WEBVTT 10:02.100 --> 10:05.300 Good evening everyone, welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. 10:05.300 --> 10:07.900 It is time to get started with our evening service. 10:07.900 --> 10:12.060 If you would, grab a hymnal and turn to number 215. 10:13.460 --> 10:16.320 Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, 10:16.320 --> 10:18.060 hymn number 215, 215. 10:24.900 --> 10:29.220 215, heaven came down and glory filled my soul. 10:29.220 --> 10:31.900 We'll sing that out all together. 10:31.900 --> 10:36.060 Oh, what a wonderful, wonderful day. 10:36.060 --> 10:40.140 A day I will never forget. 10:40.140 --> 10:42.400 After I've wandered in time. 14:01.000 --> 14:05.080 Heavenly Father, we thank you for another opportunity to gather together this evening 14:05.080 --> 14:08.840 to sing praises in your name and hear from your word. Lord, I pray that you'd be 14:08.840 --> 14:12.280 with the seeds that were planted this evening out soul winning and that you would just 14:12.840 --> 14:16.840 open our ears as always to the message this evening and fill pasture with your spirit. 14:16.840 --> 14:26.840 These things we pray in Jesus name, amen. For our next hymn number 209, 209, Sunshine in the Soul. 14:29.900 --> 14:33.900 Hymn number 209209. 14:40.800 --> 14:44.800 Let's sing it out all together. 14:44.800 --> 14:49.800 There is sunshine in my salty day, 14:49.800 --> 14:52.800 more glorious than... 23:38.500 --> 23:39.600 song together. 23:42.100 --> 23:46.400 for our third song tonight in your white handouts, 23:46.400 --> 23:47.960 holy, holy, holy. 23:50.700 --> 23:53.700 In your white handouts, holy, holy, holy. 24:06.500 --> 24:11.600 there on the first all together. 26:56.500 --> 26:59.460 Turn if you would to Mark chapter number two. 26:59.460 --> 27:01.340 Mark chapter number two. 27:41.300 --> 27:43.220 Mark chapter 2. 27:43.220 --> 27:47.340 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days, and it was noise that he was in 27:47.340 --> 27:52.140 the house, and straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room 27:52.140 --> 27:53.300 to receive them. 27:53.300 --> 27:55.740 No, not so much as about the door. 27:55.740 --> 27:57.740 And he preached the word unto them. 27:57.740 --> 28:01.420 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was born of four. 28:01.800 --> 28:06.800 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was. 28:06.800 --> 28:11.300 And when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 28:11.300 --> 28:14.800 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, 28:14.800 --> 28:16.800 Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 28:16.800 --> 28:20.800 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts. 28:20.800 --> 28:25.800 Why did this man thus speak blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God only? 28:26.600 --> 28:31.560 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, 28:31.560 --> 28:35.240 he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? 28:35.240 --> 28:40.360 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to 28:40.360 --> 28:42.920 say Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? 28:43.400 --> 28:47.560 but that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, 28:47.560 --> 28:52.120 he saith to the sick of the palsy, I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, 28:52.120 --> 28:56.760 and go thy way into thine house. And immediately he arose, took up the bed, 28:56.760 --> 29:01.240 and went forth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified 29:01.240 --> 29:04.400 God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion. 29:04.400 --> 29:09.120 And he went forth again by the seaside, and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he 29:09.120 --> 29:10.120 taught them. 29:10.120 --> 29:15.320 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the receipt of custom, 29:15.320 --> 29:17.000 and said unto him, Follow me. 29:17.000 --> 29:19.960 And he arose and followed him. 29:19.960 --> 29:24.820 And it came to pass, that as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners 29:24.820 --> 29:27.920 sat also together with Jesus and his disciples. 29:27.920 --> 29:30.000 for there were many and they followed him. 29:30.100 --> 29:35.600 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, 29:35.600 --> 29:39.100 How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? 29:39.100 --> 29:45.100 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick. 29:45.100 --> 29:49.100 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. 29:49.200 --> 29:52.640 and the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast. 29:52.640 --> 29:57.440 And they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, 29:57.440 --> 30:03.040 but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber fast 30:03.040 --> 30:08.240 while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 30:08.240 --> 30:13.520 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast 30:13.520 --> 30:14.280 in those days. 30:15.400 --> 30:21.480 No man also seweth a piece of a new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filled it up 30:22.040 --> 30:25.080 taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. 30:26.600 --> 30:32.040 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, lest else the new wine doth burst the bottles, 30:32.040 --> 30:37.880 and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marked. But new wine must be put into new bottles. 30:37.880 --> 30:41.560 And it came to pass that he went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day, 30:41.560 --> 30:45.560 and his disciples began as they went to pluck the ears of corn. 30:45.800 --> 30:51.000 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful? 30:51.000 --> 30:56.840 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need and was not hungry, 30:56.840 --> 31:01.720 he and they that were with him, how he went into the house of God in the days of a biathar the 31:01.720 --> 31:06.280 priest, and did eat the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, 31:06.280 --> 31:08.040 and gave also to them which were with him? 31:09.000 --> 31:14.920 and he said unto them, the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the 31:14.920 --> 31:20.280 Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. Let's pray. Your heavenly Father, I pray that you 31:20.280 --> 31:22.560 You're still Pastor Oz with your spirit. 31:22.560 --> 31:23.400 Help us appreciate that. 31:43.600 --> 31:51.200 That there were it was no room to receive them. No not so much as about the door and he preached the word unto them 31:51.800 --> 31:59.400 And they come unto him bringing one sick of the palsy which was born of four and palsy is just talking about 31:59.720 --> 32:03.400 Some sort of paralysis. This guy is just completely paralyzed 32:03.800 --> 32:09.480 And he's being carried to this preaching service of the lord jesus christ by four men. That's what it's meaning 32:09.480 --> 32:12.280 They're born of four verse number four 32:13.160 --> 32:19.160 When they could not come nigh unto him for the press notice this they uncovered the roof where he was 32:19.700 --> 32:24.320 When they had broken it up they let down the bed were on the sick of the palsy lay 32:24.680 --> 32:29.040 When Jesus saw their faith he said under the sick of the palsy 32:29.480 --> 32:33.200 son thy sins be forgiven thee 32:33.800 --> 32:40.400 Right off the bat when I look at this story my mind just immediately goes to what soul winning, right? 32:40.400 --> 32:45.760 Because what are these people doing? You know, they have this man who is paralyzed, right? 32:45.760 --> 32:50.560 He's unable to walk on his own just like how people who are unsaved, you know 32:50.560 --> 32:55.160 They're kind of in a spiritual state of paralysis. They don't have legs to walk 32:55.160 --> 32:58.680 They don't have eyes to see they don't have ears to hear from a spiritual perspective 32:58.800 --> 33:01.700 And what does it take it takes, you know soul winners to? 33:01.800 --> 33:06.520 Bring someone unto christ and these people they had the right mindset 33:07.140 --> 33:10.840 Regarding jesus christ because what did they have they were very eager 33:11.640 --> 33:16.200 Right, they're very eager to get i don't know if this is their their friend or family member member 33:16.440 --> 33:21.400 Or maybe just some random person they had compassion on but they were eager to get this man 33:21.800 --> 33:27.400 To the lord jesus christ because of the fact that they knew hey if we could get this person to jesus 33:28.120 --> 33:29.500 Jesus can heal them 33:29.800 --> 33:36.380 And you know, I wonder if sometimes we lack the right perspective because I bet you that if Jesus was physically 33:37.300 --> 33:39.120 Located in Oklahoma City today 33:39.120 --> 33:42.840 I bet you a lot of people would show up for that preaching service, right? 33:42.840 --> 33:49.740 And I bet you if Jesus Christ was physically located in Oklahoma City today people would be what telling their loved ones? 33:50.320 --> 33:57.800 Telling their neighbors. They probably go up and down the streets in the highways and hedges saying hey come to Jesus. He could 33:57.800 --> 34:06.800 He could heal you, but you know what just because Jesus is not physically in Oklahoma City today does not make his saving power any less real 34:07.700 --> 34:14.240 And you know it just as real as it was for this these men to bring their friend to Jesus because they knew 34:14.760 --> 34:19.300 Jesus can heal this person. He is the great physician today and today 34:19.300 --> 34:24.640 He is the Savior and today for people who are unsaved people who are spiritually in this state 34:24.640 --> 34:27.240 You know who they need to be brought to the Lord Jesus Christ 34:27.720 --> 34:35.640 And you know what someone who is paralyzed is not gonna get up on their own and go find Jesus just like 34:35.700 --> 34:38.960 How this lost world is not gonna get themselves saved 34:39.280 --> 34:45.580 It's gonna take soul winners to do it and we need some people today that have that eager mentality of hey 34:45.580 --> 34:51.520 I want to bring people to the Lord Jesus Christ and hey, even if it's crowded even if I have to work to get in 34:51.520 --> 34:54.180 I'll find another way in I'll remove the roof 34:54.760 --> 35:01.380 One thing I want to point out about soul winning is that soul winning is what active not passive? 35:01.900 --> 35:06.060 Right a lot of people are just waiting for someone to get saved 35:06.140 --> 35:12.300 They're just hoping that there's gonna be this revival sprinkled down from heaven and you know people just pray for revival 35:12.300 --> 35:16.620 But really the answer is not to pray for revival. It's for you to go soul winning 35:17.420 --> 35:22.740 You know in the Bible there is a prayer request given by the Lord Jesus Christ 35:23.400 --> 35:29.760 I don't know about you, but you know as a pastor when I get a prayer request from one of my church members 35:29.760 --> 35:32.120 That's something that I take very sacred and very seriously 35:32.440 --> 35:37.020 Because God has put me in this position and if someone asked me to pray for them, I'm gonna do that 35:37.040 --> 35:42.560 You know, I'm sure we all feel that way if a family member asks us to pray for them like that's very special 35:43.500 --> 35:50.380 If a friend or fellow church member asks for prayer, you know, I hope you take that seriously and find that to be a sacred thing 35:50.620 --> 35:53.340 Well, how much more when the lord jesus christ? 35:53.900 --> 35:59.980 Asks for a prayer request and you know what jesus's prayer request was pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest 36:00.300 --> 36:07.360 That he will send forth laborers into his harvest. You know jesus's prayer is that there would be more what soul winners? 36:08.000 --> 36:11.000 Instead of just praying hey God, you know send revival 36:11.000 --> 36:13.000 Why don't you try to be the answer to that prayer? 36:13.280 --> 36:20.440 You know we could be the answer to the Lord Jesus Christ's prayer request by you going out and being a soul winner because here's the truth 36:20.560 --> 36:24.320 People are not gonna get themselves saved people are not gonna come to Jesus on their own 36:24.320 --> 36:28.840 We're not gonna just have people flocking to us asking us. What must I do to be saved? 