died on calvary oh he washed my sins away he put within my heart a melody and i know it's there to
stay in my heart there rings a melody there rings a melody with heaven's harmony in my heart
there rings a melody there rings a melody of love to be my endless theme in glory with the angels i
will sing to be a song with glorious harmony when the courts of heaven ring in my heart there rings
a melody there rings a melody with heaven's harmony in my heart there rings a melody
there rings a melody of love amen brother james would you pray for us
amen next hymn it's going to be 130 yesterday today forever
song 130
130 yesterday today forever sing it all together oh how sweet the glorious message
simple faith may claim yesterday today forever jesus is the same still he loves to save the
sinful heal the sick and lame cheer the mourner still the tempest glory to his name yesterday
today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name
glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never
glory to his name he who pardoned a ring peter never needs
a fear he that came to faithless thomas all thy doubt will clear he who let the love disciple
on his bosom rest busy still with love as tender lean upon his breast yesterday today
forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name
glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name he who made the
jing bellows walked upon the sea still can hush a wildest tempest as on galilee
he who wept and prayed in anguish in gethsemane
drinks with us each cup of trembling in our agony yesterday today forever jesus
is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name
glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name as of old he walked
and may us with them to abide so through all i sway he walketh ever near our side
soon again shall we behold him hasten lord the day but will still be the same jesus
as he went away yesterday today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never
glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never
glory to his name amen great singing
good evening thank you so much for coming up here with baptist church if you don't already
have a bulletin brother james has got one you can just lift your hand um on the inside we have
our service and soul winning times as well as our church stats was there any soul winning that
needed to be reported for the last few days that didn't already get counted as far as soul
winning is concerned what about tonight what do we have we had four tonight praise the lord on
that that's great and uh also on the right uh continue to pray for our expecting ladies
and the urbanics respecting a girl apparently so congratulations to them on that um our upcoming
events so we have a game night of the church from 6 p.m to 10 p.m on the 30th on october 6th
of the 9th we have the heritage of the lord conference uh that's at steadfast october 31st
we have their tux texas chili cook-off it's implied because we're in texas okay and then november
10th through the 12th we have the matamoros soul winning marathon trip um and if you'd like
to participate in that we would love for you to go with us a great opportunity to go soul
winning um also going to mexico but still stay stateside so it's kind of a nice uh trip
a lot of fun we went last year it went really great every time we've gone down there uh it's
gone really well we've also gone so winning too in reynosa and that's also a great area too but
i really like matamoros uh the food was excellent as well um prayer requests continue
to pray for the goodwin family for brother edwards health mr liberties family member catherine
brother joel we're praying for first works baptist church and for rockio west healing so
definitely a lot of people to be in prayer for we can go ahead and just say a quick word
of prayer as a church family for those that are on our prayer list thank you heavenly father
for giving us this opportunity to be meeting together to have church and have service i
pray that you would bless our church family that's not able to be here this evening
please help our various church members with their health requests give them healing give them
comfort during their time of affliction please be with our friends that are not part of our
church body here but our our brothers and sisters in christ please help them with their health
and with their concerns please bless first works baptist church we just thank you for
our church continue that to help us with our works here that we could give honor and glory
to your son in jesus name we pray amen and uh as far as announcements that's pretty much all
i have but we can go ahead and go to our third song 370 in our hymnals throw out the lifeline
song 370
again that's 370 throw out the lifeline
370 is singing all together on the first
throw out the lifeline across the dark wave there is a brother whom someone should save
somebody's brother who then will dare to throw out the lifeline his peril to share
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today
throw out the lifeline with hand quick and strong why do you tarry why linger so long
see he is sinking oh hasten today and out with the lifeboat away then away
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today
throw out the lifeline to danger front men sinking in anguish where you've never been
winds of temptation and billows of wool will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today
soon will the season of rescue be or soon will they drift to eternity shore
hasten my brother no time for delay but throw out the lifeline and save them today
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away
throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today
amen great singing while offering plates being passed around please turn your bibles to esther
chapter number eight esther chapter number eight as we always do we'll start off by reading the
entire chapter if you flip your bible open right into the middle you'll find the book of psalms
right before that you'll find joe and right before joe is the book of esther esther chapter
eight the bible reads on that day did the king ahasuerus give the house of hayman the jews
enemy unto esther the queen and mordecai came before the king for esther had told what he was
unto her and the king took off his ring which he had taken from hayman and gave it
unto mordecai and esther set mordecai over the house of hayman and esther spake yet again
before the king and fell down at his feet and besought him with tears to put away the mischief
of hayman the gagite and his device that he had devised against the jews then the king held
the golden scepter toward esther so esther arose and stood before the king and said if it pleased
the king and if i have found favor in his sight and the things seemed right before the
king and i'd be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by hayman
the son of hematatha the gagite which he wrote to destroy the jews which are in all the
king's provinces for how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people
or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred then the king ahasuerus said
unto esther the queen and to mordecai the jew behold i have given esther the house of hayman
in him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his hand upon the jews
write you also for the jews as it liketh you in the king's name and seal it with the
king's ring for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's
ring may no man reverse then where the king's scribes called at that time in the third month
that is the month sivan on the three and 20th day thereof and it was written according to
all that mordecai commanded unto the jews and to the lieutenants and the deputies and rulers
of the provinces which are from india unto ethiopia and hundred twenty and seven provinces
unto every province according to the writing thereof and unto every people after their
language and to the jews according to their writing and according to their language and he
wrote in the king ahasuerus name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by
posts on horseback and riders on mules camels and young jama dairies where the king granted
the jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life
to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that
would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a pray
upon one day in all the provinces of king ahasuerus namely upon the 13th day of the 12th
month which is the month adar the copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in
every province was published unto all people and that all and that the jews should be ready
against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies so the posts that rode upon the mules and
camels went out being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment and the decree was
given at sushan the palace and mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal
apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a garment of fine linen
and purple and the city of sushan rejoiced and was glad the jews had light and gladness and
joy and honor and in every province and in every city whithersoever the king's commandment
and his decree came the jews had joy and gladness a feast and a good day and many of
the people in the land became jews for the fear of jews fell upon them all right so a word of
