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Anchor Baptist Church. It is time to get started this evening. If you would turn to our first

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hymn in your hymnal, number 102, He Hideth My Soul. Hymn number 102102, He Hideth My

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My soul.

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102, let's sing it out all together.

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A wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Lord.

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A wonderful Savior to be.

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He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock, Where rivers of pleasure I see.

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He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock, That shadows a dry, thirsty land.

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He hideth my life in the depths of his love,

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And covers me there with his hand,

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And covers me there with his hand.

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A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord, He taketh my burden away.

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He holdeth me up, and I shall not be moved, He giveth me strength as my day.

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He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock, At shadows a dry thirsty land.

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He hideth my life in the depths of his love, And covers me there with his hand.

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And God hears me there with his hand

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With numberless blessings each moment he crowns

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And filled with his fullness he ponders

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I sing in my rapture of glory to God, for such a Redeemer as mine.

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He hideth my soul in the clasp of the rock

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That shadows a dry, thirsty land.

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He hideth my life in the depths of his love

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And covers me there with his hand.

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And covers me there with his

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When clothed in his brightness, transported I rise

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To meet him in clouds of the sky

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His perfect salvation, his wonderful love

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I'll shout with a million song high

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Sing it out!

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He hideth my soul in the clad of the rock,

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And shadows of dry thirsty hands.

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He hideth my life in the depths of his love,

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And covers me there with his hand,

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And covers me there with his hand.

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Men, this time we'll open with a word of prayer.

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So bow your heads with me.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for another opportunity to gather together that this is not simply a vain repetition, Lord,

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but that we should be and I pray that we are thankful for each and every time that we get to come together to assemble freely

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to hear praises and sing praises rather out to you and hear your word preached.

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Lord, I pray that you'd be with the seeds that were planted this evening that you would allow those to germinate and to grow into

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a faith. Also pray that you would remove any distractions from

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the service this evening that you would open our ears to the message and fill

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

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him number 208 grace greater than our sin 208 208

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208, let's sing together.

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Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,

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Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt,

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Yonder on Calvary's mound outboard,

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There where the blood of the Lamb was spilled.

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Grace, grace, God's grace, grace that will pour down and cleanse within.

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Grace, grace, God's grace.

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that is greater than all our sin.

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Sin and despair like the sea waves cold threaten the soul

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with infinite loss.

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Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold.

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Moans to the refuge the mighty crawls.

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Grace, grace, God's grace.

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Grace that will pardon and cleanse within.

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Grace, grace, God.

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that is greater than all our sin.

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Dark is the stain that we cannot hide.

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What can avail to wash it away?

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Look, there is flowing a crimson tide.

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Earth and snow you may be today.

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Grace, grace, God's grace,

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Grace that will pardon and cleanse within.

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Grace, grace, God's grace.

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that is greater than all our sin.

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Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace

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freely bestowed on all who believe

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you that are longing to see His face.

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Will you this moment is grace, gracey?

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Grace, grace, God's grace,

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Grace that will pardon and cleanse within.

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Grace, grace, God's grace.

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race that is greater than all our sins.

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For our third song, you should now have access to somewhere near you, a binder.

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of handouts. So these will effectively replace our white handouts. These new binders have

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the Psalms and some printouts. If you need one and you don't have one, maybe raise your

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hand and we'll see if one of them in. I think they were evenly distributed out, so you should

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be good. So we'll be singing Psalm 117. They are in order. Psalm 117.

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Oh praise the Lord, all ye nations. Psalm 117.

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We're going to sing Psalm 117 there on that first and only verse.

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Oh, praise the Lord, all ye nations.

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Praise Him all ye people, for His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth

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of the Lord endureth forever.

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Praise ye the Lord.

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As the offering plates are being passed, turn if you would to Mark chapter number 10.

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Mark chapter number 10.

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Mark chapter 10, And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coast of Judea by the

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farther side of Jordan.

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And the people resorted unto him again, and as he was wont, he taught them again.

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And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife,

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tempting him?

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And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

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And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this

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precept, but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they

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twain shall be one flesh.

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So then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

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And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another,

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committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband

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and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them.

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And his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

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But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children

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to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.

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Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child,

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he shall not enter therein.

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And he took them up in his arms, and put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

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And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and

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asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

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And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?

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There is none good but one, that is God.

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Thou knowest the commandments.

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Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud

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not, honor thy father and mother.

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And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

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Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest, go thy way,

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so whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come,

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take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved,

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for he had great possessions.

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And Jesus looked round about and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that

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have riches enter into the kingdom of God?

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And the disciples were astonished at his words.

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But Jesus answereth again and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust

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in riches to enter into the kingdom of God?

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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter

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into the Kingdom of God.

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And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?

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And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God.

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For with God all things are possible.

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Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

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And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house,

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or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake

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in the gospels.

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But he shall receive in hundredfold now and this time houses, and brethren, and sisters,

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and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal

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life.

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Many that are first shall be last, and the last first.

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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went before them, and they were

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amazed.

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And as they followed, they were afraid.

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And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

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saying,

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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests,

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and unto the scribes.

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And they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.

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And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill

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him.

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And the third day he shall rise again.

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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou

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shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.

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And He said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

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They said unto Him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other

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on thy left hand, in thy glory.

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But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask.

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Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized

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with?

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And they said unto him, We can.

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And Jesus said unto them, You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of,

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and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized.

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But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give,

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but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

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And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.

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But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them,

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You know that they which are accounted the rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them,

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and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you. But

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whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest

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shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,

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and to give his life a ransom for many.

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And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people,

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blind Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus sat by the highway side begging.

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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,

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Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

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And many charged him that he should hold his peace, but he cried the more a great deal.

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thou son of David, have mercy on me.

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And Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called.

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And they called the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee.

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And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus.

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And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?

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The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

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And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.

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and immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way.

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Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that you'd fill Pastor Oz with your spirit this evening

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and bring the teaching edifying sermon for us and for us to receive it.

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Man, we're in Mark chapter number 10.

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And of course, we're building in the book of Mark to the climax of the cross.

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And so this chapter is really Jesus on his way to Jerusalem.

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Starts there in verse number one, it says, and he arose from thence and cometh into the

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coast of Judea by the farther side of Jordan.

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And the people resort unto him again.

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And as he was want, he taught them again.

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By the way, it means that he had a habit or custom of doing something.

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It's always.

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good to have the habit to preach and that's not just for preachers that's for all of us

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as soul winners we should make that a habit to where we could say hey as he was want he went

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and he preached the gospel verse 2 says and the Pharisees came to him and asked him is it lawful

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for a man to put away his wife notice tempting him

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Now, this is a topic that many people in our society are asking themselves because divorce,

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unfortunately, is a very, very common thing in our nation where over 50% of marriages

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end in divorce.

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And when people get remarried, sadly, the divorce rate is even higher for the second

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marriage.

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And here's the really sad part is that the divorce rate amongst Christians is really

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not that much different than the world.

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What I want you to notice from this verse right here.

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here is that the Pharisees are asking Jesus this question insincerely, right?

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Because the Bible says that they ask this question, is it lawful for a man to

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put away his wife, tempting him? Now why does the Bible give us this detail?

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Because I believe that any sincere person who actually goes to the Scripture is

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not going to ask such a foolish question because the answer is no.

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Divorce is not something that God allows.

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Now let me make it very clear because of the fact

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that divorce is so prevalent in our societies.

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Sometimes people get the wrong idea

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when they hear preaching against divorce.

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Some people be like, can I even go to church

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if I've been divorced?

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Of course, the answer is yes.

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Teaching about divorce and teaching about divorce and remarriage

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is not to beat up people who have already committed this sin

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because you've already committed it. It's in the past.

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It's under the blood. Confess it.

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Right? It's something to move on from beating yourself up over.

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But we want to preach on this so that the next generation does not make the same mistakes.

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Okay, let me tell you something. You should not, because you have sinned in the past,

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want to water down that sin, lighten that sin, not want to shine a spotlight on that sin,

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just so people don't think negatively of you. Because let me tell you something,

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divorce ruins people's lives. It ruins families, it ruins children, it often causes generational harm,

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and the people asking this question are not asking sincerely.

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Notice what the Bible says there in verse 3.

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and he answered and said unto them, what did Moses command you?

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Now I think Jesus, of course, being very wise and being the word of God, knowing the scripture

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really well, I think that he perceived the reason that they were asking this question

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is because of what they're going to bring up in the Old Testament here.

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And so I think he kind of just gets ahead of the game.

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He's just like, okay, well, what did Moses command you?

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Like he kind of knows where they're going with this.

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Verse number four, they're eager.

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They're like, and they said, Moses suffered

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to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away.

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Notice they're really eager to get to that point

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because of the fact of what they're trying to do

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is they're trying to pit Jesus against Moses.

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They know Jesus is teaching on divorce and remarriage,

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and they're not asking sincerely,

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and they're trying to pit what Jesus is about to teach

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to what Moses said.

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Now, really, Jesus makes it clear

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that the Pharisees don't even have a good understanding

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of what Moses taught anyways.

