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 turn to number 64 we gather at 64 64 shall we gather at 64 there on the fir

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 time will open with a word of prayer father we thank you for another day to

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 gather together to sing praises gather here that you would be with the seeds

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 planted and with the salvation that was had this evening also that you would be

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 with us that you would open our ears and our hearts to the message and fill

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 pasture with your spirit these things we pray in Jesus name amen for our next

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 hymn 258 Christ receiveth sinful men 258 258 Christ receiveth sinful men 258

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 there on the 1st

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 Timothy service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 Sunday evening at 4

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 Wednesday Bible study at 7 o'clock that we have of our soul winning times as

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 well as our year-to-date soul winning statistics pushing up on a thousand for

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 the year so great job and definitely excited to hit that number soon we do

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 have on the back our upcoming events this Saturday is the ladies tea meeting

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 here at the church building at 1 o'clock p.m. am I right on that 1 o'clock so

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 please do join us for that May 17th is the next men's preaching night that's

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 for the p.m. service there's still time to sign up if you'd like to participate

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 in that and then we'll have a potluck and just evening a fellowship afterward

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 join us for that please May 20th through the 24th coming right up is the anti

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 Israel conference at steadfast Baptist Church I did see there was a schedule

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 posted so if you're looking for that schedule find pastor Shelley's Facebook

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 band pastor and honey badger because he does not care right those are his two

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 handles there go find him and you could find that information I'll probably post

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 it in our signal group this week as well June 14th brother Ben Naim from steadfast

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 preaching both services for us please do join us for that weekend and be a

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 support to him and then June 17th through the 20th is the European soul

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 winning conference in Germany please do keep this in prayer we want to make sure

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 that we can get a lot of soul winners there fired up and be able to preach the

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 gospel in their home countries people are coming from all over Europe not just

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 Germany and so this is a great chance to inspire a new generation to be faithful

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 to soul winning in their countries so that the work of the gospel can go out

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 throughout this world so I'm really looking forward to that conference

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 pastor Shelley will be with me for that that's gonna be it for our upcoming

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 events we also have our prayer list there and so please do keep that in

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 prayer throughout the week if you have any requests or updates always email the

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 church be happy to update that for you well let's go ahead and go to the Lord

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 in prayer as a church family before we go to our next song Lord we thank you for

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 Anchor Baptist Church and the opportunity to be in your house tonight

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 Lord we thank you for good health and good fellowship and just all the things

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 that you do for us we don't take any of it for granted I pray that you would be

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 with those this evening that could not make it that you just bless their health

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 help them to feel better we pray for my wife that her surgery would go well next

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 week pray for sister-in-law Reagan that you just bless her pregnancy

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 we especially pray for the lemon family that you would just help baby Uriah to

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 be healed of its heart issue and that baby would be very strong upon birth the

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 surgery would go well and that you just help this child in any way possible Lord

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 also that you just strengthen their family through this difficult time pray

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 for brother to call for his health for Miss Jennifer or her mother's knee

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 recovery just that that knee would regain full strength and that you just

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 help her to have good mental health that you just give her comfort Lord during

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 her recovery that she would get full mobility and strength back or we also

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 pray for brother Eric pray that you be with him with his work that he's doing

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 in the Philippines that you keep him healthy that you would just give him

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 strength keep the door of opportunity open for him and fill him with the

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 spirit so he could continue to do a great work over there pray for brother

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 Fedor or his mother to be healed of cancer pray for brother Hiel or brother

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 Myles for his health that you just blessed miss Rhea as well and also that

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 she would be with the church members here who have loved ones that are unsaved

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 that you'd help us to be faithful witnesses for Christ and our families and

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 in this community we love you and you see me pray amen alright at this time

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 we'll go to our third song together Psalm 126 in your white handouts Psalm

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 126 126 in your white handouts Psalm 126 we'll sing there on the first

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 turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 6 Ecclesiastes chapter 6

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 "A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor so that he wanted nothing for his soul of all that he desireth; yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. If a man beget a hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than a man's birth."

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 "For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover, he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing; this hath more rest than the other.

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 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice old, yet hath he seen no good. Do not all go to one place? All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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 But what hath the wise more than the fool? What hath the poor than knoweth to walk before the living? Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 That which hath been named already, it is known that it is man; neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

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 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?

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 For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Right? We're thankful for to be gathered at his house, thankful to have the word from him.

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 Go pass it on to the spirit, help him to sound the chapter of the earth, and the Lord will do that. Have you used it here? Pray now.

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 Man, Ecclesiastes chapter number two. And definitely a lot of themes that he's already brought up are going to be repeated.

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 But you know, sometimes God wants us to hear things multiple times. But I'm going to give you six lessons from this chapter this evening.

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 Number one is this, that wealth does not guarantee happiness. Look at verse number one.

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 It says there, "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun." And notice this, it says, "And it is common among men,

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 a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul, of all that he desireth.

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 Yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease."

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 When the Bible here is saying that this situation, this particular vanity, that it's common among men,

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 I don't think it's necessarily saying, "Oh, it's common for people to get rich, and common for people to have all their hearts desire."

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 But what it is saying is that when people do get rich, when they do get into that position in their life

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 where they could just give themselves whatever their hearts desire, this common state they find themselves in

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 where even though they have riches, they have all the things they "want," they still are empty and they still have problems.

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 Because notice the problem that they have, it says in verse 2, the latter part there,

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 "Yet God giveth them not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it."

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 This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

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 So someone could attain wealth, attain riches, attain access, all the things that they want,

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 but it still doesn't guarantee happiness because sometimes people have those things,

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 but even though they have them, they don't enjoy them.

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 Just think about the vanity of that, of someone chasing their whole life after something

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 and then when they get it, they can't even enjoy it.

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 They can't even have a good time or they get it and then immediately a stranger eats thereof.

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 Now I think there's a couple different reasons why it is that specifically the unsaved could

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 have all this money, could have everything that their heart "wants" but still be unhappy.

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 Go to Hebrews chapter number two.

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 Hebrews chapter number two, one reason why I think so many people in this world are unhappy,

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 they're unfulfilled, they can't even enjoy the things that they have.

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 Even people that are very rich that have a lot and they still can't enjoy the things

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 that they have, one reason I think that is is because they're unsaved.

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 You know what, you are not really going to enjoy life that much when you are unsaved,

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 at least like from an ultimate perspective.

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 Yeah, there's the pleasures of sin for a season.

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 But notice right here what the Bible says in Hebrews two, verse 14.

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 "For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise

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 took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,

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 that is the devil, and deliver them," notice this, "who through fear of death were all

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 their lifetimes subject to bondage."

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 Right, so a lot of people are terrified of death, and you know what?

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 If you're not saved, kind of rightly so, you should be terrified of death.

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 Because what awaits people who are unsaved when they die is a literal fiery hell.

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 By the way, hell is not a metaphor, it is not an allegory, right?

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 I heard this guy who's getting really popular, Wes Huff.

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 Who's heard of this guy, Wes Huff?

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 Okay, I'm glad that many of you have not heard of him.

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 But he's getting super popular online.

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 And you know, I heard in some video today that he's saying that most of the fire and brimstone is really just an allegory.

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 No, let me tell you something.

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 The reason why Jesus went to hell for us was so that we don't have to go there.

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 It's a real place.

