WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.600 Let's pretend that's the normal pulpit and just draw a bunch here. 00:04.600 --> 00:07.680 I'm going to turn to Deuteronomy 18. 00:07.680 --> 00:11.080 Let's quickly play Lord is a filling the whole spirit. 00:11.080 --> 00:12.880 I'm going to preach a short quick message to you. 00:12.880 --> 00:15.680 Jesus, may I pray him in. 00:15.680 --> 00:17.440 I'll just read it. 00:17.440 --> 00:18.600 It's a pretty simple topic. 00:18.600 --> 00:20.680 There's not going to be a lot of like Bible verses. 00:20.680 --> 00:24.840 It's not like it's a short sermon, but I'll just read it. 00:24.840 --> 00:25.840 My verses. 00:25.840 --> 00:26.680 There should be no. 00:27.200 --> 00:33.760 There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire that uses divination 00:34.160 --> 00:41.680 Or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or charmer or a consultor with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer 00:42.080 --> 00:47.680 Of all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord because of these abominations the lord 00:48.320 --> 00:51.280 Thy god doth drive them out from before thee. So this is some 00:51.800 --> 00:55.320 I mean, coming up is All Hallows Day. 00:55.320 --> 00:57.240 We don't celebrate that. 00:57.240 --> 00:59.000 That's on November 1st. 00:59.000 --> 01:04.280 And if you come from a more traditional mainline Protestant, they're basically celebrating 01:04.280 --> 01:09.120 all the martyrs and everyone who didn't get a specific feast day. 01:09.120 --> 01:13.380 If you know, the Catholics have a bunch of feast days and All Hallows Day is like kind 01:13.380 --> 01:14.880 of everybody else. 01:14.880 --> 01:15.880 Yeah. 01:15.880 --> 01:17.000 Yeah 01:17.100 --> 01:23.860 And all like if, you know, everyone who is martyred or saints. 01:23.860 --> 01:26.980 But the night before is All Hallows Eve. 01:26.980 --> 01:29.900 We would know that as Halloween. 01:29.900 --> 01:30.940 And it's kind of wrapped in. 01:30.940 --> 01:36.900 So traditionally, if you're a mainline Protestant or Catholic, you might have, it might not 01:36.900 --> 01:39.300 be associated with wickedness. 01:39.300 --> 01:44.500 It might be just part of the whole Hallows kind of days. 01:44.800 --> 01:49.960 You do stuff like light candles or stuff. I'm not I wasn't a Catholic. I don't know anything about it 01:49.960 --> 01:52.720 I didn't go to mainline Protestant growing up 01:52.720 --> 01:58.740 So this is really kind of foreign for me, but I'm talking about our modern traditional practice Halloween 01:58.740 --> 02:01.520 I assume everyone is familiar with how it goes 02:03.560 --> 02:05.560 Right, I don't have to explain it 02:05.800 --> 02:10.920 Everybody knows what happens. Okay. I'm not talking about the kind of the open brazen worship of 02:10.920 --> 02:16.360 Bacchus that goes on where everyone just gets drunk because they do that on every holiday. 02:16.360 --> 02:22.440 We celebrate a battle between the Mexican and French forces as an excuse to get drunk. So it's 02:22.440 --> 02:29.720 like that's a different thing. I'm talking about the people that follow after the witch god Hecate 02:29.720 --> 02:32.120 or Wiccans, Wicca. 02:32.600 --> 02:39.520 You might have heard that, which is a big thing in our culture. 02:39.520 --> 02:42.120 We live in Washington. 02:42.120 --> 02:46.840 We live near A Salem, not B Salem. 02:46.840 --> 02:48.640 But it's kind of just around. 02:48.640 --> 02:50.360 Probably more in our Salem. 02:50.360 --> 02:53.360 Yeah, there might be. 02:53.900 --> 03:00.300 But we live in an age of reason and rationality, so we kind of approach people who say they're like, 03:00.300 --> 03:05.020 oh, I'm a witch, and you're like, okay, sure, whatever. We don't really take them seriously 03:05.020 --> 03:12.060 because, I mean, most of the people who are Wiccan are, they're just following after. 03:13.000 --> 03:19.480 politely to say they're following after Sappho. They're jilted old women who got divorced and 03:19.480 --> 03:25.400 kind of like, so we're like, okay, sure, whatever, you're a witch, whatever, cool. 03:26.840 --> 03:33.880 But within that, there are probably some people who are actually contacting devils, contacting 03:33.880 --> 03:38.120 demon, kind of using it as cover. And then there's probably the group of people who just 03:38.120 --> 03:40.920 accidentally do these things, right? You play with a loaded gun, you might get 03:41.000 --> 03:46.880 shot and they might not mean it and you know it's still you open a door and you 03:46.880 --> 03:50.960 never know what's gonna come through that door if you read any sort of like 03:50.960 --> 03:57.000 treaties on witchcraft if you've read demonology by King James 6 at the time 03:57.000 --> 04:00.200 he talks about like you don't play with this stuff 04:00.300 --> 04:02.020 You should take it seriously. 04:02.020 --> 04:03.820 Of course, he's talking as a king. 04:03.820 --> 04:08.660 He of course knew that a king had previously been killed for consulting a witch. 04:08.660 --> 04:09.900 That would be Saul. 04:09.900 --> 04:13.540 So he takes it seriously and this is something because these people... 04:14.200 --> 04:19.880 you know, modern culture kind of says, well, these are just like old women being oppressed 04:19.880 --> 04:26.200 for knowing natural things. If you read demonology, if you read Wonders of the Invisible World by a 04:26.200 --> 04:31.880 Puritan Cotton Mather, kind of people going through to witchcraft, they all talk about it like, 04:31.880 --> 04:36.520 no, these people are just torturing random people for fun. They were trying to take over 04:37.240 --> 04:41.720 governments. They were trying to kill God's men. 04:42.500 --> 04:48.260 And they all say the same thing, that no, these people that get killed for being witch were not just old women. 04:48.760 --> 04:53.000 They were actually well-to-do men in some cases, teachers. 04:53.300 --> 05:03.400 I think King James talks about when he unearthed the whole coven, there was like a schoolmaster and people in high up positions and low down positions, and they're all trying to kill him. 05:04.320 --> 05:05.340 Go read demonology. 05:05.340 --> 05:06.280 It's really great. 05:06.560 --> 05:07.200 Puts it forward. 05:07.200 --> 05:07.900 but 05:08.400 --> 05:12.680 So this is something which should definitely take seriously and I kind of want to tie it in because 05:13.160 --> 05:16.760 You know when you talk to normal people about Halloween kind of being satanic 05:18.000 --> 05:22.480 People kind of agree with you like you'll see the people that go all out on all the like 05:23.080 --> 05:28.700 Skeletons and stuff and a lot of normal people say okay. That's a little bit too far. It's kind of weird like 05:29.400 --> 05:31.400 It's like that guy on the block 05:32.360 --> 05:35.360 you know people put out like one or two things, but 05:35.900 --> 05:39.260 I was actually reading the Golden Bower by Frazier, 05:39.260 --> 05:40.900 and he brought up a great point about, 05:40.900 --> 05:44.860 and I was kind of connected to the actual act of trick or treating, right? 05:44.860 --> 05:46.980 Where does this come from? 05:46.980 --> 05:51.000 Like most like kind of pseudo-Satanic- 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 druidic practices, the Welsh. 05:54.060 --> 05:58.880 There's one theory that this comes from the Celtics down into America. 05:58.880 --> 06:03.920 And I think it's probably they were more superstitious around these things in the Saxons. 06:05.080 --> 06:07.080 Sorry. 06:07.080 --> 06:09.080 Got a pin that on you. But 06:09.640 --> 06:16.160 originally, you know, if you kind of look at it, you have, if you look at the old photos and what people talked about back 06:16.160 --> 06:18.160 in the day, you have... 06:18.900 --> 06:23.060 they'd use children and kind of dress them up as demons and they go around and they kind of, 06:23.060 --> 06:30.260 you give them a kind of offering from the go away, right? Which is what Frazier called, 06:30.260 --> 06:36.980 fault categorizes as homeopathic sorcery, which is the belief that like affects like. 06:38.340 --> 06:45.700 You might notice it in some superstitious cultures in order to have a good harvest. 06:46.600 --> 06:51.400 women were not allowed to cut their hair because if they cut their hair like shorter then harvest 06:51.400 --> 06:56.440 season would be cut shorter that's generally homeopathic medicine if you wanted the rain you'd 06:56.440 --> 07:02.520 perform a ritual and pour water out and the rain would come right so i was thinking like yeah 07:02.520 --> 07:07.160 Yeah, trigger shading is straight up, like, people don't know it, but it's straight up. 07:07.700 --> 07:12.980 homeopathic sorcery, even if you don't know you're doing it, you're kind of following into it and 07:12.980 --> 07:18.260 just because it's you don't know you're doing wrong doesn't give you really an excuse. You should 07:18.260 --> 07:22.900 just not do it. Like yeah, we shouldn't like the people down there block that are like normal people 07:22.900 --> 07:26.980 that are doing this. You shouldn't just like go kill them for witchcraft because obviously like 07:26.980 --> 07:31.140 they don't know it's wrong, but they should definitely like say, okay, this is kind of weird. 07:32.200 --> 07:39.120 Actually, if you start burning up the Golden Bough and how it's sorcery, you might become 07:39.120 --> 07:40.960 those people on your block really quickly. 07:40.960 --> 07:43.560 But it's definitely something you should do. 07:43.560 --> 07:45.160 Let's see. 07:45.160 --> 07:48.400 You should definitely know about this stuff. 07:48.400 --> 07:54.600 I was reading Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mathers, and he was talking about 07:54.600 --> 07:56.680 the Salem witch trials. 07:56.680 --> 07:57.100 and I'll see you next time. 07:57.800 --> 08:00.680 He's the only one that didn't back down. 08:00.680 --> 08:03.700 A lot of the other guys back down. 08:03.700 --> 08:05.320 Every chance he got, he doubled down. 08:05.320 --> 08:09.000 He's like, actually, yeah, we were fighting hell. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.760 These witches had to die. 08:10.760 --> 08:12.740 Here's actually what happened. 08:12.740 --> 08:17.600 And this is something we should be careful of because this is something that God does 08:17.600 --> 08:19.440 judge nations on. 08:19.440 --> 08:22.440 It says in Deuteronomy that... 08:22.800 --> 08:25.720 It's not I think it's like verse 13 and dude on me 18 08:25.720 --> 08:27.160 We says I you know 08:27.160 --> 08:31.260 I drove these people out before you because they committed this stuff, right? 