1 00:00:29,939 --> 00:00:31,839 Music at Heritage Baptist Church. 2 00:00:32,899 --> 00:00:33,755 I love it. 3 00:00:33,827 --> 00:00:35,739 I love it because it prepares. 4 00:00:35,899 --> 00:00:38,523 Not only is it always beautifully sung, but it prepares 5 00:00:38,571 --> 00:00:40,347 the heart for the preaching. 6 00:00:40,523 --> 00:00:44,679 And that is the goal for music and church, I believe. 7 00:00:47,699 --> 00:00:49,519 You know, change is inevitable. 8 00:00:50,579 --> 00:00:52,011 I don't always like it. 9 00:00:52,115 --> 00:00:56,159 I'm not opposed to change, but change is inevitable. 10 00:00:56,789 --> 00:01:02,429 And there are things that change in our society that, you know, 11 00:01:02,469 --> 00:01:10,573 sometimes it has an impact, and then there are other changes 12 00:01:10,621 --> 00:01:13,453 that actually change the fabric of how we live. 13 00:01:13,541 --> 00:01:13,933 Change. 14 00:01:14,021 --> 00:01:17,917 Change it dramatically and can't get away from that. 15 00:01:17,973 --> 00:01:18,969 It's going to happen. 16 00:01:21,349 --> 00:01:23,789 Electricity changed how we live. 17 00:01:24,089 --> 00:01:25,041 Changed everything. 18 00:01:25,145 --> 00:01:26,897 I just wrote a few things down here. 19 00:01:27,033 --> 00:01:27,969 The telephone. 20 00:01:28,049 --> 00:01:29,029 Telephone. 21 00:01:29,769 --> 00:01:30,753 Not the cell phone. 22 00:01:30,801 --> 00:01:31,345 Telephone. 23 00:01:31,377 --> 00:01:33,537 You remember that telephone. 24 00:01:33,713 --> 00:01:35,189 You remember the phones? 25 00:01:35,609 --> 00:01:37,789 You remember you used to be able to walk across the. 26 00:01:38,329 --> 00:01:41,509 Sometimes you could walk across the room with the phone. 27 00:01:42,169 --> 00:01:45,749 Now you can leave the house with the phone. 28 00:01:46,089 --> 00:01:47,441 I remember that, man. 29 00:01:47,465 --> 00:01:48,681 I'm telling on myself. 30 00:01:48,865 --> 00:01:49,849 Television. 31 00:01:49,929 --> 00:01:51,309 You remember television? 32 00:01:51,889 --> 00:01:52,265 Yeah. 33 00:01:52,297 --> 00:01:54,069 Boy, it changed everything, didn't it? 34 00:01:54,369 --> 00:01:59,801 How many of you had your antenna up on your roof and your 35 00:01:59,825 --> 00:02:04,629 dad made you go outside and turn it till the game got clear? 36 00:02:06,689 --> 00:02:07,629 Amen. 37 00:02:08,129 --> 00:02:10,509 Aren't you glad we don't have those anymore? 38 00:02:11,169 --> 00:02:15,069 I like flat screens, televisions, personal computers. 39 00:02:15,729 --> 00:02:18,841 I remember when I worked for the phone company in Houston, I had 40 00:02:18,865 --> 00:02:24,121 to run some lines at IBM underneath the floor. 41 00:02:24,265 --> 00:02:25,593 It was their computer room. 42 00:02:25,681 --> 00:02:29,289 Well, it was IBM's computers, but I was in one of the rooms cold, 43 00:02:29,369 --> 00:02:29,801 man. 44 00:02:29,905 --> 00:02:32,425 And those computers, oh, my goodness. 45 00:02:32,457 --> 00:02:34,489 I mean, we didn't have them on our desks at that time. 46 00:02:34,529 --> 00:02:38,233 Home computers, that wasn't even a thought, not to the common 47 00:02:38,281 --> 00:02:40,169 guy, but they were huge. 48 00:02:40,249 --> 00:02:42,981 I mean, those refrigerators are as big as one of the. 49 00:02:43,105 --> 00:02:45,929 One of the big refrigerators that we've got in the. 50 00:02:46,549 --> 00:02:48,125 In the kitchen here. 51 00:02:48,277 --> 00:02:48,909 Just one. 52 00:02:48,949 --> 00:02:51,085 And there was a whole lot, a wall lined with them. 53 00:02:51,157 --> 00:02:52,209 Just huge. 54 00:02:52,549 --> 00:02:53,869 And now look at us. 55 00:02:53,989 --> 00:02:55,053 Look where we've come. 56 00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:57,249 Look how far we've gone with computers. 57 00:02:58,309 --> 00:03:01,409 And then, of course, cell phones. 58 00:03:02,789 --> 00:03:06,221 I mean, so you can do everything now, Everything on your 59 00:03:06,245 --> 00:03:06,685 cell phone. 60 00:03:06,717 --> 00:03:07,289 Everything. 61 00:03:07,749 --> 00:03:11,021 I mean, mean, seriously, 15, 20 years ago, I'd have said, you 62 00:03:11,045 --> 00:03:13,969 are crazy if you think I'm going to pay my bills over the phone. 63 00:03:14,389 --> 00:03:17,729 And not by talking to a teller, but, I mean, with my phone. 64 00:03:19,029 --> 00:03:22,285 When I first got it, I just wanted to be able to call somebody 65 00:03:22,317 --> 00:03:23,849 when I broke down on the road. 66 00:03:25,909 --> 00:03:29,089 But now look at it changes. 67 00:03:29,669 --> 00:03:31,885 Facebook changed. 68 00:03:32,077 --> 00:03:33,821 I mean, it changed everything. 69 00:03:33,925 --> 00:03:34,979 It really did. 70 00:03:35,149 --> 00:03:39,431 All the things out there, like what else you have, you have TikTok 71 00:03:39,495 --> 00:03:40,599 and some of Them didn't make it. 72 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:40,887 Right. 73 00:03:40,943 --> 00:03:42,823 Like, what was the one before Facebook? 74 00:03:42,911 --> 00:03:43,939 It didn't make it. 75 00:03:44,239 --> 00:03:45,111 MySpace. 76 00:03:45,175 --> 00:03:46,935 Yeah, that didn't make it. 77 00:03:47,007 --> 00:03:49,139 There was a couple others, those didn't make it. 78 00:03:50,399 --> 00:03:54,503 But Facebook and Instagram, I guess TikTok. 79 00:03:54,551 --> 00:03:55,979 Still hanging in there, huh? 80 00:03:58,239 --> 00:04:03,597 But all those things, technology, it moves so fast and 81 00:04:03,653 --> 00:04:04,861 just changes everything. 82 00:04:04,965 --> 00:04:05,821 Okay, here's a good one. 83 00:04:05,845 --> 00:04:06,525 How about this one? 84 00:04:06,597 --> 00:04:10,249 Talk about something that changed the way we live. 85 00:04:10,549 --> 00:04:12,541 I mean, it changed everything about life. 86 00:04:12,645 --> 00:04:13,453 Seriously. 87 00:04:13,581 --> 00:04:18,809 The coronavirus, the pandemic, it changed everything. 88 00:04:19,509 --> 00:04:21,849 And we didn't even have time to get used to it. 89 00:04:22,389 --> 00:04:24,289 I mean, you changed overnight. 90 00:04:24,869 --> 00:04:26,329 Overnight, everything. 91 00:04:26,929 --> 00:04:29,229 It detached us from society. 92 00:04:30,769 --> 00:04:33,385 It changed how people live all across the world in America. 93 00:04:33,417 --> 00:04:34,829 It changed how we shop. 94 00:04:36,129 --> 00:04:38,149 It changed how we eat out. 95 00:04:39,249 --> 00:04:43,321 It changed how we gather socially, how we attended church, 96 00:04:43,465 --> 00:04:47,469 how we approach people, how we judge people, how we worship. 97 00:04:48,369 --> 00:04:48,777 Everything. 98 00:04:48,833 --> 00:04:50,069 It changed everything. 99 00:04:52,699 --> 00:04:54,211 But one thing is for certain. 100 00:04:54,315 --> 00:04:56,319 And you knew I was going to get here, right? 101 00:04:56,859 --> 00:05:00,211 Jesus Christ has never changed. 102 00:05:00,355 --> 00:05:03,731 And none of these things has ever changed Jesus Christ. 103 00:05:03,915 --> 00:05:05,251 I mean, you might change. 104 00:05:05,355 --> 00:05:06,399 You will change. 105 00:05:06,939 --> 00:05:13,395 You might get smaller, you might get bigger, you will certainly 106 00:05:13,427 --> 00:05:20,541 get older, you might get wiser, might get more handsome, might 107 00:05:20,565 --> 00:05:21,569 grow ugly. 108 00:05:22,229 --> 00:05:23,309 But we are going to change. 109 00:05:23,349 --> 00:05:23,773 Now, I wouldn't. 110 00:05:23,821 --> 00:05:25,309 Why did you look at him when I said that? 111 00:05:25,349 --> 00:05:26,409 He looked at me. 112 00:05:27,909 --> 00:05:28,909 One thing is for certain. 113 00:05:28,949 --> 00:05:30,249 We're all going to change. 114 00:05:30,549 --> 00:05:32,765 I may change so much that you don't like me anymore. 115 00:05:32,797 --> 00:05:33,741 I hope that doesn't happen. 116 00:05:33,765 --> 00:05:35,773 But you may change and I don't like you anymore. 117 00:05:35,821 --> 00:05:36,797 I hope that doesn't happen. 118 00:05:36,853 --> 00:05:37,837 I'm going to try to. 119 00:05:37,973 --> 00:05:38,557 You can change. 120 00:05:38,613 --> 00:05:40,109 I'm going to try to love you anyway. 121 00:05:40,189 --> 00:05:41,533 And I hope you'll do the same. 122 00:05:41,621 --> 00:05:46,293 But I'm grateful that I know Jesus Christ will never change. 123 00:05:46,381 --> 00:05:48,789 He is still doing what he's always done. 124 00:05:48,909 --> 00:05:51,077 I don't do things the way I did 20 years ago. 125 00:05:51,133 --> 00:05:55,189 I don't do hardly anything the way I did for sure, 40 years ago, 126 00:05:55,309 --> 00:05:57,045 even 10 years ago, five years ago. 127 00:05:57,117 --> 00:05:59,445 So many things in my life has changed. 128 00:05:59,637 --> 00:06:04,325 But I am sure glad that he is still doing what he's always done. 129 00:06:04,477 --> 00:06:07,909 I am so glad that in easy times and hard times, he's still 130 00:06:07,949 --> 00:06:09,477 doing what he's always done. 131 00:06:09,613 --> 00:06:13,313 I am glad that in pleasant weather and in the storms of life, 132 00:06:13,421 --> 00:06:15,705 he is still doing what he's always done. 133 00:06:15,777 --> 00:06:18,549 Jesus Christ is not going to change. 134 00:06:18,849 --> 00:06:20,233 He's my rock. 135 00:06:20,361 --> 00:06:21,709 He's steadfast. 