WEBVTT 08:02.700 --> 08:06.860 Find our seats and open our hymn books to page 23. 08:06.860 --> 08:10.020 We're going to sing, there is power in the blood. 08:10.020 --> 08:11.940 Page number 23 in your hymn books, 08:11.940 --> 08:13.460 there is power in the blood. 08:18.700 --> 08:22.700 H-23 there is power in the blood, sing it out with us on that verse. 11:00.100 --> 11:05.380 Let's open up with the word of prayer this evening. Heavenly Father, we thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church and all those gathered here 11:05.500 --> 11:10.220 In your name to sing and worship you. We praise you. We love you Lord 11:10.220 --> 11:15.620 And we pray that you would just meet with us this evening and that we ask you that you open the scriptures 11:16.180 --> 11:19.620 And that you would strengthen our hearts and minds through the message this evening 11:20.060 --> 11:24.720 Fill pastor cell with your Holy Spirit and bless the fellowship in Jesus name. I pray amen 11:25.600 --> 11:32.800 Our second song is 122, Oh God our help, page 122. 11:37.700 --> 11:38.820 God our help. 13:35.300 --> 13:36.720 for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. 13:36.720 --> 13:37.920 If you did not already get a bulletin, 13:37.920 --> 13:40.160 you would like one, just lift your hand nice and high. 13:40.160 --> 13:41.540 So one of our ushers can come by 13:41.540 --> 13:43.600 and get you guys a bulletin. 13:43.600 --> 13:47.200 We're on Psalm 119 verse three. 13:47.200 --> 13:48.880 I think there was a mix up on the bulletin last week, 13:48.880 --> 13:49.720 so we're on three. 13:49.720 --> 13:51.160 So if you can still quote three, 13:51.160 --> 13:52.120 even if you did it last week, 13:52.120 --> 13:54.920 you can still get the ice cream treat for the prize. 13:54.920 --> 13:57.080 And we're just doing the first eight verses. 13:57.080 --> 14:00.040 So you don't have to, if you memorize the whole thing, 14:00.040 --> 14:01.280 maybe we'll just get you a Corvette or something, 14:01.280 --> 14:02.600 I'm just kidding. 14:02.600 --> 14:03.300 Now, if you can memorize. 14:03.300 --> 14:07.460 whole thing power to you but it is just the first eight verses so we're working 14:07.460 --> 14:08.700 on kind of a short one 14:09.100 --> 14:14.620 I did want to say thank you again to everybody who helped volunteer for our conferences last weekend. 14:14.620 --> 14:16.620 It went really well. 14:16.620 --> 14:22.020 You know, I was really impressed with all the cleaning and the valet and the ushers and the decorations and everything. 14:22.020 --> 14:24.020 I mean, honestly, it went really smoothly. 14:24.580 --> 14:30.260 We had a lot of people compliment us and said they had a great time and really enjoyed our conference. 14:30.260 --> 14:34.140 And so thank you so much to our church family who helped with that. 14:35.100 --> 14:37.100 Also, we'll still have 14:37.100 --> 14:43.700 our kids conference in October, I think it's October, near Labor Day weekend. Is that, 14:43.700 --> 14:48.900 what is it? Columbus Day, sorry, Columbus Day. We have it on the website so you can 14:48.900 --> 14:53.380 check out those dates, but we also have several other soul winning events and other things 14:53.380 --> 14:53.900 like that. 14:54.700 --> 14:59.100 Oh, it's here in the Bulletin. There you go. October 9th through 11th. There you go. All you need is the Bulletin. All right, folks. 15:00.060 --> 15:05.660 On the inside, we have our service and soul winning times and then our church stats on the right is the list of expecting ladies. 15:06.200 --> 15:12.060 Upcoming events. So May 30th, there's a soul winning class. Is that here? 15:12.780 --> 15:14.780 It's here at the church. 15:14.780 --> 15:20.080 Is Brother Milstead leading that? Okay. What time is that? Do we know? 15:24.200 --> 15:26.200 What time? 15:26.200 --> 15:27.200 Okay. 15:27.300 --> 15:31.820 930 for breakfast, 10 o'clock, soul winning class here at the church, May 30th. 15:31.820 --> 15:35.460 I just want to make sure we got those, that time put out there. 15:35.820 --> 15:39.340 We have, we're doing teen summer again this year. 15:39.340 --> 15:42.620 And so we're going to do an event once for the three summer months. 15:42.660 --> 15:49.420 So we put the dates out there, June 13th, July 25th, and then August 15th. 15:49.460 --> 15:51.540 And so excited to have that again. 15:51.540 --> 15:54.300 We, we're going to have a lot of fun again. 15:54.300 --> 15:55.300 I'll probably do a 15:55.300 --> 15:58.840 lot of some of the same things, some different things. So keep 15:58.840 --> 16:02.440 those dates in mind. There's a Europe so winning conference June 16:02.440 --> 16:06.280 17 to 20. Even if you can't get out there, just pray for us. 16:06.440 --> 16:09.600 Father's Day is around the corner June 21. Springdale, 16:09.600 --> 16:13.000 Arkansas, brother Sam Foley is leading another mission strip 16:13.000 --> 16:17.160 out there. So our marathon, it's gonna be a couple days. 16:17.900 --> 16:23.200 In times past, they've been able to target the Marshallese people, and they've been pretty receptive. 16:23.200 --> 16:26.200 So if you're interested, see him, ask him about details. 16:28.500 --> 16:32.100 We have the Fiji's missions trip July 12th through the 18th. 16:32.100 --> 16:35.300 Pray for that. We have the Mesquite Sailing Marathon August 22nd. 16:35.300 --> 16:41.140 Barbados missions trip September 7th through the 12th. And so we have a lot of people signing up for this. 16:41.140 --> 16:46.260 Should be a lot of fun. Our Heritage Lord Conference will be that Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 16:47.140 --> 16:50.740 And then we have annual Chili Cook Off October 31st. 16:51.600 --> 16:55.440 Faith Award Preaching Boot Camp, if you just like to get a little bit better at preaching, 16:55.440 --> 17:00.880 you can go out there in November. It's usually a good time to visit Phoenix so you don't get 17:00.880 --> 17:06.800 scorched to death. And then the Philippines Missions Trip is February 12th through the 20th. That's of 17:06.800 --> 17:14.000 2027. So if you want to go out there, that's like a Friday to Saturday. So we'll be out there doing 17:14.000 --> 17:19.040 a lot of soul-winning, visiting different churches. Pastor Stuckey's Church, Soul-Winning Baptist 17:19.040 --> 17:19.600 We're out of time. 17:19.600 --> 17:23.320 visiting our church plant, Steadfast Baptist Church, 17:23.320 --> 17:23.980 Philippines. 17:23.980 --> 17:26.320 And so definitely, if you can make it out there, 17:26.320 --> 17:27.400 I think it's going to be a big event. 17:27.400 --> 17:29.320 I think a lot of people are going to go. 17:29.320 --> 17:31.200 And so hopefully, if you've never 17:31.200 --> 17:33.920 been to that part of the world, I encourage you. 17:33.920 --> 17:36.760 It's a lot of fun, really good receptive soul winning. 17:36.760 --> 17:38.000 On the back is our prayer list. 17:38.000 --> 17:39.040 We'll go over this quickly. 17:40.000 --> 17:44.000 Please continue to pray for the Garcias for brother Tony's health. We're praying for brother 17:44.000 --> 17:48.960 Suhail's mother for her health. Also their safe trip to the Philippines. They're traveling. 17:49.760 --> 17:51.680 They've already left or no you're leaving soon. 17:54.800 --> 17:59.840 In the morning. Okay so let's pray for them on their their journey over there and their 17:59.840 --> 18:03.600 safe travels. Say hi to all of our friends for us all right. 18:04.400 --> 18:06.640 Actually I don't know are you staying in Manila? Where are you going? 18:10.000 --> 18:15.520 Okay, great. Also pray for brother Billy's mother who's continuing to recover from surgery. 18:16.200 --> 18:19.200 His son also praying for his cousin and their family. 18:19.200 --> 18:21.200 Please pray for Brother Spurgeon for work. 18:21.200 --> 18:24.200 We're praying for Brother Nick, his brother Elliot, 18:24.200 --> 18:27.200 for recovery from surgery as well. 18:27.200 --> 18:30.200 Please pray for Brother Jameson who's in the Philippines. 18:30.200 --> 18:32.200 We're praying for our Barbados trip. 18:32.200 --> 18:34.200 Please pray for the Larkies for their daughter Noelle. 18:34.200 --> 18:38.200 If you'd pray for Brother Nick for his leg and ankle to continue to recover. 18:38.200 --> 18:43.200 Pray for Mrs. Lauren, or for Gabe, for his healing for his arm. 18:43.200 --> 18:44.200 and then 18:44.200 --> 18:48.920 if you'd also pray for Miss Denise for health. So several prayer requests there. We'll say a quick 18:48.920 --> 18:50.500 word of prayer as a church family. 18:51.100 --> 18:54.300 Thank you, Father, so much for all the ladies who are expecting in our church. 18:54.300 --> 18:56.780 I pray that you continue to bless them in their pregnancy. 18:56.780 --> 18:59.740 I pray that you'd also just help those that have recently given birth, 18:59.740 --> 19:03.900 that they just continue to recover, and that their babies would be very healthy. 19:03.900 --> 19:07.420 I pray that you would also bless our upcoming missions trips and our soul-winning trips, 19:07.420 --> 19:09.500 that they could be fruitful, that you keep us safe. 19:09.500 --> 19:12.380 Please bless those who are traveling and going to the Philippines. 19:12.380 --> 19:16.860 Please bless our evangelists and our pastors that we support in the Philippines. 19:16.860 --> 19:19.020 I pray that you would also help our church family that needs... 19:19.100 --> 19:24.460 financial blessings or needs work or needs some opportunity. I pray that you 19:24.460 --> 19:26.900 would just bless them with that. Please help those that are trying to recover 19:26.900 --> 19:30.140 from sicknesses and health. I pray that you would bless them and I pray that you 19:30.140 --> 19:33.860 would just continue to use our church to give honor and glory to your Son and in 19:33.860 --> 19:38.460 His name we pray in Jesus name, Amen. That's all I have is really as far as 19:38.460 --> 19:43.220 announcements. We're gonna go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week Psalm 67 and 19:43.220 --> 19:45.000 our Psalm book. 19:45.400 --> 19:47.900 Psalm 67, sing it out nice and loud. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.840 Psalm 67. 20:03.300 --> 20:06.740 You can outlaw us, all that burns. 20:06.740 --> 20:08.980 God be merciful unto us. 21:53.500 --> 21:57.660 plates we passed around and you can turn your Bible to Deuteronomy chapter 31. 21:57.660 --> 22:01.100 That's Deuteronomy chapter 31. 23:28.500 --> 23:33.980 Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them whom he destroyed. 23:33.980 --> 23:39.020 And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto 23:39.020 --> 23:41.340 all the commandments which I have commanded you. 23:41.340 --> 23:44.300 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them. 23:44.300 --> 23:49.300 For the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake 23:49.300 --> 23:50.300 thee. 23:50.300 --> 23:53.540 And Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong 23:53.540 --> 23:54.820 and of a good courage. 23:54.820 --> 23:56.500 For thou must go with this people until the day is done. 23:56.500 --> 23:57.740 the land which the Lord. 23:58.700 --> 24:02.860 hath sworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 24:02.860 --> 24:06.020 And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee. 24:06.020 --> 24:10.660 He will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee, fear not, neither be dismayed. 24:10.660 --> 24:14.420 And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests, the sons of Levi, 24:14.420 --> 24:18.340 which bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. 24:18.340 --> 24:23.140 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years in the solemnity of the year 24:23.140 --> 24:26.700 of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel's come to appear 24:26.700 --> 24:29.700 before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose. 24:29.700 --> 24:32.860 Thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 24:32.860 --> 24:35.900 Gather the people together, men and women and children, 24:35.900 --> 24:39.200 thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, 24:39.200 --> 24:41.780 that they may learn and fear the LORD your God, 24:41.780 --> 24:44.380 and observe to do all the words of this law. 24:44.380 --> 24:46.740 And that their children which have not known anything 24:46.740 --> 24:49.220 may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, 24:49.220 --> 24:50.700 as long as ye live in the land 24:50.700 --> 24:52.980 whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 24:53.500 --> 24:57.820 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold thy day's approach, that thou must die. 24:57.820 --> 25:02.780 Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. 25:02.780 --> 25:07.100 And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 25:07.100 --> 25:10.540 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud. 25:10.540 --> 25:13.420 And the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 25:13.420 --> 25:16.780 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers. 25:16.780 --> 25:21.260 And this people will rise up and go a-whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land. 25:21.500 --> 25:26.860 whether they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. 25:26.860 --> 25:31.340 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, 25:31.340 --> 25:34.380 and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, 25:34.380 --> 25:38.460 and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, 25:38.460 --> 25:41.900 Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? 25:41.900 --> 25:45.820 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they have wrought. 25:46.400 --> 25:49.320 and that they are turned unto other gods. 25:49.320 --> 25:51.600 Now therefore write ye this song for you, 25:51.600 --> 25:53.600 and teach it the children of Israel, 25:53.600 --> 25:57.720 put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 25:57.720 --> 26:01.800 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swear unto their fathers, 26:01.800 --> 26:06.080 that floweth with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves in wax fat. 26:06.900 --> 26:11.300 Then will they turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant, 26:11.300 --> 26:14.820 and it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befalling them, 26:14.820 --> 26:17.620 that this song shall testify against them as a witness, 26:17.620 --> 26:20.740 for it shall not be forgotten out of the mounds of their seed. 26:21.400 --> 26:27.200 For I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swear. 26:27.200 --> 26:31.040 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel. 26:31.040 --> 26:36.320 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of a good courage. 26:36.320 --> 26:41.240 For thou shalt bring the children of Israel unto the land which I swear unto them, and I will be with thee. 26:41.240 --> 26:47.200 And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, 26:47.200 --> 26:49.400 until they were finished that Moses commanded the leapfrogs. 26:49.400 --> 26:52.100 which bear the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord saying, 26:52.100 --> 26:56.800 Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, 26:56.800 --> 26:59.000 that it may be there for a witness against thee. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.300 For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck. 27:01.300 --> 27:03.700 Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, 27:03.700 --> 27:08.100 ye have been rebellious against the Lord, and how much more after my death. 27:08.600 --> 27:14.600 Gathering to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth 27:14.600 --> 27:17.520 To record against them for I know that after my death 27:17.760 --> 27:24.020 You will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you and evil will befall you in the latter days 27:24.480 --> 27:30.080 Because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands and 27:30.480 --> 27:35.640 Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended. Let us pray 27:36.600 --> 27:39.100 Father, thank you for allowing us to be in church. 27:39.100 --> 27:40.020 Thank you for another day of life. 27:40.020 --> 27:41.860 Thank you for all the souls that are getting saved, 27:41.860 --> 27:43.040 Lord, through this church. 27:43.040 --> 27:45.140 Lord, thank you for everything you've given us. 27:45.140 --> 27:46.460 I just pray you bless Pastor Shelley, 27:46.460 --> 27:47.820 fill him with your Holy Spirit, 27:47.820 --> 27:49.240 and that he may preach your word unto us 27:49.240 --> 27:52.140 and help us to get relevant application to our lives 27:52.140 --> 27:53.120 to become better Christians. 27:53.120 --> 27:54.880 Praise in Jesus' name, amen. 27:54.880 --> 27:55.900 Amen. 27:55.900 --> 27:58.880 Deuteronomy 31, Moses is transitioning. 27:59.200 --> 28:05.680 from being their leader that's led them for a very long time, for 40 years through the wilderness. 28:05.680 --> 28:10.880 And he's going to transition to Joshua specifically, and he's giving them a lot of 28:10.880 --> 28:16.800 different instructions. He's also prophesying about the future of Israel. It says in verse 1, 28:16.800 --> 28:22.320 and Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. So we know that Moses actually spake 28:22.320 --> 28:27.120 these things, he actually preached these things. It actually records in this chapter, he wrote 28:27.200 --> 28:32.540 these things. So we have Moses speaking the Word of God, we have Moses writing 28:32.540 --> 28:36.940 the Word of God, and of course prophesying about a lot of things in the 28:36.940 --> 28:42.680 future as he is God's messenger. And really, as God's messenger, you're 28:42.680 --> 28:46.500 limited to what you can accomplish because 28:46.600 --> 28:49.600 Really, you're supposed to be a faithful minister of God's Word. 28:49.600 --> 28:51.200 You're supposed to preach God's Word. 28:51.200 --> 28:56.400 You're supposed to write God's Word and deliver God's Word and preserve God's Word. 28:56.400 --> 29:00.440 But it's still up to the people and how they respond to that particular message. 29:00.440 --> 29:07.520 You know, a good pastor is not necessarily always reflected by how everyone responds, 29:07.520 --> 29:09.680 but rather if he was faithful to the Word of God himself. 