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Welcome back this week. I know we've been out a little bit, but it's good to be back and good to be doing this again.

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picking up where we left off last time.

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A little bit of housekeeping before I go into the normal pleasantries.

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Last show I did this, and I think I'm going to keep it this way from now on.

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The show itself will be live broadcast tonight over on Rumble,

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and then the actual recording and everything will go live next Monday morning

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just because that gives me plenty of time.

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And then if things come up during the week, over the weekend,

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It's easier to edit the videos if things happen.

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And it turns out that when you have two kids, things always manage to happen.

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I don't know how that happens with two kids under the age of 16.

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But it turns out that makes things busy.

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You wouldn't expect that.

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So anyway, that's what we'll do.

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So we'll live broadcast on Monday, like always, and that will stay up the whole time.

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And then the following Monday morning, the video edit and the audio files will all go live at the same time at like seven o'clock.

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And the reminders during the day on Facebook of the show tonight on that night and then that night we'll do the live.

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So you still get it every week.

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It's just, you know, the first time we record after we've been out, you'll get to skip an extra week, especially if we miss a couple of weeks.

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You just get to skip a little extra for the audio.

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So apologies, but I'm old.

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So, Brother Brian, how are you doing tonight?

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I'm great, man.

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Doing good.

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Doing good.

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Back at the old grind today, and it's going to be a short week this week.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Good couple of days off at the end of the week.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Thanksgiving, time to be giving thanks, time to be thankful for your family and thankful

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for your church and everything that God's done for you.

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This is the week to keep it in mind, not just Thursday.

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Amen.

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How about you, Brother Dennis?

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Doing all right, man.

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Doing all right.

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It's been a good day.

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managed to mess up cooking some uh some hamburger helper i don't know how i did it but i did it

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i did it but i fixed it i fixed it i think so so now if you drop it on the floor to kind of

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bounce a little bit you know that's all right i didn't have to eat that yeah oh yes she she just

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grinned and bared it you know yeah that's really good that's great honey

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hey she's just she's just glad to have you home doing the cooking instead of her having to worry

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They don't happen often, brother.

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They don't happen often.

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I'm going to talk about food too much more because I haven't had yet.

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We'll get him hungry before he goes home.

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I'm going to get hungry.

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Well, last week, or two weeks ago, we dropped off with Matthew 25, I believe is where we are.

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We're going to keep going there.

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We're going to bounce on over into Revelation.

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What are we doing tonight?

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I think we're going to pick up.

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We talked about the ten virgins last week or two weeks ago.

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And I think we're going to pick up in verse 14, if I'm right.

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The talents, which we have so much of.

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Yeah, yes.

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We've got so much talent, it's just oozing out.

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Ooh.

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Great way to describe it, huh?

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Some would describe it different than that.

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But anyway, so let's look at verse 14 and 15 together.

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The kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into the far country who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods.

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And unto one he gave five talents, unto another two, and to another one to every man according to his several ability, and straightway took his journey.

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A couple things I want to mention here.

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Notice that the master gave to his servants responsibility according to their abilities, right?

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And so he gave them talents already.

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He gave them ability to do – he had equipped them.

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And he said, okay, here's your responsibility with what I've equipped you with.

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Man, I learned something.

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I don't know why it took me 60 years, but I did a little research on this talent thing.

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And it just blew me away today.

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A talent was a measure of weight.

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It was a measure of weight.

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And it was equivalent.

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There are all kinds of ranges.

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Some people say a Hebrew talent was like between 58 and 80 pounds.

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Huge.

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It's huge.

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And a Roman talent was 100 pounds.

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Now, normally a talent was considered to be either silver or gold.

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We're talking about an immense amount of silver or gold.

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If we assume this thing was 80 pounds, 80 pounds, and that it was gold, that's 1,280 ounces of gold.

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And gold right now is worth about $4,167 an ounce.

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This is a huge, huge amount to get one talent.

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It's about between $5 and $6 million.

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Over 2,000 years ago.

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In today's money.

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But I'm saying even then, yeah.

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It's an immense amount of money.

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And I just never realized that.

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I always thought of talents as being like, well, this guy got one coin, this guy got this, you know, that kind of thing.

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But, man, the value of this thing was huge, and it kind of changed the story for me a little bit.

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Well, I noticed the ESV actually says five bags of gold is the way it describes it.

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It calls the talent a bag of gold.

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I mean, if this was a Roman talent, which is 100 pounds of gold, it was today's money, $6.7 million.

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For one.

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And he gave one of the guys five.

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Yeah, it's $33.5 million.

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Man, he trusted that guy.

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Where much is given, much is required.

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Exactly.

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And we'll see through the story how that's a big deal.

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It is a big deal.

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And I just wish I'd found this, you know, 20, 30 years ago.

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I was like, man.

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It opens it up.

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So this guy gets five talents, 37 and a half.

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Was it?

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No, 67.

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67 million.

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If it was 100-pound talent, just an immense amount of money.

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And it goes back to show us what this really is, you know,

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and how valuable what God has given us really is.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Go ahead and read those next verses.

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Oh, next verses.

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What do you want to do?

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16, 17.

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16 together?

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Immediately, the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them and gained

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five more talents.

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Yeah, that's where he ended up with $67 million.

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In the same manner, the one who had received the two talents gained two more.

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So now he's got $26.8 million.

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But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's

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money.

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So you've already brought some huge perspective to it with the money thing, right?

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I mean, but what will we do with it, right?

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What will we do with what God has given us?

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Will we make the most of it?

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I mean, it's not only a kingdom lesson.

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This is an everyday lesson.

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It is.

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It is an everyday lesson.

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It is.

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And this man, he's not faithful with what the Lord has given him.

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And I mean, I think at the end of this thing, if we look at Revelation 20, I mean, you're going to see people that's going to be like, Lord, I tried this and I've done this.

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And I mean, we're all going to stand before him one day.

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And the next verse is go ahead.

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I don't want to get ahead of myself.

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No, no, no.

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Go ahead.

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Go ahead.

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No, I'm good.

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I'm good.

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What was the next one?

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Let's see.

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Now, after a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

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So this is talking really basically about this is comparing the return of Jesus and his second coming.

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He's going to come back and settle accounts.

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And the one who received the five came up and brought five more saying, master, you entrusted five talents to me.

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See, I've gained five more talents.

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And we keep going.

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All right.

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His master said to him, well done, good and faithful slave.

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You were faithful with a few things.

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I will put you in charge of many things.

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Enter into the joy of your master.

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Keep going.

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Yeah, go over to 25 if you want to.

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What do you want to stop at?

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Yeah, yeah, that completely.

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Also, the one who had received the two talents came up and said,

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Master, you entrusted two talents to me.

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See, I have gained two more talents.

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His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave.

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You were faithful with a few things.

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I will put you in charge of many things.

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Enter into the joy of your master.

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And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said,

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Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.

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And I was afraid and went away and hid your talent in the ground.

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See, you have what is yours.

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He buried five, six million dollars.

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Something of infinite worth to somebody.

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And, you know, there's I mean, there's again, we can we can definitely take a lesson from this right now, right here, right now.

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And then we can also look at it if we're looking at it in the kingdom perspective.

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I mean, we look at we know that that at the end of that whole thing, I mean, there are going to be people left here.

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And and during that tribulation time, he's given them things to do.

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Right. Did you spread the gospel?

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Did you did you reach out to those who who had not trusted Christ, who hadn't taken the mark of the beast yet?

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You know, there's going to be there's going to be things that judgment is going to be weighed out for them, too.

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Yeah. And I think the position in the kingdom will all depend on their faith in him and the stewardship of what the Lord gave them, the responsibility of what they gave them.

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But, yeah, I mean, there's there's just there's a there's a great principle here for all of us in all of this.

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But to go out and bury, I mean, just do nothing.

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I know a lot of churches, and we may have talked about this on here before,

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but I know there's a lot of churches out there that are sitting on top of a whole lot of money

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that they haven't done anything with.

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And now, be a good steward of your money and make sure your bills are paid

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and your responsibilities are made.

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But we're not supposed to be banking a bunch of money, right?

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Because what are we going to, I mean, what's the church going to do with it when the Lord comes back?

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I mean, nothing.

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It's gone.

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It's gone.

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We're done.

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It's a tool that you never use.

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Yeah.

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Right.

259
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Yeah, absolutely.

260
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Right.

261
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And I look at this, too, is like, you know, we've each been given, I was trying to look at that verse, a measure of faith.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

264
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Right.

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And I can't remember exactly where that is.

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But, and each of us has been given some responsibility.

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And this is the way I see this this this parable is that God paid an infinite price for us.

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Yeah. And every person on this planet has a responsibility to do something with it.

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And most people are the ones who gave who have been given one.

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Yes. Yeah. And they stick it in the ground and bury it until the time comes and the master comes back.

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and we'll see what happens there.

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But they come back and they've done nothing with it.

273
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Yeah.

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Absolutely nothing with this free salvation.

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Come drink of the water of life without cost salvation

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that they've been offered or they've been given.

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Yeah.

278
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Right?

279
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Jesus has already died on the cross for everybody.

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Yeah, absolutely.

281
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And to bury that in the ground is a huge, huge miscalculation for people.

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Amen.

283
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Amen.

284
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And they're going to be faced with it suddenly one day.

285
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That's right.

286
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That's right.

287
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Yeah.

288
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And I always see this and I think of the arrogance of that last servant.

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Here, have what is yours.

290
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You gave this to me.

291
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Here, I'll give it back to you.

292
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Nobody stole it.

293
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Yeah, I kept anybody from running off with it.

294
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And it's like, are you not supposed to be doing the work of your master?

295
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When you're somebody's servant, when he is your master and he says, here's this, I need you to go do something with it.

296
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He expects you to go do something with it.

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He expects you to use it, whether that is whether that had been he came back and said, hey, I don't have the talents to return to you.

298
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But what I do have is I've expanded your farmland out here.

299
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Yeah.

300
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And I've given you more area to sow in and more area to gain.

301
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Or I've expanded the cattle that you had or I've expanded the whatever.

302
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You know, we now have more sheep than we had before.

303
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Wherever that servant's responsibility was, he was given that talent, those talents to go use to to do something with it.

304
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And it's like, but your answer is, well, you know, you reap where you don't sow and you gather what you didn't plant.

305
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And so, yep, here's what you gave me.

306
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I mean, goodness, I can't imagine standing before God and saying, well, you know, God, you reap what you didn't sow.

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You didn't do any of the work and expected me to, even though I was your servant, even though you are my master, even though you are my king.

308
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I'm supposed to go out and work for you.

309
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But I know you didn't really do any of that.

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So here you are.

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Here's back what you gave me.

312
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Save me.

313
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Thanks.

314
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There's two things really to think about in there with this guy.

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One, he was lazy, right?

316
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He didn't want to do anything.

