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Find your seats and grab your phone book and turn to page number 415. 12:39.800 --> 12:42.840 We're gonna be singing Victory Through Grace. 12:48.300 --> 12:52.300 Song 415, Victory Through Grace. 12:57.700 --> 12:58.540 2415. 13:04.600 --> 13:07.240 Sing it together on the first. 13:07.240 --> 13:11.640 Conquering now and still to conquer, 13:11.640 --> 13:15.800 right at the king in his mind. 13:15.800 --> 13:20.040 Leading the hosts of all of the faithful 13:20.040 --> 13:24.120 into the midst of the fight. 13:24.120 --> 13:28.280 See them with courage advancing, 13:28.280 --> 13:31.480 Clad in their brilliant terrain 13:32.300 --> 13:33.900 Shouting the name! 13:36.500 --> 13:40.740 hear them exultingly say 13:40.740 --> 13:45.060 not to the strong is the battle 13:45.060 --> 13:49.140 not to the swift is the race 13:49.140 --> 13:53.380 yet to the true and the faithful 13:53.380 --> 13:57.620 victory is promised through grace 13:57.620 --> 14:01.940 conquering now and still to conquer 14:01.940 --> 14:04.340 who is this wonderful 14:04.500 --> 14:16.260 King. Whence are the armies which he leadeth, while of his glory they sing. He is our Lord 14:16.260 --> 14:21.800 and Redeemer, Savior and Monarch, Deemer. 14:23.000 --> 14:27.240 They are the stars that forever 14:27.240 --> 14:31.500 Brighten his kingdom will shine 14:31.500 --> 14:35.840 Not to the strong is the battle 14:35.840 --> 14:40.000 Not to the swift is the race 14:40.000 --> 14:44.340 Yet to the true and the faithful 14:44.340 --> 14:48.540 Victory is promised through grace 14:48.540 --> 14:50.940 Conquering now and stay 14:51.000 --> 14:57.000 Hilt to conquer, Jesus thou ruler of all. 14:57.000 --> 15:01.000 Throats and their scepters all shall perish, 15:01.000 --> 15:05.000 Crowns and their splendors shall fall. 15:05.000 --> 15:10.000 Yet shall the armies thou leadest, 15:10.000 --> 15:13.900 Faithful and true to the last. 15:14.200 --> 15:22.920 Fond in thy mansions eternal, Rest when their warfare is past. 15:22.920 --> 15:31.280 Not to the strong is the battle, Not to the swift is the race, 15:31.280 --> 15:39.880 Yet to the true and the faithful, Victory is promised through grace. 15:39.880 --> 15:40.880 Amen. 15:40.880 --> 15:41.880 Good scene. 15:41.880 --> 15:42.200 Brother Ryan, could you help us with a little prayer? 15:42.880 --> 15:42.200 Amen. 15:42.200 --> 15:44.200 You're heavenly Father, thank you God. 15:59.400 --> 16:03.560 Amen or second song number 45 when I can read my title clear. 16:06.120 --> 16:09.160 Song number 45 when I can read my title clear. 16:15.900 --> 16:19.020 Song four or five, when I can read my title clear. 16:19.020 --> 16:22.660 Let's sing it together on the first. 16:22.660 --> 16:32.700 When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, 16:32.700 --> 16:41.460 I'll bid farewell to every fear and wipe my weeping eyes. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.700 my weeping 16:58.500 --> 17:14.300 my weeping eyes. Should earth against my soul engage and fiery darts be hurled, then I can 17:14.300 --> 17:21.700 smile at Satan's rage and face a frowning world. 17:22.400 --> 17:27.600 And face a frowning world 17:27.600 --> 17:32.200 And face a frowning world 17:37.300 --> 17:42.020 and face a frowning world. 17:42.020 --> 17:47.300 Let cares like a wild deluge come, 17:47.300 --> 17:52.020 and storms of sorrow fall. 17:52.020 --> 17:57.060 May I but safely reach my home, 17:57.060 --> 18:00.980 my God, my head, my all. 18:01.900 --> 18:05.700 My God, my heaven, my home 18:17.800 --> 18:19.800 my head my 18:22.200 --> 18:23.480 Where shall I? 18:26.000 --> 18:29.680 soul and seeds of heavenly 18:38.200 --> 18:52.400 peaceful breast across my peaceful breast across my peaceful breast and not 18:52.400 --> 19:01.100 a wave of trouble across my peaceful breast 19:01.100 --> 19:05.300 Amen. Good seeing this time. We'll have our announcements our verse of the week again is first John 19:05.960 --> 19:10.280 1 7 which says but if we walk in the light as he is in the light 19:10.320 --> 19:16.620 We have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin 19:16.740 --> 19:23.780 That's first John 1 7 we're here now at our Sunday evening service, which we're gonna be going through John chapter number 3 19:23.780 --> 19:27.500 I think it's gonna be part 3 of my series on the book of John 19:28.200 --> 19:31.800 And then on Wednesdays, as I said before, we're going to be going over part three of 19:31.800 --> 19:34.120 1 Corinthians 15. 19:34.500 --> 19:38.420 As far as soulening goes, did anybody get anybody saved out of soulening today? Not so okay. 19:38.420 --> 19:42.500 But hopefully, I mean, I shouldn't even say hopefully, I should just say this, that 19:42.500 --> 19:46.340 anytime we go out soulening, we're doing what God commands us to do, whether someone gets saved or 19:46.340 --> 19:50.420 not. It's people's choice to receive the gospel. So we should always keep that in mind that we 19:50.420 --> 19:54.020 always are successful when we're out soulening. We're just, when we don't get people saved, 19:54.020 --> 19:58.820 we're just absorbing the bad doors so that we can find the good doors next time. So always keep 19:58.820 --> 20:02.340 that in mind. But we have 108 for the year, praise God. So. Amen. 20:02.500 --> 20:08.500 We're already over our goal and I'm very interested to see how much further we can get over that. 20:08.500 --> 20:12.500 Especially when the school gets back in session and we start these college soul hunting marathons again. 20:12.500 --> 20:17.500 We can't do too crazy though because then we can't set the goal too high for the next year after that. 20:17.500 --> 20:19.500 So we've got to reel it in a little bit. 20:19.500 --> 20:21.500 But we'll see what we can do. 20:21.500 --> 20:24.500 Lord willing, we've still got a lot of the year left. 20:24.500 --> 20:26.500 We'll see what we can do. 20:26.500 --> 20:30.500 July through August, as I already said this morning, we have our soul awareness check. 20:30.500 --> 20:32.300 I think everybody's pretty much aware of that. 20:32.300 --> 20:34.940 And then August 22nd, we have our church barbecue 20:34.940 --> 20:35.840 at the Gravers house. 20:35.840 --> 20:39.300 So make sure you RSVP with Ms. Malena. 20:39.300 --> 20:41.780 And it says here that you can bring a dish to share 20:41.780 --> 20:43.780 or games or anything like that. 20:44.100 --> 20:49.100 But make sure you just let them know so that they can kind of plan accordingly who's going to be there August 22nd 20:49.540 --> 20:53.940 That's a Saturday. I believe yeah, and then August 25th. We have our homeschool days 20:53.940 --> 20:58.480 So if you're interested in going to that make sure you let my wife know that RSV with her that's at 11 a.m 20:59.220 --> 21:02.860 And they're gonna be doing homeschool kid things there. I can assure you 21:03.540 --> 21:07.220 As far as the memory challenge goes there's kind of technically an error here 21:07.220 --> 21:12.020 It should be August 1st to September 15th. You have a month and a half to 21:12.100 --> 21:15.340 learn Galatians chapter number one because this is I think the longest that 21:15.340 --> 21:18.780 we've had so far so and if you do that you'll get a prize for memorizing that 21:18.780 --> 21:21.580 all it's a great passage of scripture I mean the whole book of Galatians is 21:21.580 --> 21:26.660 really great but that that beginning chapters has a lot of good verses for 21:26.660 --> 21:33.400 the Mormons and and lots of other things like that even the Muslims as well but 21:33.500 --> 21:38.700 The Kid's Number verse, we'll taper it down for you guys, you only got one verse, okay? Proverbs 1-7, which is, 21:38.700 --> 21:44.500 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 21:44.500 --> 21:46.900 So tell that to my wife, you can get a piece of candy, kiddos. 21:46.900 --> 21:52.300 And then as far as birthday goes, we already sang Happy Birthday to Everybody this morning, 21:52.300 --> 21:59.800 so we'll save Rebecca Kutzar for next Wednesday or next Sunday when they're here. 21:59.800 --> 22:01.500 But for now, we'll just get into the... 22:01.500 --> 22:02.000 request. 23:45.600 --> 23:47.600 take my life and let it be. 23:49.700 --> 23:53.700 Song number 315, Take My Life and Let It Be. 24:01.800 --> 24:04.800 Song 315, let's sing it together on the first. 24:04.800 --> 24:10.300 Take my life and let it be 24:10.300 --> 24:15.300 Consecrated Lord to Thee 24:15.300 --> 24:17.900 Take my hands and let it be 24:29.500 --> 24:44.340 I love. Take my feet and let them be. Swift and beautiful for thee. Take my voice and 24:44.340 --> 24:47.500 let me sing. Oh. 25:17.700 --> 25:22.700 Let them flow in ceaseless praise 25:22.700 --> 25:25.600 Take my will and 25:28.700 --> 25:31.460 It shall be no longer 25:44.000 --> 25:47.280 It shall be thy royal 25:49.500 --> 25:51.500 Brother Ryan, could you bless the offering for us? 26:37.700 --> 26:43.300 Good afternoon. If you could take your Bibles with me and open up to John chapter 3. 26:44.580 --> 26:51.380 John chapter 3 is our text this evening and as always here at our church we read the entire chapter 26:51.380 --> 26:52.900 before the preaching. 26:55.700 --> 26:59.860 Follow along with me in John chapter 3 the Bible reads 27:00.420 --> 27:05.260 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews 27:05.340 --> 27:08.820 The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him 27:09.340 --> 27:13.080 Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God 27:13.580 --> 27:18.580 For no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him 27:19.100 --> 27:28.300 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Accept a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 27:28.300 --> 27:37.100 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? 27:37.400 --> 27:40.760 Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, 27:40.760 --> 27:44.600 Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 27:44.600 --> 27:47.440 He cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 27:47.440 --> 27:50.520 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, 27:50.520 --> 27:53.720 And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 27:53.720 --> 27:57.500 Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. 