36:29.360 --> 36:33.240 Soul-winning is active not passive go to Acts chapter 8 36:34.100 --> 36:40.440 You know you need a soul winner to get someone saved and you know who hates this doctrine 36:40.440 --> 36:42.920 Number one is false prophets 36:43.720 --> 36:48.920 False prophets hate this doctrine of saying that you need a soul winner to get someone safe 36:48.920 --> 36:53.800 Why is it that they hate this doctrine? Well, it's simple because they can't get anyone saved 36:57.700 --> 37:04.240 Without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots right in Matthew chapter 7 37:04.520 --> 37:10.140 Jesus speaking of false prophets said ye shall know them by their what fruits? 37:10.800 --> 37:14.560 Now some people look at that and say oh this is how to prove whether or not you're saved 37:14.880 --> 37:18.320 That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about false prophets 37:18.720 --> 37:21.680 And you know what every good tree bringeth forth good fruit 37:22.080 --> 37:28.180 If I go out and I preach the gospel of jesus christ, you know what that's going to cause it's going to cause people to get saved 37:28.700 --> 37:36.380 But when a false prophet preaches is he able to get someone saved? Yes or no? No, right? The evil tree brings forth corrupt fruit 37:36.780 --> 37:42.000 Okay, that's that's group number one that hates this doctrine. Here's group number two lazy christians 37:43.180 --> 37:49.180 Lazy do nothings that are just sitting here envious that god is using someone to get saved 37:49.420 --> 37:55.020 And so they want to sound all hyper spiritual and say oh, you know, we don't get anyone saved brother 37:55.600 --> 37:58.580 Mean we know of course we don't get anyone saved 37:58.680 --> 38:05.140 It's only the Lord and here's the things like they're trying to just deceive people into sounding super spiritual 38:05.140 --> 38:09.680 But guess what? That's not what the Bible says look at Acts chapter number 8 verse 27 38:10.480 --> 38:17.800 And he rose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia and eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians 38:18.040 --> 38:22.560 Who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship? 38:23.100 --> 38:30.100 Was returning and sitting in his chariot read Isaiah as I excuse me is a s the prophet 38:30.140 --> 38:34.500 So you have a man here who's unsaved but he is seeking God 38:34.500 --> 38:41.860 I mean this guy's unsaved but he's reading the book of his of Isaiah raise your hand if you read the Bible before you were saved 38:42.740 --> 38:47.500 Right. That was me too. Believe it or not. I read the NIV cover to cover before I was saved 38:47.900 --> 38:53.220 Believe it or not. I read most of the Geneva Bible before I was saved. So it's like I was seeking the Lord 38:53.220 --> 38:57.500 I wanted to know the truth, but I was not safe. That's the position that this man is in 38:57.500 --> 39:04.940 Okay, then the spirit said unto Philip go near and join thyself to this chariot and 39:05.560 --> 39:10.900 Philip ran a thither to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah's and said 39:11.740 --> 39:13.840 Understandest thou what thou readest 39:14.500 --> 39:20.660 And he said, notice, how can I accept some man should guide me? 39:21.400 --> 39:27.560 And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The bible makes it very clear 39:28.120 --> 39:34.200 That spiritual truths must be discerned by spiritual beings the spirit of god 39:34.680 --> 39:37.240 Okay, and here's the thing someone could read the bible 39:37.720 --> 39:43.320 Being unsaved and they could get carnal truths out of the bible all day long, right? Noah built an ark 39:43.800 --> 39:49.260 Right, you know god split the red sea. It's not like you can't understand facts in the bible or carnal truths 39:49.400 --> 39:57.040 But spiritual things those things the unsafe cannot understand and this man had the humility to admit that 39:57.260 --> 40:01.060 Right. He's reading it. The preacher comes up to him. Do you understand what you're reading? 40:01.060 --> 40:04.780 He says hey, how can I accept some man should guide me and 40:05.680 --> 40:09.220 Notice he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him 40:09.220 --> 40:13.000 It's always nice to preach the gospel to someone who wants to hear it, right? 40:13.000 --> 40:16.660 That's who we want to focus on as people who want to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ 40:17.200 --> 40:19.920 Verse 32 the place of the scripture which he read was this 40:20.720 --> 40:27.200 He was led as a as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before his shearer 40:27.920 --> 40:30.420 So opened he not his mouth 40:31.200 --> 40:38.000 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken 40:38.560 --> 40:44.880 From the earth now. I wonder who could this possibly be talking about and this goes to show 40:45.360 --> 40:49.280 That it's true that unsafe people can't understand the bible because for us. It's so obvious 40:49.760 --> 40:52.640 Who is this talking? It's talking about jesus, right? 40:52.880 --> 40:58.400 But yet this unsaved man is reading a scripture that's so clearly about jesus, but he didn't understand that 40:59.100 --> 41:06.020 Verse 34 in the eunuch answered Philip and said I pray thee of whom speak at the prophet this of himself or of some other man 41:06.380 --> 41:09.500 Then Philip noticed had a great lifestyle 41:11.300 --> 41:12.980 No 41:12.980 --> 41:20.660 Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus 41:21.300 --> 41:24.160 We can read the whole story this man ends up getting saved 41:24.300 --> 41:28.180 But what is it? What did it take for the Ethiopian eunuch to get saved? 41:28.180 --> 41:30.300 It took a man it took a preacher 41:30.620 --> 41:36.760 It took a spirit filled preacher who's sensitive to the Spirit of God the Spirit of God said hey go preach to that person 41:36.760 --> 41:42.300 He runs in his zeal to preach he opens his mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel 41:42.300 --> 41:47.820 The person listens he asked some questions. He ends up getting saved. That's what it takes to get saved 41:48.400 --> 41:53.040 And again, you know who doesn't like this false prophets and lazy do-nothing Christians 41:53.520 --> 41:58.320 Because those of us who actually preach the gospel see that it is effective 41:58.960 --> 42:04.320 This idea of well, you know God's the only one that saves man doesn't do anything 42:04.480 --> 42:08.880 It's like that's like saying that this paralytic guy could have somehow gotten himself to Jesus 42:09.500 --> 42:14.400 No, he's paralyzed. He needs to be born of four and hey sometimes 42:14.700 --> 42:17.640 It's gonna be multiple people laboring to get one person saved 42:18.220 --> 42:24.920 Right one sows another waters, but who gives the increase God gives the increase, right? So these men are working together 42:24.920 --> 42:31.620 They're laboring together to get this man to Jesus. And of course who's doing the supernatural healing Jesus 42:32.200 --> 42:37.960 Who is doing the saving of a soul? Hey Jesus is we know that but also it takes those four men 42:38.520 --> 42:42.440 And by the way realize that sometimes hey, we're working together to get one person saved 42:42.680 --> 42:46.440 Not always is it going to be just one person doing it all by themselves? 42:46.680 --> 42:50.840 You know, we are laborers together in the gospel and you know, that's a great thing 42:51.880 --> 42:58.220 Go back to mark chapter 2. I'll read for you psalm 126 verse 5. The bible says they that sow in tears 42:58.700 --> 43:03.160 Shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and weepeth 43:03.860 --> 43:07.620 Bearing precious seed notice shall doubtless come again with rejoicing 43:08.380 --> 43:12.220 Bringing his sheaves with him sounds to me like soul-winning works 43:12.820 --> 43:19.540 It sounds to me that people are saying that you know, we're not getting people saved. They're just denying Psalm 126 43:20.140 --> 43:25.840 And you know, maybe the problem with some of these people is either their false prophets or maybe they just have no love in their heart 43:26.500 --> 43:31.380 You know soul winning is a spiritual activity and you ought not just have this cold heart now 43:31.380 --> 43:33.360 Look if you go if you go out with a cold heart 43:33.360 --> 43:39.500 It's better than not going at all and going out with a cold hearts probably gonna make your heart more tender and maybe these 43:39.500 --> 43:44.160 You know people that are down on soul winning. They've just let their heart get so cold for so long 43:44.160 --> 43:48.500 But when you actually go out and you're a soul winner, you know, you're gonna start to weep over souls 43:51.700 --> 43:52.900 You're going to start to weep. 43:52.900 --> 43:55.700 You know, here's one of the things that should just make you sad. 43:55.700 --> 43:59.700 When you go soul winning, you start to realize how few people are saved. 44:00.300 --> 44:05.820 You don't get to look at this this world through rose colored glasses like non-soul winners do 44:05.820 --> 44:08.820 where they think you know if you just claim the name of Christ 44:08.820 --> 44:11.820 if you just call yourself any flavor of Christian that you're saved 44:11.820 --> 44:16.820 we actually know the nitty-gritty hard ugly reality of asking people 44:16.820 --> 44:20.820 hey what do you think it takes to get to heaven and we get to hear all their wrong answers 44:21.600 --> 44:25.680 We get to hear be baptized be a good person live a good life or pay your sins 44:26.000 --> 44:29.120 And you know, there's some sorrow that comes with knowing that but you know what? 44:29.120 --> 44:31.360 We need to have that sorrow and turn it into action 44:31.840 --> 44:36.800 By helping that paralytic get to the lord jesus christ and look we got to be persistent with it as well 44:37.280 --> 44:39.280 Right because they didn't just get to the door 44:39.520 --> 44:44.640 Find the press find hey, there's too many people here. We can't get to jesus. They found a way 44:45.360 --> 44:47.620 Right. They're like, let's remove the ceiling 44:48.000 --> 44:52.120 Let's let's get rid of the roof to get this person to the Lord Jesus Christ 44:52.280 --> 44:56.280 And look sometimes not every salvation is gonna be just low-hanging fruit 44:57.000 --> 45:02.360 Sometimes you got to work at it. Sometimes you got a labor. Sometimes you got to be patient and long-suffering 45:03.200 --> 45:07.100 Sometimes you're gonna preach the whole gospel and they're not gonna say get saved right then 45:07.560 --> 45:11.080 Sometimes you're gonna come back a year later and knock their door and they still won't get saved 45:11.160 --> 45:15.100 Sometimes you're gonna come back two years later and then maybe they'll get saved at that time, right? 45:15.520 --> 45:19.440 Also, I think this could picture just getting creative with our soul winning 45:19.900 --> 45:24.940 We should always be looking for new opportunities to get people saved 45:25.460 --> 45:30.220 I'm not saying you know preaching, you know in some sort of new liberal way or something like that 45:30.300 --> 45:36.020 But just new opportunities to get people saved. Hey, what do we have? You know the SWAT soul winning program, right? 45:36.020 --> 45:39.980 Hey, there's a murder in your apartment complex. All right, we'll go straight to you at that time 45:40.540 --> 45:43.740 What do we have today? Oh me TV soul winning 45:44.200 --> 45:50.500 Online soul winning who would have ever thought that there's online so winning there's virtual reality soul winning 45:50.900 --> 45:53.620 Brother Alex has told me about this where he puts on his little nerd 45:54.100 --> 46:00.400 Goggles and walks around and like preaches the gospel to people in the metaverse. Praise God, you know 46:00.500 --> 46:03.480 What do we have today? You know cruise missions trips 46:04.120 --> 46:08.320 Getting on a cruise ship preaching the gospel at all the stops along the way 46:08.900 --> 46:14.260 Here's something that's new, at least relatively new, is how about do-it-yourself missions? 46:14.800 --> 46:21.800 Right? The normal, you know, the old independent fundamental Baptist movement, they usually dedicate one person to being a missionary. 46:21.800 --> 46:24.800 And they go church hopping all over the US and beg for money. 46:24.800 --> 46:29.800 And they get signed up for like 10 cents a month from, you know, 350 churches. 46:29.800 --> 46:32.800 Then they go to the country that they want to preach in. 46:32.800 --> 46:34.800 Then they learn the language. 