WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.880 When sorrow's like sea billows roll, 00:08.880 --> 00:18.400 Whatever my life now has brought me to say, 00:18.400 --> 00:29.360 It is well, it is well with my soul. 00:29.760 --> 00:56.560 It is well, it is well with my soul. 00:56.720 --> 01:06.720 O Satan should love him, O Trials should come, 01:06.720 --> 01:14.560 Let this blessed assurance control, 01:14.560 --> 01:20.080 That my heart be guarded, 01:20.080 --> 01:27.760 My helplessness take, and has shared, 01:27.760 --> 01:37.040 His own blood for my soul. 01:37.040 --> 02:05.200 It is well, it is well with my soul. 02:05.520 --> 02:16.000 I sing, O the bliss of this glorious thought, 02:16.000 --> 02:24.640 I sing that in quiet, but the Lord 02:24.720 --> 02:36.240 Is nailed to the cross, and I bear with the Lord, 02:36.240 --> 02:50.080 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. 02:50.080 --> 03:15.040 It is well, it is well with my soul. 03:15.040 --> 03:24.000 It is well, it is well with my soul. 03:24.000 --> 03:38.000 And Lord, it's the day when my faith shall be signed, 03:38.000 --> 03:47.600 The cloud be rolled back as a storm, 03:47.600 --> 04:00.000 The storm shall resound, and the Lord shall be said, 04:00.000 --> 04:14.880 Faith and soul, it is well with my soul. 04:15.520 --> 04:28.640 It is well, it is well with my soul. 04:28.640 --> 04:56.400 It is well, it is well with my soul. 04:56.400 --> 05:02.960 I have found a deep peace that I never had known, 05:02.960 --> 05:08.880 And a joy this world could not afford, 05:08.880 --> 05:15.120 Since I yielded control, my body and soul, 05:15.120 --> 05:21.120 To my wonderful, wonderful Lord. 05:21.120 --> 05:27.120 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord, 05:27.120 --> 05:33.120 My angels and seraphs in heaven adored, 05:33.120 --> 05:39.120 My vow and my shrine, my Savior divine, 05:39.120 --> 05:45.120 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 05:45.120 --> 05:51.120 I desire that my life shall be ordered by Thee, 05:51.120 --> 05:57.120 That my will be in perfect accord, 05:57.120 --> 06:03.120 With Thine own sovereign will, I desire to fulfill, 06:03.120 --> 06:09.120 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 06:09.120 --> 06:15.120 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord, 06:15.120 --> 06:21.120 My angels and seraphs in heaven adored, 06:21.120 --> 06:27.120 My vow and my shrine, my Savior divine, 06:27.120 --> 06:33.040 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 06:33.040 --> 06:39.040 All the talents I have, I have laid at Thy feet, 06:39.040 --> 06:45.040 Thy approval shall be my reward. 06:45.040 --> 06:51.040 Be my store, great or small, I surrender it all, 06:51.040 --> 06:55.040 To my wonderful, wonderful Lord. 06:55.040 --> 06:59.040 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord, 06:59.040 --> 07:05.040 My angels and seraphs in heaven adored, 07:05.040 --> 07:11.040 My vow and my shrine, my Savior divine, 07:11.040 --> 07:15.040 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 07:15.040 --> 07:19.040 All that lasts now, Thou art fairer to me 07:19.040 --> 07:23.040 Than the fairest of earth. 07:23.040 --> 07:27.040 Thou omnipotent, like giving, 07:27.040 --> 07:31.040 Thou omnipotent, like giving word. 07:31.040 --> 07:37.040 O Thou ancient of days, Thou art worthy of praise, 07:37.040 --> 07:43.040 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 07:43.040 --> 07:49.040 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord, 07:49.040 --> 07:55.040 My angels and seraphs in heaven adored, 07:55.040 --> 08:01.040 My vow and my shrine, my Savior divine, 08:01.040 --> 08:07.040 My wonderful, wonderful Lord. 08:07.040 --> 08:17.040 May time to behold thee, speak out with good God, 08:17.040 --> 08:25.040 I rest in Him always, and be on His word. 08:25.040 --> 08:33.040 Make friends of God's children, help us to our need, 08:33.040 --> 08:43.040 Forgiving and godly, His blessing to see. 08:43.040 --> 08:51.040 Take time to behold me, the world rushes on, 08:51.040 --> 08:59.040 Much time spending secret with Jesus alone, 08:59.040 --> 09:09.040 Thy looking to Jesus, Thine in Thou shall be, 09:09.040 --> 09:15.040 Thy friends in Thy conduct is our vision. 09:39.040 --> 09:43.040 Page 274, come unto me. 09:43.040 --> 09:49.040 Page 274 in your hymn books this evening, come unto me. 09:49.040 --> 10:01.040 Page 274, let's all sing it on that verse now. 10:01.040 --> 10:07.040 Hear the blessed Savior calling thee oppressed, 10:07.040 --> 10:11.040 Come unto me, O ye heavy laden, come to me and rest. 10:11.040 --> 10:17.040 Come no longer, tarry, I your load will bear, 10:17.040 --> 10:21.040 Bring me every burden, bring me every care. 10:21.040 --> 10:31.040 Come unto me, I will give you rest, 10:31.040 --> 10:39.040 Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed, 10:39.040 --> 10:49.040 I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind. 10:49.040 --> 10:59.040 Come, my oak is easy, and my burden's wide. 10:59.040 --> 11:03.040 Are you disappointed, wondering here and there, 11:03.040 --> 11:08.040 Dragging chains of doubt and loaded down with care? 11:08.040 --> 11:13.040 Do unholy feelings struggle in your breast, 11:13.040 --> 11:18.040 Bring your case to Jesus, He will give you rest. 11:18.040 --> 11:27.040 Come unto me, I will give you rest, 11:27.040 --> 11:36.040 Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed, 11:36.040 --> 11:45.040 I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind. 11:45.040 --> 11:55.040 Come, my oak is easy, and my burden's wide. 11:55.040 --> 12:00.040 Stumbling on the mountain's darkness in its shade, 12:00.040 --> 12:05.040 Stumbling toward the pit of hell's consuming flame, 12:05.040 --> 12:09.040 By the powers of sin deluded and oppressed, 12:09.040 --> 12:14.040 Hear the tent of shepherds come to thee and rest. 12:14.040 --> 12:23.040 Come unto me, I will give you rest, 12:23.040 --> 12:32.040 Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed, 12:32.040 --> 12:41.040 I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind. 12:41.040 --> 12:49.040 Come, my oak is easy, and my burden's wide. 12:49.040 --> 12:53.040 Out of the last, have you by temptation, 12:53.040 --> 12:57.040 Octant conquered men, as the sense of weakness, 12:57.040 --> 13:02.040 Brought distress within, Christ will sanctify you, 13:02.040 --> 13:04.040 If you'll claim His test. 13:04.040 --> 13:09.040 In the Holy Spirit, He will give you rest. 13:09.040 --> 13:18.040 Come unto me, I will give you rest, 13:18.040 --> 13:27.040 Take my oak upon you, hear me and be blessed, 13:27.040 --> 13:36.040 I am meek and lowly, come and trust my mind. 13:36.040 --> 13:46.040 Come, my oak is easy, and my burden's wide. 13:46.040 --> 13:47.040 Amen. 13:47.040 --> 13:49.040 Great singing, let's open up with a word of prayer this evening. 13:49.040 --> 13:52.040 Heavenly Father, we thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church 13:52.040 --> 13:55.040 and all those who came this evening to worship you in the Spirit. 13:55.040 --> 14:00.040 We thank you for the soul winning and the works that you have given us 14:00.040 --> 14:02.040 the opportunity to do here at this church. 14:02.040 --> 14:04.040 We thank you for the Word of God, 14:04.040 --> 14:08.040 and we thank you for all the fellowship we have at this church. 14:08.040 --> 14:10.040 We pray that you would strengthen us in your word this evening 14:10.040 --> 14:13.040 and fill Pentecost with your Holy Spirit. 14:13.040 --> 14:15.040 In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. 14:15.040 --> 14:19.040 Our second song will be page 442. 14:19.040 --> 14:22.040 We gather together, page 442. 14:22.040 --> 14:24.040 We gather together. 14:28.040 --> 14:31.040 Page 442. 14:31.040 --> 14:33.040 We gather together. 14:33.040 --> 14:36.040 Sing it out loud with us on that verse. 14:36.040 --> 14:43.040 We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing. 14:43.040 --> 14:50.040 He chastens and hastens His will to make known 14:50.040 --> 14:54.040 the wicked of persons He sees. 14:54.040 --> 14:56.040 He slips from distress. 14:56.040 --> 15:00.040 Sing, sing praises to His name. 15:00.040 --> 15:04.040 He forgets not His own. 15:04.040 --> 15:11.040 He's hired us to guide us, our God, with thus joining 15:11.040 --> 15:18.040 for gaining, maintaining His kingdom behind. 15:18.040 --> 15:25.040 So from the beginning of time we are winning. 15:25.040 --> 15:32.040 Thou Lord, what's at our side, the glory be thine. 15:32.040 --> 15:40.040 We all do extol Thee, Thou leader in battle. 15:40.040 --> 15:47.040 And pray that thou still our defender will be, 15:47.040 --> 15:54.040 and thy congregation escape tribulation. 15:54.040 --> 16:02.040 Thy name we never praise, O Lord, make us free. 16:04.040 --> 16:06.040 Amen. If you hadn't gotten a bulletin already 16:06.040 --> 16:09.040 and you would just like one, just lift your hand nice and high 16:09.040 --> 16:11.040 and we'll get you guys a bulletin. 16:11.040 --> 16:13.040 Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 16:13.040 --> 16:17.040 We are finishing up our grace week for memorizing Romans chapter 10. 16:17.040 --> 16:21.040 If you haven't done that, you can still complete that by Saturday 16:21.040 --> 16:23.040 and you can receive a prize. 16:23.040 --> 16:27.040 We give out prizes for those who are able to quote the entire passage. 16:27.040 --> 16:29.040 Word perfect to a non-family member. 16:29.040 --> 16:32.040 If you're 18 and under and you can quote the verse of the week, 16:32.040 --> 16:34.040 you can still get that ice cream. 16:34.040 --> 16:36.040 On the inside is our service and soul winning times. 16:36.040 --> 16:37.040 We have listed there. 16:37.040 --> 16:40.040 We have church stats for how we've been doing on soul winning. 16:40.040 --> 16:42.040 On the right is a list of expecting ladies. 16:42.040 --> 16:44.040 Please be in prayer for our expecting ladies. 16:44.040 --> 16:46.040 Some church reminders again. 16:46.040 --> 16:49.040 If you'd please not have the children come up on our stage areas. 16:49.040 --> 16:51.040 If they are in the kitchen or mother baby room, 16:51.040 --> 16:56.040 please make sure that they are being attended and they have a parent with them. 16:56.040 --> 16:58.040 Also, if you are in the mother baby room, 16:58.040 --> 17:00.040 that is for mothers and their children only. 17:00.040 --> 17:03.040 If they're two and under, they're free to roam in the area. 17:03.040 --> 17:04.040 We want to make that safe though. 17:04.040 --> 17:06.040 If you have children that are older, 17:06.040 --> 17:11.040 if you'd please just have them sit with you if you take them into the mother baby room areas. 17:11.040 --> 17:14.040 Also, there shouldn't be any running in the church. 17:14.040 --> 17:18.040 Please also, if you are an adult and you do wander up here, 17:18.040 --> 17:23.040 please refrain from messing with any music instruments or any of the materials up here. 17:23.040 --> 17:27.040 If you are interested, you could ask the musicians permission first 17:27.040 --> 17:29.040 if you want to use their instrument. 17:29.040 --> 17:33.040 Down below is the mention also about Sunday. 17:33.040 --> 17:38.040 Sundays and afternoons, we offer just a time arrest period, 17:38.040 --> 17:41.040 a quiet time for people that want to stay behind. 17:41.040 --> 17:45.040 A lot of us go out soul winning, but if you need to stay behind, you can use that. 17:45.040 --> 17:49.040 In order to make it a quiet time, we just ask that you wouldn't talk in this area. 17:49.040 --> 17:51.040 You can use our fellowship room if you'd like. 17:51.040 --> 17:54.040 Upcoming events, we have our Mother's Day brunch. 17:54.040 --> 17:57.040 It's really close, so if you haven't signed up, please do immediately. 17:57.040 --> 17:59.040 There is a sign up sheet out here in the foyer. 17:59.040 --> 18:02.040 You can say something in the group chat. 18:02.040 --> 18:08.040 We have several events and conferences that are going on in different parts of the world. 18:08.040 --> 18:12.040 As well as here, we have an anti-Israel conference coming up May 20th through the 24th. 18:12.040 --> 18:16.040 That schedule I put online, but just as a quick reminder, 18:16.040 --> 18:20.040 we'll have our normal service time on Wednesday at 7 p.m. 18:20.040 --> 18:23.040 I'll be preaching and we'll be kicking off the conference that evening, 18:23.040 --> 18:24.040 so we'll be handing out. 18:24.040 --> 18:26.040 We have a lot of goodies again this year. 18:26.040 --> 18:28.040 We have some new shirts that we've made. 18:28.040 --> 18:31.040 It's saved by grace, right? 18:31.040 --> 18:35.040 I have actually three different shirts. 18:35.040 --> 18:40.040 We basically have a universal shirt that everybody can get. 18:40.040 --> 18:43.040 It's Christ is Abraham's Seed. 18:43.040 --> 18:46.040 It's a cool design that Rich helped us make. 18:46.040 --> 18:51.040 We had a couple spicy shirts for some of the men if you want to wear one. 18:51.040 --> 18:55.040 It's kind of a first-come, first-serve, but of course everything's free. 18:55.040 --> 18:59.040 We have some new stickers and stuff that we'll be handing out for the event. 18:59.040 --> 19:03.040 Also, I might message some people this week about if they want to help 19:03.040 --> 19:08.040 with just either cleaning, volunteering, welcome team, security, decoration, 19:08.040 --> 19:11.040 any of those kind of things for the event and for the conference. 19:11.040 --> 19:14.040 Just be on the lookout for that if you'd like to help. 19:14.040 --> 19:17.040 We have Father's Day and Mother's Day is coming up. 19:17.040 --> 19:18.040 We have the Fiji Missions trip. 19:18.040 --> 19:22.040 If you're interested in going that, see Evangelist Fur and just ask him about it. 19:22.040 --> 19:25.040 Mesquite Soul Winning Marathon August 22nd. 19:25.040 --> 19:28.040 Barbados Missions trip is September 7th through the 12th, 19:28.040 --> 19:31.040 so if you're interested in that, you can ask us about it. 19:31.040 --> 19:33.040 But really all you have to do to sign up is just purchase your ticket, 19:33.040 --> 19:36.040 send us the itinerary, and we'll get you logged in. 19:36.040 --> 19:39.040 We already have housing procured for a lot of people, 19:39.040 --> 19:42.040 and so most likely you should, as long as you register in time, 19:42.040 --> 19:46.040 you should be able to be accommodated for free lodging if you'd like that. 19:46.040 --> 19:48.040 Some people like to get their own lodging. 19:48.040 --> 19:52.040 That's of course fine, but if you'd like to participate in the church lodging, 19:52.040 --> 19:55.040 all you have to do is send us that itinerary and just tell us, 19:55.040 --> 19:58.040 and we'll make sure to mark you down for that. 19:58.040 --> 20:01.040 On the back is the prayer list. 20:01.040 --> 20:03.040 We did have a missionary update letter that was in here. 20:03.040 --> 20:08.040 You can read that about Evangelist Urbanic, but doing a great job out there. 20:08.040 --> 20:12.040 We are looking forward to going out to the Philippines again in February of next year, 20:12.040 --> 20:14.040 so if you'd like to participate with us, 20:14.040 --> 20:19.040 we'll try to get those dates identified pretty soon so that way people can plan accordingly. 20:19.040 --> 20:21.040 We'll go through our prayer list. 20:21.040 --> 20:23.040 So we've been praying for the Garcia's. 20:23.040 --> 20:24.040 We continue to pray for their health. 20:24.040 --> 20:26.040 Also, we pray for Brother Suhell's mother. 20:26.040 --> 20:27.040 We've been praying for her health. 20:27.040 --> 20:31.040 Please pray for Brother Billy's mother, who's been recovering from surgery. 20:31.040 --> 20:35.040 Also, we pray for the family members that recently had a death. 20:35.040 --> 20:36.040 Also pray for his son. 20:36.040 --> 20:39.040 We've been praying for Brother Spurgeon for a work. 20:39.040 --> 20:42.040 We've been praying for Brother Kenairi's brother. 20:42.040 --> 20:45.040 And then we've been praying for the Benson's friend. 20:45.040 --> 20:50.040 Brother Jameson, one of our church members, asked he ask for prayer for Brother Jameson while he's in the Philippines. 20:50.040 --> 20:52.040 Please pray for our Barbados trip. 20:52.040 --> 20:54.040 Things would go smoothly over there. 20:54.040 --> 20:57.040 Also pray for the Larky family, for Miss Noel. 20:57.040 --> 21:02.040 And then we've been praying for Brother Nick for his ankle and leg fractures. 21:02.040 --> 21:06.040 Also, I'd seen a prayer request that you'd pray for the Cogdell's father. 21:06.040 --> 21:09.040 He was having surgery, so it would be just a prayer for him. 21:09.040 --> 21:13.040 So we'll just say a quick word of prayer as a church family. 21:13.040 --> 21:16.040 Thank you so much for our church service. 21:16.040 --> 21:21.040 Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that you would just bless all these ladies who are expecting. 21:21.040 --> 21:23.040 Please just be with them during their pregnancies. 21:23.040 --> 21:27.040 I pray that you would just please give them a timely birth. 21:27.040 --> 21:29.040 You would help them with their delivery. 21:29.040 --> 21:34.040 I pray that you would also just continue to bless those who are wishing to become pregnant. 21:34.040 --> 21:41.040 I pray that you would bless all of these church family members and friends that have these sicknesses or these chronic issues. 21:41.040 --> 21:42.040 I pray that you could give them health. 21:42.040 --> 21:45.040 Please give them comfort during this time of difficulty. 21:45.040 --> 21:48.040 Please help those that need to find work or need favor financially. 21:48.040 --> 21:52.040 I pray that you would bless those that are planning on going missions trips. 21:52.040 --> 21:54.040 You keep them safe and give them those opportunities. 21:54.040 --> 21:56.040 I pray that you would open doors for us in Barbados. 21:56.040 --> 22:01.040 I pray that you would allow us to have a great conference, that everybody be safe, and that we could preach the truth, 22:01.040 --> 22:05.040 and that you would give us that courage and that boldness and that zeal to preach the Word of God. 22:05.040 --> 22:08.040 I pray that you continue to bless our church and its ministries. 