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Take your Bible and turn to the Book of Acts, chapter 11, the Book of Acts and chapter 11. There are two extremes where God tells us to do something and you can say, I will, that’s an extreme. I won’t. That’s an extreme. I am called an extremist because I believe that what God says is right and I want to do it. I want to do whatever it is God wants me to do. Does that make me a fanatic? Well, it might.

people that do not like independent fundamental Bible, I believe missionary minded Christians. But that’s what I am. And probably that’s what you are. Now you know in the book of Romans and chapter six, it talks about the newness of life. It talks about yielding yourselves unto the Lord. And that we should not serve sin and we shall live with Him. He liveeth unto God. And so there’s some good statements in the sixth chapter. We call that the identification truths because when Christ came back from the dead, we’re supposed to identify with what He did.

I was with Him when He was crucified. I was with Him when He was buried. And I was with Him when He was buried and came back from the dead. And I’m supposed to have been with Him when He rose and when He proceeded into heavenies. That’s how secure we are. we are in Christ and that’s where He is. So it’s a good thing, but somebody asks you, what kind of a Christian are you? Now here I want you to look at this verse in the book of Acts chapter 11 and notice there in verse 26, when He had found Him, He brought Him unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people.

And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Now from what I have been told, the word Christian was not something that they put upon themselves. It was people that were on the outside that put the name Christian upon those that were living, walking, talking like Christ. So it was the name they gave to them. And it might have been as a slur, a slander, because you followed somebody and you did what they did. To be a disciple means a follower, a learner.

And so there were those who followed the teachings of Christ, and so the others called them Christians. And it was mainly because they were the ones of the Christ’s way, the way of Christ. And he says, and they were first called Christians in Antioch. At least they were called Christians. Now I just had a little question about a few things that I wrote down. What is the sign of an unfed Christian? The sign of an unfed Christian. Well that’s somebody who won’t eat.

They starve themselves. Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16 talks about the word of God. And he says, and I did eat them. I did eat the word of God. So a Christian, a believer is supposed to feed upon the word of God so that he can become a strong Christian. Otherwise you will be like somebody who just doesn’t eat. And if you don’t eat, you’re gonna get weak and you’re not gonna be strong, but you won’t know why you’re not strong spiritually.

You’ll just lose your desire for spiritual things. When you lose your desire for spiritual things, after a while, you just don’t have the desire to read the Bible. You don’t have the desire to meet other Christians. You don’t have the desire to witness. You don’t have a desire to study God’s Word or go to church. You lose the desire. Feeding upon the Word of God sees feeds the desire and the desire can become stronger. And then when they become stronger, you can do a lot of things because of the desire to do something.

When there’s no desire there, it’s a… you’re kind of weak. So therefore you and I are supposed to serve the Lord because we feed upon the Word of God. I don’t want you to get tired of hearing the Word of God. When you get tired of hearing the Word of God, the Bible talks about in the book of Hebrews in chapter 5, it talks about they become dull of hearing. For when the time they ought to be teachers, they have one need that someone teach them again, which would be the first principles of the oracles of God.

And they cannot eat meat, they have to be fed milk because they’re unskillful in the Word of righteousness. But you see, you and I are supposed to get stronger in the Lord, and the way you know that you’re getting stronger in the Lord is because you’re able to discern right from wrong. It’s the exercise of the senses to discern and you lose your discernment when you don’t feed right, when you don’t eat right. So there’s Christians who just don’t eat right and they don’t eat regular and so it’s an important thing.

I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew chapter 21, Matthew and chapter 21. There’s a simple little illustration that’s used here. Christ is the one that tells the story. I want you to think about this as though Christ was talking to you. I want you to ask yourself which one of these sons represents me? me. Which of these am I? See what he says in verse 28, but what think ye? A certain man had two sons.

He came to the first and he said, Son, go work today in my vineyard. Have you ever seen lazy people? People did just plain lazy. They don’t want to do anything. They’re just lazy. Now when you read the book of Psalms and it also has it in Proverbs, But God hates laziness. And there’s a lot of lazy people. Or can you be a Christian and spiritually be lazy? A lazy Christian. Oh, you’re saved. You’re going to heaven, but you’re just a lazy Christian.

You don’t want to do anything. You don’t want to get involved. You don’t want to help. You just stand on the sideline and criticize everybody else and what they’re doing. You can tell everything that everybody else is doing wrong. but you never get in the fight yourself. You see, if somebody works with the music, you might be able to find flaw, but at least there’s somebody in the choir to be criticized. You can find fault with the preacher. I don’t know how, but you could.

You can find fault all the time with everybody doing anything, but what do you do? But if you’re not doing anything, Don’t do the devil’s work if you’re not going to do the Lord’s work. But there are some people that are spiritually lazy. They never get involved. They don’t want to make nobody mad. It means they don’t want to get hurt. They don’t want anybody to say anything or correct them because they might not be able to do it perfectly.

So if I can’t do it perfectly, I’m not going to do it at all. Nobody is perfect. You have to be perfect to do perfect things. Do you hear like that? We’re a bunch of sinners. And hopefully we love the Lord and we wanna do something. So we’re not lazy. We wanna get involved and we wanna see things happen. And it takes work. But there’s some time people don’t wanna work. What do you do when people like you don’t wanna work?

Let them alone. You work with those who want to work. The ones that don’t work don’t work. The ones that do do. And you just go ahead with all those want to do something and those that don’t let them alone, they’re not ready yet. When they’re ready, we’re ready. But if they’re not ready, the last thing you want to do is try to make somebody do something they don’t want to do. Think about it, true? Because then you’re just like pulling teeth and that’s what wears you out.

This is what causes people in the Lord’s work to get worn out and burn out because they’re trying to make people do things and they don’t want to do it. I stopped that long time ago. I work with those who want to work. And those that don’t work, I let them go. I let them do whatever they want to do. I don’t have time to argue or fight with anybody. Now, people say, well, that’s not a good attitude to have.

It most certainly is. It keeps my sanity. It keeps me working. And that way I don’t quit because I don’t get burned out. And I can keep doing the things that God wants me to do. So you don’t look and focus on all those that don’t, you focus upon those that do. And so I believe it’s important. Look what he says here. He says in verse 29, he answered and says, I will not, but afterwards he repented, changed his mind, you went.

He came to the second and he said likewise. And he answered and he says, I go sir and you went not. Which of the two did the will of his father? Well, the one that went. They figured that out. Now here you are, here I am. God has asked us to serve Him. So my desire to serve Him is going to be because I have fed upon the Word of God and I know what His will is. So you should know what the will of God is and the desire to fulfill the will of God because you want to please the Lord and then you have to make a decision.

Will I? Won’t I? And they’re both extreme positions. The one that does, that’s an extreme position. The one that won’t, that is an extreme position, but it’s a decision everybody has to make for themselves. No one can make it for you. I knew years ago that if I determined I will serve the Lord, I knew God would use me. You should believe that if you dedicate yourself to the Lord, God will use you. Do you believe that? Do you want God to use you.

If you do, then you’ll have to make up your mind. You can’t be a lazy Christian because God calls it the Lord’s work. And He told him, says, son, go work today, am I vineyard? And I believe that God wants us to work today in His vineyard. We should always be striving to whether it’s so winning or challenging others to serve the Lord by whatever you do, go and work in the Lord’s vineyard. Take your Bible and turn to 2 Corinthians in chapter 6, 2 Corinthians and chapter 6.

What is the sign of a worldly Christian? Can a Christian be a worldly Christian where he is worldly minded, fleshly minded, carnally minded, a Christian who minds the things of the flesh, a Christian who minds the things of the world. He saved but he minds the wrong things. And the reason is because he just will not separate himself from the world. Think for a moment. Do you believe God wants you to look at, talk, think like a lost man, to live like the world would live?

Or do you believe that perhaps God wants something different from you? Remember when he says, my ways are not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts, because his ways and his thoughts are higher than ours. But when you trust Christ as your Savior, the reason you and I study the word of God is to know the thoughts that are higher than man’s, so that we can live on ways that are higher than man’s, so that you and I live on a different level, a different plane.

Look what he says here in verse 14, let’s just look in verse 14. And remember, as a child of God, if you want to serve the Lord and do the Lord’s work, you have to separate yourself from those who won’t do the Lord’s work. You see, if you have friends that are not right with the Lord, what are six, it’s on level, you don’t pull them up, chances are they will pull you down to where they are. I never had to worry about losing any of my friends when I served the Lord, because I decided I’m going to serve the Lord and they gave me up.

I didn’t have to give them up. They gave me up. I had a couple of good friends. I didn’t have a lot of them, but I had a few. And it wasn’t long before, hello, they left me. Because every time I got around them, I preached to them. And they didn’t want to be preached to them. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. It’s just that I knew I was going to heaven and I thought, well, the whole world needs to know this.

See, they’re in verse 14, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion have light with darkness? How do they get along? Can light and darkness get along? Hello, darkness. Well, hello, light. How are you doing? I’m doing fine. They expel each other. And God says the same thing. The unbeliever, well, he doesn’t think like you. He doesn’t have the Holy Spirit. He’s not going to love the thing that you love.

So therefore you have to separate yourself, but a lot of God’s people, they just don’t do it. And because they don’t, then the world makes you like them. That’s why he made the statement seeing the book of Romans in chapter 12. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice. Holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, be not conformed to this. World. God does not want his children conforming to the world.

That means he wants you to be different from the world, to think different from the world, live different from the world. Because I have a body and the lost man has a body. There’s a lot of similarities of things that we have to have. We both have to work. We got to clothe our body. We got to feed our body. We got to protect our body and all these things. But I’m to live for something different than what he lives for.

There’s things that I don’t want to do because I know that it’s not acceptable to God. I might say I can do it. It won’t hurt me. Yeah, but does God accept it or is it not the best thing for my testimony? So because of your care about others you may not do something but a loss, but he don’t care about that or a carnal Christian. Well, he don’t care about that. He just does what he wants to do, lives any way he wants to because he don’t care about anybody else.

That’s a fleshly minded carnal Christian, worldly Christian. And he says in verse 16, what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God had said, I will dwell in them, walk in them, I will be there. God, they shall be my people. Wherefore, he says in verse 17, come out from among them and be ye separate. Now sometimes there’s people who trust Christ as Savior and they go to a Catholic church, Jehovah’s Witness, or Mormons or whatever.

They said, well, I’m going to stay there and change them. That’s not what the Word of God says. The Word of God says, come out from among them, mark them which teach doctors, contrary to what you have learned and avoid them. Because you won’t get strong. And you do not want to use your power of influence to get other people underneath the sounds of a false doctrine. You don’t put live chickens under a dead hymn. In verse 17, be ye separate, sayeth, Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, I will receive you.

Be separate. Don’t be a finstradler. Don’t be a compromiser. Make up your mind. And God says, hey, me and you can get along like a father and a son. We can walk together, talk together. He said, I want you to walk with me. I want you to talk with me. I want us to have communion. us to have fellowship together. But he says, if you love the world, then you’re an enemy of God. And you can’t have it both ways.

Let’s look at the first verse of the seventh chapter. Having, therefore, these promises dare be loved. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So this is what God wants us to do. Now you may not do it, but it’s still the will of God that we do so. Now, John chapter 11, look in John chapter 11. You know the story about Lazarus, how that he was dead for days.

And the Bible talks about how that Mary and Martha had met him, and he talked to him. And he says, I am the resurrection and the life. And he says, yeah, we know that. You know, in the resurrection, we know that. He says, you don’t understand. I am the resurrection. I can do it now, that’s what he’s saying. So he says, up here in verse 25, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believed it than me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

And who’s who ever lived it then believe it and me shall never die.” And you ought to underline these words, big believers, thou this. In other words you say, do you believe this? This is what you have to believe. You must know and believe that if you believe on him, you will live forever. You will have everlasting life. Even though you may die physically, you will live forever. She says in verse 27, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God which should come into the world.

Well, it goes down through here and she weeps down in verse 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in the Spirit and was troubled. So have you laid him? Now I actually believe. He knew where he was. He knew he was dead. He knew this. But where did you lay him? Well, he’s been dead for four days. He stinks he’s in the cave. I mean, he’s all been wrapped up in him, and he’s put away.

And they said, come and see in verse 35, Jesus wept. Now, there’s always these theological discussions about why did he weep? Why did Jesus weep? Well because he loved Lazarus and Lazarus is dead and he’s not ever going to see him again. You don’t think that’s why he went? No. Maybe he was crying because of their unbelief. I wonder if it could be because he knew that they did not believe that he could do it now. He says in verse 37, and some of them said, could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died.

If he is who he claims to be and he can do what he claims he can do, why did he let his friend die? If you had been here, this would not have happened. It all happened because you were not here. He’s talking about mixed emotions. He says, take away the stone. In verse 39, Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinks, for he hath been dead four days. Jesus said unto her, say it, I not unto thee, that if thou would have.

Now you think this might be why Jesus went because He said, I said to you, didn’t you believe me? Don’t you believe me? I think it dealt more with the fact of their unbelief. I think unbelief breaks his heart more than anything else. He says, said I nut into thee that if thou wouldn’t believe, thou should have seen the glory of God. I’m going to show you something. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was laid.

And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I think thee that thou has heard me. And I knew that thou hears me always, but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hath sent me.” See, they didn’t believe. What he said and what he was doing was because he knew they did not believe certain things. And then he says in verse 43, “…and when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth.”

Now if he hadn’t have said, Lazarus, and he just said, come forth, probably everybody in the graves would have come out. So he had to be specific and just Lazarus come forth. And then he says in verse 44, and he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes. He was bound. His feet were bound. He had to hop. Here it comes. He’s hopping out of the tomb. Now Jesus did what Jesus can do, but He let the people do what they can do.

And he said this to him. He says, Loosen and let him go. Now you know, there’s a lot of God’s children that have trusted Christ as Savior. They’ve been given eternal life. They are alive, but still wearing their grave clothes. They’re still bound, head and foot, with the things of this world and they’re trapped. And they don’t have the freedom to serve the Lord like they should. And so once you trust Christ as Savior, you got to get rid of the grave clothes, the things from the old man, put off the old man, put on the new man and live like a free man.

Learn the word of God, love the word of God and do what God’s word says, and you’ll be surprised that you can live, believe it or not, a separated life. But you have to keep yourself free from the things that will entangle you so that you cannot please the one that’s called you to be a good soldier. The other thing I wanted to mention to you is there’s many of God’s children that are just plain timid Christians. The book of Joshua and the book of Ephesians go hand in hand because it talking about the victory that you and I ought to have in the Lord.

And And he says, as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you. Be strong and very courageous. And he says, and meditate in God’s word day and night that thou may have observed to do. All that I have spoken unto you, only be thou strong and very courageous. But there’s so many of God’s people that are not strong, they’re not courageous, they’re afraid they live in fear. And when they get to heaven, they’re going to find out what they could have done if they only had believed God and just trusted Him.

So a lot of people, they’re timid and they’re shy. There’s others of God’s people that live a totally defeated Christian life. And so they just will not trust the Lord. Now remember in the book of Isaiah in chapter 26 verse 3 and 4, where it says, Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. It’s a tremendous verse that I learned when I was in Bible college. And just over and over again, trust in the Lord Jehovah.

For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength because the verse that’s right before that made the statement, that will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed upon thee. So a Christian that feeds upon the word of God works for the Lord, has a right to a peace of mind. And if you don’t do that, you’re not going to have a peace of mind. You’re going to be troubled all the time, troubled, because you’re going to be weak and timid.

You’re anemic. You don’t have strength. And therefore fear will grip you. And you’re going to find yourself in so much despair and disappointment and just down and discouraged all the time. And God’s people don’t have to do that. And then the last thing just to make you understand a lot of Christians don’t have victory, but you can. That’s why Paul says, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Do you believe it? You see, after you trust Christ as Savior, your whole Christian life is based upon one word, really.

belief. That’s how you got saved. You believed. You live the same way. As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. How did you receive him by faith? How do you live by faith? Taking God at his word. So not to believe the Lord is going to cost you and you’re not going to be strong. So you feed upon the word of God, you become a strong Christian and you’re work for the Lord, you learn how to yield, you learn how to separate.

You have to learn how to discipline your own Christian life. Nobody else can do it for you. You will be as strong of a Christian. You choose to be. You will be as weak as you choose to be. It’s all in your hands. It’s the decision. I will, I won’t. A lot of difference between I will and I won’t. God says, will you do this for me? I will. I won’t. What is your decision?

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Here God’s Word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the year. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you’ll enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family.

You can learn all you want to buy rules and regulations, news and don’ts. But God is a person. He’s a person. Learned to talk to him. He’s a person. And he’s more important than a model or a plan. I said, well, I’m right with God because I go to church. You can be sitting here in this church right now and not be right with God. Well, I read my Bible. You can read your Bible and not be right with God.

You can even pray and not be right with God. And I’ve seen a lot of people do a lot of things because, well, I’ve prayed about it. I prayed about it. I don’t hear if you did pray about it. If it’s wrong, it’s still wrong. Was it the will of God? You said, we don’t serve God according to our idea about God. We serve God according to His way, leaning upon Him. What does the word of God say? This is why you can’t grow without the word of God.

This is why Sunday school is so important because you’re learning some truth about God, what he wants and doesn’t want. Church, Sunday night, when you’re learning the word and so important to learn the word, because you can’t know the will of God unless you know the word of God in order to know the will of God. So it is the will of God to know the word of God so you can know which will. Did that make sense? And some people get it and some people never do.

They live their whole lives and they live just like a lost man. Look in John chapter 15, you’re right here in the book of Luke, just turned to your right, the John chapter 15. Look there in verse 5, he says in verse 5, I am the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth in me, and I in him. It is a he that lives in the church. We’re talking about a person, And I and him the same bring the forth much fruit for without me in your on the line this without me Not some little plan that you got Not because you’ve got all the things in row in your mechanical and you’re just not born by the robot He is a person I Know wherever I go and whatever I do I have a person the Lord lives in me and So therefore knowing that helped me to watch what

I say what I do what how I think Because you always need some way of restraining yourself to hold you back otherwise You know it doesn’t matter as long as you don’t see another Person I got to freedom do whatever I want to do But when you realize I have a person of the Holy Spirit living inside of me, this changes everything. This changes everything. You see, I don’t have to worry about whether you are there or you are not there.

I know that I got to watch what I think. I got to watch what I do. I’m always on guard. And if I fail to watch, and God, I can ruin my whole life. I can ruin my testimony. So you want to grow in grace, learning from the Word of God, and God will give you the strength and the grace that you need to do what God wants you to do. Number five, being the preoccupation with results instead of your relationship with the Lord.

The reason that that is so dangerous is because you could be so preoccupied with results of something and you can’t control results. Last night, several trusts of Lord at Ranch. That’s what your after is those good results. I want that same joy when next Saturday night nobody responded. Isn’t it true that some Sunday mornings I could give the gospel and you’ll hear me say God bless you and God bless you and then sometimes nobody says anything. I am supposed to be thankful to the Lord that I was obedient and that I gave the gospel.

Whether somebody did or they didn’t. Now we want that extra blood because we want people to trust. That’s the result. That’s what we want. But I better not hang all of my life upon the results that hang up on other people’s decisions. You see, you can’t make people trust the Lord. Have you ever passed our tracks? you had some of them getting back to you. Have you ever knocked on doors? Somebody tell you to get lost. Say, oh, no, no, you get it wrong.

I’m here to help you because you’re lost. And you’d be surprised. Just be found faithful to the Lord. That’s where your joy should come from because there’s something that we can’t control. There’s circumstances that you and I have no power over. Leave the results to the Lord. And if people trust the Lord, praise the Lord. If nobody prays the Lord, you’re still faithful. Praise the Lord. Because God’s going to reward you not for the results of your service, but because of your service.

You’re faithful to it. Moreover, it’ll require inner steward that a man be found faithful. And God’s just looking for people to be found faithful. So it’s not so much your ability, it’s your availability. Can God use you? Number six is comparisons instead of your commitment to your own unique ministry. Did you know that God made us all different than he has? And that if you want to truly be different, serve the Lord. If you don’t serve the Lord then you just like a mass of humanity.

They’re all the same. All live in for the same thing. Lives are not really the… You’re not as different unless you serve a Lord. I’ve always had this little desire. I want to be different from everybody in the world. I don’t want to be like everybody else. I’m different. I’m Yankee Arnold. I don’t want to be anybody else. I might want to be like a few people, but I don’t want to be them, because I am so satisfied with me.

You ought to be satisfied with who you are and what God’s given you. You’re unique. And the Lord tells us not to compare ourselves with others. That’s when you get into trouble. Look at this scripture. I want you to see this. Look in 2 Corinthians chapter 10. Second Corinthians in chapter 10. But second Corinthians chapter 10, look what he says in verse 12. Verse 12, for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that that commend themselves, but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are what?

Not why? In other words, you’re not supposed to compare what you’re doing with what somebody else is doing. I must be doing a good job while I’m doing this as much as you are. Well, a lot of it all. Did you know that he might not be doing everything he ought to be doing? Did you know that God gives some people more than He gives to other people? That’s just the facts of life. One man, he gave ten talents, one man five talents, one man one talent.

And God expected all men to be found faithful with whatever He gave to. This is the book of Matthew chapter 25. Some of y’all, God has blessed with the ability to make more money than what somebody else has. Some people just don’t have it and they’ll never do it. Some people, everything they text seems to turn to gold. Mine turns to gold. You say, why didn’t God give me a million dollars? Why? Because they can’t trust you with a hundred.

But you see, don’t compare yourself with others because when you want to exalt yourself, you’ll always compare yourself with others who are doing worse than you. And whenever you’re having a bad day and nothing’s going right, and you’ll always compare yourself with somebody who got so much more than you got in order to justify your ill thing. Remember when I told you about the dog that bit the duck got down in the mouth? Some of y’all never got that.

That’s why I repeated it. So you’re going to get down in the mouth because you know you’re comparing yourself. And that could be so defeating. Or it can take and make you feel like you’re doing something and God says you’re not really doing what I know you can do. You want to compare? Compare yourself with the Lord. He has no thoughts. When you want to measure yourself, he says, they measured themselves by themselves. He says, you’re not wise. Here’s the Lord.

Here’s you. How you do it? Well, I got a little work to do. And to esteem others better than yourselves instead of trying to walk on people and use people. I had people come to church and see if that preacher. I love this church. Oh, I love your attitude. I love your motivation. I want you to use me. I want you to use me. So I use them. That’s all he wants to do is use me. So you can’t win with some people.

So you do not want to be unwise. And this is what a lot of people do. Number seven, leading without listening. In the words you lead, but you don’t listen to the one you’re supposed to follow. Every one of us needs to understand, be thou an example of the believer in word, in spirit, in love, deed. You’re supposed to be an example. The best example is somebody who’s following somebody. Are there people watching you? Of course there is. No man is an island unto himself.

But you and I are supposed to be listening to the Lord and following the Lord. And sometimes we just want to take and become our own leader in our own cells and just see how I can rally around me and how great I am. Wait a minute. My job is not supposed to get you just to follow me. I’m supposed to try to get you to follow the Lord. There’s the leader. Follow the the Lord. Follow me only as I follow Him.

Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ. But you’re supposed to know the Lord and Lord, are they following the Lord? You’ve got to be wise for yourself the way these things in your mind lead by following the Lord. Number eight is competition without cooperation. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 1 and 2, where it talks about God, we’re got such a great cloud of witnesses and that lay aside the sin which so easily beset us that we may run the race that is set before us.

Oh, looking under Jesus, the author and the finish of our faith. Running your race is the consideration you have for those that are in the race. my running my race is not like I’m gonna leave everybody in a cloud of dust on a Harley-high-oh silver. Running my race is how many can I get to run the race? Running my race is to try to help you in running your race and you’re running your race is see how many of you can help in running their race.

For example in the last year, I’ve tried to, you know, get as many different ministries and so forth going as they can. I wanted to see if I want the best for this guy, Peter Amato, then I want to see him have a ministry and I want him to have people help create jobs. I used to have a bus ride in Colorado and part of the responsibility I had this one kid is you guard that back door and make sure nobody jumps out and I expected him to be faithful every time on that bus ride and make sure that nobody jumped off the bus I Would try to create as many different responsibilities We got James working with the program on Friday night and Then he needs some helpers Getting more people involved more workers why because I want the best of the people here

So I’ve got to have something for for y’all to do It just to come to church and sit on the pew is not going to cut you’re not going to get strong that way What are you going to do as a result of you coming to church? You came here this morning. You’re listening to the word Now, what are you going to do about it? What was the purpose of it? If you walk out those doors and you never make any changes or alterations in life, nothing happens, nothing changes.

Then I feel like a failure. Because my part of running my race is to get you to serve the Lord. And it’s not just to come to church. I want to see growth in your life. I want you to grow strong in the Lord. I want you to have the strength of Christ in your life. I want you to have fruit that abounds the Lord. to your account when you stand before the Lord because I love Him, then I have to love you.

And so I want to challenge and motivate people to be faithful, to do what you can, with what you have. And that’s why I want to try to start. I want, if you say, well, I’m not doing anything, well, we got Sunday school, you can help there. But we got a why, you can help there. We got a choir, you can help there. We got ranch now, you can help there. Whatever it is. And if we could think of another minister we don’t got, we’ll start that.

There’s a lot of things I want to do. Yeah, I’m going on 70 years old and I could drop dead today. Yeah, I know that. But I’m not dead yet. There’s still a little fire in the gut. I’m not ready to roll over and play dead. I’m dead bury me, not in advance. That makes sense, of course it makes sense. Number nine, our focus on attracting or attacking the weed instead of attracting with the flowers. You know, some Christians, they spend all their life attacking weeds.

Other than attack weeds. But now if you love flowers, you have to hate weeds. But some people just motivate themselves hating all the weeds, but they never loved the flowers. You can find yourself, you can listen to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and some of these other top show hooks like that and you can hear what’s going on in the world and it won’t be long. Okay, now what are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it?

If you want to save America, get America saved. You can’t get lost people to live for the Lord. We need Godly people doing the right things. And yes, I believe the election is very important. And I believe God’s people ought to vote and to do right. And if I was in my right mind, which I saw the man, I would tell you he’s even how to about. But you said you have an opinion? Of course. Everybody has opinions. But I believe that my priority and your priority is spiritual things.

Because this world is going to burn up anyway one of these days. I’m looking for the upper taker. I’m looking for Jesus Christ to come back soon. That’s what I want. So you want to Focus upon the beauty of the flower, not how ugly the weeds are, though you should be able to tell the difference. As a child of God, you might stand and say, well, I don’t do this and I don’t do that and I don’t do this and I don’t go there and I, blah, blah, blah, all the things, but you don’t do.

What is negative? Tell me what you do. What’s positive? Do you love the Lord? You got a good testimony. Are you doing right? Are you faithful? You have character in your life. Are you a man or woman of integrity? That’s more important than anything you’ll possess in this life. Number 10, a passion for growth over a priority of grace. Some people have a desire. You want to grow so bad that you forget that there’s a way of growing. Growing should be the result of you constantly doing right.

You see, after I trusted Christ as my Savior, I didn’t try to make myself grow. I remember when I was born in this world. Well, not really, but I remember when I was born in this world. And I never had to worry about growing. I just ate, slept, and lo and behold, I grew. So growing is a result of just doing what takes to grow. So I don’t have to make that happen. I just let it happen. When I began to read the Word of God and spend time with the Lord and witness His honor, I began to grow stronger as a Christian.

So if you want to grow into a strong Christian, just do the things that you’re supposed to do as a child of God. See, the only thing that lies between a child of God and a man of God is the word of God that he feeds upon. And you can’t go from childhood to adulthood without the word. So whenever you eliminate the study of the word to grow thereby, you’re not going to grow thereby. You won’t go and you can be saved.

Have eternal life, a child of God. And 20, 30 years later, you’re still a child because you can’t discern right from wrong because you’re still after the milk instead of the meat. because you can’t understand. It’s in the words, you’re still not fit for the master’s use, fit for the master’s service. It means you’re not prepared. So that’s why we study the word of God. So is the word of God important to you? Sunday school important to you. Why is it not important to you?

Why did I important to you? All these things should be important to you, or your own personal time. I had to put up with my son-in-law this week. You know, because his wife was with my wife. You know, there was on that little boat. So anyway, we did a few things and came home. I said, I’m going to drop you at the house. I said, I’m going down here to a restaurant. So he said, okay. So he got his truck and he went and got him some pizza.

Peasted. I went down to, uh, Denny’s right down below the house. And I brought in my Bible, this one, and a couple books that I had I was going to read. And as I sat there and drink me some coffee and the little lady should walk up there, can I help you? I said, yes ma’am, just a half a cup. Half a cup? Yes ma’am, I drink so slow sometimes it just gets cold on me. I said, I’d rather have you make 20 trips.

She smiled a little bit and gave me a half a cup of coffee and she left. I said, well she come and walk it back. Are you gonna eat? I said yes ma’am but not yet. Oh, I need some coffee yet to have a cup. I said that’s two. She had 18 times to go yet. Anyway she left. Well, once she come back I ordered something. I ate it and then she came back again. Need a warm up? Yes ma’am, give me a little warm up.

I was there for two and a half hours that I I just sit and read and studied. I went back and forth. I was in this book. I was in this book. I was all over the place. I had paper there and I’m writing all kind of stuff, you know. And so, she comes, she says, I see you’re reading the good book. I says, yes, ma’am. I says, it’s a good book. It’s got a good story. I says, do you know where you’re going to go when you die?

She says, well, I hope I’m going to heaven. I says, if you could know it, wouldn’t you like to know? Well, yeah, I said, let me let me show you something. I said, let me ask you these two questions and then I want to show you something. She’s okay. It wasn’t too busy in there at this time of night and they 39 o’clock something like that. I said, isn’t it true that you’ve heard almost all your life that Jesus Christ down the cross and paid for all the sins of the world?

She’s, yeah, I’ve heard that. I said, if you’ve heard that, how come you ain’t going to heaven? I don’t know. I says, if he paid for all the sins of the world, why should you go to hell and pay for any sins if he paid for all of them?” She says, I don’t know. I said, you never thought about that? She said, no, I never thought about that. I said, let’s think about that. So she thought about that. And I says, the only reason is because you have an except the payment he made for you.

I said, he made a payment for the sins of the whole world. So that means they’re all paid. I said, when I get through eating here and I go up there to that register and I pay for my meal, I says, do I have to pay for it again before I get out the door? She says, no. I said, if he paid for all of your sins, do you have to pay for them again? She said, you shouldn’t. I said, can I show you something?

You never seen this. I’m going to show you right now so that you can see what I showed her. I said, this is you and me. This is sin. God says that we all have sin on us. And because we are a sinner, we sin. See, this doesn’t make me a a sinner. I produce this because I am a sinner. I have no sinful nature. And because of sin, I got to pay for it. And the wages of sin is death, eternal separation from God in hell.

I didn’t want to go to hell. I said, now, to go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God. Now nobody’s perfect. Nobody’s righteous. We’re all sinners because of sin can’t get in. So God says, you cannot earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. All of our good deeds will not pay for our sin. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the place came into the world because he loves us hates our sin because it separates us from him.

So Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. So he took all the sin of all the world, all of us, paid for all the sin for everybody. Came back from the dead. So the payment has already been made 2,000 years ago. The only thing you have to do, the only thing I can do is believe he did it for us. So I looked at her and I said, will you believe that he did this for you? Will you trust Jesus Christ to take you to heaven whenever you die?

She said, yes, I will. I said, if you trust Christ right now, I said he would give you right now. a free gift everlasting life. I says, if I offered you my coffee cup and you accepted, what would you have? She says, coffee cup. I says, if I offered you my Bible and you accepted, what would you have? She said, a Bible. I said, if Jesus Christ walked in here right now and offered you eternal life and you accepted, what would you have?

She says, eternal life. I said, if it’s eternal life, how long it lasts? She says forever. I said, if it lasts forever and all you send your pain, where would you go when you die? She said, I’m going to heaven. I says, where are you going? She said, I’m going to heaven. I says, it makes sense. She says, that makes sense to me. Can you do that? Can you do that? Have you ever done that? Try that. Ask the question as bold as you can.

Do you know where you’re going when you die? Or have you ever had anybody take the Bible and show you how to have eternal life? Or if you could know you could have eternal life, wouldn’t you like to know? any way you can word it, let God use you, but find a way. That’s more important than anything else you’ll ever accomplish in this world is where people are gonna spend eternity. Growing in grace produces a good soul winner because that’s what it’s all about.

That’s why God left us here. We’re not here just so I can build me a big business, so I can be the pastor of a great church. I’m not here for that. We’re here to keep people out of hell so they can know that they have eternal life and know they’re going to heaven when they die. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted the Lord, maybe you like that little waitress I talked to.

If you died right now, where would you go? So I’m not sure. Well, if Christ paid for all of your sins, why don’t you believe he did it for you? And God said, if you’ll believe it, you’ll put that payment to your account and you get to go to heaven on what he did for you. No tricks to it, no gimmicks. Now we’re hedge-bound, nice clothes, no one looking around. If what I’ve said made sense to you, and you say, yes, I will trust Christ as my savior this morning and I’ll bring you, I’d like you to pray for me.

Friend, I’m gonna ask you just to slip you in a very quickly and put it right back down. I’m not gonna have you forward, not gonna embarrass you, but right where I am. Yes, God bless you, man. Anyone else, just slip it up real quick and put it right back down. But is there anyone at all? Say yes, I will trust Christ right now as my Savior, and I’d like you to pray for Him. Other others. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together.

Bless each one for being here. And I pray, Lord, that the truths that we discussed will be a blessing to each one. And only the Holy Spirit can reveal these things so that they can know how to apply them. We commit this church to You, all the people in Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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Anyway, I’ve got some things I want to share with you at this morning. I hope that it will be a blessing to you. You know, I trusted Christ as my Savior when I was 18 years old. That was a few years ago. And I had never heard the message because I, you know, until I was 18, there wasn’t a Christian you threw into round for me. I didn’t go to church. My daddy and my mom, they didn’t go to church.

And I never remember one time going to church with my mom and dad. And I never saw them read a Bible. I don’t even know if we ever had a Bible in our home. I have no recollection of it. And I never saw them, you know, stop and have a word of prayer and, you know, thank the Lord for the food. But I don’t know where I got it from, but inside I knew that there was God. And I wanted to go to heaven.

And I heard that if you were bad, you’d go to hell. I heard it from somebody. I don’t know how I got it, but you know, it filters down to you. You’d be surprised things that can get into your mind. And then years later, it becomes such a blessing to you. You see, a lot of the kids in a wana, lots of kids in Sunday school, they don’t understand it yet. All we’re going, keep planting seeds. These teenagers just planting seeds.

One of these days, these things will grow. But I want to understand that there’s a thing about growing in grace after you trust Christ as your Savior. Now some of you in here have trusted Lord just recently, and I know that. But God wants you to grow in the knowledge of his son. He wants you to get some of the truth out of the Bible and be able to develop the way that God wants you to. See God’s not through it yet.

I hate to say it, he ain’t through with me either. God just is tagged to do you. He got a little tweaking to do yet. But he’s always working on us. And sometimes he’s working in us. I’ll have more time you working on me. But he has a job to do and he loves us and he wants the best work. Now, some of you’ve been here long enough, you know that me and Hank, we’re pretty close when it comes to the clarity of the gospel.

We kind of hinge the same way. A lot of the same basic doctrine. But we do have a different delivery. He is more about like a teacher. He just talks to you, soft, got a sweet voice. He does this mellow, wonderful voice. Well, good morning. Welcome to my blind. And Yankee comes on. Well, hello there. Hi, Aldo. And I’m more of a preacher. So we have a little different style. But I think it’s good for you. Not everybody’s the same.

And neither are you. Some of you in this room, you’ve got different styles. You’ve got different tones in your voice. You’ve got, but God made us all different. But He wants us to all to grow and to become strong in the Lord. So I wanna give you some things that I think will help you. Look in 1 Peter, chapter one, 1 Peter and chapter one. And do stay with me. I’m gonna, we’ll look at a few verses, but I want you to stay right with me.

And look at verse two and three. 1 Peter, chapter one, this is talking to the believer. those who have trusted Jesus Christ as their Savior. So in verse 2 he says, elect, this is chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit. On to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied. So God and the Father wants to speak to you and me, His children. You see, we have been chosen by God because we chose God.

God has chosen all those who choose Christ to be made pure and holy and perfect and set apart and so forth. But God, before the foundations of the world, looking down to the telescope of time, says He is going to save all of those who accept His Son. So you and I have been chosen by God, chosen in the sense that He has chosen to save all of those who believe. And if you did not choose to accept Christ, God did not choose to save you.

Now He will save whosoever will. the chosen are the whosoever wills and the unchosen are the whosoever won’ts. Very simple. Verse 3, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again. So you and I were born again, born into God’s family, unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. So whenever you and I trusted Jesus Christ as our Savior. Our hope is not in me.

My hope is not in this church. It’s in a person, a live person, a living person. And so once you trusted Christ as your Savior, you were saved from something to in verse 4, to an inheritance that’s incorruptible and fated, not away reserved in heaven for you. So there’s a place reserved for you in heaven who are kept by the power of God. See, you didn’t have this power to save yourself and you don’t have the power to keep yourself safe.

So you trusted Christ’s Savior, you were saved by Him and you’re kept saved by Him. You didn’t have the power to do it and neither do you have it now. Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of, well, let’s just look at one of the verse right here since we’re so close. First Peter chapter two, looking verse one and two.

Wherefore he says lay on a side all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and envy and all evil speaking as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. So we’re supposed to desire the sincere milk of the word of God that we may grow. Now you trust Christ is your Savior, you’re His child, but God wants us to grow. But when do you think He wants us to lay aside what’s mentioned in verse 1?

Wherefore, laying aside all malice and all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, when should we lay all that aside? As newborn babes. These are the sincere miracle of the word, did you may grow thereby? So you’d be strong enough to do that. But it’s the will of God that every one of his children learn how to behave. Even our children that are born into our families, we want them to learn from the very beginning when we say yes or when we say no.

And we’re supposed to be disciplined. It’s very difficult to discipline children when we’re not disciplined ourselves. And then I want you to look there quickly in the 2 Peter and chapter 3, Second Peter chapter three, look there now in verse 18. Verse 18, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to Him be glory, both now and forever, amen. Grow in grace. So it is the will of God that you and I grow in the Lord to be strong.

God is not satisfied with the way we are today, because we can always keep growing, keep learning, maturing, learning more, and being more obedient. I wrote some things down that I thought would help you to understand some of the pitfalls in growing in grace. This is number one, a desperate mentality instead of a development mentality. What I mean by that, to be of a desperate mentality means that we’re controlled by what we panic. You ever want to find a panic button?

You’re always looking for it. To be impatient, feel with despair, to have that feeling of hopelessness. And so when we talk to the Lord and go to the Lord, it’s generally because we’re desperate instead of a development attitude. In other words, growing in grace or growing in peace and growing in joy, those are things that can be developed in your life. Take your Bible and look here in the book of Philippians in chapter 4, Philippians and chapter 4.

And you’ll notice there in verse eight. Finally, brethren, what’s over things are true, what’s over things are honest, what’s over things are just, what’s over things are pure, what’s over things are lovely, what’s over things are a good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things. You don’t think on all of these things all at once. But you learn how to think, how to dwell, how to meditate. Here a little, there a little line up online precept upon precept upon precept.

the biblical principle and another biblical principle. God doesn’t give you all the light all at one time. He doesn’t help you to understand everything all at one time. Need to do we teach children to learn everything all at one time. They go to school for 12 years. Some of them, I never did. I didn’t need those last two years. I was already smart enough. But now you’re learning how to think and who was talking about this in Sunday school.

The second thing I want you to get is this fear instead of faith. God’s people are afraid. Sometimes we’re afraid that God doesn’t really love me unconditionally. Or I don’t love him enough. So either one of those will produce fear in your life and not accomplish that which God intends. So we let fear control us. afraid to step out to do something, to do what God wants to do, afraid to give a track, afraid to witness to anybody, afraid to give the way that I should give, because I don’t see how God’s going to do that.

And so we hold back and so fear instead of faith. And I want you to see this because I mentioned this first early, but first John chapter four, look there in verse 18, first John chapter four and verse 18. It’s a good verse to underline in your Bible because you need to be convinced God loves me. He loves you enough to save you. Do you think he stopped loving you after you became his child? He still loves you. And because he loves you, remember if we love him, serve him.

But sometimes because we don’t serve the Lord like we should, then we automatically think, well then it’s because I don’t love it. And because I don’t love him like I should, he’s not going to hear my prayer. He’s not going to answer me and therefore I have no hope. Now remember Christ is a living hope. It means as long as Christ is alive, our hope can be alive. He’s a person and he knows and he cares. She knows the hurts that we go through, the failures that we have, all the problems in the trials of temptation.

And just by being the pastor of this church, I know that a lot of y’all have trials and testings and you’re in a lot of pressure. I wish I had a magic one. I could just wave it and it all go away. But I can’t. I’ve got to watch you struggle. I’ve got to watch you struggle. I don’t want to solve all of your problems if I could. I would want to because see, that’s how you’re learning how to walk with God.

Your faith is on trial. You’re learning how to walk. Some of you are going to stumble and some of you are going to make a mess out of things. And I want to help you, but I can’t walk the Christian walk for you. I can’t live the Christian life for you. Nobody else can do it for you either. You see, you and the Lord walking together, and nobody can do that for you. God has lessons He wants you to learn from Him, and nobody else can stop it or change it.

And the sooner you learn that, the better off you’re going to be. Don’t start that blame game. It’s always somebody else’s fault. Learn to be responsible. Grow up. Don’t be a baby all your life. Don’t whine about anything. I mentioned that last one, he’s denied about it. You want some cheese with that? But anyway, we’re not going back down that road again. I want to look there in the book of Luke chapter five, the book of Luke chapter five.

Anyway, that verse that I didn’t read till you, you can read it. It’s a good verse. And it talks simply about the perfect love passes out fear and fear produces torment. and you don’t want that torment. You’ll notice it makes the statement here in the book of Luke. And it says here in chapter 5, in verse 5, And Simon Anstrain said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and have taken nothing. And then the last part of that there, you need to underline it.

In the word after you have rationalized in your mind how something is not going to work and how you tried this and you tried that nevertheless at thy word. I will let down the net. He said, we didn’t work all night. We didn’t try everything we know. Unless it thy work, that’s growing in the Lord. But God has to allow you to come to the end of yourself when you can’t make it work, when you don’t have all the answers, when you can’t pull all the strings and control everything.

And you’ll find out as life goes on, you can’t control a lot of things in this life. But the only thing you need to worry about is that walk between you and the Lord, growing in grace, where you become stronger in the Lord, and God will bless you and reward you because of that. The other thing I want to put down is resting or trusting in circumstances. Resting or trusting in circumstances instead of God’s call. You see, a lot of times we are controlled by circumstances that you can’t control.

Instead of trusting the Lord, because God is in control of the circumstances. Now, if you don’t believe that, you should believe that. And to believe that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord. All I gotta do is just love Him. I just tell people that you can trust Christ as a Savior. It’s a gift. Love the Lord with all your heart and you can live like you please. You shouldn’t say that. Listen to what I said.

Love the Lord with all your heart and you can live like you please. Because how do you want to live to please the one that you love with all your heart? It makes sense to me. I hope it makes sense to you. But you’ll notice in the last part of verse 10, he says, and Jesus said in an assignment, fear not, fear not. From henceforth, thou shalt catch men. In other words, I got something else for you. You see, God will closing one door.

In other words, I don’t want you to be a fisherman. He fished all night and came up empty. You see, the Lord can make that happen. When the Lord wants you to do something else, He kind of like closes a door because He wants to open another door. And so whenever you’re growing in the Lord, He’s gonna be leading you, guiding you by the provision of the withholding of it. Because God knows what He’s doing and you’re just going through life taking steps.

You’re walking with the Lord. And nobody else may not understand why you do what you do, but you’ll know between you and the Lord. There’s a certain piece there Number four was relying on a model instead of a master Relying on a model instead of a the master Relying on a plan instead of the person I should tell people this You’re playing your work and you’ll work your plan and you’ll work it plan as long as your plan will work and your plan don’t work you change your plan You did some of them?

You’re playing your work and you’re working your plan. You’re working plans on your plan of work. You’re playing don’t work. You change your plan. But sometimes you think, okay, I got all my ducks in a row. I got this plan. But see your success is not based upon a plan. It’s not based upon a model that I did this thing. And I’m like a machine and I did blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I went to church. I read my Bible.

I kept my devotions. I did this. I gave my money. What’s wrong? Why ain’t I happy? Because you see, you’re supposed to be building that relationship between you and the Lord, and I’ll show it when you’re born into his family, you’re his child, you’re his child forever. That’ll never change. But something about you and your heavenly Father is still not right because you see, you can learn all you want about rules and regulations, news and don’ts. But God is a person.

He’s a person. Learn to talk to him. He’s a person and he’s more important than a model or a plan. I said, well, I’m right with God because I go to church. You can be sitting here in this church right now and not be right with God. Well, I read my Bible. You can read your Bible and not be right with God. You can even pray and not be right with God. And I’ve seen a lot of people do a lot of things because, well, I prayed about it.

I prayed about it. I don’t care if you did pray about it. If it’s wrong, it’s still wrong. Was it the will of God? You said we don’t serve God according to our idea about God. We serve God according to His way. Laning up on him. What does the Word of God say? This is why you can’t grow without the Word of God. This is why Sunday school is so important because you’re learning some truth about God, what he wants and doesn’t want.

Church, Sunday night, you’re learning the Word and so important to learn the Word. Because you can’t know the will of God unless you know the Word of God in order to know the will of God. So it is the will of God to know the Word of God so you can know as well. Did that make sense? And some people get it and some people never do. They live their whole lives. And they live just like a lost man.

Look in John chapter 15, you’re right here in the book of Luke, just turned to your right, the John chapter 15. Look there in verse 5, he says in verse 5, I am the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth in me, and I am him. It is a he that lives in the church. We’re talking about a person. And I and him, the same bring the forth much fruit for without me in your on the line is without me.

Not some little plan that you got. Not because you’ve got all the things in row and you’re mechanical and you’re just not bored but a robot. He is a person. I know wherever I go and whatever I do, I have a person, the Lord, lives in me. And so therefore knowing that helped me to watch what I say, what I do, how I think. Cause you always need some way of restraining yourself, to hold you back. Otherwise, you know, it doesn’t matter.

As long as you don’t see another person, I got to freedom do whatever I wanna do. But when you realize I have a person of the Holy Spirit living inside of me, this changes everything. This changes everything. You see, I don’t have to worry about whether you are there or you are not there. I know that I got to watch what I think. I got to watch what I do. I’m always on guard. And if I fail to watch and guard, I can ruin my whole life.

I can ruin my testimony. So you want to grow in grace, learning from the Word of God, and God will give you the strength and the grace that you need to do what God wants you to do. Number five, being the preoccupation with results instead of your relationship with the Lord. The reason that that is so dangerous is because you could be so preoccupied with results of something and you can’t control results. Last night, several trusts the Lord at Ranch.

That’s what you after is those good results. I want that same joy when next Saturday night nobody responded. Isn’t it true that some Sunday mornings I could give the gospel and you’ll hear me say, God bless you, God bless you, God bless you. And then sometimes nobody says anything. I am supposed to be thankful to the Lord that I was obedient and that I gave the gospel. Whether somebody did or they didn’t. Now we want that extra blood because we want people to trust.

That’s the result. That’s what we want. But I better not hang all of my life upon the results that hang up on other people’s decisions. You see, you can’t make people trust the Lord. Have you ever passed out tracks? have you had some of them getting back to you? Have you ever knocked on doors? Somebody tell you to get lost. Say, oh no, no, you get it wrong. I’m here to catch you because you’re lost. And you’d be surprised.

Just be found faithful to the Lord. That’s where your joy should come from. Because there’s something that we can’t control. There’s circumstances that you and I have no power over. leave the results to the Lord. And if people trust the Lord, praise the Lord. If nobody prays the Lord, you’re still faithful. Praise the Lord. Because God’s gonna reword you not for the results of your service, but because of your service. You’re faithful to it. Moreover, it’ll require inner steward that a man be found faithful.

And God’s just looking for people to be found faithful. So it’s not so much your ability, your availability. Can God use you? Number six is comparisons instead of your commitment to your own unique ministry. Did you know that God made us all different than he has? And that if you want to truly be different, serve the Lord. If you don’t serve a Lord, then you’re just like a mass of humanity. They’re all the same. All that in the same thing.

Lives are not really the… You’re not as different unless you serve a Lord. I’ve always had this little desire. I want to be different from everybody in the world. I don’t want to be like everybody else. I’m different. I’m Yankee Arnold. I don’t want to be anybody else. I might want to be like a few people, but I don’t want to be them. Because I am so satisfied with me. You ought to be satisfied with who you are and what God’s given you.

You’re unique. And the Lord tells us not to compare ourselves with others. That’s when you get into trouble. Look at this scripture. I want you to say this. Look in 2 Corinthians, chapter 10. 2 Corinthians and chapter 10. Let’s take a look at the chapter 10. But 2 Corinthians 10, look what he says in verse 12. Verse 12, for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves. but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are what?

Not wise. In other words, you’re not supposed to compare what you’re doing with what somebody else is doing. I must be doing a good job while I’m doing this as much as you are. Well, a lot of he doesn’t. Did you know that he might not be doing everything he ought to be doing? Did you know that God gives some people more than he gives to other people? just the facts of life. One man, he gave ten talents, one man five talents, one man one talent.

And God expected all men to be found faithful with whatever he gave to. This is the book of Matthew chapter 25. Some of y’all, God has blessed with the ability to make more money than what somebody else has. Some people just don’t have it and they’ll never do it. Some people, everything they touch seems to Turn to gold. Mine turns to gold. You say, why didn’t God give me a million dollars? Why? Because they can’t trust you with a hundred.

But you see, don’t compare yourself with others because when you want to exalt yourself, you’ll always compare yourself with others who are doing worse than you. And whenever you’re having a bad day and nothing’s going right, and you’ll always compare yourself somebody who’s got so much more than you got in order to justify your feelings. Remember when I told you about the dog that bit the duck got down in the mouth? Some of you all never got that that’s why I repeated it.

So you’re going to get down in the mouth because you know you’re comparing yourself and that could be so defeating or it can take and make you feel like you’re doing something and And God says, you’re not really doing what I know you can do. You want to compare yourself with the Lord? He has no fault. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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I want you to take your Bible and turn to the hundred and third Psalm, the hundred and third Psalm. I love the Psalms, many tremendous statements in it that reveal the soul of a man. Sometimes expressing how a person feels between him and God. If sometimes you don’t know how to express how you feel inside, read the Psalms and you’ll find there’s one Psalm in here that will say what you think and how you feel. It’s a tremendous book.

of the Psalms written by David. This is a Psalm of David also. I know the Bible tells us that God has bestowed upon us many benefits. All we’re thankful for salvation, but there’s a lot more that God has done for us than just saving our soul from hell. He’s given us so much. I often wonder why doesn’t everybody serve the Lord after they know Christ is their Savior, but many people don’t for some reason. And I believe it’s because there’s something they don’t know or understand about God.

Don’t believe that it’s all worth it. Remember this, there is no disobedience here that through it of whatever you may gain that will be worth what it’s going to cost you when you get to heaven. Nothing that you could choose against God is worth what it will cost you when you get to heaven and find out this is what you gave up. This is what God had for you but Well, you didn’t want his best and therefore you don’t get it.

I want you to realize here in the book of Psalms and especially 103rd Psalm about eight different things that expresses some things about God. But a lot of people because of what they don’t know, it’s going to cost them and there’s a lot of quitters, people that will not not only make up their mind to serve the Lord, but consistently keep serving the Lord all the days of their life. Let me read this to you. This is to those who want to quit.

You know, always giving up. Never hanging in there. The world won’t care if you quit, and the world won’t whine if you fail. The busy world won’t notice it, no matter how loudly you wail. Nobody will worry for you. Have relinquished the fight and gone down, for it’s only the things that you do that are worthwhile and get you renowned. The quitters are quickly forgot. Of them the world spends a little time. And if you even care that you’ve not the courage or patience to climb.

So give up and quit in despair and place yourself back on the shelf. And don’t think the world is going to care. Don’t you get it? You’re injuring yourself. I love that. When you make up your mind, I’m not going to serve God. Why would you injure yourself? Don’t you want his blessings? realize how great God has been to you and all the benefits he’s given to you. There’s a lot of benefits in serving God. And so I want you to look there in verse three.

In verse three I want you to see the Lord now as our Savior and it says in verse three, who forgiveth all buying iniquities. If Jesus Christ paid for all of my sins, how many do I have to pay for? None. See what that verse says in verse three who forgive us all vine iniquity. What is so important about it? Well look what he says in verse one, bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not. Forget not what all his benefits. Don’t forget what God’s done for you. You see you could always praise the Lord. And you can bless the Lord, O my soul, if you just won’t forget what God’s done for you. If he never did another thing for you, what he’s already done is enough for you to praise the Lord for the rest of eternity. If you’ll only remember, he forgave all your sins, all of them.

Look what he says there in verse 10. Verse 10 says, he hath not dealt with us after our sins. Aren’t you glad? You see, you only had to commit one sin and be sent to hell. Only one just one But you didn’t go to hell What if God had allowed you to die after you committed one sin when that had been terrible? But God was gracious to you and to me He allowed us to live it was God who we don’t understand how many ways in which he tried to reach us and We would not and we were blind and we were hard-hearted And we didn’t see and we didn’t understand and God never quit and God never gave up on us because He’s the one that does the seeking.

We didn’t seek God. He saw us. Aren’t you glad? Now you have eternal life and you’re going to heaven when you die. That’s a wonderful thing to know that He did not deal with us after our sin. He put our sins upon Christ and He dealt with His Son about our sins. That’s why Christ died because He dealt with Him. He took all of our sins and paid for them. Look what He says also there in verse 12. In verse 12, for as far as the east is from the West.

Now how far is the East from the West? Well I don’t really know. I just know that if the East is that away then the West is that away. They’re opposite directions. That’s how far God said He had to remove our sins from us. Look what He says. As far as the East is from the West so far have He removed our transgressions from us. They’ve been removed, taken away. That’s why He told His disciples going to all the world and preached the forgiveness of sins.

Forgiving you as though you never send. Isn’t that a wonderful benefit to have? And we can bless the Lord, O my soul, as long as we can remember that He hath done this for us. So we have something to praise the Lord about. He is our Savior. He has saved us from hell, given us eternal life, and we’re going to heaven because of that. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of 103rd Psalm, but I want you to look in the last part of of this verse.

In verse four is a tremendous verse when he says, who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who chroneth thee with loving, kindness, and tender mercy. The first part of the verse says, who redeemeth thy life. You see, he didn’t only redeem us from hell, and for what sin was going to do with us as far as the penalty goesLaunnity goes and our eternal separation from God, he is also redeeming us as we live our lives from being destroyed. Because there’s somebody who wants to destroy your life, ruin your testimony.

And God, by the Holy Spirit, living inside of us, is giving us the power that we need to redeem our life, or keep from wasting our life. Or as the little quote that I gave to you just a moment, been set on the shelf. Not used. A wasted life. To realize that God can save our life from total destruction. You see, if you don’t serve the Lord, you wasted your life. life. It doesn’t matter what you accomplished in life.

Only thing that is important is when you get to heaven, did you serve Him? Or is you obedient to God? And that’s why we can praise God since you’ve been saved because of what He has done in your life. But how much more could He have done in your life if you’d only let Him? Aren’t you thankful that God’s been good to you? Oh, there’s so much that God has done. I want you to realize that here in this verse when he makes the statement who chroneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.

Look in verse 17, verse 17, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him and His righteousness unto children’s children. And look in verse 18, too such as keep His covenant and to those that remember His commandments to do them. God’s tender mercies and loving kindness is upon His children that will remember to do what God’s told them to do. Now, since you’ve been saved, are you doing what he’s told you to do?

Because as you obey the Lord, God is going to bless you here, reward you there. So you get benefits now and later. Isn’t that a wonderful thing to know? If you know this and understand it and believe this, then it should motivate us to want to serve the Lord now. Understand that God has done so much for you. And don’t worry about what he’s going to do, Because, remember, if he was faithful in the past, he will be faithful tomorrow.

God is a faithful God. His compassion fails not, and they are new in first every morning, according to lamentation. Now the Bible says that God has done all these wonderful things for us. Now, I want you to realize this, in this verse that we looked at just a moment ago in verse 3, we’re making the same. He healed all our diseases. Well, isn’t that a wonderful thing to know? He healed all by diseases. Now, when most people… Most people read that, they automatically think, well, if I’ve got the mocks, he’ll heal me from my mocks.

He’ll heal me from my measles. And if I’ve got cancer, or I’ve got lung trouble, and I’ve got all these different diseases in my body, God’ll heal me from all those things when I get saved. That’s not true. I know a man named Oliver B. Green, who was an alcoholic. He was a drunkard. He trusted Christ as Savior. And even though he loved the Lord with all his heart, did everything he possibly could, he died because of the alcoholic lifestyle that he had lived and took his life earlier than what it had to be.

Why didn’t God heal him? No, he didn’t. The Bible tells the body of Pavarodius who was nigh unto death. Well the apostle Paul had afflictions in his body. So it’s not a matter of just, he healed all those kinds of diseases and you know if I just live right then God won’t let me get sick. Well I know a lot of Godly people that get sick. So what do you do with this verse? Well let’s just pretend just for a moment.

When you trust in Christ as your Savior, if God had that very moment taken you straight to heaven, here all right, now you’re in heaven. You have any diseases now? Of any kind. You have no diseases. Well, one day, isn’t that going to be true? He will have delivered you from all diseases. You’re not sick anymore. You don’t even get tired anymore. You’re not in a body that gets weary and worn anymore. But I believe there’s something more. You see, you and I have the privilege of serving the Lord, though, what God wants us to, only because of the great thing that God has done for us.

Once you trust Christ as your Savior and His death as your death, you’re free from the law, free now, free what? Free to love, free to serve, free to be what God wants you to be. But you have to be free from that entanglement of sin first. That’s what God has done for us. Now when you trusted Him as your Savior and God gave you eternal life, now you’re God’s Did you know that as you live your life, the worst diseases of all is not just the laws of the sicknesses of the body?

Because you and I know there’s a lot of sicknesses in the body. But think about this for a moment. Are not there also diseases of the soul? Think for a minute. What are some of the diseases, the illnesses of sin? sin. Could anger be one of them? Could bitterness be a disease? All those are the manifestations that takes its toll upon us, not necessarily just upon the body, but upon the soul of man. The Bible says these are the things that come from within a man.

The lying, where does that come from. What about the hatred, the envene, the jealousy, that bitterness that we have? All of those things God says, I can heal you of all those diseases. Because see when you trusted Christ and say, but God the Holy Spirit indwells you and can give you victory over things. Listen, you can’t go to the doctor says doctor, I’m so bitter at my neighbor, I hate my neighbor. I need some medicine for that. What would they prescribe?

They give you three pills and say, take this three times a day. And they see me in two weeks and then you’ll always hate your neighbor. No, but wouldn’t that be wonderful? You’re hurt. You’re grieving. You go to the doctor and he gives you a prescription. No, there is a bomb in Gilead. There is the great physician. God is a great physician. He can heal the soul. Maybe there’s people who have hurt you and wronged you. It could be family.

It could be in laws, outlaws. It could be the people that your neighbors, I mean, a lot of people are hurting, carrying bitter grudges against individuals. And youillion to try how they can eat upon you. Oh, you may not have cancer, but you got something a lot worse on the inside of you. A God can give you victory over those things. I would rather, rather have a body racked with pain than to have those other sins controlling my soul and making you a better person with a better spirit.

And many people live that way. Oh physically you may be in a one shape, but spiritually you’re sick and you’re weak and you’ve got disease all throughout you. God says, I can take care of those things. Take your Bible and look there in the verse 5. In the verse 5, he says, who satisfy the mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles. When he said, who satisfy thy mouth means my desires, that which I cry to God for, my request that are made known unto God, who satisfy my, he is a benefactor.

If he’s a benefactor, I’m the beneficiary. These are the benefits that I get. Because of who I am, I’m a child of God. He’s the benefit. It’s like he’s a millionaire and he left me a million dollars in the bank. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? You are the recipient of all of God’s blessings. It’s like God’s of in heaven. He said, I want to bestow all these blessings upon you, but you won’t get into position where I can give them to you.

Because you keep rebelling against me and you won’t walk the way I tell you to walk and you won’t get where I tell you to go. He says, and you have violated my will, and therefore you can’t have all of these wonderful blessings that I wanted to give to you. And won’t it be a shame that when you get to heaven, you find out what it’s cost you? There is no disobedience that you can do now. That will be worth what you have disobeyed God concerning, because remember this, God sets up in heaven and He tells you what to do and if you will do what he says to do, he says this is what I got for you.

