1 00:00:30,819 --> 00:00:33,279 We would call it the historic Baptist faith. 2 00:00:33,779 --> 00:00:37,439 And it's Bible faith, by the way, Bible truth. 3 00:00:37,779 --> 00:00:41,919 And so it's the collection of those teachings. 4 00:00:42,339 --> 00:00:45,948 Our series theme verse is 2nd Timothy 2. 5 00:00:46,037 --> 00:00:46,439 2. 6 00:00:46,899 --> 00:00:52,479 Paul said, the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses. 7 00:00:52,979 --> 00:00:55,627 The same, not different. 8 00:00:55,763 --> 00:00:56,793 Don't change it. 9 00:00:56,891 --> 00:01:01,613 The same things that I learned, that I have taught you. 10 00:01:01,701 --> 00:01:05,901 Those things commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to 11 00:01:05,925 --> 00:01:07,209 teach others also. 12 00:01:07,749 --> 00:01:11,709 And so we put together some other verses, and we make sure we 13 00:01:11,749 --> 00:01:17,969 understand and know that churches have been given the responsibility 14 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:24,675 of caretaking the truths of the Bible, making sure we stay true 15 00:01:24,707 --> 00:01:29,827 to the word of God, not to tradition, not to man's words, but 16 00:01:29,883 --> 00:01:30,691 to God's word. 17 00:01:30,755 --> 00:01:32,959 First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 14. 18 00:01:34,699 --> 00:01:38,835 Paul says to Timothy, these things write, I unto thee, hoping 19 00:01:38,867 --> 00:01:43,171 to come unto thee shortly, but if I tarry long, that thou mayest 20 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:48,035 know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God. 21 00:01:48,147 --> 00:01:49,807 We could spend a little time there. 22 00:01:49,963 --> 00:01:52,999 You know, how are we to conduct ourselves? 23 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:56,059 How are you to conduct yourselves in the house of God? 24 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:00,727 And then he says these wonderful things. 25 00:02:00,863 --> 00:02:03,543 The pillar and ground of the truth. 26 00:02:03,591 --> 00:02:04,823 What's the pillar and ground of the truth? 27 00:02:04,871 --> 00:02:10,071 The church is to be the pillar and ground of the truth again, the 28 00:02:10,095 --> 00:02:17,869 caretaker of the truths of the Word of God and not allow winds to 29 00:02:17,909 --> 00:02:22,573 blow us around doctrinally and have us change our minds, you know, 30 00:02:22,661 --> 00:02:26,541 not to bow to political correctness, you know, every little 31 00:02:26,645 --> 00:02:31,245 whim that comes along, but to stand true to the truths of the word 32 00:02:31,277 --> 00:02:31,693 of God. 33 00:02:31,741 --> 00:02:32,493 We talked about. 34 00:02:32,581 --> 00:02:37,565 It's not just about some churches use the terms core beliefs 35 00:02:37,597 --> 00:02:40,723 or they use the word essential beliefs. 36 00:02:40,901 --> 00:02:44,055 I understand what they're saying, and I believe in the fundamentals 37 00:02:44,087 --> 00:02:44,903 of the faith. 38 00:02:45,031 --> 00:02:45,655 Absolutely. 39 00:02:45,687 --> 00:02:46,439 We believe there are. 40 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:50,215 I gave you the illustration last Wednesday about how an internal 41 00:02:50,247 --> 00:02:51,207 combustion engine works. 42 00:02:51,223 --> 00:02:55,031 And you've got to have fire and you got to have oxygen, and you 43 00:02:55,055 --> 00:02:58,999 got to have something, you know, explosive to make it go forward. 44 00:02:59,119 --> 00:03:09,969 Gasoline, diesel, kerosene, you know, Oklahoma water, because 45 00:03:10,009 --> 00:03:11,109 it's toxic. 46 00:03:12,409 --> 00:03:13,669 I'm just kidding. 47 00:03:14,809 --> 00:03:17,505 So there's some essentials to making a motor work, and there's 48 00:03:17,537 --> 00:03:22,705 essentials to the Bible as far as when it comes to salvation, there's 49 00:03:22,737 --> 00:03:24,589 essentials that you have to believe. 50 00:03:25,289 --> 00:03:28,465 But when it comes to the Bible, all Bible doctrine, all teachings 51 00:03:28,497 --> 00:03:30,465 of the Bible are essential. 52 00:03:30,657 --> 00:03:31,489 There's not. 53 00:03:31,609 --> 00:03:34,861 In other words, we don't say, well, yeah, that doctrine. 54 00:03:34,925 --> 00:03:37,849 The Bible teaches that, and the Bible teaches that. 55 00:03:38,229 --> 00:03:39,021 But you know what? 56 00:03:39,045 --> 00:03:39,821 I can. 57 00:03:40,005 --> 00:03:44,925 I can back off on what the Bible Says because I want to be, 58 00:03:44,997 --> 00:03:50,653 I want to be friends with my fellow Christian of the Protestant 59 00:03:50,701 --> 00:03:51,981 persuasion or whatever. 60 00:03:52,045 --> 00:03:55,661 I want to lock hands with every church in the metroplex and 61 00:03:55,765 --> 00:04:03,919 sing Kumbaya and gather around the fire, I don't know, roast marshmallows. 62 00:04:04,739 --> 00:04:06,219 But the Bible says differently. 63 00:04:06,299 --> 00:04:07,419 We're not to do that. 64 00:04:07,539 --> 00:04:10,763 We're not to compromise our doctrine. 65 00:04:10,811 --> 00:04:12,603 We're not to compromise Bible doctrine. 66 00:04:12,651 --> 00:04:15,435 We're not to again be cared about way over with the doctrine. 67 00:04:15,467 --> 00:04:20,507 We're not just, we're to be steadfast again. 68 00:04:20,563 --> 00:04:23,627 We're to be strong, you know, quit. 69 00:04:23,643 --> 00:04:27,803 You like man to never allow things to slip. 70 00:04:27,851 --> 00:04:31,459 Paul said, you're letting things slip, don't let things slip. 71 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:35,983 And we see that today so much among churches, especially when it 72 00:04:35,991 --> 00:04:39,855 comes to morality of just slipping, just saying, well, it's 73 00:04:39,887 --> 00:04:42,063 just, we just ought to love everybody. 74 00:04:42,111 --> 00:04:43,855 And that's true, we ought to love everybody. 75 00:04:43,887 --> 00:04:49,151 But we don't condone sinful immorality and neither did we put 76 00:04:49,175 --> 00:04:49,871 up with it. 77 00:04:49,975 --> 00:04:52,175 And so that's what we're saying. 78 00:04:52,247 --> 00:04:55,609 It's these collections of truth and that the church is responsible 79 00:04:55,719 --> 00:05:00,293 for being a caretaker of the Bible truths and that we ought to 80 00:05:00,381 --> 00:05:04,789 again, the church is, ought to be the pillar and crown of the truth. 81 00:05:04,949 --> 00:05:06,597 All right, Bible truth. 82 00:05:06,773 --> 00:05:10,325 Let's look in here tonight at these wonderful, wonderful truths. 83 00:05:10,357 --> 00:05:11,413 I'm not going to review tonight. 84 00:05:11,461 --> 00:05:13,461 We're going to just go to number six. 85 00:05:13,645 --> 00:05:19,877 Number six tonight as we are continuing our this particular lesson 86 00:05:19,893 --> 00:05:20,693 on the church. 87 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,271 So, so we did the church last Wednesday night. 88 00:05:22,295 --> 00:05:23,055 We did the church tonight. 89 00:05:23,087 --> 00:05:24,511 We do it one more Wednesday night. 90 00:05:24,615 --> 00:05:27,295 We're going to give this one three because it's such an important 91 00:05:27,367 --> 00:05:30,271 subject and one that's misunderstood and really what's going 92 00:05:30,295 --> 00:05:33,487 on in the news right now, I hope tonight to help you understand 93 00:05:33,543 --> 00:05:36,659 a little bit what's going on when it comes to the Catholic Church. 94 00:05:36,999 --> 00:05:40,255 All right, so there is one kind, so number six of the Baptist 95 00:05:40,287 --> 00:05:45,615 distinctives in our series of lessons is there is one kind of biblical 96 00:05:45,647 --> 00:05:48,749 church and that is local and visible only. 97 00:05:49,689 --> 00:05:51,549 Local and visible only. 98 00:05:52,089 --> 00:05:59,889 Alright, so there are a large majority of Protestant churches that 99 00:05:59,929 --> 00:06:03,281 believe that if you know that all the saved are part of the body 100 00:06:03,305 --> 00:06:05,829 of Christ and we'll cover that here in a minute. 101 00:06:06,409 --> 00:06:11,969 But if all the saved are the church, the church, if all the saved 102 00:06:12,129 --> 00:06:15,927 are quote unquote, the church, all the differences in beliefs would 103 00:06:16,063 --> 00:06:17,111 be a very poor. 104 00:06:17,175 --> 00:06:20,183 The church would be a very poor pillar and ground of the truth. 