WEBVTT 38:59.000 --> 39:00.900 Welcome to Scher Foundation Baptist Church. 39:00.900 --> 39:02.760 If you guys wanna go ahead and take your hymnals, 39:02.760 --> 39:06.240 we're gonna turn to page number 343. 39:07.500 --> 39:11.220 Page number 343. 39:11.220 --> 39:12.520 Revive us again. 39:18.800 --> 39:21.640 That's page number 343. 41:03.500 --> 41:06.300 seeing everybody but apology please open us up on the word affair. 41:12.800 --> 41:16.960 Amen. All right, if you want to take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 30. 41:20.400 --> 41:24.320 page number 30 nothing but the blood 43:05.200 --> 43:06.500 Nothing but the blood 43:43.000 --> 43:44.400 everybody at this time we'll have our 43:48.400 --> 43:51.300 Alright, good morning everybody. Welcome to Shared Foundation Baptist Church. 43:51.300 --> 43:56.300 Our verse of the week this week is Matthew 22, 37, where the Bible says, 43:56.300 --> 43:59.500 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 43:59.500 --> 44:05.600 with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. That's Matthew 22, verse number 37. 44:05.600 --> 44:09.700 We are here at our Sunday morning service. This morning I'm going to be preaching 44:09.700 --> 44:14.700 another addition to my Essentials series. There's only basically two left, 44:14.700 --> 44:16.400 I think that you'd be in the ballpark of guesses. 44:16.400 --> 44:21.400 So if you want to make your guesses, make your bets, make them now. 44:21.400 --> 44:26.400 But then tonight I'm going to be preaching on John 4 from my verse by verse Bible study on that. 44:26.400 --> 44:30.400 That'll be part, probably one of that with how it looked, how things were going. 44:30.400 --> 44:35.400 And then Wednesday we'll be preaching 1 Corinthians 15. That's going to be part number five. 44:36.500 --> 44:42.100 I think we only have a few, that's not the last part, but it's got to be like the second to last 44:42.100 --> 44:48.900 part I would imagine with that chapter, which is surprising even to me. But we had a great day 44:48.900 --> 44:52.900 of soul winning yesterday. Brother Ryan wanted to do the park soul winning and I was like, let's do it. 44:54.500 --> 44:59.620 There was a lot of people from out of town that we were talking to, I think just because Gonzaga 44:59.620 --> 45:04.980 is starting up this week or next week. So there's like tons of people in Gonzaga hats, Gonzaga shirts 45:04.980 --> 45:08.500 and stuff like that. We don't know if it made it more or less receptive, but there was just a lot 45:08.500 --> 45:13.780 of people to talk to. But yeah, we got five people. We thought we only had three and then 45:13.780 --> 45:17.780 Ms. Victoria was like, I'm not done. She was like, give me two more. So praise God for that. 45:18.200 --> 45:23.840 But so we're at 115 now for 2026, so praise God for that. 45:23.840 --> 45:28.360 As far as our upcoming events on our soul, as far as the soul winning challenge, the 45:28.360 --> 45:31.560 soul awareness challenge, which I should say, that's coming to an end here. 45:31.560 --> 45:35.040 So if you haven't got out all your invites yet, make sure you do. 45:35.040 --> 45:38.320 And as far as the memory challenge, you can see I adjusted the dates there. 45:38.320 --> 45:40.480 So we have until October 1st to finish. 45:40.480 --> 45:45.560 So you have basically two months that you would have had to do all of Galatians chapter 45:45.560 --> 45:46.200 one. 45:46.200 --> 45:53.060 one eight right now so I'm making slow but steady progress on that myself as 45:53.060 --> 45:57.360 far as the homeschool day goes that's gonna be on a Tuesday right October 45:57.360 --> 46:02.120 13th as they usually are just make sure you RSVP with my wife if you plan on 46:02.120 --> 46:06.880 going to that with your kids and then church picture day will be sometime in 46:06.880 --> 46:09.960 October so I guess it's just like the rapture we don't know the day or the 46:09.960 --> 46:14.200 hour but we know it's coming after October right it's a beautiful 46:14.200 --> 46:21.480 picture okay good job but yeah make sure make sure you're ready for that okay get 46:21.480 --> 46:22.800 the haircuts now 46:23.400 --> 46:25.400 if you still can. 46:25.400 --> 46:27.400 And yeah, start playing out for that. 46:27.400 --> 46:31.400 But our memory verse for the kids this week as well is Matthew 5, 14, 46:31.400 --> 46:33.400 which says, ye are the light of the world, 46:33.400 --> 46:37.400 a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 46:37.400 --> 46:39.400 And then as far as the different things, 46:39.400 --> 46:43.400 I'm pretty sure you guys are well informed about the church rules, 46:43.400 --> 46:45.400 birthdays and anniversaries. 46:45.400 --> 46:47.400 It's James Hawk's birthday. 46:47.400 --> 46:51.400 I guess it was technically last week, but we'll sing to him tonight. 46:51.400 --> 46:56.600 if my brother Kyle and him make it. And then my wife and I's anniversary is coming up here pretty soon. 46:57.400 --> 47:02.040 Be eight years together. I'm lucky because we got married when I was 20 so I always can just go to 47:02.040 --> 47:07.080 my age and be like, okay, eight years. I'm confident in that fact. So, or else I would be buried. Okay. 47:09.240 --> 47:12.200 But yeah, I think that's pretty much everything. So we'll just go into our 47:12.200 --> 47:14.760 prayer requests and then we'll sing our song. Let's pray. Do it for the God. Thank you. 49:40.400 --> 49:42.400 150. 49:44.900 --> 49:50.100 That's Psalm number 150. 49:50.100 --> 49:52.900 Praise ye the Lord. 49:52.900 --> 49:54.900 Your Psalm books or your Bibles 49:54.900 --> 49:57.300 to Psalm number 150. 50:02.600 --> 50:04.200 We'll sing it out on the first. 50:09.000 --> 50:23.400 Praise ye the Lord, praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in the firmament of his power, 50:23.400 --> 50:35.800 praise him for his mighty acts, praise him according to his excellent greatness, praise him. 50:37.700 --> 50:44.500 Sound of the trumpet, praise him with a 50:44.500 --> 50:46.200 Saltery 50:49.200 --> 50:50.520 with the timbrel and 50:53.100 --> 50:58.480 Stringed instruments and organs 50:58.480 --> 50:59.200 Pray 51:01.700 --> 51:08.300 The loud cymbals praise him upon 51:08.300 --> 51:15.600 The high sounding cymbals let everything that hath breath praise him 51:18.200 --> 51:18.900 brain 51:23.000 --> 51:30.000 that. Excellent thing, everybody. Please pay for the offer. Thank you so much for this 51:30.000 --> 51:33.000 wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. Thank you so much for 51:33.000 --> 51:36.000 everything you bless us with, God, both spiritually and financially, God. It was just time that 51:36.000 --> 51:40.000 we're born into on this earth. God, just pray that you help us because we have so many advantages, 51:40.000 --> 51:43.000 God, and because we have so many blessings to use these things to serve you better, God, 51:43.000 --> 51:48.000 and I just pray that you help us to not get distracted with the pleasure of this world. 51:48.000 --> 51:51.000 I just pray that we'd set our affections on the kingdom of heaven. 51:51.000 --> 51:52.000 Great. 52:37.900 --> 52:38.900 Good morning, everybody. 52:38.900 --> 52:41.260 Welcome to the Shur Foundation Baptist Church. 52:41.260 --> 52:45.940 If you could go ahead and open your Bibles with me this morning and turn to Hebrews chapter 52:45.940 --> 52:49.220 10. 52:49.220 --> 52:52.380 Hebrews chapter 10 is our text this morning. 52:52.380 --> 52:57.860 And as always, here at our church, we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 52:57.860 --> 53:02.860 Hebrews chapter 10, beginning in verse one, the Bible reads. 53:03.100 --> 53:09.260 For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, 53:09.260 --> 53:15.980 can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto 53:15.980 --> 53:23.020 perfect. For then would they have not ceased to be offered, because that the worshippers once purged 53:23.020 --> 53:29.420 should have no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made 53:29.420 --> 53:31.100 of sins every year. 53:31.100 --> 53:36.300 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 53:37.180 --> 53:43.100 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, 53:43.100 --> 53:49.740 but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had 53:49.740 --> 53:56.940 no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, 53:56.940 --> 53:57.780 Hello God. 53:58.000 --> 54:04.560 Above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not 54:04.880 --> 54:08.940 Neither had pleasure therein which are offered by the law 54:09.400 --> 54:12.640 Then said he lo I come to do thy will oh God 54:12.920 --> 54:18.960 He take it the way the first that he may establish the second by the which will we are 54:19.160 --> 54:23.740 Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all 54:24.200 --> 54:30.680 and every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices 54:30.680 --> 54:38.120 which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, 54:38.760 --> 54:45.560 sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool, 54:46.120 --> 54:50.600 for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. 54:51.200 --> 54:57.040 whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that He had said before, 54:57.600 --> 55:02.240 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, sayeth the Lord. 55:02.240 --> 55:06.880 I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, 55:06.880 --> 55:10.400 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 55:11.120 --> 55:15.360 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 55:15.900 --> 55:43.900 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, and having in high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 55:43.900 --> 55:49.280 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that 55:49.280 --> 55:50.420 promised. 55:50.420 --> 55:56.040 And let us consider one another to provoke unto loving to good works, not forsaking the 55:56.040 --> 56:02.040 assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. 56:02.040 --> 56:05.420 And so much the more as ye see the day approaching. 56:05.420 --> 56:07.580 Or if we sin willfully after... 56:08.400 --> 56:14.000 that we have received the knowledge of the truth, that remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 56:14.000 --> 56:22.800 but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery ignigdation which shall devour the adversaries. 56:23.100 --> 56:29.020 He that despised Moses's law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. 56:29.020 --> 56:36.300 Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot 56:36.300 --> 56:41.660 the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, 56:41.660 --> 56:46.460 and unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace. 56:47.000 --> 56:53.560 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me. I will recompense, saith the Lord, 56:53.560 --> 57:01.240 and again the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 57:01.500 --> 57:19.500 But call to remembrance the former days in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions, partly whilst ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 57:19.500 --> 57:26.180 For ye had compassion of me and my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, 57:26.180 --> 57:29.500 knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better life. 57:29.500 --> 57:32.300 and an enduring substance. 57:32.300 --> 57:34.940 Cast not away therefore your confidence, 57:34.940 --> 57:36.780 which he had great recommend, 57:36.780 --> 57:39.420 which hath great recompense of reward. 57:39.900 --> 57:47.500 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise. 57:47.500 --> 57:53.180 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 57:53.180 --> 58:00.220 Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 58:00.400 --> 58:08.080 but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 58:08.080 --> 58:10.880 Brother Jason, could you please pray for the preaching? 58:20.800 --> 58:26.580 Amen. We're here in Hebrews chapter number 10 and we're going to look in at verse number 25 where the Bible says 58:26.800 --> 58:33.000 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as 58:33.200 --> 58:38.680 You see the day approaching. The title of my sermon this morning is essentials go to church. Let's pray. 58:38.920 --> 58:42.480 Give it to God. Thank you so much. It's a wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us God 58:42.480 --> 58:47.080 Thank you again for where they came to church this morning God and thank you that people take time out of their weekend to hear your 58:47.080 --> 58:48.800 word preached and that there's people 58:48.800 --> 58:54.360 that care about your will and that care about your word and that desire to hear the things 58:54.360 --> 58:55.360 that are in the Bible. 58:55.360 --> 58:58.760 I just pray that you'd help me right now for those reasons to be filled with your Holy 58:58.760 --> 58:59.760 Spirit. 58:59.760 --> 59:01.240 I just pray that you'd help me to have a clear train of thought as I preach. 59:01.240 --> 59:05.080 I just pray that you would help me to say what you want me to say boldly and keep me 59:05.080 --> 59:07.600 from saying what you would not like me to say. 59:07.600 --> 59:10.200 And I just pray that you'd help me to edify the people in this room. 59:10.200 --> 59:11.200 In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. 59:11.200 --> 59:14.680 Today I'm at the sermon, like I said again, is Essentials Go to Church. 59:14.680 --> 59:16.800 here in Hebrews chapter number 10. 59:16.800 --> 59:23.800 And this morning we're going to be preaching on the last sermon in my Essential Series. 59:23.800 --> 59:26.420 And as I told you, the title of it was Go to Church. 59:26.420 --> 59:29.240 And this series that we've been doing hasn't really been a weekly series. 59:29.240 --> 59:34.260 It's been more of like me working it in occasionally on Sunday mornings. 59:34.260 --> 59:38.240 Some people really like to do the sermons, like the, what do I say, the themed kind of 59:38.240 --> 59:40.800 sermons or like a series on Sunday morning. 59:40.800 --> 59:41.800 It's not really my style. 