136 00:06:22,369 --> 00:06:24,025 He's our strong tower. 137 00:06:24,137 --> 00:06:25,801 And he is never going to change. 138 00:06:25,985 --> 00:06:31,065 The righteous run to the Strong tower when times are bad and 139 00:06:31,137 --> 00:06:34,249 they'll find fortification there. 140 00:06:34,369 --> 00:06:35,929 He's still doing what he's always done. 141 00:06:35,969 --> 00:06:39,529 I'm glad that he's not bound by time to be changed by it. 142 00:06:39,569 --> 00:06:43,695 I'm glad that he's not bound by cultures and societies to be changed 143 00:06:43,727 --> 00:06:44,367 by it. 144 00:06:44,503 --> 00:06:47,615 You think about how quickly and how much and how quickly our 145 00:06:47,687 --> 00:06:51,179 society and culture has changed in the last 10 years. 146 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:54,143 I mean, seriously, it's mind boggling. 147 00:06:54,191 --> 00:06:56,191 I'm not going to go into it all, but just all you have to do 148 00:06:56,215 --> 00:06:59,647 is consider it and then be grateful that God doesn't change 149 00:06:59,703 --> 00:07:00,863 with the societies. 150 00:07:00,991 --> 00:07:03,743 Jesus doesn't change as culture changes. 151 00:07:03,791 --> 00:07:05,935 He's rock, he's rock steady. 152 00:07:06,047 --> 00:07:06,863 He's like a rock. 153 00:07:06,911 --> 00:07:07,261 He's. 154 00:07:07,335 --> 00:07:08,549 He's steadfast. 155 00:07:09,289 --> 00:07:11,921 And I'm glad that he's doing now what he's always done. 156 00:07:11,945 --> 00:07:14,465 He said in Malachi chapter three, verse six, for I am the Lord. 157 00:07:14,497 --> 00:07:16,657 By the way, I'm sorry, if you want to go ahead and turn to Luke 158 00:07:16,833 --> 00:07:21,697 chapter 18, I'll be there in just a moment, but Jesus said, or 159 00:07:21,753 --> 00:07:26,545 God said in Malachi 3, 6, I am the Lord, I change not. 160 00:07:26,617 --> 00:07:29,425 I am the Lord, I change not. 161 00:07:29,497 --> 00:07:30,129 We need that. 162 00:07:30,169 --> 00:07:31,345 We think we love change. 163 00:07:31,417 --> 00:07:34,257 But how much of us would really enjoy it if God were to change 164 00:07:34,313 --> 00:07:36,029 on us like we change on Him? 165 00:07:36,589 --> 00:07:37,685 Not at all. 166 00:07:37,837 --> 00:07:39,093 I change not. 167 00:07:39,181 --> 00:07:40,981 I'm glad we have that promise. 168 00:07:41,125 --> 00:07:42,165 I change not. 169 00:07:42,237 --> 00:07:45,749 And in Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today 170 00:07:45,789 --> 00:07:46,609 and what? 171 00:07:47,309 --> 00:07:48,421 Oh come on now. 172 00:07:48,525 --> 00:07:52,789 Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever. 173 00:07:52,949 --> 00:07:53,461 Forever. 174 00:07:53,525 --> 00:07:54,769 I change not. 175 00:07:55,069 --> 00:07:56,181 Praise the Lord. 176 00:07:56,325 --> 00:07:57,493 So what he is still doing. 177 00:07:57,581 --> 00:08:00,469 So what is he still doing today that he's always done? 178 00:08:00,509 --> 00:08:03,281 I want to look at a couple of things that he did in the past and 179 00:08:03,305 --> 00:08:05,793 I want to see how he's still doing those things today. 180 00:08:05,961 --> 00:08:09,229 So first of all, you and I understand and we know this. 181 00:08:09,689 --> 00:08:12,977 And if you don't know it, please read the Bible or trust me. 182 00:08:13,113 --> 00:08:15,629 He raised the dead to life. 183 00:08:16,089 --> 00:08:19,361 Jesus Christ raised the dead to life. 184 00:08:19,465 --> 00:08:23,073 Luke chapter seven tells us that he raised to life the son of 185 00:08:23,081 --> 00:08:24,321 the widow of Nain. 186 00:08:24,465 --> 00:08:28,401 If you read in Luke chapter seven and then in Luke chapter eight, 187 00:08:28,585 --> 00:08:31,909 we see that he raised to life the daughter of jairus. 188 00:08:32,329 --> 00:08:33,473 Luke chapter 8. 189 00:08:33,561 --> 00:08:37,009 And then of course in John chapter 11, he said, Lazarus come 190 00:08:37,049 --> 00:08:37,313 forth. 191 00:08:37,361 --> 00:08:38,769 And we all know that story. 192 00:08:38,889 --> 00:08:41,549 He brought Lazarus back to life. 193 00:08:42,009 --> 00:08:43,949 Alright, well, he did that back then. 194 00:08:44,409 --> 00:08:47,105 I mean, there are a lot of false prophets out there. 195 00:08:47,177 --> 00:08:47,793 Not many. 196 00:08:47,881 --> 00:08:50,529 I've heard of a few false prophets out there who claim to have 197 00:08:50,569 --> 00:08:52,209 raised the dead to life. 198 00:08:52,329 --> 00:08:54,721 But if that had happened, every one of us in here would have 199 00:08:54,745 --> 00:08:56,929 heard that that didn't happen. 200 00:08:57,229 --> 00:09:00,661 Nobody can raise the dead to life today like Jesus did when he 201 00:09:00,685 --> 00:09:01,909 was walking the earth. 202 00:09:02,069 --> 00:09:03,557 So how is he doing it today? 203 00:09:03,693 --> 00:09:05,089 You're looking at one. 204 00:09:05,389 --> 00:09:07,013 You're looking at one. 205 00:09:07,181 --> 00:09:09,973 I was dead in sin, and he raised me to life. 206 00:09:10,061 --> 00:09:11,877 He raised me from the dead. 207 00:09:11,973 --> 00:09:13,429 Romans 5:12 says this. 208 00:09:13,469 --> 00:09:17,189 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, that one 209 00:09:17,229 --> 00:09:18,341 man was Adam. 210 00:09:18,485 --> 00:09:22,421 And as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, 211 00:09:22,485 --> 00:09:24,709 and so death passed upon all men. 212 00:09:24,829 --> 00:09:27,013 For that all have sinned. 213 00:09:27,141 --> 00:09:29,029 Now, we're all going to eventually die. 214 00:09:29,109 --> 00:09:32,661 But when we were born, we inherited that sinful nature. 215 00:09:32,805 --> 00:09:37,189 And so because of that, we are already born dead. 216 00:09:37,349 --> 00:09:38,933 I mean, dead in sin. 217 00:09:39,061 --> 00:09:40,261 We don't have. 218 00:09:40,445 --> 00:09:44,517 We did not have that inherent communication with God that we have 219 00:09:44,573 --> 00:09:46,069 now that we're saved. 220 00:09:46,229 --> 00:09:48,501 Our spirit was dead to the things of God. 221 00:09:48,565 --> 00:09:49,209 Dead. 222 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:55,887 Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 1 says, and you. 223 00:09:55,943 --> 00:09:57,679 He's talking to me, and I'm talking to you. 224 00:09:57,719 --> 00:10:02,703 And you, if you're saved, you hath he quickened. 225 00:10:02,831 --> 00:10:04,943 And that word quickened means made alive. 226 00:10:05,071 --> 00:10:08,179 Well, why would you need to be made alive if you weren't dead? 227 00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:14,031 I was dead, and Jesus Christ raised me from the dead because I 228 00:10:14,055 --> 00:10:16,335 was dead in my trespasses and sins. 229 00:10:16,447 --> 00:10:17,087 But wait a minute. 230 00:10:17,103 --> 00:10:18,807 That was just the beginning of what he did. 231 00:10:18,903 --> 00:10:20,135 That was just the beginning. 232 00:10:20,247 --> 00:10:23,479 In Philippians 1, verse 6 says, this being confident of this 233 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:27,447 very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform 234 00:10:27,503 --> 00:10:29,619 it until the day of Jesus Christ. 235 00:10:30,079 --> 00:10:31,751 He's going to keep me alive. 236 00:10:31,895 --> 00:10:33,591 I'm glad that it doesn't depend on me. 237 00:10:33,615 --> 00:10:35,943 There are a lot of folks out there, a lot of Christians, a lot 238 00:10:35,951 --> 00:10:38,951 of churches that do not believe once saved, always saved. 239 00:10:39,095 --> 00:10:40,551 You say, I'm saved. 240 00:10:40,615 --> 00:10:43,863 Jesus saved me from my sins, and I can't lose my salvation. 241 00:10:43,991 --> 00:10:46,541 I can't lose it because it's not dependent upon me. 242 00:10:46,695 --> 00:10:48,589 If I could lose it, I would. 243 00:10:49,689 --> 00:10:50,897 I mean, listen to this. 244 00:10:50,953 --> 00:10:53,265 How arrogant do you think a person has to be? 245 00:10:53,337 --> 00:10:58,177 How arrogant, how pompous, how full of themselves does a person 246 00:10:58,233 --> 00:11:03,509 have to be to say, you know, I'm saved by grace? 247 00:11:03,929 --> 00:11:05,009 God saved me. 248 00:11:05,049 --> 00:11:09,189 Jesus shed his blood on the cross and he saved me by his grace. 249 00:11:09,769 --> 00:11:12,309 And I'm saved and I'm on my way to heaven. 250 00:11:13,009 --> 00:11:16,809 But I'm telling you what, there is a chance that I might mess 251 00:11:16,849 --> 00:11:19,189 this thing up and lose it along the way. 252 00:11:19,729 --> 00:11:21,069 But I haven't. 253 00:11:24,289 --> 00:11:25,429 Do you understand? 254 00:11:25,969 --> 00:11:31,481 How pompous, how arrogant does a person have to be to say I'm saved 255 00:11:31,545 --> 00:11:33,949 and I could lose it, But I haven't. 256 00:11:38,539 --> 00:11:40,627 There's not a one of us would make it out of here. 257 00:11:40,683 --> 00:11:42,115 We wouldn't make it through tomorrow. 258 00:11:42,147 --> 00:11:45,571 If we had to depend on our good works, on our goodness to get 259 00:11:45,595 --> 00:11:46,707 us to heaven. 