29:10.500 --> 29:11.700 And you know, we love Moses. 29:11.700 --> 29:14.500 The Bible says he was faithful in all of God's house. 29:14.500 --> 29:17.000 Yet, he doesn't really have a huge success, 29:17.000 --> 29:18.100 if you think about his ministry. 29:18.100 --> 29:21.100 His ministry is one that's kind of a failure in a sense, 29:21.100 --> 29:23.300 because they didn't get to enter the promised land. 29:23.300 --> 29:25.300 He doesn't get to enter the promised land. 29:25.300 --> 29:27.600 And most of the people that he shepherded 29:27.600 --> 29:29.200 just died in the wilderness, 29:29.200 --> 29:31.100 and extreme rebellion and sin. 29:31.300 --> 29:34.260 and then Joshua and their group gets to go in 29:34.260 --> 29:35.860 and inherit the promised land. 29:35.860 --> 29:38.640 But can we really say like Moses is a bad guy 29:38.640 --> 29:40.540 or there's anything wrong with Moses? 29:40.540 --> 29:43.780 No, and in fact, Moses and Joshua often 29:43.780 --> 29:45.140 kind of picture a few things. 29:45.140 --> 29:47.880 They picture the law and they kind of picture Christ 29:47.880 --> 29:50.480 in the sense that the law can't really get us 29:50.480 --> 29:52.180 into the promised land, 29:52.180 --> 29:54.680 but it's not because there's a problem with the law. 29:54.900 --> 29:57.900 The problem wasn't with the law, the problem's with us. 29:57.900 --> 29:59.780 For finding fault with them, right? 29:59.780 --> 30:01.240 This is what the Bible says in the New Testament. 30:01.240 --> 30:03.660 So the law can't save, 30:03.660 --> 30:05.500 doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the law. 30:05.500 --> 30:09.540 The law is righteous, the law is good, the law is holy. 30:09.540 --> 30:12.920 But the problem is that we can't attain to the law. 30:12.920 --> 30:16.500 And so therefore, you know, we have to have salvation. 30:16.500 --> 30:18.720 We have to have mercy, we have to have grace. 30:18.720 --> 30:20.760 And that's pictured through Joshua 30:20.760 --> 30:22.900 and him entering in the promise. 30:22.900 --> 30:28.100 land and getting to go in is a picture of what Jesus does for us. 30:28.100 --> 30:30.740 But you know, there's nothing wrong with Moses. 30:30.740 --> 30:36.360 And so we can't necessarily look at someone's ministry and just only judge it by how much 30:36.360 --> 30:39.460 work is accomplished by the people that listen to them. 30:39.460 --> 30:42.940 Otherwise, we'd say Jeremiah was one of the worst preachers to ever live. 30:43.700 --> 30:48.340 I mean, if you think about it, Jeremiah, no one wants to follow his message. 30:48.340 --> 30:53.460 They throw him in the dung pit, and then his entire city and nation is destroyed. 30:53.460 --> 30:56.040 There's only like a few poor people left over. 30:56.040 --> 30:58.360 Then he tries to minister to those people the word of God. 30:58.360 --> 31:01.980 They reject him again, and then they get all drugged down into Egypt. 31:02.300 --> 31:04.700 And so it's just like everyone fails, 31:04.700 --> 31:07.180 everyone's destroyed, virtually speaking. 31:07.180 --> 31:10.540 I mean, Jeremiah, basically it's the biggest failure 31:10.540 --> 31:12.420 you could probably think of as far as 31:12.420 --> 31:15.300 what is the result of his preaching. 31:15.300 --> 31:16.140 But you know what? 31:16.140 --> 31:17.600 Jeremiah was a great preacher. 31:18.000 --> 31:24.000 And arguably one of the greatest preachers because it's easier to preach a positive message. 31:24.000 --> 31:31.000 It's easier to say, hey, God's going to deliver us and we're going to win and we're going to have victory and we're going to have milk and we're going to have honey. 31:31.000 --> 31:37.000 As opposed to Jeremiah being like we're going to be slaves and in bondage and we better just retreat right now. 31:37.000 --> 31:40.000 We better just capitulate to the king of Nebuchadnezzar. 31:40.000 --> 31:42.000 We might as well just go into captivity. 31:42.000 --> 31:45.000 Otherwise, we're just going to die miserable deaths. 31:45.000 --> 31:46.000 No, that wasn't as fun of a- 31:46.000 --> 31:47.680 message to preach. 31:47.680 --> 31:48.520 But you know what? 31:48.520 --> 31:53.440 We shouldn't judge a preacher by what are the results, 31:53.440 --> 31:56.760 what is our economy like, what is our country like. 31:56.760 --> 31:58.380 The one thing we should judge a preacher on 31:58.380 --> 32:00.700 is is he faithful to what the Bible says. 32:01.880 --> 32:03.860 Is he delivering a negative message 32:03.860 --> 32:06.200 because that's the message that God has for us right now? 32:06.400 --> 32:09.800 Or is he delivering God's word faithfully? 32:09.800 --> 32:14.920 We have to make sure that we're testing the minister by what the Bible says, not by the 32:14.920 --> 32:17.200 circumstances, not by what's happening. 32:17.200 --> 32:21.600 And again, Moses, one of the greatest preachers ever, one of the greatest men of God, one 32:21.600 --> 32:27.400 of the most faithful ministers, yet his church is a train wreck in many cases. 32:27.400 --> 32:31.900 But what he did do is he kept everything together long enough. 32:32.000 --> 32:34.760 so that then the next generation could be blessed. 32:34.760 --> 32:37.600 And you know, in some cases, you have to just realize 32:37.600 --> 32:39.800 it's not always about you. 32:39.800 --> 32:41.840 It's not always about what you're gonna accomplish. 32:41.840 --> 32:44.880 Sometimes it's just good to just set things up 32:44.880 --> 32:47.480 for the next generation or love other people 32:47.480 --> 32:49.520 or to allow other people to do a good job. 32:49.520 --> 32:51.280 You know what I like about Moses is, 32:51.280 --> 32:53.480 you know, he didn't get into the promised land. 32:53.600 --> 32:56.800 And in a sense, it kind of feels like a failure. 32:56.800 --> 33:01.600 But he's not like so jaded that he wants to tear down the entire structure 33:01.600 --> 33:05.900 and not help Joshua and the rest of the next generation go into the promised land. 33:05.900 --> 33:07.900 He's actually setting them up for success. 33:07.900 --> 33:09.400 And he wants them to be successful. 33:09.400 --> 33:14.400 And you know, in some cases, you know, as men, you know, when you get to a certain age, 33:14.400 --> 33:17.400 you can't really change certain things about yourself anymore. 33:17.400 --> 33:20.400 You know, obviously, there's always a chance to change some things. 33:20.400 --> 33:21.600 You can't change everything. 33:21.600 --> 33:22.600 everything, right? 33:22.600 --> 33:27.280 You know, at some point, you're like, hey, I'm never going to be a professional athlete. 33:27.280 --> 33:32.320 You know, at some point, the clock has ticked and it's over, right? 33:32.320 --> 33:37.740 At some point, you may not have the career that you always wanted or all the accolades 33:37.740 --> 33:41.280 you wanted or maybe you didn't go down the path you exactly wanted. 33:41.280 --> 33:44.680 You know, once you get to a certain age, you and your wife can't have any more kids. 33:45.300 --> 33:48.900 I mean, biologically, at least, they can't, I mean, you can always adopt, and I'm not saying that, 33:48.900 --> 33:53.780 but I'm just saying in general, you can't necessarily biologically have all the kids you want 33:53.780 --> 33:58.420 once the ticker has ticked, okay? Once you get to a certain age, it's over. 33:58.420 --> 34:04.900 So you can't always change everything. But, you know, why do I want to sit here and then drag my kids down with me? 34:05.200 --> 34:07.440 or drag other people down with me, 34:07.440 --> 34:10.000 or have other people make mistakes that I've made, 34:10.000 --> 34:12.560 you know, I should want other people to do good, 34:12.560 --> 34:16.160 and not necessarily have to make all the same mistakes as I did, 34:16.160 --> 34:19.440 not necessarily have to have all the baggage that I have, 34:19.440 --> 34:22.080 not necessarily have to do all the things that I did. 34:22.080 --> 34:25.280 You know, we don't have to necessarily reinvent the wheel for Christianity. 34:25.600 --> 34:28.640 We can hope that our children can learn through our example, 34:28.640 --> 34:31.840 they can learn through the Bible, they can be raised in a good church. 34:31.840 --> 34:35.680 You know, I don't want my kids to go to some Charismaniac church for 20 years 34:35.680 --> 34:37.680 to end up realizing this is a better church. 34:38.000 --> 34:42.800 Wouldn't it be nice if they could just be raised in a better church and then actually realize that after 20 years? 34:42.800 --> 34:49.100 Instead of having to go through the Catholic church, or have to be raised in an agnostic type household, 34:49.100 --> 34:53.700 or be raised in some kind of false religion to then appreciate the things of God, 34:53.700 --> 34:55.700 you know, hopefully they can just appreciate them as a child. 34:56.900 --> 34:59.700 And so, you know, just because you can't do something, 35:00.100 --> 35:03.500 doesn't mean you have to tear other people down with you. 35:03.500 --> 35:07.380 You can help other people make better decisions than you 35:07.380 --> 35:09.140 and have more success than you. 35:09.400 --> 35:12.440 You know, that's what I like about Moses, what I like about this transition, 35:12.440 --> 35:14.700 is that he's not gonna sit here and say, 35:14.700 --> 35:19.860 well, it's not fair that I had to go through something more difficult than you. 35:19.860 --> 35:22.100 Well, hey, that's just life. 35:22.100 --> 35:25.100 Sometimes you have to do the hard part so that other people can enjoy. 35:25.100 --> 35:28.500 You know, I'm so glad that people traveled across the Atlantic Ocean 35:28.500 --> 35:32.060 on wooden ships and just settled America 35:32.060 --> 35:35.260 so that I could enjoy the benefits of being in America. 35:35.260 --> 35:37.400 I'm so glad there were so many people that f*** 35:37.400 --> 35:41.880 fought the savages and Native Americans in this country to take over so we don't have 35:41.880 --> 35:47.680 this pagan devil worshipping religion just constantly harassing people in our country 35:47.680 --> 35:49.400 and scalping people. 35:49.400 --> 35:54.440 I'm so glad that so many people died to give us the King James Bible so that I could read 35:54.440 --> 35:55.440 it. 35:55.440 --> 35:58.880 You know, we can't just sit here and say like, oh, it's not fair that I have to make sacrifice. 35:58.880 --> 36:02.920 Well, is it fair for William Tyndale to get his throat slit just to try and give you a 36:02.920 --> 36:03.420 Bible? 36:04.000 --> 36:10.600 Was it fair for all the Christians to have to come into America and witness to a hostile Native American population, 36:10.600 --> 36:13.500 often being scalped and killed while trying to do it? 36:13.500 --> 36:23.500 Was it fair for all the patriots who died in the American Revolution to get away from the tyranny of Britain and just Europe and the Catholics and all this kind of stuff? 36:23.500 --> 36:31.500 I mean, was it really fair? You know, you can sit here and say, was it fair? But in many cases, we are living a spoiled and blessed life. 36:32.400 --> 36:37.440 And how dare us sit here and act like we can't make sacrifices for the next generation? 36:38.400 --> 36:42.800 You know, would God, you know, we could build this church and this church could be a great thriving 36:42.800 --> 36:47.680 church when we hand it off to our children or another generation and that we wouldn't be upset 36:47.680 --> 36:52.480 like, well, I never got the 20 million dollar building or something like that, or I never got 36:52.480 --> 36:56.240 the fancy kid slides or something like that. You know, I mean, some of these churches you look at, 36:56.240 --> 36:59.120 they're like beautiful and nice. It took a long time to get there. 36:59.700 --> 37:02.600 Right? They weren't the ones that met in the house. 37:02.600 --> 37:06.000 Right? Like the Millstads who have been here since day one. 37:06.000 --> 37:08.000 I mean, this church is already different. 37:08.000 --> 37:11.300 It's already better. But look, we don't know the sky's the limit. 37:11.300 --> 37:15.700 What if God 20, 30 years from now blesses us with a nice property 37:15.700 --> 37:20.500 or a nice building or, you know, all kinds of extra goodies and stuff like that. 37:20.500 --> 37:22.600 We can't sit here and be mad. 37:22.600 --> 37:24.600 Like, well, I didn't get it or I didn't have it. 37:24.600 --> 37:26.000 Well, someone has to build it. 37:26.800 --> 37:29.960 Someone has to build it and someone has to get there and someone has to 37:30.460 --> 37:36.160 Basically do the hard part and the hard work some cases and you know what that's just your playa plot in life 37:36.320 --> 37:41.760 You know and and for most of us. It's a lot easier than anybody were reading about the Bible 37:42.220 --> 37:44.220 Than what Moses had to do 37:44.240 --> 37:48.800 Think about Moses. It's like Moses. You're never gonna get to enjoy. You're just gonna have to walk through the wilderness 37:49.600 --> 37:53.140 With a bunch of complaining murmurs the entire time 37:53.600 --> 37:55.380 I mean, that doesn't sound like fun. 37:55.380 --> 37:56.780 For 40 years, he's like, 37:56.780 --> 37:58.940 I have to wait for all these people to die, 37:58.940 --> 38:01.040 and then I get to die, and then I die. 38:01.040 --> 38:02.480 I mean, he get to go in. 38:02.480 --> 38:03.320 You know? 38:03.320 --> 38:04.160 He just basically, 38:04.160 --> 38:06.240 I mean, he's gotta feel kinda disappointing. 38:06.240 --> 38:08.360 I guess that's probably why God told him now, 38:08.360 --> 38:09.420 instead of earlier. 38:09.420 --> 38:11.660 Hey, you're gonna go for 40 years and then just die. 38:11.660 --> 38:13.400 Because otherwise he'd be like, just kill me now. 38:13.400 --> 38:14.960 You know, like. 38:14.960 --> 38:16.620 And you know, I think maybe sometimes God 38:16.620 --> 38:17.880 doesn't tell us what our future is, 38:17.880 --> 38:19.300 because then we wouldn't do it. 38:19.400 --> 38:21.440 It's like, hey, this is what you're gonna have to go through 38:21.440 --> 38:22.940 to take on Steadfast Baptist Church. 38:22.940 --> 38:25.140 It's like, I love Houston, you know? 38:25.140 --> 38:26.700 I love Pure Words Baptist Church. 38:26.700 --> 38:28.640 You know, it's just like, sometimes you don't know 38:28.640 --> 38:29.480 what it's like. 38:29.480 --> 38:30.920 It's like, hey, you don't know what it's like 38:30.920 --> 38:32.280 to have a kid until you have a kid. 38:32.280 --> 38:33.980 And then you're like, wow, I didn't know 38:33.980 --> 38:35.900 that that's what it's like to have a kid. 38:36.000 --> 38:38.300 you know, or two or three or four or seven. 38:38.300 --> 38:42.340 You're just like, wow, this is a lot more difficult than I ever imagined. 38:42.680 --> 38:46.340 And so sometimes it's just best that you don't even know how hard it is. 38:46.600 --> 38:49.220 And, you know, until you're actually there. 38:49.220 --> 38:51.520 But hey, Moses was a faithful minister. 38:51.640 --> 38:53.320 He went through some hard stuff. 38:53.320 --> 38:55.060 He didn't even get to enjoy. 38:55.060 --> 38:57.020 He was just building for the next generation. 38:57.260 --> 38:58.700 You know what I like about him? 38:58.700 --> 39:00.900 He was faithful to the word of God and he preached the word of God. 39:01.900 --> 39:06.700 Verse 2, and he said unto them, I am 120 years old this day, and I can no more go out and 39:06.700 --> 39:10.860 come in as also the Lord has said unto me, thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 39:10.860 --> 39:13.260 So he said, hey, I'm too old. 39:13.260 --> 39:14.980 I can't really lead anymore. 39:14.980 --> 39:20.260 And you know, a leader, as is described here in a lot of places, he goes out and he comes 39:20.260 --> 39:24.340 in, meaning that he's kind of lead, he leads by example. 39:24.340 --> 39:28.740 And you know, it's important as a leader to lead by example, to not necessarily just sit 39:28.740 --> 39:29.900 in a chair and just tell everybody. 39:29.900 --> 39:33.460 else to do, but actually lead from an example. 39:33.460 --> 39:37.580 It says in verse 3, the Lord thy God, he will go over before thee and he will destroy these 39:37.580 --> 39:40.620 nations from before thee and thou shalt possess them. 39:40.620 --> 39:43.980 And Joshua, he shall go over before thee as the Lord has said. 39:43.980 --> 39:45.580 You know what you gotta like about God? 39:45.580 --> 39:47.100 He also leads by example. 39:47.100 --> 39:48.100 He says, hey, you know what? 39:48.100 --> 39:51.620 I'll actually go out there before you and I'll actually do the hard part for you. 39:51.620 --> 39:52.620 I'll do all the work for you. 39:52.900 --> 39:55.700 In fact, when it comes to our salvation, he did it all. 39:55.700 --> 39:58.500 He went out and he came in, he did everything for us. 39:58.500 --> 39:59.620 He did all the work. 39:59.620 --> 40:01.340 He created everything. 40:01.340 --> 40:03.700 And then he does all of our salvation 40:03.700 --> 40:05.660 and he's constantly working through us. 40:05.660 --> 40:07.680 I mean, God is a worker. 40:07.680 --> 40:09.460 You have to like that about God. 40:09.460 --> 40:11.480 God is not slack. 40:11.480 --> 40:13.220 God is not lazy. 40:13.220 --> 40:17.140 God is not someone who just takes time off 40:17.140 --> 40:18.380 or is willy nilly. 40:18.380 --> 40:20.900 No, no, no, God is super hardworking. 40:21.000 --> 40:24.640 And everything that he creates is perfect whenever he creates it. 40:24.640 --> 40:27.200 You know, everything is perfect in his creation. 40:27.200 --> 40:31.960 He made man upright, yet they have sought out many inventions, is what the Bible says. 40:31.960 --> 40:34.200 When God created everything, it was very good. 40:34.600 --> 40:37.000 Everything God creates is very good. 40:37.000 --> 40:38.500 God's a great creator. 40:38.500 --> 40:39.600 He's very thoughtful. 40:39.600 --> 40:40.500 He's very loving. 40:40.500 --> 40:41.900 He's very compassionate. 40:41.900 --> 40:44.600 He's a great creator and he's a great leader. 