WEBVTT 00:02.700 --> 00:03.600 all we know 00:06.300 --> 00:07.500 What the Lord! 00:10.200 --> 00:15.000 With the blessings of which we have prayed 01:02.000 --> 01:03.400 You can tell. 01:06.000 --> 01:10.700 will send from above and how have 01:20.400 --> 01:21.400 Worship 02:01.200 --> 02:05.360 and singing everybody. And actually we did not sing this this morning, I thought we did. 02:07.360 --> 02:09.360 Brother Ryan, would you please open us up in a word of prayer? 02:13.200 --> 02:13.900 us and we're here to help you. 02:16.200 --> 02:23.200 Thank you for helping us reach our goal. I pray God that we can go way beyond that. 02:23.200 --> 02:26.200 Please bless the rest of the service in Jesus' name, Amen. 02:26.200 --> 02:27.200 Amen. 02:27.200 --> 02:32.200 Alright, if you want to take your hymnals to page number 50. 02:32.200 --> 02:34.200 Page number 50. 02:36.900 --> 02:40.100 We also did not sing this one this morning, I believe. 02:44.300 --> 02:47.300 Page number 50. 02:47.300 --> 02:56.100 Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin. 02:56.100 --> 02:50.520 The blood of the 03:07.400 --> 03:13.080 Perfect peace with sorrow surging round 03:19.900 --> 03:22.940 home is found. 03:28.500 --> 03:30.680 our future all 03:47.700 --> 03:50.980 have shadowing us and all. 04:06.500 --> 04:12.000 The struggle soon shall cease, and Jesus will come again. 04:15.400 --> 04:18.440 Heaven's perfect peace 04:21.400 --> 04:22.400 That's it, everybody. 04:22.400 --> 04:24.400 At this time, we will have our announcements. 04:32.000 --> 04:39.000 Welcome back everyone. Verse of the week is Romans 8 verse 18. Romans 8 verse 18. 04:39.000 --> 04:47.000 For I reckon that the suffering of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.700 Roman 8 verse 18 04:50.800 --> 04:55.800 Alright service times are 10 30 this morning 3 30 this afternoon 6 30 on Wednesday for the Bible study 04:56.040 --> 05:01.040 So many times are 12 30 on Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m 05:01.580 --> 05:03.780 so today we had four 05:04.560 --> 05:06.560 salvations for a total of 05:06.680 --> 05:10.020 15 for June and 15 for May for a total of 05:10.720 --> 05:12.400 101 05:12.400 --> 05:14.160 salvations in 05:14.160 --> 05:15.840 Jim by Jim 05:15.840 --> 05:18.780 So amen so we met our goal 05:18.800 --> 05:20.440 Well, guess we're taking a break, right? 05:20.440 --> 05:21.740 No. 05:21.740 --> 05:22.780 No, amen. 05:22.780 --> 05:25.000 I mean, frankly, we were on course for, 05:25.000 --> 05:27.080 I believe, the best year. 05:27.080 --> 05:28.520 And I could be way off by this, 05:28.520 --> 05:31.700 but I think it was close to 100 and... 05:32.400 --> 05:36.800 58 or 160 I think many years ago we hit. 05:36.800 --> 05:40.020 So I think we have a chance to beat our top one. 05:40.020 --> 05:42.720 And if someone has a better recollection of that, 05:42.720 --> 05:45.920 we are definitely on our way for, I mean, on par, 05:45.920 --> 05:48.880 if not succeeding the best year we've ever had. 05:48.880 --> 05:50.920 So, and this is a great turnaround 05:50.920 --> 05:54.980 because I believe we made it to 98 last year. 05:55.880 --> 05:58.080 I think we just made it right below. 05:58.080 --> 06:00.300 So it is great to come from. 06:00.600 --> 06:02.280 I mean, we're just doing really well this year. 06:02.280 --> 06:04.040 So that's a great accomplishment. 06:04.040 --> 06:06.720 So that's down there. 06:06.720 --> 06:08.680 Attendance down below. 06:08.680 --> 06:11.720 Upcoming events, remember Yakima. 06:11.720 --> 06:13.400 Next week is their anniversary. 06:13.400 --> 06:15.280 If you'd like to attend, they're having a. 06:16.100 --> 06:21.100 their normal thing, you know, kind of a week of a soul wedding marathon. Pastor 06:21.100 --> 06:24.920 Thompson will be there. So if you'd like to visit and that is the closest of our 06:24.920 --> 06:31.620 official sister churches or I mean Church Plant, Sure Foundation Baptist 06:31.620 --> 06:37.660 Church, Church is near us. So if you'd like to visit it is still the closest. So 06:37.660 --> 06:42.200 that's there if you want to go. Also coming up 06:42.400 --> 06:47.820 July 28th will be the homeschool church day. That'll be here at 11 a.m. 06:48.700 --> 06:54.820 And please remember starting Wednesday will be a soul-winning awareness challenge. 06:54.820 --> 06:59.140 Just invite 25 people to church and hopefully we preach the gospel. 06:59.140 --> 07:04.260 But if you just invite 25 people outside of soul-winning times, that's the challenge. 07:04.260 --> 07:05.260 You've got two months. 07:05.260 --> 07:07.780 So it's just good to focus on. 07:07.780 --> 07:11.940 Remember, there are soul-winning times where we purely focus on that, but it's also just 07:11.940 --> 07:14.820 be aware when we have the opportunities throughout our day. 07:15.600 --> 07:23.160 And if you haven't known, the Father's Day gifts are on the front table, so all fathers, 07:23.160 --> 07:27.080 please get the little pocket knives that are available for you. 07:27.080 --> 07:28.080 That's out there. 07:28.080 --> 07:32.200 They came after Father's Day, but they are out there available if any fathers have not 07:32.200 --> 07:33.880 yet gotten their gift from the church. 07:33.880 --> 07:35.660 So it's on the front table. 07:35.660 --> 07:37.680 Please grab that on your way out. 07:38.100 --> 07:43.700 Kids, your memory verse is Matthew 19 verse 14, Matthew 19 verse 14. 07:43.700 --> 07:50.280 But Jesus said, suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such 07:50.280 --> 07:52.600 is the kingdom of heaven. 07:53.100 --> 07:59.020 good verse to have memorized and remember that you know it's one of the key verses of why 07:59.580 --> 08:04.540 we're an integrated church you know why we don't want to separate uh children from the church so 08:04.540 --> 08:14.460 from the youth they can hear good doctrine so with that um we've uh some birthdays um only 08:14.460 --> 08:18.860 one here is Karina we'll have to wait until they come back hopefully on Wednesday but um 08:20.200 --> 08:21.800 keep them in prayer as they're traveling. 08:21.800 --> 08:23.440 But if you have any other prayer requests, 08:23.440 --> 08:26.000 please let the Thompson snow or myself know 08:26.000 --> 08:27.800 and we'll get it into the bulletin. 08:27.800 --> 08:30.540 But with that, let's turn to the Lord in prayer. 08:30.540 --> 08:32.000 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this. 09:32.600 --> 09:36.720 If you want to take your Psalm books, we're going to turn to Psalm number 24 09:44.600 --> 09:47.080 Psalm number twenty-four. 09:56.500 --> 10:05.780 is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell thereof. 10:08.800 --> 10:12.680 For he hath founded it upon the 10:15.700 --> 10:20.700 established it upon the flood? 10:20.700 --> 10:26.700 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? 10:26.700 --> 10:28.700 Or who shall stand? 10:33.100 --> 10:37.340 that hath gleaned, hands and up your heart, 10:37.340 --> 10:42.900 who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, 10:42.900 --> 10:50.260 nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessings 10:50.260 --> 10:51.900 of the Lord. 10:52.200 --> 10:58.200 and righteousness from the God of His salvation. 10:58.200 --> 11:04.200 This is the generation of them that seek Him, 11:04.200 --> 11:10.200 that seek Thy face, O Jacob, see ye love. 11:10.200 --> 11:14.200 Lift up your heads, O ye who are in the midst of sin. 11:16.500 --> 11:21.900 Be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, 11:21.900 --> 11:26.500 And the King of Glory shall reign. 11:50.600 --> 11:51.500 Oh 11:55.100 --> 12:05.780 them up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. 12:05.780 --> 12:08.500 Who is this King of Glory? 12:27.700 --> 12:29.700 Let's listen to everybody. 12:29.700 --> 12:31.700 Would the Paul, would you please pray for the offering? 12:31.700 --> 12:33.700 Father, thank you so much for this day. 12:33.700 --> 12:35.700 Thank you so much for what we have. 12:35.700 --> 12:38.700 But Lord, this remember to be truthful in all that you have given us. 12:38.700 --> 12:42.700 And Lord, luckily in the world they had the tithes, they had peace offerings, 12:42.700 --> 12:46.700 they had swimming rooms, they had sway offerings, they had burnt offerings. 12:46.700 --> 12:49.700 Lord, you really simplified it just to ask for a tithe. 12:49.700 --> 12:52.700 So, we'll just be thankful in the time that we are, that we're a good testament. 12:52.700 --> 12:53.700 Thank you. 13:36.200 --> 13:38.240 Welcome back everybody. 13:38.240 --> 13:41.240 If you could take your Bibles and turn to 13:41.240 --> 13:45.800 First Kings chapter 21, that'll be our text this evening. 13:46.800 --> 13:50.760 First Kings 21, and as always here at our church, 13:50.760 --> 13:53.980 we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 13:55.760 --> 13:59.900 First Kings chapter 21, the Bible reads. 14:00.000 --> 14:05.920 And it came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which 14:05.920 --> 14:10.080 was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. 14:10.400 --> 14:16.700 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden 14:16.700 --> 14:23.020 of herbs, because it is near unto my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard 14:23.020 --> 14:24.020 than it. 14:24.020 --> 14:29.460 Or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 14:29.460 --> 14:34.900 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me that I should give the inheritance of my 14:34.900 --> 14:36.500 fathers unto thee. 14:36.600 --> 14:43.320 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite 14:43.320 --> 14:49.000 had spoken to him. For he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. 14:49.960 --> 14:55.600 And he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would eat no bread. 14:55.700 --> 15:03.620 But Jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? 15:03.620 --> 15:12.100 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite. And he said unto him, Give me thy 15:12.100 --> 15:18.340 vineyard for money, or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it. And he 15:18.340 --> 15:20.820 answered, I will not give thee my vineyard. 15:21.200 --> 15:23.640 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, 15:23.640 --> 15:26.860 Thus thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? 15:26.860 --> 15:30.820 Arise and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry. 15:30.820 --> 15:34.820 I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 15:34.820 --> 15:39.780 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, 15:39.780 --> 15:46.100 and sent the letters unto the elders and the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. 15:46.300 --> 15:53.300 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people, 15:53.300 --> 15:59.800 And set two men, sons of Belial before them, to bear witness against him, saying, 15:59.800 --> 16:07.800 Thou didst blaspheme God and the king, and then carry him out and stone him that he may die. 16:07.800 --> 16:15.080 and the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants of his city, 16:16.360 --> 16:23.480 did eat or did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she 16:23.480 --> 16:25.300 had sent unto them. 16:25.300 --> 16:30.300 They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. 16:30.300 --> 16:35.300 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him. 16:35.300 --> 16:42.300 And the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, 16:42.300 --> 16:46.300 Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. 16:46.300 --> 16:52.000 Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died. 16:52.400 --> 16:57.400 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned and is dead. 16:57.400 --> 17:03.600 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Jezebel 17:03.600 --> 17:10.280 said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he 17:10.280 --> 17:12.600 refused to give thee for money. 17:12.600 --> 17:15.320 For Naboth is not alive, but dead. 17:15.900 --> 17:22.700 And it came to pass when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab arose up to go down to the 17:22.700 --> 17:29.500 vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the 17:29.500 --> 17:38.220 Tishbite saying, arise go down to meet Ahab king of Israel which is in Samaria. Behold he is in the 17:38.220 --> 17:42.060 vineyard of Naboth whither he has gone down to possess it. 17:42.700 --> 17:49.280 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed and also 17:49.280 --> 17:51.340 taken possession? 17:51.340 --> 17:57.060 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs lick 17:57.060 --> 18:01.700 Lick the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. 