59:41.800 --> 59:44.760 I like the Bible study as far as the series. 59:44.800 --> 59:50.280 But on Sunday morning, I like to have the liberty to preach on whatever I want my freedom in Christ to preach it 59:50.280 --> 59:53.600 Okay, but um, so we're gonna be continuing this though 59:53.600 --> 59:58.520 And this is gonna be my second to last sermon in this series and so that saves the big one for last 59:58.900 --> 01:00:01.780 Which will come eventually but before I get in this sermon 01:00:01.780 --> 01:00:07.640 I want to remind you of the reason behind this series in the first place and the whole point of this series is to highlight 01:00:07.640 --> 01:00:12.320 Things to you that I believe are essential to you as a Christian essential for growth 01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:17.500 essential for maturing as a Christian and essential for you finishing this Christian 01:00:17.500 --> 01:00:21.820 life in faith and with the... 01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:24.960 doing your best for God is what I'd say, okay? 01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:27.320 And so far the essentials have been this. 01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:29.800 The number one, we talked about having the fear of God. 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:31.720 And of course the fear of God has to be an essential 01:00:31.720 --> 01:00:33.760 because he says in Ecclesiastes, 01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:35.160 that you know, this is the conclusion of the matter, 01:00:35.160 --> 01:00:36.640 fear God and keep his commandments 01:00:36.640 --> 01:00:38.320 for this is the whole duty of man. 01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:42.280 So of course we have to fear God in order to perform 01:00:42.280 --> 01:00:44.280 what we were created for on this earth, 01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:45.740 which was to serve him. 01:00:45.740 --> 01:00:49.480 And the second sermon in this series was Bible reading. 01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:50.200 And I explained how... 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:53.360 important that is and how we should not take that lightly because Jesus Christ says, 01:00:53.560 --> 01:00:55.040 man shall not live by bread alone, 01:00:55.240 --> 01:00:58.160 but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.240 So Bible reading is essential to us. 01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.040 And then the third one was prayer. 01:01:02.200 --> 01:01:03.440 And I spent a long time talking about prayer. 01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:04.800 That's actually the longest I've ever preached. 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:08.640 It was an hour and a half, which that's crazy because before then I had never 01:01:08.640 --> 01:01:10.520 preached over like an hour and two minutes. 01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:12.320 But then prayer was like an extra 30 minutes. 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:14.200 OK, but I try not to do that to you guys. 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:18.200 OK, but the reason why I had that as an essential is because. 01:01:18.200 --> 01:01:23.080 Because my main point was that if Jesus Christ, who was a perfect person, spent so many hours 01:01:23.080 --> 01:01:27.680 in prayer while he's on this earth, how much more should we be praying as sinful people 01:01:27.680 --> 01:01:35.900 that need God so much and that need God because our flesh is sinful flesh, unlike this flesh 01:01:35.900 --> 01:01:37.220 of Jesus Christ. 01:01:37.220 --> 01:01:38.880 So prayer is essential to us. 01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:41.340 And this is something, all three of those things are things that we should be doing 01:01:41.340 --> 01:01:42.640 in our daily life. 01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:46.160 But then this fourth one here, church attendance, I bring this up because 01:01:46.200 --> 01:01:53.000 I think that this is super essential to us as Christians and nowadays we need to preach this more and more because people 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:57.960 Have kind of lost their mind when it comes to going to church like there are people out there that will say oh 01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.040 The Bible doesn't teach us that we have to go to church 01:02:00.040 --> 01:02:04.520 It's not a commandment of God to go to church and they'll do whatever they can to justify 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.640 Their sin and not going to church. They'll use man's logic 01:02:08.640 --> 01:02:11.880 They'll take verses out of context, but I want you to understand this morning 01:02:11.880 --> 01:02:14.120 Make no mistake about it that it is a command of 01:02:14.200 --> 01:02:18.920 God to assemble together at church. Where do we see this in Hebrews 1025? One more time, 01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:23.040 read it again. It says, for not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as the 01:02:23.040 --> 01:02:29.240 manner of some is, but exhorting one another. And so much the more as you see the day approaching. 01:02:29.240 --> 01:02:34.560 So no matter what kind of logic you could come up with in your own mind, your logic 01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:38.200 doesn't matter. What matters truly is the word of God. And the word of God tells us 01:02:38.200 --> 01:02:40.960 not to forsake the assembling together of ourselves. 01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:42.200 And if you convince yourself. 01:02:42.200 --> 01:02:43.440 that you don't really need to go to church, 01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:45.040 you don't really need to be at church, 01:02:45.040 --> 01:02:46.400 you have deceived yourself, 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:48.560 is what I'm trying to submit to you this morning. 01:02:48.560 --> 01:02:51.440 And worse than that even too, you're deceiving other people 01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:54.040 because other people are gonna look at you and say, 01:02:54.040 --> 01:02:55.480 oh, well, if they don't have to go to church, 01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:56.800 then I don't have to go to church. 01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:58.440 And you're gonna be causing people to fall 01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:00.480 into the same snare that you're pretending 01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:01.600 that you're not really in. 01:03:01.700 --> 01:03:04.000 And so go to 2nd Timothy 4 verse number 1 if you would. 01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.400 2nd Timothy 4 verse number 1. 01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.900 Something I want to make clear from the get-go while you guys are turning there in this sermon though 01:03:09.900 --> 01:03:15.300 is that sometimes summons like this can be used and preached in a spirit I feel like that's just 01:03:15.300 --> 01:03:20.000 to embarrass people, to just beat people like they're a public piñata or something like that. 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:24.800 I really don't like that though and that's not my attitude at all in preaching this sermon to you 01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:29.300 this morning. I can say that with confidence because I know what's in my heart and if you could peer into my heart 01:03:29.300 --> 01:03:29.700 YouTube. 01:03:29.700 --> 01:03:32.660 see this morning that I have two main reasons for preaching the sermon. Number 01:03:32.660 --> 01:03:36.780 one is because I am commanded by the Word of God to preach every single 01:03:36.780 --> 01:03:39.900 doctrine that's in the Bible. Every single verse is in the Bible. I am 01:03:39.900 --> 01:03:43.380 commanded to preach it in Second Timothy four, verse number one. It says this. 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:48.840 I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:55.160 dead at his appearing and his kingdom preach the word the instant end season out of season reprove 01:03:55.160 --> 01:04:00.600 rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine and I want you to notice how high this 01:04:00.600 --> 01:04:05.720 charge is that Paul gives to Tennessee he says I charge thee before God and before the Lord Jesus 01:04:05.720 --> 01:04:11.240 Christ that who are going to judge the quick and the dead that you preach the word and and he says 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.840 to be preaching instant in season and out of season. 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:15.740 What does that mean? 01:04:15.740 --> 01:04:17.680 It means that you shouldn't just preach 01:04:17.680 --> 01:04:19.240 whatever is popular with the times. 01:04:19.240 --> 01:04:21.400 You should preach things even when they're not in season. 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:23.200 You should preach what the Bible says, 01:04:23.200 --> 01:04:25.180 no matter what this world thinks about it, 01:04:25.180 --> 01:04:28.040 because that's what God has commanded us to do. 01:04:28.040 --> 01:04:30.920 And he says, reprove, rebuke, and exhort. 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:31.960 And what does that mean? 01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:33.600 Means to tell people that they're wrong, 01:04:33.600 --> 01:04:35.320 tell people that they're wrong more harshly, 01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:36.800 and to encourage people, right? 01:04:37.100 --> 01:04:40.380 But because people don't do this nowadays, we can see the state of our world. 01:04:40.380 --> 01:04:44.220 And that's why I believe that Paul gets Timothy such as a high charge in this chapter. 01:04:44.220 --> 01:04:47.020 Like, why is he saying this before God and before Jesus Christ? 01:04:47.020 --> 01:04:52.380 Because Paul understands the severity of what will happen to the world if pastors don't preach 01:04:52.380 --> 01:04:55.420 like he's saying in this chapter. And we can see this in our world nowadays. 01:04:55.420 --> 01:04:59.820 Like I was saying, like by and large in America, people serve God with, you know, 01:04:59.820 --> 01:05:03.580 they say that they serve God, but then their heart is really far from him. 01:05:03.580 --> 01:05:05.100 And our morality has completely... 01:05:05.100 --> 01:05:09.700 completely slipped in America to where we're like a shadow of what we started off as in 01:05:09.700 --> 01:05:10.700 this country. 01:05:10.700 --> 01:05:13.500 Because we're supposed to be a people that's built on serving God. 01:05:13.500 --> 01:05:16.980 I mean, that's the whole point of this nation being formed is so people could have freedom 01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:18.260 in serving God. 01:05:18.260 --> 01:05:22.900 And now people use that freedom to just do whatever they want, to get ensnared with the 01:05:22.900 --> 01:05:24.340 lusts of this world. 01:05:25.100 --> 01:05:29.820 But I was bringing this all up to say this, that we can see what happens because people don't do this. 01:05:29.820 --> 01:05:33.180 Because when he says right there, what does he say? He said, preach the word. 01:05:33.180 --> 01:05:37.740 A lot of times the problem is nowadays with churches is that pastors, they don't preach the word. 01:05:37.740 --> 01:05:41.900 They just go up and preach their own opinion or they preach whatever would be nice to the crowd. 01:05:41.900 --> 01:05:46.140 And they don't want to be instant in season. They don't want to offend people. So they just focus on 01:05:46.140 --> 01:05:50.140 only the love of God in the Bible, which praise God for the love of God. 01:05:50.140 --> 01:05:53.100 But there's more to the Bible than just talking about the love of God. 01:05:53.100 --> 01:05:57.220 That's the reality that we're supposed to preach the entire word of God is what he's saying right here 01:05:57.220 --> 01:05:59.540 And then lastly when he says we're proved rebuking exhort 01:05:59.540 --> 01:06:03.760 That's another big problem is that preachers are afraid to offend people with the word of God 01:06:03.860 --> 01:06:07.580 But if the word of God offends you you're out of your mind as a Christian 01:06:07.580 --> 01:06:12.340 We base our life on the word of God and if the word of God tells to do something that we're not doing 01:06:12.500 --> 01:06:14.600 Our response to that should never be to offend it 01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:18.460 It should be to be like I need to change my life then to match God's holy word 01:06:19.300 --> 01:06:24.100 And so as Christians, and we need to realize, because this is the thing about this as well, 01:06:24.100 --> 01:06:26.980 is that when a preacher does actually get up and preach like what the Bible's saying right here, 01:06:26.980 --> 01:06:30.500 then you have Christians that also just run off because they are offended and they go to the 01:06:30.500 --> 01:06:35.540 teachers that'll tickle their ears and they'll whisper whatever they want to hear. But as a 01:06:35.540 --> 01:06:39.780 Christian, when someone gets up and preaches something out of the Word of God, it's the 01:06:39.780 --> 01:06:43.380 commandment of the Lord and you should obey it. As long as obviously we're talking about when 01:06:43.380 --> 01:06:46.420 someone's preaching out of the Bible, people get up and say their own opinions like I was saying, 01:06:46.420 --> 01:06:47.300 But when it's a co 01:06:47.300 --> 01:06:51.380 of God when it's a thus saith the Lord the preacher is just the messenger at 01:06:51.380 --> 01:06:53.540 that point and if you have a problem with what he's saying you have a problem 01:06:53.540 --> 01:06:57.340 with God Almighty himself go to Hebrews 10 or you guys are there in Hebrews 10 01:06:57.340 --> 01:07:00.220 okay go back there though I had you guys turn away from it keep your finger in 01:07:00.220 --> 01:07:03.140 Hebrews that's what I'd say to you because we're gonna be there quite often 01:07:03.140 --> 01:07:05.000 in this sermon 01:07:05.100 --> 01:07:10.100 But I told you why I'm preaching the sermon is because I'm commanded to do so, but in these verses right here. 01:07:10.100 --> 01:07:15.100 And also I want to like say that I want to preach the sermon because I care about the people in this room. 01:07:15.100 --> 01:07:20.100 I care about the well-being of people and I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is essential to go to church. 