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 - Men, the title of my sermon this evening

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 is "Letting Go of the Past."

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 Letting go of the past.

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 Psalm 37 is a great chapter to keep in perspective

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 the big picture about the ultimate fate

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 of people who live for God versus the wicked

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 and people who disregard his commandments.

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 The first verse starts out in verse number one.

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 It says, "Fret not thyself because of evildoers,

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 neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity."

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 And this is really two different sides

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 of the same coin here or two different aspects

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 of how the wicked of this world could bother you.

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 So they could bother you in two different ways.

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 One way that evildoers could bother you

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 is if you're looking at them

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 and you're irritated by the fact

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 that you feel like they're prospering

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 or that they're not being punished

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 or that God's not punishing them.

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 Why are people just allowed to get away

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 with the horrible things that they do?

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 And so you could fret over that

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 or fret yourself because of evildoers,

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 but then on the other side of the coin,

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 maybe you'd be looking at them and saying like,

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 oh, I wanna be like them,

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 because I'm seeing the prosperity of the wicked

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 and I'm coveting their rock and roll lifestyle

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 or just whatever it is that outwardly seems like

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 they're doing well or whatever.

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 And so it's really different,

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 two different sides of the same coin here

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 of just looking at the wicked

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 and letting their very existence bother you.

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 And God is saying, do not let that bother you.

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 Don't fret over it.

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 Don't worry about it.

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 And then don't be stupid enough to wish that you were them.

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 Why?

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 Because he says in verse number two,

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 "For they shall soon be cut down like the grass

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 and wither as the green herb."

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 And notice this is really the solution to both problems

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 because if it's bothering you

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 that they're not being punished,

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 well, guess what, they're gonna be punished

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 is what the Bible says.

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 And if you're envying them

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 because you wish you were them,

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 well, guess what, you don't wish you were them

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 when they are getting what's coming to them.

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 And so he says, "They will soon be cut down

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 like the grass and wither as the green herb.

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 Trust in the Lord and do good,

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 so shalt thou dwell in the land

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 and verily thou shalt be fed."

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 He's saying, look, if you trust in the Lord

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 and you do good, you're gonna be blessed,

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 you're gonna be fed,

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 things are gonna go well for you.

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 "Delight thyself also in the Lord

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 and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."

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 So instead of looking at other people

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 and thinking so much about the wicked,

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 whether you're thinking about them not getting punished

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 or whether you think about their prosperity,

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 maybe you envy them,

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 you say, look, just quit looking at them

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 and just think about your own situation, right?

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 And realize that if you do what's right,

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 if you follow the commandments of God,

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 if you obey the Bible, God's gonna bless you.

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 If you trust in the Lord, if you do good,

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 he is gonna give you the desires of your heart,

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 you're gonna be fed, you're gonna have food and clothing,

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 you're gonna be taken care of.

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 And hey, what else do we need?

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 And by the way, you know, I just wanna bring this up.

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 This is kind of just a total aside

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 that doesn't really have anything to do

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 with my sermon tonight.

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 But it's kind of a throwback to my Wednesday night sermon.

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 Notice it says trust in the Lord.

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 Isn't this like a massive part of the Christian life,

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 trusting the Lord?

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 And you know, it's interesting

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 because when we think about the word faith, right?

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 It means trust in a lot of contexts.

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 Like when the Bible talks about putting our faith

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 in Christ for salvation,

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 it's really talking about trusting Christ as our savior,

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 trusting Him to get us to heaven,

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 relying on His death, burial and resurrection

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 to get us to heaven, putting our faith in Jesus.

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 But is that where faith stops in the Christian life,

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 just after salvation?

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 No, because really for the entire rest of our Christian lives,

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 we're just going from faith to faith.

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 And I mean, every single day, it's like, man,

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 we gotta trust the promises of God.

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 We gotta trust that God's way is the right way.

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 We gotta do what God wants us to do

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 because we have faith that the Bible's true,

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 that it's right, that everything that he says to do

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 is the right thing for us to do.

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 So we're gonna do it.

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 I mean, the whole Christian life,

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 if you could sum it up in one word, it's faith.

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 Faith gets us saved,

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 and then faith guides the whole rest of our life.

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 Well, here's what's funny.

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 You know, I preached this sermon on Wednesday night

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 about Christ's human experience.

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 And, you know, I picked that title very carefully

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 because what we're talking about is from his perspective

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 while he's on this earth, what is he experiencing?

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 And you know what he's experiencing?

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 The human life that we're experiencing.

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 He was tempted at all points,

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 like as we are yet without sin.

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 And of course, bozos come along and try to debunk my sermon.

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 Hater, ex-NIFB losers already trying to debunk my sermon.

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 But you know what they end up with at the end of the day

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 is they end up with a Jesus that actually can't relate

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 to the most critical component of the Christian life,

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 which is faith and trust.

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 Because here's the thing,

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 if you're gonna buy into their doctrine,

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 if you're gonna believe that while Jesus was on this earth,

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 he didn't just see Nathaniel under the fig tree.

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 Oh no, he saw every single person

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 under every single fig tree on the entire planet at once.

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 And he knew every man.

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 So he knew people in China and Korea and Japan.

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 If you're going to believe that, then you know what?

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 Jesus wouldn't have to have any faith at all.

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 Is everybody listening?

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 Because Jesus would just be like,

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 well, I just know everything and just see everything.

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 And I'm just walking around,

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 just turning water into wine willy nilly.

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 Well, why would he need any faith at all then?

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 He wouldn't have to exercise any faith at all, would he?

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 So how in the world is he an example

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 for us to follow in his steps?

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 How is he tempted in all points, like as we are,

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 when the one essential most important thing,

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 he doesn't even have to do it

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 'cause he's just walking by sight.

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 Think about it.

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 We don't walk by faith, we walk by sight.

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 We don't walk by sight, we walk by faith.

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 So explain this to me.

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 If Jesus Christ just sees everything all the time

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 while he's on this earth as a human being,

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 would he really have to exercise any faith

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 in what the Bible says, faith in the Old Testament?

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 Nope, he'd just be walking around

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 just seeing everything and knowing everything

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 and it's a foolish doctrine, okay?

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 It's wrong.

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 The true story is that when Jesus Christ was on this earth,

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 he did not know everything because in Mark 13, 32,

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 he flat out says of that day and hour of his second coming,

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 knoweth no man, not the angels in heaven,

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 neither the Son, but the Father only.

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 Now, here's the funny thing.

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 If somebody's gonna get up and say,

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 Jesus knew everything while he walked on this earth,

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 they're just denying clear scripture.

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 The Bible literally says,

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 he did not know the day and the hour of his second coming.

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 End of story, case closed.

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 But then they'll come along and say,

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 well, you know, he knew all men,

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 so therefore he knew everything.

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 Well, let's enter into their foolish fantasy

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 that he knew all men means that he knew people

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 in China and Korea and he just knew everything,

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 knew everybody, that's what that supposedly means.

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 Okay, well, does that mean that he knew

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 the day and hour of his second coming?

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 Nope.

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 So did he know everything?

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 Nope.

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 End of story, case closed.

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 And you know what?

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 I'm sick and tired of being called a heretic

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 by Catholics and Protestants who are gonna go to hell

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 when they die because they don't even believe

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 in salvation by faith alone.

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 And then we're gonna go get our doctrine

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 from the trash can of the Roman Catholics

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 to explain to us their retarded doctrines

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 like divine simplicity and all these things.

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 Look, I'm not interested in what those people have to say.

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 They're wrong.