08:31.260 --> 08:38.040 And you know when King Saul did this stuff the kingdom was taken from him the next day and killed him 08:38.040 --> 08:43.880 You know, like if you've seen the Bible Kings tend to have kind of different rules than a lot of us 08:44.280 --> 08:49.060 But if if God's gonna kill a king for doing it you're toast 08:49.800 --> 08:54.200 you know, before that even gets to that point. 08:54.200 --> 08:59.100 And yeah, I think I also want to tie this in. 08:59.100 --> 09:07.200 If you remember, Brother Jeremy preached a sermon a few weeks ago about like ignorance versus naivety. 09:07.200 --> 09:10.200 And this is something we should definitely know about his... 09:10.600 --> 09:18.720 Know these signs of witchcraft. This is some we can be ignorant of their larger devices and rituals that they go through or 09:20.280 --> 09:22.280 You know what they do behind the closed doors 09:22.280 --> 09:27.480 but we should definitely know their signs and what to look out for when you see this stuff like 09:29.100 --> 09:34.940 Just to be aware of it, just because the Bible does say to be wise as serpents but harmless as 09:34.940 --> 09:38.300 doves. So we definitely should know about these things because we can't really 09:38.860 --> 09:44.940 keep ourselves safe if you're just completely ignorant of the signs like, oh, I'm talking to a 09:44.940 --> 09:52.700 person that might actually be a witch who wants to actively kill me. The two of the most famous 09:52.700 --> 09:55.740 sorcerers in the Bible would be Janice and Jamborees and they were... 09:56.500 --> 10:03.460 straight up reprobates who might have tried to kill, you know, like if you're going against that, they might just try to kill you. 10:03.460 --> 10:09.300 They're definitely thinking about putting your curse if you've ever ran into an actual witch. Has anyone actually ran into 10:09.980 --> 10:13.420 someone who didn't come off as like serious? I know somebody has a story about 10:14.300 --> 10:16.020 running into a witch. 10:16.020 --> 10:20.580 Was it you? Like, oh, how'd you get across the barrier? Yeah, okay. 10:22.060 --> 10:24.060 Okay, well you've run into one too. 10:24.600 --> 10:30.280 Yeah, that's what I'm saying is like most people who say they're a witch, they're kind of useless, 10:30.280 --> 10:39.000 but you never know. You never know like if they're like going to go off or not because they're kind 10:39.000 --> 10:43.160 of playing of forces that they're not really sure of. They are appealing to the devil. 10:44.600 --> 10:49.600 And you start, like, as I said, you open that door and devil's gonna come in immediately. 10:49.600 --> 10:54.100 And you could just be possessed like that. You start doing all these rituals and stuff. 10:54.100 --> 11:01.100 Like you're basically saying, like, hey, I'm open to being possessed. I would like power. 11:01.100 --> 11:04.100 You know, please give me power. I like you guys. 11:04.100 --> 11:07.100 And it's like, yeah, of course you're in it. Like something's gonna happen. 11:07.100 --> 11:09.100 You invited it in. 11:11.600 --> 11:17.760 Another quote I ran into is, you know, about... 11:18.300 --> 11:21.500 It goes about like people do anything unwillingly. 11:21.500 --> 11:26.800 Mathers wrote, I would be most importantly in the first place and treat every man to 11:26.800 --> 11:31.660 maintain a holy jealousy over his soul at this time and think may not the devil make 11:31.660 --> 11:37.580 me though ignorantly and unwillingly to be an instrument of doing something that he would 11:37.580 --> 11:39.300 have to be done. 11:39.300 --> 11:41.460 This is something to think about. 11:41.460 --> 11:43.220 Just strengthen yourself. 11:43.220 --> 11:45.300 This is a pretty wicked world. 11:46.100 --> 11:50.100 Again, you have to kind of celebrate people or categorize people as like 11:50.100 --> 11:52.980 ignorantly doing these things, intentionally doing these things. 11:52.980 --> 11:57.620 People who are intentionally doing these things are, you know, they should definitely put to 11:57.620 --> 12:04.500 death. People who are ignorantly doing these things, it's, yeah. Basically, what I'm saying is, 12:05.060 --> 12:12.900 no, this is a summarize, like trick or treat, satanic. You're basically trying to 12:13.500 --> 12:20.540 go through the motions of bribing spirits that leave you alone and that's straight up, 12:21.340 --> 12:26.620 that's what the druids are doing back in the day. You're just following through a druidic practice 12:26.620 --> 12:33.820 and now you're buying into it. If you want candy, go to this grocery store. It's on sale the day 12:33.820 --> 12:35.820 day after Halloween. 12:35.820 --> 12:37.820 It's, that's what me and my friends did. 12:38.600 --> 12:42.280 Like see, yeah, if you want candy go there, you don't have to go through this thing. 12:42.280 --> 12:44.840 A lot of weird people are out on Halloween night. 12:45.720 --> 12:49.880 It kind of allows people to be weird and just go all out there. 12:49.880 --> 12:50.520 It's kind of normal. 12:50.520 --> 12:53.880 It's like, you don't, it is useful for identifying that person 12:54.600 --> 12:55.480 who goes all out. 12:55.480 --> 12:56.760 You probably should stay away from that guy. 12:57.800 --> 12:58.040 Yeah. 12:58.040 --> 12:59.080 Read up on these things. 13:00.040 --> 13:01.080 King James wrote. 13:02.000 --> 13:09.400 Demonology is a really great book where he goes through kind of the signs and what to look for and how to find a witch 13:10.040 --> 13:14.600 Some of the Salem witch trials, right? This is part of our American history. They were fighting the devil 13:15.160 --> 13:17.720 Within a hundred years of setting foot on America for real 13:18.680 --> 13:20.400 if you read 13:20.400 --> 13:27.280 Mathers cotton Mathers and his father increased Mathers books about these things know understand and learn these things. They're really well written 13:28.000 --> 13:31.200 You can kind of ignore some of their theological points. 13:31.200 --> 13:33.700 You could tell they were kind of questionable on that, 13:33.700 --> 13:35.700 but they knew what they were talking about with Witchcraft. 13:35.700 --> 13:37.000 This is a real thing out there. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.200 This isn't like even in our age of reason, 13:40.200 --> 13:42.800 like there's still dangerous people out there. 13:42.800 --> 13:44.500 So yeah, just learn up on these stuff. 13:44.500 --> 13:47.600 You don't have to learn about like the wicked stuff they do, 13:47.600 --> 13:48.900 but yeah, know the sign. 13:48.900 --> 13:51.700 Like when we come to a house and see a rainbow flag, 13:51.700 --> 13:53.800 we kind of know what we're in for, right? 13:54.000 --> 13:57.440 How do you know the sign? Or like you see the little Jewish scroll on the door. 13:57.440 --> 14:01.520 Um, a little cylinder on the side. You kind of know what you're in for. 14:01.520 --> 14:03.520 It's like, well, do you know the signs of a witch? 14:03.520 --> 14:09.280 Right? You might know the outward signs, but they probably put stuff on their door. 14:09.280 --> 14:12.960 Uh, because they're all into the signs. So yeah, just learn up on these things. 14:12.960 --> 14:17.600 Fortunately, I didn't learn up on them or put them all on the list. 14:17.600 --> 14:20.240 Because it's probably a lot, but yeah, it's definitely something we should know about. 14:20.240 --> 14:21.440 Uh, with that. 14:21.700 --> 14:28.100 Lord, bless the next preacher up here and help everyone get some good learning today. 14:28.100 --> 14:29.140 In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. 14:39.000 --> 14:39.800 Oh boy. 14:42.200 --> 14:46.360 All right, well thank you for the opportunity to preach. 14:46.360 --> 14:49.800 I was able to put something together there after 14:49.800 --> 14:52.960 getting a gully full of chili. 14:52.960 --> 14:57.960 And yeah, it's interesting. 14:58.600 --> 15:03.840 You know, Frasier was writing from a progressive era, turn of the century, rationalist perspective. 15:03.840 --> 15:06.880 He thought all the magic was nonsense and stuff. 15:06.880 --> 15:15.440 But I mean, he has one of the most comprehensive compilations of all these different magic practices from around the world. 15:15.440 --> 15:16.200 It's really interesting. 15:16.200 --> 15:20.480 And like, if you watch Apocalypse now, it's on the bedstand of Colonel Kurtz. 15:20.900 --> 15:24.980 and he's basically running this cult out in the jungle and then he's read Frazier's book. 15:24.980 --> 15:32.020 Then as he's killed by a machete outside there's a bull being slaughtered by a machete in a 15:32.020 --> 15:38.260 ceremony and it's kind of like a homeopathic magic. Clearly John Milius was aware of the 15:38.260 --> 15:41.940 content of the Golden Bough, but it's pretty interesting. 15:43.800 --> 15:51.000 That's not my sermon. My sermon is being joyful as a Christian. Being joyful as a Christian. 15:51.960 --> 15:59.480 And you know I think this is maybe something that doesn't get priest enough because 16:02.360 --> 16:05.000 I don't because it's a but it is a fruit of the spirit. 16:06.120 --> 16:08.680 So I want to establish that first of all in Galatians 5. 16:11.000 --> 16:16.840 relations 522 but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, 16:16.840 --> 16:20.360 goodness, faith, meekness, temperance against such there is no law. 16:22.680 --> 16:28.520 And so right away as a fruit of the Spirit, as people that are supposed to be full of the Spirit 16:28.520 --> 16:33.480 or at least have the Holy Spirit in us from being saved, you know right away this is something we 16:33.480 --> 16:38.440 should expect as an attribute of being a spiritual person. 16:39.400 --> 16:45.880 it's not just something that you talk about as a health and wealth gospel or like a modern feel-good 16:45.880 --> 16:51.720 Christianity talking point. You know this promise that it's possible to be joyful as a Christian 16:52.520 --> 16:54.200 is 16:54.400 --> 16:58.880 It's part of what makes the faith attractive to a lot of people, right? 16:58.880 --> 17:03.580 Yeah, some save with fear pulling him out of the fire, but a lot of times, you know, 17:03.580 --> 17:07.920 joy is the positive attraction to Christianity. 17:08.700 --> 17:24.700 And it is such an attractive attribute in people or in a belief system that you have a lot of people will follow these either false teachers or watered down teachers because they're projecting like a happy joyful image, right? 17:24.700 --> 17:28.700 They just may or may not be doing it authentically. 17:28.700 --> 17:32.700 Now, but, you know, so we should embody... 17:33.300 --> 17:39.860 joyfulness and joy as well but authentically right so where it's we're not doing it to the 17:39.860 --> 17:47.860 exclusion of hard preaching and hard teaching right because you know genuine joy is not the 17:47.860 --> 17:53.620 absence of strife and struggle and so forth as we see in the life of paul and david and all this right 17:55.900 --> 18:06.220 But you know, and again as an evangelicalistic thing, most unsafe people do not know or care about advanced Bible doctrines, right? 