46:34.800 --> 46:36.800 Then they maybe invite someone to Thanksgiving. 46:36.800 --> 46:40.800 Then five years later down the road in their prayer letter, they'll tell you they got one person safe. 46:41.900 --> 46:44.300 And you know that just doesn't sound that efficient to me. 46:44.300 --> 46:47.900 Right? Sometimes you gotta say, hey, alright, let's remove the roof here. 46:47.900 --> 46:51.980 Let's just take our own vacation time and spend a week in the Balmas. 46:51.980 --> 46:55.740 Let's spend a couple weeks in Fiji. Let's spend, you know, brother Eric, 46:55.740 --> 47:00.380 a couple years in the Philippines and just doing it himself and just preaching the gospel. 47:00.380 --> 47:03.500 But you know what? We gotta be willing to do what it takes to get people saved. 47:03.500 --> 47:06.700 That's what we're here for. Mark 2, look at verse number 6. 47:07.300 --> 47:13.580 It says, but there was certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts. 47:13.580 --> 47:16.820 Why did this man thus speak blasphemies? 47:16.820 --> 47:18.980 Who can forgive sins but God only? 47:19.300 --> 47:22.420 Because this man is brought down to Jesus. He sees their faith 47:22.540 --> 47:30.780 He says son thy sins be forgiven thee and you know these wicked scribes here these wicked religious leaders the Jews 47:31.220 --> 47:34.980 They're seeing this and what do they start doing? They start reasoning in their hearts 47:35.620 --> 47:39.160 Which right away, you know, what's your reaction to be rejoicing? 47:40.200 --> 47:43.840 Like that the Lord Jesus Christ just told this person nice nice sins be forgiven me 47:43.840 --> 47:48.280 But they're reasoning in their hearts and they're accusing Jesus of what blaspheming 47:48.920 --> 47:55.980 Saying who can forgive sins, but God only and you know, it's funny is that they answer their own question in the question 47:56.600 --> 48:02.800 Because guess what? No one can first give sins, but God only but let me help you out. Jesus is God 48:03.500 --> 48:11.300 Right, so they're asking this foolish question, but you know what their question answers their own question because he's showing that he's God by forgiving their sins 48:11.620 --> 48:18.300 Right. This is not just some prophet some good person like the Muslims say this is the Son of God that we're dealing with here 48:18.860 --> 48:24.820 Verse number eight and immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves 48:24.940 --> 48:30.340 I love this. He said unto them why reason ye these things in your heart? 48:31.000 --> 48:38.780 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy thy sins be forgiven thee or to say arise? 48:39.120 --> 48:41.120 And take up thy bed and walk 48:41.720 --> 48:46.680 But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins 48:46.800 --> 48:53.320 He sayeth to the sick of the palsy I say unto thee arise and take up thy bed and go thy way 48:53.800 --> 48:55.100 into thy house 48:55.900 --> 49:00.460 And immediately he arose took up the bed and went forth before them all in so much 49:01.100 --> 49:07.920 That they were all amazed and glorified god saying we never saw it on this fashion. So 49:08.300 --> 49:13.620 Here's here's Jesus's point when he's asking this question. I think is a really hilarious question 49:13.620 --> 49:18.460 He says weather is easier like weather of these two things which of these two things is 49:19.460 --> 49:26.480 Easier to tell someone your sins be forgiven you or to tell someone who's paralyzed 49:26.940 --> 49:29.440 Rise up take up your bed and walk 49:30.160 --> 49:35.540 You know think about this for me if I were to give this assignment to you. Okay, like alright you have two choices 49:36.100 --> 49:39.700 It's like, they're, they're both impossible, right? 49:39.900 --> 49:42.540 Like if you were to give this assignment to me, I would just say, which is easier. 49:42.740 --> 49:45.820 They're both equally, uh, impossible for me. 49:46.220 --> 49:47.380 It doesn't matter which one I pick. 49:47.380 --> 49:47.980 It's impossible. 49:48.300 --> 49:50.340 And this is what he, this is what he's trying to get across. 49:50.660 --> 49:54.060 If I just did one thing that is impossible. 49:59.400 --> 50:05.000 That's impossible. That's what he's saying, right? He's saying hey, you know, you're saying who can forgive sins, but God only 50:05.240 --> 50:10.040 Let me help you out, which is easier of these two things. It's like, uh, well neither's easy 50:10.280 --> 50:13.000 Both are actually impossible without who? 50:13.640 --> 50:15.640 God 50:17.800 --> 50:24.640 But with God these things are possible. And so what is he showing? What is he saying of himself? He's preaching that he's God 50:24.640 --> 50:27.920 That's what he's doing. He's saying hey, I am the son of man 50:27.920 --> 50:32.420 I am the son of God and really what he's preaching is that he is God go to Ephesians chapter 3 50:33.320 --> 50:39.120 Ephesians chapter number 3 and you know if these people's hearts were not hard 50:39.640 --> 50:43.240 What this should have done is been like wow. This is a miracle 50:43.800 --> 50:47.200 Wow, this is the son of God. Wow. This is the true Messiah 50:47.400 --> 50:52.840 But because these people had heart in their hearts the miracle did not affect them 50:52.840 --> 50:57.600 And you know what's funny is some people have this idea of like well God 50:57.600 --> 51:02.800 I'll believe in you if you show me a miracle, you know, those people are complete liars 51:03.080 --> 51:10.700 They are lying to themselves because you know what there were people who saw miracles that heart in their hearts. How about Pharaoh? 51:11.700 --> 51:18.780 Moses and Aaron is going up to Pharaoh thus say at the Lord let my people go your rivers turning to blood 51:19.140 --> 51:24.500 Your land is cursed with frogs. You're being cursed with thick darkness that could be felt 51:24.500 --> 51:30.760 You know, you're having all these different curses from God. And what does the Bible keep saying the Pharaoh did he hardened his heart? 51:31.300 --> 51:36.580 He hardened his heart here. You just saw the Lord Jesus Christ and you say well, you know if Jesus was in front of me 51:36.580 --> 51:38.580 I would believe in him. Okay, here's Jesus 51:39.320 --> 51:41.320 Performing miracles in front of people 51:41.540 --> 51:49.020 He's forgiving people sins and he's taking someone who's completely paralyzed and just saying rise up and walk 51:49.020 --> 51:52.640 And he just gets up and he walks into these people believe on him. No 51:53.700 --> 51:57.140 You know what this is? This is the road to a reprobation if you will. 51:57.140 --> 52:01.860 This is the reprobate road right here is when someone just gets truth, 52:01.860 --> 52:07.140 some truth is revealed to them and instead of allowing that truth to penetrate their heart 52:07.140 --> 52:12.500 and converting, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, they take that truth and they harden their heart. 52:12.500 --> 52:16.580 You know what that that happens is now it's harder in the future for them to accept truth again. 52:17.100 --> 52:23.100 Every time someone who is not saved rejects the gospel, they are in danger. 52:23.400 --> 52:29.240 They are going down a very dangerous road and look I don't know I believe it's probably different for every person 52:29.240 --> 52:34.700 I don't think it's like well you hear the gospel this number of times and God gives you over to a reprobate mind 52:34.780 --> 52:39.380 But look there can come a point as a punishment from God if you read Romans 1 52:39.540 --> 52:44.740 Where you harden your heart you reject God you harden your heart enough times where God says, okay 52:44.740 --> 52:48.300 I'll reject you. I'll give you over to a reprobate mind 52:49.100 --> 52:53.940 The book of John it talks about how though he did so many miracles in front of them yet 52:53.940 --> 52:56.080 They what could not believe 52:56.780 --> 53:00.520 Right, and it's like hey, well, what if they believe well if they believe they'd be saved 53:00.520 --> 53:03.340 But there's some people to get to a point where they can't believe 53:03.940 --> 53:09.700 Because here's the thing if you're not gonna accept the preaching of Jesus Christ if you're not gonna accept his words 53:10.060 --> 53:14.760 And you're not gonna accept his miracles. What else is there to provide for that person? 53:15.300 --> 53:21.380 What else can Jesus do? He preaches. He does miracles. If you just want to reject him. Okay. Well, then just be damned to hell then 53:21.780 --> 53:23.140 That's your choice 53:23.140 --> 53:29.300 And you know what? That's what happened to the majority of the jews. He came unto his own and his own received him not 53:31.460 --> 53:33.460 Ephesians 3 look verse number 20 53:34.000 --> 53:36.860 Says now unto him that is able to do 53:37.800 --> 53:40.080 exceeding abundantly above all 53:40.720 --> 53:45.880 That we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us 53:45.880 --> 53:51.000 We got to remember that Jesus is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think 53:51.720 --> 53:53.720 Right the the rational 53:54.400 --> 53:58.680 Humanistic mind could not think hey, we're gonna bring a paralyzed person 53:59.200 --> 54:05.060 This guy Jesus and all of a sudden he's gonna be healed but you know what Jesus is the great physician and so today 54:05.060 --> 54:05.820 What should we be doing? 54:05.820 --> 54:12.460 We should be bringing our prayer requests to Jesus because the same Jesus that could just heal a paralyzed man 54:12.580 --> 54:17.540 Can help us today with our health ailments or anything we have going on 54:18.140 --> 54:20.140 Go back to mark chapter number two 54:20.860 --> 54:24.460 Mark chapter two reminds me of Philippians 413 says I can do all things 54:25.500 --> 54:32.780 Through christ which strengthent with me. Hey, what's easier to forgive sins or to heal this person? Neither are easy 54:33.020 --> 54:39.180 Both are impossible, but I could do all things through christ which strengthent with me mark 2 verse 13 54:39.980 --> 54:45.580 And he went forth again by the by the seaside and all the multitude resorted unto him and he taught them 54:46.140 --> 54:49.760 And as he passed by he saw levi that's matthew 54:50.200 --> 54:51.880 the son of alphaeus 54:51.880 --> 54:57.720 sitting notice at the receipt of custom and said unto him follow me 54:58.280 --> 55:00.600 And he rose and followed him. So this is 55:01.160 --> 55:04.140 Matthew in the gospel of mark. He's called levi 55:04.900 --> 55:07.620 And it says that he's sitting at the receipt of custom 55:07.620 --> 55:13.620 But when you read the parallel accounts in luke, it's not that he's just sitting there geographically 55:13.620 --> 55:17.700 He kind of just happened to be there, but he himself actually is a tax collector 55:17.700 --> 55:23.380 Let me read this for you luke 527 and after these things he went forth and saw a 55:24.000 --> 55:28.740 Publican right? So that's a tax collector named levi sitting at the receipt of custom 55:29.380 --> 55:31.000 And he said unto unto him 55:31.200 --> 55:38.760 Follow me now the publicans. It's kind of like you know the public sector public workers the publicans by and large 55:39.060 --> 55:40.980 were despised 55:40.980 --> 55:48.100 By the local Jewish population the reason why is because you have the Romans that have they're the occupying force 55:48.100 --> 55:53.760 They're the occupying government and the Jews kind of saw the publicans as kind of being a sellout or 55:54.060 --> 55:59.020 Trader to their nation because the publicans were working directly for the Roman government 55:59.300 --> 56:06.300 Levi, Matthew, he is a Jew, ethnically, if you will, but he is employed by the Roman government. 56:06.300 --> 56:13.300 For that reason alone, Levi would be a man that's just despised, hated, not liked whatsoever by his community. 56:13.300 --> 56:21.300 Also, of course, like today, these government publicans, these tax collectors, they often were greedy 56:21.300 --> 56:26.300 and did all sorts of non-kosher things, for lack of a better term, stealing money. 56:27.200 --> 56:32.740 Taking you know charging people more than the taxes. They were actually owed and just taking that left over, right? 