18:02.100 --> 18:09.100 Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have 18:09.100 --> 18:13.860 found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the 18:13.860 --> 18:20.220 Lord. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and 18:20.220 --> 18:25.720 will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut 18:25.720 --> 18:29.720 up and left in Israel, and I will make thine house like the house of the 18:29.720 --> 18:30.080 the house. 18:30.100 --> 18:37.340 of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for 18:37.340 --> 18:43.360 the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger and made Israel to 18:43.360 --> 18:51.620 sin and Jezebel also spake spake the Lord saying the dogs shall eat Jezebel 18:51.620 --> 18:54.000 by the wall of Jezreel 18:54.200 --> 19:01.720 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dog shall eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the 19:01.720 --> 19:07.880 fowls of the air eat. But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work 19:07.880 --> 19:12.400 wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 19:12.600 --> 19:19.560 and he did very abominably in following idols according to all things as did the Amorites, 19:19.560 --> 19:25.640 whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. And it came to pass when Ahab heard those 19:25.640 --> 19:32.520 words that he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and 19:32.520 --> 19:33.960 went softly. 19:34.300 --> 19:38.460 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite saying, 19:38.460 --> 19:42.540 Seest thou Ahab humble at themself before me? 19:42.540 --> 19:45.580 Because he humbled at themself before me, 19:45.580 --> 19:48.740 I will not bring the evil in his days, 19:48.740 --> 19:53.740 but in his son's days will I bring evil upon his house. 19:55.340 --> 19:57.180 Brother Paul, could you pray for the preaching? 19:57.180 --> 19:59.060 Brother Paul, thanks so much for allowing us to hear 19:59.060 --> 20:01.380 your full chapter read out so we have the context 20:01.380 --> 20:02.300 of the sermon that we have. 20:02.300 --> 20:21.300 Amen. Alright, if so, you're at first Kings chapter number 21. If you want to go ahead and jump over to Proverbs chapter number nine, Proverbs chapter number nine. We're going to be coming back to first Kings chapter number one later in the sermon. 20:23.100 --> 20:26.600 But the title of my sermon this evening is 20:26.600 --> 20:30.600 Being Humble for Correction. Being Humble for Correction. 20:30.600 --> 20:35.100 I'm not sure if that's what I told Ryan. I think it's similar to what I told him the title should be. 20:35.100 --> 20:39.900 I'm not the best with titles. Somebody has to ask me what the title is. 20:39.900 --> 20:43.400 You know, right before the sermon starts. And I'm like, well, I don't know. 20:45.000 --> 20:51.000 But anyways, so the subject of my sermon tonight is basically that, you know, being 20:52.360 --> 20:58.200 humble to receive correction, right? And this is actually a pretty big subject in the Bible, 20:58.200 --> 21:04.760 especially specifically in the book of Proverbs. There's many verses that talk about, 21:04.760 --> 21:08.680 you know, being humble for correction. And I'm going to show a lot of examples of this. 21:09.700 --> 21:14.700 in the book of Proverbs and I'm pretty sure I did not get all of them. I'm pretty sure there's even more verses than what I 21:15.780 --> 21:17.780 even have compiled here. 21:18.100 --> 21:21.220 But the Bible says in Proverbs chapter number 9, 21:22.120 --> 21:23.200 verse number 8 says, 21:23.200 --> 21:28.780 Reprove not a scornor, lest he hate thee, rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 21:29.300 --> 21:34.300 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. 21:34.300 --> 21:39.500 Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning." 21:39.500 --> 21:45.800 And so what we're going to see here is that the Bible will oftentimes contrast those that, 21:45.800 --> 21:50.300 you know, they don't want to hear correction, they don't want to have somebody tell them that they're wrong. 21:50.300 --> 21:53.800 They don't want to have somebody to tell them a different way of doing things or whatever. 21:54.200 --> 22:01.720 The Bible is contrasting that with somebody who is humble and they will receive instruction. 22:01.720 --> 22:07.960 And basically somebody who is righteous and will increase in learning, right? 22:07.960 --> 22:12.600 Because, you know, a scorner, that's obviously a scorner. 22:12.600 --> 22:15.320 To be a scorner is not like a positive thing. 22:15.320 --> 22:18.440 Like you don't want the Bible to be calling you a scorner. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.240 Because like what you know, what are they what are they scorning at? Can you go? 22:24.840 --> 22:30.760 What are they what are they scorning at they're going to be scorning at you know, when you think of a squirmer in the Bible 22:30.760 --> 22:32.700 It's like somebody's scorning at the Word of God 22:33.100 --> 22:37.980 right? Somebody like, ah, the Bible, like, what does God know? You think, you know, God created 22:37.980 --> 22:41.580 everything or whatever, and you think God knows more than me about how to run my life? 22:42.140 --> 22:45.820 You know, that's what you think of when you think of a scorner. At least that's what I think of when 22:45.820 --> 22:50.700 I think of a scorner. Somebody's scorning at God, scorning at the Bible, something like that. 22:51.980 --> 22:57.180 And so, you know, we'll prove not a scorner. You know, and these are the people that, you know, 22:57.180 --> 22:59.000 You know, you go and knock on their door. 22:59.300 --> 23:04.100 They're just like, you know, I don't I don't believe in God and you guys really think there's a heaven and a hell 23:04.100 --> 23:08.100 And you guys really believe in the Bible like this is the type of person that we're talking about 23:08.420 --> 23:12.700 Reprove not a scorner, you know and those type of people do they ever want to hear the gospel? 23:13.780 --> 23:15.780 No, not really 23:15.980 --> 23:18.080 Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee 23:18.740 --> 23:20.740 Rebuke a wise man and he will 23:21.180 --> 23:25.740 Love thee right? So again, you know, we're contrasting these two things 23:26.400 --> 23:30.960 Somebody that's a scorner, they don't want to hear that they're wrong. 23:30.960 --> 23:35.440 They don't want to hear anybody tell them that the way that they're living their life is incorrect, 23:35.440 --> 23:38.960 the way that they're doing something is wrong, they're not interested, 23:38.960 --> 23:43.680 and in fact, if you let them know, if you tell them the truth, they're not going to appreciate it. 23:43.680 --> 23:44.720 They're going to hate you. 23:44.800 --> 23:48.600 Right and you know we see these people again, you know out so winning all the time 23:48.840 --> 23:52.580 You know, they are not interested in what we have to say and in fact a lot of times 23:52.580 --> 23:54.940 Sometimes they'll get mad that we even knocked on their door 23:55.400 --> 24:01.260 You know, they find out that we're from church and their accountants just falls and they're just like get off my property 24:01.480 --> 24:07.180 Good. Did you see the no no trespassing sign and you're like yours Matt says welcome. So I you know, I don't know 24:09.000 --> 24:11.360 I don't know. 24:11.360 --> 24:15.540 Me and brother Rudy, years and years ago, there was like a tiny sign at the end of a 24:15.540 --> 24:18.040 driveway that said, no trespassing. 24:18.040 --> 24:21.680 And we walked down the driveway and there was like this giant welcome mat. 24:21.680 --> 24:24.440 There was actually a sign next to their door that said, welcome. 24:24.440 --> 24:27.000 And they were like, didn't you see the sign? 24:27.000 --> 24:30.360 And Rudy's like, it says welcome. 24:30.360 --> 24:32.640 So you know, but that's a squirter. 24:33.300 --> 24:37.300 There's somebody that's just not interested in what the Bible has to say. 24:37.300 --> 24:41.300 They don't want to hear, they don't want to be told that they're wrong about anything. 24:41.300 --> 24:50.300 And so they get mad at you, but a wise man, you know, you rebuke a wise man, 24:50.300 --> 24:53.300 and they're going to be like, you know what, you're right. 24:53.300 --> 24:56.000 You're right. And I'm going to correct that. 24:56.200 --> 25:00.440 And so, you know, this is kind of the main thing of the sermon is that we, you know, 25:00.440 --> 25:05.240 we don't want to be a scorner. We want to be a wise person and wise people have humility. 25:05.880 --> 25:09.480 Because they're not just thinking that they're right about everything all the time. 25:10.360 --> 25:13.880 And, you know, there's always in our lives, there's always a temptation, 25:14.440 --> 25:18.040 you know, if when you're when you're confronted with the fact that you're wrong about something, 25:18.040 --> 25:20.280 there's always a temptation to resist and be like, no. 25:21.100 --> 25:23.100 We all kind of have that, right? 25:23.100 --> 25:25.100 And so it takes a little bit of effort to say, 25:25.100 --> 25:27.600 no, I'm going to be humble. 25:27.600 --> 25:30.300 I'm just going to be like, okay, maybe I was wrong about this, 25:30.300 --> 25:33.100 and I'm going to receive correction. 25:33.100 --> 25:35.800 But we're going to go through a lot of different scriptures about this. 25:35.800 --> 25:37.300 Proverbs 10, 17, 25:37.300 --> 25:42.300 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction, 25:42.300 --> 25:47.100 but he that refuseth reprove earth. 25:47.100 --> 25:48.700 So, you know, he that... 25:48.900 --> 25:52.900 He that is in the way of life keepeth instruction. What does that mean? 25:52.900 --> 25:58.900 Well, somebody that keepeth instruction, it's like saying they internalized it. 25:58.900 --> 26:01.900 Right? They actually learned the lesson. 26:01.900 --> 26:04.900 You know, and what's the opposite of that? 26:04.900 --> 26:06.900 But he that refuses to approve earth. 26:06.900 --> 26:10.900 So, you know, you could tell somebody, you know, all about... 26:11.400 --> 26:18.400 You know, some, you know, like you could tell somebody all about how to do proper soul winning. 26:18.400 --> 26:25.400 Right? You could be giving them instruction, you could be giving them tips, you could be giving them all kinds of advice on how to do soul winning well, the proper way. 26:25.400 --> 26:34.400 And, you know, they could be like listening to you and nodding along, and then just do the complete opposite of what you say. 26:34.400 --> 26:38.400 You know, I had a guy one time. 26:39.300 --> 26:44.960 that he, you know, instead of like preaching the gospel, I mean, tech, I guess you could say technically he was preaching gospel, 26:44.960 --> 26:50.720 but like, you know, it seemed like he was mostly just trying to get people on the King James Bible, 26:50.720 --> 26:55.460 which is like, okay, yeah, you know, the King James Bible is good, like I'm King James only, okay. 26:55.460 --> 27:01.460 I believe the King James Bible is perfect, actually, you know, and the new versions are horrible. 27:01.460 --> 27:06.960 But like, this guy, as soon as he like, decided that somebody was saved, he'd be like, alright. 27:07.200 --> 27:09.200 What Bible do you have? 27:09.200 --> 27:11.400 You know, and they'd be like, 27:11.400 --> 27:13.480 oh, you know, why don't you have the King James? 27:13.480 --> 27:14.640 The King James is the best Bible. 27:14.640 --> 27:17.880 And it's like, bro, you know, there's a proper way to do this. 27:17.880 --> 27:18.920 Okay. 27:18.920 --> 27:22.480 Like, you know, just because they answered the questions right, 27:22.480 --> 27:25.280 that doesn't mean you need to interrogate them 27:25.280 --> 27:30.160 about the King James Bible in this really aggressive manner. 27:30.160 --> 27:34.000 You know, and then it's like, you know, you give them all kinds of advice, 27:34.000 --> 27:34.500 You know. 27:35.000 --> 27:37.640 And it's, you know, it just bounces off. 27:37.640 --> 27:41.080 Or like, okay, you know, when you get up to preach, you know, 27:41.080 --> 27:45.400 you shouldn't lull the entire crowd to sleep with your monotone voice, 27:45.400 --> 27:51.480 and then just light off like an, it's like an M-80 goes off when you smash the pulpit. 27:51.480 --> 27:53.160 It's like, you know... 27:54.700 --> 27:56.340 There's a way to do that, okay? 27:56.340 --> 27:59.180 Like, I'm not against smashing the pulpit, okay? 27:59.180 --> 28:01.140 Like, I've hit the pulpit many times, 28:01.140 --> 28:04.640 but, you know, it's like, there's a time and a place for it. 28:04.640 --> 28:06.540 You know, and if you're just, like, forcing it, 28:06.540 --> 28:08.280 and it just comes out of nowhere, 28:08.280 --> 28:10.740 and everyone's completely surprised, 28:10.740 --> 28:13.620 and it's like, you woke up three sleeping people, 28:13.620 --> 28:17.580 somebody called 911, you know, like, I don't know. 28:17.580 --> 28:21.080 It's just, but, you know, I've told somebody 28:21.080 --> 28:22.580 that multiple times, 28:22.800 --> 28:26.800 And it just, the next preaching time, it didn't matter. 