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Well, hey, if you have a Bible, we're going to finish the 12th chapter of Luke.

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I think we've been here for a year and a half, but some good stuff.

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And we left off last time in verse 40 where the Lord said,

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therefore you also be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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And as I've read through the Bible over the years, I've come across those sayings that Jesus says that are really hard sayings.

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Actually, if they're not true, they're psychotic sayings.

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Right?

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Jesus was accused many times of being crazy, being demon possessed.

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And it's funny when you talk to the world about Jesus, they go, oh yeah, we're,

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we're totally into Jesus. He's cool. He's just all love. Really? I remember picking up one of the rainbow

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people. Do you guys remember the rainbow people? They had some big conferences here in Idaho where they

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would all get naked and run through the hills and it's kind of a strange thing. So I was picking,

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I picked this guy up. My wife's looking at me like, I think I'm going to kill you when we let this guy out.

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I'm going to kill you. And so I picked this guy up. He's out.

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out in the middle of nowhere, hitchhiking.

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And so I pick him up and we're driving.

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And so I try sharing Jesus.

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Oh, Jesus?

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Yeah, J.C.'s cool, man.

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I just smoked some peyote with the Indians down in Arizona.

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And, yeah, we saw J.C.

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He was there with all the others.

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Oh, okay.

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Lost is a goose, right?

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They don't have a clue who Jesus is.

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And Jesus tells us, he says,

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many, many Christs will come. And, and so his, his admonition was, don't be deceived, but,

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but definitely be watching. And so, because he's coming at an hour that we do not expect.

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And so in these, these verses from verse 41 to verse 59, there's some hard sayings. And so,

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I'm just going to jump in, but probably better pray first. Father, we thank you for your word.

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Lord, it is truly a light unto our path and a lamp into our feet.

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And so we just pray today that as we look at this and you encourage us and you say some hard things, Lord, that aren't easy, but they're necessary.

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Just like the chastening of a child, Lord, it's not easy, but it's so necessary.

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And so, Lord, we pray that if you need to chasten us, that we would humble ourselves before you.

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Lord, and receive it and realize that you have our best interest at heart.

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And so, Lord, we ask that by your Holy Spirit you would come and be our unseen guest today

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as we look at this passage of scripture in Jesus' name. Amen.

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And so I'm going to take verses 41 through 48.

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We'll take it in, I think there's going to be two or three chunks here.

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And I'll make some comments and we'll get out of here today.

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but it starts off after he says this, right, that no one knows the day or the hour.

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Peter steps up and he says, then Peter said, verse 41, to him, Lord, do you speak this parable

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only to us or to all people? And the Lord said, who then is that faithful and wise steward

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whom his master will make ruler over his household to give them their portion of

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food in due season. Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

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Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all he has. But if that servant says in

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his heart, my master is delaying his coming and begins to beat the male and female servants

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and to eat and drink and be drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not

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looking for him in an hour when he is not aware and will cut him into and appoint him his portion

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with the unbelievers. And that servant who knew his master's will and did not prepare himself

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or do according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know yet

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committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given from

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much will be required. And to him who much has been committed of him, they will ask the more.

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And so these are some hard sayings and some serious sayings. I think of some of the sayings over the

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years that I've come across. I know one is in John chapter 6 when Jesus said,

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unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have no part with me. You know,

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the people freaked out. I'm so glad he said that, though, even though it may have created some

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confusion in people's hearts, and some people that said, they departed from him and followed him

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no more. And I'm just going, wow, that's pretty heavy. But then he, the Lord, he, he, he's not

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afraid to put us to the test. And that obviously put some people, we don't eat, drink blood. That's against

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the law, right? The law said, don't, don't, don't.

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eat the blood for the life is in the blood. What is he talking about? We can't handle this.

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And so they departed. And then he approaches his apostles. So are you two going to leave now that

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I've said this? And Peter, in his greatest moment, I believe, said, Lord, to whom shall we go?

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You alone have the words of eternal life. Right? But that was a hard saying. It was hard

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for the people of the day, it seemed to be so against what they had been taught.

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And then he shares the commandment about dishonoring your parents.