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 Now, if you would go to John chapter two,

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 And I don't want you to miss this point because the entire Christian life is a life lived by faith

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 It's a life lived by faith every single day. I am exercising faith in the Lord

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 It's not just faith that got me safe

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 I mean I'm exercising faith every single day have to believe the Bible now when Jesus was on this earth

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 Guess what he had to do as well as a human being he's born as a baby

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 He had to learn how to talk he had to learn how to walk he had to rely on his mother to feed him

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 He had to learn how to grow up and do everything he had to grow in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God

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 That's what the Bible says and he didn't do his first miracle until he was 30 years old and up to that time

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 He hadn't done any miracles. So how does he know that he's the son of God?

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 How does he know that he's God in the flesh? How does he know that he's the Messiah?

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 How does he know that if he hasn't done a single miracle?

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 I'll tell you how he knew that because of the fact that he's reading the Bible

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 He's filled with the Holy Spirit and God revealed that to him and he had to believe by faith

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 That the Word of God is true and trust in the Lord and he then even after he's involved in his ministry

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 He's trusting God the Father. He's relying on God the Father

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 He's believing the Word of God other people are coming at him and telling him. He's a liar telling him

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 He's a fraud denying what the scriptures teach and you know what he had to trust God over them and not he had to not listen to

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 The Pharisees not listen to Sadducees trust what the Bible is saying trust what the Holy Spirit is saying

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 Does everybody understand what I'm saying?

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 Okay, and then ultimately he was obedient unto death even the death of the cross

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 Believing that God the Father is going to raise him from the dead

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 Sacrificing his life by faith believing and resting in the hope that his soul would not be left in hell neither would his flesh see corruption

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 So here's the thing you walk out of my sermon on Wednesday night

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 And here's what you walk away with you walk away understanding

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 You know what Jesus Christ actually lived the human life and when I'm sad when I'm struggling

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 When I'm doubting when I'm going through all these things you know what Jesus Christ has been there and suffered

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 But guess what he always did the right thing so like you see Elijah

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 Despairing you see Jonah getting frustrated and mad at the Ninevites everything

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 Here's think Jesus was put in all those type of situations, but he always reacted the right way

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 He always did it the right way. He always had total faith total trust

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 Total fullness of the Holy Ghost so he's an example that we can follow in his steps

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 But but you know this other doctrine that just says oh no Jesus just knew everything

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 He's he just knows every person on the planet and he can just you know

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 See everybody sitting under every tree on the whole planet

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 Well, here's the thing about that is that he wouldn't have to exercise any faith at all. He would just know well

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 I'm Superman. I'm superhuman. I know everything and no one else does ergo. I'm the son of God. I'm the Messiah now

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 I don't know if you don't understand what I'm saying tonight

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 Or if you do understand what I'm saying tonight, but I'm telling you right now that this stupid Catholic doctrine

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 Literally to me

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 It just lets all the air out of the balloon and just ruins Christmas as far as I'm concerned because I'm sorry

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 I cannot relate to a Jesus that never has to believe the Bible at all

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 Never has to have faith never has to make a decision because he just already just automatically knows everything

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 No

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 I love the Jesus of the Bible that lived the human life and was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin

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 Oh, he's tempted all points like as we are except the biggest thing that matters, which is faith

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 He wasn't tempted in that at all because he just knew everything and saw everything and just walked by sight

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 Well, you know what? I'm sorry, but if Jesus wasn't tempted with regard to faith versus doubting then I'm sorry

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 I don't see how he could be tempted at all points when that is

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 Literally the number one test for every person on this planet without faith. It is impossible to please God

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 How can you please God without faith? How can Jesus say why do always those things which please the Father?

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 I'm tempted at all points like you and then he never has to exercise faith because he just sees everything

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 He just walks by sight. That's absurd. And so, you know, I'm standing by my guns on this one because

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 They're just wrong. Look at John chapter 2. Did I have you turn to John chapter 2?

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 This is the supposed proof text that Jesus knew everything on this earth

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 And again, there's a clear verse that says that he did not know the day and hour of a second coming which means he didn't

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 Know everything case closed end of story, but look at John chapter 2 verse 23

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 It says now when he was in Jerusalem the Passover in the feast day many believed in his name

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 When they saw the miracles which he did but Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men now

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 What does that mean? He did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men

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 What it's saying is he didn't commit himself unto them

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 He didn't trust them right if I committed myself unto you. It's like I'm trusting you. I'm relying on you

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 Why did Jesus not put his trust in other human beings?

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 Well, the reason why is because he knew all men, but is that where the verse stops is this thing?

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 Oh, he knows a guy in China. He knows people in Korea Japan India

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 He just knows every person on the whole planet. That was saying when it says he knew all men

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 No, it says he needed not that any should testify of man

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 We're talking about what man in general?

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 Mankind no one needed to tell Jesus about man for he knew what was in

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 Man, that's not saying oh, he knows every person on the planet individually while he's walking on this earth as a human being

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 What it's saying is that he knew mankind in general therefore

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 He knew all men for example

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 I could walk up to someone on the street today that I've never met in my entire life and I automatically know a few things

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 About that person. I know that that person is a sinner

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 I know that all the imagination of their heart from their youth up is only evil continually

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 I know that their heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know so am I just gonna walk around

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 Trusting people and just committing myself to people. No, I'm not

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 I don't need anybody to testify unto me of man, and I'm not even Jesus

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 I don't need anybody to testify unto me of man because I know what's in man, too

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 Because I read it in the Bible. Okay, so to take this verse out of context and say oh Jesus knew all men

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 Therefore he knew everything again. That's not what the Bible says, you know, he knew what was in man

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 He knew that people are sinful, but at the end of the day

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 Jesus Christ was human that means he has a human brain and a human body and guess what our brain our human brains

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 We can't know

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 Everything about everything in the whole world at one time like like our brains don't have enough RAM

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 They don't have enough CPU to be thinking about every person everywhere on the planet at any given time

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 Seeing everything knowing everything all the information in the universe can't fit in my brain. It simply can't now

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 Here's the thing Jesus Christ right now glorified up at the right hand of the Father

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 Yeah, of course, he knows everything Jesus Christ, but when he came to this earth

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 Robed in flesh. He took upon himself the human the human limitations

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 Okay, and and people can say it's heresy if they if they want to go to Catholics to get approval for this

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 That's fine. But at the end of the day, you know what Jesus Christ was robed in human flesh

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 And he lived as a human with a normal human brain with normal

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 human abilities in his brain and you know what he did not have just a million thoughts coming into his head and just he just

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 Sees everything knows everything because then he wouldn't have to exercise faith

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 And so then he can't even model the Christian life because the entire Christian life is based on faith

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 So pretty understand what I'm saying

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 and so I think that some people haven't really thought through the implications of the foolishness of this bad doctrine of

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 Claiming and here's what they'll just say they'll come at when you call them out on this stuff

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 They'll just come at you with a word salad

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 So, you know, I'm giving some very concrete statements up here Jesus lived on this earth as a human being and

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 Jesus in his human experience

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 Walking around did not know everything and did not have unlimited superhuman powers

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 He just did and I are and I'm not gonna repreach my sermon from Wednesday night

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 but here's the thing about that is that you know Jesus he is

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 Filled with the Holy Spirit to the max. He's always doing those things which please the father

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 He's praying to the father. And so yeah, he's working all these mighty things God's revealing things to him

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 He's having visions. He knows things in a superhuman manner

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 So did other prophets and Apostles in the Bible now look people will slander me