317
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He just wasted his talents.

318
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He wasted what his Lord had given him.

319
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And the other thing, he didn't understand his master, right?

320
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I mean, if he had understood, if he had been able to discern what the master wanted him to do,

321
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he didn't give him the money to bury he didn't give him the money to do nothing with and i think

322
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that's a lot of that's a lot of the cat or two of the categories uh that that people christian

323
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people stand in uh today either either they're too lazy to do anything with what god's given them

324
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or they don't understand they don't want understanding to go out and do what god has

325
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take what god has given them and make multiply right right and he's given us i found the verse

326
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It's Romans 12, three says for through the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to have sound judgment as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

327
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Yeah.

328
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And what he wants us to do is for our faith to grow.

329
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That's right.

330
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To grow.

331
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It's an active.

332
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It's a dynamic thing.

333
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We don't bury it in the ground and let it sit there.

334
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That's right.

335
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It's right.

336
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That's right.

337
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Yeah.

338
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And so many people do.

339
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Yes, they do.

340
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Yes, they do.

341
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It's sad.

342
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It's sad.

343
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And sometimes we've got to get out of the boat.

344
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Right.

345
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Amen.

346
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And walk on the water.

347
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Yeah.

348
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Because he's promised that.

349
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That's right.

350
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And it happened to Peter.

351
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It did.

352
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Yeah.

353
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And it can happen to us in a spiritual sense.

354
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Yeah.

355
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And I think, you know, sometimes we may, we may in trying to do what God has called us to do, there may, we may mess up sometimes.

356
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Yeah.

357
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We may, we may lose a little bit of that talent or whatever it may be.

358
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But, but it's, it's, it's, are you willing?

359
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Are you willing to try?

360
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Are you willing to invest it?

361
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Are you willing to take what he has given you and make more of Jesus?

362
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Absolutely.

363
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Make more of Jesus.

364
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Absolutely.

365
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And every time we mess something up like that, he makes our crooked paths straight.

366
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He fixes things.

367
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He's gone ahead of us.

368
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He knows we're going to mess things up.

369
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Right.

370
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But I can't help but think he's up there just applauding us.

371
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You tried, brother.

372
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You tried, son.

373
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Right.

374
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Absolutely.

375
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Keep going.

376
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But watch what I'm going to do with this.

377
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It's like when you preach those messages, and we've talked about that before, when you just feel so defeated after you preach that message.

378
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You're crickets.

379
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Yeah.

380
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Nothing.

381
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But then all of a sudden, you see two weeks later, somebody comes up to you and says,

382
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Hey, Brother Dennis, that message you preached was so much for me that morning.

383
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You know, it done me so good.

384
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You had no idea where I was at and what I was dealing with, but God just used that.

385
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He used you that day.

386
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And sometimes you may never hear that until later on.

387
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Right.

388
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But I promise you that God will not let his word go out void.

389
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Absolutely.

390
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And if your effort is in his word, then your effort's not going to go out void either.

391
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Absolutely.

392
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We need to take some chances.

393
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That's right.

394
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Yeah, sure we do.

395
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And he doubles it.

396
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Yes.

397
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Let's be honest about it.

398
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He's the one that does the double.

399
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Amen.

400
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Amen.

401
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He gives it all, doesn't he?

402
00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:03,140
Yeah.

403
00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,640
He's the one who gives us faith in the first place, right?

404
00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:06,320
Yeah, absolutely.

405
00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:07,700
That's how much will you take, you know?

406
00:18:07,780 --> 00:18:07,940
Yeah.

407
00:18:08,370 --> 00:18:08,460
Yeah.

408
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Will you grow it?

409
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Will you just let it grow inside of you?

410
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Yeah.

411
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And that's like, you know, when I'm doing this thing with playing guitar and singing,

412
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that's like there's no way I could watch a video or hear audio of myself.

413
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I'd want to throw up.

414
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But it's like, you know, what little I got, I want to give.

415
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Yeah.

416
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And just put it out there.

417
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Yes.

418
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Amen.

419
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Just stop being so self-centered and self-focused and shy and all this garbage we do and put it out there.

420
00:18:35,620 --> 00:18:38,200
And when we don't put ourselves out there, it is selfish, isn't it?

421
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I mean, it is.

422
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If I'm holding back with, you know, whether it's preaching or teaching or whatever,

423
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God didn't hand me the talent that he gave Dennis because I'd be playing right now.

424
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During this, I'd be playing the guitar.

425
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He'll be like, my wife would be like, it's time to go to bed.

426
00:18:59,220 --> 00:18:59,520
Not yet.

427
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One more song, baby.

428
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One more song.

429
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,580
He knew not to do that.

430
00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:08,920
But I mean, whatever your talent is, we use it for him.

431
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We use it for his glory.

432
00:19:11,260 --> 00:19:12,260
Whatever we got, give it.

433
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:13,260
That's right.

434
00:19:13,510 --> 00:19:13,640
Amen.

435
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:14,200
Amen.

436
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,100
Let's look at maybe 26.

437
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:18,180
26, yeah.

438
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,280
We see the principle here of the parable.

439
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And I was afraid and went and hid thy talent in the earth.

440
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Lo, thou hast that is thine.

441
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His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant,

442
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you knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed.

443
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Though oughtest thou for to have put my money to the exchangers,

444
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and then at my coming I should have received mine own with ushery.

445
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Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath ten talents.

446
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For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he that shall have abundance,

447
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but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

448
00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:13,500
And cast ye the unprofitable servant unto outer darkness,

449
00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,660
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

450
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:24,240
You know, as Christians, all of us are going to be judged one day based not on our sins,

451
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but he's forgiven us for those.

452
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He paid the price for those.

453
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But on what we've done with what we've been given.

454
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Yeah.

455
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:40,020
I mean, the Lord will not necessarily ask, hey, Dennis, you know, how much have you done for me?

456
00:20:40,140 --> 00:20:41,280
Number one, he knows that.

457
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:41,660
Yeah.

458
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,260
But how faithful were you with what I gave you?

459
00:20:44,420 --> 00:20:44,620
Right.

460
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,200
You know, I mean, you may not be a Billy Graham.

461
00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:56,880
You may not be a whoever, but you've been given an amount of talent and you take that and you use it for his glory.

462
00:20:57,580 --> 00:21:02,140
two things that I want to mention that I think are important for all of us to remember.

463
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One, find out what it is that God wants you to do.

464
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In other words, find your talent.

465
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Find your niche, your place, what it is that God has given you.

466
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,360
And then secondly, be faithful to use it.

467
00:21:18,420 --> 00:21:20,920
To some, God may give a small ministry.

468
00:21:21,020 --> 00:21:23,120
They may be one-talent people.

469
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,740
But God expects us to be faithful with that, with what he's given us.

470
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Yeah.

471
00:21:28,190 --> 00:21:31,260
And we don't really know ourselves how many we've been given, do we?

472
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No.

473
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:32,380
Not really.

474
00:21:32,430 --> 00:21:37,220
We can't judge ourselves that well to say, well, I'm a five talent guy.

475
00:21:37,380 --> 00:21:37,660
Right.

476
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:37,940
Yeah.

477
00:21:39,620 --> 00:21:42,340
And we're thinking too much of ourselves if we do that anyway.

478
00:21:42,780 --> 00:21:42,880
Yeah.

479
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,500
But we leave it out there.

480
00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:45,580
We leave it out there.

481
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,100
And I think I see a lot of people are willing to work to develop their talents.

482
00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:51,700
Yeah.

483
00:21:52,070 --> 00:21:52,180
Yeah.

484
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,020
Sometimes, I mean, I'm like, I've tried to play the guitar.

485
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:56,340
I've tried.

486
00:21:56,450 --> 00:22:02,460
I took piano lessons when I was in like second, third grade or first, second grade, something like that.

487
00:22:03,020 --> 00:22:04,760
And I just was, I'll be honest with you.

488
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,340
I was kind of like, this guy's a little bit lazy.

489
00:22:08,180 --> 00:22:14,340
And I'm not saying that's where God wanted me to be, but there's a lot of people out there that it may not be there.

490
00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:18,880
They just pick it up right off the bat and they're able to do it, but they work hard at it.

491
00:22:19,180 --> 00:22:22,620
And then God develops it and they're able to use it for his glory.

492
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:22,900
Yeah.

493
00:22:23,020 --> 00:22:24,760
And ask God to give you a passion for something.

494
00:22:24,890 --> 00:22:25,020
Right.

495
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:25,860
And he will.

496
00:22:25,980 --> 00:22:27,420
He'll put something on your heart, I believe.

497
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:27,740
Yeah.

498
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:28,340
I believe.

499
00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:40,660
And it's one of those things where you pray to God for the passion and you pray to God for the willingness to put that, you know, put that willingness in there to work on it.

500
00:22:40,730 --> 00:22:45,360
Because even if it's something that you pick up easy or whatever, you still have to work to develop it.

501
00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:45,800
Oh, yeah.

502
00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:49,060
I mean, you know, I'll never forget when I was in band,

503
00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,660
our band director told us one time that one of the,

504
00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:54,860
and I can't remember the guy's name,

505
00:22:54,980 --> 00:22:56,880
but he was a world-class trumpet player.

506
00:22:57,030 --> 00:22:57,960
Like that was his thing.

507
00:22:58,140 --> 00:23:00,380
He would go and he performed at Carnegie Hall.

508
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,820
No, no, this is one of the more classical style.

509
00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:09,740
Performed at Carnegie Hall over in London

510
00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:12,820
and over in Australia and stuff.

511
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,740
I mean, he performed everywhere, all over the world.

512
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,800
And somebody asked him one time, said, well, how much do you practice?

513
00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:21,360
Because this guy, you know, I mean, now he did this as his, this was his profession.

514
00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:27,520
And he said, if I don't want to get any worse, four hours a day.

515
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:28,880
Yeah.

516
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,520
And if I want to get better, he was the best in the world.

517
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,740
And he said, if I want to get better, eight to 10 hours a day.

518
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:34,960
Yeah.

519
00:23:35,060 --> 00:23:36,500
I mean, similar with sports people.

520
00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:37,620
It's like, goodness.

521
00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:44,840
I'm thinking, man, even something as simple as being, you play a trumpet, you're just an, you know, you're an instrument player.

522
00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:47,520
And it's like, you know, and I say just, I mean, that takes a lot of talent.

523
00:23:47,660 --> 00:23:48,520
That takes a lot of work.

524
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,720
I mean, I tried that in high school.

525
00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:54,740
I was never very good at trumpet, but it takes a lot of time and energy and effort.

526
00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:04,840
And here's the best in the world saying four hours a day of focus, devoted practice to not get worse, not lose what I've already been given.

527
00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:05,800
And that's the thing.

528
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,280
It's the same way with the others.

529
00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:10,220
When God gives us something, you can start letting it atrophy.

