WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:01.900 This was a long weekend. 00:07.200 --> 00:11.200 29 at the cross on the first. 00:39.100 --> 00:46.700 Devote that sacred head for such a worm as I. 00:46.700 --> 00:51.260 At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, 00:51.260 --> 00:55.660 And the burden of my heart rolled away. 00:55.660 --> 01:00.060 It was there by faith I received my sight, 01:00.060 --> 01:03.900 And now I am happy all the day. 01:04.700 --> 01:09.300 Was it for crimes that I have done? 01:09.300 --> 01:11.700 He groaned upon the 01:22.800 --> 01:27.300 At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light 01:27.300 --> 01:31.800 And the burden of my heart rolled away 01:31.800 --> 01:36.300 It was there my faith, I received my sight 01:36.300 --> 01:39.800 And now I am happy all the day 01:42.300 --> 01:49.660 the sun in darkness hath shunned his glories in. 01:49.660 --> 01:54.060 When Christ the mighty Maker died, 01:54.060 --> 01:58.460 poor man the creature sinned. 01:58.460 --> 02:02.940 At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, 02:02.940 --> 02:06.940 and the burden of my heart rolled away. 02:10.000 --> 02:17.000 I received my sight and now I am happy all the day. 02:17.000 --> 02:23.000 But drops of grief can never repay the debt of love. 02:35.000 --> 02:39.320 At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, 02:39.320 --> 02:43.800 And the burden of my heart rolled away. 02:43.800 --> 02:48.280 It was there by faith I received my sight, 02:48.280 --> 02:51.960 And now I am happy all the day. 02:54.600 --> 02:55.840 Alright 02:55.840 --> 03:02.600 If you do not have a bulletin raise your hand and I gonna have brother Damien pass out some bulletins if anybody needs one 03:02.600 --> 03:07.440 Just I think pastor Cobb is the only one that needs one for a dammit brother Heath can tell you where they are 03:08.320 --> 03:10.320 We're out of bulletins. Oh 03:10.840 --> 03:13.880 Okay. Sorry pastor. We're out of bulletins. We only got one 03:15.200 --> 03:20.640 Perfect. So Matt had one. Oh, let me just today today is number six or 03:21.240 --> 03:23.240 service time is Sunday morning 10 30 a.m 03:24.440 --> 03:28.000 Sunday evening 4 30 p.m. And then Wednesday 03:29.200 --> 03:35.640 Service 5 30 p.m. Sunday soul wedding time is 2 p.m. And then the memory chapter of the week is solved 15 03:35.640 --> 03:40.080 I mean the memory chapter song 15 the verse of the week's fault song 55 03:40.700 --> 03:44.180 We actually already had three individuals quote it. 03:44.180 --> 03:48.940 So Chloe, Daniel, and Damian all quoted it by memory. 03:48.940 --> 03:52.580 So we're going to get them one of those scratch and sniff stickers. 03:52.580 --> 03:53.700 It's going to be awesome. 03:53.700 --> 03:54.940 I'm just kidding. 03:54.940 --> 03:56.660 You got a good prize coming to you. 03:56.660 --> 03:58.980 Let me just get that resolved. 03:58.980 --> 04:01.140 So you got one more week. 04:01.140 --> 04:04.980 So if anybody wants to quote it to two people that are not a family member. 04:05.500 --> 04:08.940 You're more than welcome to, we'll just add you to that list. 04:08.940 --> 04:12.900 Just a reminder, we are Family Integrated Church. 04:12.900 --> 04:14.060 Are we still live streaming? 04:14.060 --> 04:15.060 We are, right? 04:15.060 --> 04:16.060 Back there? 04:16.060 --> 04:17.060 You're still putting it up? 04:17.060 --> 04:19.980 Okay, but we have the mother-baby room back there. 04:19.980 --> 04:23.780 If it's not streaming, just let Brother Heath know, we'll work it out. 04:23.780 --> 04:26.060 I don't know, some of the kids lost the remote. 04:26.060 --> 04:29.260 We need to just buy a universal remote. 04:29.260 --> 04:30.900 But we do have a way to get it on. 04:30.900 --> 04:31.900 My wife has an app or something. 04:31.900 --> 04:32.900 I don't know. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.760 And then we do have that room that says stay out right in front of the bathrooms. 04:37.560 --> 04:42.360 That's for the kids, you stay out. But your parents do have access to that. They need to take you up 04:42.360 --> 04:47.560 there and just, you know, maybe give you a spanking or something. So then we have the 04:47.560 --> 04:53.400 soul winning numbers. We have 932 for the year. We have two baptisms and then whatever we got today. 04:53.400 --> 04:58.040 So Matt got one. I got three. Chloe, what did you end up counting? 04:58.600 --> 05:03.000 Five. So five. And then Daniel? No. Damien? 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 I have one with Matt. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Oh, it just was Matt. And then you had one? 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 One with Matt. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 And then sister Gina? One. And then... 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Um, one, one, one. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 And then sister Sylvia? One. So that's five, eight. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 So we had twelve today. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 That was a good place. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 It was good. So I think like Chloe talked to like seven or eight kids. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.900 And then five of them got saved. 05:25.900 --> 05:29.580 So, and it was a small complex, I think we covered most of it. 05:29.580 --> 05:34.820 So the only thing I will say, you know, because we were looking for Matt and Damien, I know 05:34.820 --> 05:39.020 that some of them can go long, but do keep your phones available and I'll talk to Matt 05:39.020 --> 05:40.020 like all of us. 05:40.020 --> 05:43.100 Number one, we should always try to stick together like at least four, you know, two 05:43.100 --> 05:44.500 and two. 05:44.500 --> 05:45.200 And then... 05:45.300 --> 05:49.460 I know Houston is great because I actually don't think it's that dangerous in the ghettos 05:49.460 --> 05:50.540 if you're out there sowing it. 05:50.540 --> 05:52.420 I think it's dangerous like at night or whatever. 05:52.420 --> 05:53.420 We're not doing that. 05:53.420 --> 05:55.180 But we still just need to be careful. 05:55.180 --> 05:59.460 We've got a lot of kids with us now and we've got women and so we just always keep an eye 05:59.460 --> 06:00.460 on everybody. 06:00.460 --> 06:05.580 And then what I tend to do is if I'm with someone younger or somebody else's kids, I 06:05.580 --> 06:09.500 do keep my phone available and if I can't answer because I'm giving the gospel, I'll 06:09.500 --> 06:10.500 have somebody answer for me. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.440 So, I mean, at least just do that because I was calling Matt and he never answered. 06:14.440 --> 06:17.720 And then I was like, and then Damien came. He's like, I heard my name being called. 06:17.720 --> 06:19.800 I was like, if you heard your name call, come out. 06:19.800 --> 06:23.000 So, Damien, I'm calling you out crying out in the wilderness. 06:23.000 --> 06:24.680 Damien, come out. 06:25.480 --> 06:26.680 But no, it's okay. 06:26.680 --> 06:28.760 They got the one salvation and it all worked out. 06:29.800 --> 06:32.600 But yeah, we just want to always remind ourselves, like, 06:33.160 --> 06:35.640 keep together, check the WhatsApp group. 06:35.640 --> 06:38.200 And then we just check the times that we're going to end. 06:38.800 --> 06:43.140 Because you know when you're art when you are giving the gospel you can't lose track of time 06:43.260 --> 06:45.900 Like once you look up especially like you get two or three in a row 06:46.020 --> 06:50.340 It could be one hour you wouldn't even notice it like if you get lucky and you just like on a roll 06:50.540 --> 06:54.960 You wouldn't even know how much time it is. So but other than that, I mean, that's great. We've got 12 06:56.260 --> 07:00.260 Yeah, we got 12 and then we got all the birthdays pastor Cobb. We had a great 07:00.900 --> 07:05.300 Time of fellowship, Pastor Kyle, I hope you enjoyed it. If you didn't, that's okay. We're going to do it anyway. 07:05.300 --> 07:12.020 So, his 90th birthday is on Tuesday and then his pit sister Sylvia will be at the end of the month. 07:12.900 --> 07:17.700 And then just the announcements right there, we had 36 souls won yesterday, out soul winning. 07:18.420 --> 07:24.180 And I think everybody between yesterday and today has probably lost like 100 pounds just with the humidity alone. 07:24.800 --> 07:28.960 This is the most humidity we've had in like several years out so it's pretty bad 07:29.760 --> 07:34.720 And then mercell's we have a baby shower coming up for mercel on september 13th 07:35.280 --> 07:37.920 And then i'll have my wife she's gonna she'll text the ladies 07:39.520 --> 07:46.720 Uh, the navajas just moved here and obviously we didn't know that sierra was pregnant she's due at the end of october 07:47.120 --> 07:49.940 So we'll have another one coming up shortly 07:50.300 --> 07:56.140 It'll just be a more relaxed one, but just we also want to make sure that we show the love there as well. 07:56.140 --> 08:00.460 And then the big event for the month, September 24th, we have Pastor Stephen Anderson 08:01.900 --> 08:05.260 coming to preach to us from Faith Forward Baptist Church. 08:06.060 --> 08:14.060 September 24th, that's a Thursday, so the time will either be 7 or 7 30, but just count on it being 7 and on. 08:14.200 --> 08:19.160 That way people can get here, make plans and do all that. I know we got people coming from far away. 08:19.160 --> 08:24.920 And then just pray for all the mothers, Marcel, Sierra, Cynthia. Also pray for just like, 08:24.920 --> 08:31.720 I know brother Josh, he's still recovering from the back injury and just anybody else on the prayer list. 08:32.300 --> 08:36.460 And then, yeah, I would love to just see more people on that list. 08:36.460 --> 08:38.300 So I got Daniel, Damian, and Chloe. 08:38.300 --> 08:42.380 So I'll make sure to work with Heath, and we'll get you guys those prizes. 08:42.380 --> 08:43.900 So I appreciate you guys doing that. 08:44.620 --> 08:48.060 If nothing else, let's turn our handbills over to page 159, 08:48.060 --> 08:51.180 and then we'll have brother Damian read for us numbers eight. 08:51.740 --> 08:53.340 Numbers eight, 159. 08:54.460 --> 08:55.340 159. 08:57.200 --> 09:02.040 You know, the young guys are starting to read now we need them to lead the singing 09:02.520 --> 09:06.040 So just know I'm thinking about both of you guys now for singing 09:06.720 --> 09:08.720 here pretty soon 09:10.040 --> 09:12.000 159 blessed be the name 09:34.800 --> 09:36.300 that he might 09:39.500 --> 09:56.460 Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord! 09:56.460 --> 10:04.060 His name above all names shall stand, Exalted more and more! 10:09.800 --> 10:12.360 Where angels host a no- 10:14.700 --> 10:30.700 Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord. 10:30.700 --> 10:38.100 Redeemer, Savior, Friend of mine, Was ruined by the fall. 10:40.900 --> 10:47.900 By salvation's plan, for now has time for all. 10:47.900 --> 10:55.900 Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord. 10:55.900 --> 11:03.900 Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord. 11:03.900 --> 11:08.700 His name shall be the counselor of the night. 11:20.900 --> 11:40.700 Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 11:40.900 --> 11:47.700 So like on obviously special events anytime potluck we just will bring out all the refreshments and everything. I'm we're willing 11:48.020 --> 11:50.020 we're glad to do that, but 11:50.500 --> 11:53.540 Any other time regularly we just keep that stack with water now 11:54.020 --> 11:59.140 But we do have like snacks. I try to keep like a couple of snacks chips 11:59.700 --> 12:03.620 and like soft drinks and you know juice and stuff like that that 12:04.200 --> 12:07.980 On any day that it's not an event or like a potluck or anything like that 12:08.200 --> 12:15.200 That's specifically for the soul winners like I want to encourage the soul winning and you know when you come back being drenched from 100 12:15.200 --> 12:18.280 Degree weather there's nothing nice like just it's all 12:18.760 --> 12:22.280 Soft drink that's got a ton of sugar just wakes you up especially for the afternoon service 12:22.280 --> 12:28.420 So I appreciate you guys doing that so make yourself. You know you're welcome to anything at there before after the services 12:29.000 --> 12:35.800 And if nothing else, we'll have a brother Damien Reefer as numbers eight, and then we'll get into the message. 12:47.300 --> 12:51.320 Numbers 8 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying 12:51.860 --> 12:59.420 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him when thou lightest the lamps the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick 12:59.420 --> 13:05.580 And Aaron did so he lighted the lamp thereof over against the candlestick as the Lord commanded most 13:05.580 --> 13:12.200 And this work of the candlestick was a beaten gold unto the shaft thereof unto the flowers thereof 13:14.000 --> 13:21.520 According unto the pattern which the Lord had showed to Moses, so he made the candlestick. 13:21.520 --> 13:28.480 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 13:28.480 --> 13:36.960 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them, sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh. 13:37.500 --> 13:42.380 and let them wash their clothes and so make themselves clean. 13:42.380 --> 13:45.900 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, 13:45.900 --> 13:49.340 even flying flour mingled with oil. 13:49.340 --> 13:53.500 And another young bullock shall dobtake for a sin offering. 13:53.500 --> 13:57.660 And now shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation, 13:57.660 --> 14:01.820 and now shall gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together. 14:02.100 --> 14:06.980 and thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord, and the children of Israel shall put their hands 14:06.980 --> 14:11.860 upon the Levites, and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the 14:11.860 --> 14:18.100 children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord, and the Levites shall lay 14:18.100 --> 14:23.780 their hands upon the heads of the bullocks, and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, 14:23.780 --> 14:29.140 and the other for a burnt offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites. 14:29.700 --> 14:36.700 and thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons and offer them for an offering unto the Lord. 14:36.700 --> 14:42.700 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. 