01:07:20.100 --> 01:07:26.100 I believe it's essential to fellowship with other believers at the local body of Christ. 01:07:26.100 --> 01:07:29.100 And if you've forgotten that this morning, I want to remind you of it. 01:07:29.100 --> 01:07:33.100 And if you know that this morning, I want to strengthen you in that belief because you're right. 01:07:33.100 --> 01:07:36.900 If you don't believe that, I'm going to show you what the Bible actually says about this subject, okay? 01:07:36.900 --> 01:07:38.420 Why is church essential though? 01:07:38.600 --> 01:07:42.120 The first reason I tell you is this, is because church is a commandment from God. 01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:47.080 Go to, go to this where I want you to go, go to 1st Timothy 3 verse number 5. 01:07:47.080 --> 01:07:50.680 While you're turning there, I'll read for you Hebrews 10 one more time. 01:07:50.680 --> 01:07:54.680 The Bible says, not forsaking the assembling together of our, or the assembling of ourselves 01:07:54.680 --> 01:08:01.080 together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. And so much the more as you see the 01:08:01.080 --> 01:08:06.440 day approaching. I think it's pretty hard to argue from Hebrews 10 25 that it's not a- 01:08:06.600 --> 01:08:09.360 command of God to go to church, but there really are people that do. 01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:12.920 There really are people that'll say, no, no, no, this isn't talking about church. 01:08:13.160 --> 01:08:16.400 This is just talking about fellowshiping with other believers. 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:17.920 It's like, okay. 01:08:18.120 --> 01:08:19.480 Like, why are you scared of the word church? 01:08:19.480 --> 01:08:20.160 It's kind of weird to me. 01:08:20.160 --> 01:08:25.000 Like, imagine this, what if we could go and fellowship with believers and also 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:26.400 hear preaching at the same time? 01:08:26.480 --> 01:08:27.800 Oh, we already have that, don't we? 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:28.920 It's called church, right? 01:08:29.280 --> 01:08:32.840 So why would you be against the preaching part of that unless you just want to 01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:34.440 kind of do whatever you want to do. 01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:38.640 Hey, we're all for fellowship. Fellowship is a big part of the church, but it's not the only part. 01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:42.480 It's also the preaching of the Word of God that matters in a service as well. 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:47.880 And Paul tells us not to forsake the assembling together of ourselves as the manner of some is. 01:08:47.880 --> 01:08:52.800 What does that mean? That some people's manner, some people's custom is to just stop going to church. 01:08:53.120 --> 01:08:58.640 We see this all the time with people where they just be like, oh, God doesn't really care if you go to church or not. 01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:02.560 No, he does care. That's why he made it a commandment in the Bible is what I'm submitting to you. 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:06.480 And you guys are going to first where you guys know your first Timothy 01:09:07.120 --> 01:09:09.120 three verse number five 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:12.320 I want you to stop for a moment though and think as you're getting there 01:09:12.320 --> 01:09:16.000 Okay, and first Timothy three verse number five about what I just said in Hebrew is that 01:09:16.500 --> 01:09:27.300 The idea that this passage isn't teaching that we should go to church or that it's a commandment of God to go to church is just really nonsense when you look at the entire Bible as a whole. 01:09:27.300 --> 01:09:40.100 Because think about all of the New Testament and how many passages are surrounding the idea of church or preaching at church or, you know, how to behave in a church service like we see in 1 Corinthians, right? 01:09:40.100 --> 01:09:44.500 Like, consider the fact that Jesus Christ consistently in the Gospels is... 01:09:44.500 --> 01:09:48.820 where? At the house of God is where he's going to. And people could say like oh 01:09:48.820 --> 01:09:52.380 that's the temple. But guess what the church is called in the New Testament? 01:09:52.380 --> 01:09:56.660 Guess what the name is that it's adopted? The house of God, right? Is what we see 01:09:56.660 --> 01:09:59.660 in 1st Timothy and what we'll see a little bit later on in this sermon as 01:09:59.660 --> 01:10:04.420 well. Consider the fact as well that the disciples consistently are going to 01:10:04.420 --> 01:10:08.460 church after the death of Jesus Christ. Consider this as well as well, excuse me, 01:10:08.460 --> 01:10:12.500 that in 1st Corinthians we see that the man at the Church of Corinth gets kicked 01:10:12.500 --> 01:10:16.000 kicked out of the church of Corinth, right? 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:20.060 Why is he giving passages about people that should be getting kicked out of the church 01:10:20.060 --> 01:10:22.840 if we're not supposed to even go to church in the first place? 01:10:22.840 --> 01:10:24.440 Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? 01:10:24.900 --> 01:10:31.360 Or how about the fact that in the Bible in the in Titus and in Timothy he gives the 01:10:31.860 --> 01:10:38.060 Qualifications for a bishop and what are the qualifications for a bishop for to see who's qualified to? 01:10:38.580 --> 01:10:43.660 Pastor a church like God's gonna give all these extensive qualifications for being a pastor 01:10:43.660 --> 01:10:46.380 But then it's like but if you show up there, it's kind of optional anyway 01:10:46.380 --> 01:10:52.640 He's just like well, then why are the qualifications so strict then why is he specifically not even just one time but twice? 01:10:52.900 --> 01:10:59.020 Bible he lays out the qualifications for a bishop because who pastors a church is important 01:10:59.020 --> 01:11:02.500 and also going to church is important as well. 01:11:02.500 --> 01:11:06.340 That's what you should derive from that because what does he say there in 1st Timothy 3.5 01:11:06.340 --> 01:11:10.820 he says this, for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care 01:11:10.820 --> 01:11:14.020 of the church of God. 01:11:14.020 --> 01:11:17.220 So a man needs to know how to rule his own house so that he can take care of the church 01:11:17.220 --> 01:11:19.180 of God as what the Bible is saying here. 01:11:19.180 --> 01:11:20.900 about also what we just saw the 01:11:20.900 --> 01:11:24.940 from Paul to Timothy. What did he tell him? He told him, hey Timothy I charge you 01:11:24.940 --> 01:11:28.980 before God and before Jesus Christ to reprove, to rebuke, to exhort. Who's he 01:11:28.980 --> 01:11:32.540 gonna reprove, rebuke, or exhort if you don't have to go to church and gather 01:11:32.540 --> 01:11:37.060 there in the first place? Nobody. So like if you look at all these passages they 01:11:37.060 --> 01:11:41.260 don't make sense unless going to church is a given, unless assembling with other 01:11:41.260 --> 01:11:44.500 believers is the commandment of God itself. 01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:48.440 Go to 1st John 5 verse number 3, 1st John 5 verse number 3. 01:11:48.440 --> 01:11:51.400 So I just want to stress to you, first thing in this morning, 01:11:51.400 --> 01:11:56.040 the going to church is essential because it's a commandment of God 01:11:56.040 --> 01:11:59.400 and all commandments of God are technically essential when you think 01:11:59.400 --> 01:12:02.040 about it. But I'm bringing this up to say also 01:12:02.040 --> 01:12:05.100 and why I'm having you go to 1st John 5 because 01:12:05.200 --> 01:12:11.440 I bring it up to say that God does not just command us to do things for no reason, like arbitrarily, right? 01:12:11.440 --> 01:12:13.440 Look at 1 John 5.3, it says, 01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:19.920 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. 01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:21.280 What is the Bible saying right here? 01:12:21.280 --> 01:12:22.640 I mean, you could take that a couple different ways. 01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:25.680 You could say that the commandments of God aren't there for just no reason. 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:27.200 They're not just there arbitrarily. 01:12:27.200 --> 01:12:30.640 You could say that the commandments of God aren't there to hurt us. 01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:31.920 They're there to help us. 01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:33.200 But you can also take this to say, 01:12:33.200 --> 01:12:39.100 that what he's saying in this verse is that none of the commandments of God are ridiculously hard or impossible. 01:12:39.100 --> 01:12:45.400 Like, everything that he gives us in the Bible, because they're not grievous, we can reasonably do them, 01:12:45.400 --> 01:12:47.400 is what I'd submit to you from these verses. 01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:52.600 And so go to Ephesians 4 verse number 11, Ephesians 4 verse number 11. 01:12:52.600 --> 01:12:55.600 Can I talk about the commandment of God not being ridiculously hard? 01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:57.600 This especially applies to going to church. 01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:01.600 Because sometimes people will act like showing up to church is like the hardest thing ever. 01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:03.600 But let me break it to you. 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:09.600 Showing up to church and listening to a sermon that someone is preaching to you is really not that hard, okay? 01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:14.600 I just went to Vancouver, what was it, like three weeks ago. 01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:15.600 For the night service, I didn't have to... 01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:19.600 I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to preach, I didn't have to lead songs, I didn't have to do anything. 01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:23.360 When I was sitting there was the preaching I was sitting there thinking I was like man 01:13:23.360 --> 01:13:27.860 This is like almost relaxing because I don't have to do anything in the church services 01:13:27.860 --> 01:13:30.840 Like I'm just showing up and it's like someone else's show to run 01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:35.380 I bring other to say this that it's really not that hard like when you're coming to church 01:13:35.380 --> 01:13:36.700 I mean you come twice on Sundays 01:13:36.700 --> 01:13:40.520 But it's like you're sitting there for an hour listening to someone preach the Word of God 01:13:40.520 --> 01:13:46.200 This is not like this is not some great feat that you're doing. Okay, it's very easy to sit there 01:13:46.200 --> 01:13:48.400 I mean you can sit there and listen to lots of 01:13:48.400 --> 01:13:53.680 things for hours and hours. But God doesn't require that for church. He sits on Sunday morning. It's like you sit there for 01:13:54.100 --> 01:13:57.140 in our tops listening to preaching. 01:13:57.140 --> 01:14:00.740 And obviously I'd say, you know, that there's a little, 01:14:00.740 --> 01:14:02.180 I am oversimplifying it a little bit. 01:14:02.180 --> 01:14:03.780 Like if you have to get to church, 01:14:03.780 --> 01:14:07.060 getting the kids all the church is kind of tedious sometimes. 01:14:07.060 --> 01:14:08.820 If you're coming from far away, obviously, 01:14:08.820 --> 01:14:10.660 like my mother-in-law at one point, 01:14:10.660 --> 01:14:11.940 now she's moved up to Sacramento, 01:14:11.940 --> 01:14:14.980 but she was driving three times a week 01:14:14.980 --> 01:14:16.580 to Verde Baptist Church, 01:14:16.580 --> 01:14:18.900 and it was an hour and 15 minutes from her house. 01:14:18.900 --> 01:14:21.060 Every single week. 01:14:21.060 --> 01:14:22.020 And I did it just a couple. 01:14:22.100 --> 01:14:25.340 time with her I'm like man that's rough because I only live five minutes away 01:14:25.340 --> 01:14:28.940 from the church at that time in Vancouver so I get that there's some 01:14:28.940 --> 01:14:31.260 tedious things and when your kids are acting up in the service that can kind 01:14:31.260 --> 01:14:33.200 of be frustrating 01:14:33.300 --> 01:14:36.260 But even with all those things that I'm trying to submit to you, 01:14:36.260 --> 01:14:39.100 that it's still really not that hard to go to church. 01:14:39.100 --> 01:14:43.860 So because in reality, very few things that we do in our life are hard at all. 01:14:43.860 --> 01:14:46.740 Like, and I'd say this to you, first of all, before I even get into that, 01:14:46.740 --> 01:14:51.740 everything in life, if you think about it in some way, is hard in some sense or difficult in some sense. 01:14:51.740 --> 01:14:55.100 But you just kind of have to learn to choose what hard you're going to face in this life. 01:14:55.100 --> 01:15:01.100 Like, it's hard to diet and exercise, but it's also hard to be really obese. 01:15:01.300 --> 01:15:05.140 It's hard to go to work every single week, but you know what else is really hard? 01:15:05.140 --> 01:15:07.140 To just be poor and not have any money. 