(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) died on calvary oh he washed my sins away he put within my heart a melody and i know it's there to stay in my heart there rings a melody there rings a melody with heaven's harmony in my heart there rings a melody there rings a melody of love to be my endless theme in glory with the angels i will sing to be a song with glorious harmony when the courts of heaven ring in my heart there rings a melody there rings a melody with heaven's harmony in my heart there rings a melody there rings a melody of love amen brother james would you pray for us amen next hymn it's going to be 130 yesterday today forever song 130 130 yesterday today forever sing it all together oh how sweet the glorious message simple faith may claim yesterday today forever jesus is the same still he loves to save the sinful heal the sick and lame cheer the mourner still the tempest glory to his name yesterday today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name he who pardoned a ring peter never needs a fear he that came to faithless thomas all thy doubt will clear he who let the love disciple on his bosom rest busy still with love as tender lean upon his breast yesterday today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name he who made the jing bellows walked upon the sea still can hush a wildest tempest as on galilee he who wept and prayed in anguish in gethsemane drinks with us each cup of trembling in our agony yesterday today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name as of old he walked and may us with them to abide so through all i sway he walketh ever near our side soon again shall we behold him hasten lord the day but will still be the same jesus as he went away yesterday today forever jesus is the same all may change but jesus never glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name all may change but jesus never glory to his name amen great singing good evening thank you so much for coming up here with baptist church if you don't already have a bulletin brother james has got one you can just lift your hand um on the inside we have our service and soul winning times as well as our church stats was there any soul winning that needed to be reported for the last few days that didn't already get counted as far as soul winning is concerned what about tonight what do we have we had four tonight praise the lord on that that's great and uh also on the right uh continue to pray for our expecting ladies and the urbanics respecting a girl apparently so congratulations to them on that um our upcoming events so we have a game night of the church from 6 p.m to 10 p.m on the 30th on october 6th of the 9th we have the heritage of the lord conference uh that's at steadfast october 31st we have their tux texas chili cook-off it's implied because we're in texas okay and then november 10th through the 12th we have the matamoros soul winning marathon trip um and if you'd like to participate in that we would love for you to go with us a great opportunity to go soul winning um also going to mexico but still stay stateside so it's kind of a nice uh trip a lot of fun we went last year it went really great every time we've gone down there uh it's gone really well we've also gone so winning too in reynosa and that's also a great area too but i really like matamoros uh the food was excellent as well um prayer requests continue to pray for the goodwin family for brother edwards health mr liberties family member catherine brother joel we're praying for first works baptist church and for rockio west healing so definitely a lot of people to be in prayer for we can go ahead and just say a quick word of prayer as a church family for those that are on our prayer list thank you heavenly father for giving us this opportunity to be meeting together to have church and have service i pray that you would bless our church family that's not able to be here this evening please help our various church members with their health requests give them healing give them comfort during their time of affliction please be with our friends that are not part of our church body here but our our brothers and sisters in christ please help them with their health and with their concerns please bless first works baptist church we just thank you for our church continue that to help us with our works here that we could give honor and glory to your son in jesus name we pray amen and uh as far as announcements that's pretty much all i have but we can go ahead and go to our third song 370 in our hymnals throw out the lifeline song 370 again that's 370 throw out the lifeline 370 is singing all together on the first throw out the lifeline across the dark wave there is a brother whom someone should save somebody's brother who then will dare to throw out the lifeline his peril to share throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today throw out the lifeline with hand quick and strong why do you tarry why linger so long see he is sinking oh hasten today and out with the lifeboat away then away throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today throw out the lifeline to danger front men sinking in anguish where you've never been winds of temptation and billows of wool will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today soon will the season of rescue be or soon will they drift to eternity shore hasten my brother no time for delay but throw out the lifeline and save them today throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is drifting away throw out the lifeline throw out the lifeline someone is sinking today amen great singing while offering plates being passed around please turn your bibles to esther chapter number eight esther chapter number eight as we always do we'll start off by reading the entire chapter if you flip your bible open right into the middle you'll find the book of psalms right before that you'll find joe and right before joe is the book of esther esther chapter eight the bible reads on that day did the king ahasuerus give the house of hayman the jews enemy unto esther the queen and mordecai came before the king for esther had told what he was unto her and the king took off his ring which he had taken from hayman and gave it unto mordecai and esther set mordecai over the house of hayman and esther spake yet again before the king and fell down at his feet and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of hayman the gagite and his device that he had devised against the jews then the king held the golden scepter toward esther so esther arose and stood before the king and said if it pleased the king and if i have found favor in his sight and the things seemed right before the king and i'd be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by hayman the son of hematatha the gagite which he wrote to destroy the jews which are in all the king's provinces for how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred then the king ahasuerus said unto esther the queen and to mordecai the jew behold i have given esther the house of hayman in him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his hand upon the jews write you also for the jews as it liketh you in the king's name and seal it with the king's ring for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring may no man reverse then where the king's scribes called at that time in the third month that is the month sivan on the three and 20th day thereof and it was written according to all that mordecai commanded unto the jews and to the lieutenants and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from india unto ethiopia and hundred twenty and seven provinces unto every province according to the writing thereof and unto every people after their language and to the jews according to their writing and according to their language and he wrote in the king ahasuerus name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by posts on horseback and riders on mules camels and young jama dairies where the king granted the jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a pray upon one day in all the provinces of king ahasuerus namely upon the 13th day of the 12th month which is the month adar the copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people and that all and that the jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies so the posts that rode upon the mules and camels went out being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment and the decree was given at sushan the palace and mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of sushan rejoiced and was glad the jews had light and gladness and joy and honor and in every province and in every city whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came the jews had joy and gladness a feast and a good day and many of the people in the land became jews for the fear of jews fell upon them all right so a word of prayer if you have any father we thank you for the bible i just pray you open up amen so we've been going to the book of esther and we're in chapter number eight one of the cool things about the book of esther is just kind of the general timeline that the book of esther follows in relation to the end times and how we kind of have