WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.720 O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 00:06.720 --> 00:15.520 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 00:15.520 --> 00:24.000 Take the name of Jesus ever as a shield from every stare. 00:24.000 --> 00:32.000 If temptations round together, bring them all into prayer. 00:32.000 --> 00:40.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 00:40.000 --> 00:49.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 00:49.000 --> 00:57.000 O, the precious name of Jesus, that now it grills our souls with joy, 00:57.000 --> 01:05.000 With his loving arms we sing his praise, and his songs our tongues employ. 01:05.000 --> 01:13.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 01:13.000 --> 01:22.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 01:22.000 --> 01:30.000 At the name of Jesus' name we call in Boston at his feet. 01:30.000 --> 01:38.000 The King of Kings in heaven will crown him when our journeys complete. 01:38.000 --> 01:46.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 01:46.000 --> 01:59.000 Precious King, O, what sweet hope of earth and joy of heaven! 01:59.000 --> 02:06.000 O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder 02:06.000 --> 02:13.000 Consider all the worlds I have made 02:13.000 --> 02:20.000 I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder 02:20.000 --> 02:27.000 Like round throughout the universe display 02:27.000 --> 02:34.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 02:34.000 --> 02:41.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 02:41.000 --> 02:48.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 02:48.000 --> 02:59.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 02:59.000 --> 03:06.000 When through the woods and forests I wander 03:06.000 --> 03:13.000 And hear the words in singing as praise 03:13.000 --> 03:20.000 When I look down from lofty mountain range 03:20.000 --> 03:27.000 And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze 03:27.000 --> 03:34.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 03:34.000 --> 03:41.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 03:41.000 --> 03:48.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 03:48.000 --> 04:01.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 04:01.000 --> 04:08.000 And when I think that God is son, God's bearing 04:08.000 --> 04:15.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 04:15.000 --> 04:23.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 04:23.000 --> 04:30.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 04:30.000 --> 04:38.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 04:38.000 --> 04:46.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 04:46.000 --> 04:54.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 04:54.000 --> 05:07.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 05:07.000 --> 05:12.000 On the last now, When Christ shall come 05:12.000 --> 05:16.000 His shout of acclamation 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 And take me home 05:19.000 --> 05:23.000 The joy shall fill my heart 05:23.000 --> 05:31.000 Then I shall bow in humble adoration 05:31.000 --> 05:39.000 And there proclaim, My God, how great Thou art 05:39.000 --> 05:47.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 05:47.000 --> 05:55.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 05:55.000 --> 06:03.000 Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee 06:04.000 --> 06:21.000 How great Thou art, how great Thou art 06:21.000 --> 06:30.000 In the dark of the midnight, have I oft in my face 06:30.000 --> 06:38.000 All the storms have abut me and there's no hiding place 06:38.000 --> 06:47.000 In the valley of the London, Jesus born with my cry 06:47.000 --> 06:55.000 Leave me safe till the storm passes by 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Till the storm passes by 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 Till the thunder sounds from far 07:03.000 --> 07:12.000 Till the clouds roll forever round the sky 07:12.000 --> 07:16.000 Oh, be glad, take me safe 07:16.000 --> 07:20.000 In the hollow of my head 07:20.000 --> 07:28.000 Leave me safe till the storm passes by 07:28.000 --> 07:37.000 Many times, say to whisper, there is no easy time 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 For there's no end of sorrow 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 There's no hope I find 07:45.000 --> 07:53.000 But I know, Thou art with me when tomorrow arrives 07:53.000 --> 08:00.000 When the storm never dies in the sky 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 When the storm passes by 08:05.000 --> 08:10.000 Till the thunder sounds from far 08:10.000 --> 08:14.000 Till the clouds roll forever round the sky 08:14.000 --> 08:18.000 From the sky 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 Oh, be glad, take me safe 08:22.000 --> 08:27.000 In the hollow of my head 08:27.000 --> 08:33.000 Leave me safe till the storm passes by 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 When the long night 08:35.000 --> 08:38.000 When the long night 08:38.000 --> 08:41.000 The night is dead, the day is gone 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 Till the morning 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 Let me stand in my presence 08:48.000 --> 08:52.000 On that bright, peaceful road 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 In the head, there are 10 days 08:56.000 --> 09:02.000 There will come to a day I will be 09:02.000 --> 09:06.000 In the storm that's to come 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Till the morning comes 09:08.000 --> 09:12.000 Till the storm passes over 09:12.000 --> 09:16.000 Till the thunder sounds from far 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 Till the clouds roll forever 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 Round the sky 09:24.000 --> 09:29.000 Oh, be glad, take me safe 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 In the hollow of my head 09:33.000 --> 09:41.000 Leave me safe till the storm passes by 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Can you go back on that very first verse? 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 This is just, we don't want to rush right through this. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 This is encouraging in the middle of the week. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Any part of the week really if you think about it. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Verse 1 begins in the dark of the midnight. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Have I oft hid my face? 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 We've been there. 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 Lift it up from your heart. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 We're going to let the instruments drop out on the chorus 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 and just sing to your Lord tonight. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 On that first verse altogether now. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 In the dark of the midnight 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 In the hollow of my head 10:10.000 --> 10:14.000 Round the storm, round the mountain 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 In the end, we saw a lightning 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 In the crash of the thunder 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 As the storm did not rise 10:27.000 --> 10:34.000 Take me safe till the storm passes by 10:35.000 --> 10:40.000 Till the storm passes over 10:40.000 --> 10:45.000 Till the thunder sounds no more 10:45.000 --> 10:50.000 Till the clouds roll forever 10:50.000 --> 10:55.000 From the sky 10:55.000 --> 11:00.000 Oh, be fast, let me stand 11:00.000 --> 11:05.000 In the hollow of my head 11:05.000 --> 11:16.000 Keep me safe till the storm passes by 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 Are you weary? Are you happy? Pardon? 11:20.000 --> 11:24.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 Are you grieving? Or rejoicing? Pardon? 11:28.000 --> 11:32.000 Tell it to Jesus, Lord, Lord 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 He is a friend that's well-known 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 Who no other is such a friend or brother 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 Tell it to Jesus, Lord, Lord 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 Do the tears flow down your cheeks of pain 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 Have you sinned and to be tithed or bidden? 12:00.000 --> 12:04.000 Tell it to Jesus, Lord, Lord 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 12:08.000 --> 12:12.000 He is a friend that's well-known 12:12.000 --> 12:16.000 Who no other is such a friend or brother 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 Tell it to Jesus, Lord, Lord 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 Do you feel the death across the storm? 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 12:28.000 --> 12:32.000 Are you anxious? What shall it tomorrow? 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 Tell it to Jesus, my Lord 12:36.000 --> 12:40.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 12:40.000 --> 12:44.000 He is a friend that's well-known 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 Who no other is such a friend or brother 12:48.000 --> 12:52.000 Tell it to Jesus, Lord, Lord 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 Are you troubled at the thought of dying? 12:56.000 --> 13:00.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 13:00.000 --> 13:04.000 Lord Christ, the Holy King, come, are you sighing? 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 Tell it to Jesus alone 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 Tell it to Jesus, tell it to Jesus 13:12.000 --> 13:16.000 He is a friend that's well-known 13:16.000 --> 13:20.000 Who no other is such a friend or brother 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 Tell it to Jesus alone 13:24.000 --> 13:30.000 Jesus, give me here the cross 13:30.000 --> 13:35.000 There a precious mountain 13:35.000 --> 13:40.000 Free to all on healing stream 13:40.000 --> 13:45.000 Close from Calvary's mountain 13:45.000 --> 13:50.000 Give the cross, give the cross 13:50.000 --> 13:55.000 Be my glory ever 13:55.000 --> 14:00.000 Till my raptured soul shall find 14:00.000 --> 14:05.000 Rest beyond the river 14:05.000 --> 14:10.000 At the cross I stood one day 14:10.000 --> 14:15.000 Love and mercy found me 14:15.000 --> 14:20.000 There the bright and loving star 14:20.000 --> 14:25.000 Sheds its wings around me 14:25.000 --> 14:30.000 Give the cross, give the cross 14:30.000 --> 14:35.000 Be my glory ever 14:35.000 --> 14:40.000 Till my raptured soul shall find 14:40.000 --> 14:44.000 Rest beyond the river 14:44.000 --> 14:49.000 Near the cross, O Lamb of God 14:49.000 --> 14:53.000 Brings its seeds before me 14:53.000 --> 14:58.000 Help me love from day to day 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 Give this shadow on me 15:02.000 --> 15:07.000 Give the cross, give the cross 15:07.000 --> 15:11.000 Be my glory ever 15:11.000 --> 15:16.000 Till my raptured soul shall find 15:16.000 --> 15:21.000 Rest beyond the river 15:21.000 --> 15:26.000 Near the cross, O Lamb of God 15:26.000 --> 15:30.000 Hope and trust together 15:30.000 --> 15:35.000 Till I reach the boiling sea 15:35.000 --> 15:40.000 Just beyond the river 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 Give the cross, give the cross 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 Be my glory ever 15:49.000 --> 15:54.000 Till my raptured soul shall find 15:54.000 --> 15:59.000 Rest beyond the river 16:00.000 --> 16:07.000 I don't know about tomorrow 16:07.000 --> 16:14.000 I just live from day to day 16:14.000 --> 16:22.000 I don't borrow from its sunshine 16:22.000 --> 16:29.000 For its skies may turn to grey 16:29.000 --> 16:36.000 I don't worry o'er the future 16:36.000 --> 16:43.000 For I know what Jesus said 16:43.000 --> 16:51.000 And today I'll walk beside him 16:51.000 --> 16:58.000 For he knows what is ahead 16:58.000 --> 17:06.000 Many things about tomorrow 17:06.000 --> 17:13.000 I don't seem to understand 17:13.000 --> 17:20.000 But I know the love tomorrow 17:20.000 --> 17:28.000 And I know who holds my hand 17:28.000 --> 17:35.000 Every step is leading by the word 17:35.000 --> 17:42.000 As the golden stairs I climb 17:42.000 --> 17:49.000 Every bird has deaden by turn 17:49.000 --> 17:57.000 Every cloud is silver-lined 17:57.000 --> 18:04.000 Where the sun is always shining 18:04.000 --> 18:11.000 Where no tear will dip the eye 18:11.000 --> 18:19.000 At the ending of the rainbow 18:19.000 --> 18:26.000 Where the mountains just to stand 18:26.000 --> 18:34.000 Many things about tomorrow 18:34.000 --> 18:41.000 I don't seem to understand 18:41.000 --> 18:49.000 But I know who holds tomorrow 18:49.000 --> 18:56.000 And I know who holds my hand 18:56.000 --> 19:04.000 I don't know about tomorrow 19:04.000 --> 19:11.000 If you bring me poverty 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 But don't know why 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 The peace of sorrow 19:19.000 --> 19:23.000 Is the blood that's been 19:41.000 --> 19:48.000 I don't know what I'm doing 19:48.000 --> 19:53.000 But I know the love tomorrow 19:53.000 --> 19:58.000 I don't know what I'm doing 19:58.000 --> 20:03.000 But I know the love tomorrow 20:03.000 --> 20:08.000 I don't know about tomorrow 20:08.000 --> 20:13.000 I don't know what I'm doing 20:13.000 --> 20:18.000 But I know the love tomorrow 20:18.000 --> 20:23.000 I don't know what I'm doing 20:23.000 --> 20:28.000 But I know the love tomorrow 20:28.000 --> 20:33.000 I don't know what I'm doing 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 My Anchor Holds, page 134 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 My Anchor Holds 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 Page 134, My Anchor Holds 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Sing it out with us now on that first 20:53.000 --> 20:58.000 Oh, the angry surge has flowed 20:58.000 --> 21:03.000 On my trapped and driven soul 21:03.000 --> 21:07.000 I am peaceful for I know 21:07.000 --> 21:12.000 While they know the winds may blow 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 I'm an anchor, scrape and shore 21:16.000 --> 21:21.000 That can evermore endure 21:21.000 --> 21:25.000 And my Holds, my Anchor Holds 21:25.000 --> 21:30.000 Blow your wildest and own gale 21:30.000 --> 21:34.000 Off my bark so small and grim 21:34.000 --> 21:39.000 By His grace I shall not fail 21:39.000 --> 21:43.000 For my anchor holds 21:43.000 --> 21:47.000 My anchor holds 21:47.000 --> 21:48.000 Good, on the second 21:48.000 --> 21:52.000 Mighty tides, a mouth be sweet 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 Perils work within the deep 21:56.000 --> 22:01.000 Angry clouds will shade the sky 22:01.000 --> 22:05.000 And the tempest rises high 22:05.000 --> 22:09.000 Still I stand the tempest shock 22:09.000 --> 22:14.000 For my anchor grips the rock 22:14.000 --> 22:18.000 And it holds, my anchor holds 22:19.000 --> 22:23.000 Blow your wildest and own gale 22:23.000 --> 22:27.000 On my bark so small and grim 22:27.000 --> 22:32.000 By His grace I shall not fail 22:32.000 --> 22:36.000 For my anchor holds 22:36.000 --> 22:40.000 My anchor holds 22:40.000 --> 22:45.000 I can feel the anchor pass 22:45.000 --> 22:49.000 As I meet each shot in blast 22:49.000 --> 22:54.000 And the cable, though unseen 22:54.000 --> 22:58.000 Bears the heavy stream between 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 Through the storm I take the ride 23:02.000 --> 23:07.000 Till the turning of the tide 23:07.000 --> 23:11.000 And it holds, my anchor holds 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 Blow your wildest and own gale 23:15.000 --> 23:20.000 On my bark so small and grim 23:20.000 --> 23:24.000 By His grace I shall not fail 23:24.000 --> 23:28.000 For my anchor holds 23:28.000 --> 23:32.000 My anchor holds 23:32.000 --> 23:35.000 Strong on the last, troubles no 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 Must dwell the soul 23:38.000 --> 23:42.000 Reaps my millers or me roll 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 Tempt to seek to lure us stray 23:46.000 --> 23:51.000 The storms will skewer the night of day 23:51.000 --> 23:55.000 But in Christ I can't be bold 23:55.000 --> 23:59.000 I'm an anchor that shall hold 23:59.000 --> 24:04.000 And it holds, my anchor holds 24:04.000 --> 24:08.000 Blow your wildest and own gale 24:08.000 --> 24:13.000 On my bark so small and grim 24:13.000 --> 24:17.000 By His grace I shall not fail 24:17.000 --> 24:21.000 For my anchor holds 24:21.000 --> 24:26.000 My anchor holds 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 Amen. Great singing this evening. Let's all open up with a word of prayer. 24:30.000 --> 24:37.000 Heavenly Father, we thank you for Stepfast Baptist Church and all who came tonight to gather to worship you and to hear your word preached. 24:37.000 --> 24:43.000 I pray, Lord, that those who are having a hard week, that they be comforted and strengthened through your word tonight. 24:43.000 --> 24:47.000 And that you just bless the service, you bless the soul winning this week and the fellowship to come. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 We love you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 24:50.000 --> 24:55.000 Page number 396 will be our second song this evening. 24:55.000 --> 24:59.000 So Little Time, page 396. 24:59.000 --> 25:03.000 So Little Time. 25:07.000 --> 25:11.000 Page 396. 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 So Little Time. 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 Sing it out with us on that first. 25:17.000 --> 25:22.000 So little time, the hardest will be over 25:22.000 --> 25:27.000 Our reaping done, we rebirth taken home 25:27.000 --> 25:33.000 Report our word to Jesus, Lord of harvest 25:33.000 --> 25:39.000 And hope His smile in that hill say, well done 25:39.000 --> 25:45.000 Today we reap for this dark golden harvest 25:45.000 --> 25:51.000 Today is given us what's full to win 25:51.000 --> 25:57.000 Oh, then to save some dear ones from the burning 25:57.000 --> 26:03.000 Today we'll go to bring some sinner in 26:03.000 --> 26:09.000 How many times I should have strongly pleaded 26:09.000 --> 26:15.000 How often did I feel too strictly warned 26:15.000 --> 26:20.000 The Spirit moved, oh, had I pled for Jesus 26:20.000 --> 26:26.000 That the greatest problem lost once not reborn 26:26.000 --> 26:32.000 Today we reap for this dark golden harvest 26:32.000 --> 26:38.000 Today is given us what's full to win 26:38.000 --> 26:44.000 Oh, then to save some dear ones from the burning 26:44.000 --> 26:50.000 Today we'll go to bring some sinner in 26:50.000 --> 26:56.000 Despite the heat, the ceaseless toil, the hardship 26:56.000 --> 27:02.000 The broken heart, for those we cannot win 27:02.000 --> 27:08.000 Misunderstood because we're all peculiar 27:08.000 --> 27:13.000 Still no regrets, we'll have up for our sin 27:13.000 --> 27:19.000 Today we reap for this dark golden harvest 27:19.000 --> 27:25.000 Today is given us what's full to win 27:25.000 --> 27:31.000 Oh, then to save some dear ones from the burning 27:31.000 --> 27:37.000 Today we'll go to bring some sinner in 27:37.000 --> 27:42.000 A day of pleasure or a feast of friendship 27:42.000 --> 27:48.000 A house or car or garment spare or faint 27:48.000 --> 27:54.000 We'll all be trashed when souls are brought to heaven 27:54.000 --> 28:00.000 And then now sad to face the slackers' blame 28:00.000 --> 28:06.000 Today we reap for this dark golden harvest 28:06.000 --> 28:11.000 Today is given us what's full to win 28:11.000 --> 28:17.000 Oh, then to save some dear ones from the burning 28:17.000 --> 28:22.000 Today we'll go to bring some sinner in 28:22.000 --> 28:25.000 Strong at the last, the harvest wide 28:25.000 --> 28:29.000 With reapers few is wasting 28:29.000 --> 28:35.000 And many souls will die and never know 28:35.000 --> 28:41.000 The love of Christ, the joy of sin forgiven 28:41.000 --> 28:47.000 Oh, let us sing and love and pray and go 28:47.000 --> 28:53.000 Today we reap for this dark golden harvest 28:53.000 --> 28:59.000 Today is given us what's full to win 28:59.000 --> 29:04.000 Oh, then to save some dear ones from the burning 29:04.000 --> 29:11.000 Today we'll go to bring some sinner in 29:34.000 --> 29:40.000 On the inside we've got our service times, our soul winning times, and our stats below that as well. 29:40.000 --> 29:47.000 Just a reminder to continue to post your soul winning totals, emails into the group chat. 29:47.000 --> 29:50.000 We have our expecting mother list as well to be in prayer for. 29:50.000 --> 29:56.000 Some upcoming events. May 9th is the Mother's Day brunch that will be here at the church. 