28:26.800 --> 28:29.300 They're just gonna, no correction received. 28:29.300 --> 28:31.040 They're just gonna do it again. 28:31.040 --> 28:32.440 The exact same way. 28:32.440 --> 28:35.100 Just not even the same way, worse. 28:35.940 --> 28:37.380 Worse. 28:37.380 --> 28:39.480 It's like, okay. 28:39.480 --> 28:42.020 And then, yeah, and then there's other doctrinal errors 28:42.020 --> 28:45.660 as well that we're not gonna get into this evening. 28:45.660 --> 28:47.900 But, you know, again, you know, somebody that... 28:49.100 --> 28:52.540 you know, internalizes it, you know, the keepeth instruction, 28:52.540 --> 28:55.820 they're not gonna just go and just do it again. 28:55.820 --> 28:59.220 The same exact mistake, like 28:59.220 --> 29:03.140 on purpose, just to like rub it in your face, to be like, I'm not gonna listen to you 29:03.140 --> 29:04.260 and what you have to say. 29:04.260 --> 29:08.660 What do you, I don't think you know what you're talking about. It's like, okay, you know, 29:08.660 --> 29:09.340 that's a, 29:09.340 --> 29:12.100 you know, tell me, tell me, tell me, you don't think I know what I'm talking about 29:12.100 --> 29:12.980 without telling me 29:12.980 --> 29:15.500 You don't think I know what I'm talking about, right? 29:15.600 --> 29:19.400 But anyways, Proverbs 12.1, it says, 29:19.400 --> 29:21.700 whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, 29:21.700 --> 29:26.200 but he that hateth reproof is brutish. 29:27.100 --> 29:30.900 So you love somebody that loves instruction. 29:30.900 --> 29:33.600 What's somebody that loves instruction? 29:33.600 --> 29:35.700 They love it when somebody corrects them. 29:36.400 --> 29:40.240 They're not going to bristle at it. They're not going to be like, ah, you know. 29:41.040 --> 29:46.220 And this is something that like, when somebody has some sort of an error in preaching, 29:47.380 --> 29:48.500 you know... 29:49.300 --> 29:54.300 When you go to correct them, it tells you a lot about the individual, 29:54.300 --> 29:59.300 the attitude that they have when you go to correct them on something, right? 29:59.300 --> 30:01.300 And certain people, they have a good attitude about it. 30:01.300 --> 30:03.300 They're just like, thank you for telling me this. 30:03.300 --> 30:06.300 I actually appreciate the fact that you're pointing these things out to me 30:06.300 --> 30:08.300 because I want to grow, because I want to learn. Why? 30:08.300 --> 30:13.300 Because I love instruction. I love knowledge. 30:13.900 --> 30:22.900 And, you know, so that is the type of person that we want to be, is somebody that is able to receive correction. 30:22.900 --> 30:23.900 That is a good thing. 30:24.200 --> 30:30.440 Okay, and so there's certain people that they love love. They it's like you just it's evident that they love knowledge 30:30.480 --> 30:35.740 They love instruction. This is a humble person. This is a person that you want to be like and 30:36.520 --> 30:40.100 But he that were that hated for proof is brutish 30:40.260 --> 30:47.940 So, you know the opposite of this the Bible saying that somebody that like bristles, you know at correction or for whatever 30:48.040 --> 30:49.300 Whatever it is 30:49.600 --> 30:53.100 Basically what the Bible is saying is that this person is dumb. 30:53.100 --> 30:54.800 This is a stupid person. 30:54.800 --> 30:55.760 You're an idiot. 30:55.760 --> 30:56.760 I mean, what is it? 30:56.760 --> 30:58.600 You know, the word brutish, right? 30:58.600 --> 30:59.400 What is that? 30:59.400 --> 31:02.100 What is a, you know, a brute? 31:02.100 --> 31:04.840 What do you think of when you think of a brute? 31:04.840 --> 31:07.000 Like somebody who's just really, you know, 31:07.000 --> 31:10.300 there might be a big old huge giant person that has no brains. 31:10.700 --> 31:13.260 You know, think of like, what is it, Frankenstein? 31:13.260 --> 31:14.900 The Frankenstein monster? 31:14.900 --> 31:17.580 What, did the Frankenstein monster, 31:17.580 --> 31:20.940 did it not have a brain or was it like, didn't have a heart? 31:20.940 --> 31:21.940 I'm gonna go with a brain 31:21.940 --> 31:23.900 because that fits my narrative right now. 31:25.160 --> 31:26.980 So, you know, he's like a giant beast 31:26.980 --> 31:29.740 that has all kinds of strength, but it's just dumb. 31:30.600 --> 31:31.440 Right? 31:31.440 --> 31:32.700 So that's, I mean, that's when you think 31:32.700 --> 31:34.540 of somebody who's brutish. 31:34.540 --> 31:37.340 You're just, you're an idiot, right? 31:37.340 --> 31:38.000 And so. 31:38.200 --> 31:41.800 he that hateth reproof is not like, 31:41.800 --> 31:45.480 like if you're doing something just the wrong way 31:45.480 --> 31:46.800 and somebody comes along and is like, 31:46.800 --> 31:50.480 hey, this is actually the correct way to do it. 31:51.760 --> 31:53.160 And you know, and it's somebody that knows 31:53.160 --> 31:54.040 what they're talking about. 31:54.040 --> 31:55.960 Maybe they've been doing it for years. 31:55.960 --> 31:57.480 They're proficient in it. 31:57.700 --> 32:00.700 They've been successful at doing whatever it is and you're just like, 32:00.700 --> 32:04.700 nah, you know, the way I'm going to do it is really the correct way. 32:04.700 --> 32:06.700 I know what I'm talking about. 32:06.700 --> 32:07.700 Right? 32:07.700 --> 32:10.700 And you're like, don't tell me that I'm doing anything wrong. 32:10.700 --> 32:13.700 The Bible is saying that that person is an idiot. 32:13.700 --> 32:14.700 That person is a fool. 32:14.700 --> 32:18.700 And here's the thing, you know, I'm sure, you know, I've been guilty of this. 32:18.700 --> 32:24.300 I'm sure probably almost all of us have been guilty of this at some point in the past. 32:24.800 --> 32:29.600 And it's likely we'll be guilty of it in the future, right? 32:29.600 --> 32:34.500 But the Bible talks about it a lot because it's something that I think most people... 32:35.100 --> 32:39.500 have some sort of, you know, an issue with it from one degree to another, right? 32:39.500 --> 32:43.800 You know, of course, you know, the Bible is going to be giving us the extreme examples, right? 32:43.800 --> 32:48.000 The Bible doesn't want to compare, you know, it'd be like comparing, 32:48.000 --> 32:54.100 if you think of like a moderate Republican and a moderate Democrat, right? 32:54.100 --> 32:57.800 They're just, you know, they're just both lame, weak, pathetic. 32:58.300 --> 33:01.580 people, right? Because it's like, so you believe in nothing, right? 33:01.580 --> 33:07.020 So the Bible doesn't want to compare those two because it's a stupid comparison because they're basically the same thing, right? 33:07.180 --> 33:10.540 So what the Bible wants to compare is like the far left 33:11.400 --> 33:16.080 with like actual libertarian, like actual conservatives, right? 33:16.080 --> 33:19.760 You see what I'm saying? Like there's an actual big difference between these two. 33:19.760 --> 33:23.080 Not like the middle here where it's just like, oh well, 33:23.080 --> 33:27.600 you know, I believe in 10% taxes and they believe in 12%, you know what I mean? 33:27.600 --> 33:32.280 So the Bible is always going to use these kind of two separate extremes. 33:33.280 --> 33:36.680 But, you know, at the end of the day, we're all somewhere... 33:37.100 --> 33:39.100 Somewhere, hopefully we're not over here, right? 33:39.100 --> 33:43.100 Hopefully we're somewhere on the better side of things. 33:43.100 --> 33:48.100 But again, we're all going to struggle with these things to one degree or another. 33:48.100 --> 33:54.100 And again, pride, I always say this, pride is one of those things that everybody struggles with, 33:54.100 --> 33:58.100 everybody has an issue with, everybody has some pride in their heart. 33:58.100 --> 34:00.100 You've got to suppress that thing. 34:01.100 --> 34:05.900 You gotta resist it. You gotta be like, no, you know, because we all have it. We all have that issue. 34:05.900 --> 34:09.800 And so again, you know, I think this is why the Bible has a lot of verses about it. 34:09.800 --> 34:14.400 And you know, I better start moving through some of these otherwise we're gonna be here for a while. 34:14.400 --> 34:17.200 Proverbs 13, 18, it says, 34:17.200 --> 34:20.900 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction, 34:20.900 --> 34:25.800 But he that regardeth and reproof shall be honored. 34:26.500 --> 34:31.620 You know, again, right, you know, somebody that just ignores everything anybody has to say, 34:31.620 --> 34:35.060 you know, they're going to have a difficult time in life, right? If you think about, like, 34:35.060 --> 34:36.820 a homeless guy downtown... 34:37.100 --> 34:43.500 This verse is perfect for him because, you know, poverty and shame should be to him that refuses instruction. 34:43.500 --> 34:50.700 You know, you go look at a guy that's high on drugs, it's like that guy, he's just so humble. 34:50.700 --> 34:56.300 You know, he just, everything his teachers taught him, everything his parents taught him, everything, you know, 34:56.300 --> 35:03.900 a wise person in his life taught him, he just absorbed it, you know, and somehow we just have no idea how he ended up here. 35:05.900 --> 35:10.060 Didn't happen. We made it up. It's not real. It's fake, right? 35:12.060 --> 35:16.220 You know, the reason why he's there is because he didn't want the 35:16.220 --> 35:22.540 reproof, right? Poverty and shame. I mean, it's one thing like to be poor or whatever, 35:23.340 --> 35:27.660 but it's another thing to be like homeless. It's like that's a shameful thing. 35:27.660 --> 35:31.500 To be a homeless drug addict on the side of the road, that is a shameful thing. 35:32.400 --> 35:40.400 You know, just being somebody that works hard or whatever and they might not make as much money as everybody else or they're struggling financially. 35:40.400 --> 35:43.400 You know, somebody that's doing honest labor. 35:43.400 --> 35:49.400 You know, there's a big difference between somebody like that and a worthless drug addict on the side of the road. 35:49.400 --> 35:50.400 Right. 35:50.400 --> 35:56.400 And so, you know, poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth. 35:57.000 --> 36:00.740 instruction, but he that regardeth the reproof shall be honored." 36:00.740 --> 36:04.200 So, you know, somebody that does all the correct things in life, 36:04.200 --> 36:08.040 you know, that person is going to be honored. 36:08.040 --> 36:11.400 Be like, okay, you know, we like how so-and-so turned out. 36:11.400 --> 36:13.400 You know, they... 36:13.800 --> 36:18.000 graduated high school, you know, or maybe they graduated homeschool, whatever, right? 36:18.000 --> 36:23.000 They got a job, they started a career, and you know, they're getting married, 36:23.000 --> 36:25.700 and you know, they have children now, and they're raising their children. 36:25.700 --> 36:29.300 It's like, you know, this is somebody that we're proud of, right? 36:29.300 --> 36:34.000 You know, like, you want to be somebody that your parents, you know, are proud of someday, right? 36:34.000 --> 36:35.000 Well... 36:35.900 --> 36:39.500 Hopefully today, right, for a lot of us, some of us are actually adults. 36:39.500 --> 36:50.380 But yeah, I mean, we want to strive to be people that our parents would be like, hey, 36:50.380 --> 36:54.340 this is somebody who I'm proud of someday, right? 36:54.340 --> 36:58.300 And have a successful life. 36:58.300 --> 37:00.620 what are we going to do to be able to attain that? 37:00.900 --> 37:05.100 He that regardeth were proof, somebody that accepts instruction. 37:05.100 --> 37:06.100 Right? 37:07.100 --> 37:08.900 Proverbs 15, 5 says, 37:08.900 --> 37:12.100 A fool despiseth his father's instruction, 37:12.100 --> 37:16.700 but he that regardeth were proof is prudent. 37:16.700 --> 37:17.500 Right? 37:17.500 --> 37:18.900 And so, you know, 37:19.400 --> 37:25.240 young children, they would be wise to listen to their parents, listen to their father. 37:25.240 --> 37:31.560 Because their father, I guarantee, is going to have all kinds of wisdom, all kinds of good advice, 37:31.560 --> 37:37.000 all kinds of good things to impart to their children that their children should listen to. 37:37.600 --> 37:45.600 And oftentimes, especially once they start getting a little bit aware of things and whatnot, 37:45.600 --> 37:50.100 and they start learning some things, they learn a few facts here, a few facts there, 37:50.100 --> 37:52.600 they kind of start to think that they've got everything figured out. 37:53.600 --> 38:01.100 My son James, he thinks he's got a lot of knowledge, especially about dinosaurs. 