WEBVTT 00:30.000 --> 00:32.060 you 01:00.860 --> 01:02.960 Oh 01:32.960 --> 01:39.360 Make all my wants and wishes known 01:39.360 --> 01:45.440 In seasons of distress and grief 01:45.440 --> 01:51.600 My soul has often found relief 01:51.600 --> 01:57.760 And oft escape the tempter's snare 01:57.760 --> 02:04.560 By thy return, sweet hour of prayer 02:04.560 --> 02:10.880 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer 02:10.880 --> 02:17.120 Thy wings shall my petition bear 02:17.120 --> 02:20.240 To him who's true 02:20.240 --> 02:29.360 Engage the late, deep soul to bless 02:29.360 --> 02:35.440 And since he bids me seek his face 02:35.440 --> 02:41.840 Believe his word and trust his grace 02:41.840 --> 02:48.160 I'll cast on him my every care 02:49.120 --> 02:54.960 For thee, sweet hour of prayer 02:54.960 --> 03:01.360 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer 03:01.360 --> 03:07.360 May I thy consolation share 03:07.360 --> 03:13.280 To him, my Fiscus, love thee hide 03:13.440 --> 03:17.920 I view my home in thee 03:19.760 --> 03:25.520 His robe of flesh I'll drop and rise 03:25.520 --> 03:31.840 To seize the everlasting pride 03:31.840 --> 03:37.680 And shout while passing through the air 03:37.680 --> 03:44.080 Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer 04:08.480 --> 04:10.480 I'm so sorry. 04:12.880 --> 04:13.920 You asked for the... 04:15.280 --> 04:20.560 All right, today is Wednesday, May 6th, 04:20.560 --> 04:21.920 and I don't have a bulletin, 04:21.920 --> 04:23.520 so I'll just go off the top of my head. 04:23.520 --> 04:26.640 But today is, you know, our service times 04:26.640 --> 04:30.400 are Sunday morning, 1030, Sunday evening, 430, 04:30.400 --> 04:32.320 and then Wednesday, 530 p.m. 04:32.320 --> 04:33.760 Our fill-in time is 2 p.m. 04:34.720 --> 04:36.400 And then our verse of the week, 04:36.400 --> 04:38.080 I think it's Philippians 125. 04:39.040 --> 04:40.160 And soul winning numbers, 04:40.160 --> 04:41.840 we've now broken the record, 04:41.840 --> 04:44.480 so we're somewhere, I think, at the 490. 04:44.480 --> 04:46.800 So we're almost at 500 souls. 04:46.800 --> 04:49.040 At the pace where we've been getting souls won, 04:49.040 --> 04:50.240 even with the low enough, 04:50.240 --> 04:51.440 which is kind of funny to say, right, 04:51.440 --> 04:55.040 but even with the low number of six on Sunday, 04:55.040 --> 04:56.240 if we were to just repeat that, 04:56.240 --> 04:58.560 we'll definitely, I think, get 500, 04:58.560 --> 05:00.320 either this Sunday or the Sunday coming. 05:00.880 --> 05:04.080 And then the only major announcement is, 05:04.080 --> 05:05.520 well, I've got two major announcements. 05:05.520 --> 05:09.280 We've got the anti-Israel conference coming up in May. 05:09.920 --> 05:10.560 Pray for that. 05:11.200 --> 05:11.920 Events. 05:11.920 --> 05:13.360 We're gonna, I'm actually gonna try to do 05:13.360 --> 05:15.840 the Spanish podcast there at the event. 05:15.840 --> 05:17.280 I've already talked to Pastor Shelley. 05:18.400 --> 05:22.000 And I'm trying to see if I can get someone 05:22.000 --> 05:23.680 to preach that Sunday, 05:23.680 --> 05:26.000 because he did offer for me to preach 05:26.000 --> 05:27.600 the Spanish service that Sunday. 05:27.600 --> 05:30.080 But if it doesn't work out, it's not. 05:30.080 --> 05:31.360 It was just a last minute thing. 05:32.080 --> 05:33.200 So just pray for that. 05:33.200 --> 05:34.320 We'll see if that works out. 05:35.040 --> 05:38.160 And then the other thing is today's Heath's birthday. 05:38.160 --> 05:40.000 So make sure you wish him happy birthday. 05:40.800 --> 05:42.160 He's trying to keep it under wraps. 05:42.800 --> 05:44.480 So make sure you smother him 05:44.480 --> 05:46.320 and tell him how much you love him. 05:46.320 --> 05:47.840 And you let him know that it's his birthday. 05:47.840 --> 05:50.000 Let him know that it's his birthday. 05:51.120 --> 05:56.640 So especially the fake ones. 05:56.640 --> 05:58.000 Those are the ones that he likes the most. 05:58.000 --> 06:02.560 So and we really, I really appreciate brother Heath. 06:02.560 --> 06:05.920 He's been a huge help. 06:05.920 --> 06:07.120 As a matter of fact, a lot of the stuff 06:07.120 --> 06:08.560 that you see here, even these lights, 06:09.920 --> 06:11.520 because I burned out the other one, 06:11.520 --> 06:12.720 that's all him. 06:13.360 --> 06:16.000 And we've got some stuff that we're working on. 06:16.000 --> 06:17.600 And then like even Monday we went, 06:19.200 --> 06:22.560 I think we have some usable video, 06:22.560 --> 06:24.640 but we stayed out so late trying to film 06:24.640 --> 06:26.000 the Bible Way to Heaven like out 06:26.000 --> 06:28.160 at a really nice place here in Houston. 06:28.160 --> 06:30.720 So hopefully we can get that done sooner than later. 06:31.520 --> 06:34.800 And pray for brother Mike. 06:34.800 --> 06:36.160 He did call me this morning. 06:36.160 --> 06:38.000 His wife is officially in labor. 06:40.000 --> 06:40.500 Yeah. 06:44.400 --> 06:44.900 Honey. 06:46.240 --> 06:46.960 Yeah, please. 06:48.080 --> 06:51.360 Pray for brother Mike because at the end of the day, 06:52.240 --> 06:54.320 dads don't get the wrap that they're supposed to get. 06:54.320 --> 06:54.560 Right? 06:54.560 --> 06:56.720 Like he's going to end up being with three kids and all that stuff. 06:56.720 --> 06:58.640 But do pray for sister Haley as well. 06:58.640 --> 07:00.080 I was going to get there. 07:00.160 --> 07:04.480 And she is in labor and they're obviously they're going to wait. 07:05.120 --> 07:09.600 So anybody who's at a hospital birth knows the best thing to do is wait. 07:09.600 --> 07:10.960 Once you get to the hospital, they're like, 07:10.960 --> 07:13.600 oh, we're not going to feed you and all kinds of crap. 07:13.600 --> 07:15.760 It's just like they treat you, you know, 07:17.200 --> 07:18.400 they don't treat you great. 07:18.400 --> 07:21.680 They do take care of the baby, but it's just like they just keep you like starving and stuff. 07:21.680 --> 07:23.280 So just pray for them. 07:23.280 --> 07:26.320 I mean, this is her fourth child, so it's not her first rodeo. 07:26.320 --> 07:28.720 But still, I mean, you just never know. 07:28.720 --> 07:29.840 Just pray for the family. 07:30.400 --> 07:33.440 Pray for sister Evelyn because probably what they're going to do is lean on her. 07:33.440 --> 07:35.360 She just lives a couple of blocks away. 07:35.360 --> 07:37.680 So just pray for the whole family. 07:37.680 --> 07:44.000 And then afterwards, if anybody wants to do some kind of meal train or just send them a meal, 07:44.000 --> 07:45.440 door dash, let me know. 07:45.440 --> 07:46.320 You can work that out. 07:47.200 --> 07:50.800 We want to make sure that they feel supported in that endeavor. 07:50.800 --> 07:54.560 But other than that, I don't know if there's any other announcements. 07:55.760 --> 07:57.360 I am trying to update and I have. 07:57.360 --> 07:59.440 I think I've got almost all the birthday. 07:59.440 --> 08:03.120 So Tyra, if I can get your family, some of the birthdays don't have your dad. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.200 So you're not getting away. 08:05.200 --> 08:07.280 Do not slip out of here. 08:07.280 --> 08:08.000 I know how you do. 08:09.120 --> 08:11.440 You know, I can think you're in charge. 08:11.440 --> 08:13.520 Go let her leave until I get that information. 08:15.280 --> 08:15.680 Thank you. 08:16.480 --> 08:18.640 But let's turn our hand goes over to three twenty seven. 08:19.760 --> 08:20.800 Three twenty seven. 08:22.960 --> 08:26.080 And then just pray for the expecting mothers, Marcel. 08:26.960 --> 08:28.080 And Christian. 08:29.200 --> 08:32.880 And, you know, everybody else, anybody who's dealing with anything on the prayer list. 08:33.600 --> 08:35.760 Higher ground on three on the first. 08:35.760 --> 08:39.040 And then we're going to be in John chapter eighteen three twenty seven. 08:40.240 --> 08:41.760 Oh, and sorry, I didn't mean it. 08:41.760 --> 08:42.960 And then are you feeling better? 08:42.960 --> 08:43.840 We did pray for you. 08:44.640 --> 08:45.440 It was just the cold. 08:45.440 --> 08:50.160 But my wife was like, I know that sister liberty is inert because nobody says it. 08:52.560 --> 08:54.400 She's like, General malaise. 08:54.400 --> 08:55.120 Who says that? 08:57.040 --> 08:58.720 So there you go. 08:58.720 --> 08:59.040 All right. 08:59.040 --> 08:59.840 Three twenty seven. 09:10.160 --> 09:14.000 I'm pressing on the upward way. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.840 New heights I'm gaining every day. 09:17.840 --> 09:21.600 Still praying as I'm onward bound. 09:21.600 --> 09:25.520 Lord, have my feet on higher ground. 09:25.520 --> 09:29.280 Lord, lift me up and let me stand. 09:29.280 --> 09:33.040 My faith on have a stable land. 09:33.040 --> 09:36.720 A higher play that I have found. 09:36.720 --> 09:40.000 Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 09:41.040 --> 09:44.880 My heart has no desire to stay. 09:44.880 --> 09:48.560 Where doubt to rise and fear dismay. 09:48.560 --> 09:52.240 Though some may dwell where these abound. 09:52.240 --> 09:55.440 My prayer, my aim is higher ground. 09:55.840 --> 09:59.520 Lord, lift me up and let me stand. 09:59.520 --> 10:03.120 My faith on have a stable land. 10:03.120 --> 10:06.640 A higher play that I have found. 10:06.640 --> 10:09.760 Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 10:10.880 --> 10:14.560 I want to live above the world. 10:14.560 --> 10:18.160 Though Satan's guard that be our hurl. 10:18.160 --> 10:21.760 For faith has caught the joyful sound. 10:21.760 --> 10:24.800 The song of saints on higher ground. 10:25.840 --> 10:28.880 Lord, lift me up and let me stand. 10:28.880 --> 10:32.480 My faith on have a stable land. 10:32.480 --> 10:36.000 A higher play that I have found. 10:36.000 --> 10:39.280 Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 10:40.320 --> 10:43.840 I want to scale the utmost high. 10:43.840 --> 10:46.960 And catch a gleam of glory light. 10:48.400 --> 10:51.040 Pray till heaven I'm found. 10:51.040 --> 10:54.000 Lord, lead me on to higher ground. 10:56.400 --> 10:58.160 And let me stand. 10:58.160 --> 11:01.840 My faith on have a stable land. 11:01.840 --> 11:05.360 A higher play that I have found. 11:05.360 --> 11:08.560 Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 11:09.520 --> 11:11.520 All right, turn your Bibles to John 18. 11:11.520 --> 11:14.800 Hey, Rikeh, Eli, make sure we're spaced out properly. 11:14.800 --> 11:15.920 I don't have to call you guys out. 11:23.040 --> 11:24.960 Turn our Bibles over to John 18. 11:26.160 --> 11:28.160 We'll read the whole chapter as a custom. 11:29.520 --> 11:30.720 Right there on the first. 11:32.240 --> 11:35.040 Chapter 18, verse one, John 18. 11:35.040 --> 11:38.800 When Jesus had spoken these words, 11:38.800 --> 11:41.520 he went forth with his disciples over the book, 11:41.520 --> 11:46.240 Brook of Sidron, where was a garden into which, 11:47.160 --> 11:49.800 into the which he entered and his disciples. 11:49.800 --> 11:54.000 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place 11:54.080 --> 11:59.080 for Jesus, oft times resorted thither with his disciples. 11:59.200 --> 12:02.040 Judas then having received a band of men and officers 12:02.040 --> 12:04.200 from the chief priests and Pharisees, 12:04.200 --> 12:07.520 cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 12:07.520 --> 12:09.720 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come 12:09.720 --> 12:14.040 upon him, went forth and said unto them, whom seek ye? 12:14.040 --> 12:17.520 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. 12:17.520 --> 12:19.920 Jesus saith unto them, I am he. 12:19.920 --> 12:24.480 And Jesus also, which betrayed him, stood with him. 12:24.480 --> 12:27.560 As soon as then as he had said unto them, I am he, 12:27.560 --> 12:30.920 they went backward and fell to the ground. 12:30.920 --> 12:33.600 Then asked he them again, who seek ye? 12:33.600 --> 12:36.120 And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. 12:36.120 --> 12:39.600 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. 12:39.600 --> 12:43.120 If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way, 12:43.120 --> 12:44.720 that these sayings might be fulfilled, 12:44.720 --> 12:49.200 which he spake of them, which thou gavest me, 12:49.200 --> 12:51.160 I have lost none. 12:51.160 --> 12:53.320 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it 12:53.320 --> 12:55.600 and smote the high priest's servant 12:55.600 --> 12:59.240 and cut off his right ear, the servant's name was Malchus. 12:59.240 --> 13:01.520 Then said Jesus unto Peter, 13:01.520 --> 13:03.760 put away thy sword into thy sheath, 13:03.760 --> 13:07.680 the cup which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 13:07.680 --> 13:10.560 Then the band and the captain and the officers of the Jews 13:10.560 --> 13:15.560 took Jesus and bound him and led him away to Annas first 13:15.560 --> 13:19.400 for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, 13:19.400 --> 13:21.920 which was the high priest that same year. 13:21.920 --> 13:24.560 Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews 13:24.560 --> 13:27.960 that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 13:27.960 --> 13:31.560 Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple. 13:31.560 --> 13:33.400 That disciple was known unto the high priest 13:33.400 --> 13:35.720 and went in with Jesus into the place, 13:35.720 --> 13:37.760 into the palace of the high priest. 13:37.760 --> 13:39.980 But Peter stood at the door without. 13:39.980 --> 13:41.520 Then went out the other disciple, 13:41.520 --> 13:43.560 which was known unto the high priest 13:43.600 --> 13:47.160 and spake unto her that kept the door brought in Peter. 13:47.160 --> 13:50.840 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, 13:50.840 --> 13:54.840 art not thou also one of this man's disciples? 13:54.840 --> 13:57.160 He said, I am not. 13:57.160 --> 14:00.780 And the servant and the officers stood there 14:00.780 --> 14:03.600 who had made a fire of coals for it was cold 14:03.600 --> 14:05.160 and they warmed themselves. 14:05.160 --> 14:07.800 And Peter stood with them and warmed himself. 14:07.800 --> 14:10.760 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples 14:10.760 --> 14:12.120 and of his doctrine. 14:12.120 --> 14:16.360 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world. 14:16.360 --> 14:19.360 I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple 14:19.360 --> 14:22.000 whether the Jews always resort. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.560 And in secret have I said nothing. 14:24.560 --> 14:26.120 Why askest thou me? 14:26.120 --> 14:28.800 Ask them which heard me what I have said unto them. 14:28.800 --> 14:31.780 Behold, they know what I said. 14:31.780 --> 14:33.120 And when he had thus spoken, 14:33.120 --> 14:36.800 one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus 14:36.800 --> 14:38.720 with the palm of his hand saying, 14:38.720 --> 14:41.240 answerest thou the high priest so? 14:41.240 --> 14:43.440 Jesus answered him, if I've spoken evil, 14:43.440 --> 14:45.140 bear witness of the evil. 14:45.140 --> 14:48.420 But if well, why smitest thou me? 14:48.420 --> 14:52.800 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Cephas, the high priest. 