27:57.600 --> 28:03.600 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell 28:03.600 --> 28:08.560 whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit. 28:09.680 --> 28:13.760 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 28:14.200 --> 28:19.760 Jesus answered and said unto him art thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things? 28:20.520 --> 28:24.320 Verily verily I say unto thee we speak that we do know and 28:24.800 --> 28:32.700 testify that we have seen and he received not our witness if I told you earthly things and he believed not 28:33.200 --> 28:39.120 How shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, 28:39.120 --> 28:44.000 but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven. 28:44.560 --> 28:50.480 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted 28:50.480 --> 28:57.360 up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved 28:57.360 --> 29:00.400 of the world that he gave his only begotten son. 29:00.500 --> 29:07.940 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his 29:07.940 --> 29:13.140 Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved. 29:13.780 --> 29:20.340 He that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already 29:20.340 --> 29:24.420 because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 29:25.200 --> 29:29.360 And this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world. 29:29.360 --> 29:33.680 And men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 29:34.320 --> 29:38.880 For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, 29:38.880 --> 29:40.880 lest his deeds should be reproved. 29:41.440 --> 29:44.560 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, 29:44.560 --> 29:48.240 that his deeds may be made manifest that they are rotten God. 29:49.200 --> 29:55.040 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea and there he tarried with 29:55.040 --> 30:01.840 them and baptized and John also was baptizing in Anon near to Salem because there was much water 30:01.840 --> 30:09.760 there and they came and were baptized for John was not yet cast into prison. Then there arose a 30:09.760 --> 30:14.160 question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 30:14.800 --> 30:20.160 And they came unto John and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, 30:20.160 --> 30:25.520 to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptize it, and all men come to him. 30:26.080 --> 30:31.520 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. 30:32.080 --> 30:38.240 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 30:38.800 --> 30:41.120 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom. 30:41.600 --> 30:49.680 But the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. 30:49.680 --> 30:55.680 This my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. 30:55.680 --> 31:03.120 He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth is earthy and speaketh of the earth. 31:03.120 --> 31:05.920 He that cometh from heaven is above all. 31:06.300 --> 31:13.020 what he hath seen and heard that he testifieth and no man receiveeth this testimony. 31:13.680 --> 31:19.160 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 31:19.680 --> 31:23.560 For he whom God hath set speaketh the words of God, 31:23.920 --> 31:27.400 for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. 31:27.680 --> 31:32.480 The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hand. 31:33.100 --> 31:37.340 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. 31:37.340 --> 31:40.940 And he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, 31:40.940 --> 31:44.380 but the wrath of God abideth on him. 31:45.340 --> 31:47.740 Brother Kyle, could you pray for the preaching? 31:48.820 --> 31:51.500 Thank you Lord for the gift in your world. 31:51.500 --> 31:52.900 Please fill brother Remy with. 31:56.400 --> 32:06.080 Amen. You guys are there in John. We're gonna look in at verse number 16. John 3, verse number 16. 32:06.400 --> 32:08.400 Let me just set it up real quick. 32:08.400 --> 32:12.320 The Bible says, for God's love of the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever 32:12.320 --> 32:15.840 believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. 32:15.840 --> 32:19.960 I thought on my sermon that tonight is condemned already. 32:19.960 --> 32:20.960 Let's pray. 32:20.960 --> 32:21.960 Dear Father God, I think you've spent a wonderful day. 32:21.960 --> 32:23.960 Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. 32:23.960 --> 32:27.280 Thank you so much for this church, God, and again for everybody that came to hear your 32:27.280 --> 32:28.280 word preached. 32:28.280 --> 32:31.840 I just pray that for that reason you'd fill me with your Holy Spirit and help me to edify 32:31.840 --> 32:32.840 the people in this room. 32:32.840 --> 32:34.340 I just pray that you'd help me to... 32:34.400 --> 32:40.320 in part some better understanding from these verses to the people by the time I'm done with 32:40.320 --> 32:44.480 this sermon. I just pray that you help me to have a clear train of thought when I preach. I just 32:44.480 --> 32:50.000 pray that you'd help me to preach as a ring God and I pray that you would help me to say what you 32:50.000 --> 32:54.320 want me to say and keep me from saying what you would not want me to say. We pray all these things 32:54.320 --> 32:56.320 in Jesus name I pray, amen. 32:56.700 --> 32:59.700 We're here again, like I said, in John 3.16. 32:59.700 --> 33:01.940 I will be a little honest with you guys. 33:01.940 --> 33:07.340 I got a little bit of short notice to prepare this sermon. 33:07.340 --> 33:13.860 And usually it's not too big of a deal, but I had less time than usual to prepare this 33:13.860 --> 33:14.860 sermon. 33:14.860 --> 33:18.060 So if I feel a little choppy or whatever, just keep that. 33:18.060 --> 33:19.060 Show me some grace, okay? 33:19.060 --> 33:20.500 Think about the sermon this morning. 33:20.500 --> 33:23.220 Think about the kindness and the gentleness, right? 33:23.220 --> 33:24.700 But this sermon also might... 33:24.700 --> 33:27.660 be a little bit shorter because to put it in perspective for you guys, this morning 33:27.660 --> 33:32.220 sermon I had 14 pages of notes and this right now I have 6 pages of notes. 33:32.220 --> 33:35.380 So you guys just might be getting out of here early. 33:35.380 --> 33:39.020 The key, I'll give you guys a little secret though, if you want to get out of here early, 33:39.020 --> 33:42.340 you got to look at me and act like you're paying attention to what I'm saying. 33:42.340 --> 33:46.340 Because I don't know if you guys know this but when a preacher feels like people aren't 33:46.340 --> 33:49.980 listening it makes you want to over explain a point because you feel like people aren't 33:49.980 --> 33:52.700 understand what you're saying. So if you're like sitting there like... 33:52.700 --> 33:54.200 then it makes me feel like, oh, they're just not getting it, 33:54.200 --> 33:56.000 so I just gotta stick right here, okay? 33:56.000 --> 33:59.380 So I give that for just a little bit of a tip for you guys, 33:59.380 --> 34:01.620 that if you wanna get the sermon over with, 34:01.620 --> 34:04.180 you gotta be like, oh yeah, I get what you're saying, okay? 34:04.180 --> 34:05.740 Throw in this, like set a timer 34:05.740 --> 34:07.220 and then say amen every so often, okay? 34:07.220 --> 34:08.060 And just go. 34:10.260 --> 34:11.100 Not really though. 34:11.100 --> 34:14.120 But I just wanna give you that little pre-warning on this, 34:14.120 --> 34:15.860 because this might be a little bit shorter than usual, 34:15.860 --> 34:18.080 but we're here in John chapter number three. 34:18.080 --> 34:20.700 This is part three, technically, of my verse by. 34:20.700 --> 34:26.420 on this chapter. Last week or maybe I shouldn't even say last week I should 34:26.420 --> 34:29.180 just say the last time we preach a sermon out of this chapter we covered 34:29.180 --> 34:33.860 three main topics. The first one was the brazen serpent that we see a few 34:33.860 --> 34:38.740 chapters earlier which I explained to you guys why it is that the brazen 34:38.740 --> 34:42.100 serpent represents Jesus Christ when he's on the cross and the reason for 34:42.100 --> 34:45.980 that is because the Bible says that when Jesus Christ was on the cross he was 34:45.980 --> 34:48.700 made sin for us. He was made 34:48.700 --> 34:53.260 sin for us on the cross and so what better picture what better 34:53.260 --> 34:57.700 representation of that is there than a snake which usually represents evil 34:57.700 --> 35:00.740 because when you first hear it like it's like very interesting that he brings 35:00.740 --> 35:03.260 this up and he's like as the serpent was lifted up the son of man has to be 35:03.260 --> 35:06.260 lifted up you're like he's comparing himself to a serpent but it's like yeah 35:06.260 --> 35:10.940 when he was lifted up on the cross he was made sin for us so it's a good 35:10.940 --> 35:15.300 representation of him in that one moment because every other time obviously we'd 35:15.300 --> 35:16.700 see Jesus Christ mentioned he's gonna be like 35:16.700 --> 35:22.380 a lamb or like a lion or something along those lines. But that's why he uses the 35:22.380 --> 35:26.420 brazen serpent there in Deuteronomy and why he echoes that right here. And then 35:26.420 --> 35:29.300 we also talked about the power of John 3.16. 35:29.400 --> 35:33.720 Obviously, I covered this verse predominantly last week, so I'm not really gonna touch on it too much right now 35:33.920 --> 35:39.940 But I will just say that John 3 16 is powerful for a reason the reason why people take this to the football games to the 35:40.440 --> 35:45.000 Concerts to the whatever and hold it up on a science because this verse is powerful 35:45.000 --> 35:52.480 It has the power of God on just salvation that that it just like summarizes the complete ministry and the gospel of Jesus Christ 35:52.480 --> 35:57.240 Very well where it's like hey God so loved the world. He loved every one of us so much that he 35:57.400 --> 36:00.740 sent his only begotten son and if we believe on him, 36:00.740 --> 36:02.940 we will not perish, we will have everlasting life. 36:02.940 --> 36:03.900 It's beautiful. 36:03.900 --> 36:05.340 And you know what's funny to me about that as well, 36:05.340 --> 36:06.900 like as I was thinking about this, 36:06.900 --> 36:09.240 like you know why they picked that verse, 36:09.240 --> 36:10.200 a verse about faith? 