38:01.100 --> 38:03.600 And fair enough, he knows a few things about dinosaurs. 38:04.400 --> 38:08.240 But he would be the fool to think he just knows everything about dinosaurs, right? 38:09.280 --> 38:13.040 And so, but you know, and there's also a lot of other things he has no idea about. 38:13.520 --> 38:16.240 Why? Because he's five, right? 38:16.560 --> 38:18.960 But you know, the thing about it though is that... 38:19.300 --> 38:21.900 you know, it would be wise of him. 38:21.900 --> 38:23.500 You know, of course, when you're five years old, 38:23.500 --> 38:25.400 it's kind of hard to have too much wisdom, you know. 38:25.400 --> 38:27.200 You kind of have to have your parents, like, 38:27.200 --> 38:29.300 getting the wisdom forced in, you know. 38:29.300 --> 38:31.200 It's not like five-year-olds just absorb wisdom. 38:31.200 --> 38:35.400 But, you know, when you start getting, you know... 38:35.400 --> 38:37.200 I don't know if that came out right. 38:37.400 --> 38:42.680 Parents, they do need to like force the wisdom in them, right? But children have 38:42.680 --> 38:46.040 at that age, I don't want to sound like I'm saying they don't have the ability to 38:46.040 --> 38:50.680 learn because they do. They absolutely have the ability to learn, right? That's 38:50.680 --> 38:55.400 you know, that's why you're forcing the learning in, right? Amen? But you know 38:55.400 --> 38:58.780 once they start getting a little bit older, you know, they think they've got 38:58.780 --> 39:05.300 things figured out. But you know what? Like 10 year olds, 12 year olds, 39:05.600 --> 39:11.120 13 year olds, 15 year olds, 16 year olds, 17, 18 year olds, they don't have things figured out. 39:12.240 --> 39:14.240 They don't know what they're talking about. 39:14.440 --> 39:18.720 Okay, you know when it comes to, you know, receiving advice from their parents, 39:19.240 --> 39:21.240 they really need to listen. 39:21.720 --> 39:23.720 Why? Because guess what? 39:24.480 --> 39:31.800 Parents, generally, they're usually, you know, a lot older than the children. That's typically how it works, right? 39:32.900 --> 39:35.200 And so they've been around the block a few times. 39:35.200 --> 39:37.200 They've lived life. 39:37.200 --> 39:39.800 They've, a lot of times they've made errors. 39:39.800 --> 39:41.200 They've made mistakes. 39:41.200 --> 39:42.100 And guess what they've done? 39:42.100 --> 39:44.300 They've learned from those mistakes. 39:44.300 --> 39:47.100 And maybe they've observed other people 39:47.100 --> 39:50.100 and learned from their mistakes, right? 39:50.100 --> 39:53.500 And so parents, you know, children, 39:53.500 --> 39:56.000 you should be listening to your parents. 39:56.000 --> 39:56.900 Why? 39:56.900 --> 39:58.800 Because they've been around the block. 39:59.000 --> 40:03.000 When they tell you something, I almost guarantee they know what they're talking about. 40:03.000 --> 40:07.000 99.9% of the time, they know what they're talking about. 40:07.000 --> 40:11.000 Now, I'm the exception. I'm that .0001%. 40:11.000 --> 40:15.000 Fat chance. I don't believe it. 40:15.000 --> 40:19.000 That's very likely not to be true. 40:19.000 --> 40:22.800 I mean, even if your parents were unsaved... 40:23.300 --> 40:27.860 The vast majority of things that they probably taught you when you were a kid were true. 40:27.860 --> 40:34.020 Because I mean, think about it, like parents, like even an unsaved parent, 40:34.020 --> 40:38.020 they're not just like, like if you think about like what they're teaching their children from day to day, 40:38.020 --> 40:40.660 they're not just like sitting them down and they're like, all right. 40:41.600 --> 40:43.600 Jesus is not God. 40:43.600 --> 40:45.600 Or they're not sitting down in the library 40:45.600 --> 40:48.600 and they're like, the NIV is the only real Bible. 40:48.600 --> 40:49.600 You know what I mean? 40:49.600 --> 40:51.600 Like that's not the type of things that unsaved parents 40:51.600 --> 40:54.600 are just teaching their children all the time. 40:54.600 --> 40:55.600 You know what I mean? 40:55.600 --> 40:57.600 They're just like, they're not sitting their children down 40:57.600 --> 40:59.600 and they're like, alright, we're going to learn about 40:59.600 --> 41:01.600 how once saved always saved isn't true. 41:02.500 --> 41:05.700 and how fundamental Baptists are actually Satan worshippers. 41:05.700 --> 41:11.200 Like, that's not, you know, that's not really what parents are just teaching their children every single day. 41:11.200 --> 41:17.300 You know, maybe like in some heretics household, that's something that they learn every once in a while or something like that. 41:17.300 --> 41:19.900 But guess what? The parents in this room... 41:20.300 --> 41:21.580 They're not teaching you that. 41:21.580 --> 41:23.980 They're actually teaching you the truth. 41:23.980 --> 41:26.220 So even if you think of like, oh, well, what about people 41:26.220 --> 41:27.420 whose parents are unsaved? 41:27.420 --> 41:28.300 Well, guess what? 41:28.300 --> 41:30.340 That doesn't apply to anybody in this room. 41:30.340 --> 41:34.260 Because all parents in this room are saved. 41:34.260 --> 41:35.060 And so guess what? 41:35.060 --> 41:37.460 You just have to listen to your parents. 41:37.460 --> 41:43.660 The 0.1%, I'm just going to erase that off the board. 41:43.660 --> 41:44.700 Anyways, so. 41:45.800 --> 41:49.800 And the Bible is saying that to ignore your parents' instruction, 41:49.800 --> 41:54.800 to ignore your father's instruction, instruction is to be foolish. 41:54.800 --> 41:57.300 Proverbs 15 verse number 10, it says, 41:57.300 --> 42:00.800 correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way, 42:00.800 --> 42:05.300 and he that hateth reproof shall die. 42:05.300 --> 42:10.200 And you know, again, this applies in a multitude of ways. 42:10.400 --> 42:15.200 You know, if you think about somebody that, hey, you know, he that hated her proof shall die. 42:15.200 --> 42:18.000 Well, that applies spiritually. 42:18.300 --> 42:22.580 Right? Because somebody, you know, we come and knock on somebody's door and say, 42:22.580 --> 42:26.380 hey, you're wrong about salvation. You need to get it right. 42:26.380 --> 42:29.980 You know, hey, you believe in a workspace salvation, that's wrong. 42:29.980 --> 42:34.540 We have a reproof for you. We have instruction for you. 42:34.540 --> 42:38.980 And you need to humble yourself and get saved. Reject what you believed before and get saved. 42:38.980 --> 42:44.300 You know, somebody that forsakes the way, right? 42:44.300 --> 42:45.900 He that hated the reproof. 42:47.300 --> 42:49.700 You don't know what you're talking about. 42:49.700 --> 42:50.900 I don't believe that. 42:50.900 --> 42:52.100 I don't believe the Bible. 42:52.100 --> 42:53.500 I reject that. 42:53.500 --> 42:54.900 They hate reproof. 42:54.900 --> 42:56.900 They're going to die spiritually. 42:56.900 --> 42:59.400 They're going to go to hell. 42:59.400 --> 43:03.300 But you can apply it physically as well. 43:03.300 --> 43:05.300 Now, with spiritually, 43:05.300 --> 43:07.700 basically it is absolute. 43:07.700 --> 43:09.700 If somebody will not receive correction 43:09.700 --> 43:11.800 when it comes to salvation, 43:11.800 --> 43:13.300 they are going to go to hell. 43:13.300 --> 43:15.200 They will die spiritually. 43:15.300 --> 43:21.060 But, you know, again, the drug addict on the side of the road is a perfect example of that 43:21.060 --> 43:22.060 physically, right? 43:22.060 --> 43:25.620 You know, he that hateth were proved shall die. 43:25.620 --> 43:30.620 You know, I'm guaranteed that every single drug addict out there, at some point or another, 43:30.620 --> 43:34.180 has had somebody tell them, don't do drugs. 43:37.400 --> 43:40.360 And yet here they are doing drugs and many of them die. 43:42.360 --> 43:45.560 Many of them are not dying because of a chemical called Narcan today, 43:46.600 --> 43:52.200 which probably should be illegal, but you know, should we make drugs illegal? 43:52.200 --> 43:59.800 Yes, one drug, Narcan. That'll solve the 90% of the problem, you know. Anyways. 44:00.800 --> 44:06.800 That was for free. That didn't necessarily come from the Bible, okay? Just disclaimer, that's Jason Graber's opinion, alright? 44:06.800 --> 44:10.800 I speak as a man, okay? 44:10.800 --> 44:14.800 But you would be wise to not need Narcan in your life. 44:14.800 --> 44:19.800 Alright? That's my reproof to everybody in this room. 44:19.800 --> 44:23.800 You know, if you need Narcan, you have made some major mistakes, 44:23.800 --> 44:26.600 and you need to make some major corrections in your life. 44:27.000 --> 44:32.000 And it's probably going to be a lot harder to make those corrections after you need dark can. 44:32.000 --> 44:37.000 Because, you know, because cocaine is a hell of a drug. 44:37.000 --> 44:43.000 And what's the one that's killing everybody? Fentanyl. Fentanyl is a hell of a drug. 44:43.000 --> 44:47.000 Right? And so, yeah. Anyways. 44:47.000 --> 44:54.000 Proverbs 15-12 says, This coroner loveth not one that reproveth him, neither will he go unto the wise. 44:54.900 --> 44:58.900 A scornor is never going to seek out somebody to give them instruction. 44:58.900 --> 45:00.900 They're never going to seek out the wise. 45:00.900 --> 45:03.900 They're never going to go find somebody to tell them what they're doing wrong. 45:03.900 --> 45:05.900 Why? Because that's what they hate in life. 45:05.900 --> 45:09.900 They hate it whenever somebody tells them that they've done something wrong. 45:09.900 --> 45:12.900 You know, they just want to hear affirmation. 45:12.900 --> 45:14.700 They want to hear words of affirmation. 45:16.000 --> 45:20.400 And so, you know, a lot of people, you know, that's kind of why they don't like biblical preaching, 45:20.400 --> 45:26.000 is because biblical preaching, a large amount of the time, is just here to tell you how you're wrong. 45:27.120 --> 45:31.280 How you screwed up. I mean, when you just like read through the Bible, 45:32.240 --> 45:36.320 it's just like over and over and over again. This person screwed up, that person screwed up, 45:36.320 --> 45:41.680 the nation screwed up, this king screwed up, you know, and it's like just everybody's screwing up. 45:41.680 --> 45:43.120 Even the prophets are screwing up. 45:43.700 --> 45:51.900 You know, you got the prophet of God that goes in and does the miracle, the unnamed prophet, right? 45:51.900 --> 45:57.500 He does this miracle. He gives, I can't remember the name of the king, but he gives the king leprosy. 45:57.500 --> 46:03.100 And then the king's like, peel my hand please! And he heals his hand, right? He does this amazing miracle. 46:03.100 --> 46:07.900 And then, you know, he's told he cannot eat or drink until he leaves the city. 46:08.200 --> 46:10.700 And then this other old preacher is like, 46:10.700 --> 46:11.620 hey, come eat with me. 46:11.620 --> 46:12.920 The angel told me. 46:12.920 --> 46:14.720 He screws up. 46:14.720 --> 46:17.600 And he's punished for it. 46:17.600 --> 46:20.040 So literally everybody is screwing up in the Bible, 46:20.040 --> 46:26.200 except for obviously the major exception is Jesus Christ. 46:26.200 --> 46:29.160 Jesus Christ is the exception a lot of times. 46:29.160 --> 46:31.400 If you think about the Old Testament, 46:31.400 --> 46:33.500 I was talking about this a couple weeks ago with the. 46:33.600 --> 46:36.800 with the guys, is the fact that, you know, in the Old Testament, 46:36.800 --> 46:40.800 it's like the oldest child is supposed to get 46:40.800 --> 46:45.400 the main inheritance. Like he's supposed to be the inheritor. Multiple times, right? 46:45.400 --> 46:49.360 Like almost every single time where you have a story about an older, 46:49.360 --> 46:53.120 the oldest sibling, he never gets the inheritance. 46:53.120 --> 46:56.520 And it's always, you know, either the second born or 46:56.520 --> 46:59.560 or just not the first born that actually gets the inheritance. 46:59.560 --> 47:01.400 You know if you think about... 47:01.500 --> 47:03.440 Jacob and Esau, right? 47:03.440 --> 47:04.780 Esau is the older brother, 47:04.780 --> 47:06.500 but he doesn't get the inheritance. 47:06.500 --> 47:07.900 Isaac and Ishmael. 47:07.900 --> 47:10.560 Ishmael, he's the older physical brother, 47:10.560 --> 47:13.100 but Isaac gets the inheritance. 47:13.100 --> 47:15.780 It's just over and over and over again. 47:15.780 --> 47:19.340 Think about David, was he the oldest son of Jesse? 47:19.340 --> 47:21.420 Absolutely not. He was not the oldest, 47:21.420 --> 47:23.500 but yet he's the one that becomes king. 47:23.500 --> 47:26.300 So obviously, all of that is like 47:26.300 --> 47:28.900 a giant picture of replacement theology. 