29:56.000 --> 30:01.000 And then we have May 15th through the 16th is the Red Hot Preaching Conference. 30:01.000 --> 30:04.000 And the pastor is going to be preaching for that. 30:04.000 --> 30:07.000 And so keep that in your prayers as he's traveling. 30:07.000 --> 30:11.000 And also just stay tuned so you can maybe check out that sermon. 30:11.000 --> 30:16.000 The anti-Israel conference is going to be May 20th through the 24th. 30:16.000 --> 30:19.000 And really excited, looking forward to that. 30:19.000 --> 30:24.000 Looking forward to trying to figure out how we're going to squeeze everybody into the auditorium. 30:24.000 --> 30:26.000 So it'll be a lot of fun. 30:26.000 --> 30:29.000 It's always a great time to host those conferences. 30:29.000 --> 30:32.000 And get to hear from some great preachers. 30:32.000 --> 30:35.000 The Europe Soul Winning Conference is June 17th through the 20th. 30:35.000 --> 30:39.000 Father's Day floats June 21st for Father's Day. 30:39.000 --> 30:44.000 And then we have the Fiji Missions Trip July 12th through the 18th. 30:44.000 --> 30:48.000 And then there's the Mesquite Soul Winning Marathon August 22nd. 30:48.000 --> 30:53.000 And then we're hosting a Missions Trip to Barbados September 7th through the 12th. 30:53.000 --> 31:01.000 There is a sign-up sheet, or rather a registry that you can sign up for on GodResource. 31:01.000 --> 31:04.000 There's a QR code that you can scan. 31:04.000 --> 31:06.000 Along with the anti-Israel conference as well. 31:06.000 --> 31:09.000 Just make sure that you are registering for that. 31:09.000 --> 31:11.000 I've already gotten many itineraries sent in. 31:11.000 --> 31:15.000 And so definitely make sure you get those tickets booked. 31:15.000 --> 31:22.000 If you have any questions about airports, just anything related to the Missions Trip, 31:22.000 --> 31:24.000 you can always see me and I can help you out with that. 31:24.000 --> 31:27.000 We have the Heritage of the Lord Conference October 9th through the 11th. 31:27.000 --> 31:30.000 Our annual Chili Cook Off October 31st. 31:30.000 --> 31:35.000 And then there's going to be a Faithful Word Preaching Bootcamp in November. 31:35.000 --> 31:38.000 Hosted by Faithful Word Baptist Church. 31:38.000 --> 31:45.000 And that will be a great opportunity for men to get better and fine tune their skills at preaching. 31:45.000 --> 31:48.000 On the back we have our prayer list. 31:48.000 --> 31:49.000 We'll go through that. 31:49.000 --> 31:52.000 We'll continue to pray for Brother Tony and his back. 31:52.000 --> 31:55.000 And just recovering and healing completely. 31:55.000 --> 31:59.000 Continue to pray for Brother Suhail's mother. 31:59.000 --> 32:01.000 Also Brother Billy Day's mother. 32:01.000 --> 32:04.000 And his son and some other family members there. 32:04.000 --> 32:09.000 We'll continue to pray for Brother Spurgeon for a job opportunity. 32:09.000 --> 32:14.000 Also for Brother Nick Connery's Brother Elliot. 32:14.000 --> 32:15.000 Recovering from surgery. 32:15.000 --> 32:19.000 And then we'll continue to pray for Brother Jameson as he's in the Philippines. 32:19.000 --> 32:26.000 And also I put in there to be in prayer for the Barbados Mission Strip that we would be able to get access to the schools. 32:26.000 --> 32:28.000 I'm trying really hard on that. 32:28.000 --> 32:35.000 Nothing set in stone just yet, but we do have a lot of lines in the water, if you will. 32:35.000 --> 32:38.000 So just continue to be in prayer that God would open some doors there. 32:38.000 --> 32:42.000 And then also continue to pray for the Larky's daughter, Miss Noel. 32:43.000 --> 32:45.000 I'll say a quick word of prayer. 32:45.000 --> 32:50.000 Devotee and Father, Lord, thank you for just allowing us to come and gather at this midweek service. 32:50.000 --> 32:51.000 Lord, hear from your word. 32:51.000 --> 32:56.000 God, to kind of get refreshed and rejuvenated for the remainder of the week. 32:56.000 --> 32:59.000 Lord, thank you for all the many blessings that you provide for us. 32:59.000 --> 33:01.000 All the souls that we've been able to get saved this year. 33:01.000 --> 33:04.000 And God, I pray that you continue to bless our efforts and soul winning. 33:04.000 --> 33:10.000 God, we pray for those that are here on this list that are in need of health prayers. 33:10.000 --> 33:13.000 Lord, I just pray that you would have your hand of protection upon them. 33:13.000 --> 33:18.000 Help them to get through these difficulties, these ailments that they're dealing with. 33:18.000 --> 33:21.000 Lord, help us to be a blessing when we can to them. 33:21.000 --> 33:25.000 And we're thankful for just all the things that you do for us. 33:25.000 --> 33:28.000 The many blessings that you give us. 33:28.000 --> 33:33.000 God, we're thankful for the ladies in our church that are pregnant and that are expecting. 33:33.000 --> 33:36.000 God, I pray that you would be with each one of them. 33:36.000 --> 33:40.000 And Lord, again, we're just thankful for your son and salvation through him. 33:40.000 --> 33:43.000 We pray these things in your son's name. Amen. 33:43.000 --> 33:51.000 Alright, we'll go to our next song for the evening in your Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. 33:51.000 --> 33:53.000 Psalm 150. 33:53.000 --> 33:56.000 I don't know why I can not receive it. 33:56.000 --> 34:00.000 Psalm 150 in your special book should be in front of you. 34:00.000 --> 34:02.000 Psalm 150. 34:06.000 --> 34:11.000 Psalm 150. 34:11.000 --> 34:14.000 Let's sing it out now on that verse. 34:14.000 --> 34:21.000 Praise be the Lord! Praise God in his thanks to where he prays. 34:21.000 --> 34:29.000 And in the firmament of his power praise him for his mighty acts. 34:29.000 --> 34:34.000 Praise him according to his excellent greatness. 34:34.000 --> 34:40.000 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. 34:40.000 --> 34:46.000 Praise him with the psaltery and heart. 34:46.000 --> 34:49.000 Praise him with the temporal index. 34:49.000 --> 34:54.000 Praise him with strength and serenity in the organ. 34:54.000 --> 35:00.000 Praise him upon the loud cymbals. 35:00.000 --> 35:06.000 Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 35:06.000 --> 35:11.000 Let everything that have breath praise the Lord. 35:11.000 --> 35:14.000 Praise he the Lord. 35:14.000 --> 35:17.000 Praise God the Father. 35:17.000 --> 35:21.000 Praise God the Son. 35:21.000 --> 35:26.000 Praise God the Holy Ghost. 35:26.000 --> 35:34.000 Praise God in three persons. 35:34.000 --> 35:36.000 Amen. Great singing this evening. 35:36.000 --> 35:38.000 At this time the offering plates will be passed around. 35:38.000 --> 35:43.000 You can turn your Bibles to fall along in the reading of God's word to Deuteronomy chapter 27. 35:43.000 --> 35:46.000 Deuteronomy chapter 27. 35:56.000 --> 35:58.000 Thank you. 36:26.000 --> 36:49.000 Deuteronomy chapter 27. 36:49.000 --> 36:51.000 The Bible reads. 37:19.000 --> 37:46.000 The Bible reads. 37:46.000 --> 38:11.000 The Bible reads. 38:11.000 --> 38:38.000 The Bible reads. 38:38.000 --> 39:05.000 The Bible reads. 39:05.000 --> 39:24.000 The Bible reads. 39:24.000 --> 39:40.000 The Bible reads. 39:40.000 --> 39:41.000 With that let us pray. 39:41.000 --> 39:43.000 Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. 39:43.000 --> 39:44.000 Thank you for allowing us to be in church. 39:44.000 --> 39:46.000 Thank you for this chapter of the Bible. 39:46.000 --> 39:47.000 Thank you for all the people that are getting saved. 39:47.000 --> 39:50.000 I pray that you bless Pastor Shelley, fill him with your Holy Spirit to preach unto us, 39:50.000 --> 39:53.000 help us to make changes in our lives to become better Christians. 39:53.000 --> 39:54.000 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 39:54.000 --> 39:55.000 Amen. 39:55.000 --> 39:56.000 Amen. 39:56.000 --> 40:00.000 Here in Deuteronomy 27 we're getting closer to the end of this particular book. 40:00.000 --> 40:06.000 The law is kind of wrapping up and giving the instructions for when they go into the promised land here. 40:06.000 --> 40:08.000 And Moses says here in verse 1, 40:08.000 --> 40:11.000 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying, 40:11.000 --> 40:13.000 Keep all the commandments which I command you this day, 40:13.000 --> 40:16.000 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan, 40:16.000 --> 40:19.000 And the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, 40:19.000 --> 40:23.000 That thou shalt set thee up great stones and plaster them with plaster, 40:23.000 --> 40:28.000 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law when thou art passed over, 40:28.000 --> 40:31.000 That thou mayest go in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, 40:31.000 --> 40:35.000 A land that floweth of milk and honey, as the Lord thy God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 40:35.000 --> 40:38.000 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, 40:38.000 --> 40:43.000 That ye shall set up these stones which I command you this day in Mount Ebal, 40:43.000 --> 40:46.000 And thou shalt plaster them with plaster, 40:46.000 --> 40:49.000 And there shalt thou build an altar under the Lord thy God, an altar of stones, 40:49.000 --> 40:53.000 Thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 40:53.000 --> 40:57.000 So they are to make altars of stones. 40:57.000 --> 41:06.000 They are to plaster them, but I believe it's specifically so that they can write the words of the law on these particular stones. 41:06.000 --> 41:08.000 But it does have a differentiation here. 41:08.000 --> 41:12.000 It says that they don't want any iron tool upon them. 41:12.000 --> 41:21.000 And I believe that you see a consistent theme that the altars that were set up in the Old Testament of stone were to not be of hewn stone. 41:21.000 --> 41:28.000 They didn't want to be crafted to where it looked like a stone that man had essentially put his works on it. 41:28.000 --> 41:33.000 And, you know, I believe that is specifically a spiritual understanding. 41:33.000 --> 41:39.000 Obviously, if you hew out stone and you make them all perfect and nice, they can stack really nice. 41:39.000 --> 41:41.000 They could look really pretty. 41:41.000 --> 41:48.000 But, you know, stones are typically rough, odd shapes, just kind of a rough looking structure. 41:48.000 --> 41:55.000 And I think the rough structure is to picture a spiritual aspect that we're picturing the sacrifice of God or the altar of God. 41:55.000 --> 41:58.000 And the ultimate picture is Jesus Christ dying on the cross. 41:58.000 --> 42:02.000 And it was not a beautiful picture. It was an ugly picture. It was a rough picture. 42:02.000 --> 42:08.000 And so, you know, when we think about the sacrifice of God, we want to look at the ugliness of the reality of it. 42:08.000 --> 42:15.000 And, you know, these rough stones are kind of picturing this aspect of that it wasn't a beautiful scene. 42:15.000 --> 42:21.000 It's not this ornate structure that just kind of this rough organic structure. 42:21.000 --> 42:28.000 And it's of God because the stones, of course, on the earth, you would look at them and this is stone looks the way it is or is the way it is because of God. 42:28.000 --> 42:35.000 God ordained natural processes and things that we see in our world, not from man, 42:35.000 --> 42:38.000 graving it and perfecting it and creating his own. 42:38.000 --> 42:43.000 The second way we could look at that is just how salvation itself is just not of man. 42:43.000 --> 42:48.000 Again, it's not of our works, but it's of faith in Jesus Christ. 42:48.000 --> 42:53.000 And so God doesn't want the sacrifice to be about man's work. It's about God. 42:53.000 --> 42:58.000 And so he doesn't want to lift up the tool upon it to add works. 42:58.000 --> 43:05.000 Of course, virtually every person in this world believes salvation is by faith and works. 43:05.000 --> 43:10.000 You know, I don't think there's really anybody that says it's works apart from faith. 43:10.000 --> 43:17.000 You know, so that's why sometimes when you go out and I'm talking to people, I'm like, hey, is it faith or faith and works? 43:17.000 --> 43:22.000 Because really, there isn't I don't think anybody that's like it's just only works. You don't even have to have faith. Right. 43:22.000 --> 43:25.000 Of course, they package in faith with the works. 43:25.000 --> 43:30.000 So it's like, OK, we have the stone. But then we're adding our works to it. 43:30.000 --> 43:34.000 But see, that would be rejected by God. You cannot have both. 43:34.000 --> 43:38.000 It's like, yeah, I acknowledge Jesus died on the cross, but it's also our works. 43:38.000 --> 43:42.000 It's also us taking our engraving tools and adding to it. 43:42.000 --> 43:46.000 Well, now it's a failure. Now it's going to be not received by the Lord. 43:46.000 --> 43:50.000 He's not going to have respect under your offering because that's not how you get into heaven. 43:50.000 --> 43:53.000 It's not faith plus its faith alone. 43:53.000 --> 44:01.000 And of course, this is just another picture of how God doesn't want them to simply put their mark on this particular stone. 44:01.000 --> 44:06.000 Man has no place in our salvation apart from receiving it. 44:06.000 --> 44:10.000 You know, we receive salvation by faith, but our mark is not on that. 44:10.000 --> 44:12.000 There's no glory for us to boast in. 44:12.000 --> 44:17.000 There's no works for us to add to. It's simply and wholly of Christ. 44:17.000 --> 44:23.000 If you think about what would happen for this to take place, you have a stone, right? 44:23.000 --> 44:28.000 In order for you to put your graving tool on it, what's going to happen? 44:28.000 --> 44:31.000 You're going to take some of the stone off, right? 44:31.000 --> 44:37.000 It's an odd shape, so you're going to take some of it off to take off the top and take off the sides. 44:37.000 --> 44:39.000 You make a nice little stone. But here's the thing. 44:39.000 --> 44:46.000 You're taking off some of the stone. When you add your works to the gospel, you're taking away from what Jesus Christ did. 44:46.000 --> 44:54.000 You have to remove Jesus to insert yourself and to try and polish it up and make it less about Christ and more about you. 44:54.000 --> 44:57.000 But no, it's wholly of Christ and none of you. 44:57.000 --> 45:07.000 And so that's why, in essence, we have to recognize these pictures are to illustrate spiritual truths and that we don't put our graving tool to the stone. 45:07.000 --> 45:14.000 We don't try to add our works to the gospel. We don't want to take off some of the rock, take away from what Jesus Christ did. 45:14.000 --> 45:18.000 And of course, the Bible will sometimes even allude to Jesus Christ as being that rock, right? 45:18.000 --> 45:21.000 Being that stone upon which our faith is built. 45:21.000 --> 45:26.000 He is that chief cornerstone. And it's not graven by man's device. 45:26.000 --> 45:30.000 It's not by man's effort. It's not by man's works. 45:30.000 --> 45:34.000 It's just simply us, you know, trusting what Christ did. 45:34.000 --> 45:41.000 The only thing that man had to do with that particular situation is that they crucified it, if anything. 45:41.000 --> 45:46.000 So, again, obviously, we take the stones and we put the altar there and we put the sacrifices on there. 45:46.000 --> 45:52.000 And that's what man did. Man put Christ on the cross and crucified him in his place. 45:52.000 --> 45:57.000 But it wasn't by our works that saved us. Our works killed him and slaughtered him. 45:57.000 --> 46:01.000 Our works did not save us or save him or save anyone. 46:01.000 --> 46:06.000 Our works don't do anything to help and aid in salvation or the sacrifice or the altar. 46:06.000 --> 46:11.000 So I believe that's why we see this particular illustration being there. 46:11.000 --> 46:16.000 Of course, the altar has the Word of God on it. And this could picture the law. 46:16.000 --> 46:22.000 So we think about what Christ did is he fulfilled the law. He was the sacrifice of the law. 46:22.000 --> 46:28.000 And he had to bear the curse of the law because at the end of the day, the law has a curse associated with it. 46:28.000 --> 46:33.000 That's a major component of this particular chapter. And the curse is to die and go to hell. 46:33.000 --> 46:37.000 If you break any of the commandments, you have now of the curse of the law upon you. 46:37.000 --> 46:41.000 You're under the law and you have to receive the punishment of the law, which is death and hell. 46:41.000 --> 46:50.000 And, of course, the sacrifices were to be slaughtered and then burnt on the altar as a picture of the death of Jesus Christ, him going to hell. 46:50.000 --> 46:52.000 But, of course, then we have the resurrection. 46:52.000 --> 46:58.000 Of course, they would also eat and then that would give them life as a picture of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 46:58.000 --> 47:05.000 So all these different little things that we think are just kind of random all have significant spiritual truths and elements to them. 47:05.000 --> 47:08.000 And these sacrifices are to point to Jesus Christ. 47:08.000 --> 47:10.000 Now it says here in verse 6, 47:22.000 --> 47:24.000 So again, this just adds to what we were talking about. 47:24.000 --> 47:26.000 There's two whole stones. 47:26.000 --> 47:32.000 So this is what we call the whole burnt offering in the sense that Jesus Christ was a whole offering. 47:32.000 --> 47:34.000 It wasn't just part of Jesus Christ. 47:34.000 --> 47:37.000 He truly died in every way, in every sense. 47:37.000 --> 47:42.000 Additionally, that Jesus Christ didn't pay for the sins of some people, but all people. 47:42.000 --> 47:45.000 He didn't pay for some sins. He paid for all sins. 47:45.000 --> 47:47.000 So we have the whole stone there. 47:47.000 --> 47:50.000 Of course, it's a peace offering. What is the peace? 47:50.000 --> 47:52.000 It gives us peace between God and man. 47:52.000 --> 47:57.000 The only way we have peace is through the Lord Jesus Christ, through his sacrifice, through his blood. 47:57.000 --> 48:01.000 And then we get life through this sacrifice by them eating. 48:01.000 --> 48:11.000 They get to rejoice in the Lord and by us receiving Jesus Christ and believing on him, we have rejoicing in our salvation and in the eternal life that God has given unto us. 48:11.000 --> 48:15.000 And so all of these elements are taking place in the sacrifice. 48:15.000 --> 48:16.000 Verse 8, 48:16.000 --> 48:21.000 I like that it's all the words. 48:21.000 --> 48:31.000 Notice again that any law that's broken, any sin would cause you to receive this consequence, receive this punishment. 