And you choose your own way and think you won, you owe the victor, I got my own way. God says you disobeyed and to obey, to obey is better, to obey is better, to always to obey is better. What you got you may like and you may love and you may enjoy it. Think I got it, I got away with it. No, there’s a God in heaven says your disobedience cost you this but you can’t see it yet but when you get to heaven now you’ll find out that what you gained you lost and that’s why the Bible says that when trying to gain for yourself you’ll lose but if you’ll lose you’ll gain I know it’s hard for people to understand but you can’t lose doing what God says to do you’ll always win you will gain in your obedience to the Lord so keep it in mind

In the book of Philippians chapter 4 and verse 19 we won’t take the time to look at it, but it says my God shall supply all your what? All your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ. You know the word like God’s got a big bank account. He says I’ve got enough to cover everything you need. My God shall supply. Oh, he’s the benefactor. He wants you to be the recipient of all those benefits. And sometimes you say I don’t want those benefits.

I don’t want you to bless me and God puts you on a shelf. But remember anytime you put on a shelf, it was your choice. It means you chose not to be used. You chose not to be blessed. You’re choosing not to be rewarded when you get to heaven. See going to heaven is a wonderful thing. Well, that’s what we’re going to get one of these days. We’re all going to get to heaven because of what Christ has done for us.

But we’re not there yet. And there’s more than just getting to heaven. Sure, there’s an inheritance that we’ll all get. Whatever that is, I don’t know, but I’m ready for it. I want everything I can get. I guess I’m a little greedy when it comes along that line. I don’t want to get to heaven and find out there’s something I could have had and I book I don’t want to blow it. I want to try to do what’s right while I can.

Take your Bible now and turn to the book of Psalm 103, but look in verse 6. In verse 6 talks about the Lord executed the righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. one of them. In verse nine he says, he will not always chide. Neither will he keep his anger forever. When he said he will not always chide means God will not always pretend like he didn’t see what you were doing. Have you ever thought that you did something and God was going to zap you and he didn’t?

And you wondered how far can I go before I do get zapped? So far so good. But see sometimes the Bible even makes the statement in the book of Acts in chapter 17. He says in time past these He’s saying, God winked at, God winked at. Like He overlooked it. Like He let you get away with it. God said, He won’t always just let you get away with it. In other words, He’s not going to always turn. In other words, it’s like, as I was always told concerned, being a pastor of a church.

Whenever you look at your people, always see them with one eye and hear them with one ear. Don’t see everything they do and don’t hear everything that they do. because otherwise you require perfection from them and that’s not where they are. And I would appreciate if you would do the preacher the same way. God says that there’s things that He wants to do for us, and He will do them for us. And God is also a loving, wonderful heavenly Father.

And your Father is going to because He’s your dad and you’re His child. He’s going to chase and discipline you when you rebel against Him. He doesn’t just hit you upside to head every time you do something wrong. He’s patient. He will not always just kind of like look the other way. Because God’s loving kindness and His mercy, He lets you do a few things and it seems like you’re getting away. But that’s only because He’s long suffering. He wants you to correct it without Him having to correct you.

But then also He says God can also get angry. Now this is a godly anger. Can God get angry? Yes, God can get angry. But that doesn’t mean He sends you because they get angry. He gets angry at sin. A parent can get angry with the disobedience of their children, but not sin. If because you’re against what the person is doing and always keep those two things separate. When he makes the statement here, and this verse, the last part of verse nine, neither will he keep his anger forever.

Means that he is going to chase him, but he doesn’t just keep hitting you and hitting you, hitting you, never let you up. God will discipline you, he’ll correct you, he chastens you because he loves us. understand that God is your father and that’s what he will do because that’s his responsibility. Take your Bible now and look in verse 13. In verse 13 you see God as a chastiser and as a father kind of goes together because our father is the chastiser.

When you trusted Christ as your Savior you became his child he became your father you’re under his authority. In the home children are to be under the authority of the parents. Well now you’re in God’s family. So a child is under God’s authority. How long are you and I supposed to be under God’s authority? Always, all the time. It’s not well I’m under God’s authority as long as I’m under my parents rule. But when I get out of my own, well I can’t wait to get out of my own.

I’m still under God’s authority. Why? Because I’m still God’s child. He’s still my father. He said he’ll never cast Mount never lose me and he loves me But he says that he has compassion for me and he hasn’t dealt with me because of all the things that I’ve done because he is a loving Merciful God aren’t you glad that these are benefits that you ought to be able to say bless the Lord all my soul Look what he says in verse 13 like as a father pith his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

That word pitieth mean compassion, like as a father hath compassion for his children. Go has compassion for you. And that’s why he’s doing what he’s doing. When Christ was here and he saw the multitude, he was moved with what? Moved with compassion. He understands, because the Bible says he knows in verse 14, he knoweth our frame, He is our Creator. He is the one that made these bodies that we have. The Bible says that the Word of God is sharp and quicker than any two-edged sword.

Pearson even to divide enough son to the body, soul and spirit. So God is the one who made our frame. He knows the needs of the body and provides for that. He knows what the soul, that’s what makes us happy. This is our feelings and emotions that we have. And He made our spirit. And so we were spiritually dead, so he made a spiritually alive and he met that need. He meets the needs of this body that we have and he’s going to give us a new body one day.

But the soul of man, you see, it’s the body that connects you with the world, it’s the spirit that connects you with God. So the soul of man can be happy in the world and the soul of man can be happy in the Lord. That’s where there’s a lot of happy lost people and there is pleasure in sin for a season. But that which will last is the joy that comes because of the Lord, not from the things of the world.

But the Christian can enjoy both things because God says he had to give us all things freely to enjoy. This vow was made for God’s people to us to enjoy this world, but not to love this world, to let the world be a blessing to us, but not live for the world. It’s like living to eat or eating to live a total difference and God says he has done all these wonderful things for us and he says in verse 14 He remembered that we are dust He knows how much we can take he knows that breaking point that every person has he knows when you have had the last straw And you can’t take anymore But God says he’s the one that knows and he is faithful and will not allow anything be placed upon you greater than what you can bear But will allow a way of escape that you may be able to bear it.

God said that. But do you believe that? Do you believe that all things, all things work together for good to those who love God? Do you believe that? Then live like you believe that. If that’s true, then a Christian don’t have to go around murmuring and griping and complaining, but you can bless the Lord. Oh my soul, it’s the soul that regardless of what happens physically or materially because of what God means to you spiritually, and if you’re spiritually strong, the soul of man can keep blessing God and stay strong in the Lord.

When it seemed like the whole while around them has fallen apart, but the inward man is strengthened and renewed day by day. In verse 19, it makes the statement, the Lord hath prepared his throne in heaven and his kingdom ruleth overall. Even the laws of sin and death are working. You say, well, God is in charge. This world is a mess. but the law of sin, the law of death are really the laws of God and they’re working. When people are wicked the way they are and God lets people suffer the consequences of their decisions, the law of God is still working.

God is letting people see that you can take the life of somebody. That’s the wickedness of sin. The law of God sin is still a law. It’s the violation of God’s righteousness. And God still allows people who break God’s law to die. God allows people to get sick. You can see the results of sin. You can see the results of homes that are broken up, teenagers that are rebellious. Every rebellious child shows you that God’s law still works because you can’t be rebellious and when.

People still die because the lost sin and death. One day all of it will be over with, and we’ll be in heaven. And God will have totally, absolutely delivered us from all our diseases, from all the presence of all sin, and we’ll have a glorified body so that we’ll be totally complete body, soul and spirit in heaven with God. And we can look back and read these verses and find everything God promised He did. Remember, if it wasn’t for God, you and I would have no deliverance from the power of sin.

The penalty of sin, or the presence of sin, if it wasn’t for God. He’d done all of that, and He says, bless the Lord, O my soul, for all His benefits. Now you stop and think how good God has been to you. And how bad it could have been. However bad you think your life has been, it could have been a lot worse. And it might be that start in tomorrow. Is that either reason not to praise God? Many things God’s people bring upon themselves by their own rebellion.

Thinking that because God is so good to me and I was wrong and he didn’t do anything Instead of correcting the problem, you let it feed the fire and lead you further away from God. And you abuse the goodness of God. But the Bible says the goodness of God should lead a man to repent of it, to change your mind, to reconsider. What you’re doing, realize God is a good God. Why should not serve a good God? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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All righty, good to have you tonight. It’s Thanksgiving Day week. We should all learn to give thanks to the Lord. A psalm of thanksgiving, a psalm of thanksgiving. Psalm 75, one says, onto the, oh God, do we give thanks? A lot of times we’re just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, but the Lord likes to hear every once in a while, hey, thank you. Thank you Lord. Thank the Lord for what you have. But I want you to take your Bible and turn to the hundredth Psalm.

The hundredth Psalm, I want you to read it with me here in verse one, read it out loud with me, make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.

Be thankful unto him and bless his name, for the Lord is good, his mercy in everlasting, and his truth endured to all generation.” Isn’t that a great Psalm? It really is. There’s seven things that I believe from these verses that we could be thankful for and should be. You’ll notice there in verse three where it says Know ye that the Lord, He is God. He is God. Did you know we might know that there is a God, but we would not know that Jehovah is God.

The Lord, He is God. L-O-R-D caps is a reference to Jehovah Himself. And this is because God had revealed Himself unto us. We have a book that’s revealing the will of God. I have not seen, ear have not heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God had revealed them unto us by His Spirit. Yay, the Spirit searches all things, the deep things of God. For what man knew of the things of God, say the spirit of man which is within him.

Even so the things of God, no man can know except the spirit of God dwell within him. And then we compare spiritual things by spiritual means. And we know things that the natural man does not know because the things of God are spiritually discerned. So we have a book that reveals to us the mind of God, the way of God. And so we are very fortunate that we have such a wonderful book that we can read and know about the true and living God.

The next thing here is the word creation and that is in verse 3 if you look there it is he that hath made us and Not we ourselves. I know sometimes we hear about the I’m a self-made man Yeah There was a couple these You know scientists Atheist They said we can do anything that so-called God could have done We can make man from the dust of the earth. So they thought they would just have a contest. And they wanted to show that they could take dirt and make a man.

So they reached down there to get them some dirt and a voice out of heaven said. Get your own dirt. They couldn’t even start because they couldn’t even make dirt let alone a man. God can make the dirt and God can take a body and form it from the dirt of the ground and breathe into his nosses the breath of life. Man becomes a living soul. Look there in the 139th Psalm. Hold your place right here. But the 139th Psalm.

and you’ll get a glimpse of just what David understood. Look how smart this guy was. Now, you know, either God gave him this wisdom or he was a mighty smart man. I think God could have intervened and told him some wonderful things. But what I want you to see about what God has done, and look down in verse 13. Verse 13, For thou hast possessed my reigns, thou have covered me in my mother’s womb. So he’s saying that God knew me when I was in my mama’s womb, and God’s the one that formed my body.

He says in verse 14, good way he says, I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well. Believe it, God made me. God made me. My substance was not hit from the when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth. Thine I did see my substance yet being unperthing. And in thy book, all my members were written. Means you probably ever hear your head too.

which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them. How precious also get this are thy thoughts unto me. Oh God, how great is the sum of them. In other words, God thinking about me. You think God has a lot of things on his mind. He got a lot of things to think about and then to realize God is up in heaven. Thinking about me. Did you know that when Christ went to the cross, When he was on the cross, what?

I was on his mind. First time I ever heard that song, a lady from Lee Patton’s church, got up there and sung that song. I had never heard it before. And I loved that song. I fell in love with it. When he was on the cross, I was on his mind. And God so loved the world and is nobody that he loved more than me. But he loves me. He loves me. He loves you. And376 if that is true, then he has to think about me.

If he died for my sin, then he had to think about me and my sin. He has all these thoughts. And God thinks about it. If I should count them, they’re more in number than the sands. When I wake, I am still with thee. Surely, thou will slay the wicked, O God, and so on. Now look at verse 23. You and I are supposed to believe that God made us. made us. So we examine ourselves and see is there any wicked way in me?

Is there anything in my life that would hinder me from being what I should be with my heavenly Father? Look at what he says in verse 23, search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. This This is what God wants you and I to do. God created us. So when you are thankful, you should be thankful that God had revealed Himself.

I guess we can be thankful that God made us. Take a look in the 19th Psalm. The 19th Psalm. This is a mighty good Psalm. It kind of lets us know who’s running things around here. In verse 1 of the 19th Psalm, the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork. They unto day utter a speech and night and night showeth knowledge. To believe, believe it or not, that every day the rotation of the year, the sun, the moon starts, all that teaches things.

I believe in the very beginning before they had the word of God, they all taught. lessons. I believe the twelve signs of the zodiac is not a wicked evil thing. I believe astrology has ruined it, but God in the beginning, I believe God started it. I believe they have signs and they meant things. You can study the signs of the zodiac and it’s actually it’s like the gospel and the stars. But anyway, in verse three, he says, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, words to the end of the world. And them hath ye set at pavernacle for the sun. Just think how big the sun is. It would be 93 million miles away from the earth. This big old ball of fire. And yet think of how many stars there are and how big they are. And yet he was able to place this one here and place that one there and did this and all the stars all over the universe everywhere.

Have you ever wondered what’s at the end of the end? At the end of space. What’s out there then? Is there no end to anything? It’s all interesting to me. But then he says, the sun, every day when the sun goes to the heavens, it’s like a strong man running to win a race. And then lo and behold, it comes back to where it started and does it again, because God has a course. And he says, they’re in verse four, their line is gone throughout the earth and their words to the end of the world to them, hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom cometh out of his chamber and rejoices a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is perfect. So he gets into the Word. So God made the world to reveal God and God made his Word to reveal God. So if the world was made by God and the Word was given by God, then the world and the Word should agree and it does. Evolution doesn’t agree with the world and the teaching of evolution doesn’t agree with God.

It does agree with the Word. Evolution must be wrong. It is. But the law of the Lord is perfect talking about His Word and God has given it to us. In Luke, verse 11, I want you to see this. over by them is thy servant get this warned and in keeping of them there’s great reward. So there is the reason why God has given to us his word and revealed these things unto us because we are his creation. He not only made us but he has a purpose for our creation.

And that’s why we studied the word of God to see what is it that God wants us to know. down in verse 14. He says, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be in your underlying this word be acceptable and thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. So we have in the word of God an admonition that though he made the world he also made us and he gave us his word which is perfect.

And by it, we are warned and that we are going to be rewarded based upon what we do with the word that we’ve heard. So as an individual, I am supposed to learn and to do that which is acceptable in God’s eyes. So we often do what we think is acceptable to us. You know, it pleases me. It’s what I want to do with my life. Yep, but it belongs to God. Number three, manifestation. In verse 5 there in the hundredth Psalm, it makes the statement, God is good.

Did you know that for you to serve the Lord and to be happy serving the Lord, to be pleased and serving the Lord, you have to believe that God is good. If you don’t believe that God is good, you’ll have a serious problem walking with him. I have lived long enough to see and to believe with all my heart. God is a good God. What if God had been a bad God? What if God had been a mean God?

But the Bible says God is good. In the book of Acts it talks about Jesus Christ and everywhere he went. He went about doing good. Just doing good. Sometimes you may not get a chance to witness to somebody. Being still do good. Sometimes you don’t always get a chance to just challenge somebody’s servo, but you still do good. Just do good by people. Be kind because that’s what God is. Be loving because God is loving. Be forgiving because God is forgiving.

But God is good. David said this, and I want you to see this because it’s so good, hold your place right here and just look there in the 23rd Psalm. Most of the time we always use the the 23rd Psalm at a funeral. But since nobody’s dying here tonight, as I know of, I want you to look at this as David gave it because he was a shepherd and he had sheep. And he says, the Lord is my shepherd.

So in verse one of the 23rd Psalm, he says, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Want for what, the Lord, you shepherd? Then you trust the shepherd to lead you, to guide you, provide for you? He makeeth me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the steel waters. He restored my soul. He leadeth me in the pass of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

For thou art with me. By rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparedst a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anorneth my head with oil, my cup runneth over. And look in verse 6, this is what David said, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord temporarily. forever. So David knew that he was going to be with the Lord forever.

But he also knew that he wasn’t there yet and going through this life is going through the valley of the shadow of death because at this time all of us live under the shadow of dying. We don’t know if we’re going to die or if the raptor is going to take place. We all hope that the raptor takes place and we all get out of here without feeling any pain. I’ve never died before and I just don’t want to hurt.

But I believe that God can give you dying grace, grace that you need for that moment. It’s called new grace, grace for the moment, the strength, the grace, the power to do the will of God at the hour that you need it the most. So I don’t have to worry about it. I just believe God will tell you, look, look at all the other saints that have already faced it and gone to heaven. If they can face it, we can face it.

And there’s no reason for us to fear. I was thinking, as far as the Lord goes, I believe I knew the Lord better than my mom. I believe I know the Lord better than my two sisters that have already died. And they can handle it. And they knew they were dying. Surely God will give me the grace that I need at that moment too. and I will fear no evil for thou art with me. I wrought a nice staff, they comfort me, and he will lead me and guide me into still waters, restoreth my soul.

All these things that he’s going to do for us all because we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. He is our shepherd. Remember every one time I preach the sermon on the great shepherd, the good shepherd, and I added in there the chief shepherd, the three kinds of shepherds because of who Christ is and what He’s done for us. Look at number four. Number four there in the hundredth Psalm is it says, we are His people.

We ought to know who we are. This is our redemption because in order to be His people, then we need to be redeemed. And to be redeemed, then somebody had to buy us. Somebody had to make a payment for us. So you and I can look at it and say, yes, we believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, paid for all the sins of the world, and by faith alone, I have been redeemed into the family of God.

God has done this for me. So I can be thankful that God had revealed Himself through his son Jesus Christ and coming into the world and That he created me. I’m thankful that I have a chance to live. I have enjoyed it my so far 68 years of life. I don’t know how much time God’s gonna give me It might be I’m on the downhill side of life But then I might live to be I mean after all Abraham.

He lived to be a hundred and seventy five years old Remember, he was old and an old man and he couldn’t even have a child. And then Lord had to strengthen his body and then he wound up after a certain time, got married again and had some more kids. Lived me 175. A lot thought he was, I mean, a joke thought he was going to die. And yet God gave him some more kids and some more kids and some more kids and some more kids, some more kids.

Grandkids. fourth generation after that and it says that he died full of age. Well of course that old they say that you know cheese gets better with age I don’t really know somebody tried to tell me that wine gets better with age I wouldn’t know that either but I do believe that we ought to enjoy life What I enjoyed life. God has been good to us. God is a good God and I can be thankful for all the things that he brought into my life.

Yes, I can look back and I can see a trail of tears. I’ve had a lot of times when I have spent time just crying to the Lord. You know, why I’m in a little bit to the Lord. You’re a one. I’ve done a lot of that. But God’s always brought me through. He’s always brought me through. I couldn’t always see how he’s going to do it, but I always believe God’s a good God. I don’t know how you’re going to do it.

God’s a good God. And he knows who I am. He knows I’m his child. I’m in his family. And he’s good. And he loves me. And if I can just keep believing that, it didn’t matter what happens. My heavenly father walk with me. There’s a song that I learned years ago called Just me and my lord just me and my lord walking together Me and my lord walking alone Even though you can have a a husband or a wife and you can have kids and go to church and you all know all the people There’s no substitute for just you and the Lord walking together other.

Lord has to be real and precious to you. So he is our Redeemer. The number five restoration, the sheep of his pastor. Now if he’s the with the sheep of his pastor, I mean it’s his responsibility to provide for us. You see the shepherd would lead the sheep and provide the green grass and make sure that there was some still waters and the shepherd was going to protect the sheep. You know, you can’t find anything dumber than a sheep, maybe a turkey.

But they are so naive. And that’s why sometimes people might call you, you turkey. That’s not a compliment. I am not a sheep without a shepherd. I have one. I know his name. And when I hear his voice, I want to follow him. The next word is restoration sheep of his pastor, he restored my soul. You ever get tired and weary and worn? Is it going to bed and resting such a wonderful invention? I love a bed. I love going to sleep.

Eating and sleeping are two wonderful inventions of God. It is so enjoyable. But anyway, the word justification, his mercy, his mercy, he had mercy upon us and his mercy, if it lasts forever, then it means I’m justified and I have mercy forever. See, once you’re saved, you’re always saved. Once you’re forgiven, you’re always forgiven. That’s what’s wonderful about the Lord. I I have been redeemed. I’m justified just as if I’d never sin. That’s how I got to be part of his family I’ve got a lot to be thankful for I’ve often wondered if somebody had not led me to the Lord when I was 18 years old What would have ever happened to me?

What I would have done Would I have lived this long? I am so glad God has intervened in my life and wrong my bell And I am so glad that I know the Lord, but I’m glad that He knows me. And I’m just thankful for that. Every person living in America ought to be so thankful that we have the freedoms to believe like we believe, and that we can serve the Lord without persecution. But we might lose that someday, but we have this moment.

We ought to do what we can with what we have where we are. And God bless us for it. The last word is inspiration. His truth endures to all generation. His truth is His word. And the Bible says concerning His word, thy word is truth. Thy word is truth from the book of John in chapter 17. Saintify them through thy word, thy word is truth. It is inspired to believe that the word of God didn’t come from a man, but it came from God himself.

And that you and I have such a wonderful book that we can read and study it and get as close to the Lord as we want to get. You can get as close to God as you want to, and nobody can stop you. You can be as holy of an individual, as godly of an individual, as you want to be, you can be as dedicated to God as you want to be. Ain’t that good? That’s something everybody ought to be thankful for.

But I believe that it’s good to be thankful to the Lord and let other people know that you’re thankful. And what are you thankful for? Because you see, a lot of people have an erupt time. Some people may not have a job. Some people may be facing surgery. A lot of people have a lot of problems that they just don’t know how they’re going to solve. And something that you say are about what God means to you. could be such an uplifting element in their life.

People need help. People need encouragement. I only got so many stories to tell. I can only face so much. But see, y’all got things that God has taught you. God’s brought you through some things. But you keep serving the Lord. And don’t let anything in this world stop you from doing what God wants you to do with your life. Look up here. This hand represent you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. We’re supposed to believe that it is He God that hath made us.

And even though He didn’t make us, He didn’t make us a sinner. That’s because we have some parents from down the road that decided to to rebel against the Lord. And they send. And because they send, they were given an old sinful nature. And that old sinful nature is why we commit all these sins. This does not make us a sinner. We do all these sins because we are a sinner. And the Bible says that wages of sin is death, eternal separation from God in hell.

But God loves us and wants us to have eternal life and they go to heaven. But we’re separated from God. That separation God calls death. We’re separated. But God loves us and there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die.

He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead and said that if we would believe that he did it for us. He’d put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. I trusted Christ as my Savior. I know that I’m going to heaven when I die. And I hope that you have. Do you believe that God is a good God? I believe he is a good God.

And we need to be thankful because God is good. Now you may have bad things happening in life, but God doesn’t do bad things to us. If you’re disobedient, God will allow chasin’ and so forth in your life. But if you’re a servant Lord, those same things can happen to you and it’ll build your character and it’ll be a blessing to you based upon how you are between you and God because of the things that happen. God knows what he’s doing and God loves you.

And this is simply a song on Thanksgiving. Let’s pray, Shabbat. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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friend one day it will happen the trumpet will sound we will be changed caught up to meet the lord in the air so live today and every day believe in that the lord is coming soon and just keep looking up

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I ever prayed sometime and seemed like the sealant is made out of brass. prayers can’t get through. And I came across a great truth one day. My prayers don’t have to make a trip. God lives within me. He lives within me. He knows my thoughts before I even ask. He knows my needs. So there’s things that God knows and He wants to get done. But now look there in verse 2. Looking in verse 2, Isaiah chapter 59. If you don’t have verse 2, underline you ought to on the line verse two in your Bible.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God. And get this, your sins. Have hid his face from you that he what? He won’t hear. It means that he’s not going to answer you. It’s like there’s a God got all this provision up there and you’re not gonna get any of it. It’s like, you know, having a rich uncle and he won’t give you anything. Maybe you don’t like you. Maybe you’re rebellious. Maybe you’re scared of grudge. But God is always for our benefit.

You must believe God loves you. God loves me. But God doesn’t tolerate sin, and you can’t tolerate it in your life. So that’s why when we do that which is wrong, and you realize that God gives you a little flashback, you better talk to the Lord about it. Keep your hearts right. Keep your hearts pure between you and the Lord. Now take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 21, the book of Matthew and chapter 21. Chapter 21. And look in verse 22.

This is a very interesting portion of Scripture. You see there in verse 22, and all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer. Look at the next word. Believing you might receive you. Says, you shall receive. Now, remember I told you there’s a couple of verses that I haven’t got to the depths of yet. It’s hard for me to believe, but it says you gotta believe it. So I got a question and doubt. I got a hunch when I get to heaven.

There’s gonna be many things that I could have had. And because of my lack of faith, my little faith, I never got. I’m thankful for what I have received, But I keep thinking how much more I probably could have received or done if I could only believe. That’s why it says, Lord, I believe, Lord, help thy mind unbelief. And we always have these questions, these doubts. Well, look what he says. Yee, shout. But look at the point of it.

See the verse right before this where he says in verse 21, Jesus said unto them, verily I say unto you, if ye have faith, doubt not. That’s why there’s some things that belongs to people who have faith and what God says and can really trust them. I wonder how much they can actually receive and how much is because of their faith in the Lord. Or how little faith I really have. But he says, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fake tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.”

Good, right? When he says this mountain he probably was talking to the, to see this mountain right here? The Mount of Now you and I know that when Christ comes back again, His speech is going to touch upon the Mount of Orleans going to cleave in the mist. So what are you talking about? Any old mountain or this mountain right here? I’m often wondering about that. I also know that when Christ comes to the earth and He sets up His kingdom upon the earth, people won’t have to worry about anything.

God says, look, I’ll take care of everything. When a man wants to slap you on one cheek, he says, go ahead, turn the other one. Because Christ will be here during the kingdom. See, those verses reply during that period of time. time. Man wants to sue you. He said, well, let him sue you. Once you coat, give him a cloak also. It won’t matter. God will be here and justice will be served. You don’t have to worry about anything.

The vengeance is his, says to the Lord, God will take care of all of it. But until then, you and I, we have all these questions and doubts. What if you could live your Christian life without questioning worrying about what God says and just believe Him how much more peace and joy and happiness you’d have. Or to knock and finally find that job you’ve been looking for. Why? Because you didn’t quit. Or because you asked and you just kept on asking and you just kept on seeking and you finally found what you were looking for.

By the time we find it we’re too old to enjoy it. I won’t move right along here. But look there in James chapter 4. Look in James chapter 4. Over there in the book Look at James. Everybody likes James. Here in the book of James in chapter 4, look there in verse 3, you ask and receive not because you ask him is that you may consume it upon your own lust. In other words, you have desires that are not godly desires and you want things for the wrong reason.

See, I do believe this, that if I commit myself to the Lord, there’s a role of a disciple that I must follow. And if I will commit myself to do those things and discipline myself, I believe that my discipline will carry me to my ultimate goal. I will be able to please the Lord and I will get within the will of God for my life. And so all I got to do is just obey and keep walking and yield into the Lord.

And if I will do that, then it’s God’s responsibility to take care of everything else. That’s why he says in Matthew chapter 6, he says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things, all these things, what? The things that you and I are not supposed to worry about. Do you know there’s a lot of people they worry, worry, worry about what they’re going to eat, close to where, place to live. And God says, I’ll take care of those things.

take care of my responsibility. Lose your life or my sake in the gospel in God’s that I’ll take care of the rest of it. But that’s where faith comes in. And as you study the Word of God and the more knowledge you have of the Word of God, the more you can trust God for it and your faith grows and you’ll enjoy life better. And you’ll have the peace and the joy that you really want. And that’s what’s going to make the difference.

And then you’re able to influence other people’s lives because you’ve let the Word of God influence your life. You’ve ever seen smoke? There’s a song used to go that’s smoked, it’s in your eyes. Anybody remember that? Smoked it’s in your eyes. Well I’ve had smoke in my eyes and I don’t feel like singing when I got smoke in my eyes. I get teary-eyed because I get smoke in my eyes and then I can’t see too clear. Well see that’s the way a lot of people are.

Something’s in Isaac they can’t see clearly and so God wants clear things away. Sit your affections and so forth upon him and God said that he will bless you. He’ll take care of things. Look there in the book of Mark, the book of Mark. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the book of Mark, and chapter 11, Mark, chapter 11. The book of Mark is a picture of Jesus Christ in constant motion. Almost every verse in the book of Mark starts with the word and.

And the key word immediately or straightway, he was a servant. He was always going. He’s the servant. And that’s what you find in the book of Mark. So he’s always going, always giving. And in Mark. And in chapter 11. Look in verse 22. Chapter 11 verse 22. Jesus answering a said unto them, and you had to unline these words, have faith in God. Well, you’ve got to have a reason to have faith in God. You’ve got to trust Him for something.

Well, you’ve got to need something then. So God is so good to us. He lets us as children of need have the possibilities of coming to the throne of grace and asking for help so that you and I can have all that we need in the nick of time. That’s what he means. Now look in verse 23, verse 23, for barely I say unto you, whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart.

But shalt believe that those things which He saith, shall come to Him. He shall have whatsoever He saith. There’s verses over and over again that some people needed healing, different things. There’s a dumb spirit and a deaf spirit and this blind and so forth, and everybody’s needing all these problems. And they would carry all these people with all these problems to Jesus. And so night and day He was at it. He’s the person in this person and that person.

And all that came to him, he healed. He was a busy man. And he says, come into me and I will show you things that you don’t know. And you realize that a lot of things he was able to do. And he healed people of various diseases and so forth. And he says, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall be lead at those things which he says, shall come to path, he shall have whatsoever he said. whatsoever, anything.

It almost seems like there’s no limit, but you and I know, according to other scriptures, and it keeps making this statement, be it unto you according to your faith. Be it unto you according to your faith. Do you believe that our quality of life is a direct ratio to the quality of our trust in the Lord. Think about it. If you go through life and you’re miserable, good, you’re supposed to be because you didn’t trust the Lord. And there’s things that if you’ll trust the Lord and walk with God like He said, you’d be surprised how all of a sudden all of a can turn to joy and peace.

And the peace that the world cannot give and the world can’t take it away. Because see it has nothing to do with the world it has to do with you and God. And God’s the one that can give you a settled peace because you’re doing what pleases him. If your peace and your joy and your happiness is dependent upon other people’s response to you then you’re going to be very limited. Because people don’t always do what they’re supposed to do.

So you’re you’re limited. Now I want you to look at the next verse, looking verse 24. Therefore I say unto you what things soever ye desire when you pray, when you pray. So it’s assuming that you’re going to, you’re going to pray. Believe that you receive them and ye shall have them. You know that’s powerful. In other words I’m I’m supposed to live and rejoice now because of what God’s going to do because of my prayer. And he hasn’t done it yet.

But because of my faith in the Lord, I know He will and I rejoice now in advance. I rejoice in advance. Before I came down here to Calvary Community Church, did you know that I had already done scouted out this place? I mean, when I decided I was getting interested, that I was already looking at you people, do you realize I already saw certain potential of what could be done here at this church? Did you know that I had already figured out about camp and what I wanted to do?

I had already planned on Reformers Unanimous before I came here. I did. I most certainly did. And I also wanted to do more with the radio ministry. And I rejoiced in the Lord before I got any of it. Because I knew that somewhere down the Lord I don’t know how God’s going to do things. But I trust Him that He’s going to do it. And lo and behold, I told Betty yesterday, I said, you realize in two more months I will have been here two years?

It seemed like I just got here. And two years has almost passed. Look what it says. In verse 25, and when ye pray, stand praying, look at the next word. I want you to underline the word forgive. When you stand praying, Forgive. And you see that word if I want you to circle the word if. That means that there’s a… The answer to the prayer request is contingent upon something. Now here in the book of Mark, I believe that this is an Old Testament position.

If you want to be forgiven, then you needed to forgive. But in the New Testament, in the book of Ephesians 4 verse 32, he says, forgiving one another because God hath for Christ’s sake forgiven you. So I should forgive because I have been forgiven. Here is talking about forgiving so that you can be forgiven. Now there’s the difference. So because I have been forgiven, then as I go through life, I should forgive. And if you don’t forgive, did you know that there could be a possibility God will not answer your prayer because you will not forgive?

And the reason you don’t forgive is because you’re refusing to give something to somebody that you can give. Well, I just can’t forgive him. I’ll never forgive her. Wait a minute. Is that what God said whenever you wanted forgiveness of all of your sins? God hath forgiven us of all sins. And now here we are and we can’t forgive someone. And we have bitterness in our heart and God knows it. And you will not forgive someone who’s wrong to.

That’s wrong. And you wonder why God won’t give you peace and joy and happiness because you’ve you’ve got bitterness in your heart and the iniquity that you’re hiding from God. God can’t see this, but you’re asking God for something. God says, you get rid of that and I’ll give you this. So it’s up to you. You can have so much more, but you have to read the scriptures and believe what it says. And God says, or in verse 20, but if you do not forgive neither will your father, which is in heaven forgive your trans pastor.

See, this was before Christ died on the cross. Aren’t you glad that we’re under grace and not under law? But there are still principles in the Word of God about asking and receiving. Prayer is asking and receiving. So is there any reason, and this is why you examine your life, is there any reason that God would have for not answering your prayer? What do you need? Well, why wouldn’t God give that to you? I would hold that from you.

There must be a reason because God is a good God. We sung that tonight. And I believe that God is a good God. Now, another verse that I wanted to give to you right quick because I can see our time is only got two verses left. Look in Proverbs, the book of Proverbs, Proverbs 28. Proverbs 28. Look at this wonderful, wonderful verse. Proverbs chapter 28. And look at verse nine. Proverbs 28 and verse nine.

And he says here in verse nine, he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law. Even in Yoda on the line, even his prayer shall be an abomination. In other words, you could pray, But your prayer, because you will not listen to what the word of God says, you will not do what God says, do, but now you want God to be a little puppet on the strange, and you pull these strange in this, when the puzzle opened up and all these blessings fall down upon you.

No, God is looking for righteous people whom he can bless. And you’re the one to determine what kind of a person you are. And so he makes this statement here. Look in verse 10, Whoso causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way. He shall fall himself into his own pit. But the upright shall have good things in possession. The rich men is wise in his own conceit, but the poor that hath understandeth, searcheth to him out. When righteous men do rejoice, there’s great glory.

But when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. Now looking for 13, he that coverth his sin shall not prosper. But who so confesses and forsakeeth them shall have mercy. And verse 14, happy is the man that covers his sins. No, happy is the man that fearth always, but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Look at verse 20, done in verse 20, a faithful man shall abound, and you’re not lying those two words with blessing, a faithful man.

Oh, look what he says in verse 26, he that trusted in his own heart It’s a fool. That’s the man that does that. And of course, the next two verses in the next chapter are really good too. You can read the whole chapter, but we don’t have time for all that. Looking first Peter chapter three, first Peter and chapter three, and we’ll close with these verses, but I referred to these verses the other, well last Sunday, first Peter chapter three, when we talked about husbands on how to love your your wives.

By the way, I think that was a good sermon. And I think everybody, if you didn’t hear it, you ought to hear it. It’d be a blessing to you. Or you know somebody that needs that message. It’s good for them. First Peter in chapter three. Look what he says there in verse nine. Not, Reggulant or rendering evil for evil or railing for railing, but contrary to wise, blessing. Somebody does you wrong, be a blessing to them. Don’t worry about what they do.

Don’t render evil for evil. You know what, you did me wrong, I do you wrong. You’re unkind to me, I’ll be unkind to you.” No, no, no, no. God said, don’t do that. So he says here in verse 10, “‘For he that will love life, I mean to enjoy life. And see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, let his lips that speak no guile, mean no deceit, no secret treachery. Let him issue evil and do good and let him seek peace and pursue it, or pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Sounds pretty clear to me. So whenever the Lord’s talking about, you know, his ears are open unto the prayers of the righteous. In the book of John chapter 5 verse 24, he says, along this line, he that, heareth my word, and beleaveth on him that sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but his past from death under life.

He that heareth my word. Now see, you might hear it, but do you really hear it? Do you believe it? This is what God’s talking about. See, God can hear everything. He hears the idle words. He hears the profanity. He hears the dirty jokes. And then you expect God to bless. As though he didn’t hear it, no, correct the problems. Always examine your life, because God is. And God lets problems comes into our life to get us to see those things that we refuse to see, to face things we don’t want to face so that we can correct the problem because God in heaven is just waiting.

He wants to bless us so much. That’s what the book says. And we believe the book, don’t we? We believe this book. And you’d be surprised what God can do if we yield ourselves to Him. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. And the wallet represents all the things that we do that’s wrong. Everybody does things wrong. The Bible says that we have all sin. Come short of God’s perfection. See, God is perfect and heaven is perfect and we have to be perfect to go there.

None of us are perfect. We’ve all done things wrong and God says the wages of sin is death. Not the wages of sins is death. One sin is all it takes. One sin we have to die. One sin and we’re condemned for all eternity, but God loves us and wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven we have to be perfect because righteous is God and none of us are perfect. We’ve all sinned and come short of his perfection and God says you cannot save yourself.

You cannot work your way to heaven. It’s not by our good This hand represents Jesus Christ. He is the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sins because our sins separates us from God. And even after you trust Christ as your Savior, there are things that happen in your life. These sins keep you from having the fellowship with the Lord that you want to have. It keeps you from the peace and the joy.

So Christ, when He died, He paid the penalty of our sins, which is death and hell. which is death in hell. He came back from the dead. The penalty for our sins is already paid. So when I believe he did it for me, he puts this payment to my account and I never have to pay the penalty of my sins by being eternally separated from God. He paid for all of that. And now because I’m his child, God says, I have eternal life.

I’m going to heaven whenever I die. These things have I written unto you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life. Look what we get yet just by believing God. We believe He did it for us and He puts this payment to our account and all I had to do, I believe it. And I get to be a child of God. I get to go to heaven when I die. He’ll never cast me out, never lose me.

Look at all the opportunities God gives us in life. So after you trust Christ to save you, yes, you’re His child, you’re going to heaven. But you’re not there yet. And God wants His children to talk to Him. You know, I thought one time, I wonder if God gets lonely. I wonder if God gets lonely. He wants to talk to us and walk with us and fellowship with us, but see, He’s perfect. And He can do it. only because there’s a mediator, Jesus Christ.

See, like, here’s me, and here’s the Lord, and here’s Christ. So you see him and Christ, they have no problem. Christ, because of his death on the cross for me, we have no problem. So I can have all the fellowship I want because of Christ. Christ is the mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Let’s pray show you. Every head bowed and every act closed and no one looking around. If you’re not sure you’re going to heaven.

Why not right now just talk to the Lord and say something simple like this? Lord, I don’t understand it all. I got questions. I got doubts. We all do because we have an old sinful nature. We have a very difficult time totally trusting the Lord in every area of our life. But you realize that God says because we’re sinners, we can’t save ourselves. That’s That’s why we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t trust our works to get us to heaven because we don’t know quality our works.

Our God says they’re no good. God says they’re like filthy rags. And God says that you’d have to continue in all things in which the law commanded we’ve all failed. So you can’t save yourself. But what you believe that Christ died, that He paid for your sins, and what you trust Him to take you to heaven when you die. If you will, God said He would save you, give you eternal life and you become His child. If you’ve never done so and you’ll do it right now, I’d like to have prayer for you.

Right where you are, all that you have to do, the only thing you can do is to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. And by believing that He died on that cross and paid for your sins, God said He would give you eternal life and it lasts forever. It never cast you out, it never lose you. So in the quietness of this moment, as anyone else says, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior and preach, I’d like you to pray for me.

Just lift it up very quickly, I’ll rub it down, and say it with all. If you’ve already trusted Christ to save you, you never have to do it again. But you know there might be some of you, yes, you trusted Christ as your Savior, but you’re struggling. You’re having a hard time. Lot of problems in life. Humble yourself to the Lord. Don’t be defiant. Don’t be proud and boastful in front of God. God can humble you very quickly. He can send you problems you can’t solve.

It doesn’t do it because he’s mad at you. He does it because he loves you and he wants you to see because there’s so much more he He wants you to enjoy. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. Bless each one. And Father, we know that there are those that are hurting because of some sickness or illness and some that are needing jobs and Lord, they’re just a wide variety. But I pray that You’d help each one to seek, to ask, to knock, and you stay at it, be leaving.

Believing that You will come through just like You promised. each one to examine their own life and see if there’s a reason that would cause you not to bless them. Thank you for this time in Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-570- the Word on Bible Mind, everywhere, every time. Hear God’s truth on Bible Mind. Welcome to Bible Mind with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the Internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bible Mind to continue on the air.

You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-866. 63771. Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calbryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew, the book of Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. You notice it says they’re in verse one. Judge not that you be not judged.

In other words, don’t judge in a way that others could judge you back. What it means is clean up your own backyard before you start pointing at other people’s backyard. In other words, before you try to get a splinter out of somebody else’s eye, you got to get the two before out of your eye. So it doesn’t say you can’t judge because we are to discern. But sometimes people judge in a critical manner, trying to destroy. And so some, some kind of criticism This can be constructive criticism, and there is destructive criticism, depends on where you come in from and the purpose of why you’re trying to do what you’re doing.

But all of that takes discernment, and discernment comes from knowledge of the Word of God applied to experiences in life, and that’s what reveals whether you’re you can know the Bible and no verses in the Bible, you’re not wise unless you can apply it in the right way to the things that happens to you in life. So it says here in this verse 7, ask, ask. Go to underline that word. Because, you know, Wednesday night isCLASSIFIED prayer meeting, and so I think we ought to just maybe everyone say, well, I’d like to talk to you about no prayer.

I’m talking to the Lord. That’s what prayer is. Prayer is that you talking to Him. them. And of course, when you read the Bible, God talks to you. So there needs to be a communication. And he says in verse 7, ask, and it shall be given you. Let’s just think about that. Well, you say, wait, wait, wait, wait. I ask the Lord for a lot of things and I don’t get it. Okay, there’s probably another verse that says something that we need to look at then.

But just kind of get the gist of it right now and think it’s through. Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find, not and it shall be opened unto you.” Did you notice that in those three verses there’s responsibility here? You are responsible to ask. Doesn’t the Bible say that God knows what you have need of before you ask? Of course, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. Because God knows the future. God knows everything.

But He says he wants you to ask him. And sometimes I believe God’s children fail to ask the Lord. What do you want? What do you want? Ask him for it. And God, as many people say, will always answer yes, no, wait a while. Because he may not ask you right now. But what these words mean here is ask and keep asking. Seek and keep seeking. Knock and keep knocking. It’s not talking about just doing it one time in quick.

Well I ask them I didn’t get it. I didn’t quit. It’s the persistence of it. Keep asking. If you really believe it, keep asking and you don’t quit and you don’t stop. You just keep praying. Pray without ceasing. That means don’t stop. Keep asking, keep praying. Looking verse eight, for everyone, look at that, everyone that asketh receiveth. Hmm, and he that seeketh, findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be open. Good, you realize how powerful those verses are right there?

Is this for real? I mean, is this true that there’s a God in heaven that created the heavens and the earth, He’s waiting for you to ask for something, seeking for something, knocking one of the Lord open up a door. Bye. I believe that one thing that are required is, and that’s the word F-A-I-T-H. The word faith means for saking all, I trust Him. Faith, for saking all, I trust Him. And God wants you in the place where you trust Him for everything.

So good what He says. In verse 9, or what man is there of you whom if his son asked bread, will he give him a stone? I mean, if you have a child and I’m hungry ma, okay honey, here’s a stone. Would you do that? No, in verse 10, or if he asked for some fish, will he give him a snake, a serpent? No, why don’t God knows that you love your children more than to do things like that to them.

But look in verse 11, if ye then be an evil, know how to give good gifts under your children, how much more shall your Father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask Him. You see the correlation here? About you and your children, and the way God is. Did you know that there’s a God in heaven that has the power to do so much and He has created us and He’s created us with desires, with needs.

And He’s waiting to hear from us because He wants to do so much. I used to think, boy, I’d love to have a rich dad, you know, a billionaire, million ain’t enough anymore, a billionaire. And then when He died, I’d get all that money. Wouldn’t that have been great? My dad had a liquor still. Never had a dime. When He died, He left me some empty jugs. I think maybe a pair of old overalls, they wouldn’t fit me. But here’s God who wants to give it to us.

And you don’t have to wait till you die to get. He’s willing to do so much for you even now. And I believe we rob ourselves of tremendous blessings. And so I want you to look there in verse 12. Now many people just call this the golden rule. You see, what does that mean? He who has the gold rules. It means do unto others and then split. Do unto others before they do unto you. No, it says do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

But do you see that word there in verse 12? The word therefore, did you know that that word therefore is because of what went before it. In other words, this verse is linked to those verses we just read. You see what it says, therefore all things, whatsoever you would that man should do to you, do you even sow to them? But this is the law and the prophet. Did you know that whenever you pray, always understand. Probably over 95% of all of our prayers has to be answered through people.

Have to be answered through people. God uses people. And whenever you pray, I’m praying for a job. Where do you think a job can come from a dog? A cat? It comes because there’s a man some place that has an opening and he wants somebody to work. And your prayers might be because of a job opening because God uses people. So God says here in this verse, therefore when you ask, knock, or seek, be leaving. I remember when I first went to Florida Bible College, I told the Lord, I says, Lord, I figured up all my bills and I got to have at least $1.75 an hour to make it.

I had to wipe two kids. My school bill and all that stuff, the rent and all. Man, there was no end to it. I had to have at least $1.75 an hour. And the Lord, He got a hold of my paper and He recalculated and re-added and so forth. He says, nope, you only need a dollar quarter. He gave me a job for a dollar and a quarter and you know what? I made it. Because he said he knew off that’s all I needed.

But I had more than that. I probably would have wasted it. So anyway, God met my need and he gave me a job making a dollar and a quarter. But you know what I did? Every day I get out of school. I’d walk down the streets and I knocked on doors, knocked on doors. And I’d talk about every business, something down the street trying to find that do you have an opening. I’m going to college and I need a job.

I need a job. I need a job. I need a job. You know, the Bible says ask and keep asking. Knock. Keep knocking. Seek. Keep seeking. You know what most people do? Sit down and well, I just committed it all to God and I’m just going to sit here and wait for that job to come roll it in. I got news for you that dot the way it works. You say, well, God didn’t give me no, it’s out there.

You just got to go find it. Remember the illustration I gave you about the bird and how that God has provided for the bird? See, God made the bird have a for the worm. Did God make the worm? God made the worm. God made the bird. But God doesn’t throw the worm in the nest. The bird has been equipped with everything that needs to find the worm. And God has equipped you and me with everything we need to find what we need.

It’s just that most people today are lazy. They’re lazy. They will not work. They will not seek until they find or not until it’s opened or ask until they receive. You don’t stop, you stay at it. And men, these verses right here kept pounding into my brain because I was sitting in a meeting one day and I heard a preacher make that statement. It means asking, keep asking, seeking, keep seeking that. And I thought, I gotta keep asking, keep logging in.

But it was nothing to keep me going. Until, lo and behold, I finally found a job at Arnold Sullivan Company. Arnold. last name. Write down the street from the church and I wound up getting the job there. And then when they got to work, that didn’t work because well anyway, as we were moving right along with the story, I had a guy that needed somebody to kill bugs. So I started spraying homes. You see, before I became a preacher, I was a killer.

I was a hired killer. And so I killed all these little bugs, these little roaches and palmetto bugs. Man, I love to open up the cabinet underneath the sink and see them scurry all over the pipe. Man, I was just like Arnold Schwarzenegger with a machine gun. I’m not killing them all. Man, I walked out of there like victorious. I enjoyed every job I ever did. Now some people, they just, man, I got to do that. Man, I loved everything.

I don’t get what it was. But anyway, this verse 12, therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you because you want God to use people to meet your needs. And the last part of that verse is God wants to use you to meet somebody else’s needs. So do unto others as you would have them doing to you. Everybody helping meet each other’s needs. But to some people who don’t care about other people’s needs, did you know that one of the reasons God may not meet your need is because you’re not helping to meet somebody else’s need?

Remember that little illustration I gave one time about a man praying? Lord, give me! And the Lord gave. And then you shared. Lord, I need! And God provided. And you shared. Lord! and God gave. Lord, Lord, Lord. Right here, right here, right here. Don’t wanna cause no fuss, but what about us? And then you lose what you have. As long as you prayed and depended upon the Lord, it’s amazing what God will do for you. So many people take that verse totally out of context, But it’s talking about in the context of prayer, of God using people and God using you.

So see, there’s other people that are praying and that’s why sometimes God will send you along at the right time to meet the right person and they got a problem. And it may not be money they need, it might need that you have an ear to listen to their heartache and to pray for them for them and to care about them and just to kind of encourage them of maybe giving an illustration or something from your life. But if you do what you can to be concerned about other people because everybody is having a rough time, you need them but they need you.

And if you don’t meet their need, God just liable not to let them meet yours. And they don’t see this and understand this and they think they can just get away with it. There are principles in the word of God that will work. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Psalm 66 in the Old Testament Psalms 66 These are just a few verses that might help encourage it just a little bit Look there in verse 18 In verse 18 if you’ll look at this verse It says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me alone.

Next to God can hear everything. But what he means is God will not regard your prayer. It means that God won’t answer the prayer. Oh God can hear you. But he says his ears are open until the righteous. It means that not only does he hear, but he can respond to it. So we always need to talk to our Heavenly Father. And he says in verse 20, blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer. You see, just because you prayed doesn’t mean you’re going to get the answer that you desire.

It might be that God won’t answer it at all. It won’t be yes or no. It won’t be, I ain’t listening. And why? Because you regard iniquity in your heart. See, God knows when your heart’s right between you and Him. And if there’s something that’s keeping you from really talking to the Lord, God wants you to examine your life. See, God has you in a place of need because there’s something going in your life that’s not right. And God wants you to correct it.

And the problem is to get you to solve the problem. deal with the issue. Almost all problems are spiritual problems. You understand that? All problems are spiritual problems. So you got to keep things right between you and the Lord. Now look there in Isaiah chapter one. Just turn to you right there to the book of Isaiah in chapter one. I’ve covered this verse before but it won’t hurt to look at it one more time. Look in Isaiah chapter 1 and look in verse 15 and verse 15 where he makes the statement and when you spread forth your hands look up here you see people in the Lord I need God says you’re gonna come up empty.

When you spread forth your hands I will hide my eyes from you. When you make many prayers, many prayers I I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. In other words, there’s reasons why. So one of the things that God does to our lives, we know we need something from God, so God allows us to have this great need, a crisis that comes into our life. So we got to go to the Lord, but we got, and then God says, by the way, we have to, we need to talk.

Sometimes God has to throw a brick at you to get you to get you to slow down and stop and examine what’s going on. See, there’s more to it, more involved. And so God wants you to stop and to listen because there’s some things that He wants to talk to you about that are more important to Him than meeting that particular little need that you have. And God can let you suffer. Suffers. Do without. He says, well, why doesn’t he love me?

Oh, yeah, he loves. But you see, there’s more involved. There are things right between you and him. Is there anything between you and the Lord that you need to deal with? And, or what about between you and people? All these things are important in the Word of God. Look in Isaiah 59, Isaiah 59, since you’re right here in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 59. And look there in verse one. And look what he says here. In verse one he says, Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save.

Neither is His ear heavy that it cannot hear. Now He can hear and His arm isn’t too short where He, oh, I’d like to help you, but my arm is just too short. I can’t reach you. I feel for you, but I just can’t find you. That’s not God. It got us so far away. I ever prayed sometime and seemed like the ceiling is made out of brass. Prayers can’t get through. And I came across a great truth one day.

My prayers don’t have to make a trip. God lives within me. He lives within me. He knows my thoughts. Before I even ask. He knows my needs. So there’s things that God knows and He wants to get done. But now look there in verse two. Look in verse two. You don’t have verse two underlying you, you ought to underline verse two in your Bible. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God. And get to your sins. Have hid his face from you that he what?

He won’t hear. It means that he’s not going to answer you. It’s like there’s a God, got all this provision up there, and you’re not gonna get any of it. like having a rich uncle and he won’t give you anything. Maybe he don’t like you. Maybe you’re rebellious. Maybe he’s carried a grudge. But God is always for our benefit. You must believe God loves you. God loves me. But God doesn’t tolerate sin, and you can’t tolerate it in your life.

So that’s why when we do that which is wrong and you realize and God gives you a little flashback, you better talk to the Lord about it. Keep your heart right, keep your heart’s pure between you and the Lord. Now take your Bible and turn to Matthew chapter 21, the book of Matthew and chapter 21. And look in verse 22. This is a very interesting portion of scripture. You see there in verse 22, and all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, look at the next word, believing you might receive.

It says you shall receive. Now, remember I told you there’s a couple verses that I haven’t got to the depths of yet. It’s hard for me to believe, but it says you got to believe it. So I got a question and doubt. I got a hunch when I get to heaven. going to be many things that I could have had and because of my lack of faith, my little faith I never got. I’m thankful for what I have received, but I keep thinking how much more I probably could have received or done if I could only believe.

That’s why it says, Lord, I believe, Lord, helped out my unbelief. And we always have these questions, these doubts. Well look what he says. Yee shall, but look at the point of it. It’s see the verse right before this where he says in verse 21, Jesus answered, said unto them, Verily I say unto you, if ye have faith, doubt not. Hmm. That’s why there’s some things that belongs to people who have faith and what God says and can really trust Him.

I wonder how much they can actually receive and how much is because of their faith in the Lord. Or how little faith I really have. But He says, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fake tree but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.” Good, right? When he says, this mountain, he probably was talking to the, to see this mountain right here?

The Mount of Olives? Now you and I know that when Christ comes back again, his feet’s going to touch upon the Mount of Olives, it’s going to cleave in the mist. So what is it talking about? Any old mountain or this mountain right here? Walton wondered about that. I also know that when Christ comes to the earth and He sets up His kingdom upon the earth, people won’t have to worry about anything. God says, look, I’ll take care of everything.

When a man wants to slap you on one cheek, he says, go ahead, turn the other one because Christ will be here doing the kingdom. See those verses reply doing that period of time. Man wants to sue you. He said, well, let him sue you. Once you coat, give him cloak also, it won’t matter. God will be here and justice will be served. You You don’t have to worry about anything. The vengeance is his, says to Lord, God will take care of all of it.

But until then, you and I, we have all these questions and doubts. What if you could live your Christian life without questioning worrying about what God says and just believe him? How much more peace and joy it happened as you’d have? Or to knock and finally found that job you’ve been looking for? Why, because you didn’t quit. Or because you asked and you just kept on asking. and you just kept on seeking, and you finally found what you were looking for.

By the time we found it, we’re too old to enjoy it. Ha ha ha. Oh, I won’t move right along here. But look there in James chapter four. Look in James chapter four. Over there in the book of James, everybody likes James. Here in the book of James in chapter four, look there in verse three, You ask and receive not because you ask them is, that you may consume it upon your own lust. In other words, you have desires that are not godly desires and you want things for the wrong reason.

See, I do believe this, that if I commit myself to the Lord, there’s a role of a disciple that I must follow. And if I will commit myself to do those things discipline myself, I believe that my discipline will carry me to my ultimate goal. I will be able to please the Lord and I will get within the will of God for my life. And so all I got to do is just Obey and keep walking and yield into the Lord.

And if I will do that, then it’s God’s responsibility to take care of everything else. That’s why he says in Matthew chapter 6, he says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteises and all these things. What? The things that you and I are not supposed to worry about. Do you know there’s a lot of people they worry, worry, worry about what they’re going to eat? closed where? Place to live. And God says, I’ll take care of those things.

You take care of my responsibility. Lose your life or my sake in the gospel. And God said, I’ll take care of the rest of it. But that’s where faith comes in. And as you study the Word of God and the more knowledge you have of the Word of God, the more you can trust God for in your faith grows and you’ll enjoy life better. And you’ll have the peace and the joy that you really want. And that’s what’s going to make the difference.

And then you’re able to influence other people’s lives because you’ve let the Word of God influence your life. You ever seen smoke? There’s a song usually goes, that’s smoke gets in your eyes. Anybody remember that? Smoke gets in your eyes. Well, I’ve had smoke get in my eyes and I feel like singing when I got smoke in my eyes. I get teary-eyed because I get smoke in my eyes and then I can’t see too clear. Well, see, that’s the way a lot of people are.

Sometimes Isaac, they can’t see clearly. And so God wants to clear things away. Sit your affections and so forth upon him and God said that he will bless you. He’ll take care of things. Look there in the book of Mark, the book of Mark. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the book of Mark. In chapter 11, Mark, chapter 11. The book of Mark is a picture of Jesus Christ in constant motion. Almost every verse in the book of Mark starts with the word and.

And the key word is immediately or straight way. He was a servant. He was always going. He’s a servant. And that’s what you find in the book of Mark. So he’s always going, always giving. Mark and in chapter 11, look in verse 22, chapter 11 verse 22, Jesus answering a said unto them and you had to unwind these words, have faith in God. What you’ve got to have a reason to have faith in God. You’ve got to trust Him for something.

Well, you’ve got to need something then. So God is so good to us. He lets us as children of need have the possibilities of coming to the throne of grace and asking for help so that you and I can have all that we need in the nick of time. What do you mean? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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To fear God means to shine evil. If you don’t shun evil, it’s because you don’t fear God. And that’s mocking God when you mop sin. I can do it and nothing will happen. I can sin, I can get away with it. No, you can’t. Do you think that you can mock God, live how you please and get away with it? No, you can’t. There’s a price to pay. Now, look at the book of Proverbs, chapter three, and verse 13, verse 13.

He says, happy is the man that finds it the wisdom and the man that get it understanding. Talking about the wisdom of God. We’re to search for the wisdom of God like you was searched for treasure, search for gold. If you had the wisdom of God over here in a package and you had all the silver and gold over here at about $1,100 an ounce, which one would you choose? He said, I want the gold. But I want the gold.

Iirrel I can get whatever I want. Now, God says with wisdom you can get what you want. Wisdom is worth more than all the wealth in the world. The wisdom of God. Because see, this life is temporary and you’re going to leave all that gold here. It’s only temporary. You are forever. Somebody said earth is like a stage. and we’re just performing on the stage, getting prepared for eternity. We’re just preparing for eternity. And what you have for eternity depends on what you do here.

So in verse 15, I want you to look in verse 15, some of these verses are good, you ought to unwind these verses. I wouldn’t read them out, I didn’t think they were important, of course. She taught me wisdom is more precious than rubies and all the things that can’t desire, thou can’t desire, are not to be compared unto her.” Why? Because in her hands, in verse 16, is length of days is in her right hand. And in her left hand riches and honors, she can give you everything you want.

Seek wisdom and wisdom to get you whatever you need. her ways of pleasantness and all her past are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, a tree of life, run for life, and happy is everyone that repainted her. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth.” So he says there in verse 7 or chapter 4, wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore get wisdom and And with all by getting, get understand, understand God.

Understand how God works. Understand what life is all about. Understand the purpose of your life. Understanding what the will of God is. That’s greater than, oh yeah, you can make money. And a lot of people know how to make a living, but they don’t know how to live. This life is all you’re gonna get. You get one trip through, no reruns, no instant replays. One trip through. Live now the way you’ll wish you had lived a hundred years from now because you don’t wanna look back with regret.

Do now the things that God wants you to do. Now, all this is good and it’s very important, but a wisdom is so important to get and to keep. Look down there in verse 22, a chapter four. for they are life unto those that find them, help to all their flesh. Keep thy heart without diligence for out of it or the issues of life. Concerning the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God is divine wisdom. Is there anybody smarter than God?

Has more wisdom than God? No. There is no one like the Lord. And that is why it is so important to learn about God and what God wants. He’s the one that designed all this life for us. Now, as a couple of verses I want to read to you, but don’t take them the wrong way. I didn’t write them, but they’re right here. But so that you understand. the importance of it. Look there in verse 18 of chapter 5.

Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Lour her be as the loving, hind, and pleasant row. Let her breast satisfy thee at all times and be douse ravished always with her love. And why will thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger, for the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his His only knickwities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holding with the cords of his sin.

He shall die without instruction, and in the greatest of his folly, he shall go astray. So there’s two women mentioned here in these verses. That wife that God wants you to have, that wife that you’re supposed to be faithful to, and then the strange woman. Now take your Bible and turn there to the seventh chapter. 7th chapter of Proverbs. And understand that now Solomon is going to use two women to explain the wisdom of God versus the wisdom of man, the wisdom of the world.

And what better way and what better person than Solomon? He probably knew as much about women as anybody ever lived. I used to wonder if he was so wise, why did he marry 700 wives and 300 porcupines? Okay, concubines. 700 wives! One was enough, but 700. Maybe that’s why he was so wise. He had all those counselors. But here in Proverbs in chapter 7, I want you to see this, look there in verse 4. Say unto wisdom. my sister call understanding that kids woman.

So he says, see wisdom is the principle thing and all by getting get understanding to know to understand. Get what he says. He says in verse 5, they that they may keep thee from the strange woman. Now the wisdom of God will keep you from the wisdom of the world. the wisdom of God can guard you and protect you from the lure of the wisdom of the world. You see in this world we have our body and with our body we have our eyes and we have our nose and we have our mouth and we have our ears and we have our senses so that we can see this world and there’s a lot of times we want to walk by sight and not by faith and when we walk by sight we go by what we see.