47:29.300 --> 47:34.700 You know the Bible, once you understand replacement, and this has nothing to do with the sermon at all, 47:34.700 --> 47:38.900 but once you understand replacement theology, the Bible is just like, 47:38.900 --> 47:42.300 oh, it's so cool, right? 47:42.300 --> 47:47.700 And then you come to Jesus, he doesn't follow that same pattern. Why? 47:47.700 --> 47:49.900 Because he's the exception to the rules. 47:49.900 --> 47:50.500 Right. 47:50.500 --> 47:53.500 Because he is the firstborn. 47:53.800 --> 47:59.800 right? He is the firstborn of unnamed brethren and he isn't the inheritor, you know, of all promises. 47:59.800 --> 48:05.800 And guess what? He gets to distribute all the promises out to all the believers, right? 48:05.800 --> 48:16.800 And so, you know, he's the exception to the rule. But, you know, otherwise, pretty much almost every single other Bible characters screw up. 48:16.800 --> 48:17.640 You know. 48:17.900 --> 48:25.900 There are maybe some exceptions where the Bible doesn't really record anything that they did wrong. 48:25.900 --> 48:32.900 Like, if you think about like Job, the Bible doesn't really spell out anything that Job necessarily did wrong. 48:32.900 --> 48:34.400 But yeah. 48:34.700 --> 48:38.540 God shows up to Job in a whirlwind and he's just like, 48:38.540 --> 48:40.840 where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? 48:40.840 --> 48:43.340 You know, gird up thy Lord and answer me like a man, buddy. 48:43.340 --> 48:43.840 Right? 48:43.840 --> 48:46.540 It's like, whoa, God, where'd that come from? 48:46.540 --> 48:47.580 Well, guess what? 48:47.580 --> 48:51.300 God can treat Job however he wants because Job, at the end of the day, is a sinner. 48:51.300 --> 48:51.940 That's right. 48:51.940 --> 48:52.260 Right? 48:52.260 --> 48:53.340 He's not perfect. 48:53.340 --> 48:54.660 He did make mistakes. 48:54.660 --> 48:58.900 It's just that the Bible didn't record and tell us about any of his mistakes necessarily. 48:58.900 --> 48:59.440 Right? 48:59.440 --> 49:00.440 And there's a reason for that. 49:00.440 --> 49:02.640 I believe the reason is because that way... 49:02.700 --> 49:05.740 somebody couldn't point to something that Job did and be like, 49:05.740 --> 49:07.540 see, that's really mine. 49:07.540 --> 49:09.500 He got punished. 49:09.500 --> 49:11.620 He was actually a punishment from God, right? 49:11.620 --> 49:15.260 And then like Joseph, you know, I can't think of anything 49:15.260 --> 49:20.620 that Joseph did that was actually wrong, right? 49:20.620 --> 49:24.220 But does that mean that Joseph is actually perfect and never sinned? 49:24.220 --> 49:25.020 Absolutely not. 49:25.020 --> 49:27.940 It's just that the Bible didn't point out anything that he did 49:27.940 --> 49:29.420 that was necessarily wrong. 49:29.420 --> 49:30.100 Right. 49:30.400 --> 49:35.200 And, you know, Joseph, and with also many characters in the Old Testament, 49:35.200 --> 49:39.680 Joseph is a great picture of Jesus because, you know, he gets thrown into the pit 49:40.720 --> 49:43.600 by his brethren when he didn't do anything wrong. 49:44.560 --> 49:47.520 In fact, all he did was tell them the truth, right? 49:47.520 --> 49:51.120 He told them the truth and he made them mad because of the truth. 49:51.760 --> 49:52.880 And it wasn't his fault. 49:53.680 --> 49:55.120 He's just pointing out their error. 49:55.680 --> 49:57.360 So who did I mean, who does that sound like? 49:57.800 --> 50:02.480 Sounds like Jesus Christ, right? He's showing up to the Pharisees. 50:02.480 --> 50:05.800 And, you know, he's like, hey, you guys did wrong. 50:05.800 --> 50:10.360 And, you know, the Bible says he came into his own and his own received him not. 50:10.360 --> 50:12.880 Where did they? They tried to throw him in the pit. 50:12.880 --> 50:18.840 And guess what? He had allowed them to throw him into the pit, right? Hell. 50:18.840 --> 50:22.120 And obviously, you know, he arose. 50:22.600 --> 50:24.840 I don't know, how long was Joseph in the pit? 50:24.840 --> 50:27.480 Was he in the pit for three days and three nights? 50:27.480 --> 50:28.800 I'd be a cool, I don't know if he was, 50:28.800 --> 50:31.000 that'd be a cool picture if he was in that pit 50:31.000 --> 50:32.360 for three days and three nights, right? 50:32.360 --> 50:34.760 But anyways, he may not have been, 50:34.760 --> 50:37.160 I don't know that off the top of my head. 50:37.160 --> 50:38.560 What verse am I in? 50:40.280 --> 50:41.200 Proverbs. 50:41.400 --> 50:43.400 We're in Proverbs 15. 50:43.400 --> 50:47.400 I gotta move along because I've got a lot more verses here. 50:47.400 --> 50:49.400 I'd like to use them. 50:49.400 --> 50:51.400 Proverbs 15.31, it says, 50:51.400 --> 50:53.400 The ear that heareth the reproof of life, 50:53.400 --> 50:55.400 abideth among the wise, 50:55.400 --> 50:57.400 he that refuseth instructions, 50:57.400 --> 50:59.400 despiseth his own soul, 50:59.400 --> 51:01.400 but he that heareth reproof, 51:01.400 --> 51:03.300 geteth understanding. 51:03.500 --> 51:08.440 Right again another great example if you're wise you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna hear understanding 51:08.440 --> 51:15.720 Proverbs 17 10 it says he were approved entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool 51:15.860 --> 51:18.340 So if you're if you're a wise person 51:18.980 --> 51:24.400 The Bible saying that hey somebody could just come along and just tell you that you're wrong about something 51:24.900 --> 51:27.780 And that is going to do more for you 51:28.340 --> 51:30.200 Than a fool 51:30.500 --> 51:36.900 who they could be beaten a hundred times and right it's not going to do anything to them. 51:36.900 --> 51:42.820 And there's you know there's going to be people like this on the earth you know they go they they 51:42.820 --> 51:48.180 commit some crime right and if you if the if the government were righteous we would have beating 51:48.180 --> 51:55.060 right but if they committed some crime and the government were to beat them a hundred times 51:55.060 --> 51:57.060 to a fool. 51:58.100 --> 52:03.300 You know, just telling a wise person that he did something wrong would be even more effectual. 52:03.300 --> 52:09.700 It would work even more. Right? And that's a pretty big difference. Being told you're wrong. 52:09.700 --> 52:14.900 Like, let's say, you know, I don't know, I can't think of any good examples. 52:14.900 --> 52:19.140 Because a wise person probably wouldn't be robbing a bank or robbing anybody, right? Amen? 52:19.940 --> 52:23.620 But if you had two people that robbed a liquor store, 52:24.100 --> 52:28.200 Right? And, you know, one of them happened to be wise. 52:28.200 --> 52:30.700 I don't know why a wise person is robbing a liquor store, 52:30.700 --> 52:35.000 but just go along with my example. 52:35.000 --> 52:37.700 Go with me with my folly here for a minute, okay? 52:37.700 --> 52:40.600 If one of them is wise and the other one's a fool, 52:40.600 --> 52:42.200 if you just tell the wise person, 52:42.200 --> 52:48.400 hey, robbing, for one, robbing is wicked according to the Bible, 52:48.400 --> 52:49.400 And also... 52:49.600 --> 52:52.600 Why add a liquor store? That's wicked according to the Bible. 52:52.600 --> 52:58.400 If you just tell them that, that's going to do more for the wise guy than if you take the fool 52:58.400 --> 53:01.100 and put him down on his back and just beat him a hundred times. 53:01.100 --> 53:03.000 You give him a hundred stripes. 53:03.000 --> 53:07.000 What's a stripe? That's when it leaves a mark. 53:07.000 --> 53:10.600 So you leave a hundred marks on the dude's back. 53:11.900 --> 53:16.200 the fool is still more likely to go and commit the crime again 53:16.200 --> 53:19.400 than the wise guy that just heard the reproof 53:19.400 --> 53:22.000 like you just showed him from the Bible that it's wrong and he's like, 53:22.000 --> 53:25.200 oh, I'm not going to do it again, right? 53:25.200 --> 53:28.000 And so, you know, that's the difference. 53:28.000 --> 53:30.300 And that's a pretty big difference. 53:30.300 --> 53:32.500 Like a hundred stripes. 53:32.500 --> 53:34.600 Imagine being beaten a hundred times. 53:34.800 --> 53:36.000 I don't want to. 53:36.000 --> 53:37.300 You go ahead and imagine that, 53:37.300 --> 53:39.300 and I'm going to move to the next scripture. 53:39.300 --> 53:41.500 It says, Proverbs 19.25, 53:41.500 --> 53:41.900 it says, 53:41.900 --> 53:43.100 Smite a scornor, 53:43.100 --> 53:45.600 and the simple will beware, 53:45.600 --> 53:47.900 and reprove the one that hath understanding, 53:47.900 --> 53:51.300 and he will understand knowledge. 53:51.300 --> 53:54.400 So, you know, the scornors here, 53:54.400 --> 53:57.400 they're getting kind of the short end of the stick here. 53:57.400 --> 53:59.200 You know, it says smite the scornor. 53:59.200 --> 54:01.000 Of course, what is smite? 54:01.000 --> 54:02.000 That means to hit him. 54:02.800 --> 54:07.760 You know, so a squirter, you know, maybe they're shooting off their mouth to somebody 54:07.760 --> 54:14.560 and somebody just boom knocks them out. You know, even somebody who's dumb, right? 54:14.560 --> 54:20.720 Because it says the simple ones will beware, right? Even somebody who's not that smart, 54:20.720 --> 54:23.000 they don't have that many brain cells. 54:23.600 --> 54:28.240 You know, they're going to learn from that. They're going to be like, oh, I have received instruction. 54:32.640 --> 54:37.440 You know, and, and, reprove, reprove the one that has understanding, he will understand. 54:38.320 --> 54:44.240 Which, I think I read the wrong one here. I don't know. I've got a lot of verses. What 54:44.240 --> 54:47.840 verse did I just read? Was it 1925? Smite is cornered. Yes, it was. 54:48.300 --> 54:54.540 It says, and reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge. 54:54.540 --> 54:57.900 So you know, you got to hit a scorner sometimes. 54:57.900 --> 55:01.340 You know, hopefully none of us have to hit any scorners actually. 55:01.340 --> 55:03.340 Caveat, right? 55:03.340 --> 55:10.940 But you know, you can hit a scorner, you know, and other people are going to learn, but the scorner won't. 55:10.940 --> 55:12.800 The guy that actually got hit won't. 55:13.100 --> 55:17.900 And then, you know, you just reprove one that has the understanding, you just tell them that they're wrong, 55:17.900 --> 55:22.300 and he will get the knowledge, he'll actually understand it. 55:22.300 --> 55:24.300 Proverbs 25-12 says, 55:24.300 --> 55:34.100 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. 55:34.100 --> 55:35.500 So, 55:36.800 --> 55:41.960 You know, when you tell somebody who, you know, they have humility, right? 55:41.960 --> 55:43.760 They're a wise human being. 55:43.760 --> 55:44.720 They're not filled with pride. 55:44.720 --> 55:47.240 You just tell them that they're wrong. 55:47.240 --> 55:48.000 They correct it. 55:48.000 --> 55:51.240 It's like a golden ornament, right? 55:51.240 --> 55:56.600 It would be like a beautiful piece of gold on some woman somewhere. 55:56.600 --> 55:57.080 You know what I mean? 55:57.080 --> 55:59.280 Like it's something good to behold. 56:00.400 --> 56:03.600 Right? And so, you know, it's like, 56:03.600 --> 56:05.300 it's a beautiful thing when somebody 56:05.300 --> 56:07.800 can just take correction. 56:07.800 --> 56:09.540 Right? You know, they're not just like, 56:09.540 --> 56:11.680 making a scene or something like that. 56:11.680 --> 56:14.580 It's a beautiful thing when somebody can just learn. 56:14.580 --> 56:16.140 You know, and be like, you know what? 56:16.140 --> 56:17.680 That's what the Bible says. 56:17.680 --> 56:19.640 You know? And if the Bible says it, 56:19.640 --> 56:20.980 then that's what I believe. 56:20.980 --> 56:23.280 Isn't it a beautiful thing when somebody gets saved 56:23.280 --> 56:25.480 out soul-wanting? 56:25.480 --> 56:25.900 Right? 56:26.000 --> 56:28.500 I mean, they're able to take correction. 56:28.500 --> 56:30.200 Like, hey, you were wrong about this. 56:30.200 --> 56:33.400 You know, you believed in workspace salvation. 56:33.400 --> 56:35.800 You know, and they're just, they're shown that they're wrong, 56:35.800 --> 56:37.100 and they believe, and they get saved. 56:37.100 --> 56:38.200 It's a beautiful thing. 