56:32.740 --> 56:35.120 And I don't know if Matthew himself was guilty of that 56:35.120 --> 56:39.520 But obviously the publicans are spoken of negatively throughout the Bible 56:39.640 --> 56:46.000 But why do I point all that out because Matthew the publican he's given an invitation 56:46.560 --> 56:52.000 By Jesus even though he doesn't work a prestigious job. He works a job that's looked down upon 56:52.480 --> 56:55.200 He's in a position that's hated by his fellow countrymen 56:55.200 --> 57:01.200 But Jesus still offers him to follow him and of course Matthew ends up following him 57:01.200 --> 57:06.920 And you know that goes to show is the fact that Jesus does not mind the sinful following him 57:07.200 --> 57:11.420 You know, that's good news for me and for you because you know what we're sinful 57:11.900 --> 57:13.400 We're nothing special. 57:13.400 --> 57:17.200 And many of us are even looked down upon and despised 57:17.200 --> 57:20.200 by our neighbors, by people in this community. 57:20.200 --> 57:22.700 But Jesus had no problem walking up to someone like that 57:22.700 --> 57:25.300 and saying, hey, follow me. 57:25.300 --> 57:27.800 Right, and we shouldn't get this aristocratic, 57:27.800 --> 57:30.400 holier-than-now idea. 57:30.400 --> 57:31.600 Especially people that just like... 57:32.200 --> 57:35.700 Modern day, it's kind of like people looking down on blue collar workers 57:35.700 --> 57:40.860 You know if you've seen that that mentality before where it's like, you know, you want to look down on blue collar workers 57:41.000 --> 57:43.560 That just drives me crazy drives me nuts 57:43.920 --> 57:45.820 I'm not saying Matthew's blue collar worker 57:45.820 --> 57:48.960 Obviously he's not but I'm just saying that's kind of an attitude that we see in our society 57:49.440 --> 57:55.120 That kind of drives me crazy but go to Hebrews chapter number two if you would Hebrews chapter number two 57:55.120 --> 57:58.960 You know, Jesus is not ashamed to be followed by sinners 58:01.200 --> 58:03.960 That's good news for me and good news for you 58:04.780 --> 58:06.540 Hebrews 2 look at verse 9 58:06.540 --> 58:11.580 Says but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death 58:12.000 --> 58:18.940 Crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man for it became him 58:19.500 --> 58:26.020 For whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory 58:26.280 --> 58:32.900 To make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings for both he that sanctify it and 58:33.460 --> 58:39.660 They who are sanctified are all of one notice this for which cause he is not ashamed 58:40.340 --> 58:45.060 To call them brethren boy. What a humbling thought to think 58:45.500 --> 58:48.780 That the lord jesus christ is not ashamed of us 58:49.660 --> 58:54.060 And you know what is there stuff to be ashamed regarding us? Yeah, because we're sinners 58:54.380 --> 58:59.260 But the bible says that jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren 58:59.420 --> 59:04.540 You know, we should praise the lord for that we should be thankful for that and you know what let's turn this around 59:05.100 --> 59:07.100 And and flip this the other way 59:07.100 --> 59:09.360 We should not be ashamed of jesus 59:10.100 --> 59:16.020 Mean if Jesus is not ashamed of the public in he walks up to the public and he gives him the offer. Hey follow me 59:16.300 --> 59:19.780 I'll let you follow me even though you're lower in society 59:19.780 --> 59:24.760 You're looked at as bad you're looked at as as kind of a rough person and God says hey 59:24.760 --> 59:28.380 He's not ashamed to call us brethren. Should I then be ashamed of Jesus? 59:28.780 --> 59:32.180 Should we then be ashamed of Jesus? Absolutely not but you know 59:32.180 --> 59:37.180 There's so many Christians today where God wasn't ashamed of them when he died for them on the cross 59:38.000 --> 59:42.880 He wasn't ashamed to go and just take your sin and to die in our place 59:43.040 --> 59:46.000 But then there's many christians that are ashamed of jesus christ 59:47.200 --> 59:49.840 At least ashamed what to confess him openly? 59:50.400 --> 59:54.400 Right, there's some people they believe in christ they've called upon the name of the lord. They're saved 59:54.800 --> 59:56.800 But boy, they don't want to tell their family that 59:57.040 --> 01:00:00.320 They don't want to tell their co-workers that they would never go knock on a door 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:02.700 And invite someone to church 01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:06.000 They would never ask someone if they were 100% sure if they died today 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:10.880 Are they going to go to heaven boy? They would never get up and preach the rough parts of the Bible 01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:17.580 But here's the thing if Jesus is not ashamed of me. Why in the world would I be ashamed of Leviticus 2013? 01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:19.600 That's the words of Jesus 01:00:19.640 --> 01:00:26.000 Why would I be ashamed of God's teaching on divorce and remarriage? You know, this world's ashamed of it 01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:28.340 They say, oh, that's extreme. 01:00:28.340 --> 01:00:31.540 That's fanatic to say one man and one woman. 01:00:31.540 --> 01:00:32.260 Well, you know what? 01:00:32.260 --> 01:00:35.300 Jesus said that is one man and one woman. 01:00:35.300 --> 01:00:38.740 Jesus, the Bible says that God hateth putting away. 01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:39.340 And so you know what? 01:00:39.340 --> 01:00:42.540 I'm not ashamed to say that God hates divorce. 01:00:42.540 --> 01:00:44.900 Oh, you know, you should be ashamed of yourself 01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:47.140 for being a funny, duddy fundamentalist 01:00:47.140 --> 01:00:48.500 that can't have any fun. 01:00:48.500 --> 01:00:50.500 You know, the Bible says, look not thou on the wine 01:00:50.500 --> 01:00:51.140 when it's red. 01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:55.900 When it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself right, I'm not ashamed to say, 01:00:55.900 --> 01:00:57.580 hey, I don't drink alcohol. 01:00:57.580 --> 01:00:58.900 I don't drink that crap. 01:00:58.900 --> 01:01:00.820 I don't drink that garbage. 01:01:00.820 --> 01:01:05.620 You know, that poison that makes people act like fools, that makes people say blasphemous 01:01:05.620 --> 01:01:10.500 things, that makes people, your eyes behold strange women, that makes you get into fights 01:01:10.500 --> 01:01:14.380 you didn't even want to start, that makes you get into a drunk driving accident. 01:01:14.380 --> 01:01:17.220 Why in the world would I be ashamed of what the Bible says? 01:01:17.220 --> 01:01:19.100 These drugs should be ashamed in our society. 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:25.120 Why would I be ashamed what the stupid Jewish newspaper the Oklahoma thinks about Leviticus 01:01:25.120 --> 01:01:26.120 2013? 01:01:26.120 --> 01:01:28.800 The Bible says that sodomites should be put to death. 01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:34.400 Why in the world would I be ashamed of Deuteronomy 22.5 that says that a man shall not put on 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.920 that which pertaineth unto a woman, neither shall a woman wear that which pertaineth unto 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:40.560 a man, that all that do so are an abomination? 01:01:40.560 --> 01:01:41.560 Why would I be ashamed of that? 01:01:41.560 --> 01:01:42.880 You know who should be ashamed? 01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:43.880 Cross dressers. 01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:46.120 You know who should be ashamed? 01:01:46.120 --> 01:01:47.280 Men that wear dresses. 01:01:47.600 --> 01:01:49.600 Men that wear dresses! 01:01:49.600 --> 01:01:51.600 Faggots that wear dresses! 01:01:51.600 --> 01:01:54.600 How about ladies that wear pants? 01:01:54.600 --> 01:01:56.600 Ladies that wear pants! 01:01:56.600 --> 01:01:58.600 I said ladies that wear pants! 01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:00.600 The Bible says no. 01:02:00.600 --> 01:02:02.600 Man, you should be ashamed of preaching like that. 01:02:02.600 --> 01:02:04.600 This is 2026. 01:02:04.600 --> 01:02:06.600 You are a Neanderthal. 01:02:06.900 --> 01:02:08.680 You should be ashamed of yourself. 01:02:08.680 --> 01:02:13.380 Where are your purple lights and your smoke and your skinny jeans and your girls in the 01:02:13.380 --> 01:02:14.380 yoga pants? 01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:15.380 You know what? 01:02:15.380 --> 01:02:17.380 I'm not ashamed of Jesus Christ. 01:02:17.380 --> 01:02:21.460 If He wasn't ashamed of me, why would I ever be ashamed of Him? 01:02:21.460 --> 01:02:22.460 And you know what? 01:02:22.460 --> 01:02:23.860 If I come to the Word of God, 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:28.140 There's something that I didn't know that was in the scripture that there's a way 01:02:28.140 --> 01:02:31.120 I've been living my life and the Bible reproves me and I say wow I'm wrong 01:02:31.120 --> 01:02:34.080 You know what I should be ashamed of how I've been living 01:02:34.080 --> 01:02:39.720 I shouldn't be ashamed of the Bible and sit here and judge the Bible and criticize the Bible 01:02:39.720 --> 01:02:41.700 You know what? I'm the one that's messed up 01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:47.780 I'm the one that's the sinner. I'm I'm the Levi right where it's just like the public and the guy looking down upon 01:02:47.780 --> 01:02:50.460 You know, what a privilege that I get to follow Jesus Christ 01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:55.820 What a privilege that he's not ashamed of me what a privilege that I have his words right here 01:02:55.820 --> 01:02:57.820 You know, that's the attitude that we should have today 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:02.220 Go if you would to mark chapter number eight. We'll go we'll go ahead a few chapters here 01:03:02.940 --> 01:03:06.560 Look what Jesus Christ said mark chapter number eight verse 38 01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:13.640 It says whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me notice and of my words 01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:19.880 In this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the son of man be ashamed 01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:24.040 When he cometh in the glory of his father with the holy angels 01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:26.520 That's scary 01:03:26.520 --> 01:03:29.240 I don't want jesus christ to be ashamed of me 01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:34.540 But you know when jesus christ is going to be ashamed of people. It's when we're ashamed of jesus 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:37.000 And when we're ashamed of his words 01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:44.660 You know you will you will feel this unbelievable freedom as a Christian when you just finally get to the point 01:03:44.660 --> 01:03:50.520 Where you say you know what I just I agree with every single thing in this book right here. I love it all 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:55.400 Because you know people try to do you know people try to these these atheists these God haters 01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:57.400 They'll try to find some spicy things in the Bible 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:03.440 And they bring it up to you like it's going to shock you. 01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:03.940 Right? 01:04:03.940 --> 01:04:06.760 They bring it up to you like you're just going to be horrified. 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:09.080 You're going to be apologizing all over yourself. 01:04:09.080 --> 01:04:13.360 But there's this great freedom that happens when they say, 01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:16.600 oh, you know, God said to wipe out the Amalekites. 01:04:16.600 --> 01:04:17.480 How evil. 01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:18.760 And I'm just like, yeah. 01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:20.320 And he was right. 01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:22.480 And God was 100% right. 01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:23.280 Oh, man. 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:25.880 God, he flooded the whole earth. 