There’s a pretty good looking bon bon shell. Where are what they call an atomic dress? 50% fall out. And you’re talking about it’s the things you see that can totally destroy you. You can see a beautiful house. I got to have that. I got to have this car. I got to have this much money. I got to have this. I got to have and you fall in love with the world. And the world is going to all burn up someday.

And when you fall in love with the world, you spend your whole life for the world. Well that’s not why God put you here. Those things come and go, get what you need, but don’t love any of it. God should be able to take away your job, take away your health, take away your house, take away your money, take away anything that you’ve got. And you ought to be the same solid individual you were when you didn’t have it or when you did have it.

Character is what you are”/> And it’s not made by the things that you have. Because you know you’re laying up treasure in heaven and that you’re just a pilgrim. You’re just passing through this world Pilgrims means you’re away from home. You’re going home strange to me you’re away from home, but you’re you’re just passing through Now look what he says He says in verse 6 He says these things will keep you from that strange woman Inversic for at the window of my house.

I look through my casement and be held among the simple ones I discerned among the youth a young man, void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. And behold, there met him, a woman with the attire of a heart, subtle of heart. She is loud and stubborn and her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without.

Now in the streets, lathe and weighted every corner. So she caught him, kissed him, and with an impudent face set into him. I have peace offerings with me. This day have I paid my vows, therefore came my fourth to meet the diligently to seek thy face, and I have found the… Now, as you read this, nobody better than Solomon than tell about a woman and how she can lure, not as you can trap. But he’s not really talking about a woman here.

He’s talking about the wisdom of the world. Talking about the wisdom of the world. The wisdom of this world lures you because we always ask, what do I want? What do I wanna be? And so many figure out for themselves, I want this degree and that degree, And they go to this college and that universe and then they get a list of degrees a mile along. And this is what happen this is, this is my life. And how many people ever stop and say, Lord, I belong to you.

What do you want me to do? What do you want me to be? Do you know success is being what God wants? A man is a failure when he’s not what God wants him to be. Now I don’t care if you have a million dollars, 10 million dollars. I don’t care what you have. If you’re not what God wants, you are a failure in the eyes of God. In the eyes of the world, oh yeah, you’re successful. But in the eyes of God, you may not be.

It doesn’t mean that you can’t have things, but did you get it because you did the will of God for your life. It’s one thing to put God first, do what God wants you, and God can bless you. Abraham was a rich man, but he sought the face of God. And there’s people who can get so much, and I’m gonna tear down these barns, and I’m gonna fill them up, and I’m gonna say to my soul, soul, eat, drink, and be married for tomorrow we diet.

And he says, Da’aful, because you didn’t lay up treasure in heaven. Are you laying up treasure there? God says Da’aful, now he wasn’t a fool, as far as making a living. He wasn’t a fool in what he could possess. He wasn’t a fool there. He was a fool because he didn’t do what God wanted him to do. He wasn’t successful in God’s eyes. Moreover, it is required in the steward that a man be found rich. Is that what it says?

That a man be found what? Faithful. Faithful. Be in faith. Why are you faithful? Because you believe something. And you believe it because you’ve got some wisdom. You see, a wise man doesn’t trust his judgment. A wise man, biblical wise man, believe God. Trust God, cast his cares upon him. He would rather be whatever God wants him to be. Do whatever God wants him to do, more than anything else in the world. So he says down through here, and looking verse 16, I have decked my bed with covenants of tapestry, with carved words with the fine linen of Egypt.

I perfume my bed with murs and aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us soul us ourselves with love. For the good men and not at home. Well, where’s my husband’s not here? He’s gonna long journey. La la la. He take it home a bag of money. He’s gone for a good while. Come on in. And with her much fair speech, she caused him to yield. With a flatter in her lips, she forced him.

And he went like a martin to a gourd. I mean, his straight way. And as an ox go to the slaughter There’s a fall to the corruption of the structure till it starts to strike through the liver. There’s a bird hasten to the snare and know if not that it is for his life. That’s why I say, run for your life. You should run from the wisdom of this world because you’re running for your life. But where are you running to?

You’ve got to run to the Word of God. You’ve got to run to the Lord and see God’s will. Because see, if you’re not doing it, did you know that the wisdom of the world has already got you? The wisdom of the world has seduced you like a beautiful woman who lures you into adultery. The wisdom of the world is doing after God’s children. And that’s why he says that the children of the world are wiser than the children of light.

The children of the world are wiser than the children of light. Here in Proverbs, I want you to take and look there in chapter 8. Now look there in verse 11. Proverbs chapter 8 verse 11. For wisdom on the Linus in your Bible, wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence. Now, it’s like wisdom is speaking. Now, we know that Christ, the wisdom of God, Christ, the righteousness of God, that no man should glory in his presence.

In verse 13, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogance, the evil weight, the forward mouth do I hate. Counsel is mine and sound wisdom. I am understanding I have strength. This is what I can do and in verse 17 He said I love them that loved me and those that seek me early shall find me because that’s when you need the wisdom before the problem You see when you shun the will of God the word of God don’t got time for God Hey the calamities coming Heartaches are coming Grief is on its way and many of God’s children can’t stand strong as they ought to Did you know if all of God’s children would serve the Lord with all their heart?

We could shake the world But majority of them are not faithful They’re caught by the wisdom of the world It doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy things in this light. God says he’d given us all things for you to enjoy But does it control you? Does it become your all-consuming purpose in life to get things or only use things to do what God wants you to do with your life? Look there in verse 21. He says that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance and I will feel they’re treasured.

You have to believe that. That if you get wisdom, if you do what God wants you to do, God will take care of everything else. Turn your page to chapter 9 real quick. Chapter 9 is the story of another woman. This woman is disparate than the one in chapter 7. You see, that woman was the wisdom of the world and using a woman as a type to teach. Now we’re talking about the wisdom of God. It’s a different woman, but it describes her a little bit better.

In verse 1, wisdom has built her house. She had hewed out seven pillars. She had killed her bees. She had mingled her wine. She had also furnished her table. She had sent forth her maiden. She cried upon the highest places of the city who so is several, let him turn in here. You see, the wisdom of God is like God is pleading with you and pleading with me. I’ve got wisdom. I want to teach you. I want you to understand me.

I want you to understand why I made you why I left you here I want you to understand that there’s a judgment in Christ coming. I want to reward you I want to bless you here and I want to get you something in the thousand-year reigns and you have no idea all that I Would do for you I? Told my young my grandson. I says you have no idea what I Your granddaddy want to do for you? You haven’t got a clue.

I I says, but you do right. You’d be surprised what I’m gonna do for you. But if you don’t, I’m not. Now that’s it with him, I think. I want him to know if I can trust my grandpa and do right, there’s rewards there. But if not, it’s gonna cost me something. And I don’t know what it is. And he may never know. You and I won’t probably know until we get to heaven find out what it has cost us, not to serve the Lord.

Not to holy trust Him. Now you may know Him as your Savior, you have eternal life, you’ll go to heaven when you die. That’s a gift that’s free. But now that you know the Lord, did you know that God wants us to study His word? And remember this is only one book. You ever go to a library and look at all those books? And they can’t even come close to the wisdom that’s in these pages. Because this is not only teach you how to have eternal life, it’s teach you how to live.

It’s about life. This book has the prescriptions on how to keep a sound mind. This book tells you how to have a sound marriage. This book teaches you how to have a business. This book teaches you everything concerning the issues of life. The answers are in God’s book. And look what he says here. He says in verse four, turning here. Verse five, come and eat of my bread. Verse six, forsake the foolish and live. And go in the way of understanding.

Look down there in verse 8. Rebuke not a sconer unless he hates the rebuke a wise man and he will love thee. Look in verse 9, give instruction to a wise man and he shall be yet wiser. Teach a just man and he will increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Look in verse 11, for by me thy days shall be multiplied. The years of thy life shall be increased, and you don’t think you need to be wise.

Did you know I’ve done funerals for people who had some wisdom of the world, and I’ve done their funerals? I believe that I am alive today, but a very fact that I sought the wisdom of God. Now, he may take me home tomorrow, but I’m thankful for the years that he’s already given me. And I mean he has more that’s fine. I may never live to be an old man. You say you already are I am not God may have all kind of stuff out there for me yet, but I know this life and death is in his hands If there’s anything that I don’t want to do is I don’t want to make him man And I can’t understand how come some Christians they snub their nose at God It’s like get off my back.

Who are you? Leave me alone. And they think they have control. And but it’s going to cost them someday. The most important thing we can ever do is not only is no crisis or Savior, but to realize that you and I, we don’t have the wisdom to guide ourselves. It is not within man that walk up to direct his steps. Like David prayed, Lord, search me. me, try me see if there be any wicked way in me. Because I want to deal with it.

I want to correct the problem. That’s part of your wisdom. Part of your wisdom is do you know how to love your wife? Do you know how to love your husband? Taste the wisdom of God. You can’t do it according to your way. You think, do it God’s way. Find out what God wants. his counseling. The time I see thyself, because a lot of you don’t see themselves the way they really are. I cancel people all the time and men never see themselves the way they are.

Women, they don’t see themselves the way they are. It’s always the elements fault. And I said to another person to both sides and they’ll, my goodness. Sometimes I want to take a little ball back and hit them both on the top of the head until it rains like a Chinese gong. God is good. Any good, you are here because some of you have the desire, you want the wisdom of God. I want to show you, and I hope that I did a little bit of comparison that there is the wisdom of God, and there’s the wisdom of man.

And the wisdom of God will give you life. The wisdom of God, it has all the answers. It can sustain life, multiply your days. Learn to obey the Lord. the wisdom of God. Look up here. Let’s see how smart you are. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin. Now for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God. That’s in hell.

But God doesn’t want us to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. Now to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. We’ve all sinned and come short of the glory of God. See, God is perfect. We’ve come short of perfection. And so God says that we can’t get in to heaven. There shall in no wise enter into it anything that they follow the work of the pomomation or make it the lie.

So God says you cannot save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh came into the world because he loves us. H.R. sin causes separations from him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And God said that if you and I, if we would believe that he did it for us, he put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what he did.

In reality, Jesus Christ was the payment. So So when you accept Christ, He is my payment. He is my living proof, my living receipt that He came back from the dead and my sins are paid. So He says, I have this proof of payment in me. Christ in me. He is my hope of glory. He is my joyful anticipation because I know I have this eternal life. And the Bible says that if we’ll believe that he did it for us, he would put the pay-mat-ar-count.

We go to heaven on what he did and he says, these things have already known you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. You can’t earn it and you can’t work for it. You can’t buy it. For he, God, had made him Jesus Christ, who no-no-scent to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So when you trust Christ as your Savior, you become his child and you’re going to heaven whenever you die.

That’s the best news in all the world. Now, if you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, if you don’t, you go to hell. If you do, you go to heaven. Now, in my mind, a man who will reject a free gift, I call him a fool. What would you call them? So if you don’t trust Christ as your Savior, what would you be? What would you be? If somebody like Jesus Christ who is God in the place came into this room and offered you eternal life, does it get paid for?

And if you don’t trust the Lord, you go to hell, but if you trust Him, you have eternal life and you get to go to heaven when you die. Now a man would have to be a fool to turn down that free gift. And everyone who turns that down is a fool. He is a fool. But the wisest thing you’ll ever do, this side of eternity, this side of the grave, the smartest, wisest thing you will ever do is to believe what God said and trust him as your Savior.

And if you trust him as your Savior, God said he would save you, save you from hell, give you turn like and you get to go to heaven on what he did. you see that would be a wise thing to do? That’s probably shall we? Every headbound, every eye closed, and no one looking around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I hope that something that I said would help you to be a little wiser.

So why not right now? And then quite as of that moment, just talk to the Lord. Say something simple like this, Lord, I don’t understand it all. But I know I’m a sinner. I believe Christ died, paid for my sins, and I’m going to trust him right right now is my Savior. My only hope of going to heaven. And if you’ll make that decision, I’d like to know it. I’d like to have prayer for you. I’m not going to have you forward, not going to embarrass you.

But right where you’re sitting, say, yes, preacher, that made sense to me. And I will trust Christ as my Savior. And I’d like you to pray for me. We’ll just slip you in it very quickly and put it right back down. You’ve never done it before, but you’re doing it right now. Anyone’s all. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, how How you doing? There’s a lot of ending and bitterness and strife, confusion and all that stuff in your life.

Are you trusting the human wisdom? Are you seeking for divine wisdom? Spend time with God. Spend time in His Word. Don’t get so busy that you don’t have it. I’m so glad you came here this morning. I really am. I can’t make anybody come. But I hope there’s something within you that says, I want to know the Word of God. Our Father, we thank You so much for each person here. For those that not only have trusted You, just save You, but they have a desire to want to serve You.

They want to know Your Word. Many of them read and study it. Memorize Scripture and always ask, Lord, what do You want me to do in my life? What do You want me to do with this? Let us answer. Bless each one. We thank you for me. Christ name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Take your Bible and turn to the book of James, the book of James. You say, we’re going to be teaching on the book of games today? No. Got a few verses you want to share with you. I have a little grandson. His name is Jordan. And Jordan, he likes to play, likes to cut up. And we’ll get to play it and I’ll say, here comes the boogeyman, run for your life. You know, there’s somebody’s going to get you run for your life.

Here I come, run for your life. So the title of my sermon today is called run for your life Run for you like do you realize somebody’s trying to catch you? You like somebody trying to do you in? Well, I think you know that But I want to give you some things that I believe that will help you to understand the difference between the Divine perspective and the human perspective the wisdom of God versus the wisdom of man. If you don’t appreciate the difference, you’re not going to take and go after the wisdom of God the way you should.

In the book of James, I want you to look there in verse 13. Chapter 3, James chapter 3 verse 13, who is a wise man and in dude with knowledge among you? Now how did you get to to be a wise man. Well, it says in chapter one, in verse two, my brother in Canada’ll joy when you fall in the divers temptations, knowing this that the trying of your faith work at patience and let patience have her perfect work that you may be perfectly mature in entire complete wanting nothing.

If any of you like wisdom, let him ask of God. So that’s how you got to be a wise man. Well, what did you do? Well, when you had problems, you sought the Lord. You sought the word of God. And so God gave you wisdom. So now you’re a wise man. But look what he says back there in chapter three. He says, who is a wise man among you and then do with knowledge? Let him show out of a good conversation that word is behavior out of a good behavior, his works with meekness of wisdom.

So God says, if you are a wise man, prove it, show it. Did you realize that your wisdom is revealed by the quality of the decisions that you make? Have you ever made any dumb decisions? You made three dumb decisions in your wife, think you’re dumb. You make three wise decisions and you’ll make your think you’re smart. So sure you can find a date when you can make three wise ones in a row. They got to be in a row though to have any value.

So the man is supposed to reveal his wisdom and his wife supposed to safely trust in her husband. So we’re supposed to have this wisdom but look what he says here in verse 14 but if if if you have bitterness bitter in being and strife in your heart glory not lie not against the truth in verse 15 this wisdom descend it not from above but is earthly sensual devilish so there is the wisdom of the world and look in verse 16 There’s results of the wisdom of this world for where in being and strike is, there is confusion and every evil work.

So all the evil works is because of the wisdom of the world. You got to see how it works together. Now look in verse 17 and you ought to underline this word, but the wisdom. That is from above. So there’s the wisdom of the world. There’s the wisdom from above. And there is a different results from the wisdom of God. Verse 17, but the wisdom that is from above is for pure, peaceful, gentle, easy to be entreated. That means pleaded for.

Full of mercy, good fruits without partiality, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteous, is sown in peace of them that make peace. Now let me ask you a question. There’s the wisdom of the world and there’s the wisdom of God. Look at your life. What are you going through? Is it filled with earthly, sensual, devilish things, envy and strife, confusion, every evil work? Or do you have the peace of God and the joy, the happiness, the fruits of righteousness?

Remember, your actions are a byproduct of the way that you think. And how you think reveals your wisdom. So God says that He wants to teach us His Word so that we’ll know His way and His will. So that’s why you need to know that there is a difference between the wisdom of man, the wisdom of God. God says, your ways are not my ways, your thoughts are not my thoughts. So you’re not as wise as God. And humility is recognizing that fact and submitting yourself to the wisdom of God.

That means if you believe he is so much smarter and wiser than you, then you want to listen to him because you don’t want to go through life making all these dumb, stupid, idiotic decisions and suffering the consequences of them. Do you? Now take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Proverbs, the book of Proverbs, the book of Proverbs and chapter one.

Remember God wants us to study His word and listen to His counseling because there’s so much involved in life that the results are devastating if you don’t listen to Him. In other words, as it run for your life, in other words, realize that your life is something that’s worth something, it’s about you. and the quality of your decisions makes a difference in what you do. So therefore you need the wisdom of God. So here in the book of Proverbs and chapter one, I want you to look there in verse five, a wise man will hear, will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise councils.”

Now look over there in verse 19. So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, which take it the way that life of the owners thereof, that’s the human wisdom. But look at the next verse. Wisdom, cryeth without. She uttered her voice in the street. She cryeth to the chief place of concord. And the openings of the gate in the city she uttered her words and how long you naive want our simple ones. We love simplicity and the scourners delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge.

Now not just knowledge of the world but they hate godly knowledge godly counseling. Did you know now in my library I’ve got no thousand books. I probably got rid of over a thousand books. It’s about three years ago. I just gave my way. I still got so many books. All these books trying to explain this one book, thousands of books trying to say what God meant.

Did you know you can read books about the Bible and never read the Bible? You’d be surprised how many of you probably sit in right here. You’ll have all kind of books. CDs and DVDs and all kinds of stuff, but you don’t read the Bible. You read what somebody says about the Bible, but you don’t read and study the Bible. There is an advantage in studying this book. And so God says, look, you’re supposed to learn the word of God from a child.

As he says in Timothy, from this childhood, thou hast learned the holy scriptures that are able to make the wise and the salvation. And the word of God is… Inspired of God, God breathed and is able to make a man wise. So as a child of God, you need to use the language of the King. He’s the King and you’re the child of the King. You need to know his word. You learn to think the way God wants you to think.

It can change your life. Now some people learn more than others and some people apply more than others. That’s between you and God. I want you to know that there is a difference and your human wisdom can’t touch the milk of God. The greatest intellectual giant in this world can’t touch the milk of the word of God. Not the meat, can’t touch the milk. So here in Proverbs he says, now you’re going to have your day. Every day is not a beautiful day.

Every day is not wonderful. Every day is got something, sometimes it seemed like everything goes wrong. Sometimes I get up and it seems like man, everything just flows and I get a thousand things done. Man, I feel like the end of the day, man, I really got a lot of things done. And another day I’ll work just as hard, just as fear, and seem like I didn’t get a thing done. Like I was being gone in circles and didn’t get a thing done.

What God says is, and I want you to see this, Look there in verse 23. Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make known my words unto you because I have called, now listen, he says, because I called, you’re refused. I stretched out my hand, no man regarded. And I don’t have time for God, I don’t have time to read the Bible, I don’t have time to pray, I don’t have time to go to church, I don’t have time.

Who’s in charge of time? God. Did you know that God gave you time and gave you enough time for him? And then you tell the one that gave you time, I don’t have time. Did you know that God can take away your time? And if he takes away your time, he takes away your life. Run for your life. Learn to run the race that God has called you to do. do. Learn the thing God wants you to know. Why do we study the Bible so that we can know what God wants us to know?

Well, why? So that I can do what God wants me to do. What? So that I can know the will of God. Why so I can have peace and joy and happen to them. See, it all comes back to the book. The word of God is so important. Do you know there’s a lot of churches today and there are people who go to church and they won’t even open the Bible. They don’t need it. I hope that everybody in here brought a Bible with them.

How many of you got a Bible? Let me see your hand. Well, I want to see the Bible. I want to see the Bible. Raise your Bible. Look at that. That’s awesome. That is fantastic. God bless you. I’m going to give you three Hail Marys and two Hail Moses. And look at verse 24 now, he says, I called, you refused. I stretched shut my hand, you didn’t regard. In verse 25, But you have said it not or counted it as nothing All of my counsel and would none of my review wouldn’t listen to me.

You see the word of God is Truth from the greatest counselor of all time You see you don’t need to go to this council back council back council that council again, but you got the book This is counseling. Did you know whenever you come to church on Sunday morning? I’m counseling you I’m trying to teach you how to how to live life What to do, what not to do. I’m trying to teach you how to get control of your mind.

How to think. How to do things you’re supposed to do. How to be obedient. Did you know that there’s people come to church and they will not listen to what I’m saying? I used to always have these people that want to come to me and they won’t get married. And then I’ll counsel them and they won’t listen to me. They go get married anyway. Look at verse 26. He says, now, I also will laugh at your calamity. And I will mock when your fear come.

In other words, it’s coming. The calamity that produces the fear is on its way. In other words, your problems are on the way. But you would listen to me. And then you’re going to wind up crying out and it’s too late for that immediate time. Because have you ever made a mad dad you’re not trying to answer so i can find the will of god where’s it at what is it i can’t find anything when should you have prepared before the problem Don’t wait till there is a problem.

Prepare ahead of time. In other words, when things seem like it going nice and peaceful and wonderful, that’s when you better be steady because you know calamities on its way. Problems are on the way. But you’re going to study the Word of God in advance so they can help you to be wise so you can handle it when it does come. And problems are coming. And look what he says in verse 27. And when your fear come as desolation and your destruction come at, as a whirlwind when distress and anguish come at the Bunyan.

Wait a minute, I thought if God loved me, he wouldn’t let that happen to me. You live in this world, in a sinful world, and people are going to sin against you. And days are going to go wrong. Did you know if it wasn’t for problems, not everybody in here would have a job. Everybody has a job for the simple reason somebody else has a problem. You’re trying to help solve somebody’s problem. I don’t know what it is. It’s somebody got a problem and you are the solution.

We call it jobs. So what are we going to do? Verse 28, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me and they that hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord. They would none of my counsel, they wouldn’t listen to me. Therefore in verse 31, shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices. Now the word your day is coming.

You see God’s still in charge, just because you don’t serve him, he’s still in charge. He’s still the boss. See what you trust Christ is you’re saying that he is the Lord. That’s who he is. And just because people rebel against him doesn’t mean they kicked him off the throne. He still has the power and he’s still working his will. And God says, okay, if you listen to me, I can bless you. You don’t want to listen tell me I’m gonna beat the tar out of you and God got laws that are set in effect and there’s a price to pay.

Now look what he says in chapter 2 and verse 2 he says so that thou incline thy ear unto wisdom and apply thy heart to understanding and verse 4 if thou seeketh her as silver and search it for her as for hid treasures then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord. In the words in all of by getting, get understanding. See, you can read the Bible, memorize the verses and not understand a thing of the Word of God.

Do you meditate on it? Do you really want to understand the book? Then you have to live the book. You have to apply the book. You have to seek the Lord, get His knowledge from the book. And wisdom is the application of this biblical, divine knowledge to experiences in life. That’s how you get to be a wiser person than you used to be. And God wants to transform your life by the renewing of your mind. And so whenever you don’t have time to listen to the counseling of God or the reproof of God, it’s gonna cost you somewhere down the line.

Knowledge is power. A lot of Christians have no power, because they to have no knowledge. And knowledge is really knowing what it says. I see you may know Christ as your Savior, but like the Apostle Paul says in Philippians in chapter three, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection. But that’s talking about after you’re saved, knowing Him. And you read the book of 1 John, you may know Him as your Savior, but do you know God?

He says, if you know me, then you’ll love me. And if you love me, then you’ll serve me. But see, you may know Him as your Savior, but you don’t really know the Lord. not close to you, not close to Him. And there’s no substitute for it. You can be close to people. You can be close to the preacher, but there’s no advantages there. You need to get close to the Lord. He’ll never leave you and He’ll never forsake you, but you need to know Him.

Know what He will and will not do what He likes and doesn’t like. You become so sensitive to Him. See, right now, you can be hard and cold and callous and you don’t care what God thinks, how He feels about anything. And yet he’s the one that holds your very life in his hands. He can just cause that heart of yours just to stop working. Just one little beat. One step between me and that. So quick. Now, I want you to look there in verse five.

Look there in chapter three and verse five. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart lean not until thine own understanding. In the word don’t trust yourself. In all by ways acknowledge him. He shot the wreck. And we always forget the first part of verse 7, but look at verse 7. Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear the Lord depart from evil. To fear God means to shun evil. If you don’t shun evil, it’s because you don’t fear God.

And that’s mocking God when you mocks in. I can do it and nothing will happen. I can sin. I can get away with it. No, you can’t. Do you think that you can mock God live how you please and get away with it? No, you can’t. There’s a price to pay. Now look in verse 13. He says, happy is the man that finds the wisdom and the man that get it understanding. talking about the wisdom of God. We’re to search for the wisdom of God like you was searched for treasure or search for gold.

If you had the wisdom of God over here in a package and you had all the silver and gold over here at about $1,100 an hour, which one would you choose? I want the gold. With gold I can get whatever I want. Now God says with wisdom you can get what you want. Wisdom is worth more than all the wealth in the world, the wisdom of God. Because see this life is temporary and you’re going to leave all that goal here.

It’s only temporary. You are forever. Somebody said earth is like a stage and we’re just performing on this stage. Getting prepared for eternity. We’re just preparing for eternity. And what you have for eternity depends on what you do here. So in verse 15, I want you to look in verse 15. Some of these verses are good. You ought to unwind these verses. I wouldn’t read them, I didn’t think they were important, of course. She taught me wisdom is more precious than rubies and all the things that can’t desire, Now, Kestis are not to be compared unto her.

Why? Because in her hands, in verse 16, is length of days is in her right hand. And in her left hand, riches and honors, she can give you everything you want. Seek wisdom and wisdom to get you whatever you need. Her ways, a ways of pleasantness and all her past are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, tree of life, run for life. And happy is everyone that repainted her. The Lord by wisdom has founded the earth.

So he says there in verse seven or chapter four, wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore get wisdom and with all by getting, get understand, understand God. Understand how God works. Understand what life is all about. Understand the purpose of your life understanding What the will of God is? That’s greater than oh, yeah, you can make money and a lot of people know how to make a living But they don’t know how to live This life is all you’re gonna get You get one trip through no reruns no instant replays one trip through Live now the way you’ll wish you had lived a hundred years from now Now, because you don’t want to look back with the regret, do now the things that God wants you to do.

Now, all this is good and it’s very important, but a wisdom is so important to get and to keep. Look down there at verse 22 of chapter 4, for they are life unto those that find them, to all their flesh. Keep thy heart without diligence for out of it or the issues of life. Concerning the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God is divine wisdom. Is there anybody smarter than God? Has more wisdom than God? No. There is no one like the Lord.

And that is why it is so important to learn about God and what God wants. He’s the one that designed all this life for us. Now, there’s a couple verses I want to read to you, but don’t take them the wrong way. I didn’t write them, but they’re right here. So that you understand the importance of it. Look there in verse 18 of chapter 5, Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving, hind, and pleasant row.

Let her breast satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love. And why will thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger, for the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings? His only knickwities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holding with the courts of his sin. He shall die without instruction, and in the greatest of his folly he shall go astray.

So there’s two women mentioned here in these verses. That wife that God wants you to have, that wife that you’re supposed to be faithful to, and then the strange woman. Now take your Bible and turn there to the seventh chapter. 7th chapter of Proverbs. And understand that now Solomon is going to use two women to explain the wisdom of God versus the wisdom of man, the wisdom of the world. And what better way and what better person than Solomon?

He probably knew as much about women as anybody ever lived. I used to wonder if he was so wise, why did he marry 700 wives and 300 porcupines? Okay, concubines. Seven hundred wives! One is enough, but seven hundred. Maybe that’s why he was so wise. He had all those counselors. But here in Proverbs in chapter 7, I want you to see this, look there in verse 4. Say unto wisdom. my sister call understanding that kids woman. So he says, see wisdom is the principle thing and all by getting get understanding to know, to understand.

You get what he says. He says in verse 5, they that they may keep thee from the strange woman. Now the wisdom of God will keep you from the wisdom of the world. the wisdom of God can guard you and protect you from the lure of the wisdom of the world. You see in this world we have our body and with our body we have our eyes and we have our nose and we have our mouth and we have our ears and we have our senses so that we can see this world and there’s a lot of times we want to walk by sight and not by faith and when we walk by sight we go by what we see There’s a pretty good looking blonde bombshell wearing what they call an atomic dress 50% fall out.

And you’re talking about it’s the phase you see that can totally destroy you. You can see a beautiful house that I got to have that. I got to have this car. I got to have this much money. I got to have this. I got to have and you fall in love with the world. And the world is going to all burn up someday. And when you fall in love with the world, you spin your whole life for the world.

Well that’s not why God put you here. Those things come and go, get what you need, but don’t love any of it. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of these teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Turning your Bible to the book of 2 Peter chapter 2. I’ve got a few complicated statements in here, and it’s hard to know, well, now, who is this talking to? And so I want you to look here first of all in verse 22. But as it happened unto them, according to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sile that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Now I wonder who that’s talking to.

Is that to the pastor, the elders, the deacons, the people in the church? Well, it’d be interesting and you might be surprised. 2 Peter 2 is talking about the believers, the Hebrew Christians mainly, but it can be applicable to all of us. Remember, He’s warning them about false teachers. He refers to the Old Testament how that there were false prophets among them, and those false prophets, those false teachers, well, it causes God’s people to go astray. Now, there’s no sense warning us about false teachers if false teachers don’t have some effect.

He’s warning us because it will make a difference. Look there in chapter 3. In chapter 3 and look there in verse 17, ye therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before. So he’s just reminding them. Beware, last ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked. In other words, you listen to the philosophy of today, you listen to the wisdom of the world, you listen to the false teachers, they’re going to lead you astray and so he says here, you’ll fall from your own steadfastness.

So there is an impact that can be made into a Christian’s life by listening to the wrong things. You say, well, it doesn’t really make any difference. Yes, it does. You will live what you really believe. And then he says in verse 18, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” All right, now go back there to chapter 2. And let’s start there in verse 9, when it says, the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation.

He can do it several ways. He can literally take you out of the world. He can take the evil away from you, like he did during the flood. But he also can deliver you from the air of wicked, the temptations of the world by the truth that is embedded in your mind, because God wants to lead you in the right way, and there is an evil way, the wrong way, the Balaam’s way. We’ll look at that in just a second.

But see in verse 9, he said, the Lord know of how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. So understand that the lost man is going to be punished. God knows how to do that. So I don’t try to figure out how to do God’s job. I have enough trying to figure out how to do mine. Let God do what God does and let me do what God wants me to do.

So he says They’re going to be punished, but look in verse 10, but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government. Presumptuous are they. Self will. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. In other words, they lose total respect for authority. And that authority sometimes comes out to be God. And if they have no respect for God, then they’re not going to have none for the pastor. They’re not going to have none for the Bible.

They’re not going to have none for you. And God describes them as brute beast, like an animal. And so the judgment is going to be very, very severe. And God knows how to do it. Now He didn’t do the same thing in every case. No more than He does with others. Whatever the lost people and the false prophets can do, and whatever they think, the philosophy of life. you listen to them, you’re going to do and act and be the same as the false teachers.

Now, does that affect your salvation? Now, once you trust the Christ of your Savior, you are his child. You are going to heaven when you die. But you see, God warns us about listening to false teachers, because false teachers affect how we live. You and I are supposed to be careful about what we believe what we listen to because false teachers will affect the way you think and if it’s fixed the way you think it’s going to affect the way you live.

So he says in verse 12, now get this, not in right this, but look how strong this is. He said, but these as a natural brute beast made to be taken and destroyed. Did you know that there is verses in the Bible in the Old Testament that if a A person was guilty of being a homosexual. Did you know that God says that they were supposed to be killed? No, I didn’t make that up. I mean, that’s what God said.

God says this is not going to be tolerated in the land. Isn’t it a shame that today we tolerate everything? Because we want to be politically correct. We don’t want to say anything that would offend anybody. Everybody’s got their rights. Always thought rights were right. Not wrong. If it’s wrong, it ain’t right, right? Don’t get that. But it says, in verse 12, these are natural beasts made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand. I think there’s a whole bunch of people like that in government.

They ain’t got a clue what’s going on. If I didn’t know the Bible, I’d have been a politician. I’d have been one of those guys who probably would be trying to kick out of Washington. But I believe that there’s so much that a Christian has that makes him wiser than those that don’t know the Lord. I think you know more and can do more. But anyway, he says to understand what you are taught does make a difference on how you live.

You see, the reason that they’re doing all this crazy stuff like in Washington and all that, because they’re not educated, They don’t know the truth. They don’t even understand the principles of finances. They don’t understand education. They don’t know how to teach the kids to read and write. Do you know we got a lot of kids coming out of schools and they don’t know how to read. Because there’s teachers that don’t know how to teach. It’s more about trying to get everybody to group think.

It doesn’t teach them how to think. They tell them what to think. I’m for teaching the kid how to think, given them the tools where they can reason and relate and record this information that they’re able to gather. So anyway, I don’t want to get sidetracked, so I’m going to stick with this here. Look at verse 13, and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness. In other words, you do wrong, you earn something. In one place, he’ll talk about the wages of Balaam.

In other words, there’s wages that you get because of evil doing, and there’s rewards that you get on top of that. See, God wants us to serve him, but God also is going to reward us if we do right. But what about people who do wrong? God says, you’re going to get your reward too. And so he says here, and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that counted pleasure to write in the daytime. You see, there was a time when they do it at night.

Now they’re bold and they’ll do it in our streets. And there’s people who don’t care what you think about it. They’re a very bold and blatant and could care less. About what you think? Because, see, they don’t got to the place where they have no fear of God. They don’t fear Christians. They don’t fear anything or anybody. They can do whatever they want to do and their conscience doesn’t bother them. Now, if you let people like that educate you, you’re going to think the way they think.

And if you think the way they think, you’re going to want to live the way they live. All this is written in here for a reason. so that you and I don’t fall, don’t stumble. See there in 2 Peter and chapter one, look what he says here, in verse 10, wherefore the rather brethren, brethren we’re talking to believers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall, but he’s talking about the things that you add to your faith in the first chapter.

Add to your faith, become strong enough so that you don’t fall. And then what we just read over there in chapter three, that you’re going to fall into air if you listen to those people who tell you wrong. So he says, don’t do that. Remember, Paul made the statement in the book of Ephesians that he wants to present us to the Lord without spot and blemish. He said, this is how I wanna do it. In other words, he said, like, I want you not only to know the Lord as your Savior, but I want you to live like a virgin concerning the things of the world.

That you might be that Chase virgin that he presents to the Lord in Corinthians without spot, without blemish, without the filthiness of the world. I guess he wants God’s people to live a holy, godly life. Now we’ll go to heaven, but there might be some problems. Not with getting there, and not with staying there, but with the well done, thou good and faithful servant, and not getting the rewards that you would have liked ahead. Look what he says in the last part of verse 13, spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you.

In other words, they make merchandise of you, as it says over there in verse 3, the same chapter. In other words, they use you to give what they want. That’s why you have to watch the health and wealth preachers, the gospel of health and wealth. See, all they’re trying to do is they use the replacement theology of taking all the blessings that went to Israel and they’re trying to apply all of those to the church. And so they go back there to the Old Testament and say, well, see all these blessings, it’s about you do this and you’re going to prosper and get wealth and blah, blah, blah.

Well, wait a minute, that’s to Israel. The Lord says to the church, which is what we are, that He had blessed us with our spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. the Israel on the earth and you and I will get our blessings, spiritual blessings of heaven. So we are to have spiritual blessings, they’re to have the physical blessings and they’re too are not the same. And if you don’t understand it, then you’ll have some, hey, send me $10 and there’s $100 going to be in your mailbox tomorrow.

And if you’re living right and if If you’re a love the Lord, you don’t have to worry about getting sick. And then they have their healing line. Come on down here. Put the hand on your hand. Be healed. No. God’s will may be that you are sick. Go back and try to figure out Job with that philosophy. God took away all of his wealth and he hadn’t done anything wrong. God took away his help and he hadn’t done anything wrong.

that turkey won’t fly. Look what he says here in verse 14, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, cannot cease from sin, begowling and underland these two words, unstable souls. In other words, this is what false teachers do. They take those who are not stable, that are not strong the Lord and they want to make merchandise out of you. They want to use you, get you. You see, they can’t win you to the Lord. So they try to take those who have an interest in the things of God and get you sidetracked into whatever.

And next thing you know, you know, you’d get involved in false church, but they trusted Christ’s Savior because I heard a clear gospel message, but they didn’t get grounded because they didn’t keep listening or come out and get out of those things that they should have gotten out of. So he says here, they have a tasty bait, but a concealed hook. You know, that’s what you do when you go fishing. You have a tasty bait, but a concealed hook.

They try to lure you with something that you really desire. Study the word. You’ll have somebody like J.W. come to the door. And ma’am, do you have a fireplace? Yes, we do. Ma’am, would you take and throw your children in the fire? Do you really like your children? No. Neither would God. Can we come in and have a Bible study with you? with you, which would come right on it. See, they had a paste of little paper that’s got a hook to it.

They got another agenda. And so because they don’t believe in hell, it would be easy to how to convince people that there’s no hell. Whew, boy, I feel better already. There’s no hell. But there is a hell. And so you have people that would try to twist things, and you’ve got to be careful. Or if you’re sick, you must have done something wrong. You didn’t have enough faith. But now before we demonstrate how much faith you have, we’re gonna take up an offering.

And we gotta have some seed money. You know, seed money, seed faith. In other words, you gotta plant before you have anything grow. So how much faith do you have? How much money do you have? When I was at Florida Bible College, Me and a few students, decided to go to this healing meeting. So we went in, we sat back there in the back. We sat there and we watched the shenanigans going on. So we stood up there and we just kind of watched and observed, of course, everybody knows that we’re not part of the group because we look different, but we weren’t doing what they were doing.

So anyway, after a while, he says, we’re gonna have some healing here tonight and talks about all the different kind of people are gonna be healed. He says, first of all, if you have, he started at $100, if you get a $100 bill, I want you to, everybody had to stand. Come on down here, and so they came down. You don’t have $100, but you got 50, and he went down every increment. And finally got down, you don’t have any dollars at all, but all you got is a little change in your pocket.

But that’s all you want to do, it only takes a little bit of seed faith. Come on down. And so after a while, everybody was down there and gave it to the money, and everybody was down there, and says, if you believe that God’s gonna do America tonight, you’ll come on down here. So after all, everybody was down here, except about five people sitting back here in the back. We’re all sitting back here watching the show, or that’s all it was, it’s a show.

They’re entertaining. They were not concerned about where anybody spent eternity. It was about how can we get the money out of the people? And I felt sorry for all the people who don’t know the truth to recognize a shuster when he’s up there. So we sat back there and finally he got up here and says, if there’s no miracles done here tonight, just stop because of you, because there’s people back here because of the wrong belief. Now he’s and got their money.

But now he may not be able to do a miracle because five people back there who didn’t believe was doing and he blamed the lack of healing on five people that didn’t believe instead of all the people who gave the money and did believe. I wanted to go down there and just pop them up. Good one. I had my two kids one day. We’re in Colorado and on the top of this hill, they put up a gray, big old tent.

A healing line was going to be set up. So I I thought I’ll take my two kids so they can get a little of an education. So my kid got in the car with me and we drove up there and parked cars everywhere. People just going in and we got out of the car and right beside of us there was this other car. And the guy, he got up and got out of his car and he walked on the other side and he opened the door and he sat down and put on the cast a leg, a plaster thing on his leg.

And then he walked back to the middle. Well, I just saw him walk around the front of his car. My kid would watch him. And he goes in there, next thing you know, well, he’s in the healing line. Next thing you know, he goes up and he got healed. That thing offered to praise God. He was healed. How about that hippo crit? Staging the junk. But then everybody in there, whoo! I says, kids, let’s go home. Enough of an education on this.

And they got in smoother at it. Even they have a guide that comes on television. He sets them up there. And they come down to the front and he goes, swaying in the spirit. Oh! When they were slain in the spirit, they always fell forward. These nuts didn’t know that they fell backwards. And it probably blew his breath on me. I’d pass on too. But there’s people that swallowed this stuff and they’re false teachers. Now, there’s false teachers in the world.

You know this. And this is what they’re like. Looking for 17. They are wells without water. And he says, cloud. that are carried with a tempest. To whom, get to underline them. To whom is the mist of darkness is reserved forever. See, hell is not a place of light. It’s a place of darkness for all eternity. And there are wells without water. There’s preachers, but they don’t have the gospel. They don’t know how to explain the gospel where you can understand it and know you have eternal life and know that you’re going to have an only die.

and they don’t teach us by grace. See, the only reason you can say it’s eternal is because it’s by grace. If you say it’s by grace but you can lose it, they don’t believe it’s by grace. They believe it’s by works. And it can’t be both ways. But there’s smooth talking preachers and you have to be careful. That’s why even when you come here, you should check everything I say by the book. Go by the book. Learn the word of God.

Look what he says. In verse 15, he says, which half forsaken the right way? Now the right way is the Christ way, the Christian way, the way of life. He says, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam. Now in the Old Testament, a man by the name of Balaak, who was the king of Moab, he didn’t like the children of Israel. There ain’t a wilderness in there coming through here. And so he says, get the prophet. And he went up on top of the hill and says, I want you to curse those Jews, those Israelites, cursing.

And he said, I’ll give you this and this and this and this. I’ll give you silver and gold and so on. Three times, but it always turned out to be a blessing. And so he was riding his jackass. And all of a sudden it just stopped. So he started to beat me. And the donkey turned around and looked at him and says, why are you doing that for her? So that shows you that if God can use a jackass, God can use you.

How does that make you feel? God can use anybody. And he says, what are you doing that for? He says, you’re mad. What he couldn’t see, what there was an angel standing there with a sword. What a kill-boom. If that donkey hadn’t stopped it to kill both of them. And he told them, it says, you have perverse the way of the Lord. Puck into the baleom. You know you can’t do this. You are a prophet of the Lord, and you’re supposed to teach what God commanded.

And only that! You can’t put a curse upon the nation of Israel. You can only bless Israel. Well, that didn’t set too good with Belat. And you promise of some more stuff, he’s the king do it. But then you made a prophecy. And you can read all about this in Numbers in chapter 22, 22, 3, 24, up to 25. You can read all about this incident. But in chapter 24 it talks about a prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, the star of Jacob, and how he’s going to come.

And he says, you want to know what’s going to happen to Moab in the end time? He says Israel is going to rule over you. I don’t guess they like that. So much for that prophecy. But he said he was mad, looking verse 16. He says, but was rebuked for his iniquity, the dumbass speaking with man’s voice forbade the madness of the prophet. Look at verse 18, but when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, vanity, they, the false prophets, they allure through the lust of the flesh that alluring is, like I said, the tasty bait with a concealed hook.

See, they don’t want you to see the hook, but they want you to go after the bait and get you later. That’s what the devil does. He shows you, oh, this good looking woman shows you this, all this money of this fame, power, and popularity, whatever you can have. But there’s always, remember, there’s a hook inside of that to snare you. Be careful. So he says, in the last part of it, those that were clean, escaped from them who live in air.

While they promised them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption. This is why you got to be careful about even those that run for office. They talk about all this freedom and liberty. Even there’s the Patriots or the Tea Party and all this stuff. And a lot of things can be good. But you never really know where people are coming from. You don’t know their foundation in their teaching. So some people just want freedom so they can just live like they please.

And. You do have to have government. There’s a legitimate place for government. God set up government. Government has to have taxes. They have to have a means to support themselves. And there’s people who say, well, we need to have…we’re for less government and less taxes. Sounds good. How much less? But he talks about the freedom, the liberty. And they themselves are the servants of corruption. Now, whatever they teach, It’s going to make an effect upon our lives. And he says here in verse 24, if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome the latter in as worse with them than the beginning.

Now, it is a little difficult trying to figure out, now are we talking about the teachers here? Are we talking about the believers here? Well, it might be talking about both. Why? Well, because see, this is what happens to the false teachers. They promise, they promise, they promise. And so you have to be careful of who’s feeding you what? But anyway, look in verse 21, for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it, that turned from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Now, first John chapter 3 and verse 23 says, and the commandment was that you believe on Him whom God have sent. Now, let’s look at this two ways. One, to the false teachers, look what it does to them when they claim that they know the book and they know what’s right, they know what’s wrong, and then they teach contrary to what God says and deny the Lord that bought them, as He said in our members too. But their teaching affects the Christian.

You’re supposed to be that unstable soul who is beguiled, and the false teaching has got you back into its entanglement. Here you are, you trust Christ as your Savior, you dedicate your life to the Lord, you begin to study the Word, and you begin to grow in the Lord, and you start cleaning up your life, and you start walking with God, and then you start listening to false teachers, He says, you’re just like a dog that turns back to its own vomit.

And you’re just like a pig that goes to wallowing in the mire. You see, if this is referring to the false teachers, well, why warn me about what happens to them? Why do I care what happens to the false teachers? Unless this can happen to me. And that’s why I need to be careful. I don’t want to be like I was before I trusted the Lord. I want to keep serving God and keep walking with the Lord. I don’t want the false teaching to get me to destroy me.

So therefore heed what he’s saying. Look there as we close here. Look at 1 verse again, verse 17. Yee, therefore, in chapter 3. Second Peter chapter 3 verse 17. Yee, therefore, be leavened. Seeing you know these things before them. Be aware. Less. Yee, what’s that next word? You also being led away with the air of the wicked Paul. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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And what would you do about somebody who says God said and God didn’t say? Well, there’s a the script that it deals with that too. Look in Jeremiah 23, Jeremiah, just the next book to you right, Jeremiah and chapter 23. Jeremiah 23, and look in verse, this is starting verse 24, I want you to see this, because remember he says, there were prophets in the Old Testament, and also there were false prophets among them, and We need to know how the false prophets worked, especially with Jeremiah.

Everything Jeremiah had told them that God said there were false prophets. There’s a God didn’t say that. God didn’t say that. This isn’t going to happen. Well everything that Jeremiah told him that was going to happen. It happened. He was called the Weep in Prophet. I mean the guy suffered consequences because he said God said and God did say they put him a pit, muddy, nothing to eat, cold. They did all kind of things to Jeremiah. And the one that were false doesn’t happen to them for a while.

But anyway, in Jeremiah chapter 23, look there in verse 24, can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Sayeth the Lord. Have you ever thought of that? See, God, He can only see doing the daytime. That’s why everybody does most of their sin in at night, because God can’t see at night. You don’t believe that, do you? Can God see just as good at night as He can in the daytime? Yes, He can. Does He see everything that you do?

Can He even tell what you’re thinking? knows your motive? He says, do not I feel heaven and earth sayeth the Lord. In verse 25, I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name. So God even knows when they prophesy lies. When you say God said, God said, I didn’t say that. So he’ll blame a lot upon his prophets because his prophets did not take a stand. He says, you are like dogs that can’t bark. You know what?

Most people have a dog, because they want them to bark. Use it not in the house you don’t. But unless somebody comes to the door and then that dog just, you know, acts all up. But the reason that people had dogs is because the dog, and they put them in the yard, so the dog would bark. But he says, there’s people that are God’s preachers, and they’re supposed to bark. They’re supposed to warn. And there’s preachers that don’t know how to bark.

There’s preachers don’t know how to bark. There’s dogs that couldn’t bark. So he says here, he says in verse 25, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. I don’t remember somebody saying, I ain’t got a dream. Yeah, yeah, I got a dream. And it would be great if everybody would listen exactly what, to be judged by the color of your skin, but by the content of your heart. And most of the people that vote today is not by the character, but by the color of their skin.

White sometime will vote for a white man because he’s white. But if a black votes for a black because of the color of his skin, it’s just as racism as the other. You’re not judging by what is he saying. What’s he saying? What’s the character of this person? Wouldn’t it be great if all of our politicians were honest people? Regardless of their color, the color has nothing to do with your character. Either you got character or you don’t have character.

And a bunch of them are quite some characters, I’ll tell you. But he says, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. He had a nightmares with you, Ed. So in verse 20, he said, how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesied lies? They are prophets of the deceit of their own heart. You know that even possible among preachers and evangelists. And verse 27, which think to cause my people, talking about Israel, to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

Now that made God mad. And that’s why they were going into captivity because they had false prophets saying, hey, if things cool, no problem. Verse 28, the prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream. And yet on the line this part, he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chak to the wheat? In other words, all that other stuff is fluff, that’s chak. But my word is the wheat. It’s something that’s good and solid.

It’s got the carnal of truth. So he says those who have my word preached my word and those who have the chat tell your dream But your dream ain’t gonna come true, but my word is true. That’s why he says we have a more sure word of prophecy We have the scriptures. We have the word of God Verse 29 verse 29 you ought to on the line in your Bible. This is an awesome verse is not my word like a fire Sayeth the Lord and like I hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces.

I have used the word of God for so long I have seen the word of God and the truth of what God has to say I’ve seen that break some of the biggest the meanest the strongest fellows and The will that people have and I’ve seen God just crush them And remember whenever Christ was talking to those two on the road to him and they says did not our hearts burn within us When he opened unto us the scriptures Heart burn within you.

Isn’t there time whenever you’re here in the Word of God or you’re sitting there and you’re reading it and it just burns inside And you feel like I just got to do something. They got to do something you want something to happen something to be different I love these scriptures verse 30 says therefore behold I am against the prophets say of the Lord that steal my words Everyone from his neighbor steal my words by not letting people know the truth.

You’re stealing from other people. He says here in verse 31, Behold, I am against the prophet, saith the Lord, that use their tongues and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people, get this, cause my people to air by their lies. So is it possible that false teachers can have an effect upon God’s people? Yes. So there are false teachers in the world, false preachers, and they make merchandise of the people.

They’re not really in it for the best of the people, but it gives them a following. And they’re always talking about how your faith is demonstrated by you giving me money. They’re going to have that seed money. And you’ll see how God’s going to bless you. So you run to the mail and see if that check came in. And they have a health and wealth philosophy. And there’s some on television that’s they don’t want to talk about sin because that makes people feel uncomfortable.

And you know, and people flock to those churches and support them by the millions. Now only we can do that because people don’t know the truth. They don’t know truth, or they wouldn’t do something so stupid. But they do. But get what he says. He says here in verse 32 again, I want to see them. He said, Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dream that saith the Lord and do not tell them and cause my people to tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their likeness.

and get this, yet I sent them not, nor commanded them. Therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest shall ask these saying, what is the burden of the Lord, or the word of God? Thou shalt then say unto them what burden? I will even forsake you saith the Lord. And as for the profit and the breeze and the people, what that shall say? The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house.

So God says that he is not for these people as he says down in verse 36, the last part of it said, for ye have perverted the words of the living God. So God gets upset. That’s why when we pray for the Lord. we teach the Bible, we have a little fear that we say that God said and God didn’t say that because we know that we’re going to have to count to the Lord for what we say. Does Sunday school teachers have to give an account someday for what they teach for the children?

What you caused them to believe? Did you realize that even in your own home what you caused your husband or your wife or your children to believe God takes seriously. And you are not to give false impressions about God if it’s not true. You’re not supposed to make people think things about God if that’s not true. Because you can leave people away, cause them to believe something that’s not the truth. We all have to answer to what is truth and God’s word is true.

Go back there to with the book of 2 Peter and 2 Peter and 2 Peter and 2. And notice what he says in verse 2. Now this is because there’s false teachers, false teachers gonna get them a following. And people are gonna listen to him. It’ll sound so good. So he says in verse 2, and many shall follow their pernicious ways, the ways that lead to destruction. Then he gets over into also telling them things that will happen and he says they were kind of like the doctrine of Balaam.

You’ll notice over here in verse 15, looking verse 15, we’ll cover this more in detail later, but looking verse 15, which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam. The son of Bosear who loved the wages of unrighteousness but was rebuked for his iniquity. The dumb-ass As speaking with man’s voice forbade the madness of the prophet, these are wells without water, clouds that are carried with the tempest and underlined the last part of that verse, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

So their day is coming, but they do make an impact. And so teachers that know the truth, the trusty Christ is Savior, can fall into air, and they can fall in the air and begin to teach, contrary to what the Word of God teaches. This is why the children of God, the people in the church, you should have a copy of the scriptures, you should learn the Word of God. But you do have to be careful who you listen to, because a little 11, 11 at the whole lump, a little air that you don’t get satisfied in your mind can lead you astray.

I didn’t see that happen so many. lead you in a total direction that you never thought that will ever happen to you. I sit in Bible college with young guys that were going to serve the Lord all the days of their life. And we graduate and next thing you know, as the years go by, they don’t want anything to do with the Bible. Church, don’t win souls anymore, don’t do anything. Oh, they’re glad to have eternal life, glad they’re going to heaven.

But they got set on the shelf and then never used. It didn’t have to be that way. But little by little see, something happens in your life. You get led away, whether by the lust of the flesh or the desire for other knowledge. And sometimes the knowledge of this world begins to compete with the wisdom of God and they can’t discern the difference and it destroys them. He says here by reason of whom in your honor the way of truth the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and Begin to say things against the Bible cause you to doubt the Bible Doubt the basis that you’ve learned years and years ago and lead you astray and that drop what?

I just don’t believe that anymore. I don’t believe that anymore. I don’t know anything in in 45 years that I have changed on my doctrinal position that I got when I was at Florida Bible College. What they taught me then in the doctrinal statement, I still believe it today. And I don’t know if I’d change on any of it. I try to teach it a little bit better and maybe a little bit stronger here and there, but believe pretty much the same thing.

And so he says in verse three, and through covetousness, The desire for money, position. Power, fame, whatever it is that the man has that underlying motive of his own. He says, with fame words make and you ought to underline this merchandise of you. They want to use you to get what they want. And so they will teach you things and lie to you in order to get a following so that they can become this somebody. And sometimes they actually believe that they are teaching the right thing.

So the people are to know the words so that you can detail whenever the ha ha. That’s not right. That is a right. And you can ride down the highway and you can turn on your radio and listen to somebody on the radio and say, uh-huh, that’s not clear. He ain’t right. And you can tell and detect certain things. But you listen to air long enough and after a while, it becomes yours. You have questions and doubts and don’t get questions and doubts satisfactorily answered for you.

It won’t be long before some of those questions and doubts. Now they’re yours. And your belief is going to be something that leads you astray down the road. But it happens slowly without you ever knowing it. So you got to be careful. But look what he says, whose judgment now of a longtime lingroop nut and their damn nation or their judgment slumber if not. So now God opens up the scriptures to us and tells us, For example, and he gives us several examples here of those who believed wrong and what happened to him.

So you can’t just believe anything you want to believe and think there’s no consequences to it. So he says in verse 4, and the angels, if God spared not the angels that sin, that means they sinned and God didn’t spare them the judgment. In other words, they believed something they shouldn’t have believed and they did something they should not have done and there was a price to pay, but he cast them down to hell, a place called Tartarus, you know, you’re usually only placed in that scripture.

They delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved under judgment. So that’s what God did. Did they get away with it? No. Verse 5, and spared not the old world, but he saved Noah the eighth person. Now this is telling you again that there were eight people they got in the ark and that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. Now when you go back to the Old Testament, you might not have known that, but the Scriptures here tells us something about them there.

And lo and behold, we know that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. Look there in the book of Jude, just a couple pages to your right. And look in Jude and look there in verse 12. He talks about some false teachers and false preachers. He says in first, these are spots in your feast of charity. In other words, your feast of love. He says, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, clouds they are without water. they look real, sound real, just that they aren’t real.

Do you know that the preachers that don’t believe that salvation is really by grace? They may dress just like me, sound me, speak just like me, but they add just a little bit of work to the gospel. All of us see, they’re whales without water. They’re clouds without water. See what he says here? Clouds they are without the water. Fruit, withereth without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering stars to whom has reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Get this. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam. So we know who Enoch was, that he was real, and the scripture talks about him, and tells you how far he was from Adam, and not only that, prophesied. So we know that Enoch was a preacher, but we don’t know that in the Old Testament, but we know it here. Prophecy are they say it and guess this is what Enoch said. Enoch said, Behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000s of his saints.

This isn’t the first time he was coming. This is the second time he comes. Enoch knew that before the flood. Just the coincidence. No, no, no, no. They knew an awful lot back then because God had his preachers and they were preaching it. Bible says that God preached before the gospel on the Abraham. So we know that God preached Abraham told him what the gospel was, justification by faith. He already knew that. A. exting. A.keleyafort…… D.WAYS.monton D. D. D.

D. D. He’s coming. Why is he coming? In verse 52, execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their… All their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. D,,,,,,,,. So does God know about all these ungodly people that said all those ungodly things about the about this Godly God. …

In get what he says in verse 16, these are murmurs, complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s person in admiration because of advantage. But it’s not because they love the people, they want them to have eternal light, they want them to go to heaven. He said they make merchandise of the people. They use them, and abuse them, but anyway. Go back here to second Peter chapter two. 2 Peter chapter 2, and it says here in verse 5, and spared not the old world, but saved no of the eight person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

So God judges the angels that’s, and God judges the ungodly before the flood. Verse 6, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly. Remember all false teaching, leaves ungodliness. Truth is truth. And the so-called peaches that cause the person to want to live right and go to church and all that. Yeah, but now he can’t do it because he saved, don’t because he wants to be saved.

And that makes him a hypocrite because he’s doing it to be seen of men. He’s doing it to try to earn something that he can’t have. That’s even worse. So he says in verse seven, and delivered just lot. Now it wasn’t only lot, it was just lot. Just lot means a justified man, a man who believed in the Lord. And delivered just like vexed, vexed with a filthy behavior of the wicked. For that righteous man says dwelling among them in seeing and hearing, Vex says, righteous soul from day to day with their and you ought to unlawful deeds.

So the Lord, did he know how to deliver him? Yeah, he came out of there and took care of the rest of them. Fire. All he wrote. You know, in certain scriptures, it says whenever Lot looked down to the, It was like the Garden of Eden. It’s like the, it must have been a beautiful, beautiful place. You ought to see it now. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it. At the south end of the Dead Sea, it don’t look so pretty anymore.

But one day, I guess it would be like the Garden of Eden. You ever wonder where the Garden of Eden was? Somebody says, over here in Missouri, but I don’t. There is a group in the Mormons that say it was over in Missouri, Independence, Missouri. That’s where the garden need is. Don’t go there, it’s not there. But he says here in verse nine, the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust onto the day of judgment to be punished.

So this is what is going to take place when you have false teachers getting among you. And next thing you know, it causes people not to live right because you don’t believe right. That’s why you should guard your mind and what you hear and make sure it stays with the book because it won’t take much before you can go so many different directions. And it’ll happen so subtly you won’t even know it. It can be because you listen to somebody on radio or television and because you listen to somebody, you can read books.

Now you can go in my office. I got a couple hundred books, maybe more than that. I’ve given away over a thousand books in the last five, six, seven years. Just give them away. Jumped a lot of them. I thought, man, I don’t want nobody to speak things to fall in somebody’s hands because I’ve collected books for so long. And I’m almost, you know, I keep just about everything. When we had to move down here, you have no idea what it was like.

Because I keep just about everything. I’m going to you need it someday. I’m going to need this someday. And 10 years later, I still might need this someday. And I had to make these hard decisions. They all talk about you got to be able to make the hard decision. I just do I keep this or I go it away. And so it was difficult but we managed and I still got a lot of stuff. But you’ve got to be careful of what you read because it affects how you think and how you think, affects how you live.

And so you want to do right. Otherwise you’ll find yourself knowing some things about the Lord and knowing the Lord has got you out of so much trouble and you start doing right. And then whenever you start believing wrong, you realize that you can go right back in just like a pig de wallo in the mare. Just like an a little dog that’s turned around and eats his vomit. Don’t that make it nauseated? He said, you ought not to say stuff like that.

It’s not in the Bible. Okay, before we close, just throw this at you. Look in verse 22. But it has happened under them according to the true proverb. The dog has turned his own vomit again in the south. That was wise to her, wallowing in the mar. See, I didn’t make it up. It’s all in here. But anyway, we’ll have fun as we go through some of this. And some of this is easy to explain sometimes when you get in the Scriptures.

It’s not always easy to explain. to explain. Sometimes you might say, okay, it might be this or it might be that, but if it doesn’t hurt the Scriptures, I really don’t care which way you go. But there’s some things that you don’t have that option on. Some things are hard-nosed. There is no other name under heaven given among men or by we must be saved. There is no other name. There is nobody else that can save anybody except Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the only one that can save and only by trusting Him. And Him alone is your only hope of going to heaven. Can you go to heaven? So you don’t earn it, you can’t work for it, you can’t buy it. It is the gift of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe it in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I just wrote an email yesterday or two days ago letting someone know that look there was a guy that used to go to Florida Bible College heard everything we heard but now don’t believe that God so loved the world but that God so loved the elect and that we don’t really choose God God chooses us and that That by grace are you saved through faith, that faith is the gift and not salvation.