56:38.200 --> 56:40.900 Okay. Proverbs 29, 1, it says, 56:40.900 --> 56:44.000 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, 56:44.000 --> 56:49.800 shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 56:49.800 --> 56:51.300 So, you know, again, 56:52.800 --> 56:58.160 He that being often reproved hardness is next so some this is somebody that's being told they're wrong all the time and 56:58.480 --> 57:01.760 Instead of being humble having humility they 57:03.080 --> 57:09.680 You know they get filled with pride and they just ignore you know, whatever it is that they're being told about 57:10.560 --> 57:15.080 And so, you know, there's certain things where it's like if you don't correct this 57:15.840 --> 57:17.840 You're gonna be destroyed 57:18.440 --> 57:20.300 Suddenly and not without remedy 57:20.900 --> 57:30.900 And there's certain mistakes that people can make in their life where they're going to be destroyed and there's no solution. 57:30.900 --> 57:35.900 There's nothing that can be done. We can't undo whatever it is. 57:35.900 --> 57:45.900 People that are foolish and they fornicate and sleep around when they're younger, there are certain diseases that there's no cure for. 57:49.100 --> 57:51.500 I mean, we think about AIDS. 57:51.500 --> 57:54.000 There's no cure for AIDS. 57:54.000 --> 57:58.400 And so, you know, if young people are just sleeping around 57:58.400 --> 58:03.300 and committing fornication, look, the Bible's warning you, 58:03.300 --> 58:06.600 you know, don't do that. Why? Because there's consequences. 58:06.600 --> 58:10.900 And, you know, somebody could harden their neck, right? 58:10.900 --> 58:12.900 And then all of a sudden they have AIDS. 58:13.900 --> 58:18.500 which is a disease that will cut your life down, right? 58:18.500 --> 58:22.500 Or somebody, again, will bring up the drug addict. 58:22.500 --> 58:25.940 I don't know, the drug addict is just like the quintessential fool. 58:25.940 --> 58:32.500 Like it's just somebody that just has not listened, like dude. 58:32.500 --> 58:36.020 And it's somebody that when you're growing up, 58:36.020 --> 58:40.140 they're just a byword and a proverb for just literally everybody. 58:41.000 --> 58:43.600 And then yet people still end up becoming them. 58:43.600 --> 58:46.760 It's like how? How? 58:46.760 --> 58:51.320 Well, it's because people are foolish, that's how. 58:51.320 --> 58:55.760 And, you know, so somebody who becomes a drug addict, right, 58:55.760 --> 58:58.600 they're hardening their neck, they don't listen, they don't listen, 58:58.600 --> 59:01.680 they're told like, hey, this is going to kill you. 59:01.680 --> 59:04.280 They're like, you know, you don't know what you're talking about. 59:05.000 --> 59:07.100 You know, they should be destroyed suddenly. 59:07.100 --> 59:11.920 You know, one day they just take a little too much and they're dead. 59:11.920 --> 59:13.880 There's no remedy. 59:13.880 --> 59:16.580 There's no solution. Right? 59:16.580 --> 59:20.380 And so there's people that are like this in the world. 59:20.380 --> 59:24.560 And you know, you think about this with the gospel too. 59:24.560 --> 59:29.360 You know, there could be people out there that have been told multiple times how to be saved. 59:29.360 --> 59:30.860 And they're just like, no. 59:31.300 --> 59:34.100 No. And they're just rejecting it and rejecting it. 59:34.100 --> 59:37.600 And at some point, you know, obviously this is June, right? 59:37.600 --> 59:40.700 This is straight Pride Month, okay? 59:40.700 --> 59:46.300 You know, there's certain people out there that they just reject God repeatedly 59:46.300 --> 59:51.300 and they're hardening their neck and they get destroyed. 59:51.300 --> 59:52.900 And that without remedy. 59:53.200 --> 59:58.200 And you know, there's some people where they cannot believe the gospel anymore. 59:58.200 --> 01:00:02.200 God has basically removed their ability to believe the gospel. 01:00:02.200 --> 01:00:04.200 And so they are destroyed. 01:00:04.200 --> 01:00:07.200 That is somebody who is destroyed and guess what? 01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:09.200 There is no remedy. 01:00:09.200 --> 01:00:13.200 You know, the sodomites, they're destroyed. 01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:15.200 And without remedy. 01:00:15.200 --> 01:00:17.200 There's no hope for those people. 01:00:17.200 --> 01:00:19.200 You know, there's not going to be a cure for AIDS. 01:00:19.200 --> 01:00:21.000 You know, so... 01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:25.400 They're destroyed in multiple different ways, right? 01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:29.900 I mean, for one, they're just cursed to be a filthy homo for the rest of their lives. 01:00:29.900 --> 01:00:34.300 I mean, there's no way I could imagine that. 01:00:34.300 --> 01:00:35.900 The horror of that. 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:38.900 You know, I agree with John Christostome. 01:00:39.300 --> 01:00:41.600 He's like, there's no worse punishment. 01:00:41.600 --> 01:00:45.000 If you had to go to a thousand hells, 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:48.300 it would be better to go there than to become a homo. 01:00:48.300 --> 01:00:51.300 Like, what a horribleness. 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:55.080 I approve that message, okay? I agree with John Chrysostom. 01:00:55.080 --> 01:01:00.520 You know, I think he's like a... I guess he's like a Catholic saint or whatever. 01:01:00.520 --> 01:01:11.720 But even the Catholic saints, you know, of yesteryear had enough sense to know that that's the worst thing that could ever befall a human being is to become a homo, okay? 01:01:11.720 --> 01:01:16.680 Happy straight pride month, okay? 01:01:16.680 --> 01:01:17.960 All right, anyways. 01:01:18.300 --> 01:01:20.300 What, where are we going here? 01:01:20.300 --> 01:01:24.300 Alright, go ahead and turn to second Chronicles. 01:01:24.300 --> 01:01:29.300 So I showed a whole bunch of verses from Proverbs 01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:34.300 about how, you know, we need to be humble to receive instruction. 01:01:34.300 --> 01:01:38.300 Right? Receive instruction, take correction, don't harden your neck, 01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:42.300 be reprude, don't be proud. 01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:43.300 You know... 01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:49.500 You know, being a proud human being is not a good thing. 01:01:49.500 --> 01:01:51.500 Right? It's not going to help you. 01:01:51.500 --> 01:01:57.500 You know, that's like one of the biggest flaws that people point out about Donald Trump, right? 01:01:57.500 --> 01:02:01.500 Probably like the most fun thing to point out about him, right? 01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:10.800 I'm super humble. I get along with humility really well. We made a great deal. 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:16.600 I told humility that if you come at me again with any other personal attacks... 01:02:16.900 --> 01:02:18.660 I'm going to tariff the heck out of you. 01:02:18.660 --> 01:02:21.780 We're going to hit you with 1,000% tariffs, humility. 01:02:21.780 --> 01:02:24.100 And I made a great deal with humility. 01:02:24.100 --> 01:02:25.660 And I get along with humility well. 01:02:25.660 --> 01:02:27.140 Nobody knows humility like I do. 01:02:27.140 --> 01:02:29.100 Nobody does humility like I do. 01:02:29.100 --> 01:02:32.420 I'm actually the most humble, most humble person 01:02:32.420 --> 01:02:33.100 I've ever met. 01:02:33.100 --> 01:02:37.660 You know, it's a major flaw, right? 01:02:37.660 --> 01:02:39.300 It's my favorite flaw about Trump. 01:02:39.300 --> 01:02:40.500 Ha ha ha. 01:02:41.300 --> 01:02:44.580 I mean, I don't know. I just I can't miss an opportunity for that. All right. I 01:02:45.620 --> 01:02:47.780 Apologize. Okay. I'm sorry you had to 01:02:48.980 --> 01:02:52.120 Sit through that. All right. Second Chronicles chapter number two 01:02:53.500 --> 01:02:56.260 Second Chronicles, yes, I had to force it in there somehow. 01:02:56.260 --> 01:02:57.540 All right, all right. 01:02:57.540 --> 01:02:59.380 I'll confess you my faults. 01:02:59.380 --> 01:03:01.020 All right, Second Chronicles chapter number two, 01:03:01.020 --> 01:03:01.860 verse number 14, it says, 01:03:01.860 --> 01:03:04.540 "'If my people, which are called by my name, 01:03:04.540 --> 01:03:07.240 shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face 01:03:07.240 --> 01:03:09.120 and turn from their wicked ways, 01:03:09.120 --> 01:03:12.240 then will I hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin 01:03:12.240 --> 01:03:14.780 and will heal their land.'" 01:03:14.780 --> 01:03:17.740 So this is a promise from God, like look, 01:03:18.700 --> 01:03:21.400 even if you screwed up, even if you've messed up. 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.300 You know, there's hope for you, right? 01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:28.000 Because, you know, if you've gone out of the way, 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:29.800 if you've refused instruction in the past, 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:31.600 and you've gone into the way of wickedness, 01:03:31.600 --> 01:03:33.300 well, guess what? 01:03:33.300 --> 01:03:36.300 God has mercy available. 01:03:36.300 --> 01:03:42.100 And, you know, if we humble ourselves, right, that's... 01:03:42.700 --> 01:03:49.700 One of the big keys here is that we have to humble ourselves and we pray and seek His face. 01:03:49.700 --> 01:03:52.700 But guess what? We also have to turn from our wicked ways. Amen? 01:03:52.700 --> 01:03:56.700 You know, and as a nation we got to turn from our wicked ways. 01:03:56.700 --> 01:04:00.700 We got to turn from all the different wickedness that's going on in this nation. 01:04:00.700 --> 01:04:04.700 You know, and God can bless us. Right? 01:04:04.700 --> 01:04:06.700 But you know, is that going to happen? Well... 01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:11.500 I don't know, it seems like there's going to have to be some hardship before that happens. 01:04:11.500 --> 01:04:15.000 I don't know, I don't know. It's like, I don't know. 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:18.000 It's looking pretty bleak out there, right? 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:22.000 But, you know, we can have blessing in our own lives though, you know. 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.500 And as a church, we can have blessing for our church. 01:04:24.500 --> 01:04:30.000 And so, you know, in our own personal lives, it's like, hey, if my people, who's my people? 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.500 Well, that's us. That's us, my friend. 01:04:32.500 --> 01:04:34.000 Which are called by my name. 01:04:34.300 --> 01:04:40.300 Right? So not the heathen of this world. These are actually Bible-believing Christians. 01:04:40.300 --> 01:04:46.800 People that are saved shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from the wicked ways. 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:52.800 Right? If we have humility and we're like, hey, we're wrong about this. 01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:59.800 You know, I did this wicked thing and I'm acknowledging it to God and I'm going to turn from that. 01:05:00.200 --> 01:05:04.200 And I'm going to seek Him, then God will hear from heaven, 01:05:04.200 --> 01:05:08.560 and will forgive our sins and heal our land. 01:05:08.560 --> 01:05:12.160 And so obviously we understand the fact that Jesus has, 01:05:12.160 --> 01:05:15.040 if we've had trust in Him, He's forgiven us for all of our sins, 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:16.800 past, present, and future. 01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:20.560 And of course to receive that, there's humility involved. 01:05:20.560 --> 01:05:21.400 But... 01:05:21.900 --> 01:05:25.700 You know, just in our day-to-day lives though, God can have mercy on us, 01:05:25.700 --> 01:05:28.340 or He can come down hard on us, right? 01:05:28.340 --> 01:05:34.980 He can come in and He can destroy us in our life, in our physical life. 01:05:34.980 --> 01:05:37.460 Obviously, He will not destroy us spiritually, 01:05:37.460 --> 01:05:40.700 but He can come down and have great punishment for us on this earth, 01:05:40.700 --> 01:05:45.500 if we don't humble ourselves and say, hey, I was wrong. 01:05:47.300 --> 01:05:50.740 James chapter number four verse number six says, but he giveth more grace 01:05:52.020 --> 01:05:57.880 Wherefore he saith God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble 01:05:58.380 --> 01:06:01.180 You know, God's not gonna have that much grace for Donald Trump 01:06:01.460 --> 01:06:08.480 In fact, he's you know, he's gonna I believe he's gonna have zero grace for Donald Trump. Why well for one he's filled with pride 01:06:09.140 --> 01:06:11.140 You know and also he's 01:06:11.700 --> 01:06:17.180 Covered up the Epstein files along with you know aside from the fact that he's just full of pride right a lot of issues there 01:06:17.260 --> 01:06:20.140 So I don't think he's gonna get any grace from God 01:06:20.780 --> 01:06:25.100 But if you boil it down though, you know, he could have at some point in his life 01:06:25.900 --> 01:06:27.900 been humble and 01:06:27.940 --> 01:06:32.260 Realized that he's not perfect and realize that you can't just avoid sinning 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:36.080 Right? You can't just, oh, you know, I just don't sin. 01:06:36.080 --> 01:06:38.600 I just avoid sinning. It's a lot easier that way. 01:06:38.600 --> 01:06:41.720 You know, you can learn from me. If you just avoid sinning, it's a lot easier. 