105 00:06:20,311 --> 00:06:20,951 Think about it. 106 00:06:20,975 --> 00:06:25,719 If all the saved are the church and all the differences in 107 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:30,631 beliefs, then that would sure make the church a poor place to be 108 00:06:30,655 --> 00:06:32,299 the pillar and ground of truth. 109 00:06:32,799 --> 00:06:35,495 If you got the Methodists believe in one thing and the Lutherans 110 00:06:35,527 --> 00:06:38,231 believe in one thing and the Baptists believe in one thing, and 111 00:06:38,255 --> 00:06:40,179 then individuals and all these things. 112 00:06:40,649 --> 00:06:43,589 And so what is the church? 113 00:06:43,929 --> 00:06:46,033 Well, is it a universal, invisible church? 114 00:06:46,081 --> 00:06:48,177 Is it made up of all the saved? 115 00:06:48,353 --> 00:06:51,281 Well, that's again a Protestant belief. 116 00:06:51,425 --> 00:06:55,921 And some Baptists now believe that, that when you get saved that 117 00:06:55,945 --> 00:06:58,897 you are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ. 118 00:06:58,953 --> 00:07:01,073 And that body of Christ is all the saved. 119 00:07:01,121 --> 00:07:02,069 That's the church. 120 00:07:02,409 --> 00:07:05,425 And I'm telling you tonight, that's not what the Bible teaches. 121 00:07:05,617 --> 00:07:07,149 It doesn't teach that. 122 00:07:08,979 --> 00:07:10,779 That and it will explain why. 123 00:07:10,819 --> 00:07:11,999 What is the church? 124 00:07:12,499 --> 00:07:14,043 I know this is one of my hobby horses. 125 00:07:14,091 --> 00:07:14,999 Some of you do. 126 00:07:15,459 --> 00:07:16,603 Because it's so important. 127 00:07:16,691 --> 00:07:17,999 What is the church? 128 00:07:18,419 --> 00:07:19,243 What is the church? 129 00:07:19,291 --> 00:07:23,851 Well, the Bible definition of the church comes from the word ekklesia. 130 00:07:23,915 --> 00:07:24,139 Right? 131 00:07:24,179 --> 00:07:25,803 Ecclesia is the Greek word. 132 00:07:25,931 --> 00:07:28,971 It means an assembly, a called out assembly. 133 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,451 It's the Greek word they would use when they were going to have 134 00:07:31,475 --> 00:07:34,927 a, I'll use the word city council meeting in town. 135 00:07:35,123 --> 00:07:36,583 They were going to have an ecclesia. 136 00:07:36,631 --> 00:07:39,659 They're going to have an assembly at city hall. 137 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:41,819 And so that's the Greek word. 138 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:46,135 When the translators translated from the Greek into English, 139 00:07:46,327 --> 00:07:49,687 ekklesia is the word they translated to church, because that's 140 00:07:49,703 --> 00:07:53,735 the proper translation, ecclesia, a called out assembly. 141 00:07:53,847 --> 00:07:59,159 So if ecclesia means a called out assembly, and then Jesus says, 142 00:07:59,279 --> 00:08:03,101 I will build my church, he calls it my church, then what does 143 00:08:03,125 --> 00:08:03,849 that mean? 144 00:08:04,389 --> 00:08:08,621 So the biblical definition would be a called out assembly of 145 00:08:08,725 --> 00:08:12,461 baptized believers fulfilling Christ's commands, especially when 146 00:08:12,485 --> 00:08:13,769 it comes to the Great Commission. 147 00:08:14,149 --> 00:08:16,733 So it's a called out assembly, a born again baptized believers. 148 00:08:16,781 --> 00:08:19,117 Actually saying born again baptized and then saying believers, 149 00:08:19,133 --> 00:08:20,125 that's double. 150 00:08:20,317 --> 00:08:21,149 Double do it there. 151 00:08:21,189 --> 00:08:21,501 You know what? 152 00:08:21,525 --> 00:08:25,517 It probably needs a double born again baptized believers fulfilling 153 00:08:25,533 --> 00:08:26,285 the Great Commission. 154 00:08:26,357 --> 00:08:26,893 That's the purpose. 155 00:08:26,941 --> 00:08:29,213 And I gave you the hula hoop illustration last Wednesday night. 156 00:08:29,301 --> 00:08:30,573 We won't go through that again. 157 00:08:30,741 --> 00:08:36,013 Kevin Davis apparently listened online and he, him, Michelle 158 00:08:36,061 --> 00:08:41,421 decided that Kevin Davis Hula hooping would be awesome if we had 159 00:08:41,445 --> 00:08:45,069 the pastor do at the same time and see if that would work or not. 160 00:08:45,189 --> 00:08:48,461 But again, if, if a tire company, as Kevin, I'm going to still 161 00:08:48,485 --> 00:08:51,469 give you the illustration as the tire company can put, you know, 162 00:08:51,509 --> 00:08:54,221 Goodyear Tire Company out front, put the on the sign, you know, 163 00:08:54,245 --> 00:08:56,439 Calzer tire, Goodyear Tire Co. 164 00:08:56,589 --> 00:08:58,355 BF, Goodrich, Hankook. 165 00:08:58,467 --> 00:09:01,219 But you go inside and all you see is hula hoops. 166 00:09:01,299 --> 00:09:04,039 And all he wants to sell you is hula hoops. 167 00:09:04,379 --> 00:09:07,603 He is no longer a tire store, he's a hula hoop store. 168 00:09:07,731 --> 00:09:13,299 And he can put on his sign out front, cows or Tire, Goodyear Tire. 169 00:09:13,459 --> 00:09:17,747 But the sign is meaningless because the purpose of his business 170 00:09:17,803 --> 00:09:21,475 is no longer selling tires, it's selling hula hoops. 171 00:09:21,587 --> 00:09:24,851 And a church can put a church sign out in front of any building, 172 00:09:25,035 --> 00:09:29,123 or an organization could put a church sign out in front of any building. 173 00:09:29,211 --> 00:09:33,411 But if they're not fulfilling the purpose and the definition of 174 00:09:33,435 --> 00:09:35,683 the biblical church, they're not a church. 175 00:09:35,811 --> 00:09:38,755 They're a country club, or they're just a fellowship or whatever 176 00:09:38,787 --> 00:09:40,199 they are, they're not a church. 177 00:09:40,859 --> 00:09:44,035 If they're not trying to give the gospel out, and that's not their 178 00:09:44,107 --> 00:09:47,811 primary purpose, to give the gospel, to share the gospel, then 179 00:09:47,835 --> 00:09:49,091 by Bible definition. 180 00:09:49,155 --> 00:09:51,771 I'm not talking about my definition or some of the. 181 00:09:51,795 --> 00:09:54,699 I'm talking about, by Bible definition, they're technically not 182 00:09:54,739 --> 00:09:55,519 a church. 183 00:09:56,979 --> 00:10:01,099 So we see again, the assembly. 184 00:10:01,179 --> 00:10:04,715 It says an assembly of born again baptized believers. 185 00:10:04,827 --> 00:10:10,987 An assembly, by its definition of the word assembly, has to be local 186 00:10:11,123 --> 00:10:12,411 and it has to be visible. 187 00:10:12,475 --> 00:10:16,011 You can't see a universal invisible assembly. 188 00:10:16,155 --> 00:10:17,629 That's a whole nother thought. 189 00:10:17,669 --> 00:10:19,133 I'll cover that some more in a minute. 190 00:10:19,261 --> 00:10:22,893 In the book of Ephesians, Paul uses three analogies to illustrate 191 00:10:22,941 --> 00:10:27,901 for us what the church is and how the church functions. 192 00:10:27,965 --> 00:10:32,845 He uses the analogy of the body, the human body as it works 193 00:10:32,877 --> 00:10:33,449 together. 194 00:10:33,749 --> 00:10:36,525 You know, the brain tells the body what to do. 195 00:10:36,677 --> 00:10:39,917 You know, the arm doesn't tell the body what to do, the brain tells 196 00:10:39,933 --> 00:10:40,701 the body what to do. 197 00:10:40,725 --> 00:10:41,933 The arm can't. 198 00:10:42,061 --> 00:10:43,933 Only can do what the brain tells it to. 199 00:10:44,021 --> 00:10:48,069 My arm can't, you know, commit mutiny. 200 00:10:48,569 --> 00:10:51,569 You know, if I tell it to move my body, my mind tells it. 201 00:10:51,609 --> 00:10:53,069 It has to move, right? 202 00:10:54,169 --> 00:10:56,337 It can't, it can't commit. 203 00:10:56,433 --> 00:10:57,505 Nobody thought that was funny. 204 00:10:57,537 --> 00:10:58,417 I thought it was funny. 205 00:10:58,513 --> 00:11:03,869 It can't, can't, you know, it can't attack me. 206 00:11:05,449 --> 00:11:07,269 My wife would like that sometimes. 207 00:11:10,169 --> 00:11:11,271 No, no. 208 00:11:11,295 --> 00:11:12,819 The body functions together. 209 00:11:14,159 --> 00:11:15,463 And when one member hurts. 210 00:11:15,511 --> 00:11:16,375 We'll cover that in a moment. 211 00:11:16,407 --> 00:11:18,999 But when one member hurts another, you know, my toe hurts, 212 00:11:19,079 --> 00:11:21,303 it affects the rest of my body and so forth. 213 00:11:21,431 --> 00:11:22,819 The body, the building. 