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 And you know, this whole world today, the Bible says that they have what?

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 The fear of death.

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 See, if someone is unsaved, that doesn't mean that they're happy even if they're rich,

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 because oftentimes people just have the fear of death, the fear of loss.

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 You know, what profit does it have if you gain the whole world and lose your soul, right?

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 Or you have all these material riches and all these material goods,

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 yet a lot of rich people are afraid of what?

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 Losing those goods.

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 What's going to happen to them?

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 You know, what's going to happen when I die?

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 So one reason I think people are unhappy, even if they have riches, is because of fear of death from being unsaved.

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 Also, if you would go ahead and go back to Ecclesiastes,

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 I think another reason why people can end up, even though they attain riches,

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 they still end up being miserable and suffering all these horrible things,

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 is because you reap what you sow.

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 And oftentimes, the reason people become very wealthy and have all these riches

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 is because they've done wicked, evil things to get there,

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 or at the very least, done vain, meaningless things to get there.

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 I'll read for you.

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 The Bible says in Proverbs 13 verse 11,

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 "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished,

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 but he that gathereth by labor shall increase."

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 So notice in Ecclesiastes, he says,

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 "Hey, there's this evil that's common among man, a man who's really rich,

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 but he does not have power to eat thereof. A stranger comes and, you know,

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 takes his goods, eats up his substance. Why could that be?"

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 Well, the Bible says that wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished.

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 So, you know, getting yourself wealth by any means is not a long-term good strategy,

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 because even oftentimes when people attain wealth,

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 if it was gotten by ill-gotten means or vain means, you know,

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 God can just scatter that all away. God can make us lose those things.

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 Obviously one thing that comes to mind would be like playing the lottery.

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 Have you noticed that people who play the lottery don't stay rich?

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 They don't stay financially secure.

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 They are almost always bankrupt and in complete financial ruin.

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 Why? Because the Bible says wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished.

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 You know, if you want to make money, do something that provides value.

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 Go work hard. Go start a business. Go invent something.

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 You know what is a really stupid way that people make money these days?

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 It's like Bitcoin farming. Just setting up a computer to just farm this Bitcoin.

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 Let me tell you, talk about getting wealth by vanity. Literally nothing.

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 Let me tell you what, if you think you're going to get rich off this kind of stuff,

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 I wouldn't be surprised if even temporarily you got the money,

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 God just scattered it all away because it's a bunch of vanity.

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 You know, don't get involved in these Jewish tricks.

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 Alright, go make money like a man, go work hard,

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 don't try to make a bunch of money off of interest

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 or creating these weird nothing currency.

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 You know, that is something that is completely vain

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 and apparently needs to be preached because it's getting real quiet in here.

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 There's some real Bitcoin lovers in here.

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 Amen. How about some other things?

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 How about just like unforeseen life events, right?

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 Hey, someone gets super rich and then they get divorced.

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 Someone gets super rich and then they get a disease

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 and they could just lose everything. They could have money

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 and not be able to enjoy the things that they have.

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 What's the application for us? You know, we should thank God

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 for the blessings we have that we get to enjoy.

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 You know, thank God that if God gives you some sort of financial means

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 or God gives you a car, God gives you a house, God gives you children,

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 hey, if you actually get to enjoy the things that you have,

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 you know, you're richer than a lot of rich men.

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 Even if you have less money, less things, if you get to enjoy those things,

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 you're actually getting more out of life than Elon Musk,

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 than these rich guys in this world that don't even have joy.

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 Number two, worldly success is no replacement for joy.

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 Look at verse number three of Ecclesiastes 6.

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 It says, "If a man begat a hundred children and lived many years,

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 so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good,

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 and also that he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he."

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 You know, so on one hand, many people think that getting as much money and material goods as possible

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 is going to automatically give them some sort of happiness.

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 I think other people, they think like the goal in life is just living as long of a life as possible.

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 And again, the rich are often really just obsessed with living the longest life possible.

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 You have all these celebrities that did the, what is it called, cryogenic freezing?

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 Am I saying that right? Does anyone know? It's a cyrogenic or cryogenic cryo.

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 Alright, thank you, brother Cameron.

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 Walt Disney, he freezed his body in this cryogenic chamber,

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 hoping that someday some sort of technology comes to, you know, bring him back from the dead.

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 Rich people get into stuff like this, life enhancement technologies.

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 But you know what? The Bible says that even people who live many years and have,

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 what does it say there? A hundred children.

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 Solomon would know something about having lots of children with his, you know, 900 plus wives.

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 Even if you have lots of children and live many years, that does not guarantee happiness.

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 Right? Because he says, "And his soul be not filled with good."

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 So even if you have lots of kids, even if you live many years, but your soul is not filled with good,

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 and also that you have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.

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 You know, there's something to be said about living a joyful life can be better.

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 Like, living a shorter, joyful life would be better than living a long, miserable life.

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 You know, living a shorter life with poverty, but joy and fulfillment would be better

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 than living a long life with riches, not being able to enjoy them.

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 Living a long life, having a hundred children, and you don't even have a proper burial.

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 No one even loves you. No one even cares about you. You have no joy in your life.

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 Worldly success does not guarantee happiness.

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 We have to renew our minds as Christians and realize we should seek joy from the things that the Bible tells us to seek joy from.

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 The Bible doesn't say, "Extend your life at all costs and you'll be happy."

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 I mean, in parts of the New Testament it says, "He that loses his life will find it." Right?

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 And so, we need to seek fulfillment God's way. What are some ways that we could do that?

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 Go to Proverbs, chapter number 28. Proverbs, chapter number 28. Now, here's the thing. These are going to be things that the world never tries, never does.

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 This never enters their mind, "Hey, you know, I want to be happy, so I'm going to do the things the Bible says."

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 No, it's like, "I want to be happy, so let's go to the party. Let's go drink alcohol. Let's go have fun."

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 Yeah, how did that work in Norman last week? You know, a bunch of stupid, foolish kids going to a drunken party,

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 a bunch of girls dressed like whores, dancing around, drinking alcohol.

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 You know, when you go to sinful places, sinful times with sinful people to do sinful things, bad stuff happens.

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 Oh, we're just going to have fun. It's not fun getting shot up, is it?

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 And look, I'm not saying like they deserve that or anything like that, but I could tell you,

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 you would have been much safer avoiding the sinful, stupid activity of drinking alcohol and doing this instead.

00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.920
 Proverbs 28 verse 14, happy, happy, right? That's what we're seeking for.

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 Happy is the man that feareth always, but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

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 See, the world would never guess that. Hey, I want to be happy. What should I do? Should I drink?

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 Should I go pick up a girl? Should I do drugs? The Bible says you want to be happy? Fear God.

00:36:39.050 --> 00:36:44.740
 That actually will bring happiness. Why is that? Because by fearing God,

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 we're going to be led away from activities that will harm us.

00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:54.080
 You see, you want to know why I would never be at a stupid party like that? There's lots of reasons.

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:59.470
 But one reason is that I fear God. And I think that if I went to some party

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 and started drinking alcohol and doing drugs and dancing with a bunch of girls,

00:37:03.430 --> 00:37:06.410
 you know what would probably happen? God would do something bad to me.

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 And you're like, wow, you fear God? Yeah, I fear God. That's why I'm happy at home with my wife and kids.

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 That's why I'm happy safe in my bed at home and not dealing with this horrible tragedy that happens in Norman.

