pharaoh wanted to destroy them. 236 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,360 Hitler tried to destroy them. 237 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:38,380 You know, it continues on and on and on and on. 238 00:11:39,140 --> 00:11:42,040 But no one will ever destroy God's people, will they? 239 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:42,600 No. 240 00:11:42,790 --> 00:11:43,380 Nobody ever will. 241 00:11:43,380 --> 00:11:46,100 Yeah, it really all comes down to Satan trying to destroy them, isn't it? 242 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:47,640 They're just using people to do it. 243 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:53,100 Well, and it's amazing to me to see just how many people today stand against Israel. 244 00:11:53,340 --> 00:11:53,700 Oh, crazy. 245 00:11:54,060 --> 00:11:57,260 And they stand against – and let me say this. 246 00:11:57,580 --> 00:12:02,720 There's one thing to say that there's a problem with the nation, with the way the nation's being run or the leadership or things like that. 247 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:10,640 There are people that stand against that, and then there are people who stand against the nation, the people of Israel. 248 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:13,120 That's two very different things. 249 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:13,620 Yeah. 250 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:22,360 And typically in the U.S., what you get when you hear people complain about it, they're mostly complaining about the individual leadership or things that the leadership does or things like that. 251 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,220 But when you get over into that part of the world, they don't care about the leadership. 252 00:12:26,380 --> 00:12:27,080 It could be anybody. 253 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,240 They want the people gone. 254 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:29,740 Yeah. 255 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:30,860 Yeah, it is. 256 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:31,760 Amen. 257 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:39,040 Verse 35, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 258 00:12:39,380 --> 00:12:42,040 So God's word stands true, doesn't it? 259 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,060 I mean, it always will. 260 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:48,600 There'll be a new heaven and a new earth, but God's word will never change. 261 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,360 It doesn't change the gospel, right? 262 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,120 What he's doing with heaven and earth, what he's doing during tribulation. 263 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,420 Matthew 5, 18, verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth shall pass in the way, 264 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:05,400 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till it all be fulfilled. 265 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:06,020 Yeah. 266 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:11,280 And then forever, O Lord, my word is settled in heaven. 267 00:13:11,540 --> 00:13:13,220 Psalms 119, verse 89. 268 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:18,120 Yeah, that's something that's curious. 269 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,520 A lot of people look at God like he's just a smarter version of us. 270 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:24,780 Like, well, he'll change his mind, 271 00:13:24,910 --> 00:13:27,660 or he might say something wrong here and there and correct himself, 272 00:13:28,210 --> 00:13:29,500 but that's just not the case. 273 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,080 What he said 5,000 years ago is just as true today as it was then. 274 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:35,620 He's a rock. 275 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:36,380 He's a rock. 276 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:37,520 He's God. 277 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:38,820 He doesn't have to change his mind. 278 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,200 Whatever he says is necessarily true. 279 00:13:41,460 --> 00:13:47,540 It just it kills me when you start hearing people say, well, that's that was back then. 280 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,040 It was for that time, for that place. 281 00:13:50,460 --> 00:13:54,680 And, you know, I mean, when it's God speaking and it's his word speaking. 282 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:56,960 No, it's for every generation. 283 00:13:57,140 --> 00:14:02,280 It's for it's forever because it's not like he wasn't thinking ahead. 284 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,060 You know, it wasn't like he didn't know what was going to happen, what we'd be doing in 2025. 285 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,840 I mean, he understood the world, how it would change, what would change. 286 00:14:13,330 --> 00:14:17,040 And look, the book of Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. 287 00:14:17,420 --> 00:14:25,060 I mean, all these things may look different now, but they've dealt with a lot of what we're dealing with today just in different – well, it just looked different back then. 288 00:14:25,140 --> 00:14:25,300 Yeah. 289 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,200 And there's this old hymn I was trying to remember the words of. 290 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:35,720 It says, he speaks in eternity filled with his voice, re-echoes the praise of the Lord. 291 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,420 And when he speaks, eternity hears it. 292 00:14:39,510 --> 00:14:40,660 It goes from one end to the other. 293 00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:41,380 Yeah, that's right. 294 00:14:41,870 --> 00:14:41,980 Amen. 295 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,480 And it doesn't matter what day you're in, what year you're in. 296 00:14:45,660 --> 00:14:46,280 It's true. 297 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:47,540 Yeah, that's right. 298 00:14:47,910 --> 00:14:48,020 Amen. 299 00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:48,680 Amen. 300 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:58,480 So God has not conformed or became subject to the times or to man's ideas at all, right? 301 00:14:58,580 --> 00:14:58,760 No. 302 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:13,780 And if you believe that God's changed his mind or if you believe that God has evolved in the matter of certain sins, then we must be willing to believe that he could change his mind or evolve in the matter of all sin. 303 00:15:14,070 --> 00:15:14,180 Right? 304 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:14,660 Yeah. 305 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,580 I mean, if he's changed his mind about this sin, then he could change his mind about murder. 306 00:15:18,670 --> 00:15:20,300 He could change his mind about rape. 307 00:15:20,850 --> 00:15:21,520 But he's not. 308 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:21,880 Right? 309 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:23,820 These things are settled. 310 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:34,800 So that being said, are you willing to accept murder, rape, molestation, adultery, bestiality, torture, theft, and on and on and on and on? 311 00:15:34,870 --> 00:15:38,060 So if you're willing to say, okay, homosexuality, that's fine. 312 00:15:38,380 --> 00:15:39,620 Abortion, that's okay. 313 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:46,000 But if God can change his mind about those things, can the rest of these things be changed? 314 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,580 And how would we know when he did? 315 00:15:47,740 --> 00:15:48,540 Yeah, absolutely. 316 00:15:50,060 --> 00:15:51,140 That's not what he's done. 317 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:52,300 He's not about chaos. 318 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:53,000 That's right. 319 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:55,000 It's a firm foundation. 320 00:15:55,270 --> 00:15:55,940 Amen, isn't it? 321 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:56,840 Gosh, yeah. 322 00:15:57,110 --> 00:15:57,220 Amen. 323 00:15:57,740 --> 00:15:59,360 Well, he's a God of order. 324 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:01,600 He's a God of justice and of perfect justice. 325 00:16:02,190 --> 00:16:06,320 And in order for that to be true, the justice, it remains throughout history. 326 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,620 It's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. 327 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,920 I mean, there's a reason that we look at God as being that because he is unchanging. 328 00:16:15,010 --> 00:16:21,040 He is eternal because all of time, all of the universe, all that is exists within him. 329 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:22,540 Not the other way around. 330 00:16:22,660 --> 00:16:27,180 He's not limited by this feeble creation because he made it. 331 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:27,740 Right. 332 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,260 So therefore, the creator is not limited by the thing that the creator created. 333 00:16:31,380 --> 00:16:33,840 And I mean, to me, that's just such a simple thing. 334 00:16:34,140 --> 00:16:36,080 And people somehow, they have. 335 00:16:36,180 --> 00:16:36,840 They've got it backwards. 336 00:16:36,940 --> 00:16:38,200 They start thinking that he changes. 337 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:48,320 And it's because people have gotten this idea that God, that religion in general, is a construct of man. 338 00:16:48,780 --> 00:16:50,860 And so therefore, God is a construct of man. 339 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,320 And if you look at it that way, it's like, well, yeah, obviously he would change based 340 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:56,380 on the whims of man. 341 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,000 But that's not the God we serve. 342 00:16:58,579 --> 00:17:04,920 If you change your faith and your faith does not change you, you need to reexamine your 343 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:05,160 faith. 344 00:17:05,620 --> 00:17:05,740 Yeah. 345 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:06,439 Yeah. 346 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,260 We're people trying to make a God that's like me, right? 347 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:09,959 Yeah, absolutely. 348 00:17:10,460 --> 00:17:11,380 Romans 1, right? 349 00:17:11,699 --> 00:17:11,920 Yeah. 350 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:12,339 Yeah. 351 00:17:12,420 --> 00:17:12,500 Yeah. 352 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,100 We bring him down to our idea of what God should be. 353 00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:18,620 Yeah. 354 00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:19,780 And we humanize him. 355 00:17:20,100 --> 00:17:20,300 Yeah. 356 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:20,839 We do. 357 00:17:20,939 --> 00:17:21,439 Yeah. 358 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:25,660 All right. 359 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:26,800 Verse 36. 360 00:17:27,780 --> 00:17:29,420 Do we want to read this whole next section? 361 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:30,880 Can. 362 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,000 Go as far as you want to. 363 00:17:33,190 --> 00:17:36,640 All the way up to 41 because it's all kind of interrelated here, I think. 364 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,720 It says, but of that day and hour, no one knows, 365 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,400 not even the angels of heaven nor the Son, but the Father alone. 366 00:17:44,380 --> 00:17:47,380 For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 367 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:53,200 for as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage 368 00:17:53,460 --> 00:17:58,400 until the day that noah entered the ark and they did not understand until the flood came and took 369 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,880 them all away so will the coming of the son of man be then there will be two men in the field 370 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,540 one will be taken and one will be left two women will be grinding at the mill one will be taken and 371 00:18:09,580 --> 00:18:18,520 one will be left let it rip brother because i i think i just just for sake of complete transparency 372 00:18:18,650 --> 00:18:23,680 i think we might have a little bit diverging future well and before you dive into that do 373 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:29,260 you need to finish that out with 42 therefore stay alert because you do not know on what day 374 00:18:29,310 --> 00:18:35,720 your lord will come yeah yeah yeah kind of rounds that right thought out yeah so yeah just i'll give 375 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,660 you my rundown than your rundown. 