48:31.000 --> 48:36.000 That's why the Bible says that not only murderers are deserving of hell, but even liars. 48:36.000 --> 48:40.000 All liars deserve the punishment of hell. 48:41.000 --> 48:47.000 There's many people that struggle with the concept or idea that any sin would cause someone to deserve hell. 48:47.000 --> 48:49.000 But that's the reality. That's what the Bible teaches. 48:49.000 --> 48:51.000 That is the true curse of the law. 48:51.000 --> 48:55.000 That isn't to say that some sins aren't worse than others. 48:55.000 --> 48:58.000 And of course, that's another heresy that people will come up with. 48:58.000 --> 49:04.000 Obviously, some sins are worse than others, but all sins take you to the same ultimate place, hell. 49:04.000 --> 49:09.000 While some sins may send you to the lowest parts of hell, you're still in hell, in the upper hell. 49:09.000 --> 49:10.000 It's not a great place. 49:10.000 --> 49:13.000 There's no paradise in the center of the earth. 49:13.000 --> 49:14.000 It's not hollow. 49:14.000 --> 49:16.000 You're not going to be annihilated. 49:16.000 --> 49:22.000 You will be simply burning for all of eternity, everlasting burnings. 49:22.000 --> 49:25.000 The Bible says where there worm, die not. 49:25.000 --> 49:31.000 So, you know, the word death is a really interesting word because it's basically a contextual word. 49:31.000 --> 49:35.000 In some senses, you could say death is just simply separation from body and spirit. 49:36.000 --> 49:40.000 Everyone will eventually go through that in a sense. 49:40.000 --> 49:41.000 I guess you could argue those raptured. 49:41.000 --> 49:44.000 They have a moment where they're at least changed. 49:44.000 --> 49:47.000 But even the saved will die at some point. 49:47.000 --> 49:50.000 And we will separate it from body, soul and spirit. 49:50.000 --> 49:52.000 The soul and spirit will be separated from the body. 49:52.000 --> 49:54.000 That could be a definition of death. 49:54.000 --> 49:58.000 Another definition of death is simply the idea of going to hell. 49:58.000 --> 50:04.000 The Bible often describes death as a state of being, hell being its location. 50:04.000 --> 50:10.000 Another aspect, though, would be simply what we would consider like an annihilation or a ceasing to exist. 50:10.000 --> 50:15.000 And in the context of the Bible saying their worm, die, if not, it's not saying that they're not in hell. 50:16.000 --> 50:19.000 It's saying that they will not cease to exist. 50:19.000 --> 50:23.000 They will remain an eternal conscious torment forever. 50:23.000 --> 50:27.000 The smoke of their torment, a synoth up forever and ever. 50:27.000 --> 50:29.000 It doesn't say the smoke of their ashes. 50:29.000 --> 50:31.000 It doesn't say the smoke of their destruction. 50:31.000 --> 50:33.000 It says the smoke of their torment. 50:33.000 --> 50:34.000 The smoke of their torment. 50:34.000 --> 50:37.000 There's going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 50:37.000 --> 50:39.000 It's everlasting destruction. 50:39.000 --> 50:44.000 That's the worst part about hell because you have to understand that everything about hell is the worst thing imaginable. 50:44.000 --> 50:48.000 God already decided what the worst punishment could possibly be. 50:48.000 --> 50:50.000 And that is hell. 50:50.000 --> 50:53.000 An eternal state of consciousness. 50:53.000 --> 51:00.000 An eternal state of suffering, of darkness, of weeping, gnashing of teeth, burning. 51:00.000 --> 51:05.000 Just just regret, remorse, no rest day or night. 51:05.000 --> 51:12.000 Just every element of possible torture and suffering and woe that could ever be realized. 51:12.000 --> 51:14.000 God has already designated that. 51:14.000 --> 51:24.000 And this is what just boggles my mind and just irritates me so much is when Christians will argue with me and say, God loves the people in hell. 51:27.000 --> 51:28.000 I'm not even joking. 51:28.000 --> 51:34.000 This is like a real thing where just tons of Christians will tell me God still loves them. 51:34.000 --> 51:36.000 God is loving them. 51:36.000 --> 51:40.000 It's they just want to be in hell so much. 51:40.000 --> 51:46.000 It's like I'm pretty sure we read about a guy in the Bible that's in hell and he doesn't want to be there. 51:46.000 --> 51:49.000 His name, it's the rich man, right? 51:49.000 --> 51:55.000 We just always think of like Lazarus, you know, alter ego or, you know, nemesis or something. 51:55.000 --> 52:02.000 But Lazarus, the poor guy, he was kind of the opposite of this rich guy in a particular story. 52:02.000 --> 52:06.000 And he fared sumptuously every single day. 52:06.000 --> 52:09.000 But then when he died, he lift up his eyes in hell. 52:09.000 --> 52:13.000 And the Bible says that he wanted to escape. 52:13.000 --> 52:15.000 He doesn't want to be there. 52:15.000 --> 52:16.000 He doesn't like the sufferings. 52:16.000 --> 52:18.000 He's wishing for water. 52:18.000 --> 52:20.000 He's not sitting here thinking like this is great. 52:20.000 --> 52:21.000 I love this. 52:21.000 --> 52:24.000 I can't I can't imagine life without this. 52:24.000 --> 52:25.000 No, he hates every moment of it. 52:25.000 --> 52:30.000 In fact, he even has a desire for other people just not even go there. 52:30.000 --> 52:35.000 Even just even if he can't escape, he doesn't want even other people to go there, 52:35.000 --> 52:39.000 which tells me that you're going to have some level of memory even in hell. 52:39.000 --> 52:42.000 I mean, he recognizes Lazarus. 52:42.000 --> 52:46.000 He even in some ways you could argue has supernatural revelation 52:46.000 --> 52:49.000 because he can automatically distinguish who Abraham is. 52:49.000 --> 52:54.000 He can just see Abraham, recognize Abraham, recognize his Lazarus. 52:54.000 --> 52:55.000 I don't know how this works. 52:55.000 --> 52:56.000 Maybe it was a miracle. 52:56.000 --> 52:57.000 I don't know. 52:57.000 --> 53:02.000 But in some way, in some vehicle, he was able to recognize Abraham. 53:02.000 --> 53:04.000 He remembers his brethren. 53:04.000 --> 53:07.000 He wishes for his brethren not to go there. 53:07.000 --> 53:11.000 And just the thought of them even going in hell is a level of punishment, 53:11.000 --> 53:14.000 is a level of suffering that hell entails. 53:14.000 --> 53:18.000 But for people to sit here and claim, no, God loves those people. 53:18.000 --> 53:19.000 It's just crazy. 53:19.000 --> 53:25.000 There's this over emphasis on the word love in non-denominational Christianity 53:25.000 --> 53:27.000 and in many forms of Christianity today 53:27.000 --> 53:32.000 where they just want to abstract God away from the word hate to the point of extremity. 53:32.000 --> 53:35.000 Whereas the Bible will clearly have God hating people. 53:35.000 --> 53:38.000 I mean, the Bible just says he's angry with the wicked every day. 53:38.000 --> 53:41.000 The Bible talks about how he hates the bloody and deceitful man 53:41.000 --> 53:43.000 or abhors the bloody and deceitful man. 53:43.000 --> 53:45.000 He hates the workers of iniquity. 53:45.000 --> 53:47.000 The Bible even says in the New Testament specifically, 53:47.000 --> 53:50.000 Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. 53:50.000 --> 53:51.000 How do they reconcile these verses? 53:51.000 --> 53:53.000 They just ignore them. 53:53.000 --> 53:56.000 They try to use weird ideas to excuse it. 53:56.000 --> 54:01.000 Look, the Bible says for God so loved with a D at the end. 54:01.000 --> 54:02.000 Loved. 54:02.000 --> 54:06.000 Loved because it stops at some point for some people. 54:06.000 --> 54:11.000 Unfortunately, the vast majority of creation it will have stopped for. 54:11.000 --> 54:16.000 Now, again, it doesn't stop in the sense that he did anything actively. 54:16.000 --> 54:19.000 It's just he will love them no more, as the Bible describes it 54:19.000 --> 54:23.000 in the sense that the love act was Jesus dying on the cross for them. 54:23.000 --> 54:26.000 And so he did love them at some point. 54:26.000 --> 54:30.000 God loved every single person at some point. 54:30.000 --> 54:32.000 But there is a point of rejection. 54:32.000 --> 54:36.000 There's a point of reprobation where people are no longer loved by God. 54:36.000 --> 54:40.000 And it can even happen before they die. 54:40.000 --> 54:43.000 The Bible teaches there are some people alive today 54:43.000 --> 54:45.000 that God has already given up on. 54:45.000 --> 54:47.000 He's given over. 54:47.000 --> 54:49.000 He's already reprobated. 54:49.000 --> 54:51.000 And they are destined for hell. 54:51.000 --> 54:53.000 That's why Jesus is even saying to the Pharisees, 54:53.000 --> 54:56.000 how can you escape the damnation of hell? 54:56.000 --> 54:58.000 That's why he's saying that they're sons of the devil. 54:58.000 --> 55:03.000 That's why he tells them that they're making people proselytes of hell. 55:03.000 --> 55:05.000 He calls them the child of hell. 55:05.000 --> 55:08.000 He's not saying this to try and get them saved. 55:08.000 --> 55:11.000 He's just recognizing they're already reprobate. 55:11.000 --> 55:15.000 The Bible is recognizing that there's some people in the book of Jude 55:15.000 --> 55:19.000 that are already damned, they're already condemned. 55:19.000 --> 55:21.000 They're going to go to hell. 55:21.000 --> 55:25.000 Of course, we have people taking out the Word of God 55:25.000 --> 55:27.000 as a warning in Revelation chapter 22. 55:27.000 --> 55:30.000 And he says, hey, they're taking their name out of the book of life. 55:30.000 --> 55:33.000 That they're just doomed, they're damned. 55:33.000 --> 55:35.000 It's over for them. 55:35.000 --> 55:38.000 God even tells Jeremiah and other prophets at times, 55:38.000 --> 55:40.000 just don't even pray for these people. 55:40.000 --> 55:46.000 There are certain people that are just cursed and doomed and damned to hell. 55:46.000 --> 55:48.000 And he does not love them anymore. 55:48.000 --> 55:49.000 He hates them. 55:49.000 --> 55:52.000 They will die and they will go to hell. 55:52.000 --> 55:56.000 We have to understand this is such an extreme punishment. 55:56.000 --> 55:58.000 This is an extreme punishment. 55:58.000 --> 56:00.000 But it's how God reacts. 56:00.000 --> 56:01.000 God is a God of extremes. 56:01.000 --> 56:03.000 There's heaven and there's hell. 56:03.000 --> 56:06.000 And the only way to satisfy that punishment 56:06.000 --> 56:08.000 was for someone else to take our place. 56:08.000 --> 56:09.000 And that's what Jesus did. 56:09.000 --> 56:12.000 And Jesus was forsaken of his own father. 56:12.000 --> 56:15.000 I heard somebody say, well, this is impossible. 56:15.000 --> 56:18.000 You couldn't have Jesus actually being forsaken by his own father. 56:18.000 --> 56:21.000 He's part of the Godhead. 56:21.000 --> 56:23.000 How can God die? 56:23.000 --> 56:25.000 How could one part of the Godhead, you know, 56:25.000 --> 56:27.000 forsake the other part of the Godhead? 56:27.000 --> 56:29.000 Well, that's Scripture. 56:29.000 --> 56:32.000 Sorry you don't like that version of the Trinity 56:32.000 --> 56:34.000 since you're a modalist or whatever. 56:34.000 --> 56:36.000 And again, this comes from Catholic thinking, 56:36.000 --> 56:40.000 Orthodox thinking, who they believe in divine simplicity. 56:40.000 --> 56:43.000 And therefore they believe that Jesus couldn't really die 56:43.000 --> 56:45.000 and he didn't really suffer. 56:45.000 --> 56:49.000 And that when he went to hell, he was just having like a, 56:49.000 --> 56:52.000 you know, just kind of a party, his own little party 56:52.000 --> 56:54.000 where he's just dancing around, just saying like, 56:54.000 --> 56:56.000 ha ha, I got you guys or whatever. 56:56.000 --> 56:58.000 I mean, I don't know. 56:58.000 --> 57:01.000 There's this doctrine called the harrowing of hell 57:01.000 --> 57:06.000 or this little harrowing of Hades, which is just hell, OK? 57:06.000 --> 57:09.000 Whereas just basically Jesus was just there preaching to people 57:09.000 --> 57:11.000 and rescuing people or whatever nonsense 57:11.000 --> 57:13.000 that they want to believe. 57:13.000 --> 57:15.000 No, no, Jesus was there suffering. 57:15.000 --> 57:17.000 Jesus was there suffering for us. 57:17.000 --> 57:19.000 That's why we have the burnt sacrifice. 57:19.000 --> 57:21.000 Sacrifice isn't enjoying that burning. 57:21.000 --> 57:23.000 It's dead, I get it. 57:23.000 --> 57:25.000 But it's not like having a good old time 57:25.000 --> 57:27.000 or something like that. 57:27.000 --> 57:29.000 And of course, the Bible talks about Jesus Christ, 57:29.000 --> 57:32.000 you know, saying the only thing that was giving him any hope 57:32.000 --> 57:34.000 is that he would not be left there. 57:34.000 --> 57:36.000 Not that he was sitting here like, oh, no big deal 57:36.000 --> 57:38.000 or I'm going to have a good time 57:38.000 --> 57:40.000 or this is kind of a quick fun trip or something like that. 57:40.000 --> 57:42.000 No, that he actually suffered for us. 57:42.000 --> 57:45.000 You know, in the parallel passage of Jonah, 57:45.000 --> 57:47.000 which Jesus brings up, he says, 57:47.000 --> 57:49.000 out of the belly of hell cried I. 57:49.000 --> 57:53.000 He's not saying like, you know, Jonah wasn't there. 57:53.000 --> 57:56.000 Jonah's in the belly of a whale. 57:56.000 --> 57:59.000 Jesus is in hell. 57:59.000 --> 58:01.000 And it says in mine affliction. 58:01.000 --> 58:04.000 He's not saying like, oh, I'm having such a good time. 58:04.000 --> 58:06.000 He's suffering. 58:06.000 --> 58:08.000 He's being afflicted. 58:08.000 --> 58:11.000 Acts chapter number two also talks about how 58:11.000 --> 58:14.000 he was suffering affliction and pain 58:14.000 --> 58:16.000 and that it was not relieved until he was resurrected. 58:16.000 --> 58:18.000 The resurrection is when, 58:18.000 --> 58:20.000 and then now death has no more dominion over him. 58:20.000 --> 58:24.000 Death has no more, he can no longer die. 58:24.000 --> 58:26.000 But how does that verse even make sense 58:26.000 --> 58:28.000 if he could never die in the first place? 58:28.000 --> 58:30.000 Death actually had dominion over him. 58:30.000 --> 58:32.000 And how could he be risen from the dead if he didn't die? 58:32.000 --> 58:35.000 And then if it wasn't God, then who was it? 58:35.000 --> 58:39.000 And then now it's like you just have these weird theological issues. 58:39.000 --> 58:42.000 Look, I get that there's not very many churches 58:42.000 --> 58:45.000 that want to teach that Jesus Christ died on the cross, 58:45.000 --> 58:48.000 went to hell, suffered and was risen again. 58:48.000 --> 58:50.000 But that's just what the text says. 58:50.000 --> 58:52.000 That's what the Bible teaches. 58:52.000 --> 58:57.000 When I preach the Gospel, I explain that every single time. 58:57.000 --> 59:02.000 And I mean almost never has anybody gotten mad at me about that. 59:02.000 --> 59:05.000 I can't even remember a time. 59:05.000 --> 59:08.000 But look, lots of churches, lots of pastors, lots of leaders, 59:08.000 --> 59:10.000 they will reject this doctrine. 59:10.000 --> 59:11.000 They get mad at this doctrine. 59:11.000 --> 59:13.000 They don't like this particular doctrine. 59:13.000 --> 59:17.000 But it goes to show, I mean, there's really a curse that comes from God. 59:17.000 --> 59:19.000 What is that curse? It's death and hell. 59:19.000 --> 59:23.000 And that was a payment that really had to be satisfied by Jesus. 59:23.000 --> 59:27.000 And if it really happened, why would I want to take away from it? 59:27.000 --> 59:30.000 They'll say, oh, well, it's not as emphasized as much as the cross. 59:30.000 --> 59:35.000 However, that just depends on the context upon which you're applying that standard 59:35.000 --> 59:38.000 because I could argue that there's way more burnt offerings in the Bible 59:38.000 --> 59:41.000 than there is mentions of the cross. 59:41.000 --> 59:46.000 There's far more mentions of the burnt offering than there is of the cross. 59:46.000 --> 59:48.000 Now, does that take away from the cross? 59:48.000 --> 59:52.000 No. Does the New Testament emphasize the cross more? 59:52.000 --> 59:54.000 Yes, I would argue that it does. 59:54.000 --> 59:56.000 And if someone emphasized the cross, I'm not mad at them. 59:56.000 --> 59:59.000 I'm not going to say that they're doing anything wrong. 59:59.000 --> 01:00:02.000 But to try and act like this is not taught in the Bible 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:07.000 or is not alluded to or doesn't have much relevance would be fallacious as well. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:10.000 The Old Testament sacrifices are a picture of the whole thing. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.000 And of course, these burnt offerings are a big picture of what Jesus Christ did for us. 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.000 And that's what gives us peace. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:21.000 What gives us peace is the whole package, not just one thing. 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.000 Jesus not only died, he went to hell. 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Not only did he go to hell, he rose again from the dead. 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:29.000 I mean, he says he has the keys of hell and of death. 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:31.000 Don't you think that's important? 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.000 How would he have the keys of hell and of death if he never went there? 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:36.000 If he only died on the cross? 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.000 If he died on the cross and immediately went to heaven 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:41.000 or immediately popped his eyes back open, 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:44.000 where does he get the keys of hell and of death? 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:47.000 And arguably, if he just popped his eyes open right again, 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:49.000 wouldn't people then say he never died? 01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.000 I mean, there's already people that say like maybe he didn't really die. 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000 I mean, there's that theory out there that's weird. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:57.000 It's like usually in the minds of atheists or something. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:01.000 But let alone if he just died and split second just woke up again, 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:04.000 people would say, oh, he never really died. 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:06.000 No, he was dead for three days and three nights. 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:10.000 To prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, he really died. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:12.000 And he really tasted death. 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:13.000 What does taste mean? 01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:14.000 It's like a short duration. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:18.000 He really experienced what true death is, which would be suffering in hell. 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:21.000 And because of that, we can have peace with God. 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:24.000 And God can be just for all of eternity. 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:25.000 He can say, you know what? 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:28.000 Someone took their place in hell and it was my son. 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.000 And he didn't deserve to go there so that we don't have to go there now. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:33.000 Now, let's keep reading. 01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:35.000 It says in verse number nine, 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.000 And Moses and the priests, the Levites spake unto Israel, 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:39.000 saying, Take heed and hearken, O Israel. 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:42.000 This day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.000 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.000 and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:49.000 And Moses charged the people the same day, 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.000 saying, These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:55.000 when you come over Jordan, Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, 01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:57.000 and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:01.000 And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal to curse Reuben, Gad, and Asher, 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:03.000 and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:06.000 Now, this is really interesting, but they stand on two mountains. 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.000 It's kind of like split one section of the mountain. 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:11.000 One section of tribe over here, another section over there. 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:13.000 One's supposed to be the blessing mountain, 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.000 the other one is the cursing mountain. 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:18.000 Some interesting anecdotes. 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.000 It's like you kind of look at the lists, 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.000 and it's kind of interesting because it's like one side kind of seems to be the side 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.000 that was blessed in general, 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:28.000 and the other side kind of seems to be the side that wasn't blessed in general. 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:31.000 I mean, if you were to try and just think about these tribes, 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:37.000 it's like, well, Judah is obviously the tribe that's going to give us the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:39.000 And it was blessed. 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.000 We see Benjamin specifically also gets to be a part of Judah. 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.000 We talk about the kings. 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.000 Well, first king comes from the tribe of Benjamin, King Saul. 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:54.000 Then, of course, you have the rest of the lineage coming from Judah afterwards. 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:55.000 You think about Levi. 01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:59.000 Levi is the Levitical priesthood where they're going to be, you know, 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:02.000 basically pursuing God, serving God. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:07.000 You look at the next list, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zabulun, Dan, and Nephla. 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:08.000 These are kind of the rougher tribes. 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:12.000 There's some of the tribes that typically go, you know, out. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:16.000 They just get scattered, diminished. 01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:19.000 They just go in, mix them with the heathen much quicker. 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:21.000 They're on the north side. 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.000 These other tribes are on the south side, 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:27.000 and they both kind of represent those particular things as well. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.000 There's a lot of parallels here, 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:33.000 but I guess, you know, what I kind of thought of is I also think about Genesis 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:36.000 because in Genesis, at the end of the book, 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:42.000 you have Jacob or Israel giving these like proclamations about all the tribes, 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:47.000 and he kind of just is forecasting and prophesying about what's going to happen to these tribes, 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:52.000 and he already basically dictates like, hey, Judah, you're going to be great, 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:56.000 and he talks bad about Reuben and how Reuben's going to be diminished 01:03:56.000 --> 01:04:02.000 and poorly, you know, execute things because he's going to be unstable as water 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:04.000 because he went under his father's couch. 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:05.000 There's all these different proclamations. 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:11.000 But what's interesting, again, when he gave that proclamation to right now, 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:14.000 we're talking 430 years, basically. 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.000 More or less, I get that there could have been a little bit of time that he was there 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:19.000 from the time he actually gave this declaration, 01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:22.000 but around 400-something years later, 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:26.000 plus I guess you could then add the other 40 on top that have been wandering in the wilderness. 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:28.000 So it's probably back to the 430. 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:31.000 It's probably somewhere around 450 years later or something, 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:34.000 or who knows what the exact timeline is, 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:39.000 but something like 450 years later, it's the same story. 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.000 Why? Because God's prophecies are always true. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:46.000 He can say 450 years before they're even a tribe, 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000 hey, y'all are going to be kind of a cursed people, 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.000 then they're going into the promised land, 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:53.000 and then yeah, they're kind of a cursed people. 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.000 Reuben especially is just not one of the better tribes. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.000 It's not used of God as much. 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:01.000 Now that's not to say there aren't some good characters 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.000 mixed in with these cursed tribes. 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:07.000 There are some people that come out of these that are used, 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:12.000 and again, I'm not saying that everybody in these tribes is bad or something, 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:16.000 but you kind of see the general blessing and cursing on these tribes. 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.000 One thing that I think is interesting about this is it almost just seems like, 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:26.000 it's almost like God grading on a curve a little bit or something, 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:30.000 because in the sense we have to understand that no one keeps the law perfectly. 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:33.000 There's not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sineth not. 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:36.000 And some essence is we're all going to fall short, 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:39.000 we're all going to sin, we're all going to make mistakes, 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:45.000 but it just seems like people, people groups, tribes, nations, 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:49.000 it's almost like they kind of are either on blessing mode or curse mode. 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:50.000 You kind of notice that? 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.000 And it's almost like these mountains, 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:54.000 it's like these tribes are kind of on blessing mode, 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:58.000 and these tribes are kind of on curse mode in general. 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:02.000 And again, that's why I think it's important to do the right thing 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.000 so you can stay kind of in blessing mode. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:07.000 Because at the end of the day, it's like why come to church? 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:09.000 Why go to church three times a week? 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:13.000 Look, it's not like we in this room don't sin. 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:18.000 It's not like people that don't go to church versus us don't sin or whatever. 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.000 It's not like we don't have problems. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.000 It's not like there isn't issues. 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.000 You know, some people say, oh, I don't go to church because of hypocrites. 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:28.000 Well, join the club because you're a hypocrite too and everybody's a hypocrite. 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:29.000 Okay? 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:31.000 At the end of the day, no one's perfect, no one's right, 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:36.000 but it just seems like people that are going to church three times a week, 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:40.000 reading the Bible, going so many, it's like they're kind of in blessed mode. 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.000 And people that get out of church and get backslidden and not whatever, 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:47.000 they're kind of on curse mode and a general observation. 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:51.000 Again, this is anecdotal, but it's like which mountain do you really want to stand on? 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:54.000 Do you want to stand on the mountain where God's basically pouring out His blessings, 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:57.000 or do you want to stand on the mountain where He's pouring out His cursings? 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:03.000 Now again, even in general, does that mean that everything is always working out for Judah? 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:05.000 Does that mean that everything always goes well for Judah 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:07.000 or they don't have problems or God doesn't deal with them? 01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:08.000 No. 01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:12.000 They still have problems, they still get dealt with, they still have issues. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.000 Does that mean that everything's only ever negative for the other side? 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:16.000 No. 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:21.000 And again, that's why some people try to justify their position. 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:29.000 They get backslidden out of church and they try to say like all the bad stuff happening to them is not because of that. 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:32.000 And then they'll be like, yeah, but what about this one good thing that happened or something? 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:37.000 And then it's just like they'll look at the other side and even though they're generally blessed, 01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:44.000 they'll point out, well, but look at this one bad thing that happened to you or look at this one setback or look at this one guy or whatever. 01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:45.000 And it's like, sure. 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.000 But sometimes we just have to look at the big picture. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:53.000 And when we just stand back, we just notice, hey, there's a bunch of people over here on Mount Gerizim 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.000 and they're just, I mean, just blessed in general. 01:07:56.000 --> 01:08:01.000 And then we're kind of looking at this mountain over here and they're just kind of like cursed in general. 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:04.000 And you say, well, that seems anecdotal. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:07.000 OK, well, but that's just reality. 01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:10.000 Let's just let's just play this game with anything. 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:14.000 Let's just play this game with like, I don't know, how about nations in the world? 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:19.000 You just kind of look at America and then you just kind of look at, I don't know, North Korea. 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:25.000 And you're just kind of like, hey, one of these these nations doesn't seem like the same. 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:27.000 You look at nations that have false religion. 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:28.000 You look at African nations. 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:30.000 You look at the Middle East. 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:33.000 You look at a lot of areas where they don't have biblical Christianity. 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:36.000 And it doesn't seem like they're standing on Mount Gerizim. 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:39.000 Seems like they're standing on Mount Ebal. 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:47.000 Now, does that mean that everything that happens in America, it's only blessing, only good, only positive, no negative? 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.000 There's no problems. 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:49.000 No, we're not saying that. 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:54.000 Are we saying that over here that nothing good ever happens in Africa or in these other parts of the world or blah, blah, blah? 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:56.000 No, no, no, not saying that either. 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.000 We're just trying to take the mountaintop view here. 01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:02.000 We're just trying to look and we're trying to observe. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.000 Hey, this mountain seems a lot better than this mountain. 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:12.000 And it's like Levi, Judah and Benjamin seem way better than Ruben and Dan and Naphtali. 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:18.000 And then people get really mad like, how dare you compare this mountain to that mountain? 01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:21.000 Or how how dare you compare this church to that church? 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:33.000 And it's just like, well, but if we look at the mountaintop view, you know, if we look at the Catholic Church, I don't put it in the Gerizim, you know, section. 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:35.000 The Catholic Church is in the Ebal for me. 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:37.000 They're cursed in general. 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:42.000 Now, does that mean there's never been a good thing that's ever happened to a Catholic or Catholics never done a good thing? 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:47.000 No, I'm not saying that we're just looking at the mountaintop view, folks. 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:56.000 And again, you look at Baptist, you look at independent fundamental Baptist, you look at King James only us, you look at people that are so winning, man, they're just standing on Mount Gerizim. 01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:05.000 And I get that some people say like, oh, these are logical fallacies or, you know, you know, it's interesting about logical fallacies is they can apply to anything you say ever. 01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:16.000 I even asked a I and it agreed with me and said, yes, technically you could apply a logical fallacy to literally every argument. 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:17.000 That's ever made. 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:21.000 Because at some point, they have some quote argument against everything. 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.000 All they're doing is just explaining what you're doing. 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.000 Doesn't mean it's bad. 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:28.000 One of the logical files they have is appeal to authority. 01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:34.000 So anytime you just quote the Bible, oh, that's a logical fallacy appeal to authority. 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:38.000 I mean, you could appeal to God himself and they'd be like logical fallacy appeal to God. 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.000 Well, couldn't God just be right? 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:43.000 Look, it's not a logical fallacy just to appeal to authority. 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:49.000 What we have to understand is that sometimes an argument may not be perfectly sound. 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:50.000 Right. 01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:53.000 Because I could say, hey, well, my dad said this. 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:56.000 Well, dad might not always be right. 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:57.000 So it could be flawed. 01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:03.000 The flaw is that just because dad said it doesn't mean it's always right. 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:04.000 But here's the thing. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:07.000 Appealing to God is always right. 