1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:05,440 And if you have a Bible, we're going to be in the 10th chapter of the gospel of Luke. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:12,060 From here on out, Luke is going to be sharing some stuff that we don't see in the other 3 00:00:12,380 --> 00:00:21,440 gospels, as he already has. But up to this point, Jesus is trying to set his disciples straight 4 00:00:23,319 --> 00:00:29,980 and teaching them to the ways of the Lord. And we have. We, 5 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,420 we saw last time when James and John, aka the Sons of Thunder, wanted to, you know, be like Elijah 6 00:00:37,450 --> 00:00:39,380 and call fire down and fry people. 7 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:46,220 I don't know if that's your heart or not, but I know sometimes during an election season, 8 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,140 you struggle with that. 9 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:51,980 Those are things that you must put behind you. 10 00:00:54,890 --> 00:00:57,520 And as Jesus said, we didn't come to kill, okay? 11 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:58,900 We didn't come to kill. 12 00:00:59,580 --> 00:01:05,379 we came to save and to love to be childlike. 13 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,220 He tells them, follow me, don't be distracted. 14 00:01:10,350 --> 00:01:14,420 And some of these would make a vow to follow, 15 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:16,200 but then they were distracted. 16 00:01:16,740 --> 00:01:18,380 The one wanted to bury his father. 17 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,780 Jesus said, let the dead bury their dead. 18 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:25,340 Then he ended chapter 9 with whatever you do, don't look back. 19 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:27,280 Don't look back there. 20 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:36,100 Now, I go back there sometimes and remember, remembering the things that God has rescued me from, 21 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,300 mainly myself, and myself is always present. 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,380 So that's a struggle, but there's things that I used to struggle with that I don't struggle 23 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:47,360 with now, and I'm so thankful for that. 24 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:53,320 And I don't want to go back there because it's destructive. 25 00:01:53,820 --> 00:01:54,780 It's a lie. 26 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,380 So above all, don't put anything in front of Jesus. 27 00:02:02,180 --> 00:02:03,480 He requires that of us. 28 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:08,479 And how often we do, right? 29 00:02:08,539 --> 00:02:13,640 That's part of this spiritual battle that we're in in life, 30 00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:15,960 is to keep the first things first, 31 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,860 because there's so many things jockey in for that first position in your life and in mind. 32 00:02:22,730 --> 00:02:24,860 And so he starts, 33 00:02:25,420 --> 00:02:30,560 chapter 10 here we're just going to read the first 12 verses if you'll read along with me 34 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:38,460 I'm reading from the new king James version I think let me see here let me make sure this is 35 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:48,940 yes my my version is a new king James version so in verse one of chapter 10 of the book of 36 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,759 Luke it says after these things after what things the things that I just mentioned 37 00:02:53,260 --> 00:02:58,940 Jesus trying to line out his disciples. After these things, the Lord appointed 70 others also, 38 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:06,940 and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to go. 39 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:12,980 And then he said to them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray 40 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:22,380 the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. 41 00:03:23,060 --> 00:03:31,760 carry neither money bag nor knapsack nor sandals nor greet no one along the road but whatever house you enter 42 00:03:32,220 --> 00:03:38,100 first say peace to this house and if a son of peace is there your peace will rest on it if not it will 43 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:46,500 return to you and remain in the same house eating and drinking such things as they give for the labor 44 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,360 is worthy of his wages do not go from house to house whatever city you enter and they 45 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,260 you eat such things as are set before you and heal the sick there and say to them the kingdom of god 46 00:03:59,260 --> 00:04:06,540 has come near you but whatever city you enter and they do not receive you go out into its streets and say 47 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:13,700 the very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you nevertheless know this that the 48 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:21,220 kingdom of god has come near you but i say to you that it will be more tolerable in the day of sodom 49 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:28,600 than for that city. Let's pray. Lord, thank you. Thank you for your word. Lord, it's holy. It's true. 50 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:37,760 And Lord, I pray that it would sink deep into our hearts as your word tells us that it is like a sword that cuts. It cuts coming and it cuts going. 51 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:50,960 And so may it cut deep into our hearts, Lord, that would change our conscience, that would change the way we think, Lord, Jesus, that your word is that discerner of the thoughts and the intents of our heart, Lord. 52 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:55,500 so may they be right before you now as we look at your word in Jesus' name. Amen. 53 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:04,080 And so here it says, and all of a sudden it's not just the 12 anymore, but it's 70. 54 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,700 Right? He says, and these things the Lord appointed, after these things, he appointed 70 others also, 55 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:18,720 and they went out two by two. Now, why two by two? Well, the proverb says that two is better than one, right? 56 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:20,180 Two is better than one. 57 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,620 For if one falls down, there'll be someone there to help them up. 58 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:24,740 Right? 59 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:30,100 I usually share that in a marriage, that a husband and wife, two or better than one. 60 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,240 And the Bible talks about keeping each other warm. 61 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,360 My little bride keeps me warm at night. 62 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,600 And I've needed her the last couple nights because it's been a little chilly. 63 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:46,800 That's really cool. 64 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:52,880 But two is better than one. 65 00:05:54,260 --> 00:06:02,820 Because the Bible talks about if one, if one can put a hundred to flight, two can put 10,000 to flight. 66 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:04,100 Wow. 67 00:06:05,140 --> 00:06:07,000 That's some serious multiplication there. 68 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:10,420 And so it is. 69 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:16,900 Where in Jesus, where two or more are gathered together in my name there, I am in the midst. 70 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:23,100 And there's this idea of community and that you're helping one another. 71 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:31,420 When my wife and I, I was still competing in rodeo, but I just had this passion to share the gospel as I competed. 72 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,680 And my wife was all in. 73 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:36,740 And it was just me and her a lot of times. 74 00:06:37,490 --> 00:06:39,780 There were a lot of times when we had kids in tow also. 75 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:44,460 But we would go and we would do ministry at the rodeo. 76 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:45,900 So I would share the gospel. 77 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:48,460 That was before, we never even sang. 78 00:06:48,620 --> 00:06:50,860 I never, I just had a passion to do it. 79 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,860 So I would ask the rodeo secretary when I went in her. 80 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,620 I say, hey, we're going to be there a little early on Saturday before the performance. 81 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,720 Do you guys mind if we do a little Bible study in the grandstands? 82 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:04,500 And I don't know if I could have done that without her. 83 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,200 She was a driving factor. 84 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:08,740 I don't know if I could be up here without her. 85 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:10,540 She's my support. 