376 00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:39,180 That's okay. Either way. 377 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,320 You're still a believer in my mind. 378 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:41,880 That's right. 379 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,640 So starting 380 00:18:45,780 --> 00:18:47,560 in verse 36, so although the 381 00:18:47,740 --> 00:18:49,580 timeline for the return of Christ to 382 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,440 earth will be narrowed down to a 383 00:18:51,550 --> 00:18:53,420 seven-year period, they don't know the 384 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,260 exact day or hour he will return. 385 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:57,540 So Christ 386 00:18:57,550 --> 00:18:59,520 will come back in a time when things were 387 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:01,400 like 388 00:19:01,530 --> 00:19:03,240 they were in the days of Noah. 389 00:19:03,780 --> 00:19:05,640 And this was when 390 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:13,480 thought of man was evil uh genesis 6 5 uh now it talks about eating and drinking there is there a 391 00:19:13,510 --> 00:19:18,700 problem with eating and drinking well first corinthians 10 31 says whether you therefore 392 00:19:18,870 --> 00:19:24,320 you eat or drink whatsoever you do do it all for the glory of god uh the problem was that they were 393 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,920 not eating or drinking for the glory of god whatever they were doing they were living in a 394 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:39,700 They were living every day as if life did not matter, as if morality did not matter, as if relationships did not matter. 395 00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:49,300 So we see this today, and folks, we need to do everything we do to the glory of God. 396 00:19:52,960 --> 00:20:07,900 People are eating supper right now, never caring to thank God before they eat supper, you know, or to acknowledge where the meal come from, that they're just going through life just like God doesn't exist. 397 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:08,920 What about marriage? 398 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,880 Of course, it's OK to marry. 399 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:22,200 But what he's saying is that they were carrying on with everyday life, not giving one thought to a God who created or provided for them. 400 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,000 now you get to verse 40 and 41 and then the two in the field and one shall be taken now to me we 401 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:33,760 got to keep it in context because we've been talking about uh we got into this tribulation 402 00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:39,220 period or we're getting into the tribulation period here so these verses a lot of times they've been 403 00:20:39,420 --> 00:20:44,800 preached when i was growing up as rapture verses but but uh many preachers through the years have 404 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:50,700 preached it that way and you can relate them to that but these verses to me are not dealing with 405 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,240 The church, we have to stay in context. 406 00:20:53,340 --> 00:21:00,100 We've been talking about the days of Noah, who was taken away in the days of Noah. 407 00:21:00,340 --> 00:21:08,280 If we look back in verse 39, and they knew not until the flood came and it took them all away, so shall also be the son of man. 408 00:21:08,540 --> 00:21:14,200 So when we look at the days of Noah and who was taken in the days of Noah, it was evil man, right? 409 00:21:14,460 --> 00:21:15,420 It wasn't good. 410 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:23,380 So those that will be taken away in this time will be those who are taken away in judgment and will enter into the millennial kingdom. 411 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:38,540 And when we get into the book of Revelation, we'll see those taken away and we'll see the sickle that's driven in and people are pulled out in chapter 14. 412 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,900 So there's going to be a time where evil will end, right? 413 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:45,300 There'll be that time. 414 00:21:46,519 --> 00:21:48,560 and so to me 415 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:51,520 I think to keep it in context 416 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:54,460 I think we've got to look at it that way 417 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:56,900 Noah's day people again 418 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,460 when they were carrying on with their life 419 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,400 it seems like a picture of judgment 420 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,500 the ones that will be taken in judgment 421 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:08,220 the ones left will be those who believed in Christ as Savior 422 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,040 and will have the privilege of enjoying his kingdom 423 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,700 during that revelation or during that tribulation time 424 00:22:17,420 --> 00:22:23,520 verse uh i want to read this in in first thessalonians 4 uh 13 but i would not have 425 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:28,060 you ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that they sorrow not even as others have 426 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,440 no hope for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them which sleep in jesus 427 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:38,120 they'll also bring with him for we say this unto you by the word of the lord that we which are 428 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,659 alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for god himself 429 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,880 shall descend from heaven with a shout, 430 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,140 with the voice of an archangel, 431 00:22:47,150 --> 00:22:48,160 and with the trump of God, 432 00:22:48,580 --> 00:22:50,200 and the dead in Christ shall rise first, 433 00:22:50,310 --> 00:22:51,440 and we which are alive and remain 434 00:22:51,550 --> 00:22:53,260 shall be called up together with them in the clouds 435 00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:54,360 to meet the Lord in the air, 436 00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:56,220 and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 437 00:22:56,420 --> 00:22:58,520 Wherefore, comfort one another with these words. 438 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,800 So here the Lord is seen meeting his church in the air, 439 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:07,380 and this takes place before tribulation. 440 00:23:08,580 --> 00:23:09,680 Revelation 3.10, 441 00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:12,860 because thou has kept the word of my patience, 442 00:23:13,030 --> 00:23:14,920 I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, 443 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,340 which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the Lord. 444 00:23:19,780 --> 00:23:21,040 So the Lord's going to keep the church. 445 00:23:21,170 --> 00:23:22,480 And I know we both agree on that. 446 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,240 The Lord's going to keep the church from, 447 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,300 from tribulation from that time. 448 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:28,860 And like I said, 449 00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:29,260 to me, 450 00:23:29,460 --> 00:23:32,400 just reading it and keeping it in the context it's in, 451 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,560 it seems like it would be, 452 00:23:34,260 --> 00:23:38,160 it would be a judgment during tribulation for those who, 453 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,180 who did not, 454 00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:39,560 um, 455 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,780 who did not accept him or took the mark of the beast. 456 00:23:43,260 --> 00:23:44,220 So go ahead. 457 00:23:45,180 --> 00:23:45,280 No, 458 00:23:45,420 --> 00:23:46,120 I see it. 459 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:46,420 Um, 460 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,600 I guess I see the context a little differently. 461 00:23:48,860 --> 00:23:48,920 It, 462 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:49,240 and, 463 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:50,200 uh, 464 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:50,280 uh, 465 00:23:50,860 --> 00:23:51,560 back to, 466 00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:51,760 uh, 467 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:52,380 verse three, 468 00:23:52,780 --> 00:23:52,880 uh, 469 00:23:52,980 --> 00:23:54,160 his disciples ask him, 470 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:54,400 uh, 471 00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:55,320 uh, 472 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:56,020 two, 473 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:56,940 maybe three questions. 474 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:57,420 It says, 475 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:58,260 when, 476 00:23:58,600 --> 00:23:58,720 when, 477 00:23:58,820 --> 00:23:59,760 when are these things going to happen? 478 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:00,320 Right. 479 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:00,720 Uh, 480 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,140 after they talked about not one stone will be left upon another destruction of 481 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:05,940 Jerusalem. 482 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:06,380 Um, 483 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:06,880 they said, 484 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,300 and what will be the sign of your coming? 485 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,340 and of the end of the age. 486 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,580 And I see he describes all that. 487 00:24:11,630 --> 00:24:17,380 And a lot of this stuff from verses four down through probably verse 28. 488 00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:20,920 And it is, well, I'm sorry, verse 31 and any kind of segues 489 00:24:22,620 --> 00:24:25,200 that he's describing the second question first, 490 00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:28,640 that what will be the sign of your coming end of the age? 491 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,700 And he goes through all that stuff up through verse 31. 492 00:24:31,450 --> 00:24:35,700 But I see at the fig tree in verse 32 that he starts to segue into when, 493 00:24:35,810 --> 00:24:37,960 the first question, when will these things happen? 494 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:45,020 And then especially starting at verse 36 where he says, but of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven. 495 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:55,840 And I think he's he's I think it shifts gears there and where he goes from that second question back to the first question and relates it back to the coming of the son of man, just like the days of Noah. 496 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:02,500 And Luke 17 is a parallel passage where it he says, just as it happened in the days of Noah. 497 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,560 So it will be also in the days of son of man. 498 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:12,760 They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. 499 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,380 And same as happened in the days of Lot. 500 00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:19,060 They were eating, they were drinking, buying, selling, planning, building. 501 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,480 But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 502 00:25:24,580 --> 00:25:27,220 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 503 00:25:28,140 --> 00:25:44,720 And I see this, I guess maybe part of where we get different here too is I see that just like the days of Noah, that the rapture is going to rescue the righteous out of a cataclysm. 504 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,380 And just like the days of Lot, that he's going to rescue the righteous out of a cataclysm. 505 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,980 And I think that's where maybe we get sideways. 506 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:57,280 But I see the real shift in the whole thing to me is in verse 36. 