prayer if you have any father we thank you for the bible i just pray you open up
amen so we've been going to the book of esther and we're in chapter number eight
one of the cool things about the book of esther is just kind of the general timeline
that the book of esther follows in relation to the end times and how we kind of have this
chronology that has constantly been following through and it's no different than when we get
here to chapter number eight and really one of the cool things about the chronology of
esther is it really seems to follow a almost seamless chronology of the end times and kind
of what to anticipate and expect so just give you a little recap and then we're going to kind
of go through this chapter chapter number one king of hasris rejects vasty and vasty kind
of signifies or represents israel as a whole how they're rebellious to the lord and he put
them away and he ends up getting a new wife that new wife is esther esther signifies christianity
coming in and replacing vasty and yes we believe in replacement theology of this church
it's taught everywhere in scripture so of course esther replaces vasty just like christians
replaced the jews so the jews were god's people of the old testament but in the new testament
it's no longer this division between jew and gentile but it's rather those that are saved
versus the unsaved those who are the christians versus any other religion and we have esther kind
of fulfilling that role later in the story we have mortic i uh rescuing the king and ends up
getting kind of this vitriol from a guy named hayman hayman represents the anti-christ and the
devil wanting to slay and kill specifically mortici but not only mortici really all of those
people and that's kind of where we transition in the book of esther from historical into future
when we kind of go from the idea of the gospel we kind of leads us into then later into
the end times where the devil in the bible and the book of revelation is described as having
great wrath he comes down to the earth has but a short time and because of this he persecutes
the woman as the bible describes that woman is simply a reference to mankind now i'm going
over this very fast so if you don't catch everything it's okay but i'm just kind of giving
you a quick overview if you look at the end times and what we're anticipating there's supposed
to be what's called daniel's 70th week it's a seven year period because a week is seven days
so this is a seven year period that's why it's called daniel's 70th week there was already 69
that have happened in times past this particular set of seven years is signified by a lot of
really in-time apocalyptic type events it gets kicks off with six seals so there's technically
seven the first six kind of lead up to the return of christ and the essence of the first
five are are like plagues and things you have the first four horsemen the fifth is this great
period of tribulation and persecution that period of time is in my mind the description
of this devil's wrath so the devil eventually is warring with the angels in heaven at some
point in the future he's kicked out of heaven because he's been kicked out of heaven
and he's very angry about it and knows he only has a little bit of time left he basically just
unleashes his wrath on the world so that's where you kind of see those first seals being open
is kind of a devil's wrath in essence of there's world war there's famine there's a lot of death
there's a lot of this just evil and really just an attempt to kill all of mankind okay but the
devil ends up failing as the bible describes even describes a vent called a flood that the
earth ends up opening her mouth drinking in the flood waters and causing into where man in
general is not killed so the devil then just targets into the remnant of her seed the remnant
of the woman's seed this is more of a description of christians and that's where we kind of see that
fifth seal so the first four is kind of like the devil killing mankind fails the fifth seal
is where the devil is trying to kill christians and he ultimately fails because the sixth seal
is christ returning and coming in the great clouds and before every christian can be killed
he ends up rapturing those that are alive and remain under the coming of the lord
okay now what does this have to do with esther okay well we have to realize that at the return
of christ he then unleashes his wrath onto the anti-christ and under his kingdom now his
kingdom is allowed to exist for 42 months so at the midpoint of this seven-year period the
anti-christ is going to stand up and say that he is god in the flesh and by making this
proclamation he's also going to demand the whole world take a mark in their hand or in the forehead
and to worship the beast otherwise they can't buy or sell this is where is that fifth seal and
that that horrible event that's happening this is kind of similar to hayman making a proclamation
that all the jews are going to be killed and you know essentially they have the wrong religion
and so they're all being targeted and he wants to slaughter them it's kind of the same picture
of the devil going after the remnant of the woman seed is hayman going after the christians
okay but what happens is when christ returns he pours out his wrath on the anti-christ defeats
the anti-christ and the anti-christ is destroyed by the sword which proceeded out of
the mouth of the lord that happens in revelation chapter 19 this is similar to how hayman
all of his plans end up getting foiled esther basically reveals the plan and talks about it
and then king ahasris declared declares that hayman should be hung and he's hung on the same
gallows he prepared for jesus so we have the destruction of hayman is similar to the destruction
of the anti-christ the anti-christ is destroyed at the end of this seven-year period
what happens at the end of the seven-year period christ is on the earth and rules for a
thousand years okay so as we start this chapter if you kind of think about this chronology where
we ended we ended with the destruction of hayman so what would we kind of be entering into
we'd be entering into a phase of the millennial reign of jesus christ which is what this chapter
is actually going to symbolize is going to symbolize who's in charge mortice mortice is
the one who's in charge mortice is kind of ruling and they're giving their decrees but we're
not really done with the book of esther and we're also not done with the timeline of the
end times and as we get into chapters nine and ten we'll kind of finish and conclude even further
events but we've kind of seen this like perfect seamless end times chronology and that's going to
constantly follow the the chapter tonight isn't going to necessarily just be a lot about the
millennial reign but i just wanted to quickly kind of drag you through that i preached the whole
sermon where it's kind of just the overview it's called the book of esther explained i don't
know if it's out there still or not we'll try to get out there again eventually but if you can find
it that's kind of more just end times focus and just a high overview of the book of esther
tonight we're going to kind of dig in and kind of explore some more truths that come from
the book of esther if you didn't understand anything i said well there's also you go to our
website and there's an end times page and i i'm not sure if those links are broken either come
see me at this earth but if you can watch those two sermons they talk about the end times
and have a whole chart on there that kind of has all the different events and all the
different verses in the bible and it kind of helps you think about these things as you find
them in scripture so if you look here in verse number one it says on that day did king of
azureus give the house of haman the jews enemy unto esther the queen and mortichai came
before the king esther had told what he was under so what day it's the same day that mortichai was
slain so mortichai is hung on the gallows on that same day esther and mortichai basically
come into power and esther inherits haman's house now what is this picture well again
because we're saved we get to inherit with the lord jesus christ and even though right now
the world might be owned by george soros and bill gates and all these wicked jews that exist
in the world today whenever christ returns all of that's going to be turned back over to us
and then we get we get all of it we get to inherit it's now our house to inherit we have
all those possessions and they're burning in hell for all of eternity so it's like the tables get
completely flipped and completely turned and now esther has all of these possessions esther gets
all of this great inheritance and it makes us think of a lot of verses in the bible that talk
about our inheritance keep your finger go to matthew chapter number five go to matthew
chapter number five and in fact in esther it said and the king took off his ring which he
had taken from haman and gave it to mortichai and esther set mortichai over the house of haman
so it's given to esther but then esther kind of gives it to jesus or gives it to mortichai
in our symbol right that kind of makes me think of in the book of revelation it talks about
the 24 elders how they're crowned but then they like throw their crowns before the lord