530
00:24:10,290 --> 00:24:12,220
You don't really lose it, but it'll atrophy.

531
00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:15,560
So you have to go in and you got to work real hard to build it back up.

532
00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:18,700
You know, it's like muscle building muscle or working out.

533
00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:20,820
Or if you're a runner, if you've ever talked to people that do that.

534
00:24:21,060 --> 00:24:21,600
Muscle memory.

535
00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:22,180
Yeah.

536
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,940
You have to spend that time actually building it up and training those muscles.

537
00:24:26,220 --> 00:24:31,740
Cause if you let them atrophy a little bit, that first time you try to go on a run after you've let it, let it sit for a while.

538
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,820
It's like, Oh, there goes my hamstring.

539
00:24:33,990 --> 00:24:34,280
There goes.

540
00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:40,480
I remind my muscles all the time the way they used to be, but you got it.

541
00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:41,480
You got to do it.

542
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:41,720
Right.

543
00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:44,080
But trust me in a golf club.

544
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,080
I mean, that stuff is so hard.

545
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,780
And these people practice all day.

546
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:49,160
Absolutely.

547
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:54,820
But kind of in context of this parable is be faithful.

548
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:55,300
Yeah.

549
00:24:55,540 --> 00:24:58,680
Because when he comes back, be doing what you're supposed to be doing.

550
00:24:58,820 --> 00:24:58,960
Yeah.

551
00:24:59,220 --> 00:25:00,260
Don't be found.

552
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,280
And again, that goes for the end of the kingdom, when the kingdom begins, and now.

553
00:25:06,460 --> 00:25:06,540
Yeah.

554
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:19,940
I mean, if you're a born-again Christian, then, I mean, do you want the Lord, the trumpet to sound, and the Lord to call you up in the air?

555
00:25:19,970 --> 00:25:23,440
And then you'd be like, well, I was over there just sitting around not doing anything.

556
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:24,840
I hadn't been to church in a month.

557
00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:26,080
Or, you know.

558
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:26,960
I was hammered.

559
00:25:27,540 --> 00:25:27,660
Right?

560
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:28,560
Even worse.

561
00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:28,900
Who knows?

562
00:25:29,220 --> 00:25:29,540
Yeah.

563
00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:30,060
Yeah.

564
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:30,740
Yeah.

565
00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:31,160
Yeah.

566
00:25:31,250 --> 00:25:31,340
Yeah.

567
00:25:31,380 --> 00:25:33,800
And he rewards that faithfulness, doesn't he?

568
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,780
And for us doing what we're supposed to do, he rewards us.

569
00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:37,120
That's right.

570
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:37,760
How good is he?

571
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,780
He is so good.

572
00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:39,120
Yeah.

573
00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:39,560
Yeah.

574
00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:41,260
Well, we should do anyway.

575
00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:41,860
Right.

576
00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:43,440
He's like, hey, here you go.

577
00:25:43,580 --> 00:25:44,960
You know, here's your I love you.

578
00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:45,200
Yeah.

579
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:45,620
You're fine.

580
00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:47,100
And take this one from this other guy.

581
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:47,440
Yeah.

582
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:47,780
Yeah.

583
00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:50,900
We don't think about that.

584
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:51,200
Yeah.

585
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,400
We don't think about reward.

586
00:25:52,460 --> 00:25:55,500
We don't think about kingdom stuff that's going to happen one day.

587
00:25:55,660 --> 00:25:58,540
Not now, but one day we don't think about that.

588
00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,080
You know what?

589
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,460
What place and position?

590
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,380
And it's not about prestige in heaven.

591
00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:03,840
Right.

592
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:05,260
It's about relationship.

593
00:26:05,660 --> 00:26:07,080
It's always been about relationship.

594
00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:08,900
But where are you in that relationship?

595
00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:09,460
Yeah.

596
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:09,840
Yeah.

597
00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:12,540
I mean, just being there is pretty awesome.

598
00:26:12,740 --> 00:26:13,100
It is.

599
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:13,520
Yeah.

600
00:26:13,780 --> 00:26:13,860
Yeah.

601
00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:17,280
I was thinking about a song, an old song we sing here sometimes today about getting a mansion.

602
00:26:17,660 --> 00:26:17,800
Yeah.

603
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,540
I was like, man, if that's all you're looking forward to is a mansion, I don't get it.

604
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,680
There's so much more.

605
00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:22,380
My goodness.

606
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,340
So much more.

607
00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:25,040
Mansion, a harp, and a crown.

608
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:25,960
Come on.

609
00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:26,200
Yeah.

610
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:27,840
Give me more.

611
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,340
How about face-to-face with your maker?

612
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,040
Where does it say we're going to get a harp anyway?

613
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,480
Is there a biblical reference to that?

614
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:35,420
You're going to sit on a cloud.

615
00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:35,740
Yeah.

616
00:26:36,660 --> 00:26:38,000
And we're not going to be angels, right?

617
00:26:38,140 --> 00:26:39,020
So you're not going to get a harp.

618
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,460
You're not going to get a halo.

619
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:42,400
We're going to be sons of God.

620
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:42,780
Right.

621
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,960
We're sons and daughters of the king.

622
00:26:45,260 --> 00:26:45,520
Yes.

623
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:46,280
Yes.

624
00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:46,780
Amen.

625
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:54,280
You know, and one of the things that you mentioned that, and it's amazing to me in this.

626
00:26:54,660 --> 00:26:56,980
Everybody's so hard on the fact that it uses the word slave.

627
00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:01,860
In the King James word, it uses the word slave, whereas modern translations use the word servant.

628
00:27:02,140 --> 00:27:06,580
But do you notice what happens when the slave does what he was supposed to do anyway?

629
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,840
Master says, enter into my joy.

630
00:27:09,740 --> 00:27:11,940
He doesn't just reward him a little.

631
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:13,260
It's not a small reward.

632
00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:15,420
It's not just, oh, OK, good job, buddy.

633
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,180
Thank you for doing your job.

634
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,300
That's not what he does.

635
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,800
He goes, come in, come in to my joy.

636
00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:22,860
Go to my rest.

637
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:29,160
Go to the reward that is beyond anything you could have hoped to have gotten by yourself.

638
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:29,480
Yeah.

639
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,060
And I'm giving that to you.

640
00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:34,500
I mean, he's basically saying, come into the house.

641
00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:35,380
Come into my house.

642
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,380
You're here now.

643
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,160
You're part of the family and keep work.

644
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,200
And notice the master doesn't say, go in there and stop working.

645
00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:44,980
Lay down and take a rest.

646
00:27:45,860 --> 00:27:49,160
Because then he takes the talents from him and he says, okay, give this to the one with 10.

647
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,000
Hey, you're going to keep growing that.

648
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:51,500
Yes.

649
00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:53,000
That's the implication.

650
00:27:53,580 --> 00:27:55,120
The one with 10 is going to keep on going.

651
00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,240
The slavery is all volunteer.

652
00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:58,220
Yes.

653
00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,300
It's all volunteer.

654
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,800
That's like, you know, Paul in just about every one of his letters, he opens it up.

655
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,600
Paul, a bond servant of Christ Jesus.

656
00:28:04,860 --> 00:28:06,260
Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus.

657
00:28:06,780 --> 00:28:08,040
That kind of language.

658
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,440
And it's completely voluntary.

659
00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:10,080
Yeah.

660
00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:10,600
Yeah.

661
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:19,320
We're not really hired hands, I guess, but we should consider ourselves as completely in subjection to him.

662
00:28:19,420 --> 00:28:19,540
Yeah.

663
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,520
Well, again, he's not.

664
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:28,920
And this goes back to the problem the world has so much with trying to figure out who God is.

665
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,740
And he's not a tyrant, but he is a king.

666
00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:37,100
He's not a dictator, but he is a king.

667
00:28:37,230 --> 00:28:38,040
He is a ruler.

668
00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:39,900
He is the absolute ruler.

669
00:28:40,050 --> 00:28:44,120
So in that way, in that sense, it's like a dictatorship.

670
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,520
I mean, it is unquestioning authority that's been given to him.

671
00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:52,000
Because, again, you go back to the flood.

672
00:28:52,040 --> 00:29:00,140
But he didn't wait 120 years because of some need that he had because it took him that long to prep things to make it work.

673
00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:03,020
No, he waited that long until Noah could finish what he was doing.

674
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,020
He said, okay, time for rain.

675
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,040
And it started raining.

676
00:29:06,260 --> 00:29:08,060
He created the world.

677
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,400
I mean, goodness, he creates the universe with the words, let there be light.

678
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:13,880
He didn't move.

679
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,280
He didn't do something.

680
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:16,520
He didn't take action.

681
00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:19,380
He just spoke, let there be light.

682
00:29:19,780 --> 00:29:20,860
And boom, there was light.

683
00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:22,860
The millennial kingdom is going to be what?

684
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:23,820
A kingdom.

685
00:29:24,790 --> 00:29:24,880
Yeah.

686
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:31,480
That's why this is not a kingdom now, because with a kingdom, you've got to have a king.

687
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:32,320
You've got to have a king.

688
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:32,900
Like a present king.

689
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:33,960
Now, don't get me wrong.

690
00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:35,980
He lives in our hearts, but he is not here.

691
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:36,320
Right.

692
00:29:36,420 --> 00:29:37,380
It's now, but not yet.

693
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,280
Yes, that's right.

694
00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:38,680
Exactly.

695
00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:48,480
The strong concordance, the Greek word, really the definition here when you break down this word slave,

696
00:29:50,639 --> 00:29:54,780
one, involuntary, a slave, two, of necessity, a bond servant.

697
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:58,800
In other words, they owed something, and so they're working off their debt.

698
00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:00,820
We owe him?

699
00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,260
Everything, right?

700
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:02,860
Everything.

701
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,780
And then figuratively, a voluntary, fully devoted servant.

702
00:30:08,260 --> 00:30:08,420
Yeah.

703
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,040
And that's what we should be, right?

704
00:30:10,180 --> 00:30:11,500
That's what it was in the Old Testament, right?

705
00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:18,220
You could choose to be a bond servant to somebody by putting an all through your ear to the doorpost or something crazy like that.

706
00:30:18,380 --> 00:30:18,460
Yeah.

707
00:30:18,660 --> 00:30:19,480
But you could choose that.

708
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:19,980
Yes.

709
00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:20,460
Right.

710
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:20,820
Amen.

711
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,840
And they were different than slaves, right?

712
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,840
The bond servant was a different type of servant than even the regular servants that were just

713
00:30:27,990 --> 00:30:33,420
hired hands because it's showing that unwavering level of devotion, either by choice or like

714
00:30:33,430 --> 00:30:34,400
you say, by necessity.

715
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,820
Sometimes you owed him some money and you had to, okay, in order to pay this off, I will

716
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:38,420
come.