40:44.600 --> 40:47.100 He goes out and he leads by example 40:47.100 --> 40:48.900 and he's willing to do the hard part. 40:48.900 --> 40:51.100 He's willing to do the hard work himself 40:51.100 --> 40:54.400 and go through all the turmoil and the emotional pain. 40:54.400 --> 40:57.500 I mean, the emotional pain of doing all the work 40:57.500 --> 40:59.200 for all these people 40:59.200 --> 41:01.200 and then they just don't even care. 41:01.200 --> 41:01.900 I mean... 41:02.100 --> 41:06.300 It, you know, as a parent, it can feel frustrating some days. 41:06.300 --> 41:08.640 It can feel like, man, I just work so much hard. 41:08.640 --> 41:10.700 I work so hard for these kids. 41:10.700 --> 41:13.000 I have to sacrifice so much for these children, 41:13.000 --> 41:15.440 and they don't ever really appreciate all the work 41:15.440 --> 41:16.640 that I'm doing for them. 41:16.640 --> 41:18.240 Well, just think how God feels. 41:19.000 --> 41:23.200 And God himself is doing so much work for us constantly 41:23.200 --> 41:25.460 and leading by example in so many cases. 41:25.460 --> 41:29.640 And it's very, it's very seldom that his creation even gives him 41:29.640 --> 41:32.680 anywhere close to the amount of honor and glory and praise that he deserves 41:33.180 --> 41:35.280 and the recognition for the work that he does. 41:35.640 --> 41:37.780 You know, we can sit here and always think about ourselves. 41:37.880 --> 41:40.220 But why don't we think about what is God doing for us 41:40.780 --> 41:43.260 instead of always thinking about, well, I'm not getting enough praise. 41:43.420 --> 41:44.760 Well, how much praise are you giving to God? 41:45.300 --> 41:49.700 You know, if you just think about God, it'll help you stop complaining about your own situation. 41:49.700 --> 41:54.180 But he's going to go over, he's going to do the hard part, and he's going to allow them to enter. 41:54.180 --> 41:58.340 Again, what is the picture? The picture of salvation. Joshua is a picture of salvation. 41:58.340 --> 42:01.300 How Jesus did all the hard part for us. He... 42:02.300 --> 42:09.980 conquered the grave, he bear all of our sins, he's the one that took captivity captive so that we 42:09.980 --> 42:17.100 could enter into his rest, enter into his promised land with no works of our own. And in many cases, 42:17.100 --> 42:23.900 I mean think about the first battle scene that we have in the Bible at Jericho, all they do is just shout. 42:24.600 --> 42:28.200 I mean, it's like all years like call in the name of the Lord and they win. 42:28.500 --> 42:31.600 You know, if you think about it, they basically just march around the city, 42:31.700 --> 42:35.000 do absolutely nothing, shout all the walls come tumbling down 42:35.000 --> 42:39.100 and they just instant salvation, instant delivery, instant win, 42:39.300 --> 42:42.500 instant victory just from them shouting. 42:42.500 --> 42:44.600 And God does all the work again. 42:44.600 --> 42:47.100 You know, God didn't make it super hard on them. 42:47.500 --> 42:49.200 God made it extremely easy. 42:49.600 --> 42:51.200 But they still had to trust them, didn't they? 42:51.200 --> 42:52.760 They had to put their faith in them, 42:52.760 --> 42:55.260 and through their faith, you know, they were delivered. 42:55.260 --> 42:58.200 Don't you think some people would have mocked them 42:58.200 --> 42:59.400 if they had heard what they had said? 42:59.400 --> 43:00.960 Hey, all we're gonna do is walk around the city 43:00.960 --> 43:04.000 and then just shout, and we're gonna win. 43:04.000 --> 43:06.720 Oh, you think that's gonna, you just think just shouting 43:06.720 --> 43:08.480 is gonna get you the victory? 43:08.480 --> 43:09.320 It's like, yes. 43:10.500 --> 43:14.180 Yeah. Oh, how are you gonna? You mean you're not gonna do any work? 43:14.180 --> 43:17.860 No, I'm not gonna do any work. And again, that's what people think about our salvation. They think 43:17.860 --> 43:24.660 like, oh, you just think like praying it to Jesus is going to save you. Yeah, I do. I see Catholics, 43:24.660 --> 43:30.420 I see Orthodox, I see all kinds of Lordship salvation people mocking our view of salvation. 43:30.420 --> 43:34.100 They say, oh, these people think they can just pray and trust Jesus and they're going to go 43:34.100 --> 43:35.300 to heaven. Yeah, exactly. 43:36.400 --> 43:41.860 Yeah, just one time I just believe in Jesus Christ and I get to enter in just like they're gonna conquer the promised land 43:42.220 --> 43:48.580 Doing virtually nothing but just walking waltzing right in and just trusting Jesus the way I'm gonna walk right into heaven 43:48.800 --> 43:51.320 Because Jesus already conquered the grave for me 43:53.040 --> 43:57.100 What I can't go through Moses I can't go through the works of the law 43:57.100 --> 44:04.020 Hey Moses isn't gonna lead you into promised land Moses can't lead you into the promised land. Why because you're a sinner 44:04.400 --> 44:11.560 Now here's the thing, if all the children of Israel were perfect, if they never sinned, 44:11.560 --> 44:15.320 they would have all walked right into the promised land with Moses. 44:15.320 --> 44:19.400 I mean was there anything stopping the children of Israel and Moses from walking into the 44:19.400 --> 44:24.620 promised land if they were completely obedient, if they never disobeyed God at any point, 44:24.620 --> 44:26.320 and they just followed all of His commands perfectly? 44:26.320 --> 44:28.440 No, they would have just walked right in. 44:28.900 --> 44:30.740 They would have had this same victory. 44:30.740 --> 44:33.300 But why did they not get in? 44:33.300 --> 44:34.580 Because they didn't have faith. 44:36.180 --> 44:38.180 And because they were sinners, right? 44:38.500 --> 44:40.940 And in the same way, why does someone not get into heaven? 44:40.940 --> 44:44.800 Because they're a sinner that never had faith in Jesus Christ. 44:44.800 --> 44:46.540 It's the exact same picture. 44:46.540 --> 44:49.780 All of these things are spiritual pictures of our salvation. 44:49.780 --> 44:53.240 And that's why Moses doesn't get to go in as a picture of, 44:53.240 --> 44:55.660 hey, we don't get to go in through the works of the law. 44:55.660 --> 44:58.060 Again, I think that parallels similar. 44:58.060 --> 45:00.620 Obviously, we know Moses isn't absolutely perfect, 45:00.620 --> 45:04.360 but he kind of models for us a great Christian 45:04.360 --> 45:06.460 in the sense that there's nothing wrong with the law. 45:06.700 --> 45:09.900 It was nothing wrong with Moses, it was for finding fault with them. 45:09.900 --> 45:11.400 It was the people that rebelled. 45:11.400 --> 45:13.400 In the same way, there's nothing wrong with the law, 45:13.400 --> 45:16.900 but the law couldn't get them in because they were sinners. 45:16.900 --> 45:21.500 So in the same way, we can't get into heaven because we are found sinners. 45:21.500 --> 45:25.200 Therefore, we need a savior and that's what Joshua pictures. 45:25.200 --> 45:28.600 Also, you see the replacement theology here in the Bible very clearly. 45:28.600 --> 45:34.300 That first generation doesn't go in and then the second generation gets to go in. 45:34.300 --> 45:34.700 is kind of 45:34.700 --> 45:39.040 of a picture of how the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the 45:39.040 --> 45:40.660 children of promise. 45:40.660 --> 45:42.100 These are counted for the seed. 45:42.100 --> 45:46.020 So according to the Bible, hey, those who believe in Jesus Christ, those who have faith 45:46.020 --> 45:51.620 got to enter in, not the ones that were like physically there, but the ones that trusted, 45:51.620 --> 45:52.700 they get to enter in. 45:52.700 --> 45:56.540 So there's all these great pictures here with this story. 45:57.300 --> 46:00.100 It says the Lord thy God is going to go over before thee. 46:00.100 --> 46:03.220 And then it also says that Joshua is going to go over. 46:03.220 --> 46:08.660 So we kind of see, you know, again, these parallels of God and Jesus Christ. 46:08.660 --> 46:12.500 Now, I want to dwell on this moment just a little bit more. 46:12.500 --> 46:14.660 Go over to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 46:14.660 --> 46:17.060 It said the Lord thy God is going to go over before thee. 46:17.620 --> 46:18.900 Who are we talking about? 46:19.400 --> 46:26.320 You know, it's crazy how many people get screwed up on these kind of doctrines, but the Bible 46:26.320 --> 46:31.080 clearly teaches that Jesus Christ exists before his incarnation. 46:31.080 --> 46:32.080 He's from everlasting. 46:32.080 --> 46:36.840 There was never a point when Jesus Christ came into existence. 46:36.840 --> 46:43.280 We obviously believe he was manifested, meaning made to appear in Bethlehem's manger. 46:43.400 --> 46:45.600 around 2,000 years ago. 46:45.600 --> 46:48.100 We all believe that, we all get that, 46:48.100 --> 46:50.240 but that is not his origin. 46:50.240 --> 46:52.880 Jesus Christ does not have an origin. 46:52.880 --> 46:56.080 He is from everlasting, he's always existed. 46:56.080 --> 46:57.280 And so some people say, 46:57.280 --> 47:01.280 oh, the God of the Old Testament is God the Father. 47:01.280 --> 47:04.120 That's not really a very accurate statement 47:04.120 --> 47:05.780 in the context they're putting it in. 47:05.780 --> 47:07.420 There's nothing wrong with saying God the Father 47:07.420 --> 47:08.700 was the God of the Old Testament. 47:08.900 --> 47:12.660 But it's also that the Son was also the God of the Old Testament, 47:12.660 --> 47:15.380 because the Trinity has always existed, okay? 47:15.380 --> 47:18.100 So it wasn't like the Father by himself, 47:18.100 --> 47:20.020 there was the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 47:20.020 --> 47:23.860 They are present in the Old Testament just as they are in the New Testament. 47:23.860 --> 47:26.900 Obviously, the Son manifested in Himself for us 47:26.900 --> 47:32.580 and appeared for us 2,000 years ago with a special gospel message and his gospel plan. 47:32.580 --> 47:35.300 But Jesus Christ was the God of the Old Testament. 47:35.300 --> 47:36.020 He was the guy... 47:36.700 --> 47:40.940 going and leading them in the wilderness. 47:40.940 --> 47:43.240 Now look what it says in 1 Corinthians chapter number 10, 47:43.240 --> 47:45.280 look at verse number 1. 47:45.280 --> 47:48.580 Come over, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, 47:48.580 --> 47:50.580 how that all our fathers were under the cloud, 47:50.580 --> 47:52.180 and all passed through the sea. 47:52.300 --> 47:55.660 and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 47:55.660 --> 48:00.380 and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink, 48:00.380 --> 48:03.900 for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them." And notice this, 48:03.900 --> 48:11.340 and that rock was Christ. So did Christ exist only 2,000 years ago? No, Christ existed 48:11.340 --> 48:16.300 at the church in the wilderness, and Christ was there with them in the wilderness. He's going 48:16.300 --> 48:19.260 out before and behind. He's encompassing them. 48:19.500 --> 48:22.260 And of course, you know, when you think about their church, 48:22.260 --> 48:24.200 it's not much different than our church. 48:24.200 --> 48:26.740 They're a Baptist church. 48:26.740 --> 48:29.780 Why? The Bible says they were all baptized. 48:29.780 --> 48:31.580 And they were baptized by immersion. 48:31.580 --> 48:34.140 They had water on both sides and over the top of them. 48:34.140 --> 48:35.440 They weren't Catholic. 48:35.440 --> 48:37.180 Catholics don't believe in immersion. 48:37.400 --> 48:39.600 They weren't orthodox. Orthodox dip. 48:39.600 --> 48:40.700 They dunk or whatever. 48:40.700 --> 48:42.000 They just like dunk your feet a little bit 48:42.000 --> 48:43.400 and dunk your head a little bit, you know? 48:43.400 --> 48:44.500 It's like weird baby thing. 48:44.500 --> 48:48.300 They're just like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. 48:48.300 --> 48:49.300 Literally. 48:49.300 --> 48:51.200 That's how they baptize babies. 48:51.200 --> 48:52.800 They just dunk the head, dunk the feet. 48:52.800 --> 48:54.200 It's like in the name of the Father, 48:54.200 --> 48:56.200 and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 48:56.200 --> 48:57.300 And the baby's just like, 48:57.300 --> 48:58.400 ah! 48:58.400 --> 48:59.900 You know, screaming. 48:59.900 --> 49:02.200 Because it doesn't know what the heck's going on to it. 49:02.200 --> 49:04.100 And you have to pay $250 for that, okay? 49:04.100 --> 49:04.900 So... 49:05.200 --> 49:06.300 They didn't even have to pay. 49:06.300 --> 49:07.700 They just got to walk right on through. 49:07.700 --> 49:09.200 Think about it. 49:09.200 --> 49:10.700 They have baptism. 49:10.700 --> 49:13.000 Hey, we have baptism as the first step, right? 49:13.000 --> 49:14.700 First step, you get baptized. 49:14.700 --> 49:16.700 Second, they ate that spiritual meat. 49:16.700 --> 49:17.300 What was that? 49:17.300 --> 49:19.500 That was the manna from heaven, if you think about it, 49:19.500 --> 49:20.700 which is a picture of what? 49:21.100 --> 49:25.980 the Word of God. They have the Word of God, we have the Word of God. So what do they, what do they 49:25.980 --> 49:31.020 survive on? What are they consuming on a regular basis? The Word of God. They're consuming the Word 49:31.020 --> 49:36.300 of God. And then that spiritual drink obviously is also another picture of, you know, the Word of God 49:36.300 --> 49:42.860 in Christ. And so we have the same things happening. We're going to church, we got baptized, 49:42.860 --> 49:44.540 we're consuming the Word of God. 49:44.800 --> 49:48.400 and through, you know, like meat and drink in a sense. 49:48.400 --> 49:51.800 And obviously there's a spiritual picture of us receiving the Word of God. 49:51.800 --> 49:54.600 The Word of God is likened unto bread, it's likened unto water, 49:54.600 --> 49:59.000 and we consume these things on a regular basis, and they cleanse us. 49:59.000 --> 50:03.400 They give us nourishment, they give us life, they give us strength, 50:03.400 --> 50:08.800 they give us all the things that we need to go through this journey through the wilderness. 50:08.800 --> 50:11.800 Okay, and of course, the wilderness is a picture of our Christian life. 50:12.400 --> 50:14.400 The promised land being a picture of heaven. 50:14.400 --> 50:19.040 And of course we're going to get there one day through what Jesus Christ did for us. 50:19.040 --> 50:21.280 But notice it was Christ that was there with them. 50:21.280 --> 50:22.400 Look at verse 9. 50:22.400 --> 50:24.400 Neither let us tempt Christ. 50:24.500 --> 50:27.540 as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of the serpents. 50:27.540 --> 50:30.900 So notice they were upsetting Jesus Christ in the Old Testament, 50:30.900 --> 50:34.660 just like we can today upset Jesus Christ by what? 50:34.660 --> 50:35.540 Sinning... 50:35.540 --> 50:37.540 And what are the sins that are mentioned here? 50:37.540 --> 50:38.740 I don't know. 50:38.740 --> 50:39.780 How about verse 7? 50:39.780 --> 50:41.380 Neither be idolaters. 50:41.600 --> 50:43.900 as were some of them as it is written, 50:43.900 --> 50:46.540 the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play, 50:46.540 --> 50:48.500 neither let us commit fornication, 50:48.500 --> 50:51.980 as some of them committed and fell on one day, three in 20,000. 50:51.980 --> 50:56.680 So, same temptations, same kind of sins, 50:56.680 --> 50:59.780 people get involved in idolatry, fornication. 50:59.780 --> 51:01.660 You know, praise God, you're in the New Testament, 51:01.660 --> 51:03.980 you commit fornication, you get kicked out of church. 51:03.980 --> 51:07.060 You commit fornication, then you just got killed. 51:07.060 --> 51:09.060 Right? You can get here, you get mad at... 51:09.300 --> 51:13.700 Church discipline, their church discipline was a little bit more extreme. 51:13.700 --> 51:14.740 You just die. 51:14.740 --> 51:19.220 In fact, most of the time when we read about them sinning in the Old Testament, they just die. 51:19.220 --> 51:21.140 That was just ways that God killed them. 51:21.140 --> 51:23.900 But wait a minute, 1 Corinthians chapter number five, 51:23.900 --> 51:28.060 doesn't it say the guy committing fornication that we're supposed to deliver him unto whom? 51:28.060 --> 51:29.180 The Democrat party? 51:29.180 --> 51:31.300 Oh, sorry, Satan. 51:31.300 --> 51:32.900 For the destruction of the flesh. 51:33.400 --> 51:38.200 Okay, so don't think that God won't kill you in the New Testament. 51:38.200 --> 51:45.240 The Bible says people that are church disciplined are delivered to Satan to be killed. 51:45.240 --> 51:48.760 Just and what is Satan? That old serpent. 51:48.760 --> 51:53.720 Just like they're destroyed of serpents, you could be destroyed of that old serpent, 51:53.720 --> 51:57.480 the devil, by going out and living a wicked and sinful life in the same way. 51:57.480 --> 51:59.560 And we you shouldn't tempt Christ. 52:00.400 --> 52:01.600 You know, people sit here and be like, 52:01.600 --> 52:04.000 oh, I did it and I didn't die. 52:04.000 --> 52:05.600 Yeah, but why are you sitting here tempting? 52:05.600 --> 52:06.600 Right. 52:06.600 --> 52:07.800 Because, you know, when you die, 52:07.800 --> 52:09.800 you don't get a second chance. 52:09.800 --> 52:10.700 It's over. 52:10.700 --> 52:12.200 That's why you don't want to tempt fate. 52:12.200 --> 52:14.600 That's why you don't want to play these kind of games 52:14.600 --> 52:16.300 because God could just take you out of the picture. 52:16.300 --> 52:17.400 There's no point. 52:17.400 --> 52:19.100 And just you're thinking like, 52:19.100 --> 52:21.300 well, I'll get away with it or other people get away with it. 52:21.300 --> 52:23.800 Because when you don't get away with it, it's over. 52:23.800 --> 52:24.700 We'll go to Matthew 22. 52:24.700 --> 52:25.500 I want to go to one more place. 52:25.500 --> 52:26.600 Go to Matthew 22. 52:27.900 --> 52:31.260 Look, Jesus Christ was the God of the Old Testament. 52:31.260 --> 52:33.040 He was the one that they were following. 52:33.040 --> 52:34.500 He was the one they were looking to. 52:34.500 --> 52:37.020 He was the one they believed in and they got saved from. 52:37.020 --> 52:38.940 They believed the gospel in the Old Testament. 52:41.400 --> 52:45.400 Oh well, you know, our God is the God of Abraham. 52:45.400 --> 52:51.400 Well you know what? That's Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ showed up and had a meal with Abraham. 52:51.400 --> 52:56.400 Who do you think it is that's eating with Abraham? The God of Abraham is Jesus! 