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And he talks about the children who dishonored their parents should be put to death.

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Really?

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Jesus said that and agreed with that?

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Well, of course he agreed with it.

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It was in the law.

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Really?

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Well, if that's true today, there'd be rocks all over Bonneville County.

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Rock piles with rebellious teens under them, right?

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And another hard one that people always overlook about what Jesus said.

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When he speaks to the church at Thyatira in Revelation chapter 2,

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verses 21 through 23, you should read it.

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He says, unless you repent, I'm going to cast you into a sickbed and I'm going to kill your kids with death.

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the Lord gets pretty serious.

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Those are hard sayings.

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He would really do that?

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Well, either that or he's a liar.

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So here, Peter's concerned.

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He's saying, are you saying this to everybody or just to us?

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And Jesus kind of changed his, he was talking about servants,

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now he mentions he who then is a faithful and wise steward. That's a little different word. That's

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more of a manager. Or maybe what I'm doing right now, which scares me to death sometimes.

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Because I know I can be a little flippant sometimes and say things from this pulpit that maybe I shouldn't

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say, why a lightning bolt has not fried me behind this pulpit. I don't know that. But just know that it

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could happen, right? So you might want to wear your sunglasses. But he says,

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uh, who is a wise steward whom his master will make ruler over his household to give them

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their portion of food in due season. And so the Lord here is, is three things. Number one,

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he, he rewards faithfulness. God requires us. God requires us.

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to be faithful and it's rewarded, right? Revelation 217 says,

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He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be His God, and he shall be my son.

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Have you overcome? What do we overcome, by the way, anyway? Right? Because it says that to every church

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in the book of Revelation, the message to the churches. It says, He Who overcomes? What do we overcome?

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The world, the flesh, and the devil. That's what you overcome. The world, the flesh, and the devil,

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because they're just gnawing at you and nagging at you your whole life until you take your last breath.

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So he's called us to be faithful.

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If you'll be faithful, you'll be rewarded.

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Romans 832.

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He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all,

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how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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But it's about being faithful.

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That's about finishing the race.

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because races sometimes have a wall that you hit.

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And he talks about the wall that some of these people hit.

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Ah, he ain't coming.

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My Lord delays his coming.

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Secondly, right, if faithfulness is rewarded, unfaithfulness is punished, verse 45,

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but if that servant says in his heart, my master is delaying his coming

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and begins to beat the male and female servants and to eat and drink and be drunk.

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The master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour when he is not aware

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and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

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Cut him in two.

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That sounds pretty severe.

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What does that mean?

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Well, some people, don't you just love Bible commentators?

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right oh because well it's not really talking about literally cutting you in two it's talking about

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separation which may be i think there's some that embrace no he's going to cut you in too

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uh maybe that's part of the the body being destroyed but the soul being saved um we we've been

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going through hebrews on wednesday nights and um and we have

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have been teaching through Steve and I kind of team teaching.

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And so the subject comes up, once saved, always saved.

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Once you're saved, you're always saved.

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Are you?

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Because the Bible kind of would suggest that actually no outside force can take your salvation from you,

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so you can't lose your salvation.

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but can you leave your salvation?

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Those that I mentioned there in John chapter 6,

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those who left and walked with him no more.

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Did they leave?

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Were they saved to start with?

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See, that's the big question.

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And when you get dogmatic on those things,

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you kind of back yourself into a corner.

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So what is it?

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I don't know.

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I just don't want to go there.

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I know what my heart is capable of.

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So then the question is, will God keep you against his will?

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Or excuse me, against your will.

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His will is that none should perish,

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but not that all would come to repentance.

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But would God keep you against your will?

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You say, Lord, I don't want you no more.

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I don't love you no more.

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I can't imagine saying that.

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But would God keep you against your will?

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I don't know.

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Maybe that's part of the body being destroyed and goes,

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Lord just gives you over.

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Your soul's saved, your body's destroyed.

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You get in by the skin of your teeth.

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You know, that's a biblical reference, right?

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Skin of your teeth.

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Job talks about it.