because it's kind of like whatever inheritance or glory we get is so overshadowed by
christ his glory and what he's done that we don't really want that honor we want to just give it
unto jesus and bestow it on him so even though esther kind of gets this this semblance of the
house he's giving it to mortichai and mortichai is the one who's really the ruler and and
getting this kind of inheritance so again while we're going to inherit it's really christ that's
inheriting this and we're just getting to ride his coattails you know we're getting to
inherit because he's inheriting look at matthew five verse five this is what jesus said
blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth so notice you know and this is a verse that
joe's witnesses love obviously in the grand scheme of things we're not going to spend eternity in
heaven we're going to spend it on the earth and so of course there is a lot of truth to
some lies out there you know the joe's witnesses i don't want to go to heaven the meek will
inherit the earth and it's like yeah but here's the problem if you die right now you're you don't
have the option of earth your options are heaven or hell so it's like i pick heaven you know
eventually yeah i'm going to come back with christ to the earth and we're going to inherit
the earth and we're going to have possessions of the earth and we're going to live in the
new heaven a new earth for all of eternity that sounds great sure but you know what right
now if i died i want to go to heaven okay the only people that are staying with the earth
are staying in the center it's called hell you know i don't want to inherit that part of the earth
okay we want to inherit the top part you know the crust okay not what's going on in the center
so of course the bible is true when it says blessed are the meek you know meek meekness
is kind of being unassuming humble of a low opinion not going around and triumphing yourself
or acting like you're of great importance that's what the wicked do that's what the unsaved
you they're constantly they're naming all these streets after themselves and all these buildings
after themselves and their countries after themselves and you know they're not very meek
but guess what those of us in this church very meek uh you know worth and meek value and meek
pride and everything like that you know we are going to be the ones that actually inherit all
that we're going to be the ones that actually get all of that and so the meek are truly going
to inherit all of these great possessions to be had in the future go back to psalms
it's a little bit ahead of esther and we're going to see some other verses that kind of talk
about this but we got to realize the inevitability of the future and how we will
eventually inherit now our inheritance while it's guaranteed in christ that inheritance is not
necessarily equitable in the sense that we're not all going to inherit the exact same you know
that's why it's important to work that's why it's important to serve god because your
inheritance is going to be manifested through your works in the sense of what however you
spent this life is going to be observed for all of eternity and what inheritance you're going
to receive later so it's like oh why serve christ or why go to church what i want a good
inheritance you know i want to have the maximum of my inheritance the maximum glory that i can get
why not also there's a lot of reasons to serve christ there's a lot of reasons to preach the
gospel you know of course you don't want unsaved people to go to hell that's that's probably the
best motivation number two though just be pleasing to god's sight but hey god adds on top
of that just a reward system you know why not want rewards for yourself why not try to earn some
kind of inheritance or something that you can have now in psalm 37 if you look at verse number
10 the bible says for yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently
consider his place and it shall not be but the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace you know what i like about verse 10 it says yea thou shalt
diligently consider his place and it shall not be it's like we're gonna go and try to find
hollywood hills and we won't be able to find it it just won't even be there you know just
one is like didn't somebody you know didn't like somebody own this it wasn't this like
really famous it's like i don't know it's not here anymore you know gone the wicked are just
gone the wicked the memory of them shall rot as the bible describes and something that rot means
it's gonna fade and crumble to the point where you can't even remember it doesn't even matter and
we've observed this today we observe this today in the sense that you know 200 years ago
everyone owned something everything that's owned today was owned by someone else
no one today is 200 years old so that means if we go back fast forward 200 years ago
everything every piece of property every square inch of this earth was owned by someone else
and frankly speaking none of us even care about who the previous owner was
you know if you own a home most likely you're not the person that built it
who in here built their own home and lives in it today okay how much do you care about who
owned it in the past or who owned it before them i mean sometimes you look at a house and it's
like you're the sixth owner or you could be the seventh owner right or maybe you're renting
and frankly speaking do you even care about the previous owner than the current owner like
you don't even know you don't even care if it wasn't for tax records none of us would know
none of us would care whatsoever and of course if we go back even just a few hundred years
it was probably some indian that owned it you know or really it was an indians donkey or something
that just sat and squatted on it i mean if you look at pictures of dallas or houston or
any of these places a couple hundred years ago nothing all dirt it's all just trees and cactus
and whatever i mean it's just a nothing it's like who owned this probably no one it was
just like it was just land right i mean they were giving away land like nothing back in
1800s in the state of texas because they just someone just came here like i'm going to sell you
this it's like nobody even knows who owned it okay go back 500 years who owned texas
texas wasn't even a thing we have the imaginary lines now called texas
and praise god for it okay i'm not just i'm not mad at the lines but i'm just telling you
let's go back 500 years and and try to find texas you wouldn't even know what you were looking
at you'd be like looks the same as new mexico over here and it looks the same as oh louisiana
over here and it looks the same as oklahoma i mean go find all these borders and all these
different edges and where all these landmarks are go try to find your specific property
500 years ago thousand years ago two thousand years ago five thousand years ago i mean it's just
radically changing all of the time but here's a consistent theme the memory of the wicked is
rotten it's gotten to the point where we don't care no one knows who owned it no one it doesn't
matter what's up it doesn't matter how many pharaohs owned egypt now it's owned by muslims
you know it doesn't matter who what catholic monarch owned what in europe because basically
now it's all owned by jews you know it doesn't really matter what happened in times past because
it doesn't matter the mongolian empire because now it's all other different groups of people
and i mean it just isn't ever evolving ever changing ownership structure but what one thing's
just inevitable all of it's just going to rot all the memory of it all of the thought of it
it just doesn't matter whatsoever the only inheritance that matters is the one that's
going to come with christ and it's going to be a permanent inheritance that memory is not going
to rock that real estate is going to be locked in settled you know it's not a time share okay
it's permanent i mean this is your inheritance this is something that you're going to get
for permanency and and i love the fact that the bible is telling us you know all of this stuff
that we think about today we're not even gonna find it and we're gonna get it and we're gonna
light ourselves in the abundance of peace man we're gonna just love peace and you gotta think
about this as awful as our world is it just is gonna help us appreciate peace so much more
right aren't you i mean you're gonna you're gonna just we just love no taxes we're gonna love no
inflation we're just gonna love peace we're gonna love all of the things that we get to have why
because of how horrible this is you know how bad and evil and wicked our society is
is gonna allow us to appreciate heaven and the new earth and all of these different things so
much more look at verse number 23 skip down the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord
and delighted in his way though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the
lord upholdeth him with his hand i have been young and now i'm old yet have i not seen the
righteous forsaken nor a seed begging bread he is ever merciful and linda and his seed is
blessed depart from evil and do good and dwell forevermore for the lord loveth judgment
and forsaketh not as saints they are preserved forever but the seed of the wicked shall be cut