this chronology that has constantly been following through and it's no different than when we get here to chapter number eight and really one of the cool things about the chronology of esther is it really seems to follow a almost seamless chronology of the end times and kind of what to anticipate and expect so just give you a little recap and then we're going to kind of go through this chapter chapter number one king of hasris rejects vasty and vasty kind of signifies or represents israel as a whole how they're rebellious to the lord and he put them away and he ends up getting a new wife that new wife is esther esther signifies christianity coming in and replacing vasty and yes we believe in replacement theology of this church it's taught everywhere in scripture so of course esther replaces vasty just like christians replaced the jews so the jews were god's people of the old testament but in the new testament it's no longer this division between jew and gentile but it's rather those that are saved versus the unsaved those who are the christians versus any other religion and we have esther kind of fulfilling that role later in the story we have mortic i uh rescuing the king and ends up getting kind of this vitriol from a guy named hayman hayman represents the anti-christ and the devil wanting to slay and kill specifically mortici but not only mortici really all of those people and that's kind of where we transition in the book of esther from historical into future when we kind of go from the idea of the gospel we kind of leads us into then later into the end times where the devil in the bible and the book of revelation is described as having great wrath he comes down to the earth has but a short time and because of this he persecutes the woman as the bible describes that woman is simply a reference to mankind now i'm going over this very fast so if you don't catch everything it's okay but i'm just kind of giving you a quick overview if you look at the end times and what we're anticipating there's supposed to be what's called daniel's 70th week it's a seven year period because a week is seven days so this is a seven year period that's why it's called daniel's 70th week there was already 69 that have happened in times past this particular set of seven years is signified by a lot of really in-time apocalyptic type events it gets kicks off with six seals so there's technically seven the first six kind of lead up to the return of christ and the essence of the first five are are like plagues and things you have the first four horsemen the fifth is this great period of tribulation and persecution that period of time is in my mind the description of this devil's wrath so the devil eventually is warring with the angels in heaven at some point in the future he's kicked out of heaven because he's been kicked out of heaven and he's very angry about it and knows he only has a little bit of time left he basically just unleashes his wrath on the world so that's where you kind of see those first seals being open is kind of a devil's wrath in essence of there's world war there's famine there's a lot of death there's a lot of this just evil and really just an attempt to kill all of mankind okay but the devil ends up failing as the bible describes even describes a vent called a flood that the earth ends up opening her mouth drinking in the flood waters and causing into where man in general is not killed so the devil then just targets into the remnant of her seed the remnant of the woman's seed this is more of a description of christians and that's where we kind of see that fifth seal so the first four is kind of like the devil killing mankind fails the fifth seal is where the devil is trying to kill christians and he ultimately fails because the sixth seal is christ returning and coming in the great clouds and before every christian can be killed he ends up rapturing those that are alive and remain under the coming of the lord okay now what does this have to do with esther okay well we have to realize that at the return of christ he then unleashes his wrath onto the anti-christ and under his kingdom now his kingdom is allowed to exist for 42 months so at the midpoint of this seven-year period the anti-christ is going to stand up and say that he is god in the flesh and by making this proclamation he's also going to demand the whole world take a mark in their hand or in the forehead and to worship the beast otherwise they can't buy or sell this is where is that fifth seal and that that horrible event that's happening this is kind of similar to hayman making a proclamation that all the jews are going to be killed and you know essentially they have the wrong religion and so they're all being targeted and he wants to slaughter them it's kind of the same picture of the devil going after the remnant of the woman seed is hayman going after the christians okay but what happens is when christ returns he pours out his wrath on the anti-christ defeats the anti-christ and the anti-christ is destroyed by the sword which proceeded out of the mouth of the lord that happens in revelation chapter 19 this is similar to how hayman all of his plans end up getting foiled esther basically reveals the plan and talks about it and then king ahasris declared declares that hayman should be hung and he's hung on the same gallows he prepared for jesus so we have the destruction of hayman is similar to the destruction of the anti-christ the anti-christ is destroyed at the end of this seven-year period what happens at the end of the seven-year period christ is on the earth and rules for a thousand years okay so as we start this chapter if you kind of think about this chronology where we ended we ended with the destruction of hayman so what would we kind of be entering into we'd be entering into a phase of the millennial reign of jesus christ which is what this chapter is actually going to symbolize is going to symbolize who's in charge mortice mortice is the one who's in charge mortice is kind of ruling and they're giving their decrees but we're not really done with the book of esther and we're also not done with the timeline of the end times and as we get into chapters nine and ten we'll kind of finish and conclude even further events but we've kind of seen this like perfect seamless end times chronology and that's going to constantly follow the the chapter tonight isn't going to necessarily just be a lot about the millennial reign but i just wanted to quickly kind of drag you through that i preached the whole sermon where it's kind of just the overview it's called the book of esther explained i don't know if it's out there still or not we'll try to get out there again eventually but if you can find it that's kind of more just end times focus and just a high overview of the book of esther tonight we're going to kind of dig in and kind of explore some more truths that come from the book of esther if you didn't understand anything i said well there's also you go to our website and there's an end times page and i i'm not sure if those links are broken either come see me at this earth but if you can watch those two sermons they talk about the end times and have a whole chart on there that kind of has all the different events and all the different verses in the bible and it kind of helps you think about these things as you find them in scripture so if you look here in verse number one it says on that day did king of azureus give the house of haman the jews enemy unto esther the queen and mortichai came before the king esther had told what he was under so what day it's the same day that mortichai was slain so mortichai is hung on the gallows on that same day esther and mortichai basically come into power and esther inherits haman's house now what is this picture well again because we're saved we get to inherit with the lord jesus christ and even though right now the world might be owned by george soros and bill gates and all these wicked jews that exist in the world today whenever christ returns all of that's going to be turned back over to us and then we get we get all of it we get to inherit it's now our house to inherit we have all those possessions and they're burning in hell for all of eternity so it's like the tables get completely flipped and completely turned and now esther has all of these possessions esther gets all of this great inheritance and it makes us think of a lot of verses in the bible that talk about our inheritance keep your finger go to matthew chapter number five go to matthew chapter number five and in fact in esther it said and the king took off his ring which he had taken from haman and gave it to mortichai and esther set mortichai over the house of haman so it's given to esther but then esther kind of gives it to jesus or gives it to mortichai in our symbol right that kind of makes me think of in the book of revelation it talks about the 24 elders how they're crowned but then they like throw their crowns before the lord because it's kind of like whatever inheritance or glory we get is so overshadowed by christ his glory and what he's done that we don't really want that honor we want to just give it unto jesus and bestow it on him so even though esther kind of gets this this semblance