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but it's it's a hard thing knowing that unfaithfulness is punished

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there's an accountability for what you know about God and about your sin

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and here you are today and you already know more than you did when you came in

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and you think man why did I go to church today

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because he holds us he holds us accountable right so no those who know those who know

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will suffer a greater consequence those who don't know will have a less consequence

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what is that some believe that it's a lot

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of rewards, right? That the judge at the seat of Christ, that we're saved, but there'll be a loss

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of rewards. First Corinthians 315 mentions this. He says, if anyone's work is burned,

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he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as to fire. You're just barely

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getting in, man. Your hind parts is on fire. Listen, God love.

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loves us, right? But he has a plan for us and he requires obedience and he wants us to turn from

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those things that in our heart we know are wrong. And so often we just set our jaw and we won't do

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it. A lot of people in relationships where they're not married and they're just shocking.

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Man, what are you doing? Just get right with God. It's so simple.

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go down to the courthouse

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call me I'll do a shotgun wedding

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I've done them in my socks

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God is a covenant

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God and he loves that covenant

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people oh we're committed

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committed to what

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he's he's serious about

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these things. First Corinthians chapter four verse two. So it's moreover, it is required in

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stewards that one be found faithful. God just wants us to be faithful to him. Just like you're

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faithful to your spouse or you're faithful to your kids. Just be faithful. So simple. But not easy.

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Warren Wordsby says once a believer starts to think his master is not coming back,

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his life begins to deteriorate. Our relationship with others depends on our relationship with the Lord.

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I like this. So if we stop looking for him, we will stop loving his people. The motive for Christian

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life and service must be a desire to please the Lord and to be found faithful at his return.

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And when they came to Jesus and they wanted to know, Lord, what's the greatest commandment?

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And Jesus says, you know it.

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It's in your law.

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Love the Lord of God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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And love your neighbor as yourself.

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But when you get preoccupied with other things and you lose sight of that, then you don't do that.

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You don't love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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You don't love your neighbor as yourself.

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But if you focus on him coming again, we realize that time is short.

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and we have to take the opportunity to love one another.

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And I love the story of the old apostle John

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that in his latter years,

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they would help him up in front of the assembly of the people.

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he'd be up little children.

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You know, he's almost 100 years old.

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Love one another.

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And then he'd go sit down.

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That's all he would say.

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Love one another.

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Now, what does that mean?

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Just being Ui and Goui?

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No, you got to tell the truth.

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They'll trail the truth in love.

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Sometimes that stings.

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Because the truth is,

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is that many times we're denying the Lord

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by the way we're living our lives

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because we've lost sight of him

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coming.

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So the main point is that the Lord demands faithfulness.

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He punishes unfaithfulness.

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He rewards faithfulness.

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And so he's not going to be severe on what you don't know,

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but he will be severe on what you do know.

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and so if you're not faithful with what you know

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you're going to get a whooping

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right

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because what's he say there

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that he's going to

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let's see

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my Bible turned on me sorry

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golly

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a couple pages

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where he says

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and the sat servant who knew his master's will and did not prepare himself or do according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes.

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But he who did not know yet committed things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few.

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So the punishment is equal to the crime.

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And the thing about it is, is so many people do know so much about the Lord.

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That's what shocked me about teaching at a Christian school.

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Sometimes by the times those kids were six and seventh grade,

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what they knew was fascinating to me.

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Some of them could teach a Bible study.

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They knew that much about God's word.

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And then they're accountable for that.

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And then they've got to go through their turbulent teen years,

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knowing that and that conviction and that, you know,

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having to really harden their heart against the Lord

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because he's no doubt talking to him.

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That's why it's so important to put the word in these kids' hearts when they're young, right?

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Because the mountain gets a whole lot higher.

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And to get over the top and get to the place of decadence, they have to really work at it.

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And hopefully they get tired before then and throw their hands in the air.

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It took me until I was 23.

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And I threw my hands in the air.

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I said, okay, Lord, I've tried this life my way.

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From now on, it's yours.

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I'd had enough.

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Maybe you have to come to that place.

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Maybe today, have you had enough?

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You had enough of yourself and the world and the enemy just beating you up?

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Come to Jesus.