off the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever the mouth of the righteous
speak his wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment so notice verse 29 sounds very similar
to verse 11 and it's the same concept that we're getting in matthew five five what
the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever you know hayman had his house
but then he got killed and now it's whose esther's forever and obviously the
symbolistic picture of the millennial reign of our inheritance and everything else like that
go if you would back to esther chapter number eight go back to esther chapter number eight so
you know obviously today we don't inherit everything today we have to walk by faith
you have to realize someday your fate is going to be realized and of course you're
going to only be rewarded for those things that you did in faith so it's not like oh well now
oh today's the inheritance day well i want to go and work a little bit more
or you know hey oh now i realize that all of my works actually have some kind of a
intrinsic value i want to go ahead and work a little bit harder or do some more
uh can i get a do-over card but you never get that you never get a do-over in fact
every day that you've already lived is already just done already settled so you can only at this
point earn rewards now like you only have the future left and and sometimes we might look at
the future as being bleak i mean let's be honest if you're a patriot if you're american
if you love the constitution your future looks bleak i mean the constitution is gone that thing's
an artifact the the government's not abiding by that whatsoever and whatever hope you had
in that document which clearly said that you're actually supposed to fight against domestic
terrorists no one's doing that no one cares about the domestic terrorists in our country okay
you know that script's been completely flipped and now they're calling people that actually
love the constitution domestic terrorists okay so that's all done and you know frankly
frankly speaking inflation's crushing you every single day we're looking more and more like we
might go into some kind of a depression best case scenario probably worst case scenario a communist
dictator tyrant you know type world that we have to live in you're like man this sounds bad you know
what type of you know environment are you trying to shape for us pastor shelly you know crimes
escalating debauchery and filth escalating we haven't even really suffered the consequences of
all our tranny nonsense like all the tranny stuff's happening we haven't really suffered
all the consequences of that invading our culture quite yet it's just starting but the
consequences are coming down the pike later you know if you start pumping this into the public
schools you start teaching all the kids you start doing all these surgeries you know we
haven't really experienced the fallout of all that where you're going to end up having this
generation of people that have been mutilated so they can't reproduce and they don't even
believe this ideology anymore and now they're just angry and imagine what happens when you have
thousands and thousands of people that have nothing to live for have mutilated themselves and
are angry sounds like dangerous people you know we haven't even we we don't even know what
that's like you know all of these fiscal policies of our current government are just
costing us so much money it's kind of like if you have ten dollars in the bank
and you went and you wrote like five million dollars worth of checks today
it's like today you're not suffering tomorrow's okay but eventually the bank is going to call
you and say like hey what's up with all these checks you wrote you know eventually you're gonna
have to pay the piper eventually you're gonna have to suffer the consequences and you know
america the last two years has been writing all kinds of checks it can't cash
it's been doing all kinds of crazy nonsense that we're gonna have to suffer the reality of
you know even this defund the police movement they can't really do that entirely but they've
been effectively doing this by just all their negative policies they're making it to where all
the good cops have just been constantly quitting and retiring and nobody wants to work in the
police force and the only people that do come in are typically people that are never going
to actually enforce the law you know they're hiring lots of women and they're hiring lots of
people that are just like morally just bankrupt to the point where the police force is going
to turn into a joke it's going to turn into just clown world where you know we don't have
any police officers that want to enforce any real laws and the only laws they enforce are
just going to be political opposition type threats and it's and again you say how is that
happening who wants to become a cop today no one no one wants to become a cop and we don't
even really have that great of a of a roster as it were of the youth to even pick from
let alone if we actually had a good department with good policies and we're pumping money into
the program but i mean the people that they're putting on the police force today is just a joke
and i hear about all the time and from friends failures i mean police chiefs are retiring police
chiefs are getting fired people are you know da's are quitting all kinds of people are just
leaving the force meaning what more crime the punishment for criminals is constantly getting
worse and worse in the sense that delayed justice takes so much long takes so long to get to the
courts the courts aren't even wanting to house these people so they're constantly letting them
out on on bail or parole when they shouldn't be you know less and less what does that
can happen it's just more crime just big more crime more issues more problems we we haven't
even seen what can really happen to our society i mean with the moral corruption that's happening
at such an escalation rate that's unimaginable i believe that we could become the kainanites i mean
the kainanites if you actually read what they're doing they're in all kinds of incestual
relationships they're beastophiles they're i mean we we kind of think like pedophilia is on
the cusp or on the rise but really it's like these other things are going to be constantly
drug through why because they keep escalating and getting something weirder so that you accept
the previous weird thing it's like homosexuality was bad but then trannies is just so much worse
that everybody's just almost just accepted homosexuality just to try and get rid of the
training problem but then they'll bring in the pedophiles and then trannies will just not seem
that bad anymore because pedophilia is just so much worse and then they'll start bringing in
the animals and you'll be like that'll seem so much worse to try and normalize pedophilia
and then it'll just be like just open which you know worshiping of satan
incest just things you can't even imagine today and you say well i don't know if that's true
basically okay go back to the 50s and try to explain to somebody what america 2022 is like
try to explain to them that they're going to have a magazine cover
with a dude in a dress saying he got the woman of the year award
try to explain you really expect me to the people in the 50s would be like i thought we
were flying cars and stuff no no no we got dudes in dresses walking around okay now i'm trying to
be negative because it's real but let me tell you something who cares because every single day
from from now until christ comes is an opportunity for get rewards in heaven
none of the other stuff really matters it doesn't matter how bad it gets because that
wouldn't affect me anyways it's all going to get cleaned up later anyways right it's kind
of like you're at a party and it's not your house you're not gonna clean up you know you're
gonna leave okay so you might as well just enjoy the party while you're there you know
and worry about the eternal rewards right i'm just i'm just a passing through this isn't my
home okay if you guys want to trash it if the world wants to trash it that's your problem
but as for me my house will serve the lord and i have another day to earn rewards because
i guarantee if you go all the way to the judgment seat you say i don't care how bad
the world is can i please go back and get some more rewards can i please go back another 10
i'll go through that horrible 10 years just so i can get more rewards you wouldn't
look at it as such a burden whereas today we look at the future as such a burden like oh
man it just looks so bleak and there's so many problems and it's just getting worse and blah blah
yeah but if you looked at it from like every single day is another opportunity
for me to get a little bit bigger inheritance who cares about the rest of this stuff who cares
about how many problems we're gonna have who cares about how bleak the future is for everybody
else i mean didn't esther and mortice have a pretty bleak future when hayman said hey we're
killing all of you on this day i mean that wasn't a really cool future that's pretty similar
to how it is with the anti-crisis saying hey get a mark or you're gonna be killed it's
like oh wow impending doom but then all of a sudden rescue deliverance comes out of nowhere right