18:06.400 --> 18:14.560 what they notice is if you live a clean and consistent life, A, and B, if you're like a happy, joyful person, right? 18:14.560 --> 18:15.760 You're nice to them. 18:15.760 --> 18:21.360 Those are the two things that they actually notice because they're just not going to understand the deeper doctrines. 18:21.360 --> 18:26.800 And so, especially if you're able to be joyful in the midst of turmoil and problems. 18:26.800 --> 18:30.880 And I think that's mostly what gets preached is like how to be joyful in the midst of a storm, 18:30.880 --> 18:34.240 but just as a fruit of the spirit, we should just be joyful in general. 18:34.400 --> 18:40.160 like as a consequence of being a Christian right and as I said two of 18:40.160 --> 18:45.480 our main models of Christian joy I mentioned them earlier David and Paul 18:45.480 --> 18:49.760 right these are probably I haven't done it like a deep dive but these are 18:49.760 --> 18:54.500 probably the two people that talked the most about joy in the Bible 18:54.600 --> 19:00.060 because you have the Psalms and you have Paul's epistles and those are kind of like 19:00.840 --> 19:06.100 at least the most lengthy texts that talk about about joy consistently and 19:07.020 --> 19:10.260 You know no wonder because you know these are both men that experienced 19:11.100 --> 19:18.900 The highs and lows of life in very extreme ways that most of us do not and will not experience 19:20.100 --> 19:25.000 I mean if you just think about David's life events like it's some very extreme stuff 19:27.280 --> 19:31.340 You know like your son fighting in a war against you like I mean you might have 19:32.020 --> 19:35.520 Conflicts with with family members or something, but it's not to that extent 19:36.700 --> 19:38.940 But because they were spiritual, right? 19:39.800 --> 19:48.800 they knew both how to be abased and how to abound, like how to be joyful in tribulation and in times where they were doing well. 19:48.800 --> 20:01.800 Okay, interestingly, first mention of the word joy is, and this is with the caveat that Deuteronomy technically uses the word joyfulness. 20:02.400 --> 20:09.760 but the first mention of the word joy by itself like just j or y is in first samuel 186 20:10.800 --> 20:18.080 when the women sing and dance with joy and instruments of music as Saul and David return 20:18.080 --> 20:25.040 from slaying Goliath so the first mention we've got David involved David the psalmist and then 20:25.040 --> 20:27.040 Psalms talk a lot about joy and 20:28.100 --> 20:31.540 You know, and he has a lot of advice on how to be joyful in the Psalms. 20:31.540 --> 20:36.180 It's one of the big themes of Psalms and it comes up through the whole book. 20:36.180 --> 20:40.260 And secondly, it involves David, it involves, you know, 20:40.260 --> 20:42.400 a victory and it involves music. 20:42.700 --> 20:49.740 Okay, like singing to yourself humming whistling etc. We associate these things with someone 20:49.980 --> 20:55.820 Who has like a happy bright spirit about them right instead of being dour or bitter like you see a guy 20:56.340 --> 21:01.460 Whistling his way down the street. You don't think well that guy's pissed off at something, right? I mean, you know 21:01.980 --> 21:07.600 It's just right if you're if you're singing and you're singing Psalms and hymns spiritual songs to yourself 21:07.780 --> 21:09.980 Most people would think hey that guy's in a good mood 21:10.700 --> 21:17.100 and but the two things work together like the singing increases your joy, joy causes you to sing 21:18.140 --> 21:26.060 it's two sides of the same coin right and so in terms of like art forms 21:27.660 --> 21:32.460 the bible doesn't speak a lot about sculpture i mean it might talk about making like idols or 21:32.460 --> 21:35.900 or something, but it doesn't really talk about sculpture as much as an art form. 21:36.800 --> 21:39.200 Obviously they do make some stuff for the temple and all that 21:40.000 --> 21:43.660 But it doesn't really go into much depth. It just says they were like cunning workmen or something 21:44.000 --> 21:50.720 It doesn't really talk much about painting. It doesn't really talk a lot about poetry as such even though the Psalms or poetry 21:51.960 --> 21:57.820 It doesn't speak about like prose and literature that much even though the whole Bible is that but 21:58.300 --> 22:02.940 And so like in terms of like art forms that actually talks about like music is definitely 22:02.940 --> 22:11.340 queen of the arts. Like as we read through the Bible in terms of like the arts that God's people 22:11.340 --> 22:15.740 engage in and even secular. 22:16.300 --> 22:22.780 people have observed this and Schopenhauer says music is thus by no means like the other arts 22:22.780 --> 22:29.980 the copy of the ideas but a copy of the will itself and so like that he's talking about will 22:29.980 --> 22:31.900 with like a capital W 22:32.100 --> 22:38.020 like that will that is prior to rational explanation, that will that drives us to survive, 22:38.020 --> 22:43.460 to procreate, to go forward, and that cause the plants to grow and all the stuff. And so like in 22:43.460 --> 22:49.060 the Christian context we'd say it's like okay that's the spirit of God or the you know the law that 22:49.060 --> 22:54.980 God wrote on our hearts. Schopenhauer is not able to explain that in a Christian context but he 22:54.980 --> 22:59.540 recognizes it right and so it's not like other art forms. 23:00.000 --> 23:05.680 in the sense that it's the copy of the ideas like a painting it's a copy of something that's real 23:05.680 --> 23:15.760 like a tree or a plant or a person or an animal right same with sculpture whereas like music it's 23:15.760 --> 23:18.200 not copying a physical 23:18.600 --> 23:27.700 Object is conveying tension or joy or longing or these type of things that are not physical. 23:27.700 --> 23:33.000 It's not a copy of an idea but of the will itself, right? 23:33.000 --> 23:38.900 And then in Psalms 51, 8 says, 23:38.900 --> 23:40.500 make me to hear. 23:40.700 --> 23:45.940 joy and gladness the bones which thou has broken may rejoice so again we're 23:45.940 --> 23:54.540 associating joy with like the hearing of a joyful noise we'll turn there the Psalms 23:54.540 --> 23:56.200 51 24:00.800 --> 24:04.000 There's some other verses I wanted to do that I didn't copy down. 24:08.800 --> 24:12.800 I wrote down the wrong psalm. What psalm could it have been? 24:15.700 --> 24:19.700 It's not Psalm 51. I've got the reverse. Wrong chapter. 24:23.400 --> 24:25.200 Technology to the rescue. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.700 Oh no, it is right. I just can't read. 24:39.700 --> 24:41.200 Alright, Psalms 51, 8. 24:41.200 --> 24:42.800 Make me to hear joy and gladness, 24:42.800 --> 24:45.400 that thy bones, with thou's broken, may rejoice. 24:45.400 --> 24:47.100 Hide thy face from my sins, 24:47.100 --> 24:49.500 and blot out all mine iniquities, 24:49.500 --> 24:51.800 creating me a clean heart, O God, 24:51.800 --> 24:53.800 and renew a right spirit within me. 24:54.400 --> 24:57.920 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me 24:58.600 --> 25:03.360 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit 25:03.700 --> 25:10.940 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee so we see here 25:11.880 --> 25:19.100 Yet he's hearing joy. He's associating it with a joyful noise music probably and and then 25:19.900 --> 25:27.260 The ultimate source of his joy though is the joy of his salvation and it comes that comes with having 25:27.260 --> 25:30.940 a clean conscience and stuff because of course you can you can know you're saved but still be 25:30.940 --> 25:35.900 miserable because you have all these problems and sins in your life right so but if you have a clean 25:35.900 --> 25:41.180 heart you have the joy of your salvation it says then will I teach transgressors thy way so we have 25:41.900 --> 25:44.380 his ultimate source of his joy is his salvation 25:45.200 --> 25:52.160 music and right living amplify that joy and as a result he's able to teach 25:52.160 --> 25:56.960 transgressors so one of the results of being knowing you're saved and being 25:56.960 --> 26:01.880 joyful about it is it's gonna help you to win more souls okay and this is 26:01.880 --> 26:09.600 paralleled in Isaiah this is what gets Isaiah through in Isaiah 12 3 it says 26:09.600 --> 26:11.400 therefore with joy 26:11.500 --> 26:18.780 shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. So Isaiah is connecting joy and salvation. 26:19.980 --> 26:28.620 Jeremiah does the same thing. Jeremiah 15 16 and Isaiah and Jeremiah are both guys that went 26:28.620 --> 26:36.700 through hard times. In 15 16 it says thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me 26:36.700 --> 26:37.820 the joy. 26:38.000 --> 26:47.260 the rejoicing of mine heart why colon for for I am called by thy name oh Lord 26:47.260 --> 26:51.180 God of hosts so is his joy his rejoicing is because he's called by God's name 26:51.180 --> 26:57.980 because he saved okay so David Isaiah Jeremiah because Paul and 26:57.980 --> 26:59.200 Philippians 1 26:59.500 --> 27:05.300 They're all joyful because they are saved and you can be saved and not be 27:05.300 --> 27:09.580 joyful because you're not thinking about that. You're not taking time to remember 27:09.580 --> 27:15.540 that you're saved. But also it could be because you're not making a joyful noise 27:15.540 --> 27:21.860 right? Joy and noise are very closely tied together in the Psalms. If you just 27:21.860 --> 27:25.900 do like a simple word search for joy 27:26.000 --> 27:31.000 It's going to be like really middle heavy in the Bible in Psalms. 27:33.000 --> 27:38.000 You know, it's make me to hear, hear joy and gladness. 27:39.000 --> 27:42.000 My mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. 27:42.000 --> 27:45.000 They shall shout for joy. They also sing. 27:45.000 --> 27:47.000 Make a joyful noise unto God. 27:47.000 --> 27:50.000 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. 27:50.000 --> 27:53.000 Sing aloud unto God our strength. Make a joyful noise. 