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A sum of the people that we know and love but if it's right it right and help us to always to stand for that which is right be with us now and guide us each one help us be with their service today give us a great services all wherever your name is being up help wherever your word is being preached I pray that God that your No one in power will be upon our breacher brother by the Jewish preach the message of salvation pure and simple that so rich will be saved direct now by your Spirit give you the praise in Jesus' name we pray you ma'am All right we're going to be using a couple of songs from greater vision today and I hope that these songs will really be a blessing to you one of them is the 1st one will be Jesus paid it all invokes truly . If it wasn't for the Prasad crash paid for Wash our singed to pay for our scenes we wouldn't have any hope but then someday someday when it's all over because we have accepted crashes our personal Savior then we can go to that eternal abode that he's preparing for all the overs that 11 servings solution is a saying and I hope these songs will always be a blessing to you. We. Will do our best from time to time to mourn disowned big green Jesus that morning but I dish didn't have it and that these years only 12 I hope will be a blessing to you as they saying. This is. Very. Slow. News was very. Low when the whole. For war. Her. Was. On. The floor the story. From. Oh oh oh. Yes some day some day we don't know when that day is going to be covered we don't know when God is going to call force. That because that is a positive thing that we as Christians can look forward to go some day because of that victory that we have who Jesus Christ that hated all that paid and have sinned and as there as he hung on the cross and he said it is finished and so today as we look father now the new church as it begin to start there if we pick up in the book of Acts again then we will be going a little further today where some of the things that took place and how that God's Spirit was a moving and. Stern hearts and some worse trying to oppose it they were doing everything they could stop this wonderful work that had just begun. I want to sort of think on something that spiritual blindness as spiritual blindness that was in that day. They just couldn't see they would not believe they wouldn except it brought about such a. Amount of unbelief and those that should have no. These religious leaders now we're going to be mentioned and we'll be getting we won't actually get much to Paul today and I don't know that we will go there next week but if the Lord leads we will but here Paul earlier Saul was. You know was his name was for he was say here's a man that now just like a lot of these others that had steadied they they were. Very knowledgeable of the law and all of these things that had taken place. And the law and the prophets is the one that testified and prophesied of Christ and His comment described in a way his birth. Describe what time of a life he would live what kind of an individual he would be the things that would happen and all of these things but yet even though they saw all that with their literalist solve this where there they could not except where we pick up this morning then of course in the 6th chapter of the book of Acts we found out where that they chose 7 men and I guess you would call it doesn't actually call him Deacon sure but that's really I think were the deacons Ridge Ridge made from and in the church because the Apostles and those that were preaching and teaching the message of salvation to the people they didn't have time to wait tables and take care of all these other things that need to be taken care of that's just like in the church today the pastor doesn't have Pam good to see to the building and see to all these various things he's got other jobs to do he is Java's to it and yes there are some you younger men that's out there that this morning I want to encourage you if you ventured the college of preach then make full proof of your ministry not only in the study of the preaching of the word but make full proof of that position that God has placed you in as you minister to those who are said are in need in various ways so many elderly people today that is seems like that the. The pastor just literally a lot of them from what I hear they just kind of forget that they are part of the congregation if there Kate be there folks you're the pastor preachers were to be the pastor of everybody from the youngest of the elders I looked I love kids I love kids I left who wished we had a bunch of them in the church and I tell them they bring a little learning what church he is from the time they get here in and paid for him to be right in the congregation sure they're going to make a little noise was too but that's where you train home they don't get in a train in about church when you send them to the children's church Now granted there's a place for children to church and don't think I'm totally against that if your bus and a bunch of kids in and you don't know moms and dads there to raise at that train them and to teach them then you know you better have children church I'm very sure but the point is folks we need to train them children when they're young but now then let's get back into this war. The early church began and how that they can see now and this one beacon is very special and that was Stephen and so you pick up and verse 8 and they charge Stephen with blasphemy Co Stephen got up and said Stephen full of faith and power. Did great wonders in America for money and people then there rose certain other synagogue which is called a synagogue or libertarian and so it sort of rainy ends and Xander ends and them out Cilicia and evasion disputing with Stephen they were all not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. Then they said 7 men which said We have heard him speak blast famous words against Moses and against God and they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and came up on him and called him and brought him to the council and said a false witness which said this man ceases not to speak blasphemy missed words against this holy place in the law for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shell destroyed this place and show changed the customs which most had delivered and push and listen to that how that they twisted things or round invokes that's just what Satan does he twists things around so many times in the in the church world he will twist what people say and he will say to that individual out there the last was just look at that good look what he said or and Satan will twist things round to destroy and attire down any way that he possibly can but notice this next verse and all that sat in the council looking steadfastly Oh names all his face as it had been the face of an angel they were just something about him that was just radiant that just they couldn't that was something they couldn't question but then now then they give the high priests. Raunch the him to test you know to. Cross-examine him and guess you might say in one sense but they want to hear from him then send the High Priest are these things so and so now Stephen. Would begin alone message actually as he. Begins literally from Abraham He later he begins Abraham and how that God promised Abraham you know the promised land but let me just start there for a little bit in and he said minute brother and father Harken the God of glory appear of them to our father Abraham when he was in message to put on the air before he dwelt in Charleston and sent him get the out of the that country and from that I can read and come into the land which I shall show that he then came out of the land of Chaldeans and well in Charleston and from then and when his father was dead he removed him and to this land were in you now trail and he goes on down and he begins to just name one patriarch efter nother he will or so he was bringin out things the whole history he goes into the Joseph how he was so down into Egypt pick that up and about verse 9 and how Joseph was blessed and how that God put him in you know a position to be the one that would literally be the savior of his family because he was down now in Egypt the heads they did his brothers and sold him in the Egypt we all know the story how that they'd sold him into Egypt. But he gets down there and everything various different things happened Satan and you know really tempted him and he wound up in prison in one thing or another but then as this king as he had a great vision Well he was troubled and nobody could interpret it and finally as a mum remembered that Joseph was. Shared and he would interpret dreams for so I mean that was in prison they brought him out and he interpreted the dream and then about the big drought that was going to come and how that really need to have the storehouses knowledge King set him up and say that he was actually the whole leader of that place and so that in a sleeve in brought this out and just kept phoning then how that Moses' wrist bone and how that he was only could be hid for certain length of time and Pharaoh's daughter found him and she raised him up preparing him for the job that God had for Moshe's folks these people that were opposing. Now there very teaching of crashed they were opposing the very one that God had you know prophesied all through this and how they he set everything up and bring in this whole nation in that up to this point and yet that unbelief that spiritual blindness was so strong that they just wouldn't accept that this was that Jesus of Nazareth was the crash well goes on in course and. He gets down to about verse 37 of this chapter. This is that Moses which said in the children of Israel a prophet shell the Lord your God raise up and the youth of your brother in law can the Me him show here this is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the Angel where spake to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers which received the latter aren't. Articles given to us to whom our fathers listen to this. Our Fathers would not obey but thrust. Him from them and end their harsh turn back again into Egypt and Gore say he mentions there of Aaron made the. Gold and the cat form and all of this goes on down and then and tells how that the children of Israel just refused to listen they didn't want to follow him over says one thing led to another and we know the story now that those only 2 that Rizzoli are over 20 years old that come out of Egypt bondage only to Joshua and Caleb was the only 2 that got to go into the promised land all the others died in the wilderness over 20 years and younger was the only ones that lived and now as they raise children as they come on up through they is the ones that they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and God prepared them and brought them into the land of bondage I mean in the land of promise so now then you'd think with Steven presuming this whole thing you would have thought that surely they would have got the picture now and but still that spiritual blindness was so great their spiritual blindness was so great instead of seeing the truth and accepting the truth like so many did a mind we've got so many things it's happening today and people just simply cannot accept the truth folks I promise you today when God said this or that is sent back when the scripture was written is still sinned today folks we cannot compromise what the us if the Word of God Well we get down into verse 51. And now then Stephen puts it to him British straight and plain he said you stiff necked and then circumcised in heart and ears you do always resist the Holy Ghost as your father's the so do you which of their profits have not your father's persecuted and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one of whom you have been have been now the betrayers and murderers he didn't mention him lurch he said you know you're the ones here here Christ came just like it was prophesied he came he through all filled every every thing he finished his course here as coming into this world in the in a fleshly body and given that body for the sins of mankind shedding that innocent blood that we could have life and have it more bluntly but mine we see how that they would reject in this they just would accept it and he goes on and said who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept you you've received a lot you know all about this really but now instead of Kievan and each stepping crashed as your Savior you just turned your back and you turn your back and your turn your back on God the one that you claim to really believe the end see they claimed all they were so strong neighbors claim and so then when they heard this thing they were cut to the heart and they mashed on him with their teeth can you imagine that folks they were just an angry mob but he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up stedfastly and they have been and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God Now you know these people thought that they were putting down. They were putting down this man and they did you know they did stoning to death but they thought they were you know doing away and they were stamping out this movement bokes all Labor's didn't. They were just actually help in the movement to go forward and he goes and tells us here said Betty being full of the Holy Ghost notice that and now that in verse 56 and said Behold I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man Standing on the right hand of God That's exactly were that well Christ when they are back to the Father and they're seated it held us and gives us indication he was seated at the right hand of God But here we find him standing Why is he standing I believe with all my heart that he was standing there to give that assurance and that encouragement the Stephen that he needed he was going to arse Usher. Stephen home in just a few moments and because he is going to stoning to death. And then they cried out with a loud voice and sed stopped their ears and ran up on him with one accord. Want a mob What a horrible mob they wasn't any rationale to it they did they were just angry he had told the truth they were convicted they knew that he was telling the truth and Now then old Satan just stirred him up though they were going to destroy him we're going to get rid of him one way or the other and cast him out of the city and stoning. And witnesses lay down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul mentioned him in the beginning of the message that remembers Now notice what that said they cast So Saul was he that was in on this of their to destroy and stand and are standing against Stephen he was one of MIT's probably inciting the mob he was probably really help and stir it up and Saul knew he had sex with the Bible tells us that he had studied at the feet of gamma law he probably was one of the well best learned they probably nobody really was any learned in the old scripture in a better than Saul was or later we would noir Miss Paul but you know again that they all thought they was going to shut things down were going to Stone Cold Steve in that they would get rid everyman. No doubt Saul there thought this very thing at this time and they just don't know Stephen take it and calling upon God and saying orgy in this is what he was doing and they stone Stephen and Stephen calling upon God saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit and he nailed down and notice Lish and I've often thought this little this little speech that very last thing that Stephen said and just all thought this must just echoed in the ears of Saul and was probably even echoing in his ears as when God When Christ struck him down on road to Damascus and asked said Paul Paul why the results all why do you keep that persecute me and said it's hard for you to kick against the pricks don't you know that at the sea and he knew he had to know that Stephen was an innocent man he had to know that Stephen was a good man and all the same but there he was consenting from to stoning to death just only till it took the very life out of it no said he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice Lord lay not this seen into their charge and when he had said this he fell asleep folks he fell asleep in the arms of our Lord and Savior the one that had delivered him and set him free he knew who yes trust resume. And it tells us in the next verse in Chapter 8 said in Saul was consenting and to death and at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered brawled throughout all the regions of Judea in some area except the Apostles noticed that. The persecution was great and it was horrible those having to go through it but through the persecution it was just spreading the gospel other folks promise you the gospel is still going today and let us hold fast and keep and keep holding fast until God gets ready to call us on God Best of luck Sunday morning is our prayer for the past half hour you've been listening to the old Mt Zion program your speaker this morning rather Elden back Will you're listening to Kermit k u r m Rogers Springdale Bentonville in case you are a m f m m 100.3 Gravatt sound was Sunday and asylum Springs and in Huntsville 97.5 on your f.m. Dial that's key to 48 d. . Currently $43.00 degrees here at the Kermit studios 64 percent humidity and the Burma trip pressure is $30.00 we have 2 mile an hour winds blowing in from the south east this morning we expect to hit a high today. Of about 55 degrees. We're coming up on 830 this morning and we advise you to stay tuned now for the good news program Dr David Evans is your radio host this program brought you in part by the Mt Pleasant Baptist Church of. Good morning good to have you along with us here in the. Midst of November and as we're getting closer and closer to. Thanksgiving just oh maybe 10 or 12 days away and also delighted to have you along with the program and also. Thankful to thankful to have you with it today we're going to just going to read to you from book called fascinating stories of forgotten lives profiles in characters our character from Charles all our swindle I believe this book was published. In the early 2000 or so. They are. So it's been out it's been 20052005 was when it was and so we're going to pick up in the 1st character that we're going to look at would be Cain the father who murdered his brother Cain the farmer who murdered his brother and with that we will pick up start reading in Genesis chapter one this is from that any t. Bible is the particular one that he used for this person this section of scripture so it may read a little different than what definitely from what the King James reigns but anyway this is the way it starts Now the man. Parenthesis and princes had marital relations with his wife Eve and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain then she said I have created a man just as the Lord did then she gave birth to his brother Abel able to care of the flocks while Cain cultivated the ground at the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord but I able brought some of the firstborn of his flock even the Fanous to them and the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering but with Cain and his offering He was not please so Cain became very angry and his expression was downcast Then the Lord said to King Why are you angry and why is your expression downcast is it not true that if you do what is right you will be fine but if you do not do what is right c.n.n. Is crouching at the door it desires to dominate you but you must suppress it Cain said to his brother Abel Let's go out to the field while they were in the field Cain attacked his brother a bull and killed him and thence Genesis Chapter 41 through 8. So let's kind of do kind of a crime scene investigation you know there are several t.v. Shows around there and they start out they are some crime is discovered and usually a murder has taken place and and all and then they begin to get. The rest of the program looks into the investigation that the investigators do to kind of unravel what all is happening and so with that thought in mind then they speak again words of Charles and all that what I hope to do with the original crime scene I want to sift through the facts and arrive at the truth or in our case trues the ward preserves the fact about this incident and strategically places them early in the biblical record for our benefit as with any good investigation this one begins with a simple observation notice that the very 1st murder took place within the 2nd generation humanity this points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from genera genesis for humans are murderers not because we commit murder but because we are murderers at heart just in case you get hung up on the word murder let me put it another way we're not sinners because we commit sin we sin because we are sinners The problem is in the heart. We do wrong because we are wrong we are wrong all the way to the core where murder is desired murder is merely the fruit of a heart problem we all share it's not a weapon problem anymore than it is a hand problem murder is the byproduct of a twisted selfish nature that came to all humankind as a result of Adam and these fall in Genesis 3 another observation the 1st homicide occurred in Genesis 4 in Genesis 3 we see in essence Adam and he enjoyed unreserved in the Missi with each other and with their God We sent no hint of selfishness shame or jealousy just innocence and beauty but before chapter 3 ends the tempter has entered and spun his lies and the 1st couple chose his way instead of gods as a result they became spiritually polluted inwardly corrupt murderers at heart. You might think it would take time for sin to gradually become worse with each generation the children of Adam and Eve's telling little fib maybe petty theft by the 3rd generation extortion and racketeering by the 5th then perhaps murder but the inspired author of Genesis shows the fall of the fall of Adam and Eve with this story about their sons the 1st murder in Genesis 4 so soon after since Paul paradise on earth in chapter 3 demonstrates that corruption doesn't have degrees it doesn't emerge slowly like undetected erosion human kind is been corrupted entirely so it should come as no surprise that the 1st sands were among the most grevious murder is ugly enough but when it occurs within a family it takes on an exceptionally horrible dimension the word brother is used 6 times in verses $8.00 to $11.00 this story as it if to punctuate the seriousness of the crime the 1st couple had marital relations and he became pregnant ultimately giving birth to their 1st son whom they named Cain his name is most likely a word. On a Hebrew term because of E.'s statement in verse one Cain has to Paul in the Hebrew has 2 possible meanings to acquire or to create many translations opt for the former but I think the 2nd meaning makes better sense which would make each statement quote I have created a man just like the Lord in quote that comes from the in an 80 Bible frankly that's not a bad way of looking at it from a mother's point of view. Remember this was the very 1st birth of a child ever Eve took part in a miracle that only God had performed before the creation of a human life they had to have an overwhelming thought so she gave him a name that would forever remind her of that miracle Adam many then produced another son the Biblical text offers a small hint that he might have been a twin at any rate he was given the name Abel which is the Hebrew r. For breath vapor or futility Eve didn't comment on his name so we can only speculate as to why she chose it branch she meant that he was slight or for. Maybe he was sickly we are told that Cain chose to become a farmer like his then Abel on the other hand was a keeper of the flock a shepherd I find it great irony then in their names and chosen occupations I Abel's name name futile and he cared for sheep canes name was associated with I created yet he told a coach lie from sin Karsh ground next we are told that these adult brothers brought their offerings to the Lord notice how scripture describes the sacrifice each man offered special attention to the comparison Genesis 4335 in 80 Bible at the designated time Cain brought forth fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord but Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock even the fattest of them and the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering but with Cain in his offering He was not pleased. In Hebrew the contrast is even more obviously deliberate God was displeased with Cain's offering and satisfied with Abel which sparked the conflict. Then swindle goes into there's a lot of subject to debate about whether why God was not pleased. Some scholars believe that it was because Cain offering what in the blood sacrifice other scholars counter that there are grain offerings given in that to in other places through the Bible where it was accepted but these were also always a campin in with a sacrifice that required the shedding of blood. So it's reasonable to swindle to assume that God verb really gave him this requirement to Adam he in turn taught his sons who were supposed to teach There's blood sacrifices to God was a part of Hebrew culture long before Moses recorded the detail requirements as part of Israel's official covenant with the Lord before Moses they probably learned it from the Patriarchs the Book of Job confirms this Cain's offering could have been a type of brain offering not unlike what we see in the Leviticus 2 and 6 although in both of these cases the grain offering a company into a blood sacrifice is a peace offering or a guilt offering the evidence credibly points us in either direction we have no way of knowing for sure but I do know this the form of the sacrifice and this spirit in which it is given are both important. Cain's offering had neither the form nor the Spirit God desired Abel's was excellent Cain was mediocre This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that God will accept anything we choose to bring as long as we're sincere the next session is called obedience is not negotiable there are many paths to God Some say so no particular belief is right or wrong as long as you sincerely seek Him and that according to Scripture is sincerely wrong and sincerely placed your trust in any means are any person other than Jesus Christ who shed his blood for our sins and God will not receive you sincerely see John 146 in Acts 412 if that sounds harsh let me offer to use perspectives for your consideration 1st the Lord is loving and kind but he is also just he is very discriminating Heavenly Father who has the specific and how we are to come to him but he could not have made that way any less complicated he provides the free gift of salvation paid for by the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ and has left nothing for us to he's done everything that needs to be done leaving us no requirement that one receive the gift that's about as hard as a billionaire demanding that you allow him to give you all of his money grace abounds the 2nd faith demands actions if you really believe God you will do what he says when he says and how he wants it. Came in it came came in his own way Abel came in God's way the manner in which both men approach God revealed the author thinned to City of their faith later in the Bible the Hebrew the author of Hebrew explains that this was a by faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain and through faith he was commanded as righteous beguiles God commanded him for his offering through his faith he still speaks though he is dead that's Hebrews 114 from that in I in 80 Bible true faith is marked by obedience the Apostle John explains it this way by this the children of God in the children of the devil or obvious anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God nor the one who does not love his brother for this is the message which you have heard from the beginning they we should love one another not as Cain who was the evil one and slew his brother and for what reason did he saw him because his deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous 1st John 310 through 12 and that probably comes from the New American Standard Bible that's God's a price all of the offering of Cain and Abel I. Just Cain's offering evil this is the good news radio program you're listening to and it's a ministry of Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in a Los e.r. Consult and also Carm 7. And I'm your radio host in my name is Dr David Evans and we're currently in the middle of a book by Charles our swindle. Fascinating stories of forgotten lives in where in the story of Cain the farmer who murdered his brother and I'm not just kind of been reading His word so let's get back to that this section begins then our relationship with God affects everything this leads us to another undeniable theological truth which I stay here and develop with the remaining facts of this tragic story the quality of our horizontal relationships depend entirely upon having a good vertical relationship Put simply if you're not right with God you'll find yourself at odds with everyone else including yourself I'm fascinated by Cain's disposition so Cain became very angry and his expression was downcast Genesis 45 in 80 as a result of doing what was wrong in experiencing God's just response Cain grew a solid from a human perspective I completely understand why but I find the reaction intriguing After all he knew what he was supposed to do and he chose not to do it then because he didn't receive the favor of God He grumbled probably something about fairness always getting the short end of things the word translated contant countenance is the Hebrew word for face we would say his faith fell he became an extremely angry and his face showed it the Bible doesn't reveal exactly why I Cain became so angry but I speculate I suspect that Cain was jealous plain and simple he didn't want to be outdone by as younger brother God's Fabre on Abel's actress sacrifice quite probably starred Cain's jealousy. That isn't stretching things too far jealousy is a common response to one's person receiving something that another feels he deserves you know there is an Internet thing. There about that that about why I came Canada did what he did and these are my thoughts nots and one dollar as we look back there at those verses in. Farsi John talks about how Cain's deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous in the Book of Proverbs we're told that those that are wicked hate the deeds of the righteous as much as the righteous are think how severe are the and tragic are the deeds of the wicked like instant Cain's murder all of us that are failing followers of Christ would decry that as being a horrible thing well evil looks at righteous deeds evil in wickedness looks at righteous needs also and also. Swindle picks up with this I find it strange that this kind of jealousy usually targets the least logical person Cain was angry and took his rage on a table yet the younger brother did nothing wrong Kane could reason and reason could reasonably resent the Lord for rejecting his offer he might be angry with himself for failing to choose sacrifice as he knew God would receive but why a Will why he had done except what was right again remember the verses in Proverbs now is a good time to pause and do a little self analysis as well as a firm up an important truth if you begin to feel jealous stop for a moment in think. You're angry is likely your anger is likely anger at the wrong person only other hand you may indeed be a victim of injustice or a situation where someone is getting what should be coming the you a natural response would be to worse then saying nothing at all I have long said that truth without law is cruel I may have turning one too many pages yes I think I did not in Ok yes here we go so a natural response would be to resent the other fellow even though he did nothing wrong what sense was there in Cain killing Able when his resentment was against God This brings us to another undeniable truth choosing to do wrong puts a person at odds with himself don't miss God's counsel to Cain then the Lord said to King Why are you angry and why is your expression downcast is it not true that if you do what is right you will be fine but if you do not do one is right sin is scratching at it the door it desires to dominate you and but you must suppress it that's Genesis verses chapter 4 verses 6 and 7 again the ne t. The Lord confronted Cain as a good parent would a child in effect he said to Cain if you do wrong it's your fault don't blame anyone else once you do what is right Cain Your face will follow a B.D.'s comes 1st emotions will follow. One man put it this way Cain began badly by presenting a sinful offering before God Abel gave God the best whereas Keynes merely brought an offering when God rejected as offering Cain complicated the problem by responding Longleat to the rejection the anger and depression was noted by God who observed that this was a wrong response instead God says do right and you will feel right then God warned against failure to reap in and offer the right kind of sacrifice if you continue to complicate the problem with a sinful response as one version says if you misbehave you will fall deeper into deeper sin parenthesis into the clutches of sin which is like a wild animal in parenthesis. When dolling codes a little satirical song that was written by Anna Russell in the 1960 s. About the blame shifting habit we have her lyrics are funny but her message is nevertheless convicting she called it jolly old Sigmund Freud I went to my psychiatrist to be psycho analyzed to find out why I killed the cat and black my husband's eyes he laid me on a downy couch to see what he could find so this is what he dreaded up from my subconscious mind when I was one my mommy hid my Dolly in a trunk so it follows naturally that I'm always drunk when I wish to I saw my father kissed the maid one day and that's why I suffer now from kleptomania. At 3 I had the feelings of and believe glance towards my brothers so it follows naturally I poison all my lovers but I'm happy now I've learned this lesson has taught that everyone I do that that everything I do that frome is someone else's fault so that was written as I said in the sixties and yet it is still quite an indictment on our failure as a society to take responsibility for the consequences of our own disobedience and we really don't do future generations any favors when we rationalize wrongdoing. Neglected in perilous children our council that they are tragic victims of life and therefore not responsible for their poor decisions consequently our prisons are full of self pitying career criminals on the surface the accent Council sounds compassionate because acknowledges the struggle of the un under privilege isn't an immense one but the council that is long on compassion and short own truth is worse than saying nothing at all I have long said that truth without love is cruel at the same time life without truth is deceptive we must always speak the truth and love. Anything last romps a person of the very dignity that God gave every human being the gift of autonomy and with it the dignity of living with the consequences better Council would be quote my friend you're responsible for each and every choice you make in life the consequences your report your own as painful as it is as difficult as it is take root full responsibility for all your own actions faced the facts that you that much of you your response revealed in your face comes from your own choices in the attitude you bring to them in quote Well I think Well Paul's right there the next section we will. Begin to pick up and go forward with the as will be unresolved sin corrupts everything there so just some very insightful things that we've talked ad and looking listen to. There in what we do and about how that there really needs to be. We do need to take responsibility for our own actions being being aware they are that you know how. To pray ved and corrupt. Humankind isn't all of us are and you know just thinking there of how easy it kin become for something. That kind of starts out as jealousy and develops into bitterness and hatred and then murder and so then you can you can easily see why Jesus told us in the Gospel of Matthew that you know we're told not to murder but Jesus says I'm telling you that whoever hates his brother. Is that's that's the same that's the same response and responsibility that we have that we can that we can see that I am sure there are a lot of us out there that would say well I've never murdered anyone but when it gets around to. Well have you really hated anyone then you know that that lies within us and that reveals the corruptness they are was in our hearts and and that's so but you know that the Bible is very explicit in describing and showing us our malady and and the Christian worldview is one of the only worldviews that really does that but it also gives us a beautiful picture of the rim of the forearm malady and how easy it is to have an unfavorable and that is that we would. Just simply agree with God or at mit to God that we are that we are to pray didn't corrupt sinners and we're we're not. A sinners because we commit sins we commit sins because we're centers and and about also that we you know that we believe. In the Lord Jesus Christ we believe that he. Came he died he was buried he rose again the 3rd day and now then we're just coming and we want to call and we just want to cry out toward the sight of us from ourselves and from our corruption and that for him to come in and we surrender to him and we submit to him and we yield Hammon now they were going to let him live in our hearts give us new hearts write his law there in our hearts and in our minds and then that will be demonstrated in the in our actions as we go forth that would be there yes that's right faith does require actions it's one thing to say that we believe but if our actions don't demonstrate that then you should question whether we really believe her or not well I want to thank you for listening I want to think Carm for the use of their studios and equipment out that this message has been helpful to you diagnostic perhaps insightful for the privacy that sits deep inside of each and every one of us and the wonderful remedy that God has provided in that he wants to put stuff so that we can be with him what we were created to be and live with him in terms of well until next time dear ones God bless You've been listening to the good news program hosted by Dr David Evans you could reach Dr Evans via the good news program at 8762 East wagon wheel road in Springdale Arkansas. 72762 or by e-mail at k. 9 d r 72762 at yahoo dot com The good news program is a production of Mt Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church of Hiwatt the Arkansas and 790 8 am k.c. 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Well thank you for joining us on hold for today the Bible teaching ministry of David hockey. What makes someone a privileged person and their income status their educational background Well the truth is while those things might make them privileged on this side of eternity those privileges and advantages don't add up to much if you don't know the Lord David has more for us on this we're continuing through our series in the book of Romans with David heading into his message from chapter 3 1st as one through 8 he's calling it Jews and the oracles of God Stay tuned 1st David's here in studio. God bless you although forget about our website David Hakim dot org There you'll find many resources that are available to you and also their articles that you can. Run through and pick the one they you need you'd like to hear about and is yours and you can download it free of charge. If I'm having a great time teaching the book of Romans I hope you're enjoying it we're starting out in chapter 3 now our subject is Jews and the oracles of God we have to deal with this as we look at righteousness by faith for both Jew and Gentile and the truth of the matter is this is a great subject. We're still dealing with the principle of condemnation that's the 1st principle in Romans and they goes to chapter 3 verse 20 so we're in chapter 3 right now just starting and we're still talking about condemnation let me give you a quick review we saw condemnation of those who reject the revelation of God But there's some more here stay with. Let's get into our study of God's word boy do we have a passage I've read so many commentators on Romans 318 I can't tell you but I've not I have to be truthful there's only like one or 2 that really give you help it's so difficult to follow the reading here and I hope that we'll be able to kind of straighten some of that out or at least make it a little more clear than maybe immediately obvious Romans Chapter 3 verses $1.00 to $8.00 on Jews and the oracles of God were still in that section of the principles of the righteousness of God The 1st of which is condemnation and chapter one verse is 18 to 32 we saw the condemnation of those who reject the revelation of God and thus that without excuse and chapter 2 verses one to 16 we see the condemnation of those who rebuke others want to ignore in their own deeds and again their inexcusable according to chapter 2 verse one and then 3rd we saw the condemnation of those who rely upon their own standards of righteousness. The question who is a Jew he mentioned you call yourself a Jew you rest of the law you do all this boasting you think you're a guide to the blind and a teacher of babes but look at your lives their conduct was displeasing to the Lord and we learned that personal claims are hypocritical when they're not backed up with a godly life style Chapter 2 verses 17 to 24 and then in Chapter 2 verses 25 to 29 we learned that physical circumcision is insufficient to make a person righteous before God even though Jews teach other ones and Paul makes it very clear that he was a Jew is one inwardly and not simply outwardly in the flesh tonight we're really still under that condemnation of those who rely upon their own standards of righteousness and we come to a 3rd better after personal claims and physical circumcision the 3rd matter is very interesting that personal conduct does not affect the nature and character of God and his judgment as pretty significant statement because a lot of his things it does personal conduct does not affect the nature and character of God He remains the same no matter what we do and his judgement will be just no matter what we do a lot of us think we score points with God. A lot of us think that by what we have void we sometimes are more righteous before God than someone who has committed the nasty 9 or Dirty Dozen and some of us believe because of our sin we're somehow nay gating the faithfulness and righteousness of God But when you don't change the character of God and that's what we're going to find out in verses one day so as to read them together with Romans Chapter 3 and follow along as I read verse one. Typical Jewish style we ask a few questions what advantage then has the Junes. Singular hear the Jew What profit is there of circumcision. Answer much every way chiefly because that under them were committed the oracles of God. Quest of. For what is some did not believe. Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect answer God forbid there is certainly not are absolutely no yea let God be true but every man a liar as it is written a dull might as be justified in the eyes sayings and might as to overcome $1.00 judge just. Question But if our own righteousness come in the righteousness of God what shall we say is God unrighteous who take a vengeance Paul add so you make sure. I speak as a man answer God forbid certainly not for then how still God judged the world. For if the truth of God had more of bounded through my law I There comes out of the question and is glory why yet am I also judged as a suitor and not rather As we be slanderously reported Paul says it is some affirm that we say let us do evil that good may come answer whose damnation is just. Well needless to say that stunt easy to follow there what's the point of that are we connecting with the whole context and listen to the Lord and seek His wisdom and his counsel as we study His word Let's purred. Father we thank you so much for your words and we realize that much that we read needs careful thought and the control of the Holy Spirit every thought being brought into captivity to our blessed and lowered help us father not to read into the book what we think but let the book speak to us as it is written thank you that it is the Word of God that we don't make it the Word of God It is the power of God to salvation we don't make it powerful I thank You Lord For that we rest in that and we come desiring Lord that you teach us and the we might understand that all setting of our own standards of righteousness will not do in your sight for you said that all of our righteousness is like filthy rags to you God help us to understand we pray in the wonderful name of our Savior our blessed and Lord our Messiah and our coming King we pray Amen. You'll notice in chapter 3 verse one it says what advantage then and then when you notice verse 9 it says what then never mistake Romans for isolated passages they are not Romans is deeply and powerfully and intimately connected paragraph after paragraph chapter after chapter it is one of the most integrated message systems that you'll find in the entire Bible Romans it's like the constitution of Christianity he's still dealing with condemnation why are we all condemn and so you could look at somebody worse than you are and say well I can see why he is but then when somebody looks good to you from a human perspective or you think even better of yourself and you set your own standard of what is good in the sight of God You think maybe you're better but no you're not all are equally condemn a bit because we have not come to the primary issue of condemnation as yet. We're simply showing why God says all these people are condemned for what they're doing no matter whether the religion is the moralist or whether they're the center of the street or we're all sinners and we're all in need of a savior What did Vandy if and then what then the 2 passages are very much connected as we will show you more next week now let me insert here for those of you are taking notes of my Be good to jot this down the Jews failed to advantaged for 3 reasons one of the 3 reasons Jews felt they were good at advantaged people and I'm going to show you this from God's word because there illustrated in the Bible go to John please the Gospel of John chapter said. When he asked the question what advantage is that to be a Jew you can understand why yes did because after all he just got through blasting everybody who in name only calls himself a Jew and things because he circumcised these in the in-group and Paul blasted into that view and so now the question is well what advantages had to be Jewish. And he's going to answer much in every way but let me show you how the Jews in the Days of Our Lord felt advantage for 3 reasons 1st in John 633. You read this for the bread of God has come down from heaven give us a life into the world remember that passage now look at verse 39 in and 40. This is the with the Father's will which has sent me that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day and this is the will of Him that sent me that everyone would see that the sun and believe it's on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at that day and they said Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know how is it then that he said I came down from heaven Jesus therefore murmured and said into them murmur not among yourselves now isn't it obvious that the teaching of our Lord caused them tremendous consternation and conflict they heard what he said and said wait a minute are you not the son of Joseph were all right do you have to say you came from heaven. So you see this questioning all the time now flip over to chapter 8 all the way through Chapter 678 of John you see a conflict that Jesus is having confrontation with religious leaders and the question is why why are they so upset that he says he's the Messiah Ok so they deny that he's about science but they seem to be worse than that they want to kill him. He is demanding that they believe in him. And they see listen carefully mill need. I could not help before I read the passage that explains this I could not help but be stunned by a letter that came in the mail and hope for today from a gentleman who got our tapes on Jews in the Bible to give to his parents his Jewish parents whom he's praying since he's become a messianic believer he wants them to come to know the lore they did. They listen to the 1st tape that ever got any further and in the 1st tape it says who is a Jew They are really upset happens a lot they are really upset and they turn to tradition immediately to him hating what I said because it was all based on the Bible and the bible's full of myth and fable they said you have to trust the rebidding called scholars The issue is whether or not your mother and dad is Jewish. Right there in his letter and the boy writes that he says please help what do I do now. But you know there's nothing new that's the same thing that was happening at the time of our lowered Chapter 8 is kind of a classic attack. But let's just pick it up. Verse 48 then answered the Jews not the Jewish people the religious leaders as is clear from the context then answered the Jews and servant him say we not well the dollar has some merit and has to double Jesus answered I have not a devil but I honor my father and you do do is honor me the. And I seek not my own glory there's one the secrets and judges Verily verily I say unto you have a man keep by saying he shall never see death then said the Jews and to Him Now we know the one that you have a devil Abraham's did the prophets analyses of a man d. By saying these will never taste of death greater then our. Father Abraham don't ever misunderstand Jews Philip bad deeds number one as the son of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and they say it over and over again but why shouldn't they did not God say that the people that he chose in the nation he chose were the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob you said it over and over again so you can understand how that gets deep within the soul then I have an advantage as a physical descendant of Abraham Isaac and Jacob our father Abraham the got a verse 57 then said the Jews after he said by your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad Labor him live 2100 years before Christ then said the Jews are to Him dollar not to 50 years old and as Abraham Jesus said unto them Verily verily I was saying to you before Abraham was. The next verse says they immediately recognize now that Jesus was greater than Abraham and decided to go to church is that what it says. Hello No it says they took up stones the cast of him Look if you're Jewish nobody is greater than Abraham. You see Jews felt the advantage. Because they are physical descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob these 2 parents said to this son in the letter quoted it he sent me a copy of it they said flat out the only thing that's acceptable to God is that you are physically a Jew Your father and mother is it soon therefore you are and soon and that's all that matters. You see there are people who are members of churches Christian folks who argue the exact same thing. You think your advantage because you were born into a Christian home a Christian family you attended a Christian church this would if they teach the Word of God that was an advantage but let me tell you something a lot of us are not personally advantage simply because we had that experience if we don't know the Lord were as lost as the man in the street who's never been inside the doors. This is the problem let me give you another one to go back to John 5 there was a 2nd reason why the Jews felt advantaged and that is something Paul deals with here chapter 3 of Romans they not only felt advantage because they were a son of Abraham Isaac and Jacob but as those who possessed God's law if you know anything about Jewish people and how they think we have the toll road. Islam says we have the Qur'an but let me tell you it does not match even in the Qur'an or recognizes the tollroad and says that is the book. You see Jews possessed the law of God that God directly revealed His Word 613 commandments to those people and they felt advantage because of it and you can understand how because in this chapter Paul's going to agree with that but yet he's going to show them that they aren't really reading its message correctly. They filled advantage in John 539. Searched the Scriptures Jesus said For in them you think you have eternal life they are they which testify of me you understand Jewish people did search the Scriptures especially rabbinical scholars so much so that they had all the Bible memorized many of them all 22 Hebrew books were so the same as your 39 in the Protestant Bible they do are many letters are in the book What the middle letter was they had to analyze organized you name it they studied the Bible they still do read it and study it by the hour No wonder Paul said there's a veil there blind they do not see it they read Moses every day but they do not see. Just because you read the Bible does not mean you understand the Bible we need the help of the Lord is no doubt about it in chapter 9 of job look at verses 26 to 29 and you can see it again then said they to him again Chapter 9 verse 26 this is concerning that man that was healed of his blindness he had from birth and Jesus healed him and their questioning him about who healed him he answered them that once I was blind now I see but look at this verse 26 then said they to him again What did he did the hope and he dies he answered them I told you already and you did not hear wherefore would you hear it again will you also be as disciples I kind of like this guy don't you. He's got a clever sense of humor this guy Then they reviled him they insulted him in every way possible and said the were his disciple but we are was it say Moses disciples he was free when Jews felt advantaged one it was because they were physically descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and 2 because they were possessors of the law of God The Law of Moses. Unbelievable but there's a 3rd reason and we've already studied it and that is when you're circumcised look over the Acts Chapter 15. I think a lot of us today. And I are taller a sort of almost anything and everything I think a lot of us have not seen the importance of circumcision to the Jewish. The 1st church council ever Hill was over this issue. In other words it was a divisive issue one that church leaders at the time discussed at length which is why we need to try our best to understand the issues well thank you David for that insight and David has more for us on this coming up in just a moment make sure you stick around 1st David wanted to step into the studio here and talk to you about some wonderful resources that we have for you this month. 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Recently we were on a historical mission to Mount Vernon the home of George and Martha Washington standing on the front porch talking with the curators of this historic home I was handed the keys to the front door on a key ring old school style is pretty impressive to be standing on the porch of the general's home in the 1st place but to be holding the keys somehow it struck me at the moment I thought about how many times a block had been turned in the door open where the 1st commander in chief the chairman of the Constitutional Convention the 1st president of the United States this one. Where the most remarkable realities about America is how young our nation really is compared to the nations of Europe in the Far East we truly are the new world and as old as those keys look in the 21st century they still work they still open the door to the real house and the real office and dining room and bedroom where George Washington lived and worked and studied and slapped it's all still there same colors textures language that we speak today are our histories in a mystery in America our history our story it's not ancient It's not difficult to discern over the dusty trails of time. The same river George Washington looked out onto from his front porch the Potomac still right where was the day the general left this earth and the same keys to understanding life and liberty and eternity that he discovered are still with us to this very hour. 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Who is this God in whom I believe who is this God who says he is my heavenly Father who sent his only begotten son who sent the Holy Spirit to be our teacher in error they look who is this God I begin to understand who he is when I begin to understand His ways how he works so if we can learn the ways of God You cannot learn them apart from reading the scriptures and not just reading them but having a deep desire in your heart to know the ways of God. Well going to get in touch with Dr Charles Stanley in Isaiah Chapter 55 God says as the heavens are higher than the Earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts then your thoughts and that's the reason we often don't understand what happens in our lives Stay with us now and hear about some of the things we can know about the ways of God. Over years I prayed a prayer that I did not realize some have the scriptures that somebody else had prices for air and one day I found. That one of God's greatest servants prayed the same prayer that I had been praying I didn't even understand exactly what it all meant or exactly what I was really praying I just knew that I wanted to know something I didn't know. And one day I came across this passage of Scripture and it was Moses who prayed it in he said Now therefore I pray thee if I have found favor in the sight let me know ways that I may know the the title of this message is the ways of God. The ways of God I want you to turn to some 25 because David also was crying out to God in making this petition to him in the 25th song we can start with verse one he says. To the oh lord i lift up my soul oh my God in the trust do not let me be a shame and do not let my enemies exult over me indeed none of those who wait for they will be ashamed those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed make me no die ways oh Lord teach me die paths now what do we mean by the ways of the Lord or more than likely you're not going to found in a definition in your bible where where it says this is what the ways of the Lord when I think about the ways of the Lord I think about how God operates how does God operate I think about how God things how does he think I think about what's God's methods for accomplishing and working in people's lives and and achieving his goals and his perspectives and life the ways of God I don't know of anything personally unless it is being able to hear from God That's more important to know than the least begin to know the ways of God and this is why it's so important for you and me to look in the scriptures and say how did God work in this situation how do you work in David's life Daniel's life as his life Moses life Josephs life how did he work in their lives because that's the way God works these are the ways of God So if we're going to learn the ways of God You cannot learn them apart from reading the scriptures and not just reading them but having a deep yearning desire in your heart to know the ways of God because when I begin to know the ways of God That's when I begin to understand who he is go back to Exodus 33 for a moment and you'll notice what Moses prayed here Exodus 33 ships he says in verse 12 then Moses said the Lord see that outdoes say to me bring up this people but the eldest self has not let me know whom that will stand with me moreover that has said I have known you by name and you have also found favor in my sight now therefore I pray thee if I have found favor in the sight let me know the way is that what. That I may know the so that I'm a fan favorite and listen you and I can't really say yes we do know God if we don't understand some of the ways of God Now I can know a lot of things about him I can know that he's the great I am I can give you all these Hebrew names for him and we can talk about what he did and what he's prophesied and so forth and all the history of it but the ways of God. Moses cried out for God to teach him his ways because what he really wanted to know is what he wanted to know God if I pray for God to show me his ways so I can so I can predict what's going to happen if that's the wrong motive I want to know the ways of God because I want to know who is this God I serve who is this God in whom I believe who is this God who says he is my heavenly Father who sent his only begotten son who sent the Holy Spirit to be our teacher now revealing who is this God I begin to understand who he is when I begin to understand His ways how he works and so when we come to this passage and and we read the psalmist said asking him to teach him his ways what happens is when we don't know his ways it big can become devastating to us because we're going to make wrong decisions we will act out of our flesh out of human nature and human reasoning we will look around to see how other people make their decisions how they operate rather than what does God say that is how does he work and so oftentimes it is our protection in time of trouble and trial and tribulation to ask the question how does God work one of the ways of God when you get in these kind of situations how would God operate and when we understand those ways it is a tremendous protection to us now when I think about it I think about also it's like an anchor like a stabilizer when you and I know the ways of God and we walk in His ways that no matter what happens around us he's going to keep was anchored and stable and strong and peaceful no matter what's happening all around us and so understanding his ways . When I think about it I realize what's going to happen to some degree at least when I understand the ways of God I'm going to be willing to wait for God all of us are impatient we like to do things our way on our schedule when we begin to understand the ways of God One of the things we'll realize is that we have to be patient we have to learn to wait and as I look in the scripture as usual a god is a whole lot slower and acting than most people in the Scriptures expect him to and certainly much slower than you and I expect him to be right we want him to let's move on and get it done we want to hurry got along which is natural and normal but when you not understand the ways of God we are willing to wait because we know in our heart that his way is the best way not only are we willing to wait but when you learn his ways somehow there's a sense of peace and calm is within us when everything around us is falling apart why because we understand the ways of God and when people around you are falling apart and they don't know what to do next or doing the wrong thing when you do not know the ways of God We can stand quietly peacefully assuredly knowing in our heart that God's ways are such that when you and I walk in them there is nothing that can knock us off balance and nothing that can throw us off course is easy to get all because we look at human nature likewise. When you and I learn the ways of God we will not doubt him there will be an increasingly strengthening of our faith because what because we watched how he operates and as you know learn his ways we know that if we do certain things here's what he's going to do and if we fail to do those things here's what he's going to do we get out of his will and begin to be rebellious and want to have it our way the ways of God is this that he will throw a monkey wrench into every single thing that we do when we decide we're going to have our way and do it our way and so the ways of God begin to really be simple to some degree but that is a matter of time and experience and I'd say for many of you for all college students and you're 2123 years of age we certainly expect you to know the ways of God but certainly I hope you're listening and you're learning the ways of God and there are lots of methods of learning his ways but ultimately he must reveal them but certainly one of those is the certainly read the Scriptures and that will give some insight but that's not watching how God operates in other people's lives and what he does is certainly one has said to that so what I'd like to talk about for a few moments and that's this and that is the characteristics of the ways of God That is what are the characteristics of the ways of God let me say 1st of all that the ways of God cannot be tracked humanly the Bible says for example in Romans Chapter 11 look at that Romans Chapter 11 and the 33rd verse look what he says here he says all the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways because that verse the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable are his ways that means that they cannot be tracked down they are untraceable they are hidden and. They are inaccessible through any kind of human knowledge and discovering the ways of God can only be learned as God reveals them so that's why David was crying out and praying to God teach me the ways and why Moses was saying teach me there are ways because the truth is only the Spirit of God can give us this sermon a look if you will in person or in chapter to. Remember what this says 1st Corinthians Chapter 2 when he's talking about how we understand he says and the 11th verse of verse reference to he says for who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him verse 11 Even so the thoughts of God the ways of God No one knows except the Spirit of God Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God that we may know the things freely given to us of God Listen it's certain that God wants you and me to understand how he works why does what he does why his timing is such why he chooses this method above that why he waits sometimes for a long time while it seems that he comes in the nick of time why does God How does God operate and so for example turn to as the Chapter 2. Chapter 2 and the very 3rd verse of that chapter listen to what he says these great saints of God the 3rd verse of Isaiah Chapter 2 he says. And many peoples will come and say Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob that he may teach as concerning his way is and that we may walk in his paths that is there ought to be a desire in our hard to know the ways of God Alice got up right how does he work and so we say 1st of all His ways are unsearchable they are inaccessible by any human knowledge and wisdom and ability because they are revealed by God in excess of over human nature but they are revealed by God He is the one who shows them thoroughly God who teaches his ways now the reason I know that is because Moses was crying out to know his ways David was crying out in those ways others have said we want to learn the ways of God teaches the way and God is the one who places upon our heart this yearning to know Him Another thing I want you to jot down is this one of the characteristics of the ways of God It's usually opposite of the way the world thinks God doesn't think the way the world thinks you can't beat the simple ways of God or the ways of God preaching and teaching the Word of God saying on our face before God and seeking his man in his heart trusting him and walking in his ways that's the way you carry God's work and so people come along they try this and they try and draw the other what last is simply teaching and preaching the Word of God and what happens in your daily life and mine is just real simple just finding out what God says and get lined up with what he says and following what he says and not listen to all the clamor and the new ideas and all the fads that come our way because listen you and I have the Holy Scriptures we have the Word of God we have the ways of God You cannot improve own the ways of God and the reason we get in trouble because we want to antic way. Set aside and just somehow disassociate ourselves with this and call this an inch an antiquated old and so bold and we come up with a new audio let me ask you Can you name me anything any more wiser than to walk in the ways of the infinite wisdom of guy Jew cannot improve on that there's no way to improve on and that's why people say we call it the old fashioned gospel absolute you know how fashion is came from the mind of God as old fashioned ideas and so God is in the process of teaching us his ways and if we are willing to learn his ways what we're going to have to do is acknowledge the fact that God is going to require us to do some things that are obvious what the world owes the world thinks this way and what we have to ask is what is God's way God's of teaching people how to live God that the teaching people his ways the principles of the Word of God which leads me to the next characteristic of the ways of God and it's the best it is the best way his way is always the best way you can improve on the wisdom of God He listens God has never asked you and me to take 2nd best not one single solitary time as he said this is the best way but I want you to choose this way again absolute contradiction listen is a contradiction of the nature of God because the nature of God is what the nature of God is that he has chosen in his supreme superlative Hispanic a love for us His unconditional love it is always doing what reaching out and desiring the best for us therefore the ways of God The best way you cannot improve on the ways of God and we look around us and we see what the world is saying and how they can hammer you ought to do it this way and that way the other way and what happens. We have a whole society today that is absolutely corrupt and it's not working what's happening in this world is not working why because they said now we have a better way to leave God out of this we have a better way and so what do we have we've got chaos and confusion and corruption everywhere we turn because man has said he knows a better way you can't improve on God who is infinite in his wisdom and in for than in his love for us it is the best way likewise the ways of God bear his image that is when you now begin to look around us here's what you're going to find for example is it not true that sometimes you've heard some things and you say that sounds like God. Does some things just sound like him so when we see things going on around us and we see how God is working in someone's life we can say that's the way of God and usually it will contradict human wisdom it will oftentimes challenge my faith but it will contradict human wisdom the ways of God not only the best ways they bear his image the ways of God Also our faith builders that is the ways of God always challenge our faith and as I think about so many times in our own life where I knew that God said do something I think well now has this going to work out or you know what the truth is we know in a way has going to work out for the best as what God said Who are these say he says that when you and I walk in His way that he's engineering all of our circumstances in such a way listen it will be for our good and His glory so I know this about one of the ways of God One of the ways that God specifically is this he works in your life and my life in every single solitary situation in order that he will be glorified and it will be for a good that's the way God works that's one way and though that's of God That's the way of God He will work in every circumstance no matter what and all to bring himself to Laura and all the to do what it will be for Al best and it will be with a process. Of conforming us to his likeness I don't know that because he says he predestine you need to be conformed his likeness so I know that whatever is happening in your life in my life God is up to glorifying himself he's up to doing what is best for you and he's up to conforming you and me to his image that's the way God works now. I just want to share those things with a lot you think about in your own personal life as God operate has he been working the you want to know the ways of God and you've got to get in the Word of God and begin to pray for God to show you his ways so that listen so that all our decisions will be decisions. That are consistent with the way and the working and the thinking of all mighty God. But if you've never trust Jesus as your savior Galloway's be a big confusing figure in your mind but if you will to trust Him as your personal savior things will begin to clear up and you'll begin to understand because listen carefully. If God is going to show me his way. He's not going to show me his way if my will is in opposition to his will he will reveal his ways to those who has surrendered to his ways even before we know what they are now I'll say this to because this is what I affirm daily and oftentimes many times in the day is my whole attitude about my relationship to God full surrender. Full dependence full trust and full focus on Almighty God as when he's looking for full surrender to it. Dependence upon him full trust in him and fully focused on him. You know what there is no way to lose if you walk that path that's God's way. Although we love you for loving us enough to give us this wonderful word and to give us. The inside and to give us the Holy Spirit to teach us than to reveal to was your ways and they're so exciting and they realize that even at the end of our life we'll still be learning your way we'll still be excited to see the surprises you send into our life. The evidence of your hand everywhere we turn. And I pray tonight that you just let this messes sink in get anchored get rooted ork in our hearts. And there will be a hungering yearning thirsting desire within us to know your way in order to know you. And to walk in your way as for we ask it in Jesus name in for his say amen. Thanks for joining us today for in touch with Dr Charles Stanley Hebrews Chapter 13 verse and says Jesus Christ. The same yesterday and today and forever so studying scripture reveals how God operated in the lives of the historical people we read about and can equip us to interpret God's plan for our lives as we grow in understanding who God is will begin to experience a sense of peace if you have a difficult time maintaining consistent peace will be interested in the many resources and touch. That can help you trust in God's constant and unfeeling care for you and to order a copy of today's complete message the ways of God visit our online bookstore this message is also included in our teachings on the character of God Again that's in touch. Or call 1800 in touch you can write to us at In Touch Post-office Box 7900 Atlanta Georgia 30357. Story building event Moses experienced teaches us about Godly decision making today's moment with Charles Stanley is coming up it's hard to find the same old year for people this year's time to give an x. Y. And get something done meaning it does carry loads full of weight person and is that isn't there because of now you'll be like the gavel that is key to step 3 years in the will chair oh so good your friend coworker grandmother teacher a new one if you can think of a gift that lesser. They'll be glad you gave to give and give them less that oh I'd say. When my daughter was 2 months old she was diagnosed with a terminal illness I would pray and ask God if he would heal her in the midst of suffering how do we know what God's will is her life God's will for your life doesn't after a man of mystery learn how to understand and pursue God. Ultimate Plan for your life in Dr Charles Stanley's new book The will of God to order visit in Touched out o. r G slash will of God. There's a lesson for believers in the story of Moses and the burning bush Here's a moment with Charles de. Moses didn't want to do what God said David one thing was certain and I think one of the reasons God met him at the burning bush is that he knew that he was going to have to challenge Moses and he had to approach him in such a fashion he knew this was almighty God speak in Am He is a burning bush that's not consumed in his voice like he's never heard before his a commission that sounds absolutely totally ridiculous here he is a shepherd and he's saying I'm going to take you with your shepherds stick and I'm going to send you down to Pharaoh and I mean you bring out the Nation of Israel you're going to liberate the mana liberate them through you and doesn't make in a sense at all I'm at least you know to have an army and all he's got to stick. You know what a stick is oh god needs when he has a servant who is willing to be obedient to Him and listen when God gives you and me direction to do something listen to me carefully. Nobody around us may understand. You don't make decisions based on public opinion you don't make decisions based on majority thinking you make decisions based on the ways and the will of God. And if you can learn that as a young person you will eliminate a whole lot of heartache and trouble in your life listening to this and listen that listen I don't mean you should hear godly counsel Absolutely but you can't live your life based on human opinion that's not why if you're always listening to the clam of the world and counting money on numbers you going to get in trouble but if you're listening to God with all of your heart it makes no difference one of the voices may be screaming at you but you have to ask is God What do you say and you do what God says to. Find out more about the ways of God at In through the grace of God and your faithful prayer sent. The preceding program is sponsored by in touch ministries the nation's most powerful Christian Voice World War That's 670 Caleb t.-t. Dot com and all over Colorado in. Digital Age d n a m $670.00 calle t.t. Covers it in. Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about Dhaka how it decides will affect nearly a 1000000 people but it calls and said around Johnstone street this is a break point. It never should have come to this yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals aka Dokka in 2012 President Obama issued an executive order that allowed an authorized emigrants who are brought to the u.s. As children to live and work in the United States illegally approximately 700000 people who are dubbed dreamers are currently covered under Dhaka in 2017 the Trump administration announced that it was ending Dhaka giving Congress 6 months to offer a possible replacement solution and we all know what happened next nothing in recent years both political parties have shifted talking points on immigration and now effectively hold positions dictated by their most extreme members rulings by various federal courts against the White House have only entrenched the stalemate So what will the Supreme Court decide 3 outcomes say most likely the court could agree with lower courts that the administration failed to meet the necessary legal requirements for ending DACA that wouldn't be the same thing as saying the administration can't in Dhaka since it was an executive order and not an act of Congress or the court could rule that the administration's decision to end doco was legal and also legally implemented if that happens then dreamers would face deportation as soon as their current authorization expires or the court could issue a more sweeping ruling that President Obama's unissued DACA executive order was illegal predictions based on or arguments are notoriously pointless but it seemed the conservative justices believe the administration had legal discretion to end aka While the liberal justices believe. This administration had nefarious intent in ending DACA And if those lines hold will likely see a 54 decision and favor of the Trump administration now the better question is of course what should the Supreme Court decide and frankly I don't now and a perfect world a decision on this would have been made years ago one that mounts concerns over immigration numbers and forcing borders human dignity and constitutionality but the thing we can't change is that we're now having this debate in the context of a full on immigration mass with the futures of 700000 human beings on the line who are largely in this country through no fault of their own Like I said it never should have come to this but it did because this is what happens when politics takes over everything and in upcoming video in our what would you say Series we answered a question about whether churches should be engaged in political issues our answer is that the question is wrong from the very beginning why because in reality there's no such thing as a political issue there are economic issues environmental issues and yes immigration issues but politics is not a category of issues politics is a process by which we work through issues in an attempt to order our lives together what side of the road should we drive on what's the definition of marriage who should be allowed in the country and who shouldn't but in America almost everything has been reduced down and is now thought up as entirely an exclusively political issues and when that happens moral decisions become matters of power and influence in cases like Dhaka when what's at stake are actual people then both citizens and immigrants alike become the Dehumanizer victims of a process operating out of its lane so what's the way forward Well honestly I'm not sure there is one until we 1st go back and deep politicized most of American life I know that's not a satisfying answer and I wish I had a better word for breakpoint Johnstone street. On November 23rd 20162 teenage boys tossed a burning matches onto the ground by the chimney tops trailing in the Great Smoky Mountains national park their idea fun turns deadly less than a week later when strong winds and spread the fiery embers toward Gatlinburg and pigeon forest more than 17000 acres were burned over 2000 structures damaged or destroyed and most tragic 14 people lost their lives easy to hear this and think How could they play with burning matches in a dry for just how often do we throw out our words without thinking of the consequences James 3 says how great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire and the tongues of fire words carelessly thrown out can do enormous Or we can put out the fire before it begins by speaking words of law the seeking Him I may say Demasi walk among. The 60 minutes of good news starts on the nation's most colorful Christian voice this is a m $670.00 calle t g detailed t g h d come a city gun and stringing along a $670.00 calle t.j. Jug and no. 95. Odd. Thank you so much for tuning in the classic Christianity with Bob George through our glass agrees g.n.a.t. Radio program and the books Bible studies cds and d.v.d.s. We have available for purchase online at Bob George dot net it is our desire in prayer above George ministries that you continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and forever men let's join Bob now as he gets started. Today's lesson. Let's turn to the 3rd chapter of the book of Romans as we have undertake taken the task of going through the book of Romans we have talked about the fact as to how in your 1st chapters or in your 1st verses of chapter one you're talking as town he was talking to the Gentile world and then we pick up in chapter 2 and that goes down through chapter 2 verse one and down through chapter 3 verse 20 where he is directing his conversation to the Jews and so he was talking about the fact of the Jews and the law and now we pick up in in chapter 3 where he's saying what advantage then is there to being a Jew and again friends we have to understand that this Jew and Gentile world it's a different world today right now Russia Seana as being celebrated by the Jewish world and the Jewish community and it's a time of what they call a tome and for their sins in the midst of scripture that says without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins and so in the midst of that type of thing the sacrificial system had kept on going after the death of Christ even though he was the Messiah he was recognized by vast amount of Jewish people the early.
Breast prostate and ovarian health but I'll tell you what the way we're taking vitamin d. Is all wrong it's all men well why do you say that why is it messed up well 1st of all you go to your doctor and I'm going to put out a vitamin d. Supplements and it's like $400.00 international units which is totally worthless God forbid if you're listening right now on your cake you know multi-vitamin and you think your that's why you're on 638 or 10 different prescription drugs I'll tell you that right now because your body is not getting enough to eat the other thing is that vitamin d. Isn't all you don't absorb oils in your body they're very difficult to digest Ok I've come up with my own vitamin d. Which I call Dr Pincus the vitamin d 3 formula so Dr pink is what makes your fast melt vitamin d. Formula so unique Chris 1st of all I put $5000.00 units of Vitamin d. 3 per serving in each tablet so you can actually feel the difference I wanted to give you enough dosage that really goes to work 2nd I use the right type of vitamin d. In my formula which is superior and readily available so your body can digest it and this is known as vitamin d. 3 and 3rd my formula is a fast milk tablet that's available for immediate absorption you know you mentioned the vitamin d. Is an oil so how were you able to make your formula into a fast meld good question Chris here's what I've done I work with an advance team of scientists and these guys they know their stuff and they're using this technology to convert vitamin d. Which is an all into a dry powder and once they do that they put it in his class dissolving Mel for immediate absorption and quick result that you can feel what some of the feedback that you're getting Dr Pincus from people that are taking your fast melt the 3 I'm getting tons of feedback. People that e-mail me here's an e-mail from Betty and she writes I was diagnosed with severe vitamin d. Deficiency and she said she tried many other vitamin supplements Ok and then she discovered my d 3 and she said she went back to her doctor had her blood test and her blood tests went back into a normal range ships within weeks Wow All right folks I want to take a moment here to let you listeners know that if you want to try Dr pink this is vitamin d 3 formula there's a special toll free number for you to call it's 180-467-0298 you know Dr Pincus is vitamin d. 3 formula is a fast dissolving melt there's a vailable for immediate absorption by your body for rapid results and by getting vitamin d. 3 into your body you're going to have a bolster immune system improve balanced stronger muscles and fewer aches and pains and just see you know Dr Pincus has arranged a very special offer that's only available to you listeners so when you call be sure to mention this program and you're going to get a risk free trial of Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 again this is only available to listeners and only if you call this toll free number it's 180-467-0298 plus if you call right now you'll also qualify for an extra free supply with your order to keep for yourself or share with a family member or friend but you must call now because this special radio offer is not available in stores or online so that number to call is 180-467-0298 remember folks you have absolutely nothing to lose here because Dr Pincus says vitamin d 3 formula is guaranteed to be safe and effective or your money back and when you do call an order you will not be automatically enrolled in one of those monthly subscription programs this is a one time order so the number. The call is 180-467-0298 give it to you again ready it's 180-467-0298 all right for those you're just joining us I have Dr Michael Pincus on the line with us today we've been talking about Dr Pincus is fast melt vitamin d 3 formula and this vitamin d. Deficiency is really an epidemic now causing all kinds of health concerns but the issue is even if you're trying to get vitamin d. Back in your body you're most likely taking the wrong type of the wrong form of vitamin d. The wrong way maybe not even getting enough of it and doctor because when we start here by talking about you know why is this deficiency such an epidemic despite all of the awareness and the products that you see on the store shelves containing vitamin d. Well that's a good point 70 percent of us in this country are deficient in vitamin d. The fact is is that your body needs vitamin d. This is a hormone that should be there and it's not there and the statistics show that back in the seventy's when we started it in cable networks and of course with the Internet we're not going outside and most of us get no vitamin d. From the Sun What makes your fast meld the 3 formula a much better choice for crit 1st of all I put $5000.00 units of Vitamin d. 3 purser going in each tablet so you can actually feel the difference 2nd I use the right type of vitamin d. In my formula and 3rd I work with an advanced team of scientists and they're using this technology to put it in his mass dissolving melt for immediate absorption and quick results that you can feel now is your fast melt vitamin d 3 formula manufactured here in the u.s. Dr Pincus Yeah absolutely my formulas manufactured right here in the USA Chris in fact. We have a facility that is the g.m.p. Certified lab which means current good manufacturing practices and this is an f.d.a. Mandated stead a rules that we follow as a matter of fact just recently the f.d.a. Came in and did an inspection and they said hey guys keep up the good work now you mentioned earlier that there's a strong connection between vitamin d. And diabetes talk a little bit about how your fast Mel b 3 formula could help folks that are dealing with diabetes or even at risk of getting diabetes or diabetes is a huge problem and in type 2 diabetics what we find is that there's plenty of insulin in the bodies but the insulin is not recognized by the cells and so what vitamin d 3 does is a to step problem and it seems to fix it now they've studied vitamin d 3 and it didn't prove this insulin signature by 60 percent and just to give you a comparison the most popular diabetic drugs improves that 13 percent Wow Now let me ask you this Dr Pangloss How can your fast meld these 3 formula help boost your immune system vitamin d. Is responsible for 200 different chemicals that your immune cells produce to fight off bacteria and viruses listen if you're some of the susceptible to having any type of called flu I would start right now taking one of my vitamin d. 3 every day and one of the nice things about this is that the side of your immune system being better you'll find your energy better you'll find less pain less arthritic type pain more mobility flexibility better muscle strength and if you're someone who's concerned about falling you'll have better balance and a better sense of walking which is so important so and how do you take it Dr biggest you can. In the morning you can take it at night you don't need water then you put in your mouth and you know maybe call the 30th gone or why now and maybe you can share again for those that may have just joined us some of the responses that you get from people that have been taking your formula and what kind of results of they seen let me tell you my own story over the summer I didn't take as much of my d. Tree as actually travelling and I ran out of it don't what happened to me was you know I'm basically pain free but I also said I started having pain in my hands I know what is this is who we are but then I realize that I had run out of. Formula and I went off of it for several weeks and the minute I started going on it it took about 7 maybe 8 days the pain went away crazy that's how you know something's working right if you stop and the health issues come back well there's your answer that's the best test that anyone can listen to especially if you're on the fence you go I wonder if this is really for me and what I would do Chris is the next time you give the number to have people orders is go ahead and order it I know you mentioned it's a risk free offer and go ahead and try it yourself and stay out of her 5 or 6 weeks and then if you're still down on it then go off of it and see if anything gets worse and again folks I want to take a moment here to let you listeners know that if you want to try Dr pink is vitamin d 3 formula there's a special toll free number for you to call it's 180-467-0298 as we've been talking about Dr Pincus is vitamin d. 3 formula is a fast dissolving melt that's available for immediate absorption by your body for rapid results and by getting Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 inch your body you're going to have a bolster immune system improve balance stronger muscles and fewer aches and pains and keep in mind folks Dr Pincus has arranged to. Very Special Offer it's only available to you listeners so when you do call be sure to mention this program and you'll get a risk free trial of Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 again this is only available to listeners and only if you call this toll free number it's 180-467-0298 plus if you call right now you'll qualify for an extra free supply with your order to keep for yourself or share with a family member or friend but you must call now because this special radio offer is not available in stores or online so the number to call is 180-467-0298 keep in mind you have absolutely nothing to lose here because Dr Pincus is vitamin d. 3 formula is guaranteed to be safe and effective or your money back and when you do call an order you will not be enrolled in any of those monthly subscription programs this is a one time order folks so the number to call is 180-467-0298 I give it to you again it's 180-467-0298 so what do you think folks are you one of the 70 percent of people listening most likely taking the wrong type of vitamin d. Supplement joining us today is our good friend Dr Michael Pincus and we've been talking about his fast melt vitamin d 3 formula and Dr Pincus what you're saying is that most of us are deficient in vitamin d. And because of that deficiency it's causing health issues like pain muscle weakness immune problems and that most vitamin d. Supplements are not the best form