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 I literally went on YouTube today and I saw that there was a thumbnail with my face on it with a little

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 Speech bubble coming off my face and it literally said

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 Jesus stopped being God now, of course, I never said that Jesus stopped being God. I would never say that

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 That's a ridiculous absurd doctrine because Jesus Christ is God. That's his identity

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 He doesn't have to have an ability while he's on this earth to prove that he's got you know

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 Sometimes these people that feel like Jesus has to prove that he's got all the time with his abilities

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 I wonder if they're trying to convince themselves that Jesus got see for me

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 It's just already settled that Jesus got I'm just not worried about it. The deity of Christ just isn't up for grabs

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 I mean Jesus just is God nothing could ever convince me that he's not God and you know

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 Why I believe Jesus guys because he said he's God, you know

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 I believe Jesus is the son of God because the Bible said so, you know

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 I believe Jesus created the whole world because the Bible says so so I don't I don't need Jesus while he's

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 Supposedly living a human life to walk around knowing everything in order for him to be God

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 And so let me just say this that person who made that picture of me with a speech bubble saying Jesus

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 Stopped being God is an evil person and you know what if you if you listen to that person if you're friends with that person

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 Just realize what a rotten person you are for hanging around with slanderers or listening to railers and evil

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 But because that's just a bold-faced like putting a quote in my mouth that I didn't say of something super evil

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 Super blast. I mean if I said Jesus stopped being God, that's a super evil blasphemous statement

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 And let me just tell you something about this particular person

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 I know this particular person and he's a damnable heretic

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 He's buddies with Tyler Baker and him and Tyler Baker are both gonna go burn in hell when they die

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 Okay, and so I ain't even worried about it cuz Psalm 37

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 Let's get back to Psalm 37 Bible says in Psalm 37 in verse 3 trust in the Lord and do good

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 So shall thou dwell in the land and verily thou shall be fed, you know, that's the Christian life

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 My friend trust in the Lord and do good and you know what Jesus did while he was on this earth

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 He trusted in God the Father and he did good and he lived the ultimate

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 Perfect life that none of us could live and he left us an example that we could follow in his steps

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 Okay, and so he'd know he did not stop being God

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 No

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 He did not empty himself of being God and these people love to use fancy big words that the kenosha's heresy and

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 The hypostatic union and all this stuff. It's you know what?

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 It's a word salad to deny the plain text of scripture. The scripture says Jesus doesn't know the day of his second coming

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 Oh, so then how did he know everything always on this earth? Oh, oh the hypostatic

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 Hypothalamus static union. What is that? What is that?

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 It's they're throwing jargon at you because they think you're gonna be stupid enough to just hear jargon and think all this guys

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 This guy's saying smart stuff. And so I guess I'll just believe it

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 No, you know what we need to do is get back to just actually believing what the Bible flat-out says

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 You know the clear reading of the text. What does the Bible say and you know what take your?

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 Theological terms and throw them in the trash can because the only time a theological term is helpful is when it makes something easier to understand

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 You know like like people bring up the term Trinity a lot

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 But the term Trinity is a beautiful term because it's easy to understand. It's just three and one it just makes sense

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 It doesn't raise more questions than it answers, you know

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 Hypostatic union sounds like something when I'm taking stuff out of the dryer and I didn't put in a dryer seat or something

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 What is that the hypostatic union? Well, you know, it's that Jesus, you know

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 The human nature and the divine nature are there there, you know

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 I mean, they're like distinct but they're but they're never like divided but they're also never mixed and it's just like

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 It's all a bunch of vein jangling

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 Striving about words to no profit. It's just hitting you with a bunch of words the stink

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 But not that divided the the the meshing and the mixing and they're not mixed but they're but they're also never separate and what?

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 What and then what's funny is that this idiot makes an hour and 14 minute video?

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 Supposedly debunking me and then at an hour and eight minutes in he basically just says yeah

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 I guess Jesus didn't know the day of a second coming. So yeah as a human from his perspective

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 I could be didn't know everything. It's like well, thanks for what wasting the last 68 minutes of our time fool

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 Because you know, you're supposedly debunking me and then 68 minutes in you basically admit that I'm right because it's impossible not to admit that

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 That Jesus didn't know everything because it's explicitly stated in Mark 13. Anyway, sorry

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 I'm off on a tangent, but I just wanted to get that off my chest

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 Go back if you would to Psalm 37 the Bible says commit thy way unto the Lord

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 And again committing your way unto the Lord. This is that same commit that we just saw in John chapter 2

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 You know Jesus he didn't want to commit himself unto men because he knew all men because he knew what was in man in general

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 And so therefore he knows that people in general are not reliable

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 And so we should commit our way unto the Lord right trust the Lord. He's gonna take care of it

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 He will bring it to pass. He's gonna make it happen. Look at verse 6

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 It says and he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noonday

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 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him

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 fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass and so notice

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 Here that fretting yourself because of him who prospereth

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 This is what I was saying about verse number one that that's what he means by don't fret over the evildoers

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 Don't think that they're getting away with it

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 Don't fret because it feels like they're prospering look at verse 8

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 It says cease from anger and forsake wrath fret not thyself in any wise to do evil now

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 Now here's what the Bible saying here is that you know, it's easy to get mad about evil people, right?

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 It made me mad when I saw a picture of myself with a speech bubble saying heresy that I never said

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 Can you see why that would irritate me to see a comic of myself?

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 And it's something that I don't believe that I've never preached that I've never said right that bothered me

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 I don't like people lying about me

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 I don't think you like people lying about you and

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 Slandering you and making up stories about you and saying that you did things you didn't do

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 Saying that you said things that you didn't do right

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 I mean nobody likes that and so this is the type of thing that makes people mad right it makes me mad it makes

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 You mad, and you're like why are you so mad pastor Anderson?

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 But guess what I bet you'd be mad if somebody's you know said it was you that did these things or said these things or

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 Taught damnable heresy and put a speech bubble in your mouth with a quote that you didn't say because they're an evil

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 Slanderous piece of garbage right now. I think that anger is the natural

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 Reaction to that in our lives

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 You know if you if you went to work

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 And you found out that one of your co-workers

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 Had lied about you to the boss at work, and now the boss is coming down on you and punishing you would you get mad?

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 That's the normal reaction right and so our human reaction is anger and

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 Let's take it up a notch wrath. You know serious anger like extreme anger is what wrath means and what does the Bible say it says?

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 You know what cease from anger and forsake wrath. He's saying look. I know you're mad

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 It's natural to be mad. It's normal to be mad Jesus got mad

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 God's anger with the wicked every day. You know there obviously there are times when anger makes sense

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 It's warranted, but here's what the Bible says stop being mad

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 Cease from anger and forsake wrath. He's saying look you can't just go through life

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 Staying mad staying angry, you know, and what does the Bible say?

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 Don't let the Sun go down on your wrath and and you know, obviously we don't want to take that as this hyper literal thing of

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 Like well, you know the Sun just went down

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 That means I got 23 hours to stay mad until the Sun goes down again or what?