of the house he's giving it to mortichai and mortichai is the one who's really the ruler and and getting this kind of inheritance so again while we're going to inherit it's really christ that's inheriting this and we're just getting to ride his coattails you know we're getting to inherit because he's inheriting look at matthew five verse five this is what jesus said blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth so notice you know and this is a verse that joe's witnesses love obviously in the grand scheme of things we're not going to spend eternity in heaven we're going to spend it on the earth and so of course there is a lot of truth to some lies out there you know the joe's witnesses i don't want to go to heaven the meek will inherit the earth and it's like yeah but here's the problem if you die right now you're you don't have the option of earth your options are heaven or hell so it's like i pick heaven you know eventually yeah i'm going to come back with christ to the earth and we're going to inherit the earth and we're going to have possessions of the earth and we're going to live in the new heaven a new earth for all of eternity that sounds great sure but you know what right now if i died i want to go to heaven okay the only people that are staying with the earth are staying in the center it's called hell you know i don't want to inherit that part of the earth okay we want to inherit the top part you know the crust okay not what's going on in the center so of course the bible is true when it says blessed are the meek you know meek meekness is kind of being unassuming humble of a low opinion not going around and triumphing yourself or acting like you're of great importance that's what the wicked do that's what the unsaved you they're constantly they're naming all these streets after themselves and all these buildings after themselves and their countries after themselves and you know they're not very meek but guess what those of us in this church very meek uh you know worth and meek value and meek pride and everything like that you know we are going to be the ones that actually inherit all that we're going to be the ones that actually get all of that and so the meek are truly going to inherit all of these great possessions to be had in the future go back to psalms it's a little bit ahead of esther and we're going to see some other verses that kind of talk about this but we got to realize the inevitability of the future and how we will eventually inherit now our inheritance while it's guaranteed in christ that inheritance is not necessarily equitable in the sense that we're not all going to inherit the exact same you know that's why it's important to work that's why it's important to serve god because your inheritance is going to be manifested through your works in the sense of what however you spent this life is going to be observed for all of eternity and what inheritance you're going to receive later so it's like oh why serve christ or why go to church what i want a good inheritance you know i want to have the maximum of my inheritance the maximum glory that i can get why not also there's a lot of reasons to serve christ there's a lot of reasons to preach the gospel you know of course you don't want unsaved people to go to hell that's that's probably the best motivation number two though just be pleasing to god's sight but hey god adds on top of that just a reward system you know why not want rewards for yourself why not try to earn some kind of inheritance or something that you can have now in psalm 37 if you look at verse number 10 the bible says for yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be but the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace you know what i like about verse 10 it says yea thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be it's like we're gonna go and try to find hollywood hills and we won't be able to find it it just won't even be there you know just one is like didn't somebody you know didn't like somebody own this it wasn't this like really famous it's like i don't know it's not here anymore you know gone the wicked are just gone the wicked the memory of them shall rot as the bible describes and something that rot means it's gonna fade and crumble to the point where you can't even remember it doesn't even matter and we've observed this today we observe this today in the sense that you know 200 years ago everyone owned something everything that's owned today was owned by someone else no one today is 200 years old so that means if we go back fast forward 200 years ago everything every piece of property every square inch of this earth was owned by someone else and frankly speaking none of us even care about who the previous owner was you know if you own a home most likely you're not the person that built it who in here built their own home and lives in it today okay how much do you care about who owned it in the past or who owned it before them i mean sometimes you look at a house and it's like you're the sixth owner or you could be the seventh owner right or maybe you're renting and frankly speaking do you even care about the previous owner than the current owner like you don't even know you don't even care if it wasn't for tax records none of us would know none of us would care whatsoever and of course if we go back even just a few hundred years it was probably some indian that owned it you know or really it was an indians donkey or something that just sat and squatted on it i mean if you look at pictures of dallas or houston or any of these places a couple hundred years ago nothing all dirt it's all just trees and cactus and whatever i mean it's just a nothing it's like who owned this probably no one it was just like it was just land right i mean they were giving away land like nothing back in 1800s in the state of texas because they just someone just came here like i'm going to sell you this it's like nobody even knows who owned it okay go back 500 years who owned texas texas wasn't even a thing we have the imaginary lines now called texas and praise god for it okay i'm not just i'm not mad at the lines but i'm just telling you let's go back 500 years and and try to find texas you wouldn't even know what you were looking at you'd be like looks the same as new mexico over here and it looks the same as oh louisiana over here and it looks the same as oklahoma i mean go find all these borders and all these different edges and where all these landmarks are go try to find your specific property 500 years ago thousand years ago two thousand years ago five thousand years ago i mean it's just radically changing all of the time but here's a consistent theme the memory of the wicked is rotten it's gotten to the point where we don't care no one knows who owned it no one it doesn't matter what's up it doesn't matter how many pharaohs owned egypt now it's owned by muslims you know it doesn't matter who what catholic monarch owned what in europe because basically now it's all owned by jews you know it doesn't really matter what happened in times past because it doesn't matter the mongolian empire because now it's all other different groups of people and i mean it just isn't ever evolving ever changing ownership structure but what one thing's just inevitable all of it's just going to rot all the memory of it all of the thought of it it just doesn't matter whatsoever the only inheritance that matters is the one that's going to come with christ and it's going to be a permanent inheritance that memory is not going to rock that real estate is going to be locked in settled you know it's not a time share okay it's permanent i mean this is your inheritance this is something that you're going to get for permanency and and i love the fact that the bible is telling us you know all of this stuff that we think about today we're not even gonna find it and we're gonna get it and we're gonna light ourselves in the abundance of peace man we're gonna just love peace and you gotta think about this as awful as our world is it just is gonna help us appreciate peace so much more right aren't you i mean you're gonna you're gonna just we just love no taxes we're gonna love no inflation we're just gonna love peace we're gonna love all of the things that we get to have why because of how horrible this is you know how bad and evil and wicked our society is is gonna allow us to appreciate heaven and the new earth and all of these different things so much more look at verse number 23 skip down the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and delighted in his way though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the lord upholdeth him with his hand i have been young and now i'm old yet have i not seen the righteous forsaken nor a seed begging bread he is ever merciful and linda and his seed is blessed depart from evil and do good and dwell forevermore for the lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not as saints they are preserved forever but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever the mouth of the righteous speak his wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment so notice verse 29 sounds very similar to verse 11 and it's the same concept that we're getting