Now that is Calvinistic teaching. That isn’t true. And he believes that now. And it makes a difference on your soul and his ego. Because after all, why should I get all been out of shape if people don’t tell people how to have eternal life? after all. They can be saved anyway. God’s going to choose to save who he wants. And if God chooses you, you’re going to have one of you like it or not. But what about all the people that God didn’t choose?

Well, see, if he does choose anybody, that’s grace. And so if the rest of them go to hell, so what? Well, that might be all right for you. But what about the person that goes to hell? He may not like that idea. They might be able to say God is unjust. That ain’t right. Whatever God does, God must be just. And He is. God so loved the world when Christ on the cross you paid for the sins of the whole world.

And it is my faith in Him. And He will save me and give me eternal life as a free gift. Let’s pray, show it. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Take your Bible and turn to the book of 2 Peter. The book of 2 Peter, and we’re going to start in chapter 2. 2 Peter and chapter 2. Now last we talked about what the apostle Paul had seen and what he had heard. So he was an eyewitness and he heard things but he says there’s something that’s even better than what you see and what you hear. And And that’s what he calls a more sure word of prophecy. Look there in verse 20, knowing this verse in chapter one, that no prophecy of the scriptures.

See the scriptures and having a copy of the scriptures is better than what you can see in here, because you know, we get older, we forget what we saw and we forget what we heard. I don’t know if I would like to have had it in the Old Testament where if I was like Abraham, You know, God comes along and says something to you, hey, hey, let me tell you this, what’s going to happen, buddy? And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then I don’t see him for 15 years. You know, after a while, this is exactly what did he say to me? But when it’s written down in Scripture, now we go back and look at it. That’s why I love having a copy of the Bible so I can read and study it. And I know that what God says in His Word, it is true. But he says that the scriptures in verse 21, the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man.

So it wasn’t a bunch of guys who got together and says, hey, I’m going to write a Bible and we’ll put all this stuff together and make us a book. Not exactly. God says that it was not by the will of man. So it was not the will of man that produced this book. This a book designed by God. It is infallible. It is inspired of God. So he says, for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved or guided along by the Holy Spirit.

So the Holy Spirit authored this book, and men were simply writers that God choose to use. So the gold is his, but the mold is theirs. You know, if you had pure gold, it wouldn’t matter what kind of a vessel you poured it into, it’s all going to be pure gold. So the gold is his, but the mold is the person that God is able to use his gold and put it into a person, and yet his purity, but it has the shape and the form of an apostle, and you can see their similarities in their books that they write.

Awesome. Just awesome. Chapter 2, Chapter 2, since we know that there were prophecy given in the Old Testament and that there were holy men of God in the Old Testament, well then also he says there’s going to be prophets today and they were prophets but there also false teachers. See there in verse 1 of chapter 2, he says, but there were false prophets, false teachers, also among the people. How do you know they’re false teachers or false prophets? Well, because of what they say.

So you have to know the truth in order to discern the air. So by knowing truth, you can say, hey, that’s not right. That doesn’t line up with what the word of God says. And all scripture is perfectly dove-tailed together. They don’t clash. They don’t contradict each other. Now, the Word of God is truly what it claims to be the Word of God. But notice they’re now in verse 1. But there were false prophets also among the people. Now remember, this is a book, 2 Peter, written to the leaving Jews that had been scattered.

And so they knew the law, and so Peter is like an apostle to the circumcision to the Jews, but Paul was an apostle to the uncircumcision, which was the Gentiles. So they both had the same message, but one has a Jewish flavor, and the other has a Gentile flavor. So here in 2 Peter in chapter 2 he says, but there were false teachers or false prophets among the people, even so shall there be. Get this, false teachers among you.

So now we’re talking about those who believe on Jesus Christ. These are people that know the Lord, believe that Christ died, paid for their sins, came back from the dead, and they’re trusting Him as their Savior. If they had false teachers back then, right at the very beginning of the church after Christ, do you think we may have false teachers in the land today? And as it says here, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies or teachings that are destructive, destructive teachings.

So totally contrary to what God says, but they come in in a sneaky way. Now they often say if you can’t storm the gate and fill trade. In the words, if you can’t take over a great country because you can’t storm the gate, then what you do is you just simply go in in a non-offensive way and infiltrate. And then while you’re in there, then you plant your seeds and do your damage and take it from the inside. I believe that could be going on right now in America.

But I’ll say a little bit more about that later. But what I want you to see here, he says, there shall be false teachers among you who who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even deny in the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves with destruction. Now there’s several things here in this verse. One, we’re talking about the Lord that bought them. Well, that has to be referring to Jesus Christ. But there’s one or two things of how you can view this scripture.

I don’t have any trouble either way. One is that when it says, even denying the Lord that bought them. Is that a reference to the false teachers, the false prophets that when Christ died, He paid for the sins of the whole world. And so because of that, there are people who deny or reject the payment Christ made on the cross for them, but He did make a payment for them. Their sins have been paid. So it could bring swift judgment upon them, Or there’s the possibility to be cause of the false teachers where they false message causing God’s people who have trust the Christ’s Savior to deny the Lord.

So I believe that there’s truth either way, but whether or not that is the Pacific point that he’s trying to make here, I think you’ll see as he goes, it shows you how that God is able to take his people and deliver them while judging the rest, even though they fall into various era and teaching. Just hold your place right here. Look in 2 Timothy and chapter two, 2 Timothy chapter two.

And you’ll notice that the word of God tells us here in verse 15 of 2 Timothy chapter two, study to show thyself, and doesn’t stop there. You don’t study just to show thyself. Study to show thyself approved unto God. a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So if you study God’s Word, you can rightly decide what it’s saying and discerning it, and then it affects how you live so that you’re not ashamed.

But then he says in verse 16, but shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word that eat as death a canker of whom is Hymenias and Philead is who concerning the truth have aired, saying theccess direction has passed already and overthrow the faith of some. So there’s people who have their faith overthrown. Now that’s not the will of God. But that’s because of false teachers. Look there in 1 Timothy 1, 1 Timothy 1.

When he tells them here in verse 18, he says, This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy. According to the prophecies which went before thee, that thou by them mighteth wore a good warfare, holding faith in a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck. So there’s those who know Christ is Savior and because of false teachers, their lives have been made shipwreck. And so he says in verse 20, of whom is Hymenius and Alexander whom I have delivered understand that they may learn not to blaspheme.

So we have a record of them in the Scriptures, and I believe that if they had them then, we have them now. Does that mean that everyone who comes to a Calvary community church, we all believe the same thing? Maybe not. Wouldn’t it be good if everybody believed the same thing. But it is possible that somebody can come and be nice and sweet and kind and loveling and say the same thing that we say, but they put a little bit of spin on it, just a little twist here and a little twist there.

But you don’t know it. You can’t discern it. It’s too subtle and little by little plant seeds. They can be totally destructive. And next thing you know down the road to spread a church wide open. I’ve preached in a lot of churches and I’ve seen it happen. You say, well, I can’t, yes, it can. All it takes is just one person believing some error and then planting those seeds of destruction. So in seeds of discord, little by little, privately, sneakyly without anybody knowing that they’re doing that.

I mean, they’re not going to walk in the back door and say, hey, I’m a false teacher. Oh, you know who I am. They don’t do that. So here in 2 Peter and look, they’re now in verse 2. Verse 2. 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 2 says, and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the and you are on the line is way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Now take your Bible and go all the the way back to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18.

Deuteronomy and chapter 18. This issue came up even back then. And so he says here in Deuteronomy chapter 18, I want you to look there in verse 15 in your Bible there. In verse 15 says, the Lord, thy God, will raise up unto thee a prophet from the mystery of thy brethren, like unto me, unto him ye shall hearken.” Now believe it or not, this is a prophecy concerning Jesus Christ. And yet it was written just about 1500 years in advance.

That’s a long time. Now it’s important to see what God says about knowing the truth versus the year. He said in Verse 16, according to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God, in horrib, in the day of the assembly. Say, and let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God. Neither let me see this great fire anymore that I die not. Now whenever God talked to him from Mount Horrible, Mount Sinai, and scared him to death with all the thunder, light, and all that going on, and don’t come close to the mountain you’d be zapped through and all that stuff.

You know, when it was radioactive or atomic particles or a nuclear fallout. All I know is that they said, we can’t take no more of that. That scared them to death. They said, we just talked to us through the prophet. So he said, okay. So he says in verse 18, I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, liken to me, and will put my words in his mouth. And he shall speak unto them all that I have have commanded him, and it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him.”

Now look what he says in verse 20, but the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that profit, shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? He said, when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing followed not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken.

But the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. They shall not be afraid of him. Now, God had it to where you were not supposed to talk about any other God, except God. God wanted him to know God. And so when you know truth, then you can discern the air, but when you don’t know truth, it’s hard to discern air. Take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Isaiah, chapter 48. Isaiah and chapter 48. In Isaiah 48, there’s an interesting scripture here.

They kind of give you the idea that God knows how we think. He says that we’re hard-headed and stiff-neck. Can you believe that? Can you believe God thinks that we’re hard headed and stiff neck? Well look what he says there in a verse 3 Isaiah chapter 48 and look in verse 3 I Have declared the former things from the beginning. They went forth out of my mouth. I showed them I did them suddenly it came to pass Because and you ought to on the line this verse in your Bible because I knew that thou art obstinate and thy neck as an iron sinew and thou brow brass.

Hard-headed and stiff neck. Well that is what God says about the nation of Israel. So he says here, I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen before it happens so that when it happens you will know that I told you so. So he says in verse 5, I have even from the beginning declared it to thee. Before it came to pass I showed it thee, lest thou should have saith mine idle hath done them. And my graven image and my molten image hath commanded them.

So he knew that if he didn’t tell him in advance what was going to happen they’d take credit for it. Or I already knew that. God says, on thee. Verse 6, thou hath heard see all this and will not you declare? I have showed the knew things from this time, even hidden things, and thou disnot know them. You didn’t know them. They are created now and not from the beginning, even before the day when thou hurt them, not lest thou should say, oh, I already knew that.

God knows man. Knows how we think. So if a person wants to know the truth, is there a God? Is the Bible true? Well, look at the prophecies in the Scriptures. One fourth of the Bible is pre-written history. Now, many of the things God said would happen has already happened. But there’s a lot of things that hasn’t happened yet that are yet to take place. So if we want to know if the Bible is true, all we got to do is just look at some of the things that God says would happen.

And Lord behold, it’s happened. He says, now a false prophet says, this is gonna happen, this is gonna happen, this is gonna happen, and it doesn’t happen. Well, then they’re false. There’s a lot of preachers that says, Jesus is coming back 1988. 88 reasons. Well, he gave 88 reasons why he was coming back in 88. Anybody remember that? Somebody remember that. A man even came out with a little booklet. But guess what? He didn’t come back in 88. The 70th minute says he came back over a hundred years ago And he didn’t show up either.

There’s a lot of people who say, God said, and God says I didn’t not. So what would you do about somebody who says, God said and God didn’t say? Well, there’s a script that deals with that too. Look in Jeremiah 23, Jeremiah, just the next book to you, right? Jeremiah and chapter 23. Jeremiah 23. And look in verse, let’s start in verse 24. I want you to see this, because remember he says, there were prophets in the Old Testament.

And also there were false prophets among them. And we need to know how the false prophets worked, especially with Jeremiah. Everything Jeremiah had told him that God said there were false prophets. There’s a God didn’t say that, God didn’t say that. This isn’t gonna happen. Well, everything that Jeremiah told him that was gonna happen, it happened. He was called a Weep in Prophet. I mean, the guy suffered consequences because he said God said, and God did say it. They put him in a pit, muddy, nothing to eat, cold.

They did all kind of things to Jeremiah and the one that were false doesn’t happen to them for a while. But anyway, in Jeremiah chapter 23, look there in verse 24, can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Sayeth the Lord. Have you ever thought of that? See God, he can only see doing the daytime. That’s why everybody does most of their sin in at night because God can’t see at night. You don’t believe that, do you?

Can God see just as good at night as He can in the daytime? Yes, He can. Does He see everything that you do? Can He even… Tell what you’re thinking? Knows your motive? He says, do not I feel heaven and earth sayeth the Lord? In verse 25, I have heard what the prophets said. that prophesy lies in my name. So God even knows when they prophesy lies. When you say, God said, and God said, I didn’t say that. So He’ll blame a lot upon His prophets because His prophets did not take a stand.

He says, you are like dogs that can’t bark. You know what? Most people have a dog because they want them to bark. Use it not in the house you don’t. But unless somebody comes to the door and that dog just, you know, acts all up. But the reason that people had dogs is because the dog, and they put them in the yard, so the dog would bark. But he says, there’s people that are God’s preachers, and they’re supposed to bark.

They’re supposed to warn. And there’s preachers that don’t know how to bark. There’s preachers that don’t know how to bark. There’s dogs that couldn’t bark. So he says here, he says in verse 25, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. I remember somebody saying, I ain’t got a dream. Yeah, yeah, I got a dream. And it would be great if everybody would listen exactly what, not to be judged by the color of your skin, but by the content of your heart.

And most of the people that vote today is not by the character, but by the color of their skin. White sometime will vote for a white man, because he’s white. But if a black votes for a black because of the color of his skin, it’s just as racism as the other. You’re not judging by what is he saying? What’s he saying? What’s the character of this person? We’re going to be great if all of our politicians were honest people.

Regardless of their color, the color has nothing to do with your character. Either you got character or you don’t have character. And a bunch of them are quite some characters, I’ll tell you. But it says, I have drained, I have drained. You had a nightmare’s with you, Ed. So in verse 20, he said, how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesied lies? They are prophets of the deceit of their own heart. You know that even possible among preachers and evangelists.

In verse 27, which think to cause my people, talking about Israel, to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. Now that made God mad. And that’s why they were going into captivity because they had false prophets saying, hey, If they’re cool, no problem. Verse 28, the prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream. And yet on the line this part, he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.

What is the chak to the wheat? In other words, all that other stuff is fluff, that’s chak. But my word is the wheat. It’s something that’s good and solid. It’s got the kernels of truth. So he says, those who have my word preach my word, those who have the chat, tell your dream. But your dream ain’t going to come true. But my word is truth. That’s why he says, we have a more sure word of prophecy. We have the scriptures.

We have the word of God. Verse 29, verse 29, you ought to underline in your Bible. This is an awesome verse. is not my word like a fire. Sayeth the Lord, and like I hammer that break of the rock in pieces. I have used the word of God for so long. I have seen the word of God and the truth of what God has to say. I’ve seen it break some of the biggest, the meanest, the strongest fellows. And the will that people have, and I’ve seen God just crush them.

And remember whenever Christ was talking to those two on the road to Emmaus, and they says, Did not our hearts burn within us? When he opened unto us the scriptures heart burned within you. Isn’t there time whenever you’re here in the Word of God or you’re sitting there and you’re reading it and it just burns inside of you. You feel like I just got to do something. They got to do something. You want something to happen. Something to be different.

I love these scriptures. Verse 30 says, therefore behold, I am against the prophets. Sayeth the Lord that steal my words. Everyone from his neighbor. Steel my words. By not all. letting people know the truth. You’re stealing from other people. He says here in verse 31, Behold, I am against the prophet, saith the Lord, that use their tongues and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people, get this, cause my people to err by their lies.

So is it possible that false teachers can have an effect upon God’s people? Yes. So there are false teachers in the world, false preachers, and they make merchandise of the people. They’re not really in it for the best of the people, but it gives them a following. And they’re always talking about how your faith is demonstrated by you giving me money. They’re going to have that seed money. And you’ll see how God’s going to bless you. So you run to the mail and see if that chick came in.

And they have a health and wealth philosophy. And there’s some on television that’s, they don’t want to talk about sin because that makes people feel uncomfortable. And you know, and people flock to those churches and support them by the millions. Now only we can do that because people don’t know the truth. They don’t know truth, or they wouldn’t do something so stupid. But they do. But get what he says. He says here in verse 32 again, I want you to see them.

He said, Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dream that saith the Lord, and do not tell them, and cause my people to tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their likeness. And get this, yet I sent them not, nor commanded them. Therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord. And when this people or the prophet or a priest shall ask these saying, what is the burden of the Lord of the word of God?

Thou shalt then say unto them, what burden? I will even forsake you saith the Lord. And as for the prophet and the priest and the people, what? That shall say the burden of the Lord. I will even punish that man and his house. So God says that he is not for these people. As he says down in verse 36, the last part of it says, for ye have perverted the words of the living God. So God gets upset. That’s why when we teach the Bible, we have a little fear that we say that God said and God didn’t say that.

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If God is going to use you, God has got to prepare you. When God has to toughen you up, He has to let you get beat up a little bit. As you go through life, whether with people or things, they are to rough you up so that you get strong in the Lord and not in the power of your own strength, not in your own wisdom. But you as a child of God, realize there are some things I cannot control.

I must trust God. I don’t do this because I’ve got people who believe in me. I do this because I believe God wants me to do this. And in the power of the Lord, I will do such and such. And you do that and you hang with that and you don’t change. And God will work miracles. Because what are you going to do? If everybody you know, every friend you have, all decide to turn against you. Now what are you going to do?

Are you only as strong as the ones you hang around? What if they don’t agree with you anymore? Well, they don’t love you anymore. What if they turn and say mean and hateful things? What are you made out of? Well, this is why you have to sometimes go from childhood to maturity and God’s got to bring you through the wilderness. As that song says, some through the water, some through the floods, some through the fire, but all through the blood.

of who Christ is and what He’s done for you. It’s an awesome song. But I read the words to that title one day. God leads us along. Some of you might want God lead me alone. No, God leads us along. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of 1st Samuel, 1 Samuel 22. David had been anointed king of Israel when he was just a little lad. God had looked over the other seven brothers and he picked the smallest one, the youngest one and says this is the one I want to be king.

God did that because that was the will of God. It’s what God wanted. So from childhood until he became became the king, there were many things God was going to bring him through in order to prepare him to be the king. He can’t go from here, straight to king. God has many things for him to learn, lessons to go through. God took a shepherd boy, not the most intelligent person in all the world. He wasn’t born in a palace.

He was a little shepherd boy. and God blessed him. And no doubt while he was out there he learned how to play the harmonica. Well a harp. And the Bible says that he was a sweet musician of Israel and he would learn the same and he played and he was skillful. Did you know that God used that? On a day whenever Saul would have his down moments and he would bring the little young David boy in there and he he would play his harp and perform.

And Saul was aged and he enjoyed it and it sooth his spirit, calmed his bad attitude. When it wasn’t long before Saul realized there’s something different about that boy. Someday that boy is going to get my job. And so he tried to kill young David. Why did God let him go through all that? Why would God let this young boy Why who didn’t ask to be the king? At the same time, God had prepared him, and at one time he had to kill a bear with his bare hands and a lion.

Pretty good. But there was a time unve a time in David’s life where there was many things that God had to do for him. Here he had to run for his life. And yet God had promised you’re going to be the king, and yet here’s a man running for his. The king was trying to kill him. Look in verse one. And David therefore departed. and escaped to the cave of Dulam, and when his brethren and father’s house heard it, they went down to them.

And every one that was in distress, every one that was in a debt, every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them, and there were with him about 400 men. In other words, he got all the derelicts, all the rejects and people that they weren’t doing to good with King Saul’s army and his reign. Next thing you know David had all these volunteers who came to him and they had an idea that God’s gonna use this guy.

God’s gonna use this guy. He’s been anointed he could be the next king and therefore if they be around David and when he becomes king hey they get all comprehend Dhabi positions. And these men became known as the mighty men of David. The mighty men of David. These men would have died for David. They almost worshiped this man. They loved SERVED this guy. And David was just an individual that knew God, and God was leading him along. long. to go from Bethlehem where he was born to Jerusalem is only a few miles.

That’s not far from Bethlehem to Jerusalem because that’s where he’s going to be the king. Well, he was He was born here. Maybe five miles. I mean, I’ve been there. I’ve been to both of these places five times. I’ve been there. It’s not far from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, but God had to lead him not from. not fromSteam to Jerusalem, he had to lead him to a place called Zigglag. Zigglag. That’s a strange funny place. See, God didn’t take him from here straight to here.

God had to lead him through Zigglag. And for you to get where God wants you to be, God may have to lead you to a place like Zigglag. And the next question you have, I know it’s going to be is, what is that? Look in chapter 27. Chapter 27, look in verse 1. And it//// says, dam it said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a to didn’t God say that you’re going to be the king of Israel?

Well, I know that one of these days I’m going to perish by the hand of Saul. Do you think he was feeling a little low? Down just a little bit. In other words, He was facing682 the death of a vision, the vision of what I’m going to have and what I to be someday, it’ll never be real. And I’m destined to be killed by Saul. And so He says here, there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines andImpro shall despair of me to seek me anymore in any coast of Israel, so shall I escape out of his hands.”

So David arose and he’s running for his life. I have no hope. Heavoided the camp of the enemy, the Philistines. He went and lived with the Philistines. And they besieged him. And they didn’t know for sure about him, but he pretended like he was a crazy man. He let his spit drill out on his beard and he had like a idiot in the idiot, you know. And they said he’s madvironn a good actor. He could have probably been a holy movie star.

Here was David, the God that’s going to be the King of Israel and he’s pretending to be a mad man and he’s now in the enemy camp of the Philistines. What way that God leads his dear children along. And there’s times in your life where you like men ain’t nothing being done. I’ll I’ll never get to be able to be anything great for the Lord. Well, God has to lead you through the trials and tribulations. God has to let you learn some lessons.

is that there’s somethings you can’t make happen. You are not to exalt yourself. You’re not to lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. You’re to let God do what God wants to do when God wants to do it. And God will do it. Believe it. Just trust him. You just keep doing right as he leads his dear children along. Now look there in chapter 30 and chap. He had been with the Philistines and the time where they had your union union.

You know what? Well, David didn’t want to have to fight against Israel because that made him be fighting against King Saul and fighting against Jonathan. Oh, God, he didn’t want to do that. God didn’t want him to do that. So these people that he was staying with, they said, we don’t want you to go with us because the leaders around there, Captain says, look, isn’t this the same David? That the children of Israel used to say he has killed his or saw the killer’s down and David, his tens of thousands, and we’re going to let this man, they592 all of that go with us.

They didn’t want him. So David was rejected by them. They didn’t want him to help. So he says down here and he has now about 600 men with him. He’s gained a few since the other chapter. And verse one, and it came to pass when David and his men were come to Ziklag. On the third day that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag EntityItem He had committed his life and burned it with fire and had taken the women captives.

They slew, not any, either greater small, but carried them away and went on their way. Now keep us in mind. This was in the land of the Philistines. So they had gone and they said, we don’t want you fighting with us. So they returned back to the city where theytarian (£a…where… notsudoMembers They slew not any, either greater small, but carried them away and went on their way. Now, keep us in mind. This was in the land of the Philistines.

So they had gone and they said, we don’t want you fighting with us. So they returned back to the city where they were living. When they got back, they found out the city was was burned and their wives and children were gone. In other words, it’s everything David was losing everything. So in verse 3, so David and his men came to the city and behold, it was burned with fire and their wives, their sons, their daughters had taken captive.

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wet a bunch of sissies. No, it was their wives. It was their kids they were concerned. Get this. Until they had no more power to wait. In other words, they cried till they had no more tears left. And David’s two wives were taken captive. And it says in verse 6, David was greatly distressed. You ought to underline verse 6. Now I covered these scriptures not long ago, but I was hitting it from a different viewpoint.

Something I want you to see now is this. In verse 6, Before God could take David and make him a king, David had a lot of lessons in which to learn. And the lessons is this. He’s not the trust because of the power of his men, the mighty men of David. He can’t trust in them., in his wife, there has a time when God…………………………..will take everything you have away from you. the same degree, but there’s things that you have to learn in this life.

And that might be somepointers tradem that you would love to have,ixel, but you cannot have because God wantselcome you——– that you need to be satisfied with nobodytml but just you and Him. Where you don’t have the power or the might to do certain things and you got to let God do it. impoverish it. Can you be patient? Can you wait? Trust the Lord. Think what he says. And he says in David was greatly distressed for the people’s sake of doing what to him.

The very people that loved him, the very people, they’re going to be our king, the very people. Why are they so mad at him for it? Because we trusted you, we followed you, we did whatever you said do and look at the results. Do you know that Moses went through the very same thing? Moses did not want to be the leader of Israel. He didn’t want to do it, but God did. And whenever He brought the people across the Red Sea and into the wilderness, all ofa said, hey, there’s two and a half million people here.

What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? Been three days in no water. And they were ready to stone Moses. What are they meant? Was God leading Moses? And the people following Moses? Well, when you don’t like where the man’s taken you, it’s his fault, right? Crucified. They’re really stone him. At one point Moses says, Lord Jesus Christ will go ahead and kill me. Take me on I have brought out my life. And here you are and you want one day you want to be a leader?

Okay, what are you willing to go through? Are you willing to go through Zig Lagg? Where everything that you have, the people can turn on you. I’ve had it happen to me in the ministry over and over again. You got lessons to learn, but you got to go. And those that think to it, well, I thought we was going to, and I thought, and I thought, and I thought, where’s this land of milk and honey? You promised us before they got into the promised land.

He had to bring them through the wilderness and they were went through the wilderness for 40 years. Think about that. When God who had Moses already in Egypt, let him go out of Egypt, the backside of a desert, and left him there for 40 years, waiting. Waiting until Moses was right, waiting until the people in the land, in the iniquity of the emirites are not yet full. And he says that he had to get Israel ready and make a nation out of them and an army out of them.

So God had all these things in mind and he’s planning. God is behind the scene and he has an overall purpose. And he says the wickedness of the people in the land that had the land, God says because of their sin, sin, he was going to take it away from them and he’s going to give it to them. See, the earth belongs to God and God can give it to whoever he wants to. This is his world. Those are his planets and that his stars.

This is his earth and you are, as the Bible says, you are the chief of his pastor, the people of God. So God is free to do whatever he wants with that which belongs to them, but God works according to the rules, the rules of law, the rule of love. God could show the various characteristic traits of himself. He may show his judgment and his wrath or his compassion, his mercy. And he chooses different vessels to do it and different nations to do it.

But God is alive and God is working and though you may think my life is dull, it’s boring and whatever else, it’s because you fail to see what’s been done. He didn’t take and create us and then take a vacation some place. God is intricately involved in the daily affairs of every individual. In verse two there are 11 days journey from Horriba by the way of Mount Sir on Decades-Parnia. In other words from Mount Sinai where God gave him the law Decades-Parnia, he said it’s only 11 days journey.

In other words they could have right there and went into the land. But how long did it take them? 40 years. 40 years to go to 11 days journey. Why? Because you see, God used the wilderness experience in order to take all of those individuals who believed that they can’t go into the land because of the giants of Enakkor in there. And we can’t win. And so they came back with an evil report and convinced the children of Israel that they can’t go and so their unbelief kept them from going into the land.

And so God said, I’m going to let you wander right on the wilderness for 40 years. And during that 40 years, he says, all of God is going to die off. And I’m going to take the other generation in. And he says, but Caleb and Joshua, they’ll get to go into the land. Now stop and think for a moment. That means that during these 40 years, and all these people that had died, death was by the hand of God.

Everyone that lived that went into the land was by the hand of God. Because God could have kept them alive or God could have killed all everything in God’s hands. And that means that God individually knew all those who did not believe and those it did and God calls some to live and some to die. Well, it was just an accident, that a freak accident. This person died. No, everything is been watched upon by the eyes of God. And whether man lives or whether man dies in God’s hands.

Now, God may use wicked things in this world, but God is in charge. God is still on the throne. God still rules. Christ, when he was here, he told them in Luke 13, he says, do you think that those 18 that died because the tower’s alone fell upon them? They were more wicked than somebody else, he says, that’s not true. In other words, he knew the real reason, but he knew they died. But it wasn’t because they were more wicked than somebody else, but then evidently God did know the reason.

He doesn’t say it. He makes this statement because some came and says, why was this child born blind? He said it wasn’t because of the sins of the mother and the father, and therefore this child was born blind. He says that’s not true. He said, I had nothing to do with the mother and the father and their sins. He said, this man was born blind that you might see the power of God. In other words, he had been blind from birth all the year because God was going to do something in the life of this one blind person.

See, there’s a reason. You just may not always know it. Why would God have a man like Moses born and he couldn’t speak right? Had an impediment of speech. Moses used his flaw as an excuse not to serve God, but God says, I want to use you just the way you are. Moses wouldn’t do it. Moses missed out on some mighty good blessings. When God told Moses certain things to do, Moses at times got angry. And because of his anger, he said and did things he should not have done.

And when he did so, it was not permitted to go into the promised land. Just a coincidence? No, he died upon the mountain right before they was to go in. So, well, the one lives, one dies. You say, well, it’s just an accident. No, it’s not. There’s a God in heaven that knows what’s going on. And God will bring you into something that He may lead you through something that you may learn what God wants you to do. There’s always something that’s going on, and you should always ask, Lord, what do you have for me to learn?

What do you want to teach me through this. And I assure you, there are lessons to learn in every testing, every trial, every temptation that you have. There’s something to learn. I have over the years wondered why did God leave me here and in the there and in the there and in the there and in there. My life is a step. It’s a walk. You’re walking with God. It’s a step at a time. You don’t have to know where it’s going to end up.

You just go ahead and serve God. Just keep walking with the Lord. And if you’ll serve God faithfully today, you’ll be where you’re supposed to be tomorrow and if you’ll serve God that day then you’ll be where you’re supposed to be the next day and then thousands upon thousands of died in the world never got into the land and so many of them they blame Moses and God says it if I hit he says you people he says you wicked people and here you are now with a man like David a man after God’s own heart And he says here in verse six, and the people speak of stoning him because the soul of all the people, they were what?

They were grieving, grieving. They were hurting. Every man and his sons and his daughters. But David had all these men that got around him and really encouraged him. Is that what it says? I didn’t know what it says. And David encouraged himself in the Lord. Get that. David encouraged himself in the look. Do you think, now listen, David didn’t have the Bible like we have today, but he did know, he did know the stories in the Old Testament. Many of these stories that were written before him, he knew what God had done with Moses.

He know the stories, just like we can read them, he knew them, and he had to encourage himself. Just like with Joshua, Joshua had to suffer consequences. Because of the sin of AI, you see, if God is going to use you, God has got to prepare you. And God has to toughen you up. He has to let you get beat up a little bit. As you go through life, whether with people or things, they are to rough you up.

So that you get strong in the Lord and not in the power of your own strength, not in your own wisdom. But you as a child of God, realize there’s some things I cannot control. I must trust God. I don’t do this because I’ve got people who believe in me. I do this because I believe God wants me to do this. And in the power of the Lord, I will do such and such. And you do that and you hang with that and you don’t change.

And God will work miracles. So look in verse eight, David inquired at the Lord saying, Saying, shall I pursue after this trip? Shall I overtake them? So he didn’t ask his men, he asked the Lord, Lord, what do you want me to do? Shall I pursue? Will I overtake them? And the Lord says, go and you will win. And you will, in the last part of it, you will recover everything. You’ll not lose anything. In the end time, in result, you will not lose anything.

You’ll get everything back. You see, the road from Bethlehem to Jerusalem was a short road. But God didn’t want to take him from here to here. God wanted to take him the opposite direction to Ziegler, and then he becomes king. Because, see, he has to learn it’s not because of the power of his men that he has, The friendship of his men? It’s not anything else. You’ve got to learn how to be strong and encourage yourself in the Lord.

Because what are you going to do if everybody you know, every friend you have, all decide to turn against you? Now what are you going to do? Are you only as strong as the ones you hang around? What if they don’t agree with you anymore? What if they don’t love you anymore? What if they turn and say mean and hateful things? What are you made out of? Well, this is why you have to sometimes go from childhood to maturity, and God’s got to bring you through the wilderness to a place called Zig-leg.

And it may not be one, it may be four or five of them he’s got to bring you through. As that song says, some through the water, some through the floods, some through the fire, but all through the blood. because of who Christ is and what He’s done for you. It’s an awesome song. When I read the words to that title one day, God leads us along. Some of you might want God leave me alone. No, God leads us along.

And so you may be in the middle of your little zig-lag or you may be heading into it or you may be coming out of it. But learn the lessons that God has for you. And you’ll have those lessons even while you’re young. You have lessons to learn. Look up here. This hen represents you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God, He loves us, but He hates our sin. For you and I, to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God.

And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We cannot enter into heaven because of sin. So the goal is to get rid of sin. And God says that you cannot get rid of this sin, except by death. The wages of sin is eternal separation from God in a place called Hell. But God loves us. He says you cannot save yourself. You cannot earn eternal life. This then represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in a place.

He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin. He says it separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin. All of it. Paid for it on the cross came back from the dead. Instead, if we’ll believe he did it for us, he would put the payment to our account and we get to go to heaven, and watch Jesus Christ did for us. I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior. I hope that you trust the Lord as your Savior.

It’s so important not only to know Christ as your Savior, but to realize that God is working in your life. God is leaving you alone. It doesn’t matter about your family situation, the job situation, the finances situation, a health situation, God wants to lead you through everything and He wants to become more real to you than the clothes you have on your bank. He wants to teach you things about Himself. You would never learn any other way. Let’s pray, shall we?

Every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, then what I write now is just between you and the Lord say something like this, Lord, I know I’m a sinner, I believe Christ died, paid for my sins and I’ll trust Him to take me to heaven when I die. I’m not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to point you out or make you bend up or walk down the aisle.

I want you to write what you said and say, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior and I’d like you to pray for me. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. Romans chapter 8 and verse 28. So now that you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior, don’t you believe that the God that created the heavens and the year also is interested in your life? That God that can give you eternal life, can he give you a hamburger from day to day?

I think so. But here in Romans in chapter 8, I want you to look in verse 28 28 says, for we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who are the called according to His purpose. It says, and we know. If you know this, then it’s one thing, but a lot of people don’t know it. A lot of people know the verse, but they don’t believe the verse. And so that’s why we have so many miserable, weak, bitter, angry Christians that are not really happy or feel with joy of the Lord.

If God is going to take you from something to something, He’s got to lead you through something. If He’s taking you from childhood to adulthood, He’s got to take you through the teenage years. In 1 Corinthians 10, there’s five basic privileges that God does for all of us that are pretty much the same. I want you to see it very quickly. In verse one, he says, Moreover brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant that all our fathers were unto the cloud and all passed through the sea.

All were baptized unto Moses. In verse three, ended all eat the same spiritual meat. In verse four, ended all drink the same spiritual drink. When God took the children of Israel out of Egypt, what And he did for one Hebrew, he did for all the Hebrews. And so what God does for you and what God does for me, he’s done for everybody else. When God saved me and when God saved you, he did exactly the same thing for me, he did for you.

When Christ died on the cross, he did the same thing for me, he did for you. No difference because it was for you, it was for me, it was for all of your sins, it was all of my sins. When you trusted Christ as your Savior, well then God gave you eternal life. Well, He gave me the eternal life too. Well He made you His chat. Well He did me too. He gave you the Holy Spirit. Well He did me too.

And He promised that He’s going to take you to heaven. Well He did me too. So He said, there’s no difference in that. The difference comes between how you and I show our appreciation to God. That’s an individual choice. I get a chance, you get a chance to tell God how we appreciate what He’s done for us. And that’s where the difference comes in. You see, when we get to heaven, God rewards us, He’s not going to reward us for the things He did, He’s going to reward us for the things we did.

The rewards in heaven will be different because they’re based upon the individual decisions of individuals. Yours, mine. You can waste your life, okay, but when you get to heaven, you’re not going to have what you could have had. If somebody else decides to serve all over, they’re gonna have what you could have had, but you’re not gonna have it. And you may not think it’s that important. There’s a song that I’ve heard recently. It’s called I can only imagine.

Only imagine. No, you can’t. I don’t really like the song. I just as on scripture song. I can only imagine what it’s gonna be like in heaven. No, you can’t. I have not seen ear, have not heard and neither has entered into the heart of man. That’s what God has prepared for them, the love. It hasn’t even entered your mind. You cannot imagine what God’s got for us in eternity. You can’t imagine it. You can’t dream up. You can’t think of how God is going to reward you when you get there.

You can’t. It’s beyond your mind. You can’t see it out of sight, out of mind. Therefore, you may not think it’s that important. But whenever God is going to take a child and make a man out of him, he’s got to take you through certain processes. And how you work with those various things and yield to them and so forth, the lessons you learn depends on how fast you grow, or whether or not you become a mature Christian, with the Christian character that you ought to have.

And God is going to lead you through many of these things. There’s a song in the book. It’s page 96 in your songbook, but you don’t have to turn to it, but it says, God leads us along. That’s the title of what I want to talk on. And it’s on page 9 and it says, but listen what it says. In Shady Green Pastures, so rich and so sweet, God leads His dear children along. Will the waters cool flow bathe the weary ones feet?

God leads His dear children along. Some through the waters, some through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but God gives us a song. End the night seasons and all the day long. It’s a wonderful song. It really is. And God leads us along. But in the midst of where he’s leading us, he will lead us through pretty much the same thing. It depends on how you respond in the midst of all of these things.

And that depends on where you are spiritually. The same problem that I face, somebody else may face, they may stand, I may fall. But if I fall and they stood, you see it’s because of where I was spiritually. God never gives us anything to make us fall. God will allow us to be tempted because of pride or because of some particular lesson he has for us to learn but God’s not picking on people because he got it in for you.

God’s always trying to instruct and to correct anything that’s wrong in your life where he wants to lead you and he makes this statement in verse two. Sometimes on the Mount where the sun shines so bright, God leads his dear children along. Sometimes in the rally in darkness of night, God leads his dear children along. Did you know that the light in the darkness means nothing to God? Did God exist before there was light upon the earth? Remember it was God that created the heavens and says, and darkness was of all the face of the deep.

Well, see, it didn’t matter if it was light or there is no light. God sees all as though there is no such thing as darkness or light. That’s for our benefit so that we can see things that we could not see with the natural life. But he makes the statement here and I love it, sometimes in the valley and in the darkness of night, God leaves his dear children alone, to the water, some to the flood, some to the fire, but all to the blood.

Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song in the night seasons and all the day long. Did you know that those who sometimes may have to go through great sorrow, sing the better songs? They write greater songs. They learn greater lessons. So don’t curse the dark light of candle and don’t become bitter because of things that happens in your life because God is leading you someplace. There are particular lessons that God wants every one of us to learn through the things that we have to face.

Now look there in verse five. In verse five of the same chapter there are five basic sins that plague people. See everybody’s going to be tempted and you’re going to be tempted in different ways by these various means. In verse five, he said, but with many of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now, these things were our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things. You’re tempted to do so.

Many will fall because of it. Verse 7, neither be idolaters. That’s the second thing. And many people will because they’ll put idols before God and they worship their idols. You may worship sports. You can worship money. You can worship your wives. You can worship your kids. You can worship anything but not worship God. And God calls that idolatry. Nothing is to be between you and God. And then number three, they’re in verse eight, neither let us commit for an occasion as some of them committed and some are tempted in this area.

Verse 9, neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. Many people are going to tempt God. Sometimes we step out and we take dangerous detours thinking that nothing will happen. Or we mock sin thinking there’s no consequences. And God says you’re mocking me. You’re mocking me. You think you can do what you want to do and get away with it. Some Christians will do that and they get this. And the next one he says in verse 10, neither murmur ye, number five, as some of them also murmur.

In other words, to complain, complain, complain. Have you ever made Christians that all they do is complain, complain, complain, always whining about something? Nothing’s ever right. They’re always negative, always pessimistic, always down. You’re always having to say something to encourage them. Well, there’s time when we do, yes, but you shouldn’t live there. That shouldn’t be where you make your daily abode. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Deuteronomy in chapter 1. When God wanted to take Israel, that’s whenever Jacob’s name was Jacob before it changed to Israel.

And there were about 70 in his clan now, as time has gone on. Joseph had already been sent down into Egypt. God promised the land of Canaan to Israel. But there were enemies in the land and Israel was just a little old small group of people, just the tribe. And so God sent them down into Egypt. God sent them down into Egypt where they were there for 400 years. Now America is a little over 200 years. old, and God led them there in order to get them there.

God will sometimes lead you in the exact opposite direction of where He wants you to be because of the lessons He has for you to learn. So while they were there, there’s many lessons they had to learn. And God had promised them a land that flowed with milk and honey. But to get them from where they were, to get them where they are supposed to be, God had to work some miracles. And so God had led them there so that they could go through the furnace of fire.

And many times the scriptures tells us that Israel down in Egypt was a furnace of fire. They were being purified. And then whenever he led them back out of Egypt, he had to go through the Red Sea. And in every step God was leading his children along. He is the shepherd and he’s leading his flock. They didn’t always get led where they wanted to go, but they were led exactly where God wanted them to be. God is the one that had planned on Jacob taking his family down to Egypt and had sent Joseph in advance and he used the wicked decisions of his family, his brothers, and sold him as a slave and he was sent and God led all that happen because he got has a bigger plan.

God, and you must believe, is working in your life. You may not see in all the little details. But after a while, you can look back over you like me, you can see how God did this and God did this and God did this. And some people never see God working in the life. I can look at my life and I’ve seen God move in a mighty and mysterious and strange ways that I could not have planned. I could not have ever designed all the things that God has done for me.

And I look at it and I stand, it is an awesome thing to know that God is doing something in your life and that God has a purpose and a plan. You see, I don’t have to know where I’m going to end up. I’m going. I’m going to end up in heaven. But while I’m in this world, God is leading and he’s taking you here. He takes you there and so on. And he brings you into something that he might bring you through something that you might learn something to be better for him.

Some people, they don’t mind it if God turns out the light on somebody else, for they can learn all these lessons. But when you see God’s hand going for the light switch, you become, you begin to panic. You become fearful. When you start losing your money and you don’t know what you’re going to do. When your health starts to go. Or you’re facing some serious operation you don’t know what you’re going to do. Or people turn against you and you don’t know what you’re going to do.

And so God leads you through all these things. One of the biggest things I believe is because God wants you to learn that He is enough and He is sufficient for your life. If it’s just you and the Lord. What if there was nobody else in the whole world, just you and the Lord? Could you handle that? It might be that that’s where God will take you. Now here in Deuteronomy in chapter one, look what he says there in verse two.

Before they got into the promised land, he had to bring them through the wilderness and they were went through the wilderness for 40 years. Think about that. When God who had Moses already in Egypt, let him go out of Egypt, the backside of a desert and left him there for forty years waiting. Waiting until Moses was right, waiting until the people in the land, in the iniquity of the emirites are not yet full. And he says that he had to get Israel ready and make a nation out of them and an army out of them.

So God had all these things in mind and he’s planning. God is behind the scene and he has on overall purpose. And he says the wickedness of the people in\\\\ that had the land, God says because of their sin, he was going to take it away from them and he’s going to give it to them. See the earth belongs to God. And God can give it to whoever he wants to. This is his world. Those are his planets and that his stars.

This is his earth. And you are, as The Bible says you are the chief of his pastor, the people of God. So God is free to do whatever he wants with that which belongs to them, but God works according to the rules, the rules of law, the rule of love. God can show the various characteristic traits of himself. He may show his judgment and his wrath or his compassion, his mercy. He chooses different vessels to do it and different nations to do it.

But God is alive and God is working and though you may think my life is dull, it’s born in whatever else, that’s because you fail to see what’s been done. He didn’t take and create us and then take a vacation someplace. God is intricately involved in the daily affairs of every individual. Verse two, there are 11 days journey from Horrib, by the way of Mount Sir on Decades, Parnia. In other words, from Mount Sinai, where God gave him the law, Decades, Parnia, he said, it’s only 11 days journey.

In other words, they could have been right there and went into the land. But how long did it take them? 40 years. 40 years to go to 11 days journey, why? Because you see, God used the wilderness experience in order to take all of those individuals who believed that they can’t go into the land because of the giants of Enakkari in there. And we can’t win, and so they came back with an evil report and convinced the children of Israel that they can’t go in, so their unbelief kept them from going into the land.

And so God said, I’m going to let you wander around in the wilderness for 40 years, and during that 40 years he says, all of y’all are going to die off, and I’m going to take the other generation in. And he says, but Caleb and Joshua, they’ll get to go into the land. Now stop and think for a moment. That means that during these 40 years, all these people that had died, every death was by the hand of God.

Everyone that lived that went into the land was by the hand of God. Because God could have kept them alive or God could have killed all everything in God’s hands. That means that God individually knew all those who did not believe and those that did, and God called some to live and some to die. Well it was just an accident, that freak accident. This person died. No, everything has been watched upon by the eyes of God. Whether man lives or whether man dies, it’s in God’s hands.

God may use wicked things in this world, but God is in charge. God is still on the throne. God still rules. . . . . . . . . . Christ, when he was here, he told them in Luke 13, he says, do you think that those 18 that died because the tower’s alone fell upon them? They were more wicked than somebody else? He says, that’s not true. In other words, he knew the real reason, but he knew they died.

But it wasn’t because they were more wicked than somebody else, but then evidently God did know the reason. They doesn’t say it. He makes this statement because some came and says, Why was this child born blind? He said it wasn’t because of the sins of the mother and the father, and therefore this child was born blind. He says that’s not true. He said it had nothing to do with the mother and the father and their sins. He said this man was born blind that you might see the power of God.

In other words, he had been blind from birth all the year because God was going to do something in the life of this one blind person. See, there’s a reason. You just may not always know it. Why would God have a man like Moses born and he couldn’t speak right? Had an impediment of speech. Moses used his flaw as an excuse not to serve God. But God says, I want to use you just the way you are. Moses wouldn’t do it.

Moses missed out on some mighty good blessings. When God told Moses certain things to do, Moses at times got angry. And because of his anger, he said and did things he should not have done. And when he did so, it was not permitted to go into the Promised Land. Just a coincidence? No, he died upon the mountain. Right before they was to go in. So, well, the one lives, one dies. You say, well, it’s just an accident. No, it’s not.

There’s a God in heaven that knows what’s going on. And God will bring you into something that he may lead you through something that you may learn what God wants you to do. There’s always something that’s going on, and you should always ask, Lord, What do you have for me to learn? What do you want to teach me through this? And I assure you, there’s lessons to learn in every testing, every trial, every temptation that you have. There’s something to learn.

I have over the years wondered why did God lead me here and in the there and in the there and in the there and in there. My life is a step. It’s a walk. You’re walking with God. It’s a step at a time. You don’t have to know where it’s going to end up. You just go ahead and serve God. Just keep walking with the Lord. And if you’ll serve God faithful today, you’ll be where you’re supposed to be tomorrow.

And if you’ll serve God that day, then you’ll be where you’re supposed to be the next day. You see, if God is going to use you, God has got to prepare you. And God has to toughen you up. He has to let you get beat up a little bit. As you go through life, whether with people or things, they are to rough you up so that you get strong in the Lord and not in the power of your own strength, not in your own wisdom.

But you as a child of God, realize there are some things I cannot control. I must trust God. I don’t do this because I’ve got people who believe in me. I do this because I believe God wants me to do this. And in the power of the Lord, I will do such and such. And you do that and you hang with that and you don’t change and God will work miracles because what are you going to do if everybody you know every friend you have all these side to turn against you now what are you going to do are you only as strong as the ones you hang around what if they don’t agree with you anymore well they don’t love you anymore what if they turn as they mean and hateful things.

What are you made out of? Well, this is why you have to sometimes go from childhood to maturity and God’s got to bring you the wilderness. As that song says, some through the water, some through the floods, some through the fire, but all through the blood. Because of who Christ is and what He’s done for you, it’s an awesome song. When I I read the words to that title one day. God leads us along. Some of you might want, God leave me alone.

No, God leads us along. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel 22. David had been anointed king of Israel. When he was just a little ad, God had looked over the other seven brothers and he picked the smallest one, the youngest one and says, this is the one I want to be king. God did that because that was the will of God. It’s what God wanted. So, from childhood, until he became the king, there were many things God was going to bring him through in order to prepare him to be the king.

He can’t go from here, straight to king. God has many things for him to learn, lessons to go through. God took a shepherd boy, not the most intelligent person in all the world. He wasn’t born in a palace. He was a little shepherd boy. and God blessed him. And no doubt while he was out there he learned how to play the harmonica. Well a harp. And the Bible says that he was a sweet musician of Israel and he would learn the same and he played and he was skillful.

Did you know that God used that? On a day whenever Saul would have his down moments and he would bring the little young David boy in there and he would play his harp and perform. And Saul was aged and he enjoyed it and it sooth his spirit, calmed his bad attitude. When it wasn’t long before Saul realized there’s something different about that boy. Someday that boy is going to get my job and so he tried to kill young David.

David. Why did God let him go through all that? Why would God let this young boy who didn’t ask to be the king? And yet at the same time God had to prepare him. And at one time he had to kill a bear with his bare hands and a lion. Pretty good. But there was a time in David’s life where there was many things that God had to do for him.

You’re going to be the king, and yet here is a man running for his life. The king was trying to kill him. Look up here. The sin represents you and me, and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God, he loves us, but he hates our sin. For you and I to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God, and none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We cannot enter into heaven because of sin.

The goal is to get rid of sin, and God says that you you cannot get rid of this sin except by death. The wages of sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. But God loves us. He says you cannot save yourself, you cannot earn eternal life. This sin represents Jesus Christ, he is the Lord God in a place. He came into the world because he loves us, he hates our sin. He says it separates us from him.

So Christ took the sin, all of it. paid for it on the cross came back from the dead. Instead of we’ll believe he did it for us, he would put the payment to our account and we get to go to heaven and watch Jesus Christ did for us. I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior. I hope that you trust the Lord as your Savior. It’s so important not only to know Christ as your Savior, but to realize that God is working in your life.

God is leaving you alone. It doesn’t matter about your family situation, the job situation, the finance situation, the health situation. God wants to lead you through everything and He wants to become more real to you than the clothes you have on your bank. He wants to teach you things about Himself. You would never learn any other way. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message, Part 2 of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

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I want you to take your Bible and turn to the hundred and third Psalm, the hundred and third Psalm. I love the Psalms, many tremendous statements in it that reveal the soul of a man. Sometimes expressing how a person feels between him and God. If sometimes you don’t know how to express how you feel inside, read the Psalms and you’ll find there’s one Psalm in here that will say what you think and how you feel. It’s a tremendous book.

of the Psalms written by David. This is a Psalm of David also. I know the Bible tells us that God has bestowed upon us many benefits. All we’re thankful for salvation, but there’s a lot more that God has done for us than just saving our soul from hell. He’s given us so much. I often wonder why doesn’t everybody serve the Lord after they know Christ is their Savior, but many people don’t for some reason. And I believe it’s because there’s something they don’t know or understand about God.

Don’t believe that it’s all worth it. Remember this, there is no disobedience here that through it of whatever you may gain that will be worth what it’s going to cost you when you get to heaven. Nothing that you could choose against God is worth what it will cost you when you get to heaven and find out this is what you gave up. This is what God had for you but Well, you didn’t want his best and therefore you don’t get it.

I want you to realize here in the book of Psalms and especially 103rd Psalm about eight different things that expresses some things about God. But a lot of people because of what they don’t know, it’s going to cost them and there’s a lot of quitters, people that will not not only make up their mind to serve the Lord, but consistently keep serving the Lord all the days of their life. Let me read this to you. This is to those who want to quit.

You know, always giving up. Never hanging in there. The world won’t care if you quit, and the world won’t whine if you fail. The busy world won’t notice it, no matter how loudly you wail. Nobody will worry for you. Have relinquished the fight and gone down, for it’s only the things that you do that are worthwhile and get you renowned. The quitters are quickly forgot. Of them the world spends a little time. And if you even care that you’ve not the courage or patience to climb.

So give up and quit in despair and place yourself back on the shelf. And don’t think the world is going to care. Don’t you get it? You’re injuring yourself. I love that. When you make up your mind, I’m not going to serve God. Why would you injure yourself? Don’t you want his blessings? realize how great God has been to you and all the benefits he’s given to you. There’s a lot of benefits in serving God. And so I want you to look there in verse three.

In verse three I want you to see the Lord now as our Savior and it says in verse three, who forgiveth all buying iniquities. If Jesus Christ paid for all of my sins, how many do I have to pay for? None. See what that verse says in verse three who forgive us all vine iniquity. What is so important about it? Well look what he says in verse one, bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul and forget not. Forget not what all his benefits. Don’t forget what God’s done for you. You see you could always praise the Lord. And you can bless the Lord, O my soul, if you just won’t forget what God’s done for you. If he never did another thing for you, what he’s already done is enough for you to praise the Lord for the rest of eternity. If you’ll only remember, he forgave all your sins, all of them.

Look what he says there in verse 10. Verse 10 says, he hath not dealt with us after our sins. Aren’t you glad? You see, you only had to commit one sin and be sent to hell. Only one just one But you didn’t go to hell What if God had allowed you to die after you committed one sin when that had been terrible? But God was gracious to you and to me He allowed us to live it was God who we don’t understand how many ways in which he tried to reach us and We would not and we were blind and we were hard-hearted And we didn’t see and we didn’t understand and God never quit and God never gave up on us because He’s the one that does the seeking.

We didn’t seek God. He saw us. Aren’t you glad? Now you have eternal life and you’re going to heaven when you die. That’s a wonderful thing to know that He did not deal with us after our sin. He put our sins upon Christ and He dealt with His Son about our sins. That’s why Christ died because He dealt with Him. He took all of our sins and paid for them. Look what He says also there in verse 12. In verse 12, for as far as the east is from the West.

Now how far is the East from the West? Well I don’t really know. I just know that if the East is that away then the West is that away. They’re opposite directions. That’s how far God said He had to remove our sins from us. Look what He says. As far as the East is from the West so far have He removed our transgressions from us. They’ve been removed, taken away. That’s why He told His disciples going to all the world and preached the forgiveness of sins.

Forgiving you as though you never send. Isn’t that a wonderful benefit to have? And we can bless the Lord, O my soul, as long as we can remember that He hath done this for us. So we have something to praise the Lord about. He is our Savior. He has saved us from hell, given us eternal life, and we’re going to heaven because of that. Now take your Bible and look there in the book of 103rd Psalm, but I want you to look in the last part of of this verse.

In verse four is a tremendous verse when he says, who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who chroneth thee with loving, kindness, and tender mercy. The first part of the verse says, who redeemeth thy life. You see, he didn’t only redeem us from hell, and for what sin was going to do with us as far as the penalty goes, and our eternal separation from God, he is also redeeming us as we live our lives from being destroyed because there’s somebody who wants to destroy your life, ruin your testimony.

And God, by the Holy Spirit, living inside of us, is giving us the power that we need to redeem our life, or keep from wasting our life. Or as the little quote that I gave to you just a moment, being set on the shelf, not used, a wasted life to realize that God can save our life from total destruction. You see, if you Frie, the Lord, you wasted your life. It doesn’t matter what you accomplished in life. Only thing that is important is when you get to heaven, did you serve him?

Was you obedient to God? And that’s why we can praise God since you’ve been saved because of what he has done in your life. But how much more could he have done in your life if you’d only let him? Aren’t you thankful that God’s been good to you? Oh, there’s so much that God has done. I want you to realize that here in this verse, when he makes the statement, who chroneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. Look in verse 17, verse 17, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him and His righteousness unto children’s children.

And look in verse 18, too such as keep His covenant and to those that remember His commandments to do them. God’s tender mercies and loving kindness is upon His children that will remember to do what God’s told them to do. Now since you’ve been saved, are you doing what He’s told you to do? Because as you obey the Lord, God is going to bless you here, reward you there. So you get benefits now and later. Isn’t that a wonderful thing to know?

If you know this and understand it and believe this, then it should motivate us to want to serve the Lord now. Understand that God has done so much for you. And don’t worry about what He’s going to do because, remember, if he was faithful in the past, he will be faithful tomorrow. God is a faithful God. His compassion fails not, and they’re new in first every morning, according to Lamentation. Now, the Bible says that God has done all these wonderful things for us.

Now, I want you to realize this, in this verse that we looked at just a moment ago in verse 3, we’re making the statement, he looked all our diseases. Well, isn’t that a wonderful thing to know? He looked all by diseases. Now, when most people read that, they automatically think, well, if I’ve got the mocks, he’ll heal me from my mocks, he’ll heal me from my measles, and if I’ve got cancer, or I’ve got lung trouble, and I’ve got all these different diseases in my body, God’ll heal me from all those things when I get saved.

That’s not true. I know a man named Oliver B. Green, who was an alcoholic. He was a drunkard. He trusted Christ as Savior. And even though he loved the Lord with all his heart, did everything he possibly could, he died because of the alcoholic lifestyle that he had lived and took his life earlier than what it had to be. Why didn’t God heal him? He didn’t. The Bible tells the body of Paphorodius who was nigh unto death. The Apostle Paul had afflictions in his body.

So it’s not a matter of just, he healed all those kinds of diseases. And you know, if I just live right, then God won’t let me get sick. Well, I know a lot of Godly people that get sick. So what do you do with this verse? Well, let’s just pretend just for a moment. When you trusted Christ as your Savior, if God had that very moment taken you straight to heaven, here all right, now you’re in heaven. You have any diseases now?

Of any kind. You have no diseases. Well, one day, isn’t that going to be true? He will have delivered you from all diseases. You’re not sick anymore. You don’t even get tired anymore. You’re not in a body that gets weary and worn anymore. But I believe there’s something more. You see, you and I have the privilege of serving the Lord the way God wants us to, only because of the great thing that God has done for us. Once you trust Christ as your Savior and His death is your death.

You’re free from the law, free now, free what? Free to love, free to serve, free to be what God wants you to be. But you have to be free from that entanglement of sin first. That’s what God has done for us. Now when you trusted Him as your Savior and God gave you eternal life, now you’re God’s child. Did you know that as you live your life, the worst diseases of all is not just the the laws of the sicknesses of the body.

Because you and I know there’s a lot of sicknesses in the body. But think about this for a moment. Are not there also diseases of the soul? Think for a minute. What are some of the diseases, the illnesses of sin? Could anger be one of them? Could bitterness be a disease? All those are the manifestations that takes its toll upon us, not necessarily just upon the body, but upon the soul of man. The Bible says these are the things that come from within a man.

The lying, where does that come from? What about the hatred, the envy, the jealousy, that bitterness that we have? of those things God says I can heal you of all those diseases because see when you trusted Christ you say but God the Holy Spirit indwells you and can give you victory over things this you can’t go to the doctor says doctor I’m so bitter at my neighbor I hate my neighbor I need some medicine for that what would they prescribe they give you three pills and says take this three times a day and they see me in two weeks and then you won’t hate your neighbor number wouldn’t that be wonderful.

You’re hurt. You’re grieving. You’re going to the doctor and he gives you a prescription. No, there is a bomb in Gilead. There is the great physician. God is a great physician. He can heal the soul. Maybe there’s people who have hurt you and wronged you. It could be family. It could be in laws, out laws. It could be the people that your neighbors. I mean, a lot of people are hurt and carrying bitter grudges against individuals. And you need to find how they can eat upon you.

Oh, you may not have cancer, but you got something a lot worse on the inside of you. A God can give you victory over those things. I would rather, rather have a body racked with pain than to have those other sins controlling my soul and making you a bitter person with a bitter spirit. And many people live that way. Oh, physically you may be in A1 shape, But spiritually you’re sick and you’re weak, and you’ve got disease all throughout you.

God says, I can take care of those things. Take your Bible and look there in the verse 5. In the verse 5, he says, who satisfy the mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles. When he said, who satisfy thy mouth means my desires, that which I cry to God for, my request that are made known unto God, who satisfy my, he is a benefactor. If he’s a benefactor, I’m the beneficiary. These are the benefits that I get.

Because of who I am, I’m a child of God. He’s the benefit. It’s like he’s a millionaire and he left me a million dollars in the bank. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? You are the recipient of all of God’s blessings. It’s like God’s of in heaven. He said, I want to bestow all these blessings upon you, but you won’t get into position where I can give them to you. Because you keep rebelling against me and you won’t walk the way I tell you to walk and you won’t get where I tell you to go.

He says, and you have violated my will, and therefore you can’t have all of these wonderful blessings that I wanted to give to you. And won’t it be a shame that when you get to heaven, you find out what it’s cost you? There is no disobedience that you can do now. That will be worth what you have disobeyed God concerning, because remember this, God sets up in heaven and He tells you what to do and if you will do what he says to do, he says this is what I got for you.

And you choose your own way and think you won, you owe the victor, I got my own way. God says you disobeyed and to obey, to obey is better, to obey is better, to always to obey is better. What you got you may like and you may love and you may enjoy it. Think I got it, I got away with it. No, there’s a God in heaven says your disobedience cost you this but you can’t see it yet but when you get to heaven now you’ll find out that what you gained you lost and that’s why the Bible says that when trying to gain for yourself you’ll lose but if you’ll lose you’ll gain I know it’s hard for people to understand but you can’t lose doing what God says to do you’ll always win you will gain in your obedience to the Lord so keep it in mind

In the book of Philippians chapter 4 and verse 19 we won’t take the time to look at it, but it says my God shall supply all your what? All your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ. You know the word like God’s got a big bank account. He says I’ve got enough to cover everything you need. My God shall supply. Oh, he’s the benefactor. He wants you to be the recipient of all those benefits. And sometimes you say I don’t want those benefits.