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Right?

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His joke is easy and his burden is light.

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Oh, it is good.

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Like the song said, it is good to sing praise the Lord.

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right you're just your soul is lifted up i read about it in the psalms this morning so then we have

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verses 49 through 53 and it says and it and he said this jesus said i came to send fire on the earth

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and how i wish it were already kindled but i have a baptism to be baptized with and how distressed i am

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till it is accomplished. Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all,

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but rather division. For from now on, five in one house will be divided, three against two and two

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against three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and

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daughter-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Well, that's a

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given. Just kidding. Sorry. But notice he says, I came to bring a fire, right? Some believe that this is,

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the Jews believe that fire was speaking of judgment, which others believed that it was, well,

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first of all, that it may be Jesus spoke, it was judgment to come upon the Jewish people for,

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because they had been following the law for decades,

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and then when Jesus comes along,

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the religious Jews just thought,

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no way, you're not our Messiah.

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You don't fit the bill.

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So some think that's what it's going to be.

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Others, on the other hand,

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think it may be the fire Jesus spoke of

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is the spread of the good news

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and the coming expansion of the work of his kingdom across the globe.

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Right?

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You've heard of people that get saved.

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That's in that kind of how we termed,

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the terminology we use, right?

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They're on fire.

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They're on fire for the Lord.

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The gospel has had that kind of an impact.

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The Great Awakening, the Azusa Revival, the Jesus movement.

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You would have to say that would be like a fire that came across the hearts of humanity.

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Thirdly, it may be that the fire Jesus spoke of is this, excuse me,

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that Jesus spoke of is, is, golly, I put that on there twice,

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was, is the power of the Holy Spirit in the church, that kind of fire.

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But then he also mentions baptism, right?

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He says, I wish this fire was already coming, but I have to go and be baptized first.

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And that's why many think that it was probably the speaking of the Holy Spirit in the

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the church and there were tongues of fire there at Pentecost.

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But the baptism that he's speaking of here, he says, but I have a baptism to be baptized with

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and now and how distressed I am till it is accomplished.

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Speaking of his journey to the cross.

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That it was serious.

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It was weighing heavy on his heart.

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We see him in the Garden of Gethseman.

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just weighted down, sweating drops of blood.

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And it was referred to when the two disciples wanted to sit at his left and right.

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You remember that, James and John, right?

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They said, we want to sit at your left hand and your right hand.

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And Jesus said, hey, are you willing to be baptized with a baptism that I'm going to be baptized with?

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Speaking of his death?

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They said, we are.

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they had no idea but they were and they did at least john or james did right but jesus answered

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to them do you not know what you ask you are are you able to drink the cup that i am about to drink

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and be baptized with the baptism that i am going to be baptized with they said yeah we're able

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just like yeah i could do that i don't think i'm that confident

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Maybe they didn't really know what he was talking about.

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But the division is probably the most painful is the last part there in verse 53 where the Lord says,

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Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother,

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mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-law against her mother-in-law, and daughter-law against her mother-in-law

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And it does seem, I was just talking to a brother just before service, it does seem like it's an epidemic that people are just at odds with their adult children.

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And it's just like, why?

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I mean, obviously, we as believers, we established what we believe with our family members, right?

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I remember doing this with my mom.

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I remember mom looking at me and my little brother thinking, you know, because we had checked her,

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but she was shacking up with the guy and was going, hey.

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And she's looking at me and him going, you little hypocrites, right?

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How dare you call me on this?

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Right?

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You're the biggest little sluts, right, that I know.

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And we had just gotten saved, right?

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And we were trying to correct her.

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But she immediately knew where we stood as believers,

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and she believed it was a fad that we were going through when we came to Jesus.

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right? She believed, oh, well, you guys will get over this. And she remarried was, I don't know,

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she got convicted or just wanted to shut us up or whatever. But she went ahead and got married

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for the fourth time. And we really never had too many issues after that. But I'm shocked at what

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people get wotted up about. And how they actually let that destroy.

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a family relationship especially.

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I know families, they haven't talked to each other in years.

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And it's like it's, no, that's wicked.

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That's not right.