22:08.040 --> 22:10.040 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 22:10.040 --> 22:14.040 That's pretty much all I have as far as prayer requests and announcements. 22:14.040 --> 22:17.040 So we'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week. 22:17.040 --> 22:18.040 It's Psalm 11. 22:18.040 --> 22:19.040 We have a special Psalm book. 22:19.040 --> 22:23.040 If you'd like to follow along, you can do it in your Bible, but the Psalm book does make it a little bit easier. 22:23.040 --> 22:24.040 Psalm 11. 22:24.040 --> 22:25.040 Psalm 11. 22:42.040 --> 22:43.040 Psalm 11. 22:45.040 --> 22:47.040 Follow along with us and sing it on the first. 22:47.040 --> 22:51.040 In the Lord put I my trust, 22:51.040 --> 22:54.040 Now say ye to my soul, 22:54.040 --> 22:58.040 Me as a bird to your mountain, 22:58.040 --> 23:03.040 For lo the wicked men there go. 23:03.040 --> 23:09.040 They may credit their arrow upon the string, 23:09.040 --> 23:14.040 That they may privilege shoot at, 23:14.040 --> 23:16.040 The upriding heart, 23:16.040 --> 23:20.040 If the foundations be destroyed, 23:20.040 --> 23:23.040 What can the righteous do? 23:23.040 --> 23:27.040 The Lord is in his holy temple, 23:27.040 --> 23:30.040 The Lord's throne is in heaven, 23:30.040 --> 23:33.040 His eyes behold, 23:33.040 --> 23:36.040 His eyes is triumphant, 23:36.040 --> 23:40.040 The children of men. 23:40.040 --> 23:43.040 The Lord tried the righteous, 23:43.040 --> 23:45.040 Upon the wicked, 23:45.040 --> 23:49.040 And him that loveth violence, 23:49.040 --> 23:52.040 His soul hated, 23:52.040 --> 23:55.040 His soul hated, 23:55.040 --> 23:58.040 Upon the wicked, 23:58.040 --> 24:01.040 Each showering stares, 24:01.040 --> 24:05.040 By remprisonment, 24:05.040 --> 24:08.040 In horrible tempest, 24:08.040 --> 24:11.040 This shall be, 24:11.040 --> 24:14.040 The portion of their cup, 24:14.040 --> 24:18.040 For the righteous morn. 24:18.040 --> 24:21.040 Loveeth righteousness, 24:21.040 --> 24:24.040 His countenance, 24:24.040 --> 24:27.040 Doth behold, 24:27.040 --> 24:31.040 Doth behold me a bride, 24:31.040 --> 24:35.040 In the Lord put I my trust. 24:35.040 --> 24:37.040 Amen. Great singing at this time. 24:37.040 --> 24:39.040 The offering plates will be passed around, 24:39.040 --> 24:42.040 And you can turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy, Chapter 29, 24:42.040 --> 24:44.040 For the reading of God's Word. 24:44.040 --> 24:47.040 Deuteronomy, Chapter 29. 25:09.040 --> 25:12.040 Deuteronomy, Chapter 29. 25:12.040 --> 25:15.040 The Bible reads, 25:15.040 --> 25:18.040 These are the words of the covenant 25:18.040 --> 25:21.040 Which the Lord commanded Moses 25:21.040 --> 25:24.040 To make with the children of Israel 25:24.040 --> 25:27.040 In the land of Moab, 25:27.040 --> 25:30.040 Beside the covenant which he made with the children of Israel 25:30.040 --> 25:33.040 And the children of Israel. 25:33.040 --> 25:36.040 And the children of Israel 25:36.040 --> 25:39.040 And the children of Israel 25:39.040 --> 25:42.040 And the children of Israel 25:42.040 --> 25:45.040 And the children of Israel 25:45.040 --> 25:48.040 And the children of Israel 25:48.040 --> 25:51.040 And the children of Israel 25:51.040 --> 25:54.040 And the children of Israel 25:54.040 --> 25:57.040 And the children of Israel 25:57.040 --> 26:00.040 And the children of Israel 26:00.040 --> 26:03.040 And the children of Israel 26:03.040 --> 26:06.040 And thy shoes not wax and hold upon thy foot, 26:06.040 --> 26:09.040 Ye have not eaten bread, neither drunk wine, 26:09.040 --> 26:12.040 Or strong drink, that ye might know that I am the Lord your God. 26:12.040 --> 26:15.040 And when ye have came unto this place, 26:15.040 --> 26:18.040 Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Beishan, 26:18.040 --> 26:21.040 Came out against us unto battle, and we smote them. 26:21.040 --> 26:24.040 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Rubinites, 26:24.040 --> 26:27.040 And to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. 26:27.040 --> 26:30.040 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, 26:30.040 --> 26:33.040 And ye shall prosper in all that ye do. 26:33.040 --> 26:36.040 Ye stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God, 26:36.040 --> 26:39.040 Your captains of your tribes, and your elders, and your officers, 26:39.040 --> 26:42.040 With all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, 26:42.040 --> 26:45.040 And thy stranger that is in thy camp, 26:45.040 --> 26:48.040 From the hewer of thy wood, and to the drawer of thy water, 26:48.040 --> 26:51.040 That thou shouldest enter into the covenant with the Lord thy God, 26:51.040 --> 26:54.040 And into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day, 26:54.040 --> 26:57.040 That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, 26:57.040 --> 27:00.040 As he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, 27:00.040 --> 27:03.040 To Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither with you only did I make 27:03.040 --> 27:07.040 This covenant and this oath, but with him that standeth here with us 27:07.040 --> 27:13.040 This day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. 27:13.040 --> 27:16.040 For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, 27:16.040 --> 27:19.040 And how we came through the nations which ye passed by. 27:19.040 --> 27:22.040 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, 27:22.040 --> 27:25.040 Wood, and stone, silver, and gold, which were among them. 27:25.040 --> 27:28.040 Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe, 27:28.040 --> 27:31.040 Whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, 27:31.040 --> 27:33.040 To go and serve them, the gods of these nations. 27:33.040 --> 27:37.040 Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and warm wood. 27:37.040 --> 27:40.040 And it came to pass when he heareth the words of this curse, 27:40.040 --> 27:42.040 That he blessed himself in his heart, saying, 27:42.040 --> 27:46.040 I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, 27:46.040 --> 27:50.040 To add drunkenness to thirst. The Lord will not spare him, 27:50.040 --> 27:54.040 But then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, 27:54.040 --> 27:57.040 And all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, 27:57.040 --> 27:59.040 And the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. 27:59.040 --> 28:03.040 And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, 28:03.040 --> 28:07.040 According to all the curses of the covenants that are written in this book of the law. 28:07.040 --> 28:11.040 So that the generation to come of your children shall rise up after you, 28:11.040 --> 28:14.040 And the stranger that shall come from far land shall say, 28:14.040 --> 28:19.040 When they see the plagues of that land, and the sickness which the Lord hath laid upon it. 28:19.040 --> 28:22.040 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, 28:22.040 --> 28:25.040 That it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, 28:25.040 --> 28:27.040 Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. 28:27.040 --> 28:33.040 Adma and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath. 28:33.040 --> 28:37.040 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? 28:37.040 --> 28:40.040 What meaneth the heat of this great anger? 28:40.040 --> 28:44.040 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, 28:44.040 --> 28:47.040 Which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 28:47.040 --> 28:50.040 For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, 28:50.040 --> 28:53.040 Gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them. 28:53.040 --> 28:55.040 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, 28:55.040 --> 28:59.040 To bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. 28:59.040 --> 29:01.040 And the Lord rooted them out of the land in anger, 29:01.040 --> 29:06.040 And in wrath, and in great indignation, cast them into another land as it is this day. 29:06.040 --> 29:08.040 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, 29:08.040 --> 29:10.040 But those things which are revealed belong unto us, 29:10.040 --> 29:13.040 And to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. 29:13.040 --> 29:14.040 Let us pray. 29:14.040 --> 29:16.040 Heavenly Father, thank you for this chapter of the Bible. 29:16.040 --> 29:18.040 Thank you for this church. 29:18.040 --> 29:20.040 Thank you for all the souls that are getting saved. 29:20.040 --> 29:22.040 I just pray that you bless Pastor Shelley, fill him with your Holy Spirit. 29:22.040 --> 29:25.040 Help him to preach unto us, and help us to receive it, 29:25.040 --> 29:27.040 And make changes in our lives to be better Christians. 29:27.040 --> 29:29.040 Praise in Jesus' name, Amen. 29:29.040 --> 29:30.040 Amen. 29:30.040 --> 29:34.040 Here in Deuteronomy 29, and we're kind of wrapping up the book of Deuteronomy. 29:34.040 --> 29:36.040 The previous chapter is very long. 29:36.040 --> 29:41.040 It really spelled out a lot of the blessings and the cursings that God has laid out in the Word of God. 29:41.040 --> 29:43.040 If you follow them, you're greatly blessed. 29:43.040 --> 29:47.040 If you break God's commandments, you will be greatly cursed. 29:47.040 --> 29:51.040 And he's kind of wrapping up, because the context of the book of Deuteronomy, 29:51.040 --> 29:54.040 If you think about it, it's the second time he's giving the law. 29:54.040 --> 29:57.040 You have the first time at Mount Sinai, 29:57.040 --> 30:03.040 And that first generation didn't believe, and didn't have faith, 30:03.040 --> 30:06.040 And so when they got to the promised land, 30:06.040 --> 30:10.040 They basically reneged the opportunity to go into the promised land, 30:10.040 --> 30:13.040 So they had to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. 30:13.040 --> 30:16.040 God said that he would kill all of them, and he killed all of them. 30:16.040 --> 30:18.040 And so this is the next generation. 30:18.040 --> 30:20.040 This is a younger generation. 30:20.040 --> 30:23.040 It's like the boomers died and announced Gen Z's turn, okay? 30:23.040 --> 30:27.040 And basically what he's saying is that they're lined up here, 30:27.040 --> 30:32.040 And he's reminding them of all the things that God had spoken to them. 30:32.040 --> 30:37.040 And he even explicitly tells them that this covenant was really for them, 30:37.040 --> 30:40.040 Because he understood and knew, from the beginning, 30:40.040 --> 30:43.040 That they were going to be the ones that were going to actually enter into the promised land. 30:43.040 --> 30:46.040 And so he kind of reminds us here in the first few verses, it says, 30:46.040 --> 30:50.040 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses 30:50.040 --> 30:53.040 To make with the children of Israel and the land of Moab, 30:53.040 --> 30:56.040 Beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 30:56.040 --> 31:00.040 So Horeb is Sinai, so he's basically saying, 31:00.040 --> 31:10.040 Hey, this is what God had said to Moses and that first generation 40 years ago. 31:10.040 --> 31:13.040 So he's kind of going, he's drawing back to that particular point. 31:13.040 --> 31:16.040 That's kind of where he started in the book of Deuteronomy. 31:16.040 --> 31:20.040 If you remember the first few chapters, he's just reminding them that everything was commanded. 31:20.040 --> 31:22.040 He went through this huge list. 31:22.040 --> 31:27.040 Now he's going back and calling back to remembrance that timeline, okay? 31:27.040 --> 31:30.040 So we have to understand that when we're talking about verse 2, 31:30.040 --> 31:34.040 We're still kind of talking about that first generation. 31:34.040 --> 31:36.040 We're talking about that first group of people. 31:36.040 --> 31:38.040 It says, And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them, 31:38.040 --> 31:41.040 Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, 31:41.040 --> 31:44.040 And to Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land, 31:44.040 --> 31:46.040 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, 31:46.040 --> 31:48.040 The signs and those great miracles. 31:48.040 --> 31:51.040 Yet the Lord hath not given you in heart to perceive, 31:51.040 --> 31:54.040 And eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day. 31:54.040 --> 32:01.040 So again, it can get confusing because it's still Moses. 32:01.040 --> 32:03.040 It's Moses in both situations. 32:04.040 --> 32:06.040 But what he was saying is, 32:06.040 --> 32:11.040 You guys, that first generation, saw the actual miracles in Egypt. 32:11.040 --> 32:16.040 They saw the great wonders of God's wrath poured out on the Egyptians. 32:16.040 --> 32:19.040 They physically walked through the Red Sea. 32:19.040 --> 32:22.040 They saw God parting the Red Sea. 32:22.040 --> 32:25.040 They saw Pharaoh and his army marching after them. 32:25.040 --> 32:30.040 They saw the Red Sea closing in on top of them and slaughtering all of them. 32:30.040 --> 32:33.040 And even though they saw all the miracles, 32:33.040 --> 32:37.040 And even though they experienced the great wonders of God, 32:37.040 --> 32:39.040 What did he say here? 32:39.040 --> 32:42.040 He says that they did not have a heart to perceive, 32:42.040 --> 32:47.040 And eyes to see and ears to hear and unto this day. 32:47.040 --> 32:49.040 So he's just basically saying, 32:49.040 --> 32:51.040 Even though you got to see all that, 32:51.040 --> 32:53.040 For some reason you just didn't believe it. 32:53.040 --> 32:57.040 And it kind of is an illusion if you think about it to the Gospel itself, 32:57.040 --> 33:02.040 Because Jesus Christ performed all of these miracles for the Jews. 33:02.040 --> 33:04.040 He did so many different miracles for the Jews, 33:04.040 --> 33:06.040 Repeated miracles for the Jews, 33:06.040 --> 33:08.040 And then they didn't end up believing. 33:08.040 --> 33:10.040 But who ended up believing? 33:10.040 --> 33:11.040 The Gentiles. 33:11.040 --> 33:14.040 The Gentiles didn't even get to see the miracles. 33:14.040 --> 33:19.040 So it's funny that the people that saw the miracles didn't believe. 33:19.040 --> 33:22.040 The people that don't see the miracles end up believing. 33:22.040 --> 33:23.040 And why is it? 33:23.040 --> 33:24.040 And why is it? 33:24.040 --> 33:28.040 Because there's a spiritual aspect to God's Word 33:28.040 --> 33:32.040 That even when you see it and it's right there in front of you, 33:32.040 --> 33:34.040 Many times it just goes over your head, 33:34.040 --> 33:37.040 Because you just don't have a heart to perceive, 33:37.040 --> 33:39.040 You don't have eyes to see, 33:39.040 --> 33:40.040 You don't have ears to hear. 33:40.040 --> 33:42.040 So there's a spiritual sight. 33:42.040 --> 33:44.040 There's a spiritual hearing. 33:44.040 --> 33:47.040 There's a spiritual heart. 33:47.040 --> 33:50.040 And the Bible is making this distinction 33:50.040 --> 33:53.040 between seeing physically and seeing spiritually. 33:53.040 --> 33:55.040 They just don't get it. 33:55.040 --> 33:59.040 Now, I want to focus on this point for a moment, 33:59.040 --> 34:01.040 Because this is a major component of the Bible. 34:01.040 --> 34:06.040 Let's go to Matthew chapter 13 and see this being explained in the Gospel specifically, 34:06.040 --> 34:12.040 And how Jesus is using this type of same language to describe the Jews of His day. 34:12.040 --> 34:16.040 Matthew chapter 13, look at verse number 14. 34:20.040 --> 34:23.040 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, 34:23.040 --> 34:28.040 Which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, 34:28.040 --> 34:33.040 And seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive. 34:33.040 --> 34:34.040 Why? 34:34.040 --> 34:37.040 For this people's heart is waxed gross, 34:37.040 --> 34:40.040 And their ears are dull of hearing, 34:40.040 --> 34:42.040 And their eyes they have closed, 34:42.040 --> 34:44.040 Lest that any time they should see with their eyes, 34:44.040 --> 34:45.040 And hear with their ears, 34:45.040 --> 34:47.040 And should understand with their heart, 34:47.040 --> 34:50.040 And should be converted, and I should heal them. 34:50.040 --> 34:56.040 So he's saying that the Jews of His day were prophesied against by Isaiah, 34:56.040 --> 35:00.040 And again, this is the same language that we have used in the book of Deuteronomy 35:00.040 --> 35:03.040 That Moses is talking about, that first generation, 35:03.040 --> 35:05.040 How they just can't get it. 35:05.040 --> 35:10.040 It just doesn't click, even though it's not like they didn't literally have eyes. 35:10.040 --> 35:12.040 It's not that they didn't literally have ears. 35:12.040 --> 35:15.040 It's not even that they didn't even hear the words of Christ. 35:15.040 --> 35:16.040 It's that they didn't get it. 35:16.040 --> 35:18.040 It just didn't make sense to them. 35:18.040 --> 35:19.040 Why? 35:19.040 --> 35:21.040 Because their heart was shut off to it. 35:21.040 --> 35:25.040 Sometimes people, they just don't have a heart for the truth. 35:25.040 --> 35:28.040 So it doesn't matter how much you explain it to them. 35:28.040 --> 35:30.040 It doesn't matter how much you show it to them. 35:30.040 --> 35:32.040 They just don't want to believe it. 35:32.040 --> 35:34.040 They're not willing to believe it. 35:34.040 --> 35:39.040 They've closed their ears and closed their eyes to hearing and seeing the truth. 35:39.040 --> 35:42.040 The Bible talks about people being willingly ignorant, 35:42.040 --> 35:47.040 Meaning that they don't want to believe something because of either pride 35:47.040 --> 35:51.040 or it's inconvenient for them, or it's going to correct them, 35:51.040 --> 35:53.040 or it would mean that they were wrong. 35:53.040 --> 35:57.040 And so as a result, they're not willing to entertain something 35:57.040 --> 35:59.040 that would challenge their worldview. 35:59.040 --> 36:01.040 Go if you would to John chapter 8. 36:01.040 --> 36:04.040 Go to John chapter number 8. 36:04.040 --> 36:09.040 And we're going to just see, this is a common theme again. 36:09.040 --> 36:12.040 John chapter number 8, we'll read a few verses. 