14:42.700 --> 14:47.700 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, 14:47.700 --> 14:53.700 and I shall cleanse them and offer them for an offering, for they are wholly given unto me. 14:54.000 --> 14:58.960 from among the children of Israel, instead of such as every open womb. 14:58.960 --> 15:04.880 Even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. 15:04.880 --> 15:09.520 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast, 15:09.520 --> 15:15.520 on the day that I smell every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctify them for myself. 15:15.520 --> 15:19.600 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. 15:20.200 --> 15:26.200 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons who remain the children of Israel 15:26.200 --> 15:31.200 to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tabernacle congregation 15:31.200 --> 15:34.000 and to make an atonement for the children of Israel. 15:34.200 --> 15:40.200 that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. 15:40.200 --> 15:49.200 And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites. 15:49.200 --> 15:52.200 So did the children of Israel unto them. 15:52.400 --> 15:58.400 And the Levites were purified and they washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord, 15:58.400 --> 16:01.200 and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. 16:01.200 --> 16:07.000 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, 16:07.000 --> 16:11.600 and before his sons, as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites. 16:11.600 --> 16:13.300 So did they unto them. 16:13.300 --> 16:17.800 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This is it that belongeth unto the Levites. 16:17.900 --> 16:25.340 from 20 and 5 years old and upward they shall go and wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 16:25.340 --> 16:31.820 And from the age of 50 years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more, 16:31.820 --> 16:36.060 but shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, 16:36.060 --> 16:42.940 to keep the charge, and shall do no service, thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their chariot. 16:42.940 --> 16:44.400 Do you want me to pray, Pastor? 16:45.900 --> 16:52.900 Let's pray. Lord, thank you for the gathering today. Thank you for the soul winning and the souls that have been won. 16:53.900 --> 16:55.900 Thank you for this church. Thank you for your word. 16:55.900 --> 17:04.900 I pray that you feel pastor Reyes with the Holy Spirit as he preaches your word and that his teachings may help us to become better Christians. 17:05.900 --> 17:10.900 And that we help, that it helps glorify you Lord. Amen. 17:13.900 --> 17:20.540 Thank you. All right, we're there in numbers eight. We're going to cover quite a bit today. 17:21.820 --> 17:28.380 We're going to cover four chapters in the book of numbers. And we're just going to cover this big 17:28.380 --> 17:31.580 chunk. And the reason is, there's a lot of details like we've been covering, 17:32.300 --> 17:35.500 but it's interesting that we need all these details. 17:36.200 --> 17:42.680 Hey, I'm just gonna give you some highlights here before I even get started. Oh, let me put this on that would help 17:44.600 --> 17:46.500 I gotta get a little ahead of myself 17:49.900 --> 17:57.100 But it's interesting that, you know, in the book numbers, we're going to deal with, you 17:57.100 --> 17:59.660 know, and I'm just going to give you some of the major themes. 17:59.660 --> 18:02.540 I got all my notes here as I was getting ready. 18:02.540 --> 18:10.540 But, you know, this is where we have the fiery serpent and Miriam and Aaron rebel, the 12 18:10.540 --> 18:15.260 spies, the, you know, the sons of Korra, Aaron's bud. 18:15.260 --> 18:15.900 Amen. 18:16.100 --> 18:22.180 the red heifer, just all this stuff that's going to go on in the book of numbers. But before all of 18:22.180 --> 18:29.060 that, the Lord spends 10 chapters just getting them prepared, right? This whole time it's just all 18:29.060 --> 18:33.380 about the details, all about the preparation. And it only goes to show that even with all of that, 18:34.020 --> 18:38.260 you have all these issues. Even Balaam is part of that whole thing. You know, Balaam ends up being 18:38.260 --> 18:41.460 a bad guy. He comes through and he delivers the word of the Lord. 18:42.200 --> 18:46.920 But Balaam actually ends up being, you know, a really, I mean, he's obviously named even in the Book of Jude 18:47.720 --> 18:50.360 as one that went after the riches and stuff. 18:50.680 --> 18:55.240 But let me first give you the title of the sermon. The sermon this afternoon is Clans Before the Battle. 18:55.880 --> 18:58.360 Clans Before the Battle. Now, there's a couple things I don't want to... 18:58.800 --> 19:04.160 Setup now, I think I've said this a couple weeks now, but you don't want to set up this 19:04.160 --> 19:07.560 thing where you have like paralysis by analysis. 19:07.560 --> 19:11.560 We used to say this in business where you're just over analyzing things and you're analyzing 19:11.560 --> 19:13.600 everything so much that you just never take action. 19:14.200 --> 19:18.200 But there is something to be said about just being prepared and taking action. 19:18.200 --> 19:21.800 I mean, over the course of the last year, 19:21.800 --> 19:26.840 I have mentioned that one of the areas we're lacking in is probably preparing maps. 19:26.840 --> 19:29.640 But every time we do it, it gets a little bit better. 19:29.640 --> 19:35.000 You know, like even now, brother Jerry and brother Matt are coordinated on like the. 19:35.600 --> 19:41.280 the type of demographics we want to attack, the areas we want to go to for the most receptive, 19:41.280 --> 19:46.320 so that we're most effective, could we improve? Of course, but you don't want to just hold back 19:46.320 --> 19:50.880 just because we don't have it perfect. We definitely, absolutely in that area, we don't have it perfect. 19:51.200 --> 19:55.440 but every time we're going to prepare. But the more obviously we prepare, the better we are for 19:55.440 --> 19:59.360 just the obstacles to come. And not every preparation is the same, right? There's a 19:59.360 --> 20:03.440 difference between like an onslaught battle versus like if you're preparing a battle from afar, 20:04.000 --> 20:09.280 or you know, a little skirmish. And so this is kind of what I see here as I'm getting, 20:09.280 --> 20:14.720 as we're going through this. So in the books of, in Numbers 5 through 8, we see that God's really 20:14.720 --> 20:19.040 consecrating. And in that word, consecrating, you could make the argument that it's a synonym to 20:19.200 --> 20:22.560 sanctification, there's some overlap there. 20:22.560 --> 20:25.720 And the main thought here is that before God moves 20:25.720 --> 20:29.400 his people forward, that he's cleaning the camp, 20:29.400 --> 20:31.760 he's calling the people to separation, 20:31.760 --> 20:32.940 like he's receiving all their, 20:32.940 --> 20:35.520 if you're gonna see all this, their dedication, 20:35.520 --> 20:36.720 their consecration for service, 20:36.720 --> 20:39.840 he wants like, to people just kind of get rid 20:39.840 --> 20:44.000 of all the worldly stuff and just be wholly committed to him. 20:44.200 --> 20:46.400 Now what does that look like in the New Testament church? 20:46.400 --> 20:49.940 Really it's just serving the Lord to the best of our ability. 20:49.940 --> 20:53.700 Because unfortunately the world's already distracting enough as it is. 20:53.700 --> 20:59.440 There's all kinds of distractions, not only lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh, but 20:59.440 --> 21:00.700 even just the mundane things. 21:00.700 --> 21:02.340 We live in the United States of America. 21:02.800 --> 21:05.800 It's really, I mean today, did any of you go hungry? 21:05.800 --> 21:09.800 I mean, I think Brother Heath ordered like 18, 17 pizzas 21:09.800 --> 21:11.300 and we're not like a rich church, 21:11.300 --> 21:14.600 but we're still afforded great food. 21:14.600 --> 21:15.900 Everybody got what they wanted. 21:15.900 --> 21:17.600 I mean, everybody brought dessert. 21:17.600 --> 21:19.700 I think there was, I just ate an oatmeal cookie, 21:19.700 --> 21:20.900 which I love oatmeal cookies. 21:20.900 --> 21:22.900 I mean, you guys, right? 21:22.900 --> 21:25.300 And so it's really easy to just sit on your laurels. 21:25.600 --> 21:30.020 Just be relaxed, but instead of what we need to do is just be grateful for those things 21:30.020 --> 21:35.160 But don't stop because of those things the majority of Christianity so comfortable 21:35.700 --> 21:38.940 They're not willing to do any of this because, you know, 21:38.940 --> 21:41.380 serving the Lord, being consecrated to the Lord 21:41.380 --> 21:42.580 is a sacrifice. 21:42.580 --> 21:44.880 You know, you being here Sunday evening, 21:44.880 --> 21:47.100 and I know I make this like, in a way a joke, 21:47.100 --> 21:48.340 but it's not a joke. 21:48.340 --> 21:51.060 You're sitting here uncomfortable 21:51.060 --> 21:53.180 after the last two days of the humidity 21:53.180 --> 21:54.780 has been really high here in Houston. 21:54.780 --> 21:57.140 I mean, actually it's really uncomfortable humidity 21:57.140 --> 21:58.940 and for you to be sitting here and listening 21:58.940 --> 22:02.580 to the preaching, you're tired, your kids are tired, 22:02.580 --> 22:03.700 you're just not all in it. 22:03.700 --> 22:05.080 That's really what it requires. 22:05.080 --> 22:08.260 Whether you're 100% it or not, that's what the Lord wants. 22:08.260 --> 22:10.960 I mean, even Jonah just needed to show up. 22:10.960 --> 22:14.780 And Jonah had the worst attitude, in my opinion, of all the prophets we see in the Bible, right? 22:14.780 --> 22:16.000 At least in the Old Testament. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.580 I don't know, we can make some arguments with you, but in the Old Testament, 22:18.580 --> 22:20.460 Jonah just seems to take the cake on that. 22:20.460 --> 22:24.840 So as a way of introduction is, the preparation is just more than organization. 22:24.840 --> 22:26.220 It's kind of a mindset. 22:26.400 --> 22:29.040 And I mean, even the world gets this. 22:29.040 --> 22:32.200 I mean, the entire business world, 22:32.200 --> 22:34.120 one of the main things that they'll focus on, 22:34.120 --> 22:38.000 and you'll see this even in the bigger business people, 22:38.000 --> 22:41.680 is eventually they're like, we have systems, 22:41.680 --> 22:45.280 we have hiring standards, we have SOPs, 22:45.280 --> 22:48.680 we have a good product, but it's the mindset. 22:48.680 --> 22:50.480 If you have a loser mindset, 22:50.480 --> 22:52.000 you know what you're gonna put out? 22:52.000 --> 22:53.100 A loser product. 22:53.300 --> 22:56.340 If you have a winner's mindset, you're going to put out a winner's product. 22:56.340 --> 22:59.820 And as Christians, we should never have a loser mindset. 22:59.820 --> 23:03.980 We've already got the victory, so we need to always look at what does God want us to 23:03.980 --> 23:04.980 do. 23:04.980 --> 23:07.860 These are the things that God's saying, look, if you're already the victor, this is how 23:07.860 --> 23:10.860 you actually show the world that you're victorious. 23:10.860 --> 23:15.020 This is how you show the world that you're ready to take your place in the kingdom, that 23:15.020 --> 23:16.740 you're ready to do the things that God's said. 23:16.740 --> 23:21.260 So we saw numbers one and two, like, hey, get in your place, find your position in life. 23:21.300 --> 23:24.300 And then in numbers three and four a couple of weeks ago. 23:24.500 --> 23:27.140 Every man, you know, I titled it every man to their service 23:27.140 --> 23:33.240 But just like everybody was says it has a specific role our church were many members for one body 23:33.420 --> 23:38.140 Everybody serves a role everybody has a specific way of doing things, you know yesterday 23:38.140 --> 23:42.360 I got to do a podcast with brother Ben and it was really cool. You know, I love doing those things 23:42.360 --> 23:42.860 It's fun 23:42.860 --> 23:43.460 You know 23:43.460 --> 23:48.160 The greatest part was be able to tell our story a little bit right the story of spring crest 23:48.220 --> 23:52.440 Because I really enjoy the fact that there is I've heard this is a famous saying 23:52.500 --> 23:55.500 in the old IFB and just in Baptist circles, 23:55.500 --> 24:00.340 there's a prepared place for prepared man, right? 24:00.340 --> 24:05.060 And oftentimes that preparation does not look fun. 24:05.060 --> 24:06.460 You know, the arrival is not, 24:06.460 --> 24:09.940 like that journey to the arrival is kind of like, 24:09.940 --> 24:11.620 what am I even doing? 24:11.620 --> 24:14.100 You know, but once you're there. 24:14.200 --> 24:19.720 It's really fun. You know right now the getting is good. Springcrest has a great soul winning group. 24:19.720 --> 24:23.960 We have a great church and we shouldn't sit on our laurels because there's no guarantee 24:23.960 --> 24:28.760 that any of you will be here tomorrow. Whether it's because of sickness, because of death, 24:29.320 --> 24:34.040 because you end up hating the doctrine or you're backslidden. There's none of it. 24:34.040 --> 24:37.160 As good as I want to think that everybody's going to stick around for the next decade, 24:37.160 --> 24:38.040 there's no guarantee. 24:38.600 --> 24:45.320 You know, like friendships and people in your life and church members and you know, your 24:45.320 --> 24:48.840 high school friends and your college friends and all that stuff. 24:48.840 --> 24:51.260 It's all a revolving door. 24:51.260 --> 24:55.280 Name one person, it's rare that you, you know, that's why it's always so impressive, right? 24:55.280 --> 24:59.320 When you meet someone that's like, oh yeah, this is my friend from like childhood and 24:59.320 --> 25:02.200 we've been friends for over 30 years, 50 years, whatever. 25:02.200 --> 25:03.200 You're like, what? 25:03.200 --> 25:04.520 Cause that just doesn't happen. 25:05.000 --> 25:10.520 Like, I just, I mean, I can't, I'm trying to think of anybody like within like my first, 25:10.520 --> 25:11.760 all the way to like fourth grade. 25:11.760 --> 25:14.320 I don't even think I talked to anybody from fourth grade. 25:14.320 --> 25:18.360 High school, yeah, I don't talk to anybody from high school. 25:18.360 --> 25:21.240 College, I talk to like... 25:22.700 --> 25:28.600 Actually, not even college. I think my oldest friend is Trey and he's the one that I met like in in my work environment 25:28.940 --> 25:33.380 So for you young people just remember like the people you're hanging out with now 25:33.700 --> 25:36.500 Might not be the people you're gonna hang out with even in five years 25:36.780 --> 25:42.260 So you need to decide that you're gonna serve and you're gonna prepare and you're gonna serve in an organization 25:42.700 --> 25:47.020 That's willing to serve for the Lord. No matter what that looks like because you just don't know 25:47.500 --> 25:49.020 Right? Everybody needs to do that. 25:49.020 --> 25:54.380 If we look there, there is kind of this pattern in Romans 5, I mean, Numbers 5. 