27:53.300 --> 27:57.980 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. Oh come let us sing unto 27:57.980 --> 28:02.100 the Lord let us make a joyful noise. I'm just reading I'm just doing a word 28:02.100 --> 28:07.220 search this is not like cherry picked this is like David's consistently over 28:07.220 --> 28:14.380 and over connecting joy with singing and making joyful noises. Make a joyful noise 28:14.380 --> 28:16.700 unto the Lord Psalms 98 28:16.900 --> 28:23.900 with trumpets and the sound of coronet make a joyful noise, Psalm 100 make a joyful noise unto the Lord, 28:23.900 --> 28:30.900 and it just goes on and on. 28:30.900 --> 28:36.700 Another source of joy, right, is... 28:37.100 --> 28:41.980 wisdom and sharing wisdom with people because it says in Proverbs 15 23 a man 28:41.980 --> 28:47.540 hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good is 28:47.540 --> 28:52.420 it so a man hath joy by the answer of his mouth so good preaching good 28:52.420 --> 28:56.900 fellowship talking with each other receiving wise counsel these can all be 28:56.900 --> 29:01.500 add unto your joy when you're hearing 29:01.700 --> 29:08.980 a word fitly spoken or a word in due season it says how good is it and then it just goes without 29:08.980 --> 29:16.580 saying Paul and the epistles he's going through just constant problems but then also constant 29:16.580 --> 29:21.700 victories and he just keeps salvation in the forefront of his mind and that's what what makes 29:21.700 --> 29:25.500 some joyful if you just I mean if you just read through Philippians 1 29:25.900 --> 29:31.860 He's talking about his problems on the one hand. He's talking about how joyful he is and and it's just and but they 29:33.620 --> 29:37.480 And he's trying to get other people to to rejoice in Jesus Christ 29:43.800 --> 29:48.120 And one of those things is the promises of God. So being confident of this very thing. 29:48.120 --> 29:53.320 That he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it into the day of Jesus Christ. So 29:53.320 --> 29:58.280 both the hope of our salvation and the ends of our salvation this should be a source of joy in 29:58.280 --> 30:03.560 daily life whether we're having a great day or a bad day right? And so joy should be our default. 30:04.440 --> 30:05.560 Whether we're doing well. 30:06.400 --> 30:11.740 Because we should if we're doing well, we should count that as God's blessing and we shouldn't be forgetful of God 30:11.740 --> 30:16.060 Simply because we aren't in some dire need the Bible is always warning about this that like hey 30:16.060 --> 30:21.700 Let's die be full and deny thee if we're having a full period of life and everything's going well 30:22.400 --> 30:29.000 We should think in terms of like, okay, I'm not just happy in the moment because of these material blessings. 30:29.000 --> 30:36.200 I'm joyful like as a state of mind because I'm saved because God's blessing me, right? 30:36.200 --> 30:42.700 Or on the contrary, if we're in a rough patch like like Paul or Isaiah or Jeremiah or David, 30:42.700 --> 30:46.800 we look to salvation and the other promises of God. 30:47.200 --> 30:53.280 and in either case we should sing and make a joyful noise because that singing, that joyful noise, 30:53.280 --> 30:59.600 it amplifies and reinforces the joy that we should have in us already as a fruit of the Spirit because we're saved. 31:01.700 --> 31:05.700 you know it's it's not it doesn't have to be some big pentecostal 31:05.700 --> 31:08.980 woo-woo fest right it's just be like hey like 31:08.980 --> 31:12.500 i'm you should your default should be to wake up happy 31:12.500 --> 31:16.740 because you're saved that's what i'm saying so i'll close with a word of prayer 31:16.740 --> 31:18.000 uh heavenly father 31:18.100 --> 31:25.780 Just help us to keep the joy of the fruit of the Spirit in memory and help us to meditate 31:25.780 --> 31:31.320 on those things and I'm preaching to myself that we should just our default should be 31:31.320 --> 31:35.020 to have a good day no matter what's going on because we're saved because we have a home 31:35.020 --> 31:38.060 in heaven and in Jesus name we pray amen. 31:38.060 --> 31:40.620 Alright, next preacher is I don't know who's preaching. 31:44.200 --> 31:49.160 Bro Alex looks super ready right now. 31:58.000 --> 32:07.760 verse 9, Luke chapter 18 verse 9. And this is Jesus preaching the parable of the 32:07.760 --> 32:11.200 Pharisee and the publican. And so we'll pray real quick. 32:12.400 --> 32:15.600 Dear Father in heaven, thank you for the people that have come out tonight and 32:16.160 --> 32:18.100 fill them with the Holy Spirit. 32:18.600 --> 32:25.340 Help them understand the Bible and fill me with the Holy Spirit especially to also understand it and and preach the way that 32:25.680 --> 32:28.320 Will be edifying to them in Jesus name. Amen 32:29.600 --> 32:31.440 and 32:31.440 --> 32:34.340 So a soul winner we often ask the question 32:34.920 --> 32:39.880 Are you do you think you're saved by faith alone or is it faith and good works? 32:40.700 --> 32:44.100 And some people will answer, oh yeah, it's faith alone. 32:44.100 --> 32:47.060 But in reality, they're actually trusting in their works, 32:47.060 --> 32:48.860 and they just don't realize it. 32:48.860 --> 32:51.300 They don't understand it. 32:51.300 --> 32:53.100 And then a lot of times that kind of comes out 32:53.100 --> 32:55.580 when we ask them about eternal security. 32:55.580 --> 32:57.540 Can you ever lose your salvation? 32:57.540 --> 33:00.020 And they'll say, well, oh, of course you can. 33:00.020 --> 33:05.380 Or, well, no, as long as you ask for forgiveness after you sin. 33:05.380 --> 33:08.700 And so if they don't believe... 33:08.700 --> 33:12.540 in eternal security then they're still trusting in their works to keep them 33:12.540 --> 33:16.940 from doing whatever it is they think will cause them to lose their salvation. 33:16.940 --> 33:19.780 And so this is very difficult with people because people think, 33:19.780 --> 33:23.260 oh yeah, yeah, I believe in faith alone, it's grace alone, it's not a works. 33:23.260 --> 33:26.260 But they really don't, they can't see that inside themselves. 33:26.800 --> 33:30.640 And maybe you know somebody in your family or your friends. 33:30.640 --> 33:36.480 You know, there's a lot of people on the prayer requests that, you know, they've had the gospel 33:36.480 --> 33:40.000 preached to them for a while and they just can't get past that eternal security part. 33:40.720 --> 33:46.400 And so the goal of this sermon is to maybe give a tip or another angle to come at this 33:47.120 --> 33:50.400 to show them that they're unknowingly trusting in their works. 33:51.000 --> 33:55.400 And that's the title of the sermon is that they unknowingly trust in works. 33:56.400 --> 34:00.560 And so, and I think this parable might be a good one to explain to people. 34:00.560 --> 34:04.000 And so, looking at Luke 18, 9, 34:04.000 --> 34:07.520 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves, 34:07.520 --> 34:10.800 that they were righteous and despised others. 34:10.800 --> 34:14.960 Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a Republican. 34:14.960 --> 34:17.920 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 34:17.920 --> 34:24.240 God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even 34:24.400 --> 34:33.160 as this publican. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I possess. And the publican, 34:33.160 --> 34:38.480 standing afar off, would not lift up so much as eyes unto heaven. 34:41.400 --> 34:48.360 but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you that this man went down 34:48.360 --> 34:54.120 to his house justified rather than the other, for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased, 34:54.120 --> 35:01.480 and he that humble with himself shall be exalted." And so Jesus is saying that the publican was the 35:01.480 --> 35:06.240 the one that was justified rather than the other. 35:06.900 --> 35:18.580 And so, this passage is right before the rich young ruler, 35:18.580 --> 35:21.580 which is also about spiritual salvation. 35:23.800 --> 35:32.200 And so, if you look at verses 17 and verses 18 and 21 and 25 and 26, 35:32.200 --> 35:37.800 and you notice all those verses in Luke 18 are talking about spiritual salvation. 35:38.500 --> 35:44.500 And so then this parable then is about spiritual salvation. 35:44.500 --> 35:47.500 And notice that the publican says, 35:47.500 --> 35:49.500 God be merciful to me a sinner. 35:49.500 --> 35:52.500 So that's seven words he's calling upon the Lord. 35:52.500 --> 35:55.500 He's calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved. 35:55.500 --> 35:59.500 And so when the Bible says this man went down to his house justified, 35:59.500 --> 36:06.300 it means that he was justified, he was declared righteous to be saved. 36:06.700 --> 36:11.800 And so in this parable, the publican is saved from hell 36:11.800 --> 36:15.340 and the Pharisee is not saved. 36:15.340 --> 36:17.880 And now look at verse 9. 36:17.880 --> 36:21.880 trusted in themselves that they were righteous. 36:22.400 --> 36:27.400 And so righteous means innocent or faultless or guiltless, always doing the right thing. 36:27.400 --> 36:30.400 You know, we often preach Romans 3 10. 36:30.400 --> 36:33.400 And so it means without sin, zero sin. 36:33.400 --> 36:37.400 And as far as being saved and going into heaven, only Jesus was righteous. 36:37.400 --> 36:39.400 You know, only He was completely without sin, 36:39.400 --> 36:43.400 only He was good enough to get into heaven by His own works. 36:43.400 --> 36:45.200 But this Pharisee... 36:45.200 --> 36:57.560 Jesus is saying that he trusted in themselves because this parable was aimed at the Pharisees 36:57.560 --> 37:00.160 so they thought they were righteous enough to get to heaven. 37:01.800 --> 37:07.400 And the Pharisees across, of course, they taught salvation by works, by keeping the law. 37:07.400 --> 37:13.960 And Matthew 23, Jesus just rips on them for that. And notice, you can look at it later, 37:13.960 --> 37:20.360 Matthew 23 verse 23. And also there's many other verses in Galatians and Acts and Romans 37:20.360 --> 37:25.880 where the Pharisees taught that salvation by works. And so this Pharisee in the parable thought he 37:25.880 --> 37:26.720 was good enough. 37:27.300 --> 37:31.740 And that it was confidence was in himself. 37:31.740 --> 37:32.980 He was trusting in himself. 37:32.980 --> 37:37.100 He wasn't trusting in God as the publican's trust was. 37:37.100 --> 37:41.940 Because the publican, all he did was believe that he wasn't good enough for heaven. 37:41.940 --> 37:44.780 He wasn't trusting in his works and he was just asking for mercy. 37:44.780 --> 37:47.740 And that's basically what spiritual salvation is. 37:48.400 --> 37:51.700 And notice it also says that they trusted in themselves, 37:51.800 --> 37:55.000 that they were righteous and despised others. 37:55.100 --> 37:58.900 And so the Pharisees, you know, they were despising others. 37:59.000 --> 38:01.540 And the Bible tells us that the Jews, you know, 38:01.640 --> 38:03.100 they thought they were better than the Jans. 38:03.200 --> 38:05.000 Remember the woman at the well? 38:05.100 --> 38:07.940 And she said, well, what is thou a Jew have to do with me, 38:08.040 --> 38:10.840 a woman of Samaria, a Samaritan? 