14:52.800 --> 14:55.400 Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. 14:55.400 --> 14:56.440 They said therefore unto him, 14:56.440 --> 14:59.400 art not thou also one of his disciples? 14:59.400 --> 15:01.660 He denied it and said, I am not. 15:01.660 --> 15:04.520 One of the servants of the high priest being his kinkman 15:04.520 --> 15:06.760 whose ear Peter cut off sayeth, 15:06.760 --> 15:09.260 did I not see thee in the garden with him? 15:09.260 --> 15:13.100 Peter then denied again and immediately the cock grew. 15:13.100 --> 15:18.060 Then they led Jesus from Cephas unto the hall of judgment 15:18.060 --> 15:19.460 and it was early. 15:19.460 --> 15:22.100 And they themselves went not into the judgment hall 15:22.100 --> 15:23.820 lest they should be defiled, 15:23.820 --> 15:26.060 but that they might eat the Passover. 15:26.060 --> 15:29.680 Pilate then went out unto them and said, 15:29.680 --> 15:32.540 what accusation bring ye against this man? 15:32.540 --> 15:34.260 They answered and said unto him, 15:34.260 --> 15:35.920 if he were not a malefactor, 15:35.920 --> 15:38.440 we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 15:38.440 --> 15:39.600 Then said Pilate unto them, 15:39.600 --> 15:42.800 take ye him and judge him according to your law. 15:42.800 --> 15:44.600 The Jews therefore said unto him, 15:44.600 --> 15:47.760 it is not lawful for us to put any man to death 15:47.760 --> 15:49.760 that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, 15:49.760 --> 15:52.840 which he spake signifying what death he should die. 15:52.840 --> 15:56.080 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again 15:56.080 --> 15:57.680 and called Jesus and said unto him, 15:57.680 --> 15:59.680 art thou the king of the Jews? 15:59.680 --> 16:02.080 Jesus answered him, sayest thou this thing of thyself 16:02.080 --> 16:04.800 or did others tell it thee of me? 16:04.800 --> 16:09.240 Pilate answered, am I a Jew? 16:09.240 --> 16:10.840 Thine own nation and the chief priests 16:10.840 --> 16:14.520 have delivered thee unto me, what is thou done? 16:14.520 --> 16:17.520 Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world. 16:17.520 --> 16:19.300 If my kingdom were of this world, 16:19.300 --> 16:20.900 then would my servants bite 16:20.900 --> 16:22.520 that I should not be delivered to the Jews, 16:22.520 --> 16:25.080 but now my kingdom is not from hence. 16:25.080 --> 16:28.480 Pilate therefore said unto him, art thou a king then? 16:28.480 --> 16:31.800 Jesus answered, thou sayest that I am a king. 16:31.800 --> 16:34.220 To this end was I born and for this cost 16:34.460 --> 16:36.660 I came unto the world that I should bear witness 16:36.660 --> 16:37.840 unto the truth. 16:37.840 --> 16:41.620 Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice. 16:41.620 --> 16:44.180 Pilate saith unto him, what is truth? 16:44.180 --> 16:46.840 And when he had said this, he went out again 16:46.840 --> 16:49.060 unto the Jews and saith unto them, 16:49.060 --> 16:51.560 I find in him no fault at all. 16:51.560 --> 16:53.220 But ye have a custom that I should release 16:53.220 --> 16:55.680 unto you one at the Passover. 16:55.680 --> 16:58.020 Will you therefore that I release you, 16:58.020 --> 17:00.120 release unto you the king of the Jews? 17:00.120 --> 17:02.820 Then cried they all again saying, 17:02.820 --> 17:04.940 not this man, but Barabbas. 17:04.940 --> 17:07.980 Now Barabbas was a robber. 17:07.980 --> 17:10.340 Pastor Cobb, will you pray for the preaching? 17:16.460 --> 17:17.780 I wonder if I would like to say 17:17.780 --> 17:20.860 that when the children of the Holy Spirit 17:20.860 --> 17:22.540 were not in the service of the Lord, 17:22.540 --> 17:25.460 and they were in the service of the Holy Spirit, 17:25.460 --> 17:27.400 I would just like to ask them, 17:27.400 --> 17:29.140 if they were in the service of the Holy Spirit, 17:29.140 --> 17:33.880 would you work with them and or would you work with them? 17:33.880 --> 17:37.240 I would work with them and I would be with them. 17:37.240 --> 17:39.300 Work with them and I would work with them. 17:39.300 --> 17:42.200 But if you stop and go in and do it, 17:42.200 --> 17:45.360 and you work with them, then you would work with them. 17:45.360 --> 17:47.120 So it's really that thing. 17:47.120 --> 17:48.680 It's going to be a good thing. 17:48.680 --> 17:50.580 So I hope that's good. 17:50.580 --> 17:51.820 Amen. 17:51.820 --> 17:52.780 Thank you, pastor. 17:54.060 --> 17:58.860 All right, we are there in John 18 17:58.860 --> 18:04.140 And this chapter has a couple of areas that packs a punch. 18:04.140 --> 18:06.780 And then the rest is really just telling the story. 18:06.780 --> 18:08.100 I mean, the whole chapter is good. 18:08.100 --> 18:11.940 But obviously, this is the part where we start getting into, 18:11.940 --> 18:13.580 in the book of John, we start getting 18:13.580 --> 18:17.140 into the details of the death of Jesus Christ. 18:17.140 --> 18:20.300 Now, the book of John is different in that it's 18:20.300 --> 18:23.540 telling more of, it's speaking more of actually Jesus 18:23.540 --> 18:25.100 and his character and some of his words, 18:25.100 --> 18:27.180 whereas other parts, other gospels 18:27.180 --> 18:29.700 give us more detail as to what is going on here. 18:29.700 --> 18:32.300 That's why we're going to be able to fill some of this in, 18:32.300 --> 18:34.820 because we have that in the other gospels. 18:34.820 --> 18:41.500 But the title of this evening is John 18, Power Under Control. 18:41.500 --> 18:45.220 And we clearly see that in the book of John, right? 18:45.220 --> 18:50.980 We see, especially in chapter 18, we see what Jesus comes in 18:50.980 --> 18:53.780 and he shows us what real power is, right? 18:53.780 --> 18:55.300 He's under control. 18:55.300 --> 18:56.460 He's not moved. 18:56.500 --> 18:57.780 There's no peer pressure. 18:57.780 --> 19:01.220 It doesn't even matter that they beat him and falsely accuse him. 19:01.220 --> 19:04.100 He has a duty and he has a purpose. 19:04.100 --> 19:07.900 He has a job to do, the job that God the Father has given him, 19:07.900 --> 19:09.460 and nothing's going to move him. 19:09.460 --> 19:11.300 The lesson that we can actually take, the biggest 19:11.300 --> 19:14.220 lesson we need to take from this is that the world will always 19:14.220 --> 19:17.700 try to move the goalposts for us, not for them, 19:17.700 --> 19:20.260 but we need to stay on the course, right? 19:20.260 --> 19:23.260 The biggest challenge we have is people will question the fact 19:23.260 --> 19:25.940 that we believe the King James Bible, 19:25.940 --> 19:29.500 and they'll want us to prove it where really the proof is on them, 19:29.500 --> 19:30.700 not on us, right? 19:30.700 --> 19:34.380 The people will try to fight easy believism, 19:34.380 --> 19:36.980 or one saved always saved, or eternal security, 19:36.980 --> 19:39.340 but these are already set in stone. 19:39.340 --> 19:42.260 It's not for us to sit there and try to figure this thing out. 19:42.260 --> 19:44.420 It's for us to stay unmovable, right? 19:44.420 --> 19:48.140 Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. 19:48.140 --> 19:50.300 See, the only way to be abounding in the work of the Lord 19:50.300 --> 19:53.140 is to be steadfast and unmovable. 19:53.140 --> 19:55.060 And you know, we see this with Christ, right? 19:55.060 --> 19:57.820 That he is power under control. 19:57.820 --> 20:03.460 And the other thing that we see is that he has obviously allowed himself 20:03.460 --> 20:06.140 to be taken, he's not taken down. 20:06.140 --> 20:08.380 And that's a really important point because like I said, 20:08.380 --> 20:10.540 I don't know if I said it last week or in the last couple of weeks, 20:10.540 --> 20:12.580 at some point I mentioned the fact that, you know, 20:12.580 --> 20:16.580 the world will have you believe that there's this battle between good and evil. 20:16.580 --> 20:20.580 I mean, isn't that really the narrative with Iran or Iran? 20:20.580 --> 20:24.460 Sorry, I know some people pronounce it, but the proper pronunciation is Iran. 20:24.460 --> 20:29.660 But, you know, that basically if it wasn't for the United States 20:29.660 --> 20:33.140 and for Trump invading, then it would be worse. 20:33.140 --> 20:36.060 Somebody asked, I saw some clip and they asked Marco Rubio, 20:36.060 --> 20:37.900 they're like, well, what about the gas prices? 20:37.900 --> 20:39.340 Because they keep going up. 20:39.340 --> 20:43.940 And he's like, oh, you know, if they had nuclear weapons, 20:43.940 --> 20:47.420 the gas prices would be higher because then they could tell us that, 20:47.420 --> 20:50.580 you know, there's nothing we could do to stop them, which is weird 20:50.620 --> 20:54.460 because it's been 40 years or 30 plus years where that hasn't happened. 20:54.460 --> 20:59.420 But the thing is, you know, that's a different type of power exertion 20:59.420 --> 21:01.220 versus what God's doing here, right? 21:01.220 --> 21:03.300 He's not being forced into anything. 21:03.300 --> 21:06.220 He's the one that's controlling the narrative. 21:06.220 --> 21:10.940 Now, from an outside perspective, we'll see later on in other places, 21:10.940 --> 21:15.540 you know, even the Jews paid people to lie about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, right? 21:15.540 --> 21:17.500 That his body was stolen. 21:17.540 --> 21:22.460 But the one thing that's been constant for the longest time is that this is true, 21:22.460 --> 21:25.580 that his historical, it's not only the fact that we're reading the Bible, 21:25.580 --> 21:27.340 but it's historically accurate. 21:27.340 --> 21:28.780 This actually happened. 21:28.780 --> 21:29.540 It's interesting. 21:29.540 --> 21:35.780 I think it was Matt sent me just a small clip about, you know, these like Genghis Khan 21:35.780 --> 21:39.340 and Julius Caesar and just how many like manuscripts there are 21:39.340 --> 21:42.100 that verify the existence of these individuals. 21:42.100 --> 21:43.420 It's like it's like minute. 21:43.460 --> 21:47.820 Some of them are like five, twelve, you know, these historical documents. 21:47.820 --> 21:52.580 Whereas the historical documents just even backing the existence of Jesus Christ 21:52.580 --> 21:59.980 outside of the Bible are upwards in the 20,000, 25,000, you know, types of documents. 21:59.980 --> 22:02.660 What is it that, why do people discredit it so much? 22:02.660 --> 22:04.980 Because there's always an attack on Christ, right? 22:04.980 --> 22:07.260 Because there's always an attack on salvation. 22:07.260 --> 22:12.420 You know, the devil is not only trying to mess up the gospel 22:12.420 --> 22:13.980 because he's trying to lie. 22:13.980 --> 22:15.820 Obviously, that's one of his characteristics. 22:15.820 --> 22:21.260 But the biggest characteristic is what Jesus said, you are of your father, the devil. 22:21.260 --> 22:23.740 He was a murderer from the beginning. 22:23.740 --> 22:27.740 And that's not just murder that we're accustomed to, that we know, you know, 22:27.740 --> 22:31.060 where you kill somebody and release them from their soul. 22:31.060 --> 22:35.860 But he's literally trying to kill people into the second death. 22:35.860 --> 22:37.500 That's the danger, right? 22:37.500 --> 22:40.460 The murder of the second death. 22:40.500 --> 22:44.380 So a couple of things we're going to see here in John 18, go to John 18, verse one. 22:44.380 --> 22:47.060 We see obviously the arrest. 22:47.060 --> 22:51.140 We're going to see this really cool section, I think it's right here in the beginning. 22:51.140 --> 22:56.980 The I am, one of the I ams, I think there's like seven in the book of John, right? 22:56.980 --> 22:59.300 Where he basically drops them. 22:59.300 --> 23:01.540 And then we see Peter fail. 23:01.540 --> 23:05.140 And it's so important, you know, Peter's one of those that he gets picked on a lot. 23:05.140 --> 23:08.700 But, you know, Peter's also a great picture of salvation. 23:08.740 --> 23:14.580 Because picture, Peter failed so much, but Peter's one of the great patriarchs of the New Testament. 23:14.580 --> 23:16.460 I mean, he also did so much. 23:16.460 --> 23:19.100 Means that has nothing to do with how good or bad you are. 23:19.100 --> 23:22.340 It just has to do with the spirit being filled with the spirit of Christ. 23:22.340 --> 23:24.660 When you fall, he'll pick you up, right? 23:24.660 --> 23:31.060 And then we're going to see obviously the corruption in the religious movements and also a 23:31.060 --> 23:32.740 compromise of government. 23:32.740 --> 23:34.020 And that's what we're going to see. 23:34.060 --> 23:39.060 You know, this is a really good study just for current events. 23:39.060 --> 23:43.820 Because this is the kind of stuff that's going on today in not only America, but in the entire world. 23:43.820 --> 23:46.380 So let's go there to John 18 verse 1. 23:46.380 --> 23:50.660 The first point I have for you is that Jesus stepped forward. 23:50.660 --> 23:53.860 He's not overpowered, right? 23:53.860 --> 23:55.700 And we need to have that attitude. 23:55.700 --> 23:58.940 We need to be transparent in our dealings. 23:58.940 --> 24:00.820 We need to be confident in our dealings. 24:00.820 --> 24:04.460 We need to come to the battle, not let the battle come to us. 24:04.460 --> 24:08.820 And what I mean by that is we're not picking a fight, but when the fight's there, we shouldn't retreat. 24:08.820 --> 24:10.180 We should just come forward. 24:10.180 --> 24:14.180 You know, I love that in when David is going against Goliath. 24:14.180 --> 24:18.380 I love that wording that says, and David hasted into battle. 24:18.380 --> 24:19.620 Meaning he was quick. 24:19.620 --> 24:21.500 He's like, I'm ready to roll. 24:21.500 --> 24:22.980 We need to have that mentality. 24:22.980 --> 24:24.580 We're ready to go to battle. 24:24.580 --> 24:26.100 We're not going to back down. 24:26.100 --> 24:28.140 We're not going to acquiesce. 24:28.140 --> 24:30.100 We're not going to cower, right? 24:30.100 --> 24:31.860 In John 18, right there in verse 1, the Bible says, 24:31.860 --> 24:37.500 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook of 24:37.500 --> 24:41.540 Sidron, where was a garden into which he entered and his disciples. 24:41.540 --> 24:47.140 And Judas also which betrayed him knew the place, for Jesus oft times restored thither 24:47.140 --> 24:48.940 with his disciples. 24:48.940 --> 24:53.260 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, 24:53.260 --> 24:56.300 cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 24:56.300 --> 24:59.900 Jesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto him, 24:59.980 --> 25:00.980 I am he. 25:00.980 --> 25:03.300 And he said unto them, I am he. 25:03.300 --> 25:07.020 And they answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. 25:07.020 --> 25:09.940 Jesus said unto them, I am he. 25:09.940 --> 25:12.060 I want you to pay attention here. 25:12.060 --> 25:17.700 Judas, and Judas also which betrayed him, stood with them. 25:17.700 --> 25:23.380 And then it says, as soon as then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward 25:23.380 --> 25:24.980 and fell to the ground. 