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 Look, if these kids would have feared God would have never happened.

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 You see, I'm not saying like they deserved it. But here's the thing. They're also not blameless.

00:37:28.450 --> 00:37:34.240
 And here's the thing. If you are going to a bar, if you're going to go drink alcohol,

00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:39.710
 if you're going to go meet some person that's not your spouse, you are asking for trouble.

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 And if trouble finds you, you are partially at fault. That's just a fact.

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 Because God's commandments are given to you to keep you safe.

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 The Bible says that God's commandments are not grievous.

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 Oh, you're like those people that say when women get attacked that they deserved it.

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 I'm not saying they deserved it, but I'm saying that if you don't go around dressing like a whore,

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 it's going to be less likely that you're going to be attacked. How about that?

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 That's a fact, folks. You know, if you just fear God, keep His commandments,

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 you're going to live a happier life. Go to Galatians chapter number five.

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 Galatians chapter number five. One way to seek true happiness,

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 the Bible says, fear God. Happy is the man that feareth always.

00:38:21.630 --> 00:38:26.130
 Another way is to walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5 verse 22.

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 Notice what it says. It says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love."

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 Here it is. Joy. Skip down to verse number 25.

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 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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 Here's the cool thing about being a Christian is that since we have the new man,

00:38:45.370 --> 00:38:47.350
 since we have the Holy Spirit of God inside of us,

00:38:47.350 --> 00:38:50.320
 we have God's Word, we have the Spirit of God,

00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:56.640
 we can at any time in our life choose to walk in the Spirit and receive joy.

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 Think about that. The world, their joy is often determined by their circumstances.

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 And they get money and they're happy, and they lose money and they're sad.

00:39:04.510 --> 00:39:07.740
 And they get a relationship, they're happy, they lose it, they're sad.

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 But here's the thing. The Bible says the fruit of the Spirit is what?

00:39:09.710 --> 00:39:14.880
 Love, joy. So if you are walking in the Spirit, you know what that tells me?

00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:18.220
 You can have joy during times of financial hardship.

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 You know what that tells me? You can have joy during times of loss,

00:39:22.150 --> 00:39:26.110
 during times of illness, during times of strife.

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 You could still have joy because you have the Holy Spirit of God.

00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:34.130
 But you want to know why Christians sometimes are often sad and depressed

00:39:34.130 --> 00:39:38.090
 just like the world is, is because you're so stinking backslidden

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 that you don't remember the last time you were actually in the Spirit.

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 You don't even remember the last time you were walking in the Spirit.

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 And you know, if you're a Christian and you're just living a life

00:39:48.260 --> 00:39:51.210
 that is not your default position, joy in the Lord,

00:39:51.210 --> 00:39:54.170
 let me tell you something, that's a life that's often in the flesh.

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 I'm not saying you've got to walk around life like the Joker or something

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 with some, you know, grin across your face or something.

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 But here's what I'm telling you, your default position in life should be joy.

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 The Apostle Paul said this, "I have learned in whatsoever state I am,

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 therewith to be content."

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 See, that's cool as Christians, that whether we're thriving financially,

00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:19.280
 whether we're being attacked, persecuted, health issues,

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 thorn in the flesh, no matter what position he was in, he was content.

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 Why? Because he was filled with the Spirit of God.

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 And the Spirit of God yields joy in our lives.

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 Go to Psalm 37, Psalm chapter number 37.

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 You know, another great way to derive joy, we talk about fearing God,

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 we talk about walking in the Spirit.

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 You know, we should also derive joy in our lives from God himself.

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 That we're just excited and joyous and happy about God himself.

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 Look at Psalm 37, verse 3.

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 "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land,

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 and verily thou shalt be fed."

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 Notice this, "Delight thyself also in the Lord,

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 and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."

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 That's a command right there.

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 "Delight thyself also in the Lord."

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 You know, you should be happy about the things of God.

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 You should find joy in reading the Bible.

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 You should find joy in getting around God's people,

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 going to church, hearing preaching, singing hymns.

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 That is delighting yourself in the Lord.

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 This is something that you should be doing in your life.

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 And look, sometimes in life there's things

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 that you have to do more often to start to enjoy, right?

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 There's people who like exercise, and it's probably the same people that exercise a lot, right?

00:41:38.870 --> 00:41:42.240
 And then there's people that don't exercise at all because they don't like it.

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 But let me tell you why you don't like it, because you don't do it.

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 And it's like, you know what I've noticed?

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 People who read the Bible a lot love the Bible.

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 People who go to church a lot love church, love God, love souls, love the Spirit of God, love the Word of God.

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 But then people who don't do spiritual things often, they're really not as into it, right?

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 These things are connected, right? So you want to delight yourself in the Lord.

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 You want to get to the point in your life where you can actually find joy just from the things of God.

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 Well, you got to put work into those things.

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 You have to put time and effort and energy into those things.

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 Go back to Ecclesiastes 6.

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 Let me read another verse for you, Proverbs 27 verse 7.

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 The Bible says, "The full soul loatheth in honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet."

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 If you ever go on a missions trip, this verse will pop into your mind a lot.

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 Because here in America, people are so full of the world.

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 They're so full of entertainment, and they're so full of the professional sports and the college sports,

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 and going to the movies, just all the things you could do in America is just endless.

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 But you know what? You'll find some really hungry people in other countries.

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 You go to the Bahamas and you find some people that are hungry for the Word of God.

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 And it seems like when you're soul winning in the Bahamas that every person you stop wants to listen to the Gospel.

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 Those who have been there know what I'm saying is true.

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 Just about everyone you talk to wants to hear. Why?

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 Because to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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 And if you're in a position in your life where you just feel like you don't find joy or delight from the things of God,

00:43:17.490 --> 00:43:20.440
 let me help you, you're too full on other things.

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 You are way too full on the things of this world to where no longer can you get joy from the things of God.

00:43:26.640 --> 00:43:33.000
 Ecclesiastes 6, lesson number 3, most people will be forgotten.

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 Look what the Bible says in verse 4, "For he cometh in with vanity and departeth in darkness,

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 and his name shall be covered with darkness."

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 Boy, isn't that encouraging. Isn't that just wonderful, Solomon?

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 Most people will be forgotten, which again just goes to show why just caring about your life under the sun

00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:59.450
 and only worrying about the riches and only worrying about living long days is eventually vain

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 because most people are just going to be forgotten.

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 Now, not everyone. I'll read for you Proverbs 10 verse 7.

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 The Bible says, "The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot."

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 Right? So, you know, you can be remembered by doing what?

00:44:15.160 --> 00:44:19.100
 Living a spiritual life, going soul-winning, winning people to Christ.

00:44:19.100 --> 00:44:21.070
 Hey, every person you ever win to Christ, guess what?

00:44:21.070 --> 00:44:26.160
 They're going to be in heaven for all of eternity, and so are you, so your name isn't going to be forgotten.

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 But this world that's just chasing after prestige, riches, power, fame, parties, you know, their life is ultimately meaningless.

00:44:35.100 --> 00:44:41.610
 And the atheists, you know, the way that they look at the world, the way these biologists look at the world, you know what?

00:44:41.610 --> 00:44:47.570
 From a carnal perspective, they are right, their life is completely meaningless because they're going to be forgotten someday.

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 But thank God that's not that way for us.