so the same is with us and we don't want to have this attitude of just constantly looking
at the future is so bleak and negative and bad i mean yeah all that stuff's true
but you know what tomorrow is a day for me to get more awards in heaven
tomorrow is a day for my inheritance to get a little bigger tomorrow is for me to you know
enlarge my border to put up a bigger fence to add a second garage you know instead of
viewing a two-car garage i'm getting a three-car garage in heaven you know what i mean hey whatever
it is i'm just i'm gonna get a bigger well a bigger bathroom a bigger whatever it is you know
we're gonna put in a swimming pool you know tomorrow i'm putting in a swimming pool
spiritually you know why don't you look at tomorrow like that as opposed to thinking like
well they're gonna foreclose my swimming pool here well who cares you know i mean it doesn't
it really in the scope of eternity doesn't matter at all you know it's just carnal things that
you look at today and it doesn't really matter because we have opportunity to serve god now
now this concept is also kind of a struggle for esther look at verse number three
it says and esther spake yet again before the king and fell down on his feet and beset him with
tears to put away the mischief of haman the agagite and his device that he had devised against
the jews then the king held out the golden separate toward esther so esther arose and stood before the
king and said if it pleased the king and if i found favor in his sight and the thing seemed
right before the king and i'd be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters
devised by him and the son of hamadatha the agagite which he wrote to destroy the jews which
are in all the king's provinces how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my
people or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred so esther is like i don't want to
go through anything tough i don't want to go through any of this evil i don't want to go
through any of these problems but here's the problem king hasher has already written this
decree and according to their philosophy nothing that the king writes can ever be reversed
now there's a lot of spiritual significance of this in the sense that god's word is the same
way whatever god has decreed whatever the bible says is going to happen is going to happen and
you see a lot of people struggle with this throughout scripture you have a lot of people
not like what is written in scripture and not want to have to go through what god has
decreed but there's no alternative go to the ecclesiastes i want to show you verse here
no matter what god has said it's going to happen it doesn't matter if you like it love it want it
to happen don't want it to happen it's going to happen and that's something you have to just
accept whatever god has said is going to happen ecclesiastes chapter three look at verse 14 i know
that whatsoever god doeth it shall be forever nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from
it and god doeth it that men should fear before him you know what we should realize is that we
should fear whatever the bible says whether we like it love it doesn't matter we're not
going to change it it is going to happen and so we have to just accept reality we have
to accept truth in our lives just like you say well you know what i don't want to have
to go through the end times or i don't want to have to die right i think everybody could say
like even as a child you could say like i just don't want to die but here's a problem
you will die there's not an escape it's not like a there's not a button you can press it's like
never die now you can never die spiritually but you will die physically of course doesn't the
whole world they strive for this they hang on to life and and they have value it is so
precious and they're in search of eternal life and they're in search of prolonging their
existence and finding ways to go beyond this physical reality but the reality is you will
die you have to face that fact you have to face that just clear and concise decision that
god has already decreed that it's appointed unto man wants to die and afterward the judgment
you also can't escape judgment both of these things are going to happen go to matthew chapter
26 even christ in his life in his ministry had to face the reality that what god had decreed
was going to happen now for jesus what did god decree that he would be crucified
now everything in christ was saying i don't want to do that you know just as much as i don't want
to die is the same as jesus in his flesh didn't want to die and of course i don't even
know what my death will be christ already knew and knew he was going to have the most gruesome
death to ever be had i don't know that and i still don't want to die i can't imagine if god
came down and said hey here's what your death is going to be like buddy you're like is there
another op is where's plan b it's like what do i have to do to not open that door you know
it's like through door one this is your option you're like what's door two i'll take door two
oh no no there was only one only one door and you know christ is in the garden against
so many praying and yet it doesn't matter because whatever god has decreed is going to happen now
christ did understand this at the same time look at matthew 26 and look at verse 53 thinkest thou
that i cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions
of angels so you know peter and them they're like hey well we can escape this crucifixion
thing we'll fight and christ is trying to rebuke peter and saying you know what
i could ask and i can have as many angels i want right now to defeat these puny romans but
what is the answer but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be
so he's saying okay what if i fight and what if i bring the angels i could evade this forever
but then how would scripture be true they wouldn't right verse 55 in that same hour said
jesus to the multitudes or you come out as against a thief with swords and stays for to take
me i sat daily with you teaching in the temple and you laid no hold on me but all this was
done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled so notice that everything that christ
did was so that the scripture would be fulfilled and you say oh sounds like there was an option
there wasn't an option though it was going to happen and of course christ knew that and christ
was going to fulfill that and and really this is a a theme we find in scripture all over
go to john 19 i'm not going to go to all of them i had a lot more in my notes but we don't
have to necessarily belabor this point john chapter 19 look at verse 24
they said therefore among themselves let us not rend it but cast lots for it
whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled notice verse 28 after this jesus
knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled saith i
thirst look at verse 36 for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled
the bone of him shall not be broken flip over to acts one just a few pages acts one and look at
verse 16 men and brethren this scripture must needs have been fulfilled notice the necessity
of scripture being fulfilled whatever god has said will happen you say i don't like the
anti-christ doesn't matter it's going to happen i don't like the seven seals in revelation
it's going to happen i don't like the seven wrathful vials being poured out it's going to
happen in fact you will like some of them just i don't know if you think you don't like them but
when we're in heaven you'll be liking them okay you'll be all excited about it you're like
but i don't i don't like some of these things but here's the thing it doesn't matter
if you like it or not it's going to happen and so you just have to face reality and
realize these things are going to happen and then you have to deal in reality just like esther
i don't like that a letter has been written saying on this set day all of me my people can
be destroyed why would you like that of course you don't like that well let's reverse it it's
going to happen you know i don't like the living in in america 2022 can i go to the 1950s
no 1900s no 1990s no you're stuck in the present you don't get to have any of those
you're in this reality okay go back to esther chapter number eight so then what are you going
to do about it well why don't you just do the best that you can in your current reality
live in the present okay esther chapter number eight look at verse number seven
then the king azeris said unto esther the queen and the mordecai the jew behold i have
given esther the house of aman and him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his
hand upon the jews write you also for the jews as it liketh you in the king's name
and seal the king's ring for the writing which is written in the king's name and seal
the king's ring may no man reverse then where the king's scribes called at the time
in the third month that is the month savant on the three and 20th day thereof and it was
written according to all that mordecai commanded them the jews into the lieutenants and the
deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from india and etheopia and 120 and seven
provinces and every province according to the writing thereof and in every people after the
language and to the jews according to their writing and according to their language and he