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 You know or or oh, I got mad five minutes before sundown. I gotta figure this out quick

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 Is that you know, we don't want to take that hyper literal approach the idea of not letting the Sun go down on your wrath

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 Is not going from day to day angry about the same thing

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 Don't be angry on Monday and then you're still mad on Tuesday and then you're still mad on Wednesday

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 Somebody see what I'm saying, you know, the Bible says be angry and sin not let not the Sun go down on your wrath

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 You know, we need to not give place to the devil

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 We don't want to get consumed by bitterness and rage at these things

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 So he's saying look cease from anger and forsake wrath now in order to stop doing something

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 Don't you have to start doing it? So the psalmist understands God's telling us in the psalm. He's saying look

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 I know you're mad. I know you're mad. Stop being mad. Hey, I know you're filled with wrath forsake wrath

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 Let it go let go of the wrath, but then I like this next part

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 He says fret not thyself in any wise to do evil

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 So he's saying, you know, stop being angry stop being mad

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 But whatever you do don't do evil as a result of anger

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 So look sometimes getting rid of anger can be easier said than done

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 Sometimes it's easy to say stop being mad

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 But you know sometimes just kind of hard to get rid of the anger and maybe you are going to be angry from Monday to Tuesday

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 Or Tuesday to Wednesday even though you shouldn't because we're imperfect people

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 We're human and sometimes we might hold a grudge from one day to the next maybe against our spouse or against you know

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 Loved ones friends enemies, whatever, you know, sometimes we could be angry from day to day

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 But what the Bible is saying is look the best thing to do is is put off the anger and chill out

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 But even if you're mad whatever you do

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 Don't cross the line of doing evil as a result of your anger, right because anger can lead to violence

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 Right if somebody gets really angry then they can get violent and I'm not just even talking about being physically violent because also what else?

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 Can anger lead to just other sins there could be a temptation to?

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 Slander there could be a temptation to fight fire with fire

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 There could be a temptation to you know

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 Go on the offense and start doing something that crosses the lines of morality or what the Bible says to punish people ourselves

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 When in reality we need to rely on the Lord that he's gonna punish people instead of thinking like I have to go punish people

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 I have to take things into my own hands. No vengeance belongs to the Lord

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 He will repay he will recompense and so the Bible saying cease from anger and forsake wrath

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 But in any wise no matter what in any situation

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 Whatever you do fret not thyself to do evil why why Lord he gives the because in verse 9 for

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 Evil doers shall be cut off like like why are you gonna sit there and and stay mad and then go out and take?

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 Things into your own hands when God's gonna do it anyway

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 And here's what it is if you take things into your own hands if you take vengeance into your own hands

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 You know what you're doing. You're doubting that God's gonna do it

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 I mean think about what if my wife asked me to fix something around the house

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 Okay, and I said I will fix that this week

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 I will get it done and then what if like two days go by and then she just does it herself

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 What is she saying if she asked me to do it and I said I'll do it this week and is that soon enough?

00:29:39.230 --> 00:29:44.260
 Yeah, this week's fine. Okay, great. I'll get it done this week two days later

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 She's doing it herself. What is she basically saying? You know is like well, she didn't think I was gonna do it

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 She felt like I got to take this into my own ass rather than just sitting back and letting it happen

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 Because I'm gonna take care of it. Does everybody understand what I'm saying. So God's up in heaven and God is saying hey

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 You know what? I'm gonna take care of this. I will punish the wicked

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 I will punish the evildoer don't fret don't trip. Don't worry about it. Relax. Don't get mad

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 Even if you do get mad don't take things into your own hands. Just take it easy

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 Okay, and then I go out and take things into my own hands. What am I saying?

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 I don't believe him when he said he was gonna do it or you say well, maybe she's just impatient

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 Maybe she just decided I don't want to wait the week

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 I just well guess what we need to wait the week God wants us to wait on him

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 And what does the Bible say those exact words wait on the Lord trust in the Lord

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 He's gonna bring it to pass commit your way to him seize from anger. Don't get mad because here's the thing

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 If we truly knew that all the wicked people that all the enemies were gonna get what was coming to them

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 We wouldn't be mad. We wouldn't be upset anymore

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 Would we you know a lot of people are mad about the Epstein thing and they ought to be mad about it because it's

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 disgusting and evil the all this human trafficking and and evil that went on and

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 All these people in government that are covering for one another and all these raunchy things that they did or that they had knowledge of

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 Or that they either participated in or condoned of or what it went along with. Okay, but here's the thing if

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 If we knew every single person involved in that Epstein business is

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 Eventually gonna get punished like they're eventually gonna be in an orange jumpsuit

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 They're eventually gonna be put away there, you know, then then, you know, people would feel better about it, wouldn't they?

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 They wouldn't be like I don't want to wait the 30 days for that to come out or I don't want to you know

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 If you know that it's eventually coming it's like who cares right it happens a month from now two months from now

00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:52.460
 You just want to know that people are gonna get what's coming to them

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 But guess what?

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 God has promised us in this passage over and over again that all of those people are gonna get what's coming to them all of these

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 Weirdo perverts in our government and in business and in finance all these people are gonna get what's coming to them

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 You know the Epstein files at the very minimum are getting released at the Great White Throne of Judgment

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 You know, it's gonna be unredacted. It's gonna be a hundred percent unredacted at the Great White Throne and and guess what?

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 It's not gonna be a slap on the wrist

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 It's not gonna be all let's settle out of court for a few million bucks like that weirdo pervert royal prince

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 What's his name Andrew Prince Andrew, you know, oh, you know, he just throws some money at it

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 Makes it go away or whatever. You know what?

00:32:38.830 --> 00:32:47.090
 Have fun Prince Andrew at the great white throne judgment pulling out your money and trying to say oh, hey, let's just let's just settle outside of court

00:32:47.090 --> 00:32:53.320
 There's no there's no outside of court at the great white throne because heaven and earth have fled away. There's found no place for them

00:32:53.320 --> 00:33:01.760
 Everybody's at that great white throne. There's nowhere else to go. There's no one to appeal to there's no backroom deals

00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:02.950
 There's no plea bargaining

00:33:02.950 --> 00:33:08.920
 the only way to escape that fate is to put all your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and

00:33:09.390 --> 00:33:16.310
 Unless Prince Andrew has done that or does that in the future? He's doomed and any of these guys man

00:33:16.310 --> 00:33:21.450
 If any of these guys if it's not too late for them and they're not so hard-hearted and blinded man

00:33:21.450 --> 00:33:25.630
 These guys better get saved before it's eternally too late because even if they get away with it on this earth

00:33:25.630 --> 00:33:31.160
 They are not getting away with it at that great white throne. So they better get saved immediately, you know

00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:37.910
 I don't think they're gonna hear this sermon, but serves them right. Amen

00:33:37.910 --> 00:33:41.730
 But you know the Bible says in verse 9

00:33:41.890 --> 00:33:49.720
 Hey chill out because evildoers shall be cut off but those that wait upon the Lord they shall inherit the earth for yet

00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:51.690
 A little while and the wicked shall not be

00:33:51.690 --> 00:33:55.630
 Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be you're gonna be like man

00:33:55.630 --> 00:34:01.610
 Whatever whatever happened to that guy. He really went up in flames. He really crashed and burnt. I can't even find him

00:34:01.610 --> 00:34:07.620
 I don't know where is it's cuz he's dead. That's why we can't find him. That's why we don't know where he is

00:34:07.620 --> 00:34:13.780
 He's dead. He's probably out in an open field somewhere and didn't even get buried

00:34:13.780 --> 00:34:19.280
 We don't even know we can't even visit his grave because we're gonna diligently seek his place and not find it

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:25.550
 The Bible says verse 10 yet a little while and the wicked shall not be ye they'll shall diligently consider his place and it shall

00:34:25.550 --> 00:34:26.930
 Not be I can't find this guy

00:34:26.930 --> 00:34:33.910
 but the meek shall inherit the earth and shove the light themselves in the abundance of peace the wicked plotted against the just and

00:34:33.910 --> 00:34:41.140
 Nasheth upon him with his teeth the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeeth that his day is coming

00:34:41.140 --> 00:34:47.040
 You know, I'd rather laugh at things than to be angry all the time, right?