25:24.980 --> 25:28.540 You know, how cool is it to have these verses? 25:28.580 --> 25:33.380 The Bible says he just spoke it, and there's so much power in God's word that they fell 25:33.380 --> 25:34.380 backwards. 25:34.380 --> 25:39.900 But it also proves a thing that humans are stubborn and hard headed, because you would 25:39.900 --> 25:44.660 think, you know, if that happened to someone in the spirit, we would cower at the presence 25:44.660 --> 25:45.660 of so much power. 25:45.660 --> 25:48.900 Instead, they were like, no, we're still going to take him to jail. 25:48.900 --> 25:55.220 We you know, the impetus and the arrogance to think that, hey, I can take down Jesus. 25:55.220 --> 26:00.260 He just proved that just by speaking his words, he can knock us down. 26:00.260 --> 26:03.580 But somehow they felt like they could still finish the job. 26:03.580 --> 26:06.860 That's how delusional the devil is. 26:06.860 --> 26:08.420 And I'm not bringing that's not a false accusation. 26:08.420 --> 26:09.780 He really thinks he's the most high. 26:09.780 --> 26:14.620 The Bible clearly tells us that he thinks he's, you know, he wants to be like the most 26:14.620 --> 26:15.620 high. 26:15.620 --> 26:19.060 And that's one of the attributes is that he's just implacable. 26:19.060 --> 26:20.420 He's not going to stop. 26:21.420 --> 26:22.540 this lie. 26:22.540 --> 26:24.740 And then he convinces others of this lie. 26:24.740 --> 26:27.020 All right, go over to John 10. 26:27.020 --> 26:28.020 Go over to John 10. 26:28.020 --> 26:29.020 I'll read for you really quick. 26:29.020 --> 26:39.700 And Isaiah 53, the Bible says in Isaiah 53. 26:39.700 --> 26:40.700 I'll go here. 26:40.700 --> 26:41.700 Isaiah 53. 26:41.700 --> 26:42.700 Real quick. 26:42.700 --> 26:46.900 You guys go to John 10. 26:47.380 --> 26:51.420 Right there in verse seven, the Bible says he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet 26:51.420 --> 26:52.860 he opened not his mouth. 26:52.860 --> 26:58.060 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before he shears his dumb. 26:58.060 --> 27:00.660 So he opened not his mouth. 27:00.660 --> 27:01.660 And we see that, right? 27:01.660 --> 27:06.940 I mean, we see the small interaction, but once it's committed, once he's condemned here 27:06.940 --> 27:09.780 on this earth, then he no longer speaks. 27:09.780 --> 27:10.780 Right? 27:10.780 --> 27:15.900 In John 10 verse 14, we see here, he says, I am the good shepherd and my and know my 27:15.900 --> 27:19.420 sheep and am known of mine. 27:19.420 --> 27:28.380 And the father knoweth me, even so I, the father, even so now, so now I, sorry about 27:28.380 --> 27:34.620 that, even so know I the father and I lay down my life for the sheep and other sheep 27:34.620 --> 27:40.260 I have, which are not of this fold, them also must I bring and they shall hear my voice 27:40.260 --> 27:43.940 and there shall I be, there shall be one fold and one shepherd. 27:43.980 --> 27:49.660 Therefore doth my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it again. 27:49.660 --> 27:53.300 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 27:53.300 --> 27:57.140 I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. 27:57.140 --> 28:00.100 This commandment have I received of my father. 28:00.100 --> 28:03.420 There's so much to unpack here and we've already touched on that a little bit, but in John 28:03.420 --> 28:09.020 10, we see, you know, a couple of things that I haven't really touched on and it's probably 28:09.020 --> 28:14.740 good to bring a sermon on that, but when Jesus died, he took his life, you know, he took 28:14.740 --> 28:18.980 that power, got the father was involved and the Holy Spirit. 28:18.980 --> 28:22.260 And then when he's risen from the game, because other places tell us that God raised them 28:22.260 --> 28:24.100 from the dead. 28:24.100 --> 28:25.260 It's God Almighty. 28:25.260 --> 28:28.060 All three of them are involved in this because he says, I take it again. 28:28.060 --> 28:29.060 Right. 28:29.060 --> 28:34.260 I have the power, but also then he says the this commandment that I mean, have I received 28:34.260 --> 28:35.620 of my father. 28:35.620 --> 28:42.740 This also clears up the other false doctors we get on the Trinity that Jesus is submissive 28:42.740 --> 28:43.740 to God the father. 28:43.740 --> 28:47.460 I mean, literally, if you get a commandment and your obedience to that commandment, that 28:47.460 --> 28:50.620 means somebody gave it to you and you're obeying that. 28:50.620 --> 28:51.620 Right. 28:51.620 --> 28:56.180 Go over to Matthew, just go back a few to the very first book in the New Testament, 28:56.180 --> 29:00.220 Matthew 26, Matthew 26. 29:00.220 --> 29:06.220 We see another account of this and right there in verse 50, it says, and Jesus said unto 29:06.220 --> 29:13.340 him, friend, Matthew 26, verse 50, Jesus said unto him, friend, where art thou come? 29:13.340 --> 29:14.900 They came. 29:14.900 --> 29:17.940 Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took him. 29:17.940 --> 29:20.380 Notice he called Judas friend, right? 29:20.380 --> 29:25.220 And he says, hey, and they laid hands on him and took him and behold, one of them, which 29:25.220 --> 29:26.660 were with Jesus stretched out his hand. 29:26.660 --> 29:31.100 And we know from this account that it's Peter and drew his sword and struck a servant of 29:31.100 --> 29:33.420 the high priest and smote off his ear. 29:33.420 --> 29:38.100 Then Jesus said, then said Jesus unto him, put away thy sword into this place. 29:38.100 --> 29:41.260 For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 29:41.260 --> 29:46.420 Think it's thou that I cannot pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than 12 29:46.420 --> 29:48.760 legions of angels. 29:48.760 --> 29:53.660 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that it must be? 29:53.660 --> 29:56.700 And so that thus it must be. 29:56.700 --> 30:01.280 So we know when Jesus makes it clear and other parts of the gospel too, that he has the power 30:01.280 --> 30:06.220 to do this thing, but that's not the power that the ultimate power, the ultimate show 30:06.220 --> 30:11.980 of power is the fact that he gave up his life for us, that he took it and he took it back 30:11.980 --> 30:12.980 again. 30:12.980 --> 30:13.980 Right? 30:13.980 --> 30:18.620 And it's not this split nature where he was in human nature. 30:18.620 --> 30:21.920 He was 100% divine in his manhood. 30:21.920 --> 30:23.640 And that's the thing that makes him different, right? 30:23.640 --> 30:28.920 Because he went to hell as a man, but also 100% God. 30:28.920 --> 30:32.960 That's why he was able to conquer and he was able to be raised on the third day. 30:32.960 --> 30:36.720 Because when we die, first of all, we couldn't raise our bodies. 30:36.720 --> 30:40.880 Second of all, the only thing that's going to raise our incorruptible bodies into a, 30:40.880 --> 30:46.120 I mean, I'm sorry, our corruptible bodies and incorruptible body is God Almighty, is 30:46.120 --> 30:47.880 Jesus Christ. 30:47.880 --> 30:49.400 That's the difference, right? 30:49.400 --> 30:52.040 He was the one in control. 30:52.040 --> 30:53.960 He's the one that made it happen. 30:53.960 --> 30:58.360 And so much so that it actually shows us his power by saying, hey, I am he. 30:58.360 --> 30:59.360 And they all fell. 30:59.360 --> 31:00.360 Can you imagine if I had that power? 31:00.360 --> 31:03.640 Like, I'm like, I am he and all these pews just went backwards and you guys all fell. 31:03.640 --> 31:06.000 You know, that'd be wild. 31:06.000 --> 31:12.720 That's literally what, you know, is showing us here, you know, except for the pews, right? 31:12.720 --> 31:15.640 So point number one was this, Jesus steps forward. 31:16.120 --> 31:19.320 You know, that's a, how do we make that application for us today? 31:19.320 --> 31:23.880 Hey, when people question us on the gospel, we should be clear, right? 31:23.880 --> 31:29.000 We should be very, you know, one of the things that we see here in John 18 is Jesus is very 31:29.000 --> 31:30.480 clear in his answers, right? 31:30.480 --> 31:32.560 They ask him a question and he's clear. 31:32.560 --> 31:38.000 But when they ask him, when he asks a question, they're not, you know, what does Pilate say? 31:38.000 --> 31:39.000 You know, am I a Jew? 31:39.000 --> 31:43.960 You know, one of the things I hate is when I ask someone a question and then they answer 31:43.960 --> 31:47.000 me what they think I want to hear instead of just answering me the question, right? 31:47.000 --> 31:52.520 Like, I'm like, especially in a work setting, it's like maybe let's say, hey, what time is it? 31:52.520 --> 31:54.080 Right? Just something simple like that. 31:54.080 --> 31:57.320 And they're like, oh, you know, I didn't get around to doing that thing you asked. 31:57.320 --> 31:58.200 I'm not even asking that. 31:58.200 --> 31:59.520 I just want to know what time it is. 31:59.520 --> 32:00.920 Like, what time is it? 32:00.920 --> 32:04.480 That's all I care about, you know, but the reason is because people are not clear. 32:04.480 --> 32:07.480 They're not transparent and they're not willing to own up to stuff. 32:07.480 --> 32:11.160 Jesus was like, hey, everything I said is out of the open. 32:11.160 --> 32:12.080 I'm transparent. 32:12.120 --> 32:13.760 What do you want to know? 32:13.760 --> 32:19.000 Right? I mean, we have preachers over the year with all the drama where one of the biggest 32:19.000 --> 32:23.920 complaints of some of these preachers that no longer associate with a new FB or our friends 32:23.920 --> 32:29.200 or anything like that is that other people would call them to question their doctrines. 32:29.200 --> 32:30.760 Hey, you can call me all day. 32:30.760 --> 32:35.120 As a matter of fact, it might be like counterproductive to you because you call me. 32:35.120 --> 32:36.440 I might want to talk about it all day. 32:36.440 --> 32:40.000 Like, we might want to hash this thing out. 32:40.000 --> 32:41.720 I mean, that's the ego speaking. 32:41.720 --> 32:46.280 Obviously, I know better than that, but I have no problem telling you what I think. 32:46.280 --> 32:51.440 Right? Point number two, go back to John 18, right there in verse seven, the Bible says, 32:51.440 --> 32:54.440 then ask he them again, whom seek ye? 32:54.440 --> 32:56.520 And they said, Jesus would answer it. 32:56.520 --> 32:58.840 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. 32:58.840 --> 33:03.080 If therefore you seek me, let these go their way, that the same might be fulfilled, 33:03.080 --> 33:06.600 which he spake of, of them which thou gavest me. 33:06.600 --> 33:08.120 I have lost none. 33:08.160 --> 33:11.880 And so point number two is that Jesus protects his own. 33:11.880 --> 33:16.400 Not only did he step up to do the thing that he was doing, but he's so providential in his ways 33:16.400 --> 33:18.920 that he's also even protecting the flock. 33:18.920 --> 33:22.760 Right? He's going to make sure that he steps up, that there's no confusion, 33:22.760 --> 33:27.680 that there's no confusion, no lack of clarity, so nobody else gets taken mixed up. 33:27.680 --> 33:30.040 Right? And it makes sense. 33:30.040 --> 33:30.760 Who's ever been? 33:30.760 --> 33:34.680 I mean, we have to also put ourselves in this context, right? 33:34.680 --> 33:37.120 Because a lot of these things that you're like, well, these guys were Peter. 33:37.120 --> 33:39.000 How did they not know that it was Peter? 33:39.000 --> 33:41.400 Well, there's no modern electricity, right? 33:41.400 --> 33:43.400 There's no modern lighting or anything like that. 33:43.400 --> 33:44.960 Who's ever been camping? 33:44.960 --> 33:45.680 I mean, it's hard. 33:45.680 --> 33:49.440 Like, once the lights go out, we're so accustomed, right, to having lights around us. 33:49.440 --> 33:53.400 The hardest thing to get accustomed to the first night of camping is the fact that as soon 33:53.400 --> 33:57.200 as the sun goes down, it's not like at home, right, where you just flick on a light. 33:57.200 --> 33:58.560 It's like, it's dark. 33:58.560 --> 33:59.720 It's difficult to see these things. 33:59.720 --> 34:05.840 So in this context, you know, it could, unless you're clear, there could be confusion. 34:05.840 --> 34:06.440 Right? 34:06.480 --> 34:08.000 And we see this later on. 34:08.000 --> 34:10.480 Go to John 17, just a chapter back. 34:12.240 --> 34:13.440 Right? But what do we see? 34:13.440 --> 34:18.120 He's even in life, not just spiritually, he is our mediator. 34:18.120 --> 34:20.200 He's always the go-between. 34:20.200 --> 34:23.720 Right? He stands in so the others can go free, good or bad. 34:23.720 --> 34:25.960 As a matter of fact, isn't that a clear picture of salvation? 34:25.960 --> 34:26.760 I mean, what does Peter do? 34:26.760 --> 34:29.040 He's going to deny him three times. 34:29.040 --> 34:31.200 So it wasn't because of his works, and Peter's still what? 34:31.200 --> 34:32.360 One of the apostles. 34:32.360 --> 34:34.880 As a matter of fact, he's still one of the three, top three. 34:34.880 --> 34:38.400 There's 12 of them, and he's one of the top three throughout the whole thing. 34:38.400 --> 34:40.760 And Peter, I mean, constantly misses out. 34:41.880 --> 34:47.160 John 17, verse 11, the Bible says, And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world. 34:47.160 --> 34:52.680 And I come to thee, Holy Father, keep through thine own name those who thou hast given me, 34:52.680 --> 34:55.320 that they may be one as we are. 34:55.320 --> 34:58.840 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. 34:58.840 --> 35:02.280 Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost. 35:02.320 --> 35:05.640 But the set of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled, 35:05.640 --> 35:09.240 and now come I to thee, and these things I speak in the world, 35:09.240 --> 35:12.480 that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 35:12.480 --> 35:16.280 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, 35:16.280 --> 35:20.080 because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 35:20.080 --> 35:23.120 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, 35:23.120 --> 35:26.000 but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 35:26.000 --> 35:28.880 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 35:28.880 --> 35:33.360 Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is true. 35:33.360 --> 35:36.480 And I'm not going to touch too much on that, because we already touched on it last week, 35:36.480 --> 35:38.200 but these are powerful verses, right? 35:38.200 --> 35:40.800 He's keeping us in the world, but he's also protecting us. 35:40.800 --> 35:44.000 How does he protect us? Through the word. 35:44.000 --> 35:47.240 Right? So the biggest thing we need to always be is in the word. 35:47.240 --> 35:49.320 It has to be a daily thing. 35:49.320 --> 35:54.040 You know, one of the things that differentiates us even from other Baptist churches 35:54.040 --> 35:57.520 is that we're constantly imploring you, right? 