507 00:25:57,540 --> 00:26:01,220 or verse 32 and 36, and it kind of changes over to when. 508 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,080 Right, yeah. 509 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:02,920 We don't know. 510 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:03,800 We don't know, yeah. 511 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:04,220 Yeah. 512 00:26:04,740 --> 00:26:04,920 Amen. 513 00:26:06,179 --> 00:26:08,680 And like I said, those things don't separate us, 514 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:13,540 and there's different views, different classes of views, 515 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,700 and it still doesn't take the truth out of it either. 516 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:16,020 Absolutely. 517 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:17,500 Because we know these things are going to happen. 518 00:26:17,660 --> 00:26:19,140 It's just the when and the where and the why. 519 00:26:19,220 --> 00:26:24,480 Yeah, and that's the other thing is I can't see this being anywhere near the end 520 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,680 of the tribulation after half the world's died. 521 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:27,000 Yeah. 522 00:26:27,180 --> 00:26:28,500 And all the fish in the sea are dead. 523 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,260 That's not normal life anymore. 524 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:31,240 Yeah. 525 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,400 That's just where I'm coming from. 526 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:36,220 I can't really get past that part of it. 527 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,940 I mean, there's like four billion people dead. 528 00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:39,200 Yeah. 529 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:39,640 Yeah. 530 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:40,300 You're right. 531 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:41,140 You're right. 532 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:42,440 Yeah. 533 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:51,740 And that's, well, and that's, that's one of the things there that is, this is one of those sections of scripture that it's, it is important to understanding revelation. 534 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,520 It's important to talk about and it's important to acknowledge that this is in there talking about it. 535 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,000 But it's for the exact meaning. 536 00:26:57,420 --> 00:26:59,100 There can be some disagreement there. 537 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,980 And it at the end of the day, it doesn't affect your salvation. 538 00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:04,200 Not one. 539 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,440 That's the thing. 540 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,720 It doesn't affect your walk with Christ either. 541 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:08,720 Exactly. 542 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:20,940 And this is an area I'm really glad you guys kind of have a spot on here that's where you guys differ a little bit, because that's something I think more people need to see is sometimes we can disagree. 543 00:27:21,220 --> 00:27:21,540 Absolutely. 544 00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:22,520 And it's OK. 545 00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:25,080 It is perfectly OK, because here's the thing. 546 00:27:25,180 --> 00:27:28,040 At the end, it's all going to be made clear to us, and we'll all agree. 547 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:29,500 We're both going to be wrong about some stuff. 548 00:27:30,060 --> 00:27:40,340 And there's things that if we did agree, if we didn't agree on, if we agreed on everything, it would be hard to, you know, it'd be hard to be a lot of truth. 549 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,600 One of us is a brown noser. 550 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:42,160 Yeah, yeah. 551 00:27:46,380 --> 00:27:47,780 Yep, if you agree on everything. 552 00:27:48,480 --> 00:28:00,480 Yeah. And so now, if we disagreed on things like salvation, if we disagreed on Christ being the only one, the only way, if we, you know, those. 553 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:01,120 That'd be a problem. 554 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:04,560 Yeah. Yeah. But these right here. Yeah, we can we can look at a couple. 555 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:12,600 And there's so many times that especially during Revelation myself, I'm going to give you a couple of different views on it anyway. 556 00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:18,680 Because, I mean, there's some things that you can follow either way and still be in good company. 557 00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:23,780 Well, and there's, especially when you get into prophecy stuff, the end of time prophecy. 558 00:28:24,420 --> 00:28:25,620 Other prophecies, they've already happened. 559 00:28:25,670 --> 00:28:26,880 We kind of know what they're talking about. 560 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:27,160 I'm sure. 561 00:28:27,490 --> 00:28:29,220 You know, hindsight's 20-20. 562 00:28:29,550 --> 00:28:34,160 But when you get into something that hasn't happened yet, the answer is, at the end of the day, we really don't know. 563 00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:39,280 We're taking educated guesses, and they are informed, educated guesses. 564 00:28:39,390 --> 00:28:41,860 They're not just blind throwing dark at a wall. 565 00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:42,460 Right, right. 566 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,840 But we don't know. 567 00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:44,240 Yeah. 568 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:47,780 And I think it's a wonderful thing that God uses all of that. 569 00:28:47,980 --> 00:28:50,420 But the bottom line is we know he's coming back. 570 00:28:50,590 --> 00:28:50,680 Amen. 571 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:51,860 We know he's coming out of time. 572 00:28:51,970 --> 00:28:52,520 We don't know. 573 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:52,780 That's right. 574 00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:53,420 Right. 575 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:57,080 And we know there's going to be a seven-year tribulation period that you do not want to be around. 576 00:28:57,220 --> 00:28:57,500 That's right. 577 00:28:57,890 --> 00:28:57,980 Amen. 578 00:28:58,180 --> 00:28:58,460 Absolutely. 579 00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,060 Amen. 580 00:28:59,780 --> 00:28:59,860 Yeah. 581 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,780 Especially because how that ends. 582 00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:02,220 Yeah. 583 00:29:02,380 --> 00:29:02,680 Like safe. 584 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:03,140 Yeah. 585 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:04,460 Billions. 586 00:29:04,550 --> 00:29:04,640 Yes. 587 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:05,560 Just dead. 588 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:05,900 Yeah. 589 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,820 Estimates are between a half and two-thirds of the world population dead about the end of that seven. 590 00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:12,360 Yeah. 591 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:12,480 Yeah. 592 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,620 And all the fish in the sea are gone. 593 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:15,140 That's right. 594 00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:16,760 No good drinking water. 595 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,560 Stars falling out of the sky. 596 00:29:18,780 --> 00:29:23,000 Crazy stuff running around stinging people and just wild. 597 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:23,520 It is. 598 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,980 A lot of literal stuff. 599 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:30,500 And I think that you don't find anywhere else. 600 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,500 You know, some of those, everybody wants to make that figurative, some of those things. 601 00:29:34,580 --> 00:29:38,060 And I don't see a lot of figurative in that part. 602 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:38,280 Yeah. 603 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:38,920 Yeah. 604 00:29:39,420 --> 00:29:40,100 We agree on that. 605 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:40,400 Yeah. 606 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:46,480 You know, I hear people talk about, you know, some of the symbology, some of the descriptions we'll see of some of this stuff in Revelation. 607 00:29:46,780 --> 00:29:46,840 Yeah. 608 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,220 I've heard people go, well, he's just trying to describe an Apache helicopter. 609 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:50,700 Yeah. 610 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:52,780 You know, an M1 Abrams battle tank or something. 611 00:29:52,940 --> 00:29:53,180 Right. 612 00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:53,520 No. 613 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:54,120 No. 614 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,780 I think this is spiritual DNA stuff. 615 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:57,360 I do too. 616 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,100 I do too. 617 00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:58,640 Weird. 618 00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,120 Absolutely. 619 00:29:59,620 --> 00:29:59,940 Absolutely. 620 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,320 Never seen before. 621 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,780 I go literal with a lot of that stuff. 622 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,440 Being stung and never, and not being able to die. 623 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:09,420 Is that not, I mean, there's going to be a period there. 624 00:30:09,660 --> 00:30:18,320 when we get there yes yeah glad we're not going to be there yes amen uh verse 42 625 00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:25,720 watch therefore for you know not the hour of the day the lord come oh excuse me verse 43 but but 626 00:30:25,860 --> 00:30:32,000 know this that if the good man of the house had known in which and what watch the thief would come 627 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:36,779 he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up 628 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:40,780 So I'm going to go on down to verse 45. 629 00:30:41,380 --> 00:30:45,980 Therefore, be also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh, 630 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:52,860 who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household 631 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:55,660 to give them meat in due season. 632 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,640 So if he had known, he would have been prepared. 633 00:31:01,690 --> 00:31:06,520 If he had an idea, then I would have got myself ready. 634 00:31:06,580 --> 00:31:07,820 This is what the guy's thinking. 635 00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:10,840 Then I would have got my family ready. 636 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,920 I would have known I would have taken. 637 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,960 And on my side of it, if I would have known I wouldn't take the mark of the beast, 638 00:31:18,140 --> 00:31:21,940 if I had known I wouldn't have worshipped a false Christ or the image of the temple. 639 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,940 But we know that this is someone. 640 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,900 He's speaking about someone who wasn't ready. 641 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:29,760 He wasn't prepared. 642 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,200 Either way, you're going out and you're living life. 643 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:38,080 And God is not in the picture. 644 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,280 He's not something that you're worried about. 645 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,480 You just keep going and living life. 646 00:31:44,740 --> 00:31:48,280 And I was going to say, I always take that and I go back to the days of Noah. 647 00:31:49,070 --> 00:31:51,360 And I think about, you know, here he was. 648 00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:52,240 He was telling everybody. 649 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,160 It was not a secret what was about to happen. 