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 Number four, now this is going to seem like we're totally switching gears.

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 But number four lesson we can learn from this chapter is that all babies go to heaven.

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 All babies go to heaven.

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 Why do I say that?

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 Look at verse number three.

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 It says, "If a man beget in hundred children and live many years so that the days of his years be many and his soul be not filled with good and also that he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he."

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 So he's comparing two people.

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 One person is a guy who lives many years, has many children, but he has a terrible life.

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 He's being compared to an untimely birth, right?

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 This could be like a miscarriage or a stillborn or something like that.

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 And he's saying, "Hey, at the end of the day, the stillborn is better than this other guy."

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 Why? Verse four, "For he cometh in with vanity and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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 Moreover, he hath not seen the sun, nor known anything; this hath more rest than the other."

00:45:52.680 --> 00:45:56.360
 Right? So if someone gets all the money in the world, but they have no joy.

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 They live many years, but they don't even have a burial.

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 They have a hundred kids, but their name is just forgotten and they depart in vanity.

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 You know, the stillborn, the untimely birth is better because that person at least has what? Rest.

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 Meaning what? That person at least went to heaven.

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 And you know what? If a stillborn or an untimely birth, they never saw the sun, right?

00:46:17.970 --> 00:46:23.120
 They never saw this world. They never got to enjoy any of those things that the rich man did.

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 But ultimately, that stillbirth is way better off because that stillbirth is in heaven resting.

00:46:30.080 --> 00:46:34.060
 Whereas a rich man who's unsaved dies, he goes straight to hell.

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 In eyes, he lifts his, he lifts his eyes up being in torments.

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 Now go to Romans chapter number seven, let's prove this doctrinally that babies go to heaven.

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 Because I guess I kind of took it for granted that I thought most people believed this.

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 But I've been shocked to find out that many people do not believe this.

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 Which is just sickening and gross to think that God would just create babies and send them to hell.

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 Super evil, but let me prove doctrinally why we believe that all babies will go to heaven.

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 Romans 7 verse 8, the Apostle Paul says, "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,

00:47:12.910 --> 00:47:18.870
 wrought in me all manner of concupiscence, for without the law sin was dead.

00:47:18.870 --> 00:47:22.400
 For I was alive." Notice those four words right there.

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 "For I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died."

00:47:30.830 --> 00:47:35.900
 What is that? "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

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 For the wages of sin is what? Death.

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 So when someone sins, when they have the law of God exposed to them,

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 when they sin, the Bible says that sin revived and he died.

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 There was a time though that the Apostle Paul was alive.

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 When was that? It was before he sinned.

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 Look at verse 10.

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 "And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.

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 Notice, and by it slew me."

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 Obviously not a physical death here.

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 It is a death of the spirit.

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 He needs to be revived.

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 He needs to be born again.

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 He needs to get saved.

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 Go, if you would, to 2 Samuel chapter number 12.

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 2 Samuel chapter number 12.

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 So, you know, I believe that I don't know exactly the age.

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 I think that the age is kind of irrelevant.

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 I think it's probably different for all sorts of different kids

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 as to how they develop mentally.

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 The age could be well into adulthood if someone's extremely mentally handicapped,

00:48:35.750 --> 00:48:37.750
 people who are literally mentally retarded.

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 You know, if you can't understand sin, if you can't understand the law,

00:48:41.730 --> 00:48:47.710
 you know, a small child, a baby for sure, you know, a baby is not thinking like,

00:48:47.710 --> 00:48:50.920
 "Man, I'm going to covet. Man, I'm going to go steal."

00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:52.900
 The baby is not blaspheming the name of the Lord.

00:48:52.900 --> 00:48:55.860
 The baby is not murdering. The baby is not committing adultery.

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 Like, that's impossible, okay?

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 So someone who has not done those things, they're not condemned.

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:04.390
 Look at 2 Samuel 12 verse 15.

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 "And Nathan departed unto his house, and the Lord struck the child

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 that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick."

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 David here is being punished for his sin of adultery with Bathsheba

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 and having Uriah be murdered, and David's child is sick unto death.

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 Verse 16, "David therefore besought God for the child,

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 and David fasted and went in and lay all night upon the earth."

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 David does not want his baby to die.

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 He's praying, he's forgoing food, he's begging that God would be merciful to the child.

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 Verse 17, "And the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the earth,

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 but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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 And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died.

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 And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead,

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 for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him,

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 and he would not hearken unto our voice.

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 How will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead?

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 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead.

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 Therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead?

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 And they said, He is dead.

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 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself,

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 and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshiped.

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 Then he came to his own house, and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

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 So notice, why is it that David is beseeching God for his child?

00:50:30.500 --> 00:50:35.880
 Why is it that David is praying, he's on his face, he is fasting,

00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:38.830
 he's just beseeching and begging God for this child to live?

00:50:38.830 --> 00:50:42.030
 Why is that? Because he loves his kid, obviously, right?

00:50:42.030 --> 00:50:44.980
 He loves his child, he does not want to see his child die,

00:50:44.980 --> 00:50:47.940
 he does not want to see his child be in any type of pain.

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 Now, the baby dies. Now, let's just pretend for some moment that babies go to hell, okay?

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 Why would all of a sudden he be cool and chill?

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 Like he cares about his child, that he's begging God to help his child,

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 and then the baby goes to hell and he's like, "Oh, let's eat, no big deal."

00:51:05.640 --> 00:51:10.890
 That would be ridiculous. Why is he kind of like, "All right, there's nothing more I could do.

00:51:10.890 --> 00:51:14.180
 Hey, you know what? The Lord gave, the Lord take away.

00:51:14.180 --> 00:51:17.440
 I'm going to worship God right now, I'm going to wash my face, I'm going to eat."

00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:19.400
 Why? Because his baby is now in heaven.

00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:25.130
 Because here's the thing, if his baby went to hell, if babies went to hell or something like that,

00:51:25.130 --> 00:51:30.170
 he was already distressed, distraught, upset before the baby died.

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 Imagine how wildly inconsolable he would be if the baby went to hell, right?

00:51:35.100 --> 00:51:40.190
 Now here's the thing, I lost a loved one that went to hell and it was the worst pain ever.

00:51:40.190 --> 00:51:46.470
 It was terrible, I was in tears, I was sobbing, not because, oh, you know, someone died,

00:51:46.470 --> 00:51:52.260
 but because someone I loved went to hell and they're going to be there forever and ever

00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:54.210
 and there's no hope for that person.

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 And let me tell you what, that is a deep pain right there.

00:51:57.180 --> 00:52:03.720
 But here's the good news about babies is that every baby goes to heaven because no baby has sinned.

00:52:03.720 --> 00:52:05.740
 No baby is condemned.

00:52:05.740 --> 00:52:10.680
 It's not even right to say that babies are saved because, you know, they're not saved from hell.

00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:12.660
 They were never deserving of hell to begin with.

00:52:12.660 --> 00:52:17.050
 If a child, you know, a young child dies, that child is going to heaven.

00:52:17.050 --> 00:52:19.020
 The baby, that baby is going to heaven.

00:52:19.020 --> 00:52:20.980
 That's why he's able to pick himself up.

00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:23.210
 And then notice what he says.

00:52:23.210 --> 00:52:29.240
 He says in verse number 22, and he said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept.