25:55.300 --> 26:00.260 God is purifying the people, right? And then number six, there's a separation. He's creating 26:00.260 --> 26:06.420 the sanctification. Number seven is really long. It's 89 verses. And it's like that one verse, 26:06.420 --> 26:12.100 who knows what I'm talking about numbers where every tribe is dedicating like the spoons and 26:12.100 --> 26:16.740 the shekels and the how and it's like what they're doing is they're bringing the dedication. 26:17.300 --> 26:20.500 And then numbers eight is where we see that they're now ready for the service. 26:20.500 --> 26:21.780 That's what we just read. 26:21.780 --> 26:24.340 And so it's more than that, right? 26:24.340 --> 26:26.100 And so God wants us to clean up. 26:26.900 --> 26:28.260 He wants it to be separate. 26:28.820 --> 26:31.780 He wants us to be dedicated to the work of the Lord. 26:31.780 --> 26:34.900 And then he also wants us to use the skills he's given us. 26:35.780 --> 26:36.500 But 26:36.800 --> 26:42.720 Like I said, just because that's the pattern doesn't mean, you know, if you're, if you're 26:42.720 --> 26:47.040 dedicating, but you haven't cleaned up and separated, just go and go be dedicated. 26:47.040 --> 26:52.320 You know what's going to follow cleaning up and separation. Honestly, the best way that I've 26:52.320 --> 26:59.040 cleaned up my life is when I just decided to, to serve here at Spring Crest. I think like the, 26:59.040 --> 27:01.040 the biggest turnaround. 27:01.500 --> 27:05.360 But in my life from spirituality from carnality to spirituality 27:05.660 --> 27:09.940 was just when I just decided to be a servant at the church and what I mean by that is I 27:10.540 --> 27:16.380 Mean we had one conversation pastor cobble attested this I when we first arrived to Spring Crest 27:17.140 --> 27:19.140 back in like I 27:19.180 --> 27:22.820 Never get it right. It's either 13 or 14 either 2013 or 2014 27:23.500 --> 27:29.500 Pastor Cobb invited us to they used to have a breakfast. You know how these old people are they they like eating breakfast early in the morning 27:29.500 --> 27:34.940 and it was him and like brother Bobby and brother Tommy and 27:35.500 --> 27:40.200 I think that it was the Bosticks and Millie remember that we met at the water burger 27:40.200 --> 27:45.700 We were like the only young couple with them at seven o'clock in the morning at water burger. Everybody's looking at us 27:46.200 --> 27:52.480 And we just got to talking and I just remember just telling Pastor Cobb that I wanted that I had like this 27:54.040 --> 27:56.080 Willingness to preach that I wanted to be a pastor 27:56.160 --> 28:01.320 But that I was never gonna go to like Bible college that I just by then I already knew Bible college was a waste of 28:01.320 --> 28:02.700 Time was stupid 28:02.800 --> 28:06.480 And that was it. Like I didn't ever say, hey, you need to put me in a program. 28:06.480 --> 28:08.960 He never said, yeah, I think I'm going to put you in a program. 28:08.960 --> 28:12.320 That was the whole conversation. But you know, I just was at that point, 28:12.320 --> 28:15.920 I guess, because I had that willing mindset, I just started helping out in church and I just 28:15.920 --> 28:18.640 started doing things in church and we just started serving more in church. 28:18.640 --> 28:19.840 And you know what also helped? 28:20.500 --> 28:26.380 I started removing some of those besetting sins and some of the things that just you know really weighed me down and just made me 28:26.380 --> 28:30.080 Waste my time and I started reading more Bible not less Bible 28:30.080 --> 28:33.800 I started doing more soul winning not less so and I started doing you know more 28:34.160 --> 28:37.800 Bible memorization not less Bible memorization, and it's not been perfect 28:37.800 --> 28:43.440 I mean there's been gaps where I just don't memorize scripture for a while or I've skipped a couple and then over time 28:43.440 --> 28:47.000 It's just gotten the streaks have gotten better every time and so really 28:47.600 --> 28:51.120 The cleanliness comes, but it's because we have that willingness to serve. 28:51.760 --> 28:54.400 Right? Go to numbers five. Let's go back to numbers five. 28:55.040 --> 29:03.680 And right there in numbers five in verse number one, God starts by removing the uncleanness in the camp. 29:06.080 --> 29:09.200 Now, in the New Testament, we've already, we got one more 29:10.160 --> 29:12.960 major sin that people can get kicked out of in the church. 29:12.960 --> 29:15.120 And I'm preaching on that here before the end of the year. 29:15.800 --> 29:21.960 But the way that that looks, for sure, you do have to remove some trash. 29:21.960 --> 29:24.280 Some uncleanliness always has to be removed. 29:25.240 --> 29:29.960 But I'm talking personally, if you're serving, the Lord will clean you up. 29:29.960 --> 29:32.920 But there are says that we just can't let it hang around. 29:32.920 --> 29:36.200 And this is kind of what I see here when God's removing stuff from the camp. 29:36.700 --> 29:40.620 Obviously they're all sinners, but there's just certain things that just can't be allowed in the camp. 29:40.620 --> 29:43.980 The Lord is in the midst of them, right? It says in the Lord's bacon of Moses saying, 29:43.980 --> 29:49.500 command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and everyone that hath an 29:49.500 --> 29:55.740 issue and whosoever is defiled by the dead. So these are like major things, right? It's not like 29:55.740 --> 30:02.060 the in physically this represents obviously in the new in the New Testament major sins. 30:02.060 --> 30:04.300 And he's like this needs to be removed from the camp. 30:04.900 --> 30:06.660 He says, both male and female, 30:06.660 --> 30:08.700 shall ye put out, without the camp, 30:08.700 --> 30:12.060 shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps 30:12.060 --> 30:14.100 in the midst whereof I dwell. 30:14.100 --> 30:16.260 And the children of Israel did so, 30:16.260 --> 30:18.180 and put them out without the camp, 30:18.180 --> 30:19.940 as the Lord spake unto Moses, 30:19.940 --> 30:21.740 so did the children of Israel. 30:22.000 --> 30:27.120 And there is, I really believe there is a correlation between like horrible disease even today 30:27.120 --> 30:32.320 and just being sinful. Now I'm not saying that's always the case, but specifically like in church, 30:32.320 --> 30:33.520 like if people are just 30:34.800 --> 30:37.720 I mean, they've proven this in studies and you can have those conversations. 30:37.720 --> 30:39.760 My dad's taught me this. 30:39.760 --> 30:44.640 If you have bitterness and just anger all the time, it does affect your cellular down 30:44.640 --> 30:51.680 to your molecular and cellular level where you can weaken your immune system to get worse 30:51.680 --> 30:54.040 diseases than just the common cold. 30:54.040 --> 30:55.880 I'm not talking about the common cold. 30:55.880 --> 30:57.200 We're all going to get sick at some point. 30:57.800 --> 31:03.240 But why is he saying this? He says because it's in the midst whereof I dwell. 31:04.120 --> 31:08.520 The reason he's doing this is because he's in the midst. You know, there's certain things that we 31:08.520 --> 31:12.360 need to remove from within this church, this building. If... 31:12.900 --> 31:18.500 if the Lord's gonna bless. Like we can't just let adultery be rampant, fornication be 31:18.500 --> 31:25.780 rampant, covetousness, extortion, raeling, right, idolatry. Those things will hamper the work that 31:25.780 --> 31:31.220 we're doing. Other things might impede or might be a stumbling block, but we can address them 31:31.220 --> 31:37.060 and we can still move on. But these they need to remove, right? Because he doesn't want things that 31:37.060 --> 31:38.340 that will defile. 31:38.600 --> 31:42.920 In other words, in order for us to move forward, think about it, if we allow things that are 31:42.920 --> 31:47.480 going to just be a stumbling block, it's going to discourage people from going soul winning, 31:47.480 --> 31:48.480 people are going to start murmuring. 31:48.480 --> 31:53.360 They're going to be like, oh, well, so-and-so is going there, the pastor doesn't even address. 31:53.360 --> 31:58.840 And who doesn't have that story where like the church, there was a major issue, it wasn't 31:58.840 --> 32:02.080 addressed like you thought the pastor should address it from the Bible, and then it just 32:02.080 --> 32:04.600 kind of discourages you from wanting to serve. 32:04.600 --> 32:05.400 I'm aiming. 32:05.600 --> 32:09.000 Yeah, I could get tougher on you and say, well, you shouldn't let that impede you. 32:09.000 --> 32:10.000 And I agree. 32:10.000 --> 32:11.000 But we're all human. 32:11.000 --> 32:12.760 At some point, people get frustrated. 32:12.760 --> 32:16.040 So we need to just not add so much more. 32:16.040 --> 32:19.000 Let's remove the excuses for people because people are already full of excuses. 32:19.000 --> 32:21.000 As a matter of fact, Brother Jerry said something. 32:21.000 --> 32:22.360 He's like, that's good peer pressure. 32:22.360 --> 32:24.400 I wasn't going to go out soul winning today. 32:24.700 --> 32:28.220 I was going to just let you guys go because honestly I just prepared the last bit of the 32:28.220 --> 32:33.740 sermon just right now for the afternoon and I wanted to just spend a little bit more time in it 32:33.740 --> 32:37.020 but then I saw how many people were going it's just encouraging so I was like well I'm just 32:37.020 --> 32:39.740 going to go so in you know it's a good peer pressure. 32:40.000 --> 32:45.760 And I thought to myself, I'd rather go out so many and deliver a bad sermon than deliver 32:45.760 --> 32:48.440 a great sermon and not do the work of the Lord. 32:48.440 --> 32:51.480 Like it really, and the Lord will provide the rest. 32:51.480 --> 32:54.400 Not to say that I shouldn't deliver good sermons. 32:54.400 --> 32:55.880 What's the Lord really want better? 32:55.880 --> 32:57.460 Like what's more important? 32:57.460 --> 33:01.440 A great sermon, good doctrine, or pulling people out of hell? 33:01.440 --> 33:02.440 I mean we have the choice. 33:02.440 --> 33:04.960 We pull people out of hell and then we get the sermon. 33:05.300 --> 33:07.640 But one has to be the priority over the other. 33:07.640 --> 33:11.100 I mean, Jesus spent more time going town to town, 33:11.100 --> 33:12.940 preaching the gospel than, you know, 33:12.940 --> 33:15.640 just having this great building and the wonderful services. 33:15.640 --> 33:17.020 As a matter of fact, Jesus just, 33:17.020 --> 33:19.060 he said, I don't even have a place to rest. 33:19.060 --> 33:20.180 He's like, I'm the son of God. 33:20.180 --> 33:21.020 I'm the man. 33:21.020 --> 33:23.300 I'm in the flesh and I don't even have a place 33:23.300 --> 33:24.400 to put my head down. 33:24.900 --> 33:26.180 I'm just doing the work. 33:26.180 --> 33:27.540 Go to 1 Corinthians 5. 33:27.540 --> 33:28.500 Go to 1 Corinthians 5. 33:28.500 --> 33:29.820 We know these verses. 33:29.820 --> 33:30.780 We've talked a lot about it, 33:30.780 --> 33:33.500 but it's worth just re-emphasizing it. 33:36.400 --> 33:43.840 And we should never excuse it. We shouldn't just look at it in a different way or avoid the preaching about it. 33:44.160 --> 33:45.360 We need to clean it up. 33:45.360 --> 33:48.000 Because we know what we need to do. Right there in verse Corinthians 5 the Bible says, 34:00.900 --> 34:07.300 Ye are unleavened for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us 34:08.420 --> 34:13.240 Right, we don't do the unleavened bread if we do the Lord's Supper just because it's cool 34:13.240 --> 34:15.240 we do it because the Bible but 34:15.320 --> 34:20.620 We do it for the right reasons right a lot of churches will have the ceremonial part of it 34:20.620 --> 34:25.420 But there's no spiritual part. I mean, I remember going to second Baptist backing like 34:26.200 --> 34:28.600 2000 a 2000 no 34:29.500 --> 34:35.460 Yeah, I moved to 2009, but from like, 05 to 08, I lived here in Houston, and I went to 34:35.460 --> 34:40.660 an old FB church, but when I, you know, I was 25, 26, and I was not, this is why I love 34:40.660 --> 34:44.820 that salvation is by grace, because I got saved and I didn't clean up my life right 34:44.820 --> 34:45.820 away. 34:45.820 --> 34:47.900 Like, I was still kind of living the way the world is. 34:47.900 --> 34:53.180 And so on days that I just wasn't at my best, I would wake up late and go to a service. 34:53.180 --> 34:55.180 You know, that's why we need it. 34:55.180 --> 34:57.260 Sorry, I just get frustrated because... 34:57.500 --> 35:02.700 these big churches, they do a disservice, you know, they have so many services, you 35:02.700 --> 35:03.700 know what they're doing? 35:03.800 --> 35:09.400 They're catering to the losers and the people who aren't willing to step up and serve the 35:09.400 --> 35:10.400 Lord correctly. 35:10.400 --> 35:14.520 You know, like I was, you know, I'd stay out the night before partying and doing all kinds 35:14.520 --> 35:15.520 of stuff. 35:15.520 --> 35:16.960 And then I just felt like, well, I need to go to church. 35:16.960 --> 35:17.960 Oh, great. 35:17.960 --> 35:18.960 Don't worry. 35:18.960 --> 35:19.960 There's like a 12, 12 o'clock service. 35:19.960 --> 35:24.160 So you're dragging in all tired, not in your best shape. 35:24.160 --> 35:25.400 And you're just showing up to church. 35:25.400 --> 35:27.520 We would show up dressed up, however they are. 35:27.520 --> 35:29.000 I don't even know if people shower or not. 35:29.000 --> 35:30.300 They just do whatever. 35:30.300 --> 35:31.780 And then I remember one time we... 35:31.800 --> 35:36.480 We went, I went there and that was the last time, I think that was the last time I wanted 35:36.480 --> 35:41.000 to go to church like that because they did the Lord's Supper and they passed out this 35:41.000 --> 35:44.680 little cup and the wafer was attached to it. 35:44.680 --> 35:45.680 Who's ever seen that? 35:45.680 --> 35:46.680 You've seen it? 35:46.680 --> 35:48.040 You know what I'm talking about? 35:48.040 --> 35:51.680 You know how normally they do the wafer, they'll break the bread? 35:51.680 --> 35:53.120 This was like a package deal. 35:53.700 --> 35:55.140 And everybody got one. 35:55.140 --> 35:57.300 They were like, if you feel like you're led to do it, 35:57.300 --> 35:57.820 just do it. 35:57.820 --> 35:58.740 And I grabbed it. 35:58.740 --> 36:00.160 And they're like, just peel off the, 36:00.160 --> 36:02.140 and then you get the wafer, and then you peel off the other. 36:02.140 --> 36:04.620 It was all like super packaged, like those Japanese drinks. 