00:34:47.090 --> 00:34:52.570
 You know, I don't want to go through my life in a rage. I don't want to go through my I want to do what the

00:34:52.570 --> 00:34:54.180
 Bible says I want to cease from anger

00:34:54.180 --> 00:34:58.830
 I want to forsake wrath and just believe that God's gonna take care of it

00:34:58.830 --> 00:35:03.640
 And you know what God's gonna laugh someday when these people get what's coming to them

00:35:03.640 --> 00:35:04.350
 And you but you know

00:35:04.350 --> 00:35:08.830
 I can actually start laughing even now and I'll tell you why I can start laughing early

00:35:08.830 --> 00:35:14.360
 Because of the fact that I know it's gonna happen and it's already as good as done, you know

00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.940
 And that's what faith is that's trust

00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:25.400
 Relying on the fact that what God says in psalm 37 is real the Bible says in verse number 14 the wicked have drawn out

00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:31.260
 The sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as be of upright

00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:36.480
 conversation their sword shall enter into their own heart and their bows shall be broken a

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:43.460
 Little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked now

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:48.150
 Some of these verses could seem like they're just kind of out of nowhere, but obviously this is all connected

00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:53.730
 This is one coherent thought here. Okay, because he's talking about how you know, man the wicked

00:35:53.730 --> 00:36:00.530
 They're just plotting and planning and trying to destroy those that are of upright con conversation

00:36:00.530 --> 00:36:04.610
 But what's gonna happen to them verse 15 their swords gonna enter into their own heart, you know

00:36:04.610 --> 00:36:08.960
 They're gonna end up if they seek to make you look like a fool. They're gonna make themselves look like a fool

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:12.820
 They seek to destroy you they end up destroying themselves

00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:17.100
 And that's what the Bible saying their own sword is gonna enter in their own heart

00:36:17.120 --> 00:36:21.650
 their bows shall be broken and then he says in verse 16 this might seem like kind of

00:36:21.650 --> 00:36:26.570
 random out of nowhere unrelated a little that a righteous man hath is better than the

00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.070
 riches of many wicked the idea here is that you know

00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:34.410
 Even if you look at wicked people and you see them just having a bunch of money and prosperity

00:36:34.410 --> 00:36:38.790
 Realize that your life is better than theirs, right?

00:36:38.790 --> 00:36:42.120
 Your life is better, you know

00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:48.170
 And and again, we know that there are these stars and you know, I'm gonna pick you know an outdated example

00:36:48.170 --> 00:36:53.110
 Just cuz it's easy and I'm lazy but Michael Jackson, you know

00:36:53.110 --> 00:37:01.460
 Michael Jackson is literally having to be anesthetized every night to go to sleep at night, right?

00:37:01.460 --> 00:37:06.910
 I mean, that's how he died because you know doing all that anesthesia can ultimately be dangerous

00:37:06.910 --> 00:37:11.680
 And so he is literally he can't even just go to bed and just lay there and fall asleep

00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:17.470
 No, he has to take anesthesia. Like if you're going into surgery, he has a physician by his bedside

00:37:18.930 --> 00:37:22.540
 Antisizing him to bed at night now that's kind of extreme example, right?

00:37:22.540 --> 00:37:28.050
 But you know what pick name the rock star name the pop star, you know, a lot of it's the same story

00:37:28.050 --> 00:37:35.890
 Okay, and you know you think I you know, I read about Jimi Hendrix that basically Jimi Hendrix and his band basically

00:37:35.890 --> 00:37:38.620
 It's like they have to take drugs in order to perform

00:37:38.620 --> 00:37:44.260
 They can't even perform on stage without taking drugs to get them going and then when they're done

00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:46.890
 They got to take different drugs to put them to bed at night

00:37:46.950 --> 00:37:52.840
 So it's like they got to take the downers before bed they got to take the uppers in order to get work done

00:37:52.840 --> 00:38:00.200
 You know what is that really a happy blessed life, you know, and it's like, oh, it's so great

00:38:00.200 --> 00:38:08.370
 Oh the the glamour and the fame and the startup and guess what? It's not just rock stars, you know fill in the blank TV actors

00:38:08.370 --> 00:38:10.900
 movie actors

00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:12.490
 Fashion models, you know

00:38:12.490 --> 00:38:19.020
 These people live difficult painful lives because the way of transgressors is hard

00:38:19.020 --> 00:38:26.650
 and so if you see a bunch of people making money the easy way and you're sitting there grinding at your job and

00:38:26.650 --> 00:38:32.860
 Just trying to make ends meet and you're pinching pennies over here. Meanwhile some woman down the street

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:40.460
 She's making money on only fans, which is a pornography website, right?

00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:47.490
 So basically it's like oh look how easy it is to make all this money through pornography must be nice. Listen to me

00:38:47.490 --> 00:38:54.530
 I guarantee you that even if you're grinding even if you're pinching pennies and even if you're struggling to make ends meet you

00:38:54.530 --> 00:39:00.780
 Young Christian lady you Christian mother you Christian homeschooler you Christian wife

00:39:00.780 --> 00:39:08.180
 You stay-at-home wife stay-at-home mother or you know, maybe you're out there working and and and you know, whatever your situation

00:39:08.180 --> 00:39:14.480
 Let me tell you something. You're happier than this pornographer is now

00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:18.550
 How do I know that you're happy than these bunch of stinking pornographers on?

00:39:18.550 --> 00:39:24.860
 Only fans is because the Bible says a little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of any wicked

00:39:24.860 --> 00:39:32.460
 So if I'm making some tiny amount of money, but I have integrity it's better. I'm happier

00:39:32.460 --> 00:39:37.810
 I'm enjoying it more than the person who's just rolling in the dough from selling drugs from human

00:39:37.810 --> 00:39:43.260
 Trafficking from being a pimp from being a prostitute that money is no good

00:39:43.350 --> 00:39:48.490
 You know the Bible says the blessing of the Lord maketh rich and he added no sorrow to it

00:39:48.490 --> 00:39:54.680
 Okay, why because a lot of riches come with sorrow come with pain

00:39:54.680 --> 00:40:01.900
 They come with things that you can't even imagine and so wouldn't it be foolish to envy that and you know

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:06.040
 What's funny is that we have some news station around here this called?

00:40:06.040 --> 00:40:11.130
 Family AZ families anybody know what I'm talking about. What is it like? It's like a TV station. Is that what it is?

00:40:11.130 --> 00:40:13.550
 It's like a news station

00:40:13.550 --> 00:40:18.780
 I I think it's a TV channel, but I saw it as like a Facebook page AZ family

00:40:18.780 --> 00:40:24.930
 It was like a media local media thing and some of you probably know what I'm talking about AZ family ran an article

00:40:24.930 --> 00:40:32.710
 glorifying prostitution, you know, just it's literally called family and it's talking about

00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:35.960
 Oh, oh this schoolteacher quit her school teaching job

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:40.760
 And now she's making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on OnlyFans and whatever

00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:47.530
 And people were commenting like how is this family even non-christians even people who don't even care about

00:40:47.530 --> 00:40:55.420
 religion are saying how in the bleepity bleep bleep is this a family channel and you're telling people how oh

00:40:55.420 --> 00:41:02.410
 You know, she quit her low-paying teaching job and now she's just doing so great making all this money

00:41:02.410 --> 00:41:08.500
 You know what? Why would you write a story like that? You piece of trash because you're glorifying wickedness

00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:15.870
 You're glorifying sin. You're glorifying prostitution. It's so empowering for women. No, it's an embarrassment humiliation

00:41:15.870 --> 00:41:24.150
 then you know you flip the page and some kid is committing suicide because he's getting bullied at school because everybody saw his mom naked because

00:41:24.150 --> 00:41:26.930
 His mom is a sleaze and a whore

00:41:26.930 --> 00:41:36.400
 You know, the Bible says a little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked

00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:36.870
 You know what?