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:12.000 So you can't use the appeal to authority argument and claim it's a logical fallacy. 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:13.000 But here's the thing. 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:16.000 Even if I appeal to dad, dad could be right. 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:17.000 Yeah. 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:21.000 They're like, oh, well, you're appealing to consensus. 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:24.000 Anytime you have a majority opinion, appeal to consensus. 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:26.000 Yeah, but the majority could just be right. 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:29.000 The majority of the world thinks the earth is round. 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:30.000 Sorry. 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:33.000 Oh, but that's a logical fallacy. 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:34.000 It's true. 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:35.000 OK, 2 plus 2 equals 4. 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:37.000 Well, it's appeal to consensus. 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:40.000 Appeal to authority of a calculator. 01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:41.000 Ah! 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:46.000 You know, these philosophical types, they just want to seem cool and just be like, oh, 01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:48.000 well, you know, that's a bad argument. 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.000 It's just like they just have an excuse for everything. 01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:57.000 Sometimes you have to just recognize that there can be anecdotal evidence. 01:11:57.000 --> 01:11:59.000 We can appeal to the truth. 01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:01.000 We can appeal to authority. 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:05.000 We don't get this mindset that you can't ever do these things. 01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:09.000 You can look at the mountaintop view and you can look, hey, these people are generally 01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:11.000 blessed and take notice of that. 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:13.000 Take the wisdom from that. 01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:18.000 Take notice of, hey, these tribes, God put on all the mountaintop blessing, well, they 01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:20.000 continue to be blessed through the rest of the Bible. 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:23.000 And the other group seems to be cursed from the Bible. 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.000 I guess I'm going to have to go back to the Bible. 01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:28.000 I guess God is trying to tell us something maybe. 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:30.000 You think God just did this randomly? 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.000 Oh, let's just put random six people over here, random six people over here. 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:35.000 No meaning, no purpose. 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:36.000 I included it in the Bible. 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:38.000 Moses is declaring it. 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:40.000 Just ignore all of it. 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:41.000 No, no, no. 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:43.000 It's in the Bible on purpose. 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:50.000 God wants you to look at things and say, wow, okay, these people are being more blessed 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:51.000 than those. 01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:53.000 Here's some reason why. 01:12:53.000 --> 01:13:00.000 Here's some real evidence of the fruit of their particular doctrine, their theology, 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:02.000 whatever they've got going on. 01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:04.000 I mean, you look at the Orthodox Church. 01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:07.000 Hey, I don't see the blessing of God on the Orthodox Church. 01:13:07.000 --> 01:13:10.000 The Orthodox Church is a geographic church. 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:14.000 I mean, unless you're pretty much in Greece or Russia or some other small little sliver 01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:17.000 over there, you're not going to be Orthodox. 01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:18.000 Why? 01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:20.000 Because it's a cult. 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:22.000 It's a cult that's geographic. 01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:26.000 It's not going to be compelling to people that are free thinking or critical thinking 01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:30.000 because the entire religion denounces critical thinking. 01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.000 It says, oh, how dare you actually read the Bible and actually think you could understand 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:36.000 what it says and actually recognize anything. 01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:38.000 That doesn't really help a nation. 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.000 That doesn't really help creativity. 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:45.000 And then, oh, yeah, they get taken over by communism, which doesn't allow you to think. 01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:47.000 Isn't that interesting? 01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:52.000 The Russian Orthodox Church gets dominated by communism in Russia. 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:57.000 Well, but that's just circumstantial. 01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:59.000 That Jews or whatever. 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:01.000 It's like, OK, but here's the thing. 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:05.000 Jews have infiltrated America and Jews have infiltrated Russia. 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:08.000 One got literal communism. 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:09.000 We haven't yet. 01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:11.000 That tells me we have a better resistance. 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:14.000 Maybe it's because our religion doesn't tell us to sit down, shut up, and just do 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:17.000 whatever they say no matter what. 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:18.000 Maybe that's why. 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:21.000 Maybe it's because like we literally threw the tea in the harbor. 01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:23.000 Maybe it's because we were like, hey, we want to have a constitution. 01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:27.000 Maybe it's because we were like, hey, the whole reason we're even here is to worship God. 01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:29.000 That's the whole reason we're here. 01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:32.000 And we're not going to just listen to whatever you have to say. 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:34.000 Now, again, does that mean that we don't have problems? 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:35.000 Yes, we have problems. 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:37.000 Does that mean that we don't have a Jew problem? 01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:39.000 Everyone has a Jew problem. 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:42.000 Didn't you know they're contrary to all men? 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:45.000 They're contrary to all men. 01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:48.000 That means it's not impressive for you to recognize the problem. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:50.000 To be a noticer is to be human. 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.000 OK, because that's what the Bible teaches. 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:59.000 But at the end of the day, it's like I'm still recognizing those groups being different. 01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:02.000 There's a reason why they're different. 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:06.000 We can't just sit here and just ignore the nose on someone's face. 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.000 We have to recognize, hey, this group is blessed. 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:10.000 This group is not. 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:12.000 This group has fruit. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:13.000 This group doesn't have fruit. 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:14.000 There's differences. 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:16.000 And God wants us to recognize that. 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:19.000 What was the fruit of the southern kingdom of Judah? 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:22.000 It's much better fruit than the kingdom of Israel. 01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:24.000 They create idolatry initially. 01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:29.000 Where does the Jerusalem even exist in the southern kingdom of Judah? 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:31.000 You know, that's not important. 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:35.000 It's not important that that's where God put his house is in Jerusalem. 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:38.000 He said every sacrifice and worship had to go there. 01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.000 That's where Jesus Christ literally is going to be killed. 01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:47.000 And and of course, the entire gospel message is going to be realized is in Jerusalem specifically. 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:49.000 Look, this is significant. 01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:54.000 And we don't want to ignore the mountains of evidence that we have in our life. 01:15:54.000 --> 01:16:03.000 When you have a mountain of evidence, just a mountain of history, just a mountain of information on one side that is proving blessing. 01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:07.000 And then you have a mountain of cursing, a mountain of evil, 01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:12.000 a mountain of destruction, and you're just ignoring both of the mountains. 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:17.000 And again, I'm just trying to say it seems like God a lot of times grading on a curve. 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.000 You know, it's like a switch. 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:21.000 You're on the you're on the blessing mode. 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:28.000 And then if you if you go too far, sometimes he's just like switch to the cursing mode. 01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.000 Because again, no one's perfect. 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.000 If it was based on being perfect, well, then we'd all live on curse mode. 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.000 But that's obviously not the case. 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:41.000 Obviously, God is just kind of like generally deciding, you know, is this pass, fail? 01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:42.000 Where are people at? 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:46.000 And, you know, for me, I want to be on bless mode. 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:51.000 And hey, the more you follow God's commandments, the better you're doing, the more you're going to be in bless mode. 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:54.000 The more you're breaking his commandments, the more you're going to be in curse mode. 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:55.000 I get it. 01:16:55.000 --> 01:17:00.000 But it just kind of seems like there's a general you're on a general mountain. 01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:02.000 And so why go to church? 01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:05.000 I don't know, because I want to stay on Mount Gerizim. 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:06.000 And I don't want to be on Mount Gerizim. 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:08.000 I want to be on the top of Mount Gerizim. 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:10.000 So I want to follow all the commandments. 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.000 I don't want to be close to leaving the mountain. 01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:13.000 Right. 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:15.000 But it's kind of like you're either on one mountain or the other. 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:18.000 And I just want to be on the right mountain. 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:20.000 OK, that's why I go to church. 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:21.000 That's why I want to still read my Bible. 01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:23.000 That's why I want to still go soul winning. 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:26.000 That's why I try to follow his commandments and so that God will continue to bless my life. 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:27.000 And isn't interesting. 01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:29.000 You keep the commandments. 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:31.000 It's not neutral. 01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:32.000 Keeping God's commandments is a neutral. 01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:33.000 It blesses you. 01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:35.000 It blesses you. 01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:36.000 Breaking his commandments. 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:37.000 It's not neutral. 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:38.000 It curses you. 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:40.000 There's no middle ground. 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:43.000 There's no like I kept the commandment and nothing happened. 01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:44.000 You keep the commandment. 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:45.000 You're blessed. 01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:47.000 You break the commandment. 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:48.000 You're cursed. 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:52.000 This is why I think it kind of helps you understand the point that I'm making. 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:54.000 Why does it seem like you're on one motor or not? 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:59.000 Well, when you're just keeping tons and tons of commandments, it's just like taking steps in this direction. 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:03.000 And even if you took one step back, well, you took 20 this way. 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:05.000 And then there's other people. 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:08.000 They're just like lying and stealing and railing or whatever. 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:11.000 And it's like I read my Bible today, though. 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:12.000 OK. 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:13.000 Yeah. 01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:18.000 But you're taking like so many steps this direction and you're just still stuck on curse mode. 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:19.000 Right. 01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:22.000 It's like, hey, I want to be like Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:27.000 I don't want to sit here and I don't want to be like, hey, I want to be like Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:31.000 I don't want to sit here and just be like, well, Sunday morning. 01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:35.000 Ah, not Sunday night, not Wednesday night. 01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:36.000 Lying. 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:37.000 Not reading my Bible. 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:39.000 Stealing. 01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:41.000 You're going in the wrong direction. 01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:45.000 And then you're going to be in the different mode because notice it's like doing right. 01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:49.000 Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, doing wrong, cursing, cursing, cursing. 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:52.000 Oh, well, that's just your opinion. 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:55.000 I'm just trying to tell you what this Bible, this chapter's meaning. 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.000 You can have your own opinion. 01:18:57.000 --> 01:19:00.000 I think some people are standing on Gerizim and some people are standing on Ebal. 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.000 You say, why go three times a week? 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:11.000 Because I want to stand as high as I can on Gerizim so that even when I take a couple steps back, I'm still on Mount Gerizim. 01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:17.000 And look, these are just general principles that I think the Bible is emphasizing, but that's what we see in our reality. 01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:19.000 That's what we see in our lives. 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:21.000 And he's like, why was America blessed by God? 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:27.000 Because I think it was taking more steps towards Gerizim than it was taking backwards. 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:31.000 Now, again, can we show examples of America taking bad steps? 01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:32.000 Yes. 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:34.000 Can we show examples of America not being perfect? 01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:35.000 Yes. 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:37.000 How about even churches themselves? 01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:39.000 Of course, no church is perfect. 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:45.000 And throughout history, people will look at churches and they're out there, but it's like the churches that were just taking lots of good steps, God was blessing. 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:49.000 And the churches taking horrific steps, God was cursing. 