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You can love people that you disagree with, right?

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I think we see that that's the same problem in the whole political realm.

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You know, one side just thinks the one's wrong.

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The other side wants the other's dead.

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Right?

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and that's the way it is in some family.

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There's such a hate, and you can't do that.

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As a Christian, you can't do that.

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You humble yourself.

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You reach out an olive branch of love to your loved ones,

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even if they spit in your face, and they will.

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In another place, Jesus says, no, children are going to have their parents put to death.

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That's the kind of hatred.

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that's going to rise up.

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That's demonic.

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Right?

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That's demonic.

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And I know families like this, and I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking,

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you're such punks, right?

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Would you just get over it?

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In fact, my message to kids is, cut your parents some slack for crying out loud.

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They're just fellow strugglers that have made terrible decisions.

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in their life maybe and oh i'm going to hold it against them and i ain't never forgiven them

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and i ain't talking to them and they're not going to see my kids wow that's that's pretty

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that's pretty evil that is evil and there's parents who just they browbeat their kids i was talking

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to a brother about it about his mom and she was just she's just been browbeat his

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his siblings, they're in the world.

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They know where she stands as a believer.

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And every time she's just hammered on them.

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No, let the Holy Spirit do that.

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Right?

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Don't hammer on them.

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They know where you stand, yet they know you don't agree with their lifestyle.

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Love them.

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Invite them over for dinner.

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Just let it go.

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Forgiveness is a, it's a staple in the Christian life.

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It's a staple.

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and when you're at odds with a family member, just love them.

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Let it go.

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Me and my older brother, man, we used to butt heads because he was in the gay lifestyle

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and he was trying to convince me, Scotty, I was born this way.

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I said, Randy, you were not.

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Right?

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You weren't no more born that way than I was born a drunk and a drug addict.

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Right?

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You made a decision.

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You chose to be this way.

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I chose to be this way.

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We both have to turn from that and go to Jesus.

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And I could have let that, but I could still, you know,

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we know we disagreed vehemently, if I even said that, right?

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I could still give, you know, hug him and give him a kiss and tell him I loved him.

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But totally disagreed with his lifestyle, right?

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but some people they just can't let stuff go and some of these people i know i'm thinking if i if anyone

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had a how to how to a gripe against their parents me and my siblings would have had right between

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the two of them seven marriages you know all kinds of crazy things we we went through his kids to

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and perversion and all kinds of stuff.

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We could blame them for that,

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but I just look, they were just,

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they were just in the world.

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I got to cut them some slack.

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Right?

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And I just, I love them.

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And praise God, both of them have realized

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what we realized much younger than them,

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that Jesus is the way, the truth in the life, right?

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But he's going to bring it, you guys.

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He brings this to your life.

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this division, this, this angst, because his spirit is contrary to the spirit that's in the world

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and the, in the world system.

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And to navigate it, it's going to have to be tempered by the grace and mercy and love of God.

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That's the only way to navigate it.

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I think there are times when, yeah, you have to stand your ground and, yeah, it might cost a relationship.

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and the Lord's saying that.

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He said, and when he called his disciples,

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they forsook all, right?

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They forsook all and followed him.

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That's a hard thing.

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Man, I don't want to be sideways with my family,

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but I have been,

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but I got to put it behind me.

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I got to walk in grace and mercy

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and let things go.

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go.

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So we must apply the truths to our own lives personally and walk in that.

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And he'll be with us and he'll help us.

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And even if all forsake us, he won't.

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He'll never leave us nor forsake us.

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And that is a great comfort.

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verse 54 through 59 and we'll wrap this up it says then he also said to the multitude

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whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west immediately you say a shower is coming and so it is

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and when you see the south wind blow and say there will be hot weather and there is hypocrites

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you can discern the face of the sky of the earth but how is it you do not discern this time

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yes and why even of yourselves do you not judge what is right when you go with your adversary to the magistrate

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make every effort along the way to settle with him lest he drag you to the judge and the judge deliver you

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to the officer and the officer throw you into prison i tell you you shall not depart from there till you

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have paid the very last might and here he's just encouraged humble yourself right just humble yourself

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Who do you got things against?