35:57.520 --> 36:02.160 That we're constantly exhorting you to what? Read your Bible. 36:02.160 --> 36:05.400 Right? As a matter of fact, I would prefer that you would read your Bible 36:05.400 --> 36:08.440 over just about everything else other than soul winning, 36:08.440 --> 36:12.520 because this falls on deaf ears if you're not reading your Bible. 36:12.520 --> 36:15.160 You know, you don't make the connections like you should 36:15.160 --> 36:16.960 if you don't read your Bible regularly. 36:16.960 --> 36:21.000 Now, if you're not reading your Bible, at least show up to church three times a week, 36:21.000 --> 36:22.480 then you get some Bible reading. 36:22.480 --> 36:24.960 But when you read your Bible, these things start to pop out. 36:25.000 --> 36:28.240 As a matter of fact, one of the advantages, as I've increased, 36:28.240 --> 36:33.200 and I've always read my Bible consistently since I got ordained, 36:33.200 --> 36:35.280 but I add more time to it. 36:35.280 --> 36:37.160 I spend more time reading my Bible. 36:37.160 --> 36:40.280 It feels like every year, every month or every day. 36:40.280 --> 36:41.600 I just do a little bit more. 36:41.600 --> 36:45.480 One of the things that helps is then when we're doing the Bible reading, 36:45.480 --> 36:49.160 like just as before the preaching, all of a sudden something just pop out 36:49.160 --> 36:50.400 right before the sermon. 36:50.400 --> 36:52.600 But that's not possible. I really believe that. 36:52.640 --> 36:55.800 That's not possible if you're not constantly reading the Bible 36:55.800 --> 36:58.320 because that's how your brain works. 36:58.320 --> 37:02.440 Who has those aha moments like when you're in the shower, right? 37:02.440 --> 37:05.280 Or you're driving, all of a sudden you're driving, you're like, oh. 37:05.280 --> 37:08.800 You know, and then also you call somebody with this idea or this thought you had. 37:08.800 --> 37:09.480 Why does that happen? 37:09.480 --> 37:12.160 Because the brain shuts down all the other activities 37:12.160 --> 37:15.200 and it's able to now process everything you put in the back burner. 37:15.200 --> 37:18.000 But when you do your Bible reading in the morning and then you get to work 37:18.000 --> 37:21.200 and you get to do daily things, you might not be meditating like you should. 37:21.200 --> 37:23.520 But then you come to church and that's your focus. 37:23.520 --> 37:25.360 And all of a sudden you're like, oh, yeah, I just read that. 37:25.360 --> 37:28.240 And then, oh, I didn't see that connection. Right. 37:28.240 --> 37:29.680 And that helps you grow. 37:29.680 --> 37:31.480 That helps you just be a better Christian. 37:31.480 --> 37:35.480 That helps you understand why life is the way that it is because life is tough. 37:35.480 --> 37:37.880 Right. Go to Isaiah 43. 37:37.880 --> 37:41.600 Go to Isaiah 43 and I'll just read for you really quick in John 28, 1028, 37:41.600 --> 37:44.520 because we already saw this last week or a few weeks back says, 37:44.520 --> 37:48.800 and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. 37:48.840 --> 37:52.120 Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 37:52.120 --> 37:53.200 The Bible is very clear. 37:53.200 --> 37:55.440 He gives unto us eternal life. 37:55.440 --> 37:56.880 So he keeps us. 37:56.880 --> 37:59.840 Nobody can and will never perish. 37:59.840 --> 38:03.160 And no man can ever pluck them out of our hands. 38:03.760 --> 38:07.040 That's why we're secure in our salvation. 38:07.040 --> 38:10.720 I mean, how can you read these verses and draw any other conclusion? 38:10.720 --> 38:14.280 Isaiah 43, verse two, the Bible says, I mean, verse one. 38:14.280 --> 38:18.160 But now, thus saith the Lord that created the O Jacob. 38:18.160 --> 38:22.640 And he that formed the O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed thee. 38:22.640 --> 38:24.760 I have called thee by thy name. 38:24.760 --> 38:27.480 Thou art mine. 38:27.480 --> 38:30.360 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. 38:30.360 --> 38:32.920 And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. 38:32.920 --> 38:35.720 When thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burned. 38:35.720 --> 38:38.400 Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 38:38.400 --> 38:42.080 So notice he didn't promise that he was just going to remove us from danger. 38:42.080 --> 38:46.640 He says, hey, when you're in the danger, it's not going to overtake you. 38:46.640 --> 38:47.520 Right. 38:47.560 --> 38:48.720 You're not going to drown. 38:48.720 --> 38:50.000 You're not going to burn. 38:50.000 --> 38:54.800 That's why we have those awesome pictures in the Old Testament, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 38:54.800 --> 38:56.840 Like this is life. 38:56.840 --> 38:58.960 And life feels like that way sometimes. 38:58.960 --> 39:00.800 I mean, there's days. 39:00.800 --> 39:03.480 The last couple of days, you have just been over busy. 39:03.480 --> 39:08.160 Like it was just like Saturday, Sunday, and even Monday late and even Tuesday, 39:08.160 --> 39:09.800 because my wife got a migraine yesterday. 39:09.800 --> 39:11.280 I've already told you what happens with that. 39:11.280 --> 39:15.240 Like yesterday, I was extra busy because my wife was in bed all day. 39:15.280 --> 39:17.480 Like she wasn't able to move. 39:17.480 --> 39:21.880 And then the nausea and the throw up was even worse. 39:21.880 --> 39:24.680 So I was like trying to work and with the three kids. 39:24.680 --> 39:29.000 By the time I got to the end of the day, I was just like, I think I told someone, I was like, 39:29.000 --> 39:29.960 I'm just mad today. 39:29.960 --> 39:31.960 Just let me, I'm just going to see on this madness. 39:31.960 --> 39:33.200 Like I'm just angry. 39:33.200 --> 39:34.400 And then I'll just get over it tomorrow. 39:34.400 --> 39:36.200 Like I'm just like I was done. 39:36.200 --> 39:36.920 Right. 39:36.920 --> 39:39.400 But the one thing that, you know what, it didn't happen. 39:39.400 --> 39:43.000 I didn't like break down and just lose all hope or anything. 39:43.000 --> 39:43.880 You know, you have your moments. 39:43.880 --> 39:48.280 But because you think about it, you can't even be mopey for too long. 39:48.280 --> 39:51.440 Because you think about the Bible and God doesn't even want us to be like that. 39:51.440 --> 39:54.160 The fact that we're alive is a blessing. 39:54.160 --> 39:57.200 And when we start complaining and murmuring, it's a sin. 39:57.200 --> 39:58.080 So then you catch yourself. 39:58.080 --> 40:03.320 You're like, all right, let me fix this right now because God's given us this redemption. 40:03.320 --> 40:06.960 God's given us this zeal and this unction to function. 40:06.960 --> 40:09.640 Right. Like to just do great things for him. 40:09.640 --> 40:10.960 Point number three, go to John 18. 40:10.960 --> 40:14.440 You can go to John 18 on point number three. 40:14.440 --> 40:15.560 So we see Jesus. 40:15.560 --> 40:16.840 First, we're focused on Jesus, right? 40:16.840 --> 40:18.400 Jesus steps forward. 40:18.400 --> 40:19.400 He's very transparent. 40:19.400 --> 40:20.920 He's not going to back down. 40:20.920 --> 40:22.760 And with that, he's also protecting it. 40:22.760 --> 40:24.000 What is the purpose of the church? 40:24.000 --> 40:27.120 Just really quick before I get into point number three is that's the purpose. 40:27.120 --> 40:31.880 Why do we have this is we're not liberals, but this is our safe space. 40:31.880 --> 40:33.160 Right. 40:33.160 --> 40:39.640 You know, people should be comfortable here actually being truthful about the word of God. 40:39.640 --> 40:40.520 Right. It's nice to know. 40:40.560 --> 40:42.040 You can go to a place where you're like, you know what? 40:42.040 --> 40:46.040 I don't like facts and nobody would be like, oh, I can't believe you said that. 40:46.040 --> 40:47.600 That's not politically correct. 40:47.600 --> 40:48.600 Right. 40:48.600 --> 40:49.600 I mean, seriously. 40:49.600 --> 40:51.880 Or that you can actually say stuff. 40:51.880 --> 40:56.520 I mean, there's always going to be opinions, but you can be honest about what the Bible says. 40:56.520 --> 41:03.000 You know, because you go out there in the world, forget, forget the whole fact thing for just a second. 41:03.000 --> 41:09.520 I mean, I'm but let's just say that you just tell somebody out there that you're like, 41:09.680 --> 41:12.240 hey, Donald Trump's not really the best guy out there. 41:12.240 --> 41:14.280 They're never Trumpers. 41:14.280 --> 41:17.960 Have you ever have you ever told someone you don't like Trump that likes Trump? 41:17.960 --> 41:21.320 It's almost like telling a Catholic that the pope is going to help. 41:21.320 --> 41:22.960 You know, it's like pretty rough. Right. 41:22.960 --> 41:26.400 But here, even if they are for Trump, let's just say, I mean, it's OK. 41:26.400 --> 41:29.840 I'm not not everybody agrees with my political stance. 41:29.840 --> 41:35.200 They understand where we're both coming from, from a biblical perspective, because we're talking truth. 41:35.240 --> 41:43.760 We can remove some of those biases and subjective thoughts if we just extrapolate just truth, just the facts of life. Right. 41:43.760 --> 41:47.400 Hey, the Bible says to spank your children. 41:47.400 --> 41:50.800 It shouldn't be like everybody gets all uncomfortable about it. 41:50.800 --> 41:52.800 But, man, just go out there. 41:52.800 --> 41:57.960 Can you imagine going to like a head start program and be like, well, you know, if you just whoop that child, you'd be fine. 41:57.960 --> 42:00.400 People freak out. Right. 42:00.400 --> 42:02.640 I mean, that's literally how people are. 42:02.680 --> 42:07.280 I saw some clip, which, by the way, the Bible gives one verse in Proverbs. 42:07.280 --> 42:09.040 I don't have it right now because I wasn't thinking about that. 42:09.040 --> 42:13.480 But the Bible gives one verse where it says, hey, you shouldn't mistreat an animal. 42:13.480 --> 42:16.400 But that's about it. Like, it doesn't say that you have feelings for it. 42:16.400 --> 42:21.600 I saw, I guess, this clip of this lady who was grabbing this puppy and she threw it because the puppy kept coming back to it. 42:21.600 --> 42:23.920 And I think she kicked it. It came back. 42:23.920 --> 42:26.960 Everybody's making a big deal. Now, I don't agree. 42:26.960 --> 42:30.040 You shouldn't kick and throw a puppy. But it's a puppy. 42:30.040 --> 42:31.480 It's not a baby. 42:31.480 --> 42:36.440 Look, when you can come to me and tell me that we fixed all the world's problems and no babies are being killed, 42:36.440 --> 42:39.360 then we can talk about the puppy that's being mistreated. 42:39.360 --> 42:46.360 But if you're going to tell me that that takes precedence over all the murders in the world, you're not going to get my sympathy. 42:46.360 --> 42:50.080 Sorry that Toto got kicked around, but Toto has no soul. 42:50.080 --> 42:53.680 If Toto dies, it literally does nothing for the entire world. 42:53.680 --> 42:56.200 It's not going to hell. It's not going to heaven. 42:56.240 --> 43:02.520 Even if Toto lived a beautiful 15 year life, it wouldn't lead anybody to salvation. 43:02.520 --> 43:07.480 It wouldn't do anything. You might get lucky and it might figure out if someone was in a fire to go bark. 43:07.480 --> 43:11.160 Remember Lassie? What is it, boy? Or what is it, girl? What's going on? 43:11.160 --> 43:14.480 Oh, there's a fire. It's always like, well, the kids figured it out. 43:14.480 --> 43:16.400 Right. But that's it. 43:16.400 --> 43:19.040 Like, I don't. Other than that, I have no feelings about you. 43:19.040 --> 43:26.040 But outside of these circles, even just saying this publicly, people are going to take it the wrong way. 43:26.040 --> 43:32.080 And I'm not saying that, you know, I know Christians are like, oh, we lost this dog of 10 years and they're sad about it. 43:32.080 --> 43:34.720 I have no, you know, I'm not I'm not even attacking any of them. 43:34.720 --> 43:41.440 Just saying biblically, there's no it has no weight in the grand scheme of eternity. 43:41.440 --> 43:46.480 When we get to heaven, Toto or whatever spark, they're not going to be there. 43:46.480 --> 43:53.040 But you know who will or will not be there? Your family members and your neighbors and all those children that have been murdered. 43:53.080 --> 43:57.480 And we're never given a chance to actually do something for the Lord here on this earth. 43:57.480 --> 44:00.520 That's what makes a difference. So anyways, I want to point that out. 44:00.520 --> 44:03.720 But John 18, because we're making the transition. 44:03.720 --> 44:13.080 So it's first books on Christ. Then we're going to see a little bit more of the other the other characters right here in John 18. 44:13.080 --> 44:19.600 And point number three is zeal without submission equals failure. 44:19.600 --> 44:24.800 Let me say that again, because sometimes we miss that zeal without submission equals failure. 44:24.800 --> 44:29.600 This happens a lot to new Christians, new Christians. 44:29.600 --> 44:33.080 They get saved. They start reading their Bible. 44:33.080 --> 44:41.080 And in our modern times, what usually ends up happening is they'll read their Bible and then they'll go to YouTube or Google or whatever. 44:41.080 --> 44:45.280 And then all of a sudden you start getting you start the light. 44:45.280 --> 44:48.800 You know, the scales are falling off your eyes and you start maybe getting into a doctor, 44:48.840 --> 44:51.960 especially if you're in a good church where they're preaching heart doctrines. 44:51.960 --> 44:54.600 But if there's not a balance, it'll be failure. 44:54.600 --> 44:58.840 You could get too much into like anti-Zionism or a post trip. 44:58.840 --> 45:03.120 Hey, those are all good doctors. But the doctrine of the matter are the ones that change lives. 45:03.120 --> 45:05.120 Right. Let's first go soul winning. 45:05.120 --> 45:11.240 But yeah, let's preach against, you know, the false religion of Judaism or let's go so winning and preach against the fact. 45:11.240 --> 45:13.920 But don't just be like, oh, like, oh, I hate fags. I hate fags. 45:13.920 --> 45:17.040 I hate back. And then you're not doing any of the other things. 45:17.080 --> 45:18.160 You're just missing it out. Right. 45:18.160 --> 45:22.960 You're because then you're what you're going to end up doing is failing because number one, it's not sustainable. 45:22.960 --> 45:29.360 And number two, if there's no balance, you're going to either hit really hard or you're going to backslide 45:29.360 --> 45:34.480 or you're going to just not get along with your other, you know, brothers in Christ. 45:34.480 --> 45:40.680 Go to John 18, right there, verse 10, says, then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, 45:40.680 --> 45:43.920 smote the high priest servant and cut off his right ear. 45:43.920 --> 45:45.600 The servant's name was Malchus. 45:45.600 --> 45:50.200 This is Jesus and Peter put up thy sword into the sheath. 45:50.200 --> 45:55.680 The cup which my father had given me, shall I not drink it? 45:55.680 --> 45:57.000 And, you know, we see this, right? 45:57.000 --> 46:02.360 We see people that are overzealous in one thing and they miss the point on the other. 