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:26.100 Thanks for watching! 01:04:26.100 --> 01:04:29.300 He killed everyone, but Noah's family. 01:04:29.300 --> 01:04:30.000 How crazy? 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.360 And it's like, amen. 01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:34.700 Because the Bible says that the thoughts of man 01:04:34.700 --> 01:04:37.780 were only evil continually. 01:04:37.780 --> 01:04:40.580 That violence had just covered the earth. 01:04:40.580 --> 01:04:41.980 Oh, is that God's problem? 01:04:41.980 --> 01:04:42.780 Is that God's fault? 01:04:42.780 --> 01:04:43.820 No. 01:04:43.820 --> 01:04:47.420 Well, did you know that God nuked an entire city full 01:04:47.420 --> 01:04:48.120 of faggots? 01:04:48.120 --> 01:04:50.160 Yeah, I love that story. 01:04:50.160 --> 01:04:51.280 Amen. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:52.020 It's great. 01:04:52.020 --> 01:04:52.400 Thanks. 01:04:52.700 --> 01:04:56.700 Jude tells me to look back at that as an example of how God feels today 01:04:57.200 --> 01:05:01.100 I'm just telling you there's this great freedom that comes when you just you pick up 01:05:01.500 --> 01:05:05.420 Genesis chapter number one and you just say I just believe every single thing in this book 01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:09.260 You know, I'm not gonna sit here and get to Genesis chapter one. It's be like well 01:05:10.240 --> 01:05:17.940 Six days. It's really six six million six million years, right six billion years. No, no 01:05:17.940 --> 01:05:19.900 It's a six day creation 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:22.800 Well, it's a metaphor. No, it's not 01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:26.200 Well, hell is a metaphor for what? 01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:32.720 No, it's not a metaphor. It's real. Oh you you follow a God that's gonna burn people in hell for all of eternity 01:05:33.340 --> 01:05:38.100 Yep, I do and he's the only God that exists and if you believe in him you can be saved from that 01:05:38.100 --> 01:05:40.100 And if not, you'll burn in hell for all of eternity 01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:45.200 You know, when I was interviewed by Israeli public television, he kept asking me over 01:05:45.200 --> 01:05:47.200 and over, what do you have to say to the Jews today? 01:05:47.200 --> 01:05:49.360 I said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:53.280 He says, well, what if they continue to be stiff necked and they hold on to the Jewish 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:54.280 religion? 01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:54.960 I said, they'll all burn in hell. 01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:02.400 Tell you there's a great freedom that comes when you just believe the Bible when you're not ashamed of Jesus Christ 01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:09.480 Go if you would back to mark chapter number two mark chapter number two. Hey if Jesus wasn't ashamed of Levi if 01:06:10.120 --> 01:06:13.740 Jesus isn't ashamed of me boy. I should not be ashamed of him 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:15.800 verse 15 01:06:16.600 --> 01:06:23.800 And it came to pass that as jesus sat at meat in his house many publicans and sinners sat also together with jesus 01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:30.360 And his disciples for there were many they followed him. So notice all all the publican all the sinners are coming to jesus 01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:31.880 Praise god for that 01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:34.920 Right. That's what we want is sinners to follow the lord jesus christ 01:06:36.200 --> 01:06:39.100 And when the scribes and Pharisees that's the jews 01:06:39.200 --> 01:06:43.100 Saw him eat with publicans and sinners. They said unto his disciples 01:06:43.220 --> 01:06:47.480 How is it that he eat it and drink it with publicans and sinners? 01:06:48.260 --> 01:06:53.900 When Jesus heard it he saith unto them they that are whole have no need of the physician 01:06:54.060 --> 01:06:59.920 But they that are sick I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance 01:07:00.540 --> 01:07:03.740 Let me tell you what God hates this holier-than-now attitude 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:07.640 Let our church never have this holier than thou 01:07:08.660 --> 01:07:12.200 Pharisaical attitude where we look down on people, you know 01:07:12.200 --> 01:07:15.480 You see someone with a tattoo and you let all you know, they can't come to our church 01:07:15.680 --> 01:07:18.400 Look, we're gonna preach against tattoos because that's what the Bible says 01:07:18.560 --> 01:07:21.160 But you know what we want people to start following Jesus 01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:26.800 And you know what happens if someone believes on Jesus Christ and then they start following him 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:32.280 They start what walking in the spirit the Bible says walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:35.000 How is it that you start to get these things cleaned up? 01:07:35.160 --> 01:07:37.160 The only way is to start to follow jesus 01:07:37.640 --> 01:07:39.640 And so look don't don't misunderstand 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:45.320 Don't misunderstand hard preaching against sin as like hatred for a person 01:07:46.040 --> 01:07:48.040 Hard preaching is actually love 01:07:48.200 --> 01:07:52.600 Right and look if you're not soul winning and I get up and rip about how if you're not soul winning 01:07:52.600 --> 01:07:57.340 You're not following jesus and you don't love god. That's not because I hate you. That's because I love you 01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:02.140 Right and when I preach on you know controversial topics in our society 01:08:02.140 --> 01:08:09.820 It's not saying like hey, you know if you're not perfect if you're not just a complete new IFB hardcore fundamental Baptist right now today 01:08:09.820 --> 01:08:12.460 You're not worthy of serving God. That's not at all our attitude 01:08:12.460 --> 01:08:16.900 You know the pulpit is a place where we get up we preach the whole counsel of God unashamedly 01:08:17.360 --> 01:08:22.560 But you know what we do we in love and meekness go out to this world and preach the gospel to what every creature? 01:08:23.200 --> 01:08:24.400 every creature 01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:29.380 You know, we don't look at someone and say hey this person looks pretty rough looks like they've lived a rough life 01:08:29.420 --> 01:08:35.920 Look at the gauges look at the tattoos look at the cigarette. You know what forget all that go preach that person the gospel 01:08:36.480 --> 01:08:41.400 Right and you know Jesus had no problem with sinners coming in and following him 01:08:41.620 --> 01:08:48.480 Some people pervert this and twist this you know, like oh, you know, Jesus would go hang out at a gay bar. No, okay 01:08:49.320 --> 01:08:52.260 Jesus personally destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah 01:08:52.700 --> 01:08:55.680 So I don't have to wonder how Jesus feels about the sin of sodomy 01:08:55.740 --> 01:09:00.620 But but this idea, you know that you have to be you know, super perfect or anything like that 01:09:00.620 --> 01:09:03.720 The Pharisees themselves were super evil 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:12.200 When you read Romans chapter number two and Paul is like hey that work called a Jew and you know you're confident that you that were to guide of the blind 01:09:13.160 --> 01:09:21.400 An instructor of the foolish a teacher of babes, you know, but you yourself are saying hey don't commit adultery, but are you committing adultery? 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:25.420 You know, oh thou that of course idols does thou commit sacrilege? 01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:29.860 You know now that make us like both of the law through breaking the law dishonors now God 01:09:30.200 --> 01:09:35.600 What did you say? Therefore the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you as it is written, right? 01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:42.320 So, you know these type of people the Pharisees the scribes the holier than now's if you have that attitude people are gonna end up 01:09:42.320 --> 01:09:45.120 Thinking negatively of God because of that attitude 01:09:46.100 --> 01:09:51.040 It's it's so funny. You know people hear the hard preaching especially people who only ever listen online 01:09:51.040 --> 01:09:55.280 And they kind of get a warped perspective of what a pastor is actually like 01:09:55.920 --> 01:10:00.580 Because all they ever hear is like the hard preaching but then they can say like hey 01:10:00.580 --> 01:10:03.580 Can I even visit your church if I wear makeup? 01:10:03.580 --> 01:10:09.040 It's like I don't care you know can I visit your church if I own a television? 01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:13.160 What do you think I'm gonna say to that like do you really think I care right? 01:10:13.700 --> 01:10:19.220 Hey, you know, we're all growing at different levels and the Bible tells us in first Corinthians 5 01:10:19.220 --> 01:10:23.060 There are very specific reasons why someone would not be allowed to attend church 01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:24.800 fornication 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:26.640 drunkenness 01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:27.880 idolatry 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:35.240 Railing right these type of things the Bible says put away from among yourselves that wicked person with such-and-one don't even eat 01:10:35.360 --> 01:10:39.640 Okay, but here's the thing everything else we're growing we're at different stages 01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:45.680 And yes, I am gonna preach against your sin, but that does not mean that I don't love you or I don't want you here 01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:49.480 No, I do want you here and I want you to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ 01:10:50.120 --> 01:10:52.120 That's the attitude that we should have 01:10:52.700 --> 01:10:54.700 Because here's the thing. Nobody has arrived 01:10:55.100 --> 01:10:56.220 Nobody 01:10:56.220 --> 01:10:58.460 Right. We we all in a way are levi 01:10:58.940 --> 01:11:05.660 We all in a way are that publican where it's like we're just sinners that get the great opportunity and blessing to follow. Jesus christ 01:11:06.300 --> 01:11:08.300 The greatest of men are men at best 01:11:08.940 --> 01:11:11.100 Go to luke chapter number 14 luke chapter number 14 01:11:14.220 --> 01:11:19.920 He said I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, you know jesus went after people considered 01:11:20.400 --> 01:11:25.760 Less desirable by the world, you know, we should have the exact same attitude of soul winners 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:30.200 There's a lot of churches that would turn up their nose. There's a lot of churches 01:11:30.200 --> 01:11:34.280 They would never dream of going into the ghetto to preach the gospel 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:40.360 There's a lot of churches they would never in their their wildest dream consider swat soul winning 01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:45.880 Going soul winning where homicides happen a lot of people never in their wildest dreams imagine that but you know what? 01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:51.480 That's the attitude that we should have is we should go after people that are deemed undesirable by this community 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:53.800 Look at luke 14 verse 16 01:11:54.360 --> 01:11:57.480 Then said he unto him a certain man made a great supper and bade 01:11:58.040 --> 01:12:01.740 Many and of course the bible says whosoever will may come 01:12:02.200 --> 01:12:05.240 The Lord Jesus Christ has made many to be saved 01:12:05.240 --> 01:12:10.200 In fact, he's made the whole world to be saved verse 17 and sent his servant at suppertime 01:12:10.420 --> 01:12:16.040 To say to them that we're bitten come for all things are now ready and they all with one consent 01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:18.520 began to make excuse 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:21.480 Boy, if you're a soul winner, you know what you're gonna hear a lot of excuses 01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:26.520 When you go and preach the gospel why someone doesn't want to get saved or why someone doesn't want to listen 01:12:27.700 --> 01:12:34.000 The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it. 