52:56.400 --> 53:01.400 And that same God is the one that torched Sodom and Gomorrah after that meal. 53:01.400 --> 53:06.400 I like that, Jesus too. He eats beef and then he just torches a bunch of Sodomites, you know? 53:06.400 --> 53:08.300 It's just like, this guy's great. 53:08.600 --> 53:14.680 And that's who they follow. That's who Moses followed. That's who David followed. That's who David believed in. 53:14.680 --> 53:17.920 Matthew 22, look at verse 42. 53:17.920 --> 53:22.360 Saying, what think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? 53:22.360 --> 53:25.760 Meaning, why is Jesus asking this question? 53:25.760 --> 53:30.120 Because he's trying to beg the question of, is Jesus Christ someone's son? 53:30.600 --> 53:32.800 Or does he not really like that? 53:32.900 --> 53:34.200 Does he pre-exist? 53:34.300 --> 53:35.600 Is he eternal? 53:35.700 --> 53:37.500 That's what he's really trying to get to. 53:37.600 --> 53:38.500 Because they're trying to say, like, 53:38.600 --> 53:40.400 who do you think Christ really is? 53:40.500 --> 53:43.500 Is he just some guy's son? 53:43.600 --> 53:45.600 And then what is they saying to him? 53:45.700 --> 53:47.100 The son of David. 53:47.200 --> 53:51.380 Oh, OK, so they think he's just of the lineage of David. 53:51.480 --> 53:53.820 He sayeth unto them, How then doth David in spirit 53:53.920 --> 53:54.620 call him Lord? 53:55.400 --> 54:00.920 saying the Lord said unto my Lord sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool if 54:01.020 --> 54:03.580 David then call him Lord how is he his son? 54:04.200 --> 54:09.800 So they go pretty far back cuz they're exactly like who do you think Christ is and they don't want to say like somebody or now 54:09.920 --> 54:12.920 They're like well, let's go all the back to David and he's like okay 54:13.000 --> 54:18.540 Then how in the world is David saying he's his boss that Christ is the boss of David if 54:19.380 --> 54:21.640 The Christ is the son of David 54:22.500 --> 54:26.020 And then they're just like, they're just done asking questions. 54:26.020 --> 54:28.180 You know what at least I like about the Pharisees and the Hatches? 54:28.180 --> 54:30.580 Once they get stumped, they at least just admit defeat. 54:30.580 --> 54:32.180 You know, they just kind of shut up. 54:32.180 --> 54:36.020 It's like today you have blasphemers that just keep just throwing insults 54:36.020 --> 54:38.660 and they never shut up and it's even more annoying. 54:38.660 --> 54:41.780 At least they realize, wow, I guess we're wrong. 54:41.780 --> 54:43.780 Go to Psalm 110, let's read that. 54:43.780 --> 54:44.580 Psalm 110. 54:46.260 --> 54:48.500 So who was the boss of David? 54:49.400 --> 54:52.700 Jesus Christ, that was his rock. 54:52.700 --> 54:54.900 That was the rock that was following them in the wilderness. 54:54.900 --> 54:56.400 Jesus has always existed. 54:56.400 --> 54:58.900 Jesus has always been the Lord. 54:58.900 --> 55:01.200 Jesus has always been the King of Kings. 55:01.200 --> 55:03.000 Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, 55:03.000 --> 55:04.800 the beginning and the ending. 55:04.800 --> 55:07.000 Jesus Christ is the creator. 55:07.000 --> 55:09.100 Jesus Christ created everything. 55:09.100 --> 55:12.300 I heard some bozo get up and say angels created everything. 55:12.800 --> 55:16.800 And I heard a Baptist pastor after hearing blasphemy for like 20 minutes straight just say like, 55:16.800 --> 55:17.800 I'm a really good listener. 55:17.800 --> 55:22.800 Look, I don't know how you can sit here and listen to blasphemy for 20 minutes of just 55:22.800 --> 55:24.800 someone just saying that angels created everything. 55:24.800 --> 55:26.600 What kind of nonsense? 55:27.000 --> 55:31.080 You know, there's all these weird blasphemies and heresies out there 55:31.080 --> 55:36.280 that try to strip away who Jesus Christ is, strip away the preeminence of Jesus Christ. 55:36.280 --> 55:40.760 They want to attack who Jesus Christ is. They hate Jesus Christ because they hate the Bible. 55:41.400 --> 55:45.400 Psalm 110 verse 1 says, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand 55:45.400 --> 55:49.720 until I make thine enemies thy footstool. So this one's being quoted. This is David 55:49.720 --> 55:53.480 talking about Jesus. Now who in the world is talking to Jesus? 55:54.600 --> 55:56.200 The Lord. So who's the Lord? 55:56.200 --> 56:01.400 That sounds like a conversation between God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 56:01.400 --> 56:07.320 And he's telling him, hey, wait, just sit here, just wait until what? 56:08.040 --> 56:11.480 Until I make thine enemies I footstool. What is it? What is it? What are we talking about? 56:11.480 --> 56:14.040 We're talking about a prophetic situation from 56:14.600 --> 56:19.380 After Jesus Christ is risen from the dead and is seated at the right hand of God the Father 56:19.460 --> 56:23.880 He is sitting there waiting to return. That's what the Bible is teaching 56:24.400 --> 56:27.280 And of course we have Stephen when he was going to be stoned. 56:27.280 --> 56:32.400 He looked up and he saw Jesus Christ stand up and he was standing at the right hand of the power, 56:32.400 --> 56:36.320 standing at the right hand of the glory of God because he was what he was sitting there 56:36.880 --> 56:41.920 next to him because that's where Jesus is. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God the Father. 56:41.920 --> 56:46.960 I mean the New Testament says it like 15 times or more. It's just like he's seated at the right 56:46.960 --> 56:52.320 hand of the Father and God the Father already knew this and was already prophesying and talking. 56:52.400 --> 56:53.900 David already knew this. 56:53.900 --> 56:54.900 Think about this. 56:54.900 --> 56:57.900 David had the knowledge, had end times knowledge that he's 56:57.900 --> 57:01.900 singing about right here in the book of Psalms, singing about 57:01.900 --> 57:05.900 post resurrection Jesus Christ sitting next to God the Father 57:05.900 --> 57:09.900 and he's saying, hey, let's wait until I make that ends at 57:09.900 --> 57:13.900 footstool and then you can come, then you're going to come and 57:13.900 --> 57:16.900 rule and reign on the earth and you're going to have your 57:16.900 --> 57:17.900 millennial reign. 57:17.900 --> 57:19.900 We have Job talking about these end times saying, 57:20.400 --> 57:23.680 that he's going to in his flesh see the Lord Jesus Christ. 57:23.680 --> 57:29.320 We have Enoch prophesying and it's recorded in the book of Jude about Christ's return. 57:29.320 --> 57:34.880 I mean sometimes people think like, oh well they didn't know anything in the Old Testament. 57:34.880 --> 57:35.880 Look they knew lots. 57:35.880 --> 57:38.480 They knew a lot more than we give them credit for. 57:38.480 --> 57:41.600 And hey they were probably post-Trib pre-Rap even back then. 57:41.600 --> 57:43.920 Sorry if you don't, you know, understand that. 57:44.900 --> 57:49.140 Look, they have all of the scriptures, they have the Word of God, and even if the Word 57:49.140 --> 57:53.440 of God wasn't completely written down at all those different points in time, the Spirit 57:53.440 --> 57:57.380 of the Lord could always come upon them and they could prophesy and preach any part of 57:57.380 --> 57:59.100 the Bible at any point in time. 57:59.600 --> 58:04.800 Okay, so, and the Holy Ghost always reminds us of everything that the Bible says now, 58:04.800 --> 58:09.200 as we have a completed canon, but, you know, even back then, before it was written, it 58:09.200 --> 58:13.280 was spoken, and Moses was speaking these words, and he was prophesying about all kinds of 58:13.280 --> 58:14.480 future things before they happened. 58:14.480 --> 58:17.560 Go ahead and go back to Deuteronomy. 58:17.560 --> 58:21.680 This is a great tie-in to our chapter, because in our chapter, Moses is going to make all 58:21.680 --> 58:25.200 these proclamations about the future way before they ever happened. 58:25.700 --> 58:29.700 All kinds of just interesting things that are going to happen, prophetic statements. 58:29.700 --> 58:33.700 Why? Because God already knows everything that's going to happen. 58:33.700 --> 58:38.700 God, with His foreknowledge, knew every decision that everyone is going to ever make. 58:38.700 --> 58:42.700 I mean, how in the world could He just tell us with so much accuracy, like, 58:42.700 --> 58:44.400 Hey, He's going to be born in Bethlehem? 58:44.500 --> 58:50.060 I mean, think about how many decisions had to be made by humans for that to ever come 58:50.060 --> 58:51.060 to pass. 58:51.060 --> 58:55.180 I mean, all the different people and things throughout history and timelines for that 58:55.180 --> 58:59.940 to happen, for him to die on a cross, for all the different circumstances and everything 58:59.940 --> 59:04.020 to come together perfectly, for Herod and Pilate to be prophesied about how they're 59:04.020 --> 59:06.820 going to basically turn on Jesus and deliver him. 59:06.820 --> 59:08.540 I mean, just he knows everything. 59:08.540 --> 59:10.180 He knows the end from the beginning. 59:10.180 --> 59:11.940 He knows what the devil's going to do. 59:11.940 --> 59:12.500 I mean, think about the. 59:12.500 --> 59:16.740 book of Revelation, all the details, all the little tiny minute details of all the future 59:16.740 --> 59:17.740 things that are going to happen. 59:17.740 --> 59:19.820 They're going to happen exactly like the Bible says. 59:19.820 --> 59:20.820 Why? 59:20.820 --> 59:21.820 Because God already knows it. 59:21.820 --> 59:25.060 Now, does that take away our decision making? 59:25.060 --> 59:26.060 No. 59:26.060 --> 59:30.380 But it's kind of crazy that no matter what you think or do, it's going to happen exactly 59:30.380 --> 59:30.980 like God said. 59:32.000 --> 59:33.840 Because God is that sovereign. 59:33.840 --> 59:36.040 You know, Calvin's always talking about God being sovereign, 59:36.040 --> 59:39.840 but their version of sovereign is way less than the actual God of the Bible. 59:39.840 --> 59:46.000 Because their version of sovereign is basically God creating a computer game and just beating a computer game. 59:47.040 --> 59:53.560 Whereas our version of God is like giving billions of people complete unlimited free will 59:53.560 --> 59:56.520 and still doing everything that he wanted. 59:57.100 --> 59:58.700 That's way more powerful. 59:58.700 --> 01:00:02.620 That's way more sovereign than being able to just beat a computer game. 01:00:02.620 --> 01:00:05.900 Than being able to just beat a pre-programmed puzzle. 01:00:05.900 --> 01:00:11.740 No, he was able to just basically give unlimited free will and still accomplish his will exactly as he sees fit. 01:00:11.740 --> 01:00:13.900 That's true sovereignty. 01:00:13.900 --> 01:00:16.620 That's true, you know, supremacy. 01:00:16.620 --> 01:00:18.540 You know, I don't like the Calvinist version. 01:00:18.540 --> 01:00:20.780 They have a weak, fake God. 01:00:21.700 --> 01:00:22.700 Look at verse number four, 01:00:22.700 --> 01:00:24.700 and the Lord shall do unto them 01:00:24.700 --> 01:00:26.500 as he did to Sion and to Og, 01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:28.100 kings of the Amorites, 01:00:28.100 --> 01:00:30.700 and unto the land of them whom he destroyed. 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:33.200 And the Lord shall give them up before your face, 01:00:33.200 --> 01:00:35.400 that ye may do unto them according 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.200 unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 01:00:37.200 --> 01:00:37.800 So. 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:42.600 God told him lots of specific things in here, like kill certain people, slaughter all these people, 01:00:42.600 --> 01:00:46.300 and he's saying, hey, I'm going to deliver them up so you can kill all of these people, 01:00:46.300 --> 01:00:49.400 just like I already did to these previous groups. 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:53.100 Because they're going to have to slaughter all the Canaanites, according to Leviticus chapter number 20, 01:00:53.100 --> 01:00:57.100 and all the statutes that it's saying there for all the wicked abominations that they had committed, 01:00:57.100 --> 01:00:58.700 and he's going to help them. 01:00:58.700 --> 01:00:59.600 Verse 6, 01:00:59.600 --> 01:01:03.200 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them. 01:01:03.200 --> 01:01:05.900 For the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee. 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.300 He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. 01:01:08.300 --> 01:01:11.020 Another great thing about God is he never fails. 01:01:12.620 --> 01:01:15.120 He just never, he never fails or forsakes. 01:01:15.120 --> 01:01:18.240 You know what's annoying about people is they'll fail you 01:01:18.240 --> 01:01:19.540 and they will forsake you. 01:01:20.860 --> 01:01:23.500 It's just people will go bad. 01:01:23.500 --> 01:01:24.660 People will give up. 01:01:24.660 --> 01:01:26.840 People say, hey, I'll be there at seven 01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:28.000 and then they never show up. 01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:32.520 People say hey, I'm gonna make this for you and they never make it hey 01:01:32.520 --> 01:01:33.560 I'm gonna do that for you 01:01:33.560 --> 01:01:39.700 And they never do it people that you look up to that you you you want to do good that you're hoping to good 01:01:39.700 --> 01:01:44.520 They fail you they lie they forsake you they give up on you 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:49.620 It hurts and look it hurts every time I've had lots of people that 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:58.600 I've invested in that I love that I thought were really good friends that, you know, all all kinds of just emotion there. 01:01:58.900 --> 01:02:07.800 And then they just stab you in the back or lie about you or forsake you, drop you like a bad habit, love your enemies, you know, harass you. 01:02:07.900 --> 01:02:09.600 It's it's it's frustrating. 01:02:10.500 --> 01:02:11.500 It's frustrating. 01:02:11.500 --> 01:02:12.300 It hurts. 01:02:12.600 --> 01:02:14.000 It's never fun. 01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:17.100 But here's the thing about God is he never does that to us. 01:02:17.700 --> 01:02:20.000 And that's so amazing because he could. 01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:24.200 I mean, he could just be like, nah, I don't want you. 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:25.400 You're not good enough. 01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:26.500 I don't like you. 01:02:26.600 --> 01:02:27.900 I had other plans. 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:29.800 Other things are more important. 01:02:30.300 --> 01:02:31.000 But you know what? 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:34.600 While man may do that to you constantly, God never does that to us. 01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:35.600 And you know what? 01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:37.100 That's why we can have courage. 01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:41.680 We can have courage and strength because we know God won't give up on us if we do the 01:02:41.680 --> 01:02:42.680 right thing. 01:02:42.680 --> 01:02:45.960 Verse 7, and Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him and the sight of all the Israel, 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.080 Be strong and of good courage, for thou must go with this people unto the land which the 01:02:50.080 --> 01:02:55.160 Lord has sworn on their fathers to give them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 01:02:55.160 --> 01:02:59.160 Notice Joshua caused them to inherit it just like Jesus causes us to inherit the promised 01:02:59.160 --> 01:03:00.160 land. 01:03:00.160 --> 01:03:00.400 Galatians chapter number 3. 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:07.260 We are in Christ and therefore we get to inherit because we're in Christ, not because we did 01:03:07.260 --> 01:03:08.260 anything special. 01:03:08.260 --> 01:03:11.480 In the same way that Joshua kind of has this picture. 01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:13.960 And of course it's important for the leadership to be strong and a good courage. 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:19.160 You know, it's important for fathers, for leaders, for pastors, for men to be strong 01:03:19.160 --> 01:03:21.300 and set a good example. 01:03:21.300 --> 01:03:27.800 and not to necessarily be cowardly, fearful, afraid, uncertain. 01:03:28.200 --> 01:03:31.120 You know, a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. 01:03:31.120 --> 01:03:33.320 We need men that are strong. 01:03:33.320 --> 01:03:35.280 We need men of good courage. 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:38.360 And it's easy to do so when things are going well. 01:03:38.360 --> 01:03:40.360 It's harder when things are going poorly. 01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:41.200 But you know what? 01:03:41.200 --> 01:03:43.720 You always need to just be strong and of a good courage. 01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:45.920 You know, whenever you're being protested, 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:47.520 whenever you're being lied about, 01:03:47.520 --> 01:03:48.960 whenever you're being threatened, 01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:50.320 whenever you're being sued, 01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:51.920 whenever you're being evicted, 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:54.480 whenever just negative things are happening to you, 01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:56.400 when your feelings are hurt, 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:57.840 when people don't like you. 01:03:58.560 --> 01:04:01.280 What, you don't think that I've ever had someone not like me before? 01:04:02.160 --> 01:04:04.320 You don't think I've ever felt lonely before? 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:06.720 You don't think I've ever felt stressed before? 