01:06:41.720 --> 01:06:44.480 Then I don't have to ask God for forgiveness. 01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.800 You know, this is an extremely proud person, right? 01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:52.080 It says you don't even have to ask God for forgiveness. 01:06:52.080 --> 01:06:57.400 Dude, like that's next level, you know, pride. 01:06:57.700 --> 01:07:00.780 It's like, you must have been born for the month of June, buddy. 01:07:00.780 --> 01:07:01.580 Jeez. 01:07:01.580 --> 01:07:04.060 And he was born in June, right? 01:07:04.060 --> 01:07:06.500 Of course, there's nothing wrong with being born the month of June. 01:07:06.500 --> 01:07:08.940 You know, June is actually my favorite month. 01:07:08.940 --> 01:07:10.260 I like June. 01:07:10.260 --> 01:07:12.540 I like the weather. 01:07:12.540 --> 01:07:15.000 I like the fact that the days are really long. 01:07:15.100 --> 01:07:18.600 It's not too hot yet. It's a great month. 01:07:18.600 --> 01:07:21.700 You drive along the wheat fields, all the weed is green. 01:07:21.700 --> 01:07:23.400 I like June. 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:25.000 And I think that a lot of people like June. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:27.000 That's why the homos want to hijack it. 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:28.700 But again, I don't observe Pride Month. 01:07:28.700 --> 01:07:31.700 I don't believe in it. I don't think it's real. 01:07:31.700 --> 01:07:33.200 No? 01:07:33.200 --> 01:07:35.400 I believe in straight Pride Month. 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:37.500 Anyway. 01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:45.240 1 Peter 5 says likewise ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. 01:07:45.240 --> 01:07:54.040 Yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace unto the humble. 01:07:54.040 --> 01:07:57.480 So again same idea. God is going to be giving grace. 01:07:57.700 --> 01:08:01.700 to the humble, but he's going to be resisting the proud. 01:08:01.700 --> 01:08:04.700 Okay, so we don't want to be filled with pride in our lives. 01:08:04.700 --> 01:08:08.700 We want to humble ourselves, realize that we can be wrong about things, 01:08:08.700 --> 01:08:11.700 and we realize that we've made mistakes in our lives, 01:08:11.700 --> 01:08:14.700 and that we just need to admit that we're wrong when we're wrong. 01:08:14.700 --> 01:08:17.700 Right? And again, you know, this is something we all have to work on 01:08:17.700 --> 01:08:21.700 because there's that, you know, we all have that pride within us 01:08:21.700 --> 01:08:23.500 that wants to come out. 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:26.800 You know, you just don't let them out, right? 01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:33.800 But there's many examples in the Bible of people who made massive mistakes, huge mistakes, 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:38.800 but when they humbled themselves, God had mercy on them. 01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:41.400 And I just want to show a few examples of this. 01:08:42.800 --> 01:08:44.800 before we close tonight. 01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:47.300 And I'm going to run through these pretty quickly 01:08:47.300 --> 01:08:50.300 since it's already pretty late here. 01:08:50.300 --> 01:08:52.300 It says in 2 Chronicles 12.1, it says, 01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:53.800 "...and it came to pass, 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:56.300 when Rehoboam had established the kingdom 01:08:56.300 --> 01:08:57.800 and had strengthened himself, 01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:00.300 he forsook the law of the Lord and all Israel with him. 01:09:00.300 --> 01:09:04.300 And it came to pass that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, 01:09:04.300 --> 01:09:05.800 Shekiah, king of Egypt..." 01:09:06.500 --> 01:09:11.620 came up against Jerusalem because he had transgressed against the Lord 01:09:11.620 --> 01:09:18.260 with 1,200 chariots and 3,000 horsemen, and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, 01:09:18.260 --> 01:09:26.100 and the Lubbims and the Sukkims and the Ethiopians, and he took the fenced cities 01:09:26.300 --> 01:09:30.600 which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:34.100 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, 01:09:34.100 --> 01:09:40.200 and the princes of Judah that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shekiah, 01:09:40.200 --> 01:09:44.200 and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, 01:09:44.200 --> 01:09:49.000 and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shekiah. 01:09:49.100 --> 01:09:53.200 whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, 01:09:53.200 --> 01:09:55.500 and they said, The Lord is righteous. 01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:58.300 And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, 01:09:58.300 --> 01:10:01.000 the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:02.400 They have humbled themselves. 01:10:02.400 --> 01:10:05.200 Therefore I will not destroy them, 01:10:05.200 --> 01:10:08.100 but I will grant them some deliverance, 01:10:08.100 --> 01:10:11.800 and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem 01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:13.300 by the hand of Shekiah. 01:10:13.300 --> 01:10:14.600 Nevertheless... 01:10:15.700 --> 01:10:25.300 they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. 01:10:25.300 --> 01:10:30.100 And so we see here that, you know, Rehoboam, you know, all of his advisors, 01:10:30.100 --> 01:10:37.900 when they heard the bad news, right, that they're going to be basically destroyed, you know, they humbled themselves. 01:10:38.300 --> 01:10:40.200 They didn't rebel against God and be like, 01:10:40.200 --> 01:10:41.700 no, we're going to win the battle, 01:10:41.700 --> 01:10:44.300 and who cares what you think? 01:10:44.300 --> 01:10:46.440 They actually did humble themselves. 01:10:46.440 --> 01:10:50.520 And so the Lord had mercy on them. 01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:54.160 And Rehoboam, this isn't like a small mistake. 01:10:54.160 --> 01:10:59.560 Basically, he led the nation away from the Lord. 01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:01.800 This is a pretty big deal. 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:04.000 This is not like some small thing that he did. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:05.280 But yet when... 01:11:05.500 --> 01:11:08.540 He and all of his advisors humbled themselves. 01:11:08.540 --> 01:11:10.300 God had mercy on them. 01:11:11.360 --> 01:11:15.660 First Kings 21, this is the chapter that we read. 01:11:15.660 --> 01:11:17.540 Took me a while to get here. 01:11:17.540 --> 01:11:19.180 First Kings chapter number 21, 01:11:19.180 --> 01:11:21.900 this is another example of God having mercy on somebody 01:11:21.900 --> 01:11:23.500 because they humbled themselves. 01:11:25.020 --> 01:11:27.940 And this is of course, to give you the context real quick, 01:11:27.940 --> 01:11:30.060 you know Ahab, right? 01:11:30.060 --> 01:11:31.760 He has Nabal killed. 01:11:32.700 --> 01:11:34.700 for a vineyard. 01:11:34.700 --> 01:11:36.700 Nabal doesn't want to give him the vineyard. 01:11:36.700 --> 01:11:38.700 And so Nabal has him killed, 01:11:38.700 --> 01:11:42.700 which is an extremely wicked thing to do. 01:11:42.700 --> 01:11:45.700 And so the prophet comes to him and says, 01:11:45.700 --> 01:11:46.700 hey, guess what? 01:11:46.700 --> 01:11:48.700 You're going to be destroyed. 01:11:48.700 --> 01:11:50.700 And it's going to be pretty bad. 01:11:50.700 --> 01:11:53.700 Because he that dies of Ahab in the city is going to be eating of the dogs. 01:11:53.700 --> 01:11:56.700 He that dies of Ahab in the field is going to be eating of the crows. 01:11:56.700 --> 01:11:57.700 Nobody's going to bury you. 01:11:57.700 --> 01:11:58.700 It's just going to be over. 01:11:58.700 --> 01:12:00.600 You're going to be wiped out, Ahab. 01:12:01.500 --> 01:12:04.680 And look at his response in verse number 27, it says, 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:07.800 And it came to pass when Ahab heard those words, 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:11.560 that he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his face, 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.800 and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 01:12:15.900 --> 01:12:18.900 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the chisperite, saying, 01:12:18.900 --> 01:12:22.300 Seest thou how Ahab humbled himself before me? 01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:24.740 Because he humbled himself before me. 01:12:24.740 --> 01:12:27.200 I will not bring the evil in his day, 01:12:27.200 --> 01:12:30.900 but in his son's day will I bring the evil upon his house." 01:12:30.900 --> 01:12:36.200 So, you know, the punishment is not 100% taken away. 01:12:36.200 --> 01:12:39.200 It's not like the evil is just gone, right? 01:12:39.200 --> 01:12:41.200 But guess what? 01:12:41.200 --> 01:12:43.800 Ahab doesn't have to put up with the evil in his day. 01:12:44.200 --> 01:12:51.900 Which is a lot, in my opinion, it's a lot better option than having it just all happen when you're still alive, right? Amen? 01:12:51.900 --> 01:12:59.200 I mean, this is God being very merciful towards Ahab after committing a pretty horrible sin. 01:12:59.200 --> 01:13:05.100 Like, you know, it's pretty up there, you know, just murdering somebody for their garden. 01:13:05.100 --> 01:13:08.300 Like, I want their lawn, you know. 01:13:08.300 --> 01:13:09.100 Dude. 01:13:09.200 --> 01:13:12.240 You know, you got to mow that thing. It's like, I don't know. 01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:20.480 So, I mean, this is something that is a pretty big deal, but yet God has mercy on him, right? 01:13:20.480 --> 01:13:24.240 But here's the thing. Ahab was very humble. 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:29.800 Like, you know, putting on sackcloth and ashes, you know, this isn't really something we do anymore. 01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:33.800 But I'm pretty sure this isn't something they just did all the time, right? 01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:40.800 There probably wasn't just multitudes of time where Ahab had put on sackcloth and ashes in his life. 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:42.800 It was probably the only time. 01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:46.800 You know, I don't remember any other time in the Bible where Ahab's putting on sackcloth and ashes. 01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:51.700 And so this is a, you know, he's being extremely humble before God, and God has... 01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:56.460 mercy on him even though he committed this this this horrible sin 01:13:57.220 --> 01:14:03.360 You know and that's not the only sin that you know I have committed. I mean in general a have was just a horrible king 01:14:04.080 --> 01:14:08.200 He was a bad king just all around you just every single story of him is just like 01:14:09.020 --> 01:14:15.580 Ahab did this wicked thing he had did this wicked thing and they have his wife made him do this wicked thing and it's like 01:14:16.300 --> 01:14:18.900 You know, Ahab got mercy. 01:14:18.900 --> 01:14:21.600 So you know, if Ahab can get mercy from God, 01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:23.940 don't you think we could get mercy from God? 01:14:23.940 --> 01:14:27.900 Who hopefully have not murdered somebody for their garden? 01:14:27.900 --> 01:14:32.620 I don't think anybody in here has murdered anybody for their garden. 