01:15:07.140 --> 01:15:12.420 It's hard to show up to church on Sunday, but it's hard when you're living in a backslidden estate 01:15:12.420 --> 01:15:14.740 because you're not having the preaching from the word of God. 01:15:14.740 --> 01:15:18.980 It's hard to read your Bible. It's hard to go soloing. It's hard to go pray. 01:15:18.980 --> 01:15:23.220 But it's also hard to suffer the consequences of not doing those things as well. 01:15:23.220 --> 01:15:27.380 So in life, you just gotta choose what difficulty you're gonna face. That's the reality. 01:15:28.100 --> 01:15:31.300 But I'd also say, because I'm going back to that, what we face is really not hard. 01:15:31.300 --> 01:15:34.980 Like we live in a time that nobody walks to church. 01:15:34.980 --> 01:15:38.620 Nobody takes a bike to church unless you want to, okay? 01:15:38.620 --> 01:15:40.900 Nobody rides a bus to church or anything like that. 01:15:40.900 --> 01:15:46.300 It's like you take a car to church, like the second best invention almost behind AC. 01:15:46.300 --> 01:15:47.660 AC is like right above that, okay? 01:15:47.660 --> 01:15:51.140 But it's really, but now we have cars that even have AC in them. 01:15:51.140 --> 01:15:53.380 So praise God, whoever did that, God bless that man, okay? 01:15:54.300 --> 01:15:57.740 But like, like that's what I'm saying though, like we don't like go up and like, it's not like, 01:15:57.740 --> 01:16:04.140 hey kids, get in the horse carriage, let's go to church, right? It's like you get in the car, 01:16:04.140 --> 01:16:09.340 like it's, it's as tedious as it can be to drive. It's not really that hard to do though. Yeah. 01:16:10.140 --> 01:16:15.260 Same thing with so many things in this life, like at church service, we come to this nice building. 01:16:15.900 --> 01:16:19.900 that has AC in it again praise god because brother Jason fixed the AC so thank you for that again 01:16:19.900 --> 01:16:23.820 okay but we kind of like you so what do you have to do you have to sit there and suffer through me 01:16:23.820 --> 01:16:27.980 rambling for like an hour is there is it really that big of a deal it's really not a big deal 01:16:27.980 --> 01:16:32.300 okay it's really not that hard when you think about it in the luxury of this church think about 01:16:32.300 --> 01:16:35.500 people throughout history who are meeting in places that aren't a church building where they 01:16:35.500 --> 01:16:40.300 don't have AC where they don't just have all the nice cushion seats like we have it really good 01:16:40.300 --> 01:16:43.740 nowadays is what i'm trying to tell you this morning really good and like 01:16:43.900 --> 01:16:47.960 Stop focusing on the negative things of your life and think about all the great things 01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:51.000 that God has blessed us with because if you count your blessings and you name them one 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:55.220 by one like the song says, you'll find out that we're really blessed nowadays. 01:16:55.220 --> 01:16:58.760 And we're very privileged by the way of the country that we're in, by the building that 01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:03.000 we have, by the Bible that we have to look at the entire word of God. 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:05.500 You can get it at the Dollar Tree if you want to. 01:17:05.500 --> 01:17:07.660 That's how blessed we are nowadays. 01:17:07.660 --> 01:17:10.420 So when I say things aren't that hard, that is not what I mean. 01:17:10.420 --> 01:17:11.420 It's really not that hard. 01:17:11.900 --> 01:17:13.140 Imagine trying to come to church, 01:17:13.140 --> 01:17:14.740 because I brought up the kids earlier. 01:17:14.740 --> 01:17:16.540 It's like imagine trying to come to a church 01:17:16.540 --> 01:17:19.580 and wrangle your kids while there is no AC, 01:17:19.580 --> 01:17:21.540 while there is no designated mother-baby room, 01:17:21.540 --> 01:17:23.780 while there is no even cover sometimes. 01:17:23.780 --> 01:17:25.980 People meet outside for church. 01:17:25.980 --> 01:17:27.940 Like, we don't know anything about heart. 01:17:27.940 --> 01:17:29.940 Because honestly, you guys are there in Ephesians 411 though, 01:17:29.940 --> 01:17:33.000 okay, the first point of my sermon was that... 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:38.700 because going to church is a commandment it is essential and because it's a 01:17:38.700 --> 01:17:43.800 commandment it also is not grievous is what we saw in first John and because no 01:17:43.800 --> 01:17:46.720 commandment that God has is grievous then what excuse that we have for not 01:17:46.720 --> 01:17:52.120 doing them then point to this or in the wise church essential because church is 01:17:52.120 --> 01:17:56.520 necessary for growth as a Christian for Ephesians 4 verse number 11 the Bible 01:17:56.520 --> 01:17:57.300 says 01:17:57.400 --> 01:18:02.200 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers 01:18:02.200 --> 01:18:07.720 for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of 01:18:07.720 --> 01:18:14.120 Christ. So Paul tells us in these verses why God gives us apostles and pastors and prophets and 01:18:14.120 --> 01:18:18.600 teachers and evangelists and what is the purpose that he gives three purposes right for the 01:18:18.600 --> 01:18:25.000 perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, and for the edifying of the body of Christ. 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:25.400 So 01:18:25.400 --> 01:18:26.600 You want to know why church is essential? 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:31.400 It's essential because God specifically designed church to edify you, 01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:34.400 to perfect you is what it says in this verse. 01:18:34.700 --> 01:18:39.400 And obviously we know that in this context the perfecting would be to complete 01:18:39.400 --> 01:18:40.100 you basically. 01:18:40.100 --> 01:18:40.500 Yeah. 01:18:41.700 --> 01:18:44.500 But think about that then as well that if you're not going to church then you 01:18:44.500 --> 01:18:45.000 know what that means? 01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:46.900 It means that you're not complete in your life. 01:18:46.900 --> 01:18:50.300 You're missing something in your walk with God is what I'd submit to you 01:18:50.300 --> 01:18:53.000 if you're not showing up to church and 01:18:53.500 --> 01:19:02.440 And this is what you're missing. Okay, you're missing the preaching for edification and you're missing the safety net and the sharpening that comes from the fellowship of other like-minded believers 01:19:02.700 --> 01:19:05.360 So if God tells us that he designs the church 01:19:06.140 --> 01:19:07.700 specifically for these reasons 01:19:07.700 --> 01:19:11.680 Then why would we want to forsake this place in the first place? 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:17.700 And how dare people get up and say that you don't have to go to church with verses like this in the Bible like with verses 01:19:17.700 --> 01:19:21.420 Like this in the Bible not only should they compel us to go to church 01:19:21.500 --> 01:19:24.340 but they should have us wanting to go to church. 01:19:24.340 --> 01:19:26.620 Let me say this, if you're a grown adult in here, 01:19:26.620 --> 01:19:28.140 you shouldn't just go to church, 01:19:28.140 --> 01:19:30.840 you should want to go to church 01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:32.500 because it's beneficial to you. 01:19:32.500 --> 01:19:34.700 Because if you're actually thinking spiritually minded, 01:19:34.700 --> 01:19:36.380 if you're actually walking in the spirit, 01:19:36.380 --> 01:19:38.780 you'd realize that what church is for, 01:19:38.780 --> 01:19:42.220 why God gave us the blessing that is church, 01:19:42.220 --> 01:19:44.100 is so that we could be perfected 01:19:44.100 --> 01:19:45.900 and so that we can be edified, 01:19:45.900 --> 01:19:49.340 and also he says, for the work of the ministry as well. 01:19:49.500 --> 01:19:54.500 If you're an adult, you should want to go to church, not just, oh, I have to go to church. 01:19:54.500 --> 01:19:58.500 Okay? Psalms 122, go there real quick. Psalms 122, verse number one. 01:19:58.500 --> 01:20:00.200 I want you to see this verse. 01:20:00.400 --> 01:20:06.800 Psalms 122 verse number one and obviously sometimes you wake up on Sundays and you really are tired and your flesh is not feeling it 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:11.640 Okay, this happened you get in seasons of your life where maybe it's not the most fun idea 01:20:11.760 --> 01:20:14.440 You don't just wake up like with a smile on your face or something like that 01:20:14.440 --> 01:20:16.560 I don't know if I'd never wake up with a smile on my face. Okay, but 01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:19.760 You need to get help if that's what you're doing. Okay, but um 01:20:21.360 --> 01:20:23.400 But like that's not always gonna happen 01:20:23.400 --> 01:20:28.220 But what I'm saying is this is that if you're walking in the spirit if you're thinking about things 01:20:28.400 --> 01:20:30.680 spiritually like the Bible tells us to do, 01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:32.520 and our affection is on the things above 01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:34.000 and not on the things of this earth, 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:36.040 we should desire to go to church. 01:20:36.040 --> 01:20:37.680 This is what he says in Psalms 122 verse number one. 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:40.120 He says, a song of degrees of David, 01:20:40.120 --> 01:20:41.600 I was glad when they said, 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:43.820 let us go into the house of the Lord. 01:20:43.820 --> 01:20:46.440 This is David's reaction, the man after God's own heart. 01:20:46.440 --> 01:20:48.320 He's excited to get up and go to church. 01:20:48.320 --> 01:20:49.240 You know why? 01:20:49.240 --> 01:20:51.040 Because when you're the man after God's own heart, 01:20:51.040 --> 01:20:53.000 when you're thinking like God does, 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:55.160 you realize that church is not something 01:20:55.160 --> 01:20:56.400 that you have to go to. 01:20:56.400 --> 01:21:01.640 Something that you get to go to you get to get a fight you get to hear good preaching you get to hear the word 01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:06.580 Of God you get to be perfected these are things that you get to do not that you have to do as a Christian 01:21:06.700 --> 01:21:08.080 It's the wrong perspective 01:21:08.080 --> 01:21:10.080 You don't have to do anything in this life 01:21:10.080 --> 01:21:16.080 You get to do things because God made us free in Jesus Christ is what he tells us you get to serve God you get 01:21:16.080 --> 01:21:18.080 To serve Jesus Christ a great blessing to us 01:21:18.200 --> 01:21:24.000 So this like when people say because people sometimes be like well how many times a week do we have to go to church? 01:21:24.400 --> 01:21:27.400 It's the wrong question. You should think about it like this. 01:21:27.400 --> 01:21:31.400 How many times would God want me going to church? 01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:39.240 Because he designed the church to edify me and to perfect me to edify my wife and to perfect my wife to edify my children 01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:45.440 And to perfect my children if that's the case how many times would God want me to go to church? 01:21:45.440 --> 01:21:50.240 That's what you should think not just like how many times do I have to because you see that attitude in the Bible where? 01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:52.560 That guy asked Jesus Christ 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:56.400 there's an attitude of a lot of Christians where they try to find all the lines of things because I'd say to you like 01:21:57.100 --> 01:22:00.300 The Bible doesn't give us a number of how many times you have to go to church. 01:22:00.300 --> 01:22:03.260 Just like the Bible doesn't give us the exacts for lots of things. 01:22:03.260 --> 01:22:05.820 Like it doesn't tell you how many chapters of the Bible you have to read. 01:22:05.820 --> 01:22:09.580 It doesn't tell you, I mean it says pray without ceasing, but I mean it doesn't say like exactly 01:22:09.580 --> 01:22:11.500 how many minutes you have to pray a day or something like that. 01:22:11.500 --> 01:22:14.060 It doesn't say how many times you have to go out and preach the gospel. 01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:20.600 Why does God lead these things like this though? I think it's because he wants us to serve him out of the free will of our heart. That's why. 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:31.600 Because if God just made it like a, like a, you have to read, you know, two chapters a day, go to church one time a week, and then go so wanting at least a minimum of one time a month, then you know what Christians would do? 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:42.600 That would be all that they do. They'd just be like, checklist, got to church, read my Bible, prayed, donezo. But God doesn't want that. That's why he gives us free will in the first place. When you think about it. 01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:45.340 That's what Kylie was arguing with that Catholic guy out, 01:22:45.340 --> 01:22:46.840 so we're not really arguing what they were discussing, 01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:48.000 which I should probably say. 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:52.880 But she was talking about free will and she's explaining like how important it is that we have free will 01:22:53.440 --> 01:22:59.920 So that we can love god because if we don't have free will then we don't have love because a robot can't love people 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:03.840 Hello, like if you went on to chat gbt right now and you said 01:23:04.480 --> 01:23:10.160 Love me. Okay. Talk to me like the right the next time I talk to you like make sure that you that I know that you love 01:23:10.160 --> 01:23:16.000 Me chat gbt will probably send you a bunch of lovey-dovey stuff, but it's not real because it's a robot 01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:17.760 at the end of the day, right? 