wrote in the king a hazardous name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by
hosts on horseback and riders on mules camels and young dramedaries wherein the king granted
the jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life
to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people in the province
and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for
a prey upon one day in all the provinces of king a hazardous namely upon the 13th day of
the 12th month which is the month adar so he said well you know what you can't reverse it
what we can do is we can send out another letter that says on that same day that they're
coming to kill you you can defend yourselves and you can kill them and anybody that wants to
harm you you can slay them and take their money for a prey and so basically it's saying
you know what you're stuck in this reality but here's here's what you can do you can fight
you can fight back and you know what even though this world is getting wicked
by the more wicked by the second you know what we can still fight back we have the sword
of the spirit we have the word of god and we can go out there and we can do some damage
and we can slay the enemy and you know what the gates of hell shall not prevail against the
church as jesus christ said he said hey i'm with you always even at the end of the world
amen and so you know we don't just sit here like lame ducks and just let the enemy take it
to us no we fight back yeah there's casualties yeah there's bruises yeah there's wounds yeah
sometimes it hurts sometimes it's not fun going out in the battle you know what i don't want to
just lay down and let me and my whole family be devoured by the sword and be devoured by the
enemy devoured by the lion the the the devil our adversary as a roaring lion go with about seeking
whom he may devour you know i'm not going to sit here and just let that happen let this city
just go to hell in a hand basket that's why we go out soul winning that's why we reach
people for christ you know we're supposed to defend ourselves and we're supposed to have the
word of god being thundered forth through the whole world just like it is in this chapter
didn't you notice it's like the whole world gets to hear the bible and and there's some cool
things you know verse 9 is the longest verse in the bible but isn't it interesting also it's
describing how the word of god is going in all languages oh well the word of god is stuck in
hebrew no it's not notice what it says unto every people after their language i like that
hey even in the old testament the word of god was put into every language and was going out
and could be translated into other languages and you know what we have the king james bible
probably the best translation if you ask me of god's word obviously the most fruit obviously
the most well read book and love book of the world obviously it's had the greatest impact
of our modern era but you know what the word of god has always been going forth
in every language even when english didn't even exist the bible was going into every single
language the word of god was going there and you know the word of god has power no matter
what language it's in it's not it's not limited to a certain language i mean when you read the
king james bible you you feel the power of god you you feel the majesty of god's word
that's why i also don't like some of these other versions is not only do they make error
not only they take things out they just take and strip a lot of the majesty and a lot of
the power of god's word and just and make it sound like google translate or something
you know i was explaining to somebody how google translate sounds and it's just you know if it's
like this weird word for word thing it's just never going to sound good kind of like uh you
know in spanish you say my yamo one i mean i'm a one like my name is may is my yamo his name
and then if my name was john it'd be one or you know jonathan right but if you translated
that in english word for word it'd be my name jonathan you know but we don't talk like that
we say my my name is jonathan right so it's a little bit different but you know these some
of these bible versions that's what they sound like they sound like my name johnathan
i run fast i like cars you know it's just like what what kind of bible is this you know
that's not the word of god you know the king james bible actually they took the time
and they they wrote the scripture in a way that not only preserved the words of god not only are
accurate but have the majesty and the power and the the just what feels like is the word of
god you know coming off of the page and it's it's not something that can just easily be done
it's not some some cheap imitation you know these modern bible versions sound like trash
because they are trash you know you put in little effort and you get little results
not only i mean that's that's aside from all the critical text issues and everything else that
that is their problem as well but i'm just saying just even if you were to use the texas
receptors even if you were to try and use the same underlying greek and hebrew you know good
luck trying to make it sound better than this you can't i don't believe it's possible i don't
believe humans today already been as smart as they used to be okay the personal opinion all
right i believe the men of the past were were much more intelligent generally speaking
obviously there's exceptions to every role there's probably some men today they're very
intelligent which is generally speaking the scholars in this book are not like scholars
today you go and find me scholars that speak 15 languages fluently that doesn't exist today
go find me that person you know you and that's just one you know there's the scholars
of the king james bible many of them they knew several languages fluently let alone all
the other academic studies of that you know what they didn't have tiktok so they didn't spend any
time watching idiots dance to britney spears all day long they you know what they had they had
books books was their entertainment so they read and they read a lot and they had a lot of
understanding they had a lot of wisdom your common just average day man would be able to quote for
you tons and tons of scripture because they didn't have all these other inventions and
distractions of this world so they knew the bible very well i mean you look and just read
just secular studies secular sources people like lawyers or doctors people that actually wrote
they're constantly bringing up the bible and quoting verses and scripture i mean their
doctrine is better than your average day catholic and they're not even necessarily religious per se
some of them probably are but i'm just saying in general you know the average intelligence of
man back then is infinitely superior to what we see as the average today you know shakespeare
had 25 000 word vocabulary good luck meeting people today that have that kind of vocabulary
people couldn't even probably have half of that vocabulary on average you know sat scores are in
the are on the down down low i mean i talked to a police officer and he was telling me how
in years past when they would need new officers they would have a hundred applicants so they have
a hundred people come and they'd all have to take this test a written test then they have
to take a physical test then they have to do interviews and then they hand pick and select
the best the brightest right he said well recently we had 20 people show up and he said 19 of
them failed the written test so then we get past stage one and then and then they just the
one person that did they still were just like no and so they they were like okay new round new
batch the second batch like six people showed up and all of them passed or failed the written
test and now it's just like what do you what do you do so you know what they have to do
they have to lower the standard just like the marines just like the military just like the
government just like every single just like college you know getting into college used to be
something of value like getting into college is not granted you actually had to have good scores
you had to have good knowledge and information and even if you were the best in your school
if you still didn't meet the national standards of sat and the act or these different academic
fields of study they wouldn't just let you into college because they didn't want to devalue
the product of the college they didn't want all these bozos coming out of their college
being like i came from harvard you know i reckon that i came from harvard i got me a degree
hey man they've been like no don't tell anybody who came from harvard you know you sound like you
didn't even go to middle school and you're going to tell us you came mark but today they have
underwater basket weaving degrees that they give out gender study degrees at every single
university i mean the academic standard has been so lowered they care more about hey did
you see this you know by gender queer african-american half lesbian alien freak that graduated recently
and it's like what was their gpa it doesn't matter because they pass all the diversity
tests and it's like nobody cares about the diversity test anymore it's just it just it
bunkers the world that we live in it's bunkers that our society is just so upside down and