46:02.360 --> 46:07.280 And by the way, I mean, all the doctors, I think all doctors are good, but the Bible also makes it clear. 46:07.280 --> 46:09.840 There are doctors that are damnable heresy. 46:09.840 --> 46:13.080 And then there's doctors that we just add to make our lives better. 46:13.120 --> 46:15.800 Just like there's there's levels of sin, right? 46:15.800 --> 46:20.000 If you murder someone, it's worse than if you told me a white lie, right? 46:20.000 --> 46:24.880 If my son lies to me, it's not as bad as if he were to try to murder me. 46:24.880 --> 46:32.160 I mean, it's just like those are I know it's a little extreme, but hey, children murder their parents all the time and vice versa. 46:32.160 --> 46:38.560 You know, we need to have a when you have a balance, then you're able to actually address stuff properly. 46:38.560 --> 46:42.320 Like my wife was telling me the other day or just recently, I don't know. 46:42.360 --> 46:47.840 And I don't know all the details that I'm not going to go into, but this this egregious like this this horrible guy, 46:47.840 --> 46:51.040 I don't know if he's a pedophile, but he definitely was demented. 46:51.040 --> 46:57.720 The guy that abducted the little girl here in Texas into his FedEx or UPS car and then basically murdered her. 46:58.280 --> 47:00.800 And they're like, everybody's happy because they sense of death. 47:01.240 --> 47:03.760 You know, biblically, they should have already put them down. 47:05.080 --> 47:07.240 That's the difference, right? 47:07.240 --> 47:09.240 That's where you find the balance when you're not overzealous. 47:09.720 --> 47:11.200 I don't have to be a jerk about it. 47:11.840 --> 47:12.720 It's the facts. 47:13.760 --> 47:22.080 So my wife even made him and she, by the way, we had it, but she was like, you know, would it be better to just let him go to jail and let those guys, you know, beat him up and make himself over? 47:22.080 --> 47:24.000 And it sounds sounds good. 47:24.000 --> 47:26.920 And I was like, yeah, but the Bible just says to put him to death immediately. 47:27.480 --> 47:29.160 You know, you get rid of that trash quickly. 47:29.160 --> 47:29.760 You know what? 47:29.760 --> 47:33.200 Anybody else who is thinking like that might think twice before they do it. 47:34.680 --> 47:37.840 It should have been a public execution on the spot. 47:38.840 --> 47:45.800 Now, with a gunshot like they should have made it televised, like the governor should have done a press conference and been like, hey, this guy just murdered this girl. 47:45.960 --> 47:48.880 We have the proof that without a shadow of a doubt. 47:49.080 --> 47:56.200 And now please leave your televisions on and bring your children that can handle it and watch us, you know, execute this guy. 47:56.360 --> 47:57.760 So nobody else will do this again. 47:59.720 --> 48:00.520 That's how it should be. 48:00.840 --> 48:02.160 It was, you know, what about the children? 48:02.360 --> 48:04.440 You know, there's been world wars. 48:04.440 --> 48:05.800 There's been wars throughout history. 48:06.120 --> 48:09.480 You think children haven't had to witness this kind of stuff? 48:10.560 --> 48:12.160 I'm not saying expose your children. 48:12.360 --> 48:15.760 But at some point, your children need to realize that the world's a bad place. 48:16.600 --> 48:19.320 Right. It's better to them than do it under your purview. 48:19.560 --> 48:21.440 They'll then figure it out by themselves. 48:21.440 --> 48:22.840 Because then by then it might be too late. 48:24.240 --> 48:25.600 Right. So we see here. 48:25.640 --> 48:27.920 But Peter's not a bad guy. 48:28.080 --> 48:35.760 I mean, Peter say we go to the Book of Acts when Peter does some of the best soul winning thousands of the day of Pentecost three over 48:35.760 --> 48:37.080 three thousand people get saved. 48:37.280 --> 48:38.200 Who's leading the charge? 48:38.480 --> 48:39.000 Peter. 48:40.480 --> 48:43.880 But Peter had to find balance in his life because he was always a little bit overzealous. 48:43.920 --> 48:45.480 You know, we we have a tendency. 48:45.520 --> 48:50.640 I relate with Peter because I have a tendency just went over, you know, you know, I get overexcited sometimes. 48:50.680 --> 48:53.200 Right. But it has nothing to do. 48:53.240 --> 48:54.720 God doesn't care about your over excitement. 48:54.760 --> 48:56.040 He just wants your obedience. 48:57.040 --> 49:03.720 He's like, not only did he say Peter get thee behind me and he also said, Peter, I just need to wash your feet, not your whole body. 49:03.760 --> 49:04.440 Calm down. 49:04.680 --> 49:05.000 Right. 49:05.480 --> 49:07.800 But then here, Peter's the one that's like attacking. 49:08.280 --> 49:10.040 He quickly forgot the whole purpose. 49:10.480 --> 49:13.280 Three times Peter's been told, I need to die. 49:13.480 --> 49:14.240 I need to die. 49:14.280 --> 49:14.640 I need to die. 49:14.640 --> 49:16.960 And Peter's like, no, I'm going to defend this thing. 49:17.480 --> 49:18.560 And sometimes that's how we are. 49:18.560 --> 49:19.800 Right. We love Jesus. 49:19.960 --> 49:21.000 We love the Bible. 49:21.120 --> 49:22.240 But we want to do it our own way. 49:22.760 --> 49:23.520 And it doesn't work. 49:23.560 --> 49:24.480 Go to Romans eight. 49:24.520 --> 49:25.360 Go to Romans eight. 49:26.680 --> 49:27.280 Go to Romans eight. 49:27.280 --> 49:28.160 I'll read for you really quick. 49:28.160 --> 49:30.040 Matthew 26 verse 52. 49:30.080 --> 49:36.680 The Bible says in Jesus said unto him, put away again thy sword into his place for all that they take the sword shall perish by the sword. 49:37.360 --> 49:38.760 Hey, we're not in the flesh. 49:38.760 --> 49:40.320 So we shouldn't act in the flesh. 49:43.240 --> 49:48.000 And I know that sounded weird, but what I mean by that is when we're doing the things of the Lord, we should never be in the flesh. 49:48.000 --> 49:49.000 We should be in the spirit. 49:49.680 --> 49:52.160 The Bible says to mortify the deeds of the flesh. 49:52.640 --> 49:55.920 We should already act as if this body is no longer our body. 49:56.920 --> 50:02.680 Bible says there in Romans eight, verse one says, therefore there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 50:03.120 --> 50:18.840 Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus have made me free from the law of sin and death for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. 50:19.240 --> 50:24.480 God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemn sin in the flesh. 50:25.280 --> 50:44.320 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in it in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit for to be carnally minded as death, but to be spiritually minded as life and peace because. 50:45.320 --> 50:56.080 The carnal mind is amnesty against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be so then they then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 50:56.080 --> 50:57.240 So we want to please God. 50:57.400 --> 50:58.320 We got to get in the flesh. 50:58.600 --> 51:05.400 The Bible says in Hebrews 11 six, that's that, you know, where you start tying together without faith, it is impossible to please God. 51:06.560 --> 51:06.920 Right. 51:07.080 --> 51:09.400 Well, how do you activate the faith in the spirit? 51:10.640 --> 51:10.920 Right. 51:10.920 --> 51:12.400 So that you're not at amnesty with God. 51:12.400 --> 51:13.920 People say, oh, I'm not an enemy of God. 51:13.920 --> 51:18.400 Hey, if we're in the flesh, just know you're an enemy of God at that time. 51:19.360 --> 51:23.080 You're doing something to be a stumbling block for somebody. 51:23.200 --> 51:24.960 Maybe you're just being a stumbling block for yourself. 51:25.280 --> 51:32.560 Hey, all these Christians that are saved today in the world, they're going to Baptist churches that aren't so many. 51:32.800 --> 51:36.800 They're not reading the right Bible that aren't, you know, applying the right doctrines. 51:37.760 --> 51:38.880 They're an enemy of God. 51:39.880 --> 51:41.280 That doesn't mean they're not saved. 51:41.440 --> 51:43.520 Just here, they're causing issues. 51:43.840 --> 51:46.400 I mean, Saul was saved. 51:46.760 --> 51:50.640 Saul is in heaven, the Bible tells us, but he kept being a stumbling block. 51:52.280 --> 51:52.640 Right. 51:52.680 --> 51:54.840 The children of Israel were saved. 51:54.880 --> 52:03.240 They were taken, you know, it's a picture of our salvation and going into heaven and they kept being hard headed and they kept being stiff neck. 52:03.440 --> 52:04.160 And you know what? 52:04.280 --> 52:12.560 Many times, even us that think we're in a great church, that we're, you know, we know that we're better than most Christians because we do so many. 52:13.040 --> 52:14.200 And we read our Bible. 52:14.360 --> 52:16.000 The Bible says, hey, don't take it. 52:16.280 --> 52:21.120 Don't get too haughty because in the eyes of God, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 52:23.000 --> 52:25.840 Psalm 37, for the sake of time, you don't have to turn there. 52:26.040 --> 52:29.600 But in Psalm 37, the Bible says, fret not thyself because of evildoers. 52:30.520 --> 52:36.800 Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquities, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb. 52:37.440 --> 52:39.640 Trust in the Lord and do good. 52:39.920 --> 52:43.240 So shall thou dwell in the land and verily thou shall be fed. 52:43.480 --> 52:48.200 Delight thyself in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 52:48.400 --> 52:50.160 Commit thy way unto the Lord. 52:50.160 --> 52:56.960 Trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass and he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noonday. 52:57.240 --> 52:59.920 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. 53:00.160 --> 53:06.600 Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 53:06.880 --> 53:09.760 Cease from anger and forsake wrath. 53:10.200 --> 53:13.840 Fret not thyself and any wise to do evil, for evildoers should be cut off. 53:14.480 --> 53:17.240 But those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. 53:17.480 --> 53:18.880 Hey, why did I pick these verses? 53:18.880 --> 53:26.080 Because oftentimes the zeal translates to you want to take matters into your own hand. 53:26.640 --> 53:28.040 That's really what it comes down to, right? 53:28.880 --> 53:33.200 Oh, you know, things aren't the way that I like them, so I'm just going to do it myself. 53:33.680 --> 53:35.840 And you know what? I'm not even picking on you guys. 53:35.840 --> 53:37.280 I have that mentality. 53:37.280 --> 53:42.200 You know, the hardest thing to get rid of when you're learning to delegate is the fact that, you know, 53:42.200 --> 53:47.440 that little voice in the back of your head still says, if it's going to be done right, I've got to do it right. 53:47.440 --> 53:50.880 Like I'm the one. No, there's many people who can do better than you. 53:51.120 --> 53:53.720 And also, God is the best way to do it. 53:54.360 --> 53:58.560 And even on the things that don't make sense, it doesn't have to. 53:59.240 --> 54:00.240 Right. It's like our children. 54:00.240 --> 54:02.440 Nothing has to make sense to our children for us to do it. 54:02.640 --> 54:03.720 We know what we're doing. 54:05.240 --> 54:09.040 As a matter of fact, I look back at my parents and I'm like really grateful because there's so many things 54:09.040 --> 54:12.320 they protected me from that I didn't even it wasn't even in my purview. 54:12.560 --> 54:13.880 Like they have no knowledge of it. 54:14.080 --> 54:15.160 And he can come sit up here. 54:17.760 --> 54:20.320 Right. Because we just need to focus. 54:21.440 --> 54:23.000 Sometimes the focus is like that. 54:23.040 --> 54:24.040 You know, we just need to get it. 54:24.120 --> 54:25.320 We need to get on the right path. 54:25.680 --> 54:26.960 But let's go to point number four. 54:27.160 --> 54:28.640 So point number three is Jesus. 54:28.920 --> 54:30.800 I mean, point number one, Jesus steps forward. 54:31.120 --> 54:33.200 He's clear. He's transparent. 54:33.240 --> 54:34.240 He's steadfast. 54:34.400 --> 54:37.560 He's unmovable. Point number two, Jesus protects his own. 54:37.920 --> 54:42.880 Right. And then point number three is zeal without submission equals failure. 54:43.640 --> 54:47.080 Right. You get you want to do the right things. 54:47.520 --> 54:49.880 Good intentions doesn't always mean good results. 54:50.920 --> 54:52.640 It's right intentions. 54:53.240 --> 54:58.040 The right intention is the right intentions with the obedient intention to the Lord Jesus Christ. 54:58.560 --> 55:10.280 Point number four is in John 18 in verse 12, go down to verse 12, is that here in verse 12, we see that the religious people, they hold a mock trial. 55:10.880 --> 55:13.360 Right. They mock at the things of God. 55:14.480 --> 55:15.600 Why do we call it a mock trial? 55:15.600 --> 55:16.720 Because it wasn't a real trial. 55:16.960 --> 55:26.320 They were just, you know, they did whatever they wanted and then they manipulated the entire situation to basically falsely accuse Jesus and condemn him to death. 55:27.160 --> 55:40.480 In John 18, verse 12, the Bible says, then the band and the captain and the officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him and led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest in the same year. 55:40.520 --> 55:42.440 Notice the nepotism right now. 55:43.440 --> 55:49.240 Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 55:49.640 --> 55:52.760 And Simon Peter followed Jesus and so did another disciple. 55:53.080 --> 55:54.920 And I think it's interesting how it's worded here, right? 55:54.960 --> 55:55.840 Another disciple. 55:55.840 --> 56:01.800 It didn't give us the name and the disciple was known to the high priest that went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. 56:02.280 --> 56:11.280 But Peter stood at the door without, then went out that other disciple, which was known to the high priest and spake unto her that kept the door and brought in Peter. 56:11.800 --> 56:16.600 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? 56:17.040 --> 56:17.960 He saith, I am not. 56:18.320 --> 56:24.120 And the servants and the officers stood there who made a fire of coals for it was cold and they warmed themselves. 56:24.120 --> 56:31.240 And Peter stood with them and warned himself, the high priest and asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine. 56:31.640 --> 56:32.600 Notice they came in there. 56:32.600 --> 56:33.400 What are they questioning? 56:34.280 --> 56:38.240 The people he hangs around with and the word, right? 56:38.360 --> 56:41.560 For us, it would be the Bible we're reading or the doctrine that we believe. 56:41.920 --> 56:45.040 Jesus answered and said, I spoke openly to the world. 56:45.560 --> 56:50.880 I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whether the Jews always resort and in the secret I have said nothing. 56:51.080 --> 56:53.760 You know, it's one of the attacks were there in verse 20. 56:53.760 --> 57:07.840 So you just want to forget one of the taxes the minute that any one of these and it's not just in our circles, just any time that you have a like a pastor of a of a congregation or something, all of a sudden they catch them on like some bad 57:07.840 --> 57:08.400 doctrine. 