717
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,000
You know, think of Jacob.

718
00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:43,440
Yeah.

719
00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:47,040
Jacob, you know, he goes and he says, okay, I'm going to work for you for this long in

720
00:30:47,130 --> 00:30:48,000
order to marry your daughter.

721
00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:51,560
And, you know, of course, his dad, dad-in-law kind of messed him over there.

722
00:30:51,670 --> 00:30:53,640
And, hey, this isn't who I said I was going to marry.

723
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,080
All right, fine.

724
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:56,920
Seven more years.

725
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Yeah.

726
00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:03,560
So, I mean, it just blows me away that he rewards us for what we're supposed to be doing.

727
00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:04,760
I can't get over that.

728
00:31:04,990 --> 00:31:07,460
And this third guy, he's just, he's got no faith.

729
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,360
And this, correct me if I'm wrong, this guy's not saved.

730
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,720
Yeah, I would say no.

731
00:31:12,940 --> 00:31:13,580
I would say no.

732
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,600
I don't think a saved person is going to end up in the outer darkness.

733
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:17,020
No.

734
00:31:17,230 --> 00:31:17,360
Yeah.

735
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,080
where there's weeping in my, yeah.

736
00:31:19,260 --> 00:31:21,620
I always think of that as the folks,

737
00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:22,820
you know, we talk about the fact

738
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,640
that when the rapture occurs,

739
00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:25,780
there's going to be a lot of people

740
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,120
show up for church on Sunday morning.

741
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:27,480
Yeah.

742
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:28,440
And, you know,

743
00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:29,680
there's going to be a bunch of other people

744
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:30,360
that aren't going to be there.

745
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:31,380
And then we go, why is it so empty?

746
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:32,040
Where did everybody go?

747
00:31:32,220 --> 00:31:32,380
Yeah.

748
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:34,040
You know, it's going to be a little bit,

749
00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:35,720
a little bit of a shock to them to see,

750
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,160
oh, I didn't actually believe.

751
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,960
I never actually put my faith in him.

752
00:31:39,980 --> 00:31:41,580
And I think that's exactly what it is with this.

753
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:42,540
Oh yeah, I'll be your servant.

754
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:43,580
I'll be your servant.

755
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,480
I'll work for,

756
00:31:44,540 --> 00:31:45,640
but he didn't have his heart in it.

757
00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:47,760
He didn't actually put his faith in his master.

758
00:31:47,830 --> 00:31:51,280
He didn't actually trust that his master would do what he said he would do.

759
00:31:51,480 --> 00:32:02,640
Yeah, and then they're going to either have to change their minds and their hearts if they hear the gospel preached, and they will, from the 144,000.

760
00:32:04,550 --> 00:32:06,180
But what are they going to do with that then?

761
00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:09,480
If they didn't do anything with it before, what will they do with it then?

762
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,840
And they were coming to church every week.

763
00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:13,300
It's going to be a tough place to be.

764
00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:15,580
And maybe some of them will say, okay, well, I was right there.

765
00:32:15,660 --> 00:32:17,500
And then, okay, this is what happened.

766
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:18,900
The rapture just declared.

767
00:32:19,620 --> 00:32:30,840
But then the Bible tells us that there's going to be such a strong delusion that, you know, if it were so, or if it were possible, even the very elect would be fooled.

768
00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:32,440
So we got it.

769
00:32:32,940 --> 00:32:42,640
And I think there will probably be a few, not just a ton, but there will probably be a few that immediately will realize, oh, I know exactly what this is.

770
00:32:42,780 --> 00:32:44,460
And I messed up.

771
00:32:44,660 --> 00:32:47,180
And they may have a change right then.

772
00:32:47,210 --> 00:32:55,520
They may say, OK, I know that there is a chance and I need to take it because what's coming is about to get real, real bad.

773
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,160
And I think that's going to happen to a few of them.

774
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,120
And I want to be very clear.

775
00:32:59,710 --> 00:33:03,680
The children that people are going to be having to make decisions about later are going to be born during that time.

776
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:06,060
They're not going to be the children that were here at the time of the rapture.

777
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Those little kids are not going to be stuck going through that.

778
00:33:09,950 --> 00:33:12,400
So it's not going to be like dad is having to.

779
00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:18,820
But I think there's going to be some that will go, OK, look, we're not, you know, assuming it's, you know, a husband and his wife.

780
00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:22,280
There will be some that go, we're not having we're not having any kids at this point.

781
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,340
We're stopping all that and we got to get where we need to be.

782
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,940
And that's going to be a very, very few people.

783
00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:31,500
And you don't want to be the person having to make that decision.

784
00:33:31,690 --> 00:33:34,280
And that's a very deep subject, too, on the children.

785
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:43,400
I mean, you know, I want to think that those who have not reached the age of what we call accountability.

786
00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:47,020
That's what I meant when I said children, by the way.

787
00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:48,660
Let me be clear about that.

788
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:55,680
Yeah, because, I mean, you're still going to have children that have heard the gospel and have been old enough to hear it and reject it.

789
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,520
You know, it's just a tough thing.

790
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,340
It's just a tough thing because then again, the only people he's going to be taking home with him is the church.

791
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:04,580
You know?

792
00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:05,040
Yeah.

793
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:05,460
Yeah.

794
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,180
It's a deep subject there.

795
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:07,740
Yeah.

796
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:09,000
Yeah.

797
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,060
We just really aren't told plainly.

798
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:14,520
No.

799
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:15,760
Yeah.

800
00:34:15,919 --> 00:34:16,040
Yeah.

801
00:34:16,139 --> 00:34:18,560
It's a tough one to bite off there.

802
00:34:18,810 --> 00:34:24,179
And the thing to remember about it that I always go back to is the fact that God is a just God.

803
00:34:24,659 --> 00:34:24,740
Yeah.

804
00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:30,000
And there are people today that are saved, that are in parts of the world where they cannot get to a church.

805
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:30,740
Yeah.

806
00:34:31,220 --> 00:34:34,760
They don't get to hear the gospel preached every Sunday, but they've made their decision.

807
00:34:35,030 --> 00:34:37,840
They chose to follow him and they're probably suffering for it.

808
00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:38,179
Yeah.

809
00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:41,560
And that that exists in the world right now.

810
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:41,919
Yeah.

811
00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:45,060
And those people are going with us just like the rest of the church.

812
00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:45,360
Yeah.

813
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,620
Well, as long as long as faith, the faith.

814
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:49,200
Yeah.

815
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:50,960
They've had to have faith in.

816
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:57,220
They may not know the word Jesus, but they're going to have to have some kind of faith in

817
00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,080
who Jesus is.

818
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,460
Well, what I meant by that is I'm thinking of people that they've heard.

819
00:35:02,590 --> 00:35:02,860
Oh, yeah.

820
00:35:02,930 --> 00:35:06,600
They, you know, maybe part of the world where there's where there's been a missionary just

821
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,980
pat through that didn't stay and establish a church.

822
00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:09,520
Oh, yeah.

823
00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:12,780
There are people in places like that that have heard they've accepted.

824
00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:19,820
They made their decision and had a true life changing experience that they then suffered

825
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,780
for because of that decision.

826
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,220
And they're they're they're part of the church.

827
00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:25,160
They're part of the family.

828
00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:26,240
They're part of God's family.

829
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:35,640
And then as far as people that have never heard, I hesitate because you have to go through Christ.

830
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,540
It's just that simple.

831
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,400
If we want to get off into the weeds here, man, we'll go a little deeper if you want to.

832
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:42,860
Yeah, that's fine.

833
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:51,140
But this is the one that kind of gives me pause and makes me kind of afraid for children in some cases.

834
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:55,780
1 Corinthians 7, 14 says it's talking about divorce.

835
00:35:56,180 --> 00:35:59,640
and unequally yoked spouses.

836
00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:00,620
And it says,

837
00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:03,640
for the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife,

838
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,600
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband,

839
00:36:07,860 --> 00:36:10,800
for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

840
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,020
Yeah, yeah.

841
00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:16,040
I'm not sure what to do with it.

842
00:36:16,070 --> 00:36:20,160
Yeah, but you have to go back, I think, to –

843
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,360
well, you go back to the Philippian jailer where he told him,

844
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:25,660
he said, go, you and your household.

845
00:36:26,659 --> 00:36:28,300
be saved. I can't remember the exact

846
00:36:28,580 --> 00:36:29,560
wordage for that,

847
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:31,820
the verbiage for it, but

848
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,220
what he meant was, now you're going to go back

849
00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:36,160
and you're going to tell your

850
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:37,900
wife and your children

851
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,120
and I'm going to bless that and

852
00:36:40,260 --> 00:36:41,980
they'll accept that and they'll believe in that.

853
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,220
I still think you've got to come

854
00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:45,720
through Jesus. You've got to.

855
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:47,820
You've got to. There's no other way.

856
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,760
And this is not saying, we're not talking

857
00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:51,800
at all, I definitely don't want to confuse anybody

858
00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:53,780
when we're talking about children. If a child

859
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,800
has died, if you've got a child that's passed away,

860
00:36:55,860 --> 00:36:56,820
a baby, whatever.

861
00:36:57,780 --> 00:37:03,500
You know, I go back to David where he said, I can't, that child can't come back to me,

862
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,340
but I can go to him.

863
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:06,440
Now, that child's going to heaven, right?

864
00:37:06,660 --> 00:37:08,540
I mean, I believe that with all my heart.

865
00:37:08,540 --> 00:37:12,920
No, God's not a God who's going to send a child to hell that was born and died.

866
00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:14,320
That's not what we're saying.

867
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:22,740
We're talking about children, again, going into this tribulation time who, you know,

868
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,720
maybe you're not old enough to make a decision yet, but then the ones that are, I don't know.

869
00:37:27,820 --> 00:37:28,980
It's a tough thing.

870
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,140
And let's be clear.

871
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,060
There's no nothing in Scripture that tells us the age at which somebody is.

872
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:36,740
That's personal.

873
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:38,880
That's an individual thing.

874
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,420
And there may be kids as young as five or six years old.

875
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,840
They had enough understanding to know and to make a decision.

876
00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:51,760
And then there are kids that may not reach that age until they're 10, 11, 12 years old.

877
00:37:51,820 --> 00:37:56,140
And it depends on their mental state and their maturity level.

878
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:57,800
There's all these things that depend on it.

879
00:37:58,180 --> 00:38:02,020
And at the end of the day, that's between God and the individual.

880
00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:03,280
And you mentioned their mental state.

881
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:10,720
I think there'll be some children who maybe their mental state's been altered.

882
00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:20,700
They are able to, but they're able to cognitively understand some things.

883
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:34,500
I think there's probably a point there where some of those people with disabilities will accept Christ, and I've heard that they have and do, and maybe some of them won't, and they understood it.