38:10.940 --> 38:14.780 And so despised means to make of no account. 38:15.300 --> 38:18.300 And so in the context of salvation, 38:18.400 --> 38:22.880 this Pharisee was judging that publican as a sinner. 38:22.980 --> 38:25.680 And the Pharisee was thinking, well, 38:25.780 --> 38:26.880 I'm good enough for heaven. 38:26.980 --> 38:31.680 But this publican over here, he's not. 38:31.780 --> 38:33.980 And then notice in the. 38:35.400 --> 38:39.960 because he says in verse 11, the Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself, 38:39.960 --> 38:46.760 God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this 38:46.760 --> 38:54.600 publican. And so the Pharisee thought, well surely this publican can't be saved. 38:54.600 --> 38:57.600 And today it's kind of a similar situation. 38:57.600 --> 39:00.800 You know, when people are trusting in their own works, 39:00.800 --> 39:04.200 and they're judging their own salvation by their works, 39:04.200 --> 39:05.800 and they think they're going to heaven 39:05.800 --> 39:07.100 because I'm a good person, right? 39:07.100 --> 39:09.000 That's the answer we hear. 39:09.300 --> 39:14.660 Isn't it not true then that they also must be judging other people as not good enough for heaven? 39:14.660 --> 39:18.980 Because if they're saying, well, I'm a good person, but you know, look at this guy that's, 39:18.980 --> 39:26.020 you know, the homeless, drunk, and or somebody that is just living a really wicked life, 39:26.740 --> 39:29.460 and they would judge that person as not saved. 39:32.500 --> 39:37.140 and they might be thinking in their mind, well, if they were actually a saved person, 39:37.140 --> 39:42.180 then they would be more like me. They would stop drinking, and they would stop fornicating, 39:42.180 --> 39:47.540 and they would go to church. And again, when a person is judging somebody else's salvation by 39:47.540 --> 39:54.180 their works, they're not really believing that salvation is a free gift. And then therefore, 39:55.460 --> 39:59.460 they themselves are also condemned because they haven't believed in that gift. 40:01.100 --> 40:07.140 And so, a lot of times at the door we might hear people say, 40:07.140 --> 40:09.640 like, well, I'm not saying you can lose your salvation, 40:09.640 --> 40:11.640 but you can walk away from it. 40:11.640 --> 40:15.340 And so, they're thinking, well, I'd never, me, myself, I, 40:15.340 --> 40:18.180 I would never do such a bad sin to lose my salvation, 40:18.180 --> 40:20.180 but somebody else could. 40:20.180 --> 40:21.020 And uh... 40:21.400 --> 40:26.680 Or if I did something really bad, then I would ask for forgiveness and I'd be okay. 40:26.680 --> 40:34.120 So they're trusting again in themselves not to do that really major sin or to remember to ask for forgiveness. 40:34.120 --> 40:36.120 So they're trusting in themselves. 40:36.120 --> 40:42.840 And now please turn to Romans chapter 2. Keep a marker in Luke 18. 40:42.840 --> 40:48.120 Or if you have two Bibles, keep one Bible open, Luke 18, one Bible, Romans 2. 40:48.900 --> 40:51.700 So Romans 2 verse 1. 40:52.600 --> 40:58.860 Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. 40:58.860 --> 41:02.580 For therein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. 41:02.580 --> 41:05.480 For thou that judgest doest the same things. 41:05.480 --> 41:10.220 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to the truth, against them which 41:10.220 --> 41:11.940 commit such things. 41:11.940 --> 41:17.960 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, 41:17.960 --> 41:20.120 thou shalt escape the judgment of God. 41:21.400 --> 41:34.040 And so, in Romans 2, I think Paul is addressing this to the Jews, like the Pharisees, that 41:34.040 --> 41:38.040 were judging other people, because you notice that's what it says, that, 41:38.040 --> 41:44.040 Whosoever thou that judgest, for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. 41:44.700 --> 41:50.620 And so, in a way, these three verses in the beginning of Romans is kind of like the Holy 41:50.620 --> 41:58.220 Spirit's commentary on that passage of the parable of the publican and the Pharisee. 41:59.500 --> 42:01.900 And I'll show you that. 42:01.900 --> 42:04.360 So look at verse one, it says, 42:05.400 --> 42:08.560 therefore thou art inexcusable. 42:08.560 --> 42:12.960 And remember in Romans one, verse 20, it says, 42:12.960 --> 42:16.340 so that they are without excuse. 42:16.340 --> 42:17.800 It's just using that same word, 42:17.800 --> 42:19.540 without excuse, inexcusable. 42:19.540 --> 42:22.040 And we know in Romans one 20, that's talking about 42:22.040 --> 42:25.040 everybody in hell is without excuse. 42:25.040 --> 42:26.300 They could have got saved. 42:26.700 --> 42:33.500 And so then this passage in Romans 2.1 continues with that thought because it says, 42:33.500 --> 42:40.220 so the judgment of God, you know, in this context it's talking about the judgment about people going to hell. 42:41.900 --> 42:45.900 And notice it says, O man, O man, right? 42:45.900 --> 42:48.800 So this is aimed at the Jews. 42:48.800 --> 42:52.640 And because they were, in the first century, 42:52.640 --> 42:54.580 they were judging the Gentiles 42:54.580 --> 42:58.520 by their spiritual salvation, by their sins. 42:58.520 --> 43:03.080 And notice that, O man, think us the same. 43:04.700 --> 43:09.580 which is kind of the same as what the Pharisee said in Luke 18, 11. 43:09.580 --> 43:13.100 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. 43:13.100 --> 43:16.780 And so, this Pharisee is praying within himself, 43:16.780 --> 43:22.780 and this hypothetical old man, Paul is like thinking, is referring to what he said, right? 43:22.780 --> 43:26.380 Thinkest thou, and 43:30.100 --> 43:35.100 And so, and thinkest thou this, and so. 43:35.600 --> 43:43.400 And if you look at Romans 1.29, it lists all the sins that reprobates do, but it also includes 43:43.400 --> 43:47.600 some common sins that people who aren't reprobates do. 43:47.600 --> 43:53.480 There's like debate, deceit, proud, boasters, disobedient to parents, covenant breakers. 43:53.480 --> 43:59.040 And I think this and other verses are telling us even just one sin makes us not good enough 43:59.040 --> 44:02.600 for heaven and that all of us need to trust in that free gift. 44:03.200 --> 44:09.200 And if you're not trusting in that gift, then a person is a debtor to do the whole law. 44:09.200 --> 44:15.700 Which means if you have any sin at all, then you're not good enough for heaven. 44:15.700 --> 44:17.700 He is a debtor to do the whole law. 44:18.700 --> 44:20.860 So, Paul was pointing out that this this 44:20.860 --> 44:26.500 hypothetical old man was not saved because old man judged the spiritual 44:26.500 --> 44:31.460 salvation of others by works and therefore old man believed that he was 44:31.460 --> 44:38.020 saved by his own works and and so old man is trusting in his works and he may 44:38.020 --> 44:42.260 not even realize that and it's kind of interesting you could you could replace 44:42.260 --> 44:44.600 old man with old Pharisee. 44:45.000 --> 44:47.240 And the same is true today, right? 44:47.240 --> 44:48.840 Old man at the door. 44:48.840 --> 44:52.560 You know, if a person is judging other people's salvation by their works, 44:52.560 --> 44:56.360 then they themselves have judged themselves and condemned themselves, 44:56.360 --> 44:58.040 just like the Bible says. 44:58.040 --> 45:02.440 And even though they don't realize it, well, it doesn't matter. 45:02.440 --> 45:05.640 Just like pastor-priest, ignorance of the law is no excuse. 45:05.900 --> 45:08.940 And they could say, well, at the White Throne, they could say, 45:08.940 --> 45:11.140 oh, I didn't know repent of sins was work. 45:11.140 --> 45:13.780 You know, this false prophet said, oh, yeah, you're saved by faith. 45:13.780 --> 45:14.780 It's grace. 45:14.780 --> 45:17.340 It's not at works, but you've got to repent of your sins. 45:17.340 --> 45:19.500 You know, that's not going to be an excuse. 45:19.500 --> 45:21.580 He's without excuse. 45:21.580 --> 45:25.580 And so therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, 45:25.580 --> 45:27.980 whosoever thou art that judgest. 45:27.980 --> 45:31.900 And again, likewise, the Pharisee was judging the public, 45:31.900 --> 45:33.700 and thus he condemned himself. 45:34.600 --> 45:39.560 And so now it's an interesting question. So why do unsaved people think that they actually believe 45:39.560 --> 45:45.000 in faith alone, but in reality they're trusting in their works? Well, so one reason, like I said, 45:45.000 --> 45:50.120 is false prophets repeat that over and over and they just can't... the false prophets will say 45:50.120 --> 45:56.040 two things that both can't be true are true, and if people hear enough then it just kind of sinks in. 45:56.040 --> 45:59.400 And Romans 11, 6 is a good verse to dispel that. 46:00.000 --> 46:06.160 And another reason is people want to believe that they have some role in their salvation. 46:06.160 --> 46:07.560 That, hey, I'm a good person. 46:07.560 --> 46:10.080 I've been going to church for 40 years. 46:10.080 --> 46:11.640 I read my Bible every day. 46:11.640 --> 46:12.640 I pray. 46:12.640 --> 46:14.960 I do all these good things. 46:14.960 --> 46:21.240 Surely that must count for something for me getting into heaven. 46:21.240 --> 46:23.360 And then, of course, then there's their pride. 46:23.700 --> 46:29.700 and they don't want to admit that all these years they've been going to church that they weren't even saved. 46:30.700 --> 46:32.700 And so here's the application part of the sermon. 46:32.700 --> 46:37.700 You know, when we're out soul winning, we need to be homo amic to minimize triggering that pride. 46:39.100 --> 46:43.020 And when a person's pride is starting to rise and they're starting to dig in their heels, 46:43.020 --> 46:49.340 you know, that's a good time to kind of back off and switch to maybe asking questions to get them 46:49.340 --> 46:54.300 to think about what they're trusting in, right? When you get to the point where the conversation 46:54.300 --> 46:57.820 might be like they'll tell you something and you can say, well, it sounds like you're trusting in 46:57.820 --> 47:01.180 your works to get you to heaven and they'll go, oh, no, no, no, no. And then the soul owner go, 47:01.180 --> 47:05.580 well, yes, you are. And they go, no, I'm not. Yes, you are. No, I'm not. And so at that point, 47:05.580 --> 47:07.100 It's really 47:07.100 --> 47:14.140 It's counterproductive, but if you ask a question that's less likely to trigger their pride, 47:14.140 --> 47:20.620 and it also might get them to figure out in their own head, to come to that realization themselves 47:20.620 --> 47:25.580 that they really are trusting in themselves, or at least plant a seed of doubt that gets them to 47:25.580 --> 47:30.300 think about, and you know, could they possibly be wrong in their beliefs? 