214 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,111 It speaks about the building being fitly framed together, how 215 00:11:27,135 --> 00:11:28,899 a building is put together. 216 00:11:29,359 --> 00:11:35,911 You know, you got to have the lumber and the nails and on and on 217 00:11:35,935 --> 00:11:36,231 and on. 218 00:11:36,255 --> 00:11:39,509 All the materials together, sheetrock and go through the list 219 00:11:39,629 --> 00:11:44,789 and all that is assembled together to create a building and 220 00:11:44,829 --> 00:11:47,685 then the bride, the bride. 221 00:11:47,877 --> 00:11:51,209 How many of y'all would like to marry a universal, invisible bride? 222 00:11:53,949 --> 00:11:57,237 No, I mean, when Paul's given that analogy, he's thinking about 223 00:11:57,373 --> 00:12:04,259 a bride and a groom together, married, visible. 224 00:12:04,599 --> 00:12:06,911 I know Brother Stewart used to always talk about, you know, how 225 00:12:06,935 --> 00:12:07,167 would. 226 00:12:07,223 --> 00:12:11,135 If you had a picture of your future bride and you just showed 227 00:12:11,167 --> 00:12:14,831 up on the wedding day with a picture of her and you stood in front 228 00:12:14,855 --> 00:12:16,703 of the preacher and you married the picture, Is that what 229 00:12:16,711 --> 00:12:17,659 you want to do? 230 00:12:19,079 --> 00:12:20,159 No, no, no. 231 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:27,979 I want her to be visible and I want her to be there and in that 232 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:29,039 capacities. 233 00:12:29,119 --> 00:12:30,157 All right, so. 234 00:12:30,303 --> 00:12:32,097 And we'll cover this a little more in a moment. 235 00:12:32,193 --> 00:12:41,989 But again, the Catholic belief is that of a universal, visible church. 236 00:12:42,809 --> 00:12:47,429 All right, so the Catholics believe in a universal, visible church. 237 00:12:47,929 --> 00:12:52,209 Most nearly every, all Protestants and some Baptists believe 238 00:12:52,249 --> 00:12:54,549 in a universal, invisible church. 239 00:12:55,369 --> 00:12:59,289 All right, and so what was the first church? 240 00:12:59,449 --> 00:13:01,177 When did the first church begin? 241 00:13:01,353 --> 00:13:02,697 In Matthew 16:18. 242 00:13:02,753 --> 00:13:04,793 Most of you know this verse, Matthew 16:18. 243 00:13:04,881 --> 00:13:09,929 Jesus said to Peter, thou art Peter upon this rock. 244 00:13:10,089 --> 00:13:11,689 I will build my church. 245 00:13:11,849 --> 00:13:12,521 How do we know? 246 00:13:12,545 --> 00:13:18,153 He was basically pointing to Peter, thou art Peter upon this rock. 247 00:13:18,201 --> 00:13:19,705 He's talking about himself. 248 00:13:19,897 --> 00:13:21,193 I will build my church. 249 00:13:21,241 --> 00:13:25,013 Well, we know that because the Greek, the Greek says, thou art Peter, 250 00:13:25,061 --> 00:13:29,109 a little stone, and upon this rock a big boulder. 251 00:13:29,269 --> 00:13:30,809 I will build my church. 252 00:13:31,149 --> 00:13:36,341 He never ever essentially gave Peter as the key to the kingdom. 253 00:13:36,405 --> 00:13:40,009 No, he gave the key to the kingdom, to the churches, to church, 254 00:13:40,349 --> 00:13:41,125 not to Peter. 255 00:13:41,157 --> 00:13:43,717 Peter's not going to be at the pearly gates when you get there. 256 00:13:43,853 --> 00:13:45,301 He's not going to be there. 257 00:13:45,405 --> 00:13:47,205 He's not going to have the key in his hand. 258 00:13:47,357 --> 00:13:51,207 I know that's good imagery and it makes for a good song, but he's 259 00:13:51,223 --> 00:13:52,259 not going to be there. 260 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:55,127 All right, just so I know I let some of you down. 261 00:13:55,263 --> 00:13:58,903 I'm sorry, we're in the Bibles that say Peter's going to be at the 262 00:13:58,911 --> 00:13:59,895 pearly gates. 263 00:14:00,087 --> 00:14:01,859 It makes for a good joke, though. 264 00:14:02,319 --> 00:14:03,431 Peter stands at the pearly. 265 00:14:03,495 --> 00:14:04,247 I don't know any jokes. 266 00:14:04,263 --> 00:14:05,219 I can't tell it. 267 00:14:07,599 --> 00:14:09,671 So who will build the church? 268 00:14:09,735 --> 00:14:11,559 Jesus said, I will build the church. 269 00:14:11,719 --> 00:14:17,591 And it is Christ Jesus who built the church while he was here 270 00:14:17,615 --> 00:14:18,359 on earth. 271 00:14:18,519 --> 00:14:21,271 He used the materials that John the Baptist gathered together. 272 00:14:21,375 --> 00:14:24,407 John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus Christ. 273 00:14:24,463 --> 00:14:31,063 He laid the foundation and the materials for Jesus to lay the foundation 274 00:14:31,111 --> 00:14:33,419 and to build the church. 275 00:14:34,079 --> 00:14:40,487 Alright, so again, using the Bible definition, was there a Place? 276 00:14:40,623 --> 00:14:44,801 Or was the church in place before the day of Pentecost? 277 00:14:44,865 --> 00:14:48,349 Was the church in place before Acts chapter two? 278 00:14:48,649 --> 00:14:51,265 And I know some of you say, well, this is meaningless. 279 00:14:51,297 --> 00:14:52,001 Stay with me. 280 00:14:52,105 --> 00:14:53,601 We'll give you some application. 281 00:14:53,745 --> 00:14:55,969 But it is important that you believe and understand. 282 00:14:56,089 --> 00:14:58,145 The church did not begin on the day of Pentecost. 283 00:14:58,177 --> 00:14:59,393 It did not begin in Acts chapter 2. 284 00:14:59,401 --> 00:15:01,025 There's no birthday candles there. 285 00:15:01,177 --> 00:15:03,749 Jesus Christ began the church in the Gospels. 286 00:15:04,089 --> 00:15:05,457 He started the church. 287 00:15:05,553 --> 00:15:07,505 The church did not begin on the day of Pentecost. 288 00:15:07,537 --> 00:15:12,035 The church was empowered on the day of Pentecost, but did not 289 00:15:12,107 --> 00:15:13,795 start on the day of Pentecost. 290 00:15:13,827 --> 00:15:14,595 How do we know this? 291 00:15:14,667 --> 00:15:15,699 Well, Acts chapter one. 292 00:15:15,739 --> 00:15:22,419 We see the disciples were evangelizing, seeing people get saved. 293 00:15:22,499 --> 00:15:25,827 They were baptizing and they were companied together. 294 00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:27,251 They were assembled together. 295 00:15:27,355 --> 00:15:28,899 That's in Acts chapter one. 296 00:15:29,019 --> 00:15:30,819 We're kind of going to work our way back. 297 00:15:30,939 --> 00:15:35,603 Matthew 26:31 speaks about Christ being the pastor. 298 00:15:35,651 --> 00:15:37,567 He was the pastor of the first church. 299 00:15:37,763 --> 00:15:43,271 And then Luke chapter 6, verse 13, we had 12 officers designated 300 00:15:43,335 --> 00:15:47,495 as apostles, overseers of that assembly. 301 00:15:47,687 --> 00:15:51,479 And I do want to read this one for you because I love reading it 302 00:15:51,599 --> 00:15:54,599 because you cannot get around this verse at all. 303 00:15:54,639 --> 00:15:56,259 First Corinthians, chapter 12. 304 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:01,143 So in Luke chapter 6, what happened in Luke chapter 6, he chose 305 00:16:01,191 --> 00:16:06,289 out of them, Jesus chose out of his disciples Those men, those 306 00:16:06,329 --> 00:16:08,129 12 apostles, right? 307 00:16:08,169 --> 00:16:11,585 He chose out of them of the disciples. 308 00:16:11,697 --> 00:16:13,873 He chose 12 apostles. 309 00:16:13,921 --> 00:16:14,705 I'm in my. 310 00:16:14,777 --> 00:16:18,849 Still do not have a hard time getting in my New Bible. 311 00:16:18,929 --> 00:16:24,749 And First Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 28. 312 00:16:27,289 --> 00:16:34,011 I'll look back at verse 25, that there should be no schism in 313 00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:34,619 the body. 314 00:16:34,739 --> 00:16:38,459 So we see Paul using the analogy of the church as a body, 315 00:16:38,579 --> 00:16:41,995 but that the members should have the same care, one for another. 316 00:16:42,147 --> 00:16:46,011 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. 317 00:16:46,115 --> 00:16:50,459 Or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. 318 00:16:50,579 --> 00:16:55,919 Now ye are the body of Christ speaking to the Corinthian Church. 319 00:16:56,579 --> 00:17:00,999 The Corinthian Church is the body of Christ and members in particular. 320 00:17:01,379 --> 00:17:01,963 And God. 321 00:17:02,011 --> 00:17:02,907 Look, verse 28. 