00:52:29.240 --> 00:52:33.630
 For I said, 'Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live?'

00:52:33.630 --> 00:52:36.790
 But now he is dead. Wherefore should I fast?

00:52:36.790 --> 00:52:38.770
 Can I bring him back again?

00:52:38.770 --> 00:52:42.110
 Notice, I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me."

00:52:42.110 --> 00:52:44.510
 Hey, I can't bring this baby back.

00:52:44.510 --> 00:52:46.780
 The baby's not going to come back to life.

00:52:46.780 --> 00:52:49.730
 But here's the thing, I'm going to go to him someday.

00:52:49.730 --> 00:52:51.920
 Why? Because David is saved.

00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.000
 Obviously, David himself is saved.

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:55.980
 And he knows, hey, this baby is in heaven.

00:52:55.980 --> 00:52:59.940
 When David dies, he knows he's going to be reunited with his child someday.

00:52:59.940 --> 00:53:01.920
 So that brings him comfort.

00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.250
 Now, I showed you all that. I showed you the doctrine.

00:53:04.250 --> 00:53:05.230
 Why I would believe that.

00:53:05.230 --> 00:53:08.200
 Now, not all people believe this, okay?

00:53:08.200 --> 00:53:12.250
 I want to read to you a little bit out of the Catholic Catechism,

00:53:12.250 --> 00:53:15.220
 which is the official doctrine of the Catholic Church.

00:53:15.220 --> 00:53:19.180
 It was created in response to the Protestant Reformation.

00:53:19.180 --> 00:53:21.160
 And let me read to you a little bit about baptism.

00:53:21.160 --> 00:53:25.070
 It says in the Catholic Catechism,

00:53:25.070 --> 00:53:28.980
 "The Lord Himself affirms that baptism is necessary for salvation."

00:53:28.980 --> 00:53:33.570
 By the way, don't ever let Catholics lie to you

00:53:33.570 --> 00:53:36.550
 and tell you that they believe salvation is by faith alone.

00:53:36.550 --> 00:53:38.540
 Read a little bit of their Catechism,

00:53:38.540 --> 00:53:40.530
 and it's just thing after thing after thing

00:53:40.530 --> 00:53:42.520
 that they say you have to do to be saved.

00:53:42.520 --> 00:53:45.500
 You got to do confession. You got to do penance.

00:53:45.500 --> 00:53:48.480
 You got to do baptism. You got to do the Eucharist.

00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:50.700
 All these things to obtain salvation.

00:53:50.700 --> 00:53:53.730
 So right off the bat they tell you you need to be baptized to be saved.

00:53:53.730 --> 00:53:56.640
 Makes you question about babies, right?

00:53:56.640 --> 00:53:59.600
 He also commands his disciples to proclaim the gospel to all nations

00:53:59.600 --> 00:54:01.580
 and to baptize them.

00:54:01.580 --> 00:54:08.060
 Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the gospel has been proclaimed

00:54:08.060 --> 00:54:13.330
 and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament.

00:54:13.330 --> 00:54:15.290
 Boy, is that a convenient doctrine.

00:54:15.290 --> 00:54:19.260
 Basically, you need to be baptized to be saved if the gospel has been preached unto you

00:54:19.260 --> 00:54:22.780
 and you can get baptized.

00:54:22.780 --> 00:54:24.790
 Where is that in the Bible?

00:54:24.790 --> 00:54:28.980
 Then it says this, "The church does not know of any means other than baptism

00:54:28.980 --> 00:54:33.170
 that assures entry into the eternal beatitude."

00:54:33.170 --> 00:54:34.310
 Hey, I know another way.

00:54:34.310 --> 00:54:36.250
 It's called believing on Jesus Christ.

00:54:36.250 --> 00:54:38.290
 Hey, what must I do to be saved?

00:54:38.290 --> 00:54:41.270
 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

00:54:41.270 --> 00:54:45.470
 The Catholic Church knows of no other way to have assurance that you'll enter beatitude

00:54:45.470 --> 00:54:48.990
 then by baptism, wicked.

00:54:48.990 --> 00:54:54.440
 This is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord

00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:58.410
 to see that all who can be baptized are reborn of water and the Spirit.

00:54:58.410 --> 00:55:03.430
 God has bound salvation to the sacrament of baptism,

00:55:03.430 --> 00:55:07.500
 but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.

00:55:07.500 --> 00:55:10.530
 So they're saying, hey, Jesus wasn't getting saved when he got baptized.

00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:13.590
 But everyone else, if the gospel's been preached to you,

00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:17.830
 if you can get baptized, the church knows of no other way of salvation.

00:55:17.830 --> 00:55:21.350
 And that begs the question, what about babies?

00:55:21.350 --> 00:55:22.340
 What about infants?

00:55:22.340 --> 00:55:25.290
 What about someone who dies before they can be baptized?

00:55:25.290 --> 00:55:27.260
 Well, here's the Catholic Church's answer.

00:55:27.260 --> 00:55:30.900
 As regards children who have died without baptism,

00:55:30.900 --> 00:55:33.860
 the church can only entrust them to the mercy of God

00:55:33.860 --> 00:55:37.350
 as she does in her funeral rites for them.

00:55:37.350 --> 00:55:40.310
 Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved

00:55:40.310 --> 00:55:44.280
 and Jesus's tenderness toward children which caused him to say,

00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:47.280
 "Let the children come to me, do not hinder him,"

00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:50.230
 allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children

00:55:50.230 --> 00:55:53.050
 who have died without baptism.

00:55:53.050 --> 00:55:56.210
 Hey, we don't know. What about babies?

00:55:56.210 --> 00:55:59.140
 We don't really know, man, but we hope, we know God is merciful,

00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:04.330
 so we hope that there's some way to provide salvation

00:56:04.330 --> 00:56:06.300
 to babies who died without being baptized.

00:56:06.300 --> 00:56:07.290
 Let me help you out.

00:56:07.290 --> 00:56:11.390
 Babies don't need salvation because they were never damned to begin with,

00:56:11.390 --> 00:56:12.370
 like Catholics are.

00:56:12.370 --> 00:56:16.300
 You know, this is why this idea of original sin is dangerous.

00:56:16.300 --> 00:56:20.690
 This Catholic idea that you are born sinful,

00:56:20.690 --> 00:56:22.660
 that you are born guilty before God,

00:56:22.660 --> 00:56:28.600
 it leads to these vain, stupid, evil questions of what about a baby that dies?

00:56:28.600 --> 00:56:30.670
 Here's the thing, a baby has no sin.

00:56:30.670 --> 00:56:33.750
 So you don't have to think about, well, hopefully God provides a way of salvation.

00:56:33.750 --> 00:56:34.740
 No, no, no.

00:56:34.740 --> 00:56:36.720
 They don't need salvation because they're not damned.

00:56:36.720 --> 00:56:37.710
 They're not condemned.

00:56:37.710 --> 00:56:38.690
 They just go straight to heaven.

00:56:38.690 --> 00:56:49.100
 They say this, all the more urgent is the church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy baptism.

00:56:49.100 --> 00:56:50.590
 So they say, hey, we don't know.

00:56:50.590 --> 00:56:52.560
 We hope they go to heaven.

00:56:52.560 --> 00:56:55.510
 But, hey, this is why it's really important for us to baptize your baby.