00:41:36.870 --> 00:41:43.080
 I know that maybe you're not making as much money as you want to make and maybe you're struggling and grinding and

00:41:43.100 --> 00:41:48.410
 You're playing life on difficult mode because guess what the Christian life you're playing on difficult

00:41:48.410 --> 00:41:52.420
 And then you see these people that seem like they're playing on easy mode

00:41:52.420 --> 00:41:56.900
 And it's just so easy for them just strip off their clothes and make a bunch of money

00:41:56.900 --> 00:41:59.380
 But let me tell you something the way of transgressors is hard

00:41:59.380 --> 00:42:04.700
 Do not envy them your little tiny bit is better

00:42:04.700 --> 00:42:07.800
 You know you go out to dinner once a month or once a year

00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:11.900
 You're probably enjoying it more than people are going out to dinner every single day

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:16.270
 But they have to take drugs to go to sleep at night because you know what?

00:42:16.270 --> 00:42:23.550
 I'm sorry, but not being able to sleep at night. It's horrible, and I think we've probably all been there who has ever

00:42:23.550 --> 00:42:31.770
 Struggled with insomnia at some point in your life. Yeah, it's terrible isn't it horrible one of the worst things ever

00:42:31.770 --> 00:42:34.600
 I've struggled with it before it's awful

00:42:34.600 --> 00:42:38.690
 And you know I you know whenever I start with I lay in bed

00:42:38.690 --> 00:42:43.950
 And I'm just like God you said you give your beloved sleep you I thought you loved me here

00:42:43.950 --> 00:42:51.790
 Give me some sleep, and you know it's something that virtually everybody looks like has dealt with it at some point in their life

00:42:51.790 --> 00:43:00.410
 How would you like that to just become a permanent lifestyle drugs to get to sleep at night? That's not that's not happiness

00:43:00.410 --> 00:43:02.360
 That's not Mike. That's not life goals

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.140
 Hashtag goals for the new year

00:43:05.140 --> 00:43:15.550
 Medicaid to sleep every night well the Bible says the arms of the wicked verse 17 are gonna be broken

00:43:15.550 --> 00:43:22.830
 But the Lord upholdeth the righteous the Lord knoweth the days of the upright and their inheritance shall be forever

00:43:22.830 --> 00:43:27.460
 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time and in the days of famine they shall be

00:43:28.490 --> 00:43:37.090
 Satisfied, you know when the evil time comes when the difficult times come God's gonna take care of us and we're gonna we're not gonna starve

00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:39.320
 What's that worth?

00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:48.730
 You know, we're gonna have food when hard times come now the Bible never promised that we're gonna be rich and and and have every

00:43:48.730 --> 00:43:55.320
 Fancy thing but you know what the Bible did promise us food and clothing and you know what you have permission

00:43:55.320 --> 00:44:02.500
 To stop being content when you lose all your food and all your clothes then you can start complaining

00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:09.190
 Okay, but as long as you got food and Raymond was the Bible say and having food and Raymond let us be there with content

00:44:09.190 --> 00:44:14.040
 And by the way, it doesn't say having filet mignon and lobster

00:44:14.040 --> 00:44:17.260
 Let us be aware with you know, it might not necessarily be the fanciest thing

00:44:17.260 --> 00:44:22.000
 It could be just something to sustain you it could be cheap food rice and beans whatever

00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.370
 But you know what if we have proper nutrition and clothing, you know what?

00:44:26.370 --> 00:44:29.750
 We got to just power through and God's gonna bless us and in the end

00:44:29.750 --> 00:44:34.210
 It's gonna be great but the Bible says in the days of famine they shall be satisfied

00:44:34.210 --> 00:44:39.360
 But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord verse 20 shall be as the fat of lambs

00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:46.550
 They shall consume into smoke shall they consume away? What's the Bible saying? There is they're gonna be sacrificed

00:44:46.550 --> 00:44:50.200
 What does that mean when it says the fat of lambs?

00:44:50.200 --> 00:44:58.180
 Consuming into smoke this is talking about an animal sacrifice the picture right of the lamb on the altar

00:44:58.180 --> 00:45:00.770
 Burning the fat unto the Lord

00:45:00.770 --> 00:45:07.320
 They would burn off the fat of the Lord and the fat is converted into smoke that goes up and is a sweet savor in the Lord's

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.790
 Nostrils and you know what the Bible is saying here is that the wicked are gonna be

00:45:10.790 --> 00:45:16.890
 Sacrificed and you know what? Here's the thing about that is that I'm thankful that the Lamb of God

00:45:16.890 --> 00:45:23.690
 Jesus Christ was already sacrificed for me and already paid for all my sins because let me tell I don't want to be sacrificed

00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:29.580
 I'm glad Jesus was sacrificed. So I don't have to get sacrificed the wicked are getting sacrificed

00:45:29.580 --> 00:45:34.790
 It's what the Bible says the wicked borroweth and payeth not again

00:45:34.790 --> 00:45:38.920
 But the righteous showeth mercy and giveth, you know

00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:44.780
 It's interesting about these mega stars isn't it amazing how they end up making millions and millions of dollars and then being in debt

00:45:44.780 --> 00:45:49.400
 You know I back when Michael Jackson was alive

00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:57.120
 I used to joke around say I have more money than Michael Jackson because I did because Michael Jackson's net worth was negative

00:45:57.120 --> 00:46:00.520
 My net worth is positive. Even if it's just a couple bucks

00:46:00.520 --> 00:46:09.270
 What kind of an idiot makes millions of dollars and then is in debt millions of dollars and goes bankrupt?

00:46:09.270 --> 00:46:18.100
 Right the wicked borrow and they pay not again. That's not that's not blessing. That's not the way I want to live my life

00:46:18.100 --> 00:46:21.870
 That's not a goal for the new year rack up debt that I can't pay

00:46:21.870 --> 00:46:29.390
 That's a terrible way to live life for such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth and they that curse

00:46:29.390 --> 00:46:35.990
 Or they that be cursed of him shall be cut off the steps of a good man are

00:46:35.990 --> 00:46:38.940
 Ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way though

00:46:38.940 --> 00:46:44.860
 He fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth them with his hand the Bible saying look even when we

00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:53.610
 Quote-unquote fall or crash and burn, you know, we're not totally wiped out. It's like in a boxing match

00:46:53.610 --> 00:47:00.490
 We're knocked down, but we're not knocked out. We get back up. We keep going though

00:47:00.490 --> 00:47:02.580
 We fall he should not be utterly cast down

00:47:02.580 --> 00:47:07.040
 Why the Lord upholdeth them with his hand right we fall down God picks us up and we keep going

00:47:07.040 --> 00:47:12.720
 I've been young and now I'm old yet

00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:19.410
 Have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread saying look man. I've lived my whole life

00:47:19.410 --> 00:47:27.370
 I've been young. I'm old I have decades and decades and decades of experience and you know what I've seen people forsaken