260 00:11:46,883 --> 00:11:50,883 Every one of us in here, we'd find our way on a quick path to hell. 261 00:11:50,931 --> 00:11:52,275 There's no doubt about that. 262 00:11:52,427 --> 00:11:55,075 But I'm glad that it doesn't depend on me. 263 00:11:55,227 --> 00:11:56,723 It's not dependent on me. 264 00:11:56,811 --> 00:11:58,499 Jesus Christ saved me. 265 00:11:58,619 --> 00:12:02,771 And that thing that he started in me, I'm confident that that which 266 00:12:02,795 --> 00:12:06,629 he hath begun, he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. 267 00:12:06,669 --> 00:12:08,933 Until he comes to give me, I'm redeemed. 268 00:12:08,981 --> 00:12:11,525 And he said, you know what a redeemer, you know what a redemption 269 00:12:11,557 --> 00:12:12,533 ticket is, right? 270 00:12:12,621 --> 00:12:14,809 How many of you ever pawned your guitar? 271 00:12:16,349 --> 00:12:18,965 Am I the only one who ever pawns your guitar? 272 00:12:18,997 --> 00:12:19,781 Come on now. 273 00:12:19,885 --> 00:12:22,289 How many ever pawned something? 274 00:12:24,189 --> 00:12:25,157 Oh, my soul. 275 00:12:25,253 --> 00:12:25,717 Come on. 276 00:12:25,773 --> 00:12:28,609 If you pawn something in your life, go ahead and raise your hand. 277 00:12:28,989 --> 00:12:30,411 All right, that's more like it. 278 00:12:30,435 --> 00:12:33,599 Well, I'm surprised more of you have not pawned anything. 279 00:12:36,419 --> 00:12:38,651 Well, you know what happens when you take something to the pawn 280 00:12:38,715 --> 00:12:39,099 shop? 281 00:12:39,179 --> 00:12:39,787 They give you. 282 00:12:39,843 --> 00:12:42,651 Well, first they ask you, you want to sell it or pawn it. 283 00:12:42,835 --> 00:12:45,611 And if you say, well, I want to come back and get it, I'll just 284 00:12:45,635 --> 00:12:48,763 pawn it, they'll give you a ticket, it's called a redemption 285 00:12:48,811 --> 00:12:49,579 ticket. 286 00:12:49,739 --> 00:12:50,763 And you hold onto that. 287 00:12:50,771 --> 00:12:53,739 And then when you're ready to come get it back, you give them that 288 00:12:53,779 --> 00:12:56,063 redemption ticket and they give you your item back. 289 00:12:56,211 --> 00:12:58,871 Do you know that Jesus Christ redeemed us? 290 00:12:59,055 --> 00:13:01,659 He redeemed us our salvation. 291 00:13:01,999 --> 00:13:03,383 A word is called redemption. 292 00:13:03,431 --> 00:13:05,271 I've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. 293 00:13:05,335 --> 00:13:06,979 I've been bought back. 294 00:13:07,599 --> 00:13:12,151 I was lost and undone and Jesus Christ bought me back with 295 00:13:12,175 --> 00:13:12,615 his blood. 296 00:13:12,647 --> 00:13:14,151 He redeemed me. 297 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:16,551 I'm his, I'm not my own. 298 00:13:16,735 --> 00:13:18,231 And his blood is keeping me. 299 00:13:18,255 --> 00:13:19,079 Oh, I want to show you something. 300 00:13:19,119 --> 00:13:19,799 Look at this. 301 00:13:19,919 --> 00:13:23,365 I always get carried away when I do this, but I love it. 302 00:13:23,437 --> 00:13:25,169 Look at Romans chapter 6. 303 00:13:25,549 --> 00:13:26,725 Don't lose your place in Luke. 304 00:13:26,757 --> 00:13:27,637 We'll come back there in a minute. 305 00:13:27,653 --> 00:13:29,269 But I want you to look at Romans chapter six. 306 00:13:29,309 --> 00:13:30,929 No, I believe it's chapter seven. 307 00:13:31,229 --> 00:13:32,929 Look at Romans chapter seven. 308 00:13:34,909 --> 00:13:35,573 Yeah. 309 00:13:35,701 --> 00:13:36,853 Romans chapter seven. 310 00:13:36,941 --> 00:13:38,529 Say amen when you get there. 311 00:13:39,229 --> 00:13:40,689 Romans chapter seven. 312 00:13:42,829 --> 00:13:44,021 Alright, this side, right here. 313 00:13:44,045 --> 00:13:44,849 Are you there? 314 00:13:45,549 --> 00:13:47,763 Right here, right here. 315 00:13:47,941 --> 00:13:48,839 Romans, chapter seven. 316 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:49,607 Y'all here? 317 00:13:49,743 --> 00:13:50,551 Romans, chapter seven. 318 00:13:50,575 --> 00:13:52,619 Look at the very first, look at the first verse. 319 00:13:53,199 --> 00:13:56,679 He says, know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that 320 00:13:56,719 --> 00:13:57,287 know the law. 321 00:13:57,343 --> 00:13:59,335 Alright, now he's talking to the church at Rome. 322 00:13:59,367 --> 00:14:02,471 And within the church of Rome, there are a lot of Jews, a lot of 323 00:14:02,495 --> 00:14:03,143 Jewish Christians. 324 00:14:03,191 --> 00:14:05,287 That's why he says, I speak to them that know the law. 325 00:14:05,423 --> 00:14:08,343 He says, I speak to them that know the law how that the law hath 326 00:14:08,391 --> 00:14:10,503 dominion over man as long as he liveth. 327 00:14:10,631 --> 00:14:12,615 Now he's asking them, you know how that happens? 328 00:14:12,647 --> 00:14:15,659 He says, all right, so he says, for the woman which hath an 329 00:14:15,699 --> 00:14:20,267 husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives. 330 00:14:20,403 --> 00:14:23,851 But if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her 331 00:14:23,875 --> 00:14:24,559 husband. 332 00:14:24,979 --> 00:14:27,915 So then if while her husband liveth, she be married to another 333 00:14:27,987 --> 00:14:30,059 man, she shall be called an adulteress. 334 00:14:30,139 --> 00:14:34,011 But if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so that 335 00:14:34,035 --> 00:14:37,227 she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 336 00:14:37,283 --> 00:14:39,963 And then he jumps into, wherefore, my brethren? 337 00:14:40,011 --> 00:14:43,309 He says, because of all of this, wherefore, my brethren, you 338 00:14:43,349 --> 00:14:46,749 are also become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you 339 00:14:46,789 --> 00:14:50,621 should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the 340 00:14:50,645 --> 00:14:50,941 dead. 341 00:14:51,005 --> 00:14:55,645 All right, now let me say the context is not marriage and divorce. 342 00:14:55,837 --> 00:14:59,609 The context in that passage right there is eternal security. 343 00:15:00,309 --> 00:15:01,277 He's talking to those. 344 00:15:01,333 --> 00:15:05,405 He's using the law, which the Gentiles are not under the law. 345 00:15:05,477 --> 00:15:08,213 And so he's not trying to bring the law into their life. 346 00:15:08,341 --> 00:15:11,941 He's just using the law as an illustration to make a spiritual 347 00:15:12,005 --> 00:15:12,565 point. 348 00:15:12,717 --> 00:15:15,061 All right, so now I want you to go ahead and turn with me to Revelation, 349 00:15:15,125 --> 00:15:16,133 chapter one. 350 00:15:16,301 --> 00:15:21,301 So what he's saying is that, hey guys, you know how that in the 351 00:15:21,325 --> 00:15:25,701 law, a woman, when she's married, she's bound by the law to 352 00:15:25,725 --> 00:15:29,989 her husband as long as he's alive, but when he dies, she's free 353 00:15:30,029 --> 00:15:30,549 from the law. 354 00:15:30,589 --> 00:15:32,533 And then she can be married to whoever she wants. 355 00:15:32,581 --> 00:15:34,189 And then the same rule applies. 356 00:15:34,309 --> 00:15:36,449 She's bound to him until he dies. 357 00:15:36,949 --> 00:15:39,997 And then he says, that's what happened to us. 358 00:15:40,133 --> 00:15:42,797 He said, we were bound to the law. 359 00:15:42,933 --> 00:15:44,541 We were bound to the law. 360 00:15:44,725 --> 00:15:50,205 And he says, but then when Jesus Christ died on the cross, in 361 00:15:50,277 --> 00:15:52,845 essence the law went with him, the law, not dead. 362 00:15:52,877 --> 00:15:55,981 Jesus said, I didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the 363 00:15:56,005 --> 00:15:56,237 law. 364 00:15:56,293 --> 00:15:58,605 So the law went with him to the cross. 365 00:15:58,637 --> 00:16:00,653 And so when we Accepted Christ as our Savior. 366 00:16:00,701 --> 00:16:02,277 We entered into his death. 367 00:16:02,453 --> 00:16:02,837 Then. 368 00:16:02,893 --> 00:16:03,909 Now, I want you to notice. 369 00:16:03,989 --> 00:16:05,109 And then when we. 370 00:16:05,229 --> 00:16:09,461 So when we were free from the law, we need a new wife, so to speak. 371 00:16:09,525 --> 00:16:10,117 I mean, a husband. 372 00:16:10,133 --> 00:16:11,685 We need a new husband, so to speak. 373 00:16:11,717 --> 00:16:14,357 And that new husband that we chose was Jesus Christ. 374 00:16:14,413 --> 00:16:16,165 We are the bride of Christ. 375 00:16:16,317 --> 00:16:17,205 Now I want you to notice. 376 00:16:17,237 --> 00:16:19,009 Are you in Revelation, chapter one? 377 00:16:19,389 --> 00:16:20,805 All right, now I want you to look at. 378 00:16:20,877 --> 00:16:22,009 Let's see, verse. 379 00:16:22,669 --> 00:16:25,685 Look at verse, boy. 380 00:16:25,717 --> 00:16:26,245 It's this. 381 00:16:26,317 --> 00:16:27,141 This can get way up here. 382 00:16:27,165 --> 00:16:30,313 Let's just go to verse 17. 383 00:16:30,481 --> 00:16:34,269 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. 384 00:16:34,689 --> 00:16:38,617 And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not. 385 00:16:38,753 --> 00:16:40,153 I am the first and the last. 386 00:16:40,241 --> 00:16:41,065 Now, don't let. 387 00:16:41,137 --> 00:16:43,417 Don't, don't let this be lost on you. 388 00:16:43,553 --> 00:16:45,869 I am he that liveth. 