36:12.040 --> 36:15.040 He says in verse 42, Jesus said unto them, 36:15.040 --> 36:18.040 If God were your father, ye would love me. 36:18.040 --> 36:22.040 For I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 36:22.040 --> 36:27.040 So he's saying to the Jews that if God were your father, meaning what? 36:27.040 --> 36:30.040 God the Father is not the God of the Jews at this point, 36:30.040 --> 36:33.040 because they don't believe in Jesus Christ. 36:33.040 --> 36:34.040 They don't believe in God. 36:34.040 --> 36:36.040 They don't believe in Moses. 36:36.040 --> 36:39.040 They have elevated their tradition above the word of God, 36:39.040 --> 36:43.040 and they have a fake sense of being right with God. 36:43.040 --> 36:47.040 They have a fake sense of true worship of the Father. 36:47.040 --> 36:51.040 He says, I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came of myself, but he sent me. 36:51.040 --> 36:54.040 Why do you not understand my speech? 36:54.040 --> 36:56.040 Even because you cannot hear my word. 36:56.040 --> 37:00.040 He's saying, how come you can't understand what I'm saying? 37:00.040 --> 37:03.040 It's like I'm telling you plainly and you just don't get it. 37:03.040 --> 37:04.040 He says, why? 37:04.040 --> 37:05.040 He says, why? 37:05.040 --> 37:09.040 Year of your father the devil, and the lust of your father you will do. 37:09.040 --> 37:13.040 He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, 37:13.040 --> 37:15.040 because there is no truth in him. 37:15.040 --> 37:19.040 When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. 37:19.040 --> 37:22.040 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 37:22.040 --> 37:29.040 So what's interesting is the reason why they don't believe him is because he's telling the truth. 37:29.040 --> 37:32.040 If Jesus lied, then they would believe him. 37:32.040 --> 37:35.040 Any lie he says, they believe it. 37:35.040 --> 37:37.040 But if you tell the truth, now they don't like it. 37:37.040 --> 37:39.040 Now they're not going to believe it. 37:39.040 --> 37:44.040 And it's interesting because heretics and false prophets and false teachers, 37:44.040 --> 37:47.040 they can all get along because they just tell each other lies. 37:47.040 --> 37:51.040 And then they get mad at the one guy bringing in the truth. 37:51.040 --> 37:53.040 It's like, oh, why do you not believe what I'm telling you? 37:53.040 --> 37:54.040 It's because it was true. 37:54.040 --> 37:56.040 If I told you lies, it's great. 37:56.040 --> 37:58.040 Yeah, we could understand that. 37:58.040 --> 38:01.040 But because I tell you the truth, that's why you don't believe. 38:01.040 --> 38:04.040 Verse 46, which of you can offensive me of sin? 38:04.040 --> 38:06.040 And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me? 38:06.040 --> 38:10.040 He that is of God, heareth God's words. 38:10.040 --> 38:13.040 Ye therefore hear them not, because you're not of God. 38:13.040 --> 38:15.040 What does the Bible clearly teach? 38:15.040 --> 38:20.040 The Bible clearly teach that those that are of God will always hear God's word. 38:20.040 --> 38:25.040 And the only reason someone would not hear God's word is because they're just not of God. 38:25.040 --> 38:28.040 If you're of God, you hear God's word. 38:28.040 --> 38:30.040 If you're not of God, you can't hear God's word. 38:30.040 --> 38:32.040 It's not going to make sense to you. 38:32.040 --> 38:37.040 Of course, the Bible stands out as the diamond in the rough in this world. 38:37.040 --> 38:41.040 And we can see the inspiration of God in the scriptures. 38:41.040 --> 38:45.040 We can hear God's voice in the scriptures because we're of God. 38:45.040 --> 38:49.040 So when someone can't hear it, it's because there's something wrong with them. 38:49.040 --> 38:51.040 They're not of God. 38:51.040 --> 38:55.040 Again, we can all get into our flesh. 38:55.040 --> 38:58.040 We can all have wrong ideas. 38:58.040 --> 39:02.040 We can all even get into some levels of heresy is what the Bible says. 39:02.040 --> 39:07.040 But in general, when people just can't get the Bible and they don't like the Bible 39:07.040 --> 39:11.040 and they're just against the doctrines of the Bible, it's because they're just not of God. 39:11.040 --> 39:15.040 That's why they struggle to understand what the Bible is saying. 39:15.040 --> 39:18.040 The unsaved mind can't understand the scripture. 39:18.040 --> 39:21.040 Look at John chapter 12, verse 38. 39:21.040 --> 39:24.040 John chapter number 12, verse 38. 39:24.040 --> 39:29.040 That the saying of Isaiah, the prophet might be fulfilled, 39:29.040 --> 39:32.040 which he spake, Lord, who hath believed, are a port, 39:32.040 --> 39:35.040 and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed. 39:35.040 --> 39:39.040 Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again, 39:39.040 --> 39:43.040 he hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, 39:43.040 --> 39:46.040 that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, 39:46.040 --> 39:48.040 and be converted, and I should heal them. 39:48.040 --> 39:52.040 Now, this is kind of interesting because it's like, 39:52.040 --> 39:57.040 it's like if you don't want to receive what truth God is giving to you, 39:57.040 --> 40:02.040 then he'll make you to the point where you would not believe anything. 40:02.040 --> 40:07.040 I mean, the Bible is saying that he hardened their heart that they should not see. 40:07.040 --> 40:09.040 You see this with Pharaoh specifically. 40:09.040 --> 40:14.040 Pharaoh hardens his heart, and then God hardens his heart, 40:14.040 --> 40:17.040 so that they're just, everything just goes over their head. 40:17.040 --> 40:19.040 They just couldn't understand anything, 40:19.040 --> 40:25.040 and you just kind of see someone just being such a fool that it's kind of mind-boggling, 40:25.040 --> 40:30.040 and sometimes it's black-pilling to see what the world is like. 40:30.040 --> 40:33.040 You expose truth, you make clear statements, and they just can't get it. 40:33.040 --> 40:38.040 It just goes over their head, but for some people, especially in false religions, 40:38.040 --> 40:42.040 they've hardened their hearts, and then God came alongside and hardened it even more, 40:42.040 --> 40:46.040 to where it doesn't matter what you explained to them, what you showed them, how much truth. 40:46.040 --> 40:50.040 They could see it with their eyes physically, and they still wouldn't get it. 40:50.040 --> 40:53.040 Jesus could show up right before them, and they wouldn't even get it. 40:53.040 --> 40:55.040 Just like the Jews, they could not believe. 40:55.040 --> 40:57.040 They can't put their trust in it. 40:57.040 --> 41:00.040 I want to go to another place, go to Acts chapter 28. 41:00.040 --> 41:02.040 Go to Acts chapter 28. 41:02.040 --> 41:06.040 This is very much hammered about the Jews in the New Testament. 41:06.040 --> 41:10.040 Acts chapter 28, look at verse 25. 41:10.040 --> 41:13.040 This is the conclusion of the Apostle Paul. 41:13.040 --> 41:18.040 After he's done a lot of ministry, he really tried to get a lot of Jews saved. 41:18.040 --> 41:19.040 He went to the synagogues. 41:19.040 --> 41:22.040 He went to the Jew first in many cases. 41:22.040 --> 41:23.040 And what was his conclusion? 41:23.040 --> 41:26.040 Acts chapter 28, look at verse 25. 41:43.040 --> 42:05.040 So what is the Apostle Paul's opinion? 42:05.040 --> 42:10.040 He says, man, this is super evident because I've argued with every Jew. 42:10.040 --> 42:12.040 I went to the synagogue. 42:12.040 --> 42:14.040 I reasoned with them out of the Scriptures. 42:14.040 --> 42:18.040 I tried bending over backwards to get them saved. 42:18.040 --> 42:20.040 I proved it up and down. 42:20.040 --> 42:24.040 I showed them in all the Old Testament Scriptures, and they just won't believe it. 42:24.040 --> 42:26.040 They just won't get it. 42:26.040 --> 42:29.040 And so he's saying, well, you know what we should do? 42:29.040 --> 42:32.040 We should focus on the Gentiles because at least they'll get it. 42:32.040 --> 42:33.040 And you know what? 42:33.040 --> 42:40.040 It's funny because a lot of independent fundamental Baptist churches, they just don't believe or agree with this doctrine. 42:40.040 --> 42:51.040 They think that someone that you like, you just show them Jesus in Isaiah and you show them Jesus in the Psalms and you show them Jesus all over the Old Testament, and they just reject it and blaspheme and reject it and blaspheme and reject it. 42:51.040 --> 42:53.040 Well, eventually they're going to get it. 42:53.040 --> 42:54.040 No. 42:54.040 --> 42:58.040 I mean, the Bible says a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition rejects. 42:58.040 --> 43:03.040 You know, at some point you have to realize like the antidote isn't working. 43:03.040 --> 43:10.040 Now, again, I'm not saying that, you know, your family member and your loved one that they don't get the gospel the first time you give up on them or something. 43:10.040 --> 43:12.040 And I'm not saying that we don't pray for the hard cases. 43:12.040 --> 43:16.040 And I'm not saying we shouldn't try to hope that someone could change their mind. 43:16.040 --> 43:20.040 But at the end of the day, sometimes you have to recognize not everybody's going to get it. 43:20.040 --> 43:21.040 Not everybody's interested. 43:21.040 --> 43:29.040 And when someone's just openly blaspheming and hating the word of God repeatedly, well, it's probably best to just move on and focus on a group that's interested. 43:29.040 --> 43:33.040 Go to the people that will hear and pay attention to them. 43:33.040 --> 43:36.040 And not everybody is going to believe the Bible. 43:36.040 --> 43:40.040 You know, the Bible talks about there's unreasonable and wicked men. 43:40.040 --> 43:43.040 You know, there's just some people that have not faith. 43:43.040 --> 43:44.040 There's just some people that won't believe. 43:44.040 --> 43:46.040 There's a lot of people that are just going to blaspheme. 43:46.040 --> 43:49.040 Go to Romans 10, go to Romans chapter 10. 43:49.040 --> 43:51.040 We're just kind of take a journey through the scripture here. 43:51.040 --> 43:53.040 But this is an important point. 43:53.040 --> 43:58.040 And, of course, God did not give that first generation a second chance. 43:58.040 --> 44:01.040 He said, hey, you're going to be in the wilderness and you're just going to die. 44:01.040 --> 44:05.040 It wasn't like, well, if you kind of get right, then you can go to the promised land. 44:05.040 --> 44:06.040 It was like you're done. 44:06.040 --> 44:13.040 You can get to a point where you make God angry enough that he just gets done with you and certain doors become closed in your life. 44:13.040 --> 44:18.040 And so that's why it's important that, you know, Bible says now is the accepted time. 44:18.040 --> 44:19.040 Now is the day of salvation. 44:19.040 --> 44:22.040 We can apply that to spiritual salvation. 44:22.040 --> 44:31.040 I think that could be liberally applied to virtually any area of our life where God wants us to hearken unto him now in the immediate moment. 44:31.040 --> 44:33.040 We need to repent, get right with God. 44:33.040 --> 44:35.040 He often gives us space to repent. 44:35.040 --> 44:41.040 But often, you know, you can close doors in your life if you don't make the change when necessary. 44:41.040 --> 44:51.040 The Bible says in Romans chapter 10, it says in verse number 20, But Isaiah is very bold and sayeth, I was found of them that sought me not. 44:51.040 --> 45:01.040 I was made manifest in them that asked not after me, but to Israel he saith all day long, I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. 45:01.040 --> 45:07.040 So saying, look, I tried so much to get these people saved, but they just wouldn't listen. 45:07.040 --> 45:08.040 They wouldn't get it. 45:08.040 --> 45:13.040 Chapter 11, verse eight says, I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? 45:13.040 --> 45:21.040 God forbid, but rather that or rather through their fall, salvation has come unto the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy. 45:21.040 --> 45:23.040 I said I said verse eight. 45:23.040 --> 45:24.040 I'm sort of reading verse 11. 45:24.040 --> 45:25.040 Go back to verse eight. 45:25.040 --> 45:33.040 According as is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear unto this day. 45:33.040 --> 45:39.040 And David saith, let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. 45:39.040 --> 45:44.040 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow down their back all way. 45:44.040 --> 45:50.040 So it's kind of interesting that David himself is cursing these future Jews. 45:50.040 --> 45:59.040 It's like, you know, you just try to explain something to someone and they're just so irritating and they're just so annoying and obnoxious. 45:59.040 --> 46:03.040 They eventually get to a point you're just like, God, just make this person even more blind. 46:04.040 --> 46:14.040 Just just make this person just just punish them to where they won't even ever understand any truth or get any knowledge because they're just so evil and they just don't even want to get it. 46:14.040 --> 46:16.040 And you want to just sleep. 46:16.040 --> 46:17.040 Fine. Sleep. 46:17.040 --> 46:18.040 You want to be blind. 46:18.040 --> 46:19.040 Fine. 46:19.040 --> 46:22.040 Jesus said, you know, they're blind leaders of the blind. 46:22.040 --> 46:24.040 Let them alone. 46:24.040 --> 46:25.040 Let them alone. 46:25.040 --> 46:27.040 Let them lead the blind to a ditch. 46:27.040 --> 46:30.040 Obviously, that doesn't mean that Jesus didn't argue with them. 46:30.040 --> 46:31.040 You argued with them a lot. 46:31.040 --> 46:32.040 Doesn't mean that Jesus didn't prove them wrong. 46:32.040 --> 46:34.040 He proved them wrong for the sake of others. 46:34.040 --> 46:35.040 Right. 46:35.040 --> 46:43.040 And when he's, you know, the Apostle Paul's going into certain situations, he tried his hardest to get people saved. 46:43.040 --> 46:44.040 He entered into the synagogue. 46:44.040 --> 46:47.040 He he tried to convince a lot of people. 46:47.040 --> 46:50.040 And unfortunately, not that many would get it. 46:50.040 --> 46:53.040 You know, he would be spending a lot of time, a lot of effort. 46:53.040 --> 46:54.040 People are getting mad at him. 46:54.040 --> 46:55.040 But some people did. 46:55.040 --> 46:58.040 And he was doing it for the elect's sake anyways. 46:58.040 --> 47:03.040 The Bible says for us to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered under the saints. 47:03.040 --> 47:08.040 You know, I want to still go out there even though it's you're not going to see massive results. 47:08.040 --> 47:10.040 You're not going to see everybody turning to Christ. 47:10.040 --> 47:12.040 You're going to run into all kinds of messy. 47:12.040 --> 47:13.040 I mean, it's a messy world. 47:13.040 --> 47:14.040 It's a muddy world. 47:14.040 --> 47:15.040 It's gross. 47:15.040 --> 47:21.040 You're going to get made fun of, laughed at, scoffed, ridiculed, persecuted, hated of this world. 47:21.040 --> 47:22.040 You know what? 47:22.040 --> 47:24.040 At the end of the day, it's for the elect's sake. 47:24.040 --> 47:27.040 You're not going to get the masses by preaching the truth. 47:27.040 --> 47:30.040 You're not going to get the love and attention for preaching the truth. 47:30.040 --> 47:33.040 You got that for giving them food. 47:33.040 --> 47:36.040 I mean, they like Jesus for the miracle. 47:36.040 --> 47:38.040 They like Jesus for the food. 47:38.040 --> 47:41.040 But then as soon as he started preaching, they all left. 47:41.040 --> 47:44.040 He got 5,000 followers in one day. 47:44.040 --> 47:48.040 And then they all unsubbed after the sermon. 47:49.040 --> 47:54.040 I can't tell you how many times I've met people in my life and they like me, like initially. 47:54.040 --> 47:57.040 They kind of like me or they're like really friendly. 47:57.040 --> 48:00.040 And then I start explaining what I believe about stuff and it's just it's over. 48:00.040 --> 48:07.040 You know, it's just it's over very quickly because, you know, the truth is just not something that everybody likes. 48:07.040 --> 48:12.040 Most of us all struggle with the truth a little bit when we start getting feeling the heat. 48:13.040 --> 48:18.040 And so, you know, even even the disciples, Jesus is like, are you going to go away too? 48:18.040 --> 48:20.040 And he's like, to whom shall we go? 48:20.040 --> 48:23.040 You know, thou hast the words of eternal life. 48:23.040 --> 48:28.040 Jesus has the eternal the words of eternal life because he is the the words of eternal life. 48:28.040 --> 48:30.040 I want to go to one more place. 48:30.040 --> 48:34.040 Go to First Corinthians, chapter number two, go to First Corinthians, chapter number two. 48:34.040 --> 48:39.040 I'm just showing you that the Bible emphasizes that the Bible is the word of life. 48:39.040 --> 48:47.040 I'm just showing you that the Bible emphasizes this idea that the vast majority of the unsaved or whatever, they're just not going to get it. 48:47.040 --> 48:48.040 They're not going to see it. 48:48.040 --> 48:56.040 And the Bible teaches that, obviously, the Jews specifically Pharaoh, they got to a really reprobate point where nothing could fix it. 48:56.040 --> 49:00.040 But look, the unsaved mind can't comprehend the things of God. 49:00.040 --> 49:04.040 And the Bible emphasizes this in First Corinthians, chapter number two, verse 11. 49:04.040 --> 49:13.040 For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him, even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God. 49:13.040 --> 49:22.040 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, 49:22.040 --> 49:34.040 which things also we speak not in the words by which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 49:34.040 --> 49:43.040 So, you know, when we try to teach someone the Bible or we want people to understand who God is or we want people to get closer to God, we don't use man's wisdom. 49:43.040 --> 49:45.040 We don't use man's words. 49:45.040 --> 49:47.040 We use the scripture. 49:47.040 --> 49:50.040 We compare spiritual with spiritual. 