36:10.200 --> 36:12.380 It's because that's such an easy verse 36:12.380 --> 36:13.980 to understand about salvation. 36:13.980 --> 36:15.720 Like the problem with so many religions nowadays, 36:15.720 --> 36:18.220 the problem with so many different work salvations nowadays 36:18.220 --> 36:21.140 is that they try to make salvation so complicated. 36:21.140 --> 36:23.700 Like I remember the Mormons came to my door one time 36:23.700 --> 36:25.260 and Kylie was talking to him. 36:25.400 --> 36:28.840 And she was lighting them up pretty well the whole time. 36:28.840 --> 36:30.300 But something she asked them was just like, 36:30.300 --> 36:31.920 well, what do you guys believe about going to heaven? 36:31.920 --> 36:35.120 And they had like a 12 step process for getting to heaven. 36:35.120 --> 36:36.580 It was just like insane. 36:36.580 --> 36:39.400 It's like, why are we making salvation complicated 36:39.400 --> 36:41.460 when Paul says that there's the simplicity 36:41.460 --> 36:42.900 that's in the gospel of Christ? 36:42.900 --> 36:44.980 Why would we make salvation complicated 36:44.980 --> 36:47.840 when God made salvation so easy, so easy 36:47.840 --> 36:50.520 so that everyone could receive it is what the Bible says. 36:50.520 --> 36:53.400 He so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. 36:53.400 --> 36:57.040 Why did he do that? Because he didn't want to make salvation hard, he wanted to make it easy. 36:57.040 --> 37:00.720 So he gave us the best and the only sacrifice that he could give us, 37:00.720 --> 37:03.560 his only begotten son, his perfect son, Jesus Christ. 37:03.560 --> 37:06.440 So there is power in John 3.16, 37:06.440 --> 37:10.560 and it's very powerful for a reason, so always keep that in mind. 37:10.560 --> 37:14.760 And I think I've said that before, but this is something to think about as a preacher in here as well. 37:15.000 --> 37:20.460 Sometimes we have a tendency to want to shy away from powerful verses because they are what would you even say sometimes like? 37:20.640 --> 37:24.180 Played out I guess what you'd say like sometimes we go to a verse a lot a lot a lot 37:24.680 --> 37:26.560 And there is a discretion you have to have with that 37:26.560 --> 37:31.120 But I would just submit to you what pastor Shelley submitted to me when we when I was at his mighty men's camp 37:31.120 --> 37:34.800 And it's like hey the the most powerful verses the most popular verses 37:34.800 --> 37:39.160 They're popular for a reason because they are powerful the reason why we have 37:39.280 --> 37:42.880 So many verses that will quote and we all just know off the top of our head without even 37:43.000 --> 37:47.200 trying to commit them to memory is because they are powerful. 37:47.200 --> 37:54.000 So keep that in mind and never shy away from these kinds of verses in the Bible. 37:54.000 --> 37:55.600 But the third thing that we talked about 37:56.100 --> 38:02.460 was how the should in John 3 16 does not mean that like you know that they might perish 38:02.460 --> 38:06.700 or that they could perish but the type of should that's right here is in this verse 38:06.700 --> 38:11.500 is a should that's expressing intent and there's a fancy name for it I already forgot it so 38:11.500 --> 38:15.420 I'm not even going to go into it okay too too much on as far as what's the name is but 38:15.420 --> 38:20.020 I do want to just explain to you and show you because go if you would or I'm not going 38:20.020 --> 38:23.740 to keep you here in John 3 16 the reason I'm bringing this up to you though is because 38:24.100 --> 38:29.220 out-soul-wanting from time to time in Ephesians 2 when we show them, you know, for by grace you save 38:30.100 --> 38:33.220 through faith and that not of yourselves is the gift of God not of works that any man should boast. 38:33.220 --> 38:37.460 Sometimes when we show people that verse they'll immediately jump down to verse 10 and they'll be 38:37.460 --> 38:44.980 like oh but you know the Bible says in Ephesians 2 10 that we should walk in them and he's talking 38:44.980 --> 38:48.660 about the good works right there okay. I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself but they bring that up 38:48.660 --> 38:52.020 but I'm going to show you okay and and I'm bringing this up because brother Ryan 38:52.100 --> 38:54.420 and brother Daniel and I were talking about the last time I preached about 38:54.420 --> 39:00.260 this that the should here is not how we really use should. What we usually 39:00.260 --> 39:03.460 would use instead of should right here in our like modern vernacular would be 39:03.460 --> 39:07.980 would okay. It's kind of shifted but there's still examples that we could 39:07.980 --> 39:12.060 understand what it means but I'm bringing this up because the should here 39:12.060 --> 39:15.980 well I'm gonna bring up this John 3.16 people they'll be like oh well they 39:15.980 --> 39:19.620 shouldn't perish but that doesn't mean that they can't perish no no they're 39:19.620 --> 39:20.100 wrong though 39:20.100 --> 39:26.660 They if you believe on Jesus Christ, you cannot perish the should here is not like oh like you might not perish 39:26.660 --> 39:31.120 Hopefully you won't it's expressing intent and what do I mean by expressing intent? 39:31.120 --> 39:32.340 Okay, look at John 3 16 real quick 39:32.340 --> 39:37.320 I'm looking what it says it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son 39:37.420 --> 39:40.620 So why did God give his only begotten son? 39:40.620 --> 39:45.340 This is what he's about to tell us that whosoever believed in him should not perish but everlasting life 39:45.340 --> 39:47.940 So the should there is expressing why? 39:48.100 --> 39:54.000 God gave his only gotten son why do you only be gotten son so that we should not perish so that we 39:54.340 --> 39:57.800 Would not perish it's kind of how more modernly that we would say this okay 39:58.000 --> 40:04.480 But go to Ephesians 2 now as I already done on the gun on it, but go to Ephesians 2 verse number 10 40:05.180 --> 40:09.600 I gave an example to why you guys are going there last week or not 40:09.600 --> 40:12.460 I keep us in lesson, but the last time I preach a sermon when I was like hey 40:12.460 --> 40:16.100 He gave us orders that we should go in pairs of 40:16.100 --> 40:22.340 to that we should not be attacked, be attacked alone, excuse me. And the should there isn't 40:22.340 --> 40:26.060 like, so you might not be, it's like no, because that's why he's having to go in twos. The 40:26.060 --> 40:31.100 should there is saying in order that you would not be attacked alone. So the reason that 40:31.100 --> 40:35.420 God gave us only we got in son is in order that we would not perish basically, but have 40:35.420 --> 40:41.060 everlasting life. And when it comes to Ephesians 2 10, I think this is probably bring up, it 40:41.060 --> 40:44.060 says for we are his workmanship. 40:44.100 --> 40:51.300 created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God before ordained that we should walk in them. 40:51.300 --> 40:54.020 Like I was saying to you earlier a lot of times when we take them to these verses they'll jump 40:54.020 --> 40:59.220 the gun this be like look it says that we should be walking in good works and the defense I've seen 40:59.220 --> 41:04.820 of this and to be 100% fair and clear I myself would say the same thing so if you have said this 41:04.820 --> 41:10.260 before don't feel bad because it is a little bit jarring when someone just throws a verse out to you 41:10.260 --> 41:12.100 But a lot of times what we'll do to defend this is we'll 41:12.100 --> 41:15.340 say, well, it says that we should walk in them, 41:15.340 --> 41:18.140 but that doesn't mean that we will walk in them. 41:18.140 --> 41:21.940 But this is not the correct way to actually do this. 41:21.940 --> 41:25.060 If you're being most literal, it's like, it's interesting. 41:25.060 --> 41:27.860 It's the correct biblical interpretation, 41:27.860 --> 41:29.900 but it's the wrong step to get there, 41:29.900 --> 41:32.500 is kind of what I'd submit to you, OK? 41:32.500 --> 41:33.020 Because. 41:33.700 --> 41:40.200 Here's the first thing, okay, when it says that we should walk in them, even like we agree with even the sentiment that we're trying, they're trying to say most of the time. 41:40.200 --> 41:42.580 Like we don't think that you should not do good works. 41:42.580 --> 41:46.300 We, the whole reason we're out there at people's door is we're doing good works anyways. 41:46.300 --> 41:49.100 We're going and we're preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. 41:49.100 --> 41:51.900 We're not going to be telling people that they shouldn't be obeying the Bible. 41:51.900 --> 41:55.500 People need to obey the Bible just not for salvation. 41:55.500 --> 42:01.700 People have to obey the gospel for salvation, but they don't have to obey the commandments for salvation. 42:01.700 --> 42:04.800 what we're explaining to people when we're out zoning. 42:04.900 --> 42:12.980 But the thing about this though is that I'm bringing this up because it's technically not a correct interpretation if you're like, 42:12.980 --> 42:17.140 oh, like, you know, it says we should, but that doesn't mean that we necessarily have to, okay? 42:17.140 --> 42:21.940 Because again, he's expressing intent with the should, okay? And how that works is this. 42:21.940 --> 42:25.620 Okay, look at the verse again. It says, for we are his workmanship. 42:25.620 --> 42:29.380 And think about how John 3.16 starts as well, right? Then it says, for God to love the world, right? 42:29.380 --> 42:32.820 It's kind of the same framework. It says, for we are his workmanship. 42:32.900 --> 42:38.220 Creating Christ Jesus unto good works. So why were why were we God's workmanship? 42:38.220 --> 42:41.600 Why did he create us in Christ Jesus unto good works? 42:41.600 --> 42:45.120 He says which God before day that we should walk in them 42:45.120 --> 42:50.600 So why are we God's workmanship because he wants us to walk in the good works is what he is saying, right? 