389 00:16:46,449 --> 00:16:47,801 I was dead. 390 00:16:47,945 --> 00:16:51,229 And behold, I am alive forevermore. 391 00:16:51,729 --> 00:16:52,793 Do you understand? 392 00:16:52,961 --> 00:16:54,761 Do you see the connection here? 393 00:16:54,945 --> 00:17:00,825 He said In Romans, chapter 7 that the marriage contract is contingent 394 00:17:00,857 --> 00:17:03,309 upon the life of the husband. 395 00:17:04,209 --> 00:17:06,825 And if the husband dies, then the wife is free. 396 00:17:06,977 --> 00:17:08,869 But look what we have right here. 397 00:17:09,169 --> 00:17:11,189 Do you see what our husband just said? 398 00:17:11,969 --> 00:17:14,025 He said, I am he that liveth. 399 00:17:14,137 --> 00:17:15,129 I'm alive right now. 400 00:17:15,169 --> 00:17:16,409 I was dead. 401 00:17:16,569 --> 00:17:19,321 But behold, I am alive forevermore. 402 00:17:19,385 --> 00:17:22,389 I cannot lose my salvation because it's not. 403 00:17:22,849 --> 00:17:24,249 Not contingent upon me. 404 00:17:24,289 --> 00:17:27,589 It's contingent upon Jesus Christ dying again. 405 00:17:27,969 --> 00:17:29,369 And he's never going to do that. 406 00:17:29,409 --> 00:17:30,681 He's going to live forever. 407 00:17:30,825 --> 00:17:31,593 Hallelujah. 408 00:17:31,641 --> 00:17:33,113 He changes not. 409 00:17:33,281 --> 00:17:37,273 I'm telling you, I am so glad that I am saved. 410 00:17:37,321 --> 00:17:37,897 But that was just. 411 00:17:37,953 --> 00:17:39,241 That's not even in my notes. 412 00:17:39,385 --> 00:17:41,785 That's how I always end up going past time. 413 00:17:41,937 --> 00:17:43,273 Because that's not in my notes. 414 00:17:43,321 --> 00:17:45,449 But that's a good rabbit right there, isn't it? 415 00:17:45,569 --> 00:17:46,709 That's a good one. 416 00:17:47,169 --> 00:17:48,869 Now, I want you to notice something. 417 00:17:49,329 --> 00:17:52,201 He raised the dead to life back then, and he's still doing it 418 00:17:52,225 --> 00:17:52,457 today. 419 00:17:52,513 --> 00:17:54,149 I'm living proof of that. 420 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:58,073 Man, when I was dead, I was nasty, ugly, smelt bad and everything. 421 00:17:58,161 --> 00:18:00,377 It was just a rotten life that I lived. 422 00:18:00,473 --> 00:18:01,929 Dead to the things of God. 423 00:18:02,009 --> 00:18:04,029 I didn't want anything to do with God. 424 00:18:05,569 --> 00:18:06,313 Nothing. 425 00:18:06,441 --> 00:18:09,321 The only thing I had to do with God when I was lost was use 426 00:18:09,345 --> 00:18:10,313 his name in vain. 427 00:18:10,441 --> 00:18:11,481 That's it. 428 00:18:11,665 --> 00:18:13,069 But not anymore. 429 00:18:13,489 --> 00:18:15,465 He brought me to life. 430 00:18:15,617 --> 00:18:16,569 He brought me to life. 431 00:18:16,609 --> 00:18:19,113 He quickened me by his spirit. 432 00:18:19,241 --> 00:18:21,509 When I trusted in him as my savior, He. 433 00:18:21,649 --> 00:18:23,261 Well, the second thing is this. 434 00:18:23,365 --> 00:18:27,245 He gave sight to the blind back then when he was on the earth. 435 00:18:27,277 --> 00:18:28,205 He gave sight to the blind. 436 00:18:28,237 --> 00:18:29,533 He hasn't changed a bit. 437 00:18:29,701 --> 00:18:31,965 I mean, he has not changed. 438 00:18:32,077 --> 00:18:33,645 He gave sight to the blind. 439 00:18:33,757 --> 00:18:34,269 Luke 18. 440 00:18:34,309 --> 00:18:35,453 I'm going to go ahead and read it. 441 00:18:35,541 --> 00:18:36,733 Luke 18, you're there. 442 00:18:36,821 --> 00:18:38,269 Verse 35 through 43. 443 00:18:38,309 --> 00:18:41,869 And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain 444 00:18:41,909 --> 00:18:44,849 blind man sat by the wayside, begging. 445 00:18:45,189 --> 00:18:46,957 When y'all read the Bible, do you actually. 446 00:18:47,013 --> 00:18:47,949 Do you picture all this? 447 00:18:47,989 --> 00:18:48,909 Do you put yourself there? 448 00:18:48,949 --> 00:18:51,009 Do you try to, you know, are you walking down the streets? 449 00:18:51,149 --> 00:18:52,105 Isn't that awesome? 450 00:18:52,217 --> 00:18:55,161 He said he sat by the wayside, begging. 451 00:18:55,305 --> 00:18:58,441 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. 452 00:18:58,585 --> 00:19:02,041 And they told him, jesus of Nazareth passeth by. 453 00:19:02,145 --> 00:19:05,481 And he cried, saying, jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on 454 00:19:05,505 --> 00:19:05,929 me. 455 00:19:06,049 --> 00:19:09,641 And they which went before rebuked him that he should hold his 456 00:19:09,665 --> 00:19:09,913 peace. 457 00:19:09,961 --> 00:19:13,289 But he cried so much the more, thou son of David, have mercy on 458 00:19:13,329 --> 00:19:13,865 me. 459 00:19:14,017 --> 00:19:16,601 And Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him. 460 00:19:16,625 --> 00:19:19,247 And when he was come near, he asked him, saying, what wilt thou 461 00:19:19,263 --> 00:19:20,623 that I shall do unto thee? 462 00:19:20,751 --> 00:19:23,299 And he said, lord, that I may receive my sight. 463 00:19:23,639 --> 00:19:26,351 And Jesus said unto him, receive thy sight. 464 00:19:26,495 --> 00:19:28,671 Thy faith hath saved thee. 465 00:19:28,815 --> 00:19:33,919 And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying 466 00:19:33,999 --> 00:19:34,495 God. 467 00:19:34,607 --> 00:19:38,899 And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God. 468 00:19:39,239 --> 00:19:42,495 I'm telling you, when I received this new life in Christ. 469 00:19:42,567 --> 00:19:44,879 And this is your testimony as well. 470 00:19:44,919 --> 00:19:48,303 If you're saved this morning, you have the same testimony. 471 00:19:48,351 --> 00:19:53,039 When you receive that new life, you also receive new sight. 472 00:19:53,199 --> 00:19:56,671 I mean, when you were born again, he opened up your eyes to 473 00:19:56,695 --> 00:19:57,699 the truth. 474 00:19:58,199 --> 00:19:59,375 To the truth. 475 00:19:59,567 --> 00:20:02,607 We might have known smidgens of truth here and there. 476 00:20:02,663 --> 00:20:04,143 We weren't completely ignorant. 477 00:20:04,191 --> 00:20:05,151 We knew truth. 478 00:20:05,215 --> 00:20:09,935 We were academically astute, maybe, but we didn't really know 479 00:20:10,007 --> 00:20:10,399 truth. 480 00:20:10,479 --> 00:20:12,069 We didn't know God's truth. 481 00:20:12,199 --> 00:20:14,857 When I got saved, all of a sudden things were different. 482 00:20:14,913 --> 00:20:16,989 I mean, I had a whole new worldview. 483 00:20:17,489 --> 00:20:20,553 I knew all of a sudden it was abortion was wrong. 484 00:20:20,601 --> 00:20:22,589 I knew homosexuality was wrong. 485 00:20:22,929 --> 00:20:24,713 I knew that drugs and alcohol. 486 00:20:24,761 --> 00:20:26,729 I just knew that Christians didn't live like that. 487 00:20:26,769 --> 00:20:29,049 There were just truths that just came to me. 488 00:20:29,089 --> 00:20:30,393 He opened my eyes. 489 00:20:30,521 --> 00:20:32,269 He gave me understanding. 490 00:20:33,089 --> 00:20:35,417 And he did the same for you, I suppose. 491 00:20:35,513 --> 00:20:39,113 You know, the problem is, the older we get, the less we keep our 492 00:20:39,121 --> 00:20:41,355 eyes open, the older we get in the Lord. 493 00:20:41,387 --> 00:20:44,731 We have a tendency to shut our eyes to certain things, but that 494 00:20:44,755 --> 00:20:45,499 doesn't make it right. 495 00:20:45,539 --> 00:20:47,119 He still gave us truth. 496 00:20:47,459 --> 00:20:48,731 He gave us truth. 497 00:20:48,875 --> 00:20:51,019 He opened my eyes to the truth. 498 00:20:51,099 --> 00:20:56,719 He said of himself, I am the way, the truth. 499 00:20:57,459 --> 00:20:58,599 And the life. 500 00:20:58,899 --> 00:21:01,691 First he gave me life and then he gave me truth. 501 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:03,919 He opened up my eyes to the truth. 502 00:21:04,339 --> 00:21:05,195 Truth of what? 503 00:21:05,267 --> 00:21:05,879 Everything. 504 00:21:06,549 --> 00:21:09,049 Truth about life, truth about death. 505 00:21:12,149 --> 00:21:13,725 I learned where I didn't learn. 506 00:21:13,757 --> 00:21:15,885 It was honestly, it was an aha moment. 507 00:21:15,917 --> 00:21:17,389 It was a epiphany. 508 00:21:17,469 --> 00:21:19,329 It was the Holy Spirit moment. 509 00:21:19,749 --> 00:21:21,581 All of a sudden I knew where I came from. 510 00:21:21,685 --> 00:21:25,729 I honestly, like everybody else, I thought it came from monkeys. 511 00:21:26,389 --> 00:21:27,149 I really did. 512 00:21:27,189 --> 00:21:31,501 I mean, that's probably how many of you thought you came from 513 00:21:31,525 --> 00:21:33,269 monkeys till you got saved. 514 00:21:34,729 --> 00:21:37,149 Why I feel so alone here today. 515 00:21:37,849 --> 00:21:39,921 You're going to tell me there's nobody in this room that 516 00:21:39,945 --> 00:21:40,785 believed in evolution. 517 00:21:40,817 --> 00:21:43,149 When you were growing up, how many of you went to public school? 518 00:21:44,649 --> 00:21:47,073 Alright, you went to public school, you believed in evolution 519 00:21:47,121 --> 00:21:48,385 because they crammed it down your throat. 