00:47:27.370 --> 00:47:32.620
 I've seen people left out to dry. I have seen people forsaken. I've seen them begging bread

00:47:32.620 --> 00:47:39.660
 I've seen their kids begging bread, but he said I've never seen the righteous forsaken and I've never seen his kids begging bread

00:47:39.660 --> 00:47:44.590
 I don't know pastor. I understand. I don't know if I believe that well

00:47:44.590 --> 00:47:52.010
 That's the whole point of this chapter believe it have faith in it trust it commit yourself to the Lord

00:47:52.180 --> 00:47:57.950
 Trust in the Lord put your faith in the Lord and realize hey God is gonna take care of you

00:47:57.950 --> 00:48:03.460
 You're not gonna run out of you're not gonna run out of money and starve to death. You're not going to you say

00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:16.580
 Well people starve death not the righteous not their seed. I believe this never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread

00:48:16.580 --> 00:48:24.030
 He is ever merciful talking about the righteous and let it and watch this and his seed is blessed

00:48:24.030 --> 00:48:29.260
 His seed is blessed now the primary application here of the seed being blessed

00:48:29.260 --> 00:48:32.950
 You know, we got to take the context because what was the seed in the previous verse talking about his kids

00:48:32.950 --> 00:48:39.400
 It says, you know that I've never seen the righteous forsaken and I've never seen his seed begging bread

00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:43.220
 Meaning like if I if I said to my kids like kids we have no food

00:48:43.220 --> 00:48:51.240
 We are starving and so kids I need you guys to go stand on the corner and I need you guys to go beg

00:48:51.240 --> 00:48:57.190
 Because that's the only way you're gonna get fed because I don't have any food for you, right? Wouldn't that be terrible? I mean

00:48:57.720 --> 00:49:03.270
 First of all as parents we would never want to say that to our kids and our kids never want to hear that our kids

00:49:03.270 --> 00:49:08.240
 Take it for granted. They roll out of bed and it's just give me cereal, you know, right?

00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:15.130
 It's like every toddlers first word in my house is cereal because it says it's a word that's necessary for survival

00:49:15.130 --> 00:49:24.020
 You know, the mom, you know mama's important, you know dad dad's good. But cereal is pretty high on the list

00:49:24.020 --> 00:49:27.680
 Cereal, you know, I mean I literally

00:49:28.710 --> 00:49:35.470
 You know how to knock on my door recently of my bedroom and I said who's there and the answer was just cereal

00:49:35.470 --> 00:49:47.100
 It's just like enough said, you know, I know who this is. It's like it's like hey cut the small talk dad

00:49:47.100 --> 00:49:54.700
 You know, it's just let's get to the point cereal. Okay, so he's a man a few words

00:49:54.700 --> 00:50:02.800
 You know what's interesting when it says oh, you know, I've never seen the righteous forsaken

00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:08.160
 I've never seen his seed baking bread and up his seed is

00:50:09.060 --> 00:50:12.370
 Blessed, you know what? I'll guarantee you about this though

00:50:12.370 --> 00:50:20.000
 I'll guarantee you that the child who curses his parents is not gonna get this blessing because when the Bible says oh

00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:25.210
 His seed is gonna be blessed and oh, I've never seen his seed baking bread, you know

00:50:25.210 --> 00:50:27.210
 In order to get that blessing you got to stay on the boat

00:50:27.210 --> 00:50:31.910
 You got to stay on the ship don't you because let me give you an example

00:50:31.910 --> 00:50:38.310
 About a certain Bible character that definitely classifies as a righteous man and that man's name is Noah

00:50:38.710 --> 00:50:46.530
 Noah was the most godly man on the planet, right?

00:50:46.530 --> 00:50:51.310
 I mean how many people can say that only one right now and we don't even know who the heck it is

00:50:51.310 --> 00:50:55.320
 He doesn't know who it is or she who the greatest person is on the planet right now

00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:58.940
 We don't know but we know that when Job was around he was the greatest guy on the planet

00:50:58.940 --> 00:51:02.370
 And we know that when Noah was around he was the greatest guy on the planet

00:51:02.370 --> 00:51:08.040
 There's eight billion people, you know chances are it's none of us or anyone we've probably ever met in our lives

00:51:08.310 --> 00:51:14.810
 But somebody out there has this distinction, but Noah was the greatest man on the planet

00:51:14.810 --> 00:51:25.290
 I mean if anybody's gonna be blessed, it's him and his seed, but let me ask you this when Noah's seed

00:51:25.290 --> 00:51:28.860
 Messed with him when Noah's seed seed

00:51:28.860 --> 00:51:36.670
 Dishonored him when Noah's seed did him dirty when Noah's seed

00:51:37.090 --> 00:51:46.150
 Cursed him what happened to that seed of Noah and you know the world of what does the Bible say Noah?

00:51:46.150 --> 00:51:49.080
 Once he woke up from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done on him. What did he say?

00:51:49.080 --> 00:51:53.720
 Cursed be Canaan and let me tell you something

00:51:53.720 --> 00:52:01.450
 Canaan was cursed and all throughout the Bible we see that nation of Canaan being a

00:52:01.450 --> 00:52:03.580
 God forsaken

00:52:03.580 --> 00:52:05.550
 Cursed nation so did

00:52:05.910 --> 00:52:11.550
 Canaan get these blessings that we that we read up here in Psalm 37 didn't ham get these blessings here

00:52:11.550 --> 00:52:17.370
 No, he sure didn't no he didn't get these things because he

00:52:17.370 --> 00:52:24.300
 Obviously burned his father and well, guess what? Well, you're not on the boat anymore. You're not on the ship anymore

00:52:24.300 --> 00:52:29.730
 You don't get the blessings, you know, and so when the Bible says here

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 I've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread

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 You know, this is talking about actually the seed that are actually honoring their father and mother

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 where the parents actually want them to have what they need and care about them and are taking care of them and

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 You know don't want them to be begging and struggling and suffering, you know

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 I mean, what did Noah want for Canaan? Noah just wanted to be cursed. Isn't that what he said?

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 He said curse it be Canaan a servant of servants. I don't even want him to be a slave

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 I want him to be a slave of a slave like what's lower than a slave when you're the slave slave the servant servant

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 But you know what? He said blessed be sham blessed be Japheth

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 But cursed be this seed of ham for what ham did and cursed became him. That's what the Bible says

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 So the Bible says here in verse 27 depart from evil and do good and dwell forevermore

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 For the Lord loveth judgment and forsake it not as Saints

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 They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever

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 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment

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 The law of his God is in his heart

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 None of his steps shall slide the wicked watch it the righteous and seek it to slay him

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 The Lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he's judged

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 Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land

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 When the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it. I've seen the wicked in great power and

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 Spreading himself like a green bay tree yet

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 He passed away and lo he was not yay

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 I saw him but he could not be found mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace

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 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off

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 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord

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 He is their strength in the time of trouble and the Lord shall help them and deliver them

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 he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they

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 Trust in him now. Now look, this is one of my favorite Psalms. I can't even count how many times I've read this psalm

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 I mean just a lot of times I'll just go to this psalm

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 It's not just like reading through the book of Psalms cover to go. He's just like no, let's go to Psalm 37

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 I mean, this is a psalm that you find yourself visiting over and over again

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 But you know what this psalm only works if you believe it, right?