in matthew five five what the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever you know hayman had his house but then he got killed and now it's whose esther's forever and obviously the symbolistic picture of the millennial reign of our inheritance and everything else like that go if you would back to esther chapter number eight go back to esther chapter number eight so you know obviously today we don't inherit everything today we have to walk by faith you have to realize someday your fate is going to be realized and of course you're going to only be rewarded for those things that you did in faith so it's not like oh well now oh today's the inheritance day well i want to go and work a little bit more or you know hey oh now i realize that all of my works actually have some kind of a intrinsic value i want to go ahead and work a little bit harder or do some more uh can i get a do-over card but you never get that you never get a do-over in fact every day that you've already lived is already just done already settled so you can only at this point earn rewards now like you only have the future left and and sometimes we might look at the future as being bleak i mean let's be honest if you're a patriot if you're american if you love the constitution your future looks bleak i mean the constitution is gone that thing's an artifact the the government's not abiding by that whatsoever and whatever hope you had in that document which clearly said that you're actually supposed to fight against domestic terrorists no one's doing that no one cares about the domestic terrorists in our country okay you know that script's been completely flipped and now they're calling people that actually love the constitution domestic terrorists okay so that's all done and you know frankly frankly speaking inflation's crushing you every single day we're looking more and more like we might go into some kind of a depression best case scenario probably worst case scenario a communist dictator tyrant you know type world that we have to live in you're like man this sounds bad you know what type of you know environment are you trying to shape for us pastor shelly you know crimes escalating debauchery and filth escalating we haven't even really suffered the consequences of all our tranny nonsense like all the tranny stuff's happening we haven't really suffered all the consequences of that invading our culture quite yet it's just starting but the consequences are coming down the pike later you know if you start pumping this into the public schools you start teaching all the kids you start doing all these surgeries you know we haven't really experienced the fallout of all that where you're going to end up having this generation of people that have been mutilated so they can't reproduce and they don't even believe this ideology anymore and now they're just angry and imagine what happens when you have thousands and thousands of people that have nothing to live for have mutilated themselves and are angry sounds like dangerous people you know we haven't even we we don't even know what that's like you know all of these fiscal policies of our current government are just costing us so much money it's kind of like if you have ten dollars in the bank and you went and you wrote like five million dollars worth of checks today it's like today you're not suffering tomorrow's okay but eventually the bank is going to call you and say like hey what's up with all these checks you wrote you know eventually you're gonna have to pay the piper eventually you're gonna have to suffer the consequences and you know america the last two years has been writing all kinds of checks it can't cash it's been doing all kinds of crazy nonsense that we're gonna have to suffer the reality of you know even this defund the police movement they can't really do that entirely but they've been effectively doing this by just all their negative policies they're making it to where all the good cops have just been constantly quitting and retiring and nobody wants to work in the police force and the only people that do come in are typically people that are never going to actually enforce the law you know they're hiring lots of women and they're hiring lots of people that are just like morally just bankrupt to the point where the police force is going to turn into a joke it's going to turn into just clown world where you know we don't have any police officers that want to enforce any real laws and the only laws they enforce are just going to be political opposition type threats and it's and again you say how is that happening who wants to become a cop today no one no one wants to become a cop and we don't even really have that great of a of a roster as it were of the youth to even pick from let alone if we actually had a good department with good policies and we're pumping money into the program but i mean the people that they're putting on the police force today is just a joke and i hear about all the time and from friends failures i mean police chiefs are retiring police chiefs are getting fired people are you know da's are quitting all kinds of people are just leaving the force meaning what more crime the punishment for criminals is constantly getting worse and worse in the sense that delayed justice takes so much long takes so long to get to the courts the courts aren't even wanting to house these people so they're constantly letting them out on on bail or parole when they shouldn't be you know less and less what does that can happen it's just more crime just big more crime more issues more problems we we haven't even seen what can really happen to our society i mean with the moral corruption that's happening at such an escalation rate that's unimaginable i believe that we could become the kainanites i mean the kainanites if you actually read what they're doing they're in all kinds of incestual relationships they're beastophiles they're i mean we we kind of think like pedophilia is on the cusp or on the rise but really it's like these other things are going to be constantly drug through why because they keep escalating and getting something weirder so that you accept the previous weird thing it's like homosexuality was bad but then trannies is just so much worse that everybody's just almost just accepted homosexuality just to try and get rid of the training problem but then they'll bring in the pedophiles and then trannies will just not seem that bad anymore because pedophilia is just so much worse and then they'll start bringing in the animals and you'll be like that'll seem so much worse to try and normalize pedophilia and then it'll just be like just open which you know worshiping of satan incest just things you can't even imagine today and you say well i don't know if that's true basically okay go back to the 50s and try to explain to somebody what america 2022 is like try to explain to them that they're going to have a magazine cover with a dude in a dress saying he got the woman of the year award try to explain you really expect me to the people in the 50s would be like i thought we were flying cars and stuff no no no we got dudes in dresses walking around okay now i'm trying to be negative because it's real but let me tell you something who cares because every single day from from now until christ comes is an opportunity for get rewards in heaven none of the other stuff really matters it doesn't matter how bad it gets because that wouldn't affect me anyways it's all going to get cleaned up later anyways right it's kind of like you're at a party and it's not your house you're not gonna clean up you know you're gonna leave okay so you might as well just enjoy the party while you're there you know and worry about the eternal rewards right i'm just i'm just a passing through this isn't my home okay if you guys want to trash it if the world wants to trash it that's your problem but as for me my house will serve the lord and i have another day to earn rewards because i guarantee if you go all the way to the judgment seat you say i don't care how bad the world is can i please go back and get some more rewards can i please go back another 10 i'll go through that horrible 10 years just so i can get more rewards you wouldn't look at it as such a burden whereas today we look at the future as such a burden like oh man it just looks so bleak and there's so many problems and it's just getting worse and blah blah yeah but if you looked at it from like every single day is another opportunity for me to get a little bit bigger inheritance who cares about the rest of this stuff who cares about how many problems we're gonna have who cares about how bleak the future is for everybody else i mean didn't esther and mortice have a pretty bleak future when hayman said hey we're killing all of you on this day i mean that wasn't a really cool future that's pretty similar to how it is with the anti-crisis saying hey get a mark or you're gonna be killed it's like oh wow impending doom but then all of a sudden rescue deliverance comes out of nowhere right so the same is with us and we don't want to have this attitude of just constantly looking at the future is so bleak and negative and bad i mean yeah all that stuff's true but you know what tomorrow