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:51.000 And again, this is just how life works. 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:54.000 This is how God seems to operate. 01:19:54.000 --> 01:19:56.000 Which mountain are you on? 01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:02.000 And, you know, maybe this could motivate you to say, you know, I want to keep I want to take I want to hike a little higher up the mountain today. 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:07.000 You know, the Bible says you reap what you sow. 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:09.000 What does that mean? 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:12.000 You are going to genuinely reap what you sow. 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:13.000 You take good steps. 01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:16.000 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:20.000 And hey, sometimes, you know, I've been hiking very seldom. 01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:25.000 Sometimes when you're hiking, especially when you get towards the top, there's not really a path anymore. 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:27.000 Who knows what I'm talking about? 01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:28.000 You're climbing a mountain. 01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:29.000 It's like a path. 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:30.000 And then all of a sudden, it's just rocks. 01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:32.000 And you're just like, OK, what do I do? 01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:36.000 Well, you could go up one way and then you kind of get bottlenecked. 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:38.000 It was just you just kind of not going to get there. 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:43.000 So you have to kind of you have to take a couple steps down and then go another way to maybe get up. 01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:49.000 So it's like, yeah, even when you take steps backward, that might still be God's plan for your life because he still wants to get you to the top. 01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:52.000 And look, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. 01:20:52.000 --> 01:20:59.000 I believe people have a sincere heart and love God, even though they fall, even though they make mistakes, even though sometimes they have to step backwards. 01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:04.000 God is still working with them and God is still with them every step of the way. 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:06.000 And they're still blessed in general. 01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:10.000 But those that are on Mount Ebal, none of their steps are blessed. 01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:12.000 None of their steps are going well. 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:20.000 They're easily going to slip, trip, fall and have horrible consequences for their rebellion and their wickedness. 01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:24.000 And you have to think about in your life, which mountain do you live on? 01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:26.000 Which mountain are you climbing? 01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:28.000 What are you doing your day? 01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:32.000 And it's important that we try to take as many good steps as we can. 01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:35.000 And God will bless us as we take those steps. 01:21:36.000 --> 01:21:38.000 He says in verse 14, 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:56.000 So kind of have this picture. 01:21:56.000 --> 01:22:00.000 It's like half of the children of Israel on one mountain, the other half on the other. 01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:02.000 The Levites speak. 01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:04.920 The Levites are the one to proclaim the law. 01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:08.340 They're the ones that tell everybody what's going on. 01:22:08.340 --> 01:22:12.840 But then notice it says, all the people shall answer and say, amen. 01:22:12.840 --> 01:22:17.580 Again, what is the Levitical priesthood kind of foreshadow or picture? 01:22:17.580 --> 01:22:20.280 It pictures the priests of God. 01:22:20.280 --> 01:22:23.100 It pictures those that are the servants of God. 01:22:23.100 --> 01:22:26.800 In the New Testament, we don't have a Levitical priesthood. 01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:29.220 We have the priesthood of Melchizedek. 01:22:29.700 --> 01:22:33.620 The Bible says in Revelation, and I believe in the priesthood of the believer, 01:22:33.620 --> 01:22:35.700 that we've been made priests unto God. 01:22:35.700 --> 01:22:38.500 So in a sense, while we're not a Levitical priest, 01:22:38.500 --> 01:22:42.500 and we don't have this exact same priesthood, 01:22:42.500 --> 01:22:46.820 I believe that in the New Testament, those that are saved are the priests of God. 01:22:46.820 --> 01:22:51.380 And so it's our job to declare God's word to the people. 01:22:51.380 --> 01:22:52.700 But this is what you have to understand. 01:22:52.700 --> 01:22:58.100 Regardless of if you're saved or not, God's word applies. 01:22:58.100 --> 01:23:01.420 There is not like God's word applies for only the saved. 01:23:01.420 --> 01:23:03.860 No, God's word applies to all man. 01:23:03.860 --> 01:23:06.500 And these curses apply to everyone. 01:23:06.500 --> 01:23:09.060 It's the priest's job to tell everybody about it. 01:23:09.060 --> 01:23:11.760 But it's everybody's responsibility to do it. 01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.220 It's everybody's responsibility to observe it. 01:23:14.220 --> 01:23:16.060 God is the God of the whole earth. 01:23:16.060 --> 01:23:20.900 That's why even Herod was held responsible for the law when John the 01:23:20.900 --> 01:23:24.900 Baptist had told him it was not lawful for him to have his brother's wife. 01:23:24.900 --> 01:23:26.300 Was that against Roman law? 01:23:26.300 --> 01:23:27.340 No. 01:23:27.340 --> 01:23:30.540 Was that against, you know, any kind of a custom or whatever? 01:23:30.540 --> 01:23:31.040 No, no, no. 01:23:31.040 --> 01:23:36.500 It was against God's law because God's law applies to Herod, 01:23:36.500 --> 01:23:40.340 whether he's a saved Christian or not, whether he's a Jew or not. 01:23:40.340 --> 01:23:43.860 I've had Christians tell me like, oh, well, if I live in the Old Testament, 01:23:43.860 --> 01:23:46.100 the Bible wouldn't apply to me because I'm not a Jew. 01:23:46.100 --> 01:23:48.900 No, no, no. The whole Bible applies to you, period. 01:23:48.900 --> 01:23:51.660 And if you weren't a Jew in the Old Testament, you know what you're supposed to do? 01:23:51.660 --> 01:23:56.580 Travel there, get circumcised as male and join a tribe. 01:23:56.580 --> 01:23:58.220 That's what you're supposed to do. 01:23:58.220 --> 01:23:59.340 Praise God in the New Testament. 01:23:59.340 --> 01:24:00.620 It's just like go to a church. 01:24:00.620 --> 01:24:03.900 You know, I've never circumcised anybody. 01:24:03.900 --> 01:24:04.860 All right. 01:24:04.860 --> 01:24:06.180 Nor would I ever want to. 01:24:06.180 --> 01:24:09.180 I mean, water baptism is great in comparison. 01:24:09.180 --> 01:24:14.460 I'd rather be done every service than have to be like circumcised as an adult. 01:24:14.460 --> 01:24:20.220 OK, so, you know, at the end of the day, you have to recognize that the New Testament is the better testament. 01:24:20.220 --> 01:24:25.220 But no matter what testament we're in, God's word applies to man. 01:24:25.220 --> 01:24:26.180 And God will hold. 01:24:26.180 --> 01:24:32.820 Look, God, how could God send someone to hell if the law didn't apply to every single person? 01:24:32.820 --> 01:24:34.100 What is he going to judge them by? 01:24:34.100 --> 01:24:35.540 What's the standard? 01:24:35.540 --> 01:24:37.220 The judgment is the law. 01:24:37.220 --> 01:24:42.700 The Bible even says in the book of Romans that the law is written on every single person's heart 01:24:42.700 --> 01:24:47.580 and that God is known by every single creature so that they are without excuse. 01:24:47.580 --> 01:24:50.740 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, 01:24:50.740 --> 01:24:55.580 being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal Godhead and his eternal power and Godhead, 01:24:55.580 --> 01:24:57.500 so they are without excuse. 01:24:57.500 --> 01:24:59.220 They are without excuse. 01:24:59.220 --> 01:25:01.100 There is no excuse. 01:25:01.100 --> 01:25:09.300 Every single person in India with some kind of idol has no excuse and is guilty before God. 01:25:09.300 --> 01:25:13.180 Every person in Africa with an idol is guilty before God. 01:25:13.180 --> 01:25:16.900 Every Catholic with all their idolatry is guilty before God. 01:25:16.900 --> 01:25:18.620 It does not matter if they're saved. 01:25:18.620 --> 01:25:20.020 It doesn't matter if they're Christian. 01:25:20.020 --> 01:25:20.820 It doesn't matter. 01:25:20.860 --> 01:25:27.700 And you know what? It's our job as the picture of Levites in the New Testament to tell them that 01:25:27.700 --> 01:25:32.660 and to say, hey, you guys over there with your idolatry, you're cursed. 01:25:32.660 --> 01:25:33.860 You're cursed. 01:25:33.860 --> 01:25:36.620 Catholics are cursed today with all their idolatry. 01:25:36.620 --> 01:25:37.700 It's wicked. 01:25:37.700 --> 01:25:39.180 It's pagan. 01:25:39.180 --> 01:25:40.740 It defaces God. 01:25:40.740 --> 01:25:42.180 It defames God. 01:25:42.180 --> 01:25:43.380 It's against God. 01:25:43.380 --> 01:25:44.740 It's Satanism. 01:25:44.740 --> 01:25:49.180 The Bible tells us in the New Testament that that which they sacrifice into idols, 01:25:49.180 --> 01:25:53.060 they sacrifice under devils is what they're doing. 01:25:53.060 --> 01:25:56.940 Don't sit here and act like, oh, well, they have an excuse or they don't know any better. 01:25:56.940 --> 01:25:57.780 No, no, no. 01:25:57.780 --> 01:25:59.900 It's written on every single person's heart. 01:25:59.900 --> 01:26:05.380 And it's our job to declare to them and tell them, hey, you're cursed for having all this idolatry. 01:26:05.380 --> 01:26:12.180 You know, would God America would get back to rejecting idolatry and removing idolatry from our 01:26:12.180 --> 01:26:14.420 lands and not allowing idolatry? 01:26:14.420 --> 01:26:18.220 Of course, false religions, Hinduism will bring in idolatry. 01:26:18.220 --> 01:26:22.460 We have Catholicism that's brought in all kinds of idolatry. 01:26:22.460 --> 01:26:23.540 And it's wicked. 01:26:23.540 --> 01:26:24.540 It's pagan. 01:26:24.540 --> 01:26:25.380 It's satanic. 01:26:25.380 --> 01:26:29.020 We should have nothing to do with it. 01:26:29.020 --> 01:26:30.980 God's bringing it up again. 01:26:30.980 --> 01:26:31.940 He's saying cursed to be any man. 01:26:31.940 --> 01:26:39.900 Notice this, that maketh any graven or molten image. 01:26:39.900 --> 01:26:44.500 Show me in verse 15 where it says worship. 01:26:44.500 --> 01:26:47.580 Show me in verse 15 where it says bow down. 01:26:47.580 --> 01:26:52.820 Show me in verse 15 where it says anything other than makes. 01:26:52.820 --> 01:26:56.060 It says curse it is the person that makes it. 01:26:56.060 --> 01:26:59.500 That tells me that we shouldn't even have it because there's some people that would try to 01:26:59.500 --> 01:27:03.540 excuse it and be like, well, as long as you're not bowing down or worshiping it or whatever. 01:27:03.540 --> 01:27:06.300 Look, I believe it's wrong to even make it. 01:27:06.300 --> 01:27:08.420 It's wrong to possess it, to have it. 01:27:08.420 --> 01:27:10.740 We should just have no graven images. 01:27:10.740 --> 01:27:12.900 We should just not have it at all. 01:27:12.900 --> 01:27:13.980 It's an abomination. 01:27:13.980 --> 01:27:14.980 God doesn't like it. 01:27:14.980 --> 01:27:17.860 God doesn't want it. 01:27:17.860 --> 01:27:22.940 And notice it says and put it in a secret place because they know like people shouldn't 01:27:22.940 --> 01:27:23.940 even have it. 01:27:23.940 --> 01:27:25.620 They have to hide it. 01:27:25.620 --> 01:27:32.020 Rachel takes the idols and she hides them because it's not something that is in the 01:27:32.020 --> 01:27:33.020 children of Israel. 01:27:33.020 --> 01:27:35.540 At least they would know like if you have this stuff, like you're going to be punished 01:27:35.540 --> 01:27:36.540 by God. 01:27:36.540 --> 01:27:37.380 It was evil. 01:27:37.380 --> 01:27:38.180 It was wicked. 01:27:38.180 --> 01:27:39.460 You can be put to death. 01:27:39.460 --> 01:27:42.420 So obviously it was kind of a hidden thing. 01:27:42.420 --> 01:27:46.780 Unfortunately today it's just out in the open in many cases, but that doesn't make 01:27:46.780 --> 01:27:47.780 it right. 01:27:47.780 --> 01:27:49.540 You know, why is it? 01:27:49.540 --> 01:27:52.180 Oh, well, culture thinks it's OK for us to possess it. 01:27:52.180 --> 01:27:53.620 So therefore now it's OK. 01:27:53.620 --> 01:27:54.620 I mean, think about it. 01:27:54.620 --> 01:27:56.340 It was so looked down upon. 01:27:56.340 --> 01:27:58.340 They weren't even allowed to have it in open. 01:27:58.340 --> 01:28:02.780 It was like God's bringing up like even if you had this in secret, like you're cursed. 01:28:02.780 --> 01:28:06.740 You're cursed of God because God can see everything. 01:28:06.740 --> 01:28:08.380 God knows everything. 01:28:08.380 --> 01:28:10.180 And even if your sin, think about this. 01:28:10.180 --> 01:28:14.900 If any of your sins harming no one else, God's still offended by it because there's 01:28:14.900 --> 01:28:18.780 these arguments out there that say, oh, well, what two people do in private doesn't harm 01:28:18.780 --> 01:28:19.780 anybody. 01:28:19.780 --> 01:28:20.780 Lies. 01:28:21.500 --> 01:28:26.380 What one person does in private that's potentially harming no person, God could still take offense 01:28:26.380 --> 01:28:29.580 and God could say, well, you're cursed anyways. 01:28:29.580 --> 01:28:34.220 I mean, because if you think about it, how is having a graven statue, you know, a little 01:28:34.220 --> 01:28:37.820 Emmy Award or something, a Tony or something hidden in your closet, how's that harming 01:28:37.820 --> 01:28:38.820 anybody? 01:28:39.540 --> 01:28:41.660 It's not, but you know, it's offensive to God. 01:28:41.660 --> 01:28:43.700 And so God wants you to destroy it. 01:28:43.700 --> 01:28:46.620 God doesn't want idolatry to exist. 01:28:46.620 --> 01:28:50.380 It has to be whenever they catch idolatry in the Bible, they just kill it. 01:28:50.380 --> 01:28:51.380 They'd be destroyed. 01:28:51.380 --> 01:28:55.460 I mean, when Moses comes down, he burns the golden calf and destroys it, grinds it in 01:28:55.460 --> 01:28:57.260 powder, puts it in the water. 01:28:58.260 --> 01:28:59.260 Not allowed to have it. 01:29:00.180 --> 01:29:04.020 And again, I think that that should be how we are as Baptists and as Christians. 01:29:04.020 --> 01:29:05.900 I don't even want any kind. 01:29:05.900 --> 01:29:08.060 I don't want to get close to this. 01:29:08.140 --> 01:29:11.820 You know, there's a lot of Christians who have like these graven images set up in their 01:29:11.820 --> 01:29:14.860 church for nativity scenes or other kinds of stuff. 01:29:14.860 --> 01:29:15.860 I don't want it. 01:29:16.700 --> 01:29:20.940 You know, they might inherit a church that had this kind of stuff, burn it. 01:29:20.940 --> 01:29:24.340 You know, I've heard I haven't seen it, but it seems like it happened. 01:29:24.340 --> 01:29:28.780 I guess they made a statue of Jack Hiles and put it at their church. 01:29:28.780 --> 01:29:31.260 That's wicked. Like, we should just burn it. 01:29:31.260 --> 01:29:32.940 And look, I love Jack Hiles. 01:29:32.940 --> 01:29:33.780 I love Pastor Hiles. 01:29:33.780 --> 01:29:35.220 I think he was a great pastor. 01:29:35.220 --> 01:29:37.540 I think he was greatly used of God. 01:29:37.540 --> 01:29:42.020 And again, to make it clear, Jack Hiles didn't say like, make me a statue or something. 01:29:42.020 --> 01:29:44.380 I don't even believe it ever happened in his lifetime. 01:29:44.380 --> 01:29:46.060 I think it was after the fact. 01:29:46.060 --> 01:29:47.060 You know what? 01:29:47.060 --> 01:29:51.460 We shouldn't be lifting up statues of man and praising man that way. 01:29:51.460 --> 01:29:52.740 It's inappropriate. 01:29:52.740 --> 01:29:54.940 It's unbiblical. It's ungodly. 01:29:54.940 --> 01:29:56.060 It should be condemned. 01:29:56.060 --> 01:29:57.140 It should be called out. 01:29:57.140 --> 01:30:01.340 And you know what? Why would you want to invite a curse on you and your church like that? 01:30:01.340 --> 01:30:03.820 Oh, we built this altar to Jack Hiles and then we got 01:30:05.220 --> 01:30:06.220 Jack's scop. 01:30:07.780 --> 01:30:08.780 Hmm. 01:30:09.460 --> 01:30:11.100 Do you think that was a blessing or a cursing? 01:30:12.580 --> 01:30:14.140 I mean, let's just look at their church. 01:30:14.140 --> 01:30:17.220 Let's just take the mountaintop view of that church. 01:30:17.220 --> 01:30:19.860 Have they been blessed or cursed since putting that idol up? 01:30:22.900 --> 01:30:26.540 Oh, well, that's anecdotal or, oh, that's subjective or that could happen to anybody. 01:30:26.540 --> 01:30:28.500 I mean, everything's a coincidence, right? 01:30:31.180 --> 01:30:35.020 Maybe you shouldn't make idols as a church. 01:30:35.020 --> 01:30:36.180 You know, idols are wrong. 01:30:36.180 --> 01:30:39.540 Idols are wicked, even if it's from a Baptist. 01:30:39.980 --> 01:30:42.100 Oh, well, but they're not worshiping it. 01:30:43.100 --> 01:30:44.500 It doesn't seem like it worked out. 01:30:46.100 --> 01:30:51.260 I mean, I'm just saying you got a church that's running like 15, 20 thousand people. 01:30:52.420 --> 01:30:54.540 And now it's running 1500 or whatever. 01:30:54.540 --> 01:30:56.940 I don't know what the number is. I mean, greatly diminished. 01:30:57.380 --> 01:31:00.500 They had a huge scandal with a horrific pastor coming in. 01:31:01.020 --> 01:31:03.660 Maybe there was a problem with the spirit in the heart of those people. 01:31:03.660 --> 01:31:08.100 And maybe God said, hey, this is too this too much of a bridge across for me. 01:31:08.420 --> 01:31:11.100 You've gone to the other side of the mountain. Bye. 01:31:13.380 --> 01:31:16.380 Because, look, I don't think that God just has to make churches get diminished 01:31:16.380 --> 01:31:19.540 or become small or not go well. 01:31:19.940 --> 01:31:23.620 But again, you raise up a graven image, graze up a graven statue. 01:31:24.900 --> 01:31:27.180 And you're just inviting God's curse on your life. 01:31:27.700 --> 01:31:29.540 I would never want that. 01:31:29.540 --> 01:31:31.980 I don't even think I go to a church that wants to do that. 01:31:32.380 --> 01:31:34.620 It's gross. It's weird. 01:31:34.620 --> 01:31:36.700 And I don't think that that's that's a blessing. 01:31:38.020 --> 01:31:41.980 Says here in verse 16, curse would be that said, light by his father, his mother. 01:31:42.580 --> 01:31:44.500 And all the people shall say, amen. 01:31:44.900 --> 01:31:48.300 I love this verse because, you know, we have verses that talk about honor 01:31:48.300 --> 01:31:51.620 the father and mother and cursing and striking your parents. 01:31:52.100 --> 01:31:56.140 But this this is like taking it to another level, just saying, just set a light. 01:31:57.580 --> 01:32:00.860 Now, what does it mean to make light of something? 