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You got things against people.

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You got things against God.

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Humble yourself.

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Because the handwriting's on the wall, so to speak.

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It's coming.

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Jesus is coming.

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Judgment is coming.

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And we need to be prepared for those things.

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He tells them, right?

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He tells them, you see a storm coming and you would prepare for it.

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If you knew an officer was coming to take you to court, we would go hire a lawyer and try to settle out of court.

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The storm of God's wrath is coming and the judge is already standing before the door.

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He's at the door.

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James 5.9 tells us this, do not grumble against one another, right?

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Don't grumble against each other.

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kids don't grumble against your parents parents don't grumble against your kids quit you're grumbling

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would you don't grumble against one another brethren lest you be condemned

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behold the judge is standing at the door that's what james says so the the the takeaways from this

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this passage today is we watch we wait and we work we watch we wait and we work we watch we wait

466
00:35:27,740 --> 00:35:28,280
we work.

467
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,840
Those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength, right?

468
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,560
They will mount up with wings like eagles,

469
00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:40,680
waiting on him, waiting on him to provide,

470
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,560
waiting on him to open doors,

471
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,980
trusting him, seeking him.

472
00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:46,240
That's waiting on the Lord.

473
00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:48,400
Watching.

474
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:51,820
Think about that.

475
00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:52,960
What are we watching?

476
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,600
Well, we got a war to watch right now.

477
00:35:55,060 --> 00:35:56,540
Have you been watching?

478
00:35:57,180 --> 00:35:58,080
You've been watching this war?

479
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:00,280
It's crazy.

480
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,780
No, I just shut it off.

481
00:36:03,380 --> 00:36:04,920
Now, I agree with that.

482
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,020
Shutting it off, but not to where you're just turning a blind eye.

483
00:36:08,130 --> 00:36:12,580
You need to pay attention on what's going on in the earth because there is a lot to watch.

484
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:13,600
Right?

485
00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:14,780
There's a lot.

486
00:36:15,220 --> 00:36:26,920
The Iranians showed their cards this week when they sent a intercontinental ballistic missile to Diego Garcia, 2,500 miles.

487
00:36:27,540 --> 00:36:33,740
was the range. And then they launched a cluster into Israel. That's almost a thousand miles.

488
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:40,020
So because they were, they were kind of whining and saying, oh, no, we don't have, we don't have the big missiles.

489
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:49,380
Yeah, they tried. No cigar, but they tried. And so, no telling what's going to happen.

490
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:56,980
The only way there's going to be a regime change is if there's boots on the ground. That's the only way that's

491
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:01,900
going to happen. Israel may do that. I know we're putting, sounds like we're putting a couple

492
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:08,260
thousand Marines on the island there where all their refineries are and stuff. And so that's

493
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:18,940
something to watch, folks. And we obviously, we always watch Israel. Right? Wednesday night,

494
00:37:19,740 --> 00:37:25,280
we have the Israel flag here, right? Not that I think Israel's all that in a bag of chips. I just

495
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:30,280
know that God's promise to Israel, those who bless, so I'm in the blessing category.

496
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,360
But this kid walked in, he goes, hey, you guys are church, huh?

497
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:35,700
I said, yeah.

498
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,560
He says, I grew up in California.

499
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,460
I was at Calvert Chapel.

500
00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,520
But now I'm Eastern Orthodox.

501
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,540
See, you got the Israeli flag.

502
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:45,180
You with Israel?

503
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,260
Yeah, we're with Israel.

504
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,820
You can choose your friends, but you're stuck with your family.

505
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:57,180
because the Bible says we're grafted in, right?

506
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:03,520
His take on it, he says, we are Israel, saying he's a Christian and that the church has replaced Israel.

507
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:04,220
No.

508
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:05,660
No.

509
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:06,200
No.

510
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:08,120
Right?

511
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:09,980
So you've got to watch these things.

512
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,500
And guys, listen, this is going to get less and less popular.

513
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,960
And our seats might get less and less full simply because we stand with Israel.

514
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:27,560
And I guess is I got to let the chips fall where they may.

515
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,300
I know in whom I believed.