47:31.700 --> 47:42.140 And so we can preach this parable of the Pharisee and the publican and explain that the Pharisee thought he was saved by his good works and he was trusting in his own righteousness. 47:42.140 --> 47:44.860 And that's what caused him to go to hell. 47:44.860 --> 47:54.500 And to be kind of gentle with the person, you could say, you know, well, from what you said, it sounds like you're trusting in yourself somewhat like that that Pharisee. 47:54.500 --> 47:59.140 You know, and we don't know. I don't know what you believe in your heart. I can only go by your words. 47:59.300 --> 48:04.820 But you need to examine your own heart to understand, you know, what do you really believe? 48:05.000 --> 48:10.560 So, you know, after we leave your door, please think about it, ask yourself, are you trusting 48:10.560 --> 48:13.080 in your own righteousness, even just a little bit? 48:13.080 --> 48:14.840 Because all it takes is just a tiny amount. 48:14.840 --> 48:19.160 You know, there's people that will say, oh yeah, you know, it's faith alone, grace alone, 48:19.160 --> 48:23.400 you should, but you should be a good person just to make sure you're going to heaven. 48:23.400 --> 48:25.200 They're not putting all their trust in Jesus. 48:25.200 --> 48:27.080 They're not putting all that trust in their free gift. 48:28.200 --> 48:32.200 And then so here's where the parable can come in nice too. 48:32.200 --> 48:40.200 If you have judged other people's salvation by their works, 48:40.200 --> 48:42.200 when we're talking to somebody at the door, 48:42.200 --> 48:45.200 and if they can admit in their own heart that, 48:45.200 --> 48:48.200 yeah, I've looked at other people and thought they were going to hell 48:48.200 --> 48:50.200 because of the sinful life they lead, 48:50.200 --> 48:56.200 that might be a way of them seeing that that's what they're really believing in for salvation. 48:56.200 --> 49:12.200 And so, and it's also maybe a way that a person can figure out that because they are not believing in eternal security, 49:12.200 --> 49:18.200 they're still trusting in themselves to do whatever it is they think it is that keeps them saved. 49:18.200 --> 49:24.100 And so, with that, I'll close in prayer. 49:24.300 --> 49:29.980 Thank you Father for your word and thank you for the parable and pray we can use that to get people saved. 49:29.980 --> 49:31.300 In Jesus' name, Amen. 49:42.900 --> 49:48.820 All right, good evening. I actually turn to Matthew chapter 22. Matthew chapter 22. 49:52.300 --> 49:55.740 Last two preachers went over so I will try not to do that. 49:58.600 --> 50:04.840 Maybe I can get some bonus minutes, you know, for getting the chili contest, you know? 50:04.840 --> 50:06.340 Little grace. 50:07.700 --> 50:10.180 Matthew chapter 22, look at verse 36, it says, 50:10.180 --> 50:13.620 Master, which is the great commandment and the law? 50:13.620 --> 50:17.380 Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 50:17.380 --> 50:20.500 and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great 50:20.500 --> 50:23.540 commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou 50:23.540 --> 50:28.820 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the 50:28.820 --> 50:33.380 law and the prophets. And you know, if you follow these two 50:33.380 --> 50:35.700 great commandments, the one thing that you're never going to be in 50:35.700 --> 50:40.140 your life is Luke warm and Luke warm is the title of my sermon. Heavenly Father 50:40.140 --> 50:43.060 thank you for this church Lord I just pray that you would fill me with your 50:43.060 --> 50:46.020 spirit and help me to appreciate this message that you put in my heart in 50:46.020 --> 50:47.300 Jesus name amen. 50:48.000 --> 50:53.440 So Luke warm, Luke warm is only in the Bible one time in Revelation chapter 3 verse 15. 50:53.440 --> 50:56.880 You could turn there if you wanted to, but everything I'll just kind of read through 50:56.880 --> 51:00.800 for the sake of time. But it basically just means you're not, you're not zealous. It's 51:00.800 --> 51:06.240 kind of the opposite of being zealous, tepid, indifferent. You don't really care too much. 51:06.240 --> 51:11.920 Okay. And he's speaking to the church in Laodicea, right? So he's speaking to churches and it's kind 51:11.920 --> 51:15.920 of remarkable because it's at a time where, you know, they say this was like maybe 20 to 51:16.000 --> 51:23.200 25 years after Christ was literally walking on this earth. So I mean, if a church can get Luke warm, 51:23.500 --> 51:29.980 Right after I mean people were probably in that possibly in that church that saw the risen Christ 51:29.980 --> 51:32.580 Because hundreds of people saw him they would have been really old 51:32.580 --> 51:37.820 But they say John at this time was probably like 85 to 96 or something when I looked it up 51:37.820 --> 51:40.940 It's kind of that was where they say that he may have been 51:41.620 --> 51:44.520 Revelation 3 15 says I know thy works 51:45.100 --> 51:49.580 that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would thou were cold or hot. 51:49.580 --> 51:55.980 So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 51:56.500 --> 52:00.980 It's a pretty harsh language, right? You know, and I said that kind of loud. I know normally 52:00.980 --> 52:08.100 it's like smooth 98, 9 type of, you know, reading the Bible from brother Eli. But, but like, you know, 52:08.740 --> 52:14.740 the Bible says that John fell at his feet as dead. You know, the Bible says that the voice of God was 52:14.740 --> 52:19.940 terrifying, that it sounded like the voice of many waters. It sounded like great thunder, 52:19.940 --> 52:24.260 you know, pastors brought up to insane insane with me. You hear thunder out there and it kind of puts 52:24.500 --> 52:29.140 God in you a little bit, you know, and so this wasn't just like some soft thing. 52:29.940 --> 52:36.100 It wasn't a good thing he was saying here calling this church lukewarm. He said he would rather 52:36.100 --> 52:40.980 spew them out of his, he wanted to spew them out of his mouth, you know, and you know, obviously, 52:40.980 --> 52:45.060 you know, we're not God, but we have the Spirit of God within us, and you know, I completely 52:45.060 --> 52:51.300 understand why God would rather you be cold or hot, right? Because, you know, 52:52.100 --> 52:54.100 It's being lukewarm. 52:54.600 --> 52:57.040 is clearly not a good thing. 52:57.040 --> 52:59.800 And you know, this church obviously started out hot. 52:59.800 --> 53:03.360 It couldn't have started out Luke warm, right? 53:03.360 --> 53:05.200 It wouldn't have started out cold. 53:05.200 --> 53:07.680 This is right after Christ was here on the earth, right? 53:07.680 --> 53:08.960 This church was zealous. 53:08.960 --> 53:10.440 This church was hot. 53:10.440 --> 53:12.520 And they were doing the things of God. 53:12.520 --> 53:14.760 And God is warning this church 53:14.760 --> 53:17.680 that He wants to spew them out of His mouth. 53:17.680 --> 53:19.800 And why would God want to do that, right? 53:19.800 --> 53:21.760 Why would He want to spew them out of His mouth? 53:21.760 --> 53:22.600 is because 53:22.600 --> 53:24.920 When you're a lukewarm Christian... 53:25.100 --> 53:27.500 You're a discouragement. 53:27.500 --> 53:30.540 It's discouraging to the people of God. 53:30.540 --> 53:32.380 And we're in a spiritual battle. 53:32.380 --> 53:35.660 The Bible calls us like soldiers oftentimes. 53:35.660 --> 53:37.420 And we're fighting the good fight of faith. 53:37.420 --> 53:41.660 There's a lot of analogies when it comes to just being on the battlefield. 53:41.660 --> 53:44.940 Imagine how you would feel if you're in the heat of the battle. 53:47.660 --> 53:50.460 The person fighting next to you just left. 53:51.260 --> 53:53.020 And then they came back to make... 53:53.100 --> 53:57.520 check in on you here or there, right? Or maybe they showed up to the battle, you 53:57.520 --> 54:00.520 know, they're showing up to the battle late, they don't really care too much, 54:00.520 --> 54:04.280 right? I mean, how would that be encouraging or would that be discouraging? 54:04.280 --> 54:08.400 Right? I would say that would be discouraging, you know, we're in a 54:08.400 --> 54:12.040 battle. Things are not getting better in this world, they're getting worse. We're 54:12.040 --> 54:18.540 in an incredible battle and it would be discouragement. Now, if somebody dies in 54:18.540 --> 54:19.300 battle, 54:19.500 --> 54:24.500 You know, that's the epitome of them, you know, when they say when you die, right, your body gets what? Cold. 54:24.500 --> 54:26.500 They're epitome of cold. They're not there. 54:26.500 --> 54:33.500 And there's been people that have left our church, right, and you know, those people have ended up probably going cold, right? 54:33.500 --> 54:37.500 And yeah, we mourn them because we love them, right? They were fighting the battle with us. 54:37.500 --> 54:44.500 When I first got to this church, I mean, people were telling me, man, I love face-ripping sermons and sermons that rip your face. 54:44.500 --> 54:46.500 I didn't even know what that meant. It sounded violent. 54:46.500 --> 54:47.500 and I thought... 54:47.500 --> 54:53.500 what? What in the world? Like that, that's, it sounds a little bit extreme, but they, it's like they, 54:53.500 --> 54:57.020 yeah, I want to hear, you know, they're having men's preaching in their own house and they're 54:57.020 --> 55:00.460 doing all, they're serving and they're doing all this stuff, right? They're preaching, 55:00.460 --> 55:06.220 trying to preach and things like that. Gone, cold, right? And then you mourn them, right? You mourn 55:06.220 --> 55:10.700 those people being gone, but you have to keep in the battle. So you sort of forget about them, 55:10.700 --> 55:15.420 right? Because they're gone, right? But the lukewarm Christian, it's a constant rem- 55:15.500 --> 55:20.260 reminder because they're just all there. They're there. They're there once in a while there. 55:20.260 --> 55:23.180 You know, they struggle. They come whenever they want, you know, whatever, whatever the 55:23.180 --> 55:28.460 case may be. But it's just discouraging. I could see why God would want to spew this 55:28.460 --> 55:29.980 type of person out of their mouth. 55:30.300 --> 55:33.660 It's not a good place to be because you know when you look at the 55:34.780 --> 55:40.940 Hebrews chapter 10 the chapter that tells you to go to church so much the more as you see to the day approaching right it says 55:40.940 --> 55:49.180 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works right what are we here in church to do? 55:49.180 --> 55:55.900 Provoke unto love and to good works that's why I read that first those first verses there the two greatest commandments right? 