01:04:07.100 --> 01:04:10.940 You lose tens of thousands of dollars, 01:04:10.940 --> 01:04:14.780 you get stolen from and ripped off and lied about and evicted 01:04:14.780 --> 01:04:17.900 and whatever. You know what? It's important to just stay strong 01:04:17.900 --> 01:04:22.380 and have courage and trust in God and He'll get you out of those things. 01:04:22.380 --> 01:04:25.420 You know what? Just like He got Paul. He delivered Paul out of the mouth of the 01:04:25.420 --> 01:04:26.940 lion is what the Bible says. 01:04:27.200 --> 01:04:29.760 And you know what I like about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? 01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:32.560 They said, we're not careful to answer thee in this matter. 01:04:32.560 --> 01:04:35.440 I guarantee that was a nervous situation. 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:38.000 He's going to throw you in that fire, bro. 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:39.680 He's like, well, I'm sorry. 01:04:39.680 --> 01:04:41.120 I've already made up my mind. 01:04:41.120 --> 01:04:46.960 I'd rather die serving God than live kneeling to some fake God. 01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:50.960 I would rather die for the God of the Bible than kneel to Israel. 01:04:52.300 --> 01:04:56.220 than to bow my knee to some star of remfan 01:04:56.220 --> 01:04:59.020 to just capitulate to the synagogue of satan 01:04:59.020 --> 01:05:02.060 and sit here and say you know what i was just too afraid 01:05:02.060 --> 01:05:05.180 and too cowardly to preach what the bible says 01:05:05.180 --> 01:05:08.220 you know what no we should say hey we're going to be strong and of a good 01:05:08.220 --> 01:05:10.540 courage and we're going to preach the bible 01:05:10.540 --> 01:05:14.140 no matter the cost we need someone to do it 01:05:14.140 --> 01:05:18.380 we need someone to be strong we need joshua to lead by a good example so that 01:05:18.380 --> 01:05:20.220 and the people can be brave behind him. 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:23.540 But you know what, when you can't even have a pastor being brave, how do you expect the 01:05:23.540 --> 01:05:25.380 congregation to be brave? 01:05:25.380 --> 01:05:30.740 You know, it's sad in our country today how spineless so many pastors are. 01:05:30.740 --> 01:05:32.340 They're spineless. 01:05:32.340 --> 01:05:38.580 Because look, even if they did get up and just slightly criticize Israel, no one's asking 01:05:38.580 --> 01:05:41.180 them to lead anything. 01:05:41.180 --> 01:05:43.620 They're not going to be on the top 100 list. 01:05:43.900 --> 01:05:45.900 You know, I mean, just think about it. 01:05:45.900 --> 01:05:48.980 It's like most of the people have already stood up 01:05:48.980 --> 01:05:50.420 and gone through the gauntlet. 01:05:50.420 --> 01:05:52.900 You guys standing up just helps us. 01:05:52.900 --> 01:05:56.100 You're not, no one's gonna come after you. 01:05:56.100 --> 01:05:58.220 I mean, that's how prideful you have to be 01:05:58.220 --> 01:05:59.820 to think like, oh man, if I say something, 01:05:59.820 --> 01:06:01.500 everyone's gonna come after me. 01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:03.100 It's just like, who cares? 01:06:03.700 --> 01:06:06.400 You know, we need to give God the glory. 01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:09.600 And we need people to stand up and be strong and have a good courage and say, 01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:13.100 hey, if God be for us, who can be against us? 01:06:13.100 --> 01:06:15.700 Oh, well, Massad. Oh, well, all these ages. 01:06:15.700 --> 01:06:17.200 Who cares? 01:06:17.200 --> 01:06:21.200 I mean, look, so many people are like, hey, how many protestors do you have this week? 01:06:21.200 --> 01:06:24.000 Zero. 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:25.300 Zero. I mean, there was a false alarm. 01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:27.500 They thought somebody in our church was for a second, but it wasn't. 01:06:27.500 --> 01:06:29.700 All right. We had no protestors. 01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:33.480 I mean, we had no glitter bombs. 01:06:34.640 --> 01:06:37.840 We didn't even get pizza ordered to us. 01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:40.160 We were all starving over here, you know? 01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:42.360 Like no one even just ordered us pizza. 01:06:42.700 --> 01:06:47.760 I mean like I don't even know I got like one or two like bad text messages 01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:51.480 I deleted them all right. We got a you know a lot of emails from old biddies 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:56.780 It was like old ladies basically that was our biggest persecution was like four or five old ladies 01:06:57.120 --> 01:07:03.800 Just being like how dare you talk about Israel you better repent or Yeshua is gonna come get you 01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:06.320 You know 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:08.320 Yahya, who she was you know? 01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:11.640 It's like, why can't you just say Jesus? 01:07:11.640 --> 01:07:12.480 Well, you know what? 01:07:12.480 --> 01:07:14.520 I'd be worried if Jesus is coming after me, 01:07:14.520 --> 01:07:17.680 but not Yahya Yeshua or whatever you just said. 01:07:17.680 --> 01:07:18.160 OK? 01:07:18.160 --> 01:07:20.960 And look, I'm not saying you can't say Jesus' name in Hebrew, 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.900 but it can't be all 50 variations that they make up, OK? 01:07:27.500 --> 01:07:33.180 I mean, some of these sacred name people, they have all kinds of wild combinations of what the real name is. 01:07:33.180 --> 01:07:35.180 His real name is Jesus. It's just that simple. 01:07:35.180 --> 01:07:39.180 I mean, in heaven, it says they're going to be praising him in all different tongues. 01:07:39.180 --> 01:07:43.020 There's going to be people in America, in English, spray. 01:07:43.020 --> 01:07:45.020 You know what they're going to say? Jesus. 01:07:45.020 --> 01:07:48.020 And there's going to be Hispanics, Jesus. 01:07:48.020 --> 01:07:51.020 I have more confidence in Jesus than Yahya Hoshua. 01:07:51.020 --> 01:07:52.700 Or whatever you say. 01:07:54.000 --> 01:08:00.000 But, oh man, I'm afraid because some lady might send me a mean email. 01:08:03.100 --> 01:08:05.100 Is that really the Christianity we have? 01:08:05.100 --> 01:08:09.100 We read the Bible about what these guys had to go through, 01:08:09.100 --> 01:08:11.600 and then we're afraid of emails? 01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:13.600 We're afraid of a protester? 01:08:13.600 --> 01:08:15.600 We're afraid of getting canceled? 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:18.600 I mean, how many ATMs do you think they have out in the wilderness? 01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.100 How many banks do they have out in the wilderness? 01:08:20.100 --> 01:08:22.100 I mean, they are the bank. They're Jews, remember? 01:08:22.100 --> 01:08:25.100 No, I'm just kidding. 01:08:25.100 --> 01:08:28.600 I'm just saying, like, you know, it's just a shame 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:31.000 that we have so many men that are just afraid. 01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:36.200 And they probably, there's probably a lot of pastors that know the truth on this 01:08:36.200 --> 01:08:37.900 and they just don't want to say it. 01:08:37.900 --> 01:08:42.400 Or they don't want to study it a little bit harder to just be confident enough to just go ahead and say it out loud. 01:08:42.400 --> 01:08:44.200 They're afraid of losing friends. 01:08:44.200 --> 01:08:47.400 They're afraid of being, you know, called out by certain people, 01:08:47.400 --> 01:08:50.800 getting the old biddies to write them some emails from their church. 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:53.200 You know what? 01:08:53.200 --> 01:08:57.000 You should just preach the Bible and not care who's offended. 01:08:57.600 --> 01:08:58.600 And it's a shame. 01:08:58.600 --> 01:08:59.400 Verse 8. 01:08:59.700 --> 01:09:03.640 And the Lord he it is that doth go before thee, he will be with thee, he will not fail 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:06.500 thee, neither forsake thee, fear not, neither be dismayed. 01:09:06.500 --> 01:09:08.100 Hey, don't be afraid! 01:09:09.300 --> 01:09:12.740 And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests, the sons of Levi, which 01:09:12.740 --> 01:09:15.740 bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. 01:09:15.740 --> 01:09:19.740 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of 01:09:19.740 --> 01:09:24.580 the year of release, and the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the 01:09:24.580 --> 01:09:28.940 Lord thy God, and the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all 01:09:28.940 --> 01:09:30.060 Israel in their hearing. 01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:35.680 So again, Moses writes the board of God, they put in the covenant, then every seven years 01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:38.800 you're supposed to read the entire thing to like basically everybody. 01:09:39.400 --> 01:09:44.200 So it's basically saying like every seven years you got to get the entire law read to you publicly 01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:51.560 from you know the leviates they want them to do this on a somewhat regular basis so that everyone 01:09:52.200 --> 01:09:55.640 will understand God's word everyone you know again it's 01:09:56.360 --> 01:09:59.400 seven years isn't a generation but he's wanting every generation to get it because 01:09:59.400 --> 01:10:01.640 it's just every seven years at a minimum. 01:10:01.900 --> 01:10:07.100 They're going to hear all of the law, all of the words given to them on a regular basis 01:10:07.100 --> 01:10:11.300 at the specific feast, at the specific event. 01:10:11.300 --> 01:10:14.420 Verse 12, gather the people together, men and women and children, and thy stranger that 01:10:14.420 --> 01:10:18.520 is within thy gates, that they may hear, and they may learn and fear the Lord your God 01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:21.060 and deserve to do all the words of this law. 01:10:21.060 --> 01:10:24.060 So again, no Sunday school. 01:10:24.060 --> 01:10:27.020 All the men, women and children gathered together and... 01:10:27.500 --> 01:10:32.140 We don't have separate congregations, even the stranger, every single person, 01:10:32.140 --> 01:10:38.780 all gathered into one place to hear the word of God being read and expounded upon and preached upon. 01:10:39.500 --> 01:10:43.500 Why? Why do we preach the word of God? What's the point? So you can hear. 01:10:44.060 --> 01:10:48.300 And then what's the point of hearing? That you may learn to fear the Lord your God. 01:10:49.100 --> 01:10:51.260 So how do people fear God? 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.500 How do they fear God? 01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:59.000 By hearing the Word of God. 01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:00.500 That's the only way. 01:11:00.500 --> 01:11:03.000 Because consistently, you know what you see in the Bible? 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.500 People getting smoked, and then they're not even afraid. 01:11:06.500 --> 01:11:07.500 They excuse it away. 01:11:07.500 --> 01:11:09.000 I mean, look at Pharaoh. 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:13.000 Pharaoh got plague after plague, wonder after wonder, 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:14.500 and he still wasn't convinced. 01:11:14.500 --> 01:11:16.500 He still wasn't ready to believe. 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:18.600 And you know, there are many people in this world, 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.100 it doesn't matter what happens to them, 01:11:21.100 --> 01:11:23.300 they will just choose not to fear God. 01:11:23.300 --> 01:11:27.500 They just excuse everything away or blame it on other people 01:11:27.500 --> 01:11:32.400 or blame it on circumstance instead of actually fearing God. 01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:34.300 And it's a shame. It's a reproach. 01:11:34.300 --> 01:11:36.500 You know, it's the number one way to fear God 01:11:36.500 --> 01:11:38.400 is just simply by hearing God's Word. 01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:41.200 That's why it's so important to read the Bible. 01:11:41.200 --> 01:11:42.900 You know, when you see people that don't fear God, 01:11:42.900 --> 01:11:46.100 you have to think this person is probably not reading the Bible at all. 01:11:46.100 --> 01:11:47.800 They must not read the Bible. 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:50.500 Because you read the Bible, you're hearing the Word of God on a regular basis, 01:11:50.500 --> 01:11:51.900 it's going to cause you to fear God. 01:11:51.900 --> 01:11:53.500 The Bible talks about the king, 01:11:53.500 --> 01:11:55.600 how he's supposed to write him a copy of the law 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:57.600 that he would read every single day, 01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:00.200 that his heart would not be lifted up among his brethren. 01:12:00.200 --> 01:12:02.500 Because you read the Word of God, it humbles you, 01:12:02.500 --> 01:12:04.400 and it causes you to fear. 01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:06.300 The Word of God causes you to fear. 01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:09.000 Oh, we shouldn't be afraid. 01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:13.000 Well, the only way to not be afraid is to not hear the word of God. 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:17.000 I wonder why the non-denoms don't preach any of the Bible. 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:21.000 I wonder why the non-denoms are so afraid to have a lot of verses. 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:27.000 I wonder why the daily devotional is one verse from Psalms 23. 01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:32.700 Why? Because if you get too much Bible, the fear meter just goes off the scales. 01:12:33.300 --> 01:12:36.340 I mean, that's why we've been doing a Bible study through the book of Deuteronomy. 01:12:36.340 --> 01:12:38.660 You know, that's why it's important to go on Wednesday night. 01:12:38.660 --> 01:12:42.580 It's interesting that the people that go on Wednesday night seem to fear God a little bit more than everybody else, 01:12:42.580 --> 01:12:45.940 probably because they're hearing a lot more of the Word of God. 01:12:45.940 --> 01:12:49.060 The people that just want to come casually to church, they don't fear God as much. 01:12:49.060 --> 01:12:50.900 Why? Because they're not getting as much Bible. 01:12:50.900 --> 01:12:54.900 Oh, why go to church three times a week? So that you can fear God correctly. 01:12:54.900 --> 01:12:57.140 So you can have a healthy fear of God. 01:12:57.900 --> 01:12:58.900 That's what you should want. 01:12:58.900 --> 01:13:00.300 Oh, why do you preach so long? 01:13:00.300 --> 01:13:02.860 So that you'll be afraid of God. 01:13:02.860 --> 01:13:04.100 I mean, what else do you want me to say? 01:13:04.100 --> 01:13:05.180 Let's go back to chapter four. 01:13:05.180 --> 01:13:06.540 Let's just read a few more times. 01:13:06.540 --> 01:13:11.580 Look, this point that I'm making is emphasized in the Bible. 01:13:11.580 --> 01:13:14.260 Emphasized in the Bible. 01:13:14.260 --> 01:13:16.300 Deuteronomy chapter four, look at verse 10. 01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:21.120 especially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, 01:13:21.120 --> 01:13:27.200 when the Lord said to me, gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, 01:13:27.200 --> 01:13:32.000 that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth. 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:34.960 And why? And that they may teach their children. 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:38.800 So God wanted us to hear the word of God so that we could learn. 01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:42.600 to fear the Lord and that we could teach other people what? 01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:47.900 To fear the Lord. Look at chapter 13 verse 11. Look at chapter 13 verse 11. 01:13:47.900 --> 01:13:51.200 Oh why is Moses giving the law a second time? Why are we going through 01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:54.900 Deuteronomy? Wasn't Exodus enough? 01:13:54.900 --> 01:13:59.100 No, no, no. You need it again and again and again and again. 01:13:59.100 --> 01:14:02.500 Why? So that you can fear God correctly. 01:14:02.500 --> 01:14:07.100 I mean think about that logic applied to any other situation. 01:14:09.700 --> 01:14:11.440 Why are you telling your kids that again? 01:14:11.440 --> 01:14:14.940 Don't they only need to be told one time? 01:14:14.940 --> 01:14:16.980 I mean, just tell your kids one time, 01:14:16.980 --> 01:14:19.980 wash your hands after coming in from playing outside, 01:14:19.980 --> 01:14:22.900 and they'll never need that instruction again, right? 01:14:22.900 --> 01:14:23.980 They'll never need the instruction 01:14:23.980 --> 01:14:25.340 to not eat cookies before dinner. 01:14:25.340 --> 01:14:27.120 They'll never need the instruction to make their bed. 01:14:27.120 --> 01:14:28.540 They'll never need to read instruction 01:14:28.540 --> 01:14:31.320 to not hit their brother, right? 01:14:31.320 --> 01:14:33.360 I mean, children don't need to hear the same things 01:14:33.360 --> 01:14:35.060 over and over again. 01:14:35.060 --> 01:14:37.460 Why is it that you keep reminding them, parents? 01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:39.000 You know why you're reminding them? 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:42.600 It causes them to be afraid of what you're going to do when they don't do it. 01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:46.760 You're reminding them, hey, don't hit your brother because then you're getting in trouble, 01:14:46.760 --> 01:14:47.760 right? 