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And that's, of course, always the case

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when people want to tell you that the Bible permits

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divorce and remarriage, or God permits divorce and remarriage.

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Let's go there, if you would, to Deuteronomy.

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chapter number 24. So they're saying, hey, Moses suffered to write a bill of

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divorcement and to put her away. So what answer do they want from Jesus? They want

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Jesus to put his stamp of approval on divorce. Why? Because this is a sin that

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is common to man. Because every single person who's ever been married is

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married to a sinner.

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and is going to have problems in your marriage.

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And by the way, don't ever listen to anyone

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that tells you that their marriage is perfect,

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they never have problems, they never have fights,

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we're all married to sinners, okay?

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All ladies are crazy from time to time.

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And you know what? All men can be jerks from time to time

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because we are sinners.

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So the problems that you probably have in your marriage

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are probably the same problems that are common to everyone else.

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Okay? And so these Pharisees, they want a stamp of approval from Jesus.

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us on their divorce. Notice verse 1, Deuteronomy 24. Notice this word, it says, when, we're

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talking about an acute moment in time here. It says, when a man hath taken a wife and

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married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, keep reading, because

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he hath found some uncleanness in her.

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then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and

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Send her out of his house now

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One thing I want to point out about this annulment clause,

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because this is not, hey, you've been married for seven years,

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and you got the seven-year itch, and she no longer is pleasing in your eyes,

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or you don't like that he leaves his socks on the floor,

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or you don't like he doesn't make enough money,

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you don't like she spends too much money, and so you just get divorced.

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This is, hey, you took a wife, you go to consummate that marriage

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on the wedding night, and behold, you find...

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some unclean thing in her. What is that talking about in our modern vernacular like an STD?

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Right? And so the situation is you marry someone, maybe she told you she's a virgin,

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she tells you that she's clean, you're entering into this life-long marriage where you're supposed

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to have and to hold this person only for both for however long you both live, and then you come to

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find out like hey she's got an STD, this is something I don't want to deal with, and then

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it says let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house.

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This is not what's happening when Americans are getting divorced today.

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Let's just be honest, people getting divorced today,

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it's not they went to consummate the marriage

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and then realized, oh, there was marital fraud.

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Oh, this person was lying to me during the engagement.

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We're gonna break this off on the wedding night.

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People are getting divorced a year into marriage.

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Seven years into marriage, 20 years into marriage.

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That is not what this annulment clause in the law is for.

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Okay, keep reading.

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It says, and when she is departed out of his house,

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she may go.

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and be another man's wife.

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And if the latter husband hate her and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in

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her hand, and sendeth her out of his house, or if the latter husband die, which took her

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to be his wife.

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Her former husband, which sent her away?

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may not take her again to be his wife,

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after that she is defiled,

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for that is abomination before the Lord,

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and thou shalt not cause the land to sin,

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which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."

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So if a woman finds herself in a position in life...

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whether that's from sin or your spouse died,

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well, I guess it would just be sin in this situation.

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You can't go back to the first spouse.

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That's something that God says is an abomination,

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is something that you can't do.

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So hey, if you are on your second marriage tonight,

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if you're on your third, if you're on your fourth,

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if you're on your fifth,

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stay with whatever one you have, right?

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Don't make it a sixth.

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Don't make it a seventh, please.

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Stay with whatever spouse you have.

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Going back to your first spouse,

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at that point, the Bible says no to...

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that. But here's the thing about this annulment clause. Go back to Mark. This annulment clause

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is not even God's perfect will. This annulment clause is not like, hey, please do this. Hey,

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this is a good idea. Because the whole reason that this annulment clause was even allowed,

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notice what it says there in verse five, and Jesus answered and said unto them,

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For the hardness of your heart, he wrote you this precept.

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So notice this isn't like, hey, if you're in this situation, this is the best thing you should do.

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This is God's perfect will. He's saying the only reason this tiny annulment clause exists

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is because of your hard heart. So technically speaking, what would be the most righteous thing

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one could do is to stay with that person that you made a vow to.

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Even in that horrible terrible situation, okay

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How much more when you went to the wedding night and she didn't have uncleanness and you got married and you've been married for five years

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You've been married for ten years. You've had children together. How much more wicked is it to divorce at that point much more?

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So it's a terrible terrible thing

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Now he says, look, verse 6, he says,

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but from the beginning of the creation,

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God made them male and female.

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He's like, OK, you want to teach divorce out of Deuteronomy

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chapter 24, let's go back to Genesis.

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Let's go back to God's original plan.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother

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and cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.

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So then they are no more twain but one flesh.

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The marriage union is the most unique, special human relationship in the world.

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where you are becoming one flesh with that person.

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And notice it's a man.

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Let a man leave his father and mother

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and cleave to his wife singular.

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Not multiple women, not polygamy.

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You say, well, there's men that committed polygamy

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in the Bible.

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Yeah, what if I told you there's a difference

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between what God tells you to do

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and what people actually do?

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We live in a sinful world

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where people disregard what God says,

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but that doesn't mean it's right.

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And let me tell you something, polygamy is always wrong.

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Right.

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It's always been wrong.

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Divorce is always wrong.

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It's always been wrong.

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Yep.

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And he says there, verse number nine, here's your answer.

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Can you put away your wife?

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Here's your answer, verse nine.

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What therefore God hath joined together, here it is,

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let not man put asunder.

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Amen.

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Can you get divorced?

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No.

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Divorce is a sin, folks.

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Amen.

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Now let me help you understand something that our culture just seems not to understand.

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Because I feel like a lot of people will say, you know, when things are easy, yeah, don't divorce.

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Well, if you guys love each other, don't divorce.

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Well, if there's a financial reason to stay together, don't divorce.

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Well, it's for the children, don't divorce.

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Here's the thing, when you get married, you say this, for better or for worse.

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for better or for worse.

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You know what? You're going to have some worse in your marriage.

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And some people's worse is worser than my worse.

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Than your worse.

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Right? Some people have some really jacked up marriages.

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And look, that's sad.

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I'm sorry, right? And we want to help people. We want to get couples in church and make sure you're saved.

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Make sure you have the Holy Spirit. Get in church, read the Bible, pray, follow God's commandments.

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Look, your marriage is probably not a hopeless lost cause or anything like that, okay?

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But regardless of what you feel about your marriage, you are not allowed to get divorced in God's eyes.

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It doesn't matter what the US government says. The US law is not the arbiter of right and wrong. God's law is.

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But here's what people think.

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do. Even pastors today will get up and they'll be like, yeah, yeah, divorce is wrong. And

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then they're like, hey, okay, my husband committed adultery. Oh, well then you can divorce. And

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it's like, the whole reason people want to get divorced is when bad stuff happens.

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So when you tell people don't divorce, what I'm not saying is, hey, don't divorce when everything's perfect,

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when everything's wonderful, when you're happy with your marriage.

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Because guess what? People don't get divorced when they're happy with their marriage,

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and when everything's wonderful and perfect.

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People get divorced when things are hard.

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People get divorced when there's money problems.

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People get divorced when there's adultery.

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People get divorced when they have these issues going on,

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and I'm here to tell you that you should stick

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and stay in your marriage through the hardships.

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Now look, this is not me saying,

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go adultery, go money problems, go issues in your marriage.

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This is me telling you that you made a vow to God.

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You may devout to God to have and to hold, keeping yourself only unto this person for better, for worse,

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in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth.

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And you know, it is wicked as hell for pastors to get up today and say,

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Hey, I'll sanction your divorce as long as it's for adultery, for abuse or for abandonment.

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Guess what? The Bible doesn't teach that.

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And you know what? The Bible does teach, for example, the death penalty on adultery.

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And you know what? Instead of getting mad at the preacher for saying,

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hey, you have to stay with your adulterous spouse,

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you should get mad at the U.S. government for not exercising God's law.

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Because, you know, we can live in a society today, unfortunately,

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where a man's wife can just go commit infinite adultery on him,

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and nothing will happen to her.

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but you could go steal a box of pencils at Office Depot and you could get locked up.

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This is the crazy backwards world that we live in, whereas the Bible says

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that if a woman goes out and commits adultery, she should be put to death.

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And if a man commits adultery with another man's wife, he should be put to death.

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Then you don't have to stay in that terrible marriage.

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Your spouse is dead, and once your spouse is dead, you can get remarried.

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That's what the Bible teaches. Okay? Abuse. The Bible does not say that you can get divorce for abuse.

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And you know what? It is a very slippery slope for preachers to get up and say you can get divorced for abuse

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because people just make up abuse to mean whatever the heck they want it to mean.

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It's ridiculous today the things that people claim are abusive and look there's problems in marriage

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And I'm sure people have some horrific situations

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But you know you got guys today men that get slapped by their wives and call the police on their wives

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And you know what's gonna happen your wife will be arrested for domestic violence

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Because I don't know if you realize this police they have discretion on some things when they get called for domestic violence call

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I've had multiple police officers tell me this they say when a domestic violence call happens

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Someone is leaving in cuffs may not have used to be that way. That's what I've been told by many cops

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I don't know if that's necessarily true in all cases. That's what I've been told someone's going away in cuffs

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You know you shouldn't play around with calling the cops on your spouse

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And you know what? I've seen this going around on social media.