55:55.900 --> 55:58.140 Love the Lord your God with all your heart minds 55:58.300 --> 56:03.900 soul and strength that says in a parallel passage, right? If you love the Lord your God like that, 56:04.700 --> 56:09.900 you're going to love his church for sure, right? The church that he paid for with his own blood. 56:09.900 --> 56:14.300 If you love your neighbor as yourself, you're going to love to do good works, right? Because 56:14.300 --> 56:19.900 the first works is going out soul-winning. That's why we wanted to continue to come to this church, 56:19.900 --> 56:20.900 is because... 56:21.100 --> 56:26.020 The first day when we were looking at the church to see if you know, we're gonna have our son come here 56:26.300 --> 56:28.980 It's like how could you go anywhere else at this point? 56:29.860 --> 56:36.500 How could you go to another church when you experience that everybody's zealous almost everybody went out so winning 56:36.500 --> 56:41.380 I mean brother Alex would have been perfect for that because he puts like what ten maps in there, you know 56:41.380 --> 56:42.900 We usually only need one 56:43.100 --> 56:49.340 Right? He's being optimistic. I love that about Brother Alex, but it was definitely hot. Right? 56:49.340 --> 56:56.380 And, you know, it can happen. If it can happen to a church that close to when Christ walked on this 56:56.380 --> 57:01.500 earth, it can happen to any church. You know? And the thing is, being lukewarm, 57:01.700 --> 57:07.980 Like, like pastor said, too, you really got to check yourself because the Bible says don't think so much about yourself. 57:07.980 --> 57:11.780 The Bible says we should be considering one another, right? 57:11.780 --> 57:19.260 And you provoke them unto love and good works, not forsaking, forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, 57:19.260 --> 57:21.500 but exhorting one another. 57:21.500 --> 57:23.100 It says exhorting again. 57:23.300 --> 57:25.740 and so much more as you see the day approaching. 57:25.740 --> 57:28.140 So that's all one sentence there. 57:28.140 --> 57:30.580 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together 57:30.580 --> 57:31.700 as a matter of some is, right? 57:31.700 --> 57:33.900 But, right, the sentence doesn't end, 57:33.900 --> 57:37.140 but exhorting one another. 57:37.140 --> 57:41.540 So if you're going to church, you're exhorting one another. 57:41.540 --> 57:43.380 That's what you're doing. 57:43.380 --> 57:44.000 It's... 57:44.100 --> 57:47.500 It's right there. The sentence just tells you what it is. 57:47.500 --> 57:49.820 Going to church is exhorting. 57:49.820 --> 57:53.700 It's exhorting to have people that you know are in the battle with you. 57:53.700 --> 57:58.420 And because, you know, it's tough to do it on your own. 57:58.420 --> 58:01.020 I would rather, hey, God does a lot of things 58:01.020 --> 58:04.380 and a lot of mighty things through small groups of people. 58:04.380 --> 58:07.540 So it is good that you're either hot or cold, 58:07.540 --> 58:11.740 because if you're cold, you're not going to influence the people that are hot. 58:12.100 --> 58:14.180 But if you're lukewarm, you are. 58:14.180 --> 58:17.380 I'd rather have like five hot people than, you know, 58:17.380 --> 58:20.180 two hot people and, you know, three lukewarm people. 58:20.180 --> 58:22.100 Because the cold people are gone, right? 58:22.100 --> 58:24.180 The cold people are the ones that their faith 58:24.180 --> 58:26.580 is a little bit on the dead side, right? 58:26.580 --> 58:28.980 You know, they're saved, you know, God willing, you know? 58:29.940 --> 58:31.300 You question some of them, but, you know, 58:32.340 --> 58:33.780 that's between them and God. 58:35.000 --> 58:37.440 But when you're hot, it's exciting. 58:37.440 --> 58:38.680 It is. 58:38.680 --> 58:41.120 It's much better to be hot. 58:41.120 --> 58:46.040 And really, you can't force, you can't mandate zeal. 58:46.040 --> 58:47.600 You can't force hot. 58:48.000 --> 58:52.720 Right? That's something that somebody has to look at within themselves and figure out. 58:52.720 --> 58:59.280 Because they hear all the preaching. Pastors preach this 10 different ways. I mean, 59:00.000 --> 59:04.160 you know, and for the people who think that Hebrews was written to, you know, the Jews, 59:04.160 --> 59:07.120 it's just insanity to me. I mean, in chapter three, he's calling, 59:07.120 --> 59:10.640 wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling? Is that a Jew? 59:10.640 --> 59:15.840 Is a Jew a partaker of the heavenly calling? No, it's not. Right? 59:16.000 --> 59:16.500 Wait. 59:16.800 --> 59:21.200 The Bible says we're here to exhort one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching 59:21.200 --> 59:26.000 Galatians says brethren you've been called unto liberty because yeah we can do whatever we want 59:26.000 --> 59:31.920 only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another see we're here to 59:31.920 --> 59:37.840 love one another to serve one another and the church is where that gets done right like pastor 59:37.840 --> 59:43.440 said today too when he's going through Ephesians you know wish to exhort one another unto good 59:43.440 --> 59:44.800 works which God hath before 59:44.800 --> 59:51.120 ordained that we should walk in them, not for our salvation, but because God, hey, the Bible says 59:54.000 --> 59:57.760 that we should know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, 59:58.320 --> 01:00:06.400 right? I mean, sometimes people, it just, it blows my mind how they see the house of God. 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:12.200 And really, you could only gauge that by your eyes and your observation. 01:00:12.200 --> 01:00:15.640 That's why in James, when he's talking about people with dead faith, 01:00:16.200 --> 01:00:18.760 that's why he's talking about why works are so important. 01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:22.120 Why the things that you do, the things that other people see are important, 01:00:22.120 --> 01:00:24.600 because they're going to have an influence on them, right? 01:00:24.600 --> 01:00:27.160 They're going to see like, hey, you're just some Christian that's like, 01:00:27.160 --> 01:00:28.040 you're not in the battle. 01:00:28.040 --> 01:00:30.680 You're like, oh, hey, you know, you're naked and destitute. 01:00:30.680 --> 01:00:33.160 Hey, I'll pray for you, brother, or something, you know? 01:00:33.160 --> 01:00:35.160 And you could be helping them out, you know? 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:41.840 It affects people, it influences people, and you can see how God would want to spew a person 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:45.640 like that out of his mouth when this is the Church of the Living God. 01:00:45.640 --> 01:00:47.840 This is the pillar and ground of the truth, right? 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:51.080 We're building together for the inhabitation of God through the Spirit. 01:00:51.080 --> 01:00:52.920 We're laborers with God. 01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:53.920 We're His husbandry. 01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:54.200 Thank you. 01:00:54.200 --> 01:00:57.160 His flock over which he has made us overseers. 01:00:57.160 --> 01:00:58.280 We're watchmen. 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:00.520 We're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. 01:01:00.520 --> 01:01:01.560 We're set apart. 01:01:01.560 --> 01:01:03.720 We're peculiar people, right? 01:01:03.720 --> 01:01:04.680 We're his body. 01:01:04.680 --> 01:01:06.040 We're his bride. 01:01:06.040 --> 01:01:07.800 And when the body starts missing parts, 01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:11.320 when you start getting old, you're all going to see, right? 01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:13.480 A little tendon starts going out or whatever. 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.400 Something starts going wrong. 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.720 Even the small pieces are important. 01:01:17.720 --> 01:01:19.880 Next thing you know, something else slips, right? 01:01:20.600 --> 01:01:23.600 every part of this body is important. 01:01:23.600 --> 01:01:26.600 The Bible says that he will build his church in the gates of hell 01:01:26.600 --> 01:01:28.600 shall not prevail against it. 01:01:30.500 --> 01:01:35.140 to the pastors, Paul said, hey, feed the Church of God, which He had purchased with His own blood. 01:01:35.940 --> 01:01:42.740 His Church is important to Him, right? And, you know, those books of Revelation are there for us 01:01:42.740 --> 01:01:47.460 to read and say, hey, we don't want to fall into these categories. We don't want to get to that 01:01:47.460 --> 01:01:52.660 point because here's the thing. People can, you know, people have heard the preaching already, 01:01:52.660 --> 01:01:54.100 You know when when 01:01:54.200 --> 01:01:56.800 Joe Jones was preaching that garbage, right? 01:01:56.800 --> 01:02:00.760 And people were listening to that about Hebrews itself too, 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:03.040 how we don't have to do anything in the works. 01:02:03.040 --> 01:02:06.320 So, you know, we all get the same works and all on and on. 01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:08.360 All that garbage had to have had an influence 01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:10.880 because there's people where you just see, you know, 01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:12.800 I used to be here on a bus, 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.320 so went and everybody out with them, you know, just on fire. 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:18.320 And then next year, you know, cold, you know, 01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:21.520 whatever they're doing, whatever they chose to do, 01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:22.200 they just went. 01:02:22.200 --> 01:02:27.800 cold and they either are just an open rebellion about it or they don't see it because the Bible 01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:32.840 says that right you might think you're a certain way but God sees you differently right he says 01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:40.280 you're you're wretched miserable poor blind and naked right you don't want to be in that category 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:44.760 because when you're blind it means you can't see so you might not be able to see that these things 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.400 are starting to come about in your life, right? 