49:50.040 --> 49:58.040 That's the wisdom that we speak is God's word says verse 14, but the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God. 49:58.040 --> 50:01.040 Notice this for their foolishness unto him. 50:01.040 --> 50:12.040 If you preach what the Bible says correctly, they will say that you're a fool and an idiot and stupid and dumb and low IQ and whatever else they can throw at you. 50:12.040 --> 50:16.040 Because at the end of the day, they can't get it. 50:16.040 --> 50:17.040 They can't get it. 50:17.040 --> 50:22.040 Neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned, but he that is spiritual judges all things. 50:22.040 --> 50:27.040 Yet he himself is judged of no man for he hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him. 50:27.040 --> 50:29.040 But we have the mind of Christ. 50:29.040 --> 50:30.040 How do we have the mind of Christ? 50:30.040 --> 50:31.040 Because we have the word of God. 50:31.040 --> 50:33.040 This is the mind of Christ. 50:33.040 --> 50:35.040 So we can compare spiritual with spiritual. 50:35.040 --> 50:43.040 We can know what God thinks about every single issue that is pertinent to Christian faith. 50:43.040 --> 50:44.040 Christian faith. 50:44.040 --> 50:48.040 Obviously, there's a lot of free will God gives us in our lives. 50:48.040 --> 50:50.040 There's a lot of things that the Bible doesn't talk about. 50:50.040 --> 50:52.040 You say, well, how am I supposed to know what to do there? 50:52.040 --> 50:53.040 You get free will. 50:53.040 --> 50:57.040 Everything that you need to know, it's in the Bible. 50:57.040 --> 51:01.040 If it's not mentioned in the Bible, you have free will. 51:01.040 --> 51:04.040 Like of all the trees of the garden, I must freely eat. 51:04.040 --> 51:07.040 Couldn't Adam be like, well, should I eat of this one or this one? 51:07.040 --> 51:08.040 The Bible's not telling me. 51:08.040 --> 51:09.040 Yet you have the free will. 51:09.040 --> 51:12.040 You can literally choose whichever of the trees that you want. 51:12.040 --> 51:13.040 But there's a rule. 51:13.040 --> 51:16.040 There's one tree you're not supposed to eat from. 51:16.040 --> 51:18.040 And that's really the only rule you need to worry about. 51:18.040 --> 51:22.040 And it's funny how so many Christians, they're so worried about the things the Bible doesn't say. 51:22.040 --> 51:27.040 And they're trying to come up with rules and suggestions and guidelines for all things the Bible's not talking about. 51:27.040 --> 51:30.040 As opposed to just preaching what the Bible actually says. 51:30.040 --> 51:35.040 It's like we need to stop worrying about rules that don't exist in the Bible. 51:35.040 --> 51:38.040 And worry about the rules that actually do exist in the Bible. 51:38.040 --> 51:40.040 And of course, how do you know that? 51:40.040 --> 51:42.040 Because we have the mind of Christ, which is the Word of God. 51:42.040 --> 51:44.040 And you say, how do you know it's the Word of God? 51:44.040 --> 51:46.040 Because he that is God heareth God's Word. 51:46.040 --> 51:47.040 It's that simple. 51:47.040 --> 51:50.040 Going back to Deuteronomy chapter number 29. 51:50.040 --> 51:56.040 In fact, I remember hearing some people say they didn't believe the book of Esther was the Word of God. 51:56.040 --> 52:00.040 I think it was like Text Mars or something, which he's dead and so he can't defend himself. 52:00.040 --> 52:08.040 But, you know, regardless, you know, even Christians I've heard were skeptical of books like Esther or others being canon, being the Word of God. 52:08.040 --> 52:12.040 And, you know, they would bring up some things that were interesting about the book of Esther. 52:12.040 --> 52:14.040 It's not quoted in the New Testament. 52:14.040 --> 52:18.040 We don't have like a quote or something like that or some kind of a reference. 52:18.040 --> 52:20.040 It also doesn't use the word God or Lord. 52:20.040 --> 52:31.040 And so some of those reasons, some people, you know, they get this like anti-Semitic bug to where everything that's positive about Jews is somehow satanic. 52:31.040 --> 52:35.040 And so they'd say, well, the book of Esther is a little bit pro-Jew. 52:35.040 --> 52:37.040 So, you know, it's a Jewish conspiracy or something. 52:37.040 --> 52:45.040 It's like, no, that's just, you know, again, that doesn't mean that just because there's a positive mention of a Jew somewhere that it's wrong. 52:45.040 --> 52:49.040 I know it might sound wrong, but it doesn't mean it's definitely wrong. 52:49.040 --> 52:51.040 OK. 52:51.040 --> 52:56.040 And so I just remember like thinking like, OK, how do I prove that the book of Esther is the Word of God? 52:56.040 --> 52:58.040 Or like, how do I know? 52:58.040 --> 53:01.040 And I remember just thinking about this and dwelling on this for probably a while. 53:01.040 --> 53:04.040 I mean, I don't even know the exact amount of time, probably at least a year. 53:04.040 --> 53:05.040 Maybe months. 53:05.040 --> 53:13.040 And it was not on purpose, but just one day reading something or just dwelling on the Word of God. 53:13.040 --> 53:16.040 It's like the entire book of Esther just clicked. 53:16.040 --> 53:21.040 And I just it was something that I had, you know, experienced occasionally. 53:21.040 --> 53:25.040 But it's just like the Holy Spirit just kind of enlightened me to understand the book of Esther. 53:25.040 --> 53:31.040 And it was really cool because it's just like, that's how I know it's the Word of God, because it unlocks. 53:31.040 --> 53:36.040 And I preached a sermon on this in Sandston Park a long time ago called The Book of Esther Explained. 53:36.040 --> 53:42.040 But the book of Esther just has a kind of like a perfect parallel to the end times. 53:42.040 --> 53:46.040 And it just has all of these different aspects of the end times. 53:46.040 --> 53:51.040 And it's just basically a picture perfect, you know, timeline and chronology. 53:51.040 --> 53:55.040 And it just it has God's voice, obviously, on every single page. 53:55.040 --> 53:57.040 And so it's just extra confirmation. 53:57.040 --> 54:03.040 You know, there's things that we take by faith and then sometimes God reveals them to us or confirms them to us. 54:03.040 --> 54:05.040 And it's kind of like salvation. 54:05.040 --> 54:08.040 It's like you take that step of faith by putting your faith in Jesus Christ. 54:08.040 --> 54:14.040 But then, you know, reading the Bible and going soul winning and changing your life. 54:14.040 --> 54:20.040 It just keeps confirming you that you're saved and that you have the Holy Ghost and, you know, you have you become enlightened. 54:20.040 --> 54:24.040 Whereas if you get away from church and not reading the Bible, you're not serving God. 54:24.040 --> 54:29.040 Sometimes you can kind of lose that confirmation in your life. 54:29.040 --> 54:35.040 You can kind of forget that you've been purged from your sins or you can kind of lose faith or you can become very backslidden. 54:35.040 --> 54:45.040 And so that's why it's important to keep serving God because he'll keep confirming to you, you know, all the all the truths of the Bible, all the things that he promises will come true in your life. 54:45.040 --> 54:47.040 And it should be extra confirmation. 54:47.040 --> 54:50.040 And we should constantly count our blessings when these things happen. 54:50.040 --> 54:56.040 But this group of people, they it didn't matter what God did for them. 54:56.040 --> 54:58.040 They just weren't going to get it. 54:58.040 --> 55:00.040 And we don't want to be that kind of people. 55:00.040 --> 55:08.040 We don't want to harden our hearts where we forgot we forget God's blessings in our lives as the confirmation. 55:08.040 --> 55:11.040 You know, it's like our church has gone through so much persecution. 55:11.040 --> 55:18.040 And in the last like two years, it's been almost nothing, especially by comparison, by comparison, virtually nothing. 55:18.040 --> 55:21.040 Obviously, it's still more than your average church in the world. 55:21.040 --> 55:24.040 But just by comparison, it's virtually nothing. 55:24.040 --> 55:29.040 But we don't want to forget how much God delivered us through those events. 55:29.040 --> 55:32.040 And it's like the children of Israel, it's like, hey, I don't want you to forget what I did for you. 55:32.040 --> 55:34.040 He's going to bring up some things like verse four. 55:34.040 --> 55:36.040 Yet the Lord, I'm sorry, verse five. 55:36.040 --> 55:40.040 And I have led you 40 years in the wilderness. 55:40.040 --> 55:45.040 Your clothes are not wax and old upon you and my shoe is not wax and old upon my foot. 55:45.040 --> 55:50.040 Who in here is wearing a shirt that's 40 years old? 55:50.040 --> 55:53.040 Who in here has a shoe that's 40 years old? 55:53.040 --> 55:58.040 There's probably women in here that have shoes and clothes they've never worn. 55:58.040 --> 56:03.040 But there's probably no one in here that's clothes that they've worn for 40 years straight. 56:03.040 --> 56:05.040 And look, they were walking through the wilderness. 56:05.040 --> 56:11.040 They didn't have a closet full of just hundreds of clothing items that they get to swap. 56:11.040 --> 56:14.040 They don't have matching outfits for every one of their purses. 56:14.040 --> 56:21.040 They're wearing the same shirts and the same pants and the same dresses and the same skirts and the same shoes. 56:21.040 --> 56:23.040 I mean, these things weren't made in China, folks. 56:23.040 --> 56:26.040 OK, they lasted 40 years. 56:26.040 --> 56:29.040 But but why did they last 40 years? 56:29.040 --> 56:32.040 It's humanly impossible. 56:32.040 --> 56:34.040 I mean, they're not just at home. 56:34.040 --> 56:36.040 They're walking through the wilderness. 56:36.040 --> 56:39.040 This is a rough landscape. 56:39.040 --> 56:41.040 This is a harsh environment. 56:42.040 --> 56:53.040 The fact that their clothes lasted on them was a testimony that God providentially allowed their clothing to last them and endure such harsh conditions. 56:53.040 --> 56:55.040 This was a blessing of God. 56:55.040 --> 56:58.040 This is him delivering them in a mighty way. 56:58.040 --> 56:59.040 That's a miracle. 56:59.040 --> 57:04.040 But, you know, you don't necessarily think about how old your shirt is. 57:04.040 --> 57:06.040 You just grab it and put it on. 57:06.040 --> 57:09.040 You're not like, man, this shirt's lasted me like seven years or 10 years. 57:10.040 --> 57:12.040 So it's real easy to just take it for granted. 57:12.040 --> 57:19.040 It's real easy to just take things for granted that are working because you're not really thinking about it not working. 57:19.040 --> 57:22.040 You typically only think about things not working when they stop working. 57:22.040 --> 57:29.040 It's like when you're older, you start realizing there's all these muscles in your back that you didn't even know existed. 57:29.040 --> 57:33.040 But when it stops working, you're like, wow, I didn't even know that was there, you know. 57:33.040 --> 57:36.040 But I just took it for granted that it always worked. 57:36.040 --> 57:39.040 And now I realize it's nice when it does work. 57:39.040 --> 57:42.040 In the same way, it's like they just didn't really think about it. 57:42.040 --> 57:50.040 It's probably absent from their mind about, hey, I've been putting this shirt on for 40 years and I'm still able to fit it. 57:50.040 --> 57:52.040 You know, that's another miracle, right? 57:52.040 --> 57:53.040 It still fits. 57:53.040 --> 57:54.040 No, just kidding. 57:54.040 --> 58:00.040 But he says in verse six, you have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink that you might know that I'm the Lord your God. 58:00.040 --> 58:06.040 Now, again, I'm going to heavily focus on the first parts of this chapter. 58:06.040 --> 58:08.040 So don't get so nervous, all right? 58:08.040 --> 58:11.040 But I do want to spend some time dwelling on this verse as well, okay? 58:11.040 --> 58:14.040 And we'll still get through the rest of this chapter, I promise you, all right? 58:14.040 --> 58:23.040 But I just this is a verse that I think should is worth time unpacking a little bit just because of how much drunkenness exists in our society. 58:23.040 --> 58:26.040 And this is not a green light to get drunk, okay? 58:26.040 --> 58:29.040 Now, what does he really mean here in verse six? 58:29.040 --> 58:35.040 You have not eaten bread, neither have drunk wine or strong drink that you might know that I am the Lord your God. 58:35.040 --> 58:38.040 Let's really put our thinking caps on for a moment. 58:38.040 --> 58:40.040 So I want you to understand what this is saying. 58:40.040 --> 58:44.040 In verse number five, he is saying, I performed a miracle. 58:44.040 --> 58:46.040 What was the miracle? 58:46.040 --> 58:48.040 Their clothes did not wax old. 58:48.040 --> 58:57.040 So that's evidence that God delivered them through the wilderness because if it wasn't for God, all of their clothes would have wasted away. 58:57.040 --> 59:00.040 And they would have been naked, literally. 59:00.040 --> 59:02.040 You know why they would have been naked? 59:02.040 --> 59:04.040 Because there's not a Costco. 59:04.040 --> 59:06.040 There's not a Walmart. 59:06.040 --> 59:08.040 There's no there's not enough animal skin. 59:08.040 --> 59:11.040 There's not there's they don't have crops that they're growing. 59:11.040 --> 59:14.040 They can't weave together linen. 59:14.040 --> 59:21.040 They would literally their clothes would have literally ripped and torn and they would have been naked or destitute of clothing. 59:21.040 --> 59:27.040 They would have been in rags if it wasn't for God providentially giving them this clothing. 59:27.040 --> 59:33.040 So the fact that their clothes are still on them is a fact of God's miracle deliverance. 59:33.040 --> 59:36.040 That's the same context of verse number six. 59:36.040 --> 59:37.040 What is the context? 59:37.040 --> 59:38.040 They didn't eat bread. 59:38.040 --> 59:40.040 Now, again, we have to understand what he's meaning here. 59:40.040 --> 59:42.040 They did eat bread. 59:42.040 --> 59:44.040 They just didn't eat a certain type of bread. 59:44.040 --> 59:45.040 What is he saying? 59:45.040 --> 59:50.040 They ate manna, which was from heaven, but they did not grow wheat. 59:50.040 --> 59:54.040 And turn that into grain to make flour and make their own bread. 59:54.040 --> 59:57.040 That was like a normal bread that everybody else is eating on the world. 59:57.040 --> 01:00:00.040 Everybody else in the world just eating normal bread from grain. 01:00:00.040 --> 01:00:01.040 They're in the wilderness. 01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:02.040 They're not growing crops. 01:00:02.040 --> 01:00:03.040 They don't have grain. 01:00:03.040 --> 01:00:04.040 They're not trading with anybody. 01:00:04.040 --> 01:00:08.040 There's no one importing goods to their little wilderness trail. 01:00:08.040 --> 01:00:10.040 How did they survive? 01:00:10.040 --> 01:00:15.040 They had to gather manna and eat the manna, which was heavenly bread. 01:00:15.040 --> 01:00:22.040 So saying, remember, you lasted 40 years without growing a single crop. 01:00:22.040 --> 01:00:24.040 You had no imports. 01:00:24.040 --> 01:00:26.040 You did not have bread. 01:00:26.040 --> 01:00:27.040 You didn't have wine. 01:00:27.040 --> 01:00:30.040 Again, they're not growing grapes either in the wilderness. 01:00:30.040 --> 01:00:33.040 So all of these are really easy to understand so far. 01:00:33.040 --> 01:00:34.040 But then there's strong drink. 01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:36.040 And that's what I want to focus on. 01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:37.040 What is he saying? 01:00:37.040 --> 01:00:43.040 You somehow survived the wilderness without any bread, without any wine, 01:00:43.040 --> 01:00:48.040 which would just be, of course, juice, as we understand it, or strong drink. 01:00:48.040 --> 01:00:49.040 What is strong drink? 01:00:49.040 --> 01:00:54.040 I think it's clear in the Bible that strong drink is a very intoxicated beverage. 01:00:54.040 --> 01:01:00.040 Albeit, it's probably not even close to what we have as like hard liquors today 01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:06.040 because the process of distilling liquors seems to be a modern invention. 01:01:06.040 --> 01:01:10.040 Albeit, it would have been a more intoxicating beverage 01:01:10.040 --> 01:01:15.040 and probably just a typical wine that had been fermented. 01:01:15.040 --> 01:01:20.040 So it's definitely, whatever their strongest version of alcoholic beverage is, 01:01:20.040 --> 01:01:22.040 that's what the strong drink is. 01:01:22.040 --> 01:01:23.040 I'm not going to put out a percentage. 01:01:23.040 --> 01:01:26.040 I have no idea what percentage of the alcohol it was. 01:01:26.040 --> 01:01:31.040 But it's probably still not even necessarily as high as some of the alcohols we had today. 01:01:31.040 --> 01:01:35.040 Maybe it is, and we just don't know their technology or their processes back then. 01:01:35.040 --> 01:01:37.040 But it's definitely an alcoholic beverage. 01:01:37.040 --> 01:01:39.040 Why would this be the case? 01:01:39.040 --> 01:01:42.040 Like, hey, you know, you made it through the wilderness of the miracle 01:01:42.040 --> 01:01:44.040 because you didn't have booze. 01:01:44.040 --> 01:01:47.040 Like on the surface, it kind of seems difficult to understand. 01:01:47.040 --> 01:01:52.040 But this is what I want you to understand is that alcohol, 01:01:52.040 --> 01:01:57.040 especially strong alcohol, in this context, for these people at this time, 01:01:57.040 --> 01:02:00.040 would have been like a medicine. 01:02:01.040 --> 01:02:07.040 Today, if you need a painkiller or if you need some kind of a pain relief, 01:02:07.040 --> 01:02:12.040 you go to the pharmacy or to the drug store and you get some kind of a drug. 01:02:12.040 --> 01:02:17.040 That's just medicine to basically aid or help you in your situation. 01:02:17.040 --> 01:02:21.040 They don't have CVS. They don't have Walgreens. 01:02:21.040 --> 01:02:23.040 They don't have any of this kind of stuff. 01:02:23.040 --> 01:02:28.040 So of course, strong drink would be basically their form of pain relief or medicine 01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:32.040 in specific circumstances while they're going through the wilderness. 01:02:32.040 --> 01:02:35.040 This is not a recreational booze. 