884
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:44,900
But there's also those, you know, with different disabilities, down center, whatever it may be, that I think they're good.

885
00:38:45,070 --> 00:38:51,100
I think they're just like a baby, you know, and they're just like a child that hasn't reached that age of accountability.

886
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,260
Well, they have no understanding.

887
00:38:53,670 --> 00:38:56,460
I mean, gosh, we see it.

888
00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:58,500
We've got a young man that goes to church with us.

889
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,820
And I see a young man.

890
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:01,100
He's a couple years older than me.

891
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,040
But, man, he loves Jesus.

892
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:04,200
You know, he really does.

893
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:12,820
He loves Jesus, and he's, you know, because of his parents, because of his brother and his family, he loves the Lord.

894
00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:16,180
But the Lord, the Spirit of God is in him, and he talks about it all the time.

895
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,400
He'll say, Jesus, he's in my heart, you know.

896
00:39:19,460 --> 00:39:21,140
And what a special thing that is.

897
00:39:21,620 --> 00:39:22,860
What a beautiful thing that is.

898
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,260
God's not going to throw them away.

899
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,460
That's the thing.

900
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,120
And we can't come down to legal checkboxes.

901
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:32,280
It's about God's grace.

902
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,480
He's not trying to get more people into hell.

903
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,820
He's trying to get more people into hell.

904
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:36,200
That's right.

905
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:39,640
And his grace is just amazing, amazing grace.

906
00:39:39,780 --> 00:39:41,460
That's when we go back to the tulip, right?

907
00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:53,600
If you believe in Calvinism or predestination, again, one of the best things that I ever heard J. Vernon McGee say was God never predestined anyone to hell.

908
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:54,040
That's right.

909
00:39:54,120 --> 00:40:00,000
You can look at it how you want to, but if you're not predestined, I mean, he didn't say you're going to hell and you're going to hell and you're going to hell.

910
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,920
That's not what he said.

911
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,160
So to me, it shoots whole in that theory.

912
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:04,800
His will is at all be saved.

913
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:05,020
Yeah.

914
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:05,380
Amen.

915
00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:05,780
Yes.

916
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,940
And the Bible makes that abundantly clear.

917
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,160
And we do have to fall back on that.

918
00:40:12,060 --> 00:40:14,880
But yeah, it's a hard thing.

919
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:23,640
And it's something to bear in mind that at the end of the day, all of this explanation that Christ is giving here is leading up to,

920
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:30,140
he's illustrating what it means to be the one to reject, to be the one that pays lip service.

921
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:38,940
And doesn't really believe that they, they checked a box, they sit in the pew on Sunday, but they don't actually care.

922
00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:42,460
And, you know, I, man, I do not.

923
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:49,000
That is one thing that I know, especially when I was younger and I was struggling with keeping up with, well, am I saved?

924
00:40:49,070 --> 00:40:49,840
Am I not saved?

925
00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:57,980
And all that, that was one thing that was really in the back of my head, always something that scared, just really scared me and really got me was, but do I really believe?

926
00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:58,660
Yeah.

927
00:40:58,880 --> 00:40:59,820
Do I really believe?

928
00:41:00,810 --> 00:41:10,480
Because, you know, I'll be the first to tell you, man, I've gone plenty of my life where I've made some dumb, dumb decisions and just did not put him first.

929
00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:14,360
And I look back at that and go, huh, that was really stupid.

930
00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:20,460
Let's talk about this for just a second that you mentioned that, you know, we talk about being scared.

931
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:28,740
And, of course, I hear people all the time, you know, I tell you what, them firestone, them hellfire and brimstone preachers, you know.

932
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,040
So, you know, they shouldn't be scaring people into heaven and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

933
00:41:33,780 --> 00:41:39,780
You know, I mean, there should be a healthy fear of dying and spending eternity in hell.

934
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:40,120
Absolutely.

935
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:40,800
Come on.

936
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:46,180
I mean, you know, I'm not saying that's what we get up and preach every Sunday, but that should be there, right?

937
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:49,760
They should understand and know that there's a fear of that.

938
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:55,140
I think it was Hudson, our little nephew, Blake's nephew,

939
00:41:56,090 --> 00:41:59,700
that he was running out in the parking lot or running out in the road or something.

940
00:42:00,340 --> 00:42:02,760
We were all standing there, and I pulled him back in there one day,

941
00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:05,900
and I said, hey, you're going to go out there.

942
00:42:06,030 --> 00:42:09,080
I said, you're going to run out there, and you see that truck right there?

943
00:42:09,110 --> 00:42:11,580
I said, it's going to run over you and mash you into pieces.

944
00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:13,320
I said, you're not going to be breathing anymore.

945
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,680
This is like a three-year-old, and he was looking at me like, oh, my gosh.

946
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,880
They looked at me like, oh, my gosh.

947
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,440
I said, I want him to be scared.

948
00:42:22,780 --> 00:42:23,000
Absolutely.

949
00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:26,120
Run out there into that parking lot because he could die.

950
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,560
And they don't understand it.

951
00:42:27,620 --> 00:42:28,360
They got to get it.

952
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:28,840
Absolutely.

953
00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:30,760
God gave us fear for a reason.

954
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:31,280
Yes.

955
00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:31,840
For a reason.

956
00:42:31,980 --> 00:42:35,200
And that's a simple part of a crucial part of the gospel.

957
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:35,660
Yeah.

958
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:36,720
Is that we are sinners.

959
00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:38,580
That's where our default destination is.

960
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,400
Yeah, that's right.

961
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,360
And if we don't talk about that, Jesus talked about hell way more than he talked about heaven.

962
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:43,800
Yes, he did.

963
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:44,360
Amen.

964
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:45,840
Should we be any different?

965
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,300
No, no, not at all.

966
00:42:47,430 --> 00:42:48,400
I don't think so at all.

967
00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:49,880
And I love it.

968
00:42:51,080 --> 00:43:04,860
And somewhat off, but the young man that runs the church over in Blue Ridge that we go to every Labor Day, his church printed up some shirts.

969
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,940
And he walked into Sunday school this past Sunday, and they were all wearing them.

970
00:43:08,940 --> 00:43:12,740
And on the back, they had his sayings, things that he was famous for saying.

971
00:43:12,780 --> 00:43:14,600
And some of them were pretty amusing.

972
00:43:15,740 --> 00:43:19,160
My favorite was when Jesus washed me in the Holy Ghost washing machine.

973
00:43:19,270 --> 00:43:20,500
He threw a little shout in there.

974
00:43:21,050 --> 00:43:23,680
But I love the fact that they closed that shirt.

975
00:43:23,810 --> 00:43:27,000
And at the bottom, he said, just get saved, get saved, get saved.

976
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:27,320
Yeah.

977
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:32,080
Because that's, I mean, and he's one of those hellfire and brimstone style preachers.

978
00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:33,160
I mean, he is old school.

979
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:35,580
I mean, this is from out in the mountains in North Carolina.

980
00:43:36,430 --> 00:43:38,860
I mean, he just, and he gets it.

981
00:43:38,860 --> 00:43:43,180
And he gets that the most important thing you can do is make that decision, make that decision.

982
00:43:43,730 --> 00:43:44,400
And you know what?

983
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,820
If that's all you ever say about the gospel,

984
00:43:47,940 --> 00:43:50,000
hey, you need to hear that.

985
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,520
That's the crux of this whole thing.

986
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:52,580
If you're worried about yourself,

987
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,100
call on the name of Jesus.

988
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,260
If you're worried about your children,

989
00:43:55,660 --> 00:43:56,780
call on the name of Jesus.

990
00:43:56,940 --> 00:43:57,960
If you're worried about your wife,

991
00:43:58,320 --> 00:43:59,340
call on the name of Jesus.

992
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:00,900
Just call on the name of Jesus

993
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,080
and you will be saved.

994
00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:02,940
Believe in your heart

995
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:03,880
and confess with your mouth.

996
00:44:04,300 --> 00:44:04,940
And it's done.

997
00:44:05,020 --> 00:44:06,000
Don't worry about it no more.

998
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:07,680
He's got you in his hand

999
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:08,580
and he ain't letting go.

1000
00:44:08,780 --> 00:44:10,360
The father's got you in his hand

1001
00:44:10,460 --> 00:44:11,420
and he ain't letting go.

1002
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:11,880
That's right.

1003
00:44:11,940 --> 00:44:13,100
And when you're running to the father,

1004
00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:14,240
he's not going to turn you away.

1005
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:14,520
Amen.

1006
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,120
What can separate us from the love of Christ?

1007
00:44:17,590 --> 00:44:17,700
Nothing.

1008
00:44:17,860 --> 00:44:22,160
Neither hath nor death nor any other creature shall shepherd us from the love of Christ.

1009
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,100
We can talk about all these little details and stuff and all this.

1010
00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:27,080
I'll just call on the name of Jesus.

1011
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:27,460
That's right.

1012
00:44:27,730 --> 00:44:27,840
Amen.

1013
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,260
You don't have to worry about this.

1014
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:31,320
It's taken care of.

1015
00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:32,480
Take care of.

1016
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:32,700
Amen.

1017
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:33,460
Amen.

1018
00:44:34,340 --> 00:44:34,600
Amen.

1019
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,160
We're on verse...

1020
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:36,620
Sorry.

1021
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:37,960
You're good.

1022
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,440
Verse 31.

1023
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:41,320
31.

1024
00:44:41,670 --> 00:44:43,120
Yeah, we're getting into some judgment, man.

1025
00:44:43,340 --> 00:44:43,500
Yeah.

1026
00:44:44,260 --> 00:44:54,580
And this is where that kind, sweet little Jesus, the baby in the manger that would never hurt a flea, wouldn't do anything to hurt anybody.

1027
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:55,660
Oh, my goodness.

1028
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,060
He's so sweet and kind.

1029
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:58,180
I just love him.

1030
00:44:58,520 --> 00:44:58,900
Yeah.

1031
00:44:59,020 --> 00:44:59,240
Right.

1032
00:44:59,500 --> 00:45:00,380
He's a judge of the world.

1033
00:45:00,420 --> 00:45:00,760
He is.

1034
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:01,440
He is.

1035
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,200
He's the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

1036
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:11,360
And it says in verse 31, but when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

1037
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:12,160
Yeah.

1038
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:22,140
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep on his right and the goats on the left.

1039
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:24,560
Yeah.

1040
00:45:24,990 --> 00:45:28,840
So, again, like you said, this is judgment, right?

1041
00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:29,520
This is judgment.

1042
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:43,920
And, you know, whether it be completely individual or maybe nations that he's judging, you know, during the tribulation period, all nations will have an opportunity to receive God's message.

1043
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:49,260
The gospel, the kingdom is going to be preached among all the nations, and a lot of them will reject it.

1044
00:45:49,260 --> 00:45:50,900
A lot of individuals will reject it.