doesn't care about you know what is right what is good you know well i can't understand the bible
give me a cheap down version no no no no get smarter it's not like how dumb can we make the
bible it's like if you're dumb then learn something you know the king james bible is not
honestly that hard from an academic perspective there is much literature there is much learning
to be had that's at a higher level than the king james bible just from a word vocabulary
perspective obviously the wisdom of god surpasses all that of man but just being able to just
understand the words on the page you know we're not talking about rocket science here
we're not talking about brain surgery here i mean children children can understand the king
james bible and we need to realize that the word of god was meant to be given to everyone
god didn't put it on an academic level for only the elite the the bible can be understood by all
man woman boy child girl my children read the bible and of course not just for the hebrew
speaking world but the whole world you find this theme everywhere in scripture it's not esther
eight that the bible went everywhere daniel the bible went everywhere jeremiah the bible
went everywhere the new testament it went everywhere and you know what today the bible
is going everywhere because god cares about everyone of course you don't necessarily see
this as much in the early stages because frankly speaking everybody was at the same place
okay so you didn't have this need to necessarily go everywhere with the bible but as
man travels as man expands as there's more countries nations languages tons then there's
more need for the bible to constantly be spread so you see in the later chapters and later
portions of scripture this need for the bible to be translated other language other tongues obviously
before the tower babble you don't need multiple languages for the scripture right it's all locked
into the one language of course right so it's not the first you know several hundred years
or whatever that period of time is you know you don't need multiple languages of the scripture
today it could even be the opposite where we don't even need as many
we have it's more important to have one locked in because what's happening is we see this kind
of globalization thing happening where more and more people are speaking english you go to europe
and it's less german french spanish italian and it's more everybody's learning english
so what do you think is more important that we have a spanish german italian bible or that
we have an english bible that god can use to reach those people makes me think that god
understood what's going to happen in the end times and how the world's going to be framed
in the globalization to lock in probably the most important bible you know what if and it doesn't
matter per se but just think about this was there any guarantee or just we for sure english just
has to be the dominant language couldn't it have been spanish couldn't it have been french
couldn't it have been mandarin couldn't have been russian it could could have been henby
and in fact a lot of these languages have a lot of influence you know spanish has a lot of
speakers today henby has a lot of speakers today mandarin has a lot of speakers today french
in fact has had a lot of speakers in the past why is it though that the greatest bible
also just happens to be the language that seems to dominate the world too you know that's not a
coincidence it's because god wants the bible to go to everyone and god wants as many people
to have the word in their language and of course we we work on spanish bibles because there's
a lot of people that are never going to learn english because spanish is good enough for them
it's good enough for them to live it's good enough for them to buy food
have a life have community even have church so they kind of don't have a need to learn
english so they never will so it's good to make spanish bibles available and pass out that
whereas some of these other you know more obscure languages those people are going to be
forced to learn english so it's less of an emphasis on having a bible in their language
and more on having it in english i wouldn't even be surprised again i don't know how long
the world's going to last but if the world lasted for 50 more years europe may never even
speak anything other than english i mean if you think about it the youth and and once they kind of
get rolling with technology and everything else i mean the globalization it could be the entire
continent of england of of the english-speaking world is just you know of europe is just
english speaking that nobody even cares about these other foreign languages i would think some
places like in the asian continent maybe india and and china and stuff they would probably
always keep their their language because it's more part of their culture it's more important
to them but these european countries they're not going to care you can see it i could i
could believe that a lot of dead languages would would evolve and then you would get to
where there's mainly just like a handful of languages there's kind of just like i said
english spanish maybe french just because of the african uh existence of it some you know
arabic hindi mandarin maybe some russian but it could get to a point where there's just like
seven or eight languages you know most generally speaking and everybody kind of falls in one of
those dialects and then almost half of the world's speaking english in the next 20 30 40 years
so it sounds like to me that the bible being in english is a great great thing
that's to say again we live in an english-speaking world so it's important to have
english you know say well i don't like english learn it anyways you know esther's like i don't
learn english you know or well you know what i don't like the fact that 25 of the people out
here i can't give the gospel to they speak spanish we'll just learn spanish
well i don't like spanish we'll learn anyways you know what was my goal again to get as much
inheritance as possible you know and if i'm looking at a door and it says hey here's here's
your three-car garage you have to go to the door of learning spanish i'm gonna learn spanish
why not and frankly speaking if we go into the end times that might be where i have to flee
anyways so then i'll be one leg up on you guys all right you say oh i'm i'm hoping that
that doesn't happen well you know you don't get to pick what happens it's the end times
is going to happen frankly speaking so you better just get used to it and embrace the reality
of the future instead of hoping that the future doesn't happen well i know that there's going to be
a bunch of people that try to kill me on this day but i'm just going to go home and just hope
it doesn't happen i'm just going to hide under my bed and pretend like the law isn't what it is
no no you get out there with a sword and you fight you don't just lay down and just pretend
like the world isn't going to come after you it's going to look at verse 13 the copy of the
writing for a commandment to be given and every promise was published unto all people and that
the jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies you know we
need to be ready sounds like it makes me think of verses where it says they're supposed to be
ready to give an answer to every man that asketh thee right of the hope that is in thee verse 14
so the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out being hastened and pressed on by the
king's commandment decree was given at shushan the palace and mortichai went out from the
presence of the king and royal apparel blue and white and with a great crown of gold with
a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of shushan rejoiced and was glad the jews
had light and gladness and joy and honor and every province and every city where the
king's commandment and his decree came the jews had joy and gladness a feast and a good day and
many of the people of the land became jews for the fear of the jews fell upon them so
we kind of end the the chapter again with that picture of christ and and how he's going
to be ruling and reigning and he's he's decorated in this royal apparel and the same as with
christ christ is going to literally rule on this earth for a thousand years and he's going to be
decorated dressed upon with royal apparel and we're going to have a great day we're going to have
joy and feasting and as the bible describes light and you know what christ is going to
light up the whole world and we're going to have truth you know some parts of this world
are just frustrating because there's just lack of truth lack of judgment lack of integrity lack
of all these things but you know what when christ is in the world it's going to be a land of truth
you know it's so frustrating arguing with people that are brain dead you know it's so
frustrating arguing with liberals or just trying to explain logic like a man is a man
oh well you're just not intellectual pastor shelly because you didn't realize there's
a difference between gender and sex no there isn't you're an idiot
well but you don't have a you don't have a degree in biology have you not read these abstract thesises
to describe the neurological pathways and how they have a differentiation and electrons and