520 00:21:48,417 --> 00:21:49,669 They didn't give you a choice. 521 00:21:51,289 --> 00:21:55,121 I went to public school and I've said it many times. 522 00:21:55,225 --> 00:21:58,371 You know, I may have had a lot of relatives swung by their neck, 523 00:21:58,505 --> 00:22:03,899 never had any of them swing by their tail, but I believed I did. 524 00:22:04,439 --> 00:22:06,495 When I went through public school, that's all I knew. 525 00:22:06,527 --> 00:22:08,111 I just accepted it, right? 526 00:22:08,295 --> 00:22:11,247 But one day I was driving down the road, I mean, just not long. 527 00:22:11,303 --> 00:22:13,951 It couldn't have been more than a few days to a week after I 528 00:22:13,975 --> 00:22:15,215 received Christ as my Savior. 529 00:22:15,247 --> 00:22:17,775 And I began having these thoughts, all these new things, seeing 530 00:22:17,807 --> 00:22:19,459 life from totally different eyes. 531 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:25,699 And I remember, I remember at a red light in the company truck, 532 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:31,471 just all of a sudden I remember saying out loud, wait a 533 00:22:31,495 --> 00:22:32,099 minute. 534 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:37,551 If I'm a Christian now and the Bible is true, and I believe that 535 00:22:37,575 --> 00:22:41,699 it is, that means I didn't come from a monkey. 536 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:44,271 Adam and Eve are my first parents. 537 00:22:44,335 --> 00:22:45,087 I'm serious. 538 00:22:45,183 --> 00:22:46,287 It came to me like that. 539 00:22:46,343 --> 00:22:48,191 God gave me truth. 540 00:22:48,255 --> 00:22:49,199 He gave me life. 541 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:51,675 And then he opened up my eyes and gave me truth. 542 00:22:51,807 --> 00:22:55,395 He's still doing today what he did back then when he was walking 543 00:22:55,427 --> 00:22:55,987 the earth. 544 00:22:56,083 --> 00:23:01,171 He gave life and he helped people to see who were blind. 545 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:02,771 He gave sight to the blind. 546 00:23:02,835 --> 00:23:06,599 The scales were lifted off of my eyes, of my understanding. 547 00:23:07,819 --> 00:23:10,067 All of a sudden I knew why I was here. 548 00:23:10,203 --> 00:23:13,459 I had no clue before that my life had no purpose. 549 00:23:13,619 --> 00:23:16,947 I thought my purpose was to work, get my paycheck, party work, 550 00:23:17,003 --> 00:23:21,835 get my paycheck, party work, get my paycheck, etc. 551 00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:22,479 Etc. 552 00:23:23,059 --> 00:23:26,219 Boy, when I got saved, when he gave me life and he opened up my 553 00:23:26,259 --> 00:23:29,323 eyes and gave me sight, I also I understood. 554 00:23:29,371 --> 00:23:30,827 I'm here to serve him. 555 00:23:30,963 --> 00:23:31,547 I'm here. 556 00:23:31,603 --> 00:23:33,035 My life is here for a purpose. 557 00:23:33,067 --> 00:23:36,939 And that purpose is to glorify God the Creator, the One who made 558 00:23:36,979 --> 00:23:37,323 me. 559 00:23:37,411 --> 00:23:40,427 And I understood, without even having a sermon thrown at me, that 560 00:23:40,483 --> 00:23:42,891 I was going to have to go back to him one of these days and give 561 00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:44,219 an account for this life. 562 00:23:44,259 --> 00:23:45,799 And I wanted to make it count. 563 00:23:46,999 --> 00:23:49,119 I didn't want to go back empty handed. 564 00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:51,503 I knew I was going to have to meet him one day. 565 00:23:51,591 --> 00:23:54,059 I just knew that I didn't have a sermon on it. 566 00:23:55,159 --> 00:23:57,247 He gave me understanding. 567 00:23:57,423 --> 00:23:59,135 And then I want you to notice something else. 568 00:23:59,167 --> 00:24:01,967 He calls the deaf to hear and the mute to speak when he was walking 569 00:24:01,983 --> 00:24:02,959 the earth, didn't He? 570 00:24:03,079 --> 00:24:05,007 He caused the deaf to hear and the mute to speak. 571 00:24:05,023 --> 00:24:07,151 I'm going to Read Mark Chapter 7 if you want to turn over there 572 00:24:07,175 --> 00:24:07,711 as well. 573 00:24:07,815 --> 00:24:10,655 I'm going to go ahead and begin in Mark chapter 7, beginning 574 00:24:10,687 --> 00:24:11,551 in verse 31. 575 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:15,551 I'm going to read down through 37 Mark 7, verse 31. 576 00:24:15,575 --> 00:24:18,255 The Bible says, and again, departing from the coast of Tyre 577 00:24:18,287 --> 00:24:21,295 and Sidon, he came into the Sea of Galilee, through the midst 578 00:24:21,327 --> 00:24:22,879 of the coast of Decapolis. 579 00:24:22,959 --> 00:24:26,447 And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment 580 00:24:26,463 --> 00:24:27,619 in his speech. 581 00:24:27,959 --> 00:24:30,591 And they beseeched him to put his hand upon him. 582 00:24:30,695 --> 00:24:33,279 And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into 583 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,231 his ears, and he spit and touched his tongue, and looking up 584 00:24:37,255 --> 00:24:38,223 to heaven, he sighed. 585 00:24:38,271 --> 00:24:42,373 And he said unto me, ephatha, that is, be opened. 586 00:24:42,501 --> 00:24:45,573 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue 587 00:24:45,621 --> 00:24:47,529 was loosed, and he spake plain. 588 00:24:48,189 --> 00:24:50,341 And he charged them that they should tell no man. 589 00:24:50,365 --> 00:24:54,517 But the more he charged them so much more a great deal. 590 00:24:54,573 --> 00:24:58,421 They published it, and were beyond measure astonished, saying, 591 00:24:58,445 --> 00:25:00,117 he hath done all things well. 592 00:25:00,173 --> 00:25:05,529 He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. 593 00:25:05,979 --> 00:25:10,675 You know, I now can hear and understand the word of God in a way 594 00:25:10,747 --> 00:25:13,279 I could not before Jesus saved me. 595 00:25:14,939 --> 00:25:16,291 First Corinthians, chapter two. 596 00:25:16,315 --> 00:25:18,239 Let me just read it to you and I'll make a comment. 597 00:25:18,619 --> 00:25:22,739 As it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither has 598 00:25:22,779 --> 00:25:26,147 entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared 599 00:25:26,163 --> 00:25:27,475 for them that love him. 600 00:25:27,627 --> 00:25:32,377 But God has revealed them unto his Spirit, unto us by his spirit. 601 00:25:32,523 --> 00:25:35,949 For the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 602 00:25:36,029 --> 00:25:39,085 For what man knows the things of a man, except save the spirit 603 00:25:39,117 --> 00:25:40,349 of man which is in him. 604 00:25:40,469 --> 00:25:43,949 Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of 605 00:25:43,989 --> 00:25:44,609 God. 606 00:25:45,429 --> 00:25:48,125 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit 607 00:25:48,157 --> 00:25:49,341 which is of God. 608 00:25:49,485 --> 00:25:53,325 That we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. 609 00:25:53,517 --> 00:25:56,445 I didn't have the spirit of God dwelling within me before I got 610 00:25:56,517 --> 00:25:57,169 saved. 611 00:25:57,589 --> 00:25:59,891 This book made no sense to me. 612 00:26:00,045 --> 00:26:01,383 I mean, I understood. 613 00:26:01,511 --> 00:26:05,287 I didn't understand, but I could recite Psalm 23. 614 00:26:05,343 --> 00:26:08,179 I could recite part of it, not even all of it. 615 00:26:09,199 --> 00:26:11,059 I didn't understand it. 616 00:26:11,999 --> 00:26:13,939 Why didn't I understand it? 617 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:17,047 Because I didn't have the spirit of God in me. 618 00:26:17,103 --> 00:26:20,487 Because this is a spiritual book and it's only spiritually discerned. 619 00:26:20,583 --> 00:26:23,207 The only way that we can understand it is if the Holy Spirit 620 00:26:23,303 --> 00:26:25,769 gives us understanding and teaches us. 621 00:26:25,879 --> 00:26:28,821 And I'm glad to say that now I know a little bit more than I did 622 00:26:28,845 --> 00:26:29,957 before I got saved. 623 00:26:30,053 --> 00:26:32,357 I'm here to tell you when you do get saved. 624 00:26:32,453 --> 00:26:33,749 Can I get an amen right here? 625 00:26:33,789 --> 00:26:37,093 When you do get saved and you begin to open this book, you realize 626 00:26:37,141 --> 00:26:38,449 how much you don't know. 627 00:26:39,069 --> 00:26:41,541 In fact, I don't even know how much I don't even know. 628 00:26:41,645 --> 00:26:42,821 There's so much in here. 629 00:26:42,845 --> 00:26:44,089 It's so vast. 630 00:26:44,829 --> 00:26:49,689 It's a treasure chest of wisdom, the Word of God. 631 00:26:50,509 --> 00:26:53,209 But now I can understand it some. 632 00:26:53,389 --> 00:26:55,041 I try my best to study it. 633 00:26:55,065 --> 00:26:56,673 I try my best to teach it. 634 00:26:56,761 --> 00:27:00,657 And I leave us all hanging with my finite knowledge of the Word 635 00:27:00,673 --> 00:27:01,429 of God. 636 00:27:02,489 --> 00:27:04,721 But I do know a little bit about it now. 637 00:27:04,825 --> 00:27:05,909 Praise the Lord. 638 00:27:06,409 --> 00:27:09,553 He gave me new ears to understand His Word and how it applies 639 00:27:09,601 --> 00:27:12,529 to me and what my responsibilities are and what his 640 00:27:12,569 --> 00:27:16,481 expectations are for me and how I'm to relate to others and to 641 00:27:16,505 --> 00:27:17,069 Him. 642 00:27:17,449 --> 00:27:21,307 By the way, he did give us this so that we could live for Him. 643 00:27:21,443 --> 00:27:23,003 He gave us understanding. 