322 00:17:02,963 --> 00:17:05,275 And God has set some in the church. 323 00:17:05,387 --> 00:17:06,363 Listen to this. 324 00:17:06,531 --> 00:17:07,999 First apostles. 325 00:17:08,979 --> 00:17:13,227 Well, how can he set something in something that doesn't exist? 326 00:17:13,403 --> 00:17:18,079 In Luke chapter six, he places them into the assembly. 327 00:17:18,419 --> 00:17:19,547 He chooses them. 328 00:17:19,603 --> 00:17:20,475 He chooses them. 329 00:17:20,547 --> 00:17:23,843 He chose them and he placed them in the assembly. 330 00:17:23,971 --> 00:17:28,227 So the church was in existence in Luke chapter six already because 331 00:17:28,283 --> 00:17:30,051 he placed them in the church first. 332 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:31,219 Everybody see that one? 333 00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:36,371 I mean, that verse, it's hard to get around very, very Very clear. 334 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:39,427 And then so many other verses. 335 00:17:39,523 --> 00:17:47,011 But again, In John chapter 4, Jesus authorizes the disciples to 336 00:17:47,035 --> 00:17:48,977 evangelize and baptize. 337 00:17:49,163 --> 00:17:50,933 I believe that's when the church started. 338 00:17:51,101 --> 00:17:54,209 I believe personally the church started In John chapter 4, 339 00:17:54,509 --> 00:17:57,061 when Jesus commissioned those disciples. 340 00:17:57,125 --> 00:18:00,549 He authorized them to evangelize and to baptize. 341 00:18:00,709 --> 00:18:04,485 They now fit the biblical definition of a church. 342 00:18:04,517 --> 00:18:08,085 A called out assembly of born again baptized believers fulfilling 343 00:18:08,117 --> 00:18:09,009 the Great Commission. 344 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:11,061 And they really do that in John 4. 345 00:18:11,085 --> 00:18:14,901 But at least by Luke chapter 6, the church is in existence. 346 00:18:14,965 --> 00:18:21,679 By the way, John chapter 12, we know they had a treasury and they 347 00:18:21,719 --> 00:18:23,219 had a treasurer. 348 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,739 Maybe a little better than Brother Jerry. 349 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:29,295 No, I'm just kidding. 350 00:18:29,407 --> 00:18:31,199 A lot worse than Jerry. 351 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,247 All right, so who was the treasurer? 352 00:18:33,343 --> 00:18:34,179 Anybody? 353 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:35,423 Judas. 354 00:18:35,471 --> 00:18:36,059 Right. 355 00:18:36,519 --> 00:18:38,767 I should never have said Jerry's name with that. 356 00:18:38,903 --> 00:18:39,743 He's not even in here. 357 00:18:39,751 --> 00:18:41,141 I could pick on him. 358 00:18:41,295 --> 00:18:43,869 Where's he at anyway? 359 00:18:44,209 --> 00:18:45,337 But they had a treasure. 360 00:18:45,433 --> 00:18:47,989 So again, everything was in place already. 361 00:18:49,009 --> 00:18:50,389 Everything's in place. 362 00:18:51,089 --> 00:18:53,029 The church was already in place. 363 00:18:54,049 --> 00:18:55,509 Why does this matter? 364 00:18:56,769 --> 00:18:58,669 Well, because truth is truth. 365 00:18:59,329 --> 00:19:01,897 We're to be again the caretakers. 366 00:19:02,073 --> 00:19:06,269 Every church should be the caretakers of God's biblical truth. 367 00:19:06,779 --> 00:19:14,579 And when it comes to what, you know, what the Bible means on any 368 00:19:14,619 --> 00:19:18,867 given subject, what it's saying on any given subject, it ought 369 00:19:18,883 --> 00:19:24,199 to be interpreted correctly and not be given over to tradition. 370 00:19:25,179 --> 00:19:31,279 And in this case, for a lot of reasons, given over to change. 371 00:19:31,819 --> 00:19:35,667 When did this departure from the local visible church doctrine 372 00:19:35,763 --> 00:19:36,399 happen? 373 00:19:36,779 --> 00:19:40,950 Well, it really began happening in, you know, around 300 374 00:19:41,063 --> 00:19:41,571 A.D. 375 00:19:41,755 --> 00:19:46,755 when the Catholic Church came on the scene, by the way, the Catholic 376 00:19:46,787 --> 00:19:49,599 Church came on the scene in around 300 A.D. 377 00:19:50,619 --> 00:19:53,731 they cannot, and they could try, but they try to trace their 378 00:19:53,755 --> 00:19:55,427 roots back to the apostles. 379 00:19:55,603 --> 00:19:56,531 It's impossible. 380 00:19:56,595 --> 00:19:59,039 They began around 300 AD. 381 00:19:59,579 --> 00:20:05,091 And again, the Catholic Church believes in a universal, visible 382 00:20:05,155 --> 00:20:05,881 church. 383 00:20:06,075 --> 00:20:08,077 All right, they have about how many members? 384 00:20:08,213 --> 00:20:10,365 They're really on the news a lot right now. 385 00:20:10,517 --> 00:20:11,449 A billion. 386 00:20:12,789 --> 00:20:18,221 Around a billion people who would say they're Catholic on the 387 00:20:18,245 --> 00:20:19,249 planet Earth. 388 00:20:20,149 --> 00:20:21,181 What do they believe? 389 00:20:21,285 --> 00:20:25,421 They believe they are the church, that they're the universal 390 00:20:25,485 --> 00:20:26,689 visible church. 391 00:20:27,669 --> 00:20:33,729 And they believe again, in the continuation of the apostleship, 392 00:20:34,239 --> 00:20:35,351 the hierarchy. 393 00:20:35,415 --> 00:20:41,351 That's why you have bishops and archbishops and cardinals, and 394 00:20:41,375 --> 00:20:45,671 then you have the Pope whom they believe is the head of the universal 395 00:20:45,735 --> 00:20:50,019 visible church, that he is the one and only. 396 00:20:51,519 --> 00:20:53,655 The one and only they. 397 00:20:53,807 --> 00:20:57,539 To a certain extent, this has kind of wavered over the years as 398 00:20:58,079 --> 00:21:00,299 modern people have some brains. 399 00:21:00,639 --> 00:21:04,071 There was a day in which the Pope's word was as if God was saying 400 00:21:04,095 --> 00:21:04,659 it. 401 00:21:05,199 --> 00:21:08,535 They believed that they believe if the Pope said it, God 402 00:21:08,567 --> 00:21:11,699 said was just as if God was saying it. 403 00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:13,399 And so. 404 00:21:13,439 --> 00:21:18,259 And that's still to a certain extent practiced in some of the world. 405 00:21:18,959 --> 00:21:21,339 But they believe in a universal, visible church. 406 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:25,837 They believe they are the church, understand that. 407 00:21:26,023 --> 00:21:27,589 That they are the church. 408 00:21:29,609 --> 00:21:33,489 And that again, the Pope is the head in 3:25. 409 00:21:33,529 --> 00:21:35,057 I'm not going to bore you with all this, but when. 410 00:21:35,113 --> 00:21:40,161 But a little bit bore you a little bit ready in 325-ad-is when 411 00:21:40,185 --> 00:21:44,657 you had the Roman Catholicism really organized. 412 00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:48,033 And as they began to really organize, they began to try to pull 413 00:21:48,081 --> 00:21:53,579 all groups into that assembly, right. 414 00:21:53,699 --> 00:21:57,371 Visible assembly, and that included Baptists. 415 00:21:57,515 --> 00:22:03,915 And because Baptists would not give in, the Catholic Church began 416 00:22:03,947 --> 00:22:08,267 to persecute them now again, also gave them names. 417 00:22:08,363 --> 00:22:15,131 And so in that meeting called the Council of Nicaea, again the 418 00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:19,845 first effort to unite all churches under one head, the Catholic 419 00:22:19,877 --> 00:22:23,237 Church could not get the Baptists to come on board. 420 00:22:23,373 --> 00:22:25,733 And they began to call them Donatists. 421 00:22:25,861 --> 00:22:26,889 Donatists. 422 00:22:27,549 --> 00:22:31,061 So you began reading after that, really the Baptists. 423 00:22:31,125 --> 00:22:36,133 We would get our names from there on out from basically the Catholic 424 00:22:36,181 --> 00:22:36,809 Church. 425 00:22:37,149 --> 00:22:41,689 And the number one name that came about through all that was Anabaptist. 426 00:22:42,109 --> 00:22:43,449 Anabaptist. 427 00:22:43,869 --> 00:22:49,659 And so time marched on, and that's what the Dark ages were. 428 00:22:49,779 --> 00:22:51,479 Between 500 A.D. 429 00:22:51,859 --> 00:22:53,879 and 1500 A.D. 430 00:22:54,659 --> 00:22:58,427 the Catholicism was number one. 431 00:22:58,483 --> 00:23:01,339 I mean, they controlled the world. 