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It's interesting that we're in this chapter tonight.

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But people talk about like, oh, what if your spouse slaps you?

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Now look, let me say something. Don't slap your spouse.

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Let me say something very clearly. I've never slapped my spouse, okay?

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But let me tell you something. If your spouse slaps you,

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you should not call the police on them.

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It would be wicked as hell to call the police on your spouse

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because that's your spouse!

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And you know what's funny? Jesus says, hey, if someone smites you on the one cheek, turn to him the other.

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Why does no one actually believe that verse?

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Oh, if your husband slaps you, you need to call the police on him. That's garbage.

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And you know, let's be honest, why are, let's just look out in the world, right?

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Because I believe that our marriages are way better than the world's.

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Especially in a church like this, in a hard preaching church, the new IV church, I believe

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our marriages are so much better than the marriages in this world.

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But you think about the ghetto places in this world.

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the terrible marriages that exist, people that don't have Christ,

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people where the husband's on drugs and alcohol, the wife's on drugs and alcohol.

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You know, the reason that people are probably slapping each other down is because serious

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bad stuff is going on, right? And like, let's just say that a man catches his wife committing

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adultery and slaps her across the face. It's like, well, first of all, the Bible says she

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should have been put to death.

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Okay, so let's just start there. She should be getting the death penalty her husband slaps her guess what still don't call the cops

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That's wrong. Okay, and men do not call the cops on your wives. Good night

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Be a man you can't you can't defend yourself against a little girl a woman. What are you talking about?

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It's ridiculous today folks. Look if you cannot restrain your wife in a fight

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You just need to start doing 100 push-ups a day, every day.

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It's just like, you know, you got the chart for your Bible reading,

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you need a chart for push-ups, you need a chart for squats,

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like you need to do something different in your life

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if you could get beat up by your wife.

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Any guy that calls the cops on his wife is a beta, alright?

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Terrible to think about.

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But you know what? Jesus gave us the answer.

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What therefore God have joined together, let not man put us under.

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Look, if you come to me and you tell me that you're going to divorce your spouse,

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I will never approve of that ever. If you come and tell me, hey, my husband committed adultery,

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look, my heart's going to break for that and I'm going to do my best to help you,

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but I will never tell you to divorce for any reason whatsoever,

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because the Bible never gives a reason to divorce.

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Let me make it even more clear that I will never perform a marriage for someone who is

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divorced and getting remarried.

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That is not allowed in the Bible and we'll go there in a little bit, but look at verse

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10.

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It says, and in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

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And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, notice, and marry another,

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committed adultery against her.

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And if a woman shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery."

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So, regardless of the party who initiates the divorce, doesn't matter if it's husband or wife,

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if a person divorces their spouse and gets married to someone else,

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the Bible says that that is adultery. Now, I do not believe that this is perpetual adultery.

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Some people would be like, oh, you know, we shouldn't allow people who have been

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divorced or remarried into church because they're adulterers. I believe this is a one-time act of

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adultery. Similar to polygamy, when you're taking that second wife, I believe that's a one-time act

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of adultery. You shouldn't do it. It's bad. It's wrong. Do not get divorced and remarried.

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And let me prove this elsewhere from the Bible. Go to 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Corinthians chapter number 7.

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Paul's addressing a church has a lot of issues in first Corinthians and he talks about this in chapter number seven look at verse number ten

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And unto the married I command yet. Not I but the Lord is God's word right here

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Let not the wife depart from her husband. All right, so before he even talks about other situations

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He's like, let me say this first. God says don't divorce at all

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Don't depart from your husband at all by the way don't separate from your husband either

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It doesn't even say divorce here. It says don't depart don't depart from your spouse because separation is just the road to divorce

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Do not separate from your spouse work through your problems

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Okay, it says let not the wife depart from her husband, but and if she depart let her remain

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unmarried

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or be reconciled to her husband,

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and let not the husband put away his wife.

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This is how the Bible works.

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This is how life works.

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There is God's commandments.

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What is that?

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That is what God expects us to do.

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That is what's right.

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That is what we preach.

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That's what we should preach.

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But there is also the reality of knowing

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that people are sinful, people are selfish,

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people are gonna be wicked and disregard God's word.

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And you say, hey, don't divorce your spouse.

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Don't separate from your spouse.

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But if you do, here are your options.

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Number one is to remain unmarried.

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Now I don't know about you, this is a great enough reason to never want to divorce.

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Right? Because you know why people get married?

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It says to avoid fornication.

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Let every man have his own wife.

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Let every wife have her own husband.

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So it's like, okay buddy, you want to divorce your wife,

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well then you are signing up to not have the physical relationship for the rest of your life.

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Are you okay with that?

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And if people were honest, they'd be like, no.

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Right? But that's what the Bible says.

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Hey, if you divorce your husband, ladies,

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Man, if you divorce your wife, you have to remain unmarried for the rest of your life.

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That's option number one.

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What's option number two?

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It says, or let her, what verse we in, 11?

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It says, or be reconciled to her husband and let not the husband put away his wife.

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So here's your other option is to reconcile with your spouse.

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Now, obviously, we already read in Deuteronomy, this is not talking about if you've already been remarried.

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That was wrong. That was a one-time act of adultery.

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But you shouldn't now break your second marriage to go back to the spouse.

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Stay with the spouse that you're with now, okay?

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But if you got divorced, here are your options.

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Stay unmarried or reconcile to your spouse.

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Man, people who are divorced today, if you've not yet been remarried,

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I cannot stress enough how good for you it would be just to reconcile with your spouse.

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And look, it is not too late, if you've been divorced and you've not been remarried, it

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is not too late to reconcile with your spouse.

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You can work on your problems, you can work on your issues, but I'm telling you, I wish

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people who get divorced would just reconcile with their spouse.

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Because here's the thing, why do people get divorced?

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Jesus said, because of the hardness of their heart.

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But let me tell you something.

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An old age comes knocking on your door.

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When you're single and alone and you're entering old age

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and you're starting to see, hey, I'm facing this alone,

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that might soften your heart a little bit.

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And you know what would be better is to wait,

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not wait until you get to that point,

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just reconcile with your spouse now.

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Because let me tell you what, people who get divorced,

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they have way more financial issues on average.

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You look at the earning,

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the average earnings of people who are married,

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people who are married earn more money.

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People who get divorced, they have way more money issues.

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Okay? Old age is like a living hell in and of itself,

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but imagine doing all of that alone.

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Look, it's just better to reconcile with your spouse if you can.

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Now, also look at verse number 39 of this same chapter.

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Notice it says,

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But if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the

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Lord.

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When is the only time that it is acceptable, according to God's word, to get remarried?

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It is when your spouse dies.

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Right?

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Because marriage is not eternal.

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Okay?

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We're not Mormons here.

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You're not going to be married in heaven.

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You're not going to be making spirit babies in heaven.

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It is till death do us part.

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Okay, so marriage is for right here and now in this world and the only time you can get remarried is when your spouse dies

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Okay, so look don't depart

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But if you depart prepare to stay unmarried it for the rest of your life or for the rest of their life until they die

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Now look, this is not talking about people who are married young and then their spouse

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dies.

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The Bible just says, hey, remarry.

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If you're under 60 years old, God wants you to remarry.

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That's a good thing to do.

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But remarriage, when you've divorced, is something God does not want you to do at all.

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Go back to Mark chapter number 10.

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Mark chapter number 10.

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So keep in mind throughout this chapter that what's going on is it's the road to Jerusalem.

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So so far we've had the Pharisees. Now we're going to have a new crowd here. It says in verse 13.

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And they brought young children to him that he should touch them and his disciples rebuked

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those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased and said unto them,

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suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.

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Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child,

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he shall not enter therein.

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And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed him."

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So notice that there are people who brought young children to Jesus Christ.

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And for some reason, the disciples had a bad attitude towards this in Mark chapter nine.

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And in this chapter, there's just several things the disciples do.

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It's just face palm, you know, having a bad attitude, not having faith.

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Like they're definitely sinful men, right?

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The focus is on Jesus, the sinless one.

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But, you know, people are bringing these young children to Jesus

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and they rebuke people for doing this.

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And Jesus is much displeased.

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So Jesus really cares about the little children.

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Jesus really wants us to minister unto the little children.

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And let me tell you this, I think this is a great reminder for us that the gospel of

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Jesus Christ is simple.

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If you're preaching a gospel that a child cannot understand, you're preaching a false

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gospel.

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If you're preaching a gospel that a child cannot understand, you're doing something wrong.

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Because he actually points at a child and says, hey, to even enter into the kingdom of God,

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you've got to become like this child right here. Right? So when we're out soul winning,

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do not over complicate the gospel and do not give this weird idea that people have to understand

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everything about the Bible to get saved. Do not hold off preaching the gospel to your children,

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parents.