57:09.280 --> 57:13.440 Oftentimes, what you'll see is they start scrubbing everything from from the Internet, right? 57:13.760 --> 57:20.280 Like the YouTube channels or they put stuff on private or they turn off comments where it's our custom. 57:20.560 --> 57:22.440 And I mean, I know I say things wrong. 57:22.760 --> 57:25.400 He's a matter of fact, sometimes people call me out and I respond, you know what? 57:25.520 --> 57:30.720 That's right. I did say that wrong or I got this back wrong or, you know, I need to address this, whatever. 57:30.960 --> 57:32.080 Like we're open about it. 57:32.800 --> 57:36.400 Right. We're on, you know, our channels and people show up to church. 57:36.640 --> 57:42.320 I'm not like trying to miss words like if somebody came in that, you know, I don't know, I haven't seen a long time or something. 57:42.320 --> 57:43.360 We're preaching on certain subject. 57:43.400 --> 57:46.240 I'm not going to adjust the preaching for the audience. 57:46.240 --> 57:48.000 We're just going to preach what needs to be preached. 57:48.680 --> 57:53.680 But a lot of people do this like a Baptist or like old IFB Baptists are infamous for a couple of things. 57:54.120 --> 57:57.800 Either they don't promote their sermons outside of their circles. 57:58.080 --> 58:01.160 And in this day and age, like, why wouldn't you? 58:01.760 --> 58:05.560 I mean, you have social media, you have YouTube and Facebook and Instagram. 58:05.920 --> 58:08.920 Like, isn't the goal to get the word out to the entire world? 58:09.240 --> 58:10.320 Somebody's listening. 58:10.640 --> 58:14.120 Even us, which, by the way, I didn't even I meant to celebrate it and then I forgot. 58:14.800 --> 58:16.720 But it only took us almost a decade. 58:17.040 --> 58:19.800 But we have over a thousand subscribers finally on YouTube. 58:19.800 --> 58:21.680 Right. But somebody's listening. 58:21.880 --> 58:25.280 We might not have a million, but somebody's being impacted. 58:25.280 --> 58:27.000 We need to be clear about that gospel. 58:28.000 --> 58:34.840 Right. Or the other one that they do is they do have a YouTube channel and all their sermons are named like Wednesday. 58:35.480 --> 58:36.920 Wednesday service. 58:36.920 --> 58:39.800 Well, nobody's going to click on that because they don't know what they're talking about. 58:40.160 --> 58:42.040 You know, I try to put a little bit of effort. 58:42.040 --> 58:48.240 I try not to be too click baby or whatever, but I try to put effort into the title just so somebody might be like, oh, that sounds interesting. 58:48.240 --> 58:50.080 Let me let me see what that's about. 58:50.080 --> 58:54.640 And then they'll listen to something because the one thing I know for sure is I'm not 100 percent. 58:54.880 --> 58:56.600 But you know who is God. 58:56.600 --> 58:59.760 And my effort is to preach the entire council of God. 58:59.760 --> 59:02.520 And I use a lot of scripture and work in my preaching. 59:02.840 --> 59:08.200 And even if I'm not interested, maybe I'm not dynamic, maybe I'm not the best and I'm not being self-deprecating. 59:08.200 --> 59:11.560 I'm just saying everybody has an opinion of the person here that's preaching. 59:11.800 --> 59:14.280 And some people have come up to me and they're like, hey, I really like your preaching. 59:14.520 --> 59:15.880 And other people have never told me that. 59:16.040 --> 59:18.520 And that's OK. Maybe they don't like my preaching. 59:18.680 --> 59:20.200 I'm not here to do that. 59:20.200 --> 59:32.280 But the one thing you know is if you tune in, you're going to hear the King James Bible in the spirit and it might affect someone either to clean up their life or a question like, am I really saved? 59:32.520 --> 59:33.680 Or why did he say that? 59:33.680 --> 59:37.000 And maybe make change, you know, change their mind about something. 59:37.600 --> 59:39.160 Or as we would say, repent, right? 59:39.160 --> 59:40.720 Repent about something. 59:40.720 --> 59:44.160 So let's go to verse 20, says Jesus answered and said, I speak openly to the world. 59:44.640 --> 59:49.520 I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whether the Jews always resort. 59:49.920 --> 59:51.720 And the secret have I said nothing. 59:52.000 --> 59:54.480 Why ask is thou me? 59:54.720 --> 59:57.440 Ask them which heard me what I have said unto them. 59:57.440 --> 59:58.720 Behold, they know what I said. 59:59.280 --> 01:00:05.800 And we had thus spoken, one of the officers stood by, struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, answers thou the high priest so? 01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:10.200 Jesus answered him, if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil. 01:00:10.200 --> 01:00:12.680 But if well, why smite is thou me? 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:16.360 Now, Annas had sent him bound into Caiaphas, the high priest. 01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:21.560 And so we see here that after this, he's going to be sent to the high priest. 01:00:21.560 --> 01:00:23.480 And this is where we start to get to the end of this. 01:00:23.520 --> 01:00:26.320 But for speaking the truth, what did they do to him? 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:29.520 You know, this is one of the things we use in our gospel presentation is for speaking the truth. 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:31.760 They hated him. They were offended. 01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:35.080 I mean, the guy slapped him for answering plainly. 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:39.240 Can you imagine, like we did that in church? 01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:41.800 It's like, tell me how tell me why you're saved. 01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:43.960 Why believe on Jesus? Why? 01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:47.200 It's like, whoa, what's wrong with this guy? 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:49.960 Right. Like, what are the but aren't people like that? 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:53.080 You know, they just lose their ever loving minds over the truth. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:56.360 But Jesus just took it like a man and moved on. 01:00:57.640 --> 01:01:00.200 Go to Isaiah 50, go to Isaiah 50. 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:02.600 I'll read for you really quick in John seven. 01:01:02.600 --> 01:01:05.760 The Bible says, then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, 01:01:06.080 --> 01:01:08.360 but your time is always ready. 01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:12.320 The world cannot hate you, but it hated me because I testify of it, 01:01:12.640 --> 01:01:15.560 that the works thereof are evil. 01:01:15.560 --> 01:01:19.680 Isaiah 50, verse six, the Bible says, I gave back to the smithers 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:21.360 and my cheeks. 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:25.000 I gave my back to the smithers and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:30.680 I hid not my face from shame and spitty for the Lord God will help me. 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:33.280 Therefore, shall I not be confounded. 01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:36.080 Therefore have I set my face like a flint. 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:38.320 And I know that I shall not be ashamed. 01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:42.720 He is near that justifies me. 01:01:43.160 --> 01:01:45.040 Who will contend with me? 01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:46.560 Let us stand together. 01:01:46.560 --> 01:01:48.320 Who is my adversary? 01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:50.280 Let him come near to me. 01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:53.680 In other words, you know, Jesus was not only fulfilling 01:01:53.680 --> 01:01:55.640 problems, but his epitome of what he's preached, 01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:58.600 which is that the body has nothing to do with the spirit. 01:02:00.120 --> 01:02:02.920 Right. We need to have this mentality. 01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:07.000 We need to have this mentality, especially as Americans 01:02:07.520 --> 01:02:10.800 who live in a free country where we're not persecuted 01:02:11.200 --> 01:02:13.120 harshly like in other places. 01:02:13.120 --> 01:02:16.840 We need to constantly remind ourselves that we need to be willing to die for Christ. 01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:20.560 Because if all of a sudden 01:02:20.560 --> 01:02:23.840 the temperature is raised up and the violence is increased 01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:26.880 towards Christians in the US, a lot of people will cower 01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:28.760 because we're just not accustomed to it. 01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:30.640 You know, we don't have a callous to it. 01:02:30.640 --> 01:02:35.440 There's a pastor in South Africa who is friends with us. 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:36.480 His name is Peter Bogart. 01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.440 I actually drove him around back and forth in the in twenty 01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:42.400 twenty four when I went to the Red Hot, the last Red Hot preaching conference. 01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.480 And, you know, he's been viciously 01:02:46.040 --> 01:02:48.840 persecuted for preaching against the queers. 01:02:49.640 --> 01:02:54.160 And every few years, the literally the government comes after him. 01:02:54.160 --> 01:02:56.600 And right now they're trying to get him in jail again. 01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:58.440 Like, we don't experience that. 01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:00.600 We don't have that kind of persecution. 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:04.320 We need to constantly be in the word to be reminded that is possible. 01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:07.200 And it's not just possible. It actually is happening. 01:03:07.720 --> 01:03:12.440 Right. Like there's legal fees, this guy has to do the the the threat of jail. 01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:14.680 It's not just like this far fetched thing. 01:03:14.680 --> 01:03:15.680 It's a real thing. 01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:20.640 Like this guy could go to prison for preaching the word of God, 01:03:20.640 --> 01:03:23.400 literally for just saying that queer should be stone. 01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:27.920 The worst we can get is like some, you know, loudmouth liberal 01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:31.760 fag hag screaming at us, telling us that we're wrong. 01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:34.760 I mean, if you're afraid of that, I don't know what to tell you. 01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:36.800 Like there's nothing to do to us. 01:03:37.680 --> 01:03:41.000 Even if they could get us in, you know, in prison stuff, 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:42.080 they still couldn't do anything. 01:03:42.080 --> 01:03:44.560 But that's like that's not real persecution. 01:03:44.600 --> 01:03:45.600 You know what I'm saying? 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:49.600 You don't. Yeah. Go to Act seven. Go to Act seven real quick. 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:51.840 We'll start to we're starting to get this thing. 01:03:52.200 --> 01:03:53.440 I remember go to Act seven. 01:03:56.680 --> 01:04:01.240 And in Act seven, obviously, Stephen just he's getting to the end of this. 01:04:01.240 --> 01:04:02.840 Go to verse 51. 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:04.800 He's preached this long sermon. 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:08.600 And he'll be preaching at the Jews, the Judaizers. 01:04:09.120 --> 01:04:10.520 And of course, we know the end. 01:04:10.520 --> 01:04:11.360 We're going to see it here. 01:04:12.600 --> 01:04:15.000 Stephen gets, you know, stoned to death. 01:04:15.560 --> 01:04:19.840 But I love, you know, how how Stephen handles the situation. 01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:22.560 That's why I picked it here. 01:04:22.560 --> 01:04:25.120 But any time that you preach truth, you know, 01:04:25.120 --> 01:04:26.920 basically, they took the matter into their own hands. 01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:28.640 They mocked the laws of God, right? 01:04:28.640 --> 01:04:30.400 They didn't go about the right process. 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.640 You know, one of the things this country is getting away from is 01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:35.320 innocent until proven guilty, right? 01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:38.800 Whereas cops automatically, a lot of the time now, 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:41.120 this is why there's so much 01:04:41.120 --> 01:04:44.840 vitriol, maybe towards cops, is they already presume you're guilty 01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:47.400 before they've even gone through due process. 01:04:47.720 --> 01:04:50.480 And here we see in verse 51, it says he stiff necked. 01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:53.440 Stephen's finishing up his sermon, right? 01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:57.240 He says he stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. 01:04:57.600 --> 01:05:00.760 You do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did. 01:05:01.080 --> 01:05:05.200 So do you. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? 01:05:06.040 --> 01:05:09.480 And they have slain them, which showed before the coming of the just one 01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:14.000 of whom you have now been of now the betrayers and murderers. 01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.760 You know, these verses. 01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:20.360 The Jews today are trying to ban these verses. 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.920 This is not a this is not like I'm not making this up. 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.640 This is part of like submitted to legislation in the US 01:05:26.640 --> 01:05:28.880 and throughout the world all the time. 01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:31.200 They're trying to outlaw the reading of the word of God. 