00:56:55.510 --> 00:57:02.950
 This is why it's really important for us to baptize infants so that if they die, you could be assured that they have salvation.

00:57:02.950 --> 00:57:05.090
 What a false religion Catholicism is.

00:57:05.090 --> 00:57:08.700
 Go to Acts chapter number eight, Acts chapter number eight.

00:57:08.700 --> 00:57:12.670
 You know, let me tell you what though, there is one great thing about the majority of Catholics,

00:57:12.670 --> 00:57:15.640
 and that's to our advantage when we're out evangelizing,

00:57:15.640 --> 00:57:19.610
 is that the vast majority of Catholics have no clue what the Catholic Church teaches.

00:57:19.610 --> 00:57:20.600
 No clue.

00:57:20.600 --> 00:57:24.710
 Read the comments on my videos, Catholics are completely clueless about their own doctrine.

00:57:24.710 --> 00:57:28.660
 You know, I've seen so many Catholics say, "We don't teach that you have to be baptized to be saved."

00:57:28.660 --> 00:57:33.750
 It's from the catechism, my friend, that you claim to be authoritative.

00:57:33.750 --> 00:57:34.880
 Yes, you do teach that.

00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:36.650
 Okay, what does the Bible say?

00:57:36.650 --> 00:57:41.730
 Acts chapter number eight, verse 36, "And they went on their way and came unto a certain

00:57:41.730 --> 00:57:45.860
 water, and the eunuch said, 'See, here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

00:57:45.860 --> 00:57:50.940
 And Philip said, 'Notice, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.'

00:57:50.940 --> 00:57:55.180
 He answered and said, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'"

00:57:55.180 --> 00:57:57.690
 What is stopping people from getting baptized?

00:57:57.690 --> 00:58:04.810
 They have to have faith in Jesus Christ, which is why I say that no Catholic has ever been

00:58:04.810 --> 00:58:09.930
 scripturally baptized, zero Catholics have ever been scripturally baptized.

00:58:09.930 --> 00:58:10.920
 Why?

00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.880
 Because to be baptized, you have to first be saved.

00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:14.860
 And guess what?

00:58:14.860 --> 00:58:16.980
 Catholics are not saved.

00:58:16.980 --> 00:58:19.080
 They believe in works, salvation.

00:58:19.080 --> 00:58:21.160
 They are not our brothers in Christ.

00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:25.120
 And so when they get sprinkled, they might as well be playing with their kids in the

00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:29.080
 front yard with a water gun or something because it has the exact same spiritual effect.

00:58:29.080 --> 00:58:32.440
 It's none, zip, zilch, nothing.

00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:35.510
 And this goes to show why it's so stupid to baptize babies.

00:58:35.510 --> 00:58:37.960
 What are you going to do, ask an infant?

00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:39.980
 Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?

00:58:39.980 --> 00:58:42.230
 Hey, little infant, do you know that you're a sinner?

00:58:42.230 --> 00:58:44.180
 Which you're not, so I don't even know why I'm asking you this.

00:58:44.180 --> 00:58:46.370
 And, you know, do you believe you're deserving of help?

00:58:46.370 --> 00:58:48.340
 Which you're not, so again, why am I asking you?

00:58:48.340 --> 00:58:50.300
 Like, you're not going through the gospel presentation with an infant,

00:58:50.300 --> 00:58:53.460
 getting them saved, having them profess faith in Jesus Christ.

00:58:53.460 --> 00:58:57.440
 No, children should not be baptized because they have not believed the gospel.

00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.560
 They don't need to believe the gospel because they're not yet unsaved.

00:59:00.560 --> 00:59:06.000
 And also, here's another reason why no Catholic has ever been scripturally baptized.

00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:12.040
 Verse 38, "And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went down both into the water,

00:59:12.040 --> 00:59:14.290
 both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him."

00:59:14.290 --> 00:59:17.520
 Notice, the baptism is what? In the water.

00:59:17.520 --> 00:59:21.620
 So, pouring a spoonful of water on a baby's head is not baptism.

00:59:21.620 --> 00:59:24.670
 Sprinkling water in your face is not baptism.

00:59:24.670 --> 00:59:28.630
 And, like the Catholic Church literally did during COVID,

00:59:28.630 --> 00:59:32.640
 squirting someone in the face with a water gun is not baptism.

00:59:32.640 --> 00:59:33.560
 You think I'm kidding.

00:59:33.560 --> 00:59:38.080
 The Catholic Church, during COVID, to do social distancing,

00:59:38.080 --> 00:59:41.030
 sprayed people with a water gun and called it baptism.

00:59:41.030 --> 00:59:42.040
 Guess what?

00:59:42.040 --> 00:59:44.080
 This many Catholics have ever been baptized.

00:59:44.080 --> 00:59:45.060
 Zero.

00:59:45.060 --> 00:59:46.250
 None.

00:59:46.250 --> 00:59:47.230
 Which, hey, that's real ironic.

00:59:47.230 --> 00:59:49.200
 You've got to be baptized to go to heaven.

00:59:49.200 --> 00:59:50.180
 Well, none of you have been baptized.

00:59:50.180 --> 00:59:51.160
 So, good luck with that.

00:59:51.160 --> 00:59:53.090
 Then it gets worse.

00:59:53.090 --> 00:59:54.050
 So, that's Catholics.

00:59:54.050 --> 00:59:56.030
 Then there's the Calvinists.

00:59:56.030 --> 00:59:57.070
 Boy, oh boy.

00:59:57.070 --> 00:59:58.190
 Who's ever heard of Jonathan Edwards?

00:59:58.190 --> 01:00:02.270
 If you went to public school, you probably heard about Jonathan Edwards in history.

01:00:02.270 --> 01:00:04.260
 You learned about the religious history of the United States.

01:00:04.260 --> 01:00:07.250
 Jonathan Edwards is a real big name.

01:00:07.250 --> 01:00:11.230
 And there's all the lore about Jonathan Edwards that he's preaching so hard.

01:00:11.230 --> 01:00:14.220
 People are holding onto the pillars and they're shaking for fear of God.

01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:16.210
 Okay, this was not a man of God.

01:00:16.210 --> 01:00:18.200
 This guy was super evil.

01:00:18.200 --> 01:00:21.900
 He wrote a bunch of essays, if you will.

01:00:21.900 --> 01:00:25.880
 And he has a section called "The Damnation of Infants."

01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:29.260
 Wow, this sounds like it's going to be a great read, right?

01:00:29.260 --> 01:00:31.210
 Okay, listen to this reprobate.

01:00:31.210 --> 01:00:37.440
 Here's what he says, "One of these two things are certainly true, and self-evidently so.

01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:47.960
 Either that it is most just, exceeding just, that God should take the soul of a newborn infant

01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:57.980
 and cast it into eternal torments, or else that those infants that are saved are not saved

01:00:57.980 --> 01:01:00.100
 by the death of Christ."

01:01:00.100 --> 01:01:02.300
 He's saying one of these things is true.

01:01:02.300 --> 01:01:03.440
 It's obvious.

01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:05.410
 I mean, it's self-evident.

01:01:05.410 --> 01:01:10.350
 Either God takes the soul of a newborn baby and burns it in eternal torments forever,

01:01:10.350 --> 01:01:13.490
 or they somehow got saved some other way other than Jesus.

01:01:13.490 --> 01:01:14.980
 No, no, no.