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because of this idea where you're like,

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well, I just don't know if they understand everything.

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They're not gonna understand everything.

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But can they understand that Jesus Christ

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died on the cross for our sins,

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that he was buried and he came back to life

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to pay the punishment for our sin,

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and that all we have to do is trust him to be saved?

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Yes, a child can understand that.

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Because you know what?

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Children are the embodiment of people

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who are needy, dependent, and trusting.

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you

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Because you know what, my kids, they turn on the shower and they'll have a bath for two hours long

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and they're enjoying the free water and they open up the pantry and there's just all this food and

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they're just enjoying it. They don't care if they leave the sprinkler on for 10 hours. They're not

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worried about the water bill. They're not thinking about, man, this is one of the hottest Oklahoma

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summers in history. We should really be careful about the A.C. They're not thinking about where's

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the next meal coming from. How's the mortgage going to get paid? They just

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They just trust their dad to pay the bills.

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They just trust their dad to provide for them.

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They just trust dad to protect them.

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Well guess what, that's what salvation is.

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Salvation is nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim.

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It's nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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Grace, grace, wonderful grace.

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Grace that's greater than all of our sin.

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That's salvation.

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So again, I also want to say this. I don't think necessarily this is talking about baptism, but also with baptism

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I've noticed some people like they don't want to preach their kids the gospel because they're like man

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I don't know if my kids are going to understand everything

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Then their kids get to an age where they could understand the gospel they get same like well

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I don't want them to get baptized if they don't understand everything if your child is saved. They should get baptized

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Because when people in the Bible get saved, they get baptized the same day.

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Babes in Christ.

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Do you think that they understand perfectly all the pictures of baptism

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and all the Old Testament pictures of baptism?

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You know what baptism is? It's obeying Christ.

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And it's like, man, I want my kid to learn more

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and be more filled with the Spirit so they can be baptized.

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Baptism is the first step.

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If you want your child to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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baptism is the first thing you should do. And look, I don't believe in this idea of,

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hey, I'm going to get my kids saved. All right, they got saved. And I believe kids can get saved

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at a young age. All right, I got them saved. Let's say they got saved at six years old.

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I will baptize them when they're eight. So you want your child to be in sin for two years and

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disobedience to Christ because the command is to be baptized.

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Any believer who has not been scripturally baptized is in disobedience to Christ.

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Now look, I don't think it's this kid's fault because his parents are just being weak, being lame.

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But you know what? That child should be baptized.

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Don't have this idea they have to understand everything perfectly.

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Jesus says, hey, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child,

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he shall not enter therein.

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And you know some people will like scoff at soul winning for kids.

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We'll like, hey we go to the ghetto, hey we got like five kids saved.

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And people will be like, oh where are the adults? How many adults did you get saved?

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And it's like, hey a soul is a soul.

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And if an adult wants to get saved he's going to have to become like a child.

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Is what the Bible teaches.

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Then we get the next encounter on the road to Jerusalem here.

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Says in verse 17, and when he was gone forth into the way.

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there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him,

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Good master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

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And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?

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There is none good but one that is God."

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Now, Jesus kind of answers him in a very unique, kind of cryptic way.

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And the reason I think Jesus does this is because Jesus is a master soul winner.

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Of course, he's the best soul winner.

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And when you've been soul winning for a long time,

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you can read people.

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You get discernment and you can read people.

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We're gonna keep reading the story

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and we're gonna see that this is a rich man.

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He has great possessions. Now, probably what happened is that you could probably tell he's

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rich just by his appearance. Some people you could tell they're rich just by their appearance,

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by the car that they drive, by the clothes that they wear, by the house that they live in,

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the business that they have or something like that. You know, perhaps, I don't know this for

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sure, but perhaps he was dressed in a certain way that Jesus could look at this man and say,

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oh, oh, this is a rich person. Now, let me tell you, what's not happening in this story is that

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that Jesus is.

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not reading minds. Jesus was a human being on this earth. He's a hundred percent God,

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a hundred percent man, but when he was on this earth, he was living the human experience.

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He did not have superpowers.

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All the miracles that he did, he did by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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So it's not like he saw this guy and read his mind, okay?

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I believe there must have been something about this guy that tipped Jesus off.

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Oh, this is a rich person.

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Now if you're a discerning soul winner, if you're an experienced soul winner,

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you're going to know something about rich people, is that they're prideful.

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that they think they're good and that they think they can earn their way to heaven so right away

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Jesus just turns it back on this guy. He's at oh good master. What should I do inherit life?

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And he's like why are you calling me good? There's none good, but one that is God. What is he telling him?

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He's saying hey, you're not good

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You're a sinner. That's point one of the gospel for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God

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He say hey, you're not good now. Some people would go here to say

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Oh, this is proof that Jesus isn't God that is the most stupid take of this verse. I've ever heard in my life

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Let me ask you this is Jesus good

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Yes, well, then he's God

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Because he said, hey, there's none good but one that is God.

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He's saying, hey, rich guy, you're not good, but I am.

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I'm the one you need to trust in.

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I'm the one you need to believe on.

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And stop trusting in yourself.

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OK, notice it says.

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He's answering the question now. Remember the question is,

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what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

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The answer in verse 19, he says, thou knowest the commandments,

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do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness,

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defraud not, honor thy father and mother. Now, Jesus is not teaching.

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that you have to keep the commandments to be saved.

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Okay, he's not going to contradict the rest of the Gospels, contradict everything in the

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New Testament. What he's trying to do is he's trying to kind of in a roundabout way reveal

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to this guy that he's not perfect, that he is a sinner. Okay, also verse number 20 says this,

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And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

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So again, was Jesus' assumption about this guy correct?

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Yes.

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Oh, here comes this rich guy.

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I bet you this guy thinks he's really good.

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I bet you this guy thinks that he's just perfect.

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I bet you this guy's really prideful.

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Hey, why are you calling me good?

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There's none good but one, that's God.

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Oh, you know the commandments, right?

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You've read the Bible.

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I'm sure you've read the Bible.

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You know all the commandments.

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Oh, yeah, I've done all of those for my youth up.

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Now, I don't believe this guy.

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I think he's a liar.

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And you know what?

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Prideful people are often the most wicked people.

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They're just blinded to it.

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That's the thing about pride that is scary,

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is that pride is the most blinding sin that exists.

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And it's like everyone else can see it but you.

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Everyone else can see it but this rich guy.

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And of course, Jesus can see it.

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Now, go view it to James chapter number two.

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James chapter 2 all these things have I kept for my youth up. That's garbage you've sinned you've messed up

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And I'm sure some rich people or some people trusting in their works, they think of themselves,

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well, maybe they don't go as far as this guy. Maybe they say, yeah, I've sinned,

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but I haven't killed anyone. I mean, I've never committed adultery with another person. I mean,

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I've never done something like that. Right. Okay. Look at verse 10. It says,

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for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

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For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.

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Now, thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law.

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Here's the thing, go to Romans 4. Technically speaking, if you have never sinned and if you

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have kept God's commandments perfectly from the time you entered this world to the time you leave

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it, you would not go to hell, you'd be saved.

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You'd go to heaven if you kept the commandments perfectly because guess what? It's the wages of sin that is death, right?

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The reason that we deserve hell is because we've sinned and I've got bad news for you

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If you've ever committed one sin your hope of getting there on your own righteousness is already done

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Right? So it's like, oh man, I just want to be a good person.

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I want to repent of my sins, do my best to just strive to keep God's commandments.

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And hopefully my good will outweigh my bad.

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Your bad will always outweigh your good.

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If you stop sinning today and was perfect for the rest of your life,

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the sins you've already committed, they've got to be paid for by someone.

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And if you decide to trust in yourself, you'll pay for it in hell for all of eternity.

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Here's the answer. Notice Romans 4 verse 1.

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What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found?

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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

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What is this rich young ruler doing? He's glorying in his works.

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All these things have I kept from my youth up.

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Well, why don't we just get down on our knees and worship you?

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You must be the Messiah. You must be God in the flesh.

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No, obviously not.

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Right? If Abraham didn't have whereof to glory of his works,

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I'm pretty sure this rich bozo doesn't either.

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Notice verse 3. This is a good question.

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For what sayeth the scripture?

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It's always the best question.

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Abraham believed God,

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and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

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To go to heaven, you've got to be righteous.

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But here's the thing, you need Christ's righteousness.

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And Jesus Christ paid for the sins of the whole world.

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Every single person in this world

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has had their sins paid for.

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The question is, has it been applied to your account?

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Hey, I have bought the tickets for the Orr Family Farm.

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But you know what? It's going to be given to you when you show up at the event, right?

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Well, it's like, how do we get this payment of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins?

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How do we get this payment applied to our account? We believe.

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And believe means trust.

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Believe does not mean works.

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This is so frustrating.

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The Bible's saying, hey, it's not of works.

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If it were of works, you would get to glory.

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It's actually believe.

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And people are like, yeah, yeah, it's believe.

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Yeah, it's faith.

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And faith means works.