01:02:35.040 --> 01:02:38.040 They're not having mixed drinks with dinner. 01:02:38.040 --> 01:02:40.040 They're not drinking alcohol for fun. 01:02:40.040 --> 01:02:43.040 It's basically their form of medicine. 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:45.040 But again, what is the context? 01:02:45.040 --> 01:02:48.040 The context is that they didn't do this, right? 01:02:48.040 --> 01:02:51.040 It says that you did not eat bread, you did not drink wine, 01:02:51.040 --> 01:02:53.040 you did not drink strong drink. 01:02:53.040 --> 01:02:57.040 So if someone were to go through the wilderness without God's help, 01:02:57.040 --> 01:02:58.040 how could they do it? 01:02:58.040 --> 01:03:03.040 Well, if they had an abundance of food and beverages and medicine, 01:03:03.040 --> 01:03:07.040 well, then they could have made it through by their own means, right? 01:03:07.040 --> 01:03:12.040 But without any food, without any beverage, and without any medicine, 01:03:12.040 --> 01:03:15.040 they were able to get through the wilderness of those 40 years, 01:03:15.040 --> 01:03:17.040 which is a what? It's a testimony to God. 01:03:17.040 --> 01:03:22.040 God was allowed to take them through the wilderness without this food, 01:03:23.040 --> 01:03:26.040 without this beverage, without this medicine. 01:03:26.040 --> 01:03:28.040 That's the testimony to God. 01:03:28.040 --> 01:03:29.040 Think about it this way. 01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:33.040 What if you went 10 years of your life never getting sick or injured in any way? 01:03:33.040 --> 01:03:35.040 That would be a great thing, right? 01:03:35.040 --> 01:03:37.040 And he's basically saying, think about this. 01:03:37.040 --> 01:03:42.040 What if you did it for 40 years and not just you, all million of you? 01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:45.040 Well, that's a miracle because let's just face it. 01:03:45.040 --> 01:03:51.040 How can millions of people go 40 years without needing any medicine whatsoever 01:03:51.040 --> 01:03:53.040 or painkillers for 40 years? 01:03:53.040 --> 01:03:55.040 I mean, that's just kind of absurd, right? 01:03:55.040 --> 01:03:59.040 They were able to get through this because of God blessing them, 01:03:59.040 --> 01:04:04.040 God taking care of them, providentially allowing them to get through this wilderness. 01:04:04.040 --> 01:04:07.040 Of course, there's spiritual layers of this. 01:04:07.040 --> 01:04:10.040 I'm going to go, I'm going to dwell on this point, go to Leviticus chapter 10. 01:04:10.040 --> 01:04:14.040 You know, wilderness is kind of a picture of the Christian life. 01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:18.040 And we as Christians are, we're like going through the wilderness. 01:04:18.040 --> 01:04:19.040 Think about this. 01:04:19.040 --> 01:04:24.040 When you put your trust in God, he's able to get you from now until heaven 01:04:24.040 --> 01:04:27.040 without you having to stockpile all the things of this world. 01:04:27.040 --> 01:04:30.040 You seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 01:04:30.040 --> 01:04:33.040 and he adds all these things unto you. 01:04:33.040 --> 01:04:36.040 Whereas the rich are seeking for the bread and the wine 01:04:36.040 --> 01:04:39.040 and the medicines of this world to last them. 01:04:39.040 --> 01:04:43.040 And isn't it funny, so many people that are seeking the medicines of this world today die so young. 01:04:43.040 --> 01:04:47.040 Didn't the Jew that owns like OnlyFans or something die recently, 01:04:47.040 --> 01:04:50.040 like 40 years old or something? 01:04:50.040 --> 01:04:52.040 I mean, the guy's probably a billionaire. 01:04:52.040 --> 01:04:57.040 I mean, set for sure hundreds of millions of dollars, 01:04:57.040 --> 01:05:00.040 has unlimited money, unlimited medicine, whatever, 01:05:00.040 --> 01:05:02.040 dies at 40, dies at 50 or whatever. 01:05:02.040 --> 01:05:06.040 Why? Because he's a wicked, evil, satanic piece of dung that's burning in hell. 01:05:06.040 --> 01:05:08.040 Okay, that corrupted our country. 01:05:08.040 --> 01:05:11.040 Because it doesn't matter how much money you have, 01:05:11.040 --> 01:05:15.040 hey, God can strike you dead wherever you are. 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:18.040 And you know what? You could be poor and destitute, 01:05:18.040 --> 01:05:21.040 and God can just preserve you and deliver you and take you to the end, 01:05:21.040 --> 01:05:24.040 and you can still live a long, prosperous life, 01:05:24.040 --> 01:05:28.040 maybe not financially, but just prosperous in the kingdom of God, 01:05:28.040 --> 01:05:35.040 without all that money, with all that smut and filth and degeneracy 01:05:35.040 --> 01:05:38.040 that many people are pouring out in our country. 01:05:38.040 --> 01:05:41.040 But I want to further prove this point, because it's a Bible study. 01:05:41.040 --> 01:05:45.040 I don't want to walk away and you have a weird idea about strong drink. 01:05:45.040 --> 01:05:47.040 Now, strong drink, I'm not going to go to every mention. 01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:50.040 There's about 20 in the Bible, but I want to go to several of them. 01:05:50.040 --> 01:05:54.040 Look at Leviticus chapter number 10, verse number 9. 01:05:54.040 --> 01:05:56.040 The Bible says, 01:05:56.040 --> 01:06:02.040 Do not drink wine, nor strong drink, thou nor thy sons with thee, 01:06:02.040 --> 01:06:06.040 when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die. 01:06:06.040 --> 01:06:10.040 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 01:06:10.040 --> 01:06:13.040 Now, Nadeb and Abihu, they offer strange fire before the Lord, 01:06:13.040 --> 01:06:18.040 and the implication or the assumption is that these guys went into the house 01:06:18.040 --> 01:06:23.040 and got drunk in some way, and that's why they offered this strange fire. 01:06:23.040 --> 01:06:27.040 They started a new tradition, and it was smoked, all right? 01:06:27.040 --> 01:06:29.040 They got burned immediately. 01:06:29.040 --> 01:06:32.040 And again, what would be a modern day application? 01:06:32.040 --> 01:06:34.040 Well, just don't show up at church drunk, right? 01:06:34.040 --> 01:06:36.040 I mean, that seems pretty obvious, pretty clear. 01:06:37.040 --> 01:06:43.040 But again, this would be obviously a prohibition on drinking strong drink, 01:06:43.040 --> 01:06:45.040 but again, it's in a context. 01:06:45.040 --> 01:06:48.040 It's in a context of going to the house of the Lord. 01:06:48.040 --> 01:06:51.040 Why? Because you're going to do weird, strange things, 01:06:51.040 --> 01:06:53.040 showing the intoxicating effects of strong drink. 01:06:53.040 --> 01:06:56.040 Go to Numbers chapter 6. Go to Numbers chapter number 6. 01:06:56.040 --> 01:07:01.040 So obviously, biblically speaking, drinking strong drink is not a good idea. 01:07:01.040 --> 01:07:04.040 There's no way that we could draw any other conclusion 01:07:04.040 --> 01:07:06.040 than the fact that it's not a good idea. 01:07:06.040 --> 01:07:09.040 You're going to do weird things, strange things. 01:07:09.040 --> 01:07:12.040 That's the implication for Nadab and Abihu. 01:07:12.040 --> 01:07:14.040 Numbers chapter 6, verse 3. 01:07:23.040 --> 01:07:25.040 So when someone makes a Nazarite vow, 01:07:25.040 --> 01:07:29.040 they are to abstain completely from drinking any beverage 01:07:29.040 --> 01:07:32.040 that is coming from the fruit of the vine, 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:35.040 whether it be grape juice or some other equivalent fruit, 01:07:35.040 --> 01:07:38.040 including and up to strong drink. 01:07:38.040 --> 01:07:40.040 Go to Numbers 28. 01:07:40.040 --> 01:07:45.040 We see Jesus Christ, even when he's going to the cross, 01:07:45.040 --> 01:07:48.040 he's offered some kind of a medicinal drink 01:07:48.040 --> 01:07:52.040 that could either kill him quicker or maybe dead in the pain or something, 01:07:52.040 --> 01:07:54.040 and he refuses it. He doesn't want to drink it. 01:07:54.040 --> 01:07:57.040 And so you could kind of see like even Jesus is refusing 01:07:57.040 --> 01:08:01.040 this strong drink in that particular way. 01:08:01.040 --> 01:08:04.040 Numbers chapter 28, look at verse 7. 01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:19.040 So in the Old Testament, sometimes they use strong drink as a poor offering. 01:08:19.040 --> 01:08:21.040 And again, why? Why would you use a strong drink? 01:08:21.040 --> 01:08:25.040 Well, again, it's been fermented, so it kind of has that same picture of leaven, 01:08:25.040 --> 01:08:27.040 which is a picture of what? Sin. 01:08:27.040 --> 01:08:29.040 And of course, why was it poured out? 01:08:29.040 --> 01:08:31.040 Well, it's showing the fact that Jesus Christ 01:08:31.040 --> 01:08:33.040 bear our sins and his own body on the tree 01:08:33.040 --> 01:08:36.040 and that his blood was spilled for our sin. 01:08:36.040 --> 01:08:38.040 OK, so why would you use an intoxicating beverage? 01:08:38.040 --> 01:08:41.040 Because the intoxicating beverage is the picture of Christ 01:08:41.040 --> 01:08:44.040 bearing our sins and his own body. Right? 01:08:44.040 --> 01:08:47.040 Now, we say, why would they have the intoxicating beverage? 01:08:47.040 --> 01:08:51.040 It's probably only accessible for medicinal purposes. 01:08:51.040 --> 01:08:55.040 But at the end of the day, don't some people abuse medicine today? 01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:58.040 So am I supposed to believe that no one's abusing the medicine 01:08:58.040 --> 01:09:00.040 of the ancient civilizations of strong drink 01:09:00.040 --> 01:09:04.040 or making strong drink on purpose to be abused? 01:09:04.040 --> 01:09:08.040 You know, it's not to be recreationally used in the same way that today 01:09:08.040 --> 01:09:12.040 you shouldn't be recreationally using painkillers and drugs. 01:09:12.040 --> 01:09:15.040 They're highly addictive. They can harm you in so many different ways. 01:09:15.040 --> 01:09:18.040 And of course, booze specifically, alcohol specifically, 01:09:18.040 --> 01:09:22.040 has a lot of verses in the Bible that are very negative towards them. 01:09:22.040 --> 01:09:25.040 The other way to Deuteronomy chapter 14, Deuteronomy chapter 14. 01:09:25.040 --> 01:09:27.040 And I'm trying to paint an honest picture here 01:09:27.040 --> 01:09:32.040 because there are some verses that have some what seems like positive mentions. 01:09:32.040 --> 01:09:36.040 And I don't want us to, you know, be easily swayed away from this 01:09:36.040 --> 01:09:38.040 to think that drinking is cool now or something. 01:09:38.040 --> 01:09:40.040 Or like, hey, let's go out and just get drunk. 01:09:40.040 --> 01:09:43.040 Or let's have a wine party at church. 01:09:43.040 --> 01:09:47.040 Now, that sounds crazy, but I am not joking. 01:09:47.040 --> 01:09:50.040 When I grew up in a church, it was a non-denominational church. 01:09:50.040 --> 01:09:53.040 We had this guy come in that was like an assistant pastor at the time 01:09:53.040 --> 01:09:55.040 or he was part of leadership. 01:09:55.040 --> 01:09:57.040 And it was his first time to preach to our congregation. 01:09:57.040 --> 01:10:02.040 And he said, hey, I had this like dream last night, whatever, 01:10:02.040 --> 01:10:05.040 that we should have a wine tasting at church. 01:10:05.040 --> 01:10:09.040 And he was just basically like putting the feeler out there 01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:12.040 to just see how the congregation would respond to this idea of like, 01:10:12.040 --> 01:10:15.040 you know, having just this party at church 01:10:15.040 --> 01:10:18.040 where everybody's just drinking wine together. 01:10:18.040 --> 01:10:22.040 And I was just like, what in the world? This guy is wicked as hell. 01:10:22.040 --> 01:10:24.040 Like, this is your first sermon? 01:10:24.040 --> 01:10:29.040 Your first sermon to the church is like, hey, let's all get drunk. 01:10:29.040 --> 01:10:33.040 And of course, you know, they want to sit here and be like, oh, we wouldn't get drunk. 01:10:33.040 --> 01:10:35.040 You're going to tell me that you're going to have thousands of people, 01:10:35.040 --> 01:10:37.040 because this is a big church, you're going to have thousands of people 01:10:37.040 --> 01:10:41.040 coming to an open bar at church, unlimited wine, 01:10:41.040 --> 01:10:43.040 and no one's going to get drunk. 01:10:43.040 --> 01:10:45.040 No one is going to intoxicate themselves. 01:10:45.040 --> 01:10:46.040 No one's going to go over the limit. 01:10:46.040 --> 01:10:48.040 I mean, what kind of foolishness and nonsense? 01:10:48.040 --> 01:10:49.040 It's the house of God. 01:10:49.040 --> 01:10:51.040 I mean, you're trying to be like, Neda having a bite. 01:10:51.040 --> 01:10:54.040 It's like a playbook out of Neba and Abihu's tradition. 01:10:54.040 --> 01:10:57.040 It's like, hey, let's see what we should do here. 01:10:57.040 --> 01:11:01.040 It's wicked. It's evil. It's satanic. It makes no sense. 01:11:01.040 --> 01:11:03.040 Strange fire. 01:11:03.040 --> 01:11:05.040 Deuteronomy chapter 14, look at verse 26. 01:11:05.040 --> 01:11:09.040 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, 01:11:09.040 --> 01:11:12.040 for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, 01:11:12.040 --> 01:11:15.040 or for whatsoever thy soul desireth, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, 01:11:15.040 --> 01:11:17.040 and thou shalt rejoice thou in thine household. 01:11:17.040 --> 01:11:18.040 Now, here's the thing. 01:11:18.040 --> 01:11:19.040 The Bible is bringing up the context. 01:11:19.040 --> 01:11:21.040 We read this earlier. 01:11:21.040 --> 01:11:23.040 I just didn't explain it that much. 01:11:23.040 --> 01:11:28.040 But, you know, we have the ties from a foreign area. 01:11:28.040 --> 01:11:30.040 They may not be able to bring them physically. 01:11:30.040 --> 01:11:32.040 It's like they have all these sheep or cattle. 01:11:32.040 --> 01:11:33.040 It's a long journey. 01:11:33.040 --> 01:11:35.040 They may not make it, robbers, whatever. 01:11:35.040 --> 01:11:37.040 So they turn it into money. 01:11:37.040 --> 01:11:39.040 They travel to Jerusalem. 01:11:39.040 --> 01:11:42.040 And then they convert it back into the merchandise, 01:11:42.040 --> 01:11:45.040 whether that be what it said, whatever they want, 01:11:45.040 --> 01:11:46.040 one including strong drink. 01:11:46.040 --> 01:11:49.040 Why would somebody turn it into strong drink? 01:11:49.040 --> 01:11:52.040 Well, maybe, again, if it's a medicinal thing, 01:11:52.040 --> 01:11:55.040 maybe they just wanted to have some for medicinal reason 01:11:55.040 --> 01:11:57.040 or simply just for the poor offering 01:11:57.040 --> 01:12:00.040 because they want to observe the poor offering. 01:12:00.040 --> 01:12:02.040 But again, is this saying like, hey, let's get drunk. 01:12:02.040 --> 01:12:04.040 Let's, you know, have some kind of a party? 01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:05.040 Absolutely not. 01:12:05.040 --> 01:12:08.040 That would not be what this is saying whatsoever. 01:12:08.040 --> 01:12:11.040 Obviously, lots of people like to have medicine on hand 01:12:11.040 --> 01:12:14.040 or use it occasionally for relief or whatever. 01:12:14.040 --> 01:12:16.040 I mean, you just travel across the country. 01:12:16.040 --> 01:12:18.040 You don't think anybody would possibly want 01:12:18.040 --> 01:12:20.040 some kind of a medicine potentially. 01:12:20.040 --> 01:12:22.040 Now, I'm going to prove this. 01:12:22.040 --> 01:12:24.040 Go to, if you want to 1 Timothy chapter number five, 01:12:24.040 --> 01:12:26.040 go to 1 Timothy chapter number five. 01:12:26.040 --> 01:12:29.040 Obviously, you can also understand, too, 01:12:29.040 --> 01:12:33.040 that even if someone had, quote, strong drink, 01:12:33.040 --> 01:12:36.040 they may not be taking shots directly from it. 01:12:36.040 --> 01:12:39.040 In the ancient world, sometimes they would take the stuff 01:12:39.040 --> 01:12:40.040 and they would mix it. 01:12:40.040 --> 01:12:43.040 They would water it down for the medicinal purpose. 01:12:43.040 --> 01:12:46.040 For the medicinal purpose or for the medicinal aspect. 01:12:46.040 --> 01:12:50.040 1 Timothy chapter five, look at verse 23. 01:12:50.040 --> 01:12:52.040 This is the instructions from Paul to Timothy. 01:12:52.040 --> 01:12:58.040 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake 01:12:58.040 --> 01:13:00.040 and thine often notice this infirmities. 01:13:00.040 --> 01:13:05.040 So the Bible brings up that wine is used in a medicinal way 01:13:05.040 --> 01:13:06.040 in the New Testament. 01:13:06.040 --> 01:13:09.040 Now, again, this may not even been an intoxicating beverage. 01:13:09.040 --> 01:13:12.040 I'm not saying that necessarily this one is for sure, 01:13:12.040 --> 01:13:15.040 but we just see that this has some medicinal use. 01:13:15.040 --> 01:13:17.040 And of course, people understand sometimes juice can help you 01:13:17.040 --> 01:13:20.040 with stomach issues, stomach problems. 01:13:20.040 --> 01:13:25.040 And again, obviously, you could have a potential need for a painkiller 01:13:25.040 --> 01:13:28.040 here and there or based on certain situations. 01:13:28.040 --> 01:13:31.040 And sometimes people could be potentially using these. 01:13:31.040 --> 01:13:34.040 Obviously, in today's world, I'm not mad when people use a painkiller. 01:13:34.040 --> 01:13:36.040 But if they're using it recreationally, 01:13:36.040 --> 01:13:40.040 if they're going to the store and buying them and grinding them down 01:13:40.040 --> 01:13:43.040 and making a meth lab, obviously, that's wicked as hell. 01:13:43.040 --> 01:13:46.040 So we have to understand there's a clear difference between 01:13:46.040 --> 01:13:51.040 a godly Christian occasionally using something for medicinal purpose. 01:13:51.040 --> 01:13:52.040 Let's just be honest. 01:13:52.040 --> 01:13:56.040 Who's ever had Nyquil? 01:13:56.040 --> 01:13:59.040 I mean, I'm not trying to get people in trouble here. 01:13:59.040 --> 01:14:04.040 Now, don't do this scary thing, but go home, look at the Nyquil bottle, 01:14:04.040 --> 01:14:09.040 and you'll notice something that there's a little bit of alcohol in Nyquil. 