is a day for me to get more awards in heaven tomorrow is a day for my inheritance to get a little bigger tomorrow is for me to you know enlarge my border to put up a bigger fence to add a second garage you know instead of viewing a two-car garage i'm getting a three-car garage in heaven you know what i mean hey whatever it is i'm just i'm gonna get a bigger well a bigger bathroom a bigger whatever it is you know we're gonna put in a swimming pool you know tomorrow i'm putting in a swimming pool spiritually you know why don't you look at tomorrow like that as opposed to thinking like well they're gonna foreclose my swimming pool here well who cares you know i mean it doesn't it really in the scope of eternity doesn't matter at all you know it's just carnal things that you look at today and it doesn't really matter because we have opportunity to serve god now now this concept is also kind of a struggle for esther look at verse number three it says and esther spake yet again before the king and fell down on his feet and beset him with tears to put away the mischief of haman the agagite and his device that he had devised against the jews then the king held out the golden separate toward esther so esther arose and stood before the king and said if it pleased the king and if i found favor in his sight and the thing seemed right before the king and i'd be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by him and the son of hamadatha the agagite which he wrote to destroy the jews which are in all the king's provinces how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred so esther is like i don't want to go through anything tough i don't want to go through any of this evil i don't want to go through any of these problems but here's the problem king hasher has already written this decree and according to their philosophy nothing that the king writes can ever be reversed now there's a lot of spiritual significance of this in the sense that god's word is the same way whatever god has decreed whatever the bible says is going to happen is going to happen and you see a lot of people struggle with this throughout scripture you have a lot of people not like what is written in scripture and not want to have to go through what god has decreed but there's no alternative go to the ecclesiastes i want to show you verse here no matter what god has said it's going to happen it doesn't matter if you like it love it want it to happen don't want it to happen it's going to happen and that's something you have to just accept whatever god has said is going to happen ecclesiastes chapter three look at verse 14 i know that whatsoever god doeth it shall be forever nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it and god doeth it that men should fear before him you know what we should realize is that we should fear whatever the bible says whether we like it love it doesn't matter we're not going to change it it is going to happen and so we have to just accept reality we have to accept truth in our lives just like you say well you know what i don't want to have to go through the end times or i don't want to have to die right i think everybody could say like even as a child you could say like i just don't want to die but here's a problem you will die there's not an escape it's not like a there's not a button you can press it's like never die now you can never die spiritually but you will die physically of course doesn't the whole world they strive for this they hang on to life and and they have value it is so precious and they're in search of eternal life and they're in search of prolonging their existence and finding ways to go beyond this physical reality but the reality is you will die you have to face that fact you have to face that just clear and concise decision that god has already decreed that it's appointed unto man wants to die and afterward the judgment you also can't escape judgment both of these things are going to happen go to matthew chapter 26 even christ in his life in his ministry had to face the reality that what god had decreed was going to happen now for jesus what did god decree that he would be crucified now everything in christ was saying i don't want to do that you know just as much as i don't want to die is the same as jesus in his flesh didn't want to die and of course i don't even know what my death will be christ already knew and knew he was going to have the most gruesome death to ever be had i don't know that and i still don't want to die i can't imagine if god came down and said hey here's what your death is going to be like buddy you're like is there another op is where's plan b it's like what do i have to do to not open that door you know it's like through door one this is your option you're like what's door two i'll take door two oh no no there was only one only one door and you know christ is in the garden against so many praying and yet it doesn't matter because whatever god has decreed is going to happen now christ did understand this at the same time look at matthew 26 and look at verse 53 thinkest thou that i cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels so you know peter and them they're like hey well we can escape this crucifixion thing we'll fight and christ is trying to rebuke peter and saying you know what i could ask and i can have as many angels i want right now to defeat these puny romans but what is the answer but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be so he's saying okay what if i fight and what if i bring the angels i could evade this forever but then how would scripture be true they wouldn't right verse 55 in that same hour said jesus to the multitudes or you come out as against a thief with swords and stays for to take me i sat daily with you teaching in the temple and you laid no hold on me but all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled so notice that everything that christ did was so that the scripture would be fulfilled and you say oh sounds like there was an option there wasn't an option though it was going to happen and of course christ knew that and christ was going to fulfill that and and really this is a a theme we find in scripture all over go to john 19 i'm not going to go to all of them i had a lot more in my notes but we don't have to necessarily belabor this point john chapter 19 look at verse 24 they said therefore among themselves let us not rend it but cast lots for it whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled notice verse 28 after this jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled saith i thirst look at verse 36 for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled the bone of him shall not be broken flip over to acts one just a few pages acts one and look at verse 16 men and brethren this scripture must needs have been fulfilled notice the necessity of scripture being fulfilled whatever god has said will happen you say i don't like the anti-christ doesn't matter it's going to happen i don't like the seven seals in revelation it's going to happen i don't like the seven wrathful vials being poured out it's going to happen in fact you will like some of them just i don't know if you think you don't like them but when we're in heaven you'll be liking them okay you'll be all excited about it you're like but i don't i don't like some of these things but here's the thing it doesn't matter if you like it or not it's going to happen and so you just have to face reality and realize these things are going to happen and then you have to deal in reality just like esther i don't like that a letter has been written saying on this set day all of me my people can be destroyed why would you like that of course you don't like that well let's reverse it it's going to happen you know i don't like the living in in america 2022 can i go to the 1950s no 1900s no 1990s no you're stuck in the present you don't get to have any of those you're in this reality okay go back to esther chapter number eight so then what are you going to do about it well why don't you just do the best that you can in your current reality live in the present okay esther chapter number eight look at verse number seven then the king azeris said unto esther the queen and the mordecai the jew behold i have given esther the house of aman and him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his hand upon the jews write you also for the jews as it liketh you in the king's name and seal the king's ring for the writing which is written in the king's name and seal the king's ring may no man reverse then where the king's scribes called at the time in the third month that is the month savant on the three and 20th day thereof and it was written according to all that mordecai commanded them the jews into the lieutenants and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from india and etheopia and 120 and seven provinces and every province according to the writing thereof and in every people after the language and to the jews according to their writing and according to their language and he wrote in the king a hazardous name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by hosts on horseback and riders on mules camels and young dramedaries wherein the king granted the jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people in the province and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey upon one day in all the provinces of king a hazardous namely upon the 13th day of the 12th month which is the month adar so he said well you know what you can't reverse it what we can do is we can send out another letter that says on that same day that they're coming to kill you you can defend yourselves and you can kill them and anybody that wants to harm you you can slay them and take their money for a prey and so basically it's saying you know what you're stuck in this reality but here's here's what you can do you can fight you can fight back and you know what even though this world is getting wicked by the more wicked by the second you know what we can still fight back we have the sword of the spirit we have the word of god and we can go out there and we can do some damage and we can slay the enemy and you know what the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church as jesus christ said he said hey i'm with you always even at the end of the world amen and so you know we don't just sit here like lame ducks and just let the enemy take it to us no we fight back yeah there's casualties yeah there's bruises yeah there's wounds yeah sometimes it hurts sometimes it's not fun going out in the battle you know what i don't want to just lay down and let me and my whole family be devoured by the sword and be devoured by the enemy devoured by the lion the the the devil our adversary as a roaring lion go with about seeking whom he may devour you know i'm not going to sit here and just let that happen let this city just go to hell in a hand basket that's why we go out soul winning that's why we reach people for christ you know we're supposed to defend ourselves and we're supposed to have the word of god being thundered forth through the whole world just like it is in this chapter didn't you notice it's like the whole world gets to hear the bible and and there's some cool things you know verse 9 is the longest verse in the bible but isn't it interesting also it's describing how the word of god is going in all languages oh well the word of god is stuck in hebrew no it's not notice what it says unto every people after their language i like that hey even in the old testament the word of god was put into every language and was going out and could be translated into other languages and you know what we have the king james bible probably the best translation if you ask me of god's word obviously the most fruit obviously the most well read book and love book of the world obviously it's had the greatest impact of our modern era but you know what the word of god has always been going forth in every language even when english didn't even exist the bible was going into every single language the word of god was going there and you know the word of god has power no matter what language it's in it's not it's not limited to a certain language i mean when you read the king james bible you you feel the power of god you you feel the majesty of god's word that's why i also don't like some of these other versions is not only do they make error not only they take things out they just take and strip a lot of the majesty and a lot of the power of god's word and just and make it sound like google translate or something you know i was explaining to somebody how google translate sounds and it's just you know if it's like this weird word for word thing it's just never going to sound good kind of like uh you know in spanish you say my yamo one i mean i'm a one like my name is may is my yamo his name and then if my name was john it'd be one or you know jonathan right but if you translated that in english word for word it'd be my name jonathan you know but we don't talk like that we say my my name is jonathan right so it's a little bit different but you know these some of these bible versions that's what they sound like they sound like my name johnathan i run fast i like cars you know it's just like what what kind of bible is this you know that's not the word of god you know the king james bible actually they took the time and they they wrote the scripture in a way that not only preserved the words of god not only are accurate but have the majesty and the power and the the just what feels like is the word of god you know coming off of the page and it's it's not something that can just easily be done it's not some some cheap imitation you know these modern bible versions sound like trash because they are trash you know you put in little effort and you get little results not only i mean that's that's aside from all the critical text issues and everything else that that is their problem as well but i'm just saying just even if you were to use the texas receptors even if you were to try and use the same underlying greek and hebrew you know good luck trying to make it sound better than this you can't i don't believe it's possible i don't believe humans today already been as smart as they used to be okay the personal opinion all right i believe the men of the past were were much more intelligent generally speaking obviously there's exceptions to every role there's probably some men today they're very intelligent which is generally speaking the scholars in this book are not like scholars today you go and find me scholars that speak 15 languages fluently that doesn't exist today go find me that person you know you and that's just one you know there's the scholars of the king james bible many of them they knew several languages fluently let alone all the other academic studies of that you know what they didn't have tiktok so they didn't spend any time watching idiots dance to britney spears all day long they you know what they had they had books books was their entertainment so they read and they read a lot and they had a lot of understanding they had a lot of wisdom your common just average day man would be able to quote for you tons and tons of scripture because they didn't have all these other inventions and distractions of this world so they knew the bible very well i mean you look and just read just secular studies secular sources people like lawyers or doctors people that actually wrote they're constantly bringing up the bible and quoting verses and scripture i mean their doctrine is better than your average day catholic and they're not even necessarily religious per se some of them probably are but i'm just saying in general you know the average intelligence of man back then is infinitely superior to what we see as the average today you know shakespeare had 25 000 word vocabulary good luck meeting people today that have that kind of vocabulary people couldn't even probably have half of that vocabulary on average you know sat scores are in the are on the down down low i mean i talked to a police officer and he was telling me how in years past when they would need new officers they would have a hundred applicants so they have a hundred people come and they'd all have to take this test a written test then they have to take a physical test then they have to do interviews and then they hand pick and select the best the brightest right he said well recently we had 20 people show up and he said 19 of them failed the written test so then we get past stage one and then and then they just the one person that did they still were just like no and so they they were like okay new round new batch the second batch like six people showed up and all of them passed or failed the written test and now it's just like what do you what do you do so you know what they have to do they have to lower the standard just like the marines just like the military just like the government just like every single just like college you know getting into college used to be something of value like getting into college is not granted you actually had to have good scores you had to have good knowledge and information and even if you were the best in your school if you still didn't meet the national standards of sat and the act or these different academic fields of study they wouldn't just let you into college because they didn't want to devalue the product of the college they didn't want all these bozos coming out of their college being like i came from harvard you know i reckon that i came from harvard i got me a degree hey man they've been like no don't tell anybody who came from harvard you know you sound like you didn't even go to middle school and you're going to tell us you came mark but today they have underwater basket weaving degrees that they give out gender study degrees at every single university i mean the academic standard has been so lowered they care more about hey did you see this you know by gender queer african-american half lesbian alien freak that graduated recently and it's like what was their gpa it doesn't matter because they pass all the diversity tests and it's like nobody cares about the diversity test anymore it's just it just it bunkers the world that we live in it's bunkers that our society is just so upside down and doesn't care about you know what is right what is good you know well i can't understand the bible give me a cheap down version no no no no get smarter