650 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:02,900 He's out there building a giant boat in the middle of the desert where they've never seen rain ever. 651 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,740 The idea that the ground's going to flood? 652 00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:10,840 I mean, it wasn't like it was hidden. 653 00:32:11,620 --> 00:32:12,800 It's the same thing here. 654 00:32:12,980 --> 00:32:13,860 Jesus is telling them. 655 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:16,360 He's like, I'm telling you what's going to happen. 656 00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:17,800 I'm not hiding it. 657 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,100 But just like that person that's going to have the thief come by and break into their house. 658 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,220 Well, if I'd known he was coming that night, well, you knew the thief was out there. 659 00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:26,680 Right. 660 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,700 How many people put salvation off to the very end of their life? 661 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,520 Yeah, absolutely. 662 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,660 Just right to the doorstep. 663 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,540 And I think this comes down to we've got to be genuine. 664 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:39,620 We've got to be real. 665 00:32:39,820 --> 00:32:40,160 Absolutely. 666 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,300 Really following him, really abiding in him. 667 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:42,640 Absolutely. 668 00:32:43,340 --> 00:32:45,240 I see people out there who I know. 669 00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:50,340 I know folks who have been saved and are out of church and not raising their kids in church. 670 00:32:50,580 --> 00:32:50,720 Yeah. 671 00:32:50,860 --> 00:32:51,360 That's scary. 672 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,840 You know, I mean, that you know that you're okay, but you don't know that your kids are okay. 673 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,100 And you're just out there living life, playing baseball. 674 00:32:59,980 --> 00:33:04,240 You know, I kind of like the whole travel ball thing. 675 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,460 I mean, again, as long as you can make it to church and do what you need to do with the Lord, that's fine. 676 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,640 Do play all you want to. 677 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:20,920 But when it starts getting in the way of your church and your worship, no, you're robbing your children of the experience. 678 00:33:21,180 --> 00:33:24,440 Now, God can still save them and he can still meet them wherever they are. 679 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,240 But you're taking away from the opportunities that they have to meet Jesus. 680 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,740 I mean, it's like you're narrowing them down. 681 00:33:33,140 --> 00:33:34,380 It's a worldly distraction. 682 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:34,700 It is. 683 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:40,060 And a lot of people justify it by saying, well, they're learning a lot of life lessons playing 684 00:33:40,260 --> 00:33:40,440 ball. 685 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:42,380 They ain't learning life lessons. 686 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,520 They'll be learning in here. 687 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,480 Oh, and then they're going to tell you, you know, well, yeah, and we do some really good 688 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,060 devotions. 689 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:48,440 Okay. 690 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:48,860 Yeah. 691 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:49,220 Yeah. 692 00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:51,960 About a 10, 5, 10 minute devotion and that's it. 693 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:52,560 And they're done. 694 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:53,540 Let's play ball. 695 00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:55,980 You know, no, your kids ain't getting anything out of that. 696 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:57,600 Getting chewed out by the coach. 697 00:33:58,020 --> 00:33:58,620 Oh, it's tough. 698 00:33:58,620 --> 00:33:58,740 It's tough. 699 00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:59,100 And I'm up. 700 00:33:59,160 --> 00:33:59,320 Yeah. 701 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:19,379 Yeah, it is amazing. And again, it goes back to that. How many people, how many people, when we reach the end, when we're standing in front of the perfect judge, you're standing in front of him. He is judging you from a place of perfection. 702 00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:45,700 Yeah. And you say, well, we had a devotion. He said, but I commanded you to be in church. I told you not to forsake the assembling of yourselves together. Yeah. And well, but but, you know, we we just had these other things that we had to do. And he's like, you weren't taking the kid to the hospital. You weren't taking them to something that was the kid was having a hard time and possibly going to, you know, spiral off into these major problems. 703 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,600 You were taking them to a ball game. 704 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:56,360 You were taking them to ball practice or to whatever club or whatever event instead of worshiping. 705 00:34:56,780 --> 00:35:00,540 Instead of resting like I commanded you to. 706 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:03,040 I mean, it's right there. 707 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,740 It's one of the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath day. 708 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:06,000 You've got to remember it and keep it holy. 709 00:35:06,140 --> 00:35:08,060 You have to have a day set aside to rest. 710 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,340 And that does not necessarily mean do nothing. 711 00:35:11,220 --> 00:35:15,320 It means a day set aside for you and God to meet. 712 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:15,640 Yeah. 713 00:35:16,420 --> 00:35:16,540 Amen. 714 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,940 What's the best possible outcome if you're living vicariously through your kid and trying to make him a baseball star? 715 00:35:22,340 --> 00:35:28,320 He overcomes the minuscule chance he's got of ever being drafted by a minor league baseball team. 716 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:28,680 Absolutely. 717 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,480 Making it through the minor leagues all the way up to the pros and becoming the next Greg Maddox. 718 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:32,680 Yeah. 719 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,940 What's the best possible outcome? 720 00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:37,860 He stays in baseball for 10, 15 years. 721 00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:40,380 He retires, becomes a sports announcer. 722 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,460 What good is that for a thousand years from now? 723 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:43,860 That's right. 724 00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:52,140 And you just produced another generation who is less concerned about church and God than you were. 725 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:52,600 That's right. 726 00:35:52,660 --> 00:35:53,260 And they're kids. 727 00:35:53,660 --> 00:35:53,780 Yeah. 728 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:54,180 Yeah. 729 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,800 They definitely won't even be having a devotion at their practice, right? 730 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,840 I mean, that's not happening. 731 00:35:59,140 --> 00:35:59,660 It's not happening. 732 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:07,320 You know, have you guys ever noticed that in the last several years, we're not seeing as many people like Tim Tebow was. 733 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,480 Get out there being up front about their faith and out there in front of people saying, no, I'm a Christian. 734 00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:12,920 Yeah. 735 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:15,860 And I believe in God and I believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. 736 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,880 And I believe we don't see that out of these big sports players anymore. 737 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:19,260 Yeah. 738 00:36:19,460 --> 00:36:19,960 Like ever. 739 00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:20,580 Yeah. 740 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,620 I mean, you didn't see it very often when he did it. 741 00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:23,960 But you know what? 742 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:30,800 I could think of like four or five around the time he was off the top of my head back then that actually talked about these things openly. 743 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:31,320 Yeah. 744 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,600 And it's like, that's what you want to put your kid in? 745 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:35,220 Yeah. 746 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:42,880 That's your ultimate life goal is I want my kid to be in an environment where God is completely. 747 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:44,660 You know what? 748 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,040 We talk about it a lot with sports. 749 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:48,420 Theater. 750 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:53,620 I just went and watched Cornerstone Christian Academy did Anastasia the Musical for their kids. 751 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:54,880 Great show. 752 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,680 Friday, they were down at the Opera House. 753 00:36:56,740 --> 00:36:57,380 It was wonderful. 754 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,420 The kids did amazing. 755 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,500 The director and Brooks, the assistant director of it, did fantastic. 756 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:03,220 It was wonderful. 757 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:03,860 It was awesome. 758 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,020 I don't know about encouraging the kids to do that when they get in college. 759 00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:19,680 Like when I did it, we actually took time on the Sundays making sure that it didn't interfere with church when we had Sunday performances. 760 00:37:20,220 --> 00:37:21,040 They don't do that anymore. 761 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,400 We took time to get together. 762 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:25,860 We actually prayed before we went out and performed. 763 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:27,920 Most of the people there were not Christian. 764 00:37:29,660 --> 00:37:30,920 And everybody made it clear. 765 00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:33,940 Hey, look, if you just do not accept it, that's okay. 766 00:37:34,020 --> 00:37:36,700 You don't have to join in, but the rest of us are going to pray. 767 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:38,660 And we did. 768 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,520 That doesn't happen as much anymore. 769 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,580 Like that stuff is just going away and going away and going away. 770 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:48,760 And I'm like, you want to put your kids in a position and you encourage them to do something 771 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,540 that rejects everything. 772 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,160 Yeah. 773 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,460 Well, I mean, we spend a lot of time picking on sports, but what about video games? 774 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:56,900 Yeah. 775 00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:59,200 Kids are just walked away for hours on end, right? 776 00:37:59,260 --> 00:37:59,440 Yeah. 777 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:00,800 There's all kinds. 778 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,800 And now kids are taking that into adulthood. 779 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:08,160 I mean, it's like they're just obsessed as married men, you know, 780 00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:11,800 and sometimes taking away time from their wives and children. 