516
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:34,860
And I believe that God's going to keep his promise.

517
00:38:35,540 --> 00:38:37,300
Now, talk about whoopens.

518
00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:41,720
This country is going to get a severe whoopin before it's all over.

519
00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:42,640
Right?

520
00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:45,980
And the thing about it is, is the U.S. is kind of in bed with Israel.

521
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:47,520
So we might get one too.

522
00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:50,320
So just brace ourselves for that.

523
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:51,900
and watch.

524
00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:53,560
And if we get a whoopin,

525
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,720
smile, bend over and grab your ankles and take it.

526
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,040
What can I say?

527
00:39:10,060 --> 00:39:11,780
I actually got really good at that as a kid.

528
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,180
I had to bend over and grab my ankles a lot.

529
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,340
Wooden rods, horse bats, you name it.

530
00:39:19,820 --> 00:39:21,140
I got lit up a lot.

531
00:39:22,340 --> 00:39:25,440
Something else that was pretty fascinating this last week, you guys.

532
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,520
It was from a news outlet called the Middle East Forum.

533
00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:36,500
And it's talking about Sudan and the union with Sudan and Iran.

534
00:39:37,340 --> 00:39:40,820
Well, Sudan is mentioned in Ezekiel 38, right?

535
00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:46,320
Sudan, Libya, Turkey, Iran.

536
00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:47,780
They're all in there.

537
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:57,840
And this is what the headline was the Iranian Brotherhood Nexus and the global threat to energy security.

538
00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:00,360
That's what the headline to the article.

539
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,200
This is just a little excerpt from it.

540
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:07,960
It says the United States designation of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood,

541
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:13,380
together with its armed wing, the Barabin Malik Brigade,

542
00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:18,380
as a global terrorist organization, is no bureaucratic.

543
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:26,220
footnote announced March 9th, 2026, an effective March 16th. The move formally recognizes a

544
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:36,340
fully operational Sunni-Shiah fusion that has turned Sudan into Tehran's most dangerous

545
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:43,140
forward operating base. This designation completes a cascade that began in January

546
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,360
26 terrorist listings of Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Georgia.

547
00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:57,800
in Lebanon. And so it's like the whole coalition that it talks about in Ezekiel 38 is slowly coming

548
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:04,040
together. Turkey's in that group. Syria's in that group. Libya's in that group. Libya is actually

549
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:14,200
mentioned in this article. Are you watching? Watch. Watch these things. Right? I've been faithfully

550
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,120
watching a guy named Don Stewart.

551
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,180
Blue Letter Bible guy.

552
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:20,500
It's pretty solid.

553
00:41:21,060 --> 00:41:22,320
He's not going to lead you astray.

554
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:29,220
But he takes what the outlets are saying and parallels it with what God's word says.

555
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,800
And he's got free downloads.

556
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,440
That's one way you know he's pretty legit.

557
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:34,240
It's all free.

558
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:39,260
25 signs that we're close to the end is really good.

559
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,980
But I'm watching like I never have in my life.

560
00:41:45,220 --> 00:41:45,780
And that's good.

561
00:41:47,980 --> 00:41:51,100
because I'm more apt to love my brothers and sisters if I'm watching.

562
00:41:55,860 --> 00:41:57,320
Now, this is a big one, Billy Crone.

563
00:41:57,420 --> 00:41:59,280
Somebody had mentioned it to me, so I checked it out.

564
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,880
Billy Crone's been talking about an organization called the Club of Rome.

565
00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:04,800
Who's heard of it?

566
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:06,240
The Club of Rome.

567
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,540
Pretty fascinating stuff, right?

568
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:20,800
And so the Club of Rome, it's there, its mission is to build effective momentum towards well-being,

569
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:28,140
listen to this, for all on a healthy planet to make sense of the evolution of human societies,

570
00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:37,540
paving positive future pathways, inspiring processes of collective learning and influencing decision-making.