01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:50.800 Don't break my rules or you're going to get grounded or you're going to get spanked or 01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:53.100 you're going to whatever the consequence is. 01:14:53.100 --> 01:14:56.680 You're reminding them so that they'll be afraid of the consequence. 01:14:56.680 --> 01:15:00.520 They'll be afraid of their parents so they'll do right. 01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:02.040 Deuteronomy 13, look at verse 11. 01:15:04.200 --> 01:15:08.200 And all Israel shall hear and fear. 01:15:08.200 --> 01:15:09.800 Look at chapter 17 verse 13. 01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:11.100 I'm going to go quickly. 01:15:11.100 --> 01:15:12.300 Chapter 17 verse 13. 01:15:12.300 --> 01:15:15.400 And all the people shall hear and fear 01:15:15.400 --> 01:15:18.100 and do no more presumptuously. 01:15:18.100 --> 01:15:20.800 Look at chapter 19 verse 20. 01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:24.400 Chapter 19 verse 20. 01:15:24.400 --> 01:15:26.600 Only the trees which thou knowest 01:15:27.100 --> 01:15:28.380 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 01:15:28.380 --> 01:15:31.980 And those which shall remain shall hear and fear 01:15:31.980 --> 01:15:34.860 and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 01:15:35.500 --> 01:15:37.820 Notice the Bible says here and fear here and fear. 01:15:37.820 --> 01:15:39.260 Go to Psalm 34. 01:15:39.260 --> 01:15:41.100 If you went in the middle of your Bible, Psalm 34. 01:15:41.660 --> 01:15:43.900 And look at verse 11, Psalm 34. 01:15:46.400 --> 01:15:54.640 Verse 11, come ye children, hearken unto me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:59.760 How do you learn how to fear God? Through hearing the word of God. That's how you learn. 01:16:00.320 --> 01:16:05.360 Go to Ecclesiastes. Well, you don't go to Acts five. How about Ecclesiastes chapter number 12? 01:16:05.360 --> 01:16:11.120 Let us hear the conclusion of the matter. What is it? Fear God. 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:15.200 I mean, we need to hear the conclusion of the matter. 01:16:15.200 --> 01:16:19.800 What's the entire point of life to fear God and to keep his commandments? 01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:23.700 Now, obviously, we need to get saved, and that's the most important decision you make. 01:16:23.700 --> 01:16:26.600 But that's a one time decision. It's like a blink of your life. 01:16:26.600 --> 01:16:28.100 It's just a one little blip. 01:16:28.100 --> 01:16:30.700 So then what's the vast majority of our life consisted of? 01:16:30.700 --> 01:16:32.900 Fearing God and keeping his commandments. 01:16:32.900 --> 01:16:35.100 Okay, that's why it's so important. 01:16:35.300 --> 01:16:40.860 It's like it's obviously we believe you could believe in Christ one time and do absolutely nothing and you go to heaven 01:16:40.860 --> 01:16:44.260 But that's not God's will for anybody to just do nothing 01:16:44.460 --> 01:16:47.420 He wants you to actually fear him and keep his commandments 01:16:47.420 --> 01:16:52.600 And so that is the main admonition that is the main message that God wants to give us and you know what? 01:16:52.600 --> 01:16:54.100 This is not an Old Testament doctrine 01:16:54.100 --> 01:16:57.440 This is just doctrine act chapter number five look at verse five and 01:16:58.020 --> 01:17:01.980 Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghosts and great fear 01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:07.040 came on all them that, notice this, heard these things. 01:17:07.040 --> 01:17:10.140 Now this is an important thing to think about. 01:17:10.140 --> 01:17:14.480 Is it talking about people who saw Ananias die? 01:17:14.480 --> 01:17:15.940 They didn't see it. 01:17:15.940 --> 01:17:17.440 They weren't even there. 01:17:17.440 --> 01:17:19.480 They just heard about it. 01:17:19.480 --> 01:17:22.280 It is no different than you and I hearing about it. 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:25.800 They heard about Ananias dying for lying to the Holy Ghost, 01:17:25.800 --> 01:17:30.300 and they were afraid in the same way that when we read Acts chapter number 5, verse 5, 01:17:30.300 --> 01:17:33.100 we should hear and we should be afraid 01:17:33.100 --> 01:17:37.100 to lie to the Holy Ghost and to do such a thing in church. 01:17:37.100 --> 01:17:40.000 And then they get a second dip here, look at verse 11. 01:17:40.100 --> 01:17:45.100 And great fear came upon all the church and upon as many notices as heard these things." 01:17:45.100 --> 01:17:47.600 Notice it didn't say just the people there. 01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:52.500 It said any single person that heard this, they were afraid of what? 01:17:52.500 --> 01:17:56.900 Of God, because God can kill you for breaking his commandments. 01:17:56.900 --> 01:18:00.400 Now, does God just kill every single person every time they sin? 01:18:00.400 --> 01:18:01.700 No, because we're all here. 01:18:03.100 --> 01:18:08.460 But at the end of the day, why do we want to sit here and constantly tempt Christ as they tempted in the wilderness? 01:18:08.460 --> 01:18:13.180 We should learn the admonitions. We should read the Bible. We should seek God. 01:18:13.180 --> 01:18:18.220 We should have some humility and we should recognize, hey, we need to constantly hear the word of God. 01:18:18.220 --> 01:18:24.460 We need to be afraid of God because he is just to punish us whenever he wants, however he wants. 01:18:24.460 --> 01:18:28.220 It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of living God, as the Bible says. 01:18:28.220 --> 01:18:29.700 And, you know... 01:18:29.800 --> 01:18:36.620 The longer I live the more I realize this is true and we need to be afraid of God go if we would back to 01:18:37.240 --> 01:18:38.520 our passage 01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:44.040 But you know this is an important thing because the children of Israel are not going to hear God's word 01:18:44.040 --> 01:18:49.000 And they're not going to be afraid and they're not going to keep his commandments, and they're not going to be blessed 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:52.840 They're going to be destroyed and that's the end of this prophecy of this particular chapter 01:18:53.400 --> 01:18:55.000 our church 01:18:55.200 --> 01:19:00.200 is saved. I mean, by and large, the vast majority of people in here are saved and they're going to heaven. 01:19:01.200 --> 01:19:02.200 Nothing can stop it. 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:03.800 We're going to heaven. 01:19:04.400 --> 01:19:05.200 But here's the thing. 01:19:05.700 --> 01:19:09.800 Why do I want to then sit here and just try to get to heaven as fast as possible? 01:19:11.300 --> 01:19:11.800 Right? 01:19:12.100 --> 01:19:14.600 Why do we want, do we want other people to go with us? 01:19:14.900 --> 01:19:18.300 Because if we just go, if we just hit the button just as fast as possible. 01:19:18.900 --> 01:19:20.200 Well, then that's not going to help anybody. 01:19:20.200 --> 01:19:22.200 And that could be done one of two ways, right? 01:19:22.200 --> 01:19:23.400 We could just do nothing. 01:19:23.400 --> 01:19:25.400 And that's what the Bible calls like sleeping, 01:19:25.400 --> 01:19:27.300 not being awake, not being sober, 01:19:27.300 --> 01:19:29.700 just being sleep, just being dead. 01:19:29.700 --> 01:19:31.100 And what's the point in that? 01:19:31.100 --> 01:19:33.600 Or just living a really horrible life 01:19:33.600 --> 01:19:35.400 and then God could just kill you. 01:19:35.400 --> 01:19:39.200 And it seems like we should live soberly and righteously. 01:19:39.500 --> 01:19:44.100 So what? So that we can get more people saved and cause more people to come to Christ, 01:19:44.100 --> 01:19:49.000 so that when we go to heaven there's more people with us, and not be selfish with our lives. 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:53.100 Right? And then, of course, you're going to have greater rewards in eternity anyways. 01:19:53.100 --> 01:19:57.500 So if you had loved reward, you wouldn't just have it now. 01:19:57.500 --> 01:20:02.200 Just like the prodigal son tries to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, 01:20:02.200 --> 01:20:07.500 but then has all kinds of regrets and misery and woe and consequence. 01:20:07.500 --> 01:20:09.100 for doing such a thing. 01:20:09.100 --> 01:20:10.420 Oh, why go to church? 01:20:10.420 --> 01:20:11.620 Why go soul winning? 01:20:11.620 --> 01:20:12.940 Why, well you know what? 01:20:12.940 --> 01:20:15.740 Do you not believe that you're gonna die and go to heaven? 01:20:15.740 --> 01:20:17.060 Because if you believe that you're gonna die 01:20:17.060 --> 01:20:19.620 and go to heaven, why in the world would you wanna stand 01:20:19.620 --> 01:20:22.620 before Christ and be ashamed of every decision 01:20:22.620 --> 01:20:24.300 you made after that? 01:20:24.300 --> 01:20:26.380 And just have nothing to show for it? 01:20:26.380 --> 01:20:27.860 And be like, what did you accomplish? 01:20:27.860 --> 01:20:28.780 Nothing? 01:20:28.780 --> 01:20:29.620 What's the point? 01:20:29.620 --> 01:20:31.620 You're gonna be there forever. 01:20:31.620 --> 01:20:32.880 There's no rush. 01:20:33.200 --> 01:20:36.400 You might as well make it a little nicer. 01:20:36.400 --> 01:20:39.040 You might as well get a few more friends. 01:20:39.040 --> 01:20:41.880 You might as well do something with your life now 01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:44.040 so that it actually means something 01:20:44.040 --> 01:20:45.280 when you get into eternity. 01:20:45.280 --> 01:20:48.440 Now look, being in eternity will be great. 01:20:48.440 --> 01:20:52.520 I can't say that any position in heaven will be bad, 01:20:52.520 --> 01:20:55.480 but the Bible says that if you have nothing to show for it, 01:20:55.480 --> 01:20:56.920 you're gonna suffer loss. 01:20:58.400 --> 01:20:59.520 That means something. 01:20:59.900 --> 01:21:05.100 There's got to be a, the Bible talks about not being ashamed before him at his coming. 01:21:05.100 --> 01:21:08.140 I mean, even if it was only that moment, isn't that moment at least worth something? 01:21:08.140 --> 01:21:09.820 It's only gonna happen once. 01:21:09.820 --> 01:21:13.500 There's only gonna be one time where you get judged according to your works. 01:21:13.500 --> 01:21:15.900 Don't you want to do a good job on that test? 01:21:15.900 --> 01:21:21.660 I mean, if you were studying your whole life to be a doctor or a lawyer or some important profession, 01:21:21.660 --> 01:21:24.060 and they said you get one time to take the bar. 01:21:25.100 --> 01:21:31.960 One time to pass your medical exam wouldn't you want to do a good job on it instead of just saying like let's just take it now 01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:33.660 I don't want to study 01:21:33.660 --> 01:21:37.160 Well, you're not gonna do very good job. Why would you why would you just want to take it right now? 01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:42.000 Wouldn't you want to study and work really hard so that when you take it you're gonna do a good job in the same way 01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:47.720 That hey you will stand before Christ that is your entrance exam and we want to see how well you did 01:21:47.720 --> 01:21:50.120 I mean, hey, I want to work as hard as I can 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:52.740 Therefore, knowing the terror of the Lord, 01:21:52.740 --> 01:21:55.460 we persuade men is what the Bible says. 01:21:55.460 --> 01:21:57.780 You know, we should encourage people, you know, 01:21:57.780 --> 01:22:01.740 as a pastor, it's my responsibility to prepare you 01:22:01.740 --> 01:22:03.380 as much as possible for that day. 01:22:05.380 --> 01:22:07.980 And it would be shame on me to just. 01:22:08.100 --> 01:22:15.940 let you guys just slack off and be lazy and derelict and selfish and whatever 01:22:15.940 --> 01:22:17.700 so that when you get on that judgment day you're like, 01:22:17.700 --> 01:22:19.860 why didn't you tell me, Pastor Shelley? 01:22:19.860 --> 01:22:21.140 Why didn't you warn me? 01:22:21.140 --> 01:22:23.060 Why didn't you ask me to go soul winning with you? 01:22:23.060 --> 01:22:26.980 Why didn't you help me like try to clean up my life or something? 01:22:26.980 --> 01:22:30.340 And this is like, I don't want to be there and you know have to answer for that. 01:22:30.340 --> 01:22:31.700 I don't want Jesus to look at me and be like, 01:22:31.700 --> 01:22:33.540 why didn't you tell anybody else to go soul winning? 01:22:33.900 --> 01:22:36.900 Why didn't you yell at anybody else? 01:22:36.900 --> 01:22:40.460 Why didn't you tell other people that alcohol is poison and that fornication will ruin 01:22:40.460 --> 01:22:42.900 their lives and that all the other stuff is vanity? 01:22:42.900 --> 01:22:43.980 Why didn't you say that? 01:22:43.980 --> 01:22:50.280 I want him to say, well done, thou good and faithful servant entering the joy of thy Lord. 01:22:50.280 --> 01:22:52.580 And I want him to say that to you. 01:22:52.580 --> 01:22:55.720 And I want to say like, I love steadfast Baptist Church. 01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:57.900 You know what I mean? 01:22:57.900 --> 01:22:58.540 That's what I want. 01:22:59.900 --> 01:23:03.900 Why go early? There's no point. 01:23:03.900 --> 01:23:06.600 We need to hear and we need to fear. 01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:09.800 Now, let's pick back up, I think in verse 13, 01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:12.300 and that their children, which have not known anything... 01:23:13.700 --> 01:23:17.300 may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land where you go 01:23:17.300 --> 01:23:21.780 over to Jordan possess it. Not only us, we need our children to hear it and fear it. Verse 14, 01:23:21.780 --> 01:23:25.940 And the Lord said to Moses, Behold thy days approached that thou must die. Call Joshua and 01:23:25.940 --> 01:23:29.300 present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation that I may give him a charge. 01:23:29.300 --> 01:23:32.500 And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. The Lord 01:23:32.500 --> 01:23:36.820 appeared in the tabernacle on a pillar of a cloud and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door 01:23:36.820 --> 01:23:41.300 of the tabernacle. And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers. And this 01:23:41.700 --> 01:23:48.540 rise up and go whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whether they go to 01:23:48.540 --> 01:23:54.700 be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them." 01:23:54.700 --> 01:23:58.100 So unsaved Israel does not have the God of the Bible. 01:23:58.100 --> 01:23:59.100 They have false gods. 01:23:59.100 --> 01:24:00.780 That's what the Bible teaches. 01:24:00.780 --> 01:24:05.460 Verse 17, then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, 01:24:05.460 --> 01:24:07.060 And I will hide my face from them. 01:24:07.400 --> 01:24:12.840 and they shall be devoured and many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say 01:24:12.840 --> 01:24:18.520 in that day are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us. So you know what 01:24:18.520 --> 01:24:25.560 hashtag quote God said I will forsake them. Why are the Zionists not quoting that verse? 01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:33.160 Oh God will never give up on them. Well then why did he say quote I will forsake them? 01:24:35.200 --> 01:24:37.600 Explain that, Zionists. 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:41.500 And look, okay, these people that he's talking about, 01:24:41.500 --> 01:24:42.540 didn't they die? 01:24:42.540 --> 01:24:45.480 Didn't they get forsaken and die? 01:24:45.480 --> 01:24:47.740 Then how are they God's chosen people? 01:24:47.740 --> 01:24:51.580 The people that he forsook and caused to die and go to hell. 01:24:51.580 --> 01:24:54.380 This is before Christ even shows up. 01:24:54.380 --> 01:24:57.060 So then why would I think that today a group of people 01:24:57.060 --> 01:24:58.560 that don't believe in the Lord, 01:24:58.560 --> 01:25:00.260 that are not following his commandments, 01:25:00.260 --> 01:25:02.560 that God would say, well, I'll never forsake you. 01:25:02.900 --> 01:25:08.040 Why would he not forsake people today that have turned against him, hate him, that are 01:25:08.040 --> 01:25:13.500 anti-Christ, that are breaking all the commandments, but then the people in the Old Testament that 01:25:13.500 --> 01:25:18.100 are for sure the seed of Abraham, he's saying to some of them, hey, I will forsake y'all 01:25:18.100 --> 01:25:21.160 and I will kill y'all, and he did. 01:25:21.160 --> 01:25:22.260 How does that make sense? 01:25:22.260 --> 01:25:27.200 Why does he love the future, unrepentant Israel, so much more than the... 01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:29.800 past, unrepentant Israel. 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:31.600 Like what makes them special? 01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:33.760 Because I'm not comparing them to me. 01:25:33.760 --> 01:25:35.840 Let's compare Israel to Israel. 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:39.560 God-hating future Israel. 01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:43.320 Why are they so much better than God-hating past Israel? 01:25:43.320 --> 01:25:46.040 I would say they're the same. 01:25:46.040 --> 01:25:48.200 You're telling me they're not the same. 01:25:48.200 --> 01:25:49.400 Why? 01:25:49.400 --> 01:25:50.440 Oh, because of Abraham. 01:25:50.440 --> 01:25:52.240 Well, Abraham's promise applies to these people too, 01:25:52.240 --> 01:25:52.900 doesn't it? 01:25:53.700 --> 01:25:54.900 Oh, because of Old Testament. 01:25:54.900 --> 01:25:56.400 Well, they're Old Testament too, right? 01:25:56.400 --> 01:25:57.600 Well, because of Old... 01:25:57.600 --> 01:25:59.400 Everything that you can dream up, 01:25:59.400 --> 01:26:02.700 everything that they can say about future unsaved Israel 01:26:02.700 --> 01:26:04.600 would be true about these people too. 01:26:04.600 --> 01:26:06.900 But then God said, I will forsake you 01:26:06.900 --> 01:26:08.500 and I'm going to punish you and kill you 01:26:08.500 --> 01:26:11.400 and you're going to die and go to hell. 01:26:11.400 --> 01:26:13.400 Why would it be any different today? 