86 00:07:12,719 --> 00:07:16,200 And my biggest cheerleader and my biggest critic. 87 00:07:16,420 --> 00:07:18,540 sometimes when that is in place. 88 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:25,920 So, but 70, notice, this is, this is, goes far beyond. 89 00:07:26,140 --> 00:07:29,620 You remember the disciples were kind of upset in the last chapter about, 90 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,060 about the guy casting out the demons in Jesus' name, and Jesus said, 91 00:07:34,260 --> 00:07:40,980 don't, he who is for, he who does that, they're not against us, they're for us. 92 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:42,420 He's for us. 93 00:07:42,540 --> 00:07:43,820 Don't, leave him alone. 94 00:07:44,620 --> 00:07:46,240 And, um, and we talked about that. 95 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:48,880 And maybe that's why Jesus is doing this. 96 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,600 He's sending out, listen, he's not just for the Jews, 97 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,680 though Bible says he came to the Jew first. 98 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,120 He's for the whole world. 99 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,120 He's the savior of the whole world. 100 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,120 And the more voices, right, that are proclaiming the gospel. 101 00:08:05,500 --> 00:08:07,100 Are you doing that when you have an opportunity? 102 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,080 Do you know what the gospel is? 103 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:11,660 The gospel is so elementary. 104 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,220 Years ago at the school, we would, the first and, 105 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:22,080 second graders would adopt a rest home. And we would go to these rest homes. And these first and 106 00:08:22,380 --> 00:08:28,400 second graders, I would watch them lead people in their late 80s and 90s and even centurions 107 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,719 over a hundred years old. They would lead them to Jesus, six and seven and eight year olds. 108 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:44,900 I mean, I would watch and I'd go, you're my hero. I wouldn't be like you. They would lead people 109 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,480 who are right at death's door to Jesus, sharing the gospel. 110 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,440 Do you believe in Jesus? 111 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,880 They would say, do you know, he died on a cross and he rose again the third day? 112 00:08:55,980 --> 00:08:57,700 If you believe him, you have everlasting life. 113 00:08:57,700 --> 00:08:58,800 Do you want everlasting life? 114 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,480 Well, yeah, I believe I do. 115 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,060 And these kids would pray with these old people. 116 00:09:06,180 --> 00:09:07,540 I'm thinking, wow. 117 00:09:08,420 --> 00:09:10,440 Now, if they can do it, I can do it. 118 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,580 If I can do it, you can do it. 119 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:16,500 How often do you do that? 120 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,800 You get friends and family members that go to the hospital, 121 00:09:21,420 --> 00:09:23,740 and they're laying there in bed, and they're very vulnerable, 122 00:09:23,870 --> 00:09:25,120 and they're a captive audience. 123 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,700 That's where you need to start sharing the gospel. 124 00:09:30,020 --> 00:09:30,760 That's what I did. 125 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,800 Lord, I know how to, I need to share the gospel. 126 00:09:35,020 --> 00:09:37,420 Well, I first started by packing my Bible to work with me. 127 00:09:37,860 --> 00:09:41,260 I was an equipment operator, so I was around dirt crew all the time. 128 00:09:41,780 --> 00:09:43,320 I don't know if you've been around dirt crew, 129 00:09:43,460 --> 00:09:46,020 but dirt crews are pretty colorful. 130 00:09:48,180 --> 00:09:50,160 And I got dubbed real quick, the Jesus freak. 131 00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:55,140 Though I tried not to say too much about it, unless I was asked, 132 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:59,180 but then pretty soon people would, they would have a family crisis, 133 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,400 and they would come to the Jesus freak and ask me to do a funeral 134 00:10:03,860 --> 00:10:05,660 or counsel with a teenager. 135 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:07,480 I'm just like, what? 136 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,320 And that's when I told the Lord. 137 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:10,960 I said, okay, Lord, I'll never say no. 138 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:14,880 you just have to make yourself available. 139 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:16,740 Put your hand to the plow, 140 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,880 look for opportunities to share the gospel, and do it. 141 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:23,140 And that's what these guys. 142 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:24,780 Obviously, they'd been following Jesus. 143 00:10:25,220 --> 00:10:27,760 Jesus goes, all right, I'm going to go into these towns. 144 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,420 But before I do, I'm going to send you guys out. 145 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:32,360 And you guys go tell them. 146 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:34,580 Right, you go tell them the good news. 147 00:10:34,580 --> 00:10:38,920 You go tell them the kingdom of heaven has come near to you and heal their sick. 148 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:40,280 Get their attention. 149 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:45,840 and then the Lord, I'll come in and lower the bone on them. 150 00:10:47,220 --> 00:10:50,060 And so he sent them out 70. 151 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:52,200 So two groups, some believe it's 72. 152 00:10:52,460 --> 00:10:57,080 There's a couple, there's a little controversy there, whether it was at 70 or 72, 153 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,940 either 35 groups of two or 36 groups of two. 154 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:03,600 And they went out. 155 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:10,260 Some believe this is from Genesis chapter 10, the table of nations, really Jesus kind of 156 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,880 to the fact that the gospel is for the whole world? 157 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,920 Because he'd already sent out the 12, right? 158 00:11:17,439 --> 00:11:19,580 And now he's sending out 70. 159 00:11:19,580 --> 00:11:22,660 And we see 70 nations there in Genesis chapter 10. 160 00:11:22,820 --> 00:11:25,220 Also, when Moses goes into the promised land, 161 00:11:25,220 --> 00:11:28,680 and they're kind of setting up a ministry team, 162 00:11:29,530 --> 00:11:32,020 you know, Jethro suggests that he has some help. 163 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,040 So 70 guys come in and they begin to help. 164 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:38,480 Who eventually became the sad hedron, 165 00:11:39,020 --> 00:11:40,400 the religious people of the day. 166 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,340 There was 70 of the Sanhedron. 167 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,180 We don't know for sure, but I'm sure they covered a whole lot more ground than the 12 did. 168 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:51,260 A whole lot more ground. 169 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:58,860 And so then in verse 2, as he sends them out, in verse 2 he says, and he said, 170 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,980 he says, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. 171 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:07,940 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labors into his harvest. 172 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:15,460 Who does the harvesting? God does. God moves on people's hearts to go share the gospel. 173 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:23,340 Who calls? God does. Not the church. We live in a culture here where the church calls young people 174 00:12:23,610 --> 00:12:30,520 to go out and share the so-called gospel. The church is not supposed to call you. God's supposed to call you. 175 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:37,280 Right? The church isn't God. The church is a servant of God. 176 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:43,600 right? The bride of Christ that we're connected, we're his body. And so he's the one that needs to 177 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:55,060 call us and to direct us. And so he says, pray that the Lord of the harvest, we need more workers. 178 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:02,300 We need to pray. Right? The building should be getting fired up here in the next month 179 00:13:02,380 --> 00:13:07,280 and a half or so, and we're going to need some help. Just volunteer stuff, sweat, equity. 180 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:08,240 is what we're going to do. 181 00:13:09,260 --> 00:13:11,760 I'm just praying that the Lord has people step up. 182 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,520 And some of you have already volunteered, 183 00:13:14,650 --> 00:13:16,040 and we've been this holding pattern, 184 00:13:16,150 --> 00:13:21,580 and I'm frustrated, but good things come to those who wait. 185 00:13:24,340 --> 00:13:26,560 So here I am in the waiting process. 