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:53.800 But the Bible says that God's eyes are on the righteous. He's watching everything that we do. 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:58.840 I think we forget that too, that He's watching when we're at church just like acting like it's 01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:03.720 not important. And you know, I think we've all done it before. But do you want to make that a habit 01:03:03.720 --> 01:03:08.120 when this is the house of the living God? I don't think so because you know, if you end up being 01:03:08.120 --> 01:03:15.000 lukewarm and you start having a negative influence on the other saints too, God does, I don't think 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:15.800 God sees that. 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:21.560 too kind, it takes too kindly to that, when he purchased this church with his blood. And the eyes 01:03:21.560 --> 01:03:28.600 are of the Lord are on the righteous, right? But the Bible also says that, you know, we're naked 01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:31.800 and opened under the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 01:03:32.500 --> 01:03:37.540 Right? So God knows your heart. We might not be able to see. We can only see the things that you 01:03:37.540 --> 01:03:42.660 do. That's why the things that you do actually matter because they can have an influence, 01:03:42.660 --> 01:03:47.460 either positive or negative. And when you're in the house of God, we should know how we should 01:03:47.460 --> 01:03:52.900 behave ourselves in the house of God, the house of the living God. But if people don't believe that, 01:03:52.900 --> 01:03:57.860 then that's, hey, that'll be the tell too. They'll show that by what? Their actions. 01:03:57.860 --> 01:04:00.420 They still could be saved, but they could just be wretched. 01:04:00.500 --> 01:04:04.800 miserable, poor, blind, and naked, right? The Bible says that. 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:09.640 because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. 01:04:09.640 --> 01:04:14.040 And knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, like I just said." 01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:18.280 You know, and really a lot of people say, well, you know, I'm not rich. I need to make that money. 01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:21.800 I need to work that overtime. I need to have a job that's making this or that. But you know, 01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:27.160 we actually are a lot more rich than we think, especially compared to probably when this time 01:04:27.160 --> 01:04:30.520 was about. You know, Alex and I were talking about how many miles they would have had to 01:04:30.520 --> 01:04:33.000 travel between churches, you know, not the same. 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:37.400 type of transportation. You know, they wouldn't have had a washer and a dryer like we do, and 01:04:38.040 --> 01:04:42.360 hot water and good food, and you know, we're eating well. If you have a roof over your head, 01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:48.120 you know, I mean, you don't need much. We don't need much on this earth. We don't need to spend 01:04:48.120 --> 01:04:57.000 our time on things that are vain, right? It says that his eyes are opened to the eyes of him with 01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:58.560 whom we have to do. 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:03.480 to do, right? Remember that slogan, just do it? There's things God needs us to do because not 01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:08.200 anyone else is going to do it. And God's eyes are watching us if we're going to be doing those 01:05:08.200 --> 01:05:14.680 things, right? I mean, even when Jesus, when his family was outside and they tried to interrupt 01:05:14.680 --> 01:05:17.400 the preaching, right? He said that, hey, 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.640 He stretched forth his hand towards his disciples and said, 01:05:20.640 --> 01:05:24.160 Behold my mother and my brethren, for whosoever shall do the will of my father, 01:05:24.160 --> 01:05:28.320 which is in heaven, the same as my brother and sister and mother. 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:36.400 And, you know, we want to, in Hebrews chapter 10, that whole chapter is about church and going to 01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:42.400 church, why church is important, right? I'm going to try to finish it right here, but 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:50.040 Paul said, but to call to remembrance the former days in verse 32, in which after ye were illuminated, 01:05:50.040 --> 01:05:55.800 right, illuminated, what did we sing this morning? Like send the light, send the gospel light, 01:05:55.800 --> 01:06:00.680 right? We were, we have a light that we should be shining before men, not hiding under a bushel, 01:06:00.680 --> 01:06:05.640 right? But when we were illuminated, it says ye endured a great fight of afflictions. 01:06:06.900 --> 01:06:12.260 And you know, we all did too. Like, we all were, got saved. There were battles we had. We had 01:06:12.260 --> 01:06:15.860 battles with family. We had battles with other people. But we were like... 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:21.200 Okay with the fight it seemed like but it can get old it can get discouraging 01:06:21.200 --> 01:06:26.360 It could it can cause you to want to you know head like lean towards lukewarm or cold 01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:31.200 Where then you're starting to find reasons to dislike the hard preaching right right? 01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:37.780 That's why Paul had to say therefore am I become your enemy because I told you the truth. You know I didn't say that right but like 01:06:38.600 --> 01:06:41.000 Hey, don't let the preaching get you mad. 01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:43.320 If the Word of God says something like, 01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:46.600 look at that and try to change your heart. 01:06:46.600 --> 01:06:51.720 It's no coincidence, I believe, that this chapter is right before the faith chapter, 01:06:51.720 --> 01:06:52.680 because that's what it is. 01:06:52.680 --> 01:06:55.560 It's where your faith starts to take a knock, right? 01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:58.920 Like the man who had his child healed, right? 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:04.680 It says, if you believe all things are possible, 01:07:06.300 --> 01:07:12.460 You just ask God for it, right? Ask God, like that man did with tears. He said, 01:07:12.460 --> 01:07:14.780 I believe, help thou my unbelief. 01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:19.880 You know, because we all go through times where like we could just think things are a little too hard, 01:07:19.880 --> 01:07:24.760 and it's hard to just keep on going. It's hard to fight the fight. You know, fighting can get kind 01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:30.360 of old when you're in the battlefield all the time, but especially if you have lukewarm around 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:36.760 too much, because lukewarm is discouraging. And we don't want to be lukewarm because this is a 01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:42.920 church that's no longer around anymore, yet this was a church that was started right around when Christ was here. 01:07:43.200 --> 01:07:49.600 And you know churches do come and go, but we have to be able to stay through the battle. 01:07:49.600 --> 01:07:54.400 Ask God to help you with your unbelief. If it's a problem with your faith, if it's a problem with 01:07:55.040 --> 01:08:01.440 things going on in your life, talk to people. I believe this is a very loving church. We have a 01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:07.520 very loving pastor and Mrs. Sherry and his wife. I mean they're very loving, very caring people. 01:08:07.520 --> 01:08:11.200 and you always have help, but if you're here... 01:08:11.200 --> 01:08:13.920 Know how to behave yourself in the house of God for one 01:08:14.260 --> 01:08:16.260 But you know be consistent 01:08:16.260 --> 01:08:20.400 It says to go so much the more as you see did the day approaching and the day is approaching 01:08:20.620 --> 01:08:22.360 If you're not paying attention 01:08:22.360 --> 01:08:29.320 then you're just being you're just too much on your phone or just oblivious because the day is approaching and 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:34.100 We need people that are going to be in the battle and and it's much better to be hot 01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:39.200 Obviously than to be lukewarm because you don't want to be in a place where God wants to spew you out of 01:08:39.200 --> 01:08:43.040 His mouth. So let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you Lord for this church, that it is a 01:08:43.040 --> 01:08:47.280 soul-winning church. I thank you for the laborers and I know I'm preaching to the choir because 01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:52.720 there's a lot of people here. There's people here that they do come, you know, every time the doors 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:57.760 open. I just pray that we would get faith, get zeal, and that you would just bless our church 01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.240 and our pastor and Mishiri. In Jesus' name, amen. 01:09:08.300 --> 01:09:12.940 Great sermons guys. Thank you so much for preaching tonight. Right after church, can I get all the men? 01:09:13.980 --> 01:09:21.820 Just have you meet with me. How about in the dad baby room real quick? So just take a few minutes 01:09:21.820 --> 01:09:23.700 right after church. All right, go ahead. 01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:35.400 Alright, great preaching everyone. Let's sing 164 like we're not lukewarm. 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:47.000 Praise him, praise him. 164 I'll be watching. I'm just kidding. 164 the red or the green. 01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:52.400 All together on the 1st! 01:09:52.400 --> 01:09:59.120 Praise him, praise him, Jesus, so blessed Redeemer! 01:09:59.120 --> 01:09:59.800 Say... 01:10:51.300 --> 01:11:00.500 Jesus, oh blessed Redeemer, for our sins He suffered and bled and died. 01:12:49.400 --> 01:12:51.700 demo can you close this with a pair please.