01:23:17.760 --> 01:23:20.160 So in order to have love, a genuine love, 01:23:20.160 --> 01:23:22.880 you have to have free will in the first place. 01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:24.840 That's why free will is essential. 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:25.720 It's the same thing with your wife. 01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.160 It's like, if your wife was just a robot 01:23:28.160 --> 01:23:31.760 and she only loved you because you programmed her to do that, 01:23:31.760 --> 01:23:33.720 then it's not real, it's fake then. 01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:34.680 So it's the same thing with us. 01:23:34.680 --> 01:23:36.640 I'm tying that all back to this, to say this, 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:39.360 God doesn't tell us how many times we have to go to church, 01:23:39.360 --> 01:23:40.860 but you should not be thinking like that anyways. 01:23:40.860 --> 01:23:42.600 Like that man that I was talking about with Jesus Christ, 01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:44.000 where he goes up to Jesus Christ and he's like. 01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:49.000 Jesus Christ tells him to love his neighbor as himself and he's like, well, who is my neighbor? 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:55.000 Why does he ask that question? Not because he really wants to go out and love as many people as possible, 01:23:55.000 --> 01:24:01.000 as he wants to find the exact line of people that he does not have to love and that he doesn't have to show mercy and that he doesn't have to be kind to. That's why. 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:09.000 It's that spirit of just like, what is the least that I can do to just kind of skate by and just get a little bit of approval from God Almighty? 01:24:10.100 --> 01:24:12.860 You're all wrong if you're thinking like that as a Christian anyways. 01:24:12.860 --> 01:24:17.660 We should be thinking about what would make God happy at the end of the day is what our mind should be. 01:24:17.660 --> 01:24:22.020 Where you guys at? You guys are in 1 Timothy? Go to 1 Timothy 3.15. 01:24:22.020 --> 01:24:25.660 I don't think I had you guys go there. 1 Timothy 3, verse number 15, okay? 01:24:25.660 --> 01:24:28.300 Talking about church and going to church. 01:24:28.700 --> 01:24:33.740 But I'd give the caveat that I'd give you guys for any sermon that I'd preach on this and I'd just say that you know 01:24:34.380 --> 01:24:38.220 I'm not saying if you miss one church service that you're sinning. Okay. I don't believe that 01:24:38.780 --> 01:24:41.920 and I don't think that like like god is like 01:24:42.200 --> 01:24:45.560 Anyway, I think that God's a reasonable God. 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:46.400 That's what I'd say. 01:24:46.400 --> 01:24:48.840 That God, like, and that there's times where not only, 01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:50.720 like, is it probably not possible to go to church 01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:51.880 that maybe you shouldn't go to church. 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:53.560 Like, if you're throwing up 01:24:53.560 --> 01:24:55.080 and all of your kids are throwing up, 01:24:55.080 --> 01:24:56.320 probably not the time to go to church. 01:24:56.320 --> 01:24:57.640 I mean, didn't we even see in the Old Testament 01:24:57.640 --> 01:24:59.240 that they have the cleanliness laws? 01:24:59.240 --> 01:25:00.320 And obviously we're not under those things, 01:25:00.320 --> 01:25:02.000 but like, the idea is still simple. 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:04.400 It's like, he's like, hey, if someone has the leprosy, 01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:06.200 get them out of the can for a little bit, right? 01:25:06.200 --> 01:25:08.440 So you don't have to come to church and be like, 01:25:08.440 --> 01:25:09.760 I just can't forsake this. 01:25:10.200 --> 01:25:15.020 Throw up right well the now you're gonna make everybody miss the assembly because they're throwing up too 01:25:15.540 --> 01:25:17.780 Or we're just gonna have a church of throw-up gross. Yeah 01:25:18.300 --> 01:25:21.180 Okay, or like if you know, what are they when they're gonna? 01:25:21.180 --> 01:25:24.140 Oh, yeah, if you're coming like the church your car breaks down 01:25:24.260 --> 01:25:28.500 What are you gonna do? You can't do anything if your job if you have an on-call phone like I did in Vancouver 01:25:28.500 --> 01:25:29.900 And they call you into work 01:25:30.200 --> 01:25:33.400 You can't come to work or you can't come to church. It's just it is what it is at that point 01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:37.320 I don't think that god is like holding those things over our head and like 01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:41.160 I mean even those are those examples but think about people in the bible like the apostle paul 01:25:41.560 --> 01:25:43.560 Who's going on missions trips a lot 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.640 You think when he's sailing somewhere and it takes two months to get there that he's going to church those two months 01:25:48.120 --> 01:25:53.160 Probably not right? I mean, let's say a boat church. I mean you've heard of house church, but have you heard of boat church? Okay? 01:25:53.880 --> 01:25:57.960 Maybe they did. Okay, maybe he's reading his bible in there. Whatever. Okay, but my point is it's 01:25:58.200 --> 01:26:00.160 And think about maybe a better example, 01:26:00.160 --> 01:26:02.360 when he's in prison or when John the Baptist is in prison, 01:26:02.360 --> 01:26:03.840 you think that they can go to church? 01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:05.220 They obviously can't, right? 01:26:05.220 --> 01:26:07.080 So you have to keep those things in mind. 01:26:07.080 --> 01:26:09.400 So I'm not trying to say that if you miss 01:26:09.400 --> 01:26:10.920 one church service ever, you're a sinner. 01:26:10.920 --> 01:26:13.700 This is what I'm saying, when you can go to church. 01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.800 You should go to church is what I believe the Bible teaches us. 01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:20.200 When you can assemble with other believers, you should. 01:26:20.200 --> 01:26:25.800 Because why wouldn't you when he designed the church to edify you and to perfect you as a Christian? 01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:27.200 What better reason than could you have? 01:26:27.200 --> 01:26:31.400 Because a lot of people will just make up a lot of dumb excuses for why they don't go to church. 01:26:31.400 --> 01:26:33.200 They'll just be like, well... 01:26:33.400 --> 01:26:35.400 I'm just kind of tired on Sundays. 01:26:35.400 --> 01:26:39.900 It's like, wow, we're all tired, but I'm glad that your tiredness is way more important than my tiredness. 01:26:39.900 --> 01:26:44.900 Or the Seahawks play on Sunday. It's like, you know you can go on YouTube and watch the recap of the highlights? 01:26:44.900 --> 01:26:48.900 That's what I do every single time. It's like, you don't have to just forsake the Seahawks, okay? 01:26:48.900 --> 01:26:51.400 That'd be crazy. The Commandments are our greatest, right? 01:26:51.400 --> 01:26:54.900 No, I'm just kidding. But like, you don't have to, you know what you can also do? 01:26:54.900 --> 01:26:56.900 You just record the game, the old-fashioned way. 01:26:56.900 --> 01:27:01.400 Or you can just realize that football is vanity and is it really that important that you'd miss the house? 01:27:01.400 --> 01:27:04.200 of God to watch a stupid game like that. 01:27:04.400 --> 01:27:06.160 Same thing with going hunting or going fishing. 01:27:06.160 --> 01:27:07.920 It's like, you know that there's other days in the week 01:27:07.920 --> 01:27:08.920 you can do those things? 01:27:08.920 --> 01:27:10.560 Like, why has it got to be Sunday 01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:11.880 that you go hunting and fishing? 01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.080 You ever heard of a day called Saturday? 01:27:14.080 --> 01:27:14.840 Wow. 01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:16.280 Most people have that day off too. 01:27:16.280 --> 01:27:20.280 Like, what if you just moved it from Sunday to Saturday 01:27:20.280 --> 01:27:22.240 and give God the first fruits in your week 01:27:22.240 --> 01:27:23.440 like you're supposed to? 01:27:23.440 --> 01:27:25.480 Which is why we have church on the first day of the week. 01:27:25.480 --> 01:27:26.320 You know why? 01:27:26.320 --> 01:27:28.560 Because Christ is supposed to have the first fruits 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:30.560 and everything is what the Bible teaches us. 01:27:31.600 --> 01:27:37.200 And I'm not saying that you can't go hunting or fishing, but I am saying that if those things are hindering your walk with God, 01:27:37.200 --> 01:27:41.920 then maybe you should not be doing those things. Or you should do them, you should restrain yourself in those things. 01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:47.600 Maybe that's what I would say. Or you can realize that those things are vanity and you could be a fisher of men instead. 01:27:47.800 --> 01:27:52.360 Like you could go out like Peter was you know obsessed with fishing the Bible obviously did his job 01:27:52.360 --> 01:27:55.960 But it's like he's obsessed with doing that and Jesus Christ says hey, no, you're not gonna catch fish anymore 01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:58.760 You know what you're gonna be you're gonna be a fisher of man from this point forward 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:03.400 And and that's the best catch that you can ever have in this life to give someone else a gospel so that they know 01:28:03.400 --> 01:28:06.720 That they're not gonna die and go to hell but they know that they're gonna go to heaven one day 01:28:06.940 --> 01:28:09.440 What could be a better catch than that? 01:28:11.100 --> 01:28:15.740 You guys are there in 1st Timothy 3.15, I believe. Yeah, 1st Timothy 3 verse number 15. 01:28:16.460 --> 01:28:20.700 But imagine going up to God and trying to justify these things to Him one day before I read that 01:28:20.700 --> 01:28:25.180 verse. It's just like insane. Like, God, I'm sorry. It's just like... 01:28:25.700 --> 01:28:27.380 I had to catch the fish. 01:28:27.380 --> 01:28:28.940 I'm using fish, I'm just picking on it. 01:28:28.940 --> 01:28:31.740 I don't think anybody is a super avid fish in here, okay? 01:28:31.740 --> 01:28:33.040 But I'm trying to think of another thing. 01:28:33.040 --> 01:28:35.380 God, I just had, well I don't even know, 01:28:35.380 --> 01:28:37.340 to binge watch something on Netflix. 01:28:37.340 --> 01:28:38.740 Like, did you really though? 01:28:39.940 --> 01:28:42.540 And seriously, imagine yourself explaining to God Almighty 01:28:42.540 --> 01:28:45.420 that anything was worth skipping church over on Sundays, 01:28:45.420 --> 01:28:47.220 or skipping church over on Wednesdays. 01:28:47.220 --> 01:28:50.140 It's like, God, I know that Sunday's the Lord's Day. 01:28:50.140 --> 01:28:52.300 That's literally what it means, the Lord's Day. 01:28:52.300 --> 01:28:53.700 I know that, you know, you- 01:28:53.700 --> 01:28:58.020 gave your life for the church. I know that you designed the church to perfect and to edify me 01:28:58.020 --> 01:29:02.180 and to do the work of the ministry. I know that the church is called the pillar and ground of the 01:29:02.180 --> 01:29:07.700 truth. I know that it's called the house of God. I just have other things that I had to do on Sundays. 01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:10.280 It couldn't be me, that's all I'm saying. 01:29:10.280 --> 01:29:11.120 It couldn't be me. 01:29:11.120 --> 01:29:13.600 I don't have better things to do than to be at the house of God. 01:29:13.600 --> 01:29:17.040 The church of the living God is what the Bible says right here, right? 01:29:17.040 --> 01:29:20.080 1st Timothy 3, verse number 15. 01:29:20.080 --> 01:29:23.440 And again, I told you there's caveats, so just, I'm a reasonable person, 01:29:23.440 --> 01:29:26.600 so believe the reasonability, okay, of me. 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:29.720 But 1st Timothy 3, verse number 15. 01:29:30.300 --> 01:29:34.980 As I already said, when you can go to church, you should go to church. 01:29:34.980 --> 01:29:39.940 And that using excuses like this to skip church is not a valid reason not to go to church 01:29:39.940 --> 01:29:41.460 is what I'm submitting to you. 01:29:41.460 --> 01:29:44.140 Just not feeling like you don't want to go to church is not a good reason is what I'm 01:29:44.140 --> 01:29:44.640 telling you. 01:29:45.400 --> 01:29:51.560 1st Timothy 315 it says, but if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest behave thyself in the house of god, 01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:56.600 which is the church of the living god, the pillar and ground of the truth. 01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:58.520 Two things I want to point out to you from this verse. 01:29:58.520 --> 01:30:03.720 Number one is that the Bible says that the church is the pillar and ground of the truth. 01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:05.720 And that reminds me of something I'm gonna... 01:30:06.400 --> 01:30:09.180 That I was studying out for as I should say my John four sermon 01:30:09.220 --> 01:30:14.700 You don't have to turn here but listen to the verse in John 4 24 when Jesus Christ is talking to the the woman at the well 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:19.920 He says God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in 01:30:20.580 --> 01:30:24.900 Truth, right? So if we have to worship God in spirit and in truth 01:30:25.500 --> 01:30:29.940 and the church is the pillar and ground of the truth, 01:30:29.940 --> 01:30:32.980 then how could you try to say that you're gonna serve God 01:30:32.980 --> 01:30:35.380 to the best of your ability without being at the pillar 01:30:35.380 --> 01:30:37.020 and ground of the truth? 