186 00:13:28,380 --> 00:13:30,640 But I'm just praying when the need is there 187 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,260 and the work needs to be done that the Lord would supply 188 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:42,940 those laborers. And so he says, pray here. Pray you guys. You know, the fields are white unto harvest. 189 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:49,500 Pray that the Lord sends people. I watched one of those corny little movies here the other day. 190 00:13:49,850 --> 00:13:55,520 And it was about this ex-football player that was all lamed up. And he lived in the corn country. 191 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:02,300 But he went out on a limb and he planted a bunch of soy beans. And he went and borrowed his neighbor's 192 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:07,240 combine to start combining. And he had had a tree fall under his. 193 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:13,600 field during the, during the year. But the beans had covered up. He went and started cutting it up 194 00:14:13,630 --> 00:14:19,220 and got called out on a, I don't know if it was a volunteer firefighter thing or what, but he forgot to get 195 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:25,600 all of the logs out and he hit with his, with his neighbor's combine, he hit one of those logs 196 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:31,360 and tore the header up. And it was two weeks out and the rain was coming and soybeans rot really 197 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:38,540 easy in the pod. And he was, he was devastated. He said, I'm going to lose this whole crop. I'm 198 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,480 going to go bankrupt. The bank wants some money. They're going to call, they're already calling for my 199 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:48,520 loan. And all of a sudden, word got around. And the townspeople, hundreds and hundreds of people, 200 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:55,500 they went out and picked the beans by hand. Right? The Lord sent laborers. And that's like the 201 00:14:55,700 --> 00:15:01,120 world right now, you guys. It is ripe. People need to hear some good news. 202 00:15:01,940 --> 00:15:06,440 that you can come to a God who loves you and you can surrender your life to him. 203 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:13,280 And because of the incredible sacrifice that Jesus made for us, 204 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,380 we have this hope that is, it just makes you giddy. 205 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:19,660 Can't you hear the kids in the back? 206 00:15:19,740 --> 00:15:20,500 They're having a blast. 207 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:26,900 And it does. 208 00:15:27,380 --> 00:15:29,680 But the labors. 209 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:32,600 And I want people that the Lord moves on. 210 00:15:32,790 --> 00:15:35,780 I don't want people to just show up, well, I guess we've got to do this. 211 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:36,040 Yeah. 212 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,400 Check off the box. 213 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:38,380 No. 214 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:41,660 If you can't do it cheerfully, man, stay home. 215 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,620 Stay on your phone. 216 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:46,180 You know, go walk the mall. 217 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:46,780 I don't know. 218 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:48,540 Get a jamba juice or something. 219 00:15:48,780 --> 00:15:54,140 You know, if you can't do it, God loves someone who gives hilariously, right? 220 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:58,720 And don't you just love working around people that are just, they're just excited? 221 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,100 They've got a smile on their face. 222 00:16:00,140 --> 00:16:04,460 and a spring in their step, and that is just really easy to be around. 223 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:10,560 And those are the people that I want to, you know, step out and be used. 224 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:17,780 Because I'm telling you, there is no greater joy than doing what these 70 are getting to do here. 225 00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:24,960 There's no greater joy than sharing the good news with somebody and having them respond to Jesus. 226 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:29,860 Now, they don't only respond in a positive way, and you've got to let that go. 227 00:16:30,140 --> 00:16:33,420 and keep on truck and keep your hand to the plow. 228 00:16:33,980 --> 00:16:34,820 So he says, pray. 229 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,280 Instead of praying for an easier job, 230 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:41,300 they were to pray for more labors to join them. 231 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,440 And we today need to pray that same prayer. 232 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,880 And note that there are labors, not spectators. 233 00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:54,100 We've got a lot of spectators in the church today, right? 234 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:57,620 Who pray for more labors. 235 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,840 Too many Christians are praying for, 236 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:09,600 somebody else to do a job, they're unwilling to do themselves. And it's not rocket science. 237 00:17:11,619 --> 00:17:19,319 Listen, we're all qualified. Everyone in this room is qualified for God uses the foolish things of the 238 00:17:19,459 --> 00:17:29,200 world. And here we are. Right? Here we are. I mean, the biggest bonehead in the room is up here behind the 239 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:39,120 pulpit. Go figure. I don't know. But God will. We just have to be willing. And you will be amazed at the 240 00:17:39,660 --> 00:17:46,060 doors that the Lord will open. Versus three and four here, it says, go your way. Behold, I send you out 241 00:17:46,370 --> 00:17:55,080 as lambs among wolves carrying either money bag, knapsack, nor sandals, and greet no one along the road. 242 00:17:55,780 --> 00:17:59,040 He's saying, be focused, right? Get out there. But no. 243 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:07,220 know this, lambs among wolves. Well, that's intimidating. I might die. It's part of the calling. 244 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:14,700 Sorry. Come and die, right? If you're going to come after me, Jesus said, pick up your cross. 245 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:25,320 Die daily. Die to yourself. But if anybody has a feeling of what the wolves of the world like, 246 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:26,680 it's Jeff 247 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,380 that stood up here a little bit ago 248 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:30,720 right 249 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,060 the letters that 250 00:18:34,399 --> 00:18:37,280 people have been writing the things that people have been saying about 251 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,020 about Jeff Alldridge 252 00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:39,980 really 253 00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:43,260 and you know it when you read it 254 00:18:43,380 --> 00:18:44,380 that's a lie 255 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,200 right and some of them are even attaching their name to it 256 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,559 he's just like well that was stupid 257 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:01,020 It is amazing to me that people who are deceived, 258 00:19:01,460 --> 00:19:04,560 they would tell a lie when the truth would do their more good. 259 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:05,860 Right? 260 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:07,980 The truth would do them more good. 261 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:13,520 And so he says, oh, by the way, that you will be lambs among wolves. 262 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,220 So you've got to learn to hide and you've got to learn to run fast. 263 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:27,100 Warren Weirsby says, any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes a target for the devil. 264 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:28,660 Right? 265 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,880 Anyone, man or woman. 266 00:19:32,060 --> 00:19:36,180 The old Southern Baptist preacher Vance Havner used to say, 267 00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:42,820 most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition. 268 00:19:44,060 --> 00:19:44,260 Right? 269 00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:50,200 Guilty is charged. 270 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:54,400 But there's an urgency here. 271 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:55,720 The Lord's saying, no, you just go. 272 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:56,200 Go. 273 00:19:57,060 --> 00:19:58,360 You don't take, right? 274 00:19:59,060 --> 00:19:59,520 You go. 275 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,740 You just don't take supplies, don't take any money. 