I don’t want you to bless me and God puts you on a shelf. But remember anytime you put on a shelf, it was your choice. It means you chose not to be used. You chose not to be blessed. You’re choosing not to be rewarded when you get to heaven. See going to heaven is a wonderful thing. Well, that’s what we’re going to get one of these days. We’re all going to get to heaven because of what Christ has done for us.

But we’re not there yet. And there’s more than just getting to heaven. Sure, there’s an inheritance that we’ll all get. Whatever that is, I don’t know, but I’m ready for it. I want everything I can get. I guess I’m a little greedy when it comes along that line. I don’t want to get to heaven and find out there’s something I could have had and I book I don’t want to blow it. I want to try to do what’s right while I can.

Take your Bible now and turn to the book of Psalm 103, but look in verse 6. In verse 6 talks about the Lord executed the righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. one of them. In verse nine he says, he will not always chide. Neither will he keep his anger forever. When he said he will not always chide means God will not always pretend like he didn’t see what you were doing. Have you ever thought that you did something and God was going to zap you and he didn’t?

And you wondered how far can I go before I do get zapped? So far so good. But see sometimes the Bible even makes the statement in the book of Acts in chapter 17. He says in time past these He’s saying, God winked at, God winked at. Like He overlooked it. Like He let you get away with it. God said, He won’t always just let you get away with it. In other words, He’s not going to always turn. In other words, it’s like, as I was always told concerned, being a pastor of a church.

Whenever you look at your people, always see them with one eye and hear them with one ear. Don’t see everything they do and don’t hear everything that they do. because otherwise you require perfection from them and that’s not where they are. And I would appreciate if you would do the preacher the same way. God says that there’s things that He wants to do for us, and He will do them for us. And God is also a loving, wonderful heavenly Father.

And your Father is going to because He’s your dad and you’re His child. He’s going to chase and discipline you when you rebel against Him. He doesn’t just hit you upside to head every time you do something wrong. He’s patient. He will not always just kind of like look the other way. Because God’s loving kindness and His mercy, He lets you do a few things and it seems like you’re getting away. But that’s only because He’s long suffering. He wants you to correct it without Him having to correct you.

But then also He says God can also get angry. Now this is a godly anger. Can God get angry? Yes, God can get angry. But that doesn’t mean He sends you because they get angry. He gets angry at sin. A parent can get angry with the disobedience of their children, but not sin. If because you’re against what the person is doing and always keep those two things separate. When he makes the statement here, and this verse, the last part of verse nine, neither will he keep his anger forever.

Means that he is going to chase him, but he doesn’t just keep hitting you and hitting you, hitting you, never let you up. God will discipline you, he’ll correct you, he chastens you because he loves us. understand that God is your father and that’s what he will do because that’s his responsibility. Take your Bible now and look in verse 13. In verse 13 you see God as a chastiser and as a father kind of goes together because our father is the chastiser.

When you trusted Christ as your Savior you became his child he became your father you’re under his authority. In the home children are to be under the authority of the parents. Well now you’re in God’s family. So a child is under God’s authority. How long are you and I supposed to be under God’s authority? Always, all the time. It’s not well I’m under God’s authority as long as I’m under my parents rule. But when I get out of my own, well I can’t wait to get out of my own.

I’m still under God’s authority. Why? Because I’m still God’s child. He’s still my father. He said he’ll never cast Mount never lose me and he loves me But he says that he has compassion for me and he hasn’t dealt with me because of all the things that I’ve done because he is a loving Merciful God aren’t you glad that these are benefits that you ought to be able to say bless the Lord all my soul Look what he says in verse 13 like as a father pith his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

That word pitieth mean compassion, like as a father hath compassion for his children. Go has compassion for you. And that’s why he’s doing what he’s doing. When Christ was here and he saw the multitude, he was moved with what? Moved with compassion. He understands, because the Bible says he knows in verse 14, he knoweth our frame, He is our Creator. He is the one that made these bodies that we have. The Bible says that the Word of God is sharp and quicker than any two-edged sword.

Pearson even to divide enough son to the body, soul and spirit. So God is the one who made our frame. He knows the needs of the body and provides for that. He knows what the soul, that’s what makes us happy. This is our feelings and emotions that we have. And He made our spirit. And so we were spiritually dead, so he made a spiritually alive and he met that need. He meets the needs of this body that we have and he’s going to give us a new body one day.

But the soul of man, you see, it’s the body that connects you with the world, it’s the spirit that connects you with God. So the soul of man can be happy in the world and the soul of man can be happy in the Lord. That’s where there’s a lot of happy lost people and there is pleasure in sin for a season. But that which will last is the joy that comes because of the Lord, not from the things of the world.

But the Christian can enjoy both things because God says he had to give us all things freely to enjoy. This vow was made for God’s people to us to enjoy this world, but not to love this world, to let the world be a blessing to us, but not live for the world. It’s like living to eat or eating to live a total difference and God says he has done all these wonderful things for us and he says in verse 14 He remembered that we are dust He knows how much we can take he knows that breaking point that every person has he knows when you have had the last straw And you can’t take anymore But God says he’s the one that knows and he is faithful and will not allow anything be placed upon you greater than what you can bear But will allow a way of escape that you may be able to bear it.

God said that. But do you believe that? Do you believe that all things, all things work together for good to those who love God? Do you believe that? Then live like you believe that. If that’s true, then a Christian don’t have to go around murmuring and griping and complaining, but you can bless the Lord. Oh my soul, it’s the soul that regardless of what happens physically or materially because of what God means to you spiritually, and if you’re spiritually strong, the soul of man can keep blessing God and stay strong in the Lord.

When it seemed like the whole while around them has fallen apart, but the inward man is strengthened and renewed day by day. In verse 19, it makes the statement, the Lord hath prepared his throne in heaven and his kingdom ruleth overall. Even the laws of sin and death are working. You say, well, God is in charge. This world is a mess. but the law of sin, the law of death are really the laws of God and they’re working. When people are wicked the way they are and God lets people suffer the consequences of their decisions, the law of God is still working.

God is letting people see that you can take the life of somebody. That’s the wickedness of sin. The law of God sin is still a law. It’s the violation of God’s righteousness. And God still allows people who break God’s law to die. God allows people to get sick. You can see the results of sin. You can see the results of homes that are broken up, teenagers that are rebellious. Every rebellious child shows you that God’s law still works because you can’t be rebellious and when.

People still die because the lost sin and death. One day all of it will be over with, and we’ll be in heaven. And God will have totally, absolutely delivered us from all our diseases, from all the presence of all sin, and we’ll have a glorified body so that we’ll be totally complete body, soul and spirit in heaven with God. And we can look back and read these verses and find everything God promised He did. Remember, if it wasn’t for God, you and I would have no deliverance from the power of sin.

The penalty of sin, or the presence of sin, if it wasn’t for God. He’d done all of that, and He says, bless the Lord, O my soul, for all His benefits. Now you stop and think how good God has been to you. And how bad it could have been. However bad you think your life has been, it could have been a lot worse. And it might be that start in tomorrow. Is that either reason not to praise God? Many things God’s people bring upon themselves by their own rebellion.

Thinking that because God is so good to me and I was wrong and he didn’t do anything Instead of correcting the problem, you let it feed the fire and lead you further away from God. And you abuse the goodness of God. But the Bible says the goodness of God should lead a man to repent of it, to change your mind, to reconsider. What you’re doing, realize God is a good God. Why should not serve a good God? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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Take your Bible and turn to 2nd Peter, 2nd Peter and chapter 1. Peter was um, he’s like a lot of people I know. He had a problem of speaking before he got his brain and gear. You ever make somebody like that? I saw a little tag one time it says a little I think says, don’t put mouth in motion until you put brain and gear. But he said what he thought. You never had to worry about what Peter was thinking.

And with all the disciples, you know, God never changed that. He just used it. And sometimes you have some people that are kind of wired. They’re never quite wired differently. And some people, they give you the biggest problems, Those are usually those that are a little bit on the independent side, you know, a little bit hard to control. We’re used to pick up kids on the buses and I would tell the teachers in the Sunday school class, because sometimes I had teachers and they’d have 70, 80, 90 kids in a class and that’d be one teacher and a couple helpers.

And it says, what in the world am I going to do with those? Just a couple of them. They seem like they get control of the class. I says, well, use it. I said, what do you mean? I said, let them become the leader. That’s what they want to do anyway. I said, in time to suppress them, use them. I said, when you’re on the bus and you got one kid, they always got to seem like he got to have the attention.

I said, put him up front, let him lead the singing. And they started doing that and then it worked fine. That’s what they want, use them. And you try to put them down, but did they pop up someplace else and it’s just nothing but chaos. And I’d have them come up there and do memory verses and lead this kid into singing. And all they wanted was attention. And you always have a bunch of people that I ain’t getting up in front of them, but I don’t care what happens.

And they don’t want it. Okay, that’s fine. Let them do what they do. You just, there’s followers and there’s leaders. And so Peter was a leader. And God used that. Even when he denied the Lord, the Lord says, I’m going to pray that your faith fell not. And when thou art converted, I want you to do something for me. I want you to strengthen your brethren.” So God already knew what was going to happen, and knew he would be all right, and God still use him.

I’m glad that he is a God of second chance, and third chance, and fourth chance, because how many chances has he given us? A whole bunch. But anyway, here in Second Peter, in chapter one, he just finished telling them that he said, I’m going to die. So you see there in verse 13, I think it meter fit necessary as long as I am in this tabernacle and talk about in this body To stir you up by putting you in remembrance Helping them to know To remember the things they already know a lot of times the pastor is not giving you something new He just kind of refreshing your memory helping you to remember the things that you’re supposed to do You know you pose a witness so he just tries to help you a little bit in that direction You know you’re supposed to read the

Bible, true? Well, okay, he just tried to help you a little bit in that direction. And so we’re just leading you in the direction you already know where to go. Just sometimes you need a little kick here and there, a little warning here and there, a little rebuke here and there. But he says, I want to put you in remembrance because I’m going to be putting off this body that I have. And in looking verse 14, he says, knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.

Even as our Lord Jesus Christ had showed me. Now look there in John chapter 20 The gospel of John and chapter 20 He makes his statement that he is going to Have something happen toward the end and of course, you know, there’s always somebody that wants to know well What about so-and-so and you’ll notice there in the verse 18 He just went through asking Jesus three times, do you love me? Well, I believe it’s because three times he denied him.

He didn’t say that, but I got to hunch that relates to it. So in verse 18, he says, very, very, I say unto thee, when thou was young, thou girdest thyself. Walk us with a thou wouldest, and when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hand, and another shall gird thee, and I carry thee with a thou, thou shalt stretch forth thy hand. what it’s not. In other words, you’re going to live to be old and they’re going to stretch forth your hands and they’re going to take you where you don’t want to go.

Now many believe historically that he was crucified upside down because he said, I’m not worthy to be crucified like my Lord. So they hung him upside down. Now Jesus told him, you’re going to die and Peter remembered that. Well, I probably would have remembered that too. But he did say you’re going to get old. And he says in verse 19, this space he signified by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he said to him, follow me.

No, just in that one little statement, see, I can read things into that, makes me think, okay, I’m going to live to be an old man. I’m guaranteed. Because God’s already said that, how I’m going to die, but I’m going to be old. In verse 20, he said, then Peter turned in about, see if the disciple whom Jesus loved, who I believe is John, which also leaned on his breath at supper and said, Lord, what is he that betrayeth thee?

Which is he that betrayeth? He had said that in verse 21, Peter’s seeing him sayeth to Jesus, Lord, what shall this man do? And Jesus that unto him is none of your business. That’s paraphrased. What if I will that he carried till I come? What is that to thee? Followed by me. Do you get anything out of that? It’s not what God does with somebody else, it’s what God does with you. Don’t worry about how God uses somebody else, just be thankful how God uses you.

You’re an individual and you just be found faithful to do what God wants you to do. So they thought, okay, well John’s going to live until Christ’s going back, but he didn’t say that. See what he says? In verse 23, then went this saying abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die. Jesus said, not unto him he shall not die, but if I will that he teary till I come, what is that to thee? So, you know, just like a bunch of people, he’d get things mixed up and then start a rumor.

Well, that wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. But now go back there to book of 2 Peter. So he says, it’s going to be very soon. I’m going to be getting rid of this tabernacle. I’m going to die. and had given his whole life to the Lord. You see, once you trust Christ’s Savior, now that gets you to heaven. That gives you eternal life. But after you trust Christ’s Savior, we should yield ourselves to the Lord and Christ should be the Lord, the Master of our life, but not to be saved.

But because we are saved and we want to serve Him. The Lord should tell us what to do and we should yield to Him. But now the times coming when he’s going to leave. And so he says here in verse 14, knowing that surely I must put off this, my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me, which is what we just read. Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my disease to have these things always in remembrance.

So you and I could serve the Lord a lot more faithfully if we could just remember what we’re supposed to do. The problem that Israel had is, and there’s a whole psalm on it, Israel forgot, they forgot. And people just forget. They forget to be faithful. And they forget to do the things that they’re supposed to do. And whenever you don’t do the things you’re supposed to do, that affects something else. And then something else and something else. We should always be found faithful.

That’s why coming to church, we challenge each other. We encourage one another. We sometimes we rebuke one another, but we’re supposed to exhort one another to be found faithful to do good works. So he says, I want to put you in remembrance of that. And here’s the reason why. Verse 16 is a very important verse because you see, we’re not following some cunningly devised fable, some made up story. He says, what we’re doing is real. This is the real thing.

The Christian life is the real life. Serving the Lord, that is what’s real. of people that are out on drugs. That are wasting their life on a thousand other things. That’s not really living. You hear them say that it doesn’t get any better than this. Oh, hogwash it does too. When you serve the Lord and you have the joy and the peace of God, it can’t get much better than that in this life. But it is the best. The Christian life is the best.

Servant Lord is the best. It’s the best life. And then on top of that, you’re going to get rewarded when you get to heaven. And that’s a jewel. That’s wonderful. But look what he says in verse 16, for we have not followed cunningly devised fables. When we made known unto you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Lord, since the Lord has come and been crucified, raised from the dead, promises to come back again, what we’re talking about is real.

This is the real story, and this is the real life. He says, we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty. I want you to take your Bible and look there at a verse. It’s in the book of Matthew in chapter 16. Jesus had just talked to His disciples, and He was trying to get them to see the importance of serving Him, and that if any man will deny Himself, take up His cross and follow me. He says that you have no idea what I’m going to do for you.

Now, he’s not talking here to the disciples how to get to heaven. He’s talking about what they’re going to have if they serve him. Because see, nobody can make you trust the Lord. Nobody can make you serve the Lord. So he says there in verse 24, then said Jesus unto his disciples in verse chapter 16, Matthew. He said, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. This is for services, not salvation.

And for whosoever will save his life shall lose it. And whosoever will lose his life, for my sake shall find it. But what is a man profitable? If he gained the whole world, lose his own soul or lose his life here. For what shall a man give in exchange for soul, for his life? For the son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels, and you are underlying as part of the verse. And then, then, He shall reward every man according to his works.

So when you talk about his works, you’re talking about rewards. It’s talking about service. You talk about salvation. It’s always by grace and it’s free. So going to heaven is free. It’s a gift. Christ did the work, paid for it, gives it to us, and we get to go to heaven by grace alone. Now what we have when we get to heaven depends upon what we do for the Lord while we’re here. So all the decisions that we have, all the trials and tribulations are working for us.

They’re given us simply. They’re just opportunities for us to earn rewards. And when you see that and understand that, it doesn’t bother you. But look in verse 28, Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here which shall not taste of death. You won’t die physically. they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. So he’s holding it aside. He says, there’s some of you standing right here. You’re not going to physically die until you see me in the kingdom.

Okay, that sounds pretty good. Chapter 17. Verse 1, and after six days Jesus taken Peter, James and John. So there’s Peter and bringing them up into the high mountain. In verse two, and was transfigured before them. That means he was totally changed. They saw him like in a glorified body, transfigured, in power, great glory, brighter than the noonday sun. They saw him. Don’t you wish you’d have been there? And he says, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

And behold, there appeared in them, Moses and Elijah talking with him. So Moses and Elijah, see, they’re still alive. Now the body of Moses was buried, but nobody knows where it was at. Now Elijah, now he hadn’t died. He would’ve taken up in a cherry fire. But those individuals are still around. And he shows up with them, and Peter, James, and John was there and they saw him. And I believe that Moses looked like Moses, I believe Elijah, look like Elijah.

And it’s the same ones that was here upon the earth. So whenever I die and I get to heaven. It’s going to be me. And when you get to heaven, you’re going to know me and I’m going to know you. We’re going to know each other. Otherwise, what’s the value of trying to get you there? So he says, he said, I got a good idea. Let’s make three tabernacles. One for you, one for you, and one for you. And a voice came down out of heaven and says, shut up.

He says, this is my beloved son. Hear ye him. And so he says there in verse 5. get spakey holy, bright, cloud over, shadowed them, and be holy, voice out of the clouds which said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Here ye am.” When the disciples heard it, they fell on their face and were so afraid. Jesus came and touched them and says, arise and be not afraid. And they looked and nobody was there but the Lord.

But He says, some of you standing here are going to see me as I will be in my kingdom. Six days later it happened. So Peter says, look, he says, I am an eyewitness of his glory. He was also an eyewitness of his sufferings. So he saw the whole thing. And Peter says, look, because I was there and I saw it and I was at the cross and I saw it. We are not following some cunningly devised fable. Somebody put this together and made it all up.

He says, this is real. This is true. And this is why the disciples were willing to die. Look what he says in verse 17, for he received from God the Father, honor and glory. When there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, and now he’s referring back to that time we just read there in the book of Matthew chapter 17. And he said, that this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were with Him in the holy mount.”

Now, he says, we were eyewitnesses up there in verse 16. So he said, we saw it. And we heard with our ears, the voice from the excellent glory. It said, this is my beloved Son. So he says, we saw and we heard. He says, but there’s something that’s better than seeing and hearing. Every one of us would love to be able to see and to hear what they saw and what they heard. Hold your place right there, but look there in first John in chapter one, first John chapter one, look in verse one.

He says, that which was from the beginning, which we have, see there, heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled. We touched him. We saw him. We heard him. And it’s not a figment of our imagination. We have seen God. We have seen and touched eternal life. And he says, our hands have handled of the word of life. And the word, the life, was manifested. And we’ve seen it and bear witness, show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested unto us.

So boy, they’ve seen it and they heard it. This is why the disciples in their day were able to preach the gospel all over the world. That’s why they were willing to die for the Lord. They knew this is not a game. They knew and believed with all their heart this is real. They saw Christ crucified. They saw Him after He came back again from the dead. And they believed this is real. It changed their whole life. You see, when I trusted Christ as my Savior, I can’t say that changed my life.

I knew I had eternal life and I’m going to heaven when I died. And I really just trusted the Lord for fire insurance. I just didn’t want to go to hell. You see, you shouldn’t do it for that. I thought it was a pretty good reason. It wasn’t until a little later that I began to read and study that I got to love the Lord. And the more I read, the more I studied, the more I loved them, and the more I wanted more and more, I couldn’t get enough.

There were nights when I would not go to sleep. I would spend all night long reading the Bible, all night. And Betty’s dad would stay up all night with me and teach me the things about the Bible. Because I had never heard, I didn’t go to Sunday school, I didn’t go to church. I didn’t have Christian parents. And when I trusted Christ as my Savior, all I had was my father-in-law. And buddy, I took advantage of him. But I had questions and I had to have answers.

And buddy, it really made a lot of difference. But look what he says here in verse 19. Now, you and I today, we have something that’s better than an eyewitness. Even something that’s better than somebody that heard or saw. We have a more sure word of prophecy. Did you know that what God revealed in the Old Testament, all those prophecies is better to have than being an eyewitness of what you saw and heard. Because, see, you know this is true.

Did you know that what you see, you can be deceived? What you hear, you can forget. And that’s why he said to remember, to remember, to remember, because, you know, isn’t it true that there’s many things that over the years that you can’t remember as clearly? I’ve had so many things happen in my life, and I start telling some of the stories, and they say, no, I didn’t got them all mixed up with two or three other stories. And then I say, did this happen at this time?

And I find out, nope, that was two years later. I thought, well, how come I can’t remember it clearly? Because see, I’m trusting memory. I never wrote it down. But whenever you and I come to the Word of God, and we have the Old Testament Scriptures that were given, we can always go back and check. This is what God said. This is what it did. And buddy, they line up. We have, in the says there in verse 19, we have a more sure word of prophecy.

We’re unto ye do well that you take heed. As unto a light that’s shineth in a dark place. That’s what prophecy does. It’s like windows that let light into a dark room. you can’t see. And all of a sudden you read the Word of God and the prophecies and it kind of lights the way. And when people don’t see the light in the Old Testament of Christ, then they can’t see into the future. And there’s a veil over their eyes as he talks about the nation of Israel.

But look what he says in verse 20, knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. In other words, you’re not supposed to pick this verse and this verse and this verse and this verse and then put them together and make it say anything that you want to. With the Scriptures, it has to perfectly dovetail. The Word of God cannot contradict itself. It can’t be salvation by grace in one place and in salvation by works in another place.

It won’t work that way. It’s all by grace and all the Bible perfectly fits together, even though written between 35 and 40 different writers over a period of 15 to 1600 years, and yet it all comes together perfectly. There is no book like this book, and so he says here, knowing this verse that no prophecy of the scriptures of a private interpretation, but it was not written written by the will of man. But the Holy Spirit told the men what to write, and they wrote the Scriptures as they were moved or guided along by the Holy Spirit.

That is what we call inspiration. The Word of God is inspired by God. God breathed. And so we have an awesome book. We don’t have a fable, not a bunch of man-made beliefs. We have the sure word of prophecy. And as you study the scriptures, you can see what God said, and you can see what God did. And what God said and what God did, it came together perfectly and Christ came and fulfilled the prophecies in the Old Testament, concerning His first coming.

Now He says He’s going to come back again. And I am looking forward to Jesus Christ coming back again, because He can’t come back again if He never came back out of the grave. So He was crucified and buried and rose again, ascended into heaven. And we’re looking for Him to return again, just like He said. Now look there in 2 Timothy in chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3. And look there in verse 15. It says to young Timothy, and that from a child, thou hast known the Holy Scriptures.

If there’s anything you need to know, it’s the Word of God. That’s why it’s so important to teach children, the Holy Scriptures, while they’re young, planning the divine seed into their mind. and you never know when it will grow. But it says, which are able to make the wise unto salvation through faith. Which is in Christ Jesus. When you put your faith in Jesus Christ because you heard the scriptures, you learn them. You find out salvation is the gift of God.

It’s not a works list. Any man should boast. And you find out from the scriptures how to be saved. That’s the most important thing any child can ever know is to know the Lord. I wish I had known the Lord at a very early age, but my parents could not teach me what they did not know till their parents never taught them. So you can’t go back, you can only go from where you are. And I wanted to make sure that \(\ my children knew the Lord.

Now my children have made sure that their children have trusted Christ as their Savior. Now look what he said in verse 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine to teach what’s right for reprove to let you know what’s wrong for correction how to make it right for instruction how to teach it right in righteousness and get this in verse 17 that the man of God now see in verse 15 a child in verse 17 a man and what lies in between is the word of God you You trusted Christ as your Savior.

You became a child of God. The only thing that will make you a man of God is not going to be money in this world. It’s not going to be friends. It’s not going to be where you work. I mean, the cars you have, it’s the Word of God. Only the Word of God can make you a man of God. And the Bible says in verse 70, that the man of God may be mature, truly furnished unto all good works.

And when a Christian can’t do the good works that God wants him to do, it’s because he’s not a man yet. He’s not a man of God. And this is not determined by how long you live. It’s by the Word of God living within you that matures you and you learn and you grow because of that. You have trusted Christ as your Savior. You know you have eternal life. You know that you’re going to go to heaven when you die.

time has probably passed and you’ve been growing in the Lord. Are there things in my life that are not right? And if there isn’t, then you should talk to the Lord about that. Confess your sins to the Lord, and He is faithful and just to forgive you. If you’re here this morning and you have never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, well, you can do that right now at this moment. So what do I have to do? Just believe that when Christ died on that cross, He paid for your sins.

And will you trust Him? Dependent upon Him to take you to heaven when you die? God said, if you trusted Him, He would save you, give you eternal life, and you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did on the cross for you. And you can do that right now in the quietness of your own mind, between you and the Lord. And simply say, Lord, I believe that you did it for me. and I’m trusting you right now as my Savior.

And you say, then I can do it? Yes, you can. If you believe. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our home page.

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Now get thisCatal we say you are in verse 3 and I will give power unto my two witnesses And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days as 42 or another way of sin three and a half years He says and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days clothes and sack love These two fellows have got the dream job. I Mean they don’t have to worry. I mean nothing can happen to them Because they have been given the power to do whatever they want to do and their judgment and And I believe there’s a lot of the so-called the seven angels that do what they do and Bring the plagues that they do Because of the command of these two individuals now.

I don’t have scripture to prove that but in Circumstantial evidence leads me to that conclusion, but look what he says in verse 5 and If any man any man will hurt them fire proceeded out of their mouth and devoured their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed. Woo doggy, you got to watch what you say about those two. Now today you can bad mouth the preacher, you can have roast Reverend, potted pastor and nobody will do anything to you.

That’s why I said this would be a dream job. You know, it’s like I double dog dare you to say anything that upsets me. You are really being respect of the pastor. But that day isn’t here. This is doing the tribulation peered upon the earth. This is the worst part of time that the world has ever known. But God always has his witness and God is going to get his job accomplished. And God says that even the angel will be preaching an everlasting gospel or the messenger that preaches the message because God in spite of all the damages going to be going on, God is still a God of mercy.

And the Bible says there will be multitude of people of every nation that will trust Christ as their Savior. See God does not make anybody trust Him. You do not have to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can do your dead level best to try to earn your way to heaven that God’s already said you can’t earn it, you can’t work, or you can’t buy it. You do not join a church to go to heaven. You cannot pay for salvation.

It’s already been paid for. Christ paid for all the sins of all the world when He died on the cross and all that you have to do, all that you can do is to accept that payment He made for you. And God will save you. And during this period of time they can also still be saved. And multitude of people, you read chapter 7 where it says that they trust Christ a Savior from all the nations. He says, where’s come of these?

He says, sir, these came out of great tribulation and it made their robes swight in the blood of the Lamb. So it was because of Christ and the payment He made. Now look at this. He says in verse 6, these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over water to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Now I can see why a lot of people believe that is a good possibility of Moses and Elijah because Elijah did part of this when he didn’t reign for three and a half years and also Moses because of the plague down in Egypt.

So is a good possibility that that might be them? But I can’t say dogmatically because I don’t have scripture that says Moses and Elijah but it could be them. But whoever it is, who doggy to be able to have the power. Maybe God can trust them. God probably couldn’t trust you or me. We’re probably misuse it. Are you explosive now? Do you lose your temper now and anger now if somebody makes you mad? Just think if you could speak.

Okay. That’s all she wrote. You eliminate the whole world, wouldn’t you? Look what he says here. In the verse six, these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy. Have power over water to turn them to blood. And the world. is going to be turned to blood. And it’s not going to reign. All these things are going to happen, and they’re listed in some of the bowls of judgment that God’s going to pour out upon the earth.

So God’s got his two men that are the two keys that says, boom, boom, boom, and what they say goes. It’s going to be awesome. And look what he says in verse seven. In verse seven, and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them. So this is what’s going to take place. Now who are these two? Just look up there real quick in verse four.

See in verse four? And do you remember us reading anything like this over in the book of Zechariah in chapter four, where it says these are the two olive trees, the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Remember we read it over there? That was written 400 and something years, almost 500, before Christ. Now we’re almost 2,000 years on this site that that’s a long period of time. I think that’s out of reach of those people who wrote like Zachariah and the fulfillment of the the scriptures.

And here we are. Are we living at a time on planet Earth when these things can happen? Is there a move on trying to make a peace treaty with Israel? Yes. All these things are true. Look what else happens here. That can’t be just a coincidence. Look at this. And it says there in verse 7, and when they shall have finished their testimony, they finished their testimony. The beast that sent it out of the bottomless pit and shall make war again.

This is the antichrist. This is the old devil himself. And you’re talking about the prince of the power of the heir. That’s why you have it going all the way over here. And there’s a battle in heaven. That’s in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation. And so he has got his man to do his will, just like God the Father has his Son to do his will. Satan is going to have his man to do his will and he’s going to do everything the devil wants them to do and he will give him his power.

He reads the 13th chapter of the relation and he says that Satan gives him his power to do what he does, the authority to do it. But remember they all have their limitations. The devil tried to get it Job. But God put a hedge about him and he couldn’t touch anything that he had. God moved away one of those hedges and allowed the devil to get at what he had. We couldn’t touch Job. Later on God took away another hedge and says you can get a Job but you can’t take his life.

See the devil always had limitation. He can’t do everything he wants to do. God is still in charge. God is on the throne. He is the boss and he can use everything that goes wrong in this world to his honor and to his glory. And just because things will always happen good in your own personal life, he says, all things work together for good to those who love him. Do you believe it though? He was that’s my favorite person?

All things work together for good to those who love the Lord to those who are called according to his purpose, not yours, his purpose. He always has a higher purpose than you do. You can’t see behind the scenes of how God is working, the providence of God. It’s not just an accident. God knows what he’s doing, and he says, this is what’s going to take place. So he makes a statement here in verse eight, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified.

I wonder where he was crucified. Anybody got a clue where he was crucified. I believe it’s a good possibility this takes place in Israel, in Jerusalem. Remember that’s where he’s gonna plant his tabernacle between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. This is the 70th week of Daniel, and it says these are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. So I believe this is where this is going to take place. The devil is going to sit up his man on his throne in the place where Jesus Christ is supposed to be.

It’s all coming together. I love it when I see a plan come together. Now look what he said. In verse 9, And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in the graves. So here’s these two guys. They’ve had their ministry for three and a half years. They done anything they wanted to do that they thought was right.

That God wanted them to do. They fulfilled the will of God. And they could not be killed. They couldn’t touch him, couldn’t harm him in any way. And then when they finished their testimony. In other words, when God is through doing what he wanted to do, he allows the old devil, the antichrist to take their life life and now they’re dead and their bodies are left in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days. Their dead bodies in the street and didn’t let them get buried.

I wonder why we would do a thing like that? Well look what he says, verse 10, and they that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make Mary and shall sin give one to another and be all celebrated Christmas and everybody had a wonderful time. Well, they said, gifts to everybody, didn’t they? Well, they’re not what Christmas is about. This isn’t Christmas. This is talking about a time when people all over the earth can see two dead bodies laying on the street and that people all over the world can send gifts one to another.

Now, could they do that 2,500 years ago? Can they do it today? They can do it today. Do you think that we live in a time when you’ll be able to see two dead bodies land in the street on the other side of the earth? This was written that long ago. Just a coincidence? You imagine what people thought when they read this 2000 years ago? Never happened impossible. Can’t be done Yes, it can Because God’s word is true. Now.

Look what he says and verse 10 and They that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them rejoice what because they’re dead Why are they rejoicing because of the Plagues that they brought upon the earth But why did they do all that because God was trying to get the people to wake up to realize the trust crisis their Savior? and it says, and yet they did not, they would not believe on Him, and they hardened their hearts. You’ll see that in the book of Revelation chapter 16, but look what he says here.

And he says, and shallFirstly gives one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them come up here. Now they hear the voice. At the rapture they don’t hear the voice. At the rapture when Christ comes in the air in a moment in the twinkle of an eye, phew we’re gone.

Here these two witnesses the world will come up hither they’ll hear the voice of God and they’ll see their two bodies come to life and ascend up into the sky. Now, you know, I could see how somebody could, you know, read this and say, this is this is for outman. This is wild. But what if it’s the truth? Are we saying that the God who created the heavens and the earth can’t do this? Can’t do this,ternity.dump. Can’t do this, can’t.

He is an imitated. He will look like he can create life in chapter 13, but he doesn’t have the power of life. He has the power of death. Only Christ has the power of death. iHUD.389. . Now get this. In the last part of that it says, and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud. and their enemies.

Do you think that if you’re reading the Bible and you saw that happen, you thought, wouldn’t you believe, you know, this thing might be true? This just might be true. And the same hour there’s an earthquake. And it says here in verse 13, and the same hour there was a great earthquake and the 10th part of the city fell, I believe it’s Jerusalem. And in the earthquake were slain 7,000 men. The remnant where a Friday and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second world was passed, behold, the third world comeeth quickly and look now in verse 15. Because now we have moved through the tribulation period and it gives you a kind of a thumbnail sketch of what’s going to take place as a fulfillment if you read the book of Daniel, chapter 2 and chapter 7, chapter 9 and 11, all talking about the time when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of Christ that belonged to him. See there verse 15 the seventh angel sounded.

Great voices in heaven say the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. That little sweet little baby Jesus that everybody talks about at Christmas time there’s nothing in the Bible that tells us to worship the birth of Christ, but we suppose worship the one that died on that cross. He was born that he might die. You can’t just go to the birth and leave it there.

If this one that was born was virgin born, if he truly was the holy one, he was God. And if he’s God, that changes everything. He’s not just a baby that was born. He died on the cross, came back from the dead, and the Bible says, he will come again. He is the king of Israel, and he is going to set up his kingdom. And that means that he’s going to rule and reign upon this earth, to realize that’s not far away.

Now, if I knew all of this and understood all of this, But I live back here. I might get discouraged. This is possible to happen in my lifetime. This could be fulfilled in our lifetime. We may not die. There is a generation living that will never see death. Because when Christ comes back in power and great glory, the Bible says we are going to be changed in a moment the twinkle of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Seven years later, we’re back in glorified bodies. Wouldn’t it be awesome for supernatural people to be walking right on this earth? I will. If you don’t believe it, won’t be no skin off my nose. I can’t make you believe a word that I’m saying. I would like to see you disprove what I’m saying. I double dog dare you. I don’t don’t think you can do it. Because I believe the Bible is true. I believe that God means exactly what He says.

He’s coming back just like He said. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you will be lost just like He said. And if all this is true, then this is true. You don’t need someone to down the cross and pay for your sins to keep you from going to a place if it doesn’t exist. That’s why we need a Savior to save me from this final lake of fire. I don’t want to go to hell. I did not trust Christ as my Savior because I love the Lord.

I did it for fire insurance. I didn’t want to go to hell. You say, that’s not a good motive. It’s a good motive to me. That was 50 years ago, I was 18 years old. In a little old living room, I wasn’t in a church. So you don’t have to go to church to trust the Lord. You can trust the Lord anywhere, anytime. Up to the time you draw your last breath. But it makes sense to trust the Lord as soon as you can because afterwards, your God’s shall, now you got your whole life, you can serve the Lord.

You can learn all kinds of things and do things because see, what you have here is gonna be a result of what you did for the Lord. So your future has been determined by your own obedience to God today. So you don’t become obedient to go to heaven, but you should be obedient because you’re arguing there. I should be obedient because I am a child of God. Look what he says here. Luke down there in verse 17 saying, we give thanks, oh Lord God Almighty, which art and was an art to come because thou has taken to the thy great power and hath reigned.

The nations were angry, thy wrath has come, the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants, the prophets unto thy saints, and then that fear thy name, small and great, should have destroyed them which destroy the earth. In other words, God says, I have had enough, and God’s going to step onto the world scene. And in chapter 10 it talks about a great angel, which I believe is the Lord himself, and he puts one foot upon the land, one foot upon the sea, and he says, time is no longer to be.

In other words, no more to lay. Time’s up. This is it. And God’s going to keep his word, just like he promised. So you and I, that no crisis are Savior, don’t get down and discourage. Look at our redemption, draweth nine. He’s on his way and if you’re listening closely, you can hear them rattling the silverware for the marriage supper of the lamb. It’s not gonna be long because this is where we’re headed. And then we’re gonna come back and power and great glory to this earth because Jesus that was born came back from the dead and is coming back again.

And I believe it with all my heart. Let me show you something. Letting this hand represent you and me. This wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Everybody is a sinner. It means nobody’s perfect. Now to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. But you see, we can’t go to heaven because of sin. But what do I do about my sin? Well, the pay for the sin is death and hell. So we’re all condemned. The whole world’s in the same boat.

and nobody can save themselves. You can’t get out of this mess. But God can do something for you. God says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. He says, this is what I did for you because I love you. God does not want us to go to hell. God wants us to go to heaven. So the Bible says that God sent his son, this hand representing Jesus Christ, into the world. He was born as a babe.

He was a holy one. He had no earthly father, so he had no sinful nature. Never did anything wrong. No fault was ever found in him. No sin, he didn’t have to die. But because of his love for us, he took all of our sin, and the Bible says he became sin for us. By doing so, then God, the father had to slay his own son. And that’s why he was the lamb that was slaughtered for our sins. He died and came back from the dead.

And God says, the only thing you and I have to do to go to heaven is believe he did it for you. If you will believe he did it for you, he’ll put that payment to your account. You get to go to heaven or what he did. You don’t earn it, you don’t worth it. You do not promise God anything. You don’t have to promise God you’re gonna stop being bad So that’d be a lie. But you still will be bad.

You don’t have to promise God, you’re gonna be good because you won’t. You’re not gonna change the way you are. You’re still a sinner. And no matter how hard you try, you just get frustrated because you realize inside, there’s still a lot of ugliness that you can’t get rid of. You need a new birth. Jesus Christ said, if you’ll believe He did it for you, It put this payment to your account. You get to go to heaven on what he did.

That’s the gift of God. For by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. If offered you my microphone and you accepted, what would you have? Microphone. If offered you my Bible and you accepted, what would you have? No Bible. If offered you my wallet and you accepted, what would you have? An empty wallet. these people here, they know me so well. If Christ walked in here right now and offered you eternal life and you accepted what would you have?

Eternal life, if it’s eternal life, how long would it last? If it lasts forever, and all you send your paper, where would you go when you die? So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Sure. That’s why in spite of knowing all of this, I know this. I’m going up. I have eternal life. I’m God’s child. I know I’m going to heaven when I die. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you’ll be lost for all eternity.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Now, if I was to ask you to join the church this morning, you ought to really check us out before you do that, so you don’t want to do that. If I said you had to give money, well, how much? Oh, million. Now, aren’t you glad you don’t have to buy your way? If I said you had to pray, well, you got to, well, how long? How sincere. What do I pray for?

You see, it’s not that. But what do I have to do? Believe. You mean that’s all? God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The who’s so ever, believe it. Should not perish. May He won’t go to hell. But have everlasting life. You mean that’s all I gotta do? He that believe it on me have everlasting life. And he that believe it, not the Son shall not see life, the wrath of God, abide at the fawn him.

Oh, believe it. If you’ll believe that when Christ died, He died for your sins, then you can know that you’re going to have me die. I told this to a person just the other day. I went to a hospital to see a guy that wears his security guard. And he brought up a guy that was a security guard with him. So I didn’t know the guy. For the first thing I asked us, sir, can I ask you two questions?

He said, sure. I said, isn’t it true you’ve heard all your that Christ died on the cross and paid for all the sins of the world. I said, yeah. I said, question number two, if he paid for all the sins of the world, why should you go to hell and pay for any? Yeah, I never thought of that. If he paid for all of them, why do you have to pay for them? Why do you have to go to hell and pay for sin if he already paid for your sins?

Because you haven’t accepted the payment he made. I said, will you accept the payment Christ made on the cross for you. Yes. Because that’s all you have to do. It’s where you believe it. I’m talking about you’ve got to really believe it. And he that believe it to me hath everlasting life. If he that believe it hath something, hath what? Have everlasting life. If you believe it you have everlasting life. How do I know when I really got everlasting life?

Well when you really believe it. Well how do you know you really believe it? When you can say you have it. You can’t say you have it. You don’t have it. You have to have it. Do you have Never lasting life. I had to. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bound, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning, and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, I hope that I’ve given you something to make you think yet the Bible is true.

I do see these things heading up. I am concerned about where I’m gonna spend eternity. Friend, don’t you wanna go to heaven? If you want to go to heaven, there’s only one way. You must accept Jesus Christ as your savior. So it’s just reasonable for me to say, well, would you trust Him? Would you believe He did it for you? And friend, we’ve had Boudnite’s clothes and no one looking around. I’m gonna ask you just a moment to raise your hand.

Raising your hand does not save you. It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you and you said, and preacher, that made sense to me. And right now I will trust Christ as my only hope of going to heaven. Would you trust Him? I’d like to have prayer for you. If you are this morning saying, yes, I will accept Christ as my Savior. And you’ve never done it before. Say, preach out, I want you to pray for Him.

It would just slip you in it very quickly and put it right back down. Anyone at all? Just slip it up real quick and put it right back down. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, your God’s child and you’ll go to heaven when you die. A lot of people don’t know this. It’s a wonderful story. Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank you for this time together, and for your word that’s given to us so we can understand these things.

And help our minds to be clear. We’re gonna have to give an account someday. Bless each one here in Christ and we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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I want to talk to So,ATURES your Bible to the book of Daniel chapter 9. Daniel chapter 9. I want to speak this morning on my two witnesses. The two witnesses that are described in the book of Zechariah and chapter 4 in Revelation and chapter 11 is to me the pastor’s dream of power. In other words,727 when somebody doesn’t do what you want in the do, Zach, wouldn’t that be neat? 088Fire from heaven. Get them. You know, if somebody says something, you don’t like it, take care of it, just like that.

And bring whatever plagues you want on anybody, any nation, any legislative body all at one time. Well, wouldn’t that be power? Whoo. I know why God won’t let me be one of them. I would probably think that I was God’s avenging angel. Lord let me zap anybody who’s not doing right by you. Okay? I don’t want nobody to do me that way though. But these two guys have got it made. They are invincible. They couldn’t kill them until God was ready at the right time.

If anybody ever wonders whether or not is the Bible true, I want you to listen this morning. If there’s any reason why you say, well, I can’t trust Christ as my Savior because I don’t believe I need one. I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe the Bible is true. Well, you’re not the first one. There’s been a lot of people that held that view. But as I read the Bible and study the facts, I find out that it has a lot of evidence, that demands a verdict.

And I come down on the side of it has to be true. Man could not have written this book. Oh, God used a man to write, but he was the author. This book is real. This book is true. I believe it from cover to cover. I even believe to cover it. in the book of Daniel in chapter nine. The children of Israel had been beating up a little bit and taking out of their land, taking to the place of Babylon.

They were in captivity. And Ezekiel was one of the prophets there and also Daniel was there. And Daniel found out by reading the book of Jeremiah that they were going to be there for 70 years. So God had already told him this in advance. He’s going to be there 70 years. Well, 70 years they get to go back just like God said. Now, Here in Daniel chapter 9, look there in verse 24, he says, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people, that’s Israel, upon thy holy city, that’s Jerusalem.

To finish the transgression or the judgment that God has bringing upon the nation of Israel in the captivity, an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. In other words, a payment for sin. God is prophesying in His word that there’s going to be a payment for sin and then bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the prophecy and to anoint the most holy. So that’s what God’s Word says. That’s a prophecy. He’s telling us in advance how many years it’s going to be from the time they issued the decree to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple that was destroyed until the Messiah, when he comes and he’ll be cut off.

So from the time in the Old Testament, when Christ came and was cut off, would be 483 years. He died right on schedule. If a person wants to know if the Bible is true, lucky guess, huh? Just a lucky guess. It never happened to nobody else. The prophecy was always far enough in advance to those who gave the prophecy could have nothing to do with its fulfillment. So Jesus Christ came right on schedule, born right on schedule, in the fullness of time made of a woman.

He was born into this world. And it says that He was born King of the Jews. Behold this day is born unto you in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord Jesus Christ came the first time just like he said right on schedule and he died right on schedule At the right time He was the Passover lamb the lamb of the world that takes away the sin of the world So the Bible says Christ came just like it was prophesied now look what else he says here He says there’s a seven-year period.

See, when Christ died, there were 70 weeks, 69 took it up to the cross. There’s one week left. One week was seven years. Seven, sevens is what we get, you know, the years from. And so there were 70 weeks, so 70 times seven is 490 years total. 483 to here. So that means there’s one, seven-year period left. left and that’s why this is called the seven-year tribulation. All this in here is the church age because he was rejected. So the kingdom was shoved out into the future.

Do you want the king? Can’t have the kingdom. But it was a legitimate offer. And so now God is doing another thing. He’s taking individual believing Jews and and Gentiles and making a new body, a church. And that’s why for the last 2000 years, we have the church age called the church age or the time of grace. It’s a different period of time than how God deals with men concerning responsibilities and so on. So we know that after the seven year tribulation period, cause everything else, the making of the reconciliation, the payment for sin.

And then the completion and then the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth to anoint the king from heaven Christ coming back. All this is mentioned in the Old Testament. Now these things have happened just like God said. So now the world must get ready for this seven-year period of time. Because whenever the Lord comes for you and I called the rapture, we’re gonna be caught up out of this earth. And God says this seven-year period of time and this this could just slide back over here and it flows right on through like it was never a break.

Israel is God’s timetable, God’s timepiece. Now look in verse 26, after three score and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off. So it’s telling us when the Messiah is coming and he’s going to be cut off. This is in advance. Now you think it’s just a lucky guess? No. God knows the future and he tells them. Now unless you can figure out another way how they could have known this, Oh, that’d be great. But there is no other way.

God had to do this. And then look what He says. The temple is going to be destroyed. So the Messiah is going to come, Christ. Temple will be destroyed and He was cut off. And get down here in verse 27. And He, this is the prince that shall come, the anti-Christ, referred to up in verse 26. He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. One week, there was 70 of them total, 69 are gone, one week left and the Antichrist is going to make a peace treaty, a covenant, with the nation of Israel for one week.

That is right ahead of us. That’s why we’ve had a bunch of presidents trying to get Israel in the Arab nations to have peace. Isn’t it amazing? It’s the only one that you’re trying to do this with. After all these years, 2,000 years, and before, 400 years, 500 years. And we’re living in a time when the nations of the world are trying to have this so-called peace in the Middle East. And it all boils down to a little obitination like Israel.

But the whole world revolves around what happens in the Middle East. And a lot of the troubles that happen right now with America and the bombing over there in Afghanistan or Iraq, all that stuff that’s going on is because of the nation of Israel. Because of our position with Israel. It’s not just a coincidence. It’s part of fulfillment of Scripture. God said this is going to happen. And it says, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together one day against Israel.

It’s not going to be long. Even America will turn on Israel. Every nation, but there’s going to be a peace treaty made first, but it’ll be a false treaty. They won’t keep their word. Can’t believe that. Can’t believe they’re I have a tree and nobody keep their word. Just like we wanna take and have this treaty with Russia. You can trust Russia. I wouldn’t trust the bear or a rattlesnake. Now let me be president. I know how few things or how I could solve a few things, but not today.

But there’s going to be a peace tree. And in the middle part of that, what it says, he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week, he shall call the sacrifice to stop. So that means during this period of time, The temple will be rebuilt. The Antichrist is going to come on the same. And he’s going to plant his palace in the Holy Land. Look there in chapter 11. Chapter 11, look at verse 41.

The Antichrist is going to come on the same. And verse 41, he said, who’s the Antichrist? He is going to be the head of the last world government. You see, the nations of the earth are going to come together and form a world government. You say, nah. Yeah. Aren’t you excited about that? I’m not. But I know it’s going to happen and I know what’s going to happen afterwards. They’re not going to bring in a utopia. They’re not going to bring in peace, but it’ll be a false peace for the first 30 and a half years.

So, in the midst of the seven years, the first part of it is going to be a takeover, a promise of peace and people given their power and this man’s going to come in and he’s going to go into the temple in Jerusalem and he’s going to claim he is God and demand that people worship him. So he’s going to be anti-God, anti-Christ. That’s why we call him an anti-Christ, because he makes himself God. Now in verse 41, he shall enter also into the glorious land.

That’s Israel. Many other countries shall be overthrown and these shall escape out of his his hand even eat him in Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape, but he shall have power over the treasure of the gold of the in silver and blah blah blah blah. Goes on down there, verse 44, but tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him.

He shall go forth with great fear to destroy and utter to take away many. Verse 45, and he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. The seas is talking about the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and in between, in the mist, a place called Israel, a place called Jerusalem, a place called the Temple, a place called Mount Moriah. He is going to plant his tabernacle and he’s going to claim that he is God.

So that day is coming. That’s right ahead of us. The world is in a mess. They’re looking for a Superman, some place along the way to kind of deliver us from this devastating dilemma that we’re in. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Zechariah. Zechariah just turned to your right, book of Zechariah, and chapter 4. Zechariah chapter 4. And look there in verse 11. verse 11 says, then answered I and sent unto him. What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick?

And upon the left side thereof, and I answered again and said unto him, what be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes emptied the golden oil out of themselves in verse 13? And he answered me and said, Noah shall not what these be?” And I said, no, my Lord. Then said, these are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord, Jehovah, God of the whole earth. So God has got two men coming into the world.

When you read that, you said, where do they go? I mean, when is this going to happen? That’s going to be during the tribulation period right here. God has got two men. A lot of people try to figure out who they are. I don’t care who they are. Some say it could be maybe John, because he says he’s going to prophesy again. Some say it could be Moses, and it might be Elijah. It may be. Whoever they are, they have got the dream job.

Because they are like, supermen in this world. God’s going to send two men into this world from, I believe, out of space, a place called heaven, and they’re coming here. Two men. And they’re going to represent the Lord. And through their ministry, it probably will be where the 144,000 will hear the gospel and believe on the Lord. And that will be 12,000 from every tribe of the nation of Israel. So that is coming. So take your Bible and I’ll turn to the book of Revelation chapter 11.

Revelation chapter 11. Here’s John, he’s an old man, about 90 years of age up in heaven. He was caught up and God showed him the future because everybody wants to know what’s going to happen next. Well John was curious, he was out there on on the allapatmas exiled because of his testimony for the Lord and God revealed these things to him. He wrote them down into a book and the book of Daniel cannot be understood without the book of revelation.

So that’s why these two books go together so well. One can see only one reveals, but look there in the book of Revelation. You can tell which one reveals. This is the book of revelation, reveal, and look there in verse one. He says, and there was given to me a read, like unto a rod, and the angel stood, saying, rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and then that worshiped therein, and the court that is without the temple, leave out and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, for the holy city shall they tread into foot, forty and two months.

How long is forty-two months, three and a half years. You can figure it out if you want to. It’s three and a half years, 42 months. And it says, this is when John wrote, and the temple at this time had been destroyed in 78D. This is 20 something years later, when John wrote. And you find out that this is referring to the temple. Boy, just been destroyed. And he’s talking about another temple that’s going to be built. And he says, and the Gentiles are going to have control.

So there’s a time in the future when the Gentiles will have control of the temple. But that means the temple has got to be rebuilt. That means if Israel is going to ever build a temple in Israel over there, in Jerusalem, they’re gonna have to be some kind of a peace treaty made. So I believe, well, Yankeeology, that the world is gonna have to come together and they’re gonna have to give Israel the right to exist as a nation, the right to their land, the right to rebuild their temple, in order for them to have the peace of the Arabs and so forth.

And somehow, I believe Jerusalem will be made into an international city. Now I taught this over 46 years ago when I was a student from the Baba College. And I told Dr. Avery Stanford at that time, I said Jerusalem has to be made an international city. In order to get done, what has to be done and for scripture be fulfilled. He wasn’t too sure, but he’s 94 years old now. I think he probably agrees with me. But as we’re moving right along, This temple is going to be rebuilt.

The Antichrist is going to go into the Holy City and he’s going to claim that he is God. So he says the temple and the out of course that’s been given because it’s under the rule of Gentile domination. One of these days, see, Israel will not be dominated by any Gentile powers. Israel is a little obitimmonized seed and it’s going to grow into be a great mountain. It’s going to be the biggest, the greatest kingdom in the world, the low Israel.

And you look at the globe and you’ll find out that the center and the hotspot of all the world and the best place of all nations is right where Israel sets. That’s God’s chosen land. That’s God’s place. God knows what he’s doing. Now get this. So He says in verse 3, and I will give power under my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three scored days, that’s 42 months. Or another way of saying, three and a half years.

He says, and they shall prophesy a 1,203 score days closed in sack club. These two fellows have got the dream job. I mean, they don’t have to worry about anything. Nothing can happen to them because they have been given the power to do whatever they want to do and their judgment. And I believe there’s a lot of the so-called the seven angels that do what they do and bring the plagues that they do because of the command of the God.

to individuals. Now I don’t have scripture to prove that but in circumstantial evidence leads me to that conclusion. But look what he says in verse 5. And if any man, any man will hurt them, fire proceeded out of their mouth and devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. Woo doggy, you got to watch what you say about those two. Now today you can badmouthe the preacher, you can have roast reverend, potted pastor, and nobody will do anything to you.

That’s why I said this would be a dream job. You know, you’re just like, I double dog dare you to say anything that upsets me. You would really be in respect of the pastor. But that day isn’t here. This is doing the tribulation peered upon the earth. This is the worst part of time that the world has ever known. But God always has his witness. And God is going to get his job accomplished. And God says that even the angel will be preaching an everlasting gospel or the messenger that preaches the message because God, in spite of all the damage that’s going to be going on, God is still a God of mercy.

The Bible says there’ll be multitude of people of every nation that will trust Christ as their Savior. See, God does not make anybody trust Him. You do not have to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can do your dead level best to try to earn your way to heaven that God’s already said, you can’t earn it, you can’t work, or you can’t buy it. You do not join a church to go to heaven. You cannot pay for salvation.

It’s already been paid for. Christ paid for all the sins of all the world when He died on the cross and all that you have to do. All that you can do is to accept that payment he made for you. And God will save you. And during this period of time, they can also still be saved and multitude of people. You read chapter 7 where it says that they trusted Christ as Savior from all the nations. He says, where’d it come at these?

He says, sir, these came out of great tribulation and it made their robes swight in the blood of the Lamb. So it was because of Christ and the payment he made. Now look at this, he says in verse six, these have power to shut heaven, that it reign not, and have power over water to turn them to blood. And to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Now I can see why a lot of people believe that it’s a good possibility of Moses and Elijah, because Elijah did part of this when he didn’t reign for three and a half years.

And also Moses because of the plagues down in Egypt. So it’s a good possibility that that might be them. But I can’t say dogmatically because I don’t have scripture that says Moses and Elijah. but it could be them, but whoever it is, who doggy, to be able to have the power. Maybe God can trust Him. God probably couldn’t trust you or me. We’re probably misused it. Are you explosive now? Do you lose your temper now and anger now if somebody makes you mad?

Just think if you could speak. And that’s all she wrote. you eliminate the whole world, wouldn’t you? Look what he says here in verse 6, these have power to shut heaven that it reign not in the days of their prophecy, have power over water to turn them to blood and the water is going to be turned to blood and it’s not going to reign. All these things are going to happen and they’re listed in some of the bowls of judgment that God’s going to pour out upon the earth.

So God’s got his two men that are the two keys that says boom, boom, boom, boom, and what they say goes. It’s gonna be awesome. And look what he says, in verse seven. In verse seven, and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them. So this is what’s going to take place. Now who are these two? Just look up there real quick in verse four.

See in verse four, and do you remember us reading anything like this over in the book of Zechariah in chapter four, where it says, these are the two olive trees, the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Remember we read it over there? That was written 400 something years, almost 500, before Christ. Now we’re almost 2000 years on this site that that’s a long period of time. I think that’s out of reach of those people who wrote, like Zachariah, and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.

And here we are. Are we living at a time on planet Earth when these things can happen? Is there a move on trying to make a peace treaty with Israel? Yes. All these things are true. Look what else happens here. It can’t be just a coincidence. Look at this. And it says there in verse seven and when they shall have finished their testimony when they finished their testimony The beast that sent it out of the bottomless pit and shall make war again.

This is the anti-Christ This is the old devil himself and you’re talking about the prince of the power of the air That’s why you have it going all the way over here and there’s a battle on heaven That’s in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation And so he has got his man to do his will just like God the Father has his son to do his will Satan is going to have his man to do his will and he’s going to do everything to devil wants him to do and He will give him his power you read the 13th chapter of elation and Says that Satan gives him his power to do what he does the authority to do it But remember, they all have their limitations.

The devil tried to get it Job, but God put a hedge about him and he couldn’t touch anything that he had. God moved away one of those hedges and allowed the devil to get at what he had. He couldn’t touch Job. Later on, God took away another hedge and says, you can get a Job, but you can’t take his life. See, the devil always had limitations. He can’t do everything He wants to do. God is still in charge. God is on the throne.

He is the boss. And He can use everything that goes wrong in this world to His honor and to His glory. And just because things don’t always happen good in your own personal life, He says all things work together for good to those who love Him. Do you believe it though? He says that’s my favorite version. All things work together for good to those who love the Lord, those were called according to his purpose, not yours, his purpose. He always has a higher purpose than you do.

You can’t see behind the scenes and how God is working. the providence of God it’s not just an accident. God knows what he’s doing and he says this is what’s going to take place. So he makes a statement here in verse 8 and there dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. We’re also our Lord was crucified. Now I wonder where He was crucified. You’ve got to clue where He was crucified.

I believe there’s a good possibility this takes place in Israel, in Jerusalem. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. pray that you that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Solomon’s Kingdom came to an end. And God promised that there’s a son from David that will not come to an end. It ain’t over yet, folks. God ain’t through yet. So he says here, And the government shall be upon his shoulders. I mean, he’ll rule and reign. His name is name. Ah, he’s going to tell us who he is now. His name is called, called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting thought. Who is this? The one that’s going to come and be born is called the mighty God, the everlasting Father.

How can you have an everlasting Father without an everlasting Son? Jesus Christ is God. God manifested in the flesh. Jesus Christ was not just a Jew that was born into this world, he was God and took up on Jewish flesh and came to the nation of Israel, but he came to die for the sins of the whole world. But God used the nation of Israel, but God isn’t through with the nation of Israel. Now, leave what he says. In verse 7 of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be in those two little words you ought to underline them shall be what no end you won’t end upon the throne of David that’s the kingdom that’s the promise that was made to David in his throne get this upon his throne and upon his kingdom not talking about the church to order it and to establish it with judgment and

with justice from, and you ought to underline this, henceforth, even for ever, forever. Now to me that seems like a long time. To me that seems like there’s no end to this thing. To me that seems like God made a promise to Israel and the Kingdom and David the King that Jesus Christ is going to rule. The nation of Israel one day will be the greatest nation in all the world. According to this book, and I’ll try to show that to you in a fine enough time.

Look there in the book of Luke, the Gospel of Luke, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and chapter 1, Luke chapter 1. And look what he says concerning Jesus Christ when he was going to be born. what he says in verse, we’ll just start there in verse 31. And behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, bring forth a son shall call his name Jesus. Now, so the Bible tells us that God visited this young virgin and the Holy spirit placed within the womb of this young woman, this virgin, the seed by which a body was prepared for the sun.

And he makes the statement here, he shall be great. Get this in verse 32. This is the one that God promised to David way back there. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the church. No, the throne of his father, David, and get this and he shall reign over the house of Jacob. That’s Israel for you that may not know. Jacob for how long? So that means that Israel isn’t been done away with.

And so this replacement theology where some people think that the church today has replaced the nation of Israel. America is not Israel. There is a nation called Israel. That’s Israel. Over there in the Middle East, that is Israel. That’s where there’s Jews and Israelites. And he says in verse 30, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom, there shall be no what? No end to it. Now this This was before the church ever started.

This was before there’s anything about the church age where we are. But it’s so important to understand this because it affects how you view what’s going on in the world today. And is there any chance or hope and what’s going to happen to that little obitination over there called Israel? by fifty-some Arab nations that will love to see her totally destroyed. But God has miraculously put a little hedge about that nation, and God got great things in store for Israel.

Now there’s some bad things coming, but then it’s going to get real good. I’m going to be here for that. your Bible and turn to the book of Romans. The book of Romans and chapter 11. Romans chapter 11. Romans chapter 11. Notice there in verse 1. Verse 1. The Apostle Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin. Judah, Benjamin made up Judah, and Jerusalem was their capital. The northern ten tribes, well they were taken by Syria, and later on they came in later and took the rest of them, never connection.

So the people had been scattered, but miraculously some have come back, and people We talk about the lost 10 tribes. Nothing’s lost. God knows where everybody is. He’s gonna bring them back. In the book of Ezekiel, it talks about the two branches and how God’s gonna take and bring them back together again. They’re gonna be one nation, just like always, but anyway, look here. In verse one, he says, I say then half God cast away his people. Sure looks like it, don’t it?

I mean even less than 100 years ago, there was no nation of Israel. So evidently, you know, God’s two of them and you know, they will never be a nation again. But look how God has blessed in the last days. And Israel has gone back to the land, become established as a nation, but they’re back in unbelief. And yet one of these days, you and I know if we believe this book, there’s going to be a temple that’s going to be rebuilt has to be because we believe that the antichrist will go into the temple and claim himself that he’s God.

There’s got to be a temple. So somewhere along the line in the media one of these days whether or not a peace treaty will hinge upon that or not. I don’t know whether not to give Israel the right to exist as a people the right to their land and And the right to rebuild their temple. I think it’s exciting. Wonder and win. It’s all going to come to happen. But I believe it will. It has to. When you know what the Word of God says, it gives you great confidence and great boldness.