781 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,420 I mean, you know, you've got to be careful. 782 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:15,720 You've got to be careful there. 783 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,380 You've got to see where your priorities are. 784 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:21,080 And, you know, and look, again, I love sports. 785 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:21,920 You can have hobbies. 786 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,000 You can have hobbies. 787 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:24,700 You can play a video game or whatever. 788 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,740 Let's be careful which ones we play because there's some pretty evil stuff out there, you know. 789 00:38:30,180 --> 00:38:30,880 Just like with movies. 790 00:38:31,220 --> 00:38:33,860 But everything has its place. 791 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:39,200 Everything has its place, and everything can be done decent and in order. 792 00:38:40,339 --> 00:38:42,860 It's not hard to go from that to idolatry. 793 00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:43,580 No, yeah. 794 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:46,780 And it's a very short – yeah, like you say, it's a very short step, 795 00:38:46,870 --> 00:38:48,080 and it's an easy one to trip over. 796 00:38:48,340 --> 00:38:50,480 And I think that a lot of people forget that. 797 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,980 And, again, I just – I always go back to these verses, 798 00:38:53,090 --> 00:38:55,880 and I go back to the verses in Revelation. 799 00:38:55,970 --> 00:38:57,700 I go back to the Thessalonians. 800 00:38:57,940 --> 00:38:59,360 In a moment, we're going to be taken out. 801 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:06,420 I'm thinking, uh, standing in front of God and him going, you know, I told you. 802 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:07,180 Yeah. 803 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:08,000 What'd he catch you doing? 804 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:08,620 Yeah. 805 00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:08,860 Right. 806 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:09,260 Yeah. 807 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,720 Were you in the middle of? 808 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:11,520 Oh, yeah. 809 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,240 I mean, you really need to think about that. 810 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:14,720 We do. 811 00:39:14,910 --> 00:39:18,640 We really need to be thinking about what we're doing minute by minute, hour by hour. 812 00:39:19,060 --> 00:39:19,120 Yeah. 813 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:20,000 Yeah. 814 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:21,140 Hey, it's getting close. 815 00:39:21,620 --> 00:39:21,760 Yeah. 816 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:23,320 Yeah. 817 00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:23,720 Yeah. 818 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,760 What were you dreaming about in your evil mind when I came and got you? 819 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:27,160 You know? 820 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,320 I mean, and, and cause what we, 821 00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:37,320 what we let in into our eyes and and uh and our ears will will take over even our subconscious 822 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,960 won't it yeah yeah absolutely it will it's the quick hey it's the quickest way to destroy a man 823 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:48,460 is through his eyes yeah yeah i agree i agree straight to the heart yeah where we get to 45 824 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,780 46 46 we could probably read the rest of them if you want to uh all right where you want to 825 00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:58,399 all the way up to the end of the chapter yep all right blessed is that slave whom his master finds 826 00:39:58,420 --> 00:39:59,560 so doing when he comes. 827 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,680 Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 828 00:40:04,380 --> 00:40:06,180 But if that evil slave says in his heart, 829 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,200 my master's not coming for a long time and begins to beat his fellow slaves and 830 00:40:10,380 --> 00:40:11,460 eat and drink with drunkards, 831 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:15,240 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him. 832 00:40:15,620 --> 00:40:16,280 And at an hour, 833 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,240 which he does not know and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with 834 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:24,040 the hypocrites and that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 835 00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:26,720 Yeah. 836 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,740 So it's a glimpse to what man will be like. 837 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:35,140 Well, the Lord, he ain't coming today. 838 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,120 I still got time. 839 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,520 I've been hearing he's coming back for years, but I'll get closer. 840 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,560 I'll get right with him when it's closer to time. 841 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,600 Oh, surely he won't come back today. 842 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,000 Let's keep living in sin. 843 00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:50,180 Let's keep doing evil. 844 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,020 Let's keep satisfying our own lust and our pleasures. 845 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:54,440 We got time. 846 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:55,180 We got time. 847 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,420 Oh, isn't there? 848 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,700 There's a world full of people who are living that way today. 849 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:06,760 I mean, whether you look at this as during tribulation or right now, 850 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,460 there is a world full of people who are living that exact same way, 851 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,320 living life as though there are no consequences for sin, 852 00:41:13,780 --> 00:41:15,640 as though there is no judgment to come. 853 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,780 And I don't care if you're saved or not saved. 854 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,840 Everyone's going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ, right? 855 00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:23,380 If you're saved, you're going to stand at the judgment seat of Christ. 856 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,140 If you're lost, you're going to stand to great white throne to judgment. 857 00:41:27,510 --> 00:41:31,220 But either way, you're going to stand before God, before Christ. 858 00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:36,340 And they live this way just as he's never coming back. 859 00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:39,720 And we as a church, we need to sound the trumpet. 860 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:40,420 Amen. 861 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:41,460 I mean, we do. 862 00:41:42,330 --> 00:41:43,460 We need to sound the trumpet. 863 00:41:43,570 --> 00:41:46,980 We need to sound an alarm. 864 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:54,740 We need to pray that the lost be saved before it's ever too late. 865 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,060 So, yeah. 866 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,000 Anyway, guys, inside joke there. 867 00:41:59,300 --> 00:41:59,440 Okay. 868 00:42:03,660 --> 00:42:07,940 And we don't do ourselves any favor or the world any favors by saying, 869 00:42:07,980 --> 00:42:11,180 oh, the rapture's going to happen on September the 23rd. 870 00:42:11,420 --> 00:42:12,880 You know, pick out a date out of the calendar. 871 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:13,160 Yeah. 872 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:13,520 Right. 873 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:23,480 As Peter says in 2 Peter 3, 3, know this first of all, then the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following up their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming? 874 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:28,400 For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation. 875 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:28,880 Yeah. 876 00:42:29,220 --> 00:42:29,340 Yeah. 877 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,840 I love that particular mocking right there. 878 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:33,300 Since he fell asleep. 879 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:34,340 Yeah. 880 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:36,420 It's the fathers have fallen asleep. 881 00:42:36,540 --> 00:42:39,280 And yeah, they're talking about the forefathers and all that. 882 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,960 But they're also saying, no, he's asleep. 883 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:41,160 Yeah. 884 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:42,160 God never sleeps. 885 00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:42,720 He didn't sleep. 886 00:42:43,300 --> 00:42:43,860 He's wide awake. 887 00:42:44,060 --> 00:42:44,920 He doesn't rest. 888 00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:49,000 The only time he rested is when he created this thing, right? 889 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:49,320 Yeah. 890 00:42:49,980 --> 00:42:51,680 And he's never rested since then. 891 00:42:51,740 --> 00:42:51,960 Yeah. 892 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:52,580 Yeah. 893 00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:55,840 A lot of people are just, they don't have fear anymore. 894 00:42:56,140 --> 00:42:57,720 And Jesus used fear. 895 00:42:57,820 --> 00:43:00,000 Jesus talked about hell more than he talked about heaven. 896 00:43:00,260 --> 00:43:00,440 Yeah. 897 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:00,900 Yeah. 898 00:43:01,220 --> 00:43:01,400 Right. 899 00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:03,120 Fear is a factor in this thing. 900 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:06,400 And the fear of the Lord is just not a thing in church anymore. 901 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:06,980 Yeah. 902 00:43:07,540 --> 00:43:09,660 And we need to be a little bit afraid of this. 903 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,700 But what is he going to catch us doing when he comes back? 904 00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:13,040 Right. 905 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:13,580 Right, right. 906 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,120 That's right. 907 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:15,960 There needs to be a certain level of fear of that. 908 00:43:16,140 --> 00:43:16,400 That's right. 909 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:17,160 Because he's God. 910 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,580 He's holy, holy, holy. 911 00:43:18,980 --> 00:43:19,120 Yeah. 912 00:43:19,570 --> 00:43:19,660 Amen. 913 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:20,480 Amen. 914 00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:21,580 I love that. 915 00:43:21,970 --> 00:43:30,080 And, you know, I think it, I remember when I was in high school and a lot of the preachers in this area started getting, 916 00:43:33,260 --> 00:43:38,940 they started trying to be real careful during their sermons and stuff, especially when youth were involved, 917 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:44,320 because they would have these big prayer meetings and these big youth rallies and stuff, 918 00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:45,480 and all these kids would come down. 919 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:52,380 And then like 60%, 80% of them would walk away and never set foot back in church again. 920 00:43:52,420 --> 00:43:54,980 Someone would go out and do some, it was bad. 921 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:56,660 It got real bad. 922 00:43:57,940 --> 00:44:03,800 And I think a lot of the preachers got afraid of, well, we're scaring them, 923 00:44:04,370 --> 00:44:06,780 but they're never actually understanding what they're doing. 