01:32:02.020 --> 01:32:04.060 It's just to just not take it serious 01:32:04.940 --> 01:32:08.020 or to joke about it or to mock it in any kind of way. 01:32:08.420 --> 01:32:11.460 So just saying like not taking your parents seriously, 01:32:12.140 --> 01:32:17.660 not taking their advice seriously, not being sober about your parents 01:32:17.820 --> 01:32:22.180 and any way, disrespecting them, joking about them, making fun of them, 01:32:22.180 --> 01:32:23.580 going against them. 01:32:23.580 --> 01:32:26.180 What does the Bible say? You're cursed. 01:32:26.180 --> 01:32:29.860 You're inviting a curse on your life to go against your parents 01:32:29.980 --> 01:32:32.180 or taking your parents lightly. 01:32:32.180 --> 01:32:34.300 How about just the New Testament understanding of this 01:32:34.500 --> 01:32:37.940 in the sense of parents needing help or needing support from their children 01:32:38.140 --> 01:32:42.100 and them not taking it seriously and not actually helping their parents? 01:32:42.260 --> 01:32:46.060 You're inviting a curse on yourself when you're not going to take your parents 01:32:46.060 --> 01:32:50.420 seriously, take honoring your parents seriously, doing good on your parents. 01:32:50.740 --> 01:32:52.060 You're inviting a curse. 01:32:52.060 --> 01:32:56.700 And, you know, this Bible verse is really important for all societies to do well. 01:32:57.180 --> 01:32:59.940 When children don't honor their parents and are taking their parents, 01:33:00.300 --> 01:33:03.500 you know, unseriously or joking or making fun of them or not taking care of them, 01:33:03.820 --> 01:33:06.220 it crumbles society as a whole. 01:33:06.220 --> 01:33:07.260 It's very important. 01:33:07.260 --> 01:33:11.420 And again, a lot of these statutes are going to be devastating to the nation. 01:33:11.660 --> 01:33:13.180 Idolatry is going to ruin the nation. 01:33:13.180 --> 01:33:14.300 It's going to curse the nation. 01:33:14.300 --> 01:33:16.300 We talk about not taking your parents seriously. 01:33:16.300 --> 01:33:17.900 That's going to curse the nation. 01:33:17.900 --> 01:33:19.860 That's going to destroy the nation. 01:33:19.860 --> 01:33:21.900 We need to have no idolatry. 01:33:21.900 --> 01:33:24.740 We need children to actually, you know, take their parents 01:33:24.740 --> 01:33:26.940 seriously and their commandments seriously. 01:33:27.340 --> 01:33:30.460 And what I've noticed is that some people today's culture, 01:33:30.940 --> 01:33:33.580 what they like to do is they like to put this button out there 01:33:34.100 --> 01:33:36.900 where they can just ignore this verse. 01:33:36.900 --> 01:33:38.700 And this button is called abuse. 01:33:38.700 --> 01:33:40.980 They just they just hit this abuse button. 01:33:41.340 --> 01:33:44.780 OK. And and in their mind, as soon as they hit this, 01:33:44.900 --> 01:33:47.500 this verse is no longer applies to them. 01:33:47.500 --> 01:33:49.380 They just say, like, well, abuse. 01:33:49.380 --> 01:33:52.580 So therefore, I don't have to care about what my parents say. 01:33:52.820 --> 01:33:55.980 And when I when I use this word abuse, I want to make it clear 01:33:55.980 --> 01:33:59.820 that I'm trying to use the word that our modern culture would say 01:33:59.820 --> 01:34:03.300 when they say the word abuse, which means anything negative in any way. 01:34:04.740 --> 01:34:09.700 Because ultimately, our society throws this word abuse around. 01:34:09.900 --> 01:34:11.540 And why am I using it? 01:34:11.540 --> 01:34:14.020 Because the world will confuse you with this word all day long. 01:34:14.580 --> 01:34:20.380 They'll say, well, I was emotionally abandoned by my parents. Abuse. 01:34:21.180 --> 01:34:23.380 And it's like, what's emotional abandonment? 01:34:23.380 --> 01:34:25.300 They missed one of my soccer games. 01:34:26.860 --> 01:34:29.300 It's like, bro, that's not abuse. 01:34:29.300 --> 01:34:31.700 OK, they miss a soccer game or something like that. 01:34:32.020 --> 01:34:37.380 Or, well, I was playing video games and my dad told me to stop playing. 01:34:37.380 --> 01:34:41.260 And then he came in and he he took the cartridge out and threw it against the wall. 01:34:42.940 --> 01:34:46.260 Abuse. I'm not joking. 01:34:46.260 --> 01:34:47.740 This is real stuff. 01:34:47.740 --> 01:34:51.420 There was I think there was a kid that his dad took away his video games 01:34:51.420 --> 01:34:54.180 or tried to take his video and he killed his dad, 01:34:54.180 --> 01:34:57.500 really attacked his father and killed him because of video games. 01:34:59.580 --> 01:35:02.380 I mean, look, this is not abuse again. 01:35:03.660 --> 01:35:06.500 I want to go to go to numbers, chapter number 12, the numbers of 12. 01:35:08.380 --> 01:35:11.700 So, you know, there's a lot of stuff that's just biblical punishment, 01:35:12.420 --> 01:35:14.500 loving punishment. 01:35:14.820 --> 01:35:17.140 That was it will be classified as abuse today. 01:35:17.580 --> 01:35:22.540 And here's the thing, because of the strong sounding language of the word abuse, 01:35:23.100 --> 01:35:25.540 everybody just immediately agrees with them. 01:35:25.540 --> 01:35:27.700 Is it they're just like, how dare you talk about your parents? 01:35:27.700 --> 01:35:29.540 Well, I was abused. They're like, OK, then it's fine. 01:35:30.780 --> 01:35:36.100 And it's just like, well, no, that's not just a get out of honoring your parents 01:35:36.540 --> 01:35:38.620 free card. It's not like the word Corbin. 01:35:38.620 --> 01:35:40.580 You know, it used to be Corbin. 01:35:40.580 --> 01:35:41.940 Now it's abuse. 01:35:41.940 --> 01:35:44.900 OK, it's just like, well, it's abuse, man. 01:35:45.420 --> 01:35:46.980 You know, they would spank me. 01:35:46.980 --> 01:35:48.660 That's not abuse. 01:35:48.660 --> 01:35:51.180 Well, they told me no. That's not abuse. 01:35:51.580 --> 01:35:53.540 Well, they didn't give me as much money as I wanted. 01:35:53.540 --> 01:35:54.820 That's not abuse. 01:35:54.820 --> 01:36:00.060 Look, everybody is using this word so loosely today, and it's silly and infantile. 01:36:00.220 --> 01:36:03.620 And it's just a way to kind of excuse the fact they have to obey their parents. 01:36:04.900 --> 01:36:07.380 Now, in our current culture, in our current society, 01:36:07.380 --> 01:36:09.380 if you spit on someone, it's considered assault. 01:36:11.100 --> 01:36:13.180 So don't spit on people. All right. 01:36:13.180 --> 01:36:14.580 You can be arrested by the police. 01:36:14.580 --> 01:36:18.180 If you spit on someone, it can be you can be arrested for assault. 01:36:18.940 --> 01:36:21.860 OK, what if a dad spit on his daughter? 01:36:22.940 --> 01:36:24.860 She abuse. 01:36:24.860 --> 01:36:26.540 OK, but what does the Bible say? 01:36:26.540 --> 01:36:29.700 Numbers, chapter 12, verse 14, and the Lord said to Moses, 01:36:29.700 --> 01:36:34.620 if her father had but spit in her face, call CPS abuse away. 01:36:34.620 --> 01:36:36.100 No, it doesn't say that. 01:36:36.100 --> 01:36:38.780 It says, should she not be ashamed seven days? 01:36:39.340 --> 01:36:41.700 Let her be shut out from the camp seven days. 01:36:41.700 --> 01:36:43.820 And after that, let her be received in again. 01:36:44.060 --> 01:36:47.900 The Bible says that if a father spit in his daughter's face, 01:36:48.260 --> 01:36:50.500 the daughter is the one that's at fault. 01:36:51.220 --> 01:36:54.020 The daughter is the one that should be shamed and embarrassed 01:36:54.420 --> 01:36:59.220 for her dad having to do such a weird, grotesque thing to shame her. 01:37:00.540 --> 01:37:03.220 But, you know, at the end of the day, hey, what did God? 01:37:03.220 --> 01:37:07.580 We live in a society where dads will be willing to spit in their daughter's face 01:37:07.740 --> 01:37:10.940 for dressing like a whore, for whoring themselves out, 01:37:11.100 --> 01:37:15.860 for doing drugs and alcohol and bringing just a mint shame on the family name. 01:37:16.260 --> 01:37:20.660 But the day if a dad did so, they would say, oh, abuse, you poor little victim, 01:37:20.660 --> 01:37:24.340 you oh, you've been so mistreated. Oh, no, no, no. 01:37:24.540 --> 01:37:27.020 Curse would be the person that sets their parents light. 01:37:27.580 --> 01:37:29.980 It's light on their parents, father and mother. 01:37:30.460 --> 01:37:31.900 Curse would be women that are going out, 01:37:31.900 --> 01:37:34.260 whoring themselves and doing all this wicked stuff 01:37:34.580 --> 01:37:37.100 and making an embarrassment of their entire family. 01:37:37.580 --> 01:37:41.060 I mean, if in some cases, if you were a priest daughter specifically 01:37:41.060 --> 01:37:42.900 and you whored yourself out, it was the death penalty. 01:37:43.620 --> 01:37:45.580 Hey, we're the priests of the New Testament. 01:37:45.580 --> 01:37:50.100 How how dare a Christian daughter go out and whore herself? 01:37:50.980 --> 01:37:52.940 What kind of shame and embarrassment? 01:37:53.900 --> 01:37:55.780 You know, you should honor your father and your mother. 01:37:55.780 --> 01:37:59.620 And even if they did have to spit on your face, you know what? Take it. 01:38:01.420 --> 01:38:03.020 Go over to Proverbs, chapter 13. 01:38:03.020 --> 01:38:07.580 Now, look, I'm not saying dads go home and spit in your daughter's face. OK. 01:38:10.460 --> 01:38:15.180 Obviously, this would be an extreme situation, 01:38:15.500 --> 01:38:17.660 a rare circumstance. 01:38:17.900 --> 01:38:20.860 It would have to be something that was really egregious. 01:38:21.420 --> 01:38:25.180 But hey, you know, if if if some girl came up to me and was like, 01:38:25.420 --> 01:38:29.700 hey, I was wearing this hoarse outfit and I drank alcohol, my dad spit in my face. 01:38:29.820 --> 01:38:32.100 I'd be like, sounds like a great dad. 01:38:33.020 --> 01:38:37.020 You're not going to you're not going to get me to get mad at your dad. 01:38:37.380 --> 01:38:41.380 Now, obviously, if you're just like every day, my dad just spits in my face 01:38:41.380 --> 01:38:43.020 just for fun and laughs at me. 01:38:43.020 --> 01:38:45.260 I'd be like, well, that's really crappy to do. 01:38:45.260 --> 01:38:47.740 You know, sounds like a terrible dad. OK. 01:38:48.060 --> 01:38:49.540 So don't hear me wrong. 01:38:49.540 --> 01:38:52.100 I'm not trying to green light doing these kind of things. 01:38:52.100 --> 01:38:54.300 God's not green lighting these kind of things. 01:38:54.620 --> 01:38:56.940 But you know what? It was a legitimate punishment. 01:38:57.180 --> 01:38:59.900 If it's in response to some egregious act. 01:38:59.900 --> 01:39:01.820 Yeah, I think it's on the table. 01:39:01.820 --> 01:39:03.540 I think it's on the table. 01:39:03.540 --> 01:39:06.140 Why? Because God was using it as an illustration. 01:39:06.140 --> 01:39:08.580 God was using an example. Oh, that's Old Testament. 01:39:08.580 --> 01:39:09.140 Well, you know what? 01:39:09.140 --> 01:39:12.060 The Old Testament is my New Testament because first Corinthians, 01:39:12.060 --> 01:39:17.300 chapter number 10 says it's written for me, for my admonition and for my learning. 01:39:17.420 --> 01:39:19.220 And no, Jesus didn't die on the cross. 01:39:19.220 --> 01:39:21.740 So your dad can't spit in your face anymore. 01:39:22.540 --> 01:39:25.780 Silly. And the Bible talks about being punished. 01:39:25.820 --> 01:39:28.060 Proverbs 13, look at verse 24. 01:39:28.060 --> 01:39:30.540 He that spared his rod, hated the sun, 01:39:30.780 --> 01:39:32.940 but he that love of them chasing them at times. 01:39:32.940 --> 01:39:36.140 Oh, my dad always spanked me every time I disobeyed. 01:39:36.980 --> 01:39:39.540 Well, it's not abuse. Love. 01:39:40.740 --> 01:39:43.540 You say, man, I got away with stuff all the time. 01:39:44.100 --> 01:39:46.380 According to the Bible, that would be what? 01:39:47.140 --> 01:39:49.100 Him sparing his rod and hating his son. 01:39:50.300 --> 01:39:52.700 I'm not talking about things that are unawares. 01:39:52.700 --> 01:39:56.460 Obviously, we never can necessarily catch our kids in every sin. 01:39:56.980 --> 01:39:59.100 We never know every every circumstance. 01:39:59.100 --> 01:40:01.180 I'm not talking about times where your parents set you down and said, 01:40:01.180 --> 01:40:04.180 hey, you deserve this, but I'm going to show you mercy anyways. 01:40:04.500 --> 01:40:07.620 But I'm just saying parents that know they should discipline their kids 01:40:07.740 --> 01:40:10.980 and their kids defy their parents and the parents just say, 01:40:11.100 --> 01:40:12.500 I just don't want to deal with it. 01:40:12.500 --> 01:40:14.940 Well, the Bible says you hate your son. 01:40:14.940 --> 01:40:17.740 Even if you did it some, if you spared the rod, 01:40:17.900 --> 01:40:20.340 if you didn't do it every time, then you didn't love them. 01:40:20.620 --> 01:40:22.820 Yet many people will call this abuse again today. 01:40:23.140 --> 01:40:28.020 Our modern culture and modern society, which is just a feminized, 01:40:28.340 --> 01:40:33.980 psychoanalyzed group of weirdos, will try to say that any corporal punishment 01:40:34.260 --> 01:40:36.260 is somehow abuse. 01:40:36.460 --> 01:40:38.540 And you know what? I don't care what they have to say. 01:40:39.660 --> 01:40:43.500 A loving parent will spank his kids and will not spare the rod. 01:40:43.620 --> 01:40:45.740 He will chase into him the times. 01:40:46.700 --> 01:40:49.140 Look at Proverbs 23, verse 13. 01:40:49.140 --> 01:40:53.220 Oh, well, I get to, you know, disrespect my parents because they punished me. 01:40:53.540 --> 01:40:56.740 False. It's a one way street. 01:40:57.700 --> 01:41:00.100 Proverbs 23, look at verse 13. 01:41:00.100 --> 01:41:04.220 Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, 01:41:04.580 --> 01:41:06.420 he shall not die. 01:41:06.420 --> 01:41:10.900 Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell. 01:41:11.260 --> 01:41:13.700 You know, I just have to be honest, the language of the Bible 01:41:13.700 --> 01:41:15.780 doesn't sound real nice. 01:41:15.780 --> 01:41:17.980 It doesn't sound real kind. 01:41:17.980 --> 01:41:20.700 It sounds like there's an actual punishment being doled out. 01:41:21.060 --> 01:41:24.220 Now, again, I believe if you compare scripture to scripture, 01:41:24.420 --> 01:41:29.260 you can tell clearly that the punishment from a loving parent to a child 01:41:29.460 --> 01:41:32.780 would never do something to harm the child permanently, 01:41:33.180 --> 01:41:35.780 would never do something that would cause them any kind of negative 01:41:35.780 --> 01:41:37.700 consequence in the future. 01:41:37.700 --> 01:41:39.900 It's a temporary punishment. 01:41:40.060 --> 01:41:41.860 It's a temporary pain. 01:41:41.860 --> 01:41:44.300 It's not crossing any kind of weird lines. 01:41:44.500 --> 01:41:45.740 We get that. 01:41:45.740 --> 01:41:48.620 But at the end of the day, this is God ordained. 01:41:48.740 --> 01:41:49.820 It's not a suggestion. 01:41:49.820 --> 01:41:52.020 It's a commandment. Thou shalt beat him with the rod. 01:41:52.180 --> 01:41:55.260 The other way to Proverbs 29, verse 15, Proverbs 29, verse 15. 01:41:58.380 --> 01:42:01.420 The Bible says this, the rod and reproof give wisdom, 01:42:01.900 --> 01:42:06.020 but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. 01:42:06.540 --> 01:42:08.340 What is the Bible saying? 01:42:08.340 --> 01:42:11.300 Leniency is the problem. 01:42:11.500 --> 01:42:15.500 Sparing the rod and leaving them to themselves is the problem. 01:42:16.260 --> 01:42:17.940 So so here's the thing. 01:42:18.260 --> 01:42:20.420 Can you blame parents 01:42:20.740 --> 01:42:22.740 for their children's misbehavior? 01:42:23.020 --> 01:42:24.940 I would argue yes and no. 01:42:25.420 --> 01:42:26.620 Not always. 01:42:26.620 --> 01:42:30.220 But if you were to blame a parent, what would be the accusation? 01:42:30.620 --> 01:42:32.420 They were too lenient. 01:42:32.900 --> 01:42:36.940 They spared the rod and they left their children to themselves. 01:42:37.380 --> 01:42:39.940 Nowhere in the Bible does it teach, you know what? 01:42:39.940 --> 01:42:42.620 You punished it. You spanked your kid every time they disobeyed. 01:42:42.620 --> 01:42:44.060 Therefore, you're bad. 01:42:44.060 --> 01:42:46.260 That is not what the Bible teaches anywhere. 01:42:46.260 --> 01:42:48.740 You say, oh, well, you provoked your children in the wrath. 01:42:48.780 --> 01:42:52.740 Spank your kids for disciplining for disobeying is not going to provoke them to wrath. 01:42:52.740 --> 01:42:55.540 Disciplining them when they did nothing wrong, good. 01:42:56.060 --> 01:43:00.340 Only showing discipline and showing no love could provoke them under wrath. 01:43:00.340 --> 01:43:04.340 But disciplining your kids for disobeying is not going to provoke them to wrath. 01:43:04.340 --> 01:43:08.140 Disciplining them over the top when it doesn't match the crime. 01:43:08.140 --> 01:43:09.940 I think that could provoke them to wrath. 01:43:09.940 --> 01:43:13.540 Disciplining them appropriately, lovingly, according to the Bible, 01:43:13.540 --> 01:43:15.740 when they disobey is not going to provoke them to wrath. 01:43:15.740 --> 01:43:17.740 Disobeying is not going to provoke them to wrath. 01:43:17.740 --> 01:43:19.940 And we should not be afraid to follow God's commandment. 01:43:20.100 --> 01:43:22.300 In fact, we should be afraid to be too lenient. 01:43:22.300 --> 01:43:24.660 We should be afraid to spare the rod. 01:43:24.660 --> 01:43:27.140 We should be afraid to leave them to themselves. 01:43:27.860 --> 01:43:30.740 Now, here's the thing. A parent disciplines their kid appropriately 01:43:31.260 --> 01:43:35.340 and doesn't spare and isn't lenient and isn't leaving them to themselves 01:43:35.620 --> 01:43:36.860 and is still rebellious. 01:43:36.860 --> 01:43:38.260 Well, now that's the kids fault. 01:43:38.260 --> 01:43:39.820 Now that's the kid to blame. 01:43:39.820 --> 01:43:43.180 I can't blame the parent for that because the parent did what was right. 01:43:43.500 --> 01:43:47.300 And we're going to the child's going to bear the total responsibility. 01:43:47.740 --> 01:43:52.420 Regardless, everyone is going to bear their their sin no matter what. 01:43:54.300 --> 01:43:58.060 The parent could partly be in blame, though, because perhaps the child, 01:43:58.260 --> 01:44:01.700 if having given the rod enough and had not been left to himself, 01:44:02.100 --> 01:44:04.100 would have potentially obeyed. 01:44:04.100 --> 01:44:06.820 But we can't sit here and say, oh, this child is in rebellion 01:44:06.820 --> 01:44:09.260 because he was spanked, according to the Bible. 01:44:09.620 --> 01:44:11.620 That is a logical fallacy. 01:44:11.620 --> 01:44:13.340 It's unbiblical doctrine. 01:44:13.340 --> 01:44:15.500 And it's going to undermine the authority of parents. 01:44:16.100 --> 01:44:17.140 And we don't want that. 01:44:17.140 --> 01:44:19.420 And we want to set parents at light, 01:44:19.420 --> 01:44:21.860 whether that be our parents or any parents today. 01:44:22.140 --> 01:44:24.900 We want to make sure that, hey, you know, I also don't want to set light. 01:44:25.140 --> 01:44:29.380 God, the father, by saying, well, I know he said, don't spare the rod. 01:44:29.580 --> 01:44:31.860 But I think you should not spank teenagers. 01:44:34.980 --> 01:44:36.700 Well, I just think that you shouldn't do this. 01:44:36.700 --> 01:44:37.980 I just don't think you should punish. 01:44:37.980 --> 01:44:40.140 I think, well, who cares what you think? 01:44:41.140 --> 01:44:43.820 I care what God thinks and I care what God's word says. 01:44:44.060 --> 01:44:47.380 And look, whether a parent, how they discipline their kids is up to them. 01:44:47.420 --> 01:44:48.940 I'm not trying to get in your way. 01:44:48.940 --> 01:44:50.300 But you know what? Here's the thing. 01:44:50.300 --> 01:44:52.980 When someone's telling you not allowed to do something in the Bible, 01:44:52.980 --> 01:44:55.740 ordains you're setting at light God's opinion here. 01:44:56.900 --> 01:44:58.420 And how dare you cursed? 