42:50.720 --> 42:55.720 But the thing that they fall off the ledge on right there is they think that you do have to keep the good works be 42:55.720 --> 43:00.860 Saved no, he literally just said in Ephesians 2 8 9. It's by grace that we're saved not over 43:00.900 --> 43:04.860 works like hello like short-term memory loss like we gotta do these good works 43:04.860 --> 43:09.460 it's like to go back up two verses for by grace are you saved through faith and 43:09.460 --> 43:13.540 that not of yourselves is the gift of God not of works let's say he mentioned 43:13.540 --> 43:18.100 both does that mean that we shouldn't do works then no because we're his 43:18.100 --> 43:22.580 workmanship is what he says right here we were created in Christ Jesus with the 43:22.580 --> 43:25.460 four-ordained knowledge that we would do good works is what he's saying right 43:25.460 --> 43:26.100 here 43:26.600 --> 43:33.680 Not that not that it's like a but I bring that up again because go to Hebrews 2 verse number 9 Hebrews 2 verse number 9 43:35.700 --> 43:39.140 Because this defense though, if you kind of try to say, 43:39.140 --> 43:41.300 which you'd have a heck of a time to explain this out so many anyways, 43:41.300 --> 43:43.460 because it's hard enough to even explain behind the full, but so good luck. 43:43.460 --> 43:47.700 But if you're being like most technical, okay, it wouldn't be a good defense because 43:47.700 --> 43:53.380 then if we take this should and we make it like a might, maybe probably someone else could take that 43:53.380 --> 43:56.660 and take that to John 3 16 and do the same thing. You follow what I'm saying? 43:56.660 --> 44:01.380 So that's why I kind of harp on having like, you know, integrity when you deal with the 44:01.380 --> 44:03.700 the scripture and having like a consistency because 44:03.700 --> 44:06.340 because you might get a corner cut right here 44:06.340 --> 44:07.180 if you try to do that. 44:07.180 --> 44:09.340 Well, it says should, but not that we have to, 44:09.340 --> 44:11.380 but back in John 3.16, you kind of cook yourself. 44:11.380 --> 44:16.020 So that's why even when we agree with a conclusion, 44:16.020 --> 44:17.440 we need to make sure that the steps 44:17.440 --> 44:18.900 to get there are right as well. 44:18.900 --> 44:20.500 But this is most easily explained 44:20.500 --> 44:22.180 in Hebrews 2 verse number nine. 44:22.180 --> 44:23.380 I only brought up Ephesians 44:23.380 --> 44:25.600 because people bring that to us about out-soulening, 44:25.600 --> 44:30.400 but look how it says and how it uses the should right here. 44:30.400 --> 44:31.240 Okay, it says, 44:31.240 --> 44:31.300 you 44:31.400 --> 44:36.440 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, 44:36.440 --> 44:42.840 crowned with glory and honor that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. 44:42.840 --> 44:48.440 Now, considering the death of Jesus Christ, was it like a probably that Jesus Christ would taste death for every man? 44:48.440 --> 44:52.520 It's like, no, it's not like, oh, well, you know, he's already dead at this point when he's saying this, right? 44:52.520 --> 44:56.120 It's not like, oh, well, maybe, hopefully he would taste death for every man. 44:56.120 --> 44:59.320 What he's saying is this, why did God make him a little lower than the... 44:59.400 --> 45:03.760 angels because Jesus Christ was going to taste death for every man. That's what 45:03.760 --> 45:07.120 it's saying right there. Okay so you see the should there that basically it'd be 45:07.120 --> 45:12.760 like in order that or for the purpose of or that he would taste death for every 45:12.760 --> 45:17.600 man is how we would usually say this but again this is no question that Jesus 45:17.600 --> 45:21.040 Christ was gonna be that he was going to be slain that he's gonna taste death 45:21.040 --> 45:24.200 from every for every man because the Bible says that Jesus Christ was the 45:24.200 --> 45:27.400 Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world so there was never 45:27.400 --> 45:30.520 a probability that Jesus was like not gonna die for us. 45:30.520 --> 45:32.920 As soon as God said it, it was as good as done. 45:35.160 --> 45:36.720 John, go back to John 3.16, okay? 45:36.720 --> 45:38.400 John 3.16, now that I've... 45:38.500 --> 45:43.380 Explain that that's part recap part new content. Okay, it's a little bit of a hybrid right there 45:43.940 --> 45:46.260 But I again, I just think that's important to do 45:46.820 --> 45:48.820 uh, just because we 45:49.460 --> 45:51.860 Want to be right about what the bible says 45:52.340 --> 46:00.100 Not just give people answers that they can later chop down if they go and talk to someone else. That's well-knowledge on the subject as well 46:00.500 --> 46:06.500 Uh john 3 16 it says for god's love the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed it than him should not 46:06.500 --> 46:10.740 perish but have everlasting life for God sent not his son into the world to 46:10.740 --> 46:16.500 condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved so two things 46:16.500 --> 46:21.700 about this verse go to John or go to Luke 9 54 because this verse reminds me 46:21.700 --> 46:28.220 a lot of Luke 9 verse number 54 the same kind of sentiment is said by Jesus 46:28.220 --> 46:32.980 Christ Luke 9 54 46:34.400 --> 46:36.400 Kyle, could you give me the water too? 46:36.400 --> 46:38.400 I think I put one on the counter over there. 46:38.400 --> 46:41.400 Luke 9, verse number 54, it says, 46:41.400 --> 46:43.400 And when his disciples James and John saw this, 46:43.400 --> 46:49.400 they said, Lord, will thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elias did? 46:49.400 --> 46:53.400 And he turned and rebuked them and said, He know not what manner of spirit ye are of, 46:53.400 --> 46:57.400 for the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. 46:57.400 --> 47:00.400 And they went to another village. 47:00.400 --> 47:02.400 If you're gonna think about the life of Jesus 47:02.400 --> 47:06.840 Christ like he makes the point on the cross that if he wanted to at any moment 47:06.840 --> 47:10.760 he could have called 12 legions of angels to come down and to smite 47:10.760 --> 47:14.640 everybody that was right there and he could have easily easily escaped the 47:14.640 --> 47:19.440 cross if he wanted to by you know calling down fire from heaven just like 47:19.440 --> 47:22.680 Elias because we know that if Elias could call fire down from heaven what 47:22.680 --> 47:26.100 could Jesus call down from him he could call down the whole Calvary right? 47:26.500 --> 47:33.220 But you think about like why doesn't Jesus ever do that in the Bible? Why do we never see Jesus just like wiping people off the face of the earth amidst the gospels? 47:33.220 --> 47:44.340 It's because of this verse right here because Jesus Christ was when he came to earth his purpose his goal his ministry was not to ruin people's lives was not to destroy people's lives but it was to save them. 47:44.340 --> 47:54.500 In the sense of going out soulening and preaching the gospel like he's doing right here but also in the most literal sense that Jesus Christ came down as we already saw in these verses to die on the 47:54.500 --> 47:58.700 cross for all of our sins. That's why he came down the earth not to bring the 47:58.700 --> 48:02.500 judgment of God early, not to bring the condemnation early, but to save men's 48:02.500 --> 48:06.620 lives. And so what I want to submit to you from these verses then is this, is 48:06.620 --> 48:11.140 that if this, if Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior was not in the business, was 48:11.140 --> 48:14.540 not in the ministry of destroying people's lives, then we should not make 48:14.540 --> 48:18.580 that our ministry either. And this kind of piggybacks pretty well off of the 48:18.580 --> 48:22.500 point that I was making this morning. And this morning I was talking to 48:22.500 --> 48:26.760 more about saved people and that's 100% true too. If your whole ministry, if your whole 48:26.760 --> 48:32.780 goal in this life is to destroy another Savior in Christ, you are carnal as heck. Like what 48:32.780 --> 48:37.320 in the world? You've lost the plot. We have, we don't have enough people that are serving 48:37.320 --> 48:41.380 the kingdom of God and going out so many people saved. So why would we want to attack and 48:41.380 --> 48:46.880 tear down people that are laboring in his kingdom? This is nonsense. That is not spiritual 48:46.880 --> 48:50.400 minded most literally that is carnal to just try and. 48:50.500 --> 48:52.620 take someone down because you don't like him. 48:52.620 --> 48:56.100 It's like, why, why people get so concerned about like, 48:56.100 --> 48:58.380 like trying to get their brothers anyways. 48:58.380 --> 49:00.660 It's like, dude, God is the judge at the end of the day. 49:00.660 --> 49:03.460 Just let God handle everything because he's righteous 49:03.460 --> 49:05.100 and nothing's going to get past him. 49:05.100 --> 49:06.860 Doesn't have the Bible says, be not deceived. 49:06.860 --> 49:08.220 God's not mocked whatsoever. 49:08.220 --> 49:10.300 Man soweth that shall he also reap. 49:10.300 --> 49:14.500 Which means if there's a bad person in a place of ministry, 49:14.500 --> 49:15.980 guess who's going to deal with that. 49:15.980 --> 49:17.500 It's going to be God Almighty. 49:17.500 --> 49:18.500 What are you going to do about it? 49:18.500 --> 49:22.580 it except for just cry about it online not much okay you know what it's gonna 49:22.580 --> 49:26.180 do it's gonna derail you spiritually what it's gonna do because when you're 49:26.180 --> 49:29.260 trying to consume someone else again think about what I say this morning 49:29.260 --> 49:33.740 that's not of the spirit that is over the flesh so people need to get their 49:33.740 --> 49:35.500 their mindset 49:35.600 --> 49:40.100 On the same mindset that Jesus Christ had that which is to save people's lives not to destroy them 49:40.100 --> 49:47.520 Which is to edify our brothers and sisters in Christ not try to tear them down and not try to consume them and devour them 49:48.500 --> 49:50.840 but this is 100% true. 49:50.840 --> 49:55.440 That, by the way, that goes for every single Christian out there. 49:55.440 --> 49:56.840 No matter who they are. 49:56.840 --> 50:00.940 Nobody as a Christian should be trying to take down someone else that's a soul winner, 50:00.940 --> 50:03.680 that's saved, that has the right gospel. 50:03.680 --> 50:07.360 Like, like, and like I was kind of saying earlier as well, like, 50:07.360 --> 50:09.760 sometimes people do things that tick us off, 50:09.760 --> 50:12.760 and sometimes they do things that are just wicked against us. 50:12.760 --> 50:15.960 And it's unfortunate when brothers and sisters in Christ do that to each other. 