571
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:48,540
right now now what this group did when they were established in 1968 they broke the world up into 10 regions

572
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:59,400
10 regions uh some believe 10 financial regions which would agree with what the scripture says

573
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:09,000
in revelation 17 verses 12 and 13 it says and the 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no kingdom as yet

574
00:43:09,020 --> 00:43:13,180
but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

575
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:18,020
These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

576
00:43:18,940 --> 00:43:19,120
Right.

577
00:43:19,350 --> 00:43:29,940
And so the UN actually has kind of embraced some of this club of Rome ideas of the whole 10 region around the world,

578
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,580
and they say we have people who would rule over it.

579
00:43:34,860 --> 00:43:36,120
That would be 10 kings.

580
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,840
These are things that we need to be watching.

581
00:43:39,990 --> 00:43:41,400
You can check it out, right?

582
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:43,860
You can Google the Club of Rome.

583
00:43:45,859 --> 00:43:50,780
And it's almost like it parallels the World Economic Forum, right?

584
00:43:51,340 --> 00:43:54,360
And so some pretty fascinating stuff.

585
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:00,260
So it's worth watching.

586
00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:01,900
It's exciting.

587
00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:06,140
We live in the most exciting time in human history.

588
00:44:08,819 --> 00:44:10,540
and the Lord, he's going to come.

589
00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:13,260
And some will say, well, what's the work?

590
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,880
The work is looking for opportunity to share Jesus.

591
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:18,440
That's the work.

592
00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:22,380
That's why I went over and mined copper out of the building this last week.

593
00:44:22,780 --> 00:44:26,060
There's a bunch of old refrigeration stuff in there.

594
00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:26,940
It has copper in it.

595
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,200
So I went over there and worked most of the week and got a couple big buckets of copper

596
00:44:31,959 --> 00:44:35,420
and put them in the petty cash in the church office.

597
00:44:36,180 --> 00:45:04,040
why am I work? Why would I do? And I got filthy. I mean filthy. I had my burgers were black. It was just nasty in there. And I'm going, why am I working? I'm working because we're trying to create a place where people can come and hear about Jesus. Right? That's why we work. That's what we're working towards. Because is there anything better? I haven't found anything. I tried a lot of stuff in my day.

598
00:45:05,460 --> 00:45:07,100
And there ain't nothing like Jesus, folks.

599
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:09,140
There ain't nothing like Jesus.

600
00:45:09,980 --> 00:45:10,860
And he's coming again.

601
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,100
May we prepare ourselves.

602
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:13,140
May we watch.

603
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,940
May we wait and may we work till he comes.

604
00:45:16,060 --> 00:45:16,380
Let's pray.

605
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:17,240
Let's stand, shall we?

606
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,140
Father, thank you for today.

607
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:24,180
Thank you for, Lord, just encouraging us in your word, Lord, that we, yeah, we blow it.

608
00:45:25,340 --> 00:45:26,840
Lord, we get sideways with each other.

609
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:27,820
Would you forgive us?

610
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:34,200
Would you keep our heart soft, Lord, as we come to you in humility, Lord, and seek your forgiveness, Lord.

611
00:45:34,220 --> 00:45:41,020
and you tell us that's how we get right with you, Lord, that we confess our sin and your faithful

612
00:45:41,140 --> 00:45:46,340
unjust to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

613
00:45:47,340 --> 00:45:48,900
Lord, it's so, so simple.

614
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:52,400
And I just pray for anyone, maybe right now they need to do that.

615
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,220
And right where you're standing, if you've never just humbled yourself before the Lord,

616
00:45:57,220 --> 00:46:02,320
or maybe it's been a while, just humble yourself before the Lord and pray a simple prayer.

617
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,380
I'll just lead you in it right now saying, oh Lord, I've been away from you.

618
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:09,280
Draw me close.

619
00:46:10,580 --> 00:46:11,520
Forgive me of my sin.

620
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:13,820
Take away my bitterness.

621
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,580
Help me walk in the newness of life.

622
00:46:17,620 --> 00:46:20,580
I believe that you died for me and that you rose again from the dead.

623
00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:22,580
Fill me with your spirit.

624
00:46:23,260 --> 00:46:23,980
In Jesus' name.

625
00:46:24,980 --> 00:46:25,200
Amen.

626
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:25,880
Amen.