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:36.400 I pray thee have me excused. 01:12:36.400 --> 01:12:38.180 That's a weird excuse. 01:12:38.180 --> 01:12:41.380 Is your land going to disappear during the wedding? 01:12:41.380 --> 01:12:42.680 It's land, it's ground. 01:12:42.680 --> 01:12:44.160 It's fine, it'll be there. 01:12:44.160 --> 01:12:45.160 Right? 01:12:45.160 --> 01:12:49.040 Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them. 01:12:49.040 --> 01:12:51.100 I pray thee have me excused. 01:12:51.100 --> 01:12:53.160 Some people's excuse is they're stupid animals. 01:12:53.700 --> 01:12:59.780 Sometimes it's the dog you knock on the door and the dog the demon dog from hell comes out starts barking 01:12:59.780 --> 01:13:03.200 And their excuses they can't listen the gospel because they're stupid dog 01:13:03.780 --> 01:13:05.900 It's funny how similar these things are 01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:15.180 Another said oh, I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come here's your ex new wifey all right ladies in charge 01:13:15.180 --> 01:13:18.740 Hey, I can't I can't I just got married the boss said no all right 01:13:19.300 --> 01:13:20.700 verse 21 01:13:20.800 --> 01:13:26.000 So that servant came and showed his lord these things then the master of the house being angry 01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:32.240 Said to his servant go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:38.560 And the maimed and the halts and the blinds. What's that the undesirable? 01:13:39.280 --> 01:13:40.160 Right 01:13:40.160 --> 01:13:47.700 And hey, we should have no shame or no qualms whatsoever about going after the undesirable with the gospel of jesus christ 01:13:48.200 --> 01:13:51.960 And you know what's funny is the world may look at them as undesirable, but you know 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:56.760 God's chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the things that are wise. 01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:01.960 He's chosen the weak things of this world to confound that which is mighty. 01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:06.920 And it's often the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind that has any interest in the 01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:08.240 gospel anyways. 01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:13.120 And you know what, let's go after the undesirable areas, 01:14:13.120 --> 01:14:15.000 the lower income areas, because you know what, 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:17.320 those are the people that often get saved. 01:14:17.320 --> 01:14:21.000 You're not going to get a lot of people saved at Galardia. 01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:23.160 You're not going to get a lot of people saved up 01:14:23.160 --> 01:14:25.040 at Nichols Hills, right? 01:14:25.040 --> 01:14:26.800 Now, I'm not saying none of them can, 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:28.440 but it's going to be rare. 01:14:28.440 --> 01:14:32.400 But you know what, you go to the ghetto areas of this metro, 01:14:32.400 --> 01:14:34.700 and you're going to be pulling in fish like crazy. 01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:42.220 And the Lord said unto the servant go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house 01:14:42.780 --> 01:14:44.540 May be filled 01:14:44.540 --> 01:14:48.460 For I say unto you that none of those men which were bitten shall taste of my supper 01:14:48.700 --> 01:14:51.500 Hey, let's go out and compel those to come in 01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:55.900 You know just like the four men that were bearing the man with the palsy 01:14:55.900 --> 01:15:00.260 Hey, they were they were stubborn trying to get him to the Lord Jesus Christ. They were persistent 01:15:00.260 --> 01:15:03.340 They're working hard at it. They're going through obstacles to do it 01:15:03.340 --> 01:15:07.700 Hey, let's compel people to come to Christ not just give up at the slightest 01:15:07.700 --> 01:15:13.900 You know inconvenience that you have let's work hard to get people safe. Hey, let's compel people to come to church 01:15:13.900 --> 01:15:16.620 That's a lot harder, you know to than getting people 01:15:19.700 --> 01:15:22.300 Say a lot easier said than done, but you know what? 01:15:22.300 --> 01:15:24.900 I'm sure there's people in our lives that we could bring to church 01:15:25.020 --> 01:15:28.300 Sure, there's neighbors or family or friends that we could bring to church 01:15:28.300 --> 01:15:31.440 Hey, we should be constantly trying to compel people to come in 01:15:32.220 --> 01:15:36.200 Verse number 18 go back to mark chapter number 2 mark 2 verse 18 01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:47.340 Says in the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast and they come and say unto him 01:15:47.440 --> 01:15:53.940 Why did the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast but thy disciples fast not notice how the Pharisees? 01:15:54.040 --> 01:15:56.120 All they could do is just criticize 01:15:56.760 --> 01:16:00.680 Like do these guys ever have anything positive to say do they ever have anything? 01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:05.580 You know profitable to add to life man. There's some people are just negative 01:16:06.400 --> 01:16:08.400 Stay away from negative people 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:14.540 There's just some people in life doesn't matter what you're doing. You could be you know healing paralyzed people for crying out loud 01:16:14.540 --> 01:16:20.640 And there's still gonna be haters. There's still gonna be critics and look not to say you can't ever raise a concern 01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:23.060 Hey, have you ever thought about you know this program? 01:16:23.060 --> 01:16:28.500 We ever thought about this improvement in your methodology, but don't be around people that are just always negative 01:16:29.500 --> 01:16:35.500 Those people are just gonna kill your spirit. Those people are just annoying to be around and of course, you know, we don't have 01:16:36.160 --> 01:16:42.260 The perfect flesh of Jesus Christ. We might get ourselves into trouble being around people that just make you that mad because it's just annoying 01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:44.960 But notice the answer he gives 01:16:45.040 --> 01:16:50.580 In verse number 19 and Jesus said unto them can the children of the bride chamber fast? 01:16:51.140 --> 01:16:53.280 While the bridegroom is with them 01:16:53.900 --> 01:16:57.340 As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 01:16:57.340 --> 01:17:01.900 You know, when you're with, when you're at a wedding and you're with the groom, 01:17:01.900 --> 01:17:05.100 would that be an appropriate time to be fasting? 01:17:05.100 --> 01:17:08.300 Or is that a time of celebration and joy, right? 01:17:08.300 --> 01:17:12.300 You know, imagine you go to a wedding and they cater all this nice food, 01:17:12.300 --> 01:17:16.060 they cater dessert, and everyone's like, no, I'm fasting. 01:17:16.060 --> 01:17:17.100 It's like, that's annoying. 01:17:17.500 --> 01:17:20.460 You know, don't stop taking yourself so seriously man. It's like have some fun 01:17:20.940 --> 01:17:25.100 It's like would it be appropriate to fast when you're literally with the lord jesus christ? No 01:17:26.140 --> 01:17:31.420 Right once he's gone, then it's time to fast. Look look what it says in verse 20, but the days will come 01:17:32.220 --> 01:17:36.100 When the bridegroom shall be taken away from them for telling of his death 01:17:36.300 --> 01:17:40.400 Then shall they fast in those days, so you know fasting right now 01:17:40.400 --> 01:17:47.700 It's a form of self affliction and now in these days that is an appropriate thing to do because of the fact that Jesus is 01:17:47.980 --> 01:17:53.160 Physically gone right and so we often you know when there's a really serious matter in your life 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:58.880 Something you really want to get God's attention with it's a good idea to pray and fast 01:17:59.280 --> 01:18:01.400 That's something that's a form of self affliction 01:18:01.980 --> 01:18:07.340 Showing God that you're very serious about your desires and your needs and your prayer requests 01:18:07.340 --> 01:18:11.240 You know God can look at that and have respect under that and answer your prayers 01:18:11.320 --> 01:18:13.420 But obviously while he was in the flesh that was not 01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:15.500 appropriate 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:23.800 You know, one time, just a side story, one time I heard probably, this had to have been like the top five of the stupidest sermons I've ever heard in my life. 01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:29.800 This guy, he asked me some advice. He said, hey, I'm about to preach my first ever sermon. 01:18:29.800 --> 01:18:35.800 And, you know, my pastor gave me the opportunity. I'm going to preach my first ever sermon. He's like, can you give me some advice? 01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:40.800 I said, yes. Preach a simple topic that you know really well. 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:43.760 Right? Your very first topic. 01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:51.400 And I said this, I said, hey, there is nothing that you could say that is more interesting than what the Bible already says. 01:18:51.400 --> 01:18:53.200 There's a preaching tip for everyone. 01:18:53.200 --> 01:19:00.000 The Bible is what needs to be preached, not you trying to be theatrical or put on a show or doing a comedy routine. 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:01.400 The Bible is what needs to be preached. 01:19:01.400 --> 01:19:02.720 This is the advice I gave him. 01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:05.000 He said, OK, I saw he preached it. 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:05.920 I put it on YouTube. 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:08.040 I'm like, hey, you know, I gave this person some advice. 01:19:08.040 --> 01:19:08.920 I'm going to see how he did. 01:19:09.500 --> 01:19:12.900 His first ever sermon, he takes the pulpit and he goes, 01:19:12.900 --> 01:19:17.900 I have judged the church this evening and I have found you wanting. 01:19:17.900 --> 01:19:21.100 Bad way to start a sermon, okay? 01:19:21.100 --> 01:19:25.900 Especially as your first sermon ever as a layman is just mega cringe. 01:19:25.900 --> 01:19:30.100 He gets up and he preaches a whole sermon about how fasting is easy. 01:19:30.100 --> 01:19:33.900 Which I don't know if you realize it, fasting is not easy. 01:19:34.200 --> 01:19:40.400 But here's like fasting is self affliction right you're afflicting your flesh to get God's attention 01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:46.160 And he's like hey, you know fasting is easy. He's like is it really that hard to fast is it really that hard? 01:19:46.160 --> 01:19:50.360 It's not that difficult. It's like that's kind of the whole point of fasting is that it is hard 01:19:50.360 --> 01:19:56.440 And then he gets up and brags about how he forces his pregnant wife to fast 01:19:57.040 --> 01:19:59.040 17 hours a day 01:20:02.100 --> 01:20:05.700 And then he starts bragging about how long he has fasted. 01:20:05.700 --> 01:20:07.660 And you know, the church orders pizza. 01:20:07.660 --> 01:20:10.300 No, I'm fasting. 01:20:10.300 --> 01:20:12.220 I can't partake of anything. 01:20:12.220 --> 01:20:13.980 So not part of the sermon, but yeah, 01:20:13.980 --> 01:20:15.500 that was probably one of the worst sermons 01:20:15.500 --> 01:20:17.860 I've ever heard in my life. 01:20:17.860 --> 01:20:19.060 If you preach a sermon, 01:20:19.060 --> 01:20:21.980 preach something that you know really well, all right? 