276 00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:03,900 Just go. 277 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:08,100 That way they have to totally trust the Lord. 278 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,080 They have to activate their faith. 279 00:20:11,420 --> 00:20:11,560 Really? 280 00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:12,240 We're just going to go? 281 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,380 We're just going to step? 282 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:14,360 Yeah, you're going to step. 283 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,240 You know what Jesus, or God, the Father, Yahweh, 284 00:20:18,420 --> 00:20:19,280 told the children of Israel, 285 00:20:19,580 --> 00:20:23,180 everywhere you put your foot, everywhere you step, it's your ground, everywhere you step, 286 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:31,580 everywhere you step, it's your ground. Why? Because God is with you. Right? As he told 287 00:20:31,660 --> 00:20:37,920 Joshua, he's with you wherever you go. And it's yours. I'm giving it to you. I'm giving you the 288 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:43,500 victory. We as believers, we're fighting from a place of victory. We don't have to go be victorious, 289 00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:49,260 because Christ has already been victorious. So we just go do what he calls us to do. We'll 290 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:49,940 be victorious. 291 00:20:54,580 --> 00:20:54,900 And so, 292 00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,640 you got some mail. 293 00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:11,180 So you have to have this laser focus when the Lord calls you. 294 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:13,120 These guys were, 295 00:21:14,180 --> 00:21:15,980 obviously they were supposed to be like lambs. 296 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:19,240 So they were ambassadors of peace bringing healing to 297 00:21:19,260 --> 00:21:24,140 the sick, deliverance to the possessed, and the good news of salvation to lost sinners. 298 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:30,440 Like Joshua's army of old, the first proclaimed peace to the cities. 299 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:34,400 If a city rejected the offer of peace, then it chose judgment. 300 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,220 It is a serious thing to reject the ambassadors that God sends your way. 301 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:47,740 And in Deuteronomy it says, you know, well, here, I'm going to back up a little bit. 302 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:53,480 I'm going to do verses six and seven first here, or excuse me, verses five and six. 303 00:21:55,740 --> 00:22:00,000 But whatever house you enter first say, peace to this house. 304 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,760 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it. 305 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,620 If not, it will return to you. 306 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:11,400 If they receive it, if they were going to receive you as an ambassador of Christ Jesus. 307 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,100 Do you receive that? 308 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,720 When people come talk to you, don't you love it when people, those of you were 309 00:22:17,980 --> 00:22:21,200 who are saved, when people come up and try to witness to you, I just love it. 310 00:22:21,620 --> 00:22:22,580 Kind of just let them ramble. 311 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:24,820 We want to hear about Jesus? 312 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,420 Oh, I'd love to hear about Jesus. 313 00:22:26,580 --> 00:22:27,140 Could you tell me? 314 00:22:30,820 --> 00:22:32,240 It's receiving, right? 315 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:34,160 Some people don't want to hear it. 316 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:35,960 Ah, get out of here. 317 00:22:36,460 --> 00:22:39,200 You know, they'll take your track and throw it on the ground to stomp on it. 318 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,820 That's what I think of your tract. 319 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,740 Do they not know what they're doing? 320 00:22:45,820 --> 00:22:45,960 Right? 321 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,480 This is good news. 322 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:51,020 This is good news coming to you as a human being. 323 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:53,340 You ought to listen. 324 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,460 That's what Jesus said anyway. 325 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:57,260 He who has ears to hear. 326 00:22:58,020 --> 00:22:58,500 Let him hear. 327 00:22:59,460 --> 00:23:03,760 And so when somebody comes to you, you should listen. 328 00:23:06,060 --> 00:23:06,520 It's amazing. 329 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:08,660 Isn't it amazing how people's lives intersect? 330 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,220 When you just, it's amazing how the people you come across. 331 00:23:14,220 --> 00:23:15,940 You know, and it's like, 332 00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:20,400 in this context is peace or no peace. 333 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:24,400 You either receive it and receive peace or there's a rejection. 334 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:25,840 There's no peace. 335 00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:26,560 What do you want? 336 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:28,940 You want peace in your life? 337 00:23:31,340 --> 00:23:34,040 Embrace these things that the Lord is teaching us here. 338 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,940 Proclaim peace over that house. 339 00:23:39,060 --> 00:23:41,180 Obviously, lambs are peaceful. 340 00:23:42,460 --> 00:23:45,920 And if not, then sick the shepherd on. 341 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,280 I'm sick of Lord. 342 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:48,100 Right? 343 00:23:52,340 --> 00:23:58,080 When we were going to Costa Rica last year, we were in an airport and a couple guys were 344 00:23:58,170 --> 00:24:01,700 reading their Bibles and this little Hispanic couple across the way we're kind of looking 345 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:02,620 at us and smiling. 346 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,180 We got to visit with him, and he was a pastor in Texas. 347 00:24:06,940 --> 00:24:07,640 This guy was. 348 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:09,540 And so we just had sweet fellowship. 349 00:24:10,420 --> 00:24:14,580 And then Connie and I, as we were walking out of the airport, once we got to Costa 350 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,400 We met a guy from the States. He's in his 80s. He's been going to Costa Rica for 30 years doing 351 00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:25,160 missionary work with the orphanages and stuff there, and him and his wife. And they gave us their 352 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:28,920 card, and we just had sweet fellowship. But then there was this other guy's name was Alex. 353 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:35,840 And Stan and Sandy Essling were ministering to Alex, and Alex was convinced that he was a son of Satan. 354 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:42,720 Right. So he didn't receive what we were trying to share with him. And it's funny because one of our 355 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,940 layovers, we ended up in another airport. I think we saw him in, we saw him in Salt Lake, 356 00:24:48,060 --> 00:24:55,300 and then we ran into him again in Miami. Same guy. And shared with him again. He had a 357 00:24:55,500 --> 00:25:02,820 couple opportunities to come to Jesus. And he didn't take it. I'm wondering where he's 358 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:12,400 out today. So in Deuteronomy, 359 00:25:12,660 --> 00:25:17,580 it was a serious thing in the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy 20, it says, 360 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,360 when you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it. 361 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,640 Now, what army does that? 362 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,220 God's army, God's people. 363 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:31,320 God's people do that. 364 00:25:31,570 --> 00:25:36,580 He says, proclaim an offer of peace to that place that you're going to go in and take, 365 00:25:37,140 --> 00:25:42,240 and it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace and open to you, 366 00:25:42,620 --> 00:25:47,580 then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you and serve you. 367 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:49,880 That you don't have to die. 368 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:51,760 Do you want peace? 369 00:25:54,460 --> 00:25:55,160 Then just accept. 370 00:25:56,260 --> 00:26:00,100 Accept the fact of defeat or surrender. 371 00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:02,980 You want your sinful life defeated? 372 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,720 Surrender to Jesus. 373 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,060 That's what it takes. 374 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,700 But you don't have to. 375 00:26:09,180 --> 00:26:10,560 Just like these people didn't have to. 376 00:26:12,899 --> 00:26:14,500 they could make that decision. 