36:04.620 --> 36:05.980 And you just throw it away. 36:05.980 --> 36:07.460 It wasn't even like put it back. 36:07.460 --> 36:09.300 It was just a plastic thing. 36:09.300 --> 36:11.860 And I just remember even then thinking, 36:11.860 --> 36:14.740 this is kind of like, this is not taking things seriously. 36:14.740 --> 36:16.820 I remember taking a look at myself and just like, 36:16.820 --> 36:17.900 what am I doing here? 36:17.900 --> 36:19.780 What are we trying to accomplish? 36:19.780 --> 36:21.700 And this is basically what it's coming down to. 36:21.800 --> 36:23.640 They just let anybody in. 36:23.640 --> 36:25.480 I mean, I know you've heard this before, 36:25.480 --> 36:27.800 but I still to this day appreciate 36:27.800 --> 36:30.680 the old couple that left us a long time ago. 36:30.680 --> 36:31.400 You don't know them. 36:31.400 --> 36:32.760 I won't name them by name. 36:32.760 --> 36:34.920 They left because Pastor Cobb would not 36:35.720 --> 36:37.880 have the Lord's Supper when they wanted it. 36:38.840 --> 36:41.080 And because Pastor Cobb reads these verses 36:41.080 --> 36:42.120 and I've heard him preach on it. 36:42.120 --> 36:43.080 So I know. 36:43.080 --> 36:45.400 And he's like, we're a new lump. 36:45.400 --> 36:46.840 You only work with your lump. 36:46.840 --> 36:48.120 We're not going to take that risk. 36:48.800 --> 36:51.920 And that's the seriousness of church right there. Go to 2 Corinthians 7. 36:52.800 --> 36:54.320 Go to 2 Corinthians 7. 36:56.600 --> 37:02.920 You know because it what does it say a little leaven right sin never remains isolated 37:04.440 --> 37:08.760 Sin is a virus and it's an airborne spiritual born 37:09.720 --> 37:16.540 Year born eye born. It's just like it's just easy to get contagious on it second. Corinthians 7 right there the bible says in verse 1 37:17.000 --> 37:24.080 It says, having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from 37:24.080 --> 37:31.520 all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 37:31.520 --> 37:34.520 What's interesting is these two passages are where? 37:34.520 --> 37:36.120 In the New Testament. 37:36.120 --> 37:37.880 So God hasn't changed. 37:37.880 --> 37:42.880 The only thing He changed was that it's now a more spiritual thing versus just a outward 37:42.880 --> 37:43.880 ceremonial thing. 37:43.880 --> 37:43.900 you 37:44.700 --> 37:50.420 Because we realize in the Old Testament that it failed when it was all carnal. 37:50.420 --> 37:55.580 I mean all this preparation, ten chapters where they spent all this time doing it, and 37:55.580 --> 37:57.540 what becomes of the people of Israel? 37:57.540 --> 37:58.060 It's mayhem. 37:58.600 --> 38:04.440 It's chaos. Like they get into the promised land. It looks good. Even before then what does God have to do? 38:04.440 --> 38:06.440 He has to create a whole new generation 38:06.840 --> 38:10.840 Because we have the story of the 12 right 10 went out and only two brought a good report 38:11.160 --> 38:15.980 And so God's like well everybody that that denied it. They're not going to the promised land 38:16.100 --> 38:18.100 Oh, by the way, Moses, you screwed up too. 38:18.100 --> 38:19.540 You're not going to the promised land. 38:19.540 --> 38:21.700 We have to wait for this new generation to do it. 38:21.700 --> 38:22.820 And then they get there. 38:22.820 --> 38:24.580 And then by the time you get to the book of Judges, 38:25.140 --> 38:27.700 it says that there was a generation that knew not God. 38:27.700 --> 38:29.460 They're like, who's God? 38:29.460 --> 38:31.700 We don't even know what's going on with this thing. 38:31.700 --> 38:33.380 Go to Psalm 139. 38:33.380 --> 38:34.740 Go to Psalm 139. 38:34.740 --> 38:37.860 But, you know, the key verse, I mean, the key phrase there is, 38:37.860 --> 38:40.860 let us cleanse ourselves. 38:42.000 --> 38:44.700 We want to be an influence, but you know what? 38:44.700 --> 38:47.200 We can't force anybody. 38:47.200 --> 38:49.200 At the end of the day, it's on you. 38:49.200 --> 38:51.200 You know, I keep telling my kids this as they're getting older. 38:51.200 --> 38:53.800 I'm like, look, you guys have to listen to me, 38:53.800 --> 38:55.700 but you don't have to listen to me. 38:55.700 --> 38:59.100 I mean, I'm going to spank it, spank you till you're at my house, 38:59.100 --> 39:01.600 but at some point, you're on your own, buddy. 39:01.600 --> 39:07.100 Like, you've got to start having an internal fire to fix your own stuff. 39:07.100 --> 39:09.700 Otherwise, you're just going to fail in life. 39:11.000 --> 39:20.000 I love Psalm 139. As a matter of fact, when I first moved to Houston, I rented a room in a house from somebody else. 39:20.000 --> 39:25.000 My mentor got me a room so I could save some money. I don't know, the people were just weird. 39:25.000 --> 39:31.000 So I would just spend all my time in my room. And I read this chapter of Psalm 139, probably... 39:32.400 --> 39:34.040 I don't know, hundreds of times. 39:34.040 --> 39:35.800 Like, I would just read this to myself out loud 39:35.800 --> 39:37.400 because I just needed some encouragement. 39:37.400 --> 39:40.000 I just think it's one of the most encouraging chapters in the Bible. 39:40.000 --> 39:41.500 But right there in verse 19 it says, 39:41.500 --> 39:45.300 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. 39:45.300 --> 39:47.860 Depart from me therefore ye bloody men, 39:47.860 --> 39:49.900 for they speak against thee wickedly, 39:49.900 --> 39:52.600 and thine enemies take thy name in vain. 39:52.600 --> 39:55.600 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee, 39:55.600 --> 39:59.100 and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? 39:59.900 --> 40:02.540 I hate them with the perfect hatred. 40:02.540 --> 40:04.940 I count them my enemies. 40:04.940 --> 40:10.540 But then, verse 23 and 24, I like how the hatred is sandwiched between 40:10.540 --> 40:12.300 all the verses that lead up to it. 40:12.300 --> 40:15.100 Because really, what is Psalm 139 before that? 40:15.100 --> 40:16.940 It's where God's saying, hey, I know you. 40:17.400 --> 40:21.880 I formed you in the womb and he said if I'm in hell you're with me if I'm in heaven you're with me 40:21.880 --> 40:28.360 Remember, I'm just paraphrasing the whole thing and then we get this section where he's like I hate them that hate you and 40:29.040 --> 40:33.620 Then verse 23 says search me. Oh God and know my heart 40:34.000 --> 40:40.820 Try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in a way 40:41.680 --> 40:44.920 And the way everlasting what is he saying? Clean me up 40:46.400 --> 40:54.000 get me right. He's like, search my heart and who's this? David, right? And when David, his heart, 40:54.000 --> 40:58.080 even though he was a man after God's own heart, his heart was also wicked. We were talking about 40:58.080 --> 41:02.960 that earlier, right? He looked at Bathsheba and then we know the rest of the story. He says, 41:02.960 --> 41:08.560 and know my thoughts. Hey, what am I actually thinking about? And see if there'd be any wicked 41:08.560 --> 41:09.440 way in me. 41:09.700 --> 41:14.540 I love David's just like the coolest guy in the in the Old Testament as far as like a man's man 41:14.780 --> 41:20.820 Because he just owns up to everything like in here. He knows he's like and if there be any way wicked way to me 41:20.820 --> 41:25.860 Why would you say that unless you know that you have wicked thoughts and he's like and lead me in the way everlasting 41:25.860 --> 41:28.060 He's like I can't do it myself. I need your help 41:29.060 --> 41:30.620 search me 41:30.620 --> 41:31.500 right 41:31.800 --> 41:36.100 before I decide to just criticize anybody else, 41:36.100 --> 41:39.500 search me before I worry about anything else, 41:39.500 --> 41:41.940 you know, search me before I go and do anything. 41:41.940 --> 41:44.000 Like, Lord, you clean me up. 41:44.000 --> 41:45.780 You know, one of my prayers, it's not, 41:45.780 --> 41:47.260 I don't usually pray this in the group, 41:47.260 --> 41:50.160 but one of my prayers often before I preach 41:50.160 --> 41:51.460 or before I go sowing is just like, 41:51.460 --> 41:53.660 Lord, just purge my mind, clean, cleanse it out, 41:53.660 --> 41:55.200 filter out all that crap. 41:55.200 --> 41:57.600 Cause it's in there, like, I mean, it just. 41:58.300 --> 42:00.420 It doesn't happen as often, but you know when we're younger, 42:00.420 --> 42:02.260 like if my wife and I got in a fight on the way to church, 42:02.260 --> 42:03.940 that affects things, right? 42:03.940 --> 42:05.440 Or like the kids make you angry, 42:05.440 --> 42:06.500 you're like on the way to church 42:06.500 --> 42:07.740 and everything's great, right? 42:07.740 --> 42:09.700 Zip-biddy-doo-dah, you're like, yeah. 42:09.700 --> 42:11.400 And then all of a sudden one of them was like, 42:11.400 --> 42:14.540 oh, I dropped all the chocolate in the back of the car. 42:14.540 --> 42:16.180 It's like, how? 42:16.700 --> 42:21.640 Don't know man that just cuz I'm a clean freak like that just Eric 42:21.640 --> 42:24.680 Anyways, let me not get so cuz now I'm getting thinking about it. I don't want to get bad 42:24.840 --> 42:27.860 Let's go to point number two go to number six point number two 42:29.560 --> 42:31.400 Separate yourself 42:34.000 --> 42:41.280 unto God. And so we see now in number six, we get the the Nazarite vow, right? The Nazarite vow. 42:41.280 --> 42:47.680 That's literally a whole sermon in of itself. But really the crux of that is that you want to 42:47.680 --> 42:54.640 separate yourselves, but the key word is unto God. You know, don't do stuff to be seen of people. 42:54.900 --> 42:59.060 Like if you're just being, you know, the Mormons do stuff to be seen of people. 42:59.060 --> 43:02.420 Oh, I don't drink caffeine. Okay, well good for you. I love my coffee. 43:02.420 --> 43:07.700 Right? And they all look the same. They always wear the white shirt with the black tie. And they, 43:07.700 --> 43:12.580 you know, I was on the plane going to, oh, when I was going to Idaho. And of course, 43:12.580 --> 43:17.380 you had these young missionaries coming back from the mission field, quote unquote. That's what they 43:17.380 --> 43:22.420 call them. They're not missionaries. And you know, their little thing says elder. And I'm just like, 43:22.420 --> 43:22.900 Bro. 43:22.900 --> 43:28.020 you can't even grow facial hair. Elder, elder not even by its like definition of modern day like 43:28.020 --> 43:33.620 you're older, but elder in the church, absolutely not. Like it just that doesn't fit, but they're 43:33.620 --> 43:38.660 doing it to be seen of people. It's you know, you don't see me walking around being like, 43:38.660 --> 43:44.820 oh I'm pastor so-and-so, it's like pastor Reyes, you know, church leader, nothing like it's like 43:44.820 --> 43:49.780 stupid right? But the Nazarite Bible, go to verse one it says, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, 43:50.500 --> 43:59.000 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when either man or woman shall separate themselves to valval of a nazarite 43:59.400 --> 44:01.400 To separate themselves unto the Lord 44:01.420 --> 44:09.120 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of the wine or vinegar of a strong drink 44:09.120 --> 44:12.100 Neither shall you drink any liquor of grapes nor eat 44:12.700 --> 44:14.700 moist grapes or dried 44:15.140 --> 44:17.140 But in order what he's saying there 44:17.260 --> 44:18.200 separate 44:18.700 --> 44:22.140 He separated himself from himself what unto the work of the Lord. 44:23.740 --> 44:28.540 Right, he separated himself to do something for the Lord. Look, if you're going to do something 44:29.260 --> 44:32.300 that's going to be, you know, maybe perceived as weird, do it for the Lord. 44:33.100 --> 44:38.540 Like honestly, what we do, soul winning is weird. The world's like, you go soul winning? What is 44:38.540 --> 44:42.940 that? I mean, half the time people don't even know what the heck we're talking about. Who's had that 44:42.940 --> 44:46.100 conversation. Oh yeah we go so many in the week. 44:46.500 --> 44:47.620 What do you mean so winning? 44:47.620 --> 44:48.820 Oh, you pass out flyers? 44:48.820 --> 44:50.260 No, we talk to people door to door. 44:50.260 --> 44:51.300 What do you mean door to door? 44:51.300 --> 44:55.700 Yeah, we ask them, you know, like, hey, if you're 100% sure you're going to heaven, 44:55.700 --> 44:57.060 if not, you're going to go to hell. 44:57.060 --> 44:58.260 And they're just like, what? 44:58.260 --> 45:00.180 Like nobody, that's a foreign concept. 45:01.140 --> 45:05.620 But if you're doing it for the right reasons, which I hope you are, that's fine. 45:05.620 --> 45:10.900 But if you're doing it for yourself, like to be seen of men, it's going to fail. 45:11.300 --> 45:14.100 And have we not witnessed that over the years? 45:14.100 --> 45:16.560 Where people go, they're part of the soul winning groups, 45:16.560 --> 45:18.360 they're part of the soul winning churches, 45:18.360 --> 45:20.600 and then they just, they don't get the credit they wanted, 45:20.600 --> 45:22.400 and they're no longer around. 45:22.400 --> 45:24.680 I mean, Judas was the soul winners. 45:24.680 --> 45:26.640 If you talk to the wrong people, 45:26.640 --> 45:28.340 they'll tell you Judas was the best soul winner. 45:28.340 --> 45:30.520 If you talk to people who read their Bible, 45:30.520 --> 45:32.680 Judas didn't lead anybody to the Lord. 45:32.680 --> 45:36.860 Judas is just a loser who ended up killing himself 45:36.860 --> 45:38.960 and has been in hell for thousands of years. 45:39.100 --> 45:44.380 You know, so we need to be separate, but unto the Lord. 45:44.380 --> 45:48.300 Not unto our wives, not unto our kids, not unto the church, unto the Lord. 45:48.300 --> 45:54.100 Like your mindset should be, I'm going to church, whatever church it is, of course I'd 45:54.100 --> 45:58.100 love you to always stay here at Spring Crest, but your mindset should be you're here for 45:58.100 --> 45:59.100 the Lord. 45:59.100 --> 46:01.900 And if you're not here for the Lord, then you really should evaluate. 46:02.400 --> 46:05.680 And even take a step back and figure out where it is that you need to be. 46:05.680 --> 46:09.040 Because otherwise you're just wasting their time and your time. 46:09.040 --> 46:10.560 Like it's not going to be fruitful. 46:11.120 --> 46:11.840 And you don't want to do that. 46:11.840 --> 46:12.800 Go to Romans 12. 46:14.800 --> 46:18.400 You know, and it's not just like a list of things that people are like, oh, I don't drink. 46:19.920 --> 46:22.160 And oh, I don't, I don't go there. 46:22.160 --> 46:23.600 We don't, we don't watch that. 46:24.640 --> 46:25.920 I don't participate in that. 46:25.920 --> 46:27.200 Who's ever been around those people? 