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It's like, what are you talking about?

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We just got done saying it's not works.

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You would get to glory if it was your works.

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Now you're telling me that faith means works?

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Well, guess what?

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This chapter demolishes that.

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Because notice he says now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace

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But of debt if you could work your way to heaven then god would owe you a debt

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But god doesn't owe us a debt. We owe him a debt. He's given us grace something. We don't deserve

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Notice but to him that worketh not

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But believeth notice that works cannot be belief

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Works is not faith works is not trust because there's a person who doesn't work, but they believe

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It says, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,

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his faith is counted for righteousness.

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There it is.

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There's that accounting term.

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How do you get that payment onto your account?

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Well, it's counted to you for righteousness when you believe.

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That's what this rich young man is missing.

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Now he had a very foolish answer here.

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Go back to Mark chapter number 10.

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It says in verse number 21, it says, then Jesus beholding him loved him. That's always the right

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response, right? Because of the fact that the Bible talks about in meekness instructing those that

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what? Oppose themselves, right? And you got to realize like, man, people who are unsaved,

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they are their own worst enemy. It's so sad to think about like, here's a free gift. It's called

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eternal life. It's been paid for by Jesus Christ. There's nothing you have to do.

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except put your faith in Him.

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Do you want this gift? No.

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It's just like, there's nothing more sad than that.

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There's nothing more tragic

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than someone rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Right? And our response to that should be love for that person.

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Right? It's not, oh, that was the dumbest answer I've ever heard in my life.

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You know, have fun burning in hell. Right?

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Now look, there's a time for the false prophets of this world

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where we gotta kick it up a notch and tell them to go to hell or something like that.

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I'm not saying, hey, the Mormons, tell them to go to hell.

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All right? If anyone preaches another gospel, let them be accursed, the Bible says.

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But you know what? Just average Joe that we're out there.

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You know, if they're not getting saved the first time we interact with them,

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we don't want to just tear their head off.

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off, you know, rip them a new one or something like that.

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We want to show love to that person.

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And of course, love does not mean we don't correct them.

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Love does not mean we don't tell them that they're wrong, that we don't tell them that

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they're on their way to hell, right?

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Because the most loving thing we could do is tell them, hey, you're not saved, right?

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Because what are we there to do?

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We're there to get them saved.

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We're not there even necessarily to get them in church, though we'd love them to come to

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church.

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We're not there to do anything else, some hidden agenda.

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We are just there to pull them out of the fire.

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That's it.

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And you know what?

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You need to always keep that love in your heart as a soul winner.

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The most effective soul winners, they have this in common, compassion, love, tears.

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That should never get rid of that in your life.

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You need that love.

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Stupid answer, foolish answer, but Jesus beholds him, loves him.

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and said unto him, One thing thou lackest, go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and

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give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, take up the cross, and follow me.

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and he was sad at that possession and went away grieved. Notice for he had great possessions.

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Again, one thing about that story I just want to reiterate to you is that Jesus is not reading

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minds. Jesus is an experienced soul winner. He uses discernment and you know what the longer

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you go soul winning hopefully the more you could recognize patterns in people and say,

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okay this person told me they're of this church I bet you they believe this.

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Oh, this person's in this type of neighborhood. Hate to say it. I bet you they believe this.

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You know, if we went soul winning today in Nichols Hills, let me tell you what we would find.

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Prideful people. Prideful people. I'm sure we'd find some saved individuals. Absolutely. There

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are some good rich men in the Bible. But you know, we're going to find a lot of prideful people

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that have lived their whole life pulling themselves up by their bootstraps,

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working hard, being smart, earning the things that they have. But guess what? Salvation is not that

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way.

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Salvation is not something that's earned.

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Salvation is a free gift.

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This is why, hey, if you've been soul winning

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more than one time in your entire life,

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you could probably figure out that we should be going

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to the more poor areas of this city and of this world.

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When we go to the more poor areas, it's more receptive.

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Now, there can kind of be like a cap

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where it's like there's poor, there's like working poor.

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Then there's like high 100% of the time,

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drunk 100% of the time, poor.

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These are like the Indian towns we've been to in Oklahoma.

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And hopefully, Pauska will break the cycle.

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But you know, we're not going to quit trying preaching to the Native Americans.

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Great story there.

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Then it says in verse 23, and Jesus looked round about and saith unto his disciples,

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How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

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So Jesus just spells it out.

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Rich people are not receptive.

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Very few rich people will be in heaven.

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That's the reality.

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Notice verse 24, very important verse,

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and the disciples were astonished at his words.

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But Jesus answered again and saith unto them,

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Children, how hard is it, notice,

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for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God.

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What is stopping a rich person from getting saved?

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It's not their riches.

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It's not that they have to really give up all their possessions

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and become this ultra disciple of Christ.

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It's their trust that's stopping them.

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They are trusting in-

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themselves that's why they're not saved that's why anyone's not saved what they

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have to do to do to be saved is realize hey this is one bill I can't pay this is

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one job I can't complete I can't finish this is something I have to wholly

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depend on someone else to do for me that's why few rich people are saved and

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that's why it's hard for a rich man to be saved now what you'll notice in this

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verse it did not say that it's hard to be saved

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It did not say it's hard to go to heaven.

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It's hard for those that trust in riches to go to heaven.

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Now, what if someone told you,

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man, it's really hard to be saved.

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Would you think that person was saved or unsaved?

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Unsaved, right?

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Hey, you know, do you think you're going to heaven?

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Man, it's just so hard.

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So much work.

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There's so many things I have to do.

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I just don't know if I'm going to heaven

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because it's so hard.

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You'd say like, hey,

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I immediately know something about you.

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You're not saved.

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You believe a false gospel because saying it's hard to go to heaven is a false gospel.

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Well, let me tell you something. The modern versions of the Bible teach a false gospel here.

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Because in the NIV, this is what it says, children, how hard is it to enter the kingdom of God?

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The NIV just says, hey, it's hard to go to heaven.

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That's a false gospel.

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Look, we're not King James only because some redneck told us to be King James only.

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We're King James only because it doesn't pervert the gospel.

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We have the word of God in the King James Bible, and this is a very important topic

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that you have at King James Bible because it's not that the modern versions

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are just updating the language.

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It's not that they're just getting rid of the these and the owls.

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Oh, it's a little easier to understand.

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No, they're perverting doctrine.

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They're perverting salvific doctrine.

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This could affect someone's eternity.

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When they open up the Bible and they see Jesus Christ, supposedly,

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saying, it's hard to go to heaven.

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Boy, that would be discouraging.

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I thought the gospel was good news.

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Hey, good news, it's super hard to go to heaven.

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It's just like, whosoever will.

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That's the good news, is that it's free.

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The ESV says this, children, how difficult is it to enter the kingdom of God?

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That is a false gospel.

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It's hard for those that trust in riches.

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It's difficult for those that trust in riches, but you know what?

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It's easy to be saved.

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Whosoever believeth, the Bible says.

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Notice he says in verse 25, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for

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a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of measure,

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saying among themselves, who then can be saved?

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And Jesus looking upon them, saith with men, it is impossible, but not with God.

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For with God all things are possible.

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You know if salvation was by man's effort, it would be impossible.

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No one would be saved.

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If you could lose your salvation, then salvation would be impossible.

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Because if I could lose my salvation, I would.

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If you could lose your salvation, you would.

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And the only person who says that they wouldn't is just a prideful lying jerk.

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Because you know what the thought of foolishness is sin if you look at a woman to lust after her

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It's a sin coveting is a sin lying is a sin greed is a sin

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You are gonna sin in your life this idea of just like I'm saved now. I'm never gonna sin. No, that's not true

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Verse 28 says, Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all and have followed these.

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Like you just got done telling this guy, hey, sell everything you have, follow me,

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you're gonna have rewards. And he's like, hey, we've actually done that. We've done that, Lord.

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Notice verse 29, and Jesus answered and said, Verily, I say unto you, there is no man that

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hath left. Notice this list, house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children

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or lands for my sake and the gospels, but he shall receive and hundredfold now in this time houses

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and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to

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come eternal life.

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One thing I want to point out about this is that you know what?

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It might be God's will for you to have to sacrifice some of these things.

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Look, salvation is very easy.

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Being a disciple is very hard.

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There are few people that are disciples.

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You don't have to be a disciple to be saved.

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that

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justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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But you know, being a disciple of Jesus Christ is counting the

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cost and being willing to sacrifice anything for Jesus Christ.

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You know what that could look like?

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That could look like houses or lands.

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And look, that's something that I've done.

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I've moved multiple times across this country

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for the ministry of Jesus Christ.

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And it's something that I don't regret doing.

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I would do it again.

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There's other people in this room

01:24:01.640 --> 01:24:03.040
who have done that same thing.

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But look, let me tell you something.

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Just because you were born somewhere

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does not necessarily mean it's God's will

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for you to stay there your whole life.

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There are some people who were born in America

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and it's God's will for them to be a foreign missionary.

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You know, here's something a lot of people get upset with.

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You know, there's people that are here

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in the United States illegally.