01:20:21.980 --> 01:20:25.060 Back to the story here, verse number 21. 01:20:25.060 --> 01:20:26.300 Jesus said, no man. 01:20:26.500 --> 01:20:31.980 Also, so with a piece of a new cloth on an old garment else the new piece that filled it up 01:20:32.420 --> 01:20:37.420 Take it away from the old and the rent is made worse, right? 01:20:37.420 --> 01:20:42.260 So that new garment if it if it shrinks at all, then it's gonna pull that older 01:20:42.940 --> 01:20:47.000 Garment, it's gonna tear it then it says no man put its new line into old bottles 01:20:47.020 --> 01:20:52.180 Else the new wine death burst the bottles and the wine is spilled and the bottles will be marred 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:55.720 But new wine must be put into new bottles. 01:20:55.720 --> 01:20:59.880 Of course, if there's any fermentation happening in a bottle, 01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:03.120 that's like an older wine skin, older animal skin. 01:21:03.120 --> 01:21:07.480 As that expands, it can cause it to blow up and be destroyed. 01:21:07.480 --> 01:21:08.920 Go to Hebrews chapter 8. 01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:15.520 I believe what this is picturing here is the fact that Jesus Christ is bringing in the New Testament. 01:21:16.100 --> 01:21:23.540 He's bringing in the New Testament and I think what this kind of parable is giving is that it's not appropriate to 01:21:23.780 --> 01:21:25.780 Mix the two covenants, right? 01:21:25.980 --> 01:21:32.180 Because there's certain things in the in the Old Testament that the Bible says have been specifically done away with right? 01:21:32.180 --> 01:21:34.980 so when it comes to like moral teachings and 01:21:35.420 --> 01:21:41.620 And you know criminal law moral laws of the Old Testament all of those things still stand the Bible makes that very clear 01:21:42.200 --> 01:21:48.340 But you know, for example, you know today in my Bible reading I was in Leviticus and in Leviticus chapter number 15 01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:52.680 You're there in Hebrews chapter 8. Let me just go to the biggest chapter number 15 real quick 01:21:53.400 --> 01:21:58.220 Leviticus chapter 15 boy riveting riveting subject. It's about Bob bodily discharge 01:21:58.220 --> 01:22:03.400 Okay, the laws of bodily discharge fluids, man. The Bible talks about everything 01:22:03.400 --> 01:22:05.400 Let me tell you if you never read the Bible it talks about absolutely everything 01:22:05.720 --> 01:22:09.860 But you know people read that and be like well are all of these, you know 01:22:10.540 --> 01:22:16.720 Ceremonial laws in effect today, you know this certain amount of time after lying with a woman or stuff like that 01:22:17.120 --> 01:22:19.120 Well Leviticus 15 verse 33 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:23.980 Says or is it Leviticus 14 I'm thinking of 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:28.200 Let's see... 01:22:32.300 --> 01:22:35.500 Or is it Leviticus chapter number 13? 01:22:37.180 --> 01:22:40.300 Man, I'm gonna lose the verse I'm thinking of. 01:22:40.300 --> 01:22:42.380 But there's some verse that I'm thinking of 01:22:42.380 --> 01:22:43.820 that basically talks about like, 01:22:43.820 --> 01:22:46.060 hey, all of this has to do with 01:22:46.060 --> 01:22:48.020 when you're going to the tabernacle. 01:22:48.020 --> 01:22:49.100 Oh, verse 31, it says, 01:22:49.100 --> 01:22:51.000 thus shall you separate the children of Israel 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:52.560 from their uncleanness, 01:22:52.560 --> 01:22:54.740 that they die not in their uncleanness. 01:22:54.900 --> 01:23:01.900 When they defile my tabernacle that is among them. So all of these laws had to do with 01:23:02.340 --> 01:23:07.700 Making yourself clean for when you go to the tabernacle now is the tabernacle still a thing. Yes or no 01:23:07.900 --> 01:23:14.700 No, it is not right. So these specific laws would be done away in the New Testament. Okay, so 01:23:15.380 --> 01:23:20.180 Mixing those things mixing the Old Covenant and the New Covenant would not be appropriate Hebrews chapter 8 verse 6 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:29.060 Says this but now have he obtained a notice more excellent ministry by how much also he is the mediator of a notice better 01:23:29.440 --> 01:23:32.480 Covenant which was established upon better 01:23:33.280 --> 01:23:39.420 Promises it's like hey, what what's better the new garment or the old the new what's better the new bottles or the old the new 01:23:40.160 --> 01:23:41.800 New covenant is better 01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:48.720 For if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second for finding fault with them 01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:54.400 He saith behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:56.760 with the house of Judah 01:23:57.200 --> 01:23:59.000 Go to Hebrews 10 01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:02.100 Hebrews chapter number 10 verse number 9 it says 01:24:02.620 --> 01:24:08.760 Then said he lo I come to do thy will. Oh God. He taketh away the first 01:24:09.400 --> 01:24:16.440 That he may establish the second by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of jesus christ 01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:18.680 once for all so notice 01:24:18.680 --> 01:24:24.360 This this new covenant. It's it's taking away the first covenant and he's establishing the second 01:24:24.680 --> 01:24:28.920 He's not trying to you know, sew on that new piece of clothing onto the old 01:24:29.240 --> 01:24:33.080 He's not trying to put that new line into old bottles. It's just the new 01:24:33.860 --> 01:24:36.520 Covenant now go to hebrew chapter number seven 01:24:37.500 --> 01:24:41.380 And of course when I mean mixing covenants, I'm not saying hey get rid of the Old Testament 01:24:41.380 --> 01:24:43.660 I'm not saying get rid of the law some people go way too far 01:24:43.940 --> 01:24:49.580 But some people say like oh, well we have to believe in Jesus and fulfill the law. What is that? 01:24:49.580 --> 01:24:53.960 That's trying to mix these things and of course the Apostle Paul said I'll read for you 01:24:54.180 --> 01:24:58.700 Galatians 2 verse 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law 01:24:59.200 --> 01:25:04.600 But by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might 01:25:04.600 --> 01:25:09.080 be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. 01:25:09.080 --> 01:25:14.000 For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:18.320 This isn't to say that the Old Testament ever did save anyone because it didn't. 01:25:18.700 --> 01:25:23.020 But he's making it very clear here. Hey, you're not justified by the works of the law 01:25:23.420 --> 01:25:28.780 You're not going to be able to put on that new garment onto the old it doesn't mix. It's not going to work 01:25:29.260 --> 01:25:31.900 Hebrew 712 says for the priesthood being changed 01:25:32.620 --> 01:25:37.340 There is made of necessity a change also of the law 01:25:37.820 --> 01:25:40.940 So it's not completely abolished, but it's been changed 01:25:41.580 --> 01:25:42.900 moral laws 01:25:42.900 --> 01:25:48.020 You know criminal law all of that has stayed the same but the ceremonial law the Sabbath 01:25:49.120 --> 01:25:56.660 Circumcision Leviticus 15 those type of laws all of that has been done away with those things were pictures of the true 01:25:56.740 --> 01:25:58.600 Okay, go back to mark chapter number two 01:25:59.200 --> 01:26:07.280 And this idea of not mixing the covenants and and just this concept we're talking about it goes in perfectly with how the chapter continues 01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:12.560 Because notice what it says in verse 23 and it came to pass that he went through the corn fields 01:26:13.120 --> 01:26:18.880 On the sabbath day and his disciples began as they went to pluck the ears of corn 01:26:19.920 --> 01:26:23.540 And the pharaohs he said unto him here they come with their encouraging words again 01:26:24.200 --> 01:26:28.520 Behold why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful? 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:34.240 So once again, they're just watching Jesus ready to accuse him over every little thing 01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:40.280 Ready to pick him and his disciples apart over everything and they're saying hey you guys are doing something that's not lawful 01:26:40.280 --> 01:26:42.440 You guys are doing something that's sin or that's wrong 01:26:43.200 --> 01:26:48.880 But notice Jesus's response verse 25 and he said unto them. Have you never read? 01:26:49.500 --> 01:26:54.980 What David did when he had need and wasn't hungered he and they that were with him 01:26:54.980 --> 01:26:59.420 So he's referring to the story of David and he said that he had a need right? 01:26:59.420 --> 01:27:05.260 He was hungry and guess what Jesus and his disciples are they're hungry. They have a need they're not like hey 01:27:05.260 --> 01:27:09.220 Let's take all this corn and go sell it on eBay when we get home or something like that, right? 01:27:09.220 --> 01:27:11.860 They're gathering for their sustenance to eat 01:27:12.380 --> 01:27:15.400 Verse number 26 how he went into the house of God 01:27:16.200 --> 01:27:23.640 the days of a by the high priest and did eat the showbread which was not lawful to eat for the priests 01:27:24.840 --> 01:27:31.880 But which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, excuse me and gave also to them which were with him now real quick 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:34.800 I know we're getting close on time, but let's refresh ourselves with this story 01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:40.440 Go to first Samuel 21 first Samuel 21 and we'll go ahead and read what Jesus is referring to 01:27:42.300 --> 01:27:48.300 verse Samuel chapter 21 I'll start reading when you get there verse 1 then came David to knob to him elect the priest and 01:27:48.300 --> 01:27:50.980 Him like was afraid at the meeting of David and said unto him 01:27:51.140 --> 01:27:55.420 Why art thou alone and no man with thee and David said unto him elect the priest? 01:27:55.540 --> 01:28:01.100 The king have commanded me a business and have said unto me let no man know anything of the business 01:28:01.100 --> 01:28:04.460 Whereabout I send thee and what I have commanded thee and have appointed 01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:10.660 I have appointed my servants to such and such a place now look David's not a perfect man. He's lying here 01:28:10.660 --> 01:28:17.140 He's not being honest about this appointment that the king sent him on but this isn't the part of the story that Jesus is really 01:28:17.180 --> 01:28:22.220 Focusing in on he's focusing on the next part verse 3 now therefore what is under thine hand? 01:28:22.380 --> 01:28:27.860 Give me five loaves of bread in my hand or what there is present. Just give me whatever you have to eat. Okay 01:28:28.400 --> 01:28:29.800 And the priest answered David and said, 01:28:29.800 --> 01:28:32.680 There is no common bread under my hand, 01:28:32.680 --> 01:28:36.920 but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:39.140 themselves at least from women. 01:28:39.140 --> 01:28:40.640 And David answered the priest and said, 01:28:40.640 --> 01:28:42.520 Of a truth, women have been kept from us 01:28:42.520 --> 01:28:44.720 about these three days, since I came out, 01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:46.680 and the vessels of the young men are holy, 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:48.840 and the bread is, in a manner, common. 01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:50.400 I mean, it looks like regular bread. 01:28:50.400 --> 01:28:52.000 It looks like all the other type of bread. 01:28:52.200 --> 01:28:55.000 Ye though it were sanctified this day in a vessel. 01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:58.160 So David, he didn't meet all the requirements to eat this because he wasn't a priest. 01:28:58.160 --> 01:28:59.160 Right? 01:28:59.160 --> 01:29:01.000 You had to be of the priesthood to lawfully eat of this bread. 01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:02.440 He had one thing going for him. 01:29:02.440 --> 01:29:04.240 He's like, Hey, we've been kept from women. 