432 00:23:01,459 --> 00:23:04,875 And that's why you had the Crusades and the Muslims fighting 433 00:23:04,907 --> 00:23:05,483 the Catholics. 434 00:23:05,531 --> 00:23:09,675 And the Catholics because they believed, listen, they believe they're 435 00:23:09,707 --> 00:23:12,259 the one world Church, that they're the universal, visible church, 436 00:23:12,379 --> 00:23:15,891 then everybody needs to get under the, under the umbrella. 437 00:23:16,035 --> 00:23:18,915 And then what they said during the Dark Ages, which we had to rename 438 00:23:18,947 --> 00:23:23,491 the Middle Ages because that's politically correct, you know, in 439 00:23:23,515 --> 00:23:26,599 the Dark Ages was basically, if you won't get under the umbrella, 440 00:23:26,939 --> 00:23:30,339 we're going to take you out, whether you're Muslim or you claim 441 00:23:30,379 --> 00:23:32,163 to be Christian as well. 442 00:23:32,331 --> 00:23:36,163 But you won't, you know, you won't baptize babies. 443 00:23:36,291 --> 00:23:41,419 You believe in immersion of believers only, you're going to fry, 444 00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:48,311 you're going to be killed by way of multiple types of torture. 445 00:23:48,375 --> 00:23:52,263 And I would encourage you, if you haven't read the Fox's Book of 446 00:23:52,271 --> 00:23:57,739 Martyrs and there's many other books that you can read that historically 447 00:23:58,239 --> 00:24:02,779 historical accounts of the millions of Christians. 448 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:06,475 We talk about the Muslims who died at the hand of the Catholicism. 449 00:24:06,647 --> 00:24:08,883 Millions of Christians died as well. 450 00:24:09,051 --> 00:24:13,119 And BH Carroll in his Trail of Blood, says as many as 50 million 451 00:24:13,419 --> 00:24:14,759 Christians died. 452 00:24:15,659 --> 00:24:19,171 And that would be based upon whether their belief, when it comes 453 00:24:19,195 --> 00:24:24,039 to believers, baptism and having the Bible in their own language. 454 00:24:24,379 --> 00:24:25,363 William Tyndale. 455 00:24:25,411 --> 00:24:29,875 There's so many who died translating the Bible so that a person 456 00:24:29,947 --> 00:24:33,171 could read it in English, and they died for it just because they 457 00:24:33,195 --> 00:24:37,555 wanted to translate it into English so the normal person who 458 00:24:37,707 --> 00:24:41,799 was behind the horse plowing could read the word of God themselves. 459 00:24:42,219 --> 00:24:45,123 The Catholic Church said, no, only priests can read the word of 460 00:24:45,131 --> 00:24:45,719 God. 461 00:24:46,699 --> 00:24:48,547 I'm not saying anything that's not true. 462 00:24:48,643 --> 00:24:49,427 Go look it up. 463 00:24:49,483 --> 00:24:53,439 It's very, very, very much a part of history. 464 00:24:55,179 --> 00:24:58,483 And so again, because of all that's going on right now with the 465 00:24:58,491 --> 00:25:03,585 Pope dying, you can see this, you know, just behind the Catholic 466 00:25:03,617 --> 00:25:06,433 Church, everybody endorsing the Catholic Church. 467 00:25:06,561 --> 00:25:07,825 The Catholic Church is important. 468 00:25:07,897 --> 00:25:09,069 The Pope is important. 469 00:25:09,609 --> 00:25:14,625 And in a social, economic world, yes, I guess he is. 470 00:25:14,777 --> 00:25:19,825 But when it comes to truth, Bible truth, it's heresy. 471 00:25:20,017 --> 00:25:21,457 The Bible does not teach. 472 00:25:21,553 --> 00:25:23,989 The Bible does not teach hierarchy. 473 00:25:25,609 --> 00:25:27,269 It's not found anywhere. 474 00:25:27,629 --> 00:25:31,845 And so when the Reformation happened in the 1500s and Martin 475 00:25:31,877 --> 00:25:35,365 Luther and John Calvin and all these were breaking off of the Catholic 476 00:25:35,397 --> 00:25:38,101 Church, they were protesting the Catholic Church. 477 00:25:38,245 --> 00:25:41,329 And really many denominations were born out of that. 478 00:25:41,709 --> 00:25:43,969 Lutheran and so many others. 479 00:25:44,669 --> 00:25:49,089 They left the Roman Catholic system, but they kept some of it. 480 00:25:49,549 --> 00:25:51,989 And that's why you have some of these other denominations who 481 00:25:52,029 --> 00:25:55,129 have bishops and they have cardinals and they have their own 482 00:25:55,169 --> 00:25:56,793 little hierarchy as well. 483 00:25:56,881 --> 00:26:01,385 It's not found in the Bible, it's nowhere found in the Bible that 484 00:26:01,457 --> 00:26:05,269 some outside source should tell a church what to do. 485 00:26:05,889 --> 00:26:11,081 Now, if we were still in the apostolic age, the apostles had that 486 00:26:11,105 --> 00:26:11,865 authority. 487 00:26:12,057 --> 00:26:15,641 But the Bible, when the apostles passed, there was no more 488 00:26:15,665 --> 00:26:16,025 apostles. 489 00:26:16,057 --> 00:26:19,769 Because again, Acts tells us, in order to be an apostle, in order 490 00:26:19,809 --> 00:26:22,811 to be an apostle, to be qualified to be an apostle, you had 491 00:26:22,835 --> 00:26:25,599 to see Jesus Christ in the flesh. 492 00:26:27,059 --> 00:26:28,875 So once, about 100 A.D. 493 00:26:28,947 --> 00:26:33,759 when John died, there are and were no more apostles. 494 00:26:34,339 --> 00:26:37,627 And there was no need for apostles, because you had, around 495 00:26:37,683 --> 00:26:38,315 100 A.D. 496 00:26:38,387 --> 00:26:40,959 you had the completion of the New Testament. 497 00:26:41,859 --> 00:26:45,963 When that which is perfect has come, that which is in part will 498 00:26:45,971 --> 00:26:47,079 be done away with. 499 00:26:47,539 --> 00:26:49,211 That's what Paul said in Corinthians. 500 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:50,843 That which is in part will be done away. 501 00:26:50,931 --> 00:26:53,499 When the completed Word of God, the perfect Word of God, was 502 00:26:53,539 --> 00:26:58,161 completed, we no longer needed an apostle or someone there to tell 503 00:26:58,185 --> 00:26:58,737 us what to do. 504 00:26:58,793 --> 00:27:02,225 No longer needed the gift of tongues, no longer needed the gift 505 00:27:02,257 --> 00:27:03,349 of prophecy. 506 00:27:03,689 --> 00:27:06,737 And all those things, those gifts were done away with because 507 00:27:06,793 --> 00:27:08,789 we had guidance. 508 00:27:09,129 --> 00:27:16,177 We had guidance on how to govern the church, how to go forward 509 00:27:16,233 --> 00:27:16,977 as a church. 510 00:27:17,073 --> 00:27:19,669 And all those things was in the word of God. 511 00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:25,435 So the universal, invisible church caught on through the Protestant 512 00:27:25,467 --> 00:27:26,427 Reformation. 513 00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:29,995 It was no longer a universal, visible church like the Catholics 514 00:27:30,027 --> 00:27:30,459 believe. 515 00:27:30,579 --> 00:27:33,979 But the Protestants believed in a universal, invisible church. 516 00:27:34,139 --> 00:27:36,811 The Catholics believe in a universal, visible church with the 517 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:37,947 Pope as the head. 518 00:27:38,083 --> 00:27:40,731 The Protestants believe in universal, invisible church with 519 00:27:40,755 --> 00:27:45,131 Christ as the head, which sounds spiritual and whatever the 520 00:27:45,155 --> 00:27:45,913 case is. 521 00:27:46,091 --> 00:27:48,849 But nowhere does the Bible teach that the church is invisible. 522 00:27:49,429 --> 00:27:51,213 It doesn't teach that it's invisible. 523 00:27:51,341 --> 00:27:53,277 Now, Christ is the head of the church. 524 00:27:53,373 --> 00:27:55,009 He's the head of every church. 525 00:27:56,389 --> 00:27:59,569 And the proper way to say it would be he's the head of the churches, 526 00:28:00,549 --> 00:28:01,885 each individual church. 527 00:28:01,997 --> 00:28:03,917 Well, how can Christ have so many heads? 528 00:28:04,013 --> 00:28:07,449 Well, the Bible says that Christ is the head of every man. 529 00:28:07,989 --> 00:28:09,409 It's an analogy. 530 00:28:10,069 --> 00:28:11,085 It's a word, analogy. 531 00:28:11,117 --> 00:28:15,109 It helps us understand what the truth is. 532 00:28:15,149 --> 00:28:18,169 It helps to illustrate the truth. 533 00:28:18,589 --> 00:28:22,565 But you don't take it to the extent that Christ's head is literally. 534 00:28:22,677 --> 00:28:23,509 You don't understand. 535 00:28:23,629 --> 00:28:24,929 This crowd's not. 536 00:28:25,309 --> 00:28:29,749 Yeah, anyway, all right, it's like saying the church is a bride, 537 00:28:29,829 --> 00:28:31,089 is the church a girl? 538 00:28:31,469 --> 00:28:32,969 Is it really a bride? 