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and they get deported and some people say like,

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oh, that's so terrible, that's so awful.

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You know, selfishly, I want to keep as many safe people here as possible.

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But the way I look at it is like, hey, if someone's going to our church

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and they get deported because they're not here legally,

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maybe it was just God's will for them to be a light in their country, right?

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Not saying that I'm going to try to get someone who saved part of our church

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deported or something like that. But look, we've had someone in this church.

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who their visa expired and they had to go home.

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They weren't deported or anything like that.

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They just went on their own because they overstayed the visa.

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They couldn't stay here any longer.

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And we love that person.

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We were sad.

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But you know that person's preaching the gospel in their country doing great things for God.

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And you know what?

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I think that person's in the will of the Lord.

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Right?

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And so I'm just saying like wherever you're from doesn't necessarily mean that that's where God wants you forever.

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You may have to move to be in God's will.

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And you know what?

01:25:08.100 --> 01:25:11.000
For my life, I want to serve God the best I possibly can.

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I want to be in the greatest church I possibly can be in.

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I even want to go to a church in a receptive area.

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I want to be in a church where I can go there and preach the gospel and get lots of people saved.

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And you know what? I came to Oklahoma City by my own choice.

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I wanted to come here. And look, there's some people all over America

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where they don't really have a great church option. They don't have people that they go

01:25:32.520 --> 01:25:37.320
soul-winning with. They're constantly miserable about constantly hearing about Zionism and the

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pre-trib and not hearing hard sermons and not being involved in soul-winning.

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And you know what? I think that you should probably move.

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because this life is too short to not do something big for Christ.

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His life's just too short.

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And you know what?

01:25:51.200 --> 01:25:53.300
Your house, you'll have a better one in heaven.

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Your lands, the earth is going to be way cooler in heaven.

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And so, you know, the millennial reign of Christ and the new heaven and new earth, that's

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our time to really enjoy this world, enjoy the pleasures of this earth and of the creation

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that God's made.

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But you know what God has put us here to do now?

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To work.

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We are here to work.

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Quit complaining about the work that God's given you to do.

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Oh, I'm tired.

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I'm so tired from my work.

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I can't go soul winning.

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God created you to work.

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It's so funny today, you got men in their 20s and their 30s coming into church just like,

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oh, it's like, dude, wake up and get on fire for God. You know, come to church ready to hear God's

01:26:33.640 --> 01:26:39.960
word. Be excited to be in the house of God. Be engaged. Have a Bible in your hand. Follow along.

01:26:39.960 --> 01:26:44.200
Say, hey, when's the soul winning marathon? When's the next soul winning time? I'm ready to be a

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disciple. And you know what? Some people have literally sacrificed houses and lands to come here.

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And mother and father, let me tell you what, here's another thing.

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It's not promised you're gonna have a good relationship with your parents.

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I hope that you do. I hope that you do. But Christ comes first.

01:26:59.460 --> 01:27:05.460
Christ comes before any human relationship. And I'm telling you, there is a cult of the family

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today. There is a worship and an exaltation of the family today amongst many Christians that is not

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healthy. Not only is it not healthy, it's definitely not something that a disciple would do.

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because the disciple is willing to forsake all to follow Jesus Christ.

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And not to say, hey, we should be quick to burn people, quick to lose relationships,

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just make just haphazard decisions in your life. No, you should make very calculated decisions saying,

01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:34.840
hey, I will do whatever it takes to serve Jesus Christ the best way that I can.

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And if that means leaving house, if that means brethren, sisters, father, mother, wife, children,

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lands for my sake and the gospels.

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Notice it says but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands

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with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life

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But many that are first shall be last and the last first here's the good news

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Here's the silver lining is that when you sacrifice something for Christ all of our work will be rewarded

01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:11.040
God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have

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shown toward His name, the Bible says.

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God's not going to forget your work.

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God's not going to forget the sacrifices that you made.

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And so you don't have to look at it as like, oh, woe is me.

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I had to give something to Christ.

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Hey, I get to give something to Christ.

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I get to sacrifice something for Jesus Christ.

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And you know what?

01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:30.680
The privilege of sacrificing for Jesus Christ is all that I need.

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But you know what?

01:28:31.240 --> 01:28:32.600
Christ is going to do more than that.

01:28:32.600 --> 01:28:35.000
He's going to recompense me with eternal life.

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He's going to recompense me with rewards in heaven,

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you know, ruling in the kingdom of God, but also even in this life.

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life sometimes. Also sometimes in this life he rewards you with more houses, more lands,

01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:52.200
and mothers, and brothers, and sisters, and all of that. Not wives, okay? Not wives. But

01:28:52.200 --> 01:28:55.820
you know what? Maybe you don't have the greatest relationship with your family. You know what?

01:28:55.820 --> 01:28:58.440
You can get plugged into Anchor Baptist Church and you can make some great friends that can

01:28:58.440 --> 01:29:03.600
be family to you. Hey, when I say, hey, let's go to the Lord in prayer as a church family,

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I believe we're a family here.

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We're the family of God. We are brothers and sisters in Christ. You know what?

01:29:09.180 --> 01:29:13.980
Thank God for the house of God that though family forsake you carnal family may forsake you

01:29:13.980 --> 01:29:18.040
You might have issues with mom or dad or brother or sister or uncles or cousins

01:29:18.040 --> 01:29:21.960
But you know you can come to the house of God and be around other people that love Jesus Christ

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That love you that love Jesus Christ. Let me tell you what people who get out of church. They are hurting themselves

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Let me tell you what?

01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:33.200
Way more than you are a blessing to church church is a blessing to you

01:29:34.160 --> 01:29:37.460
Way more than I am a blessing to church church is a blessing to me

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That's the attitude we have but we have many people today that think about churches. What can I get from church?

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What could church get you know do for me?

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You know people used to go to church to work

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People used to go to church to serve God

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People used to go to church to love other people to provoke one another unto love and the good works

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That's what church should be not all about you, but rather other people

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Then he says in verse number 32, And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem.

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And Jesus went before them, and they were amazed.

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And as they followed, they were afraid.

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And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

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saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem.

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Notice the detail that Jesus predicts of his own death.

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And the Son of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes.

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There's the Jews.

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And they shall condemn him to death, by the way, the Jews killed Jesus, and shall deliver

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him to the Gentiles, the Romans, right?

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And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill

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him, and the third day he shall rise again.

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third time that Jesus is prophesying of his death, burial, and resurrection to the disciples.

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And I just love how much detail he gives here because you know what this goes to show is that

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this is not some man with delusions of grandeur who thinks he's some great prophet but who's really

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like some sort of false prophet or anti-Christ. This is the Christ. This is the Messiah. This is

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the one who's coming to fulfill scripture. And you want to know why Jesus knows all of these things

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things are going to happen to them because the scripture teaches that.

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that. Again, it's not like Jesus has superpowers to see into the future or something like that.

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The Bible already saw into the future. The Old Testament already saw into the future.

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And He knows what's written of Himself. And He says, Hey, we're going to Jerusalem right

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now and here's all the things that I'm going to go through.

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Notice verse 35 as Jesus is talking about something spiritual here goes James and John and James and John the sons of Zebedee

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Come unto him saying master we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever. We desire

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All right, so interesting way to start a conversation

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They're kind of pulling Jesus aside for like a little secret meeting here. We're gonna have like a more intimate meeting

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Hey Jesus, just for us to we do me a favor just do whatever I ask you

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Whatever I want you to do great way to start a conversation, right?

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Then it says verse 36, he said unto them, what would ye that I should do for you?

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And you know, in a sincere sense, we actually can go to Jesus and ask whatsoever we want from him

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in prayer. Absolutely. But of course, the disciples are a little misguided with what

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they're about to ask here. They said unto him, grant unto us that we may sit one on my right hand

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and the other on my left in my glory.

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Right, so Jesus is talking about how he's about to suffer and go through the worst thing imaginable

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and die. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, cool. So when you're raining...

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When you're leading the kingdom, is it cool if we're on the right and the left hand?

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The other ten guys, don't worry about them. Let us have the preeminence, right?

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Let us have that prestige and that station. You can see where it's kind of misguided.

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It's like, why don't you focus on what Jesus just said?

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That you're about to witness the gospel. You're about to witness the suffering of Christ.

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How about you be there for your friend?

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I mean, he's about to go through this stuff and the disciples are going to be sleeping

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in prayer.

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This should be a moment like, wow, you're about to go through this.

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Let's get really spiritual.

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Let's start praying for you.

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Let's be with you.

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But no, they're just thinking about themselves.

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They're thinking about their status.

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They're thinking about their power, their prestige.

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And Jesus correctly diagnoses their problem, of course, in verse 38.

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But Jesus said unto them, you know not what you ask.

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He's like, you guys don't even know what you're talking about right now.

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You guys have no clue. I'm talking about spiritual things. You guys think I'm about to set up a kingdom right now

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You guys are not understanding. You don't even know what you're asking right now

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Okay, then he says hey, can you drink of the cup that I drink of?