1045
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:58,140
And this is what the whole book and the whole word of God, for that matter, is moving to.

1046
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,700
It's moving towards Jesus on the throne.

1047
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:00,780
Yeah, absolutely.

1048
00:46:01,140 --> 00:46:02,620
That's where we're headed with it, right?

1049
00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:02,840
Yeah.

1050
00:46:03,780 --> 00:46:07,420
So we see this judgment and possibly a judgment of a nation.

1051
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:17,060
But I say nations because the Greek word here is ethnos, which means ethnic groups, ethnic groups of people.

1052
00:46:17,580 --> 00:46:17,660
Yeah.

1053
00:46:17,780 --> 00:46:21,340
And this judgment, this judgment is at Jesus' second coming, right?

1054
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:22,320
Yeah, it is.

1055
00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:29,880
Estimates on Revelation and all the wrath that's poured out on the world, at least half the world's population is gone.

1056
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:30,360
That's right.

1057
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,120
So this is the people that have survived this thing.

1058
00:46:33,580 --> 00:46:35,840
And they've gathered together, all the nations.

1059
00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:42,800
A lot of these people are sporting the mark of the beast.

1060
00:46:42,980 --> 00:46:43,160
Yeah.

1061
00:46:43,540 --> 00:46:43,620
Yeah.

1062
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:44,240
Yeah.

1063
00:46:44,820 --> 00:46:45,160
Absolutely.

1064
00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:45,700
Yeah.

1065
00:46:46,420 --> 00:46:46,960
Most of them are.

1066
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:48,300
And they're done, aren't they?

1067
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:48,820
I mean, yeah.

1068
00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:49,100
Yeah.

1069
00:46:49,620 --> 00:46:53,980
And there's never really an instance where individuals are called goats.

1070
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,960
And so, again, I say a national judgment here, but in Scripture,

1071
00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:00,700
we're either usually lost sheep or saved sheep, you know.

1072
00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:03,660
But everybody's going to stand before him.

1073
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,320
Everybody will stand before him.

1074
00:47:06,260 --> 00:47:09,220
Many believe that the goats in these verses could be nations.

1075
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:14,400
But anyway, Isaiah 53, verse 6, all we like sheep have gone astray.

1076
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,460
We have turned everyone, that would be an individual, to his own way.

1077
00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:22,040
And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

1078
00:47:22,410 --> 00:47:22,560
Amen.

1079
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:32,920
I believe these are definitely nations of people and individuals of people being judged on what they've done during tribulation.

1080
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:33,580
Right.

1081
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:35,040
That's why he's separating them.

1082
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,420
I mean, when the rapture takes place, we're not separated.

1083
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:40,100
It's the church.

1084
00:47:40,310 --> 00:47:41,480
We're going up together.

1085
00:47:41,940 --> 00:47:43,020
This is the only time.

1086
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,460
There's a lot of churches that preach this, that there's just one general judgment.

1087
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,500
And at the end, everybody's just going to be divided, right?

1088
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,000
Sheep over here, goats over here.

1089
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:53,200
Sheep over here, goats over here.

1090
00:47:53,580 --> 00:47:55,840
That is not what the Bible teaches, right?

1091
00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:01,180
That is not what the Bible teaches about the church and the judgment seat of Christ,

1092
00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:07,740
the great white throne of judgment that's going to be coming for these people in Revelation chapter 20 when we get there.

1093
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:18,760
You know, this is a time where you're either going to be cast into the lake of fire or you're going to be cast into probably at this time.

1094
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:22,320
This is before the thousand year millennial reign cast into hell.

1095
00:48:22,410 --> 00:48:29,660
And then later on at the Great White Throne of Judgment, you'll be thrown into the Great White or the lake of fire.

1096
00:48:29,890 --> 00:48:30,040
Yeah.

1097
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,940
So, yeah, there's a few events that have to take place here.

1098
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:38,820
So, well, we'll probably get to this later, but there's two kinds of people in the world.

1099
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:39,260
Yeah.

1100
00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:40,620
They're saved and unsaved.

1101
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:41,720
Saved and unsaved, yeah.

1102
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:42,020
Right?

1103
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,840
And Jesus boiled that down to us in John chapter 3.

1104
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:45,260
Yeah.

1105
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,220
He said, you passed into eternity, right, already, if you believe.

1106
00:48:49,420 --> 00:48:49,520
Yeah.

1107
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:51,960
And if you don't believe, you've already been judged.

1108
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:52,320
That's right.

1109
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:52,580
Yeah.

1110
00:48:53,340 --> 00:48:58,460
And this reminds me, too, of Matthew 13, the parable of the terrorism wheat.

1111
00:48:58,940 --> 00:48:59,040
Yeah.

1112
00:48:59,720 --> 00:48:59,780
Yeah.

1113
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:00,400
Absolutely.

1114
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:08,700
Where he says in verse 30, of course, an enemy comes in and sows tares, and this guy's wheat-filled, and they want to go pluck them out.

1115
00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:10,900
And he said, no, just wait until the end at the harvest.

1116
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:11,520
That's right.

1117
00:49:12,060 --> 00:49:12,120
Right.

1118
00:49:12,210 --> 00:49:15,120
And he says in verse 30, allow both to grow together until the harvest.

1119
00:49:15,290 --> 00:49:21,720
In the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers, first gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up, but gather the wheat into my barn.

1120
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:22,060
Yeah.

1121
00:49:22,380 --> 00:49:22,440
Yeah.

1122
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,160
That's right.

1123
00:49:23,380 --> 00:49:24,800
And I guess this is the same good.

1124
00:49:24,820 --> 00:49:30,420
And then, of course, when we get into Revelation, we're going to see that he presses in the sickle.

1125
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,320
And I mean, that's where your blood to the horse is brobbling, all this stuff going on.

1126
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:36,340
Man, judgment's coming.

1127
00:49:36,660 --> 00:49:37,060
It's coming.

1128
00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:37,900
Judgment's coming.

1129
00:49:38,110 --> 00:49:40,040
Do not back up from it because it's coming.

1130
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:40,940
Amen.

1131
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:43,860
Verse 34.

1132
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:51,280
Then shall the kingdom, the king say unto them on his right hand, come ye blessed of my father,

1133
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,240
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

1134
00:49:54,820 --> 00:49:57,920
for I was hungry and I was hungry and you gave me meat.

1135
00:49:58,070 --> 00:49:59,400
I was thirsty and you gave me drink.

1136
00:49:59,530 --> 00:50:02,720
I was a stranger and you took me in naked and you clothed me.

1137
00:50:02,730 --> 00:50:04,180
I was sick and you visited me.

1138
00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:06,360
I was in prison and you came unto me.

1139
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,820
Then shall the righteous answer him saying,

1140
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:15,380
Lord, when saw we thee and hungered and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink?

1141
00:50:15,940 --> 00:50:19,880
When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee?

1142
00:50:20,130 --> 00:50:23,760
Or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee?

1143
00:50:24,060 --> 00:50:26,520
And the king shall answer and say unto them,

1144
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:27,420
Verily I say unto you,

1145
00:50:27,620 --> 00:50:31,200
Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren,

1146
00:50:31,670 --> 00:50:33,260
you have done it unto me.

1147
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,980
The 144,000 during this time,

1148
00:50:37,010 --> 00:50:39,900
they're going to be going out all over the world to preach the gospel.

1149
00:50:40,660 --> 00:50:43,680
And those who hear and will accept the gospel,

1150
00:50:44,210 --> 00:50:45,060
will accept what they're saying,

1151
00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:50,620
or they'll be those who reject them, right?

1152
00:50:51,580 --> 00:50:56,780
So to give out a cup of water right now, it may not be a big deal.

1153
00:50:57,630 --> 00:50:59,000
But to do it during tribulation?

1154
00:50:59,400 --> 00:50:59,940
It's going to be different.

1155
00:51:00,260 --> 00:51:01,120
Oh, gosh, yeah.

1156
00:51:01,340 --> 00:51:05,580
I mean, it'll be a pure act of faith for you to walk up to somebody and say,

1157
00:51:05,630 --> 00:51:06,400
hey, I want to help you.

1158
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,500
This guy ain't got the more faith.

1159
00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:08,400
I see you're thirsty.

1160
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:09,820
Yeah, I see you're thirsty.

1161
00:51:10,290 --> 00:51:13,660
And I could be killed for doing this, but I'm going to do it anyway.

1162
00:51:13,930 --> 00:51:19,960
The Antichrist is going to be torturing and killing those who express trust in Christ Jesus.

1163
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,080
I mean, and that's the only people that are going to be willing to do this at that time, right?

1164
00:51:24,220 --> 00:51:25,160
Nobody else.

1165
00:51:25,340 --> 00:51:30,840
I mean, it'll be only those who have accepted Christ as Savior that will be willing to go out to the hungry,

1166
00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:36,220
the thirsty, the jailed, the criminals, and witness in the jails.

1167
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:42,740
So for someone to help one of these people, it's going to be a huge act of faith to trust in Jesus during that time.

1168
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,580
Yeah, and it's not going to be somebody that has the mark of the beast already.

1169
00:51:45,780 --> 00:51:47,100
They're putting their neck on the line.

1170
00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:47,660
Yeah, yeah.

1171
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:52,220
I mean, it's almost like, I hate to look at it this way, but it's like, hey, I see you, Hanton.

1172
00:51:52,540 --> 00:51:52,900
Sorry, bud.

1173
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,080
I mean, you're done.

1174
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:56,560
You know, there's nothing I can do for you.

1175
00:51:57,330 --> 00:51:57,420
Yeah.

1176
00:51:57,430 --> 00:52:01,220
And there's, man, this is such a good lesson for us today, too.

1177
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:01,760
It is.

1178
00:52:02,020 --> 00:52:04,640
This is exactly how we're going to be judged.

1179
00:52:04,820 --> 00:52:04,980
Yeah.

1180
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:05,320
Right.

1181
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:10,820
What are the little things that you did throughout your days that helped other people?

1182
00:52:11,020 --> 00:52:14,900
And that because he boils it all down to love one another, you know, love one another.

1183
00:52:15,180 --> 00:52:15,960
And this is love.

1184
00:52:16,220 --> 00:52:16,960
Yeah, absolutely.

1185
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:22,180
Absolutely it is, to reach out to your brothers and to help those in need,

1186
00:52:22,839 --> 00:52:24,560
to take care of the widows and orphans.

1187
00:52:24,700 --> 00:52:26,540
That's what we've been called to do.

1188
00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:28,460
Yeah, and he takes it personally.

1189
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:29,260
Yeah, he does.

1190
00:52:29,740 --> 00:52:31,740
He did it to that person, the least of these.

1191
00:52:31,740 --> 00:52:32,360
You did it to me.

1192
00:52:32,460 --> 00:52:33,200
Yeah, yeah.

1193
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,160
Boy, that puts it in perspective.