46:27.200 --> 46:28.800 We don't, I'm okay with that. 46:29.400 --> 46:32.000 But oftentimes it's because they want you to know how good they are. 46:32.000 --> 46:35.880 Oh, you do that? Oh, we would never do that. 46:35.880 --> 46:39.760 Oh, okay, I'm sorry. Sorry we're not perfect like you. 46:39.760 --> 46:43.600 You know, of course, like we want to clean up our speech 46:43.600 --> 46:48.880 and we want to, you know, dress better for the Lord and look better. 46:48.880 --> 46:51.040 But it's not we're not perfect. You know, I mean. 46:52.300 --> 46:55.940 I guarantee you those same people in a traffic jam 46:55.940 --> 46:59.440 where somebody cut them off might not be so holier than that. 46:59.440 --> 47:01.580 I mean, I'm just, and if you're saying, 47:01.580 --> 47:02.860 oh, I would never do that, 47:02.860 --> 47:05.500 just stop lying to me and to yourself 47:05.500 --> 47:08.620 because sometimes I'm in the car and I'm just like, 47:08.620 --> 47:10.900 I'm glad nobody in church was with me 47:10.900 --> 47:13.200 because I just had these, 47:13.200 --> 47:14.040 I just said the things 47:14.040 --> 47:15.580 that I probably shouldn't have said. 47:15.580 --> 47:16.420 Who's done that? 47:16.420 --> 47:18.300 We're all weak in the flesh. 47:18.400 --> 47:20.960 and we need to be doing things for the Lord. 47:20.960 --> 47:24.560 But oftentimes, even now, like, I don't honk, number one, 47:24.560 --> 47:25.760 because road rage is dangerous. 47:25.760 --> 47:27.360 Like, we should probably not honk at anybody. 47:27.360 --> 47:30.160 Houston's the number one road rage city in the country. 47:30.160 --> 47:32.160 Don't honk at anybody in Houston, you're gonna get killed. 47:32.160 --> 47:35.120 But number two, like, the Lord's help, just ease that 47:35.120 --> 47:36.480 and just not do it regularly. 47:36.480 --> 47:37.040 But you know what? 47:37.040 --> 47:38.800 Every once in a while, I'm still honking at people. 47:38.800 --> 47:40.400 I'm still like, just get out of my way. 47:41.400 --> 47:47.940 So we want to be able to, the goal is sanctification, the goal is consecration, but it's for the Lord. 47:47.940 --> 47:49.640 Romans 12, right there, verse 1 says, 47:49.640 --> 47:57.640 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, 47:57.640 --> 48:02.840 holy, acceptable unto who? Unto God. 48:02.840 --> 48:05.840 Which is your reasonable service. 48:06.600 --> 48:09.800 You know, no matter how many times I read this, it feels like I just learned something new. 48:09.800 --> 48:15.480 Like, reasonable is easy. It's common sense. 48:15.480 --> 48:18.280 You know why we beat up on the younger generation? 48:18.280 --> 48:19.960 Common sense has gone out the window. 48:19.960 --> 48:23.240 Because common sense is the easiest part of life, right? 48:23.240 --> 48:26.280 Common sense should be the thing that stands out the most. 48:26.280 --> 48:30.360 Like, we need to be reasonable. We need to have common sense. 48:31.000 --> 48:38.000 You know, common sense is the stove has flames, don't stick your finger in the flame. 48:38.000 --> 48:41.000 Like that's all, God's not asking us to go above and beyond and be like, 48:41.000 --> 48:47.000 no, I'm going to control the flame or, no, just don't stick your finger in the flame. 48:47.000 --> 48:52.000 He's not making this complicated thing. He says reasonable service unto God. 48:52.000 --> 48:57.700 It says, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed 48:57.800 --> 48:59.800 by the renewing of your mind, 48:59.800 --> 49:01.800 that you may prove 49:01.800 --> 49:03.800 what is good 49:03.800 --> 49:05.800 and acceptable and perfect 49:05.800 --> 49:07.800 will of God. So how do we prove 49:07.800 --> 49:09.800 to the world what God has 49:09.800 --> 49:11.800 for us? By doing these things. 49:11.800 --> 49:13.800 We conform not ourselves to the world, 49:13.800 --> 49:15.800 we're transformed by the renewing 49:15.800 --> 49:17.800 of what the mind, now 49:17.800 --> 49:19.800 I think you should exercise, I think you should 49:19.800 --> 49:21.800 stay healthy, you know I think you should do 49:21.800 --> 49:23.800 those things, but the mind is more important. 49:24.400 --> 49:30.240 and that you want to prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will have God. 49:30.240 --> 49:34.880 And oftentimes when people read stuff like this because they're reading everything out of context, 49:34.880 --> 49:40.800 they're hearing words like good, right, and acceptable, and perfect. And so that's why you 49:40.800 --> 49:45.280 end up at church and people are like, oh, I'm just, you know, like their stuff don't stink. No, 49:45.280 --> 49:50.720 what God's saying here is the way you prove it is you're doing God's work. God's work is dirty work. 49:51.300 --> 49:55.620 That's why he's cleaning the camp because you're doing work and things are getting he's like get 49:55.620 --> 50:00.740 rid of the lepers get rid of the foreign kids get but also in the camp itself he's getting rid of 50:00.740 --> 50:06.740 the dung and he's cleaning out the ashes and there's you know there's the the shedding of blood and 50:06.740 --> 50:12.740 they're having to clean the carcasses like it's a dirty job to do the work of the Lord and so you 50:12.740 --> 50:14.740 want to just be able to do the things 50:15.000 --> 50:18.840 Properly. Good, acceptable, and perfect. 50:18.840 --> 50:20.360 This is the will of God. 50:20.360 --> 50:23.720 Go to 2nd Timothy 2. 50:23.720 --> 50:25.320 Go to 2nd Timothy 2. 50:28.300 --> 50:30.300 But it has to be a living sacrifice. 50:31.980 --> 50:36.620 Right? God wants obedience is better than sacrifice, but that doesn't mean you don't sacrifice. 50:36.620 --> 50:40.220 A lot of people will teach that and say, hey, obedience is better than sacrifice. I agree. 50:40.220 --> 50:43.580 Obedience is better than sacrifice. But you know what? If you're obeying, you're probably 50:43.580 --> 50:46.700 sacrificing because sacrificing is already part of obedience. 50:47.420 --> 50:51.020 Because you know what obedience is? It's doing something when you don't want to do it. 50:51.500 --> 50:55.440 If I tell my wife not to do something but she agrees with me, that's technically not 50:55.440 --> 50:56.440 obedience. 50:56.440 --> 50:57.440 That's more like we're in line. 50:57.440 --> 50:58.440 We're in line, right? 50:58.440 --> 51:01.600 If I say, hey, don't do this, and she's like, yeah, I wasn't going to do that because I 51:01.600 --> 51:03.980 agree with you, that's not really obedience. 51:03.980 --> 51:05.980 That's just like we agree. 51:05.980 --> 51:09.580 But if I say, hey, don't do this, and she's like, well, I really wanted to do that, but 51:09.580 --> 51:12.380 I'm not going to do it, and obedience to you, that's obedience, right? 51:12.380 --> 51:13.380 And what is she doing? 51:13.380 --> 51:16.020 She's sacrificing her own selfish needs or desires. 51:16.400 --> 51:18.720 2nd Timothy 2, right there in verse 20, the Bible says, 51:18.720 --> 51:22.640 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, 51:22.640 --> 51:26.720 but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor, and some to dishonor. 51:28.560 --> 51:35.040 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified 51:35.040 --> 51:39.920 and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 51:40.700 --> 51:45.700 And then what did he say? How does this transpire? He says, flee also youthful lusts. 51:45.700 --> 51:51.700 And you know, oftentimes we think only of the youth. He's saying to everybody, flee also youthful lusts. 51:51.700 --> 51:57.700 Meaning, hey, don't be that old guy who now wants to trade in your old model for a new model, 51:57.700 --> 52:02.700 which that's stupid that people make that joke. Stay with the wife of your youth, right? 52:02.700 --> 52:05.700 The youthful lust is just you're always looking at just the youth. 52:07.400 --> 52:10.680 And it says, where were we? I'm sorry. 52:10.680 --> 52:20.520 But follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call unto the Lord out of a pure heart. 52:20.520 --> 52:26.600 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strives. 52:26.600 --> 52:32.200 And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach. 52:32.400 --> 52:37.000 patience, and meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, 52:37.000 --> 52:41.000 if God, perventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, 52:41.000 --> 52:44.240 and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, 52:44.240 --> 52:46.920 who are taken captive by him, 52:46.920 --> 52:49.400 as well, you know, if we don't cleanse, what does it say? 52:49.400 --> 52:52.440 We're taken captive by Satan's will. 52:52.440 --> 52:53.800 Like, it's so easy. 52:53.800 --> 52:56.360 Satan's like, I can, I got this. 52:56.360 --> 52:58.840 I can do whatever I want with this individual. 52:59.100 --> 53:00.300 Like, it's super easy. 53:00.300 --> 53:01.600 And then, you know, it's interesting. 53:01.600 --> 53:04.000 It says, foolish and unlearned questions, you know, 53:04.000 --> 53:05.400 don't strive, all this stuff. 53:05.400 --> 53:07.400 It makes me think, yesterday we were out sowing, 53:07.400 --> 53:08.900 and brother Jerry knocked on the door, 53:08.900 --> 53:12.100 and this old lady, this old black lady came out. 53:12.100 --> 53:15.100 And he's, you know, going through the initial gospel. 53:15.100 --> 53:16.600 She's like, I'm a Jehovah's Witness. 53:16.800 --> 53:21.260 You know Jerry got mad. I don't care like I hate your hose wins this dude, and he's like well 53:21.260 --> 53:24.920 You don't believe in Jesus. She's like well. I'm not here to offend you you're in here with me or what? 53:24.920 --> 53:29.240 I don't remember how it was, but she's basically like giving her dumb opinion like nobody cares 53:29.240 --> 53:34.900 And so Jerry walks away as she chases him out like now she wants like 53:35.400 --> 53:37.600 She's like, well, I'm just, I'm telling you. 53:37.600 --> 53:40.360 And then she said, I'm just telling you that I'm not perfect. 53:40.360 --> 53:42.040 I was like, well, thanks for stating the obvious. 53:42.040 --> 53:43.040 Neither am I. 53:43.040 --> 53:46.040 Like, so he leaves and I'm trying to just keep her away because he's knocking other 53:46.040 --> 53:47.040 doors. 53:47.040 --> 53:48.640 And she just keeps like saying this stupid thing. 53:48.640 --> 53:50.480 She's like, well, I just want you to know I'm not perfect. 53:50.480 --> 53:52.600 I'm like, okay, well, that's great. 53:52.600 --> 53:53.600 That's not what we're talking about. 53:53.600 --> 53:54.600 You're still like, you know. 53:54.600 --> 53:55.000 out. 53:55.200 --> 53:59.460 You still believe Jesus isn't Jesus and you're still going to hell like that's what Jerry's trying to get across to you 53:59.460 --> 54:00.200 She's like well 54:00.200 --> 54:05.600 I'm just trying to take care of the person here because there's a gentleman in here who shot himself in the head yesterday 54:06.120 --> 54:07.560 And I'm thinking to myself 54:07.560 --> 54:11.880 We'll go take care of the person that shot themselves in the head like what you doing here arguing with me 54:12.140 --> 54:16.480 Right like it's just like gendering strive for the heck the sake of gendering strive 54:16.480 --> 54:20.920 And then she's like oh and then right as she's going and she's like you know how black people love to use that term 54:20.920 --> 54:22.300 There's babies involved 54:22.600 --> 54:26.140 I was like, well, even worse, what are you doing wasting your time here with me and brother 54:26.140 --> 54:27.140 Jerry? 54:27.140 --> 54:28.480 You're already going to hell. 54:28.480 --> 54:29.480 We told you you're going to hell. 54:29.480 --> 54:30.640 You don't want to listen. 54:30.640 --> 54:33.680 Go back inside and at least help that person that shot himself in the head. 54:33.680 --> 54:35.800 It might have been the people you guys were referring to. 54:35.800 --> 54:37.040 I don't know. 54:37.040 --> 54:42.760 But it just proves the point that if we're, for the wrong reasons, it's all ego. 54:42.760 --> 54:45.080 Like there was no reason for her to follow us out. 54:45.080 --> 54:46.960 There's no reason for her to continue the whole thing. 54:47.400 --> 54:51.400 It's just because she's foolish and unlearned questions. 54:51.400 --> 54:54.840 You know what, I love brother Jerry's ads. He's like, just moved on. I'm actually the one that 54:54.840 --> 54:58.280 intervened. You know, I was trying to, he's just like, let's go. I don't have time for this. 54:59.160 --> 55:03.080 Right? Because what we want to do is we want to be meat for the Master's use. 55:03.080 --> 55:05.560 If you think about it, yesterday was a super fruitful day, 36. 55:06.840 --> 55:09.480 But you know, you get a young Christian and they'll sit there and argue with 55:09.480 --> 55:11.880 them for 30 minutes and then you lose out on salvations. 55:13.200 --> 55:18.200 He says also prepared unto every good work. 55:18.200 --> 55:21.440 Go to 1 Peter, go to 1 Peter. 55:21.440 --> 55:22.440 So why do we get clean? 55:22.440 --> 55:24.400 Because we want to be meat for the Master's use. 55:24.400 --> 55:25.400 And why do we separate? 55:25.400 --> 55:28.960 Because we want to be prepared unto every good work. 55:28.960 --> 55:39.520 In 1 Peter 1, the Bible says in verse 13, it says, wherefore gird up the loins of your 55:39.520 --> 55:40.080 mine. 55:40.900 --> 55:46.580 Be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you all, 55:46.580 --> 55:50.660 I mean unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children. 55:51.400 --> 55:55.240 not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts and your ignorance, 55:55.240 --> 56:00.680 but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 56:00.680 --> 56:04.280 Because it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy." 56:04.280 --> 56:08.440 You know how often I'm tempted, like with this whole woman thing right now, 56:08.440 --> 56:10.680 like this whole feminist thing, 56:10.680 --> 56:16.520 I'm so annoyed by not only the feminist, but like the holier-than-thou Christians. 56:16.520 --> 56:19.240 You know, the ones that examples I've been giving you the last couple weeks. 56:19.400 --> 56:25.040 And oftentimes I just want to like shout out like the worst explicit like language from 56:25.040 --> 56:29.460 the pulpit just to prove a point that it's all about God's word. 56:29.800 --> 56:37.400 I would rather, you know, I know Pastor Shelley got a lot of like a flack for using the F word one time many years ago. 56:37.400 --> 56:46.600 I'd rather be friends with the Pastor Shelley and hear the truth than all these milly mouse, like milk, toast, preachers that won't even touch the subject. 56:46.600 --> 56:52.800 You know, what other preachers are saying, hey, this is wrong. Not just this, all the stuff that we preach about. 56:52.800 --> 56:57.800 What other, I'm not, it's not even like we're bragging on ourselves. What other preachers... 