Now look what he says here. He says, have God cast away His people? Which He foreknew? No, you know what the scripture said of Elijah? and how we make an intercession to God against Israel’s sin. Lord, they’ve killed by prophets and dig down by an altar, and I’m a left alone. There’s nobody else here but me. And the Lord says, ah, shut up. I got 7,000 to have in bow the knee to bail. You think you’re the only one.

God always has His remnant, and that He has. But God has chosen. A particular thing. God has chosen to use the nation of Israel as a nation if they will serve him. What it’s like as a nation to be a blessing. And if they rebel against God, God will use them as a vessel of wrath to show his anger upon and his judgment upon. That regardless of who you are, you can’t live as you please and get away with it.

Because there’s a God in heaven that can smite. And Israel has suffered the consequences of the rejection of Jesus Christ for almost 2,000 years. But one day things are going to change. Now look what he says here. I want you to see that in verse 9, David said, let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling walk and a recompense into the, let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and how that bobbed down their back always.

always. I see them have they stumbled that they should fall, God forbid. But rather through their fall salvation is coming to the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy. There’s no reason to provoke them to jealousy if they don’t exist anymore. Now let’s just pretend for example I have a tree over here. Israel came from a root. All the way down. Remember it’s always talks about the God of Abraham, Isaac Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob, 12 sons, and boom, this great big tree.

Well, what God has done is cut off the tree. But is he forsaken him forever? No. God says that he made something brand new, new. And he’s taken believing Gentiles and believing Jews and putting them together and made the church. Now, he’s not done with the nation of Israel, he just set them aside temporarily and he’s accomplishing his purpose with the church. That’s why from the time of the cross, what we call the Holy Spirit when he came down, this is called the church age.

It’s called the body age. It’s the grace age. This is the time where you and I live, lasted almost 2,000 years. But we are like a parenthetical expression in a sentence. In other words, if God was to take all of this out, then all of this would slide right up against the cross. And so God is going to take us out, we call it the Rapture, and then God’s timetable is clocked that He uses the nation of Israel, time goes until here and Christ was crucified and the clock stops.

The church age came in here and now when the rapture takes place and we’re taking out of here, God will start the time clock again and clicks with Israel. Israel is God’s time clock. And so Israel is very, very important in relationship to what’s going on in the world. And the nations of the world all know and all watch that one little bitty nation over there, the size of Rhode Island. Isn’t that amazing? That is amazing. Take your Bible very quickly and look there in the book of Zechariah.

Hold your place right here in Romans coming and coming back But I want you to see this in Zechariah, Zechariah and chapter 12. Zechariah chapter 12. But look there in Zechariah chapter 12, and look what he says in verse 2, Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in verse 3, and I will in that day make a Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people.

Nobody knows how to handle Israel. They don’t know what to do with Israel because they want them to have peace, but Israel knows there will be no peace because the one they want to have peace would want to annihilate them. And it’s not good for America or any nation to say, look, you give them some land for peace. God says in the book of Hosea, I’m against them that part my land. His land is not to be divided. God gave it to Israel.

And people ought to stop trying to take it away from them. You see, well, what about all those people that live over there? You know, the Palestinians, what’s that? Look, there’s 50 something nations that could take them in, but they don’t want them. They want them to be there like a burner saddle. But God gave the land to Israel.

Now, take your Bible and look there in chapter 14 of Zachariah and look in verse 1. In verse 1 it says, Behold, the day of the Lord cometh. When it says capital L O R D, that’s Jehovah, the day of Jehovah. And I spoil Chabidi, vad in the midst of thee, and I will gather, get this all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city shall be taken to house rifle, the women ravish, and half of the city shall go into captivity and the residue of the people should not be cut off from the city.

Then shall the Lord, L-O-R-D, the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when He fought in the day of battle and His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives. Now He said, well, where’s all that going to take place? Well, I’m glad you asked. Look over here. This is when He comes back in power and great glory. His feet will touch upon the Mount of olives. He comes down here and this is the ending of the tribulation period.

The worst period of time the world has ever known and Christ will then set up His kingdom upon this earth. So we know this is where we are right now. The next thing to happen is for the rapture will be taken out of this world. There’ll be seven-year tribulation upon this earth which is the worst period of time the world has ever known and then Christ comes back. And when He comes back He says there’s something is going to happen.

He tells us in his word that the church we have been grafted in. See the one that they, the builders, rejected the stone, that’s Christ, they stumble over him because they didn’t realize who he was. He was their king, their Messiah, but that he was rejected. So the one that was rejected became the head of the corner. Now he is the the head of the church. And he’s calling out from among the individual believing Jews and Gentiles for the last 2000 years.

And we make up the body of Christ. We’re going to be the bride of Christ. And there’s going to be a wedding. He’s going to come back to the earth. But whenever the raptor takes place and we’re taken out, he says, he’s going to take the Jewish nation and graft them back in. They’re the natural branches going to grab them back in. And Israel is going to flourish. Well, look what he says there in verse 19, I will say then the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

Well, because of unbelief, they were broken off and I’ll stand at my faith. be not high-minded, but the only reason that we have what we have, and God has used us like He’s used us, is because Israel rejected Messiah. So God is now at this point, yes, using us, but we haven’t replaced Israel. We are to do some of the things that God wants to do, but all those promises and pledges that He made to the nation of Israel still belong to Israel, not the church.

Whenever God told them in the Old Testament, chronicles 14, when he says, if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and call upon me and forsake their sin, I will heal their land. That’s to the nation of Israel. We can’t take that verse and apply it to the United States of America and say, God, we got your promise on that. God God didn’t promise that to the church. He promised that to Israel. Now we can apply a lot of things, but we can’t say this is what it refers to.

God didn’t take those things and make them apply to the church ages which we live. We are a spiritual body. Look there now in verse 23. And they also, if they abides not steal an unbelief, get to chubby, graft it in, for God is able to, and your underlying is, Grap them in again. It means he’s not through with him. He can graft them in again. And he says here, for if thou art cut off out of the olive tree, which is wowed by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these which be the natural branches?

In the Lord, if God can take you and I, the church, the Gentiles and graft us into that Jew, And we have received his eternal life, then God can take us out when we go to the Lord in heaven, and you’re going to take Israel and graft them back in. Now, why were they taken out? Well, because of unbelief. Why would we put in? Because of belief. And one day it’s going to happen again. So we’d see there in verse 25.

But I… For I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceit that blindness and your underlying needs to words in part is happened to Israel until the oldest of the Gentiles become in. In the words when God has got all of the Gentiles in that He wants, believing Jews and Gentiles made of them to one body, the rapture takes place, it’s complete, and then the Jewish nation will be grafted in again.

And let me show you what happens. See there in verse 26? And so all Israel, and you ought to underline these three words, shall be saved. This takes place in the future. So evidently it ain’t over yet. Israel still has a place in the plan of God. We are only here temporarily till God gets through Chishna and then dealing with the nation of Israel. And God is going to judge this whole world. The tribulation period is a chasting hand of God upon Israel once again and also upon the whole earth.

If they don’t like the global warming problem, they really going to have a problem. Because God is going to do some things. But now, once you see that verse 20, and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written and refers to the Old Testament, there shall come out of Zion, the deliverer, and shall turn away on Godliness from Jacob. He calls you going to take their sins. And as you go down through here, it is plum good.

See the first one now? For the gifts and the calling of God are without repenting. In other words, God can’t change his mind on things he’s already given his word on. And he made promises and they’re going to be fulfilled, just like he said. So we need to understand something that should be clear to us. Look there in this verse 32, for God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon how many? Oh, God so loved the world, but he has concluded that we’re all an unbelief so that he can have mercy on all of them.

In other words, everybody gets saved the same way. So the Bible says in the book of Zachariah in chapter 13, that when they see him coming back and powering great glory, and they say, where did you get those wounds in your hands? He said, I got these in the house of my friends when he came the first time. So when he comes back then, that’s in the book of Zechariah.

This is before Christ ever came, but it’s a prophecy. We have a book that’s divine. This is given by God. Yes, we can know what’s going to happen in the future. So is God through with Israel? No, he’s not through with Israel. Do we take the place of Israel? No, we don’t take the place of Israel. We have awesome responsibilities given to us, but one of these days we’re out of here. I’m going to be with the Lord. Look up here.

This hand represents you and me and the Father represents sin. Now God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin, and we all do things wrong. And the Bible says, for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. God does not want you and I to go to hell. He wants us to have eternal life. He wants us to go to heaven. But he says, you have to be perfect. You have to be as righteous as God.

And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. So the Bible says we cannot save ourselves by any good deeds that we’ve done. So God used the nation of Israel to bring the word of God to the world, to bring the Messiah, the Redeemer, the one that’s going to pay for the sins of the world, God brought him to the nation of Israel. We ought to be very, very thankful to the nation of Israel, though they did a lot of things wrong and they still in unbelief, they’re people that God has used in a miraculous way and he still said, whether we like it or we I like it.

I will bless them that blessed thee and I will curse them that cursed thee. I would be very careful of saying things against the nation of Israel or against the Jewish people or against Israel, the people themselves. Because God in heaven don’t play games. And I believe that we have a president right now but to be very careful. That’s my humble opinion. This man represents Jesus Christ. God in the flesh, he came into this world because he loves us.

He hates our sin because it separates us from him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. He took hours. Now he has to die. And he came back from the dead. And God said if we’ll believe that he did it for us, he’d put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven or what he did. God says for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast.

And when you believe it, he says these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. How many of you in here know positively, you know, shout out, if you die right now, you know you have eternal life and you’re going to heaven. Let me see you in. All right, put it down. I mean, no, you’re going to hell. No, no, no. If you’re here this morning and you have no clue, now you just saw a lot of people raise their hand.

Is it because they’re better than you? No. It’s because they have admitted something. They’ve admitted they’re a sinner. You are too, you just maybe not want to admit it, but Christ paid for their sins. But He also paid for yours. And if you want to go to heaven, all you have to do is the same thing that they did, the same thing I had to do. But believe He did it for you. If you believe He did it for you, He’ll put this payment to your account and you get to go to heaven or what He did.

That is salvation by grace and grace alone. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head, bow in every eye, close, no one looking around. If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you just talk to Him right now? And in the quietness of this moment, say something simple like this to the Lord. He knows your thoughts. Lord, I know I’m a sinner. I know I’ve done things wrong. And I don’t want to go to hell.

I want to go to heaven. And I believe you died on that cross and paid for my sins and came back from the dead. And Lord, right now, I will accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. And, friend, God said, if you would do just that much, that’s really all you have to do, that He would save you from hell and give you eternal life. If you’re making that decision, I’d like to have prayer for you. I’m not going to embarrass you.

I have you forward or doing thing to you. I just want to know if what I said made sense to you. And if it does make sense to you and you trust Christ as your Savior, I’d like to know it. And I’d like to have prayer for you and close them. So I hit by a nice close. No one looking around is angry with us. I’ll say, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior today and pray, just like me to pray for me.

We’ll just slip your hand very quickly and put it right back down. You hear them at all? No one will just slip it up, put it right back down. I can’t see everybody, but if you want to talk to me afterward, I’ll be glad to talk to you. But this is so important. Father, we thank you so much for your blessings to us for allowing us to know these things that are in your word so that we can explain them and share them with others.

This is a great time to live. What a wonderful opportunity you’ve given us. I pray, Lord, your blessings upon each person here in Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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I want to explain a few things to you this morning that I’m sure will be a blessing to So you at least I sure hope so. I want to talk to you about an item that’s very important because there’s many people today that believe that Israel is no longer in the picture. Some believe what they call a replacement theology, that the church has replaced the kingdom of Israel. the chart, God laid it out all the way across what’s going to happen.

So I already know what’s going to happen. I cheated. I read the Bible. Everything is broken down into the cross before Him and after Him. Jesus Christ is the King of Israel. He’s not considered to be the King of the church, but He is the King of Israel. And so he came the first time just like he said right on schedule. Now God had made many promises to the nation of Israel. And so many people today don’t believe that Israel has anything to do with anything anymore.

That God has totally cast them aside and he’ll never use them again. And that the church is gonna to bring in the kingdom. Well, I’ve got some news for you. I want you to take your Bible and turn there to the book of Genesis and chapter 12, Genesis and chapter 12. You see, either the church is simply a continuation of the nation of Israel or it’s something totally separate and different than Israel. But is God through with His people?

Here in Genesis chapter 12, I want you to see this in verse 1, Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation. I will bless thee and make thy name great. Thou shalt be a blessing. I will bless them that blessed thee and cursed him that curses thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Now this was a promise that God had made to Abraham. When he brought him out of the early cal days and brought him to the land where God says, I’m going to give you this land. It belongs to you. And so God made a promise. He made a covenant with Abraham. And he says that from your loins, you’re going to have this land and a great nation. So God made a promise. Now can God break his work? Can God break the promise that he made?

Take your Bible and turn all the way over there to 2 Samuel in chapter 7. Second Samuel in chapter 7. David had a great desire to build the Lord a house. And the Lord says, you want a what? He says, look, heaven is my throne and the earth, that’s where I put my feet and you want to build me a what? He says, I want to build you a house.

The Lord says, let me tell you something. I’m going to build you a house. David said what? He says, God, I want to build you one. And God said, Oh, I’m going to build you one. Then the fight began. No, not really. But look there in verse two. That the king said unto Nathan the prophet. See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the art of God dwelleth within curtains and is just not fair. I live in a house of cedar.

And we had this time. tabernacle out there that’s been in the wilderness all these years and we’ve been using this old tabernacle this tent God deserves better So he says I want to build a house for the Lord And so There was a discussion here. Look at universe eight now therefore Because God says to Nathan I want you to go tell God David something for me Now therefore go a social thou say unto my servant David Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheep coat, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel.

And I was with thee, so ever thou witness, and have cut off all vine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great man that are in the earth. In the word God said, I made you somebody. everybody knows you. He said, but I made you. So he says here in verse 10, Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more.

Neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore as before time. So God’s making quite a few statements here. He said, I’m promising you, this is what I’m going to do. That you don’t have to move anymore and you’re going to be protected. And you look at the nation of Israel and today you think, well, what happened?

But what else he says in verse 11, and as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and have caused the to rest from all the enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee a house. And when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.” Now we know that later on see that was Solomon.

Solomon wound up having you know 700 wives and 300 concubines, porcupines. So he had a thousand women and you said well see there look how God blessed him. Now God split the kingdom because of his foolishness. It wasn’t with God blessings and so God split the kingdom and ten nations to the north well that became known as Israel with their capital there in Samaria. The southern two tribes Judah and Benjamin, it came known as the Jews. So we have Israelites and Jews.

So as you study the Bible, you’ll find out there’s time that’s talking about Israel and Jews. Even when Christ came, there was Israelites and there were Jews. Now, get what he says here. He makes the statement of what he’s going to do in Verse 13, He shall build and house for my name. I will establish the throne of His kingdom and you ought to underline these two words, forever. In other words, He says, David, somebody’s gonna come from your loins on down the road and He’s gonna be an unusual individual.

And He’s gonna set up on the throne and He’s gonna live forever. And you’re gonna have a kingdom that’s gonna last forever. That doesn’t sound like the church to me. That sounds like a promise that God made to Israel, and he’s going to fulfill that promise. So he says, in verse 14, I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he committing equity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men.

But my mercy shall not depart away from him as I took it from Psalm, whom I put away before the, and vine house, And thine kingdom shall be established and you ought to underline these two words because what we’re talking about has God cast away his people forever? Does Israel still have a place in the plan of God? What’s going on now? Why have they been out of the land for almost 2,000 years and just recently, miraculously, they go back to the land and become established as a nation?

If anybody wants to know what the Bible is true, all you have to do is see what’s happening to Israel. They are the biggest proof that the truth is in the Bible and that God is God. What he says here. He’s going to establish it forever, and he says that thy throne shall be established forever. This is not the church. The church doesn’t have a throne. The church has a head, which is Christ. Christ is the head of the body.

We are the bride of Christ, and one day we’ll be married to the Lamb, and we will rule and reign with Christ forever. But you see, we are the bride of Christ. There is the nation of Israel, and Christ will be the king. He was born king of the Jews. He is the king of Israel. So whenever you study the New Testament, you find out when you come to the book of Matthew, Matthew pictures Jesus Christ as the king of Israel.

And as the king in Israel, he chose his 12 cabinet men, and he speaks lots of times in the book of Matthew explaining how he’s going to rule during the thousand year reign upon the earth. So we have here a period of time. This is called the Davidic Millennial Kingdom. This kingdom right here is 1000 years long. It would have been back here, but they rejected the king. So many people think, well, since the king was rejected, Israel was destroyed and sent to the far corners of the earth that this is not going to happen anymore.

And so many people believe that the church, we’re going to bring in the utopia upon the earth. And we’re supposed to just get everybody so excited about the Lord, that if the Lord wants to have any part, and that he better hurry up, come back. So they believe that the Lord will come back at the end of the millennium and that’s heresy. That is not what the Bible teaches. Now look there in verse 17, according to all these words and according to this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

So now David has a quiet time with God and David says, What? In verse 18, then went King David in and sat before the Lord and he said, Who am I? Oh Lord God, what is my house that thou hast brought me hither to? What in the world are you talking about? What are you going to do? He had an enquiring mind and he wanted to know. In verse 19, and this was yet a small thing in thy sight.

Oh Lord God, But thou hast spoken also of thy servants’ house, and you ought to underline this in your Bible, for a great while to come. And then he says, and is this the manner of man, O Lord God, or another way of saying, what kind of a man is this, that’s going to be born and live forever, and be the king forever? God promised them, you’re going to have a son that’s going to set up on the throne and live forever.

And the increase of his kingdom, there will be no end to it. Did he make some promises? Now look what he says down here in verse 23. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things and terrible for thy land before thy people which thou redeemest to be from Egypt from the nations and their God.”

In other words, no nation ever came to be like this nation. Israel is different from every nation on the face of the earth. There’s never been one to come and do exist like this nation. No one was ever used by God to bring us the word of God except the nation of Israel. Israel was to be the light to the nations of the world as a nation of the true and living God that if they would serve God they would be the light of the world.

Somewhere along the line they kind of got messed up. Israel was the one to bring that Redeemer into the world. Jesus Christ to make the sins for the payment for the sin to the whole world and that’s why he says in all the families of the earth, not just the nation of Israel. All families of the earth would be blessed or be able to be saved because of that one that came from Israel. I used to think to myself, as I’ve studied the Bible, I wished I wished Jewish.

I’d love to have a big old start to even rhyme I guess I’m what they call a dirty go away. I don’t know. I’m a Gentile. I’m not Jewish, but I have a little Jew in me. Anyway, y’all get that after a while. Look what he says in verse 24, “‘For thou hath confirmed to thyself, thy people Israel, to be a people unto thee for how long? For ever. And thou, Lord, art become their God.” So there is a true and living God and there is a people that have been chosen by God to be the light of the world Israel has messed up pretty bad But God didn’t make the promises in his word Now take your Bible look in Isaiah chapter 9 the book of Isaiah and chapter 9 We often read these verses at Christmas time.

I know it ain’t Christmas time, but I I want to read it to you again anyway. Because see, if Israel can totally be annihilated, all the Jews can be annihilated, you could disprove the Bible. But there’s a lot of people who like to do that. But the Bible is true. The people of Israel, even when they’re out of the land, there’s a remnant that has got God’s protection upon them. And I don’t care how many of the so-called Islamic nation that want to destroy Israel, Israel is God’s people and they are protected in a miraculous way.

God says, I will bless them, that blessed thee, and I will curse them, that cursed thee. That’s what He said. America has been blessed because it stood with Israel and America will be cursed when it turns against Israel. I’m just telling what the book said. You don’t like that. You got a problem with God. Not me. I didn’t write it. And if a person can give me one good reason not to believe this book, do it. I’ve been studying for 49 years.

I believe this book is the word of God. Now, here in Isaiah in chapter 9, look what he says in verse 6. God had given to Isaiah some insights on some things about the future. And he says in verse 6, for unto us a child is born. The child is born unto us a son is given. Now when he’s born, that’s when Christ came into the world. A son would be given that’s Christ on the cross. This is written 700 years in advance.

And give what he says about this unusual child that David says, what kind of a man is this? A child that’s going to be born and live forever? But he says, that’s going to happen after you’re dead. Now, anytime people take those verses and just apply that to Solomon, I’m just going on down the line to the one that will fulfill it. Because Solomon’s kingdom came to an end. And God promised that there’s a son from David that will not come to an end.

It ain’t over yet, folks. God ain’t through yet. So he says here, and the government shall be upon his shoulders. I mean, he’ll rule and reign. His name is name. Ah, he’s going to tell us who he is now. His name is called, called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting thought, wait a minute, who is this? The one that’s gonna come and be born is called the mighty God, the everlasting father. How can you have an everlasting father without an everlasting son?

Jesus Christ is God. God manifested in the flesh. Jesus Christ was not just a Jew that was born into this world, he was God and took upon Jewish flesh and came to the nation of Israel. But he came to die for the sins of the whole world. But God used the nation of Israel, but God isn’t through with the nation of Israel. Now, I’ll leave you what he says in verse 7 of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be in those two little words you ought to underline them shall be what no end you won’t end upon the throne of David that’s the kingdom that’s the promise that was made to David in his throne get this upon his throne And upon his kingdom, not talking about the church, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from, and you ought to underline this, henceforth, even forever.

Now to me that seems like a long time. To me, that seems like there’s no end to this thing. To me, that seems like God made a promise to Israel and the Kingdom and David the King that Jesus Christ is going to rule. The nation of Israel one day will be the greatest nation in all the world. According to this book, and I’ll try to show that to you. Got enough time. Look there in the book of Luke, the Gospel of Luke.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and chapter one, Luke chapter one. And look what he says concerning Jesus Christ when he was going to be born. Look what he says in verse, we’ll just start there in verse 31. And behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, brain for a son shall call his name Jesus. Now so the Bible tells us that God visited this young virgin and the Holy Spirit placed within the womb of this young woman, this virgin, the seed by which a body was prepared for the son and and he makes the statement here, he shall be great.

Get this in verse 32. This is the one that God promised to David way back there. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the church. No, the throne of his father, David, and get this and he shall reign over the house of Jacob. That’s Israel for you that may not know. Jacob for how long? So that means that Israel isn’t been done away with. And so this replacement theology where some people think that the church today has replaced the nation of Israel, America is not Israel.

There is a nation called Israel. That’s Israel. Over there in the Middle East, Israel. That’s where there’s Jews and Israelites. And he says in verse 30, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no what? No end to it. Now this was before the church ever started. This was before there’s anything about the church age where we are. But it’s so important to understand this because it affects how you view what’s going on in the world today.

And is there any chance or hope and what’s going to happen to that little obitination over there called Israel surrounded by 50-some Arab nations that will love to see her totally destroyed? But God has miraculously put a little hedge about that nation and God got great things in store for Israel. Now there’s some bad things coming, but then it’s going to get real good. I’m going to be here for that. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans.

book of Romans and chapter 11. Romans chapter 11. Romans chapter 11, notice there in verse 1, verse 1. The apostle Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin, Judah, Benjamin, made up Judah, And Jerusalem was their capital. The northern ten tribes, well they were taken by Syria and later on they came in later and took the rest of them, never Knessra. So the people had been scattered, but miraculously some have come back and people talk about the lost ten tribes.

Nothing’s lost. God knows where everybody is. He’s gonna bring them back. In the book of Ezekiel, it talks about the two branches and how God’s gonna take and bring them back together again. They’re gonna be one nation just like always, but anyway, look here. In verse one, he says, I say then half God cast away his people. Sure looks like it, don’t it? I mean, even less than a hundred years ago, there was no nation of Israel. So, evidently, you know, God’s through with them, and, you know, they will never be a nation again.

But look how God has blessed in the last days, and Israel has gone back to the land, become established as a nation, but they’re back in unbelief. And yet one of these days, you and I know if we believe this book, there’s going to be a temple that’s going to be rebuilt. has to be. Because we believe that the Antichrist will go into the temple and claim himself that he’s God. There’s got to be a temple. So somewhere along the line in the media, one of these days, whether or not a peace treaty will hinge upon that or not, I don’t know.

Whether or not to give Israel the right to exist as a people, the right to their land, and the right to rebuild their temple. I think it’s exciting. Wonderin’ when it’s all gonna come to happen, but I believe it will. It has to. When you know what the Word of God says, it gives you great confidence and great boldness. Now look what he says here. He says, have God cast away his people? Which he foreknew? No, you know what the scripture said of Elijah?

And how he make up the intercession to God against Israel, Lord, they’ve killed my prophets and dig down by an altar and I’m left alone. There’s nobody else here but me.” The Lord says, ah, shut up. I got 7,000 to have in bow the knee to bail. You think you’re the only one. God always has his remnant and that he has. But God has chosen a particular thing. God has chosen to use the nation of Israel as a nation if they will serve him, what it’s like as a nation to be a blessing.

And if they rebel against God, God will use them as a vessel of wrath to show his anger upon and his judgment upon. That regardless of who you are, you can’t live as you please and get away with it because there’s a God in heaven that can smite and Israel has suffered the consequences of the rejection of Jesus Christ for almost 2,000 years. But one day things are going to change. Now look what he says here. I want you to see this.

In verse 9, David said, let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto the, let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and how that bob down their back always. I see them have they stumbled that they should fall, God forbid. But rather through their fall, salvation is coming to the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy. There’s no reason to provoke them to jealousy if they don’t exist anymore.

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There are some people today, and they believe that the church has replaced the nation of Israel called replacement theology. It is not true. God has the nation of Israel, and there’s promises that He made to Israel that He will keep. And there’s things that God has promised to the church, and He will keep. They are not the same thing. And so therefore you and I are part of the church. We’re not a part of the nation of Israel. We’re part of the church.

And get what he says here. He said, for the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod, without a terraphin. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days. So God says that Israel in the latter days will come back. Now they’ve been out of the land.

How long has the temple been destroyed? 2000 years. Now in the book of Hosea it also makes the statement about after two days, the return. And so Israel has fulfilled what God said in His Word. Now you name another nation that had these things prophesied against it. Where the nation would be totally uprooted, their temple destroyed, the people scattered upon the face of the earth. And then after 2,000 years they come back to their land and become established as a nation.

Name one, there isn’t one. Only one nation has ever done that and it just happens to be the nation of Israel. It’s just a coincidence, isn’t it? Or is it possible that there is a true and living God and His Word is true and His prophecies are true, His prophets spoke the truth and maybe we ought to believe it. And if He’s telling the truth about that, maybe He’s telling the truth about everything else that he said. I believe it.

All vote. There are no prophecies before the rapture. The only thing that we’re looking forward to is the Lord to return. You see, I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back in the air and all of those who know Christ’s Savior will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. That’s in the book of 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, 13 down to verse 18. So therefore that is going to take place.

That’s what we are looking forward to. We’re not looking for the blessed tribulation. We’re looking for the blessed hope. The blessed hope. We often say, I’m looking for the upper taker, not the undertaker. I’m looking for him to take me up, not take me down. Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, there are multitudes that follow the rapture. Because the tribulation is only seven years long, many events must be in preparation before the rapture, and some of them are as follows.

It means the Jewish people must return back to the land. In the book of Isaiah in chapter 11, it says this, Israel will return back to their land. So God’s Word is true, and They are back, but they’re in unbelief Number two great blasphemies worldwide will be spoken against God Against God and against Israel Now the Bible says in the book of Zachariah in chapter 10 also chapter 12 that God says I will bring all nations Against Jerusalem now.

He said God said he’s going to do this And all the nations are going to turn against that little, bitty nation. And how do you think that little, little nation of Israel is going to be able to survive when all the nations turn against Israel? When it says all nations, it seems like, well, maybe America and Britain has to also. How would you like to be in Israeli living in Israel? And you see over 50-something Muslim nations who want to drive you into the sea totally annihilate you.

And all they need is a couple of little item bombs to do it with nuclear warheads. Now Israel will have to defend itself. Isn’t it amazing that we are living at the time when the exact nations, not all of them mentioned, but these exact nations have also fallen in with the nation of Russia? Number three the world as a whole will turn and kill God’s people now. This is what’s coming God says this is going to take place Does the world seem like it loves Christians today?

You know what’s interesting a guy by the name of Rick Perry Evidently he had gone to the Liberty University and gave a speech or a testimony And it was on the radio and I heard part of it right before James Taylor came on and And he was talking about how he came to know the Lord and so forth, you know. And I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I thought, well, great. But, you know, it didn’t take long before the news media got wind of what he said.

And they already have declared. He just nailed the coffin closed and he’s on the inside. talking about religion, talking about religion. That automatically just disqualify him because he’s talking about religion. Do you know George Washington talked about religion in Christ? Do you know Abraham Lincoln talked about religion in Christ? I thought to myself, self. If I ran for the office of the President of the United States, what do I do with my religion, Christianity. Do I take it and put it in a box and take it down to the bank and lock it up and leave it there because I don’t want to offend anybody.

That’s my right. That’s what we’re talking about. I have the right to believe what I believe, to say what I believe. So I listen to a few comments by individuals that are always trying to take the Christians and shut them up. Don’t talk about Christ. Don’t talk about God. Don’t talk about the Bible because that upsets people. You know what upsets me? Do they ever care about what upsets us? If, ideally, they don’t care about what we think. What about the Christians?

They don’t care about Christians. They don’t want to offend the the religion of Islam, what? They’ll cut off your head. And if they say something about us, well, what are we supposed to do? Love them, love your enemies. Now, something’s wrong here. If I’m to love you and you’re to kill me, I gotta hunch, there won’t be many of us left, unless God intervenes. Did you know that doing the tribulation period upon this earth, when Christ takes the believers out And yet there’ll be multitude because of the seed that’ll be sown, 144,000 Jewish evangelists to be preaching and a multitude of people are going to trust the Lord of all languages all over the world.

And most of them are going to die. Physical execution, they’re going to die. And the Bible says it’ll be be beheaded because it says in the 20th chapter of the book of Revelation And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of the Lord. That’s during the tribulation period. Cause the first part of the tribulation period is peace and safety. He said, when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction come up upon them. And in the middle of this seven year tribulation period, a man who’s gonna come on the scene and he’ll be able to convince the people with a bunch of lies.

You and I know that if somebody’s really lying, all right, lying, we’d catch that, wouldn’t we? Everybody will see that. Did you know half of America can’t tell when somebody’s lying? They’re so deceived, and they cannot see it. Look at number four, wars, threats of wars, and conflicts. Matthew chapter 24. There’s some things in here about ethnos and basalea, the word ethnic, ethnos, race, basalia, nations. And it talks about race against race and kingdom, nations against nations. But look at it number five.

Number five, strife and discord within the family and church will increase. Second Timothy chapter 3 says this, that perilous times shall come and is written to the believers in the last days. You stop and think, isn’t it true that majority of homes today have been destroyed? marriages, children. And one of the things that John the Baptist was going to do when he came on the scene, it says in the prophecy concerning him in the book of Luke, he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.

Wouldn’t it be great if all fathers love their children? And we do what we do because we love our children. It causes you to watch your testimony, everything that you say, everything that you do. We cannot preserve a nation unless we can preserve the education of our children. If you don’t preserve the education of the children, then you’re leaving them vulnerable to every ism and spasm throughout there. Number six, famine, pestilence, and epidemics will spread throughout the world. Do you realize how close we are to famine in America?

Do you know all the floods and the fires and everything that’s been going on, it wouldn’t take much for us to be hungry. And not just to be hungry. The Bible says, Great Famine is coming upon the land. It talks about the whole nation. You realize that now people are selling our corn to make fuel and we’re going to pay for that down the road and that we get some of our food from other countries. You know what? I’ve always wondered, how in the world can we buy food from South America?

They can grow it, send it all the way up here, and people make a profit off of it, and the people that live here can’t have a cheaper price than what they will. Something’s wrong. something’s driving up the price. We are going to be in Hertzville soon. And I’ve said this before and I’ll say it to you again. I believe you would be wise to make sure you have some food stored up. I think it’s just a matter of Christian principle for the times in which we live.

It wouldn’t take long for anything to happen and all of a sudden a little a little rush on all the stores would empty them out in a few hours. And if you didn’t get there and you don’t get anything, do you realize how ugly America can be if there’s no food to eat and how wicked we can become for the sake of life? Did you know that God warned Israel about this very thing and says the day will come when you will look at your son or your daughter and say, mmm, mmm, you look good.

You look good enough to eat. And they boiled their own children and ate their own children. Now I’m not making that up. It’s in the Bible. I just don’t have time right now to show you all of this. If I did, it would take me six months to get through this message. Look at number seven, Russia will invade Israel. It was in the paper. Israel has found oil and Israel has found silver and gold. They say that in the Dead Sea, you know, things always go to the bottom.

And those are heavy metals and they sink to the bottom. And that in the Dead Sea is enough wealth that is greater than all the wealth and all the world. You know, that’s a lot, a lot of wealth. You know, the Bible says, and Asher shall dip his toe in oil. Well, that’s in the book of Genesis, right before Jacob died, and it was one of the prophecies about his son. Asher shall dip the tip of his toe in oil.

There’s oil in Israel, and they’ve also found natural gas. Russia is going to come down against Israel. We all know that. It’s equal 38 and 39. But if you look at number eight, these are nations that God said over 2,500 years ago are going to be siding with Russia. There’s no way they could have known that in advance. But now think about these nations that it’s list right here. You can get your Bible and go back and look at them.

And Libya, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran will be allies with Russia. Would you say that that’s about the way it is today? Coincidence, huh? And how would the men that wrote God’s Word known that if they were just men and only wrote what man knows and what man thinks, you know, the Bible does not contain all of those mistakes that man makes. The Bible is truth. The Bible is accurate. And you can know the truth if you want to know the truth.

You have in your hands an up-to-date book on what’s going to take place in the future. And buddy, I’ve always wanted to know I have a curious mind. Look at the next thing, number nine, Bible talks about homosexuality and sexual immorality will increase. In Luke chapter 17, talk about remember as it was in the days of, not just Noah, as it was in the days of Lot. When it says as it was in the days of Lot, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, it’s not talking about the one day the judgment fell is talking about their manner of life before the judgment fell.

What were they doing? What was their sin and what is going on in the world today? And now there are, and I heard this on the news the other day, of little children over, I think it was over in Europe, that had their name down as a hate crime because they simply use the word gay. They use the word gay and they were just talking about having a gay time, but they took that as a hate crime and now as a hate crime it goes on their record even though they’re five and six years old and it’ll stay on their record for the rest of their life.

All of this is coming to America. The day will come when I will simply preach a biblical sermon And I probably will come along and say something like, you know, homosexuality is a sin and could cost me my ministry and throw me in jail. And you say, no, that won’t happen. I hope you’ll come and visit me. Look at number 10, Jewish temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. You and I know there has got to be a temple rebuilt in Jerusalem.

And the reason is because the antichrist, the head of the last world government goes into the temple and claims himself that he is God, exalts himself that he is God, and demands that people worship him. And will set up an image and declare that people must bow down to this image or they will be executed. Oh that’s coming. Number 11, talk of world peace. they shall sit, they, because the judgment is coming upon the world, and when the world begins to talk constantly about world peace.

Nobody’s been doing that lately, have they? Has anybody been talking about global peace? Global peace? Well, this is why they have the so-called United Notions. the United Nations is supposed to develop world peace. It was started right after the Second World War so that there will never be any more wars. And since that date, America has never won a war. We haven’t won a war since then. We’ve had to compromise. I say, if we’re going to fight a war, you fight to win and it doesn’t matter how you win, you win.

They want to destroy us, kill our families and we don’t want to hurt their feelings. But number 12, nations joining together to establish a final world government and all of these so-called crises that we’ve had and so government do something, save us, save us. So we all look to the White House to save us and Congress to save us And deliver us from this devastating dilemma. Well, they don’t want to save us. They don’t want to save us. You see, they got to destroy our form of government.

They’ve got to destroy capitalism because capitalism and communism are not compatible. You owning property, you owning things, you doing what you think you want to do, is it will not work with socialism and communism. It can’t work together, can’t live together. So if we have, and we do, we have probably close to 50% of Congress that are socialist.

I’m not lying to you. Many of them already stated they signed documents to this fact. And so if you are a social, you do not want to save our country as it is. You do not want to have a good sound financial basis like silver and gold, which is according to the Constitution. They want to inflate our money. I noticed the other night when they were on the Republican debate. And then I sat there and I listened and they asked a question about the Federal Reserve.

Oh, I wish they’d ask me that question. The Federal Reserve is not a part of the federal government. The Federal Reserve pre-ence, fiat money means it’s worthless pieces of paper. It’s not backed by anything. It’s just like you can get your own printing press and print your own money. It has no value to it except the confidence you put into it. I would say do away, totally do away with the Federal Reserve. you do not need the Federal Reserve.

They’re not supposed to manipulate the economy, the rise and fall of stocks and all these things. Now there’s a better way to run a country. And I would do away with health, education, and welfare. You don’t need any one of them. I would do away with the EPA. I don’t know how I’m telling you this, I’m not running for office. But I just think once in a while, I just gotta let you know what I think, because I love our country.

I love our freedoms that we have. I want to keep on preaching the Word of God and preaching the truth, and I can see the encroachment coming. I can see them tightening the noose. I can see them turning the vice on the envelope, and I can see us being squeezed, and people being squeezed and losing more and more of the freedoms. Till after a while, you and I, we won’t be able to move. We will wait until it’s too late, and then you won’t be able to do anything.

There’s a few people in this country that do see and understand what’s being done. And I do pray that there’s enough people that can see what needs to be done and will do something to preserve our country. The way that our founding fathers intended it to be. So that you and I can continue to live a life that’s quiet and peaceful. So that we don’t have to become mean and ugly down the road. So that we don’t have to see God’s judgment upon our nation.

Therefore, I do believe that these things that is being done in our country and under the guise of, well, you know, it’s liberty and the homosexual can do what they want and all that. I believe that it is a wicked, wicked sin. It’s destroying our homes. It’s destroying this country. It’s destroying the churches. And so therefore, you now have my humble opinion on these issues, not all of them. But look up here. You and I know that Christ is going to come back, but He’s coming back for His children.

If you are not a child of God, you don’t get to go. You don’t get to go. You must be a child of God to get to go to heaven. And Christ could come back at any moment because all the things that we just covered are things that must be fulfilled in the tribulation period, and the nations of the world is already choosing upside. We’re almost there. I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And buddy, that’s close.

So that means that the rapture has to be very, very close. People have been preaching this for over 2,000 years. Wouldn’t it be great if you and I were the ones that you and I were the ones that get this one-time experience? Because you see, there are certain things that have happened in history that not everybody got to enjoy that. See, all of us got to be there in the garden. Wouldn’t that have been neat, too? Not all of us got to see, well, we didn’t get that big boat ride during the flood.

I wouldn’t mind that as long as I was in the ark. I wouldn’t mind seeing the children of Israel come out of Egypt in the water party, but it only happened one time in history. I wouldn’t mind being there at the resurrection of Christ, not so much the crucifixion. I wouldn’t mind seeing the resurrection, but it only happens once. The day of Pentecost, I’m the Holy Spirit of God, that happened one time in history. Now the next thing is for the rapture.

It will happen one time in history, and I pray that that will be during my lifetime. And if you only give in 70 years to live, I’m running out of time. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents all the things we do the wrong. God loves the whole world, and so that you don’t misunderstand. of the religion of Islam. I’ve tried and I have led many of them to Christ. I’ve seen hundreds trust the Lord.

When Mary and I went there to Egypt, I just went over there to see him last week because of Betty’s birthday. And so we decided we’d ride over and see Ray. And he sat over tears down his eyes because he says they came in the very church that we had been in and killed 109 people with machine guns. this mowed him down, the very people that we talked to. He said, I’m so glad that we got a chance to go and talk to them.

But a lot of them can trust the Lord. A lot of them just don’t know. They never understood. But God loves the whole world. So should we. We don’t have to love their sin or no one have to love their ideology, but we can love the person. And so the Bible says that that to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. We have all sinned and we’re all condemned.

And God says you can’t save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into this world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from the Lord. So what Christ did was took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, He said that if you and I would simply believe he did it for us. He would put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us.

That’s good news. That’s free. No tricks to it. If I offered you my wallet and you accepted you’d have a wallet, I offered you my Bible and you accepted you’d have a Bible. If Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted what would you have? Eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, it lasts forever. You can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around.

If you’re here tonight, you’ll never trust the Lord. Or if you’re watching by internet, I pray that you will trust the Lord. Because there’s no tricks to it, there’s no damage to it. You don’t have to join this church. You don’t have to join any church. You don’t have to give any money. You don’t have to stop anything. You don’t have to join anything. God loves you. He paid for your sin. He said, if you’ll believe he did it for you, he would save you and give you eternal life.

And you can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. So friend, I pray that you would. And if you will make that decision, I’d like to have prayer for you. We just slip you in it very quickly and say, yes, pray for me. I will trust Christ as my Savior tonight and pray for you. I want you to pray for me. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. We’re thankful that we have your word that we can read and study it so much we don’t know.

But these are a few things that we do know from what your word says. We’re living in some crucial days. And Lord, I pray that our president will make the right decision that those in Congress would try to really protect our country and make wise decisions. And there’s a lot of people that are hurting. And I pray Lord that they would put you first. Think about what you would want them to do. Help us to realize one day we will have to stand before you and get an account.

So we ask your blessing upon us as a church in our nation. In Christ and in the brain, amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-7 Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-8 3771, online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calbryoftampa.org.

We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. I know that not everybody agrees on everything, that we teach concerning the Bible. Hopefully we agree on the gospel. That’s a heaven-held issue. Some things on prophecy we may not always agree on. But that’s okay. It’s a little give and take here and there. But we’re living at some exciting days.

Let me tell you something that is going to be very, very interesting, I believe. As you know, there’s been a great effort made to have the Muslim nations try not to hate us so much for being what we are and who they are. And so I think the President Administration has been over backwards to try to be sweet and nice to them so that they would love us. I don’t think they do yet. And we know that there’s been movement in Turkey where they have kicked out the Israeli ambassador and also done in Egypt.

And remember, that was a little treaty that got made years ago when you asked for air fat, done in Egypt because of Jimmy Carter. I think that’s spot the only major thing he did. That looks very fragile right now like there’s not gonna be a continuance of that there is hatred, growing around the world for America for whatever reasons and Israel is It has like they’re like putting a vice and they’re trying to tighten the old vice down Now Israel doesn’t have a lot of friends There’s not a lot of nations around the world that would really defend Israel.

They were talking about the, from Tila that came in and from Syria and they wouldn’t let him know dot there. Anyway, they were a little skirmish. Not good stuff happened. But you know, we are committed to protect Turkey. That’s one of the things that we are committed to doing, just like we’re committed to support South Korea, Japan. You see, they don’t really have to have their own individual armies because America is committed to supporting them so they can spend all their money on the economy and stuff because they don’t have a worry about a military because we’ll take care of that for them.

And we also have gone on a limb for Turkey. Now what do we do if Turkey decides to guard or send ships into the Gaza area in order to have some ships come in with goods? Of course they wouldn’t bring arms. And Israel is dead set on stopping that. And if Israel stops that and goes to war with Turkey, whose side does America go on? Interesting. One of the things that if you have watched the news at all and you know what’s being done and the position of the White House at this present time, you know that there’s not a lot of love there for the nation of Israel.

That’s just the facts of the matter. I am not making this up. So in the Security Council, which America is and has the right of veto power, there is a move on now to Have the Palestinians recognized as a state, so which has to be brought up. And in doing that, it means that they’re going to try to get the United Nations to accept them and to support them. And so that puts pressure upon America because if all of them do but America, It means that the present administration must decide to support Israel and go against all the other nations, or to go for the State of Israel and go against all the nations, or support the Palestinians and their state, which would represent all the Muslim countries that are all for it.

And Saudi Arabia has already declared what America better do. Isn’t it interesting? Do you realize how quickly everything in this world can change? The enjoyment we really enjoy it right now can be in turmoil by the end of this week. And if you boil it down, it means that Obama, the President of the United States, must decide and pressure is on to either support Israel or the Muslim nations. And the question is what do you think he will do?

Now let me just mention this to you. I’m not trying to make anybody mad or anything like that. But if, if, as it has been stated by Him Himself, He has declared and stated He is a Muslim. And there’s other times when He says He is a Christian. So majority of people don’t really know what He is. And I’m just stating that this is what He has said. So it is confusion. Let’s just pretend I’m the president of the United States.

Okay, let’s just pretend I’m the President of the United States. Let’s just pretend that I am Obama. But we’re pretending, let’s just pretend that if I was of the Muslim faith, it would be very difficult to support the nation of Israel. But if I was President and knew that I may not get another chance and the goal of the religion of Islam is to overthrow America and Israel in all countries because their gold of the religion of Islam is to conquer the world.

And you are to be either converted to the religion of Islam or enslaved or killed. Those are your options. So you don’t have a lot of options and none of them really look good, but you look and see that over 50 nations have been overtaken by the religion of Islam. And they were not done because they won the people over by their peaceful religion, but by the sword, because a few will dominate many, and they are willing to kill for what they believe, and they will harm others who don’t believe the way they believe.

Now they don’t do that at the beginning until they’re in power and believe that they can force. This is being done right now in places across Europe where they’re declaring zones, Sharia law zone. Now I’m not making that up. It’s in Britain, it’s in France, and in other countries. And they will keep on until they take over that country. If I was president and knew that my goal, if I was of the Islamic faith, I would not surrender the presidency of the United States.

I would not do it. I wouldn’t care what I had to do. Now, if you’ll remember back, I mentioned a year or so ago that eventually what you see happening in some of the countries and other countries about the riots taking place because you see what it does, there’s a system to it. You get it to where everyone wants the government to do things for them. And so the government can’t do anything for you until it takes something from you.

So you pay all these taxes to the government and the government promises to take care of this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this. So eventually the whole country becomes a Ponzi scheme. The whole country. It means that there will be a bunch of people that will reap the benefits and the goodness of all their people paying into the taxation of a country. And there’s going to be people who are going to really enjoy it. It’s going to meet their needs, but it can’t sustain itself when you find out that they demand more from government than the people can pay.

So that leads to a clash between the people and the government. So the people will demand their right from the government because they promise they took money and they owe, fulfill it, don’t do it, and their street riots and all this. And everybody’s mad at the government. But the people are the one who put that government together. They’re the one that voted for those people in place. and because they are just like they are. Deeply in debt, the government goes deeply in the debt because we put people in there that do what we do.

Water seeks its own level. And so there’s riots in the streets. And I said, I believe sooner or later, there will be enough dissension in this country where people are going to defy their government demand from government and some of the so-called peaceful marches and things like that that we have now are going to turn ugly in America and people are going to have enough and they’re going to fight against each other. Now they’ve already started that with those that are unionized and those that are not and there’s a division coming in this country and never has there been such a clear division between Republicans and Democrats, independent, all this and is headed for a clash.

I mean a serious clash. And so when there is going to be enough of the riots and so forth in the street because of people demanding the government do something and every time they will create a crisis and then everybody the people demand the government to do something. And so the government always tries to find a solution to the crisis that they created. And then after that one and we get further than the debt, they create another crisis. And this crisis, we’ve got to demand government do something, got to do it now.

So then government has to come up with another solution which only gets us in worst at why because they’re the problem. They can’t solve the solution. I traced a sermon a couple weeks back on what’s wrong with America. I’d love to get that message into hands of every politician in America. They don’t know what the problem is and that’s why they can’t solve it. And so they’re going from one to the other. So now in the last couple weeks, now we have another crisis.

And so we’ve got to solve this one and what do you hear? Pass this bill now, now, now, now. So it’s another crisis created but will it solve the problem? It will not solve the problem. And people are mad on on both sides, Christians have never been tried like they’re going to be tried. You’ve never been tested like you’re going to be tested. And so when there becomes such disunity and people becoming mean and ugly toward their neighbors and their government and because of wickedness that will take place, I believe there have to be then a declaration of martial law and martial law will suspend all of our constitutional rights and the president has enough executive orders that have been passed by previous presidents that can give a man dictatorship rights to this country.

And it can happen like that. You can go to bed one night and wake up the next day and you’ll be surprised how fast what we now enjoy will be all over. And I believe that once we lose it, we will never get it back. If you study the Bible, you can see and you should understand the direction that we are headed. And so therefore if I was this type of individual, and I hope and pray that I’m wrong, that I would not want to give up the presidency of the United States.

One of the reasons is this. You and I know that in the last days there has to be a world power capable of controlling the whole world and there is no country like America. And what would it be like if the wrong person got control of America with all of our nuclear power. Ma’am. Oh, nothing’s going to stop the rapture. It’s going to come right on schedule, right dead on time. But what you need to understand is this. You and I have a responsibility why we’re here to always do right to try to put up a wall of resistance against the devil.

Resist the devil and he’ll flee. But the reason is most of the God’s people don’t resist the evil that comes. So, but I do believe that the rapture will take place right on schedule. I’m not trying to hurry it and I’m not trying to hold it back. But I believe that we need to understand the times in which we live. And if I was the President and if I did believe that, I would do something, some way, because the biggest turmoil in this country, and let me just say this, if I was a Marxist, if I did believe in the extreme socialism and communistic type of philosophy and rule of a government, then in this capitalistic society, it would be something I would despise because I don’t want individuals to have rights, I don’t want them to own their business, don’t want them to own their capital,

I would believe that government is the answer and that everybody pay in the government and the government control everything. Then if I really believe that then I would make sure that I wouldn’t do anything to protect our form of government or our way of life or our economy. I will tell you one thing and I’ll do something else. I’ll tell you this but I’ll do this. I’ll tell you this, but I’ll do this. And remember the anti-Christ when he comes on the scene is going to be able to deceive the whole world.

He will tell lies. You and I need to understand that not everything that they tell us is the truth. You probably didn’t know that. But don’t believe everything you hear. Don’t even believe everything I say. But we’re living at a time when it’s getting sometime a little on the fuzzy side about what’s right and what’s wrong. And now they’re trying to turn people against some people call the tea party. I don’t know if I fit in that bracket or not.

All I know is I’m a Christian and I love my country and I want to preserve my country and I believe there’s constitutional rights that I’ve been given by God. See, that God had given us the right to do things and to fulfill our responsibilities. So therefore we want a government that will give me the freedom to fulfill my responsibilities as a husband, yours as a wife, my responsibility to children and our church to do what we want. We want freedom and we want to be left alone.

What man has a right to deprive us of fulfilling our responsibility that God gave to us? Who is man? He’s not higher than God. He’s not over God. And why should we let another man control everything that we have and steal everything that we have? But we’re doing it and we’re not doing much about it. But anyway, that was my introductory remarks. I don’t have a lot of time, but I did want to share that with you, only because this week could be very important.

And of course, you know what’s coming in the next week. Something called Ross Hashanah. And something about the time when lo and behold, the Lord just liable to come back. Now he could. Now he’s saying he is, but it’s a good possibility. But if he comes back, fine, if he don’t, that’s fine with me too. I just want to do whatever I can. What time I have before the Lord comes back. But look what I have here. wars and rumors of wars.

Now there’s a lot of wars around this old world, haven’t been much time of peace. But Christ had made the statement, ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled, the end is not yet. Now when he wrote this, or this was written in Matthew 24, this is talking right before he comes back at the end of the tribulation period. This is the beginning of the tribulation period. Now, look at the next little statement I have here.

Hosea the Prophet clearly tells us that the latter days are a specific time when the Jewish people would return to the state of Israel after dispersion throughout the world for nearly 2,000 years. So in the book of Hosea chapter 3, look what I got here in the notes here. And this is what it says, For the children of Israel shall abide many days. 2000 so far. Without a king Israel has no king. There hasn’t been a king here since Jesus Christ came and he was rejected.

And he was the only one that had the right to be the king. And since him, nobody has the authority to claim the throne of Israel. The reason for understanding this and believing this is because there are some people today and they believe that the church has replaced the nation of Israel called replacement theology. It is not true. God has the nation of Israel and there’s promises that He made to Israel that He will keep. And there’s things that God has promised to the church and He will keep.

They are not the same thing. And so therefore you and I are part of the church. We’re not a part of the nation of Israel. We’re part of the church. And get what he says here. He said, for the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image, without an ephod, without a terrifen. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.”

So God says that Israel in the latter days will come back. Now they’ve been out of the land. How long has the temple been destroyed? 2000 years. Now in the book of Jose it also makes the statement about after two days the return. And so Israel has fulfilled what God said in his word. Now you name another nation that had these things prophesied against it, where the nation would be totally uprooted, their temple destroyed, the people scattered upon the face of the earth, and then after two thousand years they come back to their land and become established as a nation.

Name one. There isn’t one. Only one nation has ever done that, and it just happens to be the nation of Israel. It’s just a coincidence, isn’t it? Or is it possible that there is a true and living God, and His Word is true, and His prophecies are true, His prophets spoke the truth, and maybe we ought to believe it. And if He’s telling the truth about that, maybe He’s telling the truth about everything else that He said. I believe it.

Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, The only thing that we’re looking forward to is the Lord to return. You see, I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back in the air and all of those who know Christ’s Savior will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. That’s in the first Thessalonians chapter 4, 13 down to verse 18. So therefore that is going to take place. That’s what we are looking forward to.

We’re not looking for the blessed tribulation. We’re looking for the blessed hope. The blessed hope. We often say I’m looking for the upper taker, not the undertaker. I’m looking for him to take me up, not take me down. Although there are no prophecies before the rapture, there are multitudes that follow the rapture because a tribulation is only seven years long. Many events must be in preparation before the rapture and some of them are as follows. It means the Jewish people must return back to the land.

In the book of Isaiah in chapter 11, it says this, Israel will return back to their land. So God’s word is true and they are back, but they’re in unbelief. Number two, great blasphemies worldwide will be spoken against God, against God and against Israel. Now the Bible says in the book of Zechariah in chapter 10, also chapter 12, that God says, I will bring all nations against Jerusalem. Now you say, God said, He’s going to do this. And all the nations are going to turn against that little old-bitty nation.

And how do you think that little-low nation of Israel is going to be able to survive when all the nations turn against Israel. When it says all nations it seems like well maybe America and Britain has to also. How would you like to be in Israeli living in Israel? And you see over 50-something Muslim nations who want to drive you into the sea totally annihilate you, and all they need is a couple of little item bombs to do it with nuclear warheads.

Now, Israel will have to defend itself. Isn’t it amazing that we are living at the time when the exact nations, not all I mentioned, but these exact nations have also fallen in with the nation of Russia. Number three, the world as a whole will turn and kill God’s people. Now, this is what’s coming. God says this is going to take place. Does the world seem like it loves Christians today? You know what’s interesting? A guy by the name of Rick Perry.

Evidently he had gone to the Liberty University and gave a speech or a testimonium. And it was on the radio and I heard part of it right before James Taylor came on. And he was talking about how he came to know the Lord and so forth, you know. And I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t see anything wrong with it. I thought, well, great. But you know, it didn’t take long before the news media got wind of what he said.

And they already have declared he just nailed the coffin closed and he’s on the inside and talking about religion, talking about religion. That automatically just disqualifies him because he’s talking about religion. Do you know George Washington talked about religion in Christ? Do you know Abraham Lincoln talked about religion in Christ? I thought to myself, self, if I ran for the office of the President of the United States, what do I do with my religion, my Christianity? Do I take it and put it in a box and take it down to the bank and lock it up and leave it there because I don’t want to offend anybody?

That’s my right. That’s what we’re talking about. I have the right to believe what I believe, to say what I believe. So I listen to a few comments by individuals that are always trying to take the Christians and shut them up. Don’t talk about Christ. Don’t talk about God. Don’t talk about the Bible because that upsets people. You know what upsets me? Do they ever care about what upsets us? Evidently they don’t care about what we think. What about the Christians?

They don’t care about Christians. They don’t wanna offend the religion of Islam. Why? They’ll cut off your head. And if they say something about us, well, we’re supposed to do it. Love them, love your enemies. Now, something’s wrong here. If I’m to love you and you’re to kill me, I gotta hunch. There won’t be many of us left. unless God intervenes. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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Romans chapter five, Romans chapter five. I title this one, The Four Much Moors. Because as I read, certain things just kind of pop into my mind. And when you’re talking about grace, grace is much more. It’s always much more than whatever the problem is. I committed 10,000 sins. Well, grace is much more than all that that I did. Grace is better. Grace is so much more. But I want you to see this in Romans in chapter 5, look there in verse 1.

He says, therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, the way of Lord Jesus Christ. So you and I, we were enemies of God and lo and behold Christ came down on the cross and showed us His love. See down in verse 8 where He says, but God commended His love or displayed His love, manifested His love toward us in that why we were yet perfect. Christ died for us. So if Christ died for us, it’s because we all needed someone to die for us.

So He died for the whole world. So every day, everybody in the world needed somebody to die for them. Christ did that for us. And so once you trust Christ to save you, He gives you eternal life as a free gift and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did for you. So you are justified. Look in verse 2. He says, by whom also we have excess by faith into this grace, wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

In other words, it’s not only God’s grace that saves us, justifies us, but it’s God’s grace where we stand. And that’s every day of our life. Did you know if it wasn’t for the grace of God, none of us would live? If I were the devil, I’d take every child of God out of here. That would really mess up God, wouldn’t it? So if I was the devil, I’d be after you, especially if you wanted to serve a Lord.

Especially if you dedicated your life to the Lord. That’s why I’ve had people say, I was better off before I ever got saved. Because when I got trusted the Lord, and then I said, I’m gonna serve the Lord, everything in my life seemed like it fell apart. And everything’s been worse afterwards. What did you expect? You declared war. You didn’t surrender. That means you’re willing to fight. It’s either fight or surrender. So you chose to fight. Okay, now here comes the battle.

You’re going to get bloodied. And the devil is going to do everything in his power to try to destroy you. And he wants to ruin your life, ruin your testimony. They used to have on television years ago, 40-something years ago, a TV broadcast called, You asked for it. Remember that? You asked for it. I enjoyed that. That all kind of weird stuff on it, but you asked for it. So you asked for it. You probably told the Lord, Lord, I love you.

Lord, I want to serve you. Lord, I want you to use me. Okay. So you messed up. You did that, huh? And now it’s going to come. So God is going to allow a lot of things in your life. But understand this and you ought to underline this verse. Verse three, because even though you trust the Christ to save you, you have eternal life. Doesn’t mean you’re gonna be exempt from tribulations. See in verse three, and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also.

We rejoice in hope, but we glory in tribulations also knowing something. What do you know? Knowing that tribulation work is patience. It’s the things that seems to go wrong that forces you to wait on God. Because you can’t make it happen. So God has designed life in such a way to cause you to be in total despair. Faith is born out of despair. When you have nothing else to cling to, nothing else to look to, no way out, you don’t know what you’re going to do.

And God says, finally I got you where I want you. With nobody and nothing except me. Now you can see what I can do for you. So sometimes God takes a hold of you. Sometimes God will take away your job, take away finances, take away your health, take away, and all you got slept was the Lord. Well, you still got the greatest. I mean, here’s God and here’s help, here’s Job, here’s the other hand. I would rather have him than all of this because if you had all of that and not have him, you could still lose all of this.

But if you got the Lord, you don’t have to worry about anything else. You say, well, I gotta have this, I gotta have this to get that. No, you don’t. You might have to die. What if I started the death? So, other people have started the death. What if I can’t afford the surgeries? Then you die. You realize until about 100 years ago, most people died. They didn’t live as long as we’ve already lived. 35 years, you’ve lived to be a pretty ripe old man.

But this thing, we get to live to be 69, 80. But now, look what he says here. So you know that tribulation workers and patients, That’s experience. You see, experience is how you mature. You’ve gone through some things. It’s kind of like a guy that goes out there and you know, he’s never played golf before and he gets the ball, he gets the club and he digs up a trench and never has such the ball yet or swing 20 times and he can’t get down there to hit the line anytime he’s swinging.

But you just need experience. So I don’t wanna hit like the pros. That’ll take a while. So you’ve got to learn. And everyone of you here remember, you’re not gonna walk as a saint of 50 years or 100 years without going through experiences. The experiences of life is the salt and pepper on your eggs. Eggs without salt and pepper is black. But, and your life will be black unless you have different experiences that you go through life. That’s what makes it colorful.

That’s to give you the stories to tell. And don’t you like to be able to spin a yarn? And so you gotta have something happen to ya. So those are the experiences of life. And sometimes those experiences, they cost you dearly. You know, things that don’t cost much, you don’t remember as well. And they’re not as good as stories. It’s the ones that are really, really good. You know, when you almost died, almost got killed by a car wreck.

You’re almost, it’s almost, so close and hadn’t got any, that’s the stories you want. Or somebody you led to, or not have had a lot of people to the Lord over the years, but they’re just certain ones that are, They’re classics, the stories of how it happened. And I’ve had people come up to me years later and say, you remember you led me to learn? Nope. I have no recollection. And there’s other people that I have told their stories over and over again for 40 years.