and more importantly it's not the right amount of vitamin d. To really make an impact is that what you're saying yes that's exactly what I'm saying for if it's a multifaceted problem or one we're not getting enough. Vitamin d. 3 in our system vitamin d. Trees are responsible for activating 2000 different genes in the body controlling everything from diabetes to hormone production to muscle strength heart beating correctly digestion immune system it's a really long list and honestly it surprised me because in medical school we learned that vitamin d. Was necessary for the bombs we get enough being outside and in our milk end of story right for the 1st 20 some years I practice I never prescribe vitamin d. I just didn't think it was necessary and then in the early 2000 the study started coming out and now there's over 2300 studies that just show that vitamin d. Is absolutely necessary and it's not just a good idea it's absolutely necessary it's a hormone that should be in the body and it's not there and you share some of that research Dr Pincus and more importantly what's the conclusion of the research related to vitamin d. Well one of the biggest studies ever on vitamin d. Were from the u.s. Navy Ok so I think it was like 145000 men and women were studied and they found that the number one non-combat reason that people died in the Navy was due to melanoma so skin cancer so I'm reading that study you know I kind of pot is right then I went Yeah it makes sense you know people are out on the decks of ships in the equator and all over the world and they're getting in the harmful use of young rays and they're developing skin cancer but then I read on and it said most of the victims were office workers like Clerks and people in hangers on inside and then went home. So it was a link going back to vitamin d. Deficiency in the body what about muscle and bone strength can your d 3 formula help with that. As critical like if you're someone that's over 50 especially if you're seeing a progression of the core muscles in your body starting to slow down 1st it's kind of a quantum thing that people kind of feel like they're getting clumsy physically and then it's the lack of flexibility that you start to stiffen up and you feel it at night especially if you're in bed roll in from side to side you wake up with your knees hurting your legs are restless your shoulders hurt that's at this in a setting in that's associated with a lack of this violent d 3 in my formula so if you're someone listening right now and you're having a lot of joint pain bone pain muscle pain fibromyalgia I would say start on my formula immediately and start taking one or 2 of my vitamin d. Threes a day for the 1st week or 2 to get your doses up quickly so let me ask you about these gummy vitamins does that work can you put enough vitamin d. Into a little gummy bear and is that the best way to get it in your body course not Chris you know they'll go to any type of lengths to try to market things that seem good but you're taking a lot of sugar and gelatin waxed my thing it's not what you take it's what your body absorbs when I want to talk more about what happens when people start taking your fast melt the 3 formula or that's a really good question because the 1st area that vitamin d. Seems to affect is your energy your sleep your outlook your mood and then after being on it for a while your core strength will come back so for those of you who have slowed down you're going to feel more energy like physically so it's kind of like feeling a little bit younger Chris and who wouldn't want that and maybe you can share again for those that may have just joined us some of the responses that you get from people that have been taking your formula and what kind of results of they seen or one of the surprising one was I gave it to my brother in law who had gone. To his doctor and was very concerned about his cholesterol blood fat and his weight and I put him on my vitamin d 3 and he went back in 3 months later and a blood profile was perfect all right I want to take a moment here to let you listeners know that again if you want to try Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 formula there is a special toll free number for you to call right now it's 180-467-0298 you know as we've been talking about here Dr Pincus is vitamin d. 3 formula is a fast dissolving melt which makes it available for immediate absorption by your body for rapid results and by getting Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 in your body you're going to have a bolstered immune system improve balance stronger muscles and fewer aches and pains and again keep in mind that Dr Pincus has arranged a very special offer that's only available to you listeners today so when you do call please be sure to mention this program you're going to get a risk free trial of Dr Pincus is vitamin d 3 again this is only available to listeners and only if you call this toll free number it's 180-467-0298 plus if you call right now you also qualify to receive an extra free supply with your order today to keep yourself or share with a family member or friend but you must call right now because this special radio offer is not available in stores or online so that number to call is 180-467-0298 keep in mind folks you have absolutely nothing to lose here because Dr Pincus is vitamin d. 3 formula is guaranteed to be safe and effective or your money back and when you do call an order you're not going to be enrolled in $1.00 of those automatic monthly subscription programs this is a one time order so. I encourage you to the number to call is 180-467-0298 now give that to me again it's 180-467-0298 so how about of folks I mean what it really comes down to here is we're not getting the right form or another vitamin d. Delivered the right way which is why we have so many of these health concerns that you probably can't put your finger on and Dr Pigg is I want to start just recapping here that there are a couple different forms of vitamin d. Maybe explain why the typical form that you would find in most off the shelf the formulas is different from what you've put together here well there's vitamin d. 2 and there's vitamin d. 3 and the 2 is the type of vitamin d. That has to be activated by your body and so has to be converted into vitamin d. 3 vitamin D's 3 is the activated form so it's ready to go to work now the vitamin d 3 that I use in my formula I think it's the best because I've seen the best results with myself and my family with my patients plus I've worked with the lab where the people in the lab have taken this and they they test their blood every day to see how the deal is going and it's gone up and out through the roof where it should be while so Dr Pincus I mean who should consider taking your fast melt my to Mindy formula Well I would definitely start with kids for development and the munity obviously young adults in their twenty's need vitamin d. To keep their immune system strong men and women in their thirty's you're talking about higher health immunity cardiovascular problems start to turn around but it's also the child rearing years and vitamin d. For pregnant women is very very important people in their forty's. You know you start seeing more of those aches and pains like you never felt. 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Welcome to Friendship with God with our Bible teacher Tom Cantor Today's message and previous messages can be listened to or downloaded for free at Friendship with God dot org friendship with God o.-r. G You can also obtain free resources from Tom Cantor and view our online bookstore at Friendship with God or g. Or call us at 802473051802473051 Tom Cantor also has a daily devotional verse that comes out each day by email and on Facebook you receive this small daily devotional verse the time Cantar puts out you can sign up a friendship with God orgy friendship with God done or gene or find Tom Cantor on Facebook by searching for Tom Cantor and friendship with God Now here is our Bible teacher Tom cancer. God shows a Moses on the backside of the desert an abominable shepherd in the eyes of the Egyptians why so that Moses flesh should not glory in his presence that's an interesting picture of us when we think of that us the common desert Bush and the Holy Spirit in us as the flame of fire coming out of the middle of this Bush there's there's no thrilling real there's no greater there's no greater for real there's no greater thrilling realisation for us as believers than to come to this fool understanding that God's Spirit lives in us now I know we know that is a doctrine I know we know that because the Bible says it but the question is Has it really Tom to impact us have we gotten a hold of it do we really understand this God's Holy Spirit living inside of us you know this was the truth that when it grabbed the Apostle Paul it changed him it did something for him he speaks about this not only in Galatians 220 where he said Christ lived in me but in Galatians 115 through 18 where he wrote about his life story and he said but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called to be by his grace to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the g. He then immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood neither when I have to Jerusalem to them which were possible before me but I went into a Rabia every turn to get on to Damascus then after 3 years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode within 15 days so here was a pall with a tremendous call from God to as a Jewish person to go to the despised Gentiles and as he put it preach among the heathen that. It was really for Paul a mission impossible How is Paul going to preach among the heathen we see that in verse 15 of this Galatians one chapter we see that Paul how does call from God he said God called me by His grace and now the question is How is Paul going to be able to do that where is his enablement going to come from and Paul says it was revealed to him his enablement from God was revealed to him what was the enablement that God gave Paul to accomplish what God was calling him to do. Very simple he said God revealed His son in me when God revealed to Paul that his son was in him in the Person of the spirit of his son then when God revealed to Paul that is spirit of his son was in him Paul saw himself as just that common every day desert Bush but the Spirit of God in him was that flame of fire out of the midst of a Bush this was the great revelation that God gave to Paul of the how he was going to do it this was the how to God was saying to Paul this is how you're going to fulfil my call Paul you're going to go and preach among the heathen how God how to tie Paul verse 16 because I'm going to reveal my son in you so that you might preach him among the heathen How was God's Son the Lord Jesus Christ in Paul the Lord Jesus Christ was in Paul in the Person of the security of his son called the Bible the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God also called in the Bible the Spirit of Christ that's exactly how Peter described the Old Testament prophets as being able to write the prophecies that they wrote in the Bible turn if you would to 1st Peter chapter one verses 10 through 11 1st Peter one verse Peter one verses 10 to 11 were Peter speaks about the Old Testament prophets and he addresses how in the world they were able to see and write the things that were going to happen in the future and he says of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what or what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in. In them did signify when it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow Peter described the ability of the prophets as coming from the Spirit of Christ which was in them so the Spirit of Christ in the profits made each one of the Prophets a common every day desert Bush with the spirit of Christ in them as a flame of fire out of the midst of a Bush now whether it's Paul or whether it's the prophets or whether it's us we come to understand how we can do all things through Christ as God reveals to us that does period of Christ the Spirit of his son is in us then we understand when God reveals to us that the spirit of his son is in us then we will see ourselves as the common every day desert Bush and the Spirit of God as a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush when we see that Romans 78 is true for us which says that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing when we see that John 155 is true of us where it says about the Lord Jesus Christ that with out me you can do nothing when we see that John 1416 through 70 is true for us about the Holy Spirit where it says that he may abide with you for ever and that he did well and with you and shall be in you then we will have the confidence to say the very words of Philippians 413 that I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me then we see ourselves as the common everyday desert Bush and the Spirit of God as a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And that also changes how we see our temptations and our trials turn if you would to Matthew Chapter 4 and verse one which is the beginning of the temptation of the Lord in the desert wilderness where it says then was Jesus let out of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil then was Jesus as a lad up into the wilderness and he was let out of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil that verse is telling us that is the Spirit of God who led the Lord Jesus into the wilderness so that he could be tempted by the devil that verse is indicating to us that it's the superior of God who wants to do battle with the devil through the Lord Jesus when we look at temptations and trials we say Oh the devil is wanting to destroy me I have to fight with the devil but when we are tempted and tried it's actually the Spirit of God in us that wants fight with the devil through us and when we're tempted tried it's the Spirit of God in us who wants to triumph over the devil through us so Matthew for one is actually telling us that the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil it's the Spirit of God in us who wants to defeat the devil through us we're just a common desert Bush nothing special but there is a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush that will defeat the devil now that also means when the devil challenges us when the devil attacks us the devil does not have his goal to defeat just a common every day desert Bush the devil is actually challenging and attacking the flame of fire coming out of the midst of a bush and when we are conscious of this and always conscious of the fact that the Spirit of God is in us then we will see every challenge and. Back on us from the devil as really a challenge an attack on The Spirit of God in us that means we're just a common desert Bush but as the Spirit of God or the flame of fire in the midst of the bush that the Devils really attacking Now we come down to verse 2 What amazed Moses when he saw the bushes described for us in verse 2 word says and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed Moses was 1st drawn to see the bush that was burning with fire that's not an everyday occurrence but it was that this Bush was not consumed that's what grabbed him he 1st goes to look at the bushes on fire but then he realizes the Bush isn't burning up and that just amazed Moses you know Russians are one time asked an advisor What's the greatest proof that the Bible is true and the adviser replied back 2 words the Jew The fact that the Jew has survived is the greatest proof that the Bible is true and that burning bush with the fire is actually even used today in Israel as a symbol for the nation of Israel why because so many times the Jewish people have been targeted for destruction from the Romans to the ink well even before the Romans from the Canaanites and from those were here with the Egyptians and then the Romans to the Inquisition to the Crusades to the programs to the Nazis the Jews have been been targeted over and over and over again but you know what the Jews actually end up attending their funerals and the Jew remains and today we have the Iranians and the Palestinians and they target the Juve for destruction and the Jew will survive why. Because the Jew is like a bush that was not consumed with fire Moses described the Jewish people in Egypt in Deuteronomy for 20 as in an iron furnace when he said this you are running for 20 but the Lord has taken you and brought you forth. Out of the iron furnace even out of Egypt to be on to him of people of inheritance as he are this day so from this verse it really appears that Pharaoh was like Hitler Hitler had iron furnace concentration camps Pharaoh had ion furnaces for what purpose to burn the body the bodies of the Jewish people so as a matter of fact it's actually believed that when we get to Exodus 8 when God told Moses and the 3rd plague for Aaron to strike the dust in Exodus 8 that it was actually the dust of the burnt Jewish bodies from the iron furnace as that was struck and then turned to lice so down through history the Jews have gone from one iron furnace to another iron for ns so what explanation does the Bible give for why the Jewish people have not and will not be consumed by all those iron furnace has turned if you would to Isaiah Chapter 63 verse 7 Isaiah 637 through 10 where it's written this I will mention the loving kindness is of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to His mercies and according to the multitude of His loving kindness as for he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their savior in all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in this pity he deemed them and he bear them and carried them all the days of old but they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit Now these are some of the most wonderful verses in the Bible about God's love for the Jewish people these versa. Speak of God's loving kindness is of His mercies of his great goodness to the Jewish people they speak of how God became the savior of the Jewish people and then it says in all their afflictions God was afflicted then God tells why the Jewish people have not been consumed the angel of his presence save them and it was because of the presence of God in the fire in the middle of the bush that kept the Bush from being consumed it was because of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the middle of the Jewish people that have kept them from being consumed by their enemies God by His presence in the midst of the Jewish people in the midst of the Jewish people who have rebelled against him in the midst of the Jewish people who have vexed him has nevertheless God has nevertheless preserve the Jewish people as a nation from being destroyed and even though the Jewish people they rebelled against the Lord Jesus Christ He has not he never will forsake them because of his great love for them throughout history that's all we see he has marvelously saved them over and over again from their enemies now in verse 3 and Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the Bush is not burnt so now we see Moses talking to himself Well it's no wonder if we were that wonder for us to see Moses talk for themselves other wrong with that it's out there is out there is no one else to talk to you may forget how to have conversation to go on his the back side of the desert the sheep don't talk so Moses was to have a conversation so what does he do is speak for themself Moses tells himself that he has decided now to turn aside he wants to see what Moses cause a great site a great site and the great site is that the Bush is not burned so Moses was so impressed with the bush that it didn't get burnt up you know it's interesting you know all of the Old Testament the way. Word Bush only occurs here in these 3 verses verses 23 and 4 and one other place that's all you never find this word Bush any place in the Old Testament except here and the and in Deuteronomy and it's interesting how the verse in Deuteronomy when he speaks about the bush and it goes back to this Bush how it refers to it it says in Deuteronomy 3316 and for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof and for the good will of the him that dwelt in the bush let the blessings come upon Joseph in the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren in this passage Moses is explaining how God bless the sons of Jacob goes one by one and here Moses comes to Joseph and he's speaking about and he refers to the one in the bush here as the one having the good will and he says the good will of Him The dwelt in the bush now what happened in other words what Moses was saying here is what happened at the bush was a display of the good will of God and when Moses spoke of God in the bush he said that God dwells in the bush and that's a very important Hebrew word dwelt that's the word shotgun for the use for that wealth and that word is used in the Bible also for the tabernacle the word tabernacle is mish con and Mish con comes from the shock on to dwell so what God emphasized about the tabernacle was the goal of the tabernacle or the purpose God's purpose for the tabernacle which he stated when he gave his introduction to Moses that he wanted to make a cat tabernacle and Nexus 258 when God said to Moses left on make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them make me a mission got a tabernacle that I may show con men. Dwell among them so the purpose of the tabernacle was for God to dwell among his people and that concept of God welling with man in the tabernacle was used as a base as for how the rabbis described the fire or the glory that was seen over the tabernacle the rabbis not the Bible but the rabbis called that check enough the Chicago glory again it comes from the word check on to 12 now this is the word the word welsher con that Moses used to describe what he saw in the burning bush he saw God welling in the bush in other words God was totally at home in the bush like the word well implies God had commie on packed his bags and he's going to reside there is going to stay there he's at home he's comfortable in the bush and this amazed Moses and so he talks about it was the good will of Him The dwelt in the bush and what amazed Moses about all this was that the Bush was not consumed and Moses described God as dwelling in the Bush Cheney had a good will in the bush was not consumed and so when he referred to him in the bush as the goodwill of the in the 12th in the bush the question for us is how was the good will of God seen in the burning bush and Moses said it was the good will of him the 12 the bush so it's a good question for us I was that good will scene of God in the burning bush Well the answer is what impressed Moses about the bush he says why the Bush is not burned that's what he said in X.'s 33 why the bushes not burn in other words why the Bush was not consumed Why was Moses impressed with the fact that God was in the bush that God had a good will and that the Bush was not consumed fire in the Bible always speaks of judgment as a matter of fact Moses told later in Deuteronomy 23324 he told you. Israel these words take heed on to yourselves that's the forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you and make you it graven image or the likeness of anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden to forbid in the now verse $24.00 for the Lord die God is a consuming fire even a jealous god so no Moses warns Israel that God judges sin and he describes God in this judging sin mode as a consuming fire so again we ask the question if God is a consuming fire then why was not the bush consumed and the answer is the bush was not consume because of the good will of God You and I and every one of us has sinned we all should be consumed by the fire of God's judgment God is a consuming fire in his judgment we should all be consumed by the fire God's judgment but like the bush we are not consumed by the fire why because the fire should have consumed us because of our sins but that fire fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's what Isaiah 53 is saying all over and over and over again in Isaiah 53 for when he says Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and Isaiah 535 where he says he was wounded for awed transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities in Isaiah 536 word says the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all and Isaiah 538 for the transgression of my people was he stricken Isaiah 5312 he bear the sin of many over and over and over and over again the truth is being stated which is summarized in 1st Corinthians $153.00 Christ died for our sins and that means the fire the. The judgment that was due us it fell on him and it's expressed so well in this Him Christ what burdens bow by head all Christ what burdens bow die head our load was laid on the thou students in the sinners dead didn't bear all ill for me a victim led die blood was shed now there's no load for me death and the curse were in our cup Christ twas full for these but Dol has drained the last dark drop his empty now for me that bitter cup love drank it up now but less things left for me just hold the lifted up his rod all Christ it fell on these that I was sore stricken of by God There is not one stroke for me the tears that have blood beneath it flowed the bruising healing me were like the bush the consuming fire of God's wrath does not consume us because it fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's why Moses referred to the bush in Deuteronomy 3316 as the one who had the good will the good will of Him that wealth in the bush now in verse 4 we read that and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called on to him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses and he said here among Now we see that when Moses stopped and turned aside to look at the bush that out of the middle of the Bush God calls to Him So God calls out the name of Moses that must have been really a surprise for a Moses to hear is name coming out of a bush with the fire and Moses knew that this was God because He knew his name Moses knew something about God and he had heard God now for the 1st time. Call him by his name and Moses spoke about this he spoke about this incident in Exodus later on X.'s 33 verse 17 where he says and the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing that I was poking for the house down grace in my sight I know the body need God said to Moses I know the by name is that wonderful wouldn't kill is that a great thought of the God saying I know you by name and when Moses heard God call his name Moses knew that he had found Grace with God. at 802473051. What are you doing Sunday nights to join friendship with God radio Bible teacher to. Cantor of the Friendship with God Fellowship church every Sunday night at 5 30 pm at the creation and through history museum in Santee California Watch and listen live around the world to tone Cantor's Sunday evening on youtube dot com by searching for the friendship with God fellowship by going to our home page of friendship with God does o.-r. G. . 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Desert an abominable shepherd in the eyes of the Egyptians why so that Moses flesh should not glory in his presence that's an interesting picture of us when we think of the us the common desert Bush and the Holy Spirit in us as the flame of fire coming out of the middle of this Bush there's there's no thrilling real there's no greater there's no greater thrill there's no greater thrilling realisation for us as believers than to come to this fool understanding that God's Spirit lives in us now I know we know that is a doctrine I know we know that because the Bible says it but the question is Has it really Tom to impact us have we gotten a hold of it do we really understand this God's Holy Spirit living inside of us you know this was the truth that when a grabbed apostle Paul it changed him it did something for him he speaks about this not only in Galatians 220 where he said Christ lived in me but in glaciers 115 through 18 where he wrote about his life story and he said but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and call to be by his grace to reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the g. He then immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood neither when I have to Jerusalem to them which were possible before me but I went into a Rabia every turn to get on to Damascus then after 3 years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode within 15 days so here was a pall with a tremendous call from God to as a Jewish person to go to the despised Gentiles and as he put it preach among the heathen that was really for Paul a mission impossible How is Paul going to preach among the heathen. We see that in verse 15 of this Galatians one chapter we see that Paul how does call from God he said God called me by His grace and now the question is How is Paul going to be able to do that where is his enablement going to come from and Paul says it was revealed to him his enablement from God was revealed to him what was the enablement that God gave Paul to accomplish what God was calling him to do. Very simple he said God revealed His son in me when God revealed to Paul that his son was in him in the Person of the Sapir and of his son then when God revealed to Paul that is spirit of the son was in him Paul saw himself as just that common every day desert Bush but the Spirit of God in him was that flame of fire out of the midst of a Bush this was the great revelation that God gave to Paul of the how he was going to do it this was the how to God was saying to Paul this is how you're going to fulfil my call Paul you're going to go and preach among the heathen how God how Sit tight Paul verse 16 because I'm going to reveal my son in you so that you might preach him among the heathen How was God's Son the Lord Jesus Christ in Paul the Lord Jesus Christ was in Paul in the Person of the Sapir it of his son called the Bible the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God also called in the Bible the Spirit of Christ that's exactly how Peter described the Old Testament prophets as being able to write the prophecies that they wrote in the Bible turn if you would to 1st Peter chapter one verses 10 through 11 1st Peter one verse Peter one verses 10th year 11 were Peter speaks about the Old Testament prophets and he addresses how in the world they were able to see and write the things that were going to happen in the future and he says of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what or what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in. In them did signify when it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow Peter described the ability of the prophets as coming from the Spirit of Christ which was in them so the Spirit of Christ in the profits made each one of the Prophets a common every day desert Bush with the spirit of Christ in them as a flame of fire out of the midst of a Bush now whether it's Paul or whether it's the prophets or whether it's us we come to understand how we can do all things through Christ as God reveals to us that does Sapir and of Christ the Spirit of his son is in us then we understand when God reveals to us that the spirit of his son is in us then we will see ourselves as the common everyday desert Bush and the Spirit of God as a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush when we see that Romans 78 is true for us which says that in me that is in my flesh no good thing when we see that John 155 is true of us where it says about the Lord Jesus Christ that with out me you can do nothing when we see that John 1416 through 70 is true for us about the Holy Spirit where it says that he may have by with you for ever and that he did well and with you and shall be in you then we will have the confidence to say the very words of Philippians 413 that I can do all things for through Christ which strengthens me then we see ourselves as the common every day desert Bush and the Spirit of God as a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And that also changes how we see our temptations and our trials turn if you would to Matthew Chapter 4 and verse one which is the beginning of the temptation of the Lord in the desert wilderness where it says then was Jesus let out of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil then was Jesus as a lad up into the wilderness and he was let out of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil that verse is telling us that is the Spirit of God who led the Lord Jesus into the wilderness so that he could be tempted by the devil that verse is indicating to us that it's the Sapir of God who wants to do battle with the devil through the Lord Jesus when we look at temptations and trials we say Oh the devil is wanting to destroy me I have to fight with the devil but when we are tempted and tried it's actually the Spirit of God in us that wants don't fight with the devil through us and when we're tempted and tried it's the Spirit of God in us who wants to triumph over the devil through us so Matthew for one is actually telling us that the Spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil it's the Spirit of God in us who wants to defeat the devil through us we're just a common desert Bush nothing special but there is a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush that will defeat the devil now that also means when the devil challenges us when the devil attacks us the devil does not have his goal to defeat just a common every day desert Bush the devil is actually challenging and attacking the flame of fire coming out of the midst of a bush and when we are conscious of this and always conscious of the fact that the Spirit of God is in us then we will see every challenge and. Act on us from the devil as really a challenge an attack on The Spirit of God in us that means we're just a common desert Bush but it's the Spirit of God or the flame of fire in the midst of the bush that the Devils really attacking Now we come now to verse 2 What amazed Moses when he saw the bushes describe for us in verse 2 words says that he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed Moses was 1st drawn to see the bush that was burning with fire that's not an everyday occurrence but it was that this Bush was not consumed that's what grabbed him he 1st goes to look at the bushes on fire but then he realizes the Bush isn't burning up and that just amazed Moses you know Russians are one time asked an advisor What's the greatest proof that the Bible is true and the advisor replied back 2 words the Jew The fact that the Jew has survived is the greatest proof that the Bible is true and that burning bush with the fire is actually even used today in Israel as a symbol for the nation of Israel why because so many times the Jewish people have been targeted for destruction from the Romans to the ink well before the Romans from the Canaanites and from those who are here with the Egyptians and then the Romans to the Inquisition to the Crusades to the programs to the Nazis the Jews have been been targeted over and over and over again but you know what the Jews actually end up attending their funerals and the Jew remains and today we have the Iranians and the Palestinians and they target the Juve for destruction and the Jew will survive why. Because the Jew is like a bush that was not consumed with fire Moses described the Jewish people in Egypt in Deuteronomy for 20 as in an iron furnace when he said this you are running for 20 but the Lord has taken you and brought you forth. Out of the iron furnace even out of Egypt to be on to him of people of inheritance as he are this day so from this verse it really appears that Pharaoh was like Hitler Hitler had iron furnace concentration camps Pharaoh had ion furnaces for what purpose to burn the body the bodies of the Jewish people so as a matter of fact it's actually believed that when we get to Exodus 8 when God told Moses and the 3rd plague for Aaron to strike the dust in Exodus date then it was actually the dust of the burnt Jewish bodies from the iron furnace as that was struck and then turned to lice so down through history the Jews have gone from one iron furnace to another ion for ns so what explanation does the Bible give for why the Jewish people have not and will not be consumed by all those iron furnace is turned if you were to Isaiah Chapter 63 verse 7 Isaiah 637 through 10 where it's written this I will mention the loving kindness as of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to His mercies and according to the multitude of His loving kindness is for he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their savior in all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in this pity he deemed them and he bear them and carried them all the days of old but they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit Now these are some of the most wonderful verses in the Bible about God's love for the Jewish people these versa. Speak of God's loving kindness is of His mercies of his great goodness to the Jewish people they speak of how God became the savior of the Jewish people and then it says in all their afflictions God was afflicted then God tells why the Jewish people have not been consumed the angel of his presence save them and it was because of the presence of God in the fire in the middle of the bush that kept the Bush from being consumed it was because of the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the middle of the Jewish people that have kept them from being consumed by their enemies God by His presence in the midst of the Jewish people in the midst of the Jewish people who have rebelled against him in the midst of the Jewish people who have vexed him has nevertheless God has nevertheless preserve the Jewish people as a nation from being destroyed and even though the Jewish people they rebelled against the Lord Jesus Christ He has not he never will forsake them because of his great love for them throughout history there's always see he has marvelously saved them over and over again from their enemies now in verse 3 and Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the Bush is not burnt so now we see Moses talking to himself Well it's no wonder if we were no wonder for us to see Moses talk for themselves other wrong with that it's out there is out there is no one else to talk to you may forget how to have conversation to go on as the backside of the desert the sheep don't talk so Moses was to have a conversation so what does he do is speak for themself Moses tells himself that he has decided now to turn aside he wants to see what Moses cause a great site a great site and the great site is that the Bush is not burned so Moses was so impressed with the bush that it didn't get burnt up you know it's interesting you know all of the Old Testament the way. Word Bush only occurs here in these 3 verses verses 23 and 4 and one other place that's all you never find this word Bush any place in the Old Testament except here and the and in Deuteronomy and it's interesting how the verse in Deuteronomy when he speaks about the bush and it goes back to this Bush how it refers to it it says in Deuteronomy 3316 and for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof and for the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush let the blessings come upon Joseph in the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren in this passage Moses is explaining how God bless the sons of Jacob he goes one by one and here Moses comes to Joseph and he's speaking about and he refers to the one in the bush here as the one having the good will and he says the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush now what happened in other words with Moses was saying here is what happened at the bush was a display of the good will of God and when Moses spoke of God in the bush he said that God dwells in the bush and that's a very important Hebrew word dwelt that's the word shotgun for the use for the 12th and that word is used in the Bible also for the tabernacle the word tabernacle is mish con and this con comes from the shock on to dwell so what God emphasized about the tabernacle was the goal of the tabernacle or the purpose God's purpose for the tabernacle which he stated when he gave his introduction to Moses that he wanted to make a cat tabernacle a nexus 258 when God said to Moses left on make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them make me a mission got a tabernacle that I may shock on the. Dwell among them so the purpose of the tabernacle was for God to dwell among his people and that concept of God welling with man in the tabernacle was used as a basis for how the rabbis described the fire or the glory that was seen over the tabernacle the rabbis not the Bible but the rabbis called that shacking up the Chicago glory again it comes from the word check on to 12 now this is the word the Welsh a con that Moses used to describe what he saw in the burning bush he saw God welling in the bush in other words God was totally at home in the bush like the word well implies God had commie on packed his bags and he's going to reside there is going to stay there he's at home he's comfortable in the bush and this amazed Moses and so he talks about it was the good will of Him The dwelt in the bush and what amazed most about all this was that the Bush was not consumed and Moses described God as dwelling in the bush and he had a good will in the bush was not consumed and so when he referred to him in the bush as the goodwill of the in the 12 in the bush the question for us is how was the good will of God seen in the burning bush and Moses said it was the good will of Him the 12th the bush so it's a good question for us I was that good will seen of God in the burning bush Well the answer is what impressed Moses about the bush he says why the Bush is not burned that's what he said a nexus 33 why the Bush is not burned in other words why the Bush was not consumed Why was Moses impressed with the fact that God was in the bush that God had a good will and that the Bush was not consumed fire in the Bible always speaks of judgment as a matter of fact Moses told later in Deuteronomy 23 through 24 he told the. Israel these words take heed on to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you and make you a graven image or the likeness of anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden and forbid in the now verse there $24.00 for the Lord die God is a consuming fire even a jealous god so no Moses warns Israel that God judges sin and he describes God in this judging sin mode as a consuming fire so again we ask the question if God is a consuming fire then why was not the bush consumed and the answer is the bush was not consume because of the good will of God You and I and every one of us has sinned we all should be consumed by the fire of God's judgment God is a consuming fire in his judgment we should all be consumed by the fire of God's judgment but like the bush we are not consumed by the fire why because the fire should have consumed us because of our sins but that fire fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's what Isaiah 53 is saying all over and over and over again in Isaiah 53 for when he says Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and Isaiah 535 where he says he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities in Isaiah 536 word says the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all and Isaiah 538 for the transgression of my people was he stricken Isaiah 5312 he bear the sin of many over and over and over and over again the truth is being stated which is summarized in 1st Corinthians $153.00 Christ died for our sins and that means the fire the. The judgment that was due us it fell on him and it's expressed so well in this Him Christ what burdens bow by head all Christ what burdens bow die head our load was laid on the thou students in the sinners dead didst bear all ill for me a victim led die blood was shed now there's no load for mean death and the curse were in our cup Christ twas full for the but Dol has strained the last dark drop his empty now for me that bitter cup love drank it up now but less things left for me Joe hold the lifted up his rod all Christ it fell on these that I was sore stricken of die God there is not one stroke for me the tears that have blood beneath it flowed the bruising healing me were like the bush the consuming fire of God's wrath does not consume us because it fell on the Lord Jesus Christ that's why Moses referred to the bush in Deuteronomy 3316 as the one who had the good will the good will of Him that wealth in the bush now in verse 4 we read that and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called on to him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses and he said here among Now we see that when Moses stopped and turned aside to look at the bush that out of the middle of the Bush God calls to Him So God calls out the name of Moses that must have been really a surprise for a Moses deer is named coming out of a bush with the fire and Moses knew that this was God because He knew his name Moses knew something about God and he had heard God now for the 1st time. Call him by his name and Moses spoke about this he spoke about this incident in Exodus later on axis 33 verse 17 where he says and the Lord said unto Moses I will do this thing that I was spoken for that was down grace in my sight I know the body need God said to Moses I know the by name is that wonderful would still is that a great thought of the God saying I know you by name and when Moses heard God call his name Moses knew that he had found Grace with God. What are you doing Sunday nights to join friendship with God radio Bible teacher to . Character of the Friendship with God Fellowship church every Sunday night at 5 30 pm at the creation and History Museum in Sainty California Watch and listen live around the world to tone pitchers Sunday evening on youtube dot com by searching for the friendship with God fellowship by going to our home page of friendship with God done oh argy. The preceding program is sponsored by Israel restoration minister ace Hello everyone this is James Dobson inviting you to join us for our next edition the family dog every day would come to these microphones with someone in mind whether it's a busy mom looking for tips on discipline or a husband who wants to learn more about connecting with his wife we want to put an arm around your family in any way that we can so join as next time for family. Family with Dr James Dobson weekdays at 430 and 9 pm here on the mighty 670 k l t t This is k l t t Commerce City Denver broadcasting in h.d. Digital radio and online at 670 calle t t v dot com. Thank you for joining us today for getting connected is really a. Discipline do. Teacher and exams listen to over 64 missions and he is a senior pastor the connection Christian. The strong discipline is really the city's. Connect. 