56:57.800 --> 57:00.160 I mean a couple years ago you could even say that, 57:00.160 --> 57:02.920 oh what was that guy from First Baptist in Dallas? 57:02.920 --> 57:03.800 What's his name? 57:05.040 --> 57:06.000 He's, huh? 57:06.000 --> 57:07.340 Jeff? 57:07.340 --> 57:08.940 Robert Jeffress. 57:08.940 --> 57:11.540 I mean at least 10 years ago even like, 57:11.540 --> 57:13.520 Robert Jeffress and some of those guys were, 57:13.520 --> 57:16.120 now you don't hear anything from any of those guys. 57:16.120 --> 57:18.080 It's like they just all went quiet. 57:19.100 --> 57:23.900 Like, he was preaching hard, not like we do, but he was preaching hard. 57:23.900 --> 57:28.420 Name one preacher, you know, actually I will say, I'll name one, because I've seen clips 57:28.420 --> 57:30.900 of his and I really like him and he does it better. 57:30.900 --> 57:33.300 That guy, what's his name, Tony Hudson I think? 57:33.300 --> 57:34.300 Who's seen him? 57:34.300 --> 57:38.960 The big guy, and he's like, hey, Hoss, I like that, he does that sort of thing. 57:38.960 --> 57:43.100 He's like, they reprobate Hoss, they're going to burn in hell, Hoss, like I like that guy. 57:43.100 --> 57:46.580 He's the only one that I can think of outside of our circles that's preaching hard. 57:47.700 --> 57:53.940 Right? I mean, who else is saying this stuff? But you know what we do here? I remember listening to, 57:55.460 --> 57:59.140 and I didn't even listen to it initially, but when Pastor Anderson's old ordeal came out, 57:59.140 --> 58:03.460 there was a guy by the name of Rocky Randall. He's a pastor. I actually preached at his church one 58:03.460 --> 58:07.780 time and then he did like a four-part series. 58:08.300 --> 58:10.460 on Pastor Anderson. I thought it was weird. 58:10.460 --> 58:12.700 So I didn't listen to it, but then it just, all the stuff kept coming up, 58:12.700 --> 58:15.180 so I was like, I'm gonna go listen to what this guy has to say. 58:15.180 --> 58:19.420 And I listened at 1.5 speed, because it was just like the same repetitive thing. 58:19.420 --> 58:22.380 And all he ever said, this is exactly what he said, he's like, 58:22.380 --> 58:25.900 oh, you know, Pastor Anderson, I really liked him. He was like a good guy. 58:25.900 --> 58:29.980 Marathon this and ultra marathon that, and he was a soul winner, blah, blah, blah. 58:29.980 --> 58:31.980 And I thought he was just a really down-to-earth guy. 58:31.980 --> 58:34.460 But you know, just a couple of red flags started to stand out. 58:34.460 --> 58:35.420 And here's the red flag. 58:35.800 --> 58:39.400 He's like, he just cuss a lot from the pulpit, 58:39.400 --> 58:41.700 he'd just say bad words from the pulpit, 58:41.700 --> 58:44.140 and he was using foul language from the pulpit. 58:44.140 --> 58:46.080 And I'm thinking to myself, what foul, 58:46.080 --> 58:46.920 you know what it is? 58:46.920 --> 58:51.720 Because, you know, we say fags and bastard and crap, right? 58:51.720 --> 58:55.540 And whores and slut, that's all biblical. 58:55.540 --> 58:56.380 Like, 58:56.600 --> 59:01.000 So you're telling me that you're not going to stand with someone because they use language that you didn't agree with 59:01.320 --> 59:03.560 But then you're not going to do anything for the cause of christ 59:03.640 --> 59:06.200 How many I know they're soul-witting so i'm not going to knock on him too much 59:06.200 --> 59:12.440 But they're just not at the veracity and at the fervor that someone who's just willing to just call it all out is 59:13.000 --> 59:15.000 I mean, there's just different levels 59:15.640 --> 59:17.800 So go back to number seven go back to number seven 59:18.520 --> 59:22.680 We don't have to go through that whole chapter because it's a really long chapter. I've got two more points for you 59:22.680 --> 59:23.800 we're done today, but 59:26.600 --> 59:31.160 Point number three is you want to just put something on the altar. You want to dedicate something. 59:32.200 --> 59:40.680 How do we do this today? Most often it's viewed as tithes, but I really believe that it's viewed on 59:40.680 --> 59:46.600 your time. The tithes are great to keep the things in the church going, to do the things that we do, 59:46.600 --> 59:50.840 but the best that you can give the church is to give yourself. 59:51.200 --> 59:55.440 Like that's the best sacrifice. Like what do you put on the altar to Christ and say, hey, 59:56.080 --> 01:00:00.400 I've got all this crap Lord that I'm dealing with. I've got all these things, but I'm look, 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.640 I'm just going to show up and you take care of the rest and I'm just going to go do the work. 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:08.080 And you know, when I mess up, I'll just 01:00:08.600 --> 01:00:14.360 Ask you to forgive me and then I'll accept punishment by the way accepting punishment is part of like God's will for your life 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.020 Like not just say hey Lord, forgive me for my sins 01:00:17.020 --> 01:00:19.040 But you know what your prayer should also be a Lord 01:00:19.040 --> 01:00:23.480 Forgive me for my sins and help me when my punishment comes to take it, you know with joy 01:00:24.120 --> 01:00:30.680 And that's actually biblical. We'll get to those like there's literally verses where the Bible talks about go to number seven right there verse 01:00:30.680 --> 01:00:32.680 10 the Bible says and the prince 01:00:33.300 --> 01:00:38.180 And the prince is offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed 01:00:38.260 --> 01:00:42.900 Even the prince is offered their offering before the altar and the lord said unto moses 01:00:43.140 --> 01:00:49.620 They shall offer their offering each prince on his day for the dedicating of the altar. So christ 01:00:50.260 --> 01:00:53.380 God expects us to dedicate something to him 01:00:54.900 --> 01:00:56.900 It's not necessary for salvation 01:00:58.420 --> 01:01:00.420 But we need to do something like we need to 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:07.920 show up and give them something. If we don't, it doesn't detract from your salvation, but it just 01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:12.800 won't give you the blessings, you won't be effective. And this is where a lot of people kind of get 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:18.240 get on to us, right? Like they get mad because we teach easy believism and they think that because 01:01:18.240 --> 01:01:23.680 we teach that, that we're teaching that you can just be a bat out of hell and be saved. 01:01:24.200 --> 01:01:27.240 And yeah, that's true, you can be a bad-out of hell and get saved. 01:01:27.240 --> 01:01:30.240 But that doesn't mean that that's how we want you to live your life. 01:01:30.240 --> 01:01:32.840 The difference is I'm just not going to judge, like I'm just going to move on. 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:34.880 Oh, you don't want to serve with me? 01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:36.880 I already told you what your consequences are. 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:37.720 I got work to do. 01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:41.000 And I mean, honestly, like it's weird, 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:44.380 like even in the new I have B circles, 01:01:44.380 --> 01:01:47.420 like they're kind of mad that we don't like spend time 01:01:47.420 --> 01:01:51.020 discipling and helping people out and doing all that. 01:01:51.020 --> 01:01:53.420 Look, nobody wants help anyways. 01:01:53.420 --> 01:01:55.520 Nobody wants help anyways. 01:01:55.520 --> 01:01:57.620 I'm dead serious. 01:01:57.620 --> 01:01:59.500 Nobody cares about your advice. 01:01:59.500 --> 01:02:01.360 Nobody cares about your opinion. 01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:02.360 Nobody wants help. 01:02:02.900 --> 01:02:08.580 And if they pretend they want your help, what they really want is for you to listen to their opinion 01:02:08.580 --> 01:02:15.780 and hopefully convince you so that you can respond in kind and agree with whatever stupid thing it is that they want. 01:02:15.780 --> 01:02:23.540 Right? Oftentimes the calls are like, hey, you know, is it bad to commit this kind of sin because the Bible says this? 01:02:23.540 --> 01:02:27.460 That's already a bad start because you probably already know the answer to the question. 01:02:27.460 --> 01:02:29.700 You're just trying to get someone to justify that, right? 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:34.720 Like, just dedicate yourself and do the things for the Lord. 01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:38.160 It's not worried about what other people, because God expects it. 01:02:38.160 --> 01:02:41.040 Like, he wants it. Like, every tribe participated. 01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:44.080 This is 89 chapters. It goes tribe by tribe. 01:02:44.080 --> 01:02:46.880 It says they all did this. It's actually really repetitive. 01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:50.560 Who's read number seven? Like, it's super repetitive, right? 01:02:50.560 --> 01:02:54.400 But God put it in there to show us that he expects everybody to do that. 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:59.520 Like he expects them if God says to do something he expects you to do it 01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:05.920 And remember the old testament is for us to learn from but the new testament is our rule book, right? 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:12.880 I don't know what we were listening to if you don't have to tell me but we were listening to someone and um 01:03:14.240 --> 01:03:15.920 It was like a debate 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:17.920 and one guy was like 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:19.680 oh actually it was uh 01:03:19.680 --> 01:03:22.160 It was with charlie kirk and you know charlie kirk was 01:03:22.700 --> 01:03:24.860 Like, I already preached on it. 01:03:24.860 --> 01:03:25.860 I think he was saved. 01:03:25.860 --> 01:03:26.860 I think he did good things. 01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:29.220 But he was also watered down compared to us. 01:03:29.220 --> 01:03:30.380 Like, he really was. 01:03:30.380 --> 01:03:34.180 And this is one of those few clips where like an actual Christian showed up and was kind 01:03:34.180 --> 01:03:35.180 of calling him out. 01:03:35.180 --> 01:03:38.380 And he's like, well, the Bible, the New Testament is a better testament. 01:03:38.380 --> 01:03:39.380 And he's like, wait a second. 01:03:39.380 --> 01:03:40.940 Are you saying the New Testament is better? 01:03:40.940 --> 01:03:43.060 The Old Testament is like a great testament. 01:03:43.060 --> 01:03:45.140 And that's how you prove that they haven't read the Bible. 01:03:45.140 --> 01:03:45.600 like. 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.480 The Bible tells us the New Testament is the better Testament. 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:50.980 So the way we apply this is we go to the New Testament 01:03:50.980 --> 01:03:53.320 to see what the equivalent is for this. 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:57.280 Like, we're not going to bring gold, silver to the Lord. 01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:58.920 We're not going to sacrifice animals. 01:03:58.920 --> 01:03:59.820 What's the sacrifice? 01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:00.460 Ourselves. 01:04:00.460 --> 01:04:02.120 We are the temple of God. 01:04:02.120 --> 01:04:04.060 We need to be the ones coming through. 01:04:04.060 --> 01:04:06.260 We're the ones that need to be making those life choices. 01:04:06.260 --> 01:04:07.300 Go over to 2 Corinthians. 01:04:07.300 --> 01:04:08.600 Go over to 2 Corinthians. 01:04:11.300 --> 01:04:14.800 We need a give of our time. 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:20.760 our ability, our work, everybody has a different talent. 01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:23.160 And not only that, you need to give 01:04:23.160 --> 01:04:24.960 and you also need to be willing to receive 01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:27.280 and you also need to be willing to listen. 01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:30.440 I thought about, you know, you think about Paul 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:35.440 got into fights with Peter, Barnabas and Mark, right? 01:04:36.940 --> 01:04:40.080 Barnabas got really offended, he just disappeared. 01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:45.100 Mark was just young. I don't think mark even knew what was going on because the Bible would indicate he's young 01:04:45.140 --> 01:04:48.860 But he shows up later remember at the end Paul says hey bring me my my 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:53.820 Bring me my basic my Bible and my stuff and by the way bring me mark cuz he's 01:04:54.200 --> 01:04:58.240 He's he's he's beneficial for me for the ministry and then Peter 01:04:58.240 --> 01:05:01.780 I mean Peter obviously we know through history that he died 01:05:02.420 --> 01:05:07.540 For the cause of Christ and got you know, he there's that prophetic thing and Peter got called out pretty rough 01:05:08.300 --> 01:05:11.100 If you're serving the Lord, you receive instruction. 01:05:11.100 --> 01:05:13.020 Sometimes you have to receive correction. 01:05:13.020 --> 01:05:13.820 You're doing the things. 01:05:13.820 --> 01:05:16.060 So we'll go to 2 Corinthians 9, right there in verse 6, 01:05:16.060 --> 01:05:17.020 the Bible says, 01:05:17.020 --> 01:05:19.420 But this I say, he which soweth sparely, 01:05:19.980 --> 01:05:22.140 shall reap also sparely. 01:05:22.140 --> 01:05:24.140 And he which soweth bountifully, 01:05:24.140 --> 01:05:26.140 shall reap also bountfully. 01:05:26.140 --> 01:05:29.660 Every man according as he purposed in his heart, 01:05:29.660 --> 01:05:30.460 so let him give, 01:05:31.020 --> 01:05:33.660 not grudgingly or of a necessity, 01:05:33.660 --> 01:05:35.580 for God loveth a cheerful giver. 01:05:36.100 --> 01:05:42.020 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency 01:05:42.020 --> 01:05:47.780 in all things, may abound to every good work. Hey, we gotta keep showing up. 01:05:49.860 --> 01:05:52.980 The Lord will provide the money, the Lord will provide the resources. 01:05:52.980 --> 01:05:57.780 He has. We don't always have everything we need, but we have plenty. We have enough. 