01:14:09.040 --> 01:14:11.040 Okay, and I'm not trying to scare you. 01:14:11.040 --> 01:14:13.040 I'm just trying to be honest with you. 01:14:13.040 --> 01:14:14.040 But here's the thing. 01:14:14.040 --> 01:14:19.040 You know how much Nyquil you would have to drink in order to get drunk? 01:14:19.040 --> 01:14:24.040 I mean, it would be insane to think that someone's going to get drunk from Nyquil. 01:14:24.040 --> 01:14:29.040 But at the end of the day, obviously, it's being put in there for a specific purpose. 01:14:29.040 --> 01:14:31.040 What? So you get knocked out and go to sleep. 01:14:31.040 --> 01:14:33.040 You know what I mean? 01:14:33.040 --> 01:14:36.040 And look, am I saying, oh, if you use Nyquil, you're wicked or something, 01:14:36.040 --> 01:14:38.040 or you're a bad person, or you're not godly. 01:14:38.040 --> 01:14:41.040 This is where the holier-than-thou's come into play, and I'm telling you what. 01:14:41.040 --> 01:14:43.040 You'll preach a good sermon against alcohol, 01:14:43.040 --> 01:14:46.040 and then they'll be like, people that use Nyquil are wicked as hell. 01:14:46.040 --> 01:14:51.040 It's this idea you preach against people being naked, 01:14:51.040 --> 01:14:54.040 and they're like, man, if men are showing their elbows, that's wicked. 01:14:54.040 --> 01:14:56.040 You need to wear a coat. 01:14:56.040 --> 01:14:59.040 This is like over-the-top kind of type stuff. 01:14:59.040 --> 01:15:05.040 But it's a big stretch to go from, hey, every once in a while someone uses Nyquil, 01:15:06.040 --> 01:15:11.040 to, hey, now I'm going to start having Jack Daniels mixed in with Coke 01:15:11.040 --> 01:15:13.040 and drinking it every night. 01:15:13.040 --> 01:15:15.040 You know, that's a big jump, okay? 01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:18.040 And only a fool would try to make that comparison 01:15:18.040 --> 01:15:22.040 or try to take some of these verses and twist them into, now let's drink Jack Daniels. 01:15:22.040 --> 01:15:25.040 Let's go to some more verses. Go back to Proverbs, chapter 20. 01:15:25.040 --> 01:15:27.040 Go to Proverbs, chapter number 20. 01:15:27.040 --> 01:15:29.040 I'm just trying to be reasonable with the text here. 01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:32.040 And if you disagree with me, if you don't like what I'm saying, that's fine. 01:15:32.040 --> 01:15:34.040 You can believe whatever you want. 01:15:34.040 --> 01:15:42.040 I'm trying to show a clear example of how I believe the Bible could be giving us an interpretation here 01:15:42.040 --> 01:15:46.040 that strong drink could have a legitimate use of what? 01:15:46.040 --> 01:15:50.040 A medicinal purpose in certain contexts, in certain situations, 01:15:50.040 --> 01:15:53.040 not to be abused, not to be taken advantage of. 01:15:53.040 --> 01:15:54.040 That would be wicked. 01:15:54.040 --> 01:15:56.040 The Bible says in Proverbs 20, look at verse 1, 01:15:56.040 --> 01:16:02.040 wine is a mockery, strong drink is raging, and whose service deceived thereby is not wise. 01:16:02.040 --> 01:16:09.040 Obviously anybody that's deceived by alcohol and using alcohol recreationally or for fun is deceived. 01:16:09.040 --> 01:16:14.040 And the Bible says that you're going to be mocked and doing silly things. 01:16:14.040 --> 01:16:17.040 Proverbs 23 makes it even worse. 01:16:17.040 --> 01:16:20.040 It says in verse 29, who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contention, 01:16:20.040 --> 01:16:23.040 who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause, who hath redness of eyes? 01:16:23.040 --> 01:16:26.040 They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. 01:16:26.040 --> 01:16:31.040 This person's just drinking obsessively to what? Get drunk. 01:16:31.040 --> 01:16:36.040 And that's what most people do when they drink beer or liquor, is they're just trying to get drunk. 01:16:36.040 --> 01:16:41.040 He says, look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, 01:16:41.040 --> 01:16:42.040 when it moveth itself aright. 01:16:42.040 --> 01:16:45.040 So this is talking about a fermentation process. 01:16:45.040 --> 01:16:52.040 So obviously there's nothing wrong with drinking as much as you want a fruit beverage. 01:16:52.040 --> 01:16:55.040 You can drink as much grape juice as you want. 01:16:55.040 --> 01:16:58.040 You can drink as much of a fruit beverage as you want. 01:16:58.040 --> 01:17:03.040 But what it is saying is that when it's fermented, wow, you should not be looking at this. 01:17:03.040 --> 01:17:10.040 You shouldn't be trying to take advantage of this, drinking it for the purposes of drunkenness. 01:17:10.040 --> 01:17:15.040 Why? He says, at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. 01:17:15.040 --> 01:17:19.040 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 01:17:19.040 --> 01:17:22.040 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, 01:17:22.040 --> 01:17:24.040 or as he that lieth upon the top of a mass. 01:17:24.040 --> 01:17:28.040 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick. 01:17:28.040 --> 01:17:31.040 They have beaten me, and I felt it not. 01:17:31.040 --> 01:17:35.040 When shall I awake? I will yet, or I will seek it yet again. 01:17:35.040 --> 01:17:38.040 Again, what is the context here? 01:17:38.040 --> 01:17:45.040 The context is someone that's drinking alcohol and they're becoming drunk and they're doing bad things. 01:17:45.040 --> 01:17:50.040 They're getting injured, probably either just doing stupid things, maybe getting into fights. 01:17:50.040 --> 01:17:54.040 Of course, you go to the bar, people get in bar fights all the time. 01:17:54.040 --> 01:17:57.040 They're getting wounds without cause, what the Bible says. 01:17:57.040 --> 01:18:00.040 They shouldn't have even been injured and they get injured. 01:18:00.040 --> 01:18:04.040 Or they're self-harming because they just don't have all their faculties. 01:18:04.040 --> 01:18:07.040 Drunk driving is a huge problem in America. 01:18:07.040 --> 01:18:10.040 People are harming themselves without necessarily trying to do that, 01:18:10.040 --> 01:18:12.040 or they shouldn't have had to have done that. 01:18:12.040 --> 01:18:16.040 But you could take a secondary understanding from verse 35. 01:18:16.040 --> 01:18:21.040 Notice it says they have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick. 01:18:21.040 --> 01:18:23.040 They have beaten me, and I felt it not. 01:18:23.040 --> 01:18:26.040 Notice that there's a deadening effect to alcohol. 01:18:26.040 --> 01:18:28.040 We can't sit here and lie. 01:18:28.040 --> 01:18:33.040 If you drink enough alcohol, you don't feel as much physical pain. 01:18:33.040 --> 01:18:36.040 That is one of the aspects of drinking alcohol. 01:18:36.040 --> 01:18:40.040 So obviously, if we put this in a different context, 01:18:40.040 --> 01:18:45.040 couldn't we then make the argument that the Bible is teaching that alcohol actually is a pain reliever? 01:18:45.040 --> 01:18:47.040 Now, is this a legitimate use? 01:18:47.040 --> 01:18:51.040 Is this guy sick and using it for a medicinal purpose? 01:18:51.040 --> 01:18:55.040 No. He's just going out there and doing this because he wants to feel this feeling, 01:18:55.040 --> 01:19:00.040 or this buzz, or to say perverted things, or to look on strange women, or whatever. 01:19:00.040 --> 01:19:04.040 And again, he's having woe and sorrow and whatever. 01:19:04.040 --> 01:19:07.040 Also, he's like just sleeping, you know, long periods of time. 01:19:07.040 --> 01:19:13.040 So yeah, it could make sense that someone gets injured in the military in times past, 01:19:13.040 --> 01:19:18.040 and before they saw your leg off, they're like, hey, let's give them a little bit of booze, you know? 01:19:18.040 --> 01:19:21.040 Or bite on this stick, or something. 01:19:21.040 --> 01:19:27.040 I mean, you know, it's like if I was in the 1800s, you know, if I'm in the Civil War, 01:19:27.040 --> 01:19:32.040 and I just got a bullet through my leg, and then it started turning green, 01:19:32.040 --> 01:19:37.040 and it's gangrene all over my leg, and it's decomposing and rotting and about to die, 01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:40.040 and they pull out a saw, and they're like, do you want to bite on the stick, 01:19:40.040 --> 01:19:44.040 or would you like to just drink this alcohol real quick before we saw it off? 01:19:44.040 --> 01:19:47.040 I'd be like, pass me the booze. 01:19:47.040 --> 01:19:51.040 Give me the NyQuil, you know what I mean? 01:19:51.040 --> 01:19:55.040 I wouldn't want to just sit here and grin and bear it, okay? 01:19:55.040 --> 01:20:00.040 But at the end of the day, does that mean that now, hey, I'm just having dinner with my family, 01:20:00.040 --> 01:20:04.040 I'm going to mix some Jack and Coke, I'm going to go to the liquor store, 01:20:04.040 --> 01:20:08.040 and I'm going to have some kind of, you know, alcoholic beverage? 01:20:08.040 --> 01:20:12.040 No. And of course, you go to a hospital today, we have even better medicines today, 01:20:12.040 --> 01:20:17.040 we have better pain relievers, better painkillers, things like morphine and all kinds of stuff. 01:20:17.040 --> 01:20:20.040 But, hey, you should be careful with that stuff still. 01:20:20.040 --> 01:20:26.040 People can get addicted to morphine, to painkillers, and they go out and harm themselves. 01:20:26.040 --> 01:20:31.040 Obviously, there's certain drugs that can make it to where you feel literally no pain whatsoever. 01:20:31.040 --> 01:20:35.040 And you have to be careful with that stuff. It should not be used lightly. 01:20:36.040 --> 01:20:40.040 It should be taken very seriously. But when you're on drugs, you know what they say? 01:20:40.040 --> 01:20:45.040 If you're at the hospital, they say, don't drive, don't go home, don't operate heavy machinery, 01:20:45.040 --> 01:20:49.040 don't do these kind of things because it's dangerous. 01:20:49.040 --> 01:20:55.040 Yet people will drink and do all this kind of stuff and harm others in the process. 01:20:55.040 --> 01:21:00.040 This is not a recommendation. Look at Proverbs 31. Let's get some more verses on this. 01:21:00.040 --> 01:21:03.040 Proverbs 31, look at verse 4. 01:21:03.040 --> 01:21:09.040 It is not for kings, O'Lemuel. It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink. 01:21:09.040 --> 01:21:13.040 So the general prohibition is, don't drink alcohol ever. 01:21:13.040 --> 01:21:17.040 Be someone that just abstains from alcohol and just don't drink it. 01:21:17.040 --> 01:21:21.040 He says, lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any afflicted. 01:21:21.040 --> 01:21:24.040 Here's another consequence, you lose your mind. 01:21:24.040 --> 01:21:29.040 Well, why do you want to do that? He says, give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish. 01:21:29.040 --> 01:21:35.040 Yeah, the guy that's about to die, that's on the operating table, give it to him. 01:21:35.040 --> 01:21:40.040 Let's reserve medicine for that situation. 01:21:40.040 --> 01:21:47.040 Don't take the medicine from the guy that's about to die and just excessively drink yourself into oblivion for no reason. 01:21:47.040 --> 01:21:51.040 He's saying, give it to the guy that's ready to perish. That's the guy. 01:21:51.040 --> 01:21:54.040 But you're not that guy. You're not about to die. 01:21:54.040 --> 01:21:57.040 He says, give it wine unto those that have heavy hearts. 01:21:57.040 --> 01:22:00.040 Why do some people drink? Well, obviously the medicinal purpose. 01:22:00.040 --> 01:22:03.040 Why do people abuse it? Because they feel sad. 01:22:03.040 --> 01:22:10.040 And instead of going to a good source to console them, they go to a bad source, which would be alcohol. 01:22:10.040 --> 01:22:15.040 Why is it that so many country music songs are so sad? 01:22:15.040 --> 01:22:18.040 Because they're sung at the bar. 01:22:18.040 --> 01:22:21.040 They're not singing. The person that's happy doesn't need to drink. 01:22:21.040 --> 01:22:29.040 The guy that, you know, my dog died and my wife left and my truck, you know, finally gave out and my crops didn't come in. 01:22:29.040 --> 01:22:36.040 And, you know, that there's a tear in my beer and, you know, I'm just I'm just going to go do that honky tonk. 01:22:36.040 --> 01:22:39.040 And it's like, why are they doing that? 01:22:39.040 --> 01:22:43.040 What are the songs about? Sleeping around and being sad. 01:22:43.040 --> 01:22:46.040 And then it's like you read the Bible. Why do people drink? 01:22:46.040 --> 01:22:50.040 Because they want to see strange women and because they have a heavy heart. 01:22:50.040 --> 01:22:54.040 It's like it's almost like the Bible knew what it was talking about. Huh? 01:22:54.040 --> 01:22:59.040 So, hey, just avoid fornication by what? Never drinking. 01:22:59.040 --> 01:23:02.040 And then number two, if you're sad, seek an alternative. 01:23:02.040 --> 01:23:07.040 You know, seek church, seek the blessings that God's given you. 01:23:07.040 --> 01:23:10.040 You know, seek chocolate. All right. 01:23:10.040 --> 01:23:14.040 Turn to chocolate. Turn to brisket. Have a steak. 01:23:14.040 --> 01:23:19.040 You know, if you're just like really, really sad, just go buy a fifty dollar steak. 01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:24.040 Don't buy a fifty dollar back bottle of Jack Daniels. Right. 01:23:24.040 --> 01:23:28.040 You know, and after the fifty dollar steak, tell me how you feel. OK. 01:23:28.040 --> 01:23:35.040 You know, maybe maybe if all the drunkards would spend their money on things that are fine, they wouldn't be so miserable. 01:23:35.040 --> 01:23:40.040 You know, spending money on drugs and alcohol ruins your life and just ruins everything that you have. 01:23:40.040 --> 01:23:46.040 You know, people wonder like, how do you eat good meals? Well, I'm not paying alimony. 01:23:46.040 --> 01:23:50.040 I'm not paying child support. I saw someone post some picture. I don't know if it's real or not. 01:23:50.040 --> 01:23:53.040 You know, nothing. You can't know if anything's real anymore. 01:23:53.040 --> 01:23:59.040 But it's a picture of someone's pay stub. And it was like they got like twenty three hundred bucks for their pay period or whatever. 01:23:59.040 --> 01:24:05.040 And then it was just like taxes. And then it was just like alimony, child support, child support, child support. 01:24:05.040 --> 01:24:08.040 It was like he got like two hundred dollars left over or something. 01:24:08.040 --> 01:24:13.040 And I was like, I could see where that guy is going to the bar and drinking himself to oblivion. 01:24:13.040 --> 01:24:17.040 He just worked for two weeks and he got nothing. 01:24:17.040 --> 01:24:23.040 And I mean, I can't even imagine paying for my wife to go shack up with another man. 01:24:23.040 --> 01:24:36.040 I mean, how wicked is our society in our country and our culture today that we have these divorce laws that allow women to leave their husband for another man and getting paid while doing it. 01:24:36.040 --> 01:24:43.040 It's almost like someone is just evil as Satan himself, because I can't even imagine a worse evil. 01:24:43.040 --> 01:24:49.040 And yet you wonder why so many men killing themselves. Well, I can't even imagine continuing down that track. 01:24:49.040 --> 01:24:53.040 Why keep going to work for that? Isaiah, chapter five. 01:24:53.040 --> 01:24:59.040 And if you're going to be biblical, you're not supposed to get remarried. 01:25:00.040 --> 01:25:03.040 Most of the women have ruined themselves and hoard themselves out. 01:25:03.040 --> 01:25:09.040 Who wants to work 40 hours a week for a whore? 01:25:09.040 --> 01:25:11.040 I get it. It's rough. 01:25:11.040 --> 01:25:15.040 Isaiah, chapter five, look at verse 11. 01:25:15.040 --> 01:25:23.040 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink and that continue until night till wine inflame them. 01:25:23.040 --> 01:25:28.040 Is this guy just taking some medicine or is this guy just getting drunk because he wants to get drunk? 01:25:28.040 --> 01:25:30.040 Obviously, this is wicked as hell. 01:25:30.040 --> 01:25:32.040 Look at verse 22. 01:25:32.040 --> 01:25:37.040 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink. 01:25:37.040 --> 01:25:41.040 So this guy is not just drinking Nyquil once a year. 01:25:41.040 --> 01:25:44.040 This guy does it regularly. He's built up a tolerance. 01:25:44.040 --> 01:25:50.040 That's another thing that can happen with any medicine that if you consume it too much or too often, 01:25:50.040 --> 01:25:54.040 your body can actually build a tolerance towards it to where you don't feel the same effects. 01:25:54.040 --> 01:25:56.040 And that's a big problem with alcohol. 01:25:56.040 --> 01:25:59.040 You drink a couple of alcoholic beverages and you've never had it before. 01:25:59.040 --> 01:26:02.040 You can have very strong effects for it. 01:26:02.040 --> 01:26:08.040 But if you do it often enough, it gets to a point where now, you know, two beers doesn't do the same thing for you anymore. 01:26:08.040 --> 01:26:10.040 So you have to have three and then three doesn't. 01:26:10.040 --> 01:26:12.040 So then you have to have five and then five doesn't. 01:26:12.040 --> 01:26:14.040 Now you have to have ten and ten doesn't. 01:26:14.040 --> 01:26:16.040 So they have to have a 24 pack. 01:26:16.040 --> 01:26:19.040 And look, I went to college. I was around worldly people. 01:26:19.040 --> 01:26:20.040 I wasn't always the best Christian. 01:26:20.040 --> 01:26:28.040 And let me tell you, I saw people go down this road to the point where they had to drink 20, 24 beers in a day's time. 01:26:28.040 --> 01:26:32.040 You want to get fat? Drink 24 beers. 01:26:32.040 --> 01:26:35.040 Because it's like each one's like 200 calories. 01:26:35.040 --> 01:26:37.040 I mean, think about it. You drink 20 beers in one day. 01:26:37.040 --> 01:26:42.040 That's 4000 calories from just drinking. 01:26:42.040 --> 01:26:46.040 Yeah, you'll get that beer belly real fast. 01:26:46.040 --> 01:26:54.040 I mean, why is there so many guys that they're rail thin and then they have like a 50 pound keg attached to their stomach? 01:26:54.040 --> 01:26:55.040 You know why? 01:26:55.040 --> 01:26:58.040 It's because they're drinking like 10, 11, 12 beers. 