01:30:37.020 --> 01:30:38.260 It's not possible. 01:30:38.260 --> 01:30:39.940 So all these people that are, 01:30:39.940 --> 01:30:40.780 you don't need to go to church, 01:30:40.780 --> 01:30:41.860 no, you do need to go to church 01:30:41.860 --> 01:30:43.220 because our flesh is sinful 01:30:43.220 --> 01:30:45.340 and because this world wears on us every day. 01:30:45.340 --> 01:30:46.220 And when you come to church, 01:30:46.220 --> 01:30:48.780 it's like a safe haven from all the filth 01:30:48.780 --> 01:30:50.460 and the disgust of this world. 01:30:50.460 --> 01:30:52.540 And it gets you to, so you can re, you know, 01:30:52.540 --> 01:30:53.500 wash your mind and be... 01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:58.400 renewed in your spirit and be renewed in your thinking church should anchor 01:30:58.400 --> 01:31:01.420 you as a Christian. You go out into the world and everybody's crazy and you come 01:31:01.420 --> 01:31:04.740 back and you're like, Oh fine, we have sanity. We have people that believe in 01:31:04.740 --> 01:31:08.020 one of God. We have people that know the difference between a man and a woman. We 01:31:08.020 --> 01:31:10.980 have people that believe that you can't just change your gender on the fly. 01:31:12.260 --> 01:31:12.940 Hmm. 01:31:13.200 --> 01:31:17.100 John 4.4 is where I didn't have you guys go there. You guys are there staying there in first Timothy 3 15 01:31:17.100 --> 01:31:17.380 Okay 01:31:17.380 --> 01:31:22.780 The second thing I want to point out to you about this verse was this is that notice here that God calls church a building 01:31:22.860 --> 01:31:28.220 Okay, but what it says it says but if I carry long that thou mayest know how thou 01:31:28.220 --> 01:31:34.320 Wants to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God 01:31:34.320 --> 01:31:39.980 I point this out because sometimes people will say things like you know, the building isn't the church. We're the church 01:31:39.980 --> 01:31:41.200 This is this 01:31:41.200 --> 01:31:41.700 Jesus! 01:31:41.800 --> 01:31:43.800 Half of that's true. We are the church as well. 01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:45.800 But the other half is not true. 01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:47.800 The building is also the church. 01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:49.800 Isn't that what the verse says? 01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:51.800 I've heard that echoed a lot in my life though from sermons. 01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:53.800 And it's not true. Look what it says. 01:31:53.800 --> 01:31:56.800 It says, how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God. 01:31:56.800 --> 01:31:58.800 That's the church. 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:00.800 Which is the church of the living God. 01:32:00.800 --> 01:32:02.800 That means that the building is the church as well. 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:04.800 And obviously if you don't have a building, 01:32:04.800 --> 01:32:06.800 we understand you can still be a church, okay? 01:32:06.800 --> 01:32:09.800 But this is what I'm saying to you, is that people try to use this to justify... 01:32:09.800 --> 01:32:13.800 not going to church though. They'll be like, you don't got to go to a building, 01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:17.800 we're the church. When I go out in the nature, that's my church. No, it's not. 01:32:17.800 --> 01:32:20.800 That's nature, dude. Unless you're going out to meet in the church in the 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:23.800 wilderness, okay? Like the tournament is real, okay? If unless you're planning 01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:27.800 that, you're not going to church. You're hunting, you're fishing, you're hiking. 01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:31.800 That's not church though. And it's blasphemous to say that it is church, truly. 01:32:31.800 --> 01:32:36.800 It's blasphemous to try to say that whatever you want church to be, that's what it is. 01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:37.800 No, you don't get a pic- 01:32:37.800 --> 01:32:39.640 what the definitions are in the Bible. 01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:41.600 God defines things as he pleases in the Bible. 01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:44.000 And what church is, is not hunting, 01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:46.080 is not fishing, is not hiking. 01:32:46.080 --> 01:32:48.240 It is believers, like-minded believers, 01:32:48.240 --> 01:32:51.280 gathering together to worship Jesus Christ 01:32:51.280 --> 01:32:52.840 and to hear preaching from the Bible. 01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:54.080 That's what church is. 01:32:56.640 --> 01:32:58.800 Go back to Hebrews 10 verse number 24, okay? 01:32:58.800 --> 01:33:00.800 Hebrews 10 verse number 24. 01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:02.800 I told you to keep your finger there, hopefully you did. 01:33:07.400 --> 01:33:10.360 And by the way, do you know why the church is called the church? The building? 01:33:10.360 --> 01:33:15.080 Because the church is supposed to meet in the church. That's why it got its name. 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:20.280 That's not rocket science, right? But that's why it's called the church that we meet in, 01:33:20.280 --> 01:33:23.560 because the church is supposed to be meeting in the building. 01:33:24.700 --> 01:33:30.940 So the first essential of this sermon, okay, is that we should be going to church. 01:33:30.940 --> 01:33:34.700 Why is church essential? Because it is a commandment of God. 01:33:34.700 --> 01:33:37.740 The second point was because it's essential for growth. 01:33:37.740 --> 01:33:41.340 It's gross. For growth. Growth is kind of an increase if you think about it, okay? 01:33:41.340 --> 01:33:44.300 But not the thing I was thinking about, okay? Growth, okay? 01:33:44.300 --> 01:33:48.700 But then the third reason is because we need each other as Christians, okay? 01:33:48.700 --> 01:33:51.020 Look at the Bible. It says in Hebrews 10, 24, it says, 01:33:51.020 --> 01:33:52.700 and let us consider 01:33:52.700 --> 01:33:54.800 one another. 01:33:54.800 --> 01:33:57.800 to provoke unto love and to good works, 01:33:57.800 --> 01:34:00.440 not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as a matter of some is, 01:34:00.440 --> 01:34:05.280 but exhorting one another in so much the more as you see the day approaching. 01:34:05.280 --> 01:34:08.640 I've been reading Hebrews 10.25 for a lot of this sermon, 01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:11.160 but this is the first time I jump back to show you the context. 01:34:11.160 --> 01:34:15.500 What the context shows about this verse is that Paul's argument here is very interesting, 01:34:15.500 --> 01:34:18.320 that he doesn't say to go to church because it's for edification, 01:34:18.320 --> 01:34:20.480 though you should as you see from other passages. 01:34:20.480 --> 01:34:22.800 He didn't say to go to church for any other reason. 01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:27.440 And besides this, he says, so that we can consider one another and provoke each other 01:34:27.440 --> 01:34:28.640 under good works. 01:34:28.640 --> 01:34:30.160 You know why we need church? 01:34:30.160 --> 01:34:34.280 Because I need people to provoke me to good works and you need people to provoke you to 01:34:34.280 --> 01:34:35.360 good works. 01:34:35.360 --> 01:34:41.240 Because our natural estate as Christians is to decay, not to increase and to grow is what 01:34:41.240 --> 01:34:42.240 you should understand. 01:34:42.240 --> 01:34:48.080 That if you are just left to yourself, you will stop growing and you'll even worse, you'll 01:34:48.080 --> 01:34:50.180 wither as a Christian. 01:34:50.180 --> 01:34:50.800 That is why. 01:34:50.800 --> 01:34:54.840 God has ordained, this is part of the reason why I should say, that God's ordained the 01:34:54.840 --> 01:35:00.700 church for us so that we could provoke each other unto good works. And I want you 01:35:00.700 --> 01:35:05.000 to notice that phrase as well. What does he say? He says, and let us consider one 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:05.800 another. 01:35:05.900 --> 01:35:08.900 Like, wouldn't a God be able to meditate on that and just think about that? 01:35:08.900 --> 01:35:10.900 That the verse says, consider one another. 01:35:10.900 --> 01:35:13.900 What he's trying to say is that life is not all about you. 01:35:13.900 --> 01:35:16.900 What you do doesn't just affect you, it affects the people around you. 01:35:16.900 --> 01:35:19.900 And he's saying that when you go to church, you're supposed to see other people 01:35:19.900 --> 01:35:21.900 in the body of Christ and consider them. 01:35:21.900 --> 01:35:23.900 Consider their needs. 01:35:23.900 --> 01:35:25.900 And you should consider going to church in the first place 01:35:25.900 --> 01:35:28.900 because the other people in the body of Christ need you, 01:35:28.900 --> 01:35:30.900 is what he's saying in this passage. 01:35:30.900 --> 01:35:33.900 That everything that we do in our life should not just be revolved around 01:35:33.900 --> 01:35:37.040 What do I think what's best? What do God you consider? 01:35:37.560 --> 01:35:43.940 Someone else besides yourself you consider one another like this verse says that we consider each other as Christians as 01:35:44.220 --> 01:35:49.040 Members in the body of Christ and think about the analogy there the body of Christ 01:35:49.040 --> 01:35:51.040 I mean we say that a lot, but why does he say that because 01:35:51.700 --> 01:35:57.140 He uses the analogy that like Christ is the head and then we're like the body parts basically 01:35:57.140 --> 01:36:02.980 of Christ within the church and the reason he draws that is to say that like when one body part 01:36:02.980 --> 01:36:09.460 hurts when one member hurts we all suffer because of it and he also uses to say that when one member 01:36:09.460 --> 01:36:15.220 isn't keeping up their end of the work it hurts not just them it hurts the entire body is what he says. 01:36:16.400 --> 01:36:20.480 And what do God realize like when they when you just like don't go to church because you don't feel like it 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:26.240 It's not just you because people think people can justify things when it just hurts them, but this is not how church is 01:36:27.200 --> 01:36:33.520 This affects everybody because we are all members that god has placed inside the body of christ is what he is 01:36:33.840 --> 01:36:35.840 Teaching us in this passage. Okay? 01:36:36.160 --> 01:36:38.260 And and we should just realize as christians as well 01:36:39.100 --> 01:36:43.900 Because I brought this up before but I'll continue to bring it up because I have no shame in bringing this up because 01:36:43.900 --> 01:36:47.980 This is like the whole theme of the whole Bible is thinking about other people and not just thinking about yourself 01:36:47.980 --> 01:36:51.020 Think about the fact that the second greatest commandment is what? 01:36:51.020 --> 01:36:56.140 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. What is that? It's considering someone besides just yourself 01:36:56.140 --> 01:37:01.820 And we only have our salvation because God didn't just consider himself, he considered us as well 01:37:01.820 --> 01:37:07.100 Because in Hebrews it says what is man that thou art mindful of him? That means that God thought of him 01:37:07.100 --> 01:37:13.180 about us that that God as great and powerful and mighty as he is still did 01:37:13.180 --> 01:37:17.140 not just think about himself he thought about us as well and so much to the 01:37:17.140 --> 01:37:20.700 point that we can now be adopted into his family and called his children if 01:37:20.700 --> 01:37:25.100 we believe on Jesus Christ so in the message that we should get from these 01:37:25.100 --> 01:37:29.140 things is this is that if God didn't just consider himself then you should 01:37:29.140 --> 01:37:32.780 not just consider yourself as a Christian because God thought of us we 01:37:32.780 --> 01:37:35.000 should think of other people as well 01:37:35.500 --> 01:37:39.900 But it's kind of hard to consider a brother in Christ if they never show up to church 01:37:39.900 --> 01:37:41.780 that you consider them in the first place. 01:37:41.780 --> 01:37:45.340 It's hard to be provoked under good works when you won't show up to church in the first 01:37:45.340 --> 01:37:46.340 place. 01:37:46.340 --> 01:37:50.580 It's hard to provoke other people under good works when you don't go to church in the 01:37:50.580 --> 01:37:51.860 first place. 01:37:51.860 --> 01:37:52.860 These are things that we should consider. 01:37:52.860 --> 01:37:55.780 This is the commandment of God that he says to consider one another. 01:37:55.780 --> 01:37:58.500 Go to Proverbs 22 verse number 6. 01:37:58.500 --> 01:38:02.580 Proverbs 22 verse number 6. 01:38:03.300 --> 01:38:07.180 Again, do I tell you guys these things to shame you know I tell you guys these things because again 01:38:07.180 --> 01:38:10.100 I care about you because there's so many benefits to church 01:38:10.100 --> 01:38:13.260 It's not just the preaching though the preaching is important 01:38:13.340 --> 01:38:17.180 There's a bigger picture at play because think about it because I didn't bring this up earlier 01:38:17.180 --> 01:38:22.460 But something that bugs me too about why people won't go to churches because they'll be like I just don't do organized religion 01:38:22.580 --> 01:38:28.040 It's like well, then you just don't do religion at all because the God of the Bible is a God of order 01:38:28.080 --> 01:38:31.260 That's why if in in first Corinthians, he says let all 01:38:31.300 --> 01:38:34.140 things be done decently and in order. 