01:26:13.400 --> 01:26:14.800 It wouldn't. It's that simple. 01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:16.100 It's that simple, 01:26:16.100 --> 01:26:18.900 but yet people don't want to read these parts of the Bible either. 01:26:19.400 --> 01:26:21.400 Just Genesis chapter 12. 01:26:21.400 --> 01:26:23.400 I'm going to bless them to bless thee. 01:26:23.400 --> 01:26:28.040 Well, okay, but is God going to bless them? 01:26:28.040 --> 01:26:29.480 How does this work? 01:26:29.480 --> 01:26:34.040 If you have to bless them to be blessed, how can God curse them? 01:26:34.040 --> 01:26:40.760 Because doesn't Balaam try to curse God's people and God doesn't allow him and God won't do it? 01:26:40.760 --> 01:26:43.960 Why? Because God can't curse his own people. 01:26:43.960 --> 01:26:45.320 Spiritual Israel. 01:26:45.500 --> 01:26:47.700 God isn't going to curse spiritual Israel. 01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:49.000 They're saved. 01:26:49.100 --> 01:26:51.700 Jesus Christ became a curse for us 01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:54.300 so that we would not be under the curse of the law. 01:26:54.400 --> 01:26:55.600 So he can't curse those people. 01:26:55.700 --> 01:26:56.900 But the people that are not saved, 01:26:57.000 --> 01:26:58.800 he can curse them all day long. 01:26:58.900 --> 01:27:01.900 And they are cursed, and they're going to die and go to hell. 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:05.600 So at the end of the day, these people's doctrine never works. 01:27:05.700 --> 01:27:07.800 Doesn't make any kind of sense. 01:27:07.900 --> 01:27:11.100 God cannot stop loving you once you're saved. 01:27:11.500 --> 01:27:14.260 He says, He'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. 01:27:14.260 --> 01:27:17.620 But then He says right here, I will forsake them. 01:27:17.620 --> 01:27:19.380 Sounds like two different groups of people then, 01:27:19.380 --> 01:27:21.340 unless you're going to call God a liar. 01:27:21.340 --> 01:27:23.980 In the New Testament, God says, I will never leave thee 01:27:23.980 --> 01:27:25.220 nor forsake thee. 01:27:25.220 --> 01:27:27.580 Old Testament covenant, I will forsake you. 01:27:30.140 --> 01:27:31.540 How is that possible? 01:27:31.540 --> 01:27:34.460 Because they're not saved, it's that simple. 01:27:34.460 --> 01:27:35.660 Because if they were saved, 01:27:35.660 --> 01:27:37.660 He would say, I will never forsake you. 01:27:38.300 --> 01:27:42.540 But he's talking about a future group of people that don't have him as their God, 01:27:42.540 --> 01:27:45.740 they're not following his commandments, and what does he just promise? 01:27:46.460 --> 01:27:49.900 I will forsake you, for sure. 01:27:49.900 --> 01:27:54.700 Let me tell you something, anybody that practices Judaism will be forsaken by God 01:27:54.700 --> 01:27:56.620 if they don't repent and believe in Jesus Christ. 01:27:57.100 --> 01:28:02.140 and every Muslim and every Catholic and every Orthodox and every atheist and 01:28:02.140 --> 01:28:05.660 everything else in between that I didn't bring up. If you're not trusting in 01:28:05.660 --> 01:28:09.940 Christ, He will forsake you and you'll die and you'll go to hell. It's that 01:28:09.940 --> 01:28:15.200 simple. God's not respecter of persons. Verse 18. 01:28:15.400 --> 01:28:20.280 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, 01:28:20.280 --> 01:28:24.520 and that they are turned unto other gods." Look, this is important. You know why God did this? 01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:29.400 It's so that no one would think that if God has a lot of favor towards you, you're going to get in 01:28:29.400 --> 01:28:35.160 heaven. Because the group of people that he showed the most favor for did the most miracles, gave the 01:28:35.160 --> 01:28:38.360 most prophets, the most oracles, everything. He forsook them. 01:28:39.200 --> 01:28:41.660 Why? Because it doesn't matter how special you are, 01:28:41.660 --> 01:28:44.200 if you don't believe in Jesus, you will die and go to hell. 01:28:44.200 --> 01:28:48.500 I don't care how smart you are, I don't care how rich you are, 01:28:48.500 --> 01:28:50.200 I don't care what part of the world you've been, 01:28:50.200 --> 01:28:53.400 I don't care if you're Donald Trump and you think you've done all these wonderful works, 01:28:53.400 --> 01:28:55.900 you're not getting into heaven because of your works. 01:28:55.900 --> 01:28:59.800 It doesn't matter how special you are, and you know what? America's not special either. 01:28:59.800 --> 01:29:02.800 No nation has ever been special enough to just get... 01:29:03.200 --> 01:29:05.360 unconditional support from God. 01:29:05.360 --> 01:29:07.800 Why do we give unconditional support to Israel? 01:29:07.800 --> 01:29:09.040 It's beyond me. 01:29:09.040 --> 01:29:11.560 No one gets unconditional support. 01:29:11.560 --> 01:29:13.600 You believe in Jesus Christ. 01:29:13.600 --> 01:29:15.300 That's how you get in heaven. 01:29:15.300 --> 01:29:17.500 And even after you're saved, we should still fear God 01:29:17.500 --> 01:29:19.600 because God, while he maybe has unconditional love 01:29:19.600 --> 01:29:22.000 for the saved, he doesn't have unconditional blessing 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:22.840 for the saved. 01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:26.960 In this life, you don't have unconditional blessing period. 01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:29.640 It's based on how you follow the commandments. 01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:31.040 You're gonna reap what you sow. 01:29:31.500 --> 01:29:35.400 Now, obviously, post-heaven, we don't believe in any more chastisement, 01:29:35.400 --> 01:29:37.800 any more punishment, because we can't sin anymore. 01:29:37.800 --> 01:29:40.400 I mean, the Bible teaches that we'll have a new glorified body, 01:29:40.400 --> 01:29:42.100 and we won't even be tempted to sin, 01:29:42.100 --> 01:29:45.100 and our sins will be separated from us as far as the east is from the west. 01:29:45.100 --> 01:29:47.700 And so, yeah, obviously, at that point, 01:29:47.700 --> 01:29:49.300 it's not really... 01:29:49.300 --> 01:29:52.400 If you think about it, it's still not really unconditional blessing. 01:29:52.400 --> 01:29:54.500 It's just the fact that we can't even sin, 01:29:54.500 --> 01:29:56.100 so it's just kind of a moot point. 01:29:56.500 --> 01:30:00.500 You know, because technically, while it will never happen, 01:30:00.500 --> 01:30:03.500 if someone sinned in a post-resurrected state, 01:30:03.500 --> 01:30:05.260 they would have to be punished. 01:30:05.260 --> 01:30:07.140 The good thing is we just can't, okay? 01:30:07.140 --> 01:30:09.060 So it's just off the table. 01:30:09.060 --> 01:30:11.060 But it's still not even unconditional 01:30:11.060 --> 01:30:13.180 in the sense that if someone sinned, 01:30:13.180 --> 01:30:14.780 they would get punished, period. 01:30:14.900 --> 01:30:19.500 There is no God is just God will never allow any sin to go unpunished. 01:30:19.500 --> 01:30:21.700 It's just that we can't sin. 01:30:21.700 --> 01:30:25.800 The grace has already covered our sins and we'll be in a glorified body 01:30:25.800 --> 01:30:27.900 and we won't be tempted with that anymore. 01:30:27.900 --> 01:30:33.300 And so therefore we can't so because otherwise we would free wills already shown that. 01:30:33.700 --> 01:30:43.540 There's never been a person that just fully sanctified, just fully, just like holy, just became holy in this life. 01:30:43.540 --> 01:30:50.020 You cannot by free will always choose to do right. That's why only God is holy. Thou art alone holy. 01:30:50.500 --> 01:30:54.340 He's the only one with free will and can be holy at the same time. 01:30:54.340 --> 01:30:59.060 We have to, you know, basically have death swallowed up and victory for us. 01:30:59.060 --> 01:31:01.460 And we have to put on the incorruptible. 01:31:02.820 --> 01:31:07.060 Now, let's keep, let's just go through the rest of the passage. 01:31:07.060 --> 01:31:08.420 I just want to make one more point. 01:31:08.420 --> 01:31:09.300 Okay. 01:31:09.300 --> 01:31:09.780 He says, 01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:13.800 In verse number 20, when I shall have brought them into the land which I 01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:17.160 swear to the fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten 01:31:17.160 --> 01:31:19.200 and filled themselves and waxed and fat. 01:31:19.400 --> 01:31:23.900 Then will they turn into other gods and serve them, provoke me and break my covenant, and shall come to pass, 01:31:23.900 --> 01:31:29.100 when many evils and troubles are befalling them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness. 01:31:29.100 --> 01:31:34.500 For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed, for I know their imagination, 01:31:34.500 --> 01:31:39.100 which they go about even now, before I brought them into the land which I swear. 01:31:39.100 --> 01:31:42.100 It's like God makes parody songs against them, you know what I mean? 01:31:43.400 --> 01:31:46.440 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel. 01:31:46.440 --> 01:31:49.160 Wasn't a positive song, very negative song. 01:31:49.160 --> 01:31:51.720 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said, 01:31:51.720 --> 01:31:54.280 Be strong and have good courage, for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land, 01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:56.120 which I swear unto them, and I will be with thee. 01:31:56.120 --> 01:31:59.320 And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law 01:31:59.320 --> 01:32:03.400 in a book until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, 01:32:03.400 --> 01:32:05.320 which bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 01:32:05.320 --> 01:32:08.760 Take this book of the law and put in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, 01:32:08.760 --> 01:32:11.240 that it may be there for a witness against thee. 01:32:11.400 --> 01:32:14.500 For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck. 01:32:14.500 --> 01:32:17.240 Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, 01:32:17.240 --> 01:32:19.640 ye have been rebellious against the Lord. 01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:21.600 And how much more after my death? 01:32:21.900 --> 01:32:24.900 gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, 01:32:24.900 --> 01:32:29.100 that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them. 01:32:29.100 --> 01:32:33.100 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves 01:32:33.100 --> 01:32:35.600 and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you, 01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:37.900 and evil will fall you in the latter days, 01:32:37.900 --> 01:32:40.000 because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, 01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:42.400 to revoke him to anger through the works of your hands. 01:32:42.400 --> 01:32:45.600 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, 01:32:45.600 --> 01:32:46.600 until they were ended. 01:32:47.700 --> 01:32:51.860 So one thing I really want to point out about this and generally just saying, 01:32:51.860 --> 01:32:53.060 they're going to go bad. 01:32:53.060 --> 01:32:55.300 But notice what he had said in verse 27. 01:32:55.300 --> 01:32:58.180 You have been rebellious against the Lord. 01:32:59.140 --> 01:33:01.460 And how much more after my death? 01:33:02.500 --> 01:33:06.740 He's saying, look, in my sight, while I could see it, 01:33:07.380 --> 01:33:10.420 while I could deal with you, you are terrible. 01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:12.360 You were rebellious. 01:33:12.360 --> 01:33:16.360 How bad are you gonna be when I'm not looking? 01:33:16.360 --> 01:33:17.360 Yeah. 01:33:17.360 --> 01:33:19.000 He's basically saying like when the cat's away, 01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:19.840 the mice will play. 01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:22.480 He's saying, y'all were playing while I was here. 01:33:23.480 --> 01:33:25.880 How much worse is it gonna get when I go? 01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:28.680 And it kind of reminds me of another situation. 01:33:28.680 --> 01:33:30.600 Go to Acts number 20, go to Acts number 20. 01:33:30.600 --> 01:33:33.760 This is something interesting about human nature, 01:33:33.760 --> 01:33:37.760 is that human nature is extremely rebellious. 01:33:38.300 --> 01:33:40.900 Human nature is extremely rebellious. 01:33:40.900 --> 01:33:45.180 It is rebellious in the sight of their leadership. 01:33:45.180 --> 01:33:49.140 It is rebellious in the sight of those that have control over them, 01:33:49.140 --> 01:33:52.820 even so much the more when they're not looking. 01:33:52.820 --> 01:33:54.300 You have to learn this principle. 01:33:54.300 --> 01:33:59.300 What people will do in your presence, they do much more in your absence. 01:34:03.500 --> 01:34:07.500 And you know, you know, just, it's not a, it's not a fun tip. 01:34:07.500 --> 01:34:09.000 Let me just say something. 01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:13.500 If a couple that is dating are real handsy in public, 01:34:13.500 --> 01:34:16.500 that is a huge red flag of what they're doing in private. 01:34:16.500 --> 01:34:19.500 It's a huge red flag. 01:34:19.500 --> 01:34:23.500 Because what you do in public is often way less 01:34:23.500 --> 01:34:25.300 than what you would do in private. 01:34:26.300 --> 01:34:32.060 You have to understand people, you know, they will be rebellious in your face. 01:34:32.060 --> 01:34:34.780 How much more behind your back? 01:34:34.780 --> 01:34:41.000 You know, people lying gossip to you, to your face, how much more to your back? 01:34:41.000 --> 01:34:45.480 People just, it's just crazy how people don't understand this. 01:34:45.480 --> 01:34:49.580 And think about it, when Moses is saying, I'm going to leave, I'm going to go, as soon 01:34:49.580 --> 01:34:52.780 as I go, y'all are just going to be awful and corrupt. 01:34:52.780 --> 01:34:53.780 And isn't that what we see? 01:34:54.200 --> 01:34:55.960 I mean, Joshua and them, they have to do their success, 01:34:55.960 --> 01:34:58.040 but as soon as Joshua and his generation's gone, 01:34:58.040 --> 01:35:01.400 it's just a train wreck for 400-something years. 01:35:01.400 --> 01:35:04.680 Then you get King Saul, short time span 01:35:04.680 --> 01:35:05.800 of prosperity and goodness, 01:35:05.800 --> 01:35:08.520 and then just total garbage again. 01:35:08.520 --> 01:35:10.200 Then you kind of have David, 01:35:10.200 --> 01:35:12.040 but then it gets to Solomon, goes bad, 01:35:12.040 --> 01:35:13.400 and then it's just basically bad 01:35:13.400 --> 01:35:15.400 for the vast majority of the history. 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:19.360 I mean, can we really look at any time in Israel's history 01:35:19.360 --> 01:35:22.400 and just like long, prosperous success, 01:35:22.400 --> 01:35:27.400 multiple generations of success, generational succession, 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:30.080 just success after success. 01:35:30.080 --> 01:35:32.840 It's like 10 of the 12 tribes are just gone. 01:35:34.280 --> 01:35:36.360 What do you mean generational succession? 01:35:36.360 --> 01:35:39.440 And it's like Judah and Benjamin are hanging on by a thread. 01:35:39.440 --> 01:35:41.040 And you know what that thread is? 01:35:41.040 --> 01:35:42.920 The genealogy of Jesus. 01:35:43.400 --> 01:35:47.700 It's like God is like the only reason I haven't destroyed you yet. 01:35:47.900 --> 01:35:50.100 It's we're just waiting for Jesus to show up. 01:35:50.700 --> 01:35:53.300 And then when he's gone, you're gone, buddy. 01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:56.500 Like, why didn't he just give up on them sooner? 01:35:56.700 --> 01:35:58.700 It's because he was just waiting for Jesus to get there. 01:35:59.300 --> 01:36:00.200 But he was ready. 01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:01.700 He was getting pinned up. 01:36:01.700 --> 01:36:02.700 He got a lot of aggression. 01:36:02.700 --> 01:36:03.800 He's real angry about it. 01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:06.500 He even almost did it a couple times. 01:36:06.500 --> 01:36:07.400 He was so mad. 01:36:08.000 --> 01:36:10.240 but he's just waiting for Jesus to show up, 01:36:10.240 --> 01:36:12.160 and then he's just like, fine, bye. 01:36:13.120 --> 01:36:15.520 Why? Because human nature just goes bad so fast. 01:36:16.320 --> 01:36:19.280 Then this is what the Catholics and the Orthodox believe. 01:36:19.280 --> 01:36:24.160 The Catholics and the Orthodox believe that after the apostles left, 01:36:24.160 --> 01:36:27.120 the church became better than it was, 01:36:28.000 --> 01:36:30.560 and has been a perfect, true church since now. 01:36:32.400 --> 01:36:35.840 Like we read, I mean think about it, we're reading all these epistles to these churches. 01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:40.640 Are the churches in the New Testament just perfect, awesome, or are they kind of screwed up? 01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:43.600 Like a guy sleeping with his dad's wife. 01:36:44.100 --> 01:36:48.500 kind of screwed up. Like Jezebel teaching to commit fornication and eating sacrifice 01:36:48.500 --> 01:36:52.500 and idols screwed up. Like people not even believing in the resurrection kind of screwed 01:36:52.500 --> 01:36:56.740 up. Like, oh, they're really screwing up the Lord's Supper and people are dying because 01:36:56.740 --> 01:37:02.260 of the result of that. People are into idolatry and fornication and just all kinds of crazy 01:37:02.260 --> 01:37:08.020 things. You have deatrophies already hijacking a church. You have in the book of Revelation, 01:37:08.020 --> 01:37:11.860 several churches that are just completely screwed up, horrible problems. 01:37:12.100 --> 01:37:13.940 false doctrine, issues. 