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Brothers or sisters last week I was talking on the subject and we zeroed in on be in health be in health is this would be healthy do and be sick my prayer he's you will not be sick I am praying that you prosper nothing missing nothing broken in your life in concluding your Have Nothing is breaking down decide to me it is that we need to pray for so so so I say why does said he's body is shutting down well that's what Paul I mean John was praying that you be in have nothing is shutting down you are not dying by installing. These one is gone despite he's gone this one is going out it does seem me you have see any unique thing that makes that happen I'm just sharing with you the heart of God for you. That is something in the book of James in the book of James let me just quickly open to the Book of James James eased the brother of Jesus. And James was writing. In his book The Book of James Chapter 5 a verse 14 he said ease anyone among sick and I watch these it is when anyone our money is sick John James was already talking about triads Tchiowa of God comes out of triad county needs all the joy on it you started talking about that and then we went on to begin to talk in chapter 3 of the book of James why it is Schumacher miles is a bow the tongue get our tongue isn't on Tamiflu part of the body we discern tongue we praise God the same tongue we Kurds and we hear the new continue to talk about that and then we went on to talk about why we should not allow strive I have to be now I live he spoke about God He talks about don't judge one another. Then he went ahead and talked to the leaders of the church is don't treat you well as the too much special down ordinary citizen in your church and then as he was going on he said be patient I'm perceive Yes. Now when he got to verse 14 believe in the idea of done or said you know I ask a question Is anyone among you seek in other words in peace kingdom sickness is on is not is not the rule of the d. Is anyone sick is anyone when Jesus was talking he says when you pre It is easy if you pretty. Is anyone sick I knew was It quenches if I don't care week by who translation you read it was the question others say God is that I said e's they are still anyones sake. If you believe everything I'm Santa I've read to you Heidi about my brother Jesus is there anyone out monk use SAIC it is on. What you call is out of our normal it was seen he said Dan let him call d.l. Does of the church and let them pray he over him. Are you with me brothers and sisters let him call I said to them about Kingdom car nation that was before the phone was invented some people will be sick they won't come to church and they will be angry the pastor didn't call me I didn't know I said the Bible is a use you Connie. Why would I sit out home and be thinking this is thousands wouldn't go to Judge Judy she must be sick no because sickness is not part of the call than it is outside gov I mean if it does happen cause called a charge called them I need said let them pretty I know a team we are in the name of the lot and then is a prayer of faith we saved to seek and I love we raise him up. And if he asked Call Me Ted seeing it will be forgiven when Saints when he lead us pray the default this scene is forgiven not this is my point is anyone sick is not part of the covenant you say is easy you shall listen to me God want you to walk in divine health. But does I James said if part adventure in the midst of each you find yourself sick Guard still want you to enjoy a divine healing so God makes divine had I believe. I made provision for divine healing the divine healing Dolly's goal called the end as of the church led them prevail you and dare you be supernaturally. But even once I have him we must have the mentality of divine health. I can got on t.v. You it is possible to walk in divine health it is possible to work in device hill in the beginning it was no so when God created Adam and Eve I knew each showed them around to guarding it internal damn doubt in case you have a headache this is the tree you should cut the part of the branch a mix of green out of eat these you know are does not turn on Hobbes you no doubt people I know and I have nothing against that but God didn't take down I'm to God and I was a dozen kids you have back pain this is the well you should do this is the one for days he didn't do that why because he never create them to be sick. Watch these when I down and Eve did well God told them not to do and God said he did you eat this you shall die I done very dead the et did die is pretty Charlie but they did not know how to die physically so do i still alive physically you know what I mean by that they were still alive why because there I was not enough negative words India sees them to produce death. Then once he life eat to cut down I know that 600 yards of using these mouth to mouth of his wife the mouth of the Son the mouth of the people around him speaking negative into the all system before I done finally now die. God did not invent dad the dad is as a consequence of minds he feels I do thing goes presence I now do you stay in God's presence by mine what is in your heart might be what is in your mouth mind in the way you behave dance once you dance ease that is no definition for death outside life. You can divine death without mention in life if I said divine death you is the absence of life here we go I sort of I raise my case God didn't go didn't don't have to create dad Arlie needs to do is to we draw our life on there is the result of it not to lose in a vacuum now you as it were but that vacuum is you know god that created it yes I do know but he didn't put it here on earth for you to die we invented it we brought Tito Now I sell I damn who not die here I mean when he died spiritually you could not die physically because they are why are not enough here it is again negative words in the air every day we speak negative word you get to judge that is Joe will kill me. You said Oh Distin is going to kill me all of these are negatives that just speaking we are made of wards gone out sauce 10 are things by word everything in life easy to destroy all preserved by words that's why I I it beats my imagination if we leaders of nations are careless with words it beats my imagination when Christians are dancing Cooma behind he does that Cal is which words we are married of wards we destroy you with words God of the and so stand on things by the word of his power Ward ease power forwards are powerful I was I have consequences. God said. We are to see a prophet update just keep his brother can when times are my my brother's keeper that is a word of hate does not the word of love where did he get out from. A many he asked you to listen to me you can you come here and I chose in the midst of crew can't generation you can be righteous in the midst of a generation leasing that was a man by the name evil even ark was I lying if. I mean I don't want high life when even York was walking with God I damn was alive even though it was good Con Son of Adam and I damn was still alive when he was walking with God and I was playing needs in my mind that will come back in the evening and I would sit down on his rocking chair I knew we are his grandson you know we are you today I knew would say I had a walk with God I knew we ask him where did he take you I knew was it took me into these garden Oh is that he got into has revived a broken too far yes or does we I me on your great grandma used to leave what it can I get. I want a guard now by His Grace decided that. If you keep hangin out on these people you may not make it so they walk and never let him return and about who says an economic was not for God to come so you can you can leave a life of good health I Hear me you don't have to die to go to heaven. I many people is it what are you talking about you don't have to a guy to go to heaven the Bible tells us of 3 people have people that died that went to heaven without dying you know it was one of them Elijah I was another I won Jesus Christ was another I won and can I give you a good news I'm not I one is going to happen he's called on to Dale's Rob Joel when donors who are in Christ will not die blood it will be taken to eval you don't have to die to make it to every script Joyce very clear back Thank you Bishop Wow listeners I'm telling you this is absolutely unprecedented did to our 4 word of God and prosperity for your health there is war hang on but 1st we want to share with you some exciting things that are happening at Kingdom connection Christianson or 1st if you're going through a tough time you know someone who's going through a tough time we want to invite you to our free breakfast Ministry every Sunday at 730 and 9 30 am no strings attached come and have breakfast and stay for church with us also we want to share with you that you have the opportunity to receive free groceries Yes every Wednesday and every Friday after our 7 pm service free groceries are available for more information on either of these ministries call us at 700-859-1737. 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I've never heard it before about adamant about that there was not enough negative words in their vocabulary to cause them to die Bishop delve into that for our listeners a little bit deeper so what are you saying about words and consequences what are you saying about words and death the Bible says. On days. In the power of the tone and Dos you live by 8 will enjoy because you are. Live Undead so you can use your mouth to speak life to your life to your situation and you can use your own mouths and I can use my own mouth to speak live our dad to any circumstance I damn and ease why I created to live for ever that was God's intention God never created them with an intention that they would die I need created and with an intention that they will live forever not only that day we procreate and they will bring forth a not I generation that will you forever that's why essentially replenish Veal the earth because he didn't expect them to die in found out was no need for any church there is no need for pastors profit and profit he has on profit that is no need for those people why because they were in the presence of God What was the I was sheep they are worshiped is the obedience of making sure the god in is where kept. They didn't need a Bible they didn't need anything they live in the presence of God They don't need Sunday Sarvis Wednesday if I would start before I did the live rounds they don't need all those why because in the presence of the law daddy's food as of joy I need these right hand out his plans are not pray show for him I'm all in a lot of people feel as if the Bible says I don't need to write daddy's praise of forever more so they are living from want to depress you are not the treasure where you move for praise or to praise or you become depraved get yourself out of that praise Oh I'm moved into easy pleasure Oh I'm out do you move into East pleasure you get into the Word of God I use a seat at his right hand and let everything be a lie up but gone be the only one that is telling you the truth for yes word. And a man listening I am saying to you that I down and Eve continue to speak negative that sick time put in their mouth. Guard ask them guard when God was coming now I want you to watch these the bank who says the hard the voices of the Lord walking many people don't know dat dat voice is Jesus. Because the Bible says Jesus is the Word of God is the voice in Havilland the name is not Jesus the name is the word and the heart Jesus walking. No not telling me they said they had the sound of the voice walking behind us sound of Christ walking to was damn as he's walking towards you that are listening to me I knew who told you you are broke Hutto you you are sick who told you you are naked Who told you your ideas and I brought that into your memory I won't I told you you should not touch the Knowledge of Good and evil it is don't touch the knowledge of goo they already have that is the knowledge of Dab only could knowledge that is one day you are good I know that there you are bad one day you are live in the same person you ate Who taught you that who touch you to smile at that white brother or die black brother but inside you you hate them who taught you that that's what God was asking down don't touch the good fruit of the Knowledge of Good and evil don't lead boat heart beat in you eat we kill you and you killed him and you couldn't handle it because God one damn stay in the good stay in the good brother sainted good sister and you are good leasing look I were dead he said his son 23 he said do I walk through the valley of the shadow of day why I shall fear no evil because even when it looks I see of things I know walking God is walking something behind the scenes here I mean when he is no walking on the outside God is walking something out and when it is over I need to showcase what he is walking you know do a good walk all the time on behalf of those that love him hear me brothers and sisters I don't mind he asked to use the I'm out to speak themself today sit down will respond to words into your mouth you are sick. You are broke leasing You may not have that done in your pocket but my god shot supply all my needs according to its Ricci's in glory by Christ Jesus my body may be cad but all I need to do is to go to him and say he's the one does surprise me strange I really feels to be poor I refuse to be sick I refuse to be broke I refuse to be a power power I don't need zoos eat whatever what is killing others will lift me up I watch big cruise liner a big ship decide I was floored in the time of Noah I know what killed everybody Why yes I was a boat what was killing other Us was lifting. What was killing other us what was drowning on the us was the same team that was lived in law and his house in want boat I use the question is if you are not in the boat you will be or do be drowned I told them you know I checked I said everything about Christianity is about shape we are fairly new in the same ship we are disciple in the same ship when we come together we fail you ship we have disciple ship we war ship everything that we do God want us to look at it from want us of life that same thing that is killing other use not supposed to kill you for you are in the boat is the end in mind in Christ no power that is fashioned on Aren't you supposed to hurt you now you miss it why is it bad things happen to good people yes yes and I'm not judging I'm not judging. But I can guarantee you sometimes when dad is know as cues for it is a work of faith that God wants to show kids those who are coming behind that look at that boy dead spite all that I are allowed him to go through he did not curse me he did not deny me and he stood with me to the end and that's what good deeds to do but in the end let me tell you what happened God. Income I maintain is expenditure do you hear I've seen God income but to make sure expenditure remains the same it double is income it doubly so influence a mix should the outflow does not go up he was feeding 10 people before the problem and he was having sucked in I'm out of income by the time it was over he was to feed intention but his income has doubled Wendy income is more down the outcome when the inflow is more than the out flu does we are you out of a flu God want you bless God wants you blessed God want you to live in abundance of life he said I come that you may have life and have it in abundance you can give life when you yourself you on life support you can give blood where you yourself are suffering from shutting of blood you can give life when you yourself use money Gene delete to one you have left that's why God want to to be a light giver he gives you life and give you an abundant but you must start thinking about it you must meditative about it you must see yourself in need you must walk in need you must decathlete you must prove it is it you must wash it God even in the midst of it you are not going to go down this is not the end of your story I don't know where you may be now but I can guarantee you you are coming out you are coming out with your hands up you are coming out praising goer. You are coming out was shipping God you are coming out dancing you are coming out giving testimony people will look at your life I did was say that he's the end of the law this is the Lord's doing I nice models in our eyes let me pray for you before we go father in the name of Jesus I thank you for what you are doing in the life of my brothers my sisters are not those that are listening to me each part adventure any one is I doubt place in life that is doubting whether you will heal them I stand on your word that God never outfeed I send out would the Bible says you sent your The preceding program is sponsored by Kingdom connection Christian Center. Pleasure . Radio is on loan at 670 calle t.t. Dot com and presented in crystal clear digital h.d. On a m 670 calle t.t. Commerce City Denver RINGBACK. Imagine this your house is flooded the floor trashed in the basement you call 911 and things go from bad to look good if I type that come pretty bad but we really hate having to get wet that we're not going to fit in one of the guys how shocking and terrible Would that be sometimes we act as if this is how God treats us you sometimes find yourself in a scary place wondering if God really cares if you look to Scripture you'll find countless stories of God coming to the rescue of his beloved ones in Exodus the Lord came in the form of a great cloud to guide the people of Israel to safety in the New Testament Jesus came from the perfection of heaven to seek and save the last here on Earth and in the book of Acts the Holy Spirit came to protect and in light and believers God is the great rescuer he knows exactly what his children need and his timing is perfect with seeking Him I'm Nancy Demasi walking. This is Barbara Carmen with all the freedom on this encore show Derren and I talk about the blessings that God gives to each one who is obedient to His commands and. Full coverage of the Rocky Mountain region with the good news or tune to a m $670.00 calle t t k o t d h d come or should be done for a no no for 95 point one and streaming worldwide at 670 calle t.t. Dot com. Welcome to total freedom with Barbara Carmen this is Jimmy leaky and I'm delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. Reach call to freedom at Box 370367 Denver Colorado 80237 or by going to the website at w.w.w. Dot freedom Street dot org If you want to leave a message or order a word power daily reading Bible guide or a freedom street express newsletter you can call us toll free add 186-691-7725 extension 6 leave your name and address including your zip code if you want to talk to Barbara right now she is expecting your call you may call that same toll free number 186-691-7725 extension 62 speak to her and now let's join Barbara in the studio on this encore show Derren begins the program by quoting 1st John 514 and 15 this is the confidence we have before him that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us and if we know that he hears us we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him what is important about this scripture is that not only does God hear your requests and answers them but you must be in the will of God when asking Karen reminds the listening audience of the blessing contract in Deuteronomy 281 the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you will obey the Lord your God it's so important that you do it God's way that you don't take shortcuts to get to God's heart now let's join the program. Yes it's good to have you with us to them we have great report too and going after this one go to give us the pros report she promised me should be on air tomorrow she gone call in her name is Theresa Yeah you Terry I think. She is a marvelous bruiser board we're going to have that show tomorrow believing. She done the macabre. Well to remember when you're listening if you don't. Call in and call you to reason you'll be in big trouble. Ok Well we're going to have a wonderful show today and we're going to have some scripture for you I love this scripture in 1st John 514 and 15 I quote This often garbage Islams down says yeah you do but it's it is a wonderful face Scripture and it says this and this is the confidence that we have before him that if we ask anything according to His will He years as if he hears as we know we have those requests we've made him God makes every provision for us to be confident in his presence so we can pray with confidence knowing that if yours is the answer is yes and what would be an example of God didn't hear you well if you're praying for example I've had some people say well you know I'm dating this gal and she's still married and oh. And I really hope she gets divorced in fact we're both praying that you get divorced so that we can get married I think that's praying against the will of God.
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Apostle Brian is the founding pastor Desert Rose Community Church and the chancellor of Gateway International Bible instead. To a spirit filled church accredited Christian Bible College located in Peoria Arizona apostle Bryan is also the presiding bishop of I call international covering Alliance and licensing for ministries located in Johnstown Colorado I come is a worldwide spirit filled prophetic ministerial fellowship that provides ministerial licensing credentialing holy ordination and spiritual covering to ministers outreach ministries affiliated churches and Bible colleges around the world apostle Brian carries a powerful prophetic and sourness annoying King he's a singer songwriter musician television and radio host a favorite conference speaker and best selling author he has a sincere desire to expand the kingdom of God by preaching the gospel and carrying the glory of God to the nations of the world apostle Brian encourages all believers to live a purposeful and passionate life in Jesus Christ and travels the nations of the world empowering the corporate church to evangelize and transform their culture in the power of the Holy Spirit fire and glory on the front range is a radio show dedicated to seeing the Word of God preached the last reached the fire of God released and the glory of God unleashed on all who are hungry and thirsty and hearing for more this program is for all of those who desire a move of the Spirit of God in their lives a divine encounter with the firing glory of God with signs wonders and miracles following Now grab your Bibles prepare your hearts and get ready to receive your miracle breakthrough as Apostle Brian shares today's special message. Well Hello and Happy Thursday to you welcome to fire and glory on the front range I'm your front range radio pastor apostle Dr Brian Alton here and are looking forward to spending the. Next hour with you give or take a few commercials here and there and we are just going to have a great time together in the Word of God You'll need to forgive me a little bit I'm not feeling the greatest a little bit under the weather I thought I would do the program from home but I couldn't reach my wonderful technician Jason so I thought I would press through and come in to the studio by faith. To do the studio to do the program with you live today here at the cage and see cage and see 1368 Studios so I'm a little hopped up on some medication but I believe I'm going to make it through this program by faith and I'm going to make it through strong and I believe that God has a word of the Lord for you today and I believe that's why I'm here today and press through to be with you. So today I want to begin the program by reading some scripture out a song shopper 139. Chapter 139 and Father I thank you for this program today I ask that in the midst of my weakness in the midst of my infirmity today that you will use me that my words would be your words that my thoughts would be your thoughts and Lord I pray that. You would just heal me and touch me today I pray that that I will be a voice for you today that I would be an anointed voice for you today. And that in spite of my weakness your strength will be made perfect and God's people will be touched lives will be changed and transformed by the power of God I pray and all God's people said come on Say it with me a men songs 139 says oh lord you have searched me and known me you know my sitting down and my rising up you understand my thought a far off you comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word on my tongue but be hold o. Lord you know it all together. You have hedged me in and before behind and before you have laid your hand upon me Oh Holly Lord I feel your hand upon me today. You've laid your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot attain it we are can I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your presence. If I ascend into heaven you're there if my make my bed in hell behold you are there if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shell hold me if I see surely darkness will fall on me even the night shall be light about me indeed the darkness shall not hide from you but the night shines of the day and darkness and the light are both alike to you for you for my inward parts you covered me in my mother's womb I shall praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth your eyes saw my eyes substance being yet on formed and in your book they all were written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them how precious also are your thoughts to me oh god how great. Is the sum of them if I should count them they would be more in number than the sand and when I awake. I am do with you search me oh God and know my heart try me and know my anxiety I love that verse and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way. Everlasting. Of Hollywood we're going to have a great program don't turn that dial come right back we're going to be talking more about the everlasting the Great. Buying glory of the 1st. Before hiring a realtor from a big corporation who outsources their jobs and pays little to no taxes ask yourself what do you really want in a realtor you need a real a truce on ist and has integrity it really focused on the client's bottom line not the realtors quantum line who provides personable over the top service before during and after the transaction you want to realty or that knows how to market your property Hi I'm James Morgan a realty with Grisham and associates l.l.c. 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Why do the seem America is slowly sinking whose fault is it it's not the Obama's or the Clintons it's not Republicans or Democrats it's not corporations the military or foreign countries it's the Federal Reserve the central banking system made up of private bankers that corrupt and control virtually all aspects of the world money supply in the economy all of the major problems of the world can be traced to the Federal Reserve and central banks of other countries Hi I'm Jason with the Colorado front range News Hour catch my show with co-host Brian here on j h m c 3 to 4 Monday through Friday we sell gold and silver the best way to protect your hard earned money call 809510592 keep those blood sucking bankers out of your wallet. I am being. Welcomed back to fire and glory on the front range I'm your front range radio pastor apostle Dr Brian Alton and I'm so happy that you tuned in today you came back to join us after the commercial break. Had a chance to talk to Jason man I'm telling you so many great things are happening here k h n c 1360 am and I'm just so excited to be part of this this radio station here in Northern Colorado and and we're experiencing some growing pains and scratching pains but I'm telling you it's all for the good and we're going to see some exciting things taking place on this radio on this radio station here and I'm just looking forward to being a part and seeing what God's going to do through through Cajun and see 1368. Hey I know all of my Arizona friends are were on the same time run the same time schedule you know we fell back we fall back in the fall and now we're on the same time schedule as our Arizona and California Midwest folks and West Coast folks and East Coast folks are still ahead of us in time but hey we're all in the same time now and I understand that my dear dear friend and compatriot in arms in the Gospel. Prophet Thomas t. Is listening in from California today Thomas I'm going to shoot you the phone number. Here in a short minute and let you come in on the line and join me today maybe you can help me out on the program today and and we'll talk about what God saying and doing in this hour and maybe you have an opportunity to pray over some folks today so at at this next break I'll send you the law the number and you can call in and Jason I'll get you on the line but everyone I want to talk to a little bit about how. You know God knows what's in you. He created you and knows what you're capable of. So don't let the fear of the future hold you back I want to encourage you today don't let the negative things people have spoken over you or about you keep you from moving forward in faith it may seem like the door has closed on your dreams every circumstance maybe saying it's too late and just to give up but child of God Your God can make a way where there seems to be no way your god can go around what's blocking you he can go over who's trying to stop you he can go through the opposition that stands before you yeah that's right he can move someone or something out of the way that's hindering and holding back your progress people can't keep you from fulfilling your purpose friend obstacle obstacles can't keep you from what God has ordained for you so don't let your difficult circumstances rob you of sleep and pull you out of peace. Oh that's a word for somebody today don't let those circumstances rob you. Or pull you out of peace and rob you of your sleep yes some of you have been have been problems sleeping and God wants to minister to that today he wants to speak into that today he he wants to remove the cloud of confusion in your life he wants to he wants to touch your conscience he wants to touch your soul he wants to touch your mind and your spirit so you can experience the Shalom the show the loam the peace of the Lord the peace that passes all understanding the peace the Jesus said my peace I give to you I leave with you not like the world give it do I give to you but my peace. That peace that endures from that peace that overcomes that that peace that subdues every negative thing every anxiety every pressure every disappointment that is trying to rob you of your precious sleep you know that when people don't get the right amount of sleep it's proven fact it's a medical fact that when people do not get enough sleep in the night that they can encounter and suffer physical maladies That's right physical ailments and maladies can come upon a person who's not getting the proper amount of sleep so I just speak peace to Sean loam of the Lord into you right now those of you that are struggling and having a difficult time sleeping. Right now I just speak peace and I pray right now for an annoying Ting a yoke breaking annoying ting to come upon you that are listening right now that are struggling getting a good night's rest and I speak rest and I speak peace in Cheesus name into your life into your mind into your oh into your being in Jesus name the Shalom of the Lord. That's right obstacles can't keep you from what God has intended for you to enjoy to encounter what he has ordained for you Don't let your difficult circumstances or . Your sleep and pull you out of the peace of the Lord don't like don't let panic people. Cause you to panic and stress Oh this is a big one friend this one is one that likes to get me because. Many of you know that that I'm an overseer of many ministers outreach ministries and affiliated churches with I call international covering Alliance and licensing for ministries I'm an overseer of a church that I pastor for over 20 years been going 22 years now I'm the chancellor of Gateway International Bible Institute our 4 year credited Christian college in Peoria Arizona. Desert Rose and Gateway are both located in Arizona and there's so much on me as I as I over see all of this. So much on my plate. As as I travel the globe as I preach the gospel and carry the glory of God to the nations of the world and so in doing so there's there's a lot of issues a lot of big size problems that wind up giant sized problems that wind up on my on my plate. And so I have to be careful not to focus on those giant sized problems and not to allow panicked people to cause panic in stress in my own life on top of that I am a husband I'm a father of 3 a grandfather of 2 I have a crazy 17 year old young lady in my life my daughter Abigail. Who is everything in her life is drama and trauma and and panic and. Can I get an amen from people who who have either had or or have teenage girls living in their home I mean my boys weren't as as a problem or as crazy Abigail if you're listening I love you baby girl but my goodness we need to get ahold of some of these emotions your experience. Oh boy I'm going to pay for it when I get home I'm telling if she sit listening to this broadcast right now but listen listen listen don't let panic people cause you to panic and stress. Focus on the the greatness of your god don't focus on the giant size problem focus on the size of our God that's right he controls the very universe. And the he controls the access of the world that's right he controls it all he controls the very universe so you have to walk by faith and not by sight. And listen your faith listen to me now your faith can turn things around in your life. It in your world may be spinning out of control friend Oh and how that happens in this life and you've tried to control it you've tried to manipulate you've tried to think it all through with your great mind and your brilliance your wonderful planning and scheming it just as all failed but your faith listen to me now your faith can turn things around. Your faith can bring to you new opportunities your faith is going to bring unexpected favor into your life in this new season God is not just a way maker as the song says he is the way that's why he's called The Great I Am capital capital eg capital m. That's why he's called The Great I am the Lord says I am whatever you need my child. I am favor I am break through. I am victory I am healing I am deliverance who I am your provision I am your all in all I am that I am that I am says the Lord Oh praise God that that really ought to encourage someone today yeah. Be encouraged friend it's not over yet. You know there's that saying it's not over till the well I better not say that because someone might get offended but let me just say that. It's not over yet that's not all she wrote for and God is a way maker he makes a way where there seems to be no way. This might be a good opportunity to play that song way maker miracle worker Promise Keeper light in the darkness I'll see if I can get Jason to find it and will play it as we come back from the break Jesus the way maker miracle worker promise keeper he's the light in the darkness. My God that is who you are he is your I Am He's your all in all so listen. Turned to him today call upon him today the Scripture says call upon me and I will answer you and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know. That's right he can reveal things to you that you haven't thought about that you haven't even considered and it could be the very scuse me it could be the very key that on lock. The closed door of the barred gate come on somebody opened up the bronze. And iron gate that has been holding you back it could be the very thing that God reveals he says I'll show you great and mighty things that you know not. It's not that thing that you haven't thought of yet I mean you thought you thought of everything you've tried everything. Every idea but this could be the key that God reveals to you that brings you a greatest breakthrough yet. Join me when we come back after these messages fire in glory on the front rage with your approach range radio pastor. Dr finally come on don't you know that dial come back and join going to be great. 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Go back to firing glory on the front range I'm your front range radio pastor apostle Dr Brian Alton I'm so glad that you came back after the break. And we've been having a great program you know I started out a little a little weak but you know the annoying thing breaks the yoke I'm just feeling stronger and stronger as we move through the program. I'm just so thankful for God's healing touch somebody must have been praying for me out there that were listening as I shared about my how I was feeling thank you for your prayers I'm feeling them keep on praying keep on praying me praying for me. You know I pray for you all and and so thank you for your prayers Hey I believe that prophet Thomas t. Has joined me on the line all the way from Southern California Thomas are you there . And can you hear me we can hear you really well so there was a little concern about the connection but it sounds like you're doing pretty good now. Down to good hey thanks for joining me today kind of spontaneously all the way from Southern California My pleasure How you doing my friend I'm doing well you know God is moving in amazing ways we're. At our ministry on Eagles wing we are I believe we're in a bit of a major move of God right now. Not everybody thing but the leadership is being at and I believe that it. Ended in and what going to actually happen in California before the end of the year and pointed to 20 whining . Yeah amen you know you know there's been a lot of prayer going up for your state. Man. Mom My goodness there's so much going on in your state good bad and ugly but yeah but we know the word we know you know God's heart is for the people of California he would that none would perish but all would come to salvation and come to their senses. A minute as you know that that God would change and transform their lives one individual at a time one family at a time you know. Because I tell you we desperately need a move of God in revival not just in California but this great country of ours the United States of America yeah. We need to see God's hand moving nationwide. So Thomas what's on your heart what's on your heart today. I know there's got to be something brewing in you your prophet so prophets always have something to say brother. I think the major thing that is on my heart is with everything that's happening I just want to encourage people that you know what it doesn't matter God is still on the throne got a got your back it doesn't matter how many. The enemy turns against you got us going to defeat him for you I think that as we come to the end of this year a lot of people are struggling they're stressing out their worrying about the economy and they're worried about the upcoming election and they're worried about everything and you know the Lord tells us to be right and that's something that I try to convey every time I minister at our church on eagle's wings . You know it doesn't matter what it looks like you know God didn't bring you just far to let you go now and. People really need to know that God is really interested in what's going on in your life you've been if you're ready to throw in you don't tell it and we can throw in the towel we use but leavers. If we truly believe what Jesus did for us on the cross 2000 years ago we can't give up there's forgiveness for everything and when we called even when we fall down God is there to pick us back up again and and and he doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater you know to coin a popular phrase that's right and there's a lot going on but I really you know as we come up to this in like election year I really need to encourage the body. It doesn't matter bust electorial college matter about that if we as a body don't go vote we'll move. Green with. Something that's something it doesn't matter if it's the problem is. A fossil Brian is it's not about Democrat or Republican any more about what is right and wrong the Bible says that in the last days are going to call good evil and evil good and. Oh my we're seeing that everywhere and I think that's cause you know a lot of all of. You know what I've got not down with the United States yet. I think or again or one of the greatest lot revival yet in history and I believe it's going to either by the end of the year or the 1st part of 2020 because that's what it's going to take to bring people back. There's so many things that are out I think so many people being offended by that but I need to tell the body of Christ you know why don't. You need it we need to stand our ground no matter what it is it's not going to be popular. Whether that's right you know we need the great giant We need the great sleeping belly man to rise and you know we need to we need to come together we need to you know how good and how pleasant and the Scripture says yes when brother and well together in unity is like a an annoying ting and they related it to the annoying of Aaron dripped off of his head to his beard into his garments and of course that's a picture of of the knowing of Christ being spread from the you know from from Himself being the head and on to the Body of Christ and so you know we need to stand up for what's right in and I agree with you it's not about what political party were part of it's about in whom we have believed in is and what we believe man you know we are in the Great day of deception it's happening so many people are deceived and falling away and turning to myths to fables to. You know all of these right and witchcraft and all of the things that we that's no longer in the shadows they it's no longer. In the gray area of the shadows it is in your all faiths it isn't and it is it is out front and in your face and you know what we as the church as believers as the Body of Christ we cannot be moved by this we cannot be in many imitated by the spirit of fear and intimidation that is trying to come against you no but leavers and conservative Christians in America Yes And so you know you know we our in this day truly seeing. The end times manifesting before our hearts it's what the Bible said would happen we're going to talk more about this right after the break don't turn that dial there's much more to discuss fire and glory on the front brake. 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Welcome back to fire and glory on the front range folks I'm feeling so much better thank you for your prayers and Lord thank you for your annoying ting that breaks every yoke of bondage and we're back and I just kind of spontaneously brought on a guest who was a very very dear friend of mine and we claim him he's one of ours in Southern California. He is a wonderful man of God and a great prophet in that region and prophet Thomas Taig thank you for joining me today and helping me out on the program today. Well thank you again Brian it's my pleasure it's always good to come on with you amen amen you know we were talking before the break about you know how the time will come when people will not endure sound doctrine but you know but according to their own desires because they have it Ching ears they're going to heap up for themselves teachers and you know they're going to turn their ears away from the real truth and turn aside to fables and miss. But you know that verse also tells us. It's speaks directly to the Body of Christ and directly to us as 5 fold ministers of the Gospel it says but but you be watchful in all the things listen to that but you be watchful in all things endure flexions do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry and what Thomas what I believe that is saying is that you know we have to we can't have our head in the sand and we have to be like this sons of Issachar who knew the times who knew the seasons and what Israel ought to do and so the question is Where are the sons of is a car today and are we are we being watchful are we enduring these afflictions you know the church is being persecuted Christians are being persecuted in the open now more than ever before. And so we have to be watchful we have to endure these afflictions but we must continue to eventual eyes what do you think about that. I agree with that completely Brian that the thing that we're seeing more and more of today is that. Less and lot of sturgeon is are wanting. To spend they want to get other shows because they want to put on shows to get people there and they're not getting they're there for the right reason you know what I'm going to strong winds you know 1000 tell people you know I hope you're not here to hear me I hope you hear that you're here tonight to hear what Jesus has to say it's not about light snow and all of that it's not about programs it's about do you know of Jesus are why are you there why are you coming are you here because God is your father are you here because you love God or you are here because you think it looks good I mean the Bible talks about it a lot they there will be those that stay away and the Bible says For Say you not the assembling of yourselves together it is so important Bryan as we're coming in to the end of 20192020 that people will realize that it's very important for them to be in the house of God so that we can lift each other up so that we can pray for each other and that the enemy cannot come in and narrow them when they stay away that's when the enemy comes in like a flood. And I agree with you know and Thomas I'm telling you I'm praying for the corporate church at large more now than a minute now that I you know I'm traveling all over the nation other parts of the world. I am seeing things like I've never seen things before. And my eyes have been opened and the church needs prayer the church needs prayer and especially especially the churches in Colorado Oh my goodness oh yeah I you know I'm just going to be honest and transparent so many churches here are all about. Kind of what you were talking about just that whole you know. Their whole. Methodology their whole approach to to to church is to is to cater to the whims of people and to entertain. And to you know. In and Out church no depth you know it's worship isn't worship anymore Praise and Worship is an engaging it's a concert it's a light show it's you know it's like you showed up to a rock concert yeah the sermons have no depth. And the ones the churches the do have depth are you know unfortunately there's a predominant religious spirit a critical judge mental ferrous cynical religious spirit that if you're not like us then you don't belong and and I'm just sad because we've theater and I have have run into this so much here not just not just in Colorado but predominantly in Colorado but but all over the country and it's really become more about catering to people's whims and this is what the scripture saying you know tickling their ears you know don't challenge them don't use the word repentance let's let's change that to convince and you know you know we can upset the people and it's you know you know it's just we need prayer. Yes but you know Thomas we're going to go to break we're going to come back and close out the show strong so stay with Mildred listen or stay with me firing Gloria in the break. 