01:38:34.140 --> 01:38:35.760 Because God is not just for chaos. 01:38:35.760 --> 01:38:37.620 He's not just for disorganization. 01:38:37.620 --> 01:38:41.580 He's a God that took chaos and made it organization, right? 01:38:41.580 --> 01:38:43.540 He's a God that sets things in motion 01:38:43.540 --> 01:38:45.900 and that perfects things that doesn't make them 01:38:45.900 --> 01:38:47.700 all disorganized and crazy, right? 01:38:47.700 --> 01:38:50.020 You guys are going to Proverbs 22, verse number six. 01:38:50.020 --> 01:38:50.980 Okay, we're getting towards the end of the sermon. 01:38:50.980 --> 01:38:52.100 Stay with me, okay? 01:38:52.100 --> 01:38:54.800 Proverbs 22, verse number six. 01:38:55.400 --> 01:38:59.400 and just consider the fact, oh that's what I was talking about the disorganized, the like yeah like 01:38:59.400 --> 01:39:02.840 what do you want then? You not organized religion, you want disorganized religion. You know what they 01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:06.680 really mean by that though is they just mean I want to serve God in whatever way I want to and 01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:10.680 I don't want you to say anything about it. That's what they really mean. They just mean that they 01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:15.320 don't like actually having standards, they don't actually being like, they don't like being provoked 01:39:15.320 --> 01:39:19.080 into good works, they don't have that, they don't like actually having to follow what the Bible says, 01:39:19.080 --> 01:39:23.160 they just want to do whatever they want to do in the name of God and there's no... 01:39:23.400 --> 01:39:27.800 thing and that's what people have always done. That they just think about Aaron makes the 01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:32.880 golden calf, think about Jeroboam, he makes the golden calfs in the Old Testament because 01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:36.960 people just want to make Christianity whatever they want to. They want to serve God however 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:41.600 they want to but that's not how it works. You should serve God the way he wants you 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:45.900 to serve him. Proverbs 22 verse number 6. 01:39:46.200 --> 01:39:49.640 there's another thing that we should be considering because I'm talking about not considering just 01:39:49.640 --> 01:39:54.120 yourself you should also not just even outside of your house but you should consider your children 01:39:54.120 --> 01:39:57.480 as well and consider your spouse as well when it comes to considering people because 01:39:57.480 --> 01:40:02.680 Proverbs 22 6 it says train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart 01:40:02.680 --> 01:40:08.520 from it I'm sure that I speak like for everybody in here that has kids okay when I say this but like 01:40:08.520 --> 01:40:12.440 my kids turning out as God-fearing Bible-believing 01:40:13.100 --> 01:40:17.900 Christians is like one of the most important things to me in this entire world. 01:40:17.900 --> 01:40:24.200 Like what would it mean to kindle a relationship with my children and to watch them grow up if I knew that their end was to go to hell one day. 01:40:24.200 --> 01:40:25.400 It'd be heartbreaking, right? 01:40:26.400 --> 01:40:29.800 But because I think about this, I also consider like... 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:36.000 How is what I do going to affect my kids and what future do I want for my kids in the first place? 01:40:36.000 --> 01:40:40.000 These are things that are super important for you to consider and not just like a broad like 01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:44.560 I hope my kids turn out good. We all hope our kids, does anybody want their kids to turn out bad? 01:40:44.560 --> 01:40:47.040 Okay you'd have to get yourself checked if you think that as well. 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:52.420 Everybody wants a kid to turn out good, but what does that mean? Like to me it means this that I want my kids 01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:57.400 To read their Bible every day. I want them to love God with all their heart soul mind strength, obviously 01:40:57.400 --> 01:41:01.000 I want them to love their neighbors of itself. I want them to be praying every day 01:41:01.000 --> 01:41:05.480 I want them to be soul winners and I want them to be faithful to a local church 01:41:05.940 --> 01:41:11.540 These are things that I think that if they do they'll do well because these are the essentials for us as Christians. Okay? 01:41:12.200 --> 01:41:17.600 And I want them to do these things so because I want that though and because I want this for their future 01:41:18.440 --> 01:41:21.120 I realized this that if I want my kids to turn out that way 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:25.000 I can't just tell them to do that I need to show them how to do these things 01:41:25.000 --> 01:41:28.040 So it motivates me as well where I'm like not just like hey 01:41:28.040 --> 01:41:31.760 Ty is a greener, you better read the Bible, they can't even read yet okay but in theory okay 01:41:31.760 --> 01:41:33.760 Winter Reed pick up the Bible for you 01:41:33.760 --> 01:41:37.760 It's because the King James Stozer though that these and that was just way too hard for him 01:41:37.760 --> 01:41:39.600 But it's like 01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:42.480 It's like, I'm gonna say, like, I don't just say, hey, read the Bible. 01:41:42.480 --> 01:41:45.320 We take our Bible at home and we read the Bible to our kids, 01:41:45.320 --> 01:41:49.400 because I want them to know that this is the most important thing in the world. 01:41:49.400 --> 01:41:52.160 And when we talk, when we go to bed at night, we don't just go to bed. 01:41:52.160 --> 01:41:55.560 We pray to God, because I want them to know that there's a God out there that 01:41:55.560 --> 01:41:58.000 will answer the requests of their heart if they go to him in faith. 01:41:58.400 --> 01:42:01.120 I don't just try to leave that home out soul-wanting. 01:42:01.120 --> 01:42:03.520 I try to take it out soul-wanting so they can hear the gospel preach 01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:06.120 and so they can see what God wants us to be doing, 01:42:06.120 --> 01:42:08.560 which is going into all the world and preaching the gospel. 01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:11.800 And I don't just tell them, hey, you should be faithful to go to church. 01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:13.720 We are faithful in going to church. 01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:14.440 Why? 01:42:14.440 --> 01:42:16.400 Because I want them to be the same way. 01:42:16.400 --> 01:42:22.280 Because just saying that you should do something to a kid doesn't mean anything. 01:42:22.280 --> 01:42:24.720 Kids look for your actions as a parent, OK? 01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:27.520 Like the analogy that I would use, people are pretty common, OK? 01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:30.960 It's like the parents that will be smoking, and they're like, you know what, Junior? 01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:31.460 Pfft. 01:42:32.400 --> 01:42:36.160 don't smoke like me one day. It's not a really compelling argument. 01:42:36.160 --> 01:42:39.440 It's not really convincing. Don't be like me. They smoke the cigarette. It's like, 01:42:39.440 --> 01:42:43.360 if you want them not to smoke, then you know what? You shouldn't smoke in front of them either. 01:42:43.360 --> 01:42:48.080 Imagine that. If you don't want your kids to be doing drugs or addicted to alcohol, 01:42:48.080 --> 01:42:51.360 you shouldn't be doing those things either. But the same is true when it comes to church, 01:42:51.360 --> 01:42:55.120 that if you want your kids to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, 01:42:55.120 --> 01:42:59.600 then you should show them that. First, be an example to your own children. 01:43:00.400 --> 01:43:03.960 submit to you as a parent, okay? Because I want you to understand, and this is 01:43:03.960 --> 01:43:06.280 crucial and this is what we're gonna basically end the sermon at, so stick with 01:43:06.280 --> 01:43:12.460 me, okay? That what you desire for your kids in your heart doesn't equate to 01:43:12.460 --> 01:43:17.000 what you actually show them. Understand what I just said. What you desire, your 01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:18.800 intentions for your kids... 01:43:18.900 --> 01:43:22.900 does not equal what you actually show them in your life. 01:43:22.900 --> 01:43:24.100 What do I mean by that? 01:43:24.100 --> 01:43:25.900 I mean this, that I can say, 01:43:25.900 --> 01:43:27.300 again, kind of like this one example, it's like, 01:43:27.300 --> 01:43:29.900 I can say, you know, what I really want to lose weight. 01:43:29.900 --> 01:43:31.100 And I can mean that in my heart. 01:43:31.100 --> 01:43:33.100 I mean, I really want to lose weight. 01:43:33.500 --> 01:43:37.740 But then if none of my actions follow, like I'm not counting my calories, I'm not going to the gym, 01:43:37.740 --> 01:43:43.340 I'm just, you know, slamming cake and donuts and ice cream, then what does the desire of my heart mean? 01:43:43.340 --> 01:43:46.140 My actions don't reflect the desire of my heart. You guys follow what I'm saying? 01:43:46.780 --> 01:43:48.300 And I bring this up because... 01:43:48.600 --> 01:43:49.920 This is the truth, this is true. 01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:51.720 And I'm sure that if you grew up in Baptist churches, 01:43:51.720 --> 01:43:53.080 like I did, I've grown up in a lot of different Baptist 01:43:53.080 --> 01:43:54.200 churches, OK? 01:43:54.200 --> 01:43:56.560 That you've seen this kind of idea play out 01:43:56.560 --> 01:43:57.880 that I'm going to set forth to you. 01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:01.120 That there's parents in churches sometimes that'll be like, 01:44:01.120 --> 01:44:03.800 I really want my kids to turn out good. 01:44:03.800 --> 01:44:05.680 And I believe them in their heart. 01:44:05.680 --> 01:44:07.520 Like, I believe that that's what they actually 01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:08.600 want in their heart. 01:44:09.400 --> 01:44:13.080 But then the example that they show their kids is the opposite of everything that they say. 01:44:13.080 --> 01:44:17.000 Because they might have said that church was important, but then they were hit or missed, 01:44:17.000 --> 01:44:21.000 the church. And they might have said that the Bible is important, but then they would just 01:44:21.000 --> 01:44:24.680 loophole commandments when they didn't want to obey them. Or they might have said that 01:44:25.240 --> 01:44:30.280 God is like the most important thing in this world, but then their action showed their kids 01:44:30.280 --> 01:44:33.160 otherwise. And this is straight from the Bible itself. Look what it says in Matthew, 01:44:33.160 --> 01:44:35.160 you guys aren't even there, but just listen to what it says. It says, 01:44:35.160 --> 01:44:37.400 This people draw nine feet with their mouth. 01:44:37.400 --> 01:44:40.200 and honored me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 01:44:40.200 --> 01:44:41.800 This idea is 100% true. 01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:43.960 You can really want something in your heart, 01:44:43.960 --> 01:44:47.720 but if your actions don't match it, it means nothing at the end of the day. 01:44:47.720 --> 01:44:50.760 And how I would apply this, like I was just saying, with the kids is that 01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:53.800 there were lots of parents in the Baptist churches that I grew up in, 01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:55.640 where their kids would go off into the world. 01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:58.360 I tell you this, the first Baptist church I went to... 01:44:59.900 --> 01:45:07.340 I would say like one kid out of probably like the 25 kids that I knew turned out to actually be like 01:45:07.340 --> 01:45:11.340 God-fearing, Bible-believing, King James only Christians. Everybody else went into the world 01:45:11.340 --> 01:45:17.820 or went into like super weak sauce Christian denominations. It's like why did that happen though? 01:45:17.820 --> 01:45:22.380 Because their parents were taking you to the church, their parents were having them here, 01:45:22.380 --> 01:45:24.540 King James only preaching, why'd they go off into the world? 01:45:25.400 --> 01:45:28.680 I'd submit, I mean there's a lot of reasons we can't always pinpoint all these things down, 01:45:28.680 --> 01:45:33.720 but I'd submit to you that what I'd see from all of these parents is that they would say they want 01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:38.040 their kids to do well, but then they wouldn't give them the tools to actually succeed. They 01:45:38.040 --> 01:45:42.680 wouldn't give them the example to actually succeed. Like I was telling you earlier, like they'd be like 01:45:42.900 --> 01:45:46.660 Mike if these kids when they go out the world they'd be like I didn't raise my kids that way 01:45:46.660 --> 01:45:47.780 But it's like right look at them 01:45:47.780 --> 01:45:53.020 They're like you did though you taught them that the Bible wasn't really that important if you didn't like what it said you taught them 01:45:53.020 --> 01:45:56.860 That if there was something else that popped up in your life that church would you just cast it by the wayside 01:45:56.980 --> 01:46:02.420 You taught them that whatever it is in your life as long as it doesn't suit you that you could put it above God Almighty 01:46:02.940 --> 01:46:08.820 How do they teach him that though not by telling them that because what parent would they taught them by their actions though? 01:46:08.820 --> 01:46:10.820 Is what I'd submit to you by not 01:46:10.900 --> 01:46:12.920 following what their heart actually wanted. 