it's not like how dumb can we make the bible it's like if you're dumb then learn something you know the king james bible is not honestly that hard from an academic perspective there is much literature there is much learning to be had that's at a higher level than the king james bible just from a word vocabulary perspective obviously the wisdom of god surpasses all that of man but just being able to just understand the words on the page you know we're not talking about rocket science here we're not talking about brain surgery here i mean children children can understand the king james bible and we need to realize that the word of god was meant to be given to everyone god didn't put it on an academic level for only the elite the the bible can be understood by all man woman boy child girl my children read the bible and of course not just for the hebrew speaking world but the whole world you find this theme everywhere in scripture it's not esther eight that the bible went everywhere daniel the bible went everywhere jeremiah the bible went everywhere the new testament it went everywhere and you know what today the bible is going everywhere because god cares about everyone of course you don't necessarily see this as much in the early stages because frankly speaking everybody was at the same place okay so you didn't have this need to necessarily go everywhere with the bible but as man travels as man expands as there's more countries nations languages tons then there's more need for the bible to constantly be spread so you see in the later chapters and later portions of scripture this need for the bible to be translated other language other tongues obviously before the tower babble you don't need multiple languages for the scripture right it's all locked into the one language of course right so it's not the first you know several hundred years or whatever that period of time is you know you don't need multiple languages of the scripture today it could even be the opposite where we don't even need as many we have it's more important to have one locked in because what's happening is we see this kind of globalization thing happening where more and more people are speaking english you go to europe and it's less german french spanish italian and it's more everybody's learning english so what do you think is more important that we have a spanish german italian bible or that we have an english bible that god can use to reach those people makes me think that god understood what's going to happen in the end times and how the world's going to be framed in the globalization to lock in probably the most important bible you know what if and it doesn't matter per se but just think about this was there any guarantee or just we for sure english just has to be the dominant language couldn't it have been spanish couldn't it have been french couldn't it have been mandarin couldn't have been russian it could could have been henby and in fact a lot of these languages have a lot of influence you know spanish has a lot of speakers today henby has a lot of speakers today mandarin has a lot of speakers today french in fact has had a lot of speakers in the past why is it though that the greatest bible also just happens to be the language that seems to dominate the world too you know that's not a coincidence it's because god wants the bible to go to everyone and god wants as many people to have the word in their language and of course we we work on spanish bibles because there's a lot of people that are never going to learn english because spanish is good enough for them it's good enough for them to live it's good enough for them to buy food have a life have community even have church so they kind of don't have a need to learn english so they never will so it's good to make spanish bibles available and pass out that whereas some of these other you know more obscure languages those people are going to be forced to learn english so it's less of an emphasis on having a bible in their language and more on having it in english i wouldn't even be surprised again i don't know how long the world's going to last but if the world lasted for 50 more years europe may never even speak anything other than english i mean if you think about it the youth and and once they kind of get rolling with technology and everything else i mean the globalization it could be the entire continent of england of of the english-speaking world is just you know of europe is just english speaking that nobody even cares about these other foreign languages i would think some places like in the asian continent maybe india and and china and stuff they would probably always keep their their language because it's more part of their culture it's more important to them but these european countries they're not going to care you can see it i could i could believe that a lot of dead languages would would evolve and then you would get to where there's mainly just like a handful of languages there's kind of just like i said english spanish maybe french just because of the african uh existence of it some you know arabic hindi mandarin maybe some russian but it could get to a point where there's just like seven or eight languages you know most generally speaking and everybody kind of falls in one of those dialects and then almost half of the world's speaking english in the next 20 30 40 years so it sounds like to me that the bible being in english is a great great thing that's to say again we live in an english-speaking world so it's important to have english you know say well i don't like english learn it anyways you know esther's like i don't learn english you know or well you know what i don't like the fact that 25 of the people out here i can't give the gospel to they speak spanish we'll just learn spanish well i don't like spanish we'll learn anyways you know what was my goal again to get as much inheritance as possible you know and if i'm looking at a door and it says hey here's here's your three-car garage you have to go to the door of learning spanish i'm gonna learn spanish why not and frankly speaking if we go into the end times that might be where i have to flee anyways so then i'll be one leg up on you guys all right you say oh i'm i'm hoping that that doesn't happen well you know you don't get to pick what happens it's the end times is going to happen frankly speaking so you better just get used to it and embrace the reality of the future instead of hoping that the future doesn't happen well i know that there's going to be a bunch of people that try to kill me on this day but i'm just going to go home and just hope it doesn't happen i'm just going to hide under my bed and pretend like the law isn't what it is no no you get out there with a sword and you fight you don't just lay down and just pretend like the world isn't going to come after you it's going to look at verse 13 the copy of the writing for a commandment to be given and every promise was published unto all people and that the jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies you know we need to be ready sounds like it makes me think of verses where it says they're supposed to be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh thee right of the hope that is in thee verse 14 so the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment decree was given at shushan the palace and mortichai went out from the presence of the king and royal apparel blue and white and with a great crown of gold with a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of shushan rejoiced and was glad the jews had light and gladness and joy and honor and every province and every city where the king's commandment and his decree came the jews had joy and gladness a feast and a good day and many of the people of the land became jews for the fear of the jews fell upon them so we kind of end the the chapter again with that picture of christ and and how he's going to be ruling and reigning and he's he's decorated in this royal apparel and the same as with christ christ is going to literally rule on this earth for a thousand years and he's going to be decorated dressed upon with royal apparel and we're going to have a great day we're going to have joy and feasting and as the bible describes light and you know what christ is going to light up the whole world and we're going to have truth you know some parts of this world are just frustrating because there's just lack of truth lack of judgment lack of integrity lack of all these things but you know what when christ is in the world it's going to be a land of truth you know it's so frustrating arguing with people that are brain dead you know it's so frustrating arguing with liberals or just trying to explain logic like a man is a man oh well you're just not intellectual pastor shelly because you didn't realize there's a difference between gender and sex no there isn't you're an idiot well but you don't have a you don't have a degree in biology have you not read these abstract thesises to describe the neurological pathways and how they have a differentiation and electrons and how they process and how gender is actually an abstract concept as a shelly no i do you're an idiot you fool the fool has said in his heart there is no god