But see, these experiences you go through, they’re costly, but they’re good. And God’s grace is sufficient for you as you live your life. Now, he’s not only talking here about how you got to be justified, but there’s a lot more to it after you’ve been justified. Now that you’re God’s child, what about this life God’s given us to live? So he says you’re in verse five. He says, so hope, make if not ashamed. In other words, when you’ve gone through some experiences after a while, you’re not ashamed of the testimony of the Lord.

You can say, God did this for me, God did this for me, and God did this for me. I know something that people go through and they get bitter at God. They get bitter at God. There’s a man that, he was married to this woman and she was a believer. So was he. But for some reason she just decided she’s just gonna leave him and she married another one. And this man is bitter as bitter can be. And I had these two guys and I gave the one a CD this week on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I said, if you get a chance, do you like to listen to a CD? He said, sure. So I gave to him. And I started to give one to the other guy, and he says, no. He says, a long story. He was bitter, bitter at God because of what somebody had done. Did you know that he missed out on a great learning lesson? He allowed an experience to make him so bitter he ceased to learn. He was ceased to grow because he was done wrong.

And it didn’t matter, nothing else mattered. And that was just an experience I had just this week. So not everybody that I talked to trust the Lord, some of them are very mean and belligerent and bitter. But look in verse 5, the reason is because the experiences gives you confidence. It builds your hope. You know and you look forward to the next great experience. Because you see, those are things that helps you because of the Holy Spirit that lives within you to give you an opportunity to shed abroad the love of Christ.

See what he says there in verse 5? He said, because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit, which is given unto us. So the Holy Spirit within you is to help you to learn from the experiences to go to, and these experiences usually come disguised as tribulations or work. And because of that, you got opportunities to demonstrate the love that you have for the Lord and the love that the Lord has for people.

So you’re just to be a channel by which God can work through. And it will work God’s way. In verse 6, for when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. So if Christ died for the ungodly, and you’ve already been justified, so we’re not talking about you. you, we’re talking about how God’s going to use you to reach the ungodly. So God is going to arrange things in life to have people come across your path.

Now you may take advantage of it, you may not. But don’t say, well, I never have any opportunities. I never have a chance to witness to anybody. Do you live on planet Earth? Have you ever seen people? They’re everywhere. They’re everywhere. He says in verse 7, for scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet per venture for a good man, somewhat even there today. Or here you are. You have a life to live. Let’s say for example, I’m 25 years old and I have all these plans for life and lo and behold somebody’s coming up there and they’re gonna shoot Jay and I don’t even know Jay and they say we’re gonna shoot Jay unless Yes, you volunteered to take his place.

No, wait a minute. Let’s talk about this. I mean, I’ve, I got all these plans from my life. Why would you want to, why would I want to give up my life for somebody I don’t even know? I don’t know if he’s a good man or a bad man. I don’t anything about the man. Would you want to give up your life for somebody you don’t even know? He says for a righteous man, someone even dared to die. He said, oh, the good man.

God commended his love toward us into why we were yet sinners Christ died for us. He did it for us. Why were we yet sinners? Not when we improved. Christ died for us. What about these young soldiers that go into the military and they go to Afghanistan? And we think about, especially during the Second World War, all the thousands that died, over half a million almost that died just in that war that never got a chance to live. Lives are snuffed up.

They gave up their life so that you and I could, you know, 50 years later sink our country. But anyway, look what we’ve done with the freedom God give us. It’s almost like did they die in vain? They give up their life? Now that you know Christ is your savior, Are you willing to live your life to reach other people? In other words, you have plans and goals that you like to have for feeling again. But would you surrender some of those things?

Sacrifice. What would you give up in order to reach people for the Lord? But anyway, he says here, in verse 9, underline these two words, much more, much more. Much more. note there, where has much more is always something that accompanies grace. Much more than, as he says in verse 9, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. I believe this saved from wrath. Here is a reference to the word over there in the book of Romans 1 and verse 18 where it says the wrath of God is revealed.

We’re say from that wrath. In the words, Christ took my payment for me, called this in reference to Christ died for me. So I don’t have to go through this wrath of God been poured out upon me in a literal fire burning hell. I don’t never have to worry about that. But now looking verse 10, for if while when we were enemies, We were reconciled to God. You see, but I was reconciled to God because of what Christ did for me.

You see, God is perfect and righteous and just and holy, and I wasn’t. I was a sinner. So there’s like, emmity, war between me and God. Everything I said did thought was always against God because I’m a sinner. So he says here, for if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, and here’s that word again, much more. being reconciled, now that I am, we shall be saved by his life.” In other words, Christ died, buried, come back from the dead.

Now look there in chapter 4 and look down there in verse 24. When you and I accept Christ as our Savior, when we believe He did it for us, then His righteousness is put to our account. See, they’re in verse 24. But for us also to whom it shall be imputed, but to our count, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses, that means for our sins. You can connect that to Colossians in chapter 2 and verse 14.

Christ was nailed to the cross for our sins, raised again for our justification. So God had to raise up His Son Jesus Christ from the dead in order to justify us because the payment was accepted. Christ came back from the dead and Christ can’t save anybody if He’s still in the grave. But He’s alive. And not only did He reconcile me, may a payment for my sins, but now much more than just that. says, I shall be saved. That means in my life I am kept saved by his life.

So as long as Christ is alive, I have eternal life. The only way you can take my eternal life away is Christ has to die. What do you think the odds are of that happening? It ain’t a gun happen. It ain’t going to take place. So his death on the cross saved me from the wrath of God, but by his life he saves me or keeps me saved by his life. I think it’s a wonderful verse that kind of gives me the idea.

You know maybe this eternal security thing is real. I think it’s what what he’s talking about. Now, look in verse 12. And I want to know that the word one all the way down to the rest of this chapter is mentioned 14 times, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one. Wherefore as by one man sent it into the world, death by sin. So death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world.

But sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, debt reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who was the figure of him that was to come. In other words, that Jesus Christ chose to be sinned for us. Adam chose to sinned. Jesus didn’t choose to sin. He just chose to become sin for us. It was a choice that he made, just like Adam was a choice. He knew what he was doing.

He was not deceived. Eve was deceived. Adam was not deceived. So he talked about after the similitude of Adam. So by looking at these two men, here’s Adam over here, Christ over here, by one man’s disobedient, one sin, everybody who was born of Adam are all sinners. One man, Jesus Christ, who was perfect. When we accept him as our Savior, this one man’s obedience is like all of his righteousness is put to our account and all those born in his line, his family are all made righteous.

One man all condemn one man all who believe justified, as though he had never sinned, declared righteous. And so therefore he shows you these two men for the rest of this chapter, and by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and so all men have sinned, so all men are condemned. Now, verse 15 says, but not as the offense, so also the free gift. And you’ll notice the word gift in the word free beside it.

I think you want you to know that this is a free gift. Maybe it says it that way. And then he says, for if through the offense of one, many be dead, much more. The other on the line does word, much more. The grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, have to bound it unto many. All those who do believe are justified as though he had never sinned. Give an eternal life.

And so that’s why God says that you can be justified. Now, that’s why he says in verse one, therefore being justified by faith. Just being justified by faith. Because of what Christ is. So when you believe in him, his righteousness is imputed to your put to your account from the previous chapter there. And look what he says in verse 16. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift, for the judgment was by one to condemnation.

But the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. the words look up here. One man’s sinned, everybody’s sinned, everybody’s condemned. But when it came to Christ, one man’s obedience, regardless of how many sins, you see over here you only had to commit one sin. Over here it doesn’t matter how many sins you’ve committed. The grace of God is much more than all of the sins all combine, of all man from the beginning to the end, all of the sins of all the world, grace covers all of that.

And you’ll see that down here in the next chapter when we get to it. But look what he says down in verse 17, for if by one man’s offense, death reigned by one, much more, and you ought to underline that word, much more, they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ, the abundance of grace. Therefore in verse 18 as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men, even so about the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men on the justification of life.

This is those who believe on Christ that trust Him, His righteousness is put to your account. And it doesn’t matter how many sins you’ve committed. His grace is much more than your sins. And he says here in verse 19, 4, as by one man’s disobedience, many made sinners. So by the obedience of one, many are made righteous. More over the law enteredCatal that the offense might abound. In the word, you don’t know how bad sin is until you know what righteousness is.

That’s why we always used the law to show a man that he’s a sinner. Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind, body, soul, and strength. First forward to God and the last six to man, and everybody’s going to lie. Why do we say that? Anybody here never told anything, never told a lie? We always used the law to show that we’re sinners, because by the law is the knowledge of sin.

So the law came to show you how bad and how it’s impossible for a man to save himself by his works. So the law points a man to Christ. So he then he says here in verse 20, moreover the law entered that the offense might have but where sin abounded, and you ought to underline this, grace did much more abound. That as sin had rained unto death, even so might grace, rained through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ.

So it’s not just that He can save you today and lose you tomorrow, but when you trust in Christ as your Savior and He is alive from the dead, he keeps you saved. Is there a verse anywhere in the Bible that says, who are kept by the power of God? 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 5, because verse 4 says, that not only you save from something, you’re saved to something, you’re saved from hell, to an inheritance is incorruptible and undefiled, that fate of not away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith in the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

I think that’s what it says. Now, so we have in these simple little verses the much more. You see, God’s grace is a lot more than all of the sins you’ve ever done or ever will do. If it wasn’t for the grace of God, none of us would have a chance. Look at your notes now. See there in the middle of the page where it has the two men. A comparison but much more. On the left, sin came through Adam, one man.

So death by one sinful deed passed upon all men, all men condemned. On the right hand side, righteousness through Christ, one man. Eternal life by one righteous deed is death on the cross. Eternal life passed upon all believers. All believers made righteous. You’re justified. So this is why in chapter three it says, and the righteousness of God is manifested, been witnessed by the law and the prophets. So his righteousness in chapter four is imputed to those who believe. And so those who do believe are justified by their faith and faith alone.

Therefore it has to be by grace, or nobody would have it. I’ll look there in chapter four very quickly and as we close here, but look in Romans in chapter four and look there in verse 15. Verse 15. He says, because the law worketh wrath. For who are no law is, there’s no transgression. Therefore, it is of faith. Now, verse 16, you need to underline it in your Bible. Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end or for this purpose, the promise might be sure to all the seed.

The only way for salvation to be sure that I’m not going to go to hell today or tomorrow, anytime, is it has to be by grace. Because if it was by works, it would never be sure. That’s why you ask people, where are they going to go in the die of and they don’t know for sure what they don’t understand grace. Because if they really knew it was a free gift, and the reason they think they can lose it is because they really don’t believe that it’s a free gift.

They believe that what Christ did was to give you a chance to earn it. And that’s not why Christ died, to give you the chance to earn it. He came to save, to justify, to reconcile by that payment that He made for our sins that separated us from God. And now when we have Christ, remember eternal life is Christ. So when you accept Christ, you have eternal life. He that hath the Son hath life and He that hath not the Son hath not life.

This is the true God and eternal life. So that’s why when you step Christ as your Savior, the only way you can lose eternal life is for Christ to die. There is no other way and He ain’t going to die. Never. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, Shavu. Father, we do thank you so much for your blessings to us. We ask the Lord that you’d help each person here to not only to understand it for themselves, But to have the boldness and the confidence to explain it to others, get good to us.

We’re thankful for the privilege of living this side of eternity after we have been justified, that we might, because of the tribulations that we have, get a lot of experience. The experience gives us boldness. And that boldness is why we’re able to reach out and let others know, because of the Holy the spirit that lives within us, that your love can be manifested. Revered. Thank you for the opportunity to serve you in Christ’s name. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Take a Bible looking second Quran in verse. Second Quran it goes in chapter 21. Chapter 21. I want you to see this at 2 Chronicles chapter 21. And you want you to see this in verse 3. He says, and their father gave them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things with bent cities in Judah, but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the firstborn. He was the firstborn. Now get this. Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, slew all of his brothers with the sword and divers also of the princes of Israel.

He killed them all so that nobody else would take the throne. So he kills everybody. In verse 7, how be it the Lord would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant that he he had made with David. And so you’re an underlying death as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever. Well God had made a promise. And now he didn’t kill everybody, but himself. So the line, but lo and behold, it’s not all over till it’s over.

Look there in 2 Chronicles chapter 21 and look down in verse 16. In verse 16 says, more over, the Lord stirred up against Jehoram, the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians, and they came up on the Judah and break into it and carried away all the substance and was found in the King’s house and his sons also and his wives, so that there was never a son left. Uh oh, save Jehorahaz, the youngest of his sons.

He had one left. He had a son. had one left. God took him all the rest of them, but there was still one left. Now his name is changed and up in verse 1 of chapter 22 it’s a hazziah, but he’s the same person. And so he had slain the others. And so he says in the last part of verse 1, so Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. And now it goes on here and talks about these, in verse five.

He walked also after their counsel and went with Johorim, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Azeel, king of Syria and blah blah blah blah blah. And you’ll find out as you go down through here, there’s a mama. There’s generally always a mama gets involved. She didn’t like what was being done and she wanted to secure the officer. We’re looking in verse 10. And when Atalaya, the mother of Aheziah, saw that Her son was dead. She arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judea.

You got on the line of she destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. I guess it’s all over now. It’s all gone. But they did have one. A son that was called Joash in the next verse. And they stole him away from among the king’s sons that were slain and put him and his nurse in a bed chamber and so the hid him so that he didn’t get slain. All of them but one. And he began to reign when he got older in chapter 23 and look in verse 3.

And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God and he said unto them, Behold the king’s son shall reign. So the Lord or as the Lord has said of the sons of David, it’s going to be one, but you notice they keep killing them and killing them and killing them, but always one seems to escape. Just one seems to escape. You just ask just a coincidence. That’ll follow. I believe this is a divine book.

I believe there’s a God in heaven. That intervenes into the affairs of man. You and I are supposed to believe that, or we wouldn’t be here this morning. You believe that there is a God and that there is a reason for praying because you do believe that there’s a purpose to life. We have to believe that something is working behind the scenes or there would be no hope for anything. I believe we’re living it some exciting times in this world.

I’m glad to be alive. I’m glad to live now. Because if I had lived before, I’d be dead. Second Kings. I want you to look in Second Kings chapter 20. Second Kings in chapter 20. Anybody ever heard of a guy named Hezekiah? Everybody’s heard of Hezekiah. What did you know that Hezekiah really did write a book? Hezekiah is a real person. I’m looking verse one. It says, in those days, in those days was Hezekiah sick unto death and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amos, that came to him and said to him, thus saith the Lord, sit thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live.

How would you like to have that? Hey, you’re gonna die, get your house in order. I got news for y’all. If the rapture doesn’t take place in our lifetime, yet you’re gonna die. Get your house in order. Prepare to meet thy God. Now, here Hezekiah was gonna die, but then Hezekiah went on this pity party. He said, oh God, I don’t wanna die. If I’m dead, I can’t praise you. I can’t do anything for you. Let me live, and he prays to live.

Well, says I am verse five. Turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father. I’ve heard thy prayer, seen thy tears, the whole I will heal thee. On the third day, thou shalt go up to the house of the Lord. And I will add unto thy days 15 years. I’m gonna let you live another 15 years. He said, well, give me a sign, give me a sign. He said, I’ll give you a sign.

He says, you want the sun to go forward 10 degrees or backward 10 degrees. He said, I want to go backwards, normal for it to go forward. So he said, all right, that shall be done. And it happened. So everything is wonderful now. Now, if he had died, he had some sons, but there was a problem. God allowing him to live for 15 years, three years later, he had a son, three years later, he had a son. Well, look down here in verse 17.

Verse 17 says, behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which My Father, hath laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon, nothing shall be left saith the Lord and of thy sons, that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget, shall they take away. And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the kings of Babylon.” Do you see a problem in that verse? They shall be eunuchs. Do you see a problem here?

means they cannot have what? They can’t have kids. This is the king’s sons. This is what’s going to happen to them. For the devil sure has taken care of this. The devil does not got another one, and now the fight is on. It’s all over. Ah, not so fast. Not so fast. You know what Hezekiah says in verse 19? Then said Hezekiah under Isaiah, good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he says, is it not good if peace and truth be in my days?

In the words, what’s coming down the road? I don’t care. As long as it’s peace in my day. He came out of his sons. They’re long as I got peace. There’s something that’s wrong even in our country. We are looking for the rapture to take place so bad that we don’t care about preserving our country. And we think that as long as we get out of here, it doesn’t matter what our kids and our grandkids are going to have to face.

I’ll say, shame. We still have a responsibility to do what we can with what we have, where we are, and still do what’s right. But anyway, in verse 21 it says, and Hezekiah slept with his fathers And Manasseh, his son, rained in his dead. Now get this and look in verse one of chapter 21. Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to rain and rain 50 and five years in Jerusalem. How old was he? 12 years old. How many years did God give to Hezekiah?

15. If he hadn’t extended his life, there would have been no I’m an Asa. Oh, that’s just a coincidence. You see, what I do, I read between the lines. I get to see more. Then the person who just reads the words, but don’t understand the purpose of what going on. Believe in that there is a war that God has promised. Remember that little poem that I wrote and I sang it to my wife a couple weeks ago? We saw the rainbow through the rain.

We saw the light within the night. It means as you read, you’re keeping the promises of God in your mind as you go through scripture and you’re going to be able to do it. You’ll see things that maybe somebody else don’t see is clearly. And the word of God comes alive. Did you know that if you applied it in your own personal life, you see, you’re going to have problems. You already know that. We live in a sinful world.

But do you see the promises of God through all of that? They keep you going. Or do you think that if life isn’t worth letting, this book is true. It is an awesome book. your Bible and turn to the book of Jeremiah 22. Jeremiah 22. Here we have a serious, serious problem. Jack and I are the king. Wicked king. Bad man. He was so bad that God made a vow. He is not going to have any of his seed.

From this point on, nobody from his seed will ever set upon the throne of Israel. Wait a minute. What about the promise he made to Abraham? What about the covenant he made with David? And even when he talked about Solomon having a son that’s going to be upon the throne, he got to come to the royal line. Look what he says in verse 24, chapter 22. This is too good. As I live saith the Lord, though Kaniya, the son of Jahoechim, King of what?

Judah. Remember now Jesus Christ has to be born of the tribe of Judah. He has to be of the royal line to claim the throne of Israel. This isn’t just a coincidence that these things are put in the scripture. When you read it and you see this and you think, no, wait a minute now. I know this has to happen. How does he get out? How does God get out of this? This is really a mess because he was in the line, he’s the king, but nobody from him can set up on the throne.

Get what he says. We’re the seed on my right hand yet what I plucked the hands. And then he goes down here and says, look in verse 28, is this man, Kaniya, a despised, broken idol? Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out He and His seed.” You’re on the line then. And are cast into a land which thou know not? Verse 30, Thus saith the Lord. Right ye this man, what that word? Childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, for no man of His seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.

Now we have been boxed in to a dead end street. No way to get out of this. Ah, but God had a way. You see, God already had it all figured out. Nobody tricks God. Nobody outsmarts God. You can’t do it either. And don’t think you can do whatever you want to do and get away with it. Oh, no, you can’t. If this book is true, and if these stories are true that took 1600 years to write, did you know when this book says there’s a heaven, there might be one.

When this God says there’s a hell, there might be a hell. Did you know that all of this and bringing this one person into the world, through the royal line, and how close it came to being broke over the centuries? That’s a miracle. And here comes Jesus Christ, just like God had promised. That seed that everybody had been waiting for, he showed up. Now, take your Bible and turn to the book of Luke chapter 2. Now, I know it’s not Christmastime, and Jesus has always born Christmastime, but I want to see this because it’s not just a coincidence.

Luke chapter 2, look in verse 1. And it came to pass in those days. Now keep us in mind. It’s been 400 years of silence from the Old Testament, the New Testament. 400 years, not a prophet would speak. Remember America has only been here a little over 200 years. Bigger another 200, 400 years Israel. No prophet. A famine from the Word of God. Nobody preaching it, nobody teaching, nobody warning. Think like God has forgot all about this thing. And they didn’t have a king.

Just like God said. And Israel will be forever without a king. Unless God could find a way. So here in verse one, and it came to pass on those days that they went out to decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Now at this time, see Israel under the domination of Rome. And they had to go to their own city to be taxed in verse three, verse four. And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, under the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because in Micah chapter five in verse two, when it says, without Bethlehem, Ephrata, they’ll be little among the thousands of beauty and yet out of thee shall he come forth, there to be ruler in Israel, who’s going forth and been from old to everlasting.

The one that’s going to be born, never had to begin, never hasn’t any, He could be born in Bethlehem. Here he is. And he came down here and looked what he says in verse 11. For unto you was born this day in the city of David, a what? A savior which is Christ the Lord. That seed was born. Four hundred years after that was mentioned there in Jeremiah over that. And lo and behold, he shows up. Now how does he get to have the right to be the king of Israel.

And how does he prove the lineage? Well, there was a guy named David who had a son named Solomon that built Solomon’s temple, and that was the line of the king. But he had another son named Nathan, and Nathan was also of the son of David, but he wasn’t of the line of the king. So Mary was born. Mary came through the line of Nathan. Joseph was born. He was born of the line of Solomon. And what did they do?

And they got married. And when they got married and the Holy Spirit hovered over Mary and placed the seed into Mary’s womb, not Joseph, the Holy Spirit, overshadowed her. And Mary has a child. Now the child is of the Lion of David. So he can be born of the Lion of David, But now to be the king, he has to be of the line of Judah through Solomon. So Joseph could not claim the throne because the curse had been put upon the line of Jack and Ia, and that he cannot claim any of his sons could ever be upon the line.

So Israel is forever without a king unless there is a way. And so by Joseph and Mary getting married, the problem is solved because when they got married, Joseph became the legal father of Jesus Christ. And he was in the right line. So the son who did not have the curse of the line upon him has a right to claim the throne. And since Christ, nobody can claim his generation after him. He was cut off out of the land of the living.

And unless Jesus Christ comes back, Israel will forever be without a king. But He is coming back. He’s the only one. And you stop and you think about this conflict down through the ages and how that the devil has tried to… Did you know whenever Herod went in there and to Bethlehem and he was trying to kill all these babies from two years old and under? He was stabbing at one baby. He was stabbing at one baby. Trying to kill all these babies.

It was God that intervenences. Don’t you go by that way. You go down and you take your child and you get down into each of them. And God let him know when he could come back. All these things that worked behind the scene. See, God doesn’t stop the devil from doing all of his work. But God can intervene here and there when he needs to be done. And when you read it and you see it in it’s a beautiful story, when Jesus Christ went to the cross, he took the sins of the world upon himself.

He was the seed that God was talking about that’s going to take and restore everything. Is he because of him when we trust him as our Savior, God gives us a new birth without a sinful nature? And one day this old physical body is going to die. And all I’ll have left is my new birth, the divine nature. I’ll be just like Christ, just like God in my new birth. And there will be a new heavens and a new world in which we’re going to live.

And behold, he says he makeeth all things new. And John says in the book of Revelation, and I, John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And God says, we shall be his people, and he will be our God. I’m so glad that somebody, 49 years ago, explained to me how to have eternal life. Now nobody, nobody can make you believe this story. I know it sounds hard to believe, but it’s all in the book and the proof that it’s been written hundreds and hundreds of years before Christ ever came.

And that’s 2,000 years ago. And Christ did come. We have more proof that Jesus Christ was here than we have that Julius Caesar was here. But look at this one thing. Why did He come? Because there was no other way for man to be saved. Man cannot save himself by his good deeds. So God says that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world and he was born without a sinful nature because he didn’t have an earthly father.

See, Joseph was not his father, not his real dad. So he didn’t have a sinful nature. It was the Holy Spirit that planted the seed within Mary and Mary was used by God and that’s why Christ says in the book of Hebrew, a body has thou prepared me. That’s what they’ve been waiting for all this time and the devil behind the scene is trying to stop that seed and crush in his head. Satan was defeated at the cross. You and I don’t have to live in defeat.

The devil don’t have to get victory over your life. I don’t have to die and go to hell because Jesus Christ came into the world and he lived a perfect life. He had no sin. He could not be condemned. They could find no fault and he didn’t have to die, but because he loved us, he willingly surrendered and gave himself as a sacrifice for our sins. And all that we have to do to go to heaven, believe he did it for us, God says, you cannot earn eternal life, you cannot work for it, you can’t buy it.

You don’t have to join this church to go to heaven. You don’t have to give any money to go to heaven. You don’t have to change your life to go to heaven. all you have to do and say, only thing you can do is will you believe that he did it for you? When you believe he did it for you, God puts that payment he made to your account and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did.

That’s the best news in all the world. There’s no tricks to it. I can’t make you believe it. But the body I do, I’ll wholeheartedly believe it. Look up here, this hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin because of sin in the garden. Every person born is born with a sinful nature and that’s why we all sin. And there’s no way for us to ever have any children without them having a sinful nature.

They inherit it from us. And because of that sin, we all sin and we all die. And God says, you can’t save yourself from that. You’re going to die. You’re going to get old. you’re gonna get sick, you’re gonna have problems. But I got some good news. God loves us. This hand represents Jesus Christ. God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loved us and He hates our sin because our sin separates us from God. And God says, see, to go to heaven, you’ve got to be perfect.

And none of us are perfect with all of sin. And God says, you can’t earn your way to heaven. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said, if we would believe that He did it for us, He’d put this payment to our account. We get to go to heaven on what He did. Yes, it took all those centuries. But He came right on schedule, right on time. It says, in the process of time, born of a woman, Christ came into the world, and He made the payment that was 2,000 years ago.

I can’t make you believe that, but I sure hope you do. If you’ll believe that He did it for you, He said He would save you from hell. If you return life and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did for you, you don’t earn it, you don’t work, but you can’t buy it. It’s a gift. It’s totally free. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. Friend, if you hear this morning, you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior.

I urge you to believe what I’ve just told you, the whole story, the conflict of the ages. And that conflict was one at the cross. You see, you have a personal conflict inside of you. Trying to decide is it true or not true? Is this for real or not for real? And maybe there’s something inside of you that says, you need to believe this. If you don’t believe this, you’ll spend an eternity separated from God in a literal fire burning hell for all eternity.

And it didn’t have to be that way. You may recall the day that you sat here at Calvary Community church and you heard this preach of pleading with you and you said I just can’t believe it. And you may reject it, walk out. You say, well, I don’t want to take and accept it right now. No decision is a decision. Would you trust him? Behold, now is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Would you trust Christ as your Savior?

Would you trust him right now? I’m going to have a prayer in just a moment. But before I do, I’m going to ask you If you will accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, to let me know by raising your hand. If you’ve already trusted Christ as a Savior, you don’t need to do it again. But if you’ve never done it, you’ve heard about it, but you just never did. Would you trust Him as your only hope of going to heaven?

Not your good works, not the preacher, not the church, but will you trust Jesus Christ? Him alone as your only hope of going to heaven. If you will do that, I’d like to have care for you. So I’m going to ask you in your quietness to this moment, if you’ll slip your hand very quickly and put it right back down to that creature, that made sense to me. And I will accept Jesus Christ right now as my Savior and I want you to pray for me.

Would you slip your hand very quickly? Anyone at all? Just slip it up. I’m not going to have you forward. I’m not going to have you embarrassed in any way. I’m not going to point you out. It’s over and done with when you make a decision. You want it all? Our Father, we thank You so much for all that You’ve done for us. We thank forgiven us such a story. And then putting it in your word in such a way, it just weeds it back and forth.

And we can see how miraculous it is, how you’ve intervened over and over again. We thank you for this time together, bless each person for being here. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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I want to speak to you on a subject this morning and I want you to follow me. The subject is the conflict of the ages. The greatest war that there’s ever been. Years ago, I remember watching this movie, it was called The Longest Day. Anybody ever remember that movie? The longest day, a lot of you in here, The Longest Day. This is the longest war that there’s ever been. And it’s more important than the war that you might think is going on in your little life.

There are one that you might think is on the horizon. So anyway, I want to explain it to you, I hope you see it and I hope that you’ll enjoy it because as you see this, it’ll blow your mind seeing how close everything came to total chaos if God had not intervened over and over and over and over again. So turning your Bible to the book of Genesis in chapter 3, Genesis and chapter 3, now you you and I know God made in the beginning Adam and Eve.

And we know that the devil took over the serpent and then he talked to the woman. And then she listened to him. And then Adam listened to her. And then when they were confronted by God Adam blamed the woman. The The woman blamed the serpent. So I guess it was all God’s fault. But God said something to the serpent that I want you to see. You look there in verse 14, and the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly, shall thou go, and thus shall thou eat all the days of thy life.

Well, I’m glad I’m not a snake. And I will put enmity between the and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel. I believe this is the first prophecy given in Scripture. And what he’s saying is that down the road there’s going to be a seed that comes from the woman and she says that her seed is going to hit the head, but bruise his heel. Now we know that the serpent is the devil and out at the cross Jesus Christ healed the head of the serpent, but bruised his heel.

Now if I’m out and I’m walking and I see something, the first thing I do is when I see that snake is I want to stop it. Not with my toe, but with my heel or run as fast as I can, which is generally even the first thing that I do. But I have stopped many a snake. You saw I’ve never done that. Well, you didn’t live like I did either. Now here is a prophecy about what’s going to happen down the road.

So we know the seed of the serpent and the seed of of the woman, there’s going to be a war down the road. Now, as you go down through here, you see many interesting things. Now, first of all, look there in Genesis chapter 4. Genesis chapter 4, and Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived. Bear Cain and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord, Eve and Jehovah. She thought maybe this is the one maybe. She She again bear his brother Abel.

And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. In the process of time, which is what life is about, the process of time, we know that Cain did not bring the right offering to the Lord. Abel did. He brought a blood sacrifice, but came didn’t. He brought the works of his hand. This is the first conservative and the first liberal in the world. They’re right here. So there was a disagreement. And God told him, says, look, all you’ve got to do is just bring the right offer.

But he was mad and didn’t do it. He hated his brother, Abel, and he slew him. Kill him. Now, God had promised, He’s going to bring into the world a seed which down the road is referring to Christ. So that means that there has to be a line all the way down through, a line of faith, a line of those that believed in the Lord. And the lion is not and cannot be broken. And through this seed what he just had Cain and they had Abel.

And Abel was murdered. So afterwards there was another one that came along. His name was Seth. And so Seth talks about the godly lion from Adam. And then take your Bible look there in the book of Genesis in chapter six. 6, Genesis chapter 6. As time went on and people multiplied upon the earth and they lived to be a long age, the Bible says this is what happened. In verse 5, God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth. It grieved him at his heart. So he says that I’m just going to destroy. In verse seven, man from the face of the earth. But in verse eight, he says, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. So the whole earth of all the people, and remember they lived to be eight and nine hundred years old. There could have been a lot of people upon the earth.

And then he says, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. So we’re talking about a man, a wife, three sons, and their wives, eight people total. But now God had made a promise that through her seed is going to be a person born down the road, it’s going to be this redeemer that’s going to take care of the devil for us. that this war is coming down there. What’s a great story? And as you read the Scriptures and you go through from the very beginning and you go through the Scriptures, you can see the trail of the serpent.

You can also see how the devil is trying to destroy the line all the way down through. And how that God miraculously intervenes over and over and over again. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord in Luke and verse 12. And God looked upon the earth, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Now, I believe that the devil has a lot to do with that. He’s working behind the scenes. The Bible calls him the prince of the power of the air.

The devil is alive and well on planet earth. Hellenzi wrote a book about that some years back. It was a good book, and it was the truth. He is alive, and he is well, and he is working very hard. You can’t see the evil spirit. You cannot see the devil, but then you can’t see God either. But there is another war going on at the same time as ours. The Bible described in the book of Ephesians in chapter six, talking about the wows of the devil, the principalities and the powers and all the things that’s behind the scenes that you and I can’t see with a naked eye.

I would venture to say, and I honestly believe that there are a lot of angels in this room. I believe there’s demonic angels in this room. I believe there’s God’s angels in this room. And if it wasn’t for God intervening for us, would all be killed. You see, you believe I? Yes, I do with all my heart. I believe I’m alive only by the grace of God. And I believe that God has given to me a guardian angel. I probably had 10 when I started, but they’ve all resigned except one.

I still got one left. Now take your Bible looking Genesis chapter 17. Genesis in chapter 17. God made a promise and he has to fulfill his word. So in chapter 17, I want you to look there in verse three. Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, as for may behold, my covenant is with thee and thou shall be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram. Well, that name shall be called Abraham.

I have for a father of midnations have I made thee. And he says in verse 7, and I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations with an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and you ought to underline this and to thy seed which is referring to Christ. As you’ll see there in the book of Galatians in chapter three, we don’t have time to look at it, but just take me at my word or you can take God at His word, thy seed after thee.

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land where in thou art a stranger. All the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, I will be their God. So there is to be this unbroken line all the way down through, then this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and there to believe on the Lord, an unbroken line of faith in the Lord.

Now God had allowed many times for Israel to be whooped by many nations, but there was always a remnant that he had to keep. There always has to be a remnant in which to start again. And sometimes it came down to one person, one family. And the devil working behind the scenes, trying to eliminate this and keep this from happening. Boy, it’s an awesome story. When you follow this red line all the way through scripture, this crimson trail, this red trail, the conflict of the ages.

So look there in verse 15. Verse 15 says, and God said unto Abraham, as per Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not call her Sarai, but Sarah, and her name be. And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her. Ye I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be of her. And Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born unto me that is a hundred years old and shall Sarah that is many years old shall she bear an Abraham said unto God all that ishmael might live before the and God says Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my covenant with him for everlasting covenant and with his seed after him.

So God made a vow to Abraham, a covenant. It would not be through Ishmael from where we have the Arab nations come from. God says, through Isaac shall by seed be called. So there’s a trail that it has to follow. And so Ishmael, well, there were problems there. And he was sent out because there was problems going on that they didn’t like, and Sarah didn’t like. So he sent Hagar and her son out and God said, I’m going to make them a great nation.

And they have become a great nation. And Israel is this low-bitty, tiny nation. But if it wasn’t for the Lord intervening, you could disprove this book by just violating this by just killing all the Jews. Kill them all and you’ll prove the Bible is not true, but you can’t do it. I don’t recommend trying. It says, I will bless them that bless thee and I’ll curse them that curse thee. And listen to me, I don’t like the present administration putting the curse upon America.

But when they take a stand in the UN against the nation of Israel, it brings a curse upon this country. And I really believe that. By the way, when they did that, it’s when that thing in the goth busted too. But we’ll move right along. That’s okay. So we know that it’s going to come through Isaac and then through Jacob and the wars on. And so that’s why you’ll find out many of the battles that goes on and how it happened.

Take your Bible, look in the book of Exodus in chapter 1. The book of Exodus in chapter 1, Make sure you follow me. Don’t go to sleep now. This is no time to take a nap You’re done it before you came. I told this one person I says wake up that person set beside you So I will not you put him to sleep you wake him up so Look in chapter one of the book of Exodus and look in verse 16 In verse 16, let me start first of all in verse 7 because you got to get the the background him and the children of Israel Now they’ve been down in Egypt They’ve been down there for 400 years and the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly Multiplied whacked exceeding mighty and the land was filled with them Now there are rows of a new king over

Egypt that did not know Joseph He said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and myer than we? Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it come to pass that when they’re falling out in any war, they join with our enemies and fight against us and so get them up out of the land. Therefore, they did set over them task master to afflict them with their burdens and they built for Ramses’ treasure cities, put them in Ramses, but the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew and they were grieving.

because of the children of Israel and the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigor and the King of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives of which the name of the one was Shephra and the name of the other was poor, and he said, when ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see there upon the stool, if it be a son, then he shall be killed, you shall kill him.

But if it’s a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded him, and they saved the men, children alive. Now let’s just pretend If they had killed all the male children, it would have destroyed the line. You see, the line has to come through the tribe of Judah because that was told to Jacob because of Judah and the Septro should not depart from the lawgiver because of Shiloh talking about the certain tribe, the Messiah, has to come through.

Well, here you have them going to do away well, all of the children, the male children, then that would have broken the line and they would never have been. So even though they may have one golden mind, there’s somebody behind the scenes that’s scheming, trying to destroy the nation of Israel, trying to destroy, kind of keep that one person, that seed coming down the road that’s going to do in the Old Devil himself and there’s only one person that can do it and he has to come through this godly line that God has set up.

Take your Bible and look there in the book of Esther chapter 3, the book of Esther. Nehemiah, Esther, Job chapter 3, look in verse 1, there was a problem here and that was that Esther was a Jewish in captivity, in Persia. There was a man named Haman who wanted to kill all the Jews. So he went to the king and got the king to pass a law. Yeah, I’ll let you. But God intervened by causing Esther’s Uncle Mordecai to do something wonderful and special a few years before.

And one night the king wasn’t able to sleep. He had a nightmare. He called O’Haim and then it says, what should we do? He found out that there was a guy that had saved his life. They had never done anything for him. He says, what should we do to a person that the king really wanted to honor? Oh, he said, oh, he thought it was him. He said, oh, I think we ought to honor him and let him ride the favorite horse and through city and everybody all and all that stuff like it.

He says, then let’s do that for Mordecai. Well, Haman hated Mordecai. Anyway, it came down to the queen. She had to go and see the king. And she was afraid to see the king because you didn’t approach the king unless he asked for you to do so, could mean he could tell you. That’s final. She did and she had a sound countenance. He said, what’s wrong? He says there’s a guy named Haman wants to kill all the Jewish people.

And if Haman had succeeded to kill all the Jews, remember the line of the tribe of Judah were in captivity and they would have killed all the seed. It’s amazing how God intervened. Now if he had got his way, they would have killed them all. God allowed Mordecai to do something for the king years before. And God caused him not to be able to sleep that one night. And so he got out the books and began to read the books and just happened by coincidence to see what had happened.

See, God is working behind the scenes too. You see, there’s the devil who wants to destroy you, and there’s a God who is looking after you also, and you’d be surprised how much is won or lost because of your desire to win. And many times we’re the one who quit and give up when we could have won. So many of God’s people have declared defeat right before the victory. when they could have seen God do something wonderful for their life.

But there’s a battle going on, and you need to understand it and believe that. Now, it was stopped by one man, one woman. Take your Bible, I’m looking second chronicles. Second chronicles in chapter 21. Chapter 21. I want you to see this at second chronicles, chapter 21. And you want you to see this in verse three. He says, and their father gave them great gifts of silver. And of gold and of precious things with bent cities and Judah, but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

He was the firstborn, now get this. Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, slew all of his brothers with the sword and divers also of the princes of Israel. He killed them all so that nobody else would take the throne. So he kills everybody. In verse seven, how be it the Lord would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant that he had made with David. And so you’re an underlinedeth as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.

Well, God had made a promise. And now he didn’t kill everybody but himself. So the line, but lo and behold, it’s not all over till it’s over. Look there in 2 Chronicles chapter 21 and look down in verse 16. In verse 16 says, more over the Lord stirred up against Jehoram, the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians, and they came up on the Judah and break into it and carried away all the substance and was found in the King’s house and His sons also and His wives so that there was never a son left.

Oh Save Jehoah has the youngest of his sons He had one left He had a son had one left God took care of all the rest of them, but there was still one left now his name is changed and up in verse one of chapter 22 It’s a haziah but he’s the same person and so he had slain the others and So he says in the last part of verse one so Ahaziah the son of Johorim king of Judah rained and And now it goes on here and talks about these looking verse five He walked also after their counsel and went with your horum the son of ahab king of Israel to war against a ZL King of Syria and blah blah blah blah blah and you’ll find out as you go down through here There’s a mama There’s generally always a mama gets involved

She didn’t like what was being done and she wanted to secure the officer We’re looking in verse 10. And when at the lie, the mother, as I say, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judea, you know what I’m gonna lie to. She destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah. I guess it’s all over now. It’s all gone. But they did have one, a son that was called Joash in the next verse.

And they stole him away from among the king’s sons that were slain and put him and his nurse in a bed chamber And so they hid him so that he didn’t get slain all of them but one and He Begin to reign when he got older in chapter 23 and look in verse 3 and all the congregation Made a covenant with the king in the house of God and he said unto them be home the king’s son shall reign So the Lord or as the Lord hath said of the sons of David, it’s going to be one.

But you notice they keep killing them and killing them and killing them, but always one seems to escape. Just one seems to escape. Just ask just a coincidence. That’ll fathom. I believe this is a divine book. I believe there’s a God in heaven that intervenes into the affairs of man. You and I are supposed to believe that, or we wouldn’t be here this morning. You believe that there is a God and that there is a reason for praying because you do believe that there’s a purpose to life.

We have to believe that something is working behind the scenes or there would be no hope for anything. I believe we’re living at some exciting times in this world. I’m glad to be alive. I’m glad to live now. Because if I had lived before, I’d be dead. Second Kings. I want you to look in Second Kings chapter 20. Second Kings in chapter 20. Anybody ever heard of a guy named Hezekiah? Everybody’s heard of Hezekiah. Did you know that Hezekiah really did write a book?

Hezekiah is a real person. And look in verse one. It says, in those days, in those days was Hezekiah sickened to death, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amos, that came to him and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, sit thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. How would you like to have that? Hey, you’re gonna die. Get your house in order. I Got news for y’all if the rapture doesn’t take place in our lifetime yet.

You’re gonna die Get your house in order prepare to meet thy God now Here has a kaya was gonna die, but then has a kaya went on this pity party He said oh God. I don’t want to die If I’m dead, I can’t praise you. I can’t do anything for you Let me live and he prays to live. Well, says I in verse five, turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, the sift the Lord, the God of David, thy father.

I’ve heard thy prayer, seen thy tears, the whole I will heal thee. On the third day, thou shall go up to the house of the Lord, and I will add unto thy days fifteen years. I’m going to let you live another fifteen years. He said, well, give me a sign. Give me a sign. He said, I’ll give you a sign. He says, you want the sun to go forward 10 degrees or backward 10 degrees. He said, I want to go backwards, normal for it to go forward.

So he said, all right, that shall be done. And that happened. So everything is wonderful now. Now, if he had died, he had some sons, but there was a problem. God allowing him to live for 15 years, three years later. He had a son. Three years later, he had a son. Look down here in verse 17. Verse 17 says, Behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy father hath laid up in store unto this day shall be carried into Babylon, nothing shall be left saith the Lord and of thy sons, that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget, shall they take away?

And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the kings of Babylon.” Do you see a problem in that verse? They shall be eunuchs. Do you see a problem here? It means they cannot have what? They can’t have kids. And these are king sons! This is what’s going to happen to them. Well, the devil sure has taken care of this. The devil does not got another one, and now the fight is on. It’s all over! Ah, not so fast!

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See, there’s another world out there that we’re not even knowledgeable of yet. What’s going to take place? But what do I have? Why should I believe that? Jesus said it. He says it, it’s got to be true. And I believe that what he says is true. Look in Matthew chapter 4. Just turn to your left. There are just a few pages to Matthew and chapter 4.

And you notice there in verse 1, then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil? So he went into the wilderness. He knew what was going to happen. He’s the Lord, and the devil was going to tempt him. But look what happened. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights afterwards he was hungry. Well, wouldn’t you be hungry? I’m hungry after 40 minutes.

I get very hungry. 40 days? And he says in verse 3, and when the tempter came to him, he says, If thou be the Son of God, if you’re the who you claim to be, command that these stones be made bread. Well, didn’t Jesus have the ability to take stones and make bread out of them? He could have done that. Could have been me, I probably would have. Or boom, there’s McDonald’s. We’re a Burger King, I like Burger King better than McDonald’s.

But you’d be surprised. Jesus allowed himself to be tempted. And then he says in verse 4, but it he answered and said, it is written. You ought to underline those words. It is written. That means in the Old Testament, previously worded there, man shall not live by bread alone, by every word to proceed it out of the mouth of God. In other He put his stamp of approval upon the Old Testament. And wherever that verse is found, he put his approval.

This is true. You can believe it. Jesus knew the scriptures. But do you know who else knew the scriptures? The devil. The devil knows the word of God. And he twists a lot of things in the word of God. Look what he says in verse six. and the devil, sudden to him, Jesus, if thou be the son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hand, they shall bear thee up, lest at any time, thou shalt dash thy foot against the stone.

Alex, I was over to his house yesterday, God blessed them. They’re really going through some fire right now. And he had got up to go outside a little bit, and he had his walker in any way he stumbled. It is toe and split it wide open on the bottom of it. So they had to get the hospice to come out there and they had to stitch it up for him. And just so easy, just to stub his toe. The devil says, the angels are watching over you, lest you even stub your little toe.

Why don’t you just cast yourself off of that up there, that pinnacle? The angels are going to catch you. It’d be like me saying, you know, I’m in the hands of the Lord. Nothing can happen to me if God doesn’t want it. So I’m going to go to the very top of the Empire State building and jump off. Tip not the Lord, thank God. I jump off halfway down. So far so good. But you know, and I know I’ve got an appointment with the ground.

I don’t believe that God’s gonna send his angels and bear me up lest I hit the payment. I believe he’ll be smack. Jump in front of a mat truck. Well, when it’s my time to go, I’m gonna go. But if God doesn’t want me yet, it’s not gonna happen. Don’t you tempt the Lord by God. That is stupidity. Here’s my thumb. Here’s a hammer. God, if you don’t want me to hit my finger, it will not hurt and I will not feel it.

You know, there’s people that are stupid. Christians that do that in their life and making wrong decisions and thinking that there’s no consequences to it. Nothing’s going to happen. Once you trust Christ as your Savior, you are a child of God. And as a child of God, there’s a price to pay. Now, there’s a little story that I usually sometimes tell with little bitty kids. So I’m going to pretend for a moment you’re just a bunch of little kids because you’re just big kids growing up, that’s all you are.

But you see, you need to understand you should always obey the Lord. And if you don’t obey the Lord, there’s a price to be paid. Well, one time, there’s this little monkey. this little monkey says mama I want to get down to the river she says don’t you ever talk I can again you’re not going down to the river why can I get down to the river cause you get down to the river there’s a crocodile down to river and crocodiles they got big teeth they got a big mouth and they like to eat little monkeys they’re long like a log and They flew down the river like the boat.

He said, I don’t believe there’s no such thing as crocodiles. My mom would just don’t want me to have no fun. I’m gonna get onto the river anyway, so he’d run away from home. He jumped on his monkey vine. Oh! It threw the jungle he went. Came upon the grave big old animal. It was big, huge, like a house. Had big old legs, wanted like a tree. Had great big old ears, like a banana leaf. Had a pale, looked like a rope.

had a long nose. What kind of an animal was that? It was an elephant. He said, Mr. elephant, which way to the river? He said, all the little monkey. You don’t want to get out in the river. You get out in the river. There’s crocky dowels. You’ve been talking to my mama. Y’all making this all up. I’m going to go out in the river. Anyway, he said, all the monkey, don’t get out in there. He said, the crocky dowel.

He says, what does they look like? He said, well, he said, they got lead the beady eyes. And they got teeth like a lion. And they got a big mouth. And they like to eat little monkeys. And a long, like a log. And they float down the river like a boat. He said, you’ve been talking to my mama. I don’t believe no such thing. I’m going on the river anyway. So he jumped on his monkey by. Oh, dude, a junkily went.

Came upon this great big old animal. It was long. He had real tall neck. Real long neck. Way up high. Not the top of the trees. What kind of an animal was that? It was a J-Raph. He says, Mr. J-Raph. He says, which way down to the river? He said, all the little monkeys, you don’t want to go down to the river? He says, there’s crocky-dows down there. He says, all y’all making all this up. Y’all just don’t want me to have any fun.

He says, what do they look like anyway? He said, well. He said, they got leavey eyes and they got teeth like a lion and they got a big mouth and they like to eat little monkeys and a long like a log and they float down the river like a boat. So he said, I’m going down here anyway. I don’t believe none of y’all. He jumped on his monkey vine and he went down to the river and the sun was just going down and he got down to the the river.

Now he knew why his mother didn’t want him to go down to the river. As he got up to the bank and he walked out on this log and he looked down and saw his pretty face. He saw his face in the water. He says, why, I’m the prettiest little monkey in the whole world. Boy am I pretty. This is why my mommy didn’t want me to come. And all of a sudden he realized that the log he was standing on began to move.

It went out to the middle of of water and he’s on this vlog. So he looked a little closer and had little beady eyes. He looked again and had teeth like a lion and he had a big mouth and he was floating down the river like a boat. I wonder what happened to that little monkey? Boys and girls, you want to know what happened to the little monkey? You come back next Sunday and I’ll tell you, and I’ll have a lot of the little kids come and say, what happened to the little monkey?

I said, what do you think happened to the monkey? I think he ate him up! And that’s what happens to a lot of God’s people. They play the silly little game and they never listen to the warnings of the Lord. You have a great Bible education. I’ve heard y’all brag about Hank. Did you know the more you brag about Hank, the more light you’re saying you have, and the more light you have, the more responsibility you have, you should do more because you know more.

Yes or no? Yeah. So this church. to be able to set the place on fire because after all, look who you are. Look what you know. Look how you’ve been blessed. And so there’s so much more that we can do. God has been really good to it. So he says, it is written. It is written. Look what he says down in verse 10. Then said, Jesus unto him, get the hence satan for it is written. It is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God in him, only shalt thou serve.”

So Jesus always quoted the scripture. That’s how you defend yourself. Hide thy word in thine heart. How will all shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word? Thy word have I hidden my heart that I might not sin against thee. So you learn the scriptures. It is truth. It can sustain you. It can help you. Take your Bible and look there in Matthew 24 Peshawar 24. Matthew chapter 24, look there in verse 15.

In verse 15 signification says, wherefore ye, when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by who? Daniel. So now he’s put his approval upon the book of Daniel. That means Daniel contains about the lions den, the three Hebrew children. What he’s saying is, it’s true. The book of Daniel, it is true. Who said that? Jesus said it’s true. You know, I don’t have to have all the higher critics of the day telling me what to believe and what not to believe.

I’m just going to believe the book. I’m going to believe the book. And when he makes a statement here, spoken of by Daniel the problem, well that’s in the book of Daniel in chapter nine. And around verse 27 and 28, this is talking about the Obama-Leafson, death’s only spoken of by Daniel, prophet, and said in the holy play, that’s gonna happen yet in the future. Jesus is saying, this is true. You can believe the word. You can trust the word of God.

Well, if you can believe it and trust it on each thing, you can believe it and trust it on a lot of other things also. Look in verse 35. Same channel, but just looking verse 35. And verse 35 says, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words. You ought to line those. My words shall not pass away. That means his words is incorruptible, abides forever, forever settled in heaven. The word. Oh look there in Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24, boy, these are tremendous verses.

I love these verses. Look what he says in verse 25. The book of Luke chapter 24 in verse 25. And notice what he says down verse 25. Then he said into them, this is after the resurrection of Jesus. He’s talking to these two guys that have no clue who he is. They couldn’t understand who he was at the time. And he said, oh, fools and slow of heart to believe. To believe what? You are on the line, just all that the prophets have spoken.

Jesus, when he went into the temple in the book of Luke, He said that Isaiah said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me and he at the known in me to preach the gospel. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he put his stamp of approval upon the whole book of Isaiah. It’s in that that is true. Here he says, you’ve all your slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. So now we have him putting his stamp of approval upon all the prophets.

Not just that. Look what he says in verse 27. And beginning at Moses, which is the law, and all the prophets, he expounded in the women, all the scriptures, the thing concerning himself. So now he’s put his approval upon the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, and now he’s put his depth of approval upon the prophets. Oh, wait a minute, there’s the law, and there’s the prophet. What about the Psalms? Oh, he left them out.

Oh. Look at verse 44. And he said in the them, these are the words, words, which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written, which were written. So we’re supposed to believe that what was written is the truth. When Jesus was here, he did not correct the Old Testament. There wasn’t one book he corrected because it was wrong. No, every one of them is the truth. And he says here, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in…

Boy am I glad he threw that in here, and the Psalms concerning him. So Jesus just put his stamp of approval on the whole Old Testament. He talked about Jonah and he talked about Noah? He said, where’d he talk about Noah? What, Matthew 24, remember? As it was in the days of Noah? But what about Lot? As it was in the days of Lot? It’s all there. So Jesus put his stamp of approval upon everything that people have questions about.

Whoa, I wonder if that was real. It was all real. Look in John chapter 10. Well, the only way to John chapter 10, stop in chapter 5. Chapter 5 has got a couple of good little verses that will do your heart good. Look at verse 39. Verse 39, search the scriptures. Why would I have to search the scriptures if they’re not true? Evidently, I’m posed to believe them. Now he’s talking to the Pharisees because they didn’t believe on him.

So he told them, he said, search the scriptures for in them. You think you have eternal life? They are they which testify of me. So he says, if you believe the scriptures, then why don’t you believe me? They tell you all about me. So he said in verse 40, and ye will not come to me that you might have life. You can’t have life just because you got a Bible, just because you went to church, just because you mean well, life is in a person, sin Jesus, and you can’t have eternal life unless you accept Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is eternal life. That’s why when you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have eternal life because he is eternal life. He said, he that hath the Son, hath life, and he that hath not the Son, hath not life. So whether you have eternal life or not, depend on whether you have the Son, but if you got the Son, you got the life. And he said, I’ll never leave you, never forsake you. So I can’t get rid of eternal life.

Don’t that make sense? I preached a sermon the other day. And really, it burned me. Kind of got all over my toes. I’ve had people that lead the door, said, ooh, you really got all my toes today. And sometime I preach a sermon, I said, that did hurt because it refers to me too. So here in the book of John, look what he says. I want you to see this down here in verse 45, do not think that I am, will accuse you to the Father.

them. There is one that accuses you even Moses in whom you trust. Now that’s the law. He says, you pose the trust Moses. Look what he said. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me. For he what? Rote of me. So that’s what when you read the Old Testament, you can see Christ all the way through it. All the types, even to the very, the temple, the temple. And that’s why he says, and the word became flesh means tabernacle among us.

That was Jesus Christ, the flesh. In the temple, I mean, whether it was the showbread, I mean, that’s the bread of life and the light of the world, the candle says, it’s all about Christ. Everything is Christ. He says, and Moses told you all about me. He said, if you knew Moses and you believe me, he said, Moses told you all about me. Look what he says there in verse 47. But if you believe not his writings. So are we supposed to believe the writings?

The word. We got the word. That’s why Peter talked about I was there on the amount of transfiguration. I saw the Lord when he was transfigured and became like this, bright as the sun. And I saw Moses. I saw Elijah. He said, I saw all of that. He said, so I was, I witnessed of what I saw, what I heard when the most excellent voice came out of heaven saying, this is my beloved son and whom I am well pleased, he says, but we, we have a more sure word of prophecy.

For sure word. That which is written is better than what you can see and what you can hear. That’s what we can read because the Word of God is true and we’re supposed to believe that it is true. Look here in chapter 10. John chapter 10. I want you to see this. This is so good. Verse 28, verse 28, and I give them eternal life. Not charge you, he gives you what? Eternal life. And get the last part of that verse.

They shall never, never. That means any time, anywhere. Male or female or neuter if you don’t know what you are. It’s all included. Shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father, which gave them his greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father’s hand. I and my father were one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone them. Jesus’ answer says, many good works have I showed you from my father, for which of these good works do you stone me?

The Jews answered him saying, not for a good work, we stoned thee not, but for blasphemy. Do you realize what you’re saying? You’re saying you’re God. You’re making yourself God. When you say the I and the Father are one. You’re claiming to be God and said, that’s blasphemy, that’s why we’re gonna stone you. So he says, what’s so bad about that? Don’t you know back there in the Psalms when he talked about the judges and the judges were ruling in the place of God?

And he says that they were like God. And he says, he are God in the Psalm, talking about the judges, not that they were God, but they were like as God, because they made decisions of right and wrong. Cause they got their message straight from the Lord. And they were judges. He says, that’s in the book, Jesus knew the book. He ought to know the book, he wrote it. So he says here in verse 34, Jesus and to him, is it not written?

Is it not written? You’re gods? He called him gods unto whom the word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken. He says, the word of God can’t make mistakes. The word of God has to be perfectly dovetail. A promise in the word of God cannot go unfulfilled. God has to keep his word. Let me close with this one verse. Look there in the book of Titus chapter one, Titus chapter one, and verse two, the book of Titus chapter one and verse two.

If God cannot lie, and this is his?????- then his word cannot lie. Don’t that make sense? If God can’t lie then his word cannot lie. It cannot be broken. It cannot fail. It is sure. Heaven and Earth may pass away, but not as word. Look what he says there in verse 2, in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began. See, God, before he ever made the first man, made a plan. And his plan was to save man by grace and grace alone.

Look up here. I just use this book. This is you and me. This represents our sins. All the bad things that we do. God says that all of us have sinned. And the wages of sin is death. Since we committed the sin, we owe it. We got a debt. we ought to pay for it. And the wages of sin is death, so that means everybody must die, and everybody will die. And that means an eternal separation from God. So God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin.

But to go to heaven, we have to be without sin. We must be perfect, no sin. Heaven is perfect, God is perfect, but we are not perfect. We cannot save ourselves. Going to church does not pay for sin. Giving money will not pay for the sin. Living a good life will not pay for your sins. There’s only one thing that God will accept for your sin, a death payment. Yours are somebody that can do it for you. Now I wonder who could do this for us.

See, I can’t pay for your sin. Why? Because I’m guilty of my own. Well, let’s let Angel pay for everybody’s sins. Sounds good to me, but he’s got to pay for his own. There’s a lot there. So he can’t help us. Well, who in this room can help us? Who has not committed a sin that could take the place for us? Well, I don’t see anybody here. So God, because he loved us, God cannot die. So he said, I will come into the world and take up on a body.

And Jesus said, a body has not prepared me. And it was prepared to die. Prepared to be a substitute for us. So Jesus Christ had no sin, didn’t have to die. Came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sin separates us from him. So Jesus Christ, who had no sin, didn and pay for all of them came back from the dead. And God said, if I would believe He did it for me, He would put this payment to my account.

I go to heaven because He paid for my sins. If He paid for my sins, I don’t have any to pay for. That’s why I can’t go to hell. He paid for my sins. A man yesterday asked me, he says, he says, I got you. He says, what if you commit suicide? He says, because if you commit suicide, that’s murder. You just killed yourself. How can you ask for forgiveness when you’re dead? I says, is it a sin? He said, yes, I said, paid.

Paid. He paid. Now, I do not advocate people committing suicide. If you listen to my sermon this morning, I believe there’s an appointed time waiting until your appointment. Don’t rush it. Let it happen, but it’s going to come to all of us in a matter of time But I’m so glad that there is the plan of salvation Where Christ came and died and paid for the sins of the world and we have a book that is true We can trust this book every bit of this book.

Let’s pray. Shall we? Every head bow in every eye closed and no one looking around if you hear this evening and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior I’m gonna ask you in just a moment To trust him you see it’s something that God knows about you He knows everything you’ve ever done He knows how you think how you feel He knows what you’re going to do and still loves you But when he died on the cross he died for you Will you believe it?

He did it for you if you will believe he did it for you God said he would save you from hell And give you the free gift of eternal life You see you get to go to heaven because of what he did for you. You didn’t earn it. You don’t deserve that. It’s because God loves you so much. So in the quietness of this moment, we head by nice clothes. I’m going to ask in just a moment to raise your hand.

Raise in your hand. Doesn’t save you. Just let’s me know that what I said made sense. And friend, I’d like to have prayer for you in closing. So is there anyone at all say, yes, I will trust Jesus Christ right now as my savior and preach. I’d like you to pray for me. Just slip your hand very quickly and put it right back down. Anyone at all. Yes, God bless you, hon. You can put it down. Anyone else? If you trust Christ right now as your Savior, God said He would save you right now and give you eternal life.

Anyone else? Our Father, we do thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. For the opportunity we have is your children to come together to study a word. We pray that our faith in you will be strong because faith coming by hearing. Hearing of a word of God. We need to believe that that’s exactly what it is. in Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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So live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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to you and your family. We’re going to be cleaning up. We’ve been seeing a lot of rain coming from But David, he was a sweet psalmist of Israel. the region and the Look, I mean Psalms, he wrote it. You know those Psalms, though, were Psalms. Those are him songs that they sung. But then look what he says in verse two. The spirit, and you ought to unwind us for it. The spirit of the Lord, spakegradation byÍÍ. And his word was in my tongue.

The word. So whenever these prophets, whenever they wrote, they wrote the words that the Lord gave them. These holy men of God spake as they were moved guided along by the Holy Spirit and the very words that they used. Not left up to men’s choice, but God did it. Look in Isaiah chapter 51, Isaiah chapter 51, Isaiah chapter 51.

Now there’s verses here that talks a little bit about the Word of God, talks a little bit about Jesus Christ. But I wanted you to see this, but I got to show you chapter 51st. Look there in verse 4, because I believe it’s a reference to Jesus Christ. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. Wouldn’t that be good? To always always have the right word to say to every person of whatever their need might be.

You just happen to have the right word. Well, you got to be good. He says, He wakeneth morning by morning. He wakeneth my ear to hear as the learn. The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. Neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiteers and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hear. I had not my face from shame and spitting any clue who that might be. This is talking about Jesus Christ.