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Why does it seem America is slowly sinking whose fault is it it's not the Obama's or the Clintons it's not Republicans or Democrats it's not corporations the military or foreign countries it's the Federal Reserve and the central banking system made up of private bankers that corrupt and control virtually all aspects of the world money supply in the economy all of the major problems of the world can be traced to the Federal Reserve and central banks of other countries Hi I'm Jason with the Colorado front range News Hour catch my show with co-host Brian here on h m c 3 to 4 Monday through Friday we sell gold and silver the best way to protect your hard earned money call 809510592 keep those blood sucking bankers out of your wallet. Then we're back here in glory on the front range with your front range radio pastor apostle Dr Brian Alton hey. We been having a little bit of technical difficulties I don't I don't believe that. Prophet Tom is still with me however we're at the close of the broadcast Tom are you there yeah I'm here all praise God you are there all right well the and and he wasn't like in what we were saying and obviously nice women out there were running around trying to figure out what was going on with the airwaves you know but you know the Bible says use the principal power of the air but you know what there's one great holiday cash rules that all he controls are the 1st 2nd and 3rd have and come also. But not in any way so you know what we're what we're saying. Is making some headway I'll tell you that listen we have about one minute we have about one minute that's it Thomas I want you to pray for the people just real quickly would you do that as we go out. Yes Father we did a quick chemical for you today Lord and Father we are in the last of the last day and Lord I just pray for encouragement for your people Lord that your people would have the peace that passes all understanding no matter what the enemy bring to get them that they know that you are all you say you are you are the great I am you are the 1st in the last you are the alpha and the Omega and there is nothing by no means that can harm it as long as we continue to keep our eyes upon you your words that there's no weapon or and against us will prosper and every one that rages up boys and against us is condemned in Jesus' name Yes And Father I thank you right now that as we depart from the radio program today Father God but not your presence Lord that there is an overwhelming peace that goers outward and that people are encouraged other god that is going to be Ok because you are still in it yes you are father I just thank you for the time with the crying of want to thank. You. 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A new level of intensity you can stand at home and then you can stand there at the door and you can call out. Anybody home and that's like asking you nephew 77 and then when no one responds You can go to the next level which is Tom are you in there Ok And you're home and that's like the next level of intensity in the Teo than the and then you might think of the 1st level of ass guys like calling out to God God you know as in God are you there and then you might think like to ask level of the Matthew 77 and then when there's no answer you might think of the next level of intensity as calling out to the Lord Jesus Lord Jesus are you there but then the next level of intensity it's the not the level and it's calling out to the Lord Jesus with Lord Jesus this is Tom and I must tell you I'll die without you my soul yearns feel like I'm being dear pants for water and so this 9 is the ultimate level of intensity We're now it's not just the voice where the call is made for the Lord but now there's this extension of the arm and there's this. Not now there's 2 ways to be still with the knock on a door and the 2 each way sends its own different message to the person inside the 1st not because. Like that or it might be nice gentle gentleman knock knock slowly gently and it sends the message of excuse me I'm sorry to bother you this is a good time so that's the. Like that right now the 2nd way to knock on the door is like this. Like that and everything falls apart See that's what happened See Ok. The 2nd level Ok and that level when that happens. That is sending a message I have to speak with you I have to speak with you now this is urgent I'll break this story down with knocking unless you open the door and open it this is a type of knocking that the Lord is referring to in Matthew 779 and it shall be open and to you this is the knocking out out of my way I love not this door down if I have to I'm coming through and this is what the Lord be for too when he was talking about the Kingdom of Heaven when he said in Luke 1324 Luke 1324 Strive to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter and shall not be able this knocking is really illustrated by the intense grip that Jacob had for which he was given the name Israel you want to tell the Israelis you want to know where your name comes from is real it comes from an intense grip where it says in Genesis 3224 Genesis 3224 Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day and when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob style was out of joint as he wrestled with them and he said let me go for the day break and he said Jacob said I will not let to go except out bless me he said until What's the name he said Jacob he said the name shall be called No More Jacob but Israel for as a prince has doubt power with God and with men and has prevailed he might as well have said your name's going to be Israel because your grip is tight on me and this is where the name Israel comes from the name Israel comes from the intensity of Jacob's grip the nothing is going to get in the way of my blessing that I must have from this Jehovah Jesus for with whom I'm wrestling and this knocking with this intensity is what Paul was referring to. In 1st Corinthians 924 1st Corinthians 924 where he says no you not they which run in a race run all but one receives the prize so run the how you can run if you attend again the prize you're going to run your legs off he says so run that you may obtain an every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible therefore so run not as uncertainly So fight I not as one that be that the air you know the intensity of this knocking it reminds me of a Sunday when I was a new believer and so as every good new believer I had decided to sleep in on Sunday and not go to church so I was going to sleep sleeping on that Sunday and said I'm going to church Emmanuel Baptist Church and does the beach and rule and those of you know he rule will have the perfect picture in your mind easy rule decided to come to my house after church and find out I was not in church. And as he was walking down the path to my doorway I could hear her daughter Debbie arguing with her mom and say Mom leave them alone they were just married but that didn't stop thief who started knocking out a door and say Tom And Cheryl I know you're in there it's open up now we lived in a studio apartment the bed was a pull out couch it was 3 foot from the front door so it was like he was was yelling she was like she was standing over the bed and yelling at us it was so terrifying that was the last time I missed church last time show and I stopped in that image of Eat pounding at the door 3 feet away from the doors terror for and those of you can believe really you know what I'm talking about this is a kind of knocking that the Lord is referring to in Matthew 77 knock and it shall be opened and to you the knocking the Lord Rees referring to is a intense not going to get through this intensity this important here to see now we've been considering the as I said there the intensity of us knocking about seeking visit tayo seek but again and that's for Matthew $77.00 but again we want to turn our hearts and to think about the opposite and that is the intensity of the Lord search for us which is this Luke $910.00 the Son of Man has come to the tale seek and to save that which is lust he's got an intensity and a seeking and he has an intensity in his knocking and is knocking at the door of our hearts where it says in Revelation 320 Revelation 321st of all before this he says. I'd rather have you intensely called Or I'd rather have you intensely hot but I don't want you not intensely lukewarm I will vomit you out of my mouth if you're in that condition so on the subject of intensity he comes and says in Revelation 320 Revelation 320 Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come to him and will sup with him and he with me so here's the Lord Jesus he standing at the door of our hearts he stands there for a long time he calls out as he knocks at the door of our hearts he knocks and he calls out for a long time and specifically he has said in Revelation 320 if any man hear my voice that means he's calling out in this is what's characteristic of his intense knocking is not just the knocking it is just the voice with the knocking such as the Nakia loans the voice of the knocking and there's the knock at the door and and the door is not just don't and in fact when you get a knock on your door what do you do and you don't in the door when it's not good you say something like Who is it. And it will just open the door for anyone who I know who's not at the door you know Who's that knocking at my door so all the doubt is removed when the voice says Tom and Cheryl it's open the door and so all doubt is removed with a knock at the door and the voice says it's the Lord Jesus so large is this crisis your Creator not King it's your reteam are knocking it's your savior knocking open the tour and if you just open the door I'll come in fellowship with you you'll have fellowship with me see it's this voice that encourages us to open the door just as it did for the Shu no light woman in the Song of Solomon 52 Song of Solomon 52 she was sleeping she said I sleep but my heart wake if it's the voice of my beloved that not goth saying open to me she hears the knock but more importantly she hears the voice in the voices for her to open the door and when does that happen doesn't come when we're alone reading our Bible can come in church we're listening to come when we're seen to God in Bible we're listen to Bible teaching Bible preaching on the radio wherever and we realize that hey God is speaking to me that's the Lord knocking at the door of the hearts and calling out to us open the door let me come in just like the him says the him says the Savior is waiting to enter your heart why don't you let him come in there's nothing in this world to keep you apart what is your answer to him time after time he has waited before now he's waiting again to see if you're willing to open the door on how he wants to come in and when a person knocks at the door so that's what hands on the Lord knocks and our door and then it's up to us let him in but on the other hand when a person knocks at the door of God and God says Who is that. And the reply will determine if God's going to open the door if the reply is it's your son then it's Luke 12321232 thier not Little Flock it's your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom open the door if the reply is it's your friend it's your friend or to that person the Lord Jesus says in Matthew 2521 Matthew 521 the Lord said unto him Well done now good and faithful servant doesn't faithful over a few things make the ruler over many things and turn them into the joy of dialogue . Or the reply might be it's a dirty rotten last sinner who desperately needs your mercy to save them and cleanse him from a sins and to that person the Lord Jesus says John 637 John 637 He that cometh to me I will in no wise cast doubt over the reply as if the reply as well we don't know each other but I'm a good person I'm a religious person I'm a person who really deserves heaven compared to those of people I deserve Heaven to that person the Lord says Matthew 723 Matthew 723 then will I profess son to them I never knew you Depart from Me you that work in iniquity closed door so whether or not the door is opened by God All depends on the response to the question Who is that whose knocking at my door now there is another there's a there's another aspect to look at with this knocking and it's different from asking as and knocking involves action it involves action as not just asking but it involves action and it can be seen in seeking the salvation of the Jewish people. Paul spoke of his heart's desire for the Jewish people and Romans 9 and Romans 91 Romans 91 pos as I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscious also bury me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great having as continual sorrow in my heart for I could wish myself were cursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh who Arias relates this is his heart's desire then he speaks Paul speaks of couple ing his heart's desire to asking God in prayer in the next chapter of Romans 11 Romans 11 when he says brethren my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved so this is like the asking in the seeking but then Paul goes to the next level of knocking when he goes into action for the Jewish people the salvation of the Jewish people as it says and x. 171 x. 171 now when they have passed through and full of Phyllis and a Paul and they came to Thessalonica where was a synagogue of the Jews and Paul as his manner was keep in mind this is the apostle to the Gentiles but this is Paul and Paul as his manner was went in unto them and 3 Sabbath days reason with them out of the Scriptures opening and alleging that Christ much needs to have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus who I preach unto you is Messiah and some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas. So for the Jewish people for Paul it was not just an asking God for their salvation but it went on to the next level of action it was the knocking on their door for salvation as Paul went regularly into the synagogues and reason with the Jewish people that the Lord Jesus had to suffer and rise again to save them from their sins now this is the knocking stage of seeing the salvation of the Jewish people and this knocking stage for seeking the salvation Jewish people is what the Lord Illustrated or painted the picture of in a particular parable a parable of a think tree that was not fruitful and the fig tree always the 1st of the Jewish nation in the Bible so this is a parable of the fig tree that was not fruitful and bearing fruit in Luke 136 Luke 136 he spake also this parable a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and sought fruit there on and found none then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard behold these 3 years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none cut it down why cumber if it the ground but he this is the gardener he answering said on to him Lord let it alone this year also till I dig about it and dung it fertilize it and if it bear fruit well and if not then after that so here's a man who's got a fig tree that's planted in this vineyard the fig tree at the vineyard has got limited ground and every tree in his vineyard is important and he expects fruit from every tree in his garden when the time comes and the man has this Figtree in his garden and he expects fruit from his fig tree the 1st year comes as no fruit. And then the 2nd year comes a man is patiently waiting he's looking expecting is hoping still no fruit comes on the tree funny the 3rd year comes and the man has been watering it but he hopes that finally after 3 years it's going to bear fruit but after 3 years in a row no fruit at all so the man turns to his gardener and says That's it I have patiently waited 3 years for there to be fruit on this fig tree I'm ready to cut it down why should it take up the space and the resources in my vineyard cut it down but the gardener the gardener steps up and says Ok I agree with you that it hasn't borne any fruit but he does not say I agree with you all go ahead and cut the street down no the gardener loves that think tree and so the gardener says. Give me a chance give me a chance with the fig tree out dig around this think tree I'll fertilize it just give me one more year give me one more year to work with this fig tree I'm going to do my best you never going to see a gardener like me down on his hands and knees all around the base of that fig tree every grain of dirt is going to be turned over I'm going to put fertilizer in it like it's going out of style and he says I'll try I'll try my best to get this victory to bear fruit I know like 10 is what the gardener says I'll spend time with this fig tree to make it bear fruit Now that's a picture of what it means to knock or go into action to see the Jewish people be saved in that picture God the Father is represented by the man who owns the vineyard and that picture the think tree is represented by the Jewish people who have rejected their Lord Jesus Christ as their Messiah and God in that picture the fruit of the fig tree represents the Jewish people serving Jehovah Jesus bringing the gospel to the peoples of the world the nations of the world and most relevant for us in that picture is the gardener who represents you and me us like Paul we ask in prayer for the salvation of the Jewish people and we go one step further down and we're knocking which is when we go into action to see the Jewish people be safe from their sins this we do as we look for opportunities to be friend the Jewish people to bring the gospel to them this is represented by the digging in the fertilizing around the fig tree to give the tree a benefit to be fruitful this is bringing the gospel to the Jewish people in a loving way this is the action part this is the knocking part of seeking the salvation of the Jewish people this is what Moses did Moses was the gardener when God told him that's it. I'm going to destroy him I've had enough of build a new generation of Jewish people from the seat of Moses and Moses I think Gardner said no wait wait this is after they had made the golden calf and God said Ok The time has come remove them from my vineyard and it says in Exodus 329 Exodus 329 The Lord said unto Moses I have seen this people behold it is a stiff necked people now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them and I make of the a great nation and Moses Besides the Lord is God and said Lord why didn't I walk out against people which thou has props for thought of the land of Egypt with great power with a mighty hand wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains to consume them from the face of the earth turn from the fierce wrath and repent of this evil against people remember Abraham Isaac and Israel the servants to whom thou swears by their own self and said it I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that I have spoken of will I give you one to your seed and they shall inherit it forever and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people the Lord would have destroyed them he would have destroyed them there then and there had not Moses ask God give me one more chance give me one more chance to work with the people like the gardener asked for one more year to work with this barren Figtree and then Moses the Lord did give more time and it says in Exodus 3231 mixes 3231 Moses returned on to the Lord and said oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold Now if that will forgive their sin if not blot me I pray thee out of the book which housed written and the Lord said unto Moses who are there sinned against me him alive blot out of my book now therefore go lead this people on to the place which I have spoken to the of my angels to go before the so. What we've seen here in this passage in Matthew 7 is an invitation this is really an invitation to us it's an invitation from the creator of the universe to engage in asking with the promise of you receive to engage in as a tale seeking intense seeking with the promise of you'll find and with to engage in knocking with the promise that doors will be opened with these promises they're great for us because we can step forward and say you know what I'm going to be I'm going to be an asker of God I'm going to be a seeker of God I'm going to be a knocker for God as prayer. Another wonderful day studying the Bible with our Bible teacher Tom canter here on . The preceding program is sponsored by Israel restoration ministry says this is k l t t Commerce City Denver broad. Guesting an h.d. Digital radio and online at 670 calle t.t. Dot com. When a towering leader dies we tend to look back at the impact they had for the godfather of the Intelligent Design movement the best direction to look is forward the Colson center on Johnston street this is breaking Reformation day remembers how Martin Luther started a movement within the church that reshaped Christianity in the world in many ways Philip Johnson was a Luther like reformer who's willing to question except a dog Mazin challenge tag thinking and who sparked a movement that will long outlast his life Johnson who passed away peacefully in his home over the weekend is widely considered the godfather of the modern intelligent design movement his 1901 book Darwin on trial revealed how Darwinian evolution was plagued by worldview level problems most importantly its reliance on philosophical naturalism Now before we go into what that is it's important to note Johnson wasn't a scientist he was a law professor at of all places Cal Berkeley his legal training enabled him to both see and to point out Darwinism flaws in a way that many scientists often couldn't and sometimes wouldn't and his book refocus the origins debate to its most fundamental worldview question for 150 years Darwin has had claim that blinded undirected natural processes were sufficient not only to create life from chemicals but to produce the dazzling variety of life that we see in the world around us Johnson wasn't buying it he argued that the complexity and persuasion we see in nature was best explained by intelligence and purpose after all whenever we see a written tax we know it required an author whenever we experience a beautiful design we realize there was a designer responsible for it or if that's true across the world it should be true for the origin of the world Johnson's arguments inspired and effectively launch what became known as the intelligent design movement most notably seen in the discovery. Institute as Casey Luskin put it the idea of intelligent design became a magnet for scholars from a variety of fields biology chemistry physics philosophy theology law often unlike Johnson Saul Darwinism fatal reliance on naturalistic thinking among them was biochemist Michael b. He author of What may be the movement's best known book Darwin's Black Box by challenging Darwinian orthodoxy Johnson painted a target on his back and he went on to experience what many other proponents of intelligent design have personal attacks blacklisting accusations of being anti-science but he took it all with a cheerful patience in doing so not only launched the id movement he said it's tone one still heard in his successors like Stephen Meyer Douglas action with and wells and Geiger and others Johnson's articulation that naturalism and not only poison science but also law and ethics shaped Chuck Colson thinking inconsequently shaped breakpoint Johnson's 1903 1st things article entitled nihilism of the end of law argued that if there is no transcendent origin for life neither is there any transcendent basis for right or wrong to outlaw faffed racial discrimination or murder is to appeal not to any higher authority but merely to majority vote something that has a funny way of evolving a quick search for Phillip Johnson in our breakpoint archives reveals the debt we owe to this 1st class worldview thinker who understood the power of ideas to shape all of life Johnson significant work is best measure not by his own work but by the movement he helped spark today on the breakpoint podcast I speak with someone who's part of the legacy of Philip Johnson who knew him well Dr j. Richards senior fellow of the Discovery Institute was deeply influenced by Johnson and joins me to talk about his life and legacy come to breakpoint dot org to listen or just search for the breakpoint podcast wherever you listen deposit for breakpoint on Johnstone. Caleb is listening to the mighty sick 70 k. L.t. . Welcome to cult of freedom with Barbara Carmen this is Jimmy leaky and I'm delighted that you are joining us for this half hour you can reach call to freedom at Box 370367 Denver Colorado 80237 or by going to the Web site at w.w.w. Dot freedom Street dot org If you want to leave a message or order a world power daily reading Bible guide or a freedom street express newsletter you can call us toll free at 186-691-7725 extension 6 leave your name and address including yours of code if you want to talk to Barbara right now she is expecting your comb you may call that same toll free number 186-691-7725 extension 62 speak to her and now let's join Barbara in the studio. Welcome to a call to freedom of Fran do not grow weary in doing good for at the proper time you will reap a harvest if you don't give up and that's from Galatians 69 remember that because sometimes our life our journey in life can get disruptive it can be full of trials and we just feel like giving up but don't give up don't give up because God is with you and Kimberly aren't to go and I are going to talk about that today I do want to remind you of the meeting this Saturday our regular called of Freedom meeting that's a 2nd Saturday of every month and we will be meeting for breakfast at $830.00 and going to my home for praise and worship and Bible study we're going to be studying in Revelation the seals and the unleashing of the. It's in Revelation we'll be talking about the trumpets in December but we're going to be talking mainly about the seals as l s not the animal seals. And lunch will follow the Bible study and we will have stuffed baked potatoes with all the toppings it's going to be so fun and if you want to bring a side dish and your last name begins with a through Am bring a dessert this time we're going to kind of turn it around and if your last name begins with n. Through z. Bring a salad or if you can make a salad bring a dessert we're just going to have great fellowship so call for reservations at 186-691-7725 extension 6 Jimmy will give you that number at the end of the program again I'll try to remind you at the end of the program but sometimes Kimberly and I are so full of the Word of God we just forget I'm looking forward to seeing you Saturday and seeing you again and given you a hug and telling you how much Jesus loves you God bless you and remember this Saturday that's November the 9th so remember that and I believe Kimberly you're on the air I am I want to Tom De Lay like no no no I know oh it would be so fun to have you. Need to live a little bit closer. I know that's right if you were even as far as a line Kansas Yeah yeah that would be so fun I don't know there are often yeah. I'm excited about what. To both you and I in a way that the way that he making it Revelation being crucified with Christ but he doesn't leave their grave crucified now we're all so resurrected with hands and so we don't have to worry about what our circumstances look like he's given us so much more than we can imagine and I'm excited. About this I am too and we don't have to listen to those lies from the enemy those threats that were no good we don't have to lose that we turn off that mind that is dealing with the flesh the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on The Spirit is life in peace and and we dwell on the peace of Jesus Christ because we have his mind we have the mind of Christ now yes yes and I love these conversations I have been praying this morning and right before I called you that that it wouldn't just be our conversation that the listeners would actually hear from the Holy Spirit very individually and that he would quicken their minds to receive this and you and I were talking about how the church and general has seemed to be kind of no like a veil over them for a while we saw so many wonderful miracles in the seventy's and eighty's and then all of a sudden it just kind of shut down and. I just I'm believing that right now is the time that God is pulling that a veil off of his turret and quickening their minds and quickening their hearts and that's my prayer today that the listeners will not just be hearing our voices but they'll hear God through us and I I'm just believing that's happening even right now. There's an anticipation you know I want to share with you a few weeks back when you had me take the show by myself and I I was shaking so badly and I called you afterwards I said I don't ever have to do that again. But I've realized that state excitement has been coming to me over and over it's not fear it's 6 sites in it and you know when it's game day you know when it's game day like athletes can can really relate to it's game day and you know you're pumped you've got the adrenaline going and yeah you feel a little bit shaky but. Not a bad thing at all no that. Might not relate to that as much as recital they like it performing. This kind of oh oh he's got that adrenaline pumping to me and I have only got to doing that with his church giving a shot in the arm to go Ok it's time to wake up get the veil off and let be what we've been given and who we really are that's right it we just don't see enough miracles the word miracle we kind of throw it around but we don't see enough miracles straight from God the glory of God means the Manifestation of God on the earth and we don't see enough of that glory Kymberly we truly don't before we went longing for more right oh I know we are ways all around that we are more more and more yes before we get into that this is a more practical thing that I want to. Have you talk about and that is this year has been quite a traumatic year for you and your family and you were thinking last week about Sarah's birthday Now Sarah is number 3 in your family so you had given great parties for Hannah great party for Jonathan. I don't know what to do for Sarah would you just kind of go through that whole scenario about how Holy Spirit helped you to plan a really 1st time and then month you know cuz when you came back from being with me in February and March you entered into a very cold environment they didn't welcome they didn't welcome you they didn't have signs out for you nothing and then I just want you to talk about Monday night and what a change it has been so you know take the time for that. Well. We don't have a party for every single child every year because we are. A lot of children and that would really you know eat into the budget. But the 16th birthday is a big one and this was there is 16th and we did we salute a big surprise party for Hannah on her 16th and we waited until dawn and 17th because we didn't want them just anticipating that it's always good to be able to 61st so surprised that we did a big one for him and and Sarah is a very intuitive child I don't know if it's just because she's 3rd child but she figures things out that girl is smart she catches on to the tiniest change and. So sees I always thought that she would never be surprised that's just her big point you can't ever surprise me I know what's going on and I was feeling discouraged because you're right the the home was shattered Matthew is still not living in the home we've grown a lot there's a lot of healing God changed his heart and he is no longer pursuing divorce. But it just really shattered the home in the family and I don't think we've had a family dinner together since probably last year so we haven't been all together just to eat a meal. For a long time and. You're right when I got back after being with you in February or March when I got back home. Not only did they not really greet me warmly but even Mother's Day in May I would not wish the happy Mother's Day. And not all of them. My son my son my son. But I understand that yeah there was a definitely a struggle going on and. You know that is really disheartening but we have the mind of Christ and I know why out of people out there have to wait and not the thing of mine situation feel hopeless or feel really girding and the Lord is the one who helped me I was thanking him earlier this morning just saying wow you gave me the ability my racquet with the ability you know you you said we're not seeing miracle but it's a miracle that I did not just throw in the towel and feel discouraged I looked at that and said Ok this is an opportunity to have a God like Jesus that is to have that's her have faith the faith of God well and asked him if he to believe yes Scuse me for interrupting but this at this time when you came home then that's when Matthew handed you this divorce decree Yeah yeah yeah so that on top of not being welcome at that for some women they would go into an absolute depression depression and it like you said hopelessness of never having anything to look forward to in the future everybody seemed to turn their backs on and you accept your son John and even precious Levi was so confused by what was going on he didn't know which you know if he would even take sides you know because that's what usually happens they take sides and yes. But we really needed to see a death of the old nature and the old patterns and the old habit we needed to see a death there and so God was using that to let us be crucified in Christ to let that old marriage in the old relationship just guy so that he could resurrect it for better things and that's what I was clinging to and truly it was God's work in me it was not my own effort because honestly I was in a state of confusion and I was shocked I had no idea that this was going to come down this way. So for God to give me hope and then help me continue to believe. That was that was just miraculous So it's it's him and that is working Him for His good pleasure and ours. That is a wonderful thought. So I was kind of discouraged as I started trying to plan for Sarah because she's no longer being homeschooled by me and when she went into public school she didn't share all of her friend groups with me so I have no idea who her friends are yes and you probably wouldn't want her old home school friends because when you leave home school they usually kind of turn their back on you so she would want those so you know the only fellowship that she had was in her church but that's kind of a long distance away from you I think that's about it is that about a half an hour from your home yes it's in a different town and it's a half hour away and. I don't have personal contact to that youth group either I don't know all of them and I don't have like their parents numbers I I don't know them so I actually called the pastor's wife you know she is a friend of mine and I called her and I just said you know what I'm feeling kind of discouraged I need some contact numbers I want to celebrate my daughter and she just said well what if you just did it right after church she's going to be there for church why don't need to set it up for after church and I just thought oh well that would be easy we'll just bring some pieces in anyway it Luanda aloon Yeah yeah yeah that was a wonderful surprise for Sarah she was so shocked she was not expecting it at all in fact I will tell you that morning she had told me my. I don't really want to go to church today. I heard her say that and I thought to myself I have to act normal I have to act normal because she can pick up on anything and I said Ok that's all right whatever you decide is fine and I literally went to my room and I said Ok Got this is in your hand. Well and she does have a boyfriend a chance at church right so that little motivation to go well and she had told him I don't think I really want to go and he said so he knew what I was he's like one of the only 2 that knew what I was doing and he said Oh but I don't want to be alone. Oh that's good I'm so thankful he said that because then she decided to go but I even left my food in the closet and when she came out and she was dressed I looked at her and I said oh did you decide to go I mean I didn't even get myself fully ready because I knew she'd pick up on that. So she didn't she didn't suspect anything at all and it was the most wonderful surprise the whole family showed up her older sister her sister's boyfriend the brothers everyone showed up and the thing is all of us go to different churches I know you do and you're a very strange. Oh we are a strange family. God is peculiar people in this life and oh and we had so much fun that morning and Sarah was so full of joy and then the next day was her actual birthday on Monday Monday and I planned a family dinner for her and that wasn't a surprise but everyone showed up again we had 8 people around our table and we had dinner and we laughed and we played card games and when we were done. They played just dance and so everybody was dancing in the gym and there was so much laughter and life there's no way anyone would have suspected God could have resurrected our circumstances and bring that kind of life in yeah Oh thank you Lord I was reading in some 18 verse 32 this morning and in the passion it says you have wrapped me in power and now you shared with me your perfection see God's plans for us that his goodness for us is a perfection not not the way we think of perfection it's it's healing it's bringing restoration it's giving us the mind of Christ so that we can choose to think his thoughts in the situation instead of getting depressed and discouraged so when we're thinking his thoughts we have power because he's shared. His perfection with Yes that's right so true to you I ascend to the hot cakes of your glory to stand in the heavenly places strong and secure in you you have trained me with the weapons of war fair worship now I tell you what now when I saw that when I read that that line you've trained me with the weapons of warfare worship we don't think of worship as warfare but Kimberly that's exactly what it is yes yes and he has taught me to sing and I have just been singing and sometimes the song The it's a melody it's not necessarily words with the melody and I'll just sing out the melody that rises up in my spirit and I know that it's a choice full noise to the low. Lord and he is receiving that worship knowing but I'm singing in trust I'm singing in faith I'm singing believing that his ways are far above the human natural ways and I get to share in those ways because he told me I have the mind of Christ we have the mind of Christ in 1st Corinthians 216 it doesn't say you're going to work on getting the mind of Christ try harder to achieve the mind of Christ say that it says we have it and so because he has shared the mind of Christ with us then we have a choice you said it earlier Romans $86.00 then but the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on The Spirit is life and peace so we have a choice we we don't have to choose the depression the doubt the criticism the the judge mental place we don't have to choose that we don't have to choose fear or stress we don't have to choose any of that we can choose that we've got the mind of Christ and his thought for us his feelings and his purposes and his motive was to to do that and it is said above. The world above the storm above the battle our circumstances yes absolutely yes but of ourselves when we are seeing where we're actually rejoicing when we think that's usually because we're in a good mood you're right thing you don't see when you are in jobs you don't seem when you're in the dumper Yeah well I guess some people do when they're sitting in the blue they might be singing the blues. Most of us really are singing because we're just in a good mood and that's something that we get to to God in song 18 verse 35 it says that you empower me for victory with you a wrap around presence your power within me makes me strong to do I can subdue my negative thought I can do depression I can succeed discouragement I can subdue stress and it's not my own effort all I have to do is call out to him and say you told me I have the mind of Christ I'm giving you this draft I'm giving you this discouragement I'm giving that thought to you that thought that makes me feel so insecure and that just doesn't sit right with me I'm giving that to you and I'm believing you're giving me the mind of Christ and I just thank you for God and He does empowers us for victory. Praise God. I realize here that God is doing the work he is absolutely doing the work for us and all we have to do is obey believe and obey believe he's going to do what he says he's going to do in this word when he says and you've been set free from captivity and now I'm standing complete ready to fight some more I know not up with my enemies and conquered them and didn't turn back until the war was won you know David King David at that time this was a precious promise not only found in some 18 but also in 2nd Samuel 22 here was King David he was getting older but he was still that valiant warrior and some of his buddies some of the friends that have been had been with him all his life said we want you to stay home we want you to stay home we do not want you to be out there in the open for the enemy to take down we're going to do the fighting for you and in essence that's kind of saying the the Lord and us are going to do it for you now King David as so precious and the word standing complete it reminds me of James one consider it all joy my brothers and sisters when you encounter various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces in durance and let in durance have its perfect result that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing Akki are nothing but praise God yet. I am reminded that we don't necessarily find ourselves at war with all so David a lot of. In the setting of a time of war and. The war that we have going on with our own and for years. Years we've had the same thought like wow I I'm not smart enough I can't do that I can't do anything right I just can't get that right or even what I want to memorize more scripture but my brain I just can't do it like 2 old well I mean old weak I've come from a very poor family we never had any advantage in life so why should I even strive to do anything yeah those thoughts Yeah those thoughts are not in the mind of Christ really have been given the mind of Christ and His thoughts and so if we take those thoughts and measure them against what Jesus would be saying about it what he thinks about it that's when that's when the battle is won when we say you know what that's not the mind of Christ is it and then we we don't try in our own effort to change our mind because our own efforts are worthless but we take it before God and I recognize that we can make the choice we say I recognize this is not your thoughts toward me and I need your help even though he will never fail he will never let you down when you bring that before him and say I need help with this he helped He's a great help. For it are great counselor and he will come and change that those thoughts change that pattern in your mind it's how our full to let him do that work praise God it's like when you thought in March and April that this marriage is gone your marriage was so splintered there's no way there's no way on earth that anything can put this back together even with suggestions of you both need to go to counseling now now I'm not saying counseling is bad it's if you find the right Christian counselors that can really help us and. Turn. You toward the Word of God but you in your wonderful. Expectation of what God was going to do in spite of the circumstances you looked at a wonderful future and if it was without Matthew Father God I'm willing but I want you to plan together this marriage and that was the ultimate hope and with the humbling both of you with Matthew humbling himself and you humbling yourself we're seeing a resurrection a brand new like you said Brand new marriage and not nothing like the old but brand new We've only had 2 minutes you got to come back on tomorrow Ok. Why don't I don't I don't know you do you I know you have to do that we know that God has done this god you have allowed God to work big in your life not the world not the counseling that other people suggest but God has done it Kimberly That's right that's right and being able to say in the midst of a negative circumstance or a negative thought toward another person like my negative thought that I could have told my husband or my negative toward my well beating life. Only we had in our What a waste of time no is that how do you know because he is not a. Time he's an eternal being and. So are we that's really our eternal being that was there I know waste of time here and a man Oh well I I'm probably going to have you call it tomorrow if you're free and continue in this some 18 and our willingness to do God's will Kimberly thank you so much thank you so much for having me. And I want to remind you the meeting on Friday call me at 186-691-7725 extension 6 God bless you and take. 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Scuse me please. a. Good evening welcome to deceive means I look at. Associate Professor in the department of Joker feet and involvement here at the i.c. On the behalf of the school and the Departments of anthropology and field environment in particular I. Just want to welcome you to tonight's talk by a very distinguished former colleague. At the school. David coffee is distinguished professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He's director of the center of a place culture and politics and he's alone Korea he's had the rare distinction of being a transformative influence on his discipline and of being a joker folk whose work strongly communicates across disciplines and wide at publics outside the economy. He is thanks to Wikipedia for this information the world's most cited geography. And in 2007 The Times Higher Education Supplement said he was the 18th most cited intellectual whole time in the humanities and social sciences. I don't know if Plato count Mohawks and Freud were eligible for this ranking but even if not this is a somewhat remarkable status in the contemporary intellectual universe. He's taught at many institutions from the University of Bristol to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Oxford University Johns Hopkins again and it's been in New York since 2001 around the turn of this century he was a Miliband fellow here at the Elysee in Joker feet and environment. David was awarded the ph d. From Cambridge in 1961 at the start to the time of great foment in Joker free with the arrival of an idea of constructing a scientific analysis of the spatial organization of the world human and natural bolstered by a ray of models from economics psychology and other disciplines and about to real statistical and other quantitative methodology. His 1st book explanation in geography in 1969 did much to synthesize and communicate many of the shiny new ideas of the 1960 s. . Famously issuing a coal for a joke or a feat to become a theoretical discipline. Of course he didn't rest on with his $973.00 social justice and the city. He not only synthesised but transformed Rifi. Galvanising dissatisfaction with the geographical status quo in a context of social conflict and global crisis with the development of a Marxist perspective on the urban inequalities and injustices. In this bill which starts by evaluating liberal positions associated with the philosopher John rolls and welfare economics you can get a sense of his mind moving very fast in the direction of something entirely new. There were other writers and geography and related disciplines in the 1970 s. Who made key contributions but social justice in the city was the key text mocking the emergence of the most social theoretic discipline and crucially the most socially critical one to. This law actually used in human geography remains the case. They've it's written well since social justice and the city and as we all want to know what he has to say this evening accompt the law parade even a fraction of it Bob says magnum opus a reconstruction and extension of Malta solvents and capital the limits to Copple appeared in 1902 it's a remarkably complex book that nonetheless manages to rigorously develop and examined difficult ideas in a clear and persuasive fashion. The theorize ation of historical geographical materialism elaborated here was subsequently deployed in key all tickles and Jip politics and politics and the sphere isolation of crisis and rent have remained central to his thinking and writing in recent years indeed as many of you will know his website features a plethora of material including Leptis elaborating on various dimensions of Marx's work and he's recently published 2 volume companions in Marx's Capital. All the books have contests to allies post modern ideas and all the texture and what was seen as an emerging era of flexible accumulation develop democracy and take on issues concerning nature and environmental justice elaborated on the transformation of the century Paris given incisive account of geopolitics in the time of a resurgent American imperialism under the Bush administration and provided a highly influential and concisely presented account of the development of contemporary neo liberalism. Only to mention a few things that deserved to be mentioned. When he was last year to King I recall it was in connection with his 2012 rebel cities. Which brought together an extended material on the current crisis and activist and other responses to it his writings being strongly associated with the u.s. And global right to the city movement and he's helped inspire much recent activism in many parts of the world. 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According as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of His Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved in whom we have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His Grace wherein he have a bound and toward us and all wisdom and prudence having made known unto us the mistreat is will according to His good pleasure which he have purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in Him in whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who work with all things after the counsel of his own will that we should be to the praise of his glory who 1st trusted in Christ in whom you also trusted after that he heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that he believed he was sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession and the praise of his glory wherefore I also after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my press that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that he may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches.