01:37:13.940 --> 01:37:15.660 Why in the world would I think that that church 01:37:15.660 --> 01:37:19.100 is gonna magically, and I would say magic, 01:37:19.100 --> 01:37:22.500 become perfect, true, and infallible 01:37:22.500 --> 01:37:24.240 after the apostles are gone? 01:37:25.340 --> 01:37:27.500 If you're doing it in my sight, 01:37:27.500 --> 01:37:29.580 how much more in my absence? 01:37:30.780 --> 01:37:33.180 I mean, isn't that the principle the Bible's teaching here? 01:37:33.180 --> 01:37:36.700 It's saying like, if y'all are this bad with Moses in sight. 01:37:37.200 --> 01:37:39.640 How much worse are you going to be when he's gone? 01:37:39.740 --> 01:37:42.240 And he's just like, exactly. 01:37:42.340 --> 01:37:46.780 And what does the Apostle Paul tell the elders at Ephesus 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:47.980 in Acts chapter number 20? 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:52.700 Let's look at verse number 28. 01:37:52.700 --> 01:37:54.100 He gathers all the elders together. 01:37:54.100 --> 01:37:54.900 Okay, this is the context. 01:37:54.900 --> 01:37:56.400 Verse 28. 01:37:56.400 --> 01:37:59.400 Take he therefore in yourselves and all the flock over which the 01:37:59.400 --> 01:38:01.900 Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of God, 01:38:01.900 --> 01:38:03.600 which hath purged with his own blood. 01:38:03.600 --> 01:38:09.600 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves 01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:13.400 enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:16.600 Also of your own selves shall men arise, 01:38:16.600 --> 01:38:21.600 speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 01:38:21.600 --> 01:38:25.100 Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years, 01:38:25.100 --> 01:38:31.040 I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears." 01:38:31.040 --> 01:38:32.940 Look, you read about the impossible missions. 01:38:32.940 --> 01:38:36.480 He's saying, hey, all of Asia be turned away from me. 01:38:38.300 --> 01:38:40.540 Oh, well, they have apostolic succession. 01:38:40.540 --> 01:38:43.540 In his life, they stopped following him! 01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:48.000 All of them in Asia. 01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:52.880 Oh, well, you know what kind of succession they have? 01:38:53.440 --> 01:38:55.840 The grievous wolves entering in, not spraying the flock, 01:38:55.840 --> 01:38:58.960 that's the ones that continue to succeed, the Orthodox Church. 01:39:00.160 --> 01:39:01.280 And the Catholic Church. 01:39:02.080 --> 01:39:03.600 Okay. Why? 01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:05.440 Because that is humanity. 01:39:06.000 --> 01:39:11.000 Humanity is very rebellious in the sight of their leadership 01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:14.000 and so much the more in their absence. 01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:19.000 It's like when Deutrophes comes in, John's not there. 01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:22.000 Well, now he's just kicking people out of church. 01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:24.000 He doesn't receive the brethren. 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:27.000 And it's just, this is just how the world is. 01:39:27.700 --> 01:39:32.260 You know, I don't think like, you know, I don't think of myself as just some special person or anything like that. 01:39:32.260 --> 01:39:38.580 But I just know, like if I just, just gone, just by, the church isn't going to get better. 01:39:40.740 --> 01:39:44.100 The church doesn't just magically get better when the pastor's gone. 01:39:44.980 --> 01:39:49.860 The church gets worse. That's why the church plants often struggle the most. 01:39:50.580 --> 01:39:51.700 Have you ever noticed the theme? 01:39:52.300 --> 01:39:55.980 It's like weirdos from like foreign countries, 01:39:55.980 --> 01:39:57.380 I don't know, like Puerto Rico or something. 01:39:57.380 --> 01:40:01.460 They just show up at random church plants. 01:40:01.460 --> 01:40:03.420 You're just like, why are you at the church plant? 01:40:03.420 --> 01:40:06.100 You know, like why did you just show up here? 01:40:06.100 --> 01:40:09.060 And you kind of think like this person is too good to be true 01:40:09.060 --> 01:40:10.940 because they are. 01:40:10.940 --> 01:40:14.340 But at the end of the day, it's just how the world works. 01:40:14.340 --> 01:40:16.020 You know, there are certain family 01:40:16.020 --> 01:40:17.420 that I was trying to kick out of the church. 01:40:17.420 --> 01:40:18.800 I couldn't get ahold of them. 01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:22.480 And I kid you not, every time I left, they magically showed up. 01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:25.600 Like every time I was scheduled to preach somewhere, 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:27.600 it just, they magically showed up that day. 01:40:28.560 --> 01:40:31.040 It's like, look, this is how the world works, folks. 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:34.400 Evil people love to do their thing. 01:40:34.400 --> 01:40:35.600 They love to work in dark. 01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:36.960 They love to work in the secret. 01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:39.280 But they'll even do it in your sight. 01:40:39.280 --> 01:40:41.120 And look, when they're doing it in your sight, 01:40:41.120 --> 01:40:42.720 how much more in your absence? 01:40:43.360 --> 01:40:45.520 And you know, you just have to realize like, 01:40:46.500 --> 01:40:53.220 People are just, people are not gonna just do the right thing without oversight. 01:40:53.220 --> 01:40:56.420 You know, oh my kids, they're really rebellious. 01:40:56.420 --> 01:40:58.580 Just think if you weren't punishing them. 01:40:58.580 --> 01:41:01.140 Just think if you weren't in their life. 01:41:01.140 --> 01:41:01.860 And you know what? 01:41:01.860 --> 01:41:04.420 It's important for you kids to obey your parents now. 01:41:04.420 --> 01:41:08.420 Because you're not gonna do better when they're just magically not in your life. 01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:11.440 You know, if you just got on your own, 01:41:11.440 --> 01:41:13.240 oh, these teenagers are rebellious. 01:41:13.240 --> 01:41:14.400 What's the worst thing to do? 01:41:14.400 --> 01:41:18.480 Just give them to college to just have no one overseeing them. 01:41:18.480 --> 01:41:20.400 No one overlooking them. 01:41:20.400 --> 01:41:23.680 Look, whatever you're doing under your parents' roof, 01:41:23.680 --> 01:41:27.880 you'll probably do even worse without your parents' roof. 01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:29.680 And that's why it's important to go ahead 01:41:29.680 --> 01:41:32.360 and clean up the ship now. 01:41:32.360 --> 01:41:35.000 Even a child is known by his doings. 01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:35.840 You know, and hey. 01:41:36.100 --> 01:41:38.100 Having accountability in your life is good. 01:41:38.100 --> 01:41:40.100 You know, if you go from mom and dad's roof 01:41:40.100 --> 01:41:42.100 to a roof with your wife, 01:41:42.100 --> 01:41:44.100 you're probably going to make way less mistakes 01:41:44.100 --> 01:41:47.100 than if you just go with a bunch of frat bros. 01:41:49.100 --> 01:41:51.100 Than a bunch of ortho bros. 01:41:52.100 --> 01:41:54.100 Or even just by yourself. 01:41:54.100 --> 01:41:56.100 Just living on your own. 01:41:56.100 --> 01:41:58.100 It's a dangerous world to be out there. 01:41:58.500 --> 01:42:02.340 And look, you know, I'm not judging anybody. 01:42:02.340 --> 01:42:05.380 I'm not trying to judge young men that are going out on their own, 01:42:05.380 --> 01:42:08.340 they're trying to find a wife, but you know, you should try your best 01:42:08.340 --> 01:42:09.620 to have some accountability in your life. 01:42:10.820 --> 01:42:13.460 And you know, you should just realize it's a dangerous world out there. 01:42:14.900 --> 01:42:17.460 And you know what, you children, you need to start learning how to obey mom and dad now. 01:42:18.020 --> 01:42:19.300 Because you're going to probably do worse. 01:42:19.300 --> 01:42:22.020 And you know, parents, look. 01:42:22.500 --> 01:42:27.500 I would love to just get up here and just say every single one of your kids is going to turn out great. 01:42:28.500 --> 01:42:30.500 I would love to tell you that, but that would be a lie. 01:42:31.500 --> 01:42:32.500 It's a lie. 01:42:32.500 --> 01:42:34.500 Not all of them are going to turn out great. 01:42:34.500 --> 01:42:36.500 And you know what you have to do? 01:42:36.500 --> 01:42:42.500 You just have to discipline them and teach them the Word of God and realize they get to make their own decisions. 01:42:42.500 --> 01:42:47.500 And you know, in some cases you're just holding them back from destroying themselves. 01:42:47.500 --> 01:42:49.300 Especially the toddlers, okay? 01:42:49.700 --> 01:42:51.200 I mean, the toddlers, wow. 01:42:51.200 --> 01:42:53.800 This is like, you're keeping them alive every day. 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:55.000 Okay? 01:42:55.000 --> 01:42:56.640 But so much more, all of them. 01:42:56.640 --> 01:43:00.100 I mean, look, my siblings were rough 01:43:00.100 --> 01:43:02.080 and made some really horrific decisions 01:43:02.080 --> 01:43:04.240 and my parents protected them from stuff. 01:43:04.240 --> 01:43:06.840 And you know, even if the kid isn't gonna be great, 01:43:06.840 --> 01:43:08.680 you know, just whatever instruction you give them, 01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:10.080 you're just making them a little bit better 01:43:10.080 --> 01:43:11.980 than they would have been without you. 01:43:11.980 --> 01:43:14.020 And you know, as a parent, you should just wanna say like, 01:43:14.020 --> 01:43:15.280 hey, I did my best. 01:43:15.500 --> 01:43:18.940 because you can't force them to do right. 01:43:18.940 --> 01:43:21.540 And you can't always force them to make the right decisions. 01:43:21.540 --> 01:43:24.580 Look, there are parents in this world that go to a good church 01:43:24.580 --> 01:43:27.700 and they've literally raised a child and they turn out to be a sodomite. 01:43:31.400 --> 01:43:34.280 And look, some people will just blame the parents. 01:43:34.280 --> 01:43:36.280 Some people will just immediately blame the parents 01:43:36.280 --> 01:43:37.200 or say the parents. 01:43:37.200 --> 01:43:38.960 Look, I don't think for one second, 01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:41.800 a guy going to a fundamental Baptist church, 01:43:41.800 --> 01:43:45.160 preaching the right gospel, paying his bills, 01:43:45.160 --> 01:43:48.880 is responsible for a kid becoming a faggot, okay? 01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:52.000 You can't, that's not fair to blame a parent for that. 01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:54.360 Just like it wouldn't be fair to blame Noah 01:43:54.360 --> 01:43:55.840 for what his son did to him. 01:43:56.200 --> 01:43:58.000 or blame, you know, David. 01:43:58.000 --> 01:44:00.300 Oh, what did David do to cause Absalom 01:44:00.300 --> 01:44:03.200 to become this traitorous freak? 01:44:03.200 --> 01:44:05.200 Nothing. David was a great guy. 01:44:05.200 --> 01:44:08.000 Because you know David raised Solomon, too. 01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:09.400 You can't sit here and be like, 01:44:09.400 --> 01:44:12.200 oh, David gets credit for Absalom and Amnon. 01:44:12.500 --> 01:44:17.940 But not for Solomon. Look, David set a good example. David was a man after God's own heart. 01:44:17.940 --> 01:44:22.900 Yeah, he made mistakes. And yeah, parents are going to make mistakes. But at the end of the day, 01:44:22.900 --> 01:44:26.740 you know what? You just love your kids and you pray for them and you try to do your best. 01:44:26.740 --> 01:44:29.780 But let me tell you something. Every kid is going to be responsible for themselves. 01:44:30.820 --> 01:44:33.220 And they have to make their own decisions for themselves. 01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:36.640 And you know, if you're not obeying in your parents' sight, 01:44:36.740 --> 01:44:38.140 you need to change fast. 01:44:38.240 --> 01:44:40.040 Because when you don't have your parents, boy, 01:44:40.140 --> 01:44:42.680 it's going to be even harder. 01:44:42.780 --> 01:44:44.440 It was hard for them to obey with Moses. 01:44:44.540 --> 01:44:46.720 It was way worse when he wasn't there. 01:44:46.820 --> 01:44:48.480 Look, having Moses is awesome. 01:44:48.580 --> 01:44:49.880 Not everybody gets a Moses in their life, 01:44:49.980 --> 01:44:51.920 and not everybody gets a Moses to follow them around all day 01:44:52.020 --> 01:44:53.860 and tell them what to do. 01:44:53.960 --> 01:44:55.660 You know, you look at Jehoiada the priest. 01:44:55.760 --> 01:44:57.660 As soon as he stops instructing the king, 01:44:57.760 --> 01:44:59.800 then you just go to do trash again. 01:45:00.300 --> 01:45:03.660 church go to trash. And you know, hey, I don't have to go to the Orthodox Church 01:45:03.660 --> 01:45:08.140 of the Catholic Church. We can say, hey, y'all went to the trash. We're going to go back to the Bible. 01:45:09.340 --> 01:45:12.700 And I love how they'd be like, oh, we're doing things that they were doing the first century. 01:45:12.700 --> 01:45:17.260 No, you're not. You're not baptized in my immersion. You don't believe salvation, 01:45:17.260 --> 01:45:19.980 my faith. We're the ones doing the things in the, in the, in the first century. 01:45:20.780 --> 01:45:23.500 Find me a practice that our church does that's not found in the Bible. 01:45:26.300 --> 01:45:29.340 We're John, we're John the, we're after John the Baptist. 01:45:29.340 --> 01:45:32.180 We're like the Baptists in the church and the wilderness. 01:45:32.180 --> 01:45:34.520 And hey, you know, Moses has given this instruction 01:45:34.520 --> 01:45:36.660 so that we will do right. 01:45:36.660 --> 01:45:39.580 And even if the, even if the future won't do right, 01:45:39.580 --> 01:45:41.540 well, we should do right. 01:45:41.540 --> 01:45:44.500 And I'm gonna give my kids every opportunity for success, 01:45:44.500 --> 01:45:45.340 but let me tell you something, 01:45:45.340 --> 01:45:47.580 they have to choose it for themselves. 01:45:47.580 --> 01:45:50.340 And we need to make sure that they know that. 01:45:50.340 --> 01:45:52.380 Your choices are important, kids. 01:45:52.700 --> 01:45:56.860 Hey, if you can't obey when mom and dad are looking, you have a problem. 01:45:58.940 --> 01:46:01.740 And when you can't obey when they're not looking, you have another problem. 01:46:02.380 --> 01:46:06.940 Kids should be able to do right without anybody looking, realizing that God's always watching. 01:46:07.980 --> 01:46:12.220 You know, I like what my kids used to say. They don't say it anymore. They were like, God, God knows. 01:46:13.820 --> 01:46:17.500 God's watching. Hey, you need to fear God again. Okay? 01:46:17.900 --> 01:46:20.700 Because even if mom and dad don't see, God sees. 01:46:20.700 --> 01:46:25.420 And God will bless and God will punish based on your doings. 01:46:25.420 --> 01:46:28.620 And you know what? Who cares if you get caught or not? 01:46:28.620 --> 01:46:30.140 Because God's always watching. 01:46:31.900 --> 01:46:35.900 Quit worrying about if you're going to get caught in your sin and worry about if God knows. 01:46:37.260 --> 01:46:40.140 God always knows. And God is not mocked. 01:46:40.940 --> 01:46:44.620 Hey, oh, I'm doing this private moral sin. Nobody knows. Well, God knows. 01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:47.600 Looks like you got caught. 01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:49.360 Look, no one's going to get away with anything. 01:46:49.360 --> 01:46:51.720 Quit thinking you're going to get away with stuff. 01:46:51.720 --> 01:46:53.560 Just fear God. 01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:55.480 Let us have a healthy fear of the Lord. 01:46:55.480 --> 01:46:56.360 Let's close in prayer. 01:46:56.360 --> 01:46:57.760 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word. 01:46:57.760 --> 01:47:00.160 Thank you so much for your commandments. 01:47:00.160 --> 01:47:02.800 Thank you for your grace because we need it. 01:47:02.800 --> 01:47:05.120 But I pray that you would help us to still fear you, 01:47:05.120 --> 01:47:08.360 even when you give us grace, that we wouldn't take it for granted, 01:47:08.360 --> 01:47:10.560 that we wouldn't go against the commandment. 01:47:11.100 --> 01:47:15.580 despite the Spirit of grace, that we wouldn't try to tempt you and provoke you constantly 01:47:16.220 --> 01:47:21.020 through wickedness, through sin, through rebellion. I pray that you would help children's hearts 01:47:21.740 --> 01:47:27.340 to be turned to the Lord, that children in this room would love God, they would realize 01:47:27.340 --> 01:47:31.820 that they're saved and they're going to go to heaven and that they should work to serve you, 01:47:31.820 --> 01:47:36.300 that they should fear you, that there's great joy and blessing in serving the Lord. 01:47:37.200 --> 01:47:42.320 I pray that you would help the parents to be comforted by training their children to know the Lord 01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:49.920 and that we could all have the serenity to accept free will, whatever may happen, 01:47:50.960 --> 01:47:56.240 that you've given us a message to preach and that we preach it faithful no matter what the outcome is. 01:47:56.800 --> 01:48:00.080 I pray that you continue to bless our church and use our church for your honor and for your 01:48:00.080 --> 01:48:02.080 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:48:08.000 --> 01:48:12.560 Okay, met our last song this evening, page 49 in your hymn books, Meet Me There. 01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:15.760 Page number 49, Meet Me There. 01:48:22.500 --> 01:48:25.060 Meet me there, page 49. 01:48:25.060 --> 01:48:27.380 Join us on that first. 01:48:27.380 --> 01:48:33.060 On the happy golden shore, where the big book are no more, 01:48:33.060 --> 01:48:35.800 and the storms of life are o'er.