377 00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:18,800 And so in verse 7, he says, 378 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,840 remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give you 379 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,900 for the labor is worthy of his wages and do not go from house to house. 380 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,120 In other words, kind of set up a command post where you're accepted, 381 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,140 the people are excited to serve along with you, right? 382 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:36,380 And then you go out and you go out into these cities where I'm going to go 383 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,140 and you tell them, you heal their sick and you cast out the demons, 384 00:26:40,340 --> 00:26:45,740 and you preach the gospel, tell them the kingdom of God is near. 385 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:48,340 And that's what Jesus did, right? 386 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,840 He went, he was raised there in Nazareth, 387 00:26:51,850 --> 00:26:54,000 and so he just went a few miles away to Copernum. 388 00:26:54,060 --> 00:26:57,140 That's where he operated from was Copernum. 389 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:03,520 And so he says, for them to do the same thing. 390 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,960 And then in verse 8, it says in whatever city you enter 391 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,940 and they receive you eat such things as they set before you. 392 00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:11,680 I remember having to do this in Africa. 393 00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:14,060 I had no idea what was setting before me. 394 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,820 And I said, oh, Lord, whatever this feels like in my mouth, please let me swallow it. 395 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:23,820 It was some wild stuff there in Africa. 396 00:27:25,380 --> 00:27:29,040 But I just ate it, you know, and thanking the Lord for it. 397 00:27:29,860 --> 00:27:34,460 And, you know, obviously you don't want to offend the people that you're trying to minister to. 398 00:27:35,180 --> 00:27:39,720 And so it says, and heal the sick there and say to them, the kingdom of God has come near you. 399 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:45,640 but whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say the very 400 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:52,460 dust of your city, which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless, know this, that the 401 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:58,980 kingdom of God has come near you, but I say to you that it will be more tolerable in the day of Sodom than for 402 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:08,120 that city. Wow. You never really hear about that. Judgment for refusing to receive the gospel. 403 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:11,100 but that's true. 404 00:28:11,740 --> 00:28:15,600 But how many gospel preachers don't say that, right? 405 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:21,120 This is a horrible thing to reject the good news of the Lord Jesus. 406 00:28:22,420 --> 00:28:23,240 It's tough. 407 00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:25,880 He says the dust is going to be a witness against you. 408 00:28:26,860 --> 00:28:27,540 Could you imagine it? 409 00:28:28,780 --> 00:28:34,780 Judgment Day that the stones rising up and condemning people who didn't receive Jesus? 410 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:44,880 And so he says, it will be more tolerable in the day of, do you remember what happened to Sodom 411 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:45,080 anymore? 412 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:47,620 They became crispy craters. 413 00:28:48,970 --> 00:28:49,980 I mean, really crispy. 414 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:59,700 Some excavations found it so hot that got so hot there that the ground became like glass. 415 00:29:01,660 --> 00:29:03,419 It got so hot there at Sodom. 416 00:29:05,860 --> 00:29:19,720 why is that well let's let's keep going here right if they receive then heal and preach if they don't 417 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:29,420 then dust your feet off it is not good to reject the work of jesus right because the bible says 418 00:29:29,540 --> 00:29:33,400 that's that's what we put our faith in what what the work of god is 419 00:29:33,420 --> 00:29:40,300 is what Jesus did. It's his work, right? John 629. I quote it all the time. I love the verse. 420 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,220 Right? This is the work of God that you believe in the one that the Father has sent. That's the 421 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:55,520 work of God. But people don't want to believe in Jesus. Right? They want to sign. They want to come to 422 00:29:55,660 --> 00:30:03,380 God on their own terms. God's not into that. No, you don't come to me on your terms. You 423 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:11,820 come to me, the Lord says, on my terms. Who's God here? It's kind of like parents that tell me, 424 00:30:12,180 --> 00:30:19,360 well, I can't get him to what? He's two years old. You can buy a pair of handcuffs if you have to. 425 00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:27,040 You're the parent for crying out loud. Either light him up, right? Give him some consequences that are 426 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:32,200 painful and teach him. Oh, Lord. 427 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:43,160 there is a lot of foolishness that would go by the wayside if the Board of Education was applied to the seat of learning, right? 428 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,440 For sure, for sure. 429 00:30:52,660 --> 00:30:53,960 But just believe the work that he did. 430 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,080 Who rose from the dead? 431 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,140 Whoever did that? 432 00:30:57,660 --> 00:30:59,280 Nobody's ever done that except Jesus. 433 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:01,740 He rose from the dead. 434 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,440 man's greatest fear he conquered. 435 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:09,860 How can people thumb their nose at him? 436 00:31:11,940 --> 00:31:14,300 He tells him in John 10, right? 437 00:31:15,180 --> 00:31:16,180 Just believe the work. 438 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,200 Believe the work that I did. 439 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:19,600 Just believe that. 440 00:31:20,460 --> 00:31:22,380 And you'd be in a good spot. 441 00:31:22,740 --> 00:31:27,780 If I do not, this is John chapter 10, verse 37 through 39. 442 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,460 If I do not do the work of my father, do not believe me. 443 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,300 but if I do 444 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,140 though you do not believe me 445 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,500 believe the work that you may know 446 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,640 and believe that the father is in me 447 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:40,820 and I in him 448 00:31:41,260 --> 00:31:43,040 therefore they sought again to seize him 449 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,460 but he escaped out of their hand 450 00:31:47,379 --> 00:31:47,820 that 451 00:31:49,780 --> 00:31:50,760 community is Sodom 452 00:31:51,860 --> 00:31:53,120 they're going to experience what Sodom 453 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,360 in fact it was going to be more tolerable 454 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,600 right than 455 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:58,860 what was going to happen 456 00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:01,480 in Sodom and he goes on 457 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:07,920 doesn't stop there. He doubles down in verse 13, but woe to you, Corazin, who, woe to you 458 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:13,120 Bessera, for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tire and Ziden, 459 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:19,400 they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more 460 00:32:19,860 --> 00:32:26,780 tolerable for Tire and Siden at the judgment than for you. And you, Copernum, who are exalted 461 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,460 to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. He who has, he who 462 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:39,180 hears you, here's me. He who rejects you rejects me. And he who rejects me rejects him who sent me. 463 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:48,820 How often has the gospel been rejected simply because of who is sharing it? I don't like him. 464 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:54,620 So I'm not going to listen to him. I just don't like him. The Lord convicted me of this when I was a young 465 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:59,700 Christian. When I was a young Christian, I listened to J. Vernon McGee, teach through the Bible. 466 00:33:00,180 --> 00:33:02,900 Jay Vernon McGee, dearly beloved. 467 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,620 Who remembers Jay Vernon McGee? 468 00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:10,200 I was in California, and I mean, the guy's voice just drove me crazy. 