01:01:14.980 --> 01:01:16.960
 This is a false equivalency right here.

01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:17.950
 Okay, where's that retard?

01:01:17.950 --> 01:01:21.910
 Equivocate, equivocate if you watched the Pastor Shelley debate the other day.

01:01:21.910 --> 01:01:22.900
 Sorry if you don't understand that.

01:01:22.900 --> 01:01:23.890
 Let me keep reading.

01:01:23.890 --> 01:01:32.080
 He says, "For none are saved by the death of Christ from damnation that have not deserved

01:01:32.080 --> 01:01:33.360
 damnation."

01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:35.580
 So he's saying that babies deserve damnation.

01:01:35.580 --> 01:01:36.670
 That's what he's saying.

01:01:36.670 --> 01:01:42.890
 "Wherefore, if it be very just, it is but a foolish piece of nonsense to cry out it

01:01:42.890 --> 01:01:49.270
 as being blasphemous, to suppose that it ever is just because they say it is contrary to

01:01:49.270 --> 01:01:50.260
 His mercy."

01:01:50.260 --> 01:01:53.280
 He's saying, "Hey, God's burning babies in hell.

01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:54.250
 You know what?

01:01:54.250 --> 01:01:55.280
 That's just."

01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:57.220
 And anyone saying otherwise is blasphemous.

01:01:57.220 --> 01:02:04.080
 He says, "Now, such I ask, whether it is contrary to His mercy to inflict punishment

01:02:04.080 --> 01:02:06.020
 upon any according to their deserts."

01:02:06.020 --> 01:02:08.330
 He's saying, "Hey, you're saying this isn't merciful.

01:02:08.330 --> 01:02:13.540
 I say, if the babies deserve damnation, how are you saying that it's unmerciful?

01:02:13.540 --> 01:02:15.510
 Yeah, they're getting their just deserts."

01:02:15.510 --> 01:02:20.340
 And whether it was contrary to God's mercy to damn the fallen angels.

01:02:20.340 --> 01:02:23.400
 You know, fallen angels infants, right?

01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:26.550
 You know how God damned the fallen angels in rebellion?

01:02:26.550 --> 01:02:28.510
 That's just like newborn infants, right?

01:02:28.510 --> 01:02:29.470
 Perfect comparison.

01:02:29.470 --> 01:02:32.300
 There was no mercy showed to them at all.

01:02:32.300 --> 01:02:37.490
 And why is it blasphemous to suppose that God should inflict upon infants

01:02:37.490 --> 01:02:42.740
 so much as they have deserved without mercy as well as upon them?

01:02:42.740 --> 01:02:43.700
 What a psychopath.

01:02:43.700 --> 01:02:46.790
 I might be shaking listening to this guy preach too in anger.

01:02:46.790 --> 01:02:48.750
 What a psycho.

01:02:48.750 --> 01:02:51.070
 Wow.

01:02:51.070 --> 01:02:55.080
 They certainly have deserved what they have deserved.

01:02:55.080 --> 01:02:58.900
 They deserved as much as the fallen angels.

01:02:58.900 --> 01:02:59.900
 Demons?

01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:00.990
 Infants?

01:03:00.990 --> 01:03:02.030
 They deserve hell.

01:03:02.030 --> 01:03:03.070
 Burn them all.

01:03:03.070 --> 01:03:04.040
 Kill them all.

01:03:04.040 --> 01:03:05.010
 Wow.

01:03:05.010 --> 01:03:06.570
 Don't you want to become a Calvinist?

01:03:06.570 --> 01:03:07.520
 Five-point Calvinist right here.

01:03:07.520 --> 01:03:09.050
 Tulip.

01:03:09.050 --> 01:03:11.400
 Wow.

01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:15.510
 He says, "Because their sin is not accompanied with such aggravating circumstances, so neither

01:03:15.510 --> 01:03:20.680
 shall their punishment be so aggravated, so that the punishment of one is every wit is

01:03:20.680 --> 01:03:23.140
 contrary to God's mercy as that of the other."

01:03:23.140 --> 01:03:27.290
 Well, since infants haven't been as bad as demons, they won't be getting as bad of a

01:03:27.290 --> 01:03:29.530
 punishment in hell.

01:03:29.530 --> 01:03:35.300
 Who shall determine just now how much sin is sufficient to make damnation agreeable

01:03:35.300 --> 01:03:36.920
 to the divine perfections?

01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:41.070
 And how can they determine that infants have not so much sin?

01:03:41.070 --> 01:03:45.600
 For we know that they have enough to make their damnation very just.

01:03:45.600 --> 01:03:47.250
 Wow, folks.

01:03:47.250 --> 01:03:48.720
 This is a psychopath.

01:03:48.720 --> 01:03:53.220
 See, don't ever let Calvinists make you feel bad for being an independent fundamental

01:03:53.220 --> 01:03:59.020
 Baptist or act like you're stupid for rejecting their stupid tulip false doctrine.

01:03:59.020 --> 01:04:05.980
 This idea of just predestination, unconditional election, God just picks and chooses babies

01:04:05.980 --> 01:04:07.910
 to go to hell before they're even born.

01:04:07.910 --> 01:04:12.250
 Look, when we preach stuff like that against Calvinists, that's not a straw man, folks.

01:04:12.250 --> 01:04:18.930
 This is a famous real Calvinist pastor that Calvinists adore and idolize and look up to.

01:04:18.930 --> 01:04:24.370
 And he's comparing infants to demons and saying that they both deserve their damnation in

01:04:24.370 --> 01:04:25.350
 hell.

01:04:25.350 --> 01:04:27.880
 Look, Calvinism is super wicked.

01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:32.630
 You know, the Bible talks about how false prophets, that by reason of their false doctrine,

01:04:32.630 --> 01:04:35.320
 it causes the way of truth to be evil spoken of.

01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:39.610
 What do you think people think about Christianity when they read stuff like this?

01:04:39.610 --> 01:04:44.510
 That God is just creating little baby infants and he's just endamming them to hell.

01:04:44.510 --> 01:04:47.980
 That is wicked and blasphemous trash.

01:04:47.980 --> 01:04:50.990
 So that's our little break on Ecclesiastes 6.

01:04:50.990 --> 01:04:54.640
 Let's go back to it, Ecclesiastes chapter number 6.

01:04:54.640 --> 01:04:59.780
 But you know, I just saw that how hey, that baby that died has more rest than the other,

01:04:59.780 --> 01:05:02.150
 showing that the baby went to heaven.

01:05:02.150 --> 01:05:03.370
 Babies go to heaven.

01:05:03.370 --> 01:05:05.140
 Number 5.

01:05:05.140 --> 01:05:07.980
 Number 5, contentment beats cravings.

01:05:07.980 --> 01:05:08.970
 Contentment beats cravings.

01:05:08.970 --> 01:05:09.960
 Look at verse number 7.

01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:16.840
 It says, "All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not filled.

01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:19.520
 For what hath the wise more than the fool?

01:05:19.520 --> 01:05:22.840
 What hath the poor that knoweth to walk before the living?"

01:05:22.840 --> 01:05:28.840
 Because this better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire.

01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:32.080
 This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 Let me help you find some joy in your life.

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 You will be a happier person when you learn to enjoy, take pleasure in, be content with

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 things that you actually have rather than daydreaming about things that you don't.

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 Why?

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 Because better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire.