644 00:27:23,051 --> 00:27:24,507 This tells you how to live for Him. 645 00:27:24,563 --> 00:27:27,079 This will tell you every role in life. 646 00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:29,371 It'll tell you how to be a teenager. 647 00:27:29,515 --> 00:27:31,867 I mean, if you're a teenager, it'll tell you exactly what you're 648 00:27:31,883 --> 00:27:32,699 supposed to do. 649 00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:36,651 If you're a young, unmarried adult, a single adult, it'll tell 650 00:27:36,675 --> 00:27:39,467 you exactly how you're supposed to live your life if you're 651 00:27:39,483 --> 00:27:40,283 a married adult. 652 00:27:40,331 --> 00:27:43,259 If you're married with young children, it'll tell you exactly 653 00:27:43,339 --> 00:27:46,851 how you're supposed to live your life to the glory of God as 654 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:48,279 a young parent. 655 00:27:49,179 --> 00:27:51,319 If you got kids that are teenagers. 656 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:53,439 I don't know. 657 00:27:56,459 --> 00:27:56,867 No. 658 00:27:56,923 --> 00:28:01,267 It'll tell you exactly, exactly how to live as a parent with 659 00:28:01,323 --> 00:28:02,163 teenagers. 660 00:28:02,291 --> 00:28:03,907 It'll tell you how to love them. 661 00:28:04,043 --> 00:28:06,439 It'll tell you don't provoke them to anger. 662 00:28:08,059 --> 00:28:09,331 It'll tell you how to love them. 663 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:13,261 It'll tell you how to raise them if you're a couple who do not 664 00:28:13,285 --> 00:28:14,169 have children. 665 00:28:15,269 --> 00:28:17,997 Do you know that the word of God tells us that the first family 666 00:28:18,053 --> 00:28:19,809 was called Adam and Eve? 667 00:28:24,389 --> 00:28:26,929 Yeah, that's true. 668 00:28:28,949 --> 00:28:34,529 If your kids are out of the house after you start, stop celebrating. 669 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,303 God will tell you in his word how you're to live your life as two 670 00:28:41,391 --> 00:28:43,095 people whose kids are gone. 671 00:28:43,287 --> 00:28:44,819 You know what he tells you? 672 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,871 Love those grandbabies, spoil them as much as you can, and then 673 00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:52,219 give them back to the kids. 674 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:57,031 The fact of the matter is, when my kids were getting up to where 675 00:28:57,055 --> 00:28:59,863 they got ready to move out, I was kind of like, hurry up, hurry 676 00:28:59,911 --> 00:29:01,015 up, hurry up. 677 00:29:01,167 --> 00:29:02,855 I wanted that empty nest syndrome. 678 00:29:02,887 --> 00:29:03,399 I really did. 679 00:29:03,439 --> 00:29:04,899 I was looking forward to it. 680 00:29:05,549 --> 00:29:10,309 Then I told him for the first year, I would tell him, I say I love 681 00:29:10,349 --> 00:29:11,889 you, but I don't miss you. 682 00:29:13,069 --> 00:29:18,981 But then about year two, I was whining, crying, and then grandkids 683 00:29:19,045 --> 00:29:20,129 came into play. 684 00:29:20,829 --> 00:29:22,021 Oh, man. 685 00:29:22,205 --> 00:29:24,849 Now we move close to where the grandkids are. 686 00:29:25,949 --> 00:29:28,597 And now if you're a senior citizen, I'm not there yet. 687 00:29:28,653 --> 00:29:29,157 Almost. 688 00:29:29,293 --> 00:29:31,141 But if you're a senior citizen, guess what? 689 00:29:31,165 --> 00:29:36,133 The word of God tells you exactly how you and that hoary head 690 00:29:36,301 --> 00:29:37,729 are supposed to live. 691 00:29:38,189 --> 00:29:42,809 Every role in life is laid out in the word of God. 692 00:29:43,309 --> 00:29:46,261 And if you're saved, this is your instruction book. 693 00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:47,781 And you can understand it. 694 00:29:47,885 --> 00:29:50,565 God will teach you if you'll just open it. 695 00:29:50,637 --> 00:29:55,381 There's no reason for us to live an ungodly life as a child of 696 00:29:55,405 --> 00:29:56,009 God. 697 00:29:56,509 --> 00:29:57,573 What about the tongue? 698 00:29:57,621 --> 00:29:58,693 Did he give me a new tongue? 699 00:29:58,741 --> 00:29:59,489 He did. 700 00:29:59,979 --> 00:30:02,819 As I said before, the only way I managed to talk about God before 701 00:30:02,859 --> 00:30:05,239 I got saved was to use his name in vain. 702 00:30:05,659 --> 00:30:06,675 But listen to this. 703 00:30:06,747 --> 00:30:11,091 I claim this as my life verse in Psalm chapter 40. 704 00:30:11,275 --> 00:30:14,451 In verse one through three, I waited patiently for the Lord. 705 00:30:14,595 --> 00:30:17,091 He inclined unto me and heard my cry. 706 00:30:17,235 --> 00:30:22,019 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. 707 00:30:22,099 --> 00:30:24,835 And he set my feet upon a rock and established my goings. 708 00:30:24,867 --> 00:30:25,541 Now watch this. 709 00:30:25,635 --> 00:30:29,169 And he put a new song in my mouth. 710 00:30:29,329 --> 00:30:31,233 He put a new song in my mouth. 711 00:30:31,281 --> 00:30:37,825 Even praise unto our God and many shall see it and fear and shall 712 00:30:37,857 --> 00:30:39,109 trust in the Lord. 713 00:30:39,689 --> 00:30:40,065 Yeah. 714 00:30:40,097 --> 00:30:41,589 He loosened my tongue. 715 00:30:42,169 --> 00:30:43,313 He loosened my tongue. 716 00:30:43,361 --> 00:30:46,033 When I first got saved, I couldn't shut up about him. 717 00:30:46,201 --> 00:30:47,681 It got me fired. 718 00:30:47,825 --> 00:30:49,921 I couldn't shut up about Jesus Christ. 719 00:30:50,025 --> 00:30:51,441 He changed my life so much. 720 00:30:51,465 --> 00:30:52,123 I mean, he. 721 00:30:52,161 --> 00:30:53,191 He gave me new life. 722 00:30:53,295 --> 00:30:54,215 He opened my eyes. 723 00:30:54,247 --> 00:30:55,479 He gave me understanding. 724 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:58,199 He helped me to realize what my purpose in life was. 725 00:30:58,239 --> 00:30:59,511 And I couldn't help but to share it. 726 00:30:59,535 --> 00:31:02,439 I wanted to help people understand that they could miss hell 727 00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:03,703 and make heaven. 728 00:31:03,831 --> 00:31:05,543 And I just couldn't shut up about it. 729 00:31:05,631 --> 00:31:06,743 Zeal but no knowledge. 730 00:31:06,791 --> 00:31:09,159 I didn't have any knowledge, but I had a lot of zeal. 731 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:13,063 Just wanted to tell people about Jesus Christ, how he changed 732 00:31:13,111 --> 00:31:13,699 me. 733 00:31:14,399 --> 00:31:15,735 I led this guy to Christ. 734 00:31:15,807 --> 00:31:18,631 When I first came to Fort Worth from Houston, when I came to 735 00:31:18,655 --> 00:31:22,691 Fort Worth to go to Bible college after talking with him, he 736 00:31:22,715 --> 00:31:23,235 was my neighbor. 737 00:31:23,267 --> 00:31:26,451 And I just got under conviction that I needed to talk 738 00:31:26,475 --> 00:31:27,799 to him about Jesus. 739 00:31:28,859 --> 00:31:31,091 And I wasn't even in Bible college yet. 740 00:31:31,115 --> 00:31:32,707 And I didn't know there was a Romans road. 741 00:31:32,763 --> 00:31:35,699 I didn't know there was a systematic way to lead people to 742 00:31:35,739 --> 00:31:36,371 Jesus. 743 00:31:36,515 --> 00:31:39,091 I just knocked on his door and I went and he invited me in. 744 00:31:39,115 --> 00:31:40,915 He let me come in and I sat down for two hours. 745 00:31:40,987 --> 00:31:43,199 I told him about what Jesus did for me. 746 00:31:44,539 --> 00:31:46,515 And I didn't know if he was even convinced. 747 00:31:46,547 --> 00:31:47,235 And I finally. 748 00:31:47,267 --> 00:31:52,433 I just said, matt, man, if I could just knock off your head and 749 00:31:52,521 --> 00:31:55,869 pour into you what I got in me, you'd want it. 750 00:31:56,409 --> 00:31:58,545 I didn't know how to explain it because you know, when you're 751 00:31:58,577 --> 00:31:59,793 saved, it's experiential. 752 00:31:59,841 --> 00:32:01,149 And you know what he said? 753 00:32:02,569 --> 00:32:03,509 Okay. 754 00:32:04,489 --> 00:32:05,425 I said, what? 755 00:32:05,497 --> 00:32:08,561 I mean, two hours I just talked about Jesus and what he did 756 00:32:08,585 --> 00:32:08,977 for me. 757 00:32:09,033 --> 00:32:12,709 I had a story and I shared it with him and he said, okay. 758 00:32:13,609 --> 00:32:14,449 I didn't know any better. 