50:16.200 --> 50:19.640 But our reaction to that is the same reaction as if anybody did us wrong. 50:19.640 --> 50:22.080 It's to turn to their cheek. It's to love one another. 50:22.080 --> 50:26.360 It's to not curse someone that's hurting you. It's to bless them. 50:26.560 --> 50:30.880 It's the pray to God, Lord willing, that they would repent and get right with him 50:31.040 --> 50:33.600 or to be kind to them to keep coals of fire on their head. 50:33.600 --> 50:35.160 Like the Bible says in Romans. 50:35.160 --> 50:37.520 But this idea that people have sometimes where they're like, 50:37.520 --> 50:39.680 I'm going to be God's minister of justice. 50:39.680 --> 50:41.080 It's like, who made you in charge, Bozo? 50:41.080 --> 50:42.880 Like, just sit down. Just mind your business. 50:42.880 --> 50:44.200 Go to go to 2nd Peter 2. 50:44.200 --> 50:50.820 verse number nine. second Peter 2 verse number nine. like God appoints people and 50:50.820 --> 50:55.120 he pulls people out of authority as he pleases. we see this with King Saul. 50:55.120 --> 50:57.400 David is like hey 50:57.700 --> 51:05.200 You know what I know at the other day? He was like, this is what I know, that he's the Lord's anointed, so I'm just gonna let him do his thing, and I'm gonna let God handle it. 51:05.200 --> 51:14.700 And twice David could have killed Saul. Twice he could have killed him, and nobody would have blamed him for it, and still he's like, not my job, not my position. 51:14.700 --> 51:20.700 And he's anointed at that point. He's anointed at that point, which is something to consider as well, and yet he won't do it. 51:20.700 --> 51:25.420 So how much more can we not just like get along with people when it's over? 51:25.700 --> 51:29.980 stupid arguments and things that are not life and death issues like David was literally 51:29.980 --> 51:33.580 dealing with his life and with his death isn't that insane? 51:33.580 --> 51:34.080 It's like 51:34.300 --> 51:38.460 Can't even fathom the love of man like that that it's like someone is trying to kill me 51:38.460 --> 51:40.460 I get ticked off of people if they just you know 51:40.500 --> 51:45.280 Say something stupid about me or slanderous about me like like online or whatever 51:45.280 --> 51:49.980 And then I'm just ticks me off and then like I'm thinking to myself like David is literally dealing with a dude 51:49.980 --> 51:54.540 Who's chucked multiple javelins at him that chased him away from his wife that? 51:55.020 --> 52:02.140 Basically just causes complete havoc in his life for years. That's that's who David is showing mercy to that's who David's 52:02.300 --> 52:03.500 crying over when he dies. 52:03.500 --> 52:06.100 Like what a man talk about the man of God, 52:06.100 --> 52:07.040 man after God's own heart. 52:07.040 --> 52:08.120 That's exactly why. 52:08.120 --> 52:09.480 And I bring up David a lot 52:09.480 --> 52:10.940 and I will continue to bring up David a lot 52:10.940 --> 52:13.360 because he's definitely a role model in the faith to me. 52:13.360 --> 52:15.900 Like it's like obviously Jesus Christ 52:15.900 --> 52:17.060 is the pinnacle example of us. 52:17.060 --> 52:20.140 But like there's something about just like the men 52:20.140 --> 52:22.400 that we know are sinful like us sometimes in the Bible 52:22.400 --> 52:24.500 that like we can look to their examples sometimes 52:24.500 --> 52:26.980 and be like, we know that they were dealing 52:26.980 --> 52:29.940 with the same exact sinful flesh that we were. 52:29.940 --> 52:30.300 and they. 52:30.300 --> 52:34.600 still were able to do great things. It should encourage us and would to God more 52:34.600 --> 52:36.700 people would look to the man after God's own heart. 52:37.100 --> 52:40.140 and they would follow in his steps and follow in the steps of Jesus Christ like here that's what 52:40.140 --> 52:43.740 I'm saying right here too and not just for people that are saved brothers and sisters in Christ 52:43.740 --> 52:48.780 but also for people that are lost like sometimes when we're out soul winning like like this you 52:48.780 --> 52:53.100 gotta like keep this verse in the back of your mind about the you know we're not there to destroy 52:53.100 --> 52:57.980 people's lives like we just need to go out and preach the gospel and if people are mean to us 52:57.980 --> 53:03.500 if people are you know rude to us if they do whatever we just say you know have a good day 53:03.500 --> 53:05.100 and move on to the next store. 53:05.100 --> 53:07.140 It's all we can do. That's what Jesus Christ does in the story. 53:07.140 --> 53:08.100 That's what he literally says. They're like, 53:08.340 --> 53:10.500 if it, cause I didn't really explain the context there, but I, 53:10.540 --> 53:12.540 cause I brought this up a couple of weeks ago, but it's like, 53:12.860 --> 53:15.940 Jesus Christ like goes to a city, makes an effort to go to Samaria. 53:15.940 --> 53:18.700 And they're just like, take a hike. Like you're not coming in here. You like, 53:18.720 --> 53:21.300 basically they're like, because you like the Jews is what they basically say. 53:21.820 --> 53:25.540 It's like, he is a literal Jew though. But, but they're like, yeah, 53:25.540 --> 53:27.020 get out of here. And then Jesus Christ, 53:27.020 --> 53:29.800 like the disciples are so ticked off about that that they won't receive them. 53:29.800 --> 53:33.060 But they're like, can we cast fire down? Can we just wipe them off? 53:33.100 --> 53:36.800 face of the planet. He's like, what are you guys talking about? Like again, look at the 53:36.800 --> 53:40.760 love of Jesus Christ in that story. Even when they reject him, I mean, he's God manifesting 53:40.760 --> 53:46.360 the flesh coming down to earth, coming to some stupid little city to preach them the 53:46.360 --> 53:51.320 gospel and they have the audacity, they have the nerve to push him away and reject him 53:51.320 --> 53:56.640 because he's also going to go up to Jerusalem afterwards. Isn't that insane? But Jesus still 53:56.640 --> 54:00.700 spares. Jesus still has mercy. Jesus still has love for these people and praise God that 54:00.700 --> 54:01.100 these long 54:01.100 --> 54:06.060 suffering with these people because as I showed you also before in Acts 8 once Philip goes there 54:06.060 --> 54:13.100 the he go after uh or excuse me not the but once he goes over there back to Samaria after the the 54:13.100 --> 54:16.140 death and burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ a lot of that talent gets saved is what 54:16.140 --> 54:17.260 the Bible teaches us. 54:17.900 --> 54:23.600 Where you guys are you guys are there in second Peter 2 9 it says this it says the Lord knoweth 54:23.600 --> 54:28.260 how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of 54:28.260 --> 54:29.860 judgment to be punished. 54:29.860 --> 54:35.700 This is what we need to remember always like when people do us wrong on this earth because 54:35.700 --> 54:39.500 and when we see people that are wicked get away with things that are wicked for a long 54:39.500 --> 54:44.780 time we just need to remember that God knows how to deliver us out of our temptations and 54:44.780 --> 54:45.900 And he also knows how to reserve. 54:45.900 --> 54:49.940 Serve the wicked it says until the day of judgment to be punished. 54:49.940 --> 54:50.300 Like 54:50.500 --> 54:55.260 We always tell them this out so only but I don't think that we let this sink into ourselves that God doesn't 54:55.580 --> 55:00.240 Chastise everyone on this earth because he's not their children or they're not they're not his children, right? 55:00.300 --> 55:04.860 He chastises us he says judgment must first begin at the house of God because we are his children 55:04.860 --> 55:06.700 So he comes and punishes us quickly 55:06.700 --> 55:10.060 So sometimes it looks like we get punished and then like the ungodly or not 55:10.100 --> 55:15.340 But the reality is is because he saved it for the day of just of judgment is what he says right here, right? 55:15.460 --> 55:18.380 Then he lets the wheat and the the tares grow together 55:18.500 --> 55:23.940 And then once the sickle comes through then he sifts him out and he sends the tears into the fire 55:23.940 --> 55:27.980 And he takes us up to heaven right so we just need to remember this that God 55:28.260 --> 55:33.740 Does his judgment in his timing and he is the judge so we should let him handle all these things 55:34.420 --> 55:41.180 So that's I mean would the God more people would understand that principle as well like oh this guy did me wrong 55:41.460 --> 55:46.380 So I gotta put him on blast. I gotta light him up. I gotta fight for him myself. Why though? 55:46.500 --> 55:51.040 But if he's a brother in the Christ especially you should try to have more mercy even on them 55:51.100 --> 55:55.620 But if it's an unsafe person, it's like God's gonna judge them someday. Just let God handle it 55:55.620 --> 55:56.260 I mean 55:56.260 --> 56:00.060 I'm sure that this verse had to be a comfort to Jesus Christ when he was on this earth 56:00.180 --> 56:05.540 Like the fact that he knows like the people that are gonna get saved from his death on the cross 56:05.540 --> 56:09.340 But also that one day he's gonna get his vengeance, right? 56:09.340 --> 56:14.160 Because there's another thing I put about Jesus Christ people act like Jesus Christ is just like some like some softy 56:14.500 --> 56:20.140 But it's like Jesus Christ was not pouring out judgment on people on this earth because 56:20.140 --> 56:23.900 one day there's a time appointed for that but it wasn't that time. 56:23.900 --> 56:27.760 So first he comes and he comes to seek and save that which is lost. 56:27.760 --> 56:30.800 But the next time that Jesus Christ comes it's with fire. 56:30.800 --> 56:31.800 It's with vengeance. 56:31.800 --> 56:32.800 It's with a flaming sword. 