01:05:58.500 --> 01:06:02.840 It says as it is written he hath dispersed abroad and he hath given to the poor 01:06:03.160 --> 01:06:05.760 His righteousness remaineth forever now 01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:10.260 he that ministereth see to the sower both minister bread for your food and 01:06:10.720 --> 01:06:14.320 Multiply your seed sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness 01:06:15.040 --> 01:06:21.280 Being enriched and everything to all bountifulness which causeth through us 01:06:21.660 --> 01:06:26.120 Thanksgiving to God for the administration of this service 01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:34.660 not only supplyeth the wants of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgiving unto God." 01:06:34.660 --> 01:06:36.940 Hey, we're not the richest church. 01:06:36.940 --> 01:06:38.980 As a matter of fact, we've spent a lot of money this year. 01:06:38.980 --> 01:06:42.580 I'm just going to tell you between like we, I over invited people. 01:06:42.580 --> 01:06:45.780 So like we've had a bunch of people and you know, we give them a love offering, all of them. 01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:48.080 And we're a small church, right? 01:06:48.080 --> 01:06:50.920 And then we have the fellowships and we're doing so many. 01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:52.800 But did we not eat good yesterday? 01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:55.920 Like the Lord, I mean, it wasn't like, I mean, I know if I would have said, hey, we'll go 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:57.400 to McDonald's, nobody would complain. 01:06:57.400 --> 01:06:59.560 But I thought those tacos were pretty good, right? 01:06:59.560 --> 01:07:02.320 Like God provided all the things and we had the supplies. 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.000 We ran out of Bibles, but we just needed to buy more Bibles. 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:07.040 But everybody had a car. 01:07:07.040 --> 01:07:08.360 Everybody has money in their pocket. 01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:10.120 They, you know, they have the means. 01:07:10.120 --> 01:07:12.600 And where people get this wrong is I'm not teaching. 01:07:12.600 --> 01:07:14.400 That's going to just give you enough to be successful. 01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:16.400 We have the right attitude 01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:19.580 Where they take this is they're like hey, you know God's gonna give you more than you 01:07:20.200 --> 01:07:21.840 that you need and 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:27.120 Who's ever seen those I saw a clip recently of this like it was a black preacher and he had all these old ladies 01:07:27.120 --> 01:07:29.480 He's like this isn't my money. This is God's money 01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:34.680 He has like literal stacks of money and he's giving these ladies like the money these old ladies the money from churches 01:07:34.680 --> 01:07:36.880 Like the church is provided for this and then he ran 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:41.320 He like gets to the end of the line and the other three or four ladies. There was not enough money 01:07:41.900 --> 01:07:46.700 And he goes, we need $4,000 and I know I can get them from you right now. 01:07:47.340 --> 01:07:50.460 Because we, this is not my money. This is not going to me. This is going to them. 01:07:50.460 --> 01:07:55.340 And he like went up and he's literally like this, just collecting money from the people 01:07:55.340 --> 01:07:58.380 and then just give it to them. That's not what I'm talking about. 01:07:58.380 --> 01:08:02.380 All right. You're not going to see me here saying, Hey, we need a thousand dollars right now. 01:08:03.100 --> 01:08:06.700 Brother Heath locked the doors. We ain't living there. Do you guys bring me a thing? 01:08:06.700 --> 01:08:11.120 Not we're not doing that. We're whatever we're saying is god will provide the things that we need 01:08:11.900 --> 01:08:14.400 And actually, I've been to church services like that where they're like, 01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:17.860 we're not leaving until we raise so much money, you know, 01:08:17.860 --> 01:08:20.200 and they obviously don't lock the doors, but who's ever, 01:08:20.200 --> 01:08:23.400 I know my wife probably has witnessed something like that because she grew up old IFB, 01:08:23.400 --> 01:08:25.120 but they're like, they like pull out your heartstrings. 01:08:25.120 --> 01:08:28.700 They're like, we're just trying to raise so much money for such and such thing. 01:08:28.700 --> 01:08:29.860 We're almost there. 01:08:29.860 --> 01:08:31.900 I know there's somebody out there. 01:08:31.900 --> 01:08:33.660 You got a hundred dollars. 01:08:33.660 --> 01:08:35.120 You're just thinking about it. 01:08:35.120 --> 01:08:36.460 You're not doing it. 01:08:36.460 --> 01:08:37.540 Just do it. 01:08:37.540 --> 01:08:39.580 Right. And then we're not leaving. 01:08:39.580 --> 01:08:39.900 That's 01:08:39.900 --> 01:08:40.900 We're not going to do that. 01:08:40.900 --> 01:08:41.900 Go to Philippians 2. 01:08:41.900 --> 01:08:44.060 Go to Philippians 2. 01:08:44.060 --> 01:08:47.500 But God does want you to give. 01:08:47.500 --> 01:08:52.060 But I really honestly, and I'm going to stick to this until the day that I die, give of 01:08:52.060 --> 01:08:54.060 yourself first. 01:08:54.060 --> 01:08:57.420 Like I'd rather you give yourself first than give money. 01:08:57.420 --> 01:09:01.740 Now we need money, so don't get me wrong, but we need you more than we need the money. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.480 God will always provide a way and he has like it there's it's amazing the way that God does that 01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:11.720 But what I'd rather have is more so winners even if we didn't have anywhere anything to do with it 01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:15.360 But just enough gas to get us to where we can go so in and just preach the word 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:21.160 You know, but we have more than enough. We have some good stuff like you know, so go to Philippians 2 right there 01:09:21.160 --> 01:09:23.160 It's 14 the Bible says do all things 01:09:24.040 --> 01:09:27.040 without murmurings and disputings 01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:32.360 that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God." 01:09:32.360 --> 01:09:34.600 And I like the way it's worded here, 01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:38.600 because you know how the Bible says to reprove, admonish, 01:09:38.600 --> 01:09:39.440 but this one he says, 01:09:39.440 --> 01:09:43.440 but be without rebuke in the midst of a crooked 01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:46.280 and perverse nation among which ye shine 01:09:46.280 --> 01:09:48.320 as lights in the world. 01:09:48.320 --> 01:09:50.080 Holding forth the word of life, 01:09:50.080 --> 01:09:51.680 that I may rejoice in the day of Christ 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:55.280 that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. 01:09:56.300 --> 01:09:59.800 Hey, you don't want to be rebuked, but in front of who? 01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:01.960 A crooked and perverse nation. 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:04.340 You know, rebuke is that hard, you know why? 01:10:04.340 --> 01:10:06.180 Because we start to look like the world. 01:10:06.180 --> 01:10:13.380 If I have to rebuke, it's because you're not just like committing sin, you're committing 01:10:13.380 --> 01:10:15.080 like heinous sin, right? 01:10:15.080 --> 01:10:18.180 Like if I, a reproof is like, hey, don't lie. 01:10:18.180 --> 01:10:19.260 It's pretty simple, right? 01:10:19.260 --> 01:10:20.260 Don't lie. 01:10:20.260 --> 01:10:21.260 Hey, you shouldn't lie. 01:10:21.260 --> 01:10:22.020 Parents love your kids. 01:10:22.600 --> 01:10:27.720 Rebuke is like, hey, stop being a slut because everybody in the town knows that you're the slut of the town 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:31.100 That's like that's and if you're a Christian saying don't do that 01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:36.360 In the eyes of a perverse and where were we? I lost my place here 01:10:37.160 --> 01:10:41.520 50 thank you in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation 01:10:42.100 --> 01:10:44.100 What are we in the midst of today? 01:10:44.840 --> 01:10:47.440 a crooked and perverse nation 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:50.100 It's not even Lindsay Clancy anymore. 01:10:50.100 --> 01:10:52.200 Literally within the last 48 hours, 01:10:52.200 --> 01:10:55.900 some lady was following the case 01:10:55.900 --> 01:10:58.000 and decided to hang her own child. 01:10:59.700 --> 01:11:01.900 I mean, is that not crooked and perverse? 01:11:01.900 --> 01:11:03.800 That's just like jacked up beyond. 01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:04.600 I mean... 01:11:05.400 --> 01:11:06.920 I don't even know what to say to that anymore. 01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:08.960 Like at this point I'm just like, what's going on? 01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:10.000 Go to verse 17 says, 01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:15.160 Yay, and if I be offered up upon the sacrifices and services of your faith, 01:11:15.160 --> 01:11:19.200 I joy and rejoice with you all for the same cause also do you joys. 01:11:19.200 --> 01:11:22.400 Do you joy and rejoice with me? 01:11:22.400 --> 01:11:24.040 And why for the same cause? 01:11:24.040 --> 01:11:25.600 Because we're just doing it for the Lord. 01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:30.400 You gotta leave it all out in the field. 01:11:33.700 --> 01:11:38.180 Hebrews 13 right there verse 16 the Bible says but to do good and to communicate forget not 01:11:38.740 --> 01:11:47.060 for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Hey you want to please God? Do good and communicate. 01:11:49.300 --> 01:11:52.340 And we were like, oh yeah, you shouldn't use bad language. 01:11:52.340 --> 01:11:54.220 Sometimes you gotta use bad language. 01:11:54.220 --> 01:11:56.300 When you're, hey, if you're in the ghetto, 01:11:56.300 --> 01:11:58.460 you know what, the guy who's like, 01:11:58.460 --> 01:12:00.520 been in prison and not in prison, 01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:02.860 you might need to be a little crass with him 01:12:02.860 --> 01:12:04.780 in order to get him across the line. 01:12:04.780 --> 01:12:06.640 Because he's used to like a little bit, 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:09.060 being a little bit rough around the edges. 01:12:09.060 --> 01:12:12.260 He's not that impressed with the holier than thou, right? 01:12:12.260 --> 01:12:14.400 He wants to know you can hang with him a little bit. 01:12:14.500 --> 01:12:17.700 And you know, I mean, of course you got to learn this over time, but you know, I let 01:12:17.700 --> 01:12:20.260 these two black guys to the Lord, who was with me? 01:12:20.260 --> 01:12:22.440 Was it you, Martin, that was with me? 01:12:22.440 --> 01:12:26.380 And I wasn't talking to them like I would talk to just like, I was trying to talk to 01:12:26.380 --> 01:12:28.180 them in their level. 01:12:28.180 --> 01:12:30.980 One guy's drinking, the other guy's like, Whoa, I feel bad. 01:12:30.980 --> 01:12:32.540 I said, look, I don't care that you're drinking. 01:12:32.540 --> 01:12:33.540 I don't care if you're sinning. 01:12:33.540 --> 01:12:34.540 Why? 01:12:34.540 --> 01:12:36.300 We need to get you to the Lord. 01:12:36.300 --> 01:12:39.580 Like, but you know, all that'd be like, wow, you're drinking. 01:12:39.580 --> 01:12:39.940 I can't. 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:43.000 I don't put my eyes on that. 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:45.000 Set your eyes before no wicked thing. 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:50.000 Of course, I agree, but there's a difference between like you're giving someone the gospel and you move away, 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:52.000 versus like you're engaged in that activity. 01:12:52.000 --> 01:12:55.000 That's setting your eyes on a wicked thing. 01:12:55.000 --> 01:13:01.000 And then the last point, go to Numbers 8, and we'll wrap this thing up. 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:05.000 A clean vessel, they're prepared for the service. 01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:07.000 That's the vessel that the Lord can use. 01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:17.680 Now, cleanliness in the spiritual sense, that's the determination of God. 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:20.680 It's not even your own determination because you don't even know all your sins. 01:13:20.680 --> 01:13:23.200 Like, there's sins of ignorance. 01:13:23.200 --> 01:13:24.840 So in Numbers 8 right there in verse 5 it says, 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:26.680 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:29.760 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and what? 01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:30.840 And cleanse them. 01:13:33.200 --> 01:13:35.200 Right? Clean them up. 01:13:35.200 --> 01:13:37.200 In verse 14, he says, 01:13:37.200 --> 01:13:40.200 Thus shall thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, 01:13:40.200 --> 01:13:42.200 and the Levites shall be mine. 01:13:42.200 --> 01:13:47.200 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, 01:13:47.200 --> 01:13:51.200 and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer for them an offering. 01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:55.200 Now in the New Testament, whose priest and the royal priesthood and king? We are. 01:13:55.200 --> 01:13:57.200 So we need to be taken aside and 01:13:57.900 --> 01:13:58.900 How do you do that? 01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:03.900 Well, at church, God willing, the pastor's preaching on all these subjects, like this 01:14:03.900 --> 01:14:07.580 one, and you're listening and cleaned up. 01:14:07.580 --> 01:14:09.180 But besides that, that's not enough. 01:14:09.180 --> 01:14:13.900 Like you go home and just constantly be reading your Bible and working on these things because 01:14:13.900 --> 01:14:14.900 none of us are perfect. 01:14:14.900 --> 01:14:17.220 You know, I didn't get saved until I was 25. 01:14:17.220 --> 01:14:19.020 I had 25 years of bad habits. 01:14:19.020 --> 01:14:22.220 It's not just like this overnight thing. 01:14:22.220 --> 01:14:23.220 Go to 2 Timothy 2. 01:14:23.220 --> 01:14:24.220 Go to 2 Timothy 2. 01:14:24.220 --> 01:14:24.600 Thank you. 01:14:30.900 --> 01:14:33.140 But what's the original cleansing? 