This is Jesus Christ. And he says, in chapter 51, I want you to look there in the scripture. Chapter 51, looking verse 16. Verse 16 says, And I have put my words in thy mouth. And I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say in the Zion, Thou art mine people. But the rgst part of that verse you ought to underline, I have put my words in thy mouth.

And so when they wrote, they wrote what God told them to write. That is so important to know and to believe that. Look in Jeremiah. a couple pages to youraucus. The book of Jeremiah. Now remember the Bible says about Jeremiahincerity. He was the weeping prophet. He had a miserable . He had a good ministry, but they made his life Pwrthumbnails. He had it bad. If you feel sorry for yourself sometime, just read the book of Jeremiah. You shouldn’t feels are for yourself anymore.

But look what he says in verse 4, then the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, this is what the word of the Lord did. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before thou came his forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Lord God, behold, I cannot speak. I’m a child. But the Lord said unto me, say not I’m a child, but thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee.

And whatsoever I command172 thou shalt speak. It appears he didn’t want to do it. He didn’t want to go. He even tried not to go. But it says his word was in my bones like a flame of fire and I could not hold.etheless I had to do something about it. So in verse 8, beailand not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord. I wonder why God says be not afraid of their faces, because I think he was afraid of their faces.

Verse 9, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, and you ought to underline this, I have putKnown my words in thy mouth. That’s inspiration. That’s why when we say we believe that the Word of God is inspired. It means that God breathed into them His Word and they spoke His Word or they wrote His Word and we have a copy of the Word of God. Behold I have put my Word in thysum out.

Now next Sunday night I’m going to speak on the Word again just so you know. I may have a couple more messages just on the importance of the Word of God because I I am so convinced it is so important becauseleased because this is why we say we believe, we believe, we believe. But if you lose contrace in the Word of God, they ain’t much hope for you. If you really know and believe this is the Word of God, you can trust it.

You can trust, you can rely upon it. You can rest in the Lord. You can cast all of your cares upon Him because you know He cares why because the Word says so. But if you begin to doubt the word, then fear will consume you. If you feed your faith, doubts will start to death. But if you feed your doubts, then your faith will starve to death. You got to write that down. It is so important. I’ll say it again.

If you feed your faith, your doubts will starve to death. But if you feed your doubts, then And your faith will starve to death. Do you get that? Stay right here long enough. You just love it. Get one or two little jewels every once in a while. I hope that when I get through, you have a great appreciation for the book that you have in your hands, the Word of God. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Galatians in chapter 1.

For the last three Sunday nights, been talking about the Word of God itself and the power that it has, the importance of the book and why we should believe it. You say you’ll live your life according to what you believe to really be true. We’re supposed to believe this book is true and base our lives upon it. Your life of 49 years I have been trusting someone I have never seen. But blessed be God, I’ve seen the Bible that I can’t see.

This is the visible word and we have His word and He cannot lie. So chapter 1 and look there in verse 11. Galatians chapter 1 and verse 11. The apostle Paul in writing the book of Galatians, this is what he said. He’s what he said. But I certify you brethren, brethren or make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. In other words, the gospel that I’m talking about, this message that we tell, he said, I didn’t get it from any man.

I’m so glad to know that man did not originate the gospel. He says in verse 12, but I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ, but he can’t get it any better than that. I mean Jesus Christ taught the Apostle Paul. He didn’t learn it from the other apostles.peat didn’t learn it from other disciples. He learned it straight from God. He learned it from the Lord. So I believe that he has a message that is divine and we are supposed to believe that the message that we have that’s written in this book is supposed to be true.

Now I am glad to know that the messageropri is not the same one that everybody else is preaching. I believe that what we have is different. It is unique. You see, there’s a lot of churches preaching a lot of things about how you’re supposed to get to heaven, but whenever they teach, you can lose your salvation, or you can be saved today and lost tomorrow. They don’t understand it at all. They haven’t got a clue. So the gospel is that a man can have eternal life as a freak yet.

Well, that is works. You mean he doesn’t deserve it. He doesn’t earn it. He doesn’t work for it. And whenever God saves you, he saves you. you forever and gives to you the free gift of eternal life and you can know that you’re going to heaven when you die. I know that I have eternal life. I know I’m going to heaven when I die. And I know that between now and the time that I die there isn’t anything I can do that can send me to hell.

I had some people the other day that says well then what’s to keep you from doing all those bad things. I said, because I don’t want to. The one guy asked me says, says, I got you. I’ll just go for it. He says, if you commit murder, where would you go? He said, I’d go to heaven. He said, I mean, you mean to tell me, if you kill somebody, you still go to heaven? I said, yes. I said, if I did get there, it’d be grace, wouldn’t it?

I said, by grace, are you saved through faith? I said, I don’t deserve to go to heaven. He does. Putin I’m glad that God is able to save aois a murderer, an adult, a homosexual. God can save anybody and give me eternal life. And He gives it to you as a gift. It’s totally free. You don’t earn it. You don’t work for it. The best news at all the world. Take your Bible and turn to the book of 1 Peter chapter 1, 1 Peter and chapter 1.

I showed you this verse before, but I want to show you again because of where I’m headed. In 1 Peter chapter 1, look there in verse 23. Verse 23, I want you to see the importance of the Word of God and why we use the Word of God. He says, being born again, not born again, but born again. Not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abide forever. So the word of God is incorruptible, it lives in a bytes forever.

So when you trust Christ as your Savior, your new birth is born of God. And if it’s born of God, it lives in a bytes forever. So your newiott last forever. I asked a guy one time,Naz says, they could tell your children how to live before they’re born. He says, of course not. I says, but see, you’re trying to tell people how they’re supposed to live in order to be born. In order to get to heaven, you’re trying to tell people how to live.

I says, you have to be born into God’s family. Then you can teach God’s children how they’re supposed to live. But you don’t live a certain way to get there. It’s because I am a child of God. I have eternal life. I just believe that if I’m a child of God, I ought to live like it. I think I ought to act like it. I think I ought to talk like it. But if I don’t, I’m so glad to know that I’m still going to heaven.

Not because I love God, but because He loved me. He loved meUGC that He had never cast me out and never lose me. Boy like that. So He says in verse 25, about the word of the Lordaditional for how long forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. preached unto you. So when we preach the gospel, we’re telling them something how that if they will believe it, they can be a child of God for all eternity.

Forever. That’s the only way you can be sure of going to heaven whenever you die. Boy, that’s good news. Turning the Bible to the book of Matthew now in chapter 12. Matthew and chapter 12. We just finished talking about a little of this because of resurrection Sunday. And we talked about Jonah last Sunday morning on Jonah. Run, run, run. Remember he ran from the Lord, he ran to the Lord, he ran with the Lord and he ran ahead of the Lord.

Well, a lot of Christians like that. And Matthew in chapter 12, look what he says, in verse 38, then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered and said, Master, we would see a sign from the, we you want to sign. Wouldn’t youurdue? You know what? If I had the ability to walk over here and walk right out there and stand in there, I think You walk over here and walk right out there and standing there. I think you’ve been fresh.

And if I… And if I told you I’m going to do it again next week and I’m going to walk down the aisle right there, three feet above the air, of the fourth, and everybody can see me. I’ll fetch you. This church will be packed. be packed because everybody wants to see a miracle. They’ll see a sign. And here’s what he said. Ooh, this is going to hurt now. In verse 39, then he answered and sent it to him, an evil and adulterous generation, seeketh after a sign.

Ooh, well that was strong. And there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah. In other words, he said, if you have my word, believe my word. And he says an evil and adulterous generation, seeketh after a sign. But look what he says in verse 40, where as Jonah was three days and three nights in the Whales belly, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the year.

So this became a sign of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and how long it be in the grave, three days and three nights. Not looking in verse 41. The men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgment. Now the men of Nineveh, somebodyCHAPTER went and preached to the people in Nineveh. What was that man’s name?ouple. Lot. Moses, Noah, Jonah. All right, we got the guy got Jonah. Jonah is just set up here in verse 40, but he says, the men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah and behold a greater than Jonah is here.

In other words, it looks like the people in Nineveh in the day of judgment, some day in the future, at some judgment. Those men are going to testify about the other people who heard somebody that was greater than them, and you didn’t believe it, but we heard Jonah and we believed it. And who was greater than Jonah? Behold, a greater than Jonah is here. Who, Jesus, He says, I am here and I’m greater than Jonah, but they had Jonah and they believed.

You have me, Jesus, and you will not believe. Now look what else he says. Verse 42, the queen of the south. This is the Shiva, not that Shiva, Shiva, the queen of Shiva. The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation653 and shall condemn it.” Do you know it’s showing you if this is true? Is it their possibility if this is going to happen that there’s going to be some people sitting in judgment on others, not to determine their destination, but to declare a then look, you had more light than they had and you didn’t believe but they did.

There’s going to come a time when at the Great White Throne, the Ivy League will be there and there’s going to be all these people. And there’s going to be a judgment taking place and it says she is going to rise up in judgment andoubted and sayragon. The men and men of the, they’re going to say something because of what they heard. You see, we don’t have a clue yet of all the things that’s going to take place and transpire in the future.

But I know I’m going to be in heaven. I know I have eternal life. But the understanding of how God says even we shall judge the angels, we shall judge the lost, the world. 1 Corinthians says so. But if all this is true, see there’s another world out there that we’re not even knowledgeable of yet. What’s going to take place? But what do I have? Why should I believe that? Jesus said it. He says it, it’s got to be true.

And I believe thatextreme Matthewisive is true. Look in Matthew chapter 4. Just turn to your left, there are just a few pages. To Matthew and chapter 4. And you notice there in verse 1, then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of theJoined. So he went into the wilderness, he knew what was going to happen, he’s the Lord, and the devil was going to tempt him. But look what happened. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights afterwards he was hungry.

Well wouldn’t you be hungry? I’m hungry after forty minutes. I get very hungry. Forty days? And he says in verse three, and when the tempter came to him he said, if thou be the Son of God. If you’re the who you claim to be. the man that these stones be made bread. Or didn’t Jesus have the ability to take stones and make bread out of them? He could have done that. Could have been me, I probably would have. Or boom, there’s McDonald’s.

We’re a Burger King, I like Burger King better than McDonald’s. But you’d be surprised. Jesus allowed himself to be tempted. And then he says in verse 4, but it, he answered and said, it is written. You ought to underline those words. It is written. That means in the Old Testament, previously worded there, man shall not live by bread alone, by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God. In other words, he put his stamp of approval upon the Old Testament.

And wherever that verse is found, he put his approval. this is true. You can believe it. Jesus knew the scriptures. But you know who else knew the scriptures? The devil. The devil knows the word of God and he twists a lot of things in the word of USL. Look what he says in verse 6, and the devil said in the hymn, Jesus, if thou be the son of God, etary cast thy Unloaded for it is written. He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, And inyles, they shall bear the blessed any time thou shalt dash thy foot against the stone.

Alex, I was over to his house yesterday, God bless them. They’re really going through some fire right now. And he had gotPDATE up to go outside a little bitSources Walker, in any way he stumbled. He’d his toe and split it wide open on the bottom of it.urrection. So they had to get the Hospice to come out there and had to stitch it up for him and Just so easy just to stub his toe The devil says the angels are watching over you, lest you even stubbed your widow toe Why don’t you just cast yourself off of that up there that pinnacle?

The angels are gonna catch you. It’d be like me saying, and well, I’m in the hands of the Lord. Nothing can happen to me if God doesn’t want it. So I can go to the very top of the Empire State building and jump off. Tip not the Lord, thank God. I jump off, halfway down. So far so good. But you know and I know I’ve got an appointment with the ground. I don’t believe that God’s going to send his angels and bear me up lest I hit the payment.

I believe he’ll be smack. Jump in front of a Mack truck. Well, when it’s my time to go, I’m going to go. But if God doesn’t want me yet, it’s not going to happen. Don’t you tempt the Lord by God. That is stupidity. Here’s my thumb. Here’s a hammer. God, if you don’t want me to hit my finger, it will not hurt and I will not feel it.

You know, there’s people that are stupid. Christians that do that in their life and making wrong decisions and thinking that There’s no consequences to it. Nothing’s going to happen. Once you trust Christ as your Savior, you are a child of God. And as a child of God, there’s a price to pay. Now there’s a little story that I usually sometimes tell with little bitty kids. So I’m gonna pretend for a moment, you’re just a bunch of little kids because you’re just big kids growing up, that’s all you are.

But you see, you need to understand, You should always obey the Lord. And if you don’t obey the Lord, there’s a price to be paid. Well, one time, there’s this little monkey. And this little monkey says, mama, I wanna get down to the river. She says, don’t you ever talk like that again. You’re not going down to the river. Why can’t I get down to the river? Because you get down to the river, there’s a crocodile down to river.

And crocodiles, they got big teeth. They got a big mouth. And they like to eat little monkeys. They’re long like a log. And they float down the river like the boat. He says, I don’t believe there’s no such thing as crocodiles. My mom just don’t want me to have no fun. I’m going to get out into the river anyway, so he’s running away from home. He jumped on his monkey vine and threw the jungle he went. Came upon the grave big old animal.

It was big, huge, like a house. house had big old legs on it like a tree had great big old ears like a banana leaf had a pale look like a rope had a long nose what kind of an animal animal was that it was an elephant he said mr. elephant which way to the river he said all the little monkey you don’t want to get out in the river you get out in the river there’s crocky dows that you’ve been talking to my mama y’all making this all up I’m gonna go in the river anyways y’all don’t get out there he says that crocky dows he says what do they look like he said well he said they got lead be the ass.

And they got teeth like a lion. And they got a big mouth. And they like to eat little monkeys. And a long, like a log. And they float down the river like a boat. He said, you’ve been talking to my mama. I don’t believe no such thing. I’m going on a river anyway. So he jumped on this monkey by him. Dude, a junkily went. Came upon his great big old animal. It was long. He had real tall neck. Real long neck.

We’re a pie. Not the top of the trees. What kind of an animal was that? It was a J. Rath He says mr. J. Rath he says which way down to the river he said all the little money you don’t get into river Good under the river. He says there’s clucky diles down there. He says all y’all making all this up You just don’t want me to have any fun He says what do they look like anyway? He said well He said they got leavey eyes And they got teeth like a lion and they got a big mouth and they like to eat little monkeys and a long, like a log.

And they float down the river like a boat. So he said, I’m going down here anyway. I don’t believe none of y’all. He jumped on his monkey vine and he went down to the river and the sun was just going down and he got down to the river. Aww. Now he knew why his mother didn’t want him to get down to the river as he got up to the bank and he walked down in this log and he looked saw his pretty face.

He saw his face in the water. He says, why, I’m the prettiest little monkey in the whole world. Boy, am I pretty. This is why my mommy didn’t want me to come. And all of a sudden he realized that the law he was standing on began to move. Then went out to the middle of the water on this vlog. So he looked a little closer and had little beady eyes. He looked again and had teeth like a lion and had a big mouth and he was floating down the river like a boat.

I wonder what happened to that little monkey? Boys and girls you want to know what happened to the little monkey? You come back next Sunday and I’ll tell you and I’ll have a lot of the little kids come and say, what happened to the little monkey? I said, what do you think happened to the monkey? I think he ate him up!

And that’s what happens to a lot of God’s people. They play the silly little game and they never listen to the warnings of the Lord. You have a great Bible education. I’ve heard y’all brag about Hank. Did you know the more you brag about Hank, the more light you’re saying you have, and the more light you have, the more responsibility you have, you should do more because you know more. Yes or no? Yeah. So this church ought to be able to set the place on fire because after all, look who you are.

Look what you know. Look how you’ve been blessed. And so there’s so much more that we can do. God has been really good to it. So he says, it is written, it is written. Look what he says down in verse 10, then said Jesus unto him, get the hence satan for it is written, it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God in him, only shalt thou serve. So Jesus always quoted the scripture. That’s how you defend yourself.

Hide thy word in thine heart. How will all shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word? Thy word have I hidden my heart that I might not sin against thee. So you learn the scriptures. It is truth. It can sustain you. It can help you. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you You have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ.

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But what if I could have the Spirit of God live inside of me then the Holy Spirit can teach me things about God I would not know no other way? So the Holy Spirit told men what to write. And so by studying the word of God, we can know the mind of God. You see what he says here, look there in verse 15 of chapter two. But he that is spiritual, judges all things or is able to discern all things.

Yet he himself is judged or discerned of no man. The natural man cannot discern a spiritual man. A lost man cannot understand a Christian. No more than a lost man can understand the word of God. A lost man cannot understand God. A lost man cannot understand Christ. Well, if you have trusted Christ as your savior and you decide to be a spiritual God, the individual, and you want to believe what the word of God says and you grow in the Lord, the lost man is not gonna understand you.

Other Christians might understand you, but the lost man cannot because those things spiritually discerned and he doesn’t have the Holy Spirit. In verse 16, for who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? I mean before you ever trusted Christ as your Savior, did God ask you your opinion on things? Whenever he was going to create the heavens on the earth, he called you into a secret chamber and said, hey, what do you think? How do you think I ought to do this?

The Lord did not seek our counseling. But once you trust Christ as your Savior and and the Holy Spirit indwells you in the last part of that verse, but we have the mind of Christ. So God wants us to believe that His Word is the mind of God. That’s why I often tell people, the Bible is God’s mind on paper. So when you study the mind of God, you’ll know how God thinks, how God feels. What He wants you to do, you can understand the will of God for your life.

So it’s a tremendous thing. And the reason you want to study the Word because of the Holy Spirit and dwelling you is because the Holy Spirit now can teach you things that the world cannot know. See there in verse 12, but he says, now we have received past tense, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. See when he says in verse 10, but God had revealed them unto us, that’s revelation.

And in verse 12, now we have received that illumination. You notice down here in verse 13 when he says, but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual, that’s inspiration. So we’re able to study spiritual things by spiritual means. Spiritual things can only be earned by the Spirit. And so that’s why the Lord gave us His Spirit so that we could really know the things that God has given to us. Now, take your Bible and turn to the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.

Deuteronomy and chapter 8. Deuteronomy chapter 8. Now I’ve covered this whole chapter before where he lays before them life and death Look at in verse 1 the start in verse 1 all the commandments which I command thee this day Shall you observe to do that you may live and Multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers and And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness.

And get why he did what he did. Once you understand a little bit about why God did what he did with the nation of Israel, you’ll understand why he does a little bit of a few things with us. Picture Israel as a person, not as a nation. And you’d be surprised how much better it looks. You can understand. God deals with Israel as though Israel was a person, one person. Like Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. And so God deals with that person.

Like that person is just one person. And there were times when Israel was obedient and then Israel was disobedient and God would bless and God would chasten and kick him out of the land and all kind of things. But it’s like a person. And once that person is a miracle child born by faith, they’ll always be. And that’s why in spite of all that the religion of Islam wants to do Israel, there will always be a remnant. They can’t annihilate them.

Can’t. They’ll try. And if Christ doesn’t come back at the end of the tribulation period, they could. Because He says that there could be no flesh be left alive on the face of the year. So I notice what He says here in verse 2. He led these 40 years in the wilderness, get this in your underlining, to humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thine hearts. God wants to reveal to them their problems, their pride, teach them humility, teach them how to walk by faith.

Because remember, they didn’t have water spigots everywhere they turned. They didn’t have McDonald’s. They didn’t have electricity, but do you realize that God gave them a fire at night to keep them warm, cloud by day to keep them cool? He led them in the wilderness for 40 years and gave them miracle food. He taught them how to walk by faith. They had to trust the Lord. It was totally impossible for Israel to supply their needs. So God, I believe in many cases because here we are thousands of years later and God is going to teach you how to walk with him.

And sometimes he kind of turn off some light and he might withhold something from you. But look what he said he did to him. I like this. He says to humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou would have keep his commandment or not. So God tested them. Now God of course already knows that God’s revealing that to them and gonna reward them if they obey and chasing them if they don’t. In verse 3, and he humbled thee and suffered thee or permitted thee to hunger.

Hm. Fed thee with manner which thou knewest not. Neither did thy fathers know. They had no clue when they started walking through the the sea and getting on the other side, they had no clue how in the world Moses was going to feed them and give them water to drink in the desert for 40 years. They had no clue. But God already knew how he was going to do it. And he says, what else he says, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread only.

But by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord, death man live. Did you know if it wasn’t for the grace of God that you can’t live? Now, you and I, we can’t make ourselves live. If God wanted to, He can start part of our little heartbeat, and you’re only one step between you and that. We live only by the grace of God. And He makes this statement. Now, do you remember we read that while I go?

Or I quoted it to you from the book of Matthew, where Satan tempted the Lord after 40 days and 49. I guess you’d be hungry too if you hadn’t ate for 40 days and 40 nights. And he says, he can take these stones and turn them into bread. He says, get behind me Satan. And verse 4, thy ramen. That means your clothes that you had on. Wax not old upon thee. Neither did thy foot swell these 40 years. You know, after a while, you started getting a little bit old, been on your feet too long.

Do you feel swell a little bit? You ever take a trip in a car and after a while you get out and your ankles are swollen a little bit? He said, look, 40 years, your feet never swell. Neither did get it in 40 years. And he says, and your raiment waxed not old upon you. I mean, I want to how long that woman wore that dress? 40 years? And you women are always, you know what? The only woman that ever says, I don’t have anything to wear was even, she told the truth.

Superman says, my wife’s an angel, she’s always up in the air, nothing to wear and harping on something. We Westbrook get dead after a while. So in verse 4, thy raiment wax is not all upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years, because God wants you to know there’s something more important than the food you eat or the clothes that you wear. There’s something about what God said, his word. You and I are supposed to have a holy reverent of respect for this book.

And did you know that a lot of people just never have any time actionGroup to read it? It’s a divine book, inspired book. And there’s truth in this book that God has Ö you. But you’ll never 698 find them if you don’t read them. The preacher can’t tell you everything is in this book. I haven’t yet begun to learn. I’m just kind of scratching a surface. I’veWikipedia been reading and[] studying it for forty-nine years. So do you think you’re going to know it all?

Angel, you think you’re going to get it all in four years? I don’t think so. Now the boy loves the word, but you’re just learning how to study. And itGGGGGGGGast your lifetime. WT You’ll be studying this book. Look there in Matthew chapter five. Matthew and chapter five. Verse book in the New Testament, Matthew, chapter five. And look at verse 13. Matthew chapter five, I want you to see it in verse 13. Yee are the salt of the earth. You’re the salt of the earth.

I guess I could say I’m a salt shaker. Sometime I just try to shake people so I can get the-, salt out. Some Christians they just, have you ever had some salt that won’t pour? a little damp, just won’t pour. But if the salt has lost a savour, how do you salt and salt? Well, it is things for good for nothing but to be cast out and be trodden under the foot of men. You’re the light of the world.

City that is set on the hill can’t be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel. But what is this? We often sing that little song, this little light of mine. I’m going to let it shine. Don’t we? We like that song. This little light of mine. But what we said in verse 16, you ever wonder, well, what is that little light? I know we’re saying, it’s the light of mine. Get the little kids to sing it.

I’m going to let it shine. I’m not going to let Satan blow it out. Nope. Let your light in verse 16. So shine before men that they may see your and here’s the light. You ought to line us to work. You’re good works. You see, }; there is a place for good works. After salvation, but you don’t do good works to be saved. But does God want us to do good works? Yes. Ephesians 2.89, for by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Not to be saved. But after you trust Christ’s Savior, God wasn’t because that’s the light that some people can see. And so therefore you’re supposed to be very careful. Of course there’s the word of God that is the light, the everlasting light and so forth, of course. But He says that they may glorify your Father, which is in heaven. Now look in verse 17. He says, think not Christ speaking.

He says, think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill the law. He fulfilled the prophets, the prophecies that were given. Verse 18, for verily I send you till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle. Those are the two smallest little marks of the only, in the Hebrew alphabet. And he says, they can’t even pass. Every jot and tittle of the word of God is so important.

He says, shall I know wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. God’s word is true. And you and I are supposed to believe that it’s true and have a respect for this book. That’s why I don’t like people changing the Bible. For example, I told somebody this. The King James may seem a little difficult at times to understand, but it’s accurate. Those others that are easier to understand, but they’re not accurate. So I’d rather have one that’s accurate, and then I can study to find out ii means.

But it’s already been translated. I don’t have to redo it again. I really don’t even like to correct words and so forth anyway, but there’s signs when some words, they mean it has changed, but that didn’t mean it was wrong when it was put in here. It’s just that we have change in languages and it doesn’t mean the same thing as it meant back then 400 years ago. Like the word to hinder. words have changed just a little bit and we’ll get into that another time.

So we have a precious book that we can read and we can study, we can believe in it. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Galatians in chapter 3. Galatians and chapter 3. You’ll notice in Galatians in chapter 3, that there is a A statement made to let us know the very words of the scriptures are important, whether they are singular or whether they’re plural. Zo that is important.apeshifter. You see, you have to change at least 10% of a book in order to have it copyrighted.

So the King James is not copyrighted. So if I want to write a Bible so that I can sell it. and have it copyrighted with my name on it. Well, I got to change 10% of what’s there. So many people have written their own little Bibles, but they have to change 10% of itissan. Now, which way would you change? And if you’re going to change 10%, you know that you can call it your own and then you can have it copyrighted.

That means that you can charge for yours and you can’t copy it. And there’s quite a few of them out there. But all of those is done, Not because they’re trying to make it more accurate to the original translation. They’re trying to make money. The purpose behind all these other versions is to make money. There’s people who want to make money andthe Bible is the best-selling book of all times. So why not change this book? Well, then somebody else changes and then somebody else changes.

Well, wait a minute. This, and you don’t have to worry about because it’s not copyrighted. This wasn’t done to make money. Downloadha If you want to, you can copy all of the King James you want to. Andhin I believe that it’s most accurate translation that we can have. So I kinda got used to it. 49 years ago somebody introducedlayout to me and I started using782 my sword. I’ve been a lot of battles with it. And I’ve killed quite a few enemies.

And I kind of like it’s got used to my sword and Somebody comes up and says I=> believe that sword will cut I Did deal I? I’m not going my sword away just because somebody else don’t like my sword I Like my sword and I’m used to my sword and why should I get rid of mine? For somebody else’s when I believe mine is sharper when I believe what I have is the best Now you can do whatever they want with all these other versions, but I like what I have, and that’s what I’m going to use.

Now I hope you understand that a little bit. But look what he says here in verse 16. Now to Abraham and his seed, singular, were the promises made. He say if not and the Adds which is plural, as of many, but as of one and the thy seed, which is Christ because the word been singular referred to Christ. whether a word was singular or plural was important in the word of God. And so we have something that we can read and trust and I don’t think we have to worry too much about it.

Take your Bible look there in the book of Exodus, the book of Exodus. All the way back there in the Old Testament. Exodus, you got Genesis Exodus and Exodus chapter 24. Exodus 24 and look there in verse three. Verse three. Notice what he says in verse three. And Moses came and told the people, and you ought to underline this phrase, all the words of the Lord. And all the judgments. And all the people answered with++++ voice and said resil words, which the Lord have said, we will do it.

The words, you ought to underline these are words. verse four and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. Now either he did or he didn’t. If we can’t believe this in God, in the person of Jesus Christ says, Moses wrote about me. And the653 in haha, 18, or says I will raise up a prophet lack unto me, him you shall hear. And that’s Scythe talking about Jesus Christ. He says, Christ did, Moses wrote about me. And then he says, you don’t believe Moses, because if you were to believe Moses, you would have believed me because he told you about me.

So the words that Moses wrote were to be believed. And Jesus Christ put his stamp of approval upon the law and the prophets. The law, all the law, the conspiring, all the prophets, and the Psalms and all the Psalms. He says concerning me Luke chapter 24. But get what he says in verse four. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early in the morning, built an altar upon the hill, 12 pillars, according to the 12 tribes of Israel.

He sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burn offers and sacrifice, peace offerings of the oxen unto the Lord, and blah, blah, blah, blah. In verse seven, and he took the book of the covenant, read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord had said, we will do and be obedient. So there was a covenant made. And the people were expected to fulfill their end of the bargain. Under the law, it was due, under grace done.

That’s the best way to separate the old covenant from the new covenant. Look in 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel and chapter 23, 2 Samuel and chapter 23. And I want you to see here in 2 Samuel 23, just a couple verses. But look what he says in these two verses verse one now these be the last words of David David the son of Jesse said and the man who was raised upon high The anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet Samus of Israel I love them heard David sing I bet he could really play that harp and Never seen her that song ever played upon the harv sing glory land And so you can’t go to heaven, you can’t play a harp.

You gotta be able to play a harp. Okay, well maybe I, little, little, little lie. See he had a mark harp just like I did. Okay, well maybe he had strength. You know, but a harp’s a harp. End of commercial. I love a harp. But Davis, he was a sweet psalmist of Israel. Look how many psalms he wrote. You know those psalms, those were songs. Those are hymns, the songs that they sung. But then look what he says in verse two.

The spirit, and you’re not on the line this verse, the spirit of the Lord spake by me. And his word was in my tongue, the word. So whenever these prophets, whenever they wrote, they wrote the words that the Lord gave them. These holy men of God spake as they were moved or guided along by the Holy Spirit. and the very words that they used, not left up to men’s choice, but God did it. Look in Isaiah chapter 51, Isaiah chapter 51.

Isaiah chapter 51. Now there’s verses here that talks a little bit about the word of God. Talks a little bit about Jesus Christ. But I wanted you to see this, but I got to show you chapter 51st. Look there in verse 4, because I believe it’s a reference to Jesus Christ. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to Him that is weary. to be good, to always have the right word to say to every person of whatever their need might be.

You just happen to have the right word. Or you got to be good. He says, he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learn. The Lord God had opened my ear and I was not rebellious. Neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiteers and my cheeks to them that plucked off Rohingventus. I had not my face from shame and WRITE any clue who that might be. This is talking about Jesus Christ.

This is Jesus Christ. And he says in…? In chapter 51, I want you to look there in the scripture. Chapter 51, looking verse 16. Verse 16 says, And I have put my words in thy mouth. And I have covered the in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the year and say in the Zion, thou art my people. But the first part of that verse you ought to underline. I have put my words in thy mouth.

And so when they wrote, they wrote what God told them to write. That is so important to know and to believe that. Now look in Jeremiah, just a couple pages to your right, the book of Jeremiah. Now remember the Bible says about Jeremiah, he was the weeping prophet. He had a miserable life. He had a good ministry, but they made his life miserable. He had it bad. If you feel sorry for yourself sometime,lopp just read the book of Jeremiah.

You shouldn’t Scythe for yourself anymore. But look what he says in verse 4 then the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, this is what the word of the Lord did. Before I formed the in the belly060imentary, I knew thee. And before thou, And before thou came his forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and Iiframe thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, then, Lord God)|, behold, I cannot speak. I am a child.

But the Lord said unto me, say not I am a child, for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee. And whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak. It appears he did not want to do it. He did not want to go. He even tried not to go, but he says his word was in my bones like a flame of fire and I could not hold, I could not stay. I had to do something about it. So in verse 8, be not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

I wonder why God says be not afraid of their faces, because I think he was afraid of their faces. Verse 9, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord sent me, Behold, and you ought to underline this, I have put my words in thy mouth. That’s inspiration. That’s why when we say we believe that the word of God is inspired. It means that God and God breathed into themReviewer and they. And they spoke his word or they He wrote his word and we have a copy of the word of God.

Behold, I have put my word in thy mouth. Now, next Sunday night, I’m going to speak on the word again, just so you know. I may have a couple more messages just on the importance of the word of God because I am so convinced it is so important because this is why we say, we believe, we believe, we believe. But if you lose confidence in the Word of God, they ain’t much hope for you. If you really know and believe this is the Word of God, you can trust it.

You can trust. You can rely upon Him. You can rest in the Lord. You can cast all of your cares upon Him because you know He cares. Why? Because the Word says so. But if you begin to doubt the Word, then fear will consume you. If you feed your faith, doubts will starve to death. But if you feed your doubts, then your faith will starve to death. You got to write that down. It is so important. I’ll say it again.

If you feed your faith, your doubts will starve to death. But if you feed your doubts, then your faith will starve to death. Do you get that? Just stay around here long enough. You just love it. Get a bunch of two little jewels every once in a while. We’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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God has given to man revelation to be able to see the world so that we can reason that there is a God. And then He gave us His Word so that we can reason. So God gave us the world and the Word because God says, come now and let us reason together, say of the Lord. he makes this statement concerning the sun, he talks about the day, it says it gives messages. Now I believe in the very beginning that God told stories and it was done by the firmament what we call the day the zodiac.

And we even today identify the so-called twelve signs of the Zodiac, but I believe that they have been misused and twisted until it’s an evil thing. But I believe that God says that He used those things to teach by. And He says their speech went into all the world and people knew things because of the stories and there’s a whole lot of stuff that you can teach from doing that. Their line has gone out through all the year and their words to the end of the year in them had to set a tabernacle for the sun.

Now get this about the sun itself, which is as a bridegroom coming out of this chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. like every day when the sun comes up, it’s like a strong man that runs his race. And without the sun as you in, there would be no life on the earth. But the sun is like the S.O. in, but in the book of Malachi, it talks about the sun as you in son of righteousness, which is a statement that refers to Jesus Christ.

That’s what he says here. He says in verse 6. His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. In other words, there’s a message in here somewhere. And whenever you read in the book of Romans in chapter 10, when it talks about the gospel and getting the gospel to the ends of the earth, it refers to these verses. So now, up to chapter 6, See it talks about the world that God made.

Now look in verse seven, now we talk about the word. In verse seven, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting to soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure. Now as you study the Old Testament stories, you’ll find out that these stories are about real people and real decisions and real consequences. And the stories talk about a person who either obey God or disobey God and the results. So that when you read those stories, those stories are to make you and I wise.

And the testimonies of the stories of the Lord are true. See what he says? He says, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, and your underlying. The line is making wise the simple. So if you want to be wise, study the word, study the stories. Because they deal with a person’s character. Well, when you teach little children in Sunday school or in a wana, isn’t it true that most of the time, instead of teaching them some great big heavy loaded doctrine, we tell them stories in the Old Testament?

We go through all the stories and we use those stories to teach Bible truths to the kid because they love stories. It’s easy to teach children with the stories and they’ll set on the edge of their Satan. Listen to every word when you’re telling a story. The Old Testament is loaded with these illustrations, but we use those stories to teach those Bible doctrines that’s in the New Testament. You don’t find all those stories like that in the New Testament as much.

Those little stories in Daniel and the lion’s den and David and Goliath that’s just loaded with all kinds of stories. And so the Lord says this, making wise the simple. Now look in verse eight, the statutes of the Lord are right. And you ought to underline it, rejoicing the heart. See, there’s times in your life that nobody will be able to bring you peace or happiness, but you can learn to rejoice your own heart by the Word of God.

And he says, Rejoice in the heart. The commandments of the Lord is pure. And your underlying is enlightening the eyes. It’s what helped you to see, to have discernment. A lot of people see they don’t have discernment. They don’t know right from wrong based upon the word of God. They just let their own mind guide them. There is a way that’s seameth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death. It’s a way it seems right.

Jeremiah says it is not within man that walk up to direct his steps. In other words, nobody is smart enough to live without God. No man. So we’ll get what he says. In verse 9, the fear of the Lord is clean and during forever the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Now when you read the book of Proverbs, you’ll find that statement mentioned many times about the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

And the beginning of wisdom is to hate evil because to hate sin. You see, we have people today that don’t hate sin. They don’t hate sin. They’re not afraid of consequences. They’re not afraid of consequences. They’re so well that there’s not much consequences to it. But we ought to let people suffer the consequences of their disobedience. For example, the so-called National Healthcare thing rewards disobedient people, keeps them from suffering the consequences of their own bad decisions. By not taking care of themselves or discipling themselves, do whatever you want, it doesn’t make any difference, get on drugs, you can do anything, age, you know, and it doesn’t matter because, you know, all those other people out there that don’t do like you do, they’re going to take care of you.

Now, is that good or is that bad? And so we have eliminated. There was a time when people thought that sex outside of marriage was wrong. Didn’t they? I used to think that was wrong. Didn’t they used to think that homosexuality was a sin? Call of the sin today. It’s an acceptable lifestyle. So you see, people have got to the place where there’s no such thing as sin. There’s no right and wrong. Everything just a dirty grave. But not according to the Word of God.

Now look in verse 10, giving you a, I think, a beautiful picture of how you and I ought to perceive the Word of God. More to be desired, are they? What? The Word of God. More to be desired, are they than gold? Now if you had choice, the wisdom of God in his word or gold. And you can hear a lot of people on the news today talking about buy gold, buy gold. Well, only you can buy gold if somebody has to sell it.

Well, if it’s so invaluable and so good and it’s going to go sky high, why would you sell it? If you had a Sounders, why would you sell your gold if it’s going to go off the roof? I mean, Why would you do that? Because you don’t really believe it and you want to get yours why you can and you got to get somebody else to buy that goal at that price. Remember it wasn’t long ago you could buy gold for a couple hundred dollars an ounce.

Okay. Now you got to find somebody else that wants to buy at a higher price. Maybe, maybe not. The government four or five times had already been cleared. They just want to confiscate the gold. That’s another sermon. I won’t get in that. But anyway, look in verse 9. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all together. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold.

Sweet are also than honey in the honeycomb. What? The word of God. A man on a dig for the hidden treasures of the Word of God, more than a man with dig for silver and gold. Hold your place right here. Look there in Proverbs just for a second. Look in Proverbs just for a second. I want you to see this. Look there in chapter 2. But Proverbs in chapter 2, look there in verse 2, verse 2, he says, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding.

Yea, if thou cryest after knowledge, and lifteth up thy voice for understanding, if thou seeketh her as silver, and search it for her as for hid treasures, then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. That is a mouthful. There is wisdom. But see, most people don’t seek the word of God as though they’re looking for hidden treasures, like looking for that little gold mine in the scriptures and that little silver mine. And as I studied the Bible over the years, I have been so blessed to come across my own little nuggets that I found.

See, I don’t mind getting a few little nuggets from Somebody that I heard here and there and around the square, but I like finding my own Wouldn’t you like to sit down? Would just you and the Lord God’s Word and you are looking and digging for your own little nuggets You know when you find them and you dug it out It’ll become more precious to you Then if it wasHOUst given to you It’ll become more precious to you than what I teach you on Sunday morning or Sunday night or Wednesday night the Word of God ought to be so precious to you because if this isn’t precious to you, God isn’t precious to you.

If the Word isn’t precious to you, Jesus is not precious to you. He is the Word and you reveal your love for the Lord by the love you have for His Word. Because this is how you learn about Him and this is how He leads you. This is how He guides you. is through his word. Now look there in verse 11 again. Verse 11, now this is so important these last few verses. Moreover by them is thy servant and you are to underline this word warned.

So as you study the word of God you’re going to be warned but notice the next part and in keeping of them and you are to the line these two words. There’s great reward. You see the two different things in this verse. One is the warning and the other one is great reward. So you know that if you violate the word of God, there’s warnings in the scriptures and the price to pay. But if you will study the word of God and keep His promises, seek His will.

He says, there’s great reward. And verse 12, He says, who can understand His errors? Talking about you and me and why do I do what I do? Pends down me from secret faults. You see, sometimes they’re not just things that we know that we do. Sometimes we do things and don’t even know we did it. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

But you see, it’s the Word of God that’s going to help you this way. You and I have an old sinful nature, and it’ll get the best of any of us. And only as you stay close to the Lord and close to His Word and search for these little nuggets, you’re gonna stay strong. Now look what he says in verse 14. He says, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, my Redeemer.

This verse is the purpose of this psalm, that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart would be acceptable unto the Lord. Take your Bible and turn to 2 Timothy and chapter 2. 2 Timothy and chapter 2. Last I spoke concerning the incorruptible word and what the word of God should mean to us. You see, there’s no sense studying the word of God that we call the word of God if it’s not the word of God.

And how you live your life is going to be based upon what you believe about this book. If you believe that it simply contains the Word of God, you may take issue with what you believe is the Word of God and what is not. So I believe that this is the Word of God, not that it contains the Word of God. And there is a great difference. It’s what can give you confidence, it can give you boldness. See, Christians should not be intimidated by the world.

No one in the world or no thing. No problem that you and I should ever face should ever intimidate us. You know what fear is? When something in this world intimidates us. Because you’re afraid. Now if you and I really believe this book and that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord, to those who are called according to His purpose, why would we be afraid? Remember he says he had not given to us the spirit of fear, of love, power, and of a sound mind.

So we’re supposed to believe that this truly is the Word of God and we can trust it safely, rely upon Him. So here in 2 Timothy I want you to see this in chapter 2 and verse 15. Several scriptures here but I want you to see this in verse 1. When it says in verse 15, study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that need if not to be ashamed, that means skillful in living the Christian life. Whatever it is God wants us to do, not to be ashamed of the way we act, think, do, all those things, rightly dividing the word of truth.

So when he says rightly dividing the word of truth, he’s not talking about the newspaper, not talking about some magazine, he’s talking about his word. So it is the will of God that God’s children are able to rightly divide the word of God. Know what it means, be able to understand, to discern right from wrong. And so God has given us his word. And in verse 18, those who do not believe it, look what he says in verse 18, who concerning the truth have aired.

So the word of truth is truth. If you want to know what truth is, it’s the Word of God. Jesus Christ is, I am the way, the truth and the life. So when you study the Word, you’re studying truth. And you study truth, you find out the truth about God and Jesus Christ, you, the world, you know the truth. And there are those that will teach contrary to the truth. Now look in 2 Timothy and chapter 3 and notice there in verse 16.

where he says, all scripture. So the word of God is considered scripture. All scripture would refer not only to the Old Testament, but also to the New Testament. Many times in the New Testament when you read, as it is written, as it is written, means an Old Testament scripture. It is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, correction for instruction and righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect or mature throughly furnished unto all good works.

So the word of God is to give us all that we need to do the work of the Lord and to take a child of God and to produce a man of God. Now look in 1 Timothy chapter 3. 1 Timothy chapter 3 and notice what he says in verse 15. Verse 15 says, but But if I carry long that thou mayeth know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, and you are to underline this phrase, the pillar and the ground of truth.

You see, God gave truth to his people, to the church. We live in society, so we’re supposed to take truth and apply it to life. And the truth that we learn, we’re supposed to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. Now, when we often say there’s something rotten in Washington, it’s generally because there’s no preservative there. There’s no salt. Thank you. Christians are supposed to be the salt of the earth, they preservative. We are to preserve the way God wants things.

So you will be preserved in your life as long as you take the preserved word of God and believe it. Your life will be in direct ratio to the caliber of the belief that you have in this book to preserve you. If you fall apart, it’s because there’s something you don’t believe. Every person truly lives their real theology. What you really believe is how you live. Now, if this is true, and I believe that it is, that’s why he says, every man shall live by every word of God.

Man shall not live by bread alone. And many people think that’s all the man needs, as long as he got some bread. A man needs more than bread. Jeremiah says that it is not within man that walk up to direct his steps. It means that no man is capable of leading or guiding himself without the word of God. It might seem to be right, but it will be wrong. And there’s no way that a man can do it. Now take your Bible and turn there to the book of 2 Peter in chapter 1.

2 Peter and chapter 1. We’ll be going to the Old Testament in just a minute, minute, but I want to show you a few of these other things that I think is very important. Second Peter and chapter 1. And look there in verse 21. Second Peter chapter 1 and verse 21. Says, for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So it’s not not that men decided what would be the Word of God.

They didn’t just sit down and write their own little ideas. They wrote what God told them to write. And approximately 1,800 times the Bible says that it came from God. Now either it did come from God or it came from man. But God said that it came from him. could not have wrote this book. A good man says there’s no such thing as good men, so that would have made them liars. Evil men would not have wrote such a good book.

So this book came from the Lord, and I believe that. Take your Bible looking first Corinthians in chapter 2, first Corinthians and chapter 2. So first 1 Corinthians 2 and look at verse 9. I want you to have a great appreciation for the word, because then you’ll have a greater appreciation for the Lord. And verse 9, but as it is written, as it is written, that means it’s recorded in the Old Testament as it is written. I have not seen nor heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God had prepared for them that love him.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, ye that deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, say the Spirit of man, which is in him. Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. But what if I could have the Spirit of God live inside of me, then the Holy Spirit can teach me things about God. I would not know no other way.

So the Holy Spirit told men what to write. And so by studying the Word of God, we can know the mind of God. You see what he says here? Look there in verse 15 of chapter two, but he that is spiritual, judgeeth all things or is able to discern all things. Yet he himself is judged or discerned of no man. The natural man cannot discern a spiritual man. A lost man cannot understand a Christian. No more than a lost man can understand the word of God.

A lost man cannot understand God. A lost man cannot understand Christ. Well, if you have trusted Christ as your Savior and you decide to be a spiritual God, the individual, and you want to believe what the word of God says and you grow in the Lord, the lost man is not going to understand you. Other Christians might understand you, but the lost man cannot because those things are spiritually discerned and he doesn’t have the Holy Spirit. In verse 16, for who Who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?

I mean, before you ever trusted Christ as your Savior, did God ask you your opinion on things? Whenever he was going to create the heavens and the earth, he called you into a secret chamber and said, hey, what do you think? How do you think I ought to do this? The Lord did not seek our counseling. But once you trust Christ as your Savior and the Holy Spirit indwells you in the last part of that verse, but we have the mind of Christ.

So God wants us to believe that His Word is the mind of God. That’s why I often tell people, the Bible is God’s mind on paper. So when you study the mind of God, you’ll know how God thinks, how God feels. What He wants you to do, you can understand the will of God for your life. So it’s a tremendous thing. And the reason you want to study the Word because of the Holy Spirit and dwelling you is just because the Holy Spirit now can teach you things that the world cannot know.

See there in verse 12, but he says, now we have received, past tense, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. See when he says in verse 10, but God hath revealed them unto us, that’s revelation. And in verse 12, now we have received, That’s illumination. You notice down here in verse 13 when he says, but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual, that’s inspiration.

So we’re able to study spiritual things by spiritual means. Spiritual things can only discern by the spirit. And so that’s why the Lord gave us his spirit so that we could really know the things that God has given to us. Now, take your Bible and turn to the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy and chapter 8. Deuteronomy chapter 8, no, I’ve covered this whole chapter before where he lays before them life and death. Look there in verse 1, the start in verse 1, all the commandments which I command thee this day shall you observe to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness. And get why he did what he did. Once you understand a little bit about why God did what he did with the nation of Israel, understand why he does a little bit of a few things with us. Picture Israel as a person, not as a nation. And you’d be surprised how much better it looks. You can understand. God deals with Israel as though Israel was a person, one person, like Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.

And so God deals with that person, like that person is just one person. And there were times when Israel was obedient and then Israel was disobedient and God would bless and God would chasten and kick him out of the land and all kind of things. But it’s like a person. And once that person is a miracle child born by faith, they’ll always be. And that’s why in spite of all that the religion of Islam wants to do Israel, there will always be a remnant.

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Take your Bible and turn to the gospel of John, the gospel of John. I want you to have a great appreciation for the Word of God. If God is perfect and righteous and just, makes no mistakes, then the Word of God has to be the same way. And so you reveal your love for the invisible God by the love you have for the visible word. And so you want to spend time with God that you can’t see. Well, try spending time with the word that you can’t see.

Because as you study the word of God, you’re studying God. He is revealed in his word. Now look there in verse one of chapter one. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Now in the New World translation in quite a few others, It’s not the word became God, or the word was a God. It’s the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.

Now look there in verse 14, and the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. We beheld His glory, the glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. You know, you can take and have a thought, but when you speak, your mind is on parade. So your words reveal your thought, and God that you cannot see like a thought is revealed by the word. Jesus Christ is the revelation of the invisible God. Jesus Christ is God manifested in flesh.

So when you talk about God the Father and Jesus the Son, the Word of God is just as righteous and perfect as God Himself. So take your Bible and look there at a verse that I’ve covered with you before but we’re going to go further than that tonight. First Peter chapter 1 and look in verse 23. Peter and chapter 1. And look in verse 23, and notice the correlation here between the Word of God and the new birth. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God.

So we know that the Word of God is incorruptible. it is not possible for man to corrupt the word of God. Now, he says, which liveeth and abided forever. So the word of God lives and abides forever. And notice in verse 24, because we’ll see this again later, for all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower off the grass. So all of us are like grass, and some grass has flowers, but it doesn’t matter how perdied the flower is.

Sooner or later it all fades away. And it doesn’t matter when you look at all the people in the world, how many are outstanding, they’re all still going to die, and they all fade away. It doesn’t matter. Anybody ever heard of a guy named Cassius Clay? A lot of people heard about Cassius Clay, but personally I believe that he exalted himself so much that God says, that’s enough. And I’m the greatest of all time. Remember him saying that? But sooner or later, he’s gonna pass away just like grass.

So are you. So am I. And doesn’t matter who the individual is and how much glory we have for the moment because it all fades. And then he says here in verse 25, but the word of the Lord in dearth forever. This is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Now, take your Bible and turn to the book of Isaiah, the book of Isaiah and chapter 40. Isaiah and chapter 40. Now this is a very interesting chapter because it talks a little bit about somebody that was going to come on the scene, the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

you’ll notice there in verse 3. This is a prophecy written 700 years in advance. And verse 3 says, the voice of him that cryeth into wilderness. Does anyone know who said that? John the Baptist. Because I asked him, says, who are you? Are you one of the prophets? Elijah? Who are you? The Messiah? Now I’m just the voice of one cryeth in the wilderness. And he says, every valley in verse four shall be exalted every mountain and heal shall be made low.

And the crooked shall be made straight in the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. Now the glory of the Lord, the perfection of God, is Jesus Christ and he was revealed. And he was the John the Baptist, the voice of one crying in the wilderness to reveal the Lamb of God. And then when he comes down here, he says this in verse six, the voice said cry. And he says, what shall I cry?

All flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof is as the flower of the field.” We read that anywhere lately. In verse 7, the grass withered the flower faded, because the spirit of the Lord bloat upon him. Surely the people is grass. The grass withered the flower faded, and yod on the line dispersed, the face of the butterfly. But the word of our God shall stand forever, and especially those two little words, the word of our God shall stand forever.

And the word became flesh. And that’s why he says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. In verse 9 he talks about O’Zion that bring it good tidings. That’s what the word gospel is, the good tidings because man is going to die. But John the baddest is talking about the lamb that will give eternal life and we can live forever. So I just want you to be aware that many times we read verses in the New Testament that are actually quotes from the Old Testament and how that God puts his stamp of approval upon these verses in the Old Testament.

Now look in 119th Psalm 119th Psalm the longest chapter in the Bible. And the 118th Psalm is the center chapter in the Bible. So the 117th Psalm is the shortest chapter in the Bible. And the 119th is the longest. And the 118th Psalm, which is in the middle is the middle chapter and the whole Bible. And the middle verse is verse eight. So you see there in Psalms 118 and verse eight, this is the center verse in the entire Bible.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Pretty good huh? Kind of let you know this is really the purpose of the Word of God. Now, I want you to look there in verse 89, the verse 89. If you don’t have this verse underlined in your Bible, it would be a good verse to underline. And you’ll notice it says, for ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

Thy word is settled in heaven. See, I believe that there is a copy, or I should say probably the originals. In heaven, and they are perfect, and they cannot be changed or corrupted. And what we have, even in the original manuscripts here, is only a copy of the originals that God has forever settled in heaven. And he says in verse 90, by faithfulness is unto all generations. So I believe that the word of God, which is faithful, because it’s the word of God.

And you can’t change the word because you can’t change God. And to try to change the word is to try to change God. The word reveals God. And you don’t mess with God. So I don’t want to mess with the word. I don’t want to add to it or try to take away from it. and He is faithful to us. Now the attitude that you have toward this book is going to be reflected in the trust you have in God.

By the way you live. Things you do and don’t do is only a reflection of your real genuine belief of this book. You really believe it. You live it. People do what they really believe. People do what they really want to do. If you want to serve a Lord, you will, because nobody can stop you. If you don’t want to serve a Lord, it’s your choice, because nobody can make you. So, in the 119 Psalm, I remember whenever I was reading this, for the first time, Boy, that was a long time ago.

Like in 1964, somewhere in through there, I said, done it and I started reading this. But look there in the 119 Psalm, looking in verse 9. This is what I read and it really was a blessing to me. He says in verse 9, where was all Shelley young man? See, at that time I was a young man. man cleanses way by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Look in verse 11, thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee.

So every verse in the 119 Psalm deals with the word, the law, the precepts, the statutes, the commandments. Every verse, and there’s a whole bunch of verses, and it’s amazing that you could have so much in all these verses. Look at verse 130. He says in verse 130, the entrance of thy words giveth life. So when you want light to guide your step, the entrance of thy word giveth life. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. See there 105?

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. A light unto my path. So if you want to know where you stand and you want to know where to walk, then what would you need? The word. Now, many people never study the word, but they’re always praying, Lord, I want you to lead God in direct, lead, guide, direct. He lead guides and directs according to his word. And if you don’t study the word, you’re not going to see where to walk.

And so it all comes back to the Word to spend time with the Lord. You ought to hear people talking, you need to have intimacy between you and the Lord. And how is your relationship with God? It all depends on what kind of relationship you had to the book. You don’t have time for the book. You’re not going to have too much time for the Lord. This has got to be real to you and precious to you, and this is why you need to memorize scripture, because it’s the scripture that the Holy Spirit uses to quicken your understanding, to bring things to your remembrance.

One thing that you’ll notice, if you can remember, Hank Lindstrom probably knew the book. He knew the Bible, probably quoted a lot of scripture. This is what we have to do. You have to memorize a lot of scripture. But you can’t do that if you don’t spend some time in the book studying what the Word of God says. So it’s very, very important. Look at verse 160. Verse 160. And look what he says in verse 160. Thy Word, and you ought to underline this, thy Word is true from the beginning.

And every one of thy righteous judgments endure forever. The Word of God is something that you can look to and put your confidence in and trust. Look in the book of Proverbs. Just turn to the right. Proverbs in chapter 30. Proverbs in chapter 30. Look in verse 4. Verse 4 is not part of my notes, but there’s something here that Jesus goes all the way back here and he takes this one verse and he pulls it out and throws it over there in the New Testament.

You see in verse 4, who hath ascended up into heaven or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fist? Who had bound the waters in a garment. Who had to establish all the ends of the earth? And you ought to underline this phrase. What is his name? And what is his son’s name? If thou can’t tell. Here even in the Old Testament, what’s his name? What’s his son’s name? You see, God had a son back there. And you can also see that in the second Psalm when he says, kiss the son lest he be angry.

his the Son, lest he be angry. But now looking verse five, and you ought to underline this, every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar. So have a respect for the word of God. Believe that when you go to the book, You’re going to the very word of God, and this is important, and that the word of God is a living book.

Now many people like to talk about the United States Constitution is a living document. It’s not a living document. That thing has been written, it’s settled, it’s final, and it’s not a living document. And people are not supposed to be changing it, says, well, it’s for today, and they try to change it to make it fit. that document, we’re supposed to change and stay with it, but they’re not doing that. They’re saying, well, it’s not a living document. This is a living document.

It gives life. It’s the only one that does. Now, turn in your Bible to the book of Psalms 19, the 19th Psalm. Now the 19th Psalm is a Psalm that I really love because it explains a little bit about the world and the Word. In the 19th Psalm, look what he says, and some of this is mentioned even in the book of Romans and chapter 10. You’ll find some of these statements right there. So in verse 1 he says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

Day unto day utter of speech, night unto night showeth knowledge. In other words, what does it say? When you look at the sun, the stars, the moon, all that stuff out there. What is it saying? Well I think it says several things. It says that there is a God. And it says that he’s great, and also that he’s good. You know by what you see that whoever made that had to be pretty great and that there is a God.

The Bible says in the book of Romans in chapter 1, it words it a little bit different for we see his, the Godhead. We see because of the creation of God and that we are without excuse because what we see is the evidence that there’s a God. And so he says here in verse 3, he says, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world.

And them hath he said a tabernacle for the Son. Now from verse 1 to verse 6 it talks about the world that God had made and it’s the show forth, the handiwork of God so that you and I would know and believe that there is a true and living God by the things that he had made. Now in verse 7 down to verse 14 it talks about the word. So the world and word should agree. It’s also the same that whenever you study in the book of Romans in chapter 1, it talks about reason and revelation.

And so that God has given to man revelation to be able to see the world so that we can reason that there is a God. And then he gave us his word so that we can reason. So God gave us the world and the word because God says, come now and let us reason together, say, of the Lord. And he makes this statement concerning the Son. He talks about the day. It says it gives messages. Now I believe in the very beginning of that God told stories, and it was done by the firmament.

What we call today the Zodiac. And we even today identify the so-called 12 signs of the Zodiac. But I believe that they have been misused and twisted until it’s an evil thing. But I believe that God says that He used those things to teach by. And it says their speech went into all the world and people knew things because of the stories. There’s a whole lot of stuff that you can teach from doing that Their line has gone out through all the year and their words to the end of the year in them Happy study tabernacle for the Sun now get this about the Sun itself Which is as a bridegroom?

Coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race Just like every day when the Sun comes up. It’s like a strong man that runs his race and And without the Son as you in there would be no life on the earth. But the Son is like the S.O. in, but in the book of Malachi it talks about the Son as you in son of righteousness, which is a statement that refers to Jesus Christ.

That’s what he says here. He says in verse 6, his going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. In other words, there’s a message in here somewhere. And whenever you read in the book of Romans in chapter 10, when it talks about the gospel and getting the gospel to the ends of the earth, it refers to these verses. So now, up to chapter six, it talks about the world that God made.

Now look in verse seven, now we talk about the word. In verse seven, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting to soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure. Now, as you study the Old Testament stories, you’ll find out that these stories are about real people and real decisions and real consequences. And the stories talk about a person who either obey God or disobey God and the results, So that when you read those stories, those stories are to make you and I wise.

And the testimonies of the stories of the Lord are true. See what he says? He says, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, and your underlying is making wise the simple. So if you want to be wise, study the word. Study the stories because they deal with a person’s character. Well, when you teach little children in Sunday school or in O’wanna, isn’t it true that most of the time instead of teaching them some great big heavy loaded doctrine, we tell them stories in the Old Testament, we go through all the stories, and we use those stories to teach Bible truth.

to the kid because they love stories. And it’s easy to teach children with the stories. And they’ll sit on the edge of their Satan. Listen to every word when you’re telling a story. And the Old Testament is loaded with these illustrations. But we use those stories to teach those Bible doctrines that’s in the New Testament. Now you don’t find all those stories like that in the New Testament as much. Those little stories and Daniel and the lion’s den and David and Goliath, that’s just loaded with all kinds of stories.

And so the Lord says this, making wise the simple. Now look in verse eight, the statutes of the Lord are right. And you are on the line is rejoicing the heart. See, there’s times in your life that nobody will be able to bring you peace or happiness, but you can learn to rejoice your own heart. by the Word of God. And he says, Rejoice in the heart. The commandments of the Lord is pure. And you are on the line is enlightening the eyes.

It’s what helped you to see, to have discernment. A lot of people see they don’t have discernment. They don’t know right from wrong based upon the Word of God. They just let their own mind guide them. There is a way that seameth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death. The other way, it seems right. Jeremiah says it is not within man that walk up to direct his steps. In other words, nobody is smart enough to live without God.

No man. So get what he says. In verse 9, the fear of the Lord is clean and during forever the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Now when you read the book of Proverbs, you’ll find that statement mentioned many times about the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And the beginning of wisdom is to hate evil because to hate sin. You see, we have people today.

that don’t hate sin. They don’t hate sin. They’re not afraid of consequences because we have padded it so well that there’s not much consequences to it. But we ought to let people suffer the consequences of their disobedience. For example, the so-called National Healthcare thing rewards disobedient people, keeps them from suffering the consequences of their own bad decisions, by not taking care of themselves or disciplined themselves, do whatever you want, it doesn’t make any difference, get on drugs, you can do anything, age, you know, and it doesn’t matter because, you know, all those other people out there that don’t do like you do, they gonna take care of you.

Now is that good or is that bad? And so we have eliminated. There was a time when people thought that sex outside of marriage was wrong, didn’t they? They used to think that was wrong. Didn’t they used to think that homosexuality was a sin? Call of the sin today. It’s an acceptable lifestyle. So you see, people have got to the place where there’s no such thing as sin. There’s no right and wrong. Everything’s just aJB dirty grave. But not according to the word of God.

Now look in verse 10, giving you a, I think a beautiful picture of how you and I ought to perceive the word of God. more to be desired are they? What? The Word of God. More to be desired are they than gold. Now, if you had a choice, the wisdom of God in his Word or gold, and you can hear a lot of people on the news today talking about buy gold, buy gold. Well, only you can buy gold if somebody has to sell it.

Well, if it’s so invaluable and so good and it’s going to go sky high, why would you sell it? If you had a lot of gold, why would you sell your gold if it’s going to go off the roof? I mean, why would you do that? Because you don’t really believe it and you want to get yours why you can. You’ve got to get somebody else to buy that gold at that price. Remember, it wasn’t long ago you could buy gold for a couple hundred dollars an ounce.

Okay. Now you’ve got to find somebody else that wants to buy at a higher price. May be, may be not. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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