924 00:44:06,850 --> 00:44:07,840 And so they got away from it. 925 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,440 But like you said, there's a reason Christ does bring it up. 926 00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:14,020 There is that aspect of fear. 927 00:44:14,020 --> 00:44:15,680 You can't shy away from it. 928 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:22,680 Now, if that's the only thing you ever preach is hellfire and brimstone, there's a problem there. 929 00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:25,360 But you've got to mention it. 930 00:44:25,740 --> 00:44:26,700 You've got to talk about it. 931 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:27,600 There is judgment. 932 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,660 Yeah, absolutely. 933 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,840 If you love somebody, you're going to warn somebody. 934 00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:41,540 I mean, you're going to say, hey, you're not going to let somebody walk into a burning building and not tell them that the building's on fire, not tell them the way out anyway. 935 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:48,580 If the building catches on fire while you're in there and you know the only way out, you're going to get out by yourself and say, sorry, buddy, do the best you can. 936 00:44:49,299 --> 00:44:51,280 How terrible of a people would we be? 937 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:52,440 Let's be honest. 938 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,380 If you're not telling them, if you are ignoring these parts of the scripture, it's not just that you're not telling them. 939 00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:03,220 You're saying, hey, the exit's over there while you head out the exit over here. 940 00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:06,540 You're literally pointing them in the wrong direction saying, head over there. 941 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:07,820 Right there's the exit. 942 00:45:08,140 --> 00:45:10,900 You just head that way, and I'm right behind you. 943 00:45:11,140 --> 00:45:11,320 Right. 944 00:45:11,780 --> 00:45:16,940 This is the part of Scripture that progressive Christianity just kind of skims over and skip it. 945 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:17,860 Absolutely. 946 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,560 They don't want to think about being accountable. 947 00:45:20,980 --> 00:45:21,100 Yeah. 948 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:21,620 Yeah. 949 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:24,500 They're making their own God. 950 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:24,880 Yeah. 951 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:25,500 Absolutely. 952 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:26,520 Absolutely. 953 00:45:26,780 --> 00:45:27,140 They are. 954 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,120 Make God in our image, not us in his. 955 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,160 Well, I know we got just a few minutes. 956 00:45:34,310 --> 00:45:35,720 We got about 10, 12 minutes. 957 00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:37,740 Do I want to go on into chapter 25? 958 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:38,320 Let's do it. 959 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:38,880 Okay. 960 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,460 Definitely at least hit those first ones after that. 961 00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:42,780 Goodness. 962 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,900 It kind of goes into it. 963 00:45:46,070 --> 00:45:52,020 And, you know, so chapter 25, let's look at that first verse there. 964 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,020 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like another ten virgins, 965 00:45:55,150 --> 00:45:57,300 which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bride. 966 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:04,700 and and we'll go i'll go ahead and read the let's see through the next couple of verses five of them 967 00:46:04,780 --> 00:46:09,500 were wise and five of them were foolish then they were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with 968 00:46:09,620 --> 00:46:17,140 them but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps um okay so the parable of ten versions 969 00:46:17,340 --> 00:46:22,840 this is a kind of a continuation of jesus answer to the question what shall be the sign of that 970 00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:30,260 coming um and in in matthew 24 3 we're talking about earlier um you know this is kingdom stuff 971 00:46:30,340 --> 00:46:38,360 that we're talking about here but uh notice notice that he is the bridegroom um yeah because 972 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:45,460 there had there had been a wedding that had has taken place uh there will be a wedding that takes 973 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:51,119 place when when the church goes home right there'll be a wedding taking place then uh between christ 974 00:46:51,140 --> 00:46:51,960 and his bride, the church. 975 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:53,820 And although the wedding is in heaven, 976 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,280 we are led to believe scripturally 977 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,920 that the marriage supper will take place here on earth. 978 00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:02,400 So this is backed up in Luke chapter 12. 979 00:47:02,660 --> 00:47:04,340 We want to flip over there real quick. 980 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:13,340 Luke 12 and 35, starting in verse 35. 981 00:47:15,220 --> 00:47:17,160 Yeah, 35 and 36. 982 00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:25,340 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, 983 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,620 and be yourselves like unto the men that wait for the Lord 984 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:30,660 when he will return from the wedding, 985 00:47:31,780 --> 00:47:36,060 that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 986 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:43,320 So there's going to be a marriage supper that I think that 987 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,280 when the wedding takes place in heaven, the marriage supper, 988 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:53,580 could possibly take place with those who are here after he's come back, 989 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,480 after he's destroyed everything. 990 00:47:56,260 --> 00:47:57,620 Anyway, that's one theory. 991 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:03,460 But it says, let your loins be girded about and your lights burning. 992 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:04,600 Remember these things. 993 00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:09,000 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for the Lord when you return from the wedding 994 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,700 and when he cometh and knocketh, they may opeth unto him immediately. 995 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:18,360 Of course, when you see the bridegroom, you're always going to see the bride, aren't you? 996 00:48:19,420 --> 00:48:23,120 When we go home, wherever he is, there's where we're going to be. 997 00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:26,780 He wouldn't leave heaven without us. 998 00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:30,480 I mean, I don't go many places without my wife. 999 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:31,800 I mean, they're very seldom. 1000 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,400 So the church will return with Jesus. 1001 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,940 Oil is symbolic of the Spirit of God. 1002 00:48:38,140 --> 00:48:43,200 In other words, there'll be those who have their lamps and say it has oil, but it does not. 1003 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,120 These are those who did not trust in the coming of the bridegroom by faith. 1004 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,640 They didn't trust in that. 1005 00:48:48,990 --> 00:48:55,960 Then there will be others who will by faith trust that Jesus will return to set up his kingdom here on earth. 1006 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,960 So, you know, where do you fall? 1007 00:48:59,080 --> 00:48:59,960 What are you trusting in? 1008 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:00,800 What are you believing in? 1009 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:01,540 Yeah. 1010 00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:04,440 Yeah. 1011 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,120 This is one of those parables that I've always struggled with this. 1012 00:49:09,060 --> 00:49:11,080 What is the exact meaning of oil? 1013 00:49:11,850 --> 00:49:12,000 Yeah. 1014 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,220 Are all 10 of these people saved? 1015 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:14,800 Yeah. 1016 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:19,780 Or, you know, I don't know that I have a real good grasp on this one, to be honest. 1017 00:49:20,060 --> 00:49:21,420 I think the oil does. 1018 00:49:21,460 --> 00:49:23,000 I think it represents the Holy Spirit. 1019 00:49:23,300 --> 00:49:23,380 Yeah. 1020 00:49:23,540 --> 00:49:29,940 You know, but, you know, and I think you either filled up with it or you're not. 1021 00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:30,380 Yeah. 1022 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:30,860 Yeah. 1023 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,480 You're either ready by having the Holy Spirit or you're not. 1024 00:49:34,980 --> 00:49:35,160 Yeah. 1025 00:49:35,900 --> 00:49:36,000 But. 1026 00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:36,260 Yeah. 1027 00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:39,700 So you end up, well, I don't know if we need to go through the rest of it. 1028 00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:39,940 Yeah. 1029 00:49:40,220 --> 00:49:40,300 Yeah. 1030 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:41,820 You want to go ahead and go through the rest of it? 1031 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:42,280 Yeah. 1032 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:44,620 Where'd you stop off that? 1033 00:49:45,180 --> 00:49:45,820 25-5. 1034 00:49:46,260 --> 00:49:46,400 Five. 1035 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:46,980 All right. 1036 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:47,680 We're on five? 1037 00:49:47,940 --> 00:49:48,180 Yes. 1038 00:49:48,340 --> 00:49:51,600 Now, while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. 1039 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,000 But at midnight, there was a shout, behold, the bridegroom come out to meet him. 1040 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,240 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 1041 00:49:58,610 --> 00:50:02,840 The foolish said to the prudent, give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out. 1042 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,740 But the prudent answered, no, there will not be enough for us and you too. 1043 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,820 Go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves. 1044 00:50:10,580 --> 00:50:17,300 And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast and the door was shut. 1045 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:21,740 Later, the other virgins also came saying, Lord, Lord, open up for us. 1046 00:50:21,770 --> 00:50:28,640 But he answered, truly, I say to you, I do not know you be on the alert then for you do not know the day nor the hour. 1047 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:29,100 Yeah. 1048 00:50:29,660 --> 00:50:29,720 Yeah. 1049 00:50:29,890 --> 00:50:33,080 So it sounds like it sounds like of the 10, five of them are really saved. 1050 00:50:33,220 --> 00:50:33,340 Yeah. 1051 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:33,680 Yeah. 1052 00:50:34,219 --> 00:50:35,520 I do not know you. 1053 00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:35,980 That's right. 1054 00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:36,380 Yeah. 1055 00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:37,420 Five of them got it. 1056 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:49,040 And you'll notice that they both slept, but half of them slept in comfort, knowing in faith that the bridegroom was going to return. 1057 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:54,100 And the others had not prepared for his return, and they were foolish, and they had no oil. 1058 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:54,620 Yeah. 1059 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:55,080 So. 1060 00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:55,980 Yeah. 1061 00:50:56,180 --> 00:51:03,820 Well, and I'm thinking that this is one of those things that it, and I think that's also the beauty of the parables that Christ told. 1062 00:51:03,820 --> 00:51:06,940 A lot of times there's multiple meanings to what he was saying. 