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And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with

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They said unto him we can

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And Jesus said unto them, You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and with

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the baptism that I am baptized with all shall ye be baptized.

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Now, the disciples here probably think that Jesus is talking about drinking out of a cup

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and getting baptized because the disciples seem to always not understand what Jesus is

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saying.

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But what is Jesus talking about when he talks about this cup and this baptism?

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It's talking about his suffering.

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Okay, let's prove that in a few places.

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Chapter 14.

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We're going to flip over a few pages to Mark chapter number 14.

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Mark 14 look at verse number 36 and he said Abba father all things are possible unto thee take away this cup from me

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Nevertheless, not what I will but what thou will what's the cup that he's talking about is the suffering of the cross is the passion

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He wants that cup to be removed from him and he's saying hey

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Can you drink of the cup that I'm going through they say we can he says yes you can

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Okay, the baptism. What about the baptism Luke chapter 12?

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Luke chapter number 12 verse 50 when you get there.

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Look at Luke 12 50.

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Jesus said, but I have a baptism to be baptized with,

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and how am I straightened till it be accomplished?

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Again, not talking about when he's baptized with John,

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it's talking about the baptism of suffering

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that he's about to go through, the cross,

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the pain and death of the cross.

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So that's what he's talking about.

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And of course, Jesus says, go back to Mark 10,

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we'll be flipping a few pages here

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looking at some cross references,

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but back in Mark 10, verse 39, he says,

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ye shall indeed.

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drink of the cup that I drink of and with the baptism that I'm baptized with

01:35:10.000 --> 01:35:15.560
all shall ye be baptized what is Jesus saying hey you are gonna suffer you are

01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.600
gonna endure the suffering that I'm going through you're gonna get the same

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cup you're gonna get the same baptism now do we see in Scripture this actually

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come to pass yes we do go to Acts chapter number 12 Acts chapter number 12

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let's look at the cup that James drank of

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the baptism that he was baptized of Acts chapter number 12. Look at verse number one.

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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

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Notice and he killed James the brother of John with the sword. So you know James ended up drinking

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of that cup. James ended up being baptized with that baptism. And you know what Jesus said a few

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verse earlier he said with persecutions.

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Hey, all these things. Yeah, they'll be added to you. But with persecutions, what do we see James happens to James? He gets martyred

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He's a martyr for the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay. What about?

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John go to Revelation chapter number one

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Got James and John he says hey you both are gonna drink of this cup. You're going to be baptized with this baptism

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Well, what happened to John?

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John said Revelation chapter number

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1 verse 9, I John, who also am your brother, notice, and companion in tribulation, and

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in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the isle that is called Patmos for

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the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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His cup and his baptism was exile, persecution, tribulation.

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So hey, careful what you ask for.

01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:47.300
Hey, you know, hey, can you drink of this?

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And they say, yeah, we can.

01:36:48.400 --> 01:36:50.400
He says, yeah, you will drink of it.

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You will be baptized with the same baptism.

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Go back to Mark chapter number 10.

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So he says, hey, you don't know what you're asking right now.

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You guys are going to die. You guys are going to suffer. You are going to suffer persecution.

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Again, why would I believe the preacher of rapture again? That Christians aren't going to suffer

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persecution? That no Christians will ever be martyred when James himself was martyred? When

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Jesus died on the cross? When John was exiled and persecuted? I'm supposed to believe that none of

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us will ever receive persecution. That is ridiculous.

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Verse 40 says this, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give,

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but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. Another thing I want to point out here

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is that there are distinct persons in the Trinity. Right? If you look at the parallel accounts and

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the other gospels, he makes it clear that it shall be given to them of whom my father has prepared.

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Right? So Jesus is not the father. Okay. There are three persons, one God.

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the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, and this idea of modalism that Jesus is the father,

01:37:55.520 --> 01:38:00.400
and Jesus is the Holy Spirit, and Jesus just like turns into different modes of being,

01:38:00.400 --> 01:38:05.120
puts on different hats at different times, is completely foreign to Scripture. There are three

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persons and Jesus is not the father. How do we know that? Because he says, hey, it's not mine to

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give. It's someone else's to give. That means they're not the same person. Crystal clear.

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Verse 41, and when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and

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John.

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I think they're displeased because in the previous chapter they were arguing about who's

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going to be the greatest.

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And they're like, man, we wanted that secret meeting.

01:38:28.860 --> 01:38:31.140
We wanted to ask that question, right?

01:38:31.140 --> 01:38:34.580
So I don't think they're coming from like a moment of holiness here where they're like,

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that was prideful, James and John.

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You shouldn't have done.

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They're probably just mad that they didn't get to ask that same question.

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But Jesus called them to him and said unto them, saith unto them, You know that they

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which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their great

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ones exercise authority upon them.

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But so shall it not be among you, but whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister."

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Right?

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So what is the context here?

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The context is that in the last chapter the disciples are literally arguing about who's

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going to be the greatest.

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Then, they were rebuked for it, and they still didn't get the message, because James and

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John get this little sidebar with Jesus, where they're like, hey, can we sit on your right

01:39:16.020 --> 01:39:17.020
hand?

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Can we sit on your left?

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What is the spirit behind what the disciples are doing that is wrong?

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It's that they're focusing on position.

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They're focusing on power.

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They're focusing on prestige.

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Now, is what Jesus is teaching here that power is just inherently bad?

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or that being a leader is somehow bad,

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or that exercising authority is somehow bad?

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No, but there is something bad with just like

01:39:38.820 --> 01:39:40.620
wanting power for the sake of power.

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Wanting authority for the sake of authority what defines greatness in a leader and in any person is

01:39:47.780 --> 01:39:54.140
The quantity and quality of their service for other people right because some people have twisted this and said like hey

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Well the Gentiles they exercise lordship or they exercise authority

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But you know we as Christians we should do

01:40:01.180 --> 01:40:06.060
Servant leadership and what some people mean by servant leadership is that the employees are in charge

01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:11.160
that the wife is in charge of the husband, that the church members are in charge of the pastor.

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That is not what this is saying. Okay, if you ever have a Bible interpretation that causes

01:40:16.600 --> 01:40:21.000
contradictions with other parts of the Bible, you are wrong. You have a problem. What does the

01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:25.960
Bible say? Hey, servants, be in subjection to your own masters with all fear.

01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:29.600
Wives, obey your husbands. Submit your husbands.

01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:34.000
Hey, the elders that rule well, obey them that have the rule over you.

01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:37.000
Obey the higher powers. We're not getting rid of authority.

01:40:37.300 --> 01:40:40.500
Okay, husbands are in charge of their families.

01:40:40.500 --> 01:40:42.380
Husbands are an authority over their families.

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The government has authority from God.

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Pastors have authority from God, right?

01:40:47.260 --> 01:40:48.820
You know, any area of life.

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The piano teacher's in charge of the kid learning piano.

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Like we don't want to get rid of authority,

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but we want people in authority to use their authority

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out of service for other people.

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As a husband, I'm in charge, and so I'm going to make all the decisions,

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and I'm going to do my best to make decisions that are best for my wife and kids.

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Because I love them.

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This is not saying that whatever my wife wants, she gets.

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Whatever my kids want, they get.

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No, no, no. I make all the decisions as a husband,

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but I do that out of service for them. Right?

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A good boss, you know, he wants his employees to thrive.

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He wants his employees to do well.

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Employees do well, the company does well,

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but does that mean he gives authority to the employees?

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Absolutely not.

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Right, so here's the thing.

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Greatness in life, what does he say?

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But whosoever will be great among you

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shall be your minister.

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Here's the great thing about this

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is that whether you are a leader or a follower,

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we all can be ministers.

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We all can serve.

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So great leaders, they're not people who, you know,

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thwart their authority.

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They're not people who get rid of their authority.

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They're people who serve.

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Leaders who serve and the best followers. They're not people who take authority from their bosses or something like that. They serve

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And this is awesome how the playing field could be leveled in Christianity.

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How no matter if you have a position, whether you have authority, whether you have a title,

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we all can be great in heaven by the service that we do right now.

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And this is how we know, by the way, that it's not like you're going to get to heaven,

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and it's like, well, you know, pastors automatically are just going to be the special class in heaven,

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and all the pastors are going to be better than everyone else.

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Now look, I'm sure there's going to be some pastors that are great in the kingdom of heaven.

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But you know what, there's also going to be laymen,

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whatever if you want to use that word,

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that are great in the kingdom of heaven.

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There's going to be mothers that are great

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in the kingdom of heaven.

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There's going to be widows that are great

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in the kingdom of heaven.

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You know what's going to be great in the kingdom of heaven?

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People who spent their life serving others

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and serving God.

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That's what it comes down to.

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Keep your place there.

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Go to 1 Timothy chapter five.

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1 Timothy chapter number five.

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1 Timothy 5, look at verse 24.

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Some men's sins are open beforehand,

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going before the judgment, and some men, they follow after.

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You look at some people, and you can just see on the surface,

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wow, this person is living a sinful life.

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But you know what?