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 It's better just to enjoy the house you have and thank God for the dwelling place you have

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 and actually get to enjoy that house than to constantly be on Zillow or being on whatever

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 the real estate app, just constantly looking at houses, lusting after other houses because

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 here's what sucks about that.

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 You're probably not getting those houses.

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 You're probably never going to get to enjoy those.

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 So here you are in a house and you're sad and you're miserable and you're wanting something

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 that you can never have.

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 Why do that?

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 Why live like that?

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 Why not just learn to be content?

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 You know, the car you have, I don't care what car it is, even Brother Theodore's car, alright?

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 Whatever car you have, it's better than the car you don't have because you have it.

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 So why don't you just learn to like the things that you have?

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 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire.

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 You know, men need this preaching.

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 The wife you have, why don't you just learn to enjoy her and desire her and be happy with

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 her rather than the wandering of your desire, lusting after other women, being obsessed

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 with other women?

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 That's the thing, likely you're not going to have them, are you?

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 And if you did, it'd be wicked as hell, but let's just be honest, you're probably not

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 even going to have them.

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 So why, why sit here and just torture yourself?

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 Like you're not getting any pleasure from this.

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 You're not getting any enjoyment from this.

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 You're just sitting here lusting after another woman.

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 It's like, why don't you actually enjoy your wife?

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 How about that?

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 Why don't you actually love your wife?

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 Why don't you, what the Bible says, rejoice with the wife of your youth.

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 Don't fall into this trap of just becoming obsessed and lusting after other women because

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 really you're just torturing yourself.

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 You're harming your marriage.

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 You think that that's going to give you joy, but it's actually sucking the joy away from

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 your life because happy people have happy marriages and you know, adulterers are not

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 happy people.

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 Fornicators are not happy people, right?

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 I mean, the Bible is very clear about this.

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 Go to back to Ecclesiastes six.

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 I think you're still there.

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 Number six, God defines what is good for us, not man.

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 Verse number 10.

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 The Bible says that which hath been is named already and it is known that it is man.

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 Neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

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 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

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 Notice this.

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 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?

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 All the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow, for who can tell a man what shall

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 be after him under the sun?

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 Hey, who really knows what is actually good for a man in this life?

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 You know, if Ecclesiastes has shown us anything so far, it's that man left to his own devices

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 really sucks at figuring out meaning in life, really sucks at finding true happiness and joy in life because man by himself does not know what is right. Man by himself is not going to be able to navigate through life and put all the puzzle pieces together to do what's right. I mean, if you're just letting the flesh lead your life, it's going to lead you astray. It's going to lead you to sorrow. It's going to lead you to misery. So, you know, the world has its own definition of success.

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 But, so does God. God gave us his word to guide us. It's a light unto our path.

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 It is a lamp to our feet. Go, if you will, to Psalm 119, Psalm 119.

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 You know, this is why we need the Bible. Get your place in Psalm 119 and Jeremiah 6.

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 Those will be the last two places we go there. You know, we need a guide in this life.

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 We need to be humble enough to realize that we don't have all the answers.

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 And if you could just sit down and orchestrate your life according to your own carnal will,

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 you would mess it up. I would mess it up.

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 That's why what we need right here is Psalm 119 verse 9.

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 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

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 Hey, how are you going to get things right? How are you going to cleanse your way, especially young men, right?

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 Hey, if young men are being led by the flesh, they're definitely going to mess up their life.

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 How is a young man going to go the right way? How is he going to clean up his way?

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 It's by taking heed according to the Word of God. You know what that means?

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 It means you're reading the Word of God. And every day, you choose to not read the Word of God,

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 you're missing instruction and admonition and rebuke and reproof that you need to stay on the right path.

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 And the longer you go in between reading your Bible, the more likely you're going to mess up your life.

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 And it's not just reading the Bible, it's taking heed to it.

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 You know, some people, I feel like they're just doing a vain exercise.

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 You know, we're not Catholics here, we don't believe in vain exercises, vain repetitions.

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 I don't read the Bible just so that words can flash across my eyeballs, okay?

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 We want to take heed to the things that the Bible says.

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 Verse 10, "With my whole heart have I sought thee, O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

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 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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 Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes."

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 See, this is a recipe for success right here.

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 Rather than letting your own devices choose how you're going to find happiness,

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 how you're going to find joy, how about you read the Bible and apply it?

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 How about you go beyond that? How about you memorize the Bible?

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 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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 And notice what he's doing in verse 12.

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 He's praying, he says, "Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes."

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 You know, if you are reading the Bible every day,

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 and every time you read something in the Bible, you're applying that to your life,

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 and you're memorizing scripture, you're hiding God's word deep in your heart,

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 and you're praying to the Lord in sincerity,

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 "Lord, teach me thy statutes."

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 You know what you're probably going to find out?

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 How to live a purposeful, joyful, content life.

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 Because you know what? God wants what's best for us.

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 God wants us to know his statutes.

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 God wants us to know his commandments.

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 God does not want us to destroy our life with sin.

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 So if he sees you reading the Bible, caring, wanting the truth,

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 memorizing the Bible, asking God for wisdom, you know what?

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 He's going to give it to you.

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 The Bible says that when you ask for wisdom,

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 he's going to give it to you liberally in a braid knot.

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 Hey, this is the way to find real happiness.

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 Go to Jeremiah chapter number six.

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 Jeremiah chapter number six, last place we'll look at.

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 You know, how do we find true joy?

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 How do you find an actual fulfilled, content life?

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 Jeremiah chapter number six, look at verse 16.

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 "Thus saith the Lord, 'Stand ye in the ways, and see,

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 and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,

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 and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.'

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 But they said, 'We will not walk therein.'"

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 Notice the pattern again, right?

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 You're standing in the way, you're doing what?

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 You're asking for the old paths.

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 You're saying, "God, please show me the truth.

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 Show me your word."

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 And by the way, it says the old paths, wherein is the good way, right?

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 So you find out what is the good way,

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 but that's not enough to just find out what is good.

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 It says, "And walk therein," right?

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 That's actually applying the things that you hear.

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 And notice the results of that.

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 "And ye shall find rest for your souls."

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 You know, if you actually live a Christian life,

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 and Christianity isn't your side gig,

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 but you actually love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind, strength,

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 you know, you really read the Bible with purpose,

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 wanting to get something from Him,

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 and you apply those things to your life,

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 and you pray and you ask God for wisdom,

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 you know, you might just find that He actually will teach you how to have a good marriage,

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 and if you actually walk in those things, you might find this amazing thing called contentment.

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 You know, you might actually find that rather than, you know, mining Bitcoin all day,

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 you actually go and work a hard day's job,

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 and you might find contentment.

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 You know what you might find is that you obey God's commandments,

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 and it actually brings you safety and peace and joy.

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 Look, God's commandments are not grievous,

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 He wants what's best for us, but what do we have to do?

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 We have to actually trust Him. Let's pray.

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 Lord, thank You for this chapter, for the lessons You gave us.

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 I pray that You would just continue to illuminate Ecclesiastes for us,

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 help us to get the lessons that we need from Your Word,

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 and help us to make application in our lives.

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 I pray that You'd help us all to get home safely and bring us back again on Sunday.

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 We love You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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 As Tim, this evening, turn if you would to 314, hymn number 314-314, "More Love to Thee."

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 314 there, on the 1st.