01:26:58.040 --> 01:27:04.040 And, you know, they'll do that at the Cowboys or they'll do that at a sporting event where the beers are like $10 each. 01:27:04.040 --> 01:27:07.040 I mean, that might be like before covid prices. I don't even know now. 01:27:07.040 --> 01:27:09.040 Maybe it's $15. Who knows? 01:27:10.040 --> 01:27:16.040 I mean, just some crazy amount of money and it's just harming themselves, hurting themselves. 01:27:16.040 --> 01:27:18.040 Did the Cowboys suck that bad? 01:27:18.040 --> 01:27:21.040 You have to drown your sorrows in beer. 01:27:21.040 --> 01:27:23.040 Like it sounds like a self-inflicted wound. 01:27:23.040 --> 01:27:29.040 Shouldn't you go to a game where you're not just so sad that you have to drink yourself into oblivion to enjoy it? 01:27:29.040 --> 01:27:36.040 I mean, if it's so great going there, why do you have to forget that you're even there and what your name is to enjoy it? 01:27:36.040 --> 01:27:38.040 It's like drinking so much fun. 01:27:38.040 --> 01:27:42.040 If you're having so much fun, why do you have to forget that you're even having the fun in the first place? 01:27:42.040 --> 01:27:45.040 And then they wake up and like, I don't know why I got here. 01:27:45.040 --> 01:27:47.040 How is that fun? 01:27:47.040 --> 01:27:49.040 How is that enjoyable? 01:27:49.040 --> 01:27:51.040 You know, you would think that if it was enjoyable, you'd want to remember it. 01:27:51.040 --> 01:27:57.040 You know, I guarantee men on their honeymoon, they're not like, I hope I don't even remember what happens. 01:27:57.040 --> 01:27:58.040 I hope I forget about it. 01:27:58.040 --> 01:28:03.040 I hope I can press a button and just go fast forward to tomorrow and forget that the honeymoon even happened. 01:28:04.040 --> 01:28:06.040 No, things that you enjoy, you're like, can I do it again? 01:28:06.040 --> 01:28:08.040 It's like, hey, you go to the nice steak dinner. 01:28:08.040 --> 01:28:14.040 You're not like, I wish I could just press a button and it's tomorrow and I don't get to eat the I don't get to remember the meal. 01:28:14.040 --> 01:28:19.040 No, things that are fun and enjoyable, you want to actually be paying attention to things that are not fun. 01:28:19.040 --> 01:28:29.040 You're like, can I just press the fast forward button and I just immediately, you know, the DMV, how do I, you know, press the fast forward button to just get this over with going to the doctor's office? 01:28:30.040 --> 01:28:35.040 You know, there's surgery, the dentist, there's plenty of times that you want to just press that button. 01:28:35.040 --> 01:28:39.040 OK, but if you're having so much fun, why do you want to press that button? 01:28:42.040 --> 01:28:43.040 There's a lot more here. 01:28:43.040 --> 01:28:44.040 Go to Isaiah 24. 01:28:44.040 --> 01:28:46.040 Don't get drunk. 01:28:46.040 --> 01:28:48.040 Don't drink alcohol. 01:28:48.040 --> 01:28:53.040 I'm not trying to give an excuse for alcohol, but I do want to be honest with the text. 01:28:53.040 --> 01:28:59.040 I do think you could argue and I think the Bible teaches there's probably a medicinal reason why it's being brought up. 01:28:59.040 --> 01:29:01.040 That's what the whole context of the passage is. 01:29:01.040 --> 01:29:06.040 Why would he be saying, hey, it was a miracle that you didn't have this, but you got through the wilderness? 01:29:06.040 --> 01:29:10.040 Well, obviously, if they were never going to drink it for any reason, that wouldn't make sense. 01:29:10.040 --> 01:29:20.040 The reason why they were going to use it potentially is probably for a medicinal purpose, considering all of the verses in the Bible, because in general, you're not supposed to be doing this on a recreational basis. 01:29:20.040 --> 01:29:23.040 That wasn't going to help them in the wilderness being drunk. 01:29:23.040 --> 01:29:26.040 What could help them is a little bit occasionally for medicinal purposes. 01:29:26.040 --> 01:29:30.040 But they again, it wasn't that that happened. 01:29:30.040 --> 01:29:31.040 It was a hypothetical. 01:29:31.040 --> 01:29:35.040 The hypothetical was that if you didn't have God, you would need it. 01:29:35.040 --> 01:29:37.040 They still didn't need it. 01:29:37.040 --> 01:29:38.040 Meaning what? 01:29:38.040 --> 01:29:42.040 As a God fearing Christian, you don't need alcohol. 01:29:42.040 --> 01:29:47.040 You know, I haven't had a touch of alcohol for a long time in my life and I don't need it. 01:29:47.040 --> 01:29:50.040 And I never plan on ever touching it ever again. 01:29:50.040 --> 01:29:53.040 But hey, you know, have I had Nyquil? 01:29:53.040 --> 01:29:56.040 OK, yes, technically, yes. 01:29:56.040 --> 01:29:57.040 Have I? 01:29:57.040 --> 01:30:00.040 Will I possibly use a painkiller if I went to the doctor's office? 01:30:00.040 --> 01:30:01.040 Yeah, I might. 01:30:01.040 --> 01:30:02.040 I might use a Tylenol. 01:30:02.040 --> 01:30:07.040 I know it's scary or whatever nowadays, you know, or acetaminophen or ibuprofen or whatever. 01:30:07.040 --> 01:30:08.040 They're always like it's bad. 01:30:08.040 --> 01:30:09.040 They're all bad. 01:30:09.040 --> 01:30:10.040 OK. 01:30:10.040 --> 01:30:13.040 But in the end, you know, the worst is breaking God's commandments. 01:30:14.040 --> 01:30:18.040 I'd rather take a Tylenol every day than sin, you know, egregiously every single day. 01:30:18.040 --> 01:30:24.040 You know, and at the end of the day, we're not reading this in context of let's do drugs and alcohol. 01:30:24.040 --> 01:30:26.040 We're just trying to put it in its place. 01:30:26.040 --> 01:30:28.040 OK, Isaiah chapter 24 verse 9. 01:30:33.040 --> 01:30:36.040 They shall not drink wine with a song. 01:30:36.040 --> 01:30:37.040 I'm sorry, they shall. 01:30:37.040 --> 01:30:39.040 Yeah, they shall not drink wine with a song. 01:30:39.040 --> 01:30:42.040 Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 01:30:42.040 --> 01:30:47.040 Again, this is just a curse on the wicked people here. 01:30:47.040 --> 01:30:49.040 Go to chapter 28 and look at verse 7. 01:30:49.040 --> 01:30:52.040 I'm just trying to bring up all the verses in this particular one. 01:30:52.040 --> 01:30:54.040 It says in verse number 7, 01:31:12.040 --> 01:31:14.040 Oh, it's really good for pastors to drink alcohol. 01:31:14.040 --> 01:31:16.040 False. 01:31:16.040 --> 01:31:18.040 Of course, we believe in the priesthood of the believer. 01:31:18.040 --> 01:31:19.040 Hey, you're a priest. 01:31:19.040 --> 01:31:20.040 You're a king. 01:31:20.040 --> 01:31:22.040 Don't drink the word of don't drink alcohol. 01:31:22.040 --> 01:31:24.040 OK, just avoid it. 01:31:24.040 --> 01:31:26.040 Chapter 29 verse 9. 01:31:26.040 --> 01:31:30.040 Stay yourselves and wonder cry out and cry. 01:31:30.040 --> 01:31:32.040 They are drunken, but not with wine. 01:31:32.040 --> 01:31:34.040 They stagger, but not with strong drinks. 01:31:34.040 --> 01:31:36.040 Talking about spiritual drunkenness. 01:31:36.040 --> 01:31:40.040 But notice that drinking alcohol, strong drink causes you to stumble and be drunk. 01:31:40.040 --> 01:31:41.040 One more place. 01:31:41.040 --> 01:31:46.040 Go to chapter 56 verse 12 and we'll go back to our chapter here. 01:31:46.040 --> 01:31:48.040 Finish quickly. 01:31:48.040 --> 01:31:50.040 Isaiah 56 verse 12. 01:31:50.040 --> 01:31:51.040 The Bible says, 01:31:51.040 --> 01:31:52.040 The Bible says, 01:32:00.040 --> 01:32:03.040 So that sounds positive. 01:32:03.040 --> 01:32:05.040 See, this is what a drunk will do. 01:32:05.040 --> 01:32:11.040 Let's go to this verse and they'll be like, Hey, let's just drink some strong, some strong drink. 01:32:11.040 --> 01:32:12.040 Right. 01:32:12.040 --> 01:32:14.040 But OK, let's back up a few verses. 01:32:14.040 --> 01:32:15.040 Verse 10. 01:32:21.040 --> 01:32:40.040 So what is he saying? 01:32:40.040 --> 01:32:42.040 Oh, we're going to be blessed and rich. 01:32:42.040 --> 01:32:44.040 We're going to drink alcohol. 01:32:44.040 --> 01:32:45.040 But who's saying this? 01:32:45.040 --> 01:32:47.040 Lying, false prophets and teachers. 01:32:47.040 --> 01:32:48.040 That's the whole context. 01:32:48.040 --> 01:32:49.040 OK. 01:32:49.040 --> 01:32:55.040 So again, someone teaching you to drink alcohol and wine is wicked as hell. 01:32:55.040 --> 01:32:57.040 I'm going to go back and we're going to finish Deuteronomy 29. 01:32:57.040 --> 01:32:59.040 We'll do it quickly. 01:32:59.040 --> 01:33:03.040 I just think it's important to put this passage in perspective. 01:33:03.040 --> 01:33:09.040 So we're not saying, Hey, strong drinks are great idea. 01:33:09.040 --> 01:33:15.040 Not against medicine, but it has its place and it should be used with caution. 01:33:15.040 --> 01:33:16.040 Are we saying we should ever drink alcohol? 01:33:16.040 --> 01:33:17.040 I'm not going to drink alcohol. 01:33:17.040 --> 01:33:18.040 I don't want to touch this stuff. 01:33:18.040 --> 01:33:20.040 I'm a total, you know, teetotaler. 01:33:20.040 --> 01:33:25.040 And if people are drinking alcohol excessively or regularly, they will be church discipline for being a drunkard. 01:33:25.040 --> 01:33:28.040 That's what the Bible says in first Corinthians chapter number five. 01:33:28.040 --> 01:33:31.040 Almost every other church in this world won't do it, but I will do it. 01:33:31.040 --> 01:33:33.040 And we have done it and we'll continue to do it. 01:33:33.040 --> 01:33:38.040 Now it says in verse number seven, I think. 01:33:38.040 --> 01:33:39.040 How far are we? 01:33:39.040 --> 01:33:40.040 We didn't really make far, did we? 01:33:40.040 --> 01:33:46.040 It says in verse seven, And when you come unto this place, Sion, the king of Heshbon and Og, the king of Bashan, 01:33:46.040 --> 01:33:51.040 came out against us unto battle and we smote them and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance 01:33:51.040 --> 01:33:54.040 on the Rubanites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh. 01:33:54.040 --> 01:33:59.040 Therefore, or keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do. 01:33:59.040 --> 01:34:02.040 So they're closed in wax old. 01:34:02.040 --> 01:34:05.040 They didn't need what you would normally need to survive the wilderness, yet they did. 01:34:05.040 --> 01:34:09.040 And they smote these great kings and inherited their land. 01:34:09.040 --> 01:34:11.040 So he's just saying, Remember all the miracles I did for you. 01:34:11.040 --> 01:34:14.040 Remember I blessed you and got you through this. 01:34:14.040 --> 01:34:19.040 And if you keep the words of this covenant, I'll continue to prosper you as you enter into the promised land. 01:34:19.040 --> 01:34:21.040 He says in verse number 10, 01:34:44.040 --> 01:34:54.040 So he's making this covenant with everyone. 01:34:54.040 --> 01:34:56.040 Notice the covenant was with everyone. 01:34:56.040 --> 01:35:10.040 Verse 14, 01:35:10.040 --> 01:35:13.040 I think a lot of people don't even realize that verse is in the Bible. 01:35:13.040 --> 01:35:17.040 Did you notice that he said, I made this covenant not only with all of you and all the people that are here, 01:35:17.040 --> 01:35:19.040 but with who else? 01:35:19.040 --> 01:35:24.040 Oh yeah, everyone else, because every single person is bound by the law of God period. 01:35:24.040 --> 01:35:30.040 How can John the Baptist get up and rebuke Herod for having his brother, Phillip's wife, 01:35:30.040 --> 01:35:34.040 if he himself is not bound by the law of God? 01:35:34.040 --> 01:35:35.040 Everyone is bound by the law of God. 01:35:35.040 --> 01:35:39.040 When people die and go to go stand before God at the judgment seat, 01:35:39.040 --> 01:35:41.040 they're going to be judged out of the book of what? 01:35:41.040 --> 01:35:42.040 The law. 01:35:42.040 --> 01:35:47.040 They're going to still be judged for lying and stealing and God is going to use the law to judge them. 01:35:47.040 --> 01:35:53.040 I get that some aspects of the Old Testament are about the children of Israel specifically as a nation. 01:35:53.040 --> 01:35:58.040 But in general, the moral aspects of the law, every man will stand in an account and a judgment towards God, 01:35:58.040 --> 01:36:00.040 because the Bible says the law is written on our hearts. 01:36:00.040 --> 01:36:05.040 Whether you're Jew or Gentile, they were all bound to keep the law of God. 01:36:05.040 --> 01:36:09.040 We could go to a lot more verses to prove that. 01:36:09.040 --> 01:36:13.040 But Galatians chapter 3 said that Christ had became a curse for us, 01:36:13.040 --> 01:36:16.040 so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles. 01:36:16.040 --> 01:36:23.040 Why would Christ have to become a curse for the Gentiles if they weren't bound by the law of God? 01:36:23.040 --> 01:36:29.040 The Gentiles were also expected to keep the law of God period, regardless of having received it or not, 01:36:29.040 --> 01:36:34.040 because the law of God is written on our hearts and we are all obligated to keep God's commandments period. 01:36:34.040 --> 01:36:41.040 And as a result, Gentiles that did not believe in Jesus Christ, no matter what era, went to hell. 01:36:41.040 --> 01:36:43.040 Jews that didn't believe in Jesus Christ went to hell. 01:36:43.040 --> 01:36:48.040 Whether you're under the law or not under the law, you were still bound by the law written on our hearts 01:36:48.040 --> 01:36:50.040 and you're supposed to keep God's commandments period. 01:36:50.040 --> 01:36:56.040 And because for all sin it comes short of the glory of God, the only justification is through faith in Jesus Christ. 01:36:56.040 --> 01:36:59.040 Of course, if you were a Gentile back then, what should you have done? 01:36:59.040 --> 01:37:02.040 Leave in Jesus and then join the nation of Israel as a stranger. 01:37:02.040 --> 01:37:07.040 You would have sojourned among whatever tribe you preferred and then you would have joined that tribe eventually 01:37:07.040 --> 01:37:10.040 and been part of that tribe. You would have gotten inheritance with that particular tribe. 01:37:10.040 --> 01:37:13.040 There was a mixed multitude that came out of Egypt with the children of Israel. 01:37:13.040 --> 01:37:16.040 They were going to get to be mixed in and be a part of that. 01:37:16.040 --> 01:37:18.040 You have Simon the Canaanite at the time of Christ. 01:37:18.040 --> 01:37:21.040 It wasn't limited to a physical nation of ethnic Jews. 01:37:21.040 --> 01:37:24.040 Obviously, that's who's primarily in view. 01:37:24.040 --> 01:37:29.040 But notice it's not just to them only, it's to even the people that aren't there with them. 01:37:29.040 --> 01:37:34.040 And this could also extend to their future descendants as well, but it's everyone. 01:37:34.040 --> 01:37:37.040 He says in verse 16, 01:37:59.040 --> 01:38:04.040 unless there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. 01:38:04.040 --> 01:38:11.040 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, 01:38:11.040 --> 01:38:17.040 I shall appease, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. 01:38:17.040 --> 01:38:22.040 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord in his jealousy shall smoke against that man, 01:38:22.040 --> 01:38:26.040 and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, 01:38:26.040 --> 01:38:30.040 and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. 01:38:30.040 --> 01:38:37.040 Just saying, hey, just because you're with us, if you just say, you know what, I don't need God's word, 01:38:37.040 --> 01:38:41.040 and you just go against it, God will destroy that person. 01:38:41.040 --> 01:38:46.040 Now, I believe that the main context here is someone that just didn't even believe, 01:38:46.040 --> 01:38:52.040 because obviously, being blotted out is kind of a picture of someone that's not saved. 01:38:52.040 --> 01:38:59.040 So obviously, there's people who just that are saved could still go down this path. 01:38:59.040 --> 01:39:02.040 It's primarily in view of people that never believed. 01:39:02.040 --> 01:39:05.040 So, of course, they just forsake the God of the Bible. 01:39:05.040 --> 01:39:09.040 They go worship other gods, meaning this is someone that go into a false religion. 01:39:09.040 --> 01:39:16.040 Someone that was raised Baptist, but then leaves and joins the Catholic Church will die and go to hell. 01:39:16.040 --> 01:39:21.040 Someone that was raised Baptist and joins the Orthodox Church will die and go to hell. 01:39:21.040 --> 01:39:28.040 Someone that leaves the Baptist Church and becomes a Hindu or whatever false religion, an atheist, they will die and go to hell. 01:39:28.040 --> 01:39:33.040 Because the curse of the law applies to them as well, even if they say, you know what, I'm going to be good. 01:39:33.040 --> 01:39:43.040 And, of course, someone that's saved still could walk away from just church or a good church or serving God and think, no, I'll be good. 01:39:43.040 --> 01:39:45.040 You know, leaving church is the best thing that ever happened to me. 01:39:45.040 --> 01:39:49.040 And, of course, what is the main sin that he brings up, getting drunk? 01:39:49.040 --> 01:39:52.040 But there are people that will leave a church like ours just so they can drink alcohol. 01:39:52.040 --> 01:39:59.040 And God says, I'm going to rain up and cloud on you or cloud up and rain on you, sorry, and basically pour out curses and wrath upon you. 01:39:59.040 --> 01:40:02.040 Hey, you're going to get all these curses. 01:40:02.040 --> 01:40:07.040 Says in verse 21, and the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, 01:40:07.040 --> 01:40:10.040 according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. 01:40:10.040 --> 01:40:17.040 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say, 01:40:17.040 --> 01:40:22.040 When they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it, 01:40:22.040 --> 01:40:30.040 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning, that it is not sown nor bareth, nor any grass groweth therein, 01:40:30.040 --> 01:40:37.040 like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma and Zoboam, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath, even all nations shall say, 01:40:37.040 --> 01:40:43.040 Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this great anger? 01:40:43.040 --> 01:40:50.040 So he's saying in the future, the children of Israel are going to go after false gods, and then God's going to destroy them, 01:40:50.040 --> 01:40:56.040 and then he's going to even make the land like a wilderness basically, and then everyone's going to see like, what happened? 