01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:14.860 Because like I said, I believe in their hearts 01:46:14.860 --> 01:46:16.360 they wanted those kids to turn out well, 01:46:16.360 --> 01:46:18.320 but it's not enough just to desire that. 01:46:18.320 --> 01:46:19.960 You actually have to lead your children. 01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:21.640 You have to train them up in the way that they should go 01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:23.440 is what the Bible says here. 01:46:23.440 --> 01:46:25.200 So as a parent, I tell you this, 01:46:25.200 --> 01:46:28.160 because again, I say I care about the people in this room. 01:46:28.160 --> 01:46:30.720 I get sick and tired of seeing that story 01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:33.240 and I hope it doesn't repeat itself in this room. 01:46:33.240 --> 01:46:34.920 That I hate when people do this, 01:46:34.920 --> 01:46:36.160 they do the same song and dance 01:46:36.160 --> 01:46:37.700 and they're just like, what did I do wrong? 01:46:37.800 --> 01:46:41.800 It's like we don't always know these things, but I'd say this, that that verse, what does 01:46:41.800 --> 01:46:45.800 he say when he says that raise up a child the way they should go? That's a general statement. 01:46:45.800 --> 01:46:49.880 What does that mean? That more often than not, that that's what's going to be the case, right? 01:46:49.880 --> 01:46:53.800 It means that more often than not, that's going to be the case. 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:57.200 Because if this verse doesn't have any promise to it, then what's the point of putting the Bible in the first place, huh? 01:46:57.400 --> 01:47:03.120 It's there to encourage you to raise your children up because when your children, like Brother Jason was just preaching, when your children are young, 01:47:03.200 --> 01:47:07.700 that's when they're the most impressionable and that's when you should be teaching. Doesn't the Bible say that in Deuteronomy? 01:47:07.700 --> 01:47:11.120 It's like hey, when they're young you're supposed to teach the statutes of God. 01:47:11.120 --> 01:47:15.740 You're supposed to be teaching them the walk in the ways of the Lord. From their youth, they're supposed to be learning these things, okay? 01:47:16.800 --> 01:47:20.640 Get it in the end of the summer, go to Proverbs 27 verse 17, this is the last place I'll 01:47:20.640 --> 01:47:21.640 return, okay? 01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:25.160 Proverbs 27 verse 17. 01:47:25.160 --> 01:47:31.000 Talking about church being essential and about considering other people than besides just 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:32.000 yourself. 01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:34.360 Hey, go to church for your sake, it's good for you. 01:47:34.360 --> 01:47:38.560 Go to church because your brethren need you, but go to church because your children need 01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:39.560 you as well. 01:47:39.560 --> 01:47:43.240 And they need a good example as parents. 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:46.680 And it's not to say that we're all going to be perfect because nobody's going to be perfect. 01:47:46.680 --> 01:47:50.360 But you know what? Through my parents' flaws, you know what I always saw from them at the end of the 01:47:50.360 --> 01:47:54.920 day? I saw that they loved God always at the end of the day and I always saw that they loved me 01:47:54.920 --> 01:48:00.200 and my siblings as well at the end of the day. It was never in question. Even when they slipped up, 01:48:00.200 --> 01:48:02.840 even when they did things that they'd be embarrassed if I said from behind the 01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:07.160 pulpit right now, you know what I still always knew to this day? My parents love God though, 01:48:07.160 --> 01:48:11.320 and they love me and they want the best for me. This is what we need to impart under our kids. 01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:16.140 It's very important that we take this seriously 01:48:16.140 --> 01:48:17.340 so that you don't just. 01:48:17.900 --> 01:48:19.900 Let your kids go off into the world. 01:48:19.900 --> 01:48:21.900 Proverbs 27 verse number 17, it says, 01:48:21.900 --> 01:48:24.900 iron sharpeth iron, so a man sharpeth the countenance of his friend. 01:48:24.900 --> 01:48:27.900 There's a last thing that I'd say about all these things is that 01:48:27.900 --> 01:48:29.900 there's many verses like this in the Bible, 01:48:29.900 --> 01:48:31.900 like when the Bible says a three-fold cord is not quickly broken, 01:48:31.900 --> 01:48:35.900 or it says that two is better than one, for they have a good reward for their labor. 01:48:35.900 --> 01:48:38.900 There's an idea throughout the whole Bible, even from the time of Genesis, 01:48:38.900 --> 01:48:41.900 when he says it's not good for a man to be alone, right? 01:48:41.900 --> 01:48:43.900 That we need each other. 01:48:43.900 --> 01:48:45.900 And that's what church is supposed to be. 01:48:45.900 --> 01:48:50.860 be like a support for each other so that we can consider one another so that we 01:48:50.860 --> 01:48:55.280 can bear each other's burden is not what the Bible says as well. So it's important 01:48:55.280 --> 01:48:59.140 for these three reasons that I'll close that a lot of times church is really 01:48:59.140 --> 01:49:02.700 good for balancing out doctrine because me and brother Brian were just talking about this 01:49:02.700 --> 01:49:07.000 yesterday. Sometimes, I wouldn't even say sometimes, I'd say this. 01:49:07.200 --> 01:49:11.200 What you're going to understand, what you're going to see from the Bible is going to be kind of, 01:49:11.200 --> 01:49:14.480 I wouldn't say like a set amount of things, but I'd say like when people come to the Bible, 01:49:14.480 --> 01:49:18.080 it's amazing how different people can come to different conclusions from different chapters, 01:49:18.080 --> 01:49:22.080 right? They can see different pictures, they can see things that jumped out to them that didn't 01:49:22.080 --> 01:49:27.600 jump out to you. This is a huge reason why church is important because there's passages 01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:32.480 that I probably would never preach the same sermon on as someone else in this room, 01:49:32.480 --> 01:49:34.480 but that would have needed to be preached, okay? 01:49:35.200 --> 01:49:39.200 because that's a benefit of the diversity of the body of Christ, 01:49:39.200 --> 01:49:43.200 that we need lots of people coming at the Bible 01:49:43.200 --> 01:49:46.200 because the scripture of the Bible says it's not a private interpretation, right? 01:49:46.200 --> 01:49:49.200 So sometimes though people come up with private interpretations, 01:49:49.200 --> 01:49:51.200 and you need other people to balance you out and be like, 01:49:51.200 --> 01:49:53.200 Whoa, partner, like slow down there. 01:49:53.200 --> 01:49:55.200 That's not what that passage is saying, right? 01:49:55.200 --> 01:49:57.200 I'm sure we've all had those moments, okay? 01:49:57.200 --> 01:50:01.200 Same thing with sin though, that also church is really good for us, 01:50:01.200 --> 01:50:03.200 that it can help us for a few things. 01:50:03.200 --> 01:50:06.540 Help us to realize the gravity of our sin, 01:50:06.540 --> 01:50:08.380 because as humans, you know what we like to do a lot? 01:50:08.380 --> 01:50:10.540 We like to downplay our own sins 01:50:10.540 --> 01:50:13.080 and then maximize everybody else's sins, right? 01:50:13.080 --> 01:50:14.200 Like when someone else doesn't end up, 01:50:14.200 --> 01:50:15.580 they're a wicked sinner, but then when you do it, 01:50:15.580 --> 01:50:19.100 you're like, I just kind of stumbled into this sin, okay? 01:50:19.100 --> 01:50:20.400 That's what we need to balance though, to be like, 01:50:20.400 --> 01:50:21.920 hey, we need to look at the, 01:50:21.920 --> 01:50:23.720 we need someone else to get up and hammer on things 01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:26.720 from the Bible sometimes that you would justify to yourself 01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:28.500 because you do those things. 01:50:28.500 --> 01:50:30.640 Like, it's like the person who's backbiting 01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:31.200 probably doesn't wanna- 01:50:31.200 --> 01:50:35.200 preach on backbiting is what I'd say, but then if someone else comes and really hammers on that 01:50:35.200 --> 01:50:40.000 subject, it might convict you, right? There's another reason why we need each other as church, 01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:44.880 and we also need to lastly for encouragement as well. That like sometimes in this life, 01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:49.680 this world's hard and the world beats us up sometimes, and we need a support group of people 01:50:49.680 --> 01:50:55.840 to go back to and refresh our minds, like I was saying earlier, and to get back into the good 01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:59.200 spirits from the Lord God, right? To get back into like... 01:50:59.200 --> 01:51:02.880 joy and peace because we're supposed to rejoice ever more is what the Bible says, right? 01:51:02.880 --> 01:51:06.160 And your brothers and sisters of Christ should be helping you to do these things, which I'd 01:51:06.160 --> 01:51:09.000 say that as well that church isn't supposed to just be about the preaching, you know what 01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:10.280 you're supposed to do after church? 01:51:10.280 --> 01:51:13.740 You're supposed to fellowship with people as well for that very reason. 01:51:13.740 --> 01:51:17.000 Because if you're just like coming to church and then you just like bolt out the door as 01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:20.360 soon as it's over, it's like, well, then it's kind of hard to have someone else provoke 01:51:20.360 --> 01:51:21.740 you to good works, right? 01:51:21.740 --> 01:51:24.900 Or that you for you to provoke someone else to good works or for you to even know what's 01:51:24.900 --> 01:51:27.160 going on in someone's life. 01:51:27.200 --> 01:51:29.200 so that you could pray for him in the first place. 01:51:29.200 --> 01:51:31.200 But anyways, a close of these things, okay? 01:51:31.900 --> 01:51:35.140 The first point my sermon why Church Ascended because it's a command from God 01:51:35.340 --> 01:51:40.640 Point number two is because it's necessary for growth and point number three is because we need each other as Christians 01:51:40.700 --> 01:51:45.460 We need each other just as a body needs all of its different body parts 01:51:45.460 --> 01:51:49.060 we need each other because we are members of the body of Christ and 01:51:50.020 --> 01:51:53.080 We can't go through this world alone. God did not design us to be like that 01:51:53.080 --> 01:51:55.240 That's why he says it's not good for a man to be alone 01:51:55.420 --> 01:51:59.500 So hopefully these things were edifying to you guys and I hope you guys take the spirit of this sermon well 01:51:59.900 --> 01:52:03.500 to realize how important church is and how it should be in your life. Let's pray. 01:52:03.500 --> 01:52:06.940 Dear Father God, thank you so much for the day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. 01:52:06.940 --> 01:52:11.020 Thank you so much for the great blessings you give us, God. Thank you so much for the principles 01:52:11.020 --> 01:52:15.260 that we have in the Bible to look to, God, so that we're not just going out in this world blind, God, 01:52:15.260 --> 01:52:16.500 that we just don't. 01:52:16.700 --> 01:52:20.180 look at the things that are coming to us in life and have no idea what's going on. 01:52:20.180 --> 01:52:25.300 Praise your name that you give us the tools of the wisdom in the Bible and of the doctrines of the Bible 01:52:25.300 --> 01:52:27.980 so that we can find our way in this backward world. 01:52:27.980 --> 01:52:31.500 I just pray that we would understand how important church is to you God 01:52:31.500 --> 01:52:35.180 and how dangerous it is when we go off by ourselves and when we 01:52:35.180 --> 01:52:37.820 forsake the assembling together of ourselves God. 01:52:37.820 --> 01:52:41.500 I just pray that we would not only just come to church but that we would want to come to church 01:52:41.500 --> 01:52:44.620 to be edified and to do your work and to be perfected. 01:52:44.700 --> 01:52:48.500 through your word God. We pray all these things Jesus name we pray, amen. 01:52:53.500 --> 01:52:57.500 Alright, if you want to go ahead and take your himnoles, we're going to turn to page number 66. 01:53:01.300 --> 01:53:05.300 Page number 66 at Calvary. 01:53:09.780 --> 01:53:12.180 Page number 66. 01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:20.020 The years I spent in vanity and pride, 01:53:20.020 --> 01:53:24.420 Caring not my Lord was crucified, 01:53:24.420 --> 01:53:30.500 Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary. 01:53:32.400 --> 01:53:36.240 Mercy there was great and grace was free. 01:53:36.240 --> 01:53:40.520 Pardon there was multiplied to me. 01:53:40.520 --> 01:53:45.360 There my burdened soul found liberty at hand. 01:53:50.400 --> 01:53:58.880 my sin I'd learn then I trembled at the lights burn till my guilty soul imploring 01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:16.120 on liberty at care. 01:54:20.900 --> 01:54:28.960 the true salvation's plan. Oh, the grace that brought it down to man. Oh, the mighty gulf 01:54:28.960 --> 01:54:32.100 that God did span at Calvary. 01:55:22.100 --> 01:55:25.100 everybody. Brother Ron, would you please close with some word of prayer? 01:55:25.100 --> 01:55:29.100 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you God for this great church, Lord, and everybody that came today. 01:55:29.100 --> 01:55:37.100 I pray God, we just want to give you thanks for a great church to go to in this book and I just pray God that you bless the fellowship after. 01:55:37.100 --> 01:55:38.100 In Jesus' name, Amen. 01:55:38.100 --> 01:55:39.100 Amen.