01:14:33.140 --> 01:14:35.940 How do you—this is why I think it's so stupid 01:14:35.940 --> 01:14:40.260 to try to hold people to this standard that's impossible. 01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:42.900 Because we're already cleansed by the blood of Christ. 01:14:42.900 --> 01:14:45.540 He says He makes us whiter than snow. 01:14:45.540 --> 01:14:49.940 So the rest is really just to be better workers for the Lord here. 01:14:49.940 --> 01:14:52.580 And it's for the rewards that He's going to give us. 01:14:52.580 --> 01:14:54.660 But I was talking to somebody else the other day. 01:14:54.660 --> 01:14:56.740 I just said, when I let Him know, Lord, I said, 01:14:56.740 --> 01:14:58.100 I'm no better than you are. 01:14:58.600 --> 01:15:01.000 You and I are both going to heaven. 01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:04.440 The only difference maker that would make me a little bit better in heaven, 01:15:04.440 --> 01:15:08.120 and that's not even better, it's just a rank system, because it's not better, 01:15:08.120 --> 01:15:12.520 is that I'm doing this work for a crown. 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:13.960 If you want to, you can do the same thing. 01:15:13.960 --> 01:15:15.560 If you don't want to, guess what? 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:17.000 We're still both going to be in heaven. 01:15:18.200 --> 01:15:22.760 The Bible even says that there's someone who's going to be the least in the kingdom of God. 01:15:22.760 --> 01:15:26.920 It doesn't, it's not a positive thing, but I would rather be the least in the kingdom of God 01:15:26.920 --> 01:15:30.440 than not even be in the kingdom of God. Like, I mean, that's just like, to me, it's like, 01:15:30.440 --> 01:15:33.640 that's pretty cool. But there in 2nd Timothy 2 verse 20 says, 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:38.280 But in a great house there are not only vessels, and I know we were at this, but this is a point 01:15:38.280 --> 01:15:44.600 worth driving home, of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth and some to honor, some to dishonor. 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:49.560 If a man therefore purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, 01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:52.760 and mead for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." 01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:59.800 Look, in your house, you both have like the, usually what is that, it's called the lazy boy, 01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:04.760 the one that daddy's, the dadsy, right? My dad had one. And you also have toilets. 01:16:05.500 --> 01:16:10.180 Both, both serve a purpose, but I prefer one over the other. 01:16:10.180 --> 01:16:13.500 You know, the toilet I only prefer when I need it, but you know, that's what this is 01:16:13.500 --> 01:16:14.500 saying. 01:16:14.500 --> 01:16:15.860 Some are to honor and some are to dishonor. 01:16:15.860 --> 01:16:17.460 And what are you saying? 01:16:17.460 --> 01:16:21.860 Hey, sanctify yourself to be the honorable vessel. 01:16:21.860 --> 01:16:24.180 Don't just, don't just be a vessel for the sake of being a vessel. 01:16:24.180 --> 01:16:26.460 Go to First Thessalonians 4. 01:16:26.460 --> 01:16:29.460 Go to First Thessalonians 4. 01:16:29.460 --> 01:16:32.900 And I think, oh, I have one more place to go and then we'll wrap this thing up. 01:16:33.400 --> 01:16:36.120 But 1 Thessalonians 4, right there in verse number one says, 01:16:36.120 --> 01:16:40.440 Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, 01:16:40.440 --> 01:16:46.360 that as ye have received us, received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, 01:16:46.360 --> 01:16:53.880 so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:58.040 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication. 01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:02.120 and that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:08.600 not in the lust of compu... uh, compupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God." 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:11.320 You know, yesterday I was asked the question, it's like, why are you so loyal to the New 01:17:11.320 --> 01:17:13.280 and I said, truth. 01:17:13.280 --> 01:17:15.200 But you know, if I could go back, 01:17:15.200 --> 01:17:16.280 this would be a much better way. 01:17:16.280 --> 01:17:18.640 It says, what does he say? 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:21.080 You have received of us how you ought to walk 01:17:21.080 --> 01:17:24.000 and please God so that you would abound more and more. 01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:26.580 You know what I've learned from all the other pastors? 01:17:26.580 --> 01:17:31.120 How to be a better soul winner, how to read my Bible better, how to memorize better, how 01:17:31.120 --> 01:17:32.120 to preach better. 01:17:32.120 --> 01:17:33.320 I'm not perfect. 01:17:33.320 --> 01:17:34.320 I'm glad. 01:17:34.320 --> 01:17:35.840 So we can abound more and more. 01:17:35.840 --> 01:17:38.240 And it's not like I'm just saying it. 01:17:38.240 --> 01:17:41.000 We've never had a thousand salvations. 01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:44.480 We're probably going to be close to 1,500 if we keep at the pace we're going. 01:17:44.480 --> 01:17:48.200 And then right here he says, 01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:54.840 He says, for ye know what commandments we gave you, but how? 01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:57.880 By the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:01.040 See a lot of churches have a lot of commandments, but it's not by the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:18:01.040 --> 01:18:03.040 It's just whatever they're thinking. 01:18:03.040 --> 01:18:05.200 And then go to Psalm 24 and we'll close this thing out. 01:18:07.900 --> 01:18:09.800 That's the last place I'll have you turn. 01:18:13.500 --> 01:18:15.500 See, the church doesn't eat holier than the house. 01:18:15.500 --> 01:18:21.500 Look, if you're going to be here because you're so good and, you know, your stuff don't stink, 01:18:21.500 --> 01:18:23.500 I don't want you. 01:18:23.500 --> 01:18:30.500 I'd rather be in church in the middle of summer with everybody coming in after a hot and sweaty session 01:18:30.500 --> 01:18:35.500 and the stension here is kind of hard to take in every Sunday 01:18:35.500 --> 01:18:38.500 than the perfect looking church that does nothing for the Lord. 01:18:38.500 --> 01:18:40.300 You know why? Because... 01:18:40.400 --> 01:18:43.600 You know, when the stall is clean, there's no ox. 01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:47.360 The Bible says, we're not doing anything. 01:18:47.360 --> 01:18:50.800 As a matter of fact, it's not that I would rather be, we are living it. 01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:55.360 And you don't have to tell me I'm staying away from you because I was drenched in sweat, right? 01:18:55.360 --> 01:18:58.640 Like, we were drenched in sweat. Like, we did the work. 01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:00.480 Psalm 24, right there in verse 1, the Bible says, 01:19:00.480 --> 01:19:03.520 the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. 01:19:03.900 --> 01:19:10.220 the world and they that dwell therein for he hath founded upon the seas and established it upon the floods 01:19:10.700 --> 01:19:16.140 Who shall ascend into the hill of the lord and who shall stand in his holy place? 01:19:16.940 --> 01:19:21.180 I love this it says he that hath clean hands and a pure heart 01:19:21.500 --> 01:19:25.580 Who hath not lifted up his soul into vanity nor sworn deceitfully? 01:19:25.980 --> 01:19:31.440 He shall receive the blessing from the lord and righteousness from god from the god of his salvation 01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:35.560 Hey, clean your hands and purify your heart. 01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:36.560 Right? 01:19:36.560 --> 01:19:40.440 And the other thing though, don't lift up your soul. 01:19:40.440 --> 01:19:41.280 Don't be vain. 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:45.360 Don't be this, don't lie and sworn deceitful means don't lie to yourself. 01:19:45.360 --> 01:19:46.960 Don't be a narcissist. 01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:48.720 Not like all the stuff that you see online. 01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:51.600 I'm talking narcissists like you just think you're just better than it. 01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:54.400 You know, you look in the mirror and you're like, you know, guys have this problem. 01:19:54.400 --> 01:19:55.520 Women don't have this problem. 01:19:55.520 --> 01:19:56.320 But men do. 01:19:56.320 --> 01:19:57.600 It doesn't matter how old you get. 01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.000 You know, I'll look myself in the mirror and be like, yeah, I still got it. 01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:02.000 Women are like always checking. 01:20:02.720 --> 01:20:03.760 Men don't have that problem. 01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:05.280 We kind of have like a bad ego. 01:20:05.280 --> 01:20:05.840 I hope so. 01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:06.720 I don't think so. 01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:09.200 You know, they always, this is kind of like an ongoing joke, right? 01:20:09.200 --> 01:20:09.600 like the guy. 01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:13.240 could be overweight and just not look great and he looks in the mirror and he's like, 01:20:13.240 --> 01:20:15.360 yeah, you still got it. 01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:16.360 Don't do that. 01:20:16.360 --> 01:20:18.400 What you want to do is just serve the Lord faithfully. 01:20:18.400 --> 01:20:22.680 So in these chapters, what we want to take away from is, yeah, they seem kind of like 01:20:22.680 --> 01:20:23.000 a... 01:20:23.300 --> 01:20:27.700 like a drone, they seem to drone on and it's very repetitive. 01:20:27.700 --> 01:20:31.220 But it also gives you a clear indication that even with all of that, 01:20:31.220 --> 01:20:34.020 there's no guarantee that you're going to have success. 01:20:34.020 --> 01:20:38.420 I mean, you see the children of Israel and you get to the book of Malachi and there's a gap 01:20:39.220 --> 01:20:41.540 before Jesus comes because they just couldn't hack it. 01:20:42.420 --> 01:20:45.140 Why? Because we need a savior. We need Jesus Christ. 01:20:45.140 --> 01:20:47.860 Otherwise, we're just not going to be ready for the battle. 01:20:48.300 --> 01:20:53.720 At the end of the day everything we do should be for the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's close out in a word of prayer heavenly follow Lord 01:20:54.340 --> 01:20:58.600 Thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings Lord. Thank you Lord that we 01:20:59.020 --> 01:21:04.600 That we get to serve you and then we get to be faithful to you and loyal to you 01:21:05.700 --> 01:21:12.600 But Lord remind us that we need to remain faithful and loyal and serve you 01:21:13.500 --> 01:21:18.940 You know, and this thing of our Christian walk, it's not a daily, you know, a couple of days, 01:21:18.940 --> 01:21:24.140 in a few months, in a few weeks. It's the rest of our lives. You know, I thank you for men like 01:21:24.140 --> 01:21:31.420 Pastor Cobb who will soon celebrate his 90th birthday, but he's been serving you for the 01:21:31.420 --> 01:21:36.780 majority of those 90 years. And I pray that the younger generation would look and be like, 01:21:36.780 --> 01:21:41.100 You know, coming to realization one day you're either going to die soon. 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:46.120 Or you'll live to be 90 and I pray that you live to be 90 serving the Lord 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:49.640 And so lord, I just pray that you would bless us as we go about our weekend 01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:52.280 Bless this labor day weekend for those who are going to enjoy it 01:21:52.920 --> 01:21:58.440 Thank you for all the laborers today that actually were doing the work in jesus name. We pray amen 01:21:58.760 --> 01:22:00.760 Let's turn our himmels over to page 55 01:22:02.660 --> 01:22:04.300 55 01:22:14.900 --> 01:22:16.900 when the roll is called up younger. 01:22:28.100 --> 01:22:33.060 When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more, 01:22:33.060 --> 01:22:37.620 And the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair, 01:22:37.620 --> 01:22:42.260 When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore, 01:22:42.260 --> 01:22:46.900 And the roll is called of yonder, I'll be there. 01:22:46.900 --> 01:22:55.060 When the roll is called of yonder, When the roll is called of yonder... 01:22:58.700 --> 01:23:00.100 of y'all 01:23:02.200 --> 01:23:07.000 When the roll is called of yonder I'll be there. 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:11.720 On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise, 01:23:11.720 --> 01:23:16.280 And the glory of his resurrection share, 01:23:16.280 --> 01:23:20.920 When his chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies, 01:23:20.920 --> 01:23:25.320 And the roll is called of yonder I'll be there. 01:23:25.320 --> 01:23:29.160 When the roll is called of yonder... 01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:34.200 When the roll is called up yonder, 01:23:34.200 --> 01:23:40.200 When the roll is called up yonder, 01:23:40.200 --> 01:23:44.200 When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. 01:23:44.800 --> 01:23:49.500 Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun. 01:23:49.500 --> 01:23:54.000 Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care. 01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:58.500 Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done, 01:23:58.500 --> 01:24:03.000 And the role is called of yonder, I'll be there. 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:11.800 When the role is called of yonder, When the role is called of yonder, 01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:12.800 When the road 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:22.800 When the roll is called up yonder, when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. 01:24:22.800 --> 01:24:23.300 Amen. 01:24:26.400 --> 01:24:27.200 Dan Dan. 01:24:29.500 --> 01:24:30.600 You're not in trouble. 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:31.440 Come on. 01:24:32.540 --> 01:24:33.600 When I snap, it's...