Priss of the Pruitt Baptist Church in Van Texas with Brother Mike Calhoun. You know. You're. You're. Normal. Form. Now it would get you into you were father and as we look into your work prayed you would look into our hearts just morning. Father we pray for the families that were affected just this last evening the tragic car accident took place father we know that there are hearts in our communities are grieving this father not only the hearts of family members of these that were lost but then also Lord just the friends of these children who were classmates. Father God I just ask you today for a special portion of your grace and your mercy not only in this worship service this morning as we look at your word but father in this coming week we're going to be a lot of people asking questions about what this is all mean and I pray that you will help us and your believe that your children is your fall. Father to give them thoughtful prayerful. Precious and you. Give them hope thank you for your sins in Jesus' name we pray in all of God's people so both of you will open your Bible to the Book of Jonah chapter 3 Jonah chapter 3 and as you turn over there I just want to emphasize this morning. This is one that this is and that I love the character of God the nature of God who He is one of the things about my father in heaven and my Savior Jesus is he is a God of 2nd chances he gives a 2nd chance and we think in our foolishness we're all just made me i'm I need one chance no no no you're going to need a lot of chances if you're like you're like Adam you're like me in the rest of humanity you're going to have different times in your life are going to come back to the cross you're going to have to let the Lord know you know rededicate yourself sometimes or had a bad way you know and you've even messed up you sin I do this we all do this but we have to come to a place in our understanding of the relationship you'll never not be one of his children you're always going to be one of God's children when you ask him to come into your heart and that that child needs to have the kind of relationship with the Father in heaven wants to learn I need anything can stand on even though that I need to start anew start over again with you and he will allow that to happen we're seeing that happen in the life of Jonah in chapter 3 read me what it says there in chapter 3 verse one it says now the word of Ward came to Jonah a 2nd time saying Arise go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I'm going to tell you so Jonah arose and he went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord now as we read begin to read through this text here together this morning we're going to discover some different things one of the things is this unique I think it's a characteristic of God that he is willing to recommission again and so the last couple of Sundays one of the things I've talked about is maybe something God his issues in your life a call that he's issued something he you knew that he wanted you to do and how important it is for you to discover that call in to know what it is but you know there may be some that are here this morning you've never been you've never said or even my state of mind I know that I'm a Christian but Lord I don't know what it is that you know he's got I can tell you for a fact if you're a believer you're a Christian God has a special plan for you not only in your life and in your marriage with your children your career but listen in the church he has a special plan you have a Special Gift of The Holy Spirit he's uniquely uniquely equipped. To serve in some way and there is a 1000000 different ways to serve a New Testament church a man of my same in a 1000000 different ways and so you may not you may have to have really embrace that calling that God God in your life and in regards to serving the church for Jonah for a lot of reasons we're going to discover he knew he was in the Lord as far as a prophet and so of course we remember that in our 1st couple messages back that he got issued a call to him and we went over the various reasons why Jonah may have said no he just he got into a ship in a spiral down down down down of the ship went to the into the fish one of the bottom of the sea and and then prayed from the belly of that fish and got answered that the fish brought him back to dry land and deposit him there on the shore and now the word of the Lord comes to him a 2nd and so just on the introduction of this message just more on say something you may have been on a journey you may have been in a stinking fish and you and your family may be now on dry land trying to get your legs back underneath you don't chase something God has a plan for your life everybody say Man Ok I want to wake up when we say Everybody stay with me God has a plan for my life rather that registered as a good news for you. So it came to him a 2nd time and let's take a look at these words here that he uses arise go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to the proclamation which I am going to tell you so this phrase that he uses here go to that great city he leaves out there wickedness the rim of that was in the 1st call it's almost a word for word paraphrase what he used in chapter one but the word he uses there for great city is actually is actually a phrase that means it's a way for God to say to Jonah this city is a great city it's an important city it's important to me and I'll tell you what I've read and read several different commentators and read several different scholars that passage right there more correctly interpreted is saying he basically made me give you a Calvin paraphrase what he's saying Jonah I want you to go to the city and tell them what I had told you to told you to tell them in the 1st place this city bet is important to me now this is a very important point here because whatever else Jonah was and whoever else he was or why he didn't do what he did one of the things that he missed is that this same may not have been important to him but it was important to God And so this is it this is incumbent upon us as Christians to ever be discovering forever in this life to be sensitive to what God's will is because it might not be something may cross your path and they may not be important to you but you've got to remember it may be important to God and that could be an individual that could be a community that could be an opportunity to he's provided you and you might look at is Jonah look and then we're going to do that and I believe Christians do that I think they can be born again Christians had a true salvation experience but they reach a certain place in their life and for what reasons that we can or to exhaust him to explore here this morning we say for whatever I'm going to do that. And that's what's wrong with a lot of that that's the struggle that a lot of Christianity is having today because God will deal with you he loves you too much not give you a with you on this person particular subject it was the God of 2nd chances calling to Jonah about a city that was important to him and we see 3 things immediately right here we see the persistence of God to produce this plan and I'm just I'm encouraging you to have your heart open and sensitive not to my Calhoun not even to prove Baptist church but I'm telling you to the Lord God Almighty because he is going to be persistently moving you in a place in a direction at a speed an economy that is pleasing to him and makes a man the persistence of God Secondly to the pressure of God Do not underestimate the amount of pressure that God is willing to bring to bear in your life he can go a long way he has all he's got the Universe b. If he's holding if he's holding Pluto in its orbit this around the Sun This very morning I promise you he can hold you right where he needs to hold you in your life and he can bring pressure to bear as a father was did your father love you did your father discipline you did your father and your parents direct you will so does your Heavenly Father and he can bring pressure to bear and thirdly we see the persistence the pressure and thirdly we see the preciousness of things to God and God forgive me for this in this area of my life because I tell you I have missed many times and probably will many kinds before I go to meet my lord things that were important to God but I missed it for a lot of different reasons but I just missed it and this opportunity comes to the prophet. This opportunity comes the prophet again and the 3rd point we see here is where he's going to settle it's a settled time of doom that is coming verse 3 again so Jonah rose he went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord now minute it was an exceedingly great city a 3 day walk and Jonah began to go through the city a day's walk and he cried out and said get 40 days and Nineveh will be over 'd. Very very simple message that you would believe how this Pat this little phrase or here's been dissected was he being flippant because he just has a few words there or 5 words if you look at it in Hebrew it's a very concise it's not a it's not any it's not an expansive explanation of God the Creator it's not it's not an expansive explanation of the ology are what could happen or are there God he doesn't attack near God he just goes ahead a judgment is coming listen we worry too much I don't want to say the wrong thing I don't want to push too hard that's not the problem we're having in the church today that's not the problem we're having in the world today oh we know who the radicals we know who the true radicals are but that's not the problem we're having in the world today we're having a problem among Southern Baptists and other denominations because there is no sense of urgency to go and say doom is coming and that is a that is a true message that's a factual message even if you didn't believe that mess not cave to the message of the end of a person's life is coming that message is true for every British soul in this room this morning. Judgment is coming and he gives a simple concise message in a state settled time of doom the word he uses when he says 40 days is a Hebrew word not a Greek word with a Hebrew word and it literally means to turn over a plate it means to turn over a plate it's think the exact same wording that used in Genesis 19 in 25 were that the Scriptures record the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon the morra brimstone and far from the Lord out of heaven and he overthrew turned over like a turning over a plate those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the city which grew on the ground but his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt and Abraham got up early that morning to the place where he stood and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of the plain and beheld and lo the smoke of the country when as the smoke of a furnace it was a settled time of Doom one of the reason I think the Church is struggling with this concept is because we don't have that concept settled in our own heart is something we don't want to think about this is a part of you know people that we do think we need to preach the whole counsel in the whole character of God God is a loving God a gracious God a merciful God but he is also a jealous God a raffle God a vengeful God a judge he is going to be a one point of judging God He poured out his judgment he didn't just forget about his judgment he poured out his judgment he poured out on God that's right Jesus everything that the world deserved it was and had come into it he took all of that anger all that revenue poured out on his Son Jesus who was innocent a settled time of day and we struggled with this concept because we have a set of in our heart great things very quickly about this point it is a promise number one it is a promise of something to come Number 2 it's problematic because we have not embraced this aspect of God's character and his nature and historical fact that he is going to take place it's going to take place and that should motivate us in some different way. But guys the potential benefits the potential benefits you know what do we tell our kids don't take drugs don't we and I say man listen watch how you drive put your seatbelt on and we say that what or some other thing to say don't eat that if you eat too much of that it's going to get we say all kinds of things because we care about the people that we love and the New Testament church we have got to arrive back in a place where we again we recapture the certainty the urgency to persistency of what it is that God is doing because of the potential benefit of what is going to happen yet 40 days and then of a will be overthrown look what it says in verse 5 when the people a minute believe in God and they call a fast and they put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them they believe there's a lot of different words that could have been used here phrases could be used here to know a particular thing but if it's a hit in the Hebrew stance in the deepest into it means they believe in they trusted in Hebrew since you could say you believe all you want but until you begin to do with the Torah called you to do they said you had but you hadn't heard and you had to believe but this is a phrase that he uses that means that they truly believe and they began to change their actions and not only a lot of time there was something I'll tell you there's something about sackcloth and ashes that are that it's good there's something about sackcloth and ashes that are good these people if you notice he didn't say the leadership insight inside the 1st Baptist Church down at Nineveh It's the ones who believe I'm being facetious there was no 1st church then I don't think your what. It just said that the people believe the King's going to believe in a minute in a moment that takes the people who believe if you look at the great awakening to 3 great awakenings we've had in this country and the other awakenings that have happened on the other commie in Europe you'll find that it wasn't not necessary the leadership they helped fostered after it got started it was through after some tragic accident it was after some some at some university where the Spirit of God go on people just the people in the people began to repent and they began to believe in turn their lives over to God and it swept across the nation to change the course of a nation America has been forever changed by the awakenings that have taken place revivalism and it was no leaders who did it it was God doing what the people believe what did they do here's the proof of their belief they call the fast they put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least just a very a mock teaching on fasting is when you deny yourself fasting is missing a meal you're worried about one of your children so you start missing a meal maybe your lunch and dedicating that time to praying for a child that you're worried about your your family's going through a financial or physical problem and so you dedicate a certain time of the week where you're going to fast on Fridays and you're not going to eat something you're going to eat right then you dedicate that time it's a denying of one so people these men about you all remember weeks back we talked about the cruelty of this this group at the very end of this chapter is going to talk about turning away from the violence of their hands but this was a rough rough historically vicious group of people. It wasn't Jonah's preaching either anybody in the room could preach that message he preached yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown I wonder preacher It was this flower to illustrate it was the Spirit of God moving in the moving in people that he wanted to redeem he wanted to save the people believe God and they called it fast that is not of themselves sackcloth was an illustrated it was to deny yourself a comfort it was a heavy course wool black wool and they would put this sack cloth on and they sat in that sack cloth and a set of ashes and it was a type of denial of oneself This is why America is struggling and revival This is why America is struggling revival right now can we don't want to deny ourselves any pleasure we don't want to ourselves any time we don't want to give up our time we don't want it we don't want to give up anything and you've got to give up the closer you get to God You've got to give up yourself what did John the Baptist say he said I'm becoming less but he's becoming greater I must decrease and he might increase and that's why you can't have a lot of God you've got too much of yourself we have too much of ourselves in our lives and it separates us from God and what we've got to do is poor souls out that I do ourselves and be open to what it is God wants to do in Iraq and he'll move and prevent be sure he'll move in his church to the people who believe God they call the fast put on sect law from the greatest of the least of them because there's a verse 6 in the word reached the king of Nineveh and heroes for Mr own he laid he rose from his throne laid aside his robes from him covered himself with sackcloth sad sad and ashes and a proclamation it's and he made a proclamation issued a proclamation and he said in Minerva about a creed of the king nobles do not let man or beast or her flock taste a thing do not let them eat or drink water but both man and beast must be covered in sackcloth and let men call of God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from violence which is in his hand. Do you remember that great that great part portion of chapter one when we talked about Jonah spiral he began to run from God He wanted what he wanted to begin to run from abroad in your member we say he went down topographically he went down from Joplin and he spiraled down to the shore he found a ship he went down to the docks he went down to a boat he went down to the belly of the boat eventually in that scenario he was cast into this down into the sea and then down into the fish and then down into the depths of even the sea you remember a spiral spiral spiral and you know what it just lead to destruction but here here we see a completely different response but there's still a spiraling down here the people in the King especially to illustrate in the life of the King what does he do he stepped down from his throne he stepped down from a stone he took off of his road he set down on the upon the ground he covered himself in ash and ashes and in sackcloth and then he issued a decree he got down from himself and he said let the host of everything that I have control over let let him even put on ash ashes and sackcloth and repin And there's another spiraling going on here but if within the man it's the right kind of spiraling it's the right kind of downward descent where we get past ourselves and over ourselves and we allow God to become real every real and a true king you know how much pride I had when I got to say not one stupid thinking did you could have told me to do anything I did not need to get Jesus because I was on my way to hell and miserable and my life and my family my whole world was I can't say for the pulpit what it was everybody laughing in not a joke it wasn't good it was dark dark dark and what I had to do was in my heart rides that it might kill his king I had to spiral down from there down and down and I had issued to Korea and my family say Brenda from this day forward if it kills us we're going to we're going to be we're going to be church people we're going to go to church. We're going to be baptized we're going to make new friends we're going to have good friends and you know what we're going to learn about I didn't even know there was an old or new testament That's how much of the Bible I knew I had to spiral down down I had to go to my friends my my tough friends I had to go to those guys at the warehouse and I had to tell my own I had to go down and said Man I'm I have met him I have met him his name is Jesus guys listen this stuff is really there's really a God I remember looking around in the warehouse and there is a god here he's here not mad and you've got to go down you have that great awakening that great turning It's called repentance Mr friend listen to repentance is one of the best words you'll ever learn in the Old or New Testament when John the Baptist came preaching he came preaching and he said repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and Mark one of 15 when Jesus came preaching he said the promise with field in the kingdom of God Hand rippin and there's it's not the proper repentance where you're just sorry You'll be sorry that the highway patrolman didn't see you coming by at 85 miles an hour you can just be sorry I got away with that you can just be that that's not true Repent repent is a true internal mournful feeling about our standing and what it is that we have done to God my stand your stand put Jesus on the cross and when you get saved when you come to the place where you recognize that you need Jesus in your life and in your heart you become truly repent you become truly more full and storable for the stand that you have lived in your life your sin could Jesus on the cross you have true conviction a true changing of mind you change your life please please please please don't do this this is a this is a national phenomenon Ron and I talked about it long and that is when you truly get said Don't tell me I'm saving but your life never changes I know you are not perfect. But don't tell me I don't want to go to church I don't want to read the Bible I don't want to pray I don't want to serve the choir don't want to serve in the church I don't want to talk about it I want to bless my food and then tell me you're a Christian. Woman Why did you even accept Jesus paid I'm going to change your life any more than that why would we ever ever accepting just of that we get a little fire insurance and not go to a place called a oh let me tell you something you're missing heaven you're going to miss it because the Jesus I know is going to change your life and you may not be perfect but you'll be saved and it'll be a struggle but oh what a glorious struggle I can get up now and I can know that that day that I'm going to live me in the Lord I know I may fail but at the end of that day Jesus' blood is still waiting on me my friend Jesus going to be white mommy going to dust me off the list will start again tomorrow just put the day to rest I'll ask you to forgive me must and we we keep moving forward repentance if you experience that kind of true reaping what the king recognized that there was someone greater and he got the entire kingdom he did that we see in the Senate the another type of dissent the right kind of the state that he made and he gives to the very end of this chapter and look what he says verse 9 what he says because who knows God may turn in relent and withdraw his burning anger so that we will not perish when God saw their deeds and that they had turned from their we could waste and God really made concerning the calamity which he declared he would bring upon them and he did not do it I want everybody to stay with me this morning who knows no matter who knows who no one more time who knows it's not sad it's not sad. If you have children at home and they're still breath and you can you can be a witness you can tell your friends about Jesus. Is America lost we're never going to have another great away can we never have a revival is bank is of everything that bank community this is going to get I don't believe it because who knows what God might yet do it God's people are faithful and we pray and we and we search for him with all of our hearts and all of our minds who knows what God might do in your family in your marriage in this community in this nation I still believe God can do it I believe he was to do it and if for no pay you can came from Nineveh can say who knows surely we respond good upstanding Christian people surely together we can shout to the heaven to say who knows the Lord maybe you'll really land and you'll still work in my life in the life of my family and people will be saying marriages will be saved the Gospel would be preached children be raised in church but people think that I've heard teased about the years that we need a Baptist mafia and that we need to have to send people out going on someone's with going to church I only really met one person like that but she did it out of love my wash grandmother misses a leader obviously we were going basically for about 2 or 3 months and we got to you know you get tired you get tired where you don't want to you know so we had always been on 1st Wednesday not brother Preston we didn't go well we were Ms Reza worst of miserable wins day not in the middle wasn't good enough and was on t.v. I don't want to be in a living room I don't want to be in the front yard when I was in the front yard I want to be you know it was just miserable when the house that large chair about 10 after said this church was for sale own my oh hey grandma Louise how are you doing where were you all from the well we just we worked it late and now I'm not talking got to understand what time it legalism you know every say man I'm not talking about leaving the legal it's the. Grandma knew she knew what was best for our lives. Keep saying return Tara run County and a couple other surrounding counties she was just waiting to get the call that I was on my way to pay and she knew Michael I said well I was so tired says will you just come be targets hurt cuz we need more ram not because it makes you any more saber any less because church is a place to be a church the place being Christian and that's the kind of person you want to be you want to be a say born again Christian you want your children years from now say my parents had a drug problem they drug use to church on Sunday morning they drug a Sunday night a drug test everything I wish here that's what kind of that's what you want your children to say your baby's to say 20 or 30 years from now my parents can not because it saved them because it's just a deceit who knows what God will do just give the Lord trust Jesus trust in the blood of God's people said Father I thank you for this message just me and I thank you for preaching it at me where I needed this myth Lord I don't know what's going to happen with America even though our own community here dear Lord things are changing in the world so fast but Lord I identify with King of Nineveh who says who know but I still believe that you want to see people saying you want to see them serving you father I believe with all my heart for this what I want to try to follow for the rest of my life I just pray you give me this not out of a legalism to cruel robotic fish but your Lord out of a wonderful loving relationship that you initiated you call me I call you you found me out in my New York and I prayed that for my brother sinner here this morning who knows what you might do and answered a 2nd call his name would pray and. You're listening to the Sunday morning worship services of the Pruitt Baptist Church in Van Texas with Brother Mike Calhoun and 1st testimony in Chapter 2 is a continuation of one of the concerns of Paul has about what they're hearing about the 2nd Coming of Christ we've been reading in verse one look what it said it says we were question you rather And with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering to him that you would not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by spirit or message or letter as if from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come let no one in any way to see you for it will not come unless in apostasy come 1st in the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of destruction who opposes in the results himself above every so called God or object of worship so that he takes his seat in the temple of God himself as being God Do you not remember that while I was still with you I was telling you these things and that's I'm going to stop there that's not the natural right for that. But we're going to stop right there and we're going to go ahead and just review for a 2nd that what was happening was Paul had just written the letter 1st testimony but something that was very common back in antiquity was a pseudo letter and that's actually an interesting area of study and people had no scruples like it would be if I knew that there were 2 churches out here that were communicating back and forth or whatever and I stuck a letter in because I'm trying to capture a people or promote a doctoral Why do you have any problem doing that that's highly unethical most organizations would not do that today but back then they didn't think anything about it probably one of the most famous groups with which this is not about was the Gnostics laid a lot of Christianity in some of the themes and so they tried every way to hijack it they wrote false letters were simply false prophets out so that's an interesting area state so when he writes this letter he had just written remember 1st nestlings when we go back and look at the minute the. 1st their slogan is Chapter 4 is about the 2nd coming of the Lord and of every chapter but here he's having to revisit this so he will have to reassure them about some things that he has already said that I would request to you brother in with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the gathering together of him talking about the rapture he said did you not quickly be shaken from your composure or disturbed either by spirit or message or letter as if it was to the effect that the day of the Lord had come what was the hardest the heresy was his will get you you missed it so Paul had been there he minister to Demi told him about the 2nd coming he left and when he physically left their presence somebody came in behind us and say what you guys missed it then think about how unsettling that was this is a technique of Colts today they will use a shock doctrine they'll make up some time and guess what shot doctrines are connected to they're connected to political events natural disasters you know. Many of you are old enough and in the room to remember when the anti christ was Gorbachev or one man of Christ was Kissinger that was a real famous one and then so you just go down the list to history and so Christian groups unfortunately will they'll just adopt one of these scenarios happening that used to be Russia was going to sweep out of the north Well now it's Islam is going to so you have to be careful because there's always going to be some type of a turmoil that's going on that Satan is going to use that maybe you will be lost but it can make you any effectual it can it can hurt your faith it can cause you to be anxious about things that God And that's not the life of a Christian is to be anxious about something that's going to happen in the future very quickly again he says from your composure disturbed either by spirit it's a nother Spirit working or a message could have been a written message and letter as it was from us the day of the Lord has come let's turn over and look in 1st testimony and chapter 4 and verse 13 This was the initial teaching that connects to the day of the war there he says and 1st Estonians 4 and 13 but we do not want you to be uninformed rather as those who are asleep that you do not grieve as the rest who have no hope God wanting peace for their. For if we've been lead to Jesus died and rose again so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep with Jesus for this we say to you by the word of the Lord this is not Paul's doctrine he's creating This is a great inspiration of the Holy Spirit for this we say to you by the word the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not proceed those who have fallen asleep and that means who have died for the Lord himself will be sent from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God in the dead in Christ shall rise 1st then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we shall always be with the Lord and again this idea of comfort verse 18 therefore comfort one another with these words and so he's given us an order that's an order of resurrection so every time we see a Christian remember every time we see a Christian just like the young lady who was baptized this morning the state can't baptize this morning we can to stop all that individual to the place where they understand it only wanted to know from that point forward only one of 2 things is going to happen she's either going to live to a ripe old age you know live a full Christian life 7089 years old I hope the Lord gives her many many years and passes away and will see the Lord immediately she will be present with the Lord that's either going to happen or when I look at young people I look at young Christians when they're converted they're say they might be one of the lucky ones I think it's going to be anything to see be doing something I love Remember the old pictures they had in the sixty's fifty's sixty's seventy's of the planes crashing in the cars going crazy people in every activity alive and then a flash. The sky is going to roll back like a scroll and people are going to translate it those who are alive actually what will happen Paul says and this text right here is that those of the Grays Will they were in 1st they will be on their way and then we go join them so Paul even gives priority to those who have fallen asleep the Lord 1st and so then the symmetries will be a very lively place will be very active place chapter 5 this is 1st lesson only and again he describes that day the Lord is going to come back and just describe it to him again Chapter 5 now to the times and Pox read and you have no need of anything being written to you or you yourself know full well that the day of the Lord which is a phrase it used in the old in the New Testament will be like a thief in the night and while they are saying peace and safety destruction will come upon them suddenly what so what's happened when this day of the Lord come back what what I just described the Rapture Ok so pre-millennial Dispensationalism Ok $10.00 words but all it means is that the Rapture is going to take place this is not a litmus test for a person saved or not but I do think that it goes to your heart on your piece that you can have so I've always disciple young I've always to stop when my people don't understand it at the moment salvation you are secure and this the very next verse I'll show him a lot of promises John Chapter 10 and Jesus is talking of the ferry sea she said no one but no one it's a double negative it's a poor English word it's great Greek because what Jesus is saying no not no one no how interest is Calhoun here but no not no one no how can ever snatch you out of God's hands. Ok And so that is that's already happened so this day of the war is going to be the judgments are following afterwards to come like a thief not Verse 3 says while they are saying peace and safety the destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with a child and they will not escape but you brothers are not of the darkness that the day would overtake you and then calls them has all these wonderful descriptions he says they are sons of why they are sons of light and sons of day we are not of not more darkness so than let us not asleep verse 6 is important for me to read you not because the coming events cause us to be sober today because we know that these things are going to happen let us not sleep as other sleep let us be alert and sober for those who sleep in their sleeping and I pose to get drunk drunk and since we are the day let us be sober having put on so he's describing he's describing that force and verse nice as we're not destined for this wrath it's to the world yet in effect this issue affect our outlook. If we as Christians who know that this day or its coming it inspires us to live differently Spirit uses that you know a Christian parent looks differently. At their babies a Christian parent that because they know this day is coming there's this big thing is coming you know they were saying they had a conversion experience so they know this is coming and you look at your children differently I love my children before I was say I mean a lot of them oh my goodness I would love them after I was saved like I could imagine and what with one of my main concern that dose children would be converted they would come to a place of faith and come to know. Jesus you go back over to 2nd Thessalonians. And he uses the word here in verse 3 Let no one in any way deceive you world will not come in last and so the 1st part of that verse 3 there when he talks about deceiving deception being deceived deception what he's saying he has a way he's a liar he's a thief and become a knob or steal kill me strong but I'm coming they might have life and have a terminal so there's an antithesis to the truth that is in Christ Jesus the mantis of this to that is this person this person of say this person of Satan a spirit that's in the world will not come unless the apostasy come 1st and the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of extra of destruction looking on the negative description of him verse 4 who opposes an exultant so about every so called God not to work so he takes his seat in the temple of God displaying himself as being God Do you not remember that while I was still with you I was telling you these things but here's something that a good teacher is doing right here he's told them and he's probably sent word through other messengers about what he's told him and now he's writing another letter saying do you not remember telling him again and telling him do you not remember what I told you this is the Christian. How many of us ever had to tell our children one time go along. How many of our children have and how many of us ever had to tell them what time to go to bed I mean it was just wrecked your life of a parent is repetition repetition repetition and good doctor and get the ology you just keep telling him you just keep telling keep telling this individual how some characteristics look what they are opposes exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship so why politically on the scene I think there will be a time where this individual will show up he might not at 1st show himself he is actually going to demand worship the Caesars did this did you know that in in Roman when you studied Caesar ism and you didn't study the the. The historical arc of Caesars they became they were very conservative in the beginning and the beginning of the Roman Empire but by the end of the Roman Empire they become so politically corrupt that one of the things that was the last thing that was left on the table besides all the other vices I won't go into it tonight is that they called for the worship of them so they got me feelin to be deep depravity and so there was an arc there was a natural arcs of what he's describing here a political figure is very much what we can probably imagine I mean I can see this happening in the world today and there's some other things that are going to be added to this person is characteristics going to help themselves masses I'm glad we're going to be raptured out of this truth still needs to be told and that is they will be able to perform line wonders now they're going to be miracle workers they're going to great imitations of death is as if you'd seen Jesus himself walking. That's what it's going to be parallel to it's going to be very impressive it's going to be an individual that is careers magic people are going to be drawn to and they're going to and I don't know why but he's been able to do things he should be able to do things in the way of miracles people are going to get and the whole world is going to gravitate to. $1.00 checks $1.01 of his commentaries talks about this and. Says that after the rapture and I'm not a conspiracy guy I try not to because it sounds so weird when you start talking about a little bit but you know have you ever thought about what the government has done to get the world ready if there's a rapture if you think about a lot of the different narratives that are being sold out there right now don't laugh but you know back in the mid eighty's there was a movie called not a comma in this comic comes by and people disappear that's when the 1st times I saw it recognizes Chris one of the main religions today is u.f.o. Worship u.f.o. All a-g. And abductions and people disappear a 3rd aspect is the infiltration of Islamised in the nation and what about mass kidnapping so all of these are narratives that plausibly could be used by the any Chrysler He's will be able to explain all of this he could have data and then he's going to be he's going to cruise Mattie and the world has no say well I guess there was that that you know they even made a splendid way while the Christians Well he's going to pose going to exalt himself explain yourself in God He said Do you remember while I was still you that I told you so the tribulation is that period immediately following the rapture where there's a great outpouring of God's wrath going to be if you're me a 7 year period half way through that period this individual is political figures going to set himself. He's going to say he's going to use this as a you not unifying aspect let me tell you what I think it is this is Calvin and if it's not Scripture right here. But there's a great on the Temple Mount there is a. The the Jews worship at the base is Solomon's base but then there's a big structure on top and I think a natural disaster is going to destroy or harm both them and it's going to be cause for but all of the religions to come together and they're going to 1st say that it's going to be something where have a part for the Jews part for the Christians apart Muslims and I think what's going to happen if halfway through that structure that's where he goes ahead he reveals himself because he is going to reveal himself half way through this tribulation period and he said now we're going to worship me again I don't believe we'll be here then but the reason this truth needs to be taught for those who are left I won't stay too long this point is too sad too scary but you know really children that we don't talk about this on Sunday morning children their parents are going to go to bed that night as Christians and those babies you know wake up in the morning I mean. That one that one point right there on a card every anybody that has any decency at all to even consider priest you to think about leaving your children behind so there's going to be this this is called the doctor the rapture in the doctor and of the tribulation and. This idea of the earthquake he says don't let anybody shape you this is what was happening in his day this man we call him The He's going to teach a false doctrine the man of lawlessness. Of our describe him let's go over and look at 1st John chapter This is why so important be a christian up and lots of different reasons look what it says right here be a discerning Christian 1st John chapter 4 but the levity do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the by this you will know the Spirit of God Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God This is the spirit of the end of Christ which you have heard that is coming and is now already working in the Now this is a very interesting passage of Scripture Baptist Church here is your 1st litmus test for any prophet preacher teacher from this point forward which you have I'm sure David has preached this to you and other pastors have and that is when somebody hedges on the idea that Jesus came in the flesh Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God came in the place where brother Mike we know that we've been taught that all are Listen there's a lot of the nominations that are hedging on that now they hedge on the miracles that are in the New Testament they hit head on the virgin birth they say that's not really necessary because just the back of the idea of a surrounds it and so this is some of the liberal theology that begins to erode away at the base of what our faith is founded on that end and this is also the missed test for somebody who is going to become a Christian so whenever we whenever we evangelize people this is something this is to the heart of our faith every spirit to confess that Jesus has come in the way and every spirit that does not confess this is the spirit that is of the any Christ and you notice that he doesn't he doesn't. Split hairs here because you know science says that everything is just been going on that's f. That's anti-Christian this one I'm a young earth Christian I mean a young earth Christian believer I think that God has corrupted he created the World in 6 them to this not necessary a litmus test for your salvation because we're supposed to place your faith in Christ Jesus but you do have a hermeneutic problem if you believe anything else other than that see the world can't have always been dying the world was it has to be according to Christian theology has to have been created set up by God and there was just one thing that messed everything up and guess what that was. And it's so science even though and you know science is just doing what science does 1st of all science just says about itself is that it just goes by the empirical evidence it doesn't go by it just goes by what it can it can see and understand at that moment in time the data that is we get but but science that is opposed so I suppose to that that not necessarily because science is intending on tacking Christianity but the fact he says that this No everything's always been done well that part of the spear that is of spirit the anti christ can use that Satan can use that to begin to work. I have had conversations with young people and say well what about you know the Crusades What about. Creation what about the Da I mean so you have to be able to answer those questions which you better come back and your theology you know your theology is on there because that's your case for the cross and so that can make a thing Christian or anti Christian or and that can be something the end of Christ in you every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God This is the spirit of any cries of which you heard that is coming so when John talks about that this was in the corporal teaching of the church at that time that the corporate teach you the church was saying that there was an anti Christ it was coming and so John in 1st John $43.00 says what you heard about that is coming and is now already at work in the world and so that tells us that the spirit of any crisis still working today the end of Christ the Spirit of any Christ is working today in the hearts and institutions in countries in the nations u. Verse forces you are not you are from God Little children and have overcome them because Greater is He who is in need then he who you 1st John to an 18. 