469 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:17,020 And I was so irritated by it. 470 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:20,000 And it was like the Lord whispered to my heart one day and said, 471 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,200 Scotty, would you just listen to what he's saying? 472 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,180 Forget about how he sounds. 473 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:25,640 Listen to what he's saying. 474 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,660 The brilliant Bible teacher, Jay Vernon McGee, 475 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,540 you women would love him because he's the one that said about women wearing makeup. 476 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,740 The barn needs painting, paint it. 477 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,920 That's my kind of man. 478 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:52,620 But he says, 479 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:53,680 woe to these cities. 480 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:55,920 They came in with this message. 481 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,700 They came in with this message of the kingdom 482 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,340 And they must have got shunned, right? 483 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,360 Corazine, we don't really know about that city, 484 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,919 but we do know about Besser. 485 00:34:10,899 --> 00:34:13,879 Besser is where the feeding of the 5,000 happened. 486 00:34:17,399 --> 00:34:22,740 And then he heals the blind man with spit in his eye and Mark there at Bessera. 487 00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:25,679 And so he did some pretty powerful things. 488 00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:28,679 But notice what he says to Copernum. 489 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:29,679 He says in verse 15. 490 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,659 and you, Copernum, who are exalted to heaven, 491 00:34:33,580 --> 00:34:35,260 will be brought down to Hades. 492 00:34:35,460 --> 00:34:36,179 Why is that? 493 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,840 Listen, Jesus Christ came and walked this earth, folks. 494 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:43,700 Right? 495 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:47,540 And he interacted with the people there in Israel, 496 00:34:47,700 --> 00:34:50,620 right around the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. 497 00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:55,520 The God of the universe visited his creation. 498 00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:57,440 Right? 499 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:08,940 And to not respond to that would heap an unbelievable amount of judgment on your head or mine to not receive that? 500 00:35:09,820 --> 00:35:15,140 The reason Copernum seems to have a graded degree, he says, I will drag you down to hell. 501 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:19,980 Because that's where Jesus did his ministry there at Copernum. 502 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,360 That's where he operated out of. 503 00:35:24,940 --> 00:35:27,560 And there he healed the centuriant servant. 504 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,580 he cast out a demon there in the synagogue. 505 00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:31,560 He healed Peter's mother-in-law. 506 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:36,120 He also healed a paralytic who was lowered through a roof there at Copernum, 507 00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:38,360 raised the daughter of J. Irish from the dead. 508 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,180 Jesus taught in the synagogues and delivered the bread of life discourse there in Copernum. 509 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:44,680 And they wouldn't listen. 510 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,940 He is totally just in frying every one of them. 511 00:35:51,740 --> 00:35:56,000 I mean frying them into the depths and the hottest part of hell. 512 00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,320 because that's who he is. 513 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,620 He just wants us to come to him. 514 00:36:03,780 --> 00:36:04,640 He doesn't make us. 515 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:05,860 He says, you decide. 516 00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:13,620 Obviously, the consequences are pretty weighty, I would say. 517 00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:17,700 But that's what he says to him. 518 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,020 And so this tells me that. 519 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,880 that there are degrees of sin. 520 00:36:29,060 --> 00:36:30,600 There are degrees of judgment. 521 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,880 Is there a greater sin than not accepting Jesus Christ? 522 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,500 He who has the son has life. 523 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,540 He who does not have the son is condemned. 524 00:36:43,220 --> 00:36:43,360 Right? 525 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,300 He who has a son has life. 526 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:47,500 He who does not have the son is condemned. 527 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,900 It's just that simple. 528 00:36:52,780 --> 00:36:54,360 Why would we not seek him? 529 00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,880 And some will say, well, sin is sin. 530 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:03,740 There seems to be degrees of sin, but there also seems to be degrees here of judgment. 531 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,060 And there are degrees of judgment, like there are degrees of sin. 532 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:10,500 Now, I can lust after a woman. 533 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:12,300 That's sinful. 534 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:22,360 And some, especially men, they surmise that, well, if I've lusted after, I've already done it in my heart, so I might as well just go do it. 535 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:23,500 Really? 536 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,220 how would your wife be with that? 537 00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:30,120 Not too good, right? 538 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,880 Now that's one thing to have a thought, right? 539 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,640 And the Bible says we're actually able to take thoughts captives, right? 540 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:44,980 Though lusting is sin, it's not as grave as going and going through with the act of adultery. 541 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,480 And I don't know about you, but I just soon forego 542 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:56,440 at all and walk with Jesus, right? 543 00:37:58,540 --> 00:38:01,600 Rejecting the message is not good, right? 544 00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:06,000 It appears that judgment compounds, right? 545 00:38:06,340 --> 00:38:09,580 Think about all the times over the years that you've heard the gospel. 546 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,520 And you can probably look back to that time that you responded to the gospel. 547 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,200 But I remember hearing the gospel several times and not responding. 548 00:38:19,660 --> 00:38:22,640 And oh, how I look back at that and shaken my boots now. 549 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:30,220 to think that how many more times would I have had to hear the gospel where my heart would have been so hard that I wouldn't respond it? 550 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,100 I'm so thankful that I responded. 551 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:35,540 Right. 552 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,660 Verse 16 says, and he who hears you, hears me. 553 00:38:39,540 --> 00:38:41,500 We're his ambassadors, you and I. 554 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,800 Now, I've had drunks try to talk to me about Jesus. 555 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,640 Now, I don't know how many people that those drunks led to Jesus, but I'm sure probably. 556 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:57,780 be some. But he who hears you, 557 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:04,440 hears me. So what's your message? Is it filled with Jesus? Are you going to throw some of 558 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:10,260 your opinions in there? Keep it simple, right? He who hears you, hears me. He who rejects 559 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,660 you rejects me. So don't get all watered up when you try to show Jesus with somebody and they 560 00:39:15,740 --> 00:39:22,020 go, get out of my face, you freak. God bless you. See you later. 