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:35.400 It says whoever received the law by the disposition of angels 01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:38.160 and not kept it when they heard these things, 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:43.400 they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 01:05:44.160 --> 01:05:50.440 He being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up how steadfastly in heaven 01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:53.920 and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:57.400 and said, behold, I see the heavens open and the Son of Man 01:05:57.400 --> 01:06:00.160 standing on the right hand of God. 01:06:00.160 --> 01:06:02.840 Then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:04.840 and ran up with him on one accord. 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:07.160 Every time I see this, I think of a child. 01:06:08.120 --> 01:06:10.280 He said, hey, I see the Son of Man standing up. 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:11.800 So he's not dead yet. 01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:14.920 And every time I see this, I think of like, you know, a child 01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:16.840 who's throwing a tantrum like at Walmart. 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:17.800 What are they doing? 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:21.120 But you know, when they don't want to hear something, it's like, hey, listen to me. 01:06:22.080 --> 01:06:24.520 Who's ever witnessed something like that? 01:06:24.520 --> 01:06:25.720 You know, kids do this all the time. 01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:28.360 It's not like this is a that's exactly what they're doing. 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:32.080 This is an cast and cast them out of the city and stoned him. 01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:36.120 And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:39.720 And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying, Lord, Jesus. 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:44.560 And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying, Lord, Jesus, receive my spirit. 01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:48.520 And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, late not this into the charge. 01:06:48.560 --> 01:06:51.080 And when he had said this, he fell asleep. 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:53.240 Now, Stephen was steadfast. 01:06:53.240 --> 01:06:54.760 He was transparent. 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:56.920 And what it costs. I mean, they murdered him. 01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.120 They took the law into their own hands. 01:07:01.120 --> 01:07:02.680 And it wasn't even the law. 01:07:02.680 --> 01:07:05.080 It was their law. Right. 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:09.160 Today, we have laws on the books that are only there for the advantage 01:07:09.160 --> 01:07:11.160 of whoever wrote that law. Right. 01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:15.200 I mean, stories like that have existed since the inception of our country, 01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:18.280 where you get people that come in and like, especially the smaller cities. 01:07:18.680 --> 01:07:21.840 Right. You'll get like someone who comes from a powerful family 01:07:22.040 --> 01:07:26.480 and they'll write laws to give them advantage to buy property or, you know, 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:29.240 whatever it is. That's not the law. 01:07:31.240 --> 01:07:32.280 Let's start to close this thing out. 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:34.160 I've got two more points for you today. 01:07:34.160 --> 01:07:35.760 Do I have two more points or three? 01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:37.560 Let me make sure I got it. 01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:42.720 I'm trying this new thing, trying to save paper. 01:07:42.720 --> 01:07:45.200 So I just want to make sure I'm praying back and forth. 01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:46.960 And so just bear with me. 01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:51.000 But in John 18, right there in verse 25, the Bible says, 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:53.120 and Simon Peter stood up and warmed himself. 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:55.760 Let me go there to John real quick. 01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:57.720 I somehow I got cut off. 01:08:09.640 --> 01:08:11.600 Right there in verse 25, 01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:13.680 it says, and Simon Peter stood up and warmed himself. 01:08:13.680 --> 01:08:17.320 They said, therefore unto him, are not thou also one of his disciples? 01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:21.280 He denied and said, I am not one of the servants of the high priest 01:08:21.280 --> 01:08:24.400 being his kinsmen, whose ear Peter cut off, sayeth, 01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:26.880 Did not I see thee in the garden with him? 01:08:26.880 --> 01:08:30.440 Peter then denied again and immediately the cock crew. 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.720 And so here we just see that Peter denies point number five. 01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:36.400 Peter denies Jesus three times. 01:08:36.400 --> 01:08:39.200 And the point, you know, because you always want to have like one great truth. 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:41.920 And that's why I named the title Power of the Control, 01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.400 because if you take anything away, is we need to take the attitude 01:08:45.400 --> 01:08:48.520 that Jesus had versus the attitude that Peter had. 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.880 Like if you read the chapter, you see this contrast. 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:56.800 Peter decided, I love Jesus and I'll take matters into my own hands. 01:08:57.360 --> 01:08:59.120 And he's devastated. 01:08:59.120 --> 01:09:02.160 Later on, if you read in the other gospels, I mean, he literally weeps. 01:09:02.160 --> 01:09:04.120 Right. It is a hard thing from view with. 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:06.360 Whereas Jesus is just sound. 01:09:06.360 --> 01:09:08.440 He has a peace that passes all understanding. 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:10.240 He's ready to roll. 01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:11.520 He's ready to die. 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:13.040 He's ready to rise again. 01:09:13.040 --> 01:09:17.080 He's ready to, you know, conquer hell and give us eternal life. 01:09:17.080 --> 01:09:19.280 I mean, he defeats Satan. 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:22.720 And Peter, on the other hand, is having to like rebuild himself 01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:24.680 because he took a step backward. 01:09:26.160 --> 01:09:29.560 Matthew 26, Matthew 26, if you want to go there for the sake of time, 01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:34.640 but Matthew 26 in verse 36, Bios says, then cometh Jesus with them 01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:38.760 unto a place called Gethsemane and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here 01:09:39.040 --> 01:09:40.320 while I go pray yonder. 01:09:40.320 --> 01:09:42.840 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee 01:09:43.160 --> 01:09:45.520 and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:49.160 Then said he then unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful. 01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:52.240 Even unto death, tear ye here and watch me now. 01:09:52.480 --> 01:09:53.280 What's the difference? 01:09:53.280 --> 01:09:56.520 Jesus, in this example, this is exactly the contrast, right? 01:09:56.600 --> 01:09:58.080 He's power under control. 01:09:58.080 --> 01:10:01.960 He's willing to submit to God the Father and he prays to God the Father. 01:10:02.240 --> 01:10:04.280 Whereas disciples, what do they do? 01:10:04.280 --> 01:10:06.680 And he went a little further and fell on his face and prays saying, 01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:09.440 Oh, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:13.200 Nevertheless, not I as I will, but as that will. 01:10:14.280 --> 01:10:17.440 And he cometh unto the disciples and findeth them asleep and saith unto Peter, 01:10:17.480 --> 01:10:19.720 What could ye not watch with me for an hour? 01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:22.320 Like, isn't that sometimes the way we treat church? 01:10:22.680 --> 01:10:25.440 What you couldn't go to church three times a week for one hour. 01:10:26.280 --> 01:10:30.360 You couldn't you couldn't you couldn't find it in your heart to just sit there. 01:10:31.240 --> 01:10:33.840 Even if the pastor is like really boring, you couldn't just sit there 01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:36.800 because God asked me, this is it's just a simple thing. 01:10:39.200 --> 01:10:41.080 Right. He says, watch. 01:10:41.080 --> 01:10:42.800 But what does he say? He warned them. 01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.960 I always find this connection so interesting, he says, watch and pray 01:10:46.200 --> 01:10:48.440 that ye enter not into temptation. 01:10:48.440 --> 01:10:51.640 The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:54.160 And we see that he went, you know, he goes through this. 01:10:54.480 --> 01:10:56.680 And of course, at the end, he's like, hey, don't worry about it anymore. 01:10:57.960 --> 01:10:59.800 Yeah, I know your spirit was willing, but the flesh is weak. 01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:02.640 Hey, we need to be in the spirit 01:11:03.120 --> 01:11:06.080 because all the time, because we need a reminder. 01:11:06.240 --> 01:11:08.160 You know why we age also? 01:11:08.160 --> 01:11:09.280 I really believe this, right? 01:11:09.280 --> 01:11:14.000 Because God did did everything with a purpose to remind us how weak we are. 01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:17.640 Because who remembers being 20? 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:20.000 Did you think you were invisible? 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:22.800 I mean, seriously, some of the things I did when I was 20 01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:24.640 that I think about now, right? 01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:28.520 I think of like, I'm not going to maybe jump 20 feet from this cliff 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.840 into the water, but at 20, did you even think about it? 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:33.480 You're like somersault this sucker, right? 01:11:34.280 --> 01:11:35.960 Backward flip. 01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:36.920 Give me a skateboard. 01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:39.040 Let me see if I can write off this thing. 01:11:39.040 --> 01:11:40.560 You know, isn't that what the way you think? 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:43.560 And then you get older and then you realize, oh, the flesh is in what? 01:11:44.200 --> 01:11:45.680 There's nothing to be. 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.000 You know, you you you sprained an ankle at 20. 01:11:48.240 --> 01:11:51.440 And the next day you were out there running again, you sprained an ankle at 47. 01:11:51.440 --> 01:11:54.200 You're like, I want to think about this thing. Right. 01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:58.680 One of the most frustrating things about breaking and getting surgery on my arm 01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:02.280 hasn't been, you know, I thank God I got a really good surgery at full mobility. 01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:06.760 But I have it had like the pain hasn't completely gone away. 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:10.400 I've had pain every day since it some days better, some days worse, 01:12:10.400 --> 01:12:12.880 like the temperature changed and it's been hurt. 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:16.280 And, you know, it's just like it's a reminder that we're weak. 01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:19.880 So where we put our faith on Christ, that's what we focus. 01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:24.160 Right. First Corinthians 10, you don't have to turn there for a second time. 01:12:24.160 --> 01:12:25.040 Go back to John 18. 01:12:25.040 --> 01:12:27.520 But it's that first Corinthians 10 verse 12, the Bible says, 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:32.040 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stand take heed lest he fall. 01:12:33.320 --> 01:12:36.720 There hath no temptation taking you, but such is his common man. 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:38.560 But God is faithful. 01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:41.760 He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, 01:12:42.080 --> 01:12:44.720 but will with the temptation also make way to escape 01:12:45.320 --> 01:12:46.760 that you may be able to bear it. 01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:50.120 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 01:12:51.240 --> 01:12:54.320 Then say, stay and hang around, walk away slowly. 01:12:54.480 --> 01:12:56.160 No, run. 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:00.280 Run in the other direction like if like if you were running out of a burning building. 01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:03.560 Second Timothy two verse 12, the Bible says, 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:06.360 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. 01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:09.360 If we deny him, he also denies that we believe not. 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:11.640 Yet he abideth faithful. 01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:13.240 He cannot deny himself. 01:13:13.240 --> 01:13:16.560 Which, by the way, this is a great verse for those people that are like, well, you know, 01:13:17.600 --> 01:13:19.200 you're like, hey, can you ever lose your salvation? 01:13:19.200 --> 01:13:22.680 We're like, well, you know, if if if I don't believe anymore. 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:26.960 Well, actually, once you believe it's one time. 01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:31.880 And let's just say you for some reason felt like you didn't believe anymore. 01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:34.920 He made you depressed. Life happens. 01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:36.440 God says he abided faithful. 01:13:36.440 --> 01:13:38.840 He can't even deny himself. 01:13:38.840 --> 01:13:40.920 So you can deny him all you want. 01:13:40.920 --> 01:13:44.320 I mean, Peter denied him thrice and he was still God. 01:13:44.720 --> 01:13:46.960 Peter had no power over Jesus. 