759 00:32:14,489 --> 00:32:17,041 I thought he had to go back to the same barn, get kicked by the 760 00:32:17,065 --> 00:32:17,841 same mule I did. 761 00:32:17,865 --> 00:32:20,103 And so I said, okay, well, let's get down on our knees and pray. 762 00:32:20,201 --> 00:32:22,315 I didn't realize we didn't have to be on our knees to pray. 763 00:32:22,347 --> 00:32:23,787 But that's how I did it. 764 00:32:23,843 --> 00:32:25,291 So I thought he did too. 765 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:28,091 So he knelt down on his knees and he prayed and asked Jesus to 766 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:28,491 save him. 767 00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:30,599 Him and his wife, little girl. 768 00:32:31,059 --> 00:32:32,759 I just had to tell people. 769 00:32:33,539 --> 00:32:34,043 Just. 770 00:32:34,131 --> 00:32:35,403 God loosened my tongue. 771 00:32:35,451 --> 00:32:36,523 He gave me new words. 772 00:32:36,571 --> 00:32:38,279 He gave me something to talk about. 773 00:32:41,379 --> 00:32:45,179 Acts chapter 1, verse 8 says, but when you receive power, after 774 00:32:45,219 --> 00:32:48,331 that, you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come 775 00:32:48,355 --> 00:32:51,695 upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto Me, both in Jerusalem 776 00:32:51,727 --> 00:32:54,991 and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part 777 00:32:55,015 --> 00:32:55,939 of the earth. 778 00:32:57,959 --> 00:32:59,135 We're to be witnesses. 779 00:32:59,167 --> 00:33:01,503 We ought to tell people what we know. 780 00:33:01,671 --> 00:33:04,175 Hey, folks, you were dead. 781 00:33:04,367 --> 00:33:08,191 You were dead in your sins and Jesus gave you life. 782 00:33:08,375 --> 00:33:11,679 And not just life upon this earth, but life eternally. 783 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:14,501 You're going to miss Hell, and you're going to make heaven. 784 00:33:14,695 --> 00:33:17,561 You're going to spend eternity with God and the angels. 785 00:33:17,625 --> 00:33:24,585 And you've got neighbors that are going to hell because you've 786 00:33:24,617 --> 00:33:25,749 never told them. 787 00:33:26,529 --> 00:33:29,289 You've got friends that are going to hell because you never told 788 00:33:29,329 --> 00:33:29,913 them. 789 00:33:30,081 --> 00:33:32,793 You've got family that are going to die, and they're going to 790 00:33:32,801 --> 00:33:37,065 spend an eternity in a lake of fire because you never told them 791 00:33:37,217 --> 00:33:38,309 your story. 792 00:33:39,569 --> 00:33:40,393 Isn't it amazing? 793 00:33:40,441 --> 00:33:43,145 Before we got saved, and even after we're saved, we can talk about 794 00:33:43,217 --> 00:33:47,009 everything else under the sun, even things I don't understand. 795 00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:49,809 I try to talk about them. 796 00:33:50,189 --> 00:33:51,609 I make a good guess. 797 00:33:52,189 --> 00:33:54,629 People find out pretty quick how ignorant I am about the things 798 00:33:54,669 --> 00:33:55,569 I don't understand. 799 00:33:59,389 --> 00:34:00,261 And let me tell you. 800 00:34:00,285 --> 00:34:01,569 Let me help you with something. 801 00:34:01,949 --> 00:34:06,005 When you talk to the people who don't know Jesus, you know 100% 802 00:34:06,077 --> 00:34:07,809 more about Jesus than they do. 803 00:34:08,829 --> 00:34:10,209 So share your story. 804 00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:13,215 Tell somebody how to be saved. 805 00:34:13,247 --> 00:34:16,783 You got God put that word in you, and he gave you the spirit of 806 00:34:16,791 --> 00:34:17,871 God to give you. 807 00:34:18,055 --> 00:34:20,303 He said, when? 808 00:34:20,471 --> 00:34:24,095 I'm going to read it again, because a lot of times people think 809 00:34:24,247 --> 00:34:26,179 this is a verse for missionaries. 810 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,967 When he says, ye shall receive power. 811 00:34:30,023 --> 00:34:31,903 After that, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you. 812 00:34:31,991 --> 00:34:33,979 Well, when did the Holy Ghost come upon you? 813 00:34:34,359 --> 00:34:36,817 Well, he indwelt you when you got saved. 814 00:34:36,983 --> 00:34:39,373 So you can say, he came upon you when you got saved. 815 00:34:39,421 --> 00:34:42,009 You have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. 816 00:34:43,029 --> 00:34:45,933 And so you have everything you need to be able to share that story 817 00:34:46,021 --> 00:34:48,889 effectively and with power. 818 00:34:52,469 --> 00:34:55,645 New life, new eyes, new ears, new tongue. 819 00:34:55,677 --> 00:34:56,941 He gave me new everything. 820 00:34:57,045 --> 00:34:59,437 And you know what he's still doing now? 821 00:34:59,493 --> 00:35:00,845 What he did back then? 822 00:35:00,997 --> 00:35:02,349 Still doing the same thing. 823 00:35:02,389 --> 00:35:03,769 He hadn't changed a bit. 824 00:35:04,659 --> 00:35:05,643 He healed the lame. 825 00:35:05,691 --> 00:35:06,683 I've got to quit. 826 00:35:06,811 --> 00:35:07,803 He healed the lame. 827 00:35:07,851 --> 00:35:08,587 Let me just say this. 828 00:35:08,643 --> 00:35:09,879 Luke, chapter six. 829 00:35:10,899 --> 00:35:12,827 He healed the man with the withered hand. 830 00:35:12,883 --> 00:35:13,547 He healed him. 831 00:35:13,603 --> 00:35:14,411 John, chapter five. 832 00:35:14,435 --> 00:35:16,879 He healed the crippled man at the pool of Bethesda. 833 00:35:17,299 --> 00:35:18,251 And he healed me. 834 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:19,835 He gave me a new purpose for living. 835 00:35:19,947 --> 00:35:23,035 Matthew 10:39 says, he that findeth his life shall lose it. 836 00:35:23,107 --> 00:35:25,639 And he that loseth his life for my sa. 837 00:35:30,349 --> 00:35:31,925 There is pleasure in sin. 838 00:35:32,037 --> 00:35:33,461 There is no doubt about that. 839 00:35:33,565 --> 00:35:34,629 There is pleasure. 840 00:35:34,709 --> 00:35:37,209 The word of God says there's pleasure, but it's fleeting. 841 00:35:37,869 --> 00:35:40,489 It's here for a few minutes and then it's gone. 842 00:35:42,109 --> 00:35:44,009 But eternity is forever. 843 00:35:44,749 --> 00:35:46,489 Eternity is forever. 844 00:35:48,989 --> 00:35:52,489 I find no greater joy in life than serving the Lord. 845 00:35:53,309 --> 00:35:54,819 I had the privilege of. 846 00:35:54,869 --> 00:35:57,575 Was telling this couple over here, I had the privilege of winning, 847 00:35:57,687 --> 00:35:59,699 leading my wife To Jesus Christ. 848 00:36:00,479 --> 00:36:02,979 And you know, my wife, she was 18 years old. 849 00:36:03,359 --> 00:36:05,703 By the time she was 21, I was in Bible College. 850 00:36:05,751 --> 00:36:07,495 So I still had three years to go. 851 00:36:07,647 --> 00:36:10,579 So by the time I finished Bible College, she was 21. 852 00:36:11,119 --> 00:36:14,055 By the time she was 21, she was a pastor's wife. 853 00:36:14,247 --> 00:36:17,623 But she was in ministry because Bible college was ministry. 854 00:36:17,671 --> 00:36:20,135 And if you went to the church I went to down south, Fort Worth, 855 00:36:20,167 --> 00:36:23,299 believe me, you were in full time ministry without pay. 856 00:36:23,999 --> 00:36:26,151 And she was right there with me by my side. 857 00:36:26,255 --> 00:36:29,815 And my wife has never known an adult life without being full time 858 00:36:29,887 --> 00:36:31,991 ministry, full time service to the Lord. 859 00:36:32,135 --> 00:36:35,207 And I can promise you this, and I'm speaking for, because we've 860 00:36:35,223 --> 00:36:36,519 been together a long time. 861 00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:38,231 We wouldn't change a thing. 862 00:36:38,415 --> 00:36:39,575 We wouldn't want. 863 00:36:39,727 --> 00:36:46,359 Not one day where we just left all this behind just so we could 864 00:36:46,399 --> 00:36:48,819 spend a day living it out in the world. 865 00:36:49,289 --> 00:36:50,561 Not one day. 866 00:36:50,745 --> 00:36:52,929 I only have one regret about being saved. 867 00:36:53,009 --> 00:36:53,537 Two. 868 00:36:53,673 --> 00:36:55,329 Two regrets about being saved. 869 00:36:55,409 --> 00:36:57,829 One, I didn't get saved sooner. 870 00:36:58,649 --> 00:37:02,509 And then two, I regret that I'm not a better Christian today. 871 00:37:02,969 --> 00:37:04,029 That's it. 872 00:37:08,169 --> 00:37:14,939 He didn't save me and give me all of these things just so I could 873 00:37:14,979 --> 00:37:16,439 leave him out of my life. 874 00:37:18,659 --> 00:37:20,599 He saved you for him. 875 00:37:21,219 --> 00:37:22,279 For him. 876 00:37:23,219 --> 00:37:23,867 You're his. 877 00:37:23,923 --> 00:37:24,987 You're bought with a price. 878 00:37:25,043 --> 00:37:25,879 You're his. 879 00:37:27,219 --> 00:37:28,347 Live for him. 880 00:37:28,483 --> 00:37:30,779 Jesus is still doing what he's always done. 881 00:37:30,819 --> 00:37:32,399 He's still raising the dead. 882 00:37:33,059 --> 00:37:35,199 He's still giving sight to the blind. 883 00:37:35,619 --> 00:37:38,959 He is still causing the deaf to hear and the mute to speak. 