56:32.800 --> 56:35.300 It's with all of the angels with him. 56:35.300 --> 56:39.400 It's with all the plagues of God with him when Jesus Christ comes back next time. 56:39.400 --> 56:42.500 So we should take that example too and just realize like. 56:42.500 --> 56:47.420 You know, we don't see all of God's judgment in his execution of his wrath right now 56:47.700 --> 56:53.560 But one day we will see it whether it's we live until the rapture or whether it's when we're raising out of the grave 56:53.560 --> 56:55.560 We're like, oh, it's time right? I'm like, let's go 56:57.180 --> 57:01.260 You guys are in second Peter go back to John 3, okay John 3 verse number 17 57:03.600 --> 57:07.160 Until then though, okay, until that day comes, 57:07.160 --> 57:09.180 our ministry should be the ministry of Jesus Christ, 57:09.180 --> 57:11.840 which was seeking and saving that which is lost, 57:11.840 --> 57:14.080 to save men's lives, not to destroy them. 57:14.080 --> 57:15.840 So unless your name is Apollyon, 57:15.840 --> 57:18.280 your ministry is not destruction, okay? 57:18.280 --> 57:20.220 Your ministry is salvation, okay? 57:20.220 --> 57:24.160 Your ministry is reconciliation, not destruction. 57:25.600 --> 57:29.160 Hmm and that doesn't mean you can name your kid a Polly on and then try to get the bend to either 57:29.440 --> 57:32.320 John 3 17 the second thing I want to point out to you about this verse though is that 57:33.120 --> 57:39.520 the words the excuse me the the Calvinist definition the word world right here completely falls apart under this 57:40.120 --> 57:43.160 Under this context because if you remember the last time I preached this 57:43.160 --> 57:49.100 I'm not about John 3 16 the way that they butcher John 3 16 to explain their dumb Calvinist theology is they'll say 57:49.140 --> 57:53.600 For God so loved the world and when they say the world though, they'll just be like it's it's the 57:53.600 --> 57:58.360 elect okay it's like what a cop-out like it I mean if you can just change words 57:58.360 --> 58:01.160 to whatever you want to in the Bible you can literally make the Bible say 58:01.160 --> 58:05.320 whatever you wanted to say just find a verse you don't like oh okay well world 58:05.320 --> 58:08.120 doesn't really mean world right there it means elect it's like I just didn't 58:08.120 --> 58:10.320 realize that God didn't know the difference between these two words I 58:10.320 --> 58:14.060 thought he was all-knowing I thought that he could write a Bible with the 58:14.060 --> 58:16.900 intentions and with the thoughts that he actually had in mind 58:17.200 --> 58:19.520 But instead of going with what the Bible says here, 58:19.520 --> 58:22.760 they try to flip it on its head and they make world mean elect. 58:22.760 --> 58:25.440 No, brother, this is the world is what he's talking about. 58:25.440 --> 58:27.680 And it says in John 3, 17, it says, 58:27.680 --> 58:30.880 for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, 58:30.880 --> 58:34.680 but that the world through him might be saved. 58:34.680 --> 58:36.560 I mean, again, not only does this not make sense 58:36.560 --> 58:38.800 in the Calvary's worldview because world means world, 58:38.800 --> 58:41.880 which means generally the whole people of the world, hello, 58:41.880 --> 58:45.080 but also because, like, how silly would this statement be 58:45.200 --> 58:48.000 he's talking about the elect here. Like think about this, like if you read that 58:48.000 --> 58:51.920 into it and you're like verse 17 again for God said it's not sudden not into 58:51.920 --> 58:57.840 the elect to condemn the elect but the elect through him might be saved. It's 58:57.840 --> 59:01.300 like what? Doesn't even make sense. It sounds stupid doesn't it? 59:01.400 --> 59:07.200 Like he said, of course, I would hope that he was trying to get his elect saved because in John 3 16 59:07.200 --> 59:10.480 He just said for God so loved the elect in their point of view, right? 59:10.600 --> 59:15.260 So what a nonsense statement he didn't God so loved the elect that he said his only begotten son 59:15.260 --> 59:17.720 It's like he didn't cut he didn't send his son to condemn the elect 59:17.720 --> 59:20.740 It's like I sure hope not what in the world bizarre though 59:20.740 --> 59:23.760 But this is the the nonsense that happens when you play word games 59:23.760 --> 59:29.380 And when you try to just make your theology fit the word of God and instead of taking the word of God and then build 59:29.400 --> 59:31.760 building your own theology. 59:31.760 --> 59:35.760 The world means the world right here, and the world that it's talking about is the entire 59:35.760 --> 59:36.760 world. 59:36.760 --> 59:42.320 The reason why God sent Jesus Christ was not just for the elect, it was for every single 59:42.320 --> 59:47.240 person on this planet that ever was born and ever will be born is what the Bible is teaching 59:47.240 --> 59:51.080 here and they can all be saved the same way if they believe on Jesus Christ. 59:51.700 --> 59:56.920 But where we have a John 3 verse number 18 look what it says it says he that believe on the Sun is not condemned 59:56.920 --> 01:00:03.360 But he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:07.660 Isn't this verse like super interesting like when you think about like this is based on like you're 01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.000 Pre-condemned if you don't believe on Jesus Christ 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:16.600 It's like it's not even like I think about the work salvationist point of view again for this verse like it's not like if you don't 01:00:16.600 --> 01:00:19.420 Believe he's gonna pull off the scale and try to see oh no 01:00:19.700 --> 01:00:24.700 You know why? Because if you don't believe you are doomed is what he's saying right here. You're pre-condemned. 01:00:24.700 --> 01:00:26.700 He doesn't have to check the scale. You're wrong. Okay? 01:00:26.700 --> 01:00:30.700 He doesn't have to check the good works list that you have supposedly. 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:35.700 It's gonna be garbage. Because if you don't believe you already are condemned is what he says. 01:00:35.700 --> 01:00:41.700 But on the flip side of that he says if you believe, guess what? You're not condemned. You're 100% good to go. 01:00:41.700 --> 01:00:47.700 And isn't that interesting as well that God doesn't say if you believe, let me just pull out this works out. 01:00:47.700 --> 01:00:54.500 list and make sure that your faith is producing all these works that actually make it of effect. 01:00:54.500 --> 01:00:58.700 It's like, no, he says if you believe you are not condemned, that's the only thing he needs to check. 01:00:58.700 --> 01:01:02.900 The only thing you need to check about salvation is whether or not you believe on Jesus Christ. 01:01:03.500 --> 01:01:10.900 That's the reality. That's the gospel. That's what's true. That's the simplicity of our salvation in Jesus Christ. 01:01:10.900 --> 01:01:15.400 And go up to verse number 36 because this verse flows a lot with it as well. It says, 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:23.400 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. 01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:27.400 This is another thing that falls with our belief about salvation. 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:31.400 Once you believe on Jesus Christ, you have your salvation immediately. 01:01:31.500 --> 01:01:34.500 You immediately have your salvation. 01:01:34.500 --> 01:01:35.500 I don't know you adults in this room, 01:01:35.500 --> 01:01:36.500 I'll probably know this, 01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:37.500 but I'm gonna tell you right now, 01:01:37.500 --> 01:01:39.500 we talk about salvation a lot, 01:01:39.500 --> 01:01:41.500 and we will continue to talk about salvation a lot, 01:01:41.500 --> 01:01:42.500 because there are little kids in here 01:01:42.500 --> 01:01:44.500 that hear the services every week, 01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:46.500 and I want them to know what the Bible says 01:01:46.500 --> 01:01:47.500 about getting saved. 01:01:47.500 --> 01:01:49.500 And kids, listen up in here, 01:01:49.500 --> 01:01:51.500 you do not get saved by your good works, 01:01:51.500 --> 01:01:53.500 you don't get saved by repenting of your sins, 01:01:53.500 --> 01:01:55.500 you don't get saved by anything 01:01:55.500 --> 01:01:57.500 except for believing on Jesus Christ 01:01:57.500 --> 01:01:59.500 and anybody that would tell you anything different than this. 01:01:59.500 --> 01:02:05.220 that is a liar and the truth is not in them truly because the Bible makes it so 01:02:05.220 --> 01:02:08.680 clear especially in the book of John all it takes is believing how many times you 01:02:08.680 --> 01:02:12.140 say believing is in the book of John 98 times you know how many times the word 01:02:12.140 --> 01:02:17.580 repentance in there zero times you know why because salvation is by faith then he 01:02:17.580 --> 01:02:20.700 says in John this book was written so that you could believe so that you could 01:02:20.700 --> 01:02:24.740 get saved in the first place so always remember that because sometimes I know 01:02:24.740 --> 01:02:26.000 we get through the 01:02:26.100 --> 01:02:31.260 the like sometimes like we say things that are like very similar in sermons 01:02:31.260 --> 01:02:33.900 but praise God for it because we always need to be assured of these things 01:02:33.900 --> 01:02:37.700 because there's many deceivers out there that try to take the Word of God and 01:02:37.700 --> 01:02:41.780 twist it and get you to doubt your salvation and that will try to get your 01:02:41.780 --> 01:02:47.340 kids to doubt their own salvation and to teach them some false gospel so we need 01:02:47.340 --> 01:02:50.820 to echo this from the pulpit as much as we possibly can when it's in the text 01:02:50.820 --> 01:02:54.100 before us okay it's always important and I'm so 01:02:54.100 --> 01:02:59.900 glad especially after going to some IFB churches that we have the preaching we 01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:03.780 do that's this is what you guys need to do okay unless you don't already go to 01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:07.700 an I know I paid you okay just go and visit an old life the church around 01:03:07.700 --> 01:03:11.340 here like this is your homework okay it's your task go do it and go visit on 01:03:11.340 --> 01:03:15.980 a Wednesday or on a Thursday or whenever okay and just like come back and you'll 01:03:15.980 --> 01:03:20.020 be gracious you'll not gracious you'll be grateful for this church okay truly 01:03:20.020 --> 01:03:22.100 you will because like we take the 01:03:22.100 --> 01:03:25.100 preaching for granted. I don't know about my preacher, I'm just talking about like, 01:03:25.100 --> 01:03:29.060 I'm thankful for every man that gets up here and preaches, because I never have to just 