01:14:32.620 --> 01:14:39.320 I would venture to say that nobody has murdered anybody at all in this room. 01:14:39.320 --> 01:14:41.020 And if I'm wrong about that... 01:14:42.100 --> 01:14:44.100 Don't anybody tell me, okay? 01:14:44.100 --> 01:14:46.100 Hahaha 01:14:46.100 --> 01:14:49.100 It's like every time I knock the door 01:14:49.100 --> 01:14:53.100 Like you know murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers, and idolaters 01:14:53.100 --> 01:14:56.100 You know, you've probably never done anything 01:14:56.100 --> 01:14:59.100 If you've murdered anybody don't tell me, okay? 01:14:59.100 --> 01:15:02.100 I don't know, I say that at the door all the time 01:15:02.100 --> 01:15:05.100 Anyways, so none of us have murdered anybody 01:15:05.100 --> 01:15:07.100 Right? And so 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:10.800 I think we could get some mercy from God if we're just humble ourselves. 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.500 You know, I don't know, maybe you could even get some sackcloth and ashes. 01:15:15.500 --> 01:15:19.000 If you've done something bad enough, you know, 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:22.700 but don't put a past yourself, alright, you know, you gotta be humble. 01:15:22.700 --> 01:15:25.200 So humble, got sackcloth and ashes. 01:15:25.200 --> 01:15:28.700 Nobody does sackcloth and ashes like I do. 01:15:28.700 --> 01:15:32.200 Alright, second Chronicles 33. 01:15:32.200 --> 01:15:34.620 So. 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:40.000 I'm just going to sum this last one up. We're kind of running out of time. 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:49.000 So basically this is the story of Manasseh, who was, I would say, he was the worst king of Judah. 01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:52.000 He reigned the longest and he was the worst king. 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:59.700 And he did all kinds of horrible things to the point of offering his sons as burnt offerings to false gods. 01:15:59.900 --> 01:16:02.400 Like that's pretty bad, right? 01:16:02.400 --> 01:16:04.100 And so God punishes him, right? 01:16:04.100 --> 01:16:07.400 God comes in and he has him taken away 01:16:07.400 --> 01:16:10.000 and he's in chains in another land, right? 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:13.280 But he humbles himself before the Lord, very humble. 01:16:13.280 --> 01:16:15.480 He's like weeping and everything. 01:16:15.480 --> 01:16:17.820 And God has mercy on him 01:16:17.820 --> 01:16:21.920 and allows him to go back to Jerusalem to reign. 01:16:23.860 --> 01:16:26.920 Which, you know, after doing all the things, 01:16:27.200 --> 01:16:32.560 that you read about it on your own time in 2 Chronicles chapter 33. 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:34.000 Just read the whole chapter. 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:37.640 Read about all the things that Manasseh did. 01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:41.520 He was an extraordinarily wicked person. 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:49.160 I mean, sacrificing his children to false gods, that wasn't the first thing he did. 01:16:49.160 --> 01:16:50.160 That was like... 01:16:50.300 --> 01:16:56.060 the creme de la creme, but he had done all kinds of wicked things leading up to that, right? 01:16:56.060 --> 01:17:02.300 And these are not like small, light things, you know, whatever. These are major deals. These are big deals. 01:17:02.300 --> 01:17:08.460 And yet, God has mercy on this individual. But why do He have mercy on him? It's because 01:17:09.420 --> 01:17:15.740 He learns humility. When He's taken into the jail cell, you know, and He's just sitting there in chains. 01:17:17.100 --> 01:17:19.700 you know, that'll make you humble apparently. 01:17:19.700 --> 01:17:21.300 Well, you know, it won't make everybody humble, 01:17:21.300 --> 01:17:24.000 but it made Manasseh humble, right? 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:27.600 And so it brought him humility to where he's like, 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:34.000 okay, the Lord is God, He is right, I was wrong, 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:38.000 you know, and just accepted correction, right? 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:40.600 He had humility to accept correction 01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:43.200 even after making these massive mistakes. 01:17:43.400 --> 01:17:47.400 So in our lives, even if you make a major mistake in your life, 01:17:47.400 --> 01:17:51.400 you know, don't get to this place where you're like, well, 01:17:51.400 --> 01:17:55.400 you know, it's all over. You know, I believe that 01:17:55.400 --> 01:17:59.400 if you're a saved person, you know, until 01:17:59.400 --> 01:18:03.400 the day that you die, God is going to have mercy available 01:18:03.400 --> 01:18:07.400 for you. Because it's like, you know, the day that God doesn't have mercy 01:18:07.400 --> 01:18:11.300 available for you, I believe God's just going to take you home. 01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:15.800 I don't think He's just going to leave you with no mercy available on this earth. 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:20.100 I think He's just going to take you home early if that were to happen. 01:18:20.100 --> 01:18:23.100 And so we should never get to a point in our Christian lives where we're just like, 01:18:23.100 --> 01:18:28.800 well, you know, I'm ruined without remedy. 01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:34.000 You know, maybe some part of your life is destroyed without remedy, but guess what? 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:36.400 There's always plan B. 01:18:36.400 --> 01:18:38.600 You know, God is the God of second chances. 01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:41.200 Okay, there's there's a plan B for your life 01:18:41.200 --> 01:18:46.880 And so if you make a major mistake in your life, or if you have made a mistake major mistake in your life in the past 01:18:47.420 --> 01:18:48.840 Well, you know what? 01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:50.840 Just humble yourself before God 01:18:51.200 --> 01:18:57.600 Ask for forgiveness admit that you are wrong confess your sin to God and he's gonna have mercy for you. I 01:18:58.900 --> 01:19:01.820 Believe that's a promise from God if you humble yourself 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:05.800 If you admit that you're wrong to God, 01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:08.400 and just confess your sin to God and forsake it, 01:19:08.400 --> 01:19:10.920 He is going to have mercy on you. 01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:14.040 Why? Because He had mercy on Manasseh. 01:19:14.040 --> 01:19:16.760 And I don't think you're as bad as Manasseh. 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:18.960 I don't think anybody here is as bad as Manasseh. 01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:21.320 But even if you were, 01:19:21.320 --> 01:19:22.480 even if you were, 01:19:22.480 --> 01:19:24.840 look, there's still mercy, right? 01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:26.680 There's still mercy. 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:29.300 So, you know, we just need to humble ourselves. 01:19:29.300 --> 01:19:33.400 And when it comes to, you know, just humility in our lives, 01:19:33.400 --> 01:19:35.640 you know, this is a, this is, you know, 01:19:35.640 --> 01:19:36.740 kind of like Paul was saying earlier, 01:19:36.740 --> 01:19:38.640 it's like a Christian superpower. 01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:41.540 You know, humility is like a Christian superpower, you know. 01:19:41.540 --> 01:19:44.520 And I'm not saying I have that superpower, okay. 01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:48.780 You know, it's something I got to work on myself, you know. 01:19:48.780 --> 01:19:50.860 Humility is something that is, 01:19:50.860 --> 01:19:52.920 is something that doesn't come naturally. 01:19:53.300 --> 01:19:55.700 You know, it doesn't come naturally to me. 01:19:55.700 --> 01:19:59.780 You know, we have to work on it constantly, you know, and it's, 01:19:59.780 --> 01:20:04.580 you know, again, I think that's the reason why God repeats this kind of thing over and over and over again. 01:20:04.580 --> 01:20:06.820 You know, we had a lot of verses tonight. 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:10.680 This is a big subject in the Bible that we all need to learn from. 01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:15.440 We all need to learn humility and be able to receive correction. 01:20:15.440 --> 01:20:16.920 Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer. 01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:18.320 Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord. 01:20:18.320 --> 01:20:19.600 I thank you for everything you've done for us, Lord. 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:24.280 We thank you for the Bible that can correct everything in our lives that we need to correct, 01:20:24.280 --> 01:20:25.280 Lord. 01:20:25.280 --> 01:20:28.560 And we pray that you would help us to be humble and to not have an attitude of pride that 01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:30.400 says we're right about everything and realize that... 01:20:31.100 --> 01:20:35.020 that there's things that we can be wrong about and that we can learn from and that we can correct. 01:20:35.020 --> 01:20:37.260 In the name of Jesus, amen. 01:20:40.100 --> 01:20:44.900 Alright, if you want to take your hand rolls, we're going to turn to page number 439. 01:20:49.300 --> 01:20:52.100 It's page number 439. 01:20:57.300 --> 01:21:00.540 Page number 439 counts your blessings. 01:21:04.200 --> 01:21:06.200 Sing it out on the first 01:21:13.200 --> 01:21:23.920 When upon life's willows you are tempest-tossed, Scourage-thinking all is lost, 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:34.360 Count your many blessings one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. 01:21:34.500 --> 01:21:39.500 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 01:21:39.500 --> 01:21:44.500 Count your blessings, see what God hath done. 01:21:44.500 --> 01:21:49.500 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 01:21:49.500 --> 01:21:55.500 Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. 01:21:55.500 --> 01:22:00.500 Are you ever burdened with a load of care? 01:22:00.500 --> 01:22:05.540 Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear? 01:22:05.540 --> 01:22:10.580 Count your many blessings every doubt will fly 01:22:10.580 --> 01:22:15.860 And you will be singing as the days go by 01:22:15.860 --> 01:22:20.820 Count your blessings name them one by one 01:22:20.820 --> 01:22:25.940 Count your blessings see what God hath done 01:22:25.940 --> 01:22:28.180 count your blessings 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:38.760 them one by one. Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. When you look at others 01:22:38.760 --> 01:22:47.400 with their lands and gold, think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold. Count 01:22:47.400 --> 01:22:56.280 your many blessings, money cannot buy. You're rewarded heaven, nor your hope on high. 01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:02.040 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 01:23:02.040 --> 01:23:07.160 Count your blessings, see what God hath done. 01:23:07.160 --> 01:23:12.400 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 01:23:12.400 --> 01:23:17.640 Count your many blessings, see what God hath done. 01:23:17.640 --> 01:23:22.600 So amid the conflict, whether great or small, 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.600 Do not be discouraged, God is over all. 01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:32.400 Count your many blessings, angels will attend. 01:23:32.400 --> 01:23:37.200 Help and comfort give you to your journeys end. 01:23:37.200 --> 01:23:41.800 Count your blessings, name them one by one. 01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:46.600 Count your blessings, see what God hath done. 01:23:46.600 --> 01:23:49.000 Count your blessings. 01:23:49.100 --> 01:23:57.100 Name them one by one count how many blessings see what God hath done 01:23:57.100 --> 01:24:01.100 Alright excellent singing everybody, Brother Ryan, would you please close the word of prayer? 01:24:01.100 --> 01:24:04.100 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you God for preaching at this church Lord 01:24:04.100 --> 01:24:10.100 and I just pray God that if we ever have any sort of pride creep up in our heart 01:24:10.100 --> 01:24:14.100 I pray God that you will help us deal with that and stay humble 01:24:15.100 --> 01:24:17.740 and pray God that you'll bless us as we go. 01:24:17.740 --> 01:24:18.940 In Jesus' name, Amen.