884 00:37:39,379 --> 00:37:41,679 He is still healing the lame. 885 00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:46,679 And there's one more back in the day. 886 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:47,927 And I don't reckon any of us. 887 00:37:47,983 --> 00:37:48,599 Maybe you have. 888 00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:49,479 I haven't. 889 00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:50,711 You ever seen a leper? 890 00:37:50,775 --> 00:37:51,943 I've never seen a leper. 891 00:37:52,071 --> 00:37:53,095 Some of you may have. 892 00:37:53,167 --> 00:37:56,311 There are still leper colonies in the world and there are still 893 00:37:56,335 --> 00:37:59,703 missionaries that actually go to leper colonies and share Jesus 894 00:37:59,751 --> 00:38:00,295 Christ. 895 00:38:00,447 --> 00:38:01,479 But here's what I know. 896 00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:04,299 In the word of God, I read that he cleansed the leper. 897 00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:11,635 And Luke, chapter 17, verse 11 through 14 tells us about that leprosy 898 00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:11,859 while. 899 00:38:11,899 --> 00:38:12,771 And I have this written out. 900 00:38:12,795 --> 00:38:14,099 If you wanted to read that, just read it. 901 00:38:14,139 --> 00:38:17,523 Leprosy, while absolutely real, it is in the word of God. 902 00:38:17,571 --> 00:38:19,747 It is always symbolic of sin. 903 00:38:19,923 --> 00:38:21,959 It is always a picture of sin. 904 00:38:22,299 --> 00:38:23,667 Jesus healed the leprosy. 905 00:38:23,683 --> 00:38:26,019 And here's what we know about leprosy. 906 00:38:26,099 --> 00:38:28,019 It creates separation. 907 00:38:28,179 --> 00:38:32,691 If you have leprosy, you can't be around the other, the regular 908 00:38:32,755 --> 00:38:33,479 population. 909 00:38:34,459 --> 00:38:34,777 And. 910 00:38:34,803 --> 00:38:39,329 And when we are sin sick, it separates us From God. 911 00:38:40,149 --> 00:38:42,013 We can't have the blessings of God. 912 00:38:42,061 --> 00:38:42,493 We can't. 913 00:38:42,541 --> 00:38:43,309 People say, why? 914 00:38:43,349 --> 00:38:45,133 I don't understand why God didn't do this for me. 915 00:38:45,141 --> 00:38:46,221 Or why he allowed this to happen. 916 00:38:46,245 --> 00:38:47,229 Or why he allowed this to happen. 917 00:38:47,269 --> 00:38:47,661 Listen to me. 918 00:38:47,685 --> 00:38:51,693 When you're on the front porch of your house and you've got 10 kids 919 00:38:51,741 --> 00:38:54,349 in the backyard that are playing the neighbor kids, and your 920 00:38:54,389 --> 00:38:59,821 kids, even your brother's kids or your sister's kids, and you hear 921 00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:05,907 10 kids screaming and yelling and then all of a sudden yours falls 922 00:39:05,923 --> 00:39:08,163 off the trampoline and cries. 923 00:39:08,291 --> 00:39:10,963 Do you think you can distinguish your child from all the 924 00:39:10,971 --> 00:39:11,519 others? 925 00:39:13,179 --> 00:39:15,359 You bet you can, because it's your child. 926 00:39:16,139 --> 00:39:17,795 You're familiar with that child, that scream. 927 00:39:17,827 --> 00:39:19,719 There's only one scream like that scream. 928 00:39:22,059 --> 00:39:24,919 I can just hear brother Sam right now saying, ah, that's Bodie 929 00:39:25,579 --> 00:39:26,419 or whoever. 930 00:39:26,499 --> 00:39:27,331 How many boys you got? 931 00:39:27,355 --> 00:39:28,119 Three boys. 932 00:39:28,499 --> 00:39:29,115 Four boys? 933 00:39:29,147 --> 00:39:29,611 Yeah, that's right. 934 00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:30,235 I knew that. 935 00:39:30,307 --> 00:39:32,319 You got a new one, newish. 936 00:39:33,539 --> 00:39:35,627 And you can pick them all out, can't you? 937 00:39:35,763 --> 00:39:37,035 There's no doubt. 938 00:39:37,227 --> 00:39:42,959 And folks, there's a reason why sometimes God doesn't intervene. 939 00:39:44,499 --> 00:39:47,839 Because there is no such thing as the fatherhood of God. 940 00:39:48,419 --> 00:39:49,179 No such thing. 941 00:39:49,219 --> 00:39:50,731 That's not a Bible term. 942 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:52,331 That is a man made term. 943 00:39:52,435 --> 00:39:53,387 The fatherhood of God. 944 00:39:53,403 --> 00:39:55,233 There is no such thing as the fatherhood of God. 945 00:39:55,331 --> 00:40:00,469 Jesus said to those religious leaders who were rejecting him, he 946 00:40:00,509 --> 00:40:03,529 said, you are of your father, the devil. 947 00:40:05,629 --> 00:40:08,805 So until a person actually becomes saved, we're not a child 948 00:40:08,877 --> 00:40:09,769 of God. 949 00:40:14,109 --> 00:40:18,965 Isaiah 59, verse 1 and 2 says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, 950 00:40:18,997 --> 00:40:22,485 that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 951 00:40:22,557 --> 00:40:28,637 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God 952 00:40:28,813 --> 00:40:32,649 and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. 953 00:40:33,189 --> 00:40:37,309 Listen, if you're here this morning and you're not 100% convinced 954 00:40:37,469 --> 00:40:42,077 that Jesus Christ is your savior, if you're not 100% convinced 955 00:40:42,093 --> 00:40:45,853 that you're going to heaven when you die, you can take care of 956 00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:47,049 that right now. 957 00:40:47,349 --> 00:40:51,927 Because Jesus is still doing now what he did back then. 958 00:40:52,063 --> 00:40:53,799 He wants to save you. 959 00:40:53,919 --> 00:40:55,287 He wants to give you life. 960 00:40:55,343 --> 00:40:56,759 You are dead in your sins. 961 00:40:56,839 --> 00:40:59,703 And we all were who are now saved. 962 00:40:59,751 --> 00:41:01,511 We were at one point dead in our sins. 963 00:41:01,575 --> 00:41:03,655 And if you're not 100% sure, you're saved. 964 00:41:03,687 --> 00:41:06,695 If you're not 100% sure that you're going to heaven when you die, 965 00:41:06,727 --> 00:41:07,175 you are. 966 00:41:07,247 --> 00:41:10,819 You're dead in your sin and Jesus wants to give you life. 967 00:41:11,439 --> 00:41:13,699 And I'm telling you, once you get life. 968 00:41:16,569 --> 00:41:18,273 You think you love now. 969 00:41:18,441 --> 00:41:20,829 You wait till Jesus gives you his love. 970 00:41:21,769 --> 00:41:26,033 I remember when I first got saved in April 18, 1984. 971 00:41:26,121 --> 00:41:28,149 And then I had my first Christmas. 972 00:41:31,929 --> 00:41:33,297 I was 20 years old. 973 00:41:33,353 --> 00:41:36,593 I was 21 by that time when I had my first Christmas as a saved 974 00:41:36,641 --> 00:41:37,137 person. 975 00:41:37,273 --> 00:41:42,593 And I remember saying, wow, I feel like I've never even had Christmas 976 00:41:42,641 --> 00:41:47,971 before because now I recognize that this truly really is about Jesus 977 00:41:48,035 --> 00:41:49,523 Christ and about God. 978 00:41:49,571 --> 00:41:51,599 And it opened up my entire life. 979 00:41:51,979 --> 00:41:59,199 I'm telling you, look, all things change. 980 00:41:59,579 --> 00:42:01,599 Time changes everything. 981 00:42:02,779 --> 00:42:07,555 But if you want something that doesn't change, why don't you receive 982 00:42:07,587 --> 00:42:09,645 Jesus Christ as your savior this morning? 983 00:42:09,827 --> 00:42:11,993 He'll give you life that you cannot lose. 984 00:42:12,121 --> 00:42:13,129 Eternal life. 985 00:42:13,249 --> 00:42:14,153 Eternal. 986 00:42:14,281 --> 00:42:14,793 Eternal. 987 00:42:14,841 --> 00:42:15,305 It's funny. 988 00:42:15,337 --> 00:42:18,393 Whenever we run into somebody who wants to debute, wants to debate 989 00:42:18,441 --> 00:42:21,017 eternal life, I said, well, quote John 3:16. 990 00:42:21,073 --> 00:42:23,465 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son 991 00:42:23,497 --> 00:42:26,709 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have what? 992 00:42:27,649 --> 00:42:28,829 Everlasting. 993 00:42:29,329 --> 00:42:31,577 It's amazing how we just change the definition. 994 00:42:31,673 --> 00:42:32,649 Everlasting life. 995 00:42:32,689 --> 00:42:35,651 If you're here this morning and you've never been saved, you 996 00:42:35,675 --> 00:42:37,731 don't know for sure that Jesus is your savior. 997 00:42:37,795 --> 00:42:39,279 You can be sure today. 998 00:42:39,819 --> 00:42:41,907 In a moment, we're going to have an invitation. 999 00:42:42,083 --> 00:42:44,739 Music's going to play, folks are going to stand. 1000 00:42:44,859 --> 00:42:47,091 I'm going to invite you to come down here and talk with our 1001 00:42:47,115 --> 00:42:47,523 counselors. 1002 00:42:47,571 --> 00:42:49,843 If you want to get saved, we'll have men or women. 1003 00:42:50,011 --> 00:42:51,587 If you're a lady, we'll put you with a lady. 1004 00:42:51,603 --> 00:42:53,827 If you're a man who wants to get saved, if you're a young person 1005 00:42:53,883 --> 00:42:57,107 who you need to get saved, you can come this morning and get saved. 1006 00:42:57,283 --> 00:43:00,275 We want to show you from the Bible, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 1007 00:43:00,307 --> 00:43:01,171 heaven's your home. 1008 00:43:01,275 --> 00:43:02,499 Let's stand together this morning. 1009 00:43:02,539 --> 00:43:03,779 Then we'll have an invitation.