01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:50.480 You know, that's a good reminder that it's because of Christ, not because of us. 01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:53.720 Because sometimes we give ourselves too much credit. Right. 01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:57.840 That's why I constantly remind you that, you know, I'm not trying to be a jerk, 01:13:57.840 --> 01:13:59.720 but just it's a good, humble reminder. 01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:02.120 You're not that important. Right. 01:14:02.120 --> 01:14:05.160 You know, as I've gotten older, it does make things easier. 01:14:05.440 --> 01:14:10.120 A younger me would not never have film like at a public place, 01:14:10.120 --> 01:14:12.280 just because I would have thought, what if everybody was looking? 01:14:12.280 --> 01:14:14.560 Then you get older. You know what? Nobody cares. 01:14:16.160 --> 01:14:17.800 And if they did care, you know what? 01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:20.840 They won't care like in five minutes, like nobody cares. 01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:24.320 So just do the work of the Lord. 01:14:24.320 --> 01:14:26.920 And if somebody cares that much, 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:31.240 either there's someone you know or they hate you because the devil's put them on you. 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:33.680 Right. Because you're preaching the truth. 01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:36.520 Let's go to the last point. I've got four minutes. Let's go to the last point. 01:14:39.120 --> 01:14:42.800 The last point is pilot chooses politics over truth. 01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:46.600 That's why I don't do politics anymore. 01:14:46.600 --> 01:14:49.520 Because politics, you have to compromise. 01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:51.120 And then Christians get this mentality. 01:14:51.120 --> 01:14:52.600 And I've actually heard it in Christian circles. 01:14:52.600 --> 01:14:54.520 Hey, we got to find a compromise. 01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:57.000 Hey, when it comes to the word of God, there is no compromise. 01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:01.440 There is no middle ground for God. 01:15:01.440 --> 01:15:03.320 There is no like, let's figure this thing out. 01:15:03.320 --> 01:15:05.280 It's all or nothing. 01:15:05.280 --> 01:15:09.480 You know, one of the biggest challenges in America is that we have a lot of good freedom. 01:15:09.480 --> 01:15:12.000 But we also have a lot of bad freedoms. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:14.680 Right. The freedom of religion is a bad freedom, 01:15:15.280 --> 01:15:20.600 because the only religion that exists is, you know, for the, you know, to care for the widow. 01:15:21.040 --> 01:15:23.560 Right. And the fatherless. 01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:26.360 That's pure religion. The Bible tells us the only real. 01:15:26.480 --> 01:15:29.200 The only thing that matters is the word of God. 01:15:29.240 --> 01:15:31.040 The King James Bible. 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:33.640 And we're starting to see it. 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:39.800 You know, these people, it used to be when we came to the US and even before us, 01:15:40.280 --> 01:15:44.440 the custom was that you would come to a country and you would assimilate 01:15:44.920 --> 01:15:46.960 to the customs of the country. 01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:50.360 Good or bad, you would assimilate because you're now in somebody else's home. 01:15:51.120 --> 01:15:56.480 Now you would just come here to take advantage of all the wealth and comfort and everything. 01:15:56.840 --> 01:16:00.280 And then they dump all their stupid ideas on us. 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:02.560 You know, I don't care that you're Hindu. 01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:06.480 If you're in a Christian country, either adapt or leave. 01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:09.960 You're like, that sounds rude. 01:16:09.960 --> 01:16:13.640 It is rude because I don't want, you know, to be exposed to your 01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.320 millions of gods that have nothing to do with anything. 01:16:17.360 --> 01:16:21.480 If anything, they teach you to be disgusting and gross and just unkempt and, 01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:27.280 you know, be immoral and just, you know, some of the vilest things come from those countries. 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:30.560 But it's not because of the it's because they they've removed God. 01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:36.200 Right. What the only reason we're better is because we have God. 01:16:37.480 --> 01:16:42.000 Right. Because we're all capable of being disgusting, vile, wicked, 01:16:42.200 --> 01:16:44.000 facts, lit and individuals. 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:45.560 But it's thanks to God. 01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.560 And we need to stand on this. Right. 01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:49.720 But the politics wants the money. 01:16:50.160 --> 01:16:52.400 The politics doesn't care about truth. 01:16:52.400 --> 01:16:54.600 What they care about is is compromise. 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:56.600 What benefits me the most? 01:16:57.920 --> 01:16:59.640 All right. Go to John 18, right there, verse 36. 01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:02.240 He says, Then they led Jesus from Cape Caiaphas 01:17:02.480 --> 01:17:04.280 until the whole judgment was early. 01:17:04.280 --> 01:17:06.480 And then themselves went not into the judgment hall, 01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:09.960 but they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover pilot. 01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:12.800 They went out onto them and said, what accusation bring you against this man? 01:17:13.280 --> 01:17:14.760 The answer and sent him. 01:17:14.760 --> 01:17:16.960 If you were not a mouth factor, notice how they answered. 01:17:17.320 --> 01:17:20.280 Instead of saying the accusation, they're like, hey, if he wasn't a bad guy, 01:17:20.280 --> 01:17:21.920 we wouldn't have brought him to you. 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:23.000 That wasn't the question. 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:25.160 The question was, what's the accusation? 01:17:26.160 --> 01:17:29.200 We would not have delivered him up to the then said pilot onto them. 01:17:29.440 --> 01:17:31.520 Take him and judge him according to your law. 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.680 The Jews, therefore, said to him, it is not lawful for us to put any man 01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:37.480 to death. And then they try to clean themselves of the matter 01:17:37.960 --> 01:17:40.640 that the same of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake signifying 01:17:41.080 --> 01:17:42.360 what death he should die. 01:17:42.360 --> 01:17:44.960 Then pilot entered into the judgment hall again and called Jesus 01:17:44.960 --> 01:17:47.280 and said to him, are thou the king of the Jews? 01:17:47.280 --> 01:17:50.960 Jesus answered him, say this thing of thyself, or did others tell 01:17:51.480 --> 01:17:53.240 tell it of the of me? 01:17:53.320 --> 01:17:55.280 Pilot answered, am I a Jew? 01:17:55.280 --> 01:17:57.320 Now pilots not answering, right? 01:17:57.680 --> 01:18:00.240 I know nations and the chief priests have delivered the unto me. 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:02.160 What has thou done? 01:18:02.160 --> 01:18:04.440 Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world. 01:18:04.480 --> 01:18:07.480 If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight 01:18:07.480 --> 01:18:08.960 that I should not be delivered to the Jews. 01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:13.080 But now my is my kingdom not from hence pilot, therefore, said unto him, 01:18:13.080 --> 01:18:14.640 aren't thou a king? 01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:18.120 Then Jesus answered, thou sayest I am a king. 01:18:18.440 --> 01:18:19.840 To this end was I born. 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.560 And for this cost came I into the world that I should bear witness 01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:23.600 of the truth. 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.080 Everyone that is of the truth hear my voice. 01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:28.720 Pilate sayeth unto him, what is truth? 01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:30.640 Notice how he didn't get it. 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:33.880 And when he had said this, he went out again into the Jews 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:35.840 and said unto them, I find no fault at all. 01:18:36.480 --> 01:18:39.680 But you have a custom that I should release unto you at the Passover. 01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:43.240 When at the Passover, were you there for that, I release unto you 01:18:43.240 --> 01:18:44.600 the king of the Jews. 01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:50.280 They cried, then cried they all again, saying not this man, but Barabbas. 01:18:50.440 --> 01:18:53.480 Now Barabbas was a robber or a thief. 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:58.160 And so just in closing, you know, it is pretty self explanatory. 01:18:58.480 --> 01:19:01.840 Go to second Thessalonians is the last place I'll have you turn is basically. 01:19:02.920 --> 01:19:09.080 Pilot didn't get it because, number one, he's so accustomed to just being rich 01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:13.800 and influential and having opulence and influence 01:19:14.200 --> 01:19:15.680 that it's harder for him to be reached. 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:19.040 The Bible says, right, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle 01:19:19.040 --> 01:19:22.160 than a rich person because they just don't want to give that up. 01:19:23.800 --> 01:19:25.720 And the Jews were the same way. 01:19:25.720 --> 01:19:28.360 They're like, we don't want to murder him, even though they did want to murder. 01:19:28.360 --> 01:19:30.000 They obviously didn't murder him. 01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:32.960 But go to second Thessalonians two. 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:37.240 Verse. Second Thessalonians two, verse 10, we'll close with this. 01:19:37.240 --> 01:19:41.680 The Bible says, and with all deceitful deceitfulness of a righteousness 01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:44.640 in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth 01:19:45.320 --> 01:19:46.480 that they might be saved. 01:19:46.480 --> 01:19:50.560 And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion 01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:54.080 that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned 01:19:54.080 --> 01:19:57.320 who believe not the truth, but at pleasure in unrighteousness. 01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:01.920 And you know why Trump and Biden and whoever's coming next 01:20:02.360 --> 01:20:05.240 is going to always have influence and why people that don't make any sense 01:20:05.240 --> 01:20:07.960 to the Christian walk will always have influence? 01:20:07.960 --> 01:20:10.000 Because God sent him a strong delusion. 01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:11.920 He's like, oh, you don't want to learn the truth. 01:20:11.920 --> 01:20:14.160 I'll keep sending you liars. 01:20:14.160 --> 01:20:16.800 Right. The people that believe the truth will be in churches like this. 01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:21.800 Far between the remnant, the rest of them, they're just going to be believe a lie. 01:20:22.320 --> 01:20:26.040 So here we see that the biggest lesson I want to leave you with is 01:20:26.480 --> 01:20:29.200 we need to learn to have power under control. 01:20:30.280 --> 01:20:32.360 But I'm not saying you control it. 01:20:32.480 --> 01:20:35.000 You need to give up that control and give it to the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:38.680 So let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:40.160 thank you so much for your word. 01:20:40.160 --> 01:20:41.280 Thank you for John 18, Lord. 01:20:41.280 --> 01:20:43.480 Thank you for so many lessons in there. 01:20:43.480 --> 01:20:46.880 This is actually kind of hard to pick one specific lesson, 01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:49.560 but that was the one that stood out the most is that 01:20:50.480 --> 01:20:52.320 you were always in control. 01:20:52.320 --> 01:20:54.640 You were always in submission to the father. 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:59.000 And because of that, today we have eternal life for those of us who believe. 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:01.800 Lord, just bless the rest of the events this week. 01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:03.840 Thank you for all those that are feeling better. 01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:06.880 Be with the Mlutich family as Haley goes 01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:11.440 into delivery here soon, God willing, sooner than later. 01:21:11.960 --> 01:21:15.320 And just help her to have a healthy delivery and a healthy baby. 01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:19.520 Just be with the family, with mom and dad and also the children. 01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:22.560 Lord, I just pray for 01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:24.400 all those here in attendance today. 01:21:24.400 --> 01:21:26.440 Watch over them. Thank you for all that you do, Lord. 01:21:26.440 --> 01:21:28.400 In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 01:21:28.400 --> 01:21:29.800 Turn your hand over to page two. 01:21:29.800 --> 01:21:30.800 One. 01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:38.160 Two eighty one. 01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:30.800 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 01:23:30.800 --> 01:23:46.800 Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry. While none of Thou art calling, do not pass me by. 01:23:46.800 --> 01:24:04.800 Though the spring of all my comfort more than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee, Whom in heaven but Thee? 01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:21.800 Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry. While none of Thou art calling, do not pass me by. 01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:35.800 Thank you.