you know it's going to be so nice that i don't have to have these dumb conversations with pseudo intellectuals that are trying to tell me there's a difference between gender and sex there isn't you idiot you fool i don't have to describe that there's a god we're gonna be able to see him it's not like oh where's this jesus you're talking about right here and you know what for that blasphemy you're in trouble buddy you know we don't have to we don't have to deal in all these just what if scenarios it's just going to be reality it's just going to be truth it's just going to be like we're going to see you know what does light bring it brings sight it brings just knowledge and evidence and reality you know dealing in and all of these just lies i mean our society is full of lies so much deception so much corruption there's so much just filth there's so much smut in this world you know to be just so beautiful so much joy so much happiness we have we have the light you know what to get there you have to go through today but we have to just face reality you know as a child you have to face the reality that one day you're going to become an adult and as a child you could waste all of your youth by just playing and not caring or as a child you could learn every day you could get skills you could prepare yourself for being adult you could be spiritual you could read the bible you could study the proverbs and then when you become a young man when you become a young woman you're prepared to face the world as opposed to saying well i just don't want to grow up i want to be peter pan and i want to just go to never never land and i just want to never have to deal with reality i don't want to have to get a job i don't want to have to pay bills i don't want to have to face any of the consequences of my actions you know what when you become an adult which will happen because you age every day you have a birthday every year you know you should just face the reality and say you know i'm going to be the best child that i can child and youth are vanity you know why not just spend your youth training for being an adult and of course you see many young adults suffering the consequences of their youth and what i mean by that is that there's so many young people they turn 18 and they're not ready to face anything and then i look at other individuals they're 18 and they're already an adult basically they you know there's some young men at 18 they got a job they're ready to move out from their parents house they're ready to get married they're already spiritual they're already taking life serious they have a career path and then you look at other 18 year olds and they're addicted to video games and one and they're lazy they have no character they have no skills they have nothing going for them and you're just like what are you doing you you will have to face the consequence of reaction you will have to face reality you know as a young woman you could prepare yourself to be a wife and a mother you know you could prepare yourself to be highly educated very skilled in the home uh loving the lord and serving him and you know when young men are interested they're gonna be like wow i want that one as opposed to the girl that's just a silly heart kind of foolish doesn't care about anything doesn't have any real knowledge that has nothing interesting to say doesn't want to teach each other i mean you could you could basically prepare or be unprepared for your life situation but the reality is you will become an adult as a child and the same as with us you know we will see christ we will go to heaven you know what kind of life do we want to have to present to christ we want to have one where it's like well i played the whole time well i just had fun on there or you want to be the one that i worked the whole time and i was prepared for the day of christ i was prepared and i did all this labor and this effort that i put into you know the millennial reign which is adult life because it's going to happen give your self to the best future life it's similar to the fact that you know when you're a child and dad's away but one day he's coming home one hour he's coming home and he gave you all these chores he gave you all his tasks to do the reality is dad's coming home you know there is going to be a day when he comes home so do you when he comes home do you want to be like hey i got all the chores done everything you asked i got it all done or do you want to be like you know i didn't really start on any of it yet i didn't really want to do any of it you know that's the that's the foolish attitude that's kind of like the fullest virgins in a sense even though that parable is a little bit different but in general speaking you know we need to have the right attitude towards our life and realize you know there's going to be a day when we inherit there will be a day when we have the judgment and we're going to have a lot of joy but you know your joy is going to be is going to be compounded by the works and the efforts that you put in and and we have to face the reality of the day we live in the day yeah there's someone that wants to kill you yep there's someone that wants to destroy you and your family yeah there's a lot of evil on the horizon yeah if you look at america it's ugly brutal it's bad and i don't want to lie to you and pretend like oh nothing bad's going to happen in the future you know no it's probably going to get harder and it's probably get more impression more consequences the world's going to become more dangerous but what should give us a counterbalance to that negativity is the fact that but i still have another day to serve price i have another opportunity to earn more awards in heaven i can add more to my spiritual inheritance and i can be pleasing to god and i'm never in the perspective of eternity be disappointed with every day i was granted in this life and arguably you know in the last minutes it's more important you know would you rather score a three-pointer in the beginning of the game or the game-winning bucket you know no one ever cares about the first bucket that was scored in a basketball game but they care about that that those last few minutes right right leading up and i mean it's the game's tied and then you just shoot the game buzzer buzzing beating winner you know it's just like oh everybody's like celebrating you and what you did and it's like look christianity moses and then they were in the first quarter david was in the second quarter you know peter and john and all them they were in the third quarter we're in the fourth quarter you know and you put your best people in the game in the fourth quarter you know whoever is the starter whoever's the most important who's the who's the clutch who's the greatest you put them in the end of the game to win the game and you know what we should look at it like that well i wasn't in the time of moses okay yeah but you know we're in the fourth quarter we're in when it matters we're in when it really counts and you know what we have a great cloud of witnesses looking down and cheering us on and you know what god's already made the decree god's already said what's going to happen we better just play the game better get in there and fight and block their shots and dunk it on their head and you know we got a buzzer beater to shoot and we're going to score and we're not going to just lay down we're going to take it to them let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father for this the scripture and and thank you for giving us some reality and some truth to base our life on we understand that whatever you decree in scripture it's going to happen i pray that we would not be discouraged by the future but rather we'd look at as an opportunity to serve you an opportunity to fight for what's important that you give us zeal you give us strength you give us boldness and courage to face the foe for that day and that we would realize that ultimately we just have an opportunity to earn more awards be pleasing your side and pull pull more people out of the fire that what we have in this life actually matters and the carnal things really don't they're going to be burned up they're going to be lost that they have no eternal value and i pray that we would get our hearts on those the things that are of eternal value and not temporal in jesus name we pray amen amen for a final song 321 where he leads i'll follow the song 321 321 sing all together on the first sweet all the promises kind is the word dearer far than any message man ever heard here was the mind of christ endless i see he the great example isn't pattern for me where he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day sweet is the tender love jesus has shown sweeter for than any love that morals ever know tied to the airing one faithful is he he the great example isn't pattern for me where he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day list to his loving words come unto me weary heavy laden there is sweet rest for thee trust in his promises faithful and sure lean upon the savior and thy soul is secure where he leads i'll follow follow all the way where he leads i'll follow follow jesus every day amen thank you all for coming god bless you are dismissed