1194
00:52:35,260 --> 00:52:35,720
Yeah, it does.

1195
00:52:35,900 --> 00:52:39,420
It really does because, I mean, would you pass up Jesus?

1196
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:40,080
Yeah.

1197
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:40,480
Yeah.

1198
00:52:41,020 --> 00:52:41,540
And you are.

1199
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:42,620
What was it?

1200
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:43,040
It was Hebrews.

1201
00:52:43,270 --> 00:52:45,280
Some people have entertained angels unaware.

1202
00:52:45,779 --> 00:52:46,500
Yes, absolutely.

1203
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,260
We just stayed that a couple of weeks ago.

1204
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:48,620
Yeah.

1205
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:49,360
Never know.

1206
00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:50,160
Never know.

1207
00:52:51,620 --> 00:52:51,840
Wow.

1208
00:52:54,460 --> 00:52:55,140
I hit 41.

1209
00:52:55,420 --> 00:52:55,700
All right.

1210
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:56,840
You want to go through the rest of it?

1211
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:57,160
Sure.

1212
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,080
Then he will also say to those on his left,

1213
00:53:01,060 --> 00:53:03,880
depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire,

1214
00:53:04,020 --> 00:53:05,880
which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.

1215
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,000
For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat.

1216
00:53:09,180 --> 00:53:11,480
I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.

1217
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,620
I was a stranger, and you did not invite me in.

1218
00:53:14,660 --> 00:53:21,240
naked and you did not clothe me sick and in prison and you did not visit me then they themselves also

1219
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:26,320
will answer lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in

1220
00:53:26,430 --> 00:53:31,240
prison and did not take care of you then he will answer them truly i say to you to the extent that

1221
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:37,059
you did not do it to one of the least of these you did not do it to me these will go away into

1222
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,720
eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

1223
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:41,160
Amen.

1224
00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:42,260
Amen.

1225
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,540
It's black and white.

1226
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:45,160
It is.

1227
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:45,700
Yeah.

1228
00:53:45,860 --> 00:53:46,080
Yeah.

1229
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,900
There's no beating around the bush there.

1230
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:49,520
No.

1231
00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:59,100
They did not understand the principle of being a servant and putting others before yourself

1232
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,260
and being the hands and feet of Jesus.

1233
00:54:02,420 --> 00:54:03,280
Those are those.

1234
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,180
That's this group that we're talking about right here.

1235
00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:21,940
At the beginning of Christ's reign, Jesus will judge and get rid of those who are left here that that will not allow or he will not allow them to go into the millennial kingdom and invite him into his kingdom.

1236
00:54:22,170 --> 00:54:25,180
Or he'll invite into those those people who've been faithful.

1237
00:54:25,380 --> 00:54:26,540
He'll invite them into the kingdom.

1238
00:54:26,620 --> 00:54:26,780
Yeah.

1239
00:54:26,980 --> 00:54:29,080
Those are the ones that survive into the millennium.

1240
00:54:29,410 --> 00:54:29,540
Yeah.

1241
00:54:29,540 --> 00:54:29,620
Yeah.

1242
00:54:29,740 --> 00:54:30,080
Absolutely.

1243
00:54:30,420 --> 00:54:30,500
Yeah.

1244
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:30,880
Absolutely.

1245
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:45,920
Gosh, what a – and again, like you said, there's going to be so many people, over half the population's gone, and most of those people who have trusted and put their faith in Christ have already died.

1246
00:54:46,050 --> 00:54:46,200
Yeah.

1247
00:54:46,340 --> 00:54:52,160
There's so many that have already been martyred, and he's getting revenge for them, too, during this time.

1248
00:54:52,270 --> 00:54:52,380
Yeah.

1249
00:54:52,380 --> 00:54:55,840
Yeah, he's fixing to let his wrath go.

1250
00:54:55,900 --> 00:54:56,440
Yeah, he has.

1251
00:54:57,220 --> 00:55:04,840
You know, so many people like, and I always say this, I guess, but, oh, well, if God was a good God, he would just put an end to evil.

1252
00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:07,760
And he's a good God, and he's about to.

1253
00:55:07,820 --> 00:55:08,180
That's right.

1254
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:08,660
He will.

1255
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:09,920
And this is what it looks like.

1256
00:55:10,010 --> 00:55:10,380
He will.

1257
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:10,920
Yes.

1258
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:16,380
And it's not going to be pretty, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of this thing because there's two sides.

1259
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:22,180
You know, I don't think people realize that God could not have made us perfect.

1260
00:55:23,420 --> 00:55:30,400
God could not have made us where all we would know to do is worship and serve him.

1261
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,080
Because if he did, we'd all be like a bunch of robots.

1262
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:34,480
Right.

1263
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:34,760
One.

1264
00:55:35,380 --> 00:55:37,800
And what glory would that bring to him?

1265
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:44,140
I mean, you know, I'm going to make a bunch of people who enforce them to love me and follow me.

1266
00:55:44,860 --> 00:55:46,140
God wanted that.

1267
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,560
This is where the understanding of the relationship comes in.

1268
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:49,660
Right.

1269
00:55:50,060 --> 00:55:57,940
that he really wants a relationship with you, an intimate relationship with you where we're a father and a son.

1270
00:55:57,940 --> 00:56:06,840
And, you know, again, like the as we describe Jesus, we're he is the he is the bridegroom and we're the bride.

1271
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,520
Nothing sexual in that. OK, I don't want people to misconstrue that because there's not.

1272
00:56:12,020 --> 00:56:17,420
But what he's saying is he watches after us and he loves us like a like a husband should love his wife,

1273
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:20,540
like he would sacrifice for her and take care of her.

1274
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,840
He wants that type of marriage relationship.

1275
00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:25,160
He wants that with us.

1276
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:27,080
And what a beautiful thing it is.

1277
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,220
It's a special creation, right, with Adam and Eve.

1278
00:56:29,580 --> 00:56:30,380
He created them.

1279
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,860
He didn't create them like cows or dogs or any of the other creatures.

1280
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:34,360
Yeah.

1281
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,860
He created us for a relationship with mutual love.

1282
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:38,180
That's right.

1283
00:56:38,340 --> 00:56:41,920
And without freedom to choose that or not, there's no real love.

1284
00:56:42,340 --> 00:56:42,560
Yeah.

1285
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:44,500
You're just, like you said, a robot.

1286
00:56:44,780 --> 00:56:44,960
Yeah.

1287
00:56:45,380 --> 00:56:45,440
Yeah.

1288
00:56:45,900 --> 00:56:46,020
Amen.

1289
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:46,680
Amen.

1290
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,480
And, you know, I think that's hard for people to wrap their heads around.

1291
00:56:50,820 --> 00:56:54,220
But, I mean, you have to ask yourself this question.

1292
00:56:54,330 --> 00:56:56,800
Do you want your kids to love you because you made them love you?

1293
00:56:57,100 --> 00:56:57,240
Right.

1294
00:56:57,500 --> 00:57:02,640
Or do you want your kids to love you because you were a good father and you took care of them and you provided for them?

1295
00:57:02,950 --> 00:57:08,360
Now, there's going to be times where they're going to, you know, they might talk about you like a dog, but they don't understand.

1296
00:57:08,740 --> 00:57:17,380
There's going to be a day coming where they realize if you were truly a good father, a good mother, that they're going to look at it and say, okay, the whole time they were loving me and kidding me.

1297
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:23,160
for man yeah i'm dynamic right with the father in heaven that we have we gripe and complain about

1298
00:57:23,310 --> 00:57:28,280
stuff that we shouldn't gripe and complain about yes and and it disappoints him it does right

1299
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:34,720
and and he gets upset with us yeah right it's the same dynamic that's right yeah i mean amen

1300
00:57:35,580 --> 00:57:43,140
you know uh i will will point out that this particular verse gets quoted so often these days

1301
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,520
About just basically letting people do whatever they're going to do.

1302
00:57:48,660 --> 00:57:51,040
You know, well, you know what you've done to the least of these.

1303
00:57:51,390 --> 00:57:52,340
I hear that so much.

1304
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:53,780
People that are not Christians.

1305
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:54,480
Yeah.

1306
00:57:54,980 --> 00:57:55,060
Yeah.

1307
00:57:55,620 --> 00:57:58,320
What you've done to the least of these that you've done to him.

1308
00:57:58,620 --> 00:58:01,160
How can you tell people this or how can you not?

1309
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:02,400
How are you judging me?

1310
00:58:02,940 --> 00:58:03,860
It's like, yeah, yeah.

1311
00:58:04,020 --> 00:58:04,320
You judge.

1312
00:58:04,590 --> 00:58:06,100
So you're judging God because what you've done.

1313
00:58:06,220 --> 00:58:07,800
And I'm like, that is not at all.

1314
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:15,480
this verse, number one, it was an illustration because salvation is not dependent on what you do.

1315
00:58:16,540 --> 00:58:20,260
Now, there is a judgment on what we do. There is a judgment on our actions, but salvation,

1316
00:58:21,140 --> 00:58:26,700
what this is talking about is not specifically dependent on what we do. This is God judging

1317
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:34,300
nations, as you said, peoples as a whole, and saying the way you viewed people as a whole,

1318
00:58:34,340 --> 00:58:39,600
the way you looked at them and treated them collectively is what you,

1319
00:58:39,660 --> 00:58:41,840
what you did to the least of these is what you have done to me.

1320
00:58:42,340 --> 00:58:48,900
And when you think about nations that are rejecting truth as hard as they can,

1321
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:58,740
millions of abortions every year and just letting evil run rampant and letting

1322
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:03,200
people be hurt and letting people go hungry and letting people go because the

1323
00:59:03,220 --> 00:59:07,660
churches aren't stepping up and doing their job and the Christians aren't stepping up.

1324
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:12,680
And then, of course, the nation by, you know, in itself can't step up and handle everything.

1325
00:59:13,100 --> 00:59:17,640
So because at the end of the day, no matter how hard a nation may try, they can't completely

1326
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:18,740
eliminate these things.

1327
00:59:19,260 --> 00:59:20,880
And it's up to the people to step in.

1328
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:25,980
And when you have a nation where that's being encouraged, even that that nation is bound

1329
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,720
for some very, very harsh judgment.

1330
00:59:28,300 --> 00:59:31,839
And so when when I hear people quoting that, I'm like, you don't even realize what it's

1331
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:35,220
talking about, because that's not just talking about letting people do whatever. It's specifically

1332
00:59:35,460 --> 00:59:39,520
talking about having that level of control and saying, okay, we have these that are needy and

1333
00:59:39,740 --> 00:59:44,520
okay. The churches should be going out and moving and helping take care of them. Again, I go back to

1334
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:49,400
the things that we do here and a lot of churches in this area even do it. And we have a lot of

1335
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:55,700
Christians that do their best at that. But when the nation is encouraging people into degeneracy

1336
00:59:55,940 --> 01:00:01,040
and evil, you're not the sheep in that situation just because you're not judging them. And oh,

1337
01:00:01,180 --> 01:00:02,220
but we're giving them free food.