561 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:22,860 maybe 562 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:28,940 but just 563 00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:30,360 they're not rejecting you 564 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:31,940 Jesus says they're rejecting me 565 00:39:32,740 --> 00:39:34,140 right and when they hear you 566 00:39:34,140 --> 00:39:36,040 if they hear you they hear me 567 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,140 he who rejects me 568 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,640 Jesus says rejects him who sent me 569 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:47,900 totally 570 00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:49,220 just rejecting God 571 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,740 Then he says, then the 70 returned with joy, saying, 572 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:00,460 Lord, even the demons are subject in your name. 573 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,120 And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 574 00:40:04,340 --> 00:40:08,220 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpencing scorpions 575 00:40:08,470 --> 00:40:12,360 and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 576 00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:17,620 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you, 577 00:40:17,740 --> 00:40:21,820 but rather rejoice because your names have been written in heaven. 578 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:24,600 That's the rejoicing. 579 00:40:29,020 --> 00:40:41,360 And so he is redirecting the 70 because they're so excited about how much power they had. 580 00:40:41,820 --> 00:40:44,140 Maybe because that one demon they couldn't cast out, 581 00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:46,060 but these guys seems to be very successful. 582 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:51,320 And all the sudden, and Jesus kind of checks him, knows what he says there in 18, 583 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,580 and he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 584 00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:57,400 Oh, be careful. 585 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:03,340 He's saying, I think this is a fair warning that the Lord is giving the people there. 586 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:03,960 Right. 587 00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:04,640 Be careful. 588 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,020 I saw Satan fall. 589 00:41:06,220 --> 00:41:07,340 What caused Satan to fall? 590 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:08,520 Pride. 591 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:09,620 Right? 592 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:10,340 Pride. 593 00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:11,560 Look at there, man. 594 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:13,060 The demons are subject to me. 595 00:41:13,580 --> 00:41:14,540 My demon pounder. 596 00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:16,500 You know? 597 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,720 Jesus says, be careful, I saw him fall from heaven. 598 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:30,300 F. B. Meyer says, be sure to rely not on numbers or organization, but on the name of Jesus. 599 00:41:30,940 --> 00:41:36,840 Use not as a charm, but as a representing, but as representing his living and ascended might. 600 00:41:37,820 --> 00:41:43,000 Right? You always keep Jesus between you and the stuff. All of it. 601 00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:48,600 And so he's saying, don't rejoice in this. 602 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,700 But he says, I do give you authority. 603 00:41:50,780 --> 00:41:52,680 I gave you authority over the demons. 604 00:41:52,980 --> 00:41:57,320 I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. 605 00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,920 And nothing shall by any means hurt you. 606 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,840 A lot of people take that verse and run with it. 607 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:05,800 You know, Phil was just sharing with me here. 608 00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:08,880 He says, you know, you was talking about all the people that need to jump around, 609 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,620 have all kinds of excitement and stuff. 610 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,120 And that's okay, right? 611 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,760 Well, he said, I had some military buddies that wanted to go to a church where they did snake handling. 612 00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:22,300 And so there in the South, they have these poisonous snakes, right? 613 00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:24,300 They have cotton mouths and copperheads. 614 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:30,160 And so they come out and sure them, these old boys, they, you know, they weren't real privy how things went. 615 00:42:30,220 --> 00:42:31,779 So they sat right up in the front row. 616 00:42:34,959 --> 00:42:39,340 And so they started handling these snakes, and pretty soon they started chucking them into the crowd. 617 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,500 He says, you've never seen any able to get out of church so fast in your life. 618 00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:43,200 as those guys. 619 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,160 I don't know why you would do that, but. 620 00:42:54,340 --> 00:42:57,420 You know, I mean, they just wanted to display, hey, we got power over these things. 621 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,680 We do have power over the enemy, but that's not what we rejoice in, right? 622 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:07,440 Jesus said, nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, 623 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,640 but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. 624 00:43:13,740 --> 00:43:18,360 you know this Thanksgiving season I a friend of mine called me the other day and 625 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,760 and we've both been I've been walking with the Lord for four or five years longer than him but 626 00:43:22,940 --> 00:43:28,100 we've we've known each other kind of you know just brothers in Christ kind of we're 627 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:33,120 plowing in different fields but we're all headed in the same direction and he was his I'm just 628 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:41,620 so thankful that we got like-minded people that I got friends you know that that that and I 629 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,280 He said, dude, can you imagine why God's been so good to us? 630 00:43:45,980 --> 00:43:46,960 Why has he kept us? 631 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:48,540 Right? 632 00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:53,140 Why didn't kill us and put us in the hottest part of hell? 633 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,060 Because we were some of these people that rejected. 634 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,440 But God knew, right? 635 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,580 He just kept sending those hounds of heaven until you throw your hands in the air and surrender. 636 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:07,620 Maybe you need to do that today. 637 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:10,500 Do you know that your name's written in heaven? 638 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,000 because the Bible talks quite a bit about it. 639 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,940 And so Satan's not going to take any days off. 640 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:30,300 But in Daniel, it talks about that book. 641 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,240 God's like a spectacular record keeper. 642 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:37,900 He is spectacular in keeping records. 643 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:40,460 He knows every word. 644 00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:41,980 that you've ever spoken. 645 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:43,760 That's scary. 646 00:44:45,380 --> 00:44:45,520 Right? 647 00:44:45,820 --> 00:44:46,600 That's really scary. 648 00:44:50,779 --> 00:44:55,760 And it says, in Daniel chapter 10, it talks about the books. 649 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:04,320 And it says, in Daniel chapter 7, verse 10, a fiery stream issued and came from before him. 650 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,280 Him is capitalized. 651 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:05,880 This is God. 652 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,820 A thousand thousand's ministered to him. 653 00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:10,460 10,000 times 10,000. 654 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:19,360 stood before him. The court was seated and the books were opened. The books were opened. 655 00:45:20,460 --> 00:45:26,740 It talks about the books being opened. All these records that God has kept on your life and 656 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:33,900 mine. It's all written down. Oh no, really? Can't we just burn it? 657 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,860 But it correlates with Roman, or excuse me, Revelation chapter 20, verse 12 at the Great White 658 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:47,960 Throne one, it says, and I saw the dead small and great standing before God and books were opened. 659 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,800 And another book was open, which is the book of life. 660 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,980 And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books. 661 00:45:55,580 --> 00:45:58,540 Every thought, every deed, every word recorded. 662 00:45:59,060 --> 00:46:00,280 Jesus tells us that, right? 663 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:06,920 He says, on the day of judgment, people are going to give an account for every idle word they've ever spoken. 