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 You got to believe it you got to believe that this and if you believe that it's true

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 Then you will obey its teachings because if you like if you don't believe it

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 Then you're gonna be like well

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 I have to take things into my own hands because otherwise nothing's gonna get done around here unless I do it myself

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 Versus well God said he's gonna take care of it

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 I just need to sit back and watch it happen and just relax and just let it happen and and not stress about it

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 you know, and so I think that we need to be reminded of this from time to time and

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 The title my sermon is letting go of the past letting go of the past

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 Why do I say that is because the fact that you know, there are people that have burned us in the past

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 I know it's not just me. Am I the only person up here who's ever been burned

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 now you've probably been burned by people too and you know, I picked the end of the year to preach this sermon because I

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 Love the end of the year because for me, it's like turning a page

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 pushing a reset button

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 Starting over and I'm just gonna tell you right now, you know

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 I personally have made the decision for myself that you know what I'm going into this new year and I am just cutting loose

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 Everything that has been bothering me for the last year year and a half

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 I am just cutting it loose and I'm done with it. It's not gonna bother me anymore

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 You know what I mean? Because it's just you know what? I'm just I'm just gonna claim the promises of Psalm 37

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 I'm just gonna believe that Psalm 37 is true

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 And I'm just gonna let go of the past and just it's a fresh year

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 And I'm gonna do the exact same thing that I did this year in the sense of on January 1st

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 The first thing I did this year on January 1st

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 I took out a piece of paper and I took out a black sharpie and I wrote on that piece of paper zero saved

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 Zero saved is what I wrote on a piece of paper because I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna live in the past

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 I'm not gonna think about the salvations of the past

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 I'm not gonna think about the people that got saved last year the things we did last year

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 No, no, it's zero saved, you know, and I actually went out soulening on January 1st and

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 Nobody got saved. So sorry. This wasn't a cooler story, but

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 January 2nd, it was still zero say, you know

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 It took me a couple days to get things going but I got it going and I ended up having my best year ever of soul

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 Winning and on our church had the best year ever of soul winning as well

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 And and so here's the thing about this is that you know when it comes to the new year

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 Yeah, you got your goals. You got your news resolutions. I've got a resolution for you or I've got a challenge for you

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 You know, how about you know the the bitterness the anger the frustration about the past, you know

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 Maybe just think about just cutting it loose and just having a clean site and maybe this doesn't resonate with you

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 Maybe I'm just preaching to myself tonight

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 But I am preaching myself tonight because I'm gonna tell you this right now is that over the past year year and a half

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 You know, I've been very upset about my situation and you know, I've made no secret about that

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 And you know, I in fact I just told someone a matter of days ago. Maybe weeks ago. I said, you know what?

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 I said I'm not at peace about my situation because I don't think it's fair what happened to me

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 I don't think what happened to me is fair. I don't think it should be allowed to stand

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 I think that I was done wrong and I was done dirty and I you know

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 I don't think it's right and and I'm not at peace about it and I'm and I'm upset about it and you know

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 I can honestly say that over the past couple days

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 I have made peace with my situation and I am at peace with my situation now and I and I'm ready to let it go

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 You know and sometimes these things take time

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 Well, guess what?

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 I'm there and I'm ready to let it go and I'm ready to move on and and let me tell you why because I thought

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 About it this way. I thought I thought about the massive injustice that I

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 frankly wasn't willing to accept the massive injustice that I feel was done unto me and then I put on the other side of the

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 Scale all the blessings that I have in my life all the good things about my life and you know what I decided I

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 Decided that if I take all the blessings and all the injustice that you know what God has been good to me

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 And so I need to just accept God's decisions

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 Even if I don't understand them even if I don't like them even if it doesn't make sense to me

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 You know what I am going to eat what is on my plate and so therefore I look at the blessings

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 I look at the injustice done unto me, and I just decided you know what God's good

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 And you know what I'm just accepting my situation as is and whatever happens doesn't matter to me anymore because at the end of

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 The day you know what God has given me a good life and blessed me

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 And I've got a great year ahead of me. You've got a great year ahead of you

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 So whatever it is where you feel like you've got a bum rap in life because that's how I feel about certain things

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 I'm sure you probably feel the same thing too where you feel like certain things about your life aren't fair

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 Or why did this have to happen or why is it this way right? You know what?

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 Why don't you just decide you know what the good outweighs the bad. I'm saved. I'm going to heaven

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 Sins are forgiven food clothing. I'm living in America, right and just what you know

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 Whatever you maybe your list is different than mine. That's my list. You know what I mean?

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 It's like my wife loves me. I live in America food clothes great church

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 Serving God King James Bible

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 I mean since there's just too much good things around me to sit there and just

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 Get all mad about the one thing that I can't change or that I or that isn't what I want

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 So pretty understand what I'm saying. And so, you know, I this has been a struggle for me, but you know what I'm letting it go

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 I'm letting it go, you know, and look it doesn't mean that I'm exonerating people who've done this to me

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 It doesn't mean that I forgive them because frankly, I don't forgive them. Don't forgive them. They're not sorry. They're not repentant

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 I don't forgive them at all. And you know what it's between them and God at this point though

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 Cuz I'm I'm just gonna go into the new year with my goal to not think about it and to stop caring and I feel that

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 I've succeeded that I don't care and so, you know for me Psalm 37 is helpful and so I hope it's helpful to you

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 But for me, you know, I wanted to take you through Psalm 37

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 so you could see my thought process of Psalm 37 and I expressed anger earlier in the sermon because we were at an anger part

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 Of the chapter. I wanted you to understand that being angry about being slandered is normal being angry at lies being angry at

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 Injustice is normal oppression makes a wise man mad, right?

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 And you know you think about when the Spirit of the Lord came upon King Saul and he chopped up

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 Oxen and mailed him out to everybody in a way the Bible says his wrath was kindled

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 Says the Spirit of Lord came upon him his wrath is kindled, you know

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 So it's not that anger is necessarily always bad

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 A lot of times it's the appropriate natural normal reaction if somebody I mean if the cop what if the cops bust in your right?

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 Down just like arrested you for something you didn't do you'd be pretty mad wouldn't you or would you just be like officer?

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 I don't know. What's going on here

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 You know, you got what duh you'd be angry and if the people who did that to you got away with it

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 That would make you mad too. We got to cease from anger forsake wrath and understand that hey

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 God will take care of it. And you know what a watched pot never boils. We don't need to stand over the stove

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 Staring at the pot waiting for it to start boiling right what we need to do is stay busy doing good

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 trusting in the Lord

01:03:50.390 --> 01:03:58.340
 Doing good carrying out the mission winning souls to Christ and let the dead bury their dead and you know someday

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 We're gonna heal hear the whistle of that tea kettle and when that tea kettle starts a whistling

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 We will know that the psalm 37 promises have come true

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 But we don't need to sit there and stare at the tea kettle saying boil boil you piece of junk

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 Come on boil boil boil, right?

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 And you know, honestly, that's how I've been a little bit over the past year, but you know what?

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 I'm I'm done psalm 37 is the cure. Let's bow. I didn't have water prayer father

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 We thank you so much for your word Lord

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 We thank you so much for your promises Lord help us to have the faith and trust to believe the promises and Lord

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 Thank you so much for the the perfect example of the sinless son of God

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 Jesus Christ who always walked in perfect faith and holiness and trusted and believed

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 Lord help us to also have perfect faith in your word and Lord God bless us as we go our separate ways help us to

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 Spend the next few days the 29th the 30th the 31st Lord help us spend the next few days

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 thinking about our lives thinking about our service for you and thinking about what kind of people we want to be going into the

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 New year and what we want to do this year to bring honor and glory to you and it's in Christ name. We pray amen