01:03:29.060 --> 01:03:33.820 like grit and think like, hopefully he's going to preach right about salvation. Like I think 01:03:33.820 --> 01:03:35.460 it was, I think it was a... 01:03:36.300 --> 01:03:38.960 Brother I think it was brother Preston Taylor is 01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:40.500 Thinking of that 01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:43.940 He was like telling me that like he's at this church and his old life be to Jesus and go there anymore 01:03:44.100 --> 01:03:49.180 but it was like the deacon of the church was like a repenting your sins hardcore lose your salvation and 01:03:49.420 --> 01:03:55.900 he would give him preach a garbage gospel and then the pastor would have him come up and preach and he preached the right gospel and 01:03:55.980 --> 01:04:00.180 The pastor when he talked to me just kind of like he believes the same things as us 01:04:00.180 --> 01:04:03.640 It's just it's just worded a little bit different. It's like dude 01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:09.860 I'm gonna tell you what dude there's so many IFV pastors out there that do that crap and it's annoying like dude 01:04:09.860 --> 01:04:15.040 There is a difference between work salvation repenting of your sins and believing on Jesus Christ 01:04:15.120 --> 01:04:20.920 One of them is the true gospel and one of them is not and like pastors in order not to like shake the boat in their 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:24.840 Church sometimes we'll just like ignore these things be like no brother 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:27.840 He's wrong, but you know he just has his own way of explaining it 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:32.300 It's like it's all his own damn double way of explaining it because by your fruit 01:04:32.300 --> 01:04:41.300 You shall know them and you know why they have a different way of explaining it because they have a different belief in their heart because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh is what the Bible says. 01:04:41.300 --> 01:04:57.300 But anyways I'm like ravaged on about that but man praise God that whenever you think that we're being monotonous when we're preaching and just thinking like man I've heard this before just think again and realize like hey it's a great privilege to have the right gospel thunder from behind the pulpit. 01:04:59.100 --> 01:05:02.060 John, where you guys are at, John 3.19. 01:05:02.060 --> 01:05:03.060 This is what I was gonna say about these verses 01:05:03.060 --> 01:05:03.900 for our rabbit trail though, 01:05:03.900 --> 01:05:06.220 is that we have everlasting life 01:05:06.220 --> 01:05:08.100 the minute we believe on Jesus Christ, 01:05:08.100 --> 01:05:09.300 which means that. 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:13.360 This is a weird cognitive dissonance that people have. 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:16.480 They'll say in one breath, we don't get our salvation 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:18.920 until we die, but then they'll also say, 01:05:18.920 --> 01:05:20.840 you could lose your salvation if you commit a sin. 01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:21.920 It's like, well, wait a minute, though. 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:22.760 That doesn't make sense. 01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:24.880 You either can lose it because you have it, 01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:27.400 or you can't lose it because you don't have it yet, right? 01:05:27.500 --> 01:05:33.800 But the reality is that the minute you believe you do have your salvation, he says you have everlasting life. 01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:38.000 And if you don't believe and you don't have everlasting life, he says the wrath of God abides on you. 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:40.800 Why? Because again, because you're pre-condemned. 01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:44.800 It's like, hey, if you don't believe, you are already condemned, is what he's teaching us here. 01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:49.200 And if you believe you're already escaped, you're already passed from death 01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:51.200 unto life, is what the Bible teaches us. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:58.120 John 3 19 says this, and this is the combination that light has come into the world and men love 01:05:58.120 --> 01:06:04.200 darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. So if you want to know why people 01:06:04.200 --> 01:06:10.440 fundamentally do not believe on Jesus Christ, let me just let you know a secret. It's not because 01:06:11.160 --> 01:06:16.040 because this is people will give so many excuses. They'll be like, oh, it's because you got to prove 01:06:16.040 --> 01:06:19.960 God to me or because science or because this or because of that. We have all these things that 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:21.000 that they'll throw out there. 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:28.520 But I want to realize the reality is not so the reason why most people don't believe on Jesus Christ is because they love 01:06:28.520 --> 01:06:35.200 darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. That's the reality. Most people don't want to believe on Jesus Christ because if they 01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:41.600 acknowledge that there was a God out there then he might have different opinions than them and if he has different opinions on them then he 01:06:41.600 --> 01:06:49.000 could condemn the things that they're doing and if he could condemn the things they're doing then they could think well maybe then I would have to try to give up the things. 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:54.400 that I'm doing right? But the reality is is that basing your 01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:58.320 belief on God, whether or not based on whether or not you like 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:02.000 his morality or you like his, his, his commandments or 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:05.640 whatever is a fallacy in and of itself. Just not believing in 01:07:05.640 --> 01:07:08.520 something because you don't like it doesn't make sense like 01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:11.600 I don't like, what's a good one? 01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:13.800 I don't like, I used to say soccer, 01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:15.280 but I was actually kind of digging the World Cup, okay? 01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:18.520 So we gotta, I don't like golf, okay? 01:07:18.520 --> 01:07:20.720 Like I said, not disc golf, that's again, 01:07:20.720 --> 01:07:22.680 that's a sanctified set of parts. 01:07:22.680 --> 01:07:26.720 But the regular golf, it's like I'm not a fan of it, okay? 01:07:27.100 --> 01:07:29.820 But just because I'm not a fan of it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. 01:07:29.820 --> 01:07:32.940 It's not like I'm just like, no, there's no such thing as golf, you know, 01:07:32.940 --> 01:07:36.940 just like people imaginary, like it's not real. It's like this is nonsense. 01:07:36.940 --> 01:07:39.740 But the same thing is true of God. And here's what I'm going to point out to you though, 01:07:39.740 --> 01:07:44.380 why I'm bringing this up is because you know that this is why some people don't believe in God, 01:07:44.380 --> 01:07:48.780 because so many people when they'll say to you why they're an atheist, 01:07:48.780 --> 01:07:55.020 what do they cite so often? They'll say because the God of the Bible is misogynistic. He's, you know, 01:07:55.100 --> 01:07:59.600 a murder, he's all like they just throw out all these slanders against God. 01:08:00.200 --> 01:08:05.800 That's not attacking him as in existence though, that's attacking the person because you don't like them. 01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:07.960 Isn't that, doesn't that line up with what John's saying right here? 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:12.600 People don't come to the light, they stay with the darkness because if they actually had to come to the light, 01:08:12.600 --> 01:08:17.080 they'd have to realize and they'd have to admit that they're wrong about the things that they do 01:08:17.080 --> 01:08:20.440 and the things about that they believe and they don't want to admit that. 01:08:20.440 --> 01:08:25.000 So they just stay in ignorance. They'll be like, no, God's not real, but God is real. 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:28.120 Whether you like him or not, God's real. And whether you like his commandments, 01:08:28.200 --> 01:08:31.720 or not, they're right and they're holy and they're just and whether you like his 01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:37.000 morality or not, it is what this universe is based upon. So like it or lump it, it's 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:40.360 just like you need to go with what the Bible says. Don't be one of these fools 01:08:40.360 --> 01:08:44.880 that denies Jesus Christ to your grave just because you don't like his teachings 01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:48.520 on women not being able to preach at the church. Like I've had people bring that 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:53.320 up to me before too like, oh God why can't women preach? Because God said so, 01:08:53.320 --> 01:08:56.200 that's why. It's like cry about it. Seriously like 01:08:56.200 --> 01:08:58.840 There's so many things that we don't get to do either. 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:02.480 It's like, whoa, I don't even think it's a dumb example 01:09:02.480 --> 01:09:03.320 throughout, okay? 01:09:03.320 --> 01:09:05.440 But I'm just gonna time out. 01:09:06.500 --> 01:09:08.500 I'm gonna say something dumb. 01:09:08.500 --> 01:09:11.500 That's why I always pray, God keep me from saying what you don't want me to say. 01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:16.500 But it's like the reality is okay to ground myself. 