how they process and how gender is actually an abstract concept as a shelly no i do you're an
idiot you fool the fool has said in his heart there is no god you know it's going to be so
nice that i don't have to have these dumb conversations with pseudo intellectuals that
are trying to tell me there's a difference between gender and sex there isn't you idiot
you fool i don't have to describe that there's a god we're gonna be able to see him it's not
like oh where's this jesus you're talking about right here and you know what for that
blasphemy you're in trouble buddy you know we don't have to we don't have to deal in all
these just what if scenarios it's just going to be reality it's just going to be truth it's
just going to be like we're going to see you know what does light bring it brings sight
it brings just knowledge and evidence and reality you know dealing in and all of these
just lies i mean our society is full of lies so much deception so much corruption there's
so much just filth there's so much smut in this world you know to be just so beautiful so
much joy so much happiness we have we have the light you know what to get there you have to go
through today but we have to just face reality you know as a child you have to face the reality
that one day you're going to become an adult and as a child you could waste all of your youth
by just playing and not caring or as a child you could learn every day you could get skills
you could prepare yourself for being adult you could be spiritual you could read the bible
you could study the proverbs and then when you become a young man when you become a young woman
you're prepared to face the world as opposed to saying well i just don't want to grow up
i want to be peter pan and i want to just go to never never land and i just want to never
have to deal with reality i don't want to have to get a job i don't want to have to pay bills
i don't want to have to face any of the consequences of my actions you know what when you
become an adult which will happen because you age every day you have a birthday every year
you know you should just face the reality and say you know i'm going to be the best child
that i can child and youth are vanity you know why not just spend your youth training for
being an adult and of course you see many young adults suffering the consequences of their
youth and what i mean by that is that there's so many young people they turn 18 and they're
not ready to face anything and then i look at other individuals they're 18 and they're already
an adult basically they you know there's some young men at 18 they got a job they're ready to
move out from their parents house they're ready to get married they're already spiritual
they're already taking life serious they have a career path and then you look at other 18 year
olds and they're addicted to video games and one and they're lazy they have no character they
have no skills they have nothing going for them and you're just like what are you doing you
you will have to face the consequence of reaction you will have to face reality
you know as a young woman you could prepare yourself to be a wife and a mother you know
you could prepare yourself to be highly educated very skilled in the home uh loving the lord and
serving him and you know when young men are interested they're gonna be like wow i want that
one as opposed to the girl that's just a silly heart kind of foolish doesn't care about
anything doesn't have any real knowledge that has nothing interesting to say doesn't want to
teach each other i mean you could you could basically prepare or be unprepared for your life
situation but the reality is you will become an adult as a child and the same as with us
you know we will see christ we will go to heaven you know what kind of life do we want
to have to present to christ we want to have one where it's like well i played the whole time
well i just had fun on there or you want to be the one that i worked the whole time
and i was prepared for the day of christ i was prepared and i did all this labor and this
effort that i put into you know the millennial reign which is adult life because it's going to happen
give your self to the best future life it's similar to the fact that you know when you're
a child and dad's away but one day he's coming home one hour he's coming home and he gave you
all these chores he gave you all his tasks to do the reality is dad's coming home you know
there is going to be a day when he comes home so do you when he comes home do you want to
be like hey i got all the chores done everything you asked i got it all done or do you want to be
like you know i didn't really start on any of it yet i didn't really want to do any of it
you know that's the that's the foolish attitude that's kind of like the fullest virgins
in a sense even though that parable is a little bit different but in general speaking you know
we need to have the right attitude towards our life and realize you know there's going to
be a day when we inherit there will be a day when we have the judgment and we're going to
have a lot of joy but you know your joy is going to be is going to be compounded by the works and
the efforts that you put in and and we have to face the reality of the day we live in the day
yeah there's someone that wants to kill you yep there's someone that wants to destroy you
and your family yeah there's a lot of evil on the horizon yeah if you look at america it's
ugly brutal it's bad and i don't want to lie to you and pretend like oh nothing bad's
going to happen in the future you know no it's probably going to get harder and it's probably
get more impression more consequences the world's going to become more dangerous
but what should give us a counterbalance to that negativity is the fact that but i still have
another day to serve price i have another opportunity to earn more awards in heaven
i can add more to my spiritual inheritance and i can be pleasing to god and i'm never
in the perspective of eternity be disappointed with every day i was granted in this life
and arguably you know in the last minutes it's more important you know would you rather score
a three-pointer in the beginning of the game or the game-winning bucket you know no one ever
cares about the first bucket that was scored in a basketball game but they care about that that
those last few minutes right right leading up and i mean it's the game's tied and then
you just shoot the game buzzer buzzing beating winner you know it's just like oh everybody's like
celebrating you and what you did and it's like look christianity moses and then they were in the
first quarter david was in the second quarter you know peter and john and all them they were
in the third quarter we're in the fourth quarter you know and you put your best people in the
game in the fourth quarter you know whoever is the starter whoever's the most important who's
the who's the clutch who's the greatest you put them in the end of the game to win the
game and you know what we should look at it like that well i wasn't in the time of moses okay
yeah but you know we're in the fourth quarter we're in when it matters we're in when it really
counts and you know what we have a great cloud of witnesses looking down and cheering us on
and you know what god's already made the decree god's already said what's going to happen
we better just play the game better get in there and fight and block their shots and dunk it
on their head and you know we got a buzzer beater to shoot and we're going to score and we're
not going to just lay down we're going to take it to them let's close in prayer thank you
heavenly father for this the scripture and and thank you for giving us some reality and
some truth to base our life on we understand that whatever you decree in scripture it's going
to happen i pray that we would not be discouraged by the future but rather we'd look at as an
opportunity to serve you an opportunity to fight for what's important that you give us
zeal you give us strength you give us boldness and courage to face the foe for that day and
that we would realize that ultimately we just have an opportunity to earn more awards be
pleasing your side and pull pull more people out of the fire that what we have in this life
actually matters and the carnal things really don't they're going to be burned up they're
going to be lost that they have no eternal value and i pray that we would get our hearts
on those the things that are of eternal value and not temporal in jesus name we pray amen
amen for a final song
321
where he leads i'll follow
the song 321
321 sing all together on the first
sweet all the promises kind is the word dearer far than any message man ever heard
here was the mind of christ endless i see he the great example isn't pattern for me
where he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day
sweet is the tender love jesus has shown sweeter for than any love that morals ever
know tied to the airing one faithful is he he the great example isn't pattern for me
where he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day
list to his loving words come unto me weary heavy laden there is sweet rest for thee
trust in his promises faithful and sure lean upon the savior and thy soul is secure where
he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day
amen thank you all for coming god bless you are dismissed