539 00:28:33,309 --> 00:28:34,277 No, it's an analogy. 540 00:28:34,293 --> 00:28:36,293 It helps us to understand biblical truth. 541 00:28:36,421 --> 00:28:39,597 It helps us to understand the, the bride and the groom analogy. 542 00:28:39,613 --> 00:28:42,701 Help us to understand the relationship that we have with the 543 00:28:42,725 --> 00:28:43,757 Lord Jesus Christ. 544 00:28:43,893 --> 00:28:48,653 It's a wonderful union that we have with the Lord. 545 00:28:48,781 --> 00:28:51,769 And you could take that analogy way too far. 546 00:28:52,869 --> 00:28:54,013 Yeah, it's an analogy. 547 00:28:54,061 --> 00:28:54,685 It's a metaphor. 548 00:28:54,717 --> 00:28:55,849 It helps us understand. 549 00:28:56,149 --> 00:29:00,461 And so again, I'm a little passionate about this because the 550 00:29:00,485 --> 00:29:04,781 Bible is clear in my estimation on the subject and it 551 00:29:04,805 --> 00:29:10,529 has been distorted and against what the Bible says. 552 00:29:10,909 --> 00:29:15,221 So as Protestants, if you would, the church became a mystical 553 00:29:15,285 --> 00:29:22,021 entity, one in which a believer is baptized into at salvation 554 00:29:22,085 --> 00:29:23,205 by the Holy Spirit. 555 00:29:23,317 --> 00:29:24,609 So let me say that again. 556 00:29:25,229 --> 00:29:30,597 The universal invisible belief by the Protestants and now by many 557 00:29:30,653 --> 00:29:35,891 Baptists believe that when you get saved, you are baptized by the 558 00:29:35,915 --> 00:29:39,603 Holy Spirit into the mystical body of Christ, this universal, invisible 559 00:29:39,651 --> 00:29:40,279 church. 560 00:29:40,859 --> 00:29:44,119 And so, and I'm saying that's a misinterpretation. 561 00:29:44,539 --> 00:29:45,379 It's a mis. 562 00:29:45,459 --> 00:29:52,019 By the way, I'm saying it historic Baptist doctrine says that 563 00:29:52,059 --> 00:29:53,635 is a misinterpretation. 564 00:29:53,827 --> 00:29:56,819 The Bible makes it clear that that's a misinterpretation. 565 00:29:56,979 --> 00:29:59,987 All right, so again, in Acts chapter two, you don't have the birth 566 00:30:00,003 --> 00:30:04,129 of the church, you have the empowerment of the church, you have 567 00:30:04,169 --> 00:30:06,129 God endorsing the church, if you would. 568 00:30:06,249 --> 00:30:10,669 Alright, so Holy Spirit, Baptism has been misinterpreted and 569 00:30:11,369 --> 00:30:12,481 for a long time now. 570 00:30:12,505 --> 00:30:16,801 If you go back and you read men from 60, 70, 80 years ago, and 571 00:30:16,825 --> 00:30:19,697 I have many of those books in my office, and you go back and read 572 00:30:19,753 --> 00:30:23,985 scholars of years gone by, you'll find scholars who believe 573 00:30:24,137 --> 00:30:25,949 more in line with what we believe. 574 00:30:26,249 --> 00:30:30,753 And especially even BH Curl, who started Southwestern Theological 575 00:30:30,801 --> 00:30:36,411 Seminary, understand that Southern Baptists believe this as 576 00:30:36,435 --> 00:30:40,639 well, that the church is only local, visible. 577 00:30:40,979 --> 00:30:44,891 When the Bible refers to the church, it's referring to each individual 578 00:30:44,955 --> 00:30:45,599 church. 579 00:30:45,939 --> 00:30:50,731 The word ecclesia, the Greek word for church, is found 115 times 580 00:30:50,755 --> 00:30:52,459 in the Bible in the New Testament. 581 00:30:52,619 --> 00:30:57,713 Of those, a hundred of those refer to a particular church. 582 00:30:57,891 --> 00:31:01,653 The church at Corinth, the church at Philippi, the churches 583 00:31:01,701 --> 00:31:02,869 of Galatia. 584 00:31:03,029 --> 00:31:05,369 So it refers to a particular church. 585 00:31:05,709 --> 00:31:11,797 Alright, so only 14 of them refer to the church as, you know, 586 00:31:11,853 --> 00:31:12,809 an entity. 587 00:31:13,149 --> 00:31:17,365 By that we mean this is what the church is, will be like. 588 00:31:17,437 --> 00:31:19,061 This is what the churches, the analogy is. 589 00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:19,829 This is what the church. 590 00:31:19,909 --> 00:31:23,089 It's like saying the American family. 591 00:31:23,879 --> 00:31:26,447 Well, I mean, we think of the American family. 592 00:31:26,503 --> 00:31:28,591 We don't think of some mystical invisible family out there. 593 00:31:28,615 --> 00:31:32,527 No, we think of individual families and they have certain characteristics. 594 00:31:32,623 --> 00:31:34,911 The American family has certain characteristics. 595 00:31:35,055 --> 00:31:40,819 Man and wife, married, with children, living together for a lifetime. 596 00:31:41,959 --> 00:31:43,659 Good biblical definition too. 597 00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:44,527 Right. 598 00:31:44,583 --> 00:31:48,847 The American automobile, we don't think of some mystical invisible 599 00:31:48,863 --> 00:31:51,665 automobile that we think about each individual. 600 00:31:51,857 --> 00:31:56,069 We don't think about a Ford, we think about a Chevy or not a Dodge, 601 00:31:57,449 --> 00:32:00,145 but we think about, again, individual trucks. 602 00:32:00,177 --> 00:32:03,137 So when the Bible's referring to churches, it's referring to the 603 00:32:03,193 --> 00:32:07,153 institution as an institution, but it's referring to each individual 604 00:32:07,201 --> 00:32:07,857 church. 605 00:32:08,033 --> 00:32:12,481 We are Heritage Baptist Church is the body of Christ, but so is 606 00:32:12,505 --> 00:32:15,745 Victory Baptist Church in Weatherford, and so is Worth Baptist 607 00:32:15,777 --> 00:32:20,307 Church in Fort Worth, and so is, you know, on and on and on, Temple, 608 00:32:20,323 --> 00:32:21,315 Baptist and Flower Mound. 609 00:32:21,347 --> 00:32:23,651 I'm just thinking about sister churches, but not just. 610 00:32:23,835 --> 00:32:27,747 There are churches that don't have Baptists on their name who are 611 00:32:27,803 --> 00:32:29,959 also, by definition, churches. 612 00:32:31,339 --> 00:32:34,195 Don't shoot me for that again. 613 00:32:34,267 --> 00:32:35,699 We're going to get to heaven and go. 614 00:32:35,819 --> 00:32:39,043 I just thought Baptist would be up here, but man, where did all 615 00:32:39,051 --> 00:32:40,159 these people come from? 616 00:32:40,699 --> 00:32:42,679 Alright, so we had to be careful. 617 00:32:43,179 --> 00:32:46,003 But the body of Christ is each individual church. 618 00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:48,275 And that's what the Bible explains. 619 00:32:48,467 --> 00:32:52,839 It explains it in my estimation very clearly. 620 00:32:53,339 --> 00:32:56,451 So I'm not going to cover Holy Spirit baptism night. 621 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:57,011 We don't have time. 622 00:32:57,035 --> 00:32:58,195 I'll cover it next Wednesday night. 623 00:32:58,267 --> 00:33:01,523 But I do think it's important you understand Holy Spirit baptism 624 00:33:01,651 --> 00:33:05,779 as defined by the Bible, which is John the Baptist, defines it for 625 00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:06,067 us. 626 00:33:06,123 --> 00:33:08,659 He says, he looks at Jesus, if you would. 627 00:33:08,699 --> 00:33:12,165 He says, there's one coming after me whose shoe latched. 628 00:33:12,197 --> 00:33:13,813 I am not worthy to unloose. 629 00:33:13,861 --> 00:33:16,901 I'm not worthy to tie his shoes, to loosen his shoes, take 630 00:33:16,925 --> 00:33:17,605 him off his foot. 631 00:33:17,677 --> 00:33:22,649 He that is Christ will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. 632 00:33:22,989 --> 00:33:25,689 That is the prophecy by John the Baptist. 633 00:33:26,589 --> 00:33:28,409 Who's doing the baptizing? 634 00:33:29,229 --> 00:33:30,965 Christ is doing the baptizing. 635 00:33:31,077 --> 00:33:32,329 Who is the element? 636 00:33:33,549 --> 00:33:34,875 The Holy Spirit. 637 00:33:35,037 --> 00:33:38,623 When I get up in the Baptistry, who's baptizing up here 638 00:33:38,631 --> 00:33:39,615 in the Baptistry? 639 00:33:39,727 --> 00:33:40,619 I am. 640 00:33:40,999 --> 00:33:42,259 What's the element? 641 00:33:42,999 --> 00:33:43,899 The water. 642 00:33:45,399 --> 00:33:46,659 That's the element. 643 00:33:46,999 --> 00:33:51,119 Understand that what most Pentecostals and Assembly of God 644 00:33:51,199 --> 00:33:54,303 and many of these who believe that you need to seek the baptism 645 00:33:54,351 --> 00:33:55,583 of the Holy Spirit, or when you. 646 00:33:55,671 --> 00:33:58,223 If you don't have the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you're not saved. 