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Just because you can't see on the surface

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that someone's living a sinful life

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doesn't mean that they are not secretly

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living a sinful life.

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Right? Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not.

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We'll look at verse 25.

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Likewise, also the good works of some are manifest beforehand.

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And they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

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Hey, there are some people, you could look at their life

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and they're like, wow, this person's dedicated.

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Wow, this person's using a lot of their time, energy, resources,

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love towards other people, serving God, serving others.

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But you know, there's other people doing great things for God

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that you don't see as much.

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And just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not being done. What's a good example? Well,

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how about this very chapter we're talking about widows and notice a godly widow here. It says in

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verse number five. Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate trusted in God and continueth in

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supplications and prayers night and day. You know, there could be some people that are praying to God

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night and day and you don't see that.

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You don't know that.

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Then there's other people they put on a show that they're spiritual and they never even

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pray.

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They don't spend 10 minutes in prayer with the Lord throughout a week.

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Here's this widow, probably won't pay attention to her, but yet she's praying to God night

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and day.

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Hey, just serve God.

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Fear God.

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Be real in your walk with God because people who serve God are going to be great in the

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kingdom of heaven.

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Go back to Mark chapter 10.

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Mark 10.

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He says verse number 44, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all.

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Hey, in some ways, the more responsibility as a leader that you have, the more people you serve,

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the more responsibility that you have. Verse 45, I believe this is the theme verse of the whole

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book of Mark right here.

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for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a

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ransom for many." Beautiful verse there. Last part of this chapter, we'll get through it here,

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and they came to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of

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people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highwayside begging.

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And when he noticed this heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,

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Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. This right here is just too good to pass up.

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This is a great picture of salvation because the unsaved, they are like a blind man. They can't see

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they're not going to be able to understand salvation, the spiritual things of the Bible.

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What they have to do is hear.

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faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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This man is blind, but it says,

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and when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,

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notice this, he began to cry out.

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You know what that is?

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Calling upon the name of the Lord.

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Just real quickly, this is too good to pass up,

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Romans chapter 10, Romans chapter number 10.

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Hey, this man's blind, picturing someone that's not saved.

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He can't save himself, he can't make himself not blind,

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but he hears Jesus.

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Romans 10, look at verse 13,

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for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord

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shall be saved.

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This man ends up having his blindness restored,

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having his vision restored.

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And you know why that happened?

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It's because he called out to Jesus.

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Right, so that's salvation.

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The moment of salvation is calling upon the name of the Lord.

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Then the Bible gives us like a backtrack of this process.

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Okay, it says, and how then shall they call on him

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in whom they have not believed?

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And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?

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And how shall they hear without a preacher?

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How shall they preach except they be sent as it is written?

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How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of

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good things. And so verse 17, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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Go back to Mark chapter number 10. So that's what's happening.

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This is a picture of exactly what happens when we go soul winning. We have a preacher.

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A preacher shows up and he preaches the word of God and someone decides that they want

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to put their faith in Jesus Christ and how do they do that?

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They do that by calling upon the name of the Lord.

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This man heard, oh Jesus is here, what did he do?

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He called out.

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He called out to Jesus.

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And notice what he called out. He said Jesus thou son of David have

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Mercy on me, right? So he doesn't think he's good. He's not the rich young ruler. He's saying hey god

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I want you to give me mercy. You know what that means? Hey, I'm a sinner

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You know some people they have issues in their life and they want to blame god and that's a wicked attitude

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Wicked attitude. I mean this man is blind right some people would just be so down in the dumps

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They'd be so complaining. They'd be so charging God, but you know this man is blind

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And you know what when he heard about Jesus he said show mercy on me

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He doesn't say why did you make me blind couldn't you have made me not be blind God you you could have done something about this

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He's just like hey, I deserve it. I deserve it. I need mercy God

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That's the attitude that we should have and that's the attitude that's going to lead to

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someone getting saved is begging for mercy, wanting mercy.

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And many charged him that he should hold his peace, but he cried the more great deal, now

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son of David have mercy on me.

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Don't ever let people discourage you from seeking Christ.

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If you're like, oh, stop calling out to Jesus.

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It's like, don't listen to those people.

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Don't listen to the naysayers.

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And Jesus stood still.

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and commanded him to be called.

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And they called the blind man, saying unto him,

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Be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee.

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And he, casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus.

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And Jesus answered and said unto him,

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What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?

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The blind man said unto him, Lord,

01:48:35.440 --> 01:48:37.920
that I might receive my sight.

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And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.

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And immediately he received his sight.

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and followed Jesus in the way. I love how this chapter ends because you know what this whole

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chapter has been? It's the road to Jerusalem.

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We have all these different audiences that are interacting with Jesus. First, it's the Pharisees.

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Did they follow Jesus? No, they wanted to catch him in his words. No, they wanted to ask an

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insincere question about divorce. They wanted to tempt him. They didn't end up following Jesus.

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And of course, what were they? The religious Jews who thought they were righteous, who were

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trusting in themselves. And so they didn't get saved and they did sure didn't follow Jesus.

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Right. Then we have even the disciples having a bad attitude when children are brought to Jesus.

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Jesus, and they rebuke people for bringing children to Jesus.

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Then you have the rich young man and he's, oh good master, what do I have to do to be

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saved?

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Oh, all these things have I kept for my youth up.

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He, did he follow Jesus?

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Nah, he went away, departed.

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He went away sad.

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And then it ends with this man right here,

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this humble man, this blind man, asking for mercy.

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And you know what?

01:49:44.680 --> 01:49:46.380
He's the one who got mercy.

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He's the one whose faith made him whole.

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And he's the one who ultimately, what?

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Followed Jesus Christ.

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This is who we're looking for in this world.

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We're looking at people not who can see,

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because people who think they can see can't really see.

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You know, we're looking for those who say,

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hey, I'm blind.

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I don't know. Don't you love when you go soul hunting and there's like, I don't know if I'm saved.

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Can I show you? Yeah, I have no idea what the Bible says it takes to get to heaven. Can I show you?

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You know that when someone has that attitude, it's pretty much a guarantee that person's going to

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get saved. It's pretty much a guarantee because you know that's the people that we're looking for

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in this world. Let me tell you what, the people that Jesus is looking for to follow him in the way

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are the same type of people, humble people.

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Be careful. Okay, look. Okay, you're saved. Great.

01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:35.800
I'm glad you're saved. Be careful about pride.

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Do not become a prideful person.

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Do not start to think like,

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oh, I see everything.

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Oh, I'm so great.

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All these things have I kept.

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I'm so wonderful.

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You know what we are?

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All of us in this room are sinners saved by grace.

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It's like that song that we sing,

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only a sinner saved by grace.

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Hey, if you want to be used by Jesus Christ,

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you need to be blind in a way, right?

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And just say like, hey, I don't know.

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I don't know the right thing in this world.

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I don't know where to go in my life.

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I don't know the right opinions about everything.

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but I know that someone who does.

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Oh, I heard that Jesus is in the way.

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I'm just gonna call out to him.

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I'm just gonna believe what he says.

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I'm just gonna follow what he says.

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Here's who God's ready to use.

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People who are humble,

01:51:16.980 --> 01:51:18.880
people who are ready to call out to him,

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and who's gonna be great in the kingdom of God,

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those that serve other people.

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Let's strive to be that way.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, thank you so much for this great chapter in your word.

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I pray that you would bless the remainder of this evening, the fellowship, our drive home. Keep us safe.

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And God, I just pray that you would continue to open up this great gospel to our hearts

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and help us to learn the lessons you would have us to learn and make application in our

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own life where we need to. We love you very much. And in Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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For our last hymn this evening, turn if you would to 351.

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P.M. number 351, tell it to Jesus.

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351, tell it to Jesus.

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351 let's sing together.

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus He is a friend that's well known

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You've no other such a friend or brother Tell it to Jesus alone

01:53:10.200 --> 01:53:15.160
Do the tears flow down your cheeks unbidden?

01:53:15.160 --> 01:53:20.040
Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus

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Abuse sins that humans' eyes are hidden

01:53:24.840 --> 01:53:29.080
Tell it to Jesus alone

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus He is a friend that's well known

01:53:39.100 --> 01:53:47.980
You've no other such a friend or brother Tell it to Jesus alone

01:53:48.700 --> 01:53:53.500
Do you fear the gathering clouds of sorrow?

01:53:53.500 --> 01:53:58.300
Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus

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For you ain't just what shall be tomorrow

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Tell it to Jesus alone

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus

01:54:12.700 --> 01:54:16.700
He is a friend that's well known

01:54:16.700 --> 01:54:22.220
You've no other such a friend or brother,

01:54:22.220 --> 01:54:26.220
Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Are you troubled at the thought of dying?

01:54:32.160 --> 01:54:37.040
Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus

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For Christ's coming kingdom are you sighing?

01:54:41.840 --> 01:54:46.160
Tell it to Jesus alone

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Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus.

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He is a friend that's well known.

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You've no other such a friend or brother.

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Tell it to Jesus alone.

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Amen. With that, you are dis-