1338
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:03,880
We're giving them a place to sleep.

1339
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,060
We're giving them clothes.

1340
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,160
But you're not encouraging the right things.

1341
01:00:09,260 --> 01:00:11,980
You are encouraging degeneracy and rejection of God.

1342
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,320
I'm sorry, you're not the sheep in this scenario.

1343
01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:17,000
And when you look at this thing, I mean,

1344
01:00:17,540 --> 01:00:23,400
I mean, America definitely is probably has faced judgment

1345
01:00:23,540 --> 01:00:25,740
and will face judgment for our whole abortion thing,

1346
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,080
for as many babies as we killed over the decades.

1347
01:00:30,620 --> 01:00:38,180
And then I hear people say, you know, well, you think homosexuality, you think, you know, we're going to be judged for that too.

1348
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,060
And then I've heard it said that maybe that is our judgment.

1349
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:56,340
I mean, if you think about that, you know, people being turned over to a reprobate mind and really stopping growth and population and, you know, what God has tried to point in.

1350
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:57,640
I mean, you think about that.

1351
01:00:58,140 --> 01:01:00,100
It could be judgment in and within itself.

1352
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:10,660
I heard a stat today that said that sometime, I can't remember the year, like in the early 2030s, that in the U.S., the death rate will exceed the birth rate.

1353
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:12,620
Yeah.

1354
01:01:13,060 --> 01:01:13,740
That's pretty scary.

1355
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,280
It is very scary because we're leaning.

1356
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:18,700
Isn't it selfish, one thing, right?

1357
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:20,360
I mean, because any sin is selfish.

1358
01:01:20,660 --> 01:01:22,560
It's self-gratifying.

1359
01:01:22,820 --> 01:01:24,380
It's what makes me feel good.

1360
01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:29,300
And so when we get selfish, we're not caring about anybody else, and that includes children.

1361
01:01:29,380 --> 01:01:31,740
And that includes reproducing.

1362
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,600
That includes, you know, us being moms and dads coming together.

1363
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,280
Because, I mean, there's several things that you look at.

1364
01:01:38,340 --> 01:01:39,380
And one, you've got homosexuality.

1365
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,420
There's not going to be a baby that's going to come out of that.

1366
01:01:42,980 --> 01:01:48,420
Two, you've got venereal diseases and all these different things that I think are judgment, too.

1367
01:01:50,580 --> 01:01:53,420
But a lot of those things are keeping people from being reproductive.

1368
01:01:53,580 --> 01:01:59,300
They're not able to reproduce because their organs and different things have been damaged.

1369
01:01:59,900 --> 01:02:14,960
And so, you know, you've got all these scenarios where little by little the population keeps getting cut down, cut down, cut down because we live in a nation where we're not able to reproduce like we used to be.

1370
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:20,780
Yeah, and I think a lot of this stuff, too, is just kind of the natural outcome of us turning away from God.

1371
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:21,820
Yeah, absolutely.

1372
01:02:21,980 --> 01:02:23,160
It's just a backward slide.

1373
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:33,920
Romans 1 kind of lays out that backwards slide down into degeneracy where God just – where he said God gave them over in the lust of their hearts to impurities so that their bodies would be dishonored.

1374
01:02:34,010 --> 01:02:35,280
You know, he gives us over.

1375
01:02:36,060 --> 01:02:37,360
Okay, you don't want to follow me.

1376
01:02:37,650 --> 01:02:40,620
You just go do your own thing, and then we'll let what happens happen.

1377
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:41,180
Yeah.

1378
01:02:42,220 --> 01:02:55,980
Gosh, I mean, I'm just sitting here thinking now after you gave those statistics and we're talking about this as far as in 2030 things being cut down and the death rate being higher than the birth rate.

1379
01:02:57,180 --> 01:03:07,620
A hundred years ago, you know, I've always said, well, you know, they always had big families back then because they were farmers and they needed more children to get out and work.

1380
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:24,600
But, you know, the reason that we're here today is because of great-great-granddaddy or great-great-great-granddaddy and grandmother that were having seven and eight children that were more worried about the family dynamic than they were anything else.

1381
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,160
I mean, they weren't out there going.

1382
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:30,200
I mean, they're living during the Depression and still having seven and eight kids.

1383
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:31,520
They weren't going well.

1384
01:03:32,300 --> 01:03:39,240
It didn't become an economic thing until the last 40, 50 years, I guess.

1385
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:40,860
I mean, now it's an economic thing.

1386
01:03:40,940 --> 01:03:42,460
Okay, we're going to have two children.

1387
01:03:43,220 --> 01:03:44,740
We're not going to have any more than that.

1388
01:03:45,260 --> 01:03:51,920
And then, of course, I mean, we've used methods of birth control when we had two.

1389
01:03:52,220 --> 01:03:56,320
But, man, when you really sit and think about it, what are you doing?

1390
01:03:56,620 --> 01:03:57,540
What are you doing there?

1391
01:03:57,780 --> 01:03:58,940
What are you holding back?

1392
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,660
I mean, could there be the next Billy Graham that could come out of this thing?

1393
01:04:03,819 --> 01:04:04,960
Priorities have changed, haven't they?

1394
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:08,040
Now we're more concerned about having a new car over two or three years

1395
01:04:08,220 --> 01:04:11,120
and having a bigger house and having a better job and working more hours

1396
01:04:11,340 --> 01:04:14,340
and all these things just to get more and more and more stuff.

1397
01:04:14,540 --> 01:04:16,140
And if I have a kid, that's going to get in the way.

1398
01:04:16,220 --> 01:04:17,660
If I have another kid, that's going to get in the way.

1399
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:18,260
And what is that?

1400
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:21,040
I mean, that becomes selfishness, really.

1401
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:21,300
It does.

1402
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:21,920
It is.

1403
01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:25,660
Because maybe we're holding back on what God wants to be.

1404
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:26,120
Yeah.

1405
01:04:26,900 --> 01:04:26,980
Yeah.

1406
01:04:27,260 --> 01:04:28,640
Anyway, just something to think about.

1407
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:29,040
Yeah.

1408
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:29,640
Yeah.

1409
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:30,740
All right.

1410
01:04:30,860 --> 01:04:35,000
I guess we're going to hit the rapture running next week, right?

1411
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:36,260
Yeah.

1412
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:36,660
Yeah.

1413
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,800
We'll go into chapter four and see the church in heaven.

1414
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:40,900
And yeah.

1415
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:42,360
Praise the Lord for that.

1416
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:42,680
Amen.

1417
01:04:42,980 --> 01:04:43,280
I'm ready.

1418
01:04:43,460 --> 01:04:43,780
Amen.

1419
01:04:43,940 --> 01:04:45,080
All right.

1420
01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:47,560
Well, next week, Revelation chapter four.

1421
01:04:48,180 --> 01:04:54,240
Come in expecting to do some deep dive into that because that's when things start getting

1422
01:04:55,940 --> 01:04:56,340
interesting.

1423
01:04:57,460 --> 01:05:01,260
And I would say we've had an interesting couple of weeks getting into it,

1424
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,240
but Chapter 4 is where things really take off.

1425
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:07,740
We've moved from the introduction and revelation of the letters to the church.

1426
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,280
We've now seen where Christ has described these things,

1427
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,300
and then now we're diving into the meat of what happens, the rapture,

1428
01:05:16,420 --> 01:05:17,400
and then what follows.

1429
01:05:17,740 --> 01:05:22,940
And we'll be pointing back at Daniel a lot, back at Matt and you a lot.

1430
01:05:22,980 --> 01:05:24,440
Yes, absolutely.

1431
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:27,940
Daniel and Matthew and Isaiah and all these other,

1432
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,280
we've got a lot of stuff we'll be re-referencing.

1433
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,320
So if you have a Bible,

1434
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,120
good time to open it up and flip to the references.

1435
01:05:35,340 --> 01:05:36,480
I try to put them up on the screen,

1436
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:37,580
but I can only do so much.

1437
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,320
And as always, if you've got questions,

1438
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,920
if there's something we said that we were not clear on

1439
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:46,960
or you weren't clear on that we said,

1440
01:05:47,820 --> 01:05:48,600
I would love it.

1441
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:52,460
Tyler can give you our website or our email information.

1442
01:05:52,580 --> 01:05:55,040
Yeah, just send it through Facebook's best way.

1443
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:56,060
Just leave us a message.

1444
01:05:56,170 --> 01:05:58,840
You can chat us directly on Facebook's message to us.

1445
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,380
Leave it under a video or directly to the page.

1446
01:06:02,410 --> 01:06:05,760
I think you can send us a direct message that way, and we will see it.

1447
01:06:05,900 --> 01:06:07,260
Yeah, we'd love to hear from you.

1448
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:08,960
Yes, absolutely.

1449
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,000
We want to answer those questions.

1450
01:06:11,540 --> 01:06:11,800
Yes.

1451
01:06:12,500 --> 01:06:12,960
All right.

1452
01:06:13,050 --> 01:06:16,400
Well, Brother Brian, if you would, I'll let you pray and dismiss us.

1453
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:20,640
And we look forward to seeing everybody next week as we dive into Revelation chapter 4.

1454
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:21,320
Sure.

1455
01:06:21,980 --> 01:06:22,780
Father, we love you.

1456
01:06:23,290 --> 01:06:23,900
We thank you.

1457
01:06:23,990 --> 01:06:24,780
We praise you.

1458
01:06:25,580 --> 01:06:28,260
Just, God, thank you for allowing us to be here.

1459
01:06:28,660 --> 01:06:30,520
Thank you for allowing us to speak your name.

1460
01:06:30,860 --> 01:06:35,800
And, Lord, I just pray that everything said and done will glorify you here.

1461
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,220
Let many people come to Jesus.

1462
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:39,840
Let many people hear the gospel.

1463
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:43,780
God, I pray that hearts would be on fire for you,

1464
01:06:43,950 --> 01:06:47,300
that revival would take place individually, corporately.

1465
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:50,420
God, it would spread across this nation and this world.

1466
01:06:51,140 --> 01:06:56,660
God, as we live in these last days where the trumpet could sound at any moment in time,

1467
01:06:57,260 --> 01:06:59,640
we want to serve you like we never have before, God.

1468
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:01,300
So give us that strength.

1469
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:02,360
Give us that ability.

1470
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,040
Let us do well with what's been given to us.

1471
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,760
And we ask this in Jesus' name.

1472
01:07:07,140 --> 01:07:07,260
Amen.

1473
01:07:07,460 --> 01:07:07,720
Amen.

1474
01:07:16,900 --> 01:07:17,380
Amen.