647 00:33:58,351 --> 00:34:03,121 And whatever the case is, they are severely misinterpreting the 648 00:34:03,145 --> 00:34:06,305 scripture, especially the prophecy, because they got it reversed. 649 00:34:06,337 --> 00:34:11,441 They say that the Holy Spirit will baptize you into the body of 650 00:34:11,465 --> 00:34:12,029 Christ. 651 00:34:12,489 --> 00:34:13,761 That's not the prophecy. 652 00:34:13,825 --> 00:34:17,345 It says that Christ will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. 653 00:34:17,457 --> 00:34:19,873 And that's exactly what happened on the day of Pentecost 654 00:34:20,001 --> 00:34:21,153 in Acts chapter two. 655 00:34:21,241 --> 00:34:22,305 They were in that room. 656 00:34:22,377 --> 00:34:28,755 And the Bible says the room was filled with the Holy Ghost insomuch 657 00:34:28,787 --> 00:34:32,387 they were cloven tongues, like a fire on top of their heads, like 658 00:34:32,443 --> 00:34:34,439 as not literal. 659 00:34:34,779 --> 00:34:36,451 And the Holy Ghost filled the room. 660 00:34:36,475 --> 00:34:37,155 What does that mean? 661 00:34:37,227 --> 00:34:43,315 Well, baptism means to plunge, to go under, to be covered. 662 00:34:43,347 --> 00:34:44,035 It's immersion. 663 00:34:44,067 --> 00:34:44,355 Right? 664 00:34:44,427 --> 00:34:50,519 And so in that room, they were immersed by the Holy Spirit. 665 00:34:51,259 --> 00:34:55,069 They were baptized by Christ with the Holy Spirit. 666 00:34:56,769 --> 00:34:59,065 Holy Spirit didn't baptize them. 667 00:34:59,137 --> 00:35:00,937 I almost got that mixed up. 668 00:35:00,993 --> 00:35:03,753 The Holy Spirit didn't do the baptizing. 669 00:35:03,801 --> 00:35:06,029 Christ did the baptizing with the Holy Spirit. 670 00:35:06,849 --> 00:35:09,349 Because that is what the Bible says. 671 00:35:10,209 --> 00:35:11,129 And so. 672 00:35:11,249 --> 00:35:14,921 And I'm going to make the application, and that is we are not 673 00:35:14,945 --> 00:35:16,713 to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 674 00:35:16,841 --> 00:35:18,949 The baptism of the Holy Spirit was an event. 675 00:35:19,259 --> 00:35:21,075 It happened in Acts chapter 2. 676 00:35:21,227 --> 00:35:23,779 It happened in Acts chapter 8. 677 00:35:23,899 --> 00:35:25,491 It happened in Acts chapter 10. 678 00:35:25,595 --> 00:35:26,947 It happened in Acts chapter 19. 679 00:35:27,003 --> 00:35:28,323 It happened four times. 680 00:35:28,491 --> 00:35:37,159 All those were done in such a way for God to endorse the church. 681 00:35:38,379 --> 00:35:42,611 All of those baptisms happened not just in front of Gentiles, but 682 00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:43,639 in front of Jews. 683 00:35:44,379 --> 00:35:46,291 It was assigned to the Jewish. 684 00:35:46,465 --> 00:35:48,779 In other words, the baptism of the Holy Spirit was an event. 685 00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:51,339 It doesn't happen today. 686 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:57,343 In Acts chapter two, they were baptized in the Holy Spirit by Jesus 687 00:35:57,391 --> 00:35:57,979 Christ. 688 00:35:58,279 --> 00:36:01,939 Then it says, they were filled with the Holy Ghost. 689 00:36:02,519 --> 00:36:03,727 They were filled with the Holy Ghost. 690 00:36:03,743 --> 00:36:06,511 It was the filling of the Holy Ghost that gave them power, not the 691 00:36:06,535 --> 00:36:07,375 baptism. 692 00:36:07,567 --> 00:36:12,255 And you shall receive power because the Holy Ghost comes upon 693 00:36:12,287 --> 00:36:12,791 you. 694 00:36:12,935 --> 00:36:14,819 Is that what Acts 18 says? 695 00:36:16,479 --> 00:36:22,055 Acts 1:8 says, and ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost 696 00:36:22,087 --> 00:36:25,379 comes upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me. 697 00:36:25,759 --> 00:36:28,983 And so many times they just misinterpret the verse they want 698 00:36:28,991 --> 00:36:29,239 to put. 699 00:36:29,279 --> 00:36:30,311 Because there. 700 00:36:30,495 --> 00:36:32,599 No, it was the feeling of the Holy Spirit. 701 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:36,899 After they were baptized in the Holy Spirit by Jesus Christ. 702 00:36:37,439 --> 00:36:39,047 Then they were filled. 703 00:36:39,223 --> 00:36:42,167 And it was the feeling of the Spirit that gave them power. 704 00:36:42,223 --> 00:36:44,663 You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you. 705 00:36:44,671 --> 00:36:46,679 It was the feeling of the Holy Spirit that gave them power. 706 00:36:46,799 --> 00:36:51,655 And that's why Ephesians 5 says, Be not drunk with wine, wherein 707 00:36:51,687 --> 00:36:54,179 is excess, but be what? 708 00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:55,863 Filled with the Spirit. 709 00:36:55,911 --> 00:36:56,871 Is that an option? 710 00:36:56,935 --> 00:36:58,499 It's a command, isn't it? 711 00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:04,557 So we as Christians desire for the Holy Spirit to fill us. 712 00:37:04,743 --> 00:37:06,309 That's what we should desire. 713 00:37:06,889 --> 00:37:10,001 We should seek the feeling of the Holy Spirit. 714 00:37:10,065 --> 00:37:13,249 Now again, you don't get any more of the Holy Spirit than you 715 00:37:13,289 --> 00:37:14,273 got when you got saved. 716 00:37:14,321 --> 00:37:16,881 When you accept Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit comes and 717 00:37:16,905 --> 00:37:18,029 indwells you. 718 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:19,789 Indwells you. 719 00:37:20,569 --> 00:37:23,549 And that's all the Holy Spirit you'll ever get. 720 00:37:24,649 --> 00:37:26,593 When we talk about the filling of the Holy Spirit, it means, how 721 00:37:26,601 --> 00:37:28,349 much does the Holy Spirit have of you? 722 00:37:28,969 --> 00:37:31,309 How much of you have you yielded to him? 723 00:37:32,579 --> 00:37:34,155 Again, we're not to seek the baptism. 724 00:37:34,187 --> 00:37:37,419 We're to seek the feeling of the Holy Spirit. 725 00:37:37,499 --> 00:37:39,039 How much of the Holy Spirit? 726 00:37:40,019 --> 00:37:43,239 How much of the Holy Spirit does he have of you? 727 00:37:43,539 --> 00:37:46,399 What room are you keeping shut? 728 00:37:46,819 --> 00:37:48,827 What room have you shut the Holy Spirit out of? 729 00:37:48,883 --> 00:37:50,539 Well, Holy Spirit, you can have my life. 730 00:37:50,659 --> 00:37:52,331 You can have everything in my life. 731 00:37:52,355 --> 00:37:57,301 I yielded all to you, except for right. 732 00:37:57,405 --> 00:37:59,029 I can remember going to youth camp, man. 733 00:37:59,069 --> 00:37:59,413 The. 734 00:37:59,501 --> 00:38:02,325 The youth speaker would be bouncing off the walls. 735 00:38:02,437 --> 00:38:06,517 Yield your body to Christ, give your life to Jesus, blah, blah, 736 00:38:06,533 --> 00:38:06,725 blah. 737 00:38:06,757 --> 00:38:10,529 And then he would start talking about again your house. 738 00:38:10,909 --> 00:38:15,409 Does Holy Spirit have access to every area of your house? 739 00:38:16,269 --> 00:38:19,969 Or do you not let him in certain closets or this area? 740 00:38:21,389 --> 00:38:26,099 We as Christians ought to yield our bodies a living sacrifice, 741 00:38:26,439 --> 00:38:30,863 holy and acceptable unto him, which is what our reasonable service. 742 00:38:31,031 --> 00:38:34,383 And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the 743 00:38:34,391 --> 00:38:38,015 renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable? 744 00:38:38,127 --> 00:38:39,459 The perfect will of God. 745 00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:45,663 So churches are the body of Christ. 746 00:38:45,751 --> 00:38:47,219 Each individual church. 747 00:38:49,809 --> 00:38:51,389 Each individual church. 748 00:38:51,969 --> 00:38:54,249 And Christ is the head of the church. 749 00:38:54,409 --> 00:38:55,949 Each individual church. 750 00:38:56,929 --> 00:38:59,913 How does Christ if he's not here? 751 00:39:00,001 --> 00:39:01,529 How does Christ lead? 752 00:39:01,569 --> 00:39:04,777 Or how does Christ be? 753 00:39:04,833 --> 00:39:05,749 How does he? 754 00:39:06,129 --> 00:39:07,625 How is he the head of the church? 755 00:39:07,737 --> 00:39:09,897 How can we make him? 756 00:39:09,953 --> 00:39:11,833 I don't mean to, that's a poor use of words. 