01:09:16.500 --> 01:09:21.500 What I was saying is this, is that people when they attack God based on his morality, 01:09:21.500 --> 01:09:26.500 and that's what so many people do, this is a fallacy though. 01:09:26.500 --> 01:09:31.500 They're like, the God of the Bible says this here, and if he's really a loving God, 01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:33.500 then why would he flood the earth? 01:09:33.500 --> 01:09:34.100 It's like. 01:09:34.200 --> 01:09:40.800 Okay, you're not arguing logically though, because logically you'd say this is a fairy tale, God's not real because of science. 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:45.400 But no, they want to attack his morals because they know he's real. That's the reality. 01:09:45.400 --> 01:09:49.400 They know because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, is what the Bible says. 01:09:49.400 --> 01:09:52.600 And the Bible teaches us that people are not... 01:09:52.900 --> 01:09:58.740 by and large not believing because they just like don't have the right evidence or whatever. 01:09:58.740 --> 01:10:02.540 They by and large don't believe because their deeds are evil is what it says. 01:10:02.540 --> 01:10:04.020 And it says in verse number 20, 01:10:04.020 --> 01:10:05.860 for everyone that do with evil, 01:10:05.860 --> 01:10:08.100 hate at the light, neither cometh the light, 01:10:08.100 --> 01:10:10.180 lest his deeds should be reproved. 01:10:10.180 --> 01:10:14.020 But he that do with truth cometh the light that his deeds may be manifest, 01:10:14.020 --> 01:10:17.260 that they are wrought in God. 01:10:17.260 --> 01:10:18.100 So... 01:10:18.100 --> 01:10:24.220 These verses are pretty self-explanatory and that's all I had for this sermon basically, but just in summary I would say to you guys like 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:34.120 Firstly, concerning the should stuff, I'll re-say this one thing. 01:10:34.120 --> 01:10:40.360 It is important that even when we believe the right conclusion about something, that 01:10:40.360 --> 01:10:43.200 if there's an argument that we're using to come to that conclusion that's wrong, that 01:10:43.200 --> 01:10:44.980 we should change our minds about it. 01:10:44.980 --> 01:10:46.880 Because you're doing yourself no favors. 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:51.800 And sometimes people act like if you attack an argument that's bad, that supports the 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:53.300 the overlying conclusion that they'll be like, 01:10:53.300 --> 01:10:54.000 then you're an enemy of. 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:57.340 But this is not true like like God is truth, right? 01:10:57.360 --> 01:11:01.160 So we should be about the truth as Christians at all costs 01:11:01.160 --> 01:11:05.000 we should be about truth and never just take an interpretation or a 01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:12.240 Doctrine just because convenient for us go with the Bible says above everything else in this world is what we should understand 01:11:12.240 --> 01:11:19.260 And we should also understand that when people don't believe on God it is not because 01:11:20.100 --> 01:11:24.440 It's not because they really don't believe in okay. It's because they don't like him is what he is saying right here 01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:27.680 They don't come to the light not because they can't see the light 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:32.340 But because they don't want to see the light because the Bible says doesn't say that he's lied to every man 01:11:32.340 --> 01:11:33.400 That's coming to the world 01:11:33.400 --> 01:11:38.080 So why don't if they see the light like we've all seen the light and why don't they all get saved? 01:11:38.080 --> 01:11:44.840 It's because their deeds are evil is what he says and because they love darkness rather than light and they don't want to change their life 01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:47.460 But it's like what I was talking to you guys about with Matthew 2 01:11:48.100 --> 01:11:49.860 or in Matthew chapter five where he says like, 01:11:49.860 --> 01:11:52.540 hey, if I write out an offend thee, plug it out. 01:11:52.540 --> 01:11:55.340 If your hand, you know, is offended thee, chop it off. 01:11:55.340 --> 01:11:56.180 Why? 01:11:56.180 --> 01:11:57.020 Because what I submitted to you, 01:11:57.020 --> 01:11:59.380 the interpretation of those verses is that, you know, 01:11:59.380 --> 01:12:02.260 there's nothing in this life worth going to hell over. 01:12:02.260 --> 01:12:04.940 And not because you have to repent of your sins to be saved, 01:12:04.940 --> 01:12:06.580 like how people twist those verses, 01:12:06.580 --> 01:12:08.540 but that people all the time will be like, 01:12:08.540 --> 01:12:11.060 well, if God would condemn alcohol, 01:12:11.060 --> 01:12:12.580 I don't want to believe in that God. 01:12:12.580 --> 01:12:13.500 You're an idiot then. 01:12:13.500 --> 01:12:15.180 You're going to go to hell for alcohol. 01:12:15.180 --> 01:12:16.100 Like, oh, if God... 01:12:16.100 --> 01:12:20.660 wouldn't let my gay cousin into heaven then I don't want to believe in a God like that. 01:12:20.660 --> 01:12:24.620 It's like well then you're going to go to hell with your gay cousin then. Why do that 01:12:24.620 --> 01:12:28.620 though? Why not pluck out your bleeding heart instead and just believe on Jesus Christ? 01:12:28.620 --> 01:12:32.500 Why not just sacrifice anything that would be a stomach block to you believing on Jesus 01:12:32.500 --> 01:12:37.400 Christ and choose him instead because he is salvation, he is the end all be all, he's 01:12:37.400 --> 01:12:40.940 what's most important. And there's nothing in this world that would be worth going to 01:12:40.940 --> 01:12:44.100 hell over because this world's temporary and hell is... 01:12:44.100 --> 01:12:47.700 eternal. I don't know how I got there but we did okay but that is the end of the 01:12:47.700 --> 01:12:50.660 sermons of the last prayer. Dear Father God thank you so much for this wonderful day thank you so much 01:12:50.660 --> 01:12:54.100 for everything you do for us God thank you so much for the gospel that you give us God 01:12:54.100 --> 01:12:57.900 that it's simple that it's easy to understand God that even a child can 01:12:57.900 --> 01:13:01.620 believe in God thank you so much that we believe in a gospel God that can get 01:13:01.620 --> 01:13:04.700 little six-year-olds and little seven-year-olds saved God because it's 01:13:04.700 --> 01:13:09.220 true because it's righteous because it's holy because you say that if we come to 01:13:09.220 --> 01:13:12.100 you with the faith of a child that that's how we have to live. 01:13:12.100 --> 01:13:15.100 to come to you in order to be in the kingdom of heaven God. 01:13:15.100 --> 01:13:17.900 Praise your name that the gospel you have 01:13:17.900 --> 01:13:20.300 is not a work salvation gospel, 01:13:20.300 --> 01:13:22.740 a gospel that some people are deceived by. 01:13:22.740 --> 01:13:26.100 Thank you so much that the gospel that you truly give us 01:13:26.100 --> 01:13:28.260 is that the death, burial, and resurrection of your son 01:13:28.260 --> 01:13:29.700 is enough to pay for our sins, 01:13:29.700 --> 01:13:32.420 and that if we confess with our mouth of Lord Jesus, 01:13:32.420 --> 01:13:33.620 we will be saved. 01:13:33.620 --> 01:13:35.740 Thank you so much for dying for all of our sins, God, 01:13:35.740 --> 01:13:37.300 and thank you so much that... 01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:42.400 You died not just for our sins, but even for the scum of this earth that would never believe on you because it just shows how 01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:48.240 Merciful and how gracious and how mighty you are god that even the people that would reject you and spit in your face 01:13:48.240 --> 01:13:52.160 You'd still be kind to them and not just kind but loving to die for their sins 01:13:52.160 --> 01:13:56.320 God, thank you so much for this church and for the people here. I just pray that you bless the rest of the song service 01:13:56.320 --> 01:13:58.320 Do you say pray amen? 01:13:59.440 --> 01:14:01.440 Our last song is song number 327 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.200 Song number 327, Higher Ground. 01:14:12.200 --> 01:14:13.800 Song number 327. 01:14:16.900 --> 01:14:18.660 Sing together on the first. 01:14:18.660 --> 01:14:26.500 I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights I'm gaining every day. 01:14:26.500 --> 01:14:34.180 Still praying as I'm onward bound, Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 01:14:34.180 --> 01:14:44.740 Lord, lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven's table and a higher plain than I have. 01:14:44.900 --> 01:14:52.900 found. Lord plant my feet on higher ground. My heart has no desire to stay 01:14:52.900 --> 01:15:00.460 where doubts arise and fears dismay. Though some may dwell where these abound. 01:15:00.460 --> 01:15:09.540 My prayer my aim is higher ground. Lord lift me up and let me stand by faith on 01:15:09.540 --> 01:15:12.860 heaven's table and a- 01:15:12.900 --> 01:15:16.260 higher plain than I have found. 01:15:16.260 --> 01:15:20.020 Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. 01:15:20.020 --> 01:15:26.500 I want to live above the world, though Satan's darts at me 01:15:26.500 --> 01:15:27.700 are hurled. 01:15:27.700 --> 01:15:32.660 For faith has caught the joyful sound, the song of saints 01:15:32.660 --> 01:15:35.060 on higher ground. 01:15:35.060 --> 01:15:40.300 Lord, lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven. 01:15:40.900 --> 01:15:51.380 table lamp, a higher plane than I have found. Lord plant my feet on higher ground. I want 01:15:51.380 --> 01:16:00.900 to scale the utmost high and catch a gleam, a glory brine, but still I'll pray, tell heaven 01:16:00.900 --> 01:16:08.900 I've found. Lord lead me on to higher ground. Lord lift me up and let me stand. 01:16:08.900 --> 01:16:16.900 By faith on heaven's table and a higher plane than I have found. 01:16:16.900 --> 01:16:20.900 Lord plant my feet on higher ground. 01:16:20.900 --> 01:16:22.900 Amen. Good seeing you, Brother Kyle. Could you close the word of prayer? 01:16:32.200 --> 01:16:34.200 Forgiveness for all our sins. 01:16:34.200 --> 01:16:36.200 Jesus, the Lord, great, amen.