1063 00:51:07,140 --> 00:51:08,960 Because he's talking to so many different people. 1064 00:51:09,590 --> 00:51:14,920 But I think you have the people who are saved and not saved, which is the surface level, just kind of look at it. 1065 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,000 And these people that go to church and, oh, yeah, I believe, I believe. 1066 00:51:19,210 --> 00:51:21,860 And they pay lip service to it, but they never prepare. 1067 00:51:21,930 --> 00:51:24,080 They never pray that prayer of salvation. 1068 00:51:24,150 --> 00:51:24,820 They never ask. 1069 00:51:25,260 --> 00:51:26,940 And then when he shows up, he's saying, it's too late. 1070 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:27,860 I'm here. 1071 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:28,880 We're already gone. 1072 00:51:29,260 --> 00:51:30,680 Because it's going to be a quick thing. 1073 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:31,620 We're here. 1074 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:32,100 We're gone. 1075 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,880 And now here you are going, oh, but wait, I was waiting for you. 1076 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:37,520 No, you weren't. 1077 00:51:37,820 --> 00:51:38,900 You weren't waiting. 1078 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:39,380 You weren't. 1079 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,400 And so you kind of have that on the surface. 1080 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:42,980 But then you also have that. 1081 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:58,680 That rejection of those people that and again, I'm not saying that you lose your salvation, but I'm talking about the consequences of being a Christian, having faith, having it, but not staying ready, not keeping it filled and Christ going. 1082 00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:03,520 I've moved on to other things, to better things, to something that is so much better. 1083 00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:09,300 And you're still back here waiting for me to come get you while I've already walked on by. 1084 00:52:10,060 --> 00:52:14,920 And I think there's kind of a little bit of a multiple levels to it there. 1085 00:52:15,420 --> 00:52:22,060 But that last part does make it very much, to me, sound like it is the saved versus unsaved of I do not know you. 1086 00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:23,400 That's very, very. 1087 00:52:23,420 --> 00:52:25,040 The point of the whole thing is be on alert. 1088 00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:25,660 That's right. 1089 00:52:25,740 --> 00:52:26,060 Be ready. 1090 00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,320 Either way, be ready. 1091 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:27,740 Yeah. 1092 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:28,720 Be prepared. 1093 00:52:29,140 --> 00:52:38,800 And again, even if this is you during tribulation, that you didn't accept the mark of the beast, 1094 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:45,180 and you were waiting on the return of Christ for his kingdom, and others did not, 1095 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,680 and they were going on and doing whatever, or whether it's right now, 1096 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:55,200 and you are going along saying, I'll get right later, I'll do better. 1097 00:52:55,540 --> 00:52:57,260 Yeah, I know you would. 1098 00:52:57,420 --> 00:52:58,560 I mean, you would be surprised. 1099 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,520 No, you wouldn't be surprised, but you guys wouldn't. 1100 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:08,080 But a lot of people would be surprised of the people that I that I that I have a chance to witness to on a daily basis. 1101 00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,780 And it's just me. 1102 00:53:10,540 --> 00:53:13,460 But that you say, you know, are you a Christian? 1103 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:18,100 And you got to be careful how you word that because, oh, yeah, yeah, I believe in God. 1104 00:53:18,380 --> 00:53:18,720 It's not. 1105 00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,360 You know, yeah, it's not. 1106 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:30,480 Yeah, it's not it's not it's not a full out heartfelt surrender to to the king of kings and the Lord of lords and making him Lord of your life. 1107 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:36,660 And so in a lot of people, their their their their belief in God is shallow. 1108 00:53:37,020 --> 00:53:40,160 It's not it's not a belief that really changes them. 1109 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:45,460 It's not a belief that drives them, that their whole life is consumed by who Jesus is. 1110 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:50,760 It's just like, yeah, he's a genie in a bottle when I have a problem, when I have an issue. 1111 00:53:51,240 --> 00:54:00,900 He's somebody that I can pray to if I feel like I need to, but he's not really Lord of my life. 1112 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:09,600 Well, and bear in mind, if you believe in God, but you haven't accepted Jesus, you're in real good company there because so does Satan. 1113 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:10,800 Yeah, yeah. 1114 00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:14,860 Lucifer believes in God because he knows who made him. 1115 00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:16,800 He knows who his creator is. 1116 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,120 Demons believe and tremble. 1117 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:18,700 Yeah. 1118 00:54:19,020 --> 00:54:19,960 It says they tremble. 1119 00:54:21,020 --> 00:54:22,780 And so, yeah, congratulations. 1120 00:54:23,020 --> 00:54:24,700 You're in great company believing in him. 1121 00:54:24,780 --> 00:54:25,820 Have you made him Lord of your life? 1122 00:54:25,860 --> 00:54:26,340 I see it. 1123 00:54:27,060 --> 00:54:30,200 There's a totally different – it's totally different to surrender to him, 1124 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,040 completely and totally surrender to him and give your life to him. 1125 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:38,520 Now, I'm not saying that – I don't care who you are on a daily basis, 1126 00:54:38,660 --> 00:54:40,740 on an hourly basis, on a minute-by-minute basis. 1127 00:54:40,980 --> 00:54:45,560 All of us are going to have times where we are not completely committed like we need to be. 1128 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,620 But you can look at somebody's life. 1129 00:54:48,770 --> 00:54:51,900 You can look at their bank accounts. 1130 00:54:52,010 --> 00:54:54,880 You can look at their schedule during the week. 1131 00:54:55,330 --> 00:55:00,240 And you can see what is devoted to Christ, what is devoted to the King. 1132 00:55:01,220 --> 00:55:03,320 And man, I listened to a little clip today. 1133 00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,000 I can't remember the preacher's name, but I was listening to a little clip today. 1134 00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:12,840 and he was talking about rewards versus things that just burn up, you know, 1135 00:55:13,230 --> 00:55:17,260 and he really put it in perspective, you know, things in our life that like, 1136 00:55:17,610 --> 00:55:19,000 yeah, that's wasted, you know. 1137 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:20,760 Oh, yeah, you're going to do this tomorrow. 1138 00:55:20,870 --> 00:55:21,680 Yeah, that's wasted. 1139 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,700 You can't put that in your account because there's going to be a reward for us, right, in heaven. 1140 00:55:28,180 --> 00:55:32,700 We're going to receive crowns, and those crowns are going to be what we are able to give to Jesus, right? 1141 00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:34,260 We're going to lay those crowns at his feet. 1142 00:55:34,780 --> 00:55:37,960 And he's going to make and he also says we're going to rule and reign. 1143 00:55:38,730 --> 00:55:44,000 He also says that that that, you know, basically where much is given, much is required. 1144 00:55:44,070 --> 00:55:54,100 But he says he says that that those who have been faithful with a little things, he's going to put them in charge of much bigger things. 1145 00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:57,200 So so where's your account at? 1146 00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:58,820 What does your account look like? 1147 00:55:58,940 --> 00:56:00,320 Your spiritual account. 1148 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:15,640 Are you saving things or putting up things in your spiritual account that you're going to be rewarded for in heaven, that you're going to get to lay crown after crown after crown at the feet of Jesus? 1149 00:56:16,340 --> 00:56:22,200 Or is it just going to be like, yeah, I just got – I slipped in here by the hair of my head. 1150 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,600 Yeah, Jesus told us to lay up for yourself treasures in heaven. 1151 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,160 Yeah, that's right, where moth and rust do not eat. 1152 00:56:29,340 --> 00:56:29,500 Yeah. 1153 00:56:29,500 --> 00:56:29,880 Yeah. 1154 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,240 Yeah, we got to be careful there. 1155 00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,440 It's more than just shallow Christianity. 1156 00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:43,280 It's more than just sitting on a pew, showing up on Sunday, having your name on a roll somewhere. 1157 00:56:43,940 --> 00:56:48,960 All those things are great, but if you're not following Jesus and all that, then it's nothing. 1158 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:49,600 You're not trusting. 1159 00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:50,280 You're not trusting. 1160 00:56:50,460 --> 00:56:52,120 Right, and that's like you were saying earlier. 1161 00:56:52,620 --> 00:56:56,320 A lot of people are just nominal Christians because, well, I'm an American and I'm supposed to be a Christian. 1162 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,400 I'm classified as a Christian in the world. 1163 00:56:58,980 --> 00:57:00,040 It's because I'm American. 1164 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:00,980 That's not true. 1165 00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:01,400 No. 1166 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:02,020 It's not true anymore. 1167 00:57:02,380 --> 00:57:05,460 And you're not a Christian unless you've surrendered your life to Jesus Christ. 1168 00:57:06,060 --> 00:57:06,300 That's right. 1169 00:57:06,460 --> 00:57:07,760 And given up on yourself. 1170 00:57:09,140 --> 00:57:11,980 And I hear these people, and I know we talked about this on the floor, 1171 00:57:12,030 --> 00:57:15,200 and I hear people, I cringe when I hear somebody say, you know, 1172 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:16,980 I've been talking to the man upstairs. 1173 00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:18,440 Oh, you're crying out loud. 1174 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,800 I've been talking to the big guy, you know. 1175 00:57:21,180 --> 00:57:23,380 Let's give the big guy a little bit more credit than that. 1176 00:57:23,380 --> 00:57:26,060 He is king of kings and lord of lords. 1177 00:57:26,150 --> 00:57:26,240 Amen. 1178 00:57:26,470 --> 00:57:28,100 He is our all in all. 1179 00:57:28,260 --> 00:57:31,320 He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the first and the last. 1180 00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:32,920 He's all those things. 1181 00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:34,940 And we've got to be so careful. 1182 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:46,780 I mean, if we had the fear that the Jews had in the beginning, right, the Israelites had in the beginning, I mean, they wouldn't even say the name Yahweh. 1183 00:57:46,940 --> 00:57:52,420 I mean, they had that much fear and trembling over how holy this God is. 1184 00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:53,840 That was too much, though, wasn't it? 1185 00:57:53,940 --> 00:57:54,220 Yeah, yeah. 1186 00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:55,200 Because they gave him his name. 1187 00:57:55,420 --> 00:57:55,740 That's right. 1188 00:57:56,100 --> 00:57:56,700 Here's my name. 1189 00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:57,260 Here's my name. 1190 00:57:57,260 --> 00:57:57,800 Don't misuse it. 1191 00:57:57,900 --> 00:57:58,220 That's right. 1192 00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:03,060 Yeah, they were on the flip side of the spectrum where we don't give him enough respect. 1193 00:58:05,739 --> 00:58:08,440 They didn't grasp that he was father, did they? 1194 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,580 That he loved them and he was father. 