1st John to an 18 children it is the last hour and just as you heard that the any crisis coming even now many any cries have appeared from this we know that that this is the last hour they went out from us but they were not really of us this is a very popular Baptist text by the way they would have remained with us but they went out from us that it would be shown their own lot of us but you have an annoying thing of the Holy One and you know and he read he tells them have I not written to you because you do not because you do know the truth and because you do know it and because no lie is in the truth another aspect of what's going to happen when the man of lawlessness comes and the rapture is taking place is the Holy Spirit is going to be raptured out I think this is kind of in me be a logical aspect of who we are suckers your very presence in the world is the presence of the Spirit of God It is the spirit in you you heard you say that some people get any close to the kingdom their whole way unless they get close as as when they get close to you when that person that you work with or go to school you go to school with passes you know hallway that day that's as close to the kingdom as they got because of their families lost maybe everybody in class is like maybe they're in a world of lost as in Europe and that that presence of the Holy Spirit and God's people today is one of the. Restraining factors of what's keeping the lid on all this people left to their own devices are incredibly wicked people left it to their own moral devices will do all manner of evil but when the when the church is raptured out that holding station that holding hands your present is going to be gone and it's going to be bad if nobody really because people will be that he's the Jesus said I must go become a Saint you another Helper talked about John Chapter 16 talk about it. Matthew he talked about in other places where he talked about the spirit was going to be a helper force and that is what's part of what's holding back the evil that's endure it's a restraining presence though it says here in verses. 8 and Paul then that lawless one will be revealed from whom the Lord will slay with the breath of his mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of his coming that is the one who is coming accordance with the activity of say with all power and signs and false wonders which I mentioned earlier and with all deception of wickedness for those who perished because they did not receive the love of truth so as to be say is very very tricky version right here I think I've always wondered about this verse but for this reason God will stand upon them deluding influence or they will believe what is false in order that they may be judge those who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in the wicked and so the thought is here that for the whole course of humanity and the presentation of the Gospel and the presentation of the Son when man should have repented should have believed and he waited and he waited and he waited that it this point in history when the church has been raptured out he just gives them over to the evil influences that are within them so that their judgment because you know what happens is that Jesus comes back he sets up His kingdom there is a lineal reign there's a 1000 years of godly rang and you know what the world does at the end of that 1000 year reign that's when they gather against Druce them to beat them they don't care they're mad at God they're going to fight and try to kill God at the end of the 1000 year reich that's part of this this thinking right here the fullness of their weekend if they're going to deserve exactly what it is that they hear after that post more in the spirit is here now the Spirit can work but there's coming a day when the Spirit is going to go. And that spirit you're not going to be able to be say and there's a there's 2 schools of thought and I jump back and forth on that you know there's 2 schools of thought you can't be saved unless you have the conviction of the Holy Spirit but there are some who say well maybe after the rapture you'll be able to be safe because of the martyrdom because there's 140000 going to be convert those 2 schools of thought that go back and forth on that but if I heard a youth pastor in from Florida say Wall Street one time who would bet their life on that why not go ahead and be say I mean you're betting on whether you're going to burn with foreign burned or brimstone you're going to going back and forth why not go ahead we say live the blessing life of the Christian before these events are going to happen this is incredibly interesting and provocative area of the ology but it's so important because these things are going and so these are some of the things that should motivate us to grow to be healthy to our brand when I say Be healthy kind of goes to what I was sharing with you earlier when we started you know when we started tonight in the services you know I do want to grow a lot growing as a church but I want to grow healthy I want to grow healthy and because eternity is on the line and so that's why this Church me man. 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The scripture for a sermon today is found in Matthew chapter 20 verse 17 through 28 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the 12 disciples apart in the way and said to them behold we go up to the room and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock him to scourge and to crucify and the 3rd day he shall rise again then came to him the mother of 7 these children with her sons worshipping Him and desiring a certain thing of him and he said to her what wilt thou she said to him grant that these my 2 sons may sit the one on the right hand and the other on the left and by Kingdom But Jesus answered and said you know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with they say into him we are able and he said to them you shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but for whom it is prepared of my father and when the 10 heard it they were moved with indignation against the 2 brethren But Jesus called them to him and said you know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them but it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister and whosoever will be Chief among you let him be your servant even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life our ransom for many I have been titled this sermon our redeemer our assurance consider this Surprising Truth 1st that Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory the prince of life came to serve he did not come that men might serve him as though he needed anything or as though the service of sinful man could have any value to him sinful man is bound in sins under the law he cannot serve God he cannot worship God Joshua what 24 verse 19 Christ's humility indeed the very heart of God Himself is seen in stark contrast here to human pride his humility is seen in all timid self-denial and also met self-sacrifice even as he offered himself as a sacrifice for these proud contentious presumptuous disciples James and John sought for the highest place among the disciples even among all others in the Kingdom of Heaven they wanted to set one of the. Tan and one of the right hand and the other 10 disciples were indignant against them because they thought they should have the place preeminence themselves pride is a part of our sin nature it is present in all that we do it can only be subdued by free grace this text of Scripture proves that to us in the face of the pride and presumption of James in John and the other disciples Jesus bears himself in humility and holds himself up as the lowest servant he tells these discussed in centers that he would give himself to pay the ransom his people owed God by the debt of their sins and set them free from the curse and bondage of their sin of God's law of death and from the devil himself in short from every enemy James and John thought that by enduring whatever suffering was required they would be worthy to sit at Christ right and left hand how ignorant of God's grace they appeared now to be yet what was in them is found in the heart of every one of us pride is no stranger to us it is our constant companion it is the tyrant that influences all that we think and do Jesus told James and John they did not know what they were asking he asked them Are you able to drink of the cop that I shall drink Oh and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with they presumptuously and naively said we are able Jesus then said that they would indeed drink his cup and be baptized with his baptism Now the truth of the gospel is that every believer suffers what Christ suffered and died the death that he died because he stood as their substitute and represented. There is only one way that it can be truthfully said that these disciples drank the cup of Wrath the Lord Jesus drank and were baptized in the sea of woe into which he was baptized they did so just as all of God's elect did they drank his cup and were baptized into His baptism representatively God made Christ the head of his people that he might deal with all of His elect in one man even the Lord Jesus Christ just as Adam stood for the entire human race in the covenant of works Christ stood for all of God's eternally adopted sons in the covenant of grace in Christ all of God's elect are completely and perfectly saved by his representative work as our substitute by his pre-agreed surety ship with God the Father all that God's elect did by their sin became Christ's to bear therefore Scripture says that for his people Jesus Christ was made sin 2nd Clinton's 521 and by this same eternal arrangement all that Christ did became the possession of all of his people he was made sin in order that we might be made the right justice of God in Him 2nd Corinthians 521 thus every believer suffered and died with Christ and in his suffering in death they suffered and they died Romans Chapter 6 verse 6 through 11 and 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 24 God received all that Christ did as from his people let me say that again God received all that Christ did as from his people God raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and with him raised all who were given to him. Evasions chapter 2 verse 6 Romans Chapter 4 verse 25 there is no greater comfort to the soul of every believer than this that God put upon Christ and received from Christ all that he demanded and required of me in the Lord Jesus Christ every believer is the very righteousness of God 2nd the Lord Jesus Christ paid himself 2 daughters the ransom for the souls of his people Jesus said that he came to give himself a ransom to God for many the price paid for the souls of God's elect people is Christ's blood 1st Peter $1.00 there is $18.00 to $19.00 he paid that price to God Psalm $49.00 verse 7 the weight. Now the only thing that matters in our redemption is what God thinks of the obedience and suffering and death of the Lord Jesus Christ the only issue is did Christ pay the ransom and did God receive full payment from our Redeemer that is the only thing that matters if Christ paid all and if God receive his ransom in satisfaction for our sins then all for whom Christ paid a ransom or reading they are set free they are released and from this we see several things 1st we see that the evil of our sin can only be measured by the price of our redemption how holy is God how just is God's law how evil is my sin all of these questions and more are only answered by this what was the price God required for our redemption and the answer is it is Christ that died Romans 834. Second the strength of our sin can only be measured by the strength of the one who read deemed us from our enemies Zacharias the father of John the Baptist but the Spirit of God said that Christ would read the name his people from their enemies and Luke chapter one verse 68 through 75 you says blessid be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and we deemed his people and has raised up on the horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant the oath which he swear to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. What are the enemies for which Christ has redeemed his people 1st sin the Lord says in Isaiah 44 verse 22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud by transgressions and as a cloud by sins return to me for I have read deemed the end is Psalm 130 verse 7 he says he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities Titus 214 says who gave Himself for us that he might read deem us for all iniquity and what other enemies the law of God both is curse against us for sayin and bondage to fulfill it for our righteousness and to receive life. Collations chapter 3 verse 13 says Christ has 3 deemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written curse it is every one that hangs on a tree and from what other enemies do the Lord Jesus Christ redeem his people from death and the grave Hosea Chapter 13 verse 14 says I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death. And the Lord has redeemed us from Satan and Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 it says that through death the Lord Jesus Christ destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devil and the Lord has redeemed us from the world and religious works and ceremonies and all activities and philosophies by which men of this world imagine they are or can become acceptable to God that they can receive rewards from God that they can live and enjoy peace and happiness by what they are or think or do all of these are empty valueless positively filthy rags and idolatry before God and he lay she is one for it says that Jesus gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God our Father the 3rd thing we see from this scripture in Matthew chapter 20 we see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 1st we see the grace of God in its measure by the cost Christ paid to redeem us and we see it because it was paid for centers whose guilt and corruption deserve only the wrath of God Perhaps your own children whom you love have rebelled against your loving instruction and the boundaries you placed around them for their safety and for their good perhaps they have despised you for your instruction perhaps they have treated your love as constraining bondage if so what is your reaction have you felt a measure of anger towards them how could they be so ungrateful so cruel in return for your loving provision in care over them now think of the infinitely greater rebellion that we exerted against our good and great God and now see in Christ the heart of humility and the grace of God in spite of our open and maty against him he looked for reason to save us not in ourselves but in himself he made a way for his grace he provided. All things for us he put himself in harm's way by interposing himself under his own justice in the person of His Son He created a human nature for his own son and in that nature made him guilty for the sins of his rebellious people then in justice he plunged the sort of His wrath into his own son 2nd why a 13 1st 7 in all this Christ willingly voluntarily and in humility offered himself up as the ransom payment for those who were his enemies he endured all that God required to make satisfaction for the sins of his people now in all this see the infinite humility and the riches of God's grace towards his people do you and I know this great glorious God and almighty Savior who humbled himself so. The 2nd way in which we see the grace of our Savior and his ransom for us is that it is certain that I can bring nothing to God to take away one sin or overcome one sin or contribute one thing to my salvation because of the dignity and the greatness of Christ who was ransom he who sits on Heaven's throne gave himself a ransom to thought as the price required by God to remit the debt of sinful men and their rebellion against God The price he paid was himself his own blood therefore the evil of our sin is beyond all comprehensible measure the death of Christ is the measure of the evil of our sin and the strength of our sin is greater than we could ever free ourselves we are slaves to sin in our nature and accountable to God for eternal damnation we see this evil and power of sin in the dignity and the greatness of the one who God require to put it away and in this we see the grace of our ransoming savior if God could have offered all of creation it would not have been sufficient to take away one sin Isaiah 40 verse 16 if there had been a way for you and me to take away one sin all free ourselves from the power and strength of our own sin then God would never have sacrificed his son but there was no other payment sufficient to reading collations to $16.00 says I do not frustrate the grace of God if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain but God did require Christ to give himself and Christ did drink the cup of indignation and Christ was baptized under the flood of God's wrath therefore righteousness comes by him alone and there is no righteousness apart from his obedience unto death before thing we see in this scripture. Which Christ said he would give himself our ransom for many is that in Christ alone we have assurance of our salvation what is the assurance of our salvation 1st we must understand that when Christ gave himself a ransom to God that God received his offering as full payment his ransom of tainted really actually tain from God eternal redemption for his people Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 12 Do you believe it and do I believe it. Christ offered himself to God and obtained eternal redemption for his people and his offering was obedience to God John Chapter 10 verse 15 and verse 17 through 18 he willingly and completely and perfectly rendered everlasting obedience to God on behalf of and in the place of his people to have assurance before God Therefore we must see what God sees he tells us what he sees Exodus Chapter 12 or 13 when I see the blood I will pass over you all that God looks for all that he looks at is the obedience and blood of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ that read the mean ransom price of his life offered to God for His people by his one offering he obtained eternal forgiveness of their sins he obtained their release from the curse of God's law he obtained their freedom from the bondage of bringing personal obedience to God for their acceptance and he obtained their freedom from the devil and from death itself God sees Christ for His people and receives him for them and receives them as Him Jesus said in John 17 verse 23 in prayer to his father I in them and in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that now has sent me and has loved them as that has loved me. Secondly the assurance of salvation is found in what God says God says that he looks upon and received from Christ all that he required to forgive his people to make them righteous Isaiah Chapter 45 verse 24 says surely shall one say in the Lord how I write just names and strength in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. And God looks upon Christ to give his people eternal inheritance Hebrews 915 says For this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the 1st Testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance God looks to Christ for satisfaction for all of the sins of all of his people and they are free for all claims of his law to bring obedience to our righteousness and life from him or to satisfy its curse God lives only upon his son for all that he requires of them therefore he commands us to look only to Christ Hebrews Chapter 12 years 2 says looking into Jesus the author and finisher of our faith and in John 6 1st 40 Jesus said this is the will of him to sent me and everyone will see it the son and believe it on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day God commands us to look only to Christ to flee to Christ to run to him for refuge to come to Christ to find all that God Himself requires in Christ alone Colossians to verse 9 in 10 he commands us to rest in Christ Hebrews 4 Verse one through 10 to submit to Christ in all things Romans Chapter 10 verse 3 in following. Does God require my eternal damnation because of my sins he gave that cup of indignation to his own dear son to drink and by drinking it to pay the debt of ransom for my soul does God's law require the flood of His wrath to be poured out upon me for my sins of the Lord Jesus Christ was baptized under that flood in Jonah Chapter 2 The Spirit of God prophesied of Christ I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and He heard me out of the belly of hell cried I and now hurts my voice for that has cast me into the deep in the midst of the Seas and the floods compassed me about all by bellows and I waves passed over me and in solemn 69 the Lord says save me o. God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me and Insall mediate for 7 by wrath Liath hard upon me and the House to flitted me with all by waves as God require these things of me he found them in his own son does God require mine damnation he poured out that damnation on his own son. And is God require perfection from me the Lord Jesus Christ perfected me by his one offering Hebrews Chapter 10 verse 14 by one offering He has perfected forever then that are sanctified is their remission of sins and nothing but Christ blood then full remission has been made because Christ shed his blood listen to what God says in Hebrews Chapter 10 verse 16 in following he says this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities Will I remember no more now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin and then this entire fully to what the Lord says next Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus by a new living way which he has consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh and having a High Priest over the house of God Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts Frankl from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised. Because God looks only to his son because God tells us that he looks only to his son and because God commands us to come to him only through his son therefore the assurance of salvation is that everything is provided by God out of his grace in Christ alone only our pride keeps us from coming and finding and resting in Christ alone only our pride prevents our conscience from finding peace unless we find reason for that peace in ourselves only our own pride withholds assurance from our own conscience because we require something more than Christ crucified as our all before God The Solomon says in the song 10 verse for the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts. The pride of our heart keeps us from seeking in finding our all in Christ what God requires he provided in Christ and received from Christ alone the Lord Jesus Christ obtained eternal prevention for his people by the ransom of himself to God All God requires He gives by virtue of Christ's blood in Acts 531 the Lord says him half god exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior for to give repentance to Israel and the forgiveness of sins and in Romans 517 he says they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ Now if our sins are taken away by God's grace alone and if he gives righteousness by His grace alone then what arrogance on our part is it to entertain a sub conscious thought that we could add to what Christ has accomplished by anything we do to make our salvation more certain all of our experience must be abandoned as any cause for comfort because God sees and receive from Christ all that he requires for his people faith itself by which we are unable to look to Christ alone is God's gift of grace justification is God's gift by virtue of Christ's blood Romans Chapter 5 years 10 eternal life is God's gift Romans Chapter 6 1st 23 sanctification is by Christ offering of himself remission of sins and perfection before God by the one offer enough Jesus Christ there is absolutely nothing nothing nothing that is not freely given by God out of his grace to his people on the grounds of the ransom Christ paved with himself therefore what do we look for in ourselves we must look away from all that may be called. Ours and find our all only in what belongs to Christ when you when i are persuaded in God given faith to look to Christ alone only then will we have full assurance of faith the one who sees that God looks to Christ and received from Christ all that he demanded requires of me the one who sees that God finds all in Christ in spite of the worst possible evil in me and my utter helplessness against sin that soul will find rest and assurance in Christ that God given faith will say from God's own word the Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me who gave Himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world Christ have 3 d. In us from the curse of the law be made a curse for us if you or I try to find one reason in ourselves why we can claim these promises of God in our conscience we will never have true peace and rest we must find every reason for assurance in God's sovereign grace and in Christ redeeming blood and his justifying righteousness many think we all naturally do that God will reward us for what his grace accomplishes in us as if by God's grace working in us we can become what God requires but this is utterly false in fact it is idolatry if God by His Grace could produce in you or me what he requires of us in Christ did not need to die collations to 21 says I do not frustrate the grace of God forever righteousness come by the law by my personal obedience then Christ died for nothing only Christ himself. Given in ransom could free me from the guilt of sin and the power of sin and from the curse of God's law and bondage to keep God's law in order to make God happy with me only the suffering and death of the Son of God in my nature offered to God as a ransom for my sins could free me from my Sent from the devil from death from the world and the law of God and Christ has freed me from these by giving himself to God in death as a ransom The other reason for assurance before God Is that because we are redeemed by Christ we are under grace alone Grace provides all to the most unworthy even great and horrible centers there is no such thing as a little Center saved by Christ if you can clean yourself up if you can put away one of your sins if you can clean up or quit even one sin then you don't need a Savior Christ will only do for you what is impossible it is by his life given to God for a ransom that he has done this Roman 614 says sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace now the wickedness of our pride is seen in our unbelief God's own word commands us to look to Christ to come to him to rest in Him Furthermore he gives all grace to enable us to see Christ as all of his word therefore to fail to submit to Him as our complete and perfect payment to God for all of our sins or to fail to submit to His righteousness as all my obedience to God is nothing short of proud and wicked believe Romans Chapter 10 says that the Jews were ignorant of God's righteousness so they went about. Who established their own righteousness and therefore have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God because Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes may God enable everyone who hears my voice even now to look away from our guilt from are enslaved meant to send from our corruptions to Christ alone and find in him all that God requires of me and so go to God in peace and joy and thankfulness and worship Him for all that he is to us in a great reading. Each year. You just heard a sermon by our Pastor Rick Warren you may contact despite even or by phone or download a copy of the sermon by visiting your website and why it's Grace Church dot com. I'm bridging this morning from Isaiah Chapter 53 and if you can get access to a Bible vol loam I think it would be helpful I've been titled this message the only message of Scripture every scripture Genesis to Revelation is tied to Isaiah 53 I repeat the only message of Scripture Isaiah begins this chapter with a lament who has believed our report it seems like nobody does and it seems that way in our day we have all come to religion but how little gospel. Who hath believed our report and the word report names the message the doctrine the word of Scripture now Isaiah 53 written 700 years before the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the clearest exposition of Jesus Christ and Him crucified that you'll find in the end our Bible as matter of fact Isaiah $53.00 is quoted 7 times in the New Testament and 7 is the word of perfection it lets us know that this is the complete revelation of the New Testament in the Old Testament Jesus Christ and Him crucified Now this is the subject Jesus Christ and Him crucified the cross of Christ this is the subject of the eternity's before time began before there were any sun or moon or stars when all there was was God There was no creation even the in Christ is called in Revelation Chapter 13 versus 8 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world now what do we know about this period if you could call it that language can't understand a time when there is no time but before time was the Lamb slain was the subject of eternity past and eternity future when this will be over in time will be no more this is going to be the song of heaven worth of the is the land that was slain. And time was created the universe was created sin made its appearance for this one purpose the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ God created the universe for the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and when Paul said Abdurrahman not to do anything among save Jesus Christ and Him crucified that's what he said to the church court in 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 2 he said I determined I made this my resolve not to know anything among you not to esteem anything as important or even worth speaking of Save the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and ask your question when Paul made that statement was he saying I'm going to make the cross My main focus or was he saying the only message there really is is the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and let me try to illustrate this by something an n.f.l. Coach said many years ago and I don't want to bring this to a sports metaphor but I think this will serve to illustrate what is being said Vince Lombardi made this statement winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing now with regard to sports I'm no better than that it's a silly game you can't say winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing besides we learn more far from our failures and losses than we do our victories so with regard to anything on this earth we can't say winning is not the most important thing winning is the only thing but with regard to the cross with regard to Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The cross is not the most important thing. The cross is the only thing let me repeat that I want you to think about it the cross of Christ is not the most important thing the cross of Christ is the only thing all of God's salvation is found in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ no doctrine of scripture can be understood apart from the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and the cross of Christ is the foundation of everything if you've been elected before time began it's because you were sitting in the land flying from the foundation of the world if you believe it's because Christ died for you and gave you that faith if you persevered to the end it's because Christ died for you and caused you to persevered to the if you're an adopted child of God If you're born of God It's because Christ died for you the only hope anyone has of being saved is that Christ died for there on Calvary street that somebody may think we didn't die for everybody no we didn't the Bible didn't teach that the Bible teaches that He died for His elect for his people for his sheep and if Christ died for you you must be saved now let's read Isaiah Chapter 53 I just want to read it and make a few comments as we go through it verse by verse in Isaiah Chapter 53 Verse one. Isaiah makes this complaint who has believed I reported our message. Our words are doctored it seems like Barry if you believe what the Lord said it would be this way he said many go in the broad gate that leads to destruction but only if you enter the strait gate and walk along the narrow way that leads to life that shouldn't be surprises but I say a enters his own question when he makes this complaint he says who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed now that's who believes that's who believes those to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed salvation comes by revelation you know I will not believe we will not understand English God is pleased to reveal Himself to us salvation comes by revelation you not can figure this thing out and you understand that you cannot but diligent studying of the Scriptures figure out what the message is you and I are completely dependent upon God to reveal Himself to us and if he doesn't we'll never know Him the Lord said I think the over board of heaven on earth because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babies even so father for so it seemed good in Die side now Christ Jesus is the arm of the Lord he's the mighty power of God He is the power of God and the salvation and the ones who have the arm of the Lord revealed to the him are the ones who believe the report and let's go on reading in verse 2 for he the Lord Jesus Christ shall grow up before him. You know our Lord was born and he grew up he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man in the father watched his son grow up from a child to the young man for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and there's a route out of the dry ground that the picture before it's almost seemed like weakness the Son of God before the father while he lived on the earth was as a tender play and there's a root sticking up out of dry cracked parched ground and Isaiah says he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should do sorry Him Now what this is letting us know is that there is absolutely nothing regarding Christ and Him crucified there to peel into the flesh I'm talking about fall of last fall in flesh sees no beauty or comeliness in Him who is altogether lovely Now the problem is not Him The problem is the blindness of the natural man he can see no beauty no comeliness in the most glorious person and work the could ever be described it he didn't see it why because of the same fullness of fallen humanity we don't even desire him we won't seek Him unless God does something for us look at verse 3 says he is despised and rejected of mean everybody who was anybody turned thumbs down on the Lord Jesus Christ I saw no beauty in him and the scripture says he was a man of sorrows. And acquainted he knew grief and that word grief is the word that is generally translated sickness the word is found one in 4 times in the Old Testament 19 times is translated sickness and disease he was a man of sorrows Now how is that because he knew that he was going to be separated from his father he knew he was going to be made the Sin bearer he knew he was going to experience his father's awful Fran and he knew he was going to be for saken by him whom he loved with all his heart because he was going to take on the sins of his people and he was a man of sorrows because of that how he loved his father how he hurt under the thought of being separated from his father's presence he knew that was going to happen you see he's the only one who knew the wickedness of St Then you don't really understand it we're used to it but he knew the wickedness of seeing in the how he was burdened at the thought of being made seen when it says he knew our at war as was acquainted with our grief or sickness this gives us some idea of what he experienced on Calvary Street now I know that false preachers take this and say well he bore your sicknesses and you don't have to it's not the Lord's will for you to be sick Well Bush if you're sick it's because it's the Lord's will for you to be sick he's in control of everything sickness is not some punishment for something somebody has done and somebody who's healthy they don't experience that sickness because of their holiness and their ability and that's food business the holiest pig all believers are equally holy in Christ but there have been many holy men and women of God who have lived their entire lives in sickness. But what this is talking about is him experiencing scene he never seemed and he knew everything there was to know regarding Syria he knew how bad it was he knew how evil it was he experienced the Shane he experienced the guilt you see when he bore Masi and it became history and when God poured his wrath out upon him he wasn't punishing someone who was innocent he was punishing someone who was guilty because Mohsin became his see and and he bore the sickness the filth the vileness of my see and what could be more evil than to place no value on him Look what it says he is despised and rejected of man a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we should as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteem him not here is the greatness of the guilt of me and we despised the Son of God and had no if stain for the glory of His person let's go on reading in verse 4 surely he had borne out of reefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted. Now he was bearing the sorrows the griefs the sayin the iniquities of his people when it says Surely he has borne our grief that's not talking about all need without exception if it was all name would be saved this is talking about the elect those and you the evidence of election is believing the Gospel those who rely holy on him surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God an afflicted we didn't get it we didn't understand what he was doing we thought he was being punished by God But verse 5 says he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed now somebody may be thinking how could it be right how could it be fair for God to take the sins of his people and place upon his son so that his son became guilty of them and punish him for them whereas the rightness Where is the fairness in all of this what a good question it's right because God did it really no other reason is needed Shall not the judge of the earth do right it's right because God did it he at put him to greet it please the Lord to bruise him as we're going to see later on this passage of Scripture not only is it right because God did it it's right because crack did this voluntarily this one forced upon him he said no man takes my life from pain I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it out this commandment I received my father he did this voluntarily he did this because he wanted too. And this demonstrates the relationship between Christ and His people the great bridegroom takes on the death of the bride they become his he loves his wife and he's going to take care of his wife this is who he is and in this we see God's way of saving seduce I love this I was condemned by what Adam did when he did it I was can be and I did it too I was in here but just as I was condemned when Adam sinned I'm justified I'm saying by what Christ does so we see the glory of this he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed now this was written 700 years before it took place and when Peter quotes this passage of Scripture in 1st Peter chapter 2 he says by who stripes you were healed now healing salvation before God is all in Him Now I say you say this all we like sheep of gone astray we've turned everyone to his own way now this is the true confession of sin all we locked gone astray we're all stupid straying sheep and we can't get back we've turned everyone to his own way every believer feels like there's something. Peculiar and particular about their Seeing that makes them worse than others we've turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all and that word Lay means impinged made to collide he has made to collide on Him the iniquity of us all men do I know what all that means of course I don't of course I don't what I'm talking about I realize I have very little understanding of I know what this passage of Scripture teaches this is the message of Scripture been to Iraq understand what all it means for Christ to be made to stand no I don't but I believe this is this is who I'm relying on the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all verse 7 he was oppressed. He was oppressed and it means he was burdened down he was afflicted yet he opened not in his mouth he has brought as a lamb to the slaughter and is it before her fears is done so he opened not his mouth now why did the Lord defend himself you know if I am accused of something that I didn't do I am going to be defending myself I didn't do that but the Lord did not open his mouth why because he knew he was guilty he wasn't going to try to defend himself because the sins of the elect literally became his sins and he was guilty of the commission of them when The Father gave them to him and he did not open his mouth in self defense because he knew he was guilty person 8 he was taken from prison and from judgment. And who should declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken all restraint was removed he was taken from judgement cut off just as Daniel said he would be cut off for the drains Gratian of my people this is substitutionary atonement the reason I'm not going to be Dame just because Christ took my place no other reason is needed I'm not say because of anything I do I'm saved because he took my place there was a missionary once trying to describe to a tribe the gospel and he didn't know if he'd got across to him and he asked a woman he said he understand what I've been saying and she replied either he die or me die he die me no die and that is the gospel he was stricken with the transgression of my people verse 9 and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither was deceit found in his mouth he was buried in a rich man's tomb Joseph environment he had and he was looked on as a criminal in the eyes of them who crucified Him even though no deceit was found in his mouth he's always the sinless sacrifice for stain yet it pleased the Lord the Brucia. Now when he was nailed to that tree it was the justice of God who nailed him to that term because he really was guilty Nazi and actually became his seed and everything that happened to him happened to him according to the determinant counseling for knowledge of God I think of. The words of the early church of Against of the truth against the Holy Child Jesus whom Val has anointed both harridan punchers policy with the gentiles and the people of Israel that everybody were gathered together for to do whatsoever the hand and I cancel determined before to be done it please the Lord to bruise him he had put into grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin and this was what God did he made the soul of the Lord Jesus Christ an offering for St Now that word offering is also different for same as also translated seen and it's also translated guiltiness this is saying the same thing Paul said in 2nd printings 521 For he hath made him to be seen who knew no seen that we might be made the rock just in his soul God in him now because of this he shall see his seed this is all of God's people called his seed his children he should see his seed he show prolong his days. His priesthood is for ever he's never going to die again he is eternal he should prolonging his days and the pleasure the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand you see what Christ does and what Christ did is successful he can't fail you know there's not going to be the body inhale that he died for he can't fail look at verse 11 says he's just see of the travail of his soul and that's what was going on on the cross all the travail of his soul he so see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied he's going to know that he has accomplished the Father's will everybody 'd that he died for is saved by his knowledge and that's not to talk about our knowledge but his knowledge his knowledge of God his acquaintance with grief and c n his knowledge of how he say by his knowledge shall my right to a servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquities and in bearing their iniquities he put them away and now everybody he died for is justified and look at his last verse verse 12 therefore will I divide him a portion with the great. It was talking about the spoils of the mighty Victor and he survived the spoil with the strong he divides his spoils with his people who in him themselves are weak and insignificant but because of what he did for them they are described as Mighty and Strong if he is Mighty and Strong every believer is due because of what he did for them and he names these 4 things because he poured out his soul on today this is why he comes as a mighty Victor he poured out his soul to death willingly and he was numbered with the trend pressures and I remember on Calvary Street God wasn't punishing someone who was innocent he was punishing someone who was guilty the great transaction of my san being made his sin and his sin being I mean his righteousness being made why he poured out his soul and today as he was numbered with the transgressors he bear the sin of many oh he bore their stadiums and put them away and he made intercession for the transgressors when he said from the cross Father forgive them he was making a request he was calling upon God to forgive everybody that he died for the very justice of God demands that the very purpose of God demands that he made intercession for the strange oppressors and everybody he makes intercession for must be saved now this is the Gospel given by. I say. In the book of Isaiah the gospel. Is. Soon seen. That. You have just heard a message. Talking you may download a copy of the sermon you just heard by visiting the you beside her Grace Church website at y. S. Grace Church dot com This is Pastor Rick Warren praying God would make himself known to you in Christ you're listening to the Patriots on 1410 am. 3 f.m. Key to a 2. Broadcasting station. Spending the prison time for a year of probation authorities say Hubbard operated his pickup truck and it criminally negligent manner in July $2800.00 he crossed a median in Delaware and was hit by a New Jersey family's minivan the father and his 4 daughters died and Kerik Fox News it got louder around the chemical plant in Louisiana officials with Dow Chemical still.