01:40:56.040 --> 01:41:02.040 There was this thriving nation with millions of people, and they were growing all these crops and had all this stuff going on, 01:41:02.040 --> 01:41:08.040 and now all of a sudden it's just a wilderness and they're all just cursed. What happened? 01:41:08.040 --> 01:41:14.040 Well, then it says, Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, 01:41:14.040 --> 01:41:19.040 which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, for they went and served other gods, 01:41:19.040 --> 01:41:23.040 and worshiped them gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them. 01:41:23.040 --> 01:41:29.040 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. 01:41:29.040 --> 01:41:36.040 And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 01:41:36.040 --> 01:41:41.040 So what is he saying? Well, he's talking about when we think about the first Babylonian captivity, 01:41:41.040 --> 01:41:46.040 and if you read Deuteronomy 28 with us, you realize those horrific curses, 01:41:46.040 --> 01:41:52.040 all of those things happened in the book of Jeremiah to those children of Israel when they went to the Babylonian captivity. 01:41:52.040 --> 01:41:55.040 They literally ate their own children. It was that bad. 01:41:55.040 --> 01:41:59.040 And it's like people are looking at Israel saying like, What happened? 01:41:59.040 --> 01:42:04.040 They forsook God and went over false gods, and as a result they got punished. 01:42:04.040 --> 01:42:09.040 Then we see another fulfillment of this particular prophecy in another way is 70 AD, 01:42:09.040 --> 01:42:16.040 when the Jews that rejected the Lord Jesus Christ had Titus and the Roman Empire come against them, 01:42:16.040 --> 01:42:21.040 and basically just destroy them in their temple and everything they have to do, 01:42:21.040 --> 01:42:28.040 and scattered them for centuries, centuries, and that was a wilderness for centuries. 01:42:28.040 --> 01:42:38.040 You know, if God just loves the Jewish people no matter what, what happened for 200 AD, and 300 AD, and 400 AD, and 500 AD, and 600 AD, 01:42:38.040 --> 01:42:45.040 and you want me to keep counting? I mean, it's just like you need to go to the old IAB and tell them, Hey, 900 AD and 1000 AD, 01:42:45.040 --> 01:42:49.040 and why were they kicked out of so many nations, and just why was it just a wilderness? 01:42:49.040 --> 01:42:55.040 And then it's just like miracle 1948. Well, in order for that to be true, 01:42:55.040 --> 01:42:58.040 when did they repent and receive Jesus Christ and start following his commandments again? 01:42:58.040 --> 01:43:06.040 Why is Tel Aviv having the largest LGBT festival in the world, and we're supposed to believe this is God's blessing? 01:43:06.040 --> 01:43:09.040 Yeah, well, they went back and crops, you know, crops started growing again. 01:43:09.040 --> 01:43:15.040 Well, that doesn't necessarily definitively prove that God is with them anymore. 01:43:15.040 --> 01:43:20.040 And of course, we see why were they dispersed for so long, because they rejected the God of the Bible, 01:43:20.040 --> 01:43:24.040 they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, and they were cursed, and they were punished, 01:43:24.040 --> 01:43:29.040 and that's why we looked at them as a curse. That's why the Apostle Paul brings up in 1 Thessalonians 01:43:29.040 --> 01:43:34.040 that they're contrary to all men, that the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost. 01:43:34.040 --> 01:43:37.040 How could he say the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost? 01:43:37.040 --> 01:43:40.040 Because he saw the wrath of God come upon them to the uttermost. 01:43:40.040 --> 01:43:43.040 Verse 29, The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, 01:43:43.040 --> 01:43:46.040 but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, 01:43:46.040 --> 01:43:49.040 that we may do all the words of this law. 01:43:49.040 --> 01:43:52.040 So, you know, this emphasizes another point that I brought up earlier, 01:43:52.040 --> 01:43:57.040 but hey, there are things that we don't know. 01:43:57.040 --> 01:43:59.040 There are secrets that we don't know. 01:43:59.040 --> 01:44:03.040 There are things that God knows. There's things in heaven. 01:44:03.040 --> 01:44:06.040 There's things in the future that we don't know. 01:44:06.040 --> 01:44:09.040 But what is the Bible saying? That's for God. 01:44:09.040 --> 01:44:14.040 The secrets are for the Lord. You don't need to worry about the secrets. 01:44:14.040 --> 01:44:16.040 You don't need to worry about what's been revealed. 01:44:16.040 --> 01:44:19.040 You know what's been revealed? This book. 01:44:19.040 --> 01:44:23.040 Now, stop worrying about what's not revealed and worry about what is revealed. 01:44:23.040 --> 01:44:26.040 Just do what you've been told. Just do what God actually said. 01:44:26.040 --> 01:44:30.040 Read the books that God's actually given us and quit worrying about all the secrets. 01:44:30.040 --> 01:44:34.040 Quit worrying about all the hidden knowledge and the esoteric things. 01:44:34.040 --> 01:44:37.040 They're all wrong anyways. 01:44:37.040 --> 01:44:40.040 Because you know what the Bible said? All the secrets belong to somebody. 01:44:40.040 --> 01:44:44.040 God. The Freemasons don't have any secrets of God. 01:44:44.040 --> 01:44:47.040 The Mormons don't have any secrets of God. 01:44:47.040 --> 01:44:49.040 Hindus don't have any secrets of God. 01:44:49.040 --> 01:44:52.040 Adam Fannin doesn't have any secrets of God, okay folks? 01:44:52.040 --> 01:44:55.040 These people that think they have this special knowledge or this extra wisdom 01:44:55.040 --> 01:45:00.040 or hey, you've got to read these other books or this other knowledge or this other documentary. 01:45:00.040 --> 01:45:04.040 It's all fake and false and wrong. 01:45:04.040 --> 01:45:07.040 All the secrets belong to God. 01:45:07.040 --> 01:45:11.040 Anything that we need to know about God or could know about God is in this book. 01:45:11.040 --> 01:45:15.040 We have the complete revelation. We're complete in Christ. 01:45:15.040 --> 01:45:18.040 We have the mind of Christ. This is all we need. 01:45:18.040 --> 01:45:21.040 Does that mean that there isn't other things to learn or know? 01:45:21.040 --> 01:45:25.040 No, there is. But you can't know them right now so quit worrying about it. 01:45:25.040 --> 01:45:28.040 It's kind of like children, okay children? 01:45:28.040 --> 01:45:33.040 Sometimes you like want to know adult things or you're trying to ask your parents stuff 01:45:33.040 --> 01:45:36.040 and they're like you don't need to know. You don't need to know. 01:45:36.040 --> 01:45:39.040 When you're a kid, you don't need to know everything yet. 01:45:39.040 --> 01:45:43.040 And I promise your parents love you enough. They'll give you the information when you need it. 01:45:43.040 --> 01:45:46.040 But it's just like you're 11, you don't need to know how to drive yet. 01:45:46.040 --> 01:45:50.040 Okay? When you're 15, we'll start talking about it, right? 01:45:50.040 --> 01:45:53.040 When you're 11, you don't need to know that kind of stuff. 01:45:53.040 --> 01:45:56.040 You don't need to know about getting married when you're 11. 01:45:56.040 --> 01:46:01.040 Okay? You don't need to know about all the adult topics until you get there. 01:46:01.040 --> 01:46:04.040 And at the end of the day, it's like the same with us. 01:46:04.040 --> 01:46:07.040 God is saying hey, you don't need to know everything. 01:46:07.040 --> 01:46:11.040 There's still other stuff to know, but I'm not going to tell you. 01:46:11.040 --> 01:46:14.040 You know, there's things in the Bible it just doesn't tell you. 01:46:14.040 --> 01:46:17.040 It's like hey, the seven thunders uttered. Don't write it. 01:46:17.040 --> 01:46:20.040 It's like dang it, what was that? 01:46:20.040 --> 01:46:25.040 You know, don't spend your whole life being like I'm going to try and figure out what the seven thunders uttered. 01:46:25.040 --> 01:46:27.040 I want to know what that was. 01:46:27.040 --> 01:46:32.040 Or I want to know what my name is that's written in heaven that no man knows yet or whatever. 01:46:32.040 --> 01:46:35.040 Or I want to learn that song that no one can learn. 01:46:35.040 --> 01:46:40.040 No, there's certain things we don't know yet that aren't revealed that we can't know exactly yet. 01:46:40.040 --> 01:46:42.040 Don't worry about that. 01:46:42.040 --> 01:46:44.040 Worry about what you can know. 01:46:44.040 --> 01:46:46.040 Deal with the things that you can know. 01:46:46.040 --> 01:46:50.040 You know, you have to have the serenity to accept the things you can't change. 01:46:50.040 --> 01:46:53.040 What's going on with the Epstein files? I don't know. 01:46:53.040 --> 01:46:56.040 But I can't really fix it, can I? 01:46:56.040 --> 01:46:57.040 And look, it will be revealed. 01:46:57.040 --> 01:47:01.040 God will reveal the Epstein files at the Great White Throne Judgment. 01:47:01.040 --> 01:47:03.040 And then we'll all know. We'll know what was in them. 01:47:03.040 --> 01:47:07.040 We'll know what was going on with Trump. I don't know, you know. 01:47:07.040 --> 01:47:09.040 Somebody was getting mad at me. They were like, 01:47:09.040 --> 01:47:11.040 do you think there was preprogressive people in those files? 01:47:11.040 --> 01:47:12.040 And I'm like, yeah. 01:47:12.040 --> 01:47:13.040 And they're like, well, prove it. 01:47:13.040 --> 01:47:15.040 And I'm like, I don't need to prove it. 01:47:15.040 --> 01:47:18.040 But it's just like, why do I have to care? 01:47:18.040 --> 01:47:20.040 You know, obviously as a citizen, as a concerned citizen, 01:47:20.040 --> 01:47:23.040 I think that our government should punish evildoers, 01:47:23.040 --> 01:47:25.040 and they should investigate this, and they should reveal them. 01:47:25.040 --> 01:47:27.040 So don't hear me wrong. I'm not saying it shouldn't be revealed. 01:47:27.040 --> 01:47:33.040 But since I can't affect it, since I can't force my hand in this particular issue, 01:47:33.040 --> 01:47:36.040 I have the serenity to accept that I can't change it. 01:47:36.040 --> 01:47:39.040 I have the serenity to accept that I can't change the past. 01:47:39.040 --> 01:47:42.040 I have the serenity to accept that I can't force anybody to do anything. 01:47:42.040 --> 01:47:44.040 Everybody has free will. 01:47:44.040 --> 01:47:48.040 You know, I can't change bad decisions I've made. 01:47:48.040 --> 01:47:53.040 There are so many times where I've been very angry at myself for decisions I've made. 01:47:53.040 --> 01:47:55.040 Who's ever been mad at yourself for a decision you've made? 01:47:55.040 --> 01:48:00.040 Okay? Here's something you need to do. Forget it. 01:48:00.040 --> 01:48:05.040 You know the Apostle Paul? He says, he counts those things done. 01:48:05.040 --> 01:48:08.040 He's reaching forth to that which is ahead. 01:48:08.040 --> 01:48:10.040 He doesn't care about that anymore. 01:48:10.040 --> 01:48:13.040 You can't change it. You can't fix it. 01:48:13.040 --> 01:48:16.040 Now again, you can make better decisions, 01:48:16.040 --> 01:48:18.040 but what I'm saying is you can't change the past. 01:48:18.040 --> 01:48:20.040 Live in the present. 01:48:20.040 --> 01:48:25.040 Live in the present, and hey, we can only affect what we can do right now. 01:48:25.040 --> 01:48:27.040 And that's the most important way to live your life. 01:48:27.040 --> 01:48:31.040 You know, also it's like, when is the end times? You don't know. 01:48:31.040 --> 01:48:34.040 Don't worry about that. Worry about today. 01:48:34.040 --> 01:48:36.040 Worry about what you can affect right now. 01:48:36.040 --> 01:48:39.040 Worry about reading your Bible. Worry about going to church. 01:48:39.040 --> 01:48:43.040 Worry about paying the bills and taking care of your family and raising your children 01:48:43.040 --> 01:48:47.040 and loving them and teaching them the Bible and going soul winning. 01:48:47.040 --> 01:48:49.040 Worry about the next missions trip you're going to go on. 01:48:49.040 --> 01:48:52.040 You know, don't worry about all the things you can affect. 01:48:52.040 --> 01:48:54.040 Worry about the things that you can affect. 01:48:54.040 --> 01:49:01.040 And spend most of your time thinking and doing things that you can actually control. 01:49:01.040 --> 01:49:04.040 There's so many people that are so worried about things they can't change, 01:49:04.040 --> 01:49:06.040 obsessing about things that they can't change. 01:49:06.040 --> 01:49:08.040 You know, let me explain something to you ladies. 01:49:08.040 --> 01:49:11.040 You can't force your husband to do anything. Stop worrying about it. 01:49:11.040 --> 01:49:15.040 You can't change him. You can't fix him. 01:49:15.040 --> 01:49:19.040 Okay? And even if you did, you would want to change him still. 01:49:19.040 --> 01:49:24.040 Alright? As soon as you fixed him, you would want another thing fixed. Okay? 01:49:24.040 --> 01:49:27.040 Don't worry about everybody else. Worry about yourself. 01:49:27.040 --> 01:49:29.040 And worry about right now in the present. 01:49:29.040 --> 01:49:31.040 Worry about what God's already told you. 01:49:31.040 --> 01:49:34.040 You can only give account for yourself at the day of judgment. 01:49:34.040 --> 01:49:37.040 And you know, if you have breath in your lungs, God's not done with you. 01:49:39.040 --> 01:49:42.040 You can do great things for God and still store up great treasures on this earth 01:49:42.040 --> 01:49:44.040 if you just focus on God. 01:49:44.040 --> 01:49:46.040 And he can give us, he can get us through it, we'll just, 01:49:46.040 --> 01:49:49.040 let us not forget the blessings he's given us. 01:49:49.040 --> 01:49:51.040 But let us forget all the stuff he can't fix. 01:49:52.040 --> 01:49:55.040 Remember the blessings, not the bad things. 01:49:55.040 --> 01:49:57.040 You know, remember all the good things your husband did, 01:49:57.040 --> 01:49:59.040 not all the bad things he did, alright? 01:50:01.040 --> 01:50:03.040 And of course, as Christians, let us focus on what God has revealed to us. 01:50:03.040 --> 01:50:05.040 Let's close in prayer. Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word. 01:50:05.040 --> 01:50:07.040 Thank you for the blessings you've given our church. 01:50:07.040 --> 01:50:09.040 Thank you for the blessings you've given us and our families 01:50:09.040 --> 01:50:11.040 and all the things that we have. 01:50:11.040 --> 01:50:14.040 Sometimes we forget all the good you have done unto us. 01:50:14.040 --> 01:50:16.040 I pray that you'd help remind us of those things. 01:50:16.040 --> 01:50:18.040 I pray that we'd have a thankful heart, 01:50:18.040 --> 01:50:21.040 that we'd have a heart that desires to serve you, 01:50:22.040 --> 01:50:24.040 that we would not seek to enrich ourselves or fame or glory, 01:50:24.040 --> 01:50:26.040 but rather we'd put you first. 01:50:26.040 --> 01:50:28.040 And I pray that you would help us to just be focused on the things 01:50:28.040 --> 01:50:30.040 you have revealed to us that you've given us in your word, 01:50:30.040 --> 01:50:32.040 that we wouldn't be distracted with things that we can't know or can't fix. 01:50:32.040 --> 01:50:34.040 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:50:34.040 --> 01:50:36.040 Amen. 01:50:36.040 --> 01:50:38.040 Amen. 01:50:38.040 --> 01:50:40.040 Our last song this evening, page 207 in your hymn books, 01:50:40.040 --> 01:50:42.040 is the song that you've been listening to, 01:50:42.040 --> 01:50:44.040 and I'm sure you've heard it before, 01:50:44.040 --> 01:50:46.040 and I'm sure you've heard it before, 01:50:46.040 --> 01:50:48.040 and I'm sure you've heard it before, 01:50:48.040 --> 01:50:50.040 song number 207, 01:50:51.040 --> 01:50:53.040 song number 207, 01:50:53.040 --> 01:50:55.040 Only a Sinner. 01:50:58.040 --> 01:51:00.040 Only a Sinner, page 207. 01:51:06.040 --> 01:51:08.040 Page 207, singing out with us on the first. 01:51:10.040 --> 01:51:12.040 Not have I got dem 01:51:12.040 --> 01:51:14.040 But what I receive 01:51:14.040 --> 01:51:20.040 Praise that which is inside and be. 01:51:20.040 --> 01:51:25.040 Lo, sing through it, by thy grace. 01:51:25.040 --> 01:51:30.040 Thy holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:51:30.040 --> 01:51:35.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:51:35.040 --> 01:51:40.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:51:40.040 --> 01:51:45.040 This is my story to God, be the glory. 01:51:45.040 --> 01:51:50.040 I'm only a sinner, save thy grace. 01:51:50.040 --> 01:51:55.040 Once my heart was full, this is sinful, by Lord. 01:51:55.040 --> 01:52:00.040 Crossing my own steps from God to the Lord. 01:52:00.040 --> 01:52:05.040 He doesn't know me, have me by faith. 01:52:05.040 --> 01:52:10.040 I now am a sinner, save thy grace. 01:52:10.040 --> 01:52:15.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:52:15.040 --> 01:52:20.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:52:20.040 --> 01:52:25.040 This is my story to God, be the glory. 01:52:25.040 --> 01:52:30.040 I'm only a sinner, save thy grace. 01:52:31.040 --> 01:52:36.040 Tears not filling, no bear with my eyes. 01:52:36.040 --> 01:52:41.040 Mercy does they be, or else I will die. 01:52:41.040 --> 01:52:46.040 Sin has a large need, fear he can't face. 01:52:46.040 --> 01:52:51.040 But now I'm a sinner, save thy grace. 01:52:51.040 --> 01:52:56.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:52:56.040 --> 01:53:01.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:53:01.040 --> 01:53:06.040 This is my story to God, be the glory. 01:53:06.040 --> 01:53:11.040 I'm only a sinner, save thy grace. 01:53:11.040 --> 01:53:16.040 Slaughter a sinner who's far and over full. 01:53:16.040 --> 01:53:21.040 Love me a sinner to tell what he knows. 01:53:21.040 --> 01:53:26.040 Once more to tell it, but I embrace. 01:53:26.040 --> 01:53:31.040 I'm only a sinner, save thy grace. 01:53:31.040 --> 01:53:36.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:53:36.040 --> 01:53:41.040 Holyest dinner, save thy grace. 01:53:41.040 --> 01:53:46.040 This is my story to God, be the glory. 01:53:46.040 --> 01:53:51.040 I'm only a sinner, save thy grace.