1195 00:58:11,350 --> 00:58:12,600 And he told them over and over. 1196 00:58:12,820 --> 00:58:13,020 Yeah. 1197 00:58:13,420 --> 00:58:14,540 And showed it over and over. 1198 00:58:14,540 --> 00:58:14,900 He did. 1199 00:58:15,220 --> 00:58:19,920 And yeah, they understood that he was creator, that he was Lord, that he was God. 1200 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:20,300 Yeah. 1201 00:58:20,460 --> 00:58:23,540 But they never had that personal level relationship. 1202 00:58:23,730 --> 00:58:25,120 And part of that was because they couldn't. 1203 00:58:25,190 --> 00:58:25,280 Yeah. 1204 00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,840 They really couldn't then because the sacrifice that was to come had not come yet. 1205 00:58:31,060 --> 00:58:32,420 So they could put their faith in him. 1206 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:33,880 They could, and some of them did. 1207 00:58:34,620 --> 00:58:37,620 But by and large, they just didn't have that little personal relationship. 1208 00:58:37,860 --> 00:58:41,500 No, he didn't live in their heart, but then yet he was with them. 1209 00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:43,560 He was a cloud by day and a fire by night. 1210 00:58:43,660 --> 00:58:43,900 Oh, yeah. 1211 00:58:44,060 --> 00:58:48,000 You know, his presence was in the temple, and wherever they took that temple, 1212 00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:54,398 as a people group and as a nation, they had Father God there with them 1213 00:58:54,420 --> 00:58:59,720 And some of them, like you said, they had faith in the coming of Jesus Christ. 1214 00:58:59,930 --> 00:59:00,460 And some of them. 1215 00:59:00,460 --> 00:59:03,340 I mean, you go to you go to Hebrews 11, 11, see that. 1216 00:59:03,580 --> 00:59:03,640 Yeah. 1217 00:59:03,780 --> 00:59:09,040 But well, and that's the other thing you have to remember is every time they entered into the presence of God, things happen. 1218 00:59:09,340 --> 00:59:09,480 Yeah. 1219 00:59:09,860 --> 00:59:10,340 Like either. 1220 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,080 I mean, we're talking about earthquakes. 1221 00:59:12,310 --> 00:59:13,220 We're talking about mountain. 1222 00:59:13,230 --> 00:59:16,040 The mountain looked like it was on fire when it was given in the law. 1223 00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:26,580 The priests that went into the presence of God sometimes didn't come out because they died, because they just didn't quite do what they're supposed to do. 1224 00:59:27,110 --> 00:59:29,860 And I mean, that's a very different. 1225 00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,360 I get why they were so fearful of that. 1226 00:59:33,460 --> 00:59:35,040 He said, don't misuse his name. 1227 00:59:35,650 --> 00:59:38,080 And those guys walk into his presence and die. 1228 00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,680 Maybe we don't want to call him by name because maybe we don't really want his attention. 1229 00:59:44,100 --> 00:59:46,300 But there's also a level of respect there. 1230 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,300 How many of y'all go around calling your dad by his first name? 1231 00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:51,200 No, I didn't do that. 1232 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:51,560 Yeah. 1233 00:59:52,460 --> 01:00:00,080 And if my kids, just to mess with me sometimes, they'd say, Brian, when I wasn't listening, you know, and they'd already said dad four times. 1234 01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,060 And I'd look over at him. 1235 01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,860 I'm just trying to get your attention. 1236 01:00:04,100 --> 01:00:05,720 You know, Mr. 1237 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,620 Yeah, you better direct me as I am. 1238 01:00:09,700 --> 01:00:10,420 And I'm your father. 1239 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:13,660 There's a balance in it all, though, right? 1240 01:00:13,780 --> 01:00:14,240 There's a balance. 1241 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:20,760 We understand just from the first chapter that we read in Revelation that he's in his glory, man. 1242 01:00:21,260 --> 01:00:23,040 We're going to face plant when we see him. 1243 01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:23,260 Amen. 1244 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:24,840 And then we'll hug him. 1245 01:00:24,940 --> 01:00:25,600 Yeah, that's right. 1246 01:00:26,060 --> 01:00:26,340 That's right. 1247 01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,200 He's called us friends. 1248 01:00:28,420 --> 01:00:29,320 He's called us brothers. 1249 01:00:29,660 --> 01:00:31,960 He's called us all his dear things. 1250 01:00:32,780 --> 01:00:34,420 But he is still holy, holy, holy. 1251 01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:38,060 He's still the God of the universe, the creator, the all-powerful. 1252 01:00:38,460 --> 01:00:52,020 And looking back, I'm rambling on now, but just thinking about all these things, I think about Elijah and I think about Enoch and those who walk with God. 1253 01:00:52,370 --> 01:01:00,640 I mean, they were – they really – and Adam until sin come along and he made the wrong choice. 1254 01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:03,240 I mean, he was talking and walking with God. 1255 01:01:03,980 --> 01:01:06,080 He had a relationship with him. 1256 01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:07,160 Every day. 1257 01:01:07,460 --> 01:01:07,560 Yeah. 1258 01:01:07,860 --> 01:01:09,260 That's how God created us. 1259 01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,500 That's what he created us for, is to have a relationship with him. 1260 01:01:12,620 --> 01:01:26,500 I mean, if we were so domineering as friends that we said, you know, or parents, like you said, you know, I mean, I can joke around with my kids, you know, but they still, I believe, have the respect that they should have, you know. 1261 01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:32,060 And I think, you know, again, we've got to know that God loves us like that. 1262 01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:37,400 He doesn't want us to be like, oh, God, I don't want to say anything in front of Dad because Dad's going to strike me down. 1263 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:38,800 No, that's not God. 1264 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,240 God is saying, look, I love you. 1265 01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:40,920 You're my son. 1266 01:01:42,180 --> 01:01:43,340 You ask for a fish. 1267 01:01:43,340 --> 01:01:44,420 I'm not going to give you a stone. 1268 01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,320 I'm going to give you good things. 1269 01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,480 I'm a good, good father, and I'm going to give you good things. 1270 01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,160 And we've got to learn to have that relationship with him. 1271 01:01:52,880 --> 01:02:01,000 There's a balance in the respect, and there's a balance in that good relationship between a father and a son, a father and his people. 1272 01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:11,820 I was just looking at right before Matthew 24, at the end of 23, Jesus is coming into Jerusalem and he says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who were sent to her. 1273 01:02:12,300 --> 01:02:18,080 How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings and you were unwilling. 1274 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,940 That's the tenderness that God has always had for Jerusalem. 1275 01:02:21,940 --> 01:02:23,640 I wanted to save you and you wouldn't let me. 1276 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:23,940 Yeah. 1277 01:02:24,220 --> 01:02:24,320 Yeah. 1278 01:02:24,620 --> 01:02:24,700 Yeah. 1279 01:02:25,180 --> 01:02:25,380 Amen. 1280 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:26,220 Amen. 1281 01:02:27,540 --> 01:02:30,520 Well, I think that pretty much wraps us up this week. 1282 01:02:30,620 --> 01:02:32,860 we're going to continue with Matthew 25 next week 1283 01:02:32,990 --> 01:02:33,700 finish that one out 1284 01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,600 I'm going to be honest that the next little 1285 01:02:36,940 --> 01:02:38,940 couple of sections of Matthew 25 are some of my 1286 01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:40,800 absolute favorite parts 1287 01:02:41,180 --> 01:02:42,940 of the New Testament because you 1288 01:02:43,060 --> 01:02:44,280 have the Stan Lee 1289 01:02:44,980 --> 01:02:46,760 segment of scripture there with great power 1290 01:02:46,770 --> 01:02:47,780 there comes great responsibility 1291 01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:51,100 and then you have of course 1292 01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:52,800 the very often 1293 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:54,900 quoted what you've done to the least of 1294 01:02:55,020 --> 01:02:56,740 these right after it 1295 01:02:56,740 --> 01:02:58,718 so I love this particular section 1296 01:02:58,740 --> 01:03:00,620 because that gets pretty deep, 1297 01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,640 and I think we're going to have to touch on the fact 1298 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,220 that that gets very much misused today. 1299 01:03:05,220 --> 01:03:05,940 Yeah, absolutely. 1300 01:03:07,660 --> 01:03:09,740 Because it is coming, as you said, 1301 01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,760 from a Holy Father that does not accept sin 1302 01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,180 and is not okay with sin. 1303 01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:13,680 He is. 1304 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:14,080 Remember that. 1305 01:03:14,300 --> 01:03:14,600 He is. 1306 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:15,720 Just and righteous. 1307 01:03:16,180 --> 01:03:16,260 Yeah. 1308 01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,280 So next week, looking forward to that. 1309 01:03:19,300 --> 01:03:21,920 And then the week after, 1310 01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:24,520 somewhere I've got a calendar. 1311 01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:27,280 Where is it? 1312 01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:28,200 There it is. 1313 01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:28,660 Thanksgiving. 1314 01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:30,020 Let's see. 1315 01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:35,300 Next week is the 17th, and then the following week, are we going to do it on the 24th? 1316 01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:36,800 That's the week of Thanksgiving. 1317 01:03:37,020 --> 01:03:39,560 I think we're good to do that unless y'all have something going on. 1318 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:40,840 I don't have anything on Monday. 1319 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:41,920 Yeah, I'm good. 1320 01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:42,460 Okay. 1321 01:03:43,460 --> 01:03:47,180 So we'll make plans, and if anything comes up, I'll let you know. 1322 01:03:48,300 --> 01:03:51,280 And then we're going to be getting close to December, 1323 01:03:51,420 --> 01:03:56,060 so we might need to be having some conversations about when we want to do our Christmas thing. 1324 01:03:57,700 --> 01:04:01,900 All right. Well, if one of y'all will pray us out tonight, I will leave it up to y'all. 1325 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:03,500 Let y'all bicker over who gets to pray. 1326 01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:08,920 Father, we love you. And we're so thankful again for your word. 1327 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,140 We're thankful again, God, for Dennis and Tyler. 1328 01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:14,360 Lord, thank you for their time that they spend. 1329 01:04:15,580 --> 01:04:23,640 God, digging into your word and making this thing happen, Lord, so that we can get your voice is heard in a lost and dying world. 1330 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:29,400 that your voices from your word is God just teaching us 1331 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,860 and molding us and giving us what we stand in need of. 1332 01:04:33,020 --> 01:04:35,680 Lord, I pray that we would be bold to share our faith 1333 01:04:35,890 --> 01:04:36,840 outside of these walls. 1334 01:04:37,780 --> 01:04:40,100 God, not just on a microphone, but on the streets 1335 01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,560 and everywhere we may go then with our families, Lord God, 1336 01:04:43,700 --> 01:04:45,680 that we would share the gospel of Jesus Christ, 1337 01:04:45,940 --> 01:04:48,220 the good news that you brought to us. 1338 01:04:48,340 --> 01:04:49,320 Lord, we thank you for that. 1339 01:04:49,370 --> 01:04:50,300 We praise you for that. 1340 01:04:50,350 --> 01:04:52,640 And we ask these things in Jesus' name. 1341 01:04:52,830 --> 01:04:52,960 Amen. 1342 01:04:53,180 --> 01:04:53,460 Amen.