757 00:39:11,881 --> 00:39:12,969 Make him the head of the church. 758 00:39:13,049 --> 00:39:15,029 Well, we do it by following this. 759 00:39:15,769 --> 00:39:20,529 If we follow the word of God, if we follow the epistles and how 760 00:39:20,569 --> 00:39:24,849 it tells us to govern and how it tells us to run a church, then 761 00:39:24,889 --> 00:39:27,949 we are yielding to him as our head. 762 00:39:28,489 --> 00:39:30,033 He is the head of the church. 763 00:39:30,081 --> 00:39:31,389 And there's so much more. 764 00:39:33,129 --> 00:39:34,465 The body is a great analogy. 765 00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:36,129 The building's a great analogy. 766 00:39:36,289 --> 00:39:37,489 Again the bride. 767 00:39:37,649 --> 00:39:38,749 Let's all stand. 768 00:39:44,099 --> 00:39:47,211 The universal invisible church is a contradiction of term. 769 00:39:47,395 --> 00:39:49,883 How can you have an unassembled assembly? 770 00:39:50,011 --> 00:39:51,291 Think about that one. 771 00:39:51,475 --> 00:39:55,915 The universal invisible church is a contradiction of term because 772 00:39:55,987 --> 00:39:58,763 the word church means a called out assembly of born again baptized 773 00:39:58,811 --> 00:39:59,675 believers. 774 00:39:59,867 --> 00:40:03,803 Even if you don't attach my to it, if you just say an assembly ecclesia, 775 00:40:03,931 --> 00:40:08,295 it still has to be a called out assembly, still has to be local. 776 00:40:08,367 --> 00:40:12,199 So to say universal invisible church is a contradiction of terms. 777 00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,219 You can't have an unassembled assembly. 778 00:40:14,879 --> 00:40:18,007 That's why we say, you know, you can't sit at home and say you've 779 00:40:18,023 --> 00:40:18,631 been at church. 780 00:40:18,695 --> 00:40:22,503 If you watch tonight, I'm thankful for livestream. 781 00:40:22,551 --> 00:40:25,671 I'm thankful that people who are sick or those who maybe had to 782 00:40:25,695 --> 00:40:29,019 work late or just trying to get to watch Praise the Lord. 783 00:40:29,439 --> 00:40:31,159 I do, I think that's amazing. 784 00:40:31,319 --> 00:40:34,449 But, but you cannot say that you attended church because in order 785 00:40:34,489 --> 00:40:39,697 to attend a church you have to be assembled and visible and that's 786 00:40:39,713 --> 00:40:41,025 what we are here tonight. 787 00:40:41,217 --> 00:40:44,481 Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you Lord for your love 788 00:40:44,505 --> 00:40:45,281 for us. 789 00:40:45,465 --> 00:40:48,801 Thank you that you said you loved the church and gave yourself 790 00:40:48,865 --> 00:40:49,629 for it. 791 00:40:50,809 --> 00:40:56,721 I pray Lord that we would as a church realize the opportunity we 792 00:40:56,745 --> 00:40:59,965 have as a church realize the responsibility we have. 793 00:41:00,137 --> 00:41:02,049 And God, may we never forget it. 794 00:41:02,429 --> 00:41:02,901 Thank you. 795 00:41:02,925 --> 00:41:03,381 We love you. 796 00:41:03,405 --> 00:41:04,741 In Jesus name, amen. 797 00:41:04,885 --> 00:41:07,397 All right, we'll sing hymn 162. 798 00:41:07,533 --> 00:41:19,649 Lord, set your heart you come away from God now I'm coming home 799 00:41:21,229 --> 00:41:35,099 the paths I've sinned too long I've trod Lord, I'm coming home Coming 800 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:54,727 home, coming home Never more to roam Open wide arms of love Lord, 801 00:41:54,903 --> 00:41:57,847 I'm coming home. 802 00:41:57,983 --> 00:41:59,499 Alright, please be seated. 803 00:42:02,479 --> 00:42:05,239 If you do have your prayer requests written on one of those 804 00:42:05,279 --> 00:42:05,543 cards. 805 00:42:05,591 --> 00:42:08,391 If you'd hold your hand up, there's a card in front of you. 806 00:42:08,415 --> 00:42:10,539 You can fill that out if you have a prayer request. 807 00:42:10,879 --> 00:42:12,039 It's good again to see Ms. 808 00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:14,939 Sharon with us tonight as she recovers from her surgery. 809 00:42:15,439 --> 00:42:19,139 Linda Smith tonight being prayer for her again, her recovery. 810 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:24,571 You said you have one more week before the next healing. 811 00:42:24,635 --> 00:42:25,359 Okay. 812 00:42:26,499 --> 00:42:27,659 So many others on the list. 813 00:42:27,699 --> 00:42:30,683 Gene Gibson, Frank Riley, Chalene. 814 00:42:30,811 --> 00:42:33,179 Continue to be in prayer for Chalene as she continues to go through 815 00:42:33,219 --> 00:42:34,479 treatments for cancer. 816 00:42:35,699 --> 00:42:36,011 Ms. 817 00:42:36,035 --> 00:42:40,043 Collin was telling me about a family whose teenager committed suicide. 818 00:42:40,091 --> 00:42:42,251 Just be in prayer for the Ratliff family. 819 00:42:42,355 --> 00:42:46,581 The Ratliff family, the church at Nakona, they had. 820 00:42:46,685 --> 00:42:47,125 We had. 821 00:42:47,197 --> 00:42:48,245 We had a little bit of rain. 822 00:42:48,277 --> 00:42:52,489 But here a few days ago, Nokona had almost 10 inches of rain. 823 00:42:52,909 --> 00:42:56,213 And it just really destroyed the roof of that church building 824 00:42:56,301 --> 00:42:58,677 and caved in a bunch of the ceilings. 825 00:42:58,853 --> 00:43:02,677 And so be in prayer for Bible Baptist Church in Bowie, Bible Baptist 826 00:43:02,693 --> 00:43:03,925 Church in Nakona. 827 00:43:04,117 --> 00:43:07,653 Brother Paul Sharon, the head of Baptist Builders, he drove up 828 00:43:07,661 --> 00:43:09,125 there yesterday to look at it. 829 00:43:09,277 --> 00:43:13,119 And we'll get our church and many other churches get together. 830 00:43:13,419 --> 00:43:16,739 This is a very, very small church and they don't have the money 831 00:43:16,779 --> 00:43:18,099 to put a roof on the building. 832 00:43:18,219 --> 00:43:21,763 And so we'll be helping in that and along with many other churches 833 00:43:21,811 --> 00:43:22,547 helping in that. 834 00:43:22,603 --> 00:43:23,827 So be in prayer for them. 835 00:43:23,883 --> 00:43:24,451 Anyone else? 836 00:43:24,515 --> 00:43:25,299 Do we have any more? 837 00:43:25,339 --> 00:43:25,955 All right, let's pray. 838 00:43:25,987 --> 00:43:28,787 Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you that you are the great 839 00:43:28,843 --> 00:43:29,331 physician. 840 00:43:29,395 --> 00:43:30,579 Pray though, that you'd be with Ms. 841 00:43:30,619 --> 00:43:32,275 Taylor in her continued recovery. 842 00:43:32,307 --> 00:43:34,179 Frank Riley, we pray for Ms. 843 00:43:34,219 --> 00:43:36,879 Shailene Shalene as she goes through her treatments. 844 00:43:37,059 --> 00:43:38,391 We pray for the Ratliff family more. 845 00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:39,991 May you comfort their heart tonight. 846 00:43:40,135 --> 00:43:40,999 And Ms. 847 00:43:41,039 --> 00:43:42,999 Smith again as she recovering. 848 00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,119 I pray, Lord, that you'd be the church in the Kona or just open 849 00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:50,503 the windows of heaven there in a money fashion this time, Lord, 850 00:43:50,551 --> 00:43:52,311 and provide that need. 851 00:43:52,495 --> 00:43:54,679 We love you and we thank you in Jesus name, Amen. 852 00:43:54,759 --> 00:43:56,791 Ushers, if you'll come forward, take up the offering this 853 00:43:56,815 --> 00:43:57,579 evening. 854 00:43:58,159 --> 00:44:03,021 Don't forget as we continue to raise money for a piano. 855 00:44:03,135 --> 00:44:06,001 And then our missionaries of the week are the Larue family there 856 00:44:06,025 --> 00:44:09,361 in Chile and the park family there in South Korea and pray for 857 00:44:09,385 --> 00:44:12,561 them that God would protect them, provide for them, and give 858 00:44:12,585 --> 00:44:13,585 them fruit for their labor. 859 00:44:13,617 --> 00:44:17,189 We'll have Brother Taylor come and lead us in prayer for the offering. 860 00:44:20,649 --> 00:44:23,217 Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be in your house again 861 00:44:23,273 --> 00:44:24,849 tonight and hear your teaching. 862 00:44:25,009 --> 00:44:27,121 And I pray, Lord, that you would take this offering. 863 00:44:27,185 --> 00:44:28,433 Use it for your honor and glory. 864 00:44:28,481 --> 00:44:30,129 All this I pray in Jesus name. 865 00:44:30,169 --> 00:44:30,839 Amen, man.