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Well good morning and welcome to another broadcast of The Bible speaks My name is Warren King an evangelist with the Downtown Church of Christ in Rogers Arkansas and I will be your host for today's program the Bible speaks is part of the evangelist effort of the Downtown Church of Christ which meets at the corner of 2nd and Chestnut streets in Rogers the downtown church meets on Sunday mornings for Bible classes at $945.00 and we have Bible classes for all ages our regular assemblies on Sunday are at $1035.00 on Sunday mornings and at 6 o'clock on Sunday evenings and we would encourage you to come and visit with us any time that you can do you think it's right for a Christian to fight with the truth is Christians must fight if they want to be right with God as Paul commanded Timothy fight the good fight of faith while we could have a discussion about Christians fighting physically standing up to the bully on the playground for example or a Christian serving in the armed forces there is no question about the importance of fighting the spiritual battle we are all in gauged in it and your eternal welfare hangs on the outcome Recently I had the privilege of bringing a lesson to the downtown church on this important topic and so we invite you to join us this morning for a sermon in titled Let's fight if these are Chapter 2 in verse 12 we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this age and against the spiritual host of wickedness and they haven't really places. Our battle is obviously not a physical battle but it is a spiritual battle and I think maybe for that reason a lot of this bill take the battle seriously we don't see it as a real battle you know a real battle involves guns and bullets and nods and blood but the spiritual battle I'm not feeling hurt I'm not feeling particularly strained and so maybe I don't feel like I'm involved in a battle but the reality is you are and the Question of the hour is How are you feeling are you doing in a spiritual battle are you being successful in your struggle against the Prince of pallet things in the powers in the rulers of the darkness of this say are you being successful by the grace of God are doing even though you know it's possible to be losing this battle and not even knowing it like a Laodiceans of Revelation Chapter 3 you say that I am rich and that you have become wealthy and have need of nothing and you do not even know you do not even know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked he says Your be in beaten by Satan and you don't even know it. It's got a scary thing isn't that we can be losing this spiritual battle badly and not even know it and so when I ask the question how are you doing in this spiritual battle that may not be as easy to answer as we think the enemy that we fight of course is Satan 1st Peter chapter 5 and verse 8 your adversary the devil as a roaring lion goes about seeking whom he may devour that's who the fight is with you know what he's very good at what he does do not sell say in short he has been an adversary of God since the beginning of time and he has been our ad this area ever since we've been on the planet. He's described by Jesus and John Jack or 18 in verse 44 as a murderer and a liar. And so he lives when he tells you that it's Ok to have premarital sex the devil lies to you when he says that the Bible is just an ancient book it's just a bunch of Fables it's just a bunch of stories full of contradictions science has this prove the Bible over and over college students get that all the time in their college classes it's a lie say to been very good at spreading net lied been very successful in getting people to believe that one. We can just go on and on looking at the many lies in our society that Satan has propagated. And that even Christians if we're not careful can buy into not Jesus says he's a murderer and a liar the Book of Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9 calls him a deceiver that great dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the Devil and Satan who deceives the whole world. He's a temper in Matthew Chapter 4 in verse 3 he's the one who attempts us and he does that by a lying to us by deceiving us as the Hebrew writer described it the pleasures of sin say no whole set out to be pleasurable the whole set out to be something that is enjoyable and the reality is most of the time it is in the short term otherwise it wouldn't be tempting to you now would the lie it is that it's a good way to live your life it's Ok to engage in sand not that big a deal you're not going to die and all of that and it's a pleasurable things a why nots it's how Satan tries to get you to leave God to alienate yourself from God And again he's been very successful because we have all sinned we have all fallen short of what God would have us to be. Satan tries to bring you down in a lot of different ways and temptation is not just the desire for all these pleasurable things temptation can sometimes present itself in the form of fear if Satan can instill fear in me it's been very successful as in John Chapter 12 you find the example there in John Chapter 12 and in verse 42 speaking of some of the Jewish rulers they believed on him but because of the fair slaves they would not confess. One because they would be put out of the synagogue they would be disfellowshipped they would be cut off from Jewish society if they acknowledge Jesus to be the Son of God The Pharaoh sees would see to that and so because of the fear sees they would not confess Him They love the praise of min more than the praise of Gong any time you have felt fear intimidation peer pressure to go along with the crowd instead of standing up and saying what's right are doing watch right Satan has been successful in causing fear you are harmed sometimes Satan uses discouragement to bring us down have you ever been discouraged because that Satan working in your heart make no mistake about that 1st chapter 19 in verse 10 the example of a lie Joe is jazz a bell had put out the contract on him and he fled south all the way down to Mount Sinai and a lie just said to God He said I have been very Selous for the Lord God of hosts and for the children of Israel and they have forsaken your covenant they've torn down your altars and they have killed your prophets with the sword and I alone have left and now they are seeking my life Alija understood discouragement been there. Ever been discouraged by the hardships. That Satan working on you if you ever been discouraged by your brothers and sisters and cries ever felt like your brothers and sisters in Christ didn't do your writings. Because that's a workin on You Tube How many Christians about an old through the years get mad at Brother So and so are they got mad at sister so and so and so they left the Lord never made sense to mean that a lot of rather than do that discouraged by their own brethren and so they just walk away exactly what Satan would want you to do when you're discouraged by your brethren have you ever been distracted distracted by the tense all of the toys of this world and 2nd Timothy Chapter forward in verse 10 2nd Timothy Chapter 4 in verse 10 Demas Paul writes has forsaken me having love this present world the world has all kinds of distractions out there all kinds of tinsel and toys that can can distract us from the things that are really important Have you ever been distracted by the cares and the responsibilities of life that can begin to weigh down on you and cause you to lose sight of what's really important in life kind of like Martha the sister of Mary oh Lord why don't you tell her to come help me and Jesus says No Mary has chosen the good part Martha and you need to do the same some things in life that are important and there are some things in life that are not and you and I need to have the wisdom to know the difference let's not be distracted by the trivialities of this one. Things that might be harmless at a knob themselves but when they get in the way of our service to little or don't let those things destroy your spiritual because that's the devil working with you make no mistake about that and apathy apathy Revelation 3 once again in the church at Laodicea we read a few moments ago from verse 17 that church that said I have become rich and wealthy and I have need of nothing to that same church in verse 16 he said you are lukewarm. And because you're a luke warm he said I will vomit you out of my mouth you're not hot you're not cold you just add to fit your apathetic look about the things of God and God says I can't stand that will not fellowship that if you've ever been apathetic about the things of God because if you hand that's the devil work in you Christians in some parts of this world in this planet can't afford to be apathetic in fact they are no apathetic Christians in many countries did you know that. Because in many countries if you can find a Christian there there there at the hazard of their own lives they live their lives in jeopardy every day because they are Christians in that kind of environment you don't find apathetic Christians because the apathetic Christians walked away a long time ago it's only in an influence assigning a wealthy society a society that's based in ease like the one in which we live in an apathetic Christian can continue to play the game if you don't want to be that person that person who has deceived themselves into thinking that they are actually on God's side when the reality is they are not again that's the devil work in India if you're an apathetic person don't want to be that person that's the nature of the enemy though that's the nature of Satan that's the nature of this fight that we fight which brings us to perhaps the most important part of this lesson and that is so how do you win this battle. Can you fight this good find and be successful in the finding of him I remember that Jesus told pilot in John Chapter 18 when pilot asked him if he was a king he said yeah I am a king but my kingdom is not of this world. He said if my kingdom was of this world my servants would fight that's John Chapter 18 in verse 36 if my kingdom was of this where all my servants would fight but my kingdom is not of this world important lesson there about the nature of the kingdom I understand that but also the nature of the battle that we fight and the nature of the defense that we need to offer up there been a lot of individuals through the centuries who have mistakenly thought that Christianity can be won at the point of a sword. And Christianity was never designed to be one that way and so whether it's the Branch Davidian is in the city of Waco some 20 years ago or so. But stock themselves with the armament thinking that it was going to be a physical battle that they were going to win or whether it's the individual who bombs an abortion clinic thinking they are doing God's work if you kill the doctor who's performing the abortions What have you done for the cause of cries and the reality is in doing that you might even be killing the young woman who has gotten pregnant and who feels like she has no other way out except to have an abortion and she just hasn't been taught better and you think killing her. Glorifies God You see that's never been the way that Christianity has spread it has never been the way that Christianity has gained a foothold this battle is not one at a point of a sword 2nd Corinthians Chapter 10 and in verse 4 2nd Corinthians 10 and in verse 4 where Paul writes to the church at Corinth the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. The weapons of our warfare are we engaged in a warfare yes we are make no mistake about it but the weapon is that we use are not carnal that is they are not worldly they are not fleshly weapons. And while that has application to guns and knives and bombs and all of that we don't win Christianity like that it also has application in a lot of other areas and in fact what Paul was actually writing about here were the carnal weapons of personal attacks name calling ad hominem as it is properly called the ad hominem attacks even illustrates it later on a few verses later they are in 2nd Corinthians Chapter 10 and inversed in his letters they say are weighty and powerful speaking about Paul himself his letters are weighty and powerful but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is contemptible. And what kind of argument is that. Ad hominem when you attack to the individual you make fun of the individual that is proof positive that you've run out of arguments or that you've lost on the intellectual level you've lost the argument and so what is left is that to say well you're just fat and stupid and you don't know what you're talking about and so there. That's the way a lot of folks fight that battle the enemies of Christ quite often will employ ad hominem The sad thing is that sometimes Christians think that that's the way to win the battle for Christ and that's never the way to win the battle that is as much a carnal weapon as a gun or a knife and that is not how Christianity is spread it's not how we win the fight. You know we might be intimidated by Satan's messengers but we don't need to use intimidation against the messengers of Satan because that's not how Satan will be defeated. We push back against Satan again 1st Peter chapter 5 in verse 9 after Peter writes and verse 8 that your adversary the devil as a roaring lion goes about seeking whom they may devour in verse 9 he says now resist him. Push back against him. Do not just roll over and play dead and let Satan have his way you push back against him Well how do you push back preacher 2nd Timothy Chapter 2 2nd Timothy Chapter 2 in verse 3 endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ no one and gauged in warfare and tangles himself with the affairs of this life so that he might please the one who has enlisted him as a soldier so we have to endure. We have to stay strong you cannot give up on this fight but once again how how do you go about staying strong How do you go about not being entailed in the things of this world how can you in a practical way be successful in his will we do that by taking up the whole armor of God in this takes us back full circle to chapter 6 if Asians Chapter 6 read a few moments ago from verse 12 our wrestling is not against flesh and blood but against the prince power of these and powers in the rulers of darkness of this Age Against the spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places and so now this take up in verse 13. In verse 13 so take up the whole armor of God you know God has provided you with a suit of armor. He hands but you've got to put it on you've got to wear the arm. That cattle are vest that calves are helmet does you no good if you leave it back in the barracks you have got to put it on if you want to be successful in a spiritual fight take up the whole armor of God that you might be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand he says if you want to be successful in overcoming the devil if you want to survive the spiritual battle then put on the armor of God Gird your waist with truth now as we read through these pieces of armaments want you to pick up on one thing it's very important point and that is that every one of the things is tied inexplicably to the Word of God You cannot separate the armor of God from the Word of God in every one of these cases God's word is inherent in the armor and what you look at is being guarded with truth. What is truth in John 17 and in verse 17 Jesus tells us as he's praying to his father he says Father Your word is truth your word is truth God is the ultimate source of truth and if you want to have your waist girded with truth. Then you have got to spend time with God's word because God's Word is Truth All right number 2 put on the breastplate of righteousness righteousness that means just being right with God That's the breastplate that you where Let me ask you this how do you know what's right in God's eyes how would you know that. You have to go to God's word. God's word tells you what's right what's wrong if you want your breastplate to be protected with righteousness then you've got to know the difference between right and wrong spend time with God's Word to figure out what that is having shot your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace not just with the Gospel there's God's word again but with the preparation of the gospel of peace prepare with the gospel as Jesus was being tempted by Satan he kept coming back saying it is written it is written it is written He didn't say wait a minute Satan timeout let me go check the can coordinate let me call the rabbi and figure out what the right answer is and I'll get back to you. Now sometimes we got to do things like that you know as we're in the learning process but that's part of the preparation Ok let's get prepared to win the fight book or the 5 cones that means us spend time with the Word of God Again the preparation of the gospel of peace there are 16 above all take the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one that shield of Fain. How do you develop a faith like that Romans $1017.00 faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God spend time with the Word of God If you want to grow a strong faith a faith that can protect you against the wiles of Satan. Spend time with the Word of God in verse 17 take the helmet of salvation. When he writes to the Thessalonians and 1st that's alone in Chapter 5 he calls it the helmet of the hope of salvation. That's the idea here the helmet of salvation the helmet of the hope of salvation as a helmet to protect your head kind of important right enough in a battle you want your head to be protected when he says take the helmet of the hope of salvation the hope of everlasting life what that says is spend time looking at the goal keep your eye on the goal now let me ask you one more time how do you know about heaven how do you know that there is a place that God has prepared for his people because God of were tells you about God's word has revealed it to loans we would know about heaven except God He told us about it and so spend time with God's Word to Bordeaux find your hope of heaven so that it can become that anchor of The Soul as the Hebrew writer puts it take the helmet of the hope of salvation and take the sword of the Spirit which is he says the Word of God Take the word of God and use it as a sword offensively this battle is not all defensive it is also often seen press the fights have those conversations have those discussions with people in the world press it on the off incident so that the borders of God's kingdom can be separated and oh yes in verse 18 praying all wings praying always it's interesting he doesn't identify prayer with any particular piece of armor and I think maybe the reason for that is because that's the one thing that is all encompassing if you want all the other pieces of armament to work when the battle is engaged you need God's help to be there with you and he will be if you've got to pray. You've got to ask for his help in this battle just as David knew that it was God's strength that would help him to defeat the giant we've got to know that it's God's strength not my own wisdom not my own willpower not my great moral courage no it's God's help that will ultimately help me to win this battle and prayer is what provides that for him I believe that's why Jesus told his Apostles in the garden of gets in any watch and pray pray that you enter not into temptation the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak Jesus understood the power of prayer when it comes to overcoming Satan in this battle and close out with a passage from Revelation Chapter 19 because in Revelation 19 we have such a beautiful description of our commander in chief and if you're engaged in this spiritual battle which you will be for the remainder of your life don't ever ever lose sight of who is leading the charge from Revelation Chapter 19 in verse 11 John writes I saw heaven opened up and behold a white horse he who sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war his eyes were like a flame of fire on his head were many crowns he had a name written that no one knew except he himself he was close with the road dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God The armies in heaven clothed in final linen white and clean followed him on white horses out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that sort of the Spirit which is the Word of God out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with that he should strike the nations know to strike in the nations with his word his powerful and mighty were. He himself will rule them with a rod of iron he himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God and he has on his robe in upon his spot a name that is written the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords there is not a king that has ever lived or ever will live that will be more powerful than Jesus Christ so the question is whose side are you on. Stay strong you follow the Lord your arm yourself with his armament you stay focused on the eternal goal and pray always for God's help and you can do this with God's help you can do this you have been listening to a recent sermon presented to the Downtown Church of Christ in Rogers Arkansas intitled let's fight without a question Christians are required to fight the spiritual battle and God has provided us with all the tools we need to be successful in that fight and so how are you doing are you staying strong are you resisting the devil as Peter writes Remember your eternal welfare hangs in the balance and that makes this the most important fight that you will ever fight if we have the downtown church can help you and your fight against Satan we would encourage you to contact as Remember we are here to serve. Oh. Well again this is Warren King and evangelist for the Downtown Church of Christ in Rogers Arkansas and I hope you've been fitted from today's program I'd like to invite you to the assemblage of the downtown church we meet on Sunday mornings for Bible classes at 945 and we have Bible classes for all ages our worship similes on Sunday or at 1035 on Sunday morning at 6 o'clock on Sunday evening and also invite you to look at our website the website address is downtown c o c dot net audio clips of recent sermons preached at the Downtown Church are available for a free download on the website and you will also find there the latest issues of the downtown gospel beacon which is a weekly publication of the downtown church. We invite your comments or questions about today's broadcast and they write us at p.o. Box 447 Rogers Arkansas 72757 or they call this area code 796363575 this information and more is available on the Web site and again that website address is downtown singles scene dot net If you would like a home Bible study or 3 bible correspondence course please contact us the look forward to hearing from you but again thank you for joining us for today's program and make it a point this week to let the Bible see. Our church programs continue now with signpost to heaven our church programs continue now with signpost to heaven presented by Jim Weaver local attorney and ordained minister here is Tim Weaver Good morning and welcome in again to the signpost to heaven broadcast please join me in asking God's blessing on his word and a plenty to those that hear and understand well we ask you to look to him to take what we're about to read from your holy book apply it to our lives so that we may become better christians better workers for you in the harvest of souls that we may be come or the to be called the Sons and Daughters of God so that when this life is over we may go home to be with you as you have so I just sleep promised and to us. Like to read today beginning in numbers the 14th chapter and beginning at the 29th verse your carcasses show fall in the wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number from 20 years old and upward shall have have which have Margaret against me. Starting off with a curse from God that those that had murmured against him should die if we murmur against God If we don't do the god's will and we question God's will then too we will incur the wrath of God Maybe not to the point that he will kill us immediately and he didn't offer to kill these people here immediately but he told them that they would wander for 40 years ahead and really will get that part here in a moment but that they would surely die and not be welcome into the promised land that he had promised them and if we are not orderly of his promise to us we will not enter into the promised land that he has prepared for us when this life is over if we murmur against God and if we don't trust in God If we don't we willing to obey and listen to him. Going on to reap that was issued will not come into the land concerning which I swear to make your will you do up there in say Caleb the son of just so him and Joshua the son and none but the earlier ones which he said shall be pray them I will bring in 2 and a shell know the land which ye have despised. But as for you your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness and your children shall wander in the wilderness 40 years and bear your. Whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness after the number of the days in which he searched the land even 40 days each day for a year shall you bear your iniquities even 40 years and he shall know when I breach of promise. I Lord hath said I will surely do it and to this evil congregation that they have gathered together against me in the wilderness and they shall be consumed and there they shall die and the man which Moses in to search the length was returned and made all. The congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land even those men that did bring up the evil report unto the land died by the plague before the Lord and Joshua the son a nun and Caleb this. Which were of the men that went up to search the land lived still and Moses told those to all the children of Israel and the people Marmer greatly and they rose up early in the morning and get them up and to the top of the mountain saying low we be here and will go up unto the place which the Lord has promised for we have sinned and Moses said wherefore Now do you transgress the common with the Lord but it shall not prosper go not for the Lord is not among you. That are not smitten before your enemies for the amount of cuts and the Canaanites and there before the you and you shall fall by the sword because you have turned away from the Lord therefore the Lord will not be with you but they presume to go up unto the hilltop never the less the Ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp but the amount guides came down and the Canaanites which dwelt in the hill and smote them and discomforted them even to. Hear the people thought. They could murmur against God and get away with it that they could murmur against his promise and. They would not be punished but God said you won't me allowed to go into the land of the promise because you've broken your part of the promise by murmuring against me. And he said You're wandering the world Innes for 40 years and then you will after 40 years you of all perished and your children will be acceptable in the kingdom. Because of a punishment is put upon your head for murmuring against God How often do re Marmer How often do we question God's will in our lives if we question God's will we're not doing what he would have us to do where he wants us to respect him and to understand His commandments and to obey his commandments without murmur Without question we are to obey God in all that he does and all that he asks of us. Yes not a great amount of things but he asked us to turn our hearts toward him and to love him 1st and foremost and to obey his commandments but if we reject His commandments we will not be acceptable and to his kingdom here the people that had come out of Egypt were turned aside and not allowed to enter into the promised land that they had been promised of Moses in Egypt because of their sins and if we commit sins in our lives and don't you see forgiveness for them we too will be turned aside from the promised land that he has prepared for each of us in His heavenly kingdom and promised under those that worship Him and obey him. But if we don't obey him and don't worship him we're not worthy to be acceptable into his kingdom and we will be such sched side from it at the great judgement and we we've turned aside and pushed into outer darkness away from those that have truly accepted His commandments and done his commandments and here the people thought well we'll just say we've sinned and we'll go and and God will protect us and we'll still get what God has promised us and they went down in a bunch in the morning and they climbed the hill where the enemy was and God was not with them and the enemy smote them and the enemy chased them and harassed them and killed many of them. We too if we turn to God again need to really truly turn to God and obey his commandments for most of us forewarned them before they went up into the mountain that God was not going to be with them God would forgive them of their stance but he was not going to go forth and fight for them to give them the kingdom that he had now took it away from them that he had made them a new promise that they would wander in the wilderness and that they would all die but that their children would Herit he still was giving them. A lot to exist for 40 years but rather than take the life that God had give them that they wander for 40 years they went up and squandered that by attacking the enemy without the power of God They thought they could rule the terms of how their salvation would go by saying we are sinners and will go up there and we'll win now because we've admitted to God were centers it doesn't work that way we have to be accepted of God in our sins have to be covered in the blood of the lamp we don't get to choose always when God pours back his righteousness on us and what he gives us when he pours that righteousness back on us he didn't offer to say if you from this will admit your sense I will take you on into the kingdom that I've promised I won't. But he hell fast to his promise and if we continue to sin think that we are going to continue to be able to be forgiven we may find that God's forgiveness is not fully what we expected to be we may not be acceptable to God in all things we have the blessing of God in our lives that we've had previous God does. Reject this he will accept us back in Turkey name if we truly ask of him to say for his forgiveness but we have to act in a manner that is truly. In honor of the act of asking for forgiveness here they said we'll just ask him in the admitting were sinners and then we'll go do whatever we want. That's not what God ask of them that was not following God's commandments that was simply compounding their sin it was simply taking up on their lives more sin and they were now disobeying God again for Moses told them don't go up there you're going to lose you're going to be defeated with because God doesn't go with you so if we take it upon ourselves to go do something we think God has told us to do and we have refused without God telling us to do it again we may be out of the will of God Again they thought we would just go up there and God or God will help us and we will win. But they didn't understand that by going up there again they were in committing sin they were again committing trespass against the will of God So we need in all things when we receive God's commandment to know that is God's commandment be able to recognize it as God's commandment and do what he says and don't say well we didn't do it last time but we're going to do it this time because we think we can now receive forgiveness for not having done it last time if God has commanded is not to do it again God has a time in a season for all things he may want to talk to a particular individual on a particular day when he's been to eling in their heart and if we don't go and Dr that person that they like God asked us to we may lose the opportunity to ever be able to talk to that person again with the blessing of God over us to help guide our words that we might help someone else find him for later on we may be out of the will of God to go and talk to that person we need to take to them words that we think are good but that are not blessed of the Father and are not assisted by the son we we may be not doing a work that is of God We need to keep our actions in the will of God so that when we're in this life we do God's will and we will receive our reward of his kingdom and to receive in the roared of death and. Separation from God that we will be acceptable under God as His children are pushed out into the wilderness to die. Each of us has a duty to obey God when He speaks to us and not try to dictate the terms of God how we're going to do something or when we're going to do something God is our father but we ask you to look down and help us to understand when you speak to us that we should follow your commandments and it was should obey your language and that we should not take it up on our own selves to do things our will but by that I will that we should be acceptable unto your kingdom when this life is over and that we not try to force our way in there at we think you are a large man if you like to write to us today you may write to sign post to heaven to 16 West Cherry Street Rogers Arkansas 7 to 756 That address again a signpost to heaven 216 West Cherry Street Rogers Arkansas 72756 May the blessing of the Lord be upon each of you and may He God your way so that you're always in his well you've just heard a signpost to heaven presented each Sunday morning at $930.00 by Tim Weaver local attorney and ordained minister tell your friends and neighbors about the special program heard every Sunday morning on Kerman and tune in again next Sunday at 934 signpost to heaven. Good morning ladies and gentlemen this is been an exhibit a pastor of New i ministries great to be with you today on joining with 2 wonderful men of God To my left is Pastor Ken Wagner to my right as Pastor Michel Villar And good morning gentlemen how are you good morning Pastor good morning Northwest Arkansas 2. Oh good is his microphone and Colonel I don't know if I heard Pastor can or not. Ok pastor can say it again praise the Lord. You can leave me out of this on it's already begun redlining all you saints out there and then a man said this Sunday morning what an amazing amazing day this is we're going to share some amazing things but 1st of all I want to commend the Pastor Tim that is on right before us and I love his message about Joshua and how he is the son of Nun and nobody ever knew in the in the Bible Belt that Joshua didn't have a mother and father because he had none yet he was the son of Nun and so he must have been part of the milk is a direct priesthood. Well anyways beside that I want to give a hip hip hooray to those of you the supported us this month I walked into the studio I saw the wonderful face of our friend a hope and there we were to give a 1000 dollars to make sure that we could continue on broadcasting and the message that you are going to hear this morning. I think this is going to knock it out of the ballpark this colonel were about to step into something that is so beyond normal now we do that a lot but this is real a dimension ill. Will unbelievable mathematically impossible for what just happened this morning that we're going to talk about without any blemish in your embellishing this is absolutely amazing you're excited here is good all right so again the interest and saints of God You need to get this right as well Ok and I assure you that last night the only thing that I ate may have been a little suspect was yogurt it was a chocolate flavored yogurt but that was it there was no no Twinkies to cupcakes ding dongs any crazy stuff that would make you think crazy thoughts Ok this is a real deal and I need to sober up a little bit and I need to share this because I don't know the meaning of it I'll be excess of be very honest with you I do not understand the meaning of this and I'm just trying to put things in order and maybe what I'm going to do is give a little background before getting to where I want to share this with you and I want to read to you a prophecy that was written on October 28th 2019 now whatever you feel about prophecy whatever you think about it listen carefully because what happened less than an hour ago. Is good it's going to it's going to pique your interest it's good it's going to bring you into a frequency that you need to know so just give this a chance Ok the Bible says in 1st that's lonely in Chapter 5 do not despise prophesied again and so let me read to you a prophecy and I'm just going to let it lay forth as it will and here's how the prophecy reads and again I need to address let me say this before even getting into this. These words these messages these ideas are not coming you have to trust this they are not coming from preprogramed mental thinking about gloom and doom although these messages are inspired in the direction of judgment they are inspired in the direction of what warning and I believe that God has been warning our nation for a very long time about certain events and certain things and most certainly you and I would agree today that we are witnessing chaos and confusion within our society you know there are things that temperate there are things that allow us to escape for the moment some of the realities that are going on all around us none the less there is confusion there is chaos from every direction in every realm every fabric of our society and so there is a reason for that chaos there is a reason for it. I want to read to you a prophecy called the millstone prophecy the millstone prophecy and I'm just going to lead up to what happened this morning and when you hear what happened this morning I think you're going to be as absolutely overwhelmingly amazed as I am that there is something beyond normality going on here the millstone prophecy reads this way like a millstone around the neck and cast into the sea so shall America be plunged into the depths of horror oh America you have not provoked ISIS or other terror organizations around the world but you have provoked me say of the Lord I have heard of all the ugly things you have done yet I have come down to you to see if what I have heard was true and you like the sons of Sodom and Gomorra have testified against yourselves that you are cruel and defiant and lewd therefore I am releasing a millstone from the heavens and binding you to it say if the Lord and you shall drown in the violence of your evil ways you have offended my heart like your harlot mother who was so denied my presence in exchange for the glory of nations and I tell you now that your glory shall be turned into shame and disgrace your nation shall we be mown the loss of many you ask how we offended you or what evil have we done you have offended the little ones and their blood testifies against you you have murdered and slaughtered the most innocent and have made booty of the children and have given them over to the perverse actions of the most perverse people within your society I have used your enemies within your. Gates to expose what you would not and you shall see the covers ripped off and the nakedness of your shame exposed the leaders of America make their boast in their power and intelligence and are nothing short of the Babylonians in their day who boasted of their power I will make the land dark and show my power say if the Lord for I am not to respect or of persons and I hold no man in admiration except the man who does my will from the heart I will 1st bunny into 3 cities to the millstone and plunge them into darkness say if the Lord Los Angeles New York and Washington d.c. Your pride has deceived you and now you are days away from experiencing the madness that you have sown to the ends of the earth I called you to repentance but you would not look listen the sound of a millstone coming from the skies plunging the nation into the depths of the sea darkness silence a new era begins in the purpose of God that was a prophecy written on the 28th of October 200-1000 just a few days ago then there were these scriptures I wanted to share these with you I'm just going to read them out of the New King James Version of the Bible. Job 2134 The wicked are reserved for the day of doom they shall be brought out on the Day of Wrath Proverbs $164.00 the Lord has made all for himself yes even the wicked for the day of doom and Jeremiah 1117 for the Lord of hosts who planted you has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to bale Jeremiah 171718 Do not be a terror to me you are my hope in the day of doom said the prophet Jeremiah let them be ashamed to persecute me but do not let me be put to shame let them be dismayed but do not let me be dismayed bring on them the day of doom and destroy them with double destruction Jeremiah 1915 thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the Duma that I have personality and against it because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear my words Jeremiah 2613 now therefore amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the Lord your God Then the Lord will relent concerning the Duma that he has pronounced against you Jeremiah 2619. Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death did he not fear the Lord and seek the Lord's favor and the Lord relented concerning the doom which he had pronounced against them but we are doing great evil against our selves Jeremiah 3517 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will bring on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the Duma that I a person ounce against them because I have spoken to them but they have not heard I have called to them but they have not answered Jeremiah 3631 I will punish him his family and his servants for their iniquity and I will bring on them on the end habitants of Jerusalem and on the men of Judah all the doom that I a pronounced against them but they did not heed Jeremiah 40 verse 2 and the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him the Lord your God is pronounced this doom on this place Jeremiah 512 and I will send widowers to Babylon who shall winnow her and empty her land for in the day of doom they shall be against her all around it is equal Chapter 7 verse 7 Doom has come to you you who dwell in the land the time has come a day of trouble is near and not every joy sing in the mountains and finally easy kill 710 behold the day behold it has come Doom has gone out the rod has blossomed pride has budded and woe to you who put far off the day of doom I want to go to Isaiah Chapter 13 there has been a tremendous amount of doom pronounced. Hence this nation not only from this pulpit not only from this pastor who was not speaking and am not speaking out of the imagination of my own heart every time I pray every time I fast every time I seek God for wisdom and direction and guidance every time I say Lord I don't want to be preprogramed in a certain mindset because I'm going to minister your word I want your annoying teen I want your words and every single time it keeps coming up the other way and this morning while I was walking in prayer I said Father I want to be tuned in to your frequency I do not want to be in a frequency of deception I desire because earlier in the morning I received what I'm about to share with you right now I received this word and I heard him say in my spirit you are tuned into the very center of my frequency and so I am going to confidently release what God said and then I'm going to share with you something mathematically impossible absolutely beyond any mathematical equation could have happened the way it happened this morning and we need to pay attention to it so this morning when I was in prayer seeking the Lord seeking direction where do you want to go today what do you want to minister Father God empty me out no preprogrammed ideas no thoughts whatever you want to do and the Lord put a number in my spirit and I and I and I thought it was interesting the number that came into my mind because I kind of many years ago had 2 nuns come up to me when I was working as a waiter in lawyer California and said Vincent do you know God's telephone number and I said no what is it they said it's Jeremiah 333 call on to me and I will answer the and show you great and mighty things that you have not known so the numbers 333333 have always had meaning to me for many many years and recently I've been seeing that number again 333 and I thought well I'm going to call into the Lord he's going to answer me he's going to show me great and mighty things that I have not known fenced in things secret things he's going to bring out of the darkness into the light the mysteries in the secrets and so that number is there and so I'm praying this morn.