664 00:46:11,619 --> 00:46:16,160 I can't tell you the vile stuff that has come out of this mouth of mine. 665 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,420 I mean vile. 666 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,320 And so, but notice the books and then the other book. 667 00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:27,640 It's called the Book of Life. 668 00:46:29,340 --> 00:46:31,520 Makes me breathe easy, right? 669 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,720 It's mentioned eight times in the New Testament. 670 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:37,360 right? 671 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,720 Someone's name can be blotted out of that book. 672 00:46:45,860 --> 00:46:48,160 Someone's name can be blotted out of that book. 673 00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:52,220 In other places, there's called a book of remembrance. 674 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,340 There's called a book of the living. 675 00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,820 I don't know what all this means, 676 00:46:59,220 --> 00:47:01,220 but God seems to be categorizing it. 677 00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:05,640 In Psalm chapter 69, verse 28, 678 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:14,740 It says, let them, listen, let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. 679 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:18,620 That your name could be blotted out of the book of the living. 680 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:25,260 It's almost like God has this book and every conception is probably recorded in that book. 681 00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:26,940 That's how detailed God is. 682 00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:31,540 Every conception is recorded in that book. 683 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:35,660 That'd be a big. 684 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:49,420 book. That'd be a great big book. But so it's like God's so gracious, but we can do things to get 685 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:59,900 our names blotted out of that book. Revelation 3.5 says, he who overcomes shall be clothed 686 00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:05,640 in white garments and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, overcome what? 687 00:48:05,660 --> 00:48:09,920 But as you read through the churches there in Revelation chapter 3, right? 688 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,160 You overcome the flesh, the world, and the devil. 689 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:14,340 You overcome those things. 690 00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:16,060 Your name's written in the book of life. 691 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:22,360 If those things overcome you, then your name's blotted out. 692 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,400 So there's two blottings that can happen, right? 693 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:30,380 Your name can either be blotted out of the book of life or by the blood of Jesus. 694 00:48:30,580 --> 00:48:31,920 All your sins can be blotted out. 695 00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:34,240 You choose. 696 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:35,380 We choose, right? 697 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:36,180 We choose that. 698 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,200 So our name can be blotted out or our sin can be blotted out. 699 00:48:45,660 --> 00:48:50,520 Goes back to the old thing I used to heard in the Calvert Chapel circles was, 700 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,640 if you're born once, you die twice. 701 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,020 If you're born twice, you die once. 702 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,220 And you may even get to escape that, right, if the rapture of the church happens. 703 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:04,060 Get it? 704 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,580 If you're born once, you die twice. 705 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,420 The Bible calls it the second death. 706 00:49:11,140 --> 00:49:11,240 Right? 707 00:49:11,380 --> 00:49:14,640 That those who refuse the gospel, right? 708 00:49:14,820 --> 00:49:24,680 Those who are like Sodom and Tyre and Seidon, when they refuse the gospel, they're condemned. 709 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,900 But then when they receive the gospel, they have life. 710 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,800 And those who are condemned experience a second death. 711 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,180 It's like a spiritual death. 712 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,320 They have a physical death and a spiritual death. 713 00:49:38,780 --> 00:49:41,080 But you don't cease to exist, right? 714 00:49:41,220 --> 00:49:43,860 You can read more about this in Luke chapter 16 on your own. 715 00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:45,240 It's pretty good. 716 00:49:46,980 --> 00:49:48,420 So if you're born once, you die twice. 717 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,380 If you're born twice, if you're born again, you only die once. 718 00:49:53,020 --> 00:49:54,100 And maybe not even that. 719 00:49:55,020 --> 00:49:55,840 Because the Lord's coming. 720 00:49:57,020 --> 00:49:57,200 Right? 721 00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,640 And he's going to sound a trumpet. 722 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:01,060 Are you listening? 723 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:03,200 Be ready. 724 00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:08,560 have your lamp trimmed, be ready because it's coming. 725 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:12,620 And it's coming very soon, I believe. 726 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,680 If you're not watching the events going on around the world right now, 727 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,080 I would suggest that you get plugged in and tuned in, checking it out. 728 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:22,040 Because what does it do? 729 00:50:22,500 --> 00:50:24,260 It inspires me, right? 730 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,460 It inspires me to stay close to Jesus. 731 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,280 If I get lazy and don't want to read my Bible, I just kind of see what's happening in the world. 732 00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,880 I think, oh, Lord, I need you now more today than I did yesterday. 733 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:35,980 it's a good thing. 734 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:37,700 And Jesus tells us to do that. 735 00:50:37,780 --> 00:50:37,900 What? 736 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:39,060 Watch and pray. 737 00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:43,500 For you don't know what hour the son of man is coming. 738 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:45,080 Right? 739 00:50:45,580 --> 00:50:47,140 You just have to know you're on his team, 740 00:50:47,780 --> 00:50:49,820 that your citizenship is in heaven, 741 00:50:50,220 --> 00:50:52,280 as it tells us there in the book of Philippians 742 00:50:52,460 --> 00:50:54,420 that we're citizens of heaven. 743 00:50:56,140 --> 00:50:59,740 Just waiting, waiting for our train to come by. 744 00:51:00,460 --> 00:51:01,960 Chee, chew, let's pray, shall we? 745 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:02,900 Father, thank you. 746 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:32,660 Thank you. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your love, Lord. Thank you that you called us to be your ambassadors. I have no idea why that is, Lord, that you call flawed, sinful, broken people to be your ambassadors. And then you equip us with all the equipment that we need to bring glory to you. And so, Lord, we just know that you're the mother load of the bread of life. May we find ourselves feeding. 747 00:51:33,380 --> 00:51:39,440 on that bread, Lord, until you come. Lord, would you minister to the people who are here today, 748 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:47,620 Lord, knowing that it's just a simple act of receiving you. It's just a simple invitation of you 749 00:51:47,620 --> 00:51:53,480 to come in, just like these disciples as they went through those towns and whatever house received 750 00:51:54,070 --> 00:52:00,800 them. They brought peace. And that's our lives, Lord. We need your peace in these troublesome times. 751 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,700 as Paul told us in the last days, perilous ties will come. 752 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,520 But in the midst of all, Lord, we can have your joy and your peace. 753 00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:10,280 So bless your people, I pray. 754 00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:11,800 In Jesus' mighty name. 755 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:12,740 Amen. 756 00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:13,840 Hey, God bless you. 757 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,200 Have a great week in Jesus. 758 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,100 The prayer team is going to be up here afterwards. 759 00:52:17,380 --> 00:52:21,000 If you need someone to pray with you, please feel free to come up. 760 00:52:22,020 --> 00:52:23,340 And have a great week. 761 00:52:23,980 --> 00:52:24,900 Here comes December.