01:44:58.420 --> 01:45:01.980 You are cursed if you're going to sit here and go against God's word 01:45:01.980 --> 01:45:06.340 or set at light the father's opinion or go against your father in heaven 01:45:06.900 --> 01:45:08.980 or try to diminish from God's word. 01:45:09.100 --> 01:45:11.060 The Bible says we're not supposed to diminish a word. 01:45:11.060 --> 01:45:13.260 We're not supposed to add, not supposed to diminish. 01:45:13.580 --> 01:45:16.820 We're supposed to just keep it God's word, whatever God said. 01:45:17.740 --> 01:45:20.820 Well, you know, the first Peter chapter two now. 01:45:20.820 --> 01:45:23.740 I think I've made myself very clear on this point. 01:45:26.500 --> 01:45:28.820 Of course, somebody will twist anything I say. 01:45:29.260 --> 01:45:32.020 But what if a parent did go too far? 01:45:32.740 --> 01:45:34.140 What if a parent made a mistake? 01:45:34.140 --> 01:45:36.140 What if a parent did something wrong? 01:45:36.140 --> 01:45:38.660 You still don't set it like them. 01:45:39.700 --> 01:45:42.740 There's no button on the table says like now I can set it like my parents. 01:45:43.060 --> 01:45:44.860 Now I can curse my parents. 01:45:44.860 --> 01:45:46.420 Now I can strike my parents. 01:45:46.420 --> 01:45:50.460 Look, even if your parents were bad or did things that were wrong. 01:45:50.740 --> 01:45:53.020 You know what? Why don't you just take the bad and the wrong 01:45:53.020 --> 01:45:55.100 and move on with your life? 01:45:55.100 --> 01:45:57.780 You don't have to reciprocate evil for evil. 01:45:58.220 --> 01:46:01.260 That is an unbiblical, un-Christian attitude, and you will be cursed 01:46:01.260 --> 01:46:05.420 for your wrong. You just honor your parents, period. 01:46:05.980 --> 01:46:08.260 You just take them serious, period. 01:46:08.420 --> 01:46:10.940 You don't disrespect them, period. 01:46:10.940 --> 01:46:11.980 What does the Bible teach? 01:46:11.980 --> 01:46:14.660 Well, when you go to work, you're going to do the same thing to your boss. 01:46:15.100 --> 01:46:18.100 How much more your own parents? 01:46:18.100 --> 01:46:20.300 You think, oh, you think every boss is always perfect? 01:46:20.620 --> 01:46:23.940 Look at first Peter chapter two, verse 18. 01:46:23.940 --> 01:46:27.340 So servants be subject to your masters with all fear, 01:46:27.340 --> 01:46:32.180 not only to the good and gentle, but also to the foward, 01:46:32.420 --> 01:46:35.460 meaning that even if you have bad bosses, sometimes you just have to bite 01:46:35.460 --> 01:46:39.340 your tongue and just do it anyways and do what's right and give them their respect. 01:46:39.700 --> 01:46:42.180 And you know what? Even if your parents aren't perfect, make mistakes, 01:46:42.180 --> 01:46:46.860 are hypocrites, are lazy, or they go over the top or they yell 01:46:46.860 --> 01:46:49.180 or they scream or they do whatever. 01:46:49.260 --> 01:46:51.660 Hey, just obey anyways. 01:46:51.660 --> 01:46:56.300 Or maybe your parents got it wrong and they punished the wrong kid one time. 01:46:56.740 --> 01:46:59.500 It happens. Get over it. 01:46:59.500 --> 01:47:03.420 Hey, is every it doesn't say obey your parents when they're perfect, 01:47:03.420 --> 01:47:05.660 because then no one will obey. 01:47:05.660 --> 01:47:07.580 It says you just don't set them at light. 01:47:07.580 --> 01:47:09.980 You just honor them even if they were foward. 01:47:11.300 --> 01:47:12.820 Go to it back and we'll finish the chapter. 01:47:12.820 --> 01:47:15.620 I kind of emphasize that one, but I think it's an important one to emphasize, 01:47:16.620 --> 01:47:20.660 especially in today, an age culture where there's a lot of attack on parents, 01:47:20.980 --> 01:47:23.420 parental authority. 01:47:25.980 --> 01:47:30.500 It's going to destroy churches, homes, nations, states, countries, everything. 01:47:30.620 --> 01:47:34.100 And of course, it ultimately reflects on how our opinion is of God. 01:47:35.780 --> 01:47:39.140 We should never speak ill of God, go against God. 01:47:39.460 --> 01:47:41.660 Now, get he's a perfect parent. 01:47:41.660 --> 01:47:44.700 But at the end of the day, he gave authority to imperfect people. 01:47:44.900 --> 01:47:48.420 And he wants you to treat them like you would treat him. 01:47:48.420 --> 01:47:51.220 If a parent asks you to do something that's contrary to God, 01:47:51.220 --> 01:47:53.140 we ought to obey God rather than man. 01:47:53.140 --> 01:47:55.420 But that's really your only exception. 01:47:55.420 --> 01:47:58.380 Your only exception is to obey God over man. 01:47:58.540 --> 01:48:01.260 But you know what? Partly obeying God is still honoring your parents. 01:48:02.340 --> 01:48:04.340 And not setting it like your parents. 01:48:04.340 --> 01:48:07.100 Someone that's going out, cursing their parents, making light, 01:48:07.100 --> 01:48:09.260 attacking them, whatever is always wrong. 01:48:09.260 --> 01:48:11.060 And I'll never support it. 01:48:12.860 --> 01:48:14.500 Says here in verse number 17, 01:48:14.500 --> 01:48:18.220 cursed to be that removed his neighbor's landmark and all the people will say, 01:48:18.420 --> 01:48:21.820 Amen. We talked about that in another chapter. 01:48:21.820 --> 01:48:24.340 But again, a lot of these things are reminders. 01:48:24.660 --> 01:48:27.460 Cursed to be that make it the blind to wander out of the way. 01:48:27.900 --> 01:48:29.500 And all the people will say, Amen. 01:48:29.500 --> 01:48:31.380 You know, I think this could be thinking about church. 01:48:31.380 --> 01:48:34.460 How many churches are damning the lost? 01:48:34.460 --> 01:48:35.780 There's people that are lost. 01:48:35.780 --> 01:48:38.780 And with their false doctrine, they're causing them to go out of the way 01:48:38.780 --> 01:48:41.100 even further or to get lost even more. 01:48:41.540 --> 01:48:44.380 Cursed to be that perverted the judgment of the stranger, fatherless and widow. 01:48:44.540 --> 01:48:46.820 And all the people will say, Amen. 01:48:46.820 --> 01:48:50.140 Again, the Pharisees and the Sadducees love to take advantage of these people. 01:48:50.500 --> 01:48:52.580 A lot of false religions take advantage of the weak. 01:48:52.980 --> 01:48:55.900 The wolves love to prey on the weak. 01:48:55.940 --> 01:48:57.980 Says cursed to be that live with his father's wife 01:48:58.380 --> 01:49:00.540 because he has uncovered his father's skirt. 01:49:00.900 --> 01:49:02.260 And all the people still say, Amen. 01:49:02.260 --> 01:49:04.780 Hey, here's another verse telling you again, the wife's of what? 01:49:06.580 --> 01:49:07.500 Oh, a skirt. 01:49:07.500 --> 01:49:10.260 Oh, the Bible never you wears a skirt and pants. 01:49:10.420 --> 01:49:12.860 It's like, what's right here? 01:49:13.700 --> 01:49:16.020 It literally is calling a woman a skirt. 01:49:16.020 --> 01:49:19.580 Fact. He's not wearing a skirt. 01:49:19.860 --> 01:49:21.940 His wife's wearing the skirt, right? 01:49:21.940 --> 01:49:24.180 Cursed to be that life with any manner of beasts. 01:49:24.180 --> 01:49:26.420 And all the people still say, Amen. 01:49:27.460 --> 01:49:31.860 I would if you if your dad has a skirt and you wear it, you're also cursed. 01:49:31.860 --> 01:49:33.460 All right. I'm just going to say that. All right. 01:49:33.460 --> 01:49:35.940 We have to say that in America now. 01:49:35.940 --> 01:49:38.380 Curse me that lie to the sister, the daughter of his father 01:49:38.380 --> 01:49:40.380 or the daughter of his mother and all appeals to say, Amen. 01:49:41.140 --> 01:49:43.860 Curse would be that lie to his mother in law and all appeals to say, Amen. 01:49:44.100 --> 01:49:46.620 So and partly you could argue that, hey, genetically speaking, 01:49:46.620 --> 01:49:48.180 you shouldn't marry close of kin. 01:49:48.180 --> 01:49:51.140 But a mother in law is not necessarily someone that you should marry either, 01:49:51.420 --> 01:49:53.300 even though it's not a genetic argument. 01:49:53.300 --> 01:49:54.220 It's just perversion. 01:49:54.220 --> 01:49:56.140 And God doesn't want this kind of thing to happen. 01:49:56.380 --> 01:49:58.740 And so there should be some distance here. 01:49:58.940 --> 01:50:02.020 And you should not every relationship is the right relationship. 01:50:02.700 --> 01:50:05.220 Says here in verse number 24, 01:50:05.220 --> 01:50:07.700 cursed to be that smite of his neighbor secretly. 01:50:07.980 --> 01:50:09.540 And all the people still say, Amen. 01:50:09.540 --> 01:50:12.340 Again, you know, you could smite your neighbor 01:50:12.700 --> 01:50:16.100 if he broke into your house and he's trying to steal your stuff. 01:50:16.540 --> 01:50:17.740 And you could kill him. 01:50:17.740 --> 01:50:20.300 But the secretly is implying you're murdering him, killing him, 01:50:20.300 --> 01:50:21.740 doing something with Guile. 01:50:21.780 --> 01:50:25.100 Saying your curse would be that take of the reward to slain this person. 01:50:25.340 --> 01:50:26.820 And all appeals to say, Amen. 01:50:26.820 --> 01:50:28.500 Again, notice it's an innocent person. 01:50:28.500 --> 01:50:33.260 Obviously, the executioner for a state can get paid to do executions, 01:50:33.460 --> 01:50:36.220 but is not executing innocent persons. 01:50:36.500 --> 01:50:39.220 This will be talking about first degree homicide, murder, 01:50:39.500 --> 01:50:41.620 slaying people that are innocent. 01:50:41.620 --> 01:50:44.620 Oh, you mean like the nation of Israel 01:50:44.820 --> 01:50:47.220 slaughtering women and babies in Gaza? 01:50:48.740 --> 01:50:49.220 Hmm. 01:50:50.500 --> 01:50:51.180 How does that work? 01:50:51.180 --> 01:50:54.660 Oh, they're just blessed by God because Abraham. 01:50:55.140 --> 01:50:57.100 Aren't aren't all these people of Abraham? 01:50:58.500 --> 01:51:00.780 How is it that these people are of Abraham? 01:51:01.060 --> 01:51:03.660 And if they slay innocent people, they're cursed. 01:51:04.060 --> 01:51:06.660 How is it that half of these tribes are cursed? 01:51:06.900 --> 01:51:10.180 Yet today, I'm supposed to believe that the nation of Israel 01:51:10.180 --> 01:51:13.140 is just blessed no matter what. 01:51:13.140 --> 01:51:16.780 Hey, if they slay innocent people, they're cursed, period. 01:51:16.780 --> 01:51:17.620 Yeah. 01:51:18.620 --> 01:51:21.180 You know, it's sick how our world thinks today, 01:51:21.580 --> 01:51:23.900 sick how Zionism teaches lies today. 01:51:25.140 --> 01:51:26.900 Says here in verse 26, 01:51:26.900 --> 01:51:29.980 curse would be that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them 01:51:29.980 --> 01:51:31.820 and all the people to say, Amen. 01:51:31.820 --> 01:51:34.180 So Galatians chapter three brings this up. 01:51:34.500 --> 01:51:37.740 You break any commandment in the law, you're cursed. 01:51:38.180 --> 01:51:40.700 Again, contextually, how do we understand this? 01:51:41.620 --> 01:51:45.740 If you break any law, you're under the curse of the law, which is death and hell. 01:51:47.420 --> 01:51:49.180 Doesn't matter how many, just one. 01:51:49.180 --> 01:51:50.740 You're under the curse of the law. 01:51:50.740 --> 01:51:53.220 You have the wrath of God abiding on you. 01:51:53.220 --> 01:51:55.380 God is patiently enduring you. 01:51:55.980 --> 01:51:59.300 And if you get saved, well, then you're not under the curse of the law. 01:51:59.580 --> 01:52:01.940 You're going to be blessed. You have eternal life. 01:52:01.940 --> 01:52:03.940 If you never get saved, you never believe. 01:52:03.940 --> 01:52:06.620 Well, you're going to go to hell and suffer God's wrath for all of eternity. 01:52:07.420 --> 01:52:10.060 And you loved he's going to love you no more. 01:52:11.660 --> 01:52:15.780 Now, for the saved Christian, once we get saved, 01:52:15.940 --> 01:52:19.380 we're no longer under the curse of the law in the sense that we can't go to hell. 01:52:20.260 --> 01:52:23.260 But that does not mean that we can't be cursed in our lives 01:52:23.460 --> 01:52:25.620 and we can't be punished in our lives. 01:52:26.420 --> 01:52:29.620 And I believe that we have to understand these principles in their correlation. 01:52:29.620 --> 01:52:31.620 Some people believe, and I've heard this taught, 01:52:31.620 --> 01:52:33.820 that a Christian could never be cursed in any context. 01:52:34.460 --> 01:52:35.740 And I don't believe that. 01:52:35.740 --> 01:52:39.620 I believe that you can be cursed when you go too far. 01:52:39.660 --> 01:52:41.140 And you say, where is that? 01:52:41.140 --> 01:52:42.420 Again, I think that you have to look. 01:52:42.420 --> 01:52:43.860 It's kind of these mountains again. 01:52:43.900 --> 01:52:45.900 And that's why I emphasize that point for a long time. 01:52:46.300 --> 01:52:48.020 Obviously, none of us is perfect. 01:52:48.020 --> 01:52:51.780 I don't believe that, man, you just do one thing wrong. 01:52:52.020 --> 01:52:55.700 You miss one service or something and God's going to strike you dead. 01:52:56.020 --> 01:52:58.820 No, you're probably still on the mountain. 01:52:58.820 --> 01:53:01.300 But boy, I do not believe you can just start taking steps 01:53:01.300 --> 01:53:03.180 in the wrong direction forever. 01:53:03.180 --> 01:53:05.340 And you're not going to start having the curse of God in your life. 01:53:05.940 --> 01:53:10.180 I do not believe you can just get out of church and stop reading your Bible 01:53:10.180 --> 01:53:13.380 and stop going soul winning and just start lying 01:53:13.500 --> 01:53:16.980 and stealing and being wicked and drinking alcohol 01:53:17.060 --> 01:53:20.900 and committing fornication and committing adultery and doing drugs. 01:53:20.940 --> 01:53:23.140 And just just over and over just repeatedly. 01:53:23.180 --> 01:53:26.460 And there's going to be no punishment, no consequence, no curse in your life. 01:53:26.620 --> 01:53:28.740 No, I believe God can bring down the hammer in your life. 01:53:29.740 --> 01:53:33.420 That's why it's good to keep going to church and read your Bible and doing good. 01:53:33.580 --> 01:53:36.020 It's three to thrive. 01:53:36.700 --> 01:53:38.980 It's two to survive. 01:53:39.500 --> 01:53:41.420 It's one to backslide. 01:53:41.420 --> 01:53:42.180 Why do I say that? 01:53:42.180 --> 01:53:44.820 It's just an old adage that was handed down to me. 01:53:45.300 --> 01:53:46.260 I didn't come up with it. 01:53:46.260 --> 01:53:48.580 I heard it and I said, I like that. 01:53:48.580 --> 01:53:49.060 And you know what? 01:53:49.060 --> 01:53:51.900 Unfortunately, it seems generally true. 01:53:52.940 --> 01:53:57.540 Now, there's some people that come to our church once a week, Sunday morning, 01:53:57.940 --> 01:54:00.540 and they seem to have generally pretty good lives. 01:54:01.100 --> 01:54:03.380 You know, they're they're going soul winning occasionally. 01:54:03.580 --> 01:54:05.500 They come to church just once a week or whatever. 01:54:05.500 --> 01:54:07.900 So I'm not saying they're not on Mount Gerizim. 01:54:08.860 --> 01:54:09.900 But you know what? 01:54:09.900 --> 01:54:13.220 They're not that far from switching mountains either. 01:54:13.380 --> 01:54:15.860 And I just I just don't want to live on the edge. 01:54:16.580 --> 01:54:18.780 I just don't want to be at the base of the mountain. 01:54:19.140 --> 01:54:21.460 I want to be at the top of the mountain. 01:54:21.460 --> 01:54:24.540 OK, you just don't see people reading the Bible three times a week, 01:54:24.780 --> 01:54:27.420 going soul winning all the time and memorizing the scripture 01:54:27.580 --> 01:54:31.380 and just following all the commandments to the T, just like randomly, 01:54:31.380 --> 01:54:34.100 just trashing their life. 01:54:34.100 --> 01:54:38.740 But you do see people hanging on the edge, easily missing a few weeks 01:54:38.740 --> 01:54:40.820 and months and then getting backslidden, not really about it. 01:54:40.820 --> 01:54:42.540 And then they fade away. 01:54:42.540 --> 01:54:44.860 And then it's just a train wreck. 01:54:44.860 --> 01:54:48.500 I can't I mean, I emphasize this a lot, but I'm just telling you, 01:54:48.620 --> 01:54:51.020 I'm not saying that you can point to everyone literally, 01:54:51.020 --> 01:54:55.540 but I've just seen so many people just divorce and adultery 01:54:55.540 --> 01:55:00.340 and drugs and death and skin diseases no one's ever heard of. 01:55:00.340 --> 01:55:03.020 You know, just I mean, just all kinds of crazy stuff. 01:55:04.540 --> 01:55:07.300 And again, you say like, oh, well, that's anecdotal. 01:55:07.540 --> 01:55:09.540 Yeah. But again, I just take the mountaintop view. 01:55:11.500 --> 01:55:15.260 Take the mountaintop view in your life and just realize, hey, 01:55:15.260 --> 01:55:18.300 there's real blessings and real cursing to following God's commandments. 01:55:18.500 --> 01:55:20.580 It's really important. 01:55:20.580 --> 01:55:21.820 There's no neutral ground. 01:55:21.820 --> 01:55:23.700 Neutral ground doesn't exist. 01:55:23.700 --> 01:55:26.300 You're either taking steps in a good direction or you're taking steps 01:55:26.300 --> 01:55:27.460 in a bad direction. 01:55:27.460 --> 01:55:32.220 And let us try our best to take as many steps as we can in the right direction 01:55:32.660 --> 01:55:35.620 so that God can bless us the most that he can. 01:55:36.260 --> 01:55:37.700 It's closing prayer. 01:55:37.700 --> 01:55:41.220 Thank you, Father, so much for this great chapter, for these great illustrations. 01:55:41.220 --> 01:55:45.580 I pray that you would help us to greatly appreciate your commandments 01:55:45.580 --> 01:55:49.620 to not make the light of them, that we take them seriously. 01:55:50.020 --> 01:55:53.300 I pray that you would be gracious to us and that you'd be merciful to us 01:55:53.300 --> 01:55:55.460 and that you continue to bless us, even though we're not perfect. 01:55:55.740 --> 01:55:58.580 I pray that you'd help us to continue to take steps in the right direction. 01:55:59.060 --> 01:56:01.980 And I pray that you would just allow our church to be greatly blessed, 01:56:02.260 --> 01:56:04.540 to give you honor and glory in Jesus name we pray. Amen. 01:56:05.620 --> 01:56:10.620 Amen. 01:56:10.900 --> 01:56:13.900 Our last song this evening, page 37 in your hymn books. 01:56:14.540 --> 01:56:17.940 There will be no dark valley. 01:56:19.020 --> 01:56:22.340 Song number 37, there'll be no dark valley. 01:56:27.460 --> 01:56:31.420 Page 37, let's all sing it out now on the first. 01:56:32.060 --> 01:56:33.260 There'll be no 01:56:33.260 --> 01:56:46.260 No dark valley when Jesus comes. 01:56:46.260 --> 01:57:00.260 Together his love once more. 01:57:00.260 --> 01:57:19.260 There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes. 01:57:19.260 --> 01:57:24.260 No dark glorious sorrow when Jesus comes. 01:57:24.260 --> 01:57:37.260 Together his love once more. 01:57:37.260 --> 01:57:42.260 There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes. 01:57:42.260 --> 01:57:47.260 Together his love once more. 01:57:47.260 --> 01:57:56.260 There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes. 01:57:56.260 --> 01:58:01.260 But a blessed every weeping when Jesus comes. 01:58:01.260 --> 01:58:15.260 Together his love once more. 01:58:15.260 --> 01:58:20.260 There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes. 01:58:20.260 --> 01:58:24.260 Together his love once more. 01:58:24.260 --> 01:58:34.260 There'll be songs of weeping when Jesus comes. 01:58:34.260 --> 01:58:38.260 And a joyful weeping when Jesus comes. 01:58:38.260 --> 01:58:43.260 Together his love once more. 01:58:43.260 --> 01:58:52.260 Together his love once more. 01:58:52.260 --> 01:58:57.260 There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes. 01:58:57.260 --> 01:59:01.260 Together his love once more. 01:59:01.260 --> 01:59:04.260 Great singing, have a great evening, you're dismissed. 01:59:31.260 --> 01:59:33.260 Thank you for watching! 02:00:01.260 --> 02:00:03.260 Thank you for watching!