01:29:04.240 --> 01:29:08.100 You know, the men are holy and that bread, it looks like regular bread. 01:29:08.100 --> 01:29:09.480 Give me what you have. 01:29:09.480 --> 01:29:10.800 Verse six. 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:16.960 So the priest gave him hollow bread for there was no bread there, but the show bread that 01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:19.100 was taken from before the Lord. 01:29:19.200 --> 01:29:25.680 To put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. Go back to mark chapter number two mark chapter number two 01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:28.400 Why does he bring up this story? 01:29:28.400 --> 01:29:33.920 Because he's saying hey look, you know day david shouldn't sit there and just allow himself to literally starve to death 01:29:34.400 --> 01:29:39.520 For this ceremonial law that was given in the old testament, which really what this is 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:43.300 It's a picture of jesus christ. The show bread is a picture of jesus christ 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:48.200 He's saying hey, you shouldn't just sit here and starve himself and literally die for this picture 01:29:48.200 --> 01:29:55.800 Why verse 27 and he said unto them the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath 01:29:56.220 --> 01:30:02.380 Right. The Sabbath was something that was actually given to man as a blessing from God 01:30:02.520 --> 01:30:06.960 Not something to hinder you or cause you to literally starve when you're hungry 01:30:07.460 --> 01:30:10.640 It's like the Sabbath is there to give us what rest? 01:30:11.300 --> 01:30:15.400 It's not there to make your life even harder to put more of a burden on you 01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:21.120 Right and it's there's nothing in the Sabbath rules that there is something the Sabbath that says hey, you can't go work 01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:24.780 But there's nothing that says you can't eat for your own sustenance, right? 01:30:24.780 --> 01:30:30.440 And it's not like Jesus and the disciples again. They're not gathering people's corn to go start a side hustle 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:35.280 And of course what the Sabbath really pictures is salvation in Jesus Christ 01:30:35.760 --> 01:30:40.320 You know what God has given us the Lord Jesus Christ as a blessing to us 01:30:40.560 --> 01:30:45.280 Not something to chain us and shackle us right because a lot of people look at Jesus 01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:55.440 Which is supposed to be a gift believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved and a lot of people turn it 01:30:55.440 --> 01:31:00.080 To obey Jesus and you'll be saved right the e.i the the ESV the NIV 01:31:00.240 --> 01:31:05.300 They changed John chapter 3 says whosoever obeyeth the son has everlasting life 01:31:05.300 --> 01:31:12.540 You know what that is. That's a perversion of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a perversion of the Sabbath Sabbath is what resting? 01:31:13.100 --> 01:31:20.560 From your works just like salvation is resting from your works. It's not supposed to be something that adds extra burden to you 01:31:21.020 --> 01:31:27.320 And you know what the Lord Jesus Christ his yoke is easy as bird is light. He's not something that's giving you extra burden 01:31:27.900 --> 01:31:34.580 Extra chains extra shackles. No, Jesus Christ actually brings freedom Jesus Christ actually brings 01:31:34.980 --> 01:31:36.900 rest and like I said 01:31:37.300 --> 01:31:41.140 This showbread it was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ anyways 01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:48.120 Because if you go to Exodus you read the Old Testament this showbread the Bible says was what supposed to be before the Lord 01:31:48.720 --> 01:31:53.580 Always anyone want to take a guess of what that's picturing eternal security, right? 01:31:53.580 --> 01:31:58.520 That Jesus Christ is what the bread of life and he provides that 01:31:59.160 --> 01:32:04.540 spiritual sustenance to us that spiritual nourishment and how long does it last for forever? 01:32:05.300 --> 01:32:11.700 He that eateth of this bread shall what never hunger right just like that bread was supposed to be always before the lord also 01:32:11.700 --> 01:32:19.320 I think there's another picture in first amyel 21 where king david said that this bread is in a manner common 01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:25.540 He's saying it looks like regular bread and I think that could be pointing to the humanity of Jesus Christ 01:32:25.900 --> 01:32:32.040 Right how Jesus Christ he is that show bread. He's the bread of life, but he's in a manner common, right? 01:32:32.040 --> 01:32:35.020 He's a human flesh. So there's a lot of cool pictures there 01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:38.600 Go to Hebrew chapter four 01:32:40.200 --> 01:32:44.440 You know think about what jesus said man does not live by bread alone, but by every word of god 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:47.720 Of course jesus is a picture in that way as well 01:32:49.080 --> 01:32:53.240 And then of course the sabbath like we said is a picture of jesus christ and of salvation 01:32:53.240 --> 01:32:56.920 Why hebra's four verse three says for we which have believed 01:32:57.880 --> 01:32:59.880 Do enter into rest 01:33:00.200 --> 01:33:04.280 As he said I have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest 01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:10.200 Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise 01:33:10.360 --> 01:33:18.040 And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. I will never get over the goodness of salvation 01:33:18.240 --> 01:33:25.080 I will never get over it. I will always be so thankful for God and honestly it makes my heart so sad yesterday 01:33:25.080 --> 01:33:27.080 I was seeing some comments on our social media 01:33:28.200 --> 01:33:33.000 The sermon on Nick Fuentes has been getting a lot of views and this one person is just like man 01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:34.620 You know you said some good things in your sermon 01:33:34.620 --> 01:33:39.160 But but John preached repentance Jesus preached repentance and Paul preached repentance 01:33:39.160 --> 01:33:45.200 It just makes me so sad that there's people in this world that take of their own time to listen to sermons 01:33:45.260 --> 01:33:49.800 They're probably reading the Bible. They're probably going to church, but they don't have this rest 01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:54.880 How sad is that there's people in this world that are religious that don't have this rest 01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:59.200 They're gonna burn in hell for all of eternity and it's so sad because it doesn't have to be that way 01:33:59.760 --> 01:34:04.480 He just said rest enter into my rest. How do you enter into his rest by believing? 01:34:05.200 --> 01:34:07.920 How do you partake of the bread of life by believing? 01:34:08.720 --> 01:34:11.840 How do you come to jesus by believing? How do you get saved by believing? 01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:17.460 You know, thank god that salvation is by believing not of works lest any man should boast 01:34:17.800 --> 01:34:20.520 You know it breaks my heart to see how many people are just rejecting 01:34:21.480 --> 01:34:26.920 The free bread the bread of life how many people are just rejecting the rest of the sabbath 01:34:27.240 --> 01:34:34.440 You know because these these holier than now pharisees thought i'm so good. Oh, I keep the sabbath perfectly 01:34:34.680 --> 01:34:40.840 Oh, you're doing that which is not lawful. Oh, you're speaking blasphemies. Oh only god can forgive sin 01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:44.140 You know they're all worried about what everyone else is doing. Meanwhile, they're unsafe 01:34:45.300 --> 01:34:51.920 Isn't that a shame there's so many people they don't want to criticize us criticize Baptist preaching criticize the gospel of grace 01:34:52.440 --> 01:34:56.980 Meanwhile, you're unsaved you're on your way to help Bryson gray, right? 01:34:57.340 --> 01:35:00.660 Making constant posts making fun of easy believism 01:35:01.300 --> 01:35:07.140 Free gracer's you're saying you're posting Bible verse after Bible verse not understanding any of it all that's going over your head 01:35:07.140 --> 01:35:09.140 You're on your way straight to hell 01:35:09.260 --> 01:35:10.800 It's sad to think about 01:35:11.400 --> 01:35:14.280 Matthew chapter number 12 last place will go to Matthew chapter number 12 01:35:16.960 --> 01:35:23.000 Matthew 12 verse 7, but if he had known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice 01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:29.000 You would not have condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day 01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:36.960 Right and that's just a constant theme you're gonna see in mark is just Jesus's authority with authority. He's healing people with authority 01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:42.880 He's casting out devils with authority. He's healing the man with palsy with authority. He said hey 01:35:42.880 --> 01:35:48.980 I made the Sabbath for you buddy. I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. He is Lord some key takeaways from this chapter 01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:51.100 Be a zealous soul winner 01:35:51.400 --> 01:35:57.400 Do what you got to do to bring people to the lord jesus christ be a hard worker out in the field preaching the gospel 01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:04.440 Jesus christ is able to do the impossible right? So ask big in your prayers. He's the great physician 01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:10.040 Hey, what's easier to forgive sins or to tell this person rise up. They're both impossible, right? 01:36:10.040 --> 01:36:13.160 So jesus is able to do the impossible impossible ask big 01:36:14.040 --> 01:36:16.860 Don't be ashamed of christ. He's not ashamed of us 01:36:17.400 --> 01:36:22.120 Let us not be ashamed of Christ. Hey, let's go out into this world after the undesirable 01:36:22.920 --> 01:36:27.880 Those who would look at people as the undesirable and then lastly guard against a critical spirit 01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:33.160 Against things the bible doesn't even condemn right jesus and his disciples. They're not even in sin here 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:38.140 But yet these pharisees they just got a critical spirit guard against that critical spirit 01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:43.320 Do not be a holier than now. Don't be a Pharisee. No one wants to be around those type of people 01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:46.920 We all have sinned we all have things that we're working on, you know 01:36:47.040 --> 01:36:51.380 Condemn things that the Bible is very clear on but when the when the Bible is not on your side 01:36:51.380 --> 01:36:56.560 I mean good night. Don't be such a Pharisee. Let's pray Lord. Thank you for your word. Thank you for mark chapter 2 01:36:56.560 --> 01:36:59.880 I pray that you just help us to apply these things to our lives 01:36:59.880 --> 01:37:04.480 I pray that everyone in here would work very hard as soul winners to bring people to Christ 01:37:05.300 --> 01:37:08.820 I pray Lord that we would give you the honor and preeminence and everything that we do 01:37:09.380 --> 01:37:11.860 That you just come through for us in our prayers 01:37:12.340 --> 01:37:17.240 And help us lord not to turn down our nose on people that this world would think is undesirable 01:37:17.700 --> 01:37:22.440 Help us to see everyone as a soul that you died for that you love in Jesus name. We pray. Amen 01:37:30.300 --> 01:37:34.860 Our last hymn this evening will be number 